jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
He was a practicing psychiatrist and felt that having his identity public could interfere with his practice. He has since quit practicing (edit: nope, he quit for a short while and has started his own practice), but at the time I felt it was a legitimate reason.

With that said, I don’t think the NYT did anything legally wrong, but it’s kind of a bad look for a newspaper that loves to claim their moral righteousness. It can’t be illegal to say a person’s real name and say what they do as a side gig/hobby. But if someone asks you not to do it, then it’s not cool to do it. It’s not like he’s a movie celebrity constantly putting himself in the public eye. He made a pretty solid effort too keep his internet persona separate from his day job, and most of us feel like that should be respected.

But he did overreact, as he admitted. If he had just kept his mouth shut the NYT article probably wouldn’t have had too many readers and his nuclear option probably attracted more attention.
I hate remote existence. My 2 cents.
Curtis Yarvin, the OG of the cancelled, writes about him a lot, so maybe that's why?
Yeah, HN's short timeouts are a damn nuisance especially if one's as prolix as me (I've been caught out many times). That said, HN's edit duration is still considerably longer than say The Register's one of only ten minutes.

Of course, one should never be one's own editor as one always misses something - that is until one reads it the next day and sees one's glaring typos! But that's impractical.

It seems to me that a partial solution would be to allow small/limited edits after the normal timeout and or highlight the changes in some way. This would negate the problem of a subsequent poster's reply comment sounding ridiculous if the original post was altered too much.
Ruby’s syntax is definitely more complex than Python’s (which until recently was LL(1)), but it wouldn’t surprise me if Ruby as a whole was a simpler language. For example, Ruby’s object model is much simpler and more elegant than Python’s.
I don't think that's what Scott is doing. See this post (2017): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...
There seems to be lot of bad managers here justifying your boss's behavior. Don't buy that. Seems like you have a bad manager who seriously lacks communication skills and doesn't care about your growth if he has been ignoring you for months. It could also be that his priorities are different now where you don't fit it, still that doesn't excuse for poor communications. This is the reason why regular 1-1 meetings are so important. Does he do that or no?
A month for review? Where is this glorious Valhalla?! Navy flight certification checklist is a 2-3 column full page of densely packed names for the approval authority on all the different systems. It may take a month to circulate your proposal to those folks just to get a final list of the subset who will need to ultimately sign off. We had cases where item X was used on USAF aircraft Y, but it could not be used on Navy aircraft Z (which was the same airframe) without literally tens of millions of dollars in testing. Not because the loads on the platforms were substantially different, but because the test standards between USAF and USN were different and the approval authorities wouldn’t sign off otherwise. (See also: zero risk tolerance.)
This comes up in every HN thread about fighter jets.

Modern fighter aircraft are mobile missile launchers. They are judged primarily by whether they can get close enough to where they need to go without being detected, detect what they need to, and then launch good enough missiles. The missile is effectively the drone. Modern missiles are basically self-piloting autonomous drone rockets. In that regard the F-35 is fine, and automating the pilot is not necessarily a win because the AI isn't going to be doing ultra-high G dogfight turns anyway. The humans job is to react to unexpected situations and figure out something smart in situations where remote control isn't reliable or desirable (e.g. due to risk of detection).
You are conflating my skepticism of the official US State Department narrative on China with “sympathizing with non free states”, which is quite telling.

> I think you greatly misunderstand how western media operates.

I definitely used to greatly misunderstand how Western media operates. I was naive to the extent that I believed the invasion of Iraq was necessary. Now I’m under no such illusions.

https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
Theoretically the house that changed hands, the new owners knew what they were signing up for and could verify their budget could handle the higher taxes. Whereas the original owners, whose home value has shot up significantly since purchase way back when, may not be able to pay for the new higher taxes if they were applied in full.
GME just went up almost 100% in the last half hour of trading. Probably a flood of people trying to visit WSB.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but people constructed a cleavage between the Fed and the US Govt because they thought we shouldn't trust democracy with money creation.
Is there anything wrong with that? Back when I was younger I just thought I was going to be ignored forever - I would have killed to know that that wasn't the case.
Not really. People don't drive up the price of milk because they think it's a cool thing to have, they just want to drink it and pay what they think is a reasonable price to do so.
I don't get the Sponsored Top Sites setting in FF 86. Maybe it's disabled on the Debian build?
The submission needs a less inflammatory title. I don't see any evidence in the article that Obama is specifically calling for this or that he has any say in Manning's treatment.
Just for the record: Pramod Joisha did static analysis of redundant reference counting operations in 2006 in the Bartok C# research compiler (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Pramod_Joisha/Publications/is...).
IIRC, doing it improves performance significantly.
I think your argument consists of "gcc is slow because I don't understand the code layout".

One of the problems affecting the C frontend and backend is poor cache locality due to pointer chasing in their data structures, and they currently do switch between GC memory and manually allocated zones (obstacks) to improve this.
We will have a team there ready for the challenge.
Landing is the relatively easy part. Surviving the journey is harder. The necessary shielding is too heavy to launch, so we need some new ideas there.
We were actually, explicitly, given this URL by O'Reilly in order to present it as such to people at the conference.
Low tax rate, part of the EU and not blacklisted by OECD. But they do conform to EU legislation.
It is true. Multiple attempts have been made to measure the IQs of clearly gifted people. They tend to be 2-3 standard deviations out.

IQ is imperfectly correlated with the intellectual abilities needed to be a good mathematician. So top mathematicians are, in the abilities that they need to have, indeed probably several standard deviations over the mean. But in the other abilities (I say abilities loosely here - the luck of how you are feeling that day is surprisingly significant) tested in an IQ test which they don't need for what they do, they are all over the map. Average those two factors together on an IQ test, and they consistently have good IQs, but not stellar ones.
That's odd, both examples worked perfectly for me (HTC Desire, Froyo, Barcode Scanner).
Please don't do this here.

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban such accounts. I don't want to ban you, so would you please review and follow them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if your NAT device has an uptime of 19 days.
I don't think anyone disagrees (even the author) that this kind of "shortcut" reasoning is valuable. People want to spend as little energy as possible, and that makes a lot of sense! I'm not a biologist or a scientist, but this probably makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.

The problem is when this kind of thinking leads to terrible results. One example would be thinking the effectiveness of a medical treatment is pretty good, when it's actually worse than not administering the treatment. And doctors are guilty of this, which in this case has serious consequences and is not a multiple-choice riddle!
New languages are cool. As long as you're not reinventing the wheel.
I've been to jail in the UK. I served 4.5 months in B and C category prisons. Phones are so easy to get hold of, I don't think most people would believe it. During my time I emailed photos from inside the prison to friends outside using a smartphone. Approx. every other prisoner had a phone, and everyone had access. They were so popular that I was able to keep myself safe (i.e. useful) by offering a phone unlocking service. Top-up voucher codes were a currency, even more than tobacco.

The thing is, they weren't small phones. People didn't smuggle them in their colons - they used code systems to arrange for their friends to throw things over the fences in particular places. Mini-riots were organised to coincide with throwovers. Drugs get in the same way.

There were a whole lot of more inventive methods used too. Suffice it to say that the problem is not the size of phones. It's that if you deprive people of their freedom, they spend all their time thinking about how to get it back. They will eventually work out how to get a little piece. Tiny phones won't make the blindest bit of difference.
> 'much worse than we were led to believe'

We've heard this one before, from the same people.

We're too slow to learn. Too slow compared to the ever increasing amplitude of the technology we create.
Have you watched the videos of the occupation of the Capitol on Wednesday? The rioters who broke in were chanting things like "Fight for Trump!" and "Find Mike Pence!" presumably to kill him. This of course shortly after Trump himself had tweeted that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution" while he surely knew that rioters had broken into the building. How the f*** can you say it's hysterical to call that an attempted violent overthrow of the government?
Thanks! Updates coming soon... because triplets are coming soon too O_O
A good way to handle that is to make sure they pick their lane at the start of the road (if you can). You do that by having no lane switching except at entrance intersection. Does not always work but does sometimes. Another trick he has used sometimes is 2 lane picking. Basically you can only 1 lane at a time. The thing will sometimes get confused and try cutting across 3 lanes of traffic holding up all 3 lanes. He usually stacks 2-3 of the 1 lane switches after each other and that sometimes clears it up.
Even before that every app got a documents folder that was shared between the app and iTunes
I think a black person is about 2x as likely to die in an encounter with the police. I'm not sure if that's normalized for the type of encounter.
I think you should read up on how western countries typically prefer to have very light visible security in front of buildings like these. It sends a message of non-approachability if you have heavily-armed forces out front, which politicans don't like.

I'm assuming a similar security plan is in place in e.g. European countries' parliaments; extracting the high value targets is P1. The building is just a building; if it's damaged it can be repaired. And killing a bunch of people defending a building is a political no-go.

None of this applies to an embassy.
Do not be so fast with 'not true' claims. Russia has at least three social networks, each with audience bigger than russian audience of Facebook and Twitter combined. All three remove anti-putin groups, etc.
there's more than a little suggestion that this was the intended outcome for the people protecting the capitol.
Maybe this will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U
One way to get onto the big tech sites is to reach out to 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier tech bloggers. A lot of the 1st tier tech journalists read and follow the 2nd and below tier tech blogs.

I'd love to find a service that shows me who reads or follows what. Also, a service that shows where the viral/press attention happened first and the press hits it received after. I was trying to do my own study last week on this in regards to the forgetify app. What started their press ball rolling? Was it here on Hacker News or Reddit? I wasn't able to scroll through the 1,000s and 1,000s of tweet to find it's first hit.
Love the design and my first query "developer" turned up some good results. Some feedback:

- If I enter "c#" as a query it simply refreshes the page.

- A lot of the "skills" I am getting back are simply rephrased job titles (e.g. "web developer" returned "web applications, web development, web services, mobile application development, support, responsibility, web design, javascript, project and software developer." for the skills list)

Definitely has a lot of promise though if you can reliable filter out skills from job descriptions.
Is there some link you can point us to suggesting that that's happened in this case? There are 113,000 employees at DOJ, so, statistically, every case is always going to be one or two hops away from some kind of malfeasance somewhere, right?
Those neighbourhoods look much nicer than what was my preconception of Washington DC suburbs.
> He's saying that the "greed" described by the original commenter is the same source of innovation that's given us all of the modern amenities we enjoy today.

And is life any better today than in 1990? Are we happier?

I think he's arguing that material possessions don't necessarily correlate to 'quality of life' and happiness.

I would personally be pretty happy without a car or computer. But I live in a ridiculous city that is sprawled out over hundreds of square kilometres with terrible public transportation, and live in a society where electronic communication is basically a requirement to do anything.

My happiest childhood memories where on my grandfather's farm. My wife's happiest childhood memories where in her small village in an 'under-developed' country. Today life in Canada is stressful as hell, and her country has been consumed by violence and corruption.
This is not a replacement for searching for a specific string in `less` which highlights the matches, and eliminates the need for scanning the text manually which is harder and prone to missing information.
Edit: Coworker pointed out you can rotate the board to read it better.
What are the practical reasons? Dealing with non-uniform edge cases and other strange constraints? Integrating the stuff the compiler needs to do with the parser-generator?
>Uh, you realise that describes any high level language, right?

I'm inclined to agree. I think the following also pretty closely matches the english requirements.

(with-open [rdr (reader "customers.txt")]
(->> (line-seq rdr)
(map #(second (.split % ",")))
(group-by identity)
(map (fn [[age coll]] [age (count coll)]))
(sort-by second (comparator >))
(map first)
(take 3)))
Ekiga (http://ekiga.org/), at least, is both free software (by definition, not free to download binaries) which runs on at least windows and unix-like OSes, supports audio and video connections, works over open standards (SIP and H.323) and even lets you get a free SIP account at ekiga.net.

The uniqueness of Skype is overstated, the principal advantage is the same that using Facebook has over using any open standard social networking, everyone you want to contact is on it. So Skype and Facebook are a good match, both are walled gardens with limited (or no) interoperability or support for open standards.
When xhtml came to replace html4 it was such a huge relief for all OCD developers, and I thought I had seen the last non-xml compliant web page. Now I'm encouraged to write tag soup again because void elements? Humbug.
Absolutely, which is why I said it's mostly irrelevant for the buyer. If the seller purchased in a lower rate environment, they may be in for a tough time. Down payments and equity can soften that blow a bit.
I think there are some extradition lawyers who would agree with this
Maybe I'm missing something but does it say what library of images was used to train this model? I couldn't quite understand the process of building DALL-E. Did they have a large database of labeled images and they combined this database with GPT-3?
If the executives continually hold shares from the time of the 'wrongdoing' to the time of the judgement, and are included in the settlement or decision, the impact on them would be to transfer money from one pocket to another, minus some loss to the lawyers on both sides.
The GAuthify home page looks awesome, and it's a great concept.

I'm curious about your comment that Flask is 'great for small and large apps' and your advice 'at this point you might consider... Django'.

From my limited experience of trying to build things with both, my impression is that Django has a steeper learning curve because of the project/app distinction, and urls.py but that, after some time, the additional structure this imposes makes it less likely that my code becomes a mess.

With Flask, it was super-fast to get started, and to add functionality incrementally, but at some point I realised my code was all in one file, which didn't seem right.

If, as you say, Flask is suitable for large projects like GAuthify, how do you structure your code so as to avoid the problem I faced?

Under what circumstances would you use Django for a project instead of Flask?
What happened was NOT a protest.
It's not a button it's a text link (probably grey/hard to see) at the bottom of the dialogue
What is with HN and throwing around words like dArK pAtTeRn?

No it’s not a dark pattern. They’re being as transparent as possible. If you long press the message and click “info” they even explain what each tick means and when each event took place. It’s literally not possible to be more transparent than that.

And before the privacy brigade who’ve not used the app show up, this is configurable. You can opt out of sending and receiving read receipts. And since it’s a closed app with no other implementation, you can’t circumvent that either.
It's him.
As I recall this has been true of at least MS and Sony (maybe even Nintendo?) for several console generations, though after a few years they've been able to bring costs down into profitability. Is that not expected for this generation?
"efficient allocation of resources" doesn't mean "the guy who owns popular companies gets unimaginable wealth". Obviously what constitutes efficient is subjective, but I can't see how this kind of allocation is good for the world.

> Imagine seizing his assets and distributing it to the people via a wealth tax

How would a wealth tax seize his assets?
I think that was going to be hidden by the recent news regardless ;)

Most WhatsApp users probably don't know / care much anyway. Sadly.
The 80/20 rule will be in full force when it comes to driverless cars.
Scala Native [1] has been really quiet of late (last commit July 29), not sure what's going on. There was a lot of excitement when the project kicked off, hopefully it continues to evolve.

[1] https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native
You could have half a dimension, where things can only go one way. Like time.
Does anyone know of a solid Ruby interface for this? When I tried using it for a recent project I had a lot of problems getting the Gems to work on OS X. Other than that I've head a lot of praise for it...
Keep in mind that at the time Friedman was writing this, his in-laws had a billion dollar empire of shopping malls. His dire predictions for investing in Amazon start looking quite self serving. His wife's family fortune hasn't fared nearly as well as Amazon since then...
Which ones? I'm curious, it would be interesting to know about them so as to avoid such buggy bastards who dare to resist to SIGSTOP (or its equivalent).

The task switcher is not a task bar, it's a MRU list. You're better off finding them again on Springboard if they're not in the half-dozen most recent apps range, which is muscle-memory. What do you expect? you can only fit so much on a ~3" screen and make items touchable. Stuffing more icons would make the task switcher end up looking like Springboard anyway, only messy because you'd have to scan through it due to the number of items. Springboard + muscle-memory beats that anytime.
I don't think any browser supports WebGL on Ubuntu yet.

edit: On Ubuntu, first close all chrome windows. Then start chrome with the command-line option "--ignore-gpu-blacklist" and it works.
This is exactly the risk. Once regulators are comfortable that "crypto trading for retail investors" is acceptable as a product, then what stops the big exchanges and brokerages from entering the space and competing the fees down to zero?
That's spending a Bitcoin balance, not Bitcoin. You might as well hold a Bitcoin index, and sell that. Or sell a Satoshi and transfer out the fiat, which is what it is. It has nothing to do with the transfer of Bitcoin: the same person holds your Bitcoin balance and your fractional fiat balance and decides the exchange rate. There's no blockchain there.
>They are the ones that hold the computing power

If they hold this power to dictate value to the market, why don't they do this right now and print infinite money for themselves?

It's because they don't actually have this power.
You sure? https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4022#25046 edit: the docs seem to say you're right, maybe that forum post is outdated but it's from nim's author.
There's one feature they forgot to mention in terms of SETI detection:

Even working under the assumption that alien civilizations have generated signals we can recognize as artificial, we've still got the ultimate needle-in-a-haystack problem: Any such signal will be millions of years distant from us in both time AND space. Even if an alien civilization lasts 100,000 years before collapsing, we probably won't ever receive any of their signals because our overlapping windows of capability are so small (even if we also survived 100,000 years). They'd have to be close enough to us both in terms of distance (in light years) and in time (years we've had our capability and they've had theirs). Think of it like a Venn diagram with circles the size of your fist and a workspace the size of our galaxy.

Because of this, even if we're not alone in the universe, the chances of us detecting a guaranteed-to-exist alien signal is almost nonexistent, and the chances of actually meeting an alien are exponentially smaller than even that.

The only way around this problem would be a civilization that seeds the universe with robots that can lie dormant for billions of years, and activate upon detection of a signal-capable species.
I think YAML as a language has many faults.

That said, this isn't YAML being a bad language. It's just people abusing YAML.
You make a private app for each customer.
Same, and I immediately approve the PR, if only my nits are left, while trying to have an understanding that no major changes are going to happen.
lack of international language support likely.. I see the same thing.
LOL, that's awesome :)