jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This crisis has mostly been a massive demonstration of how capitalism undermines society's ability to prevent and cope with disasters. We're seeing individual people show their best while profit motive leads to people sabotaging others' hope of success. A few examples:

* A particular politician prioritizing low numbers (to look good) over actual infection reduction

* A particular government not issuing orders for needed equipment - we still haven't placed orders and handed money to for-profit ventilator manufacturers, so they can't afford to just manufacture more

* A particular government failing to fund ongoing mask manufacturing to guarantee a stockpile in advance for pandemics despite being advised to do so, as a result manufacturers had to cut staff and lower capacity

* For-profit hospitals being on the verge of running out of money due to treatment for uninsured patients not being funded

* Governments having to contemplate sending out massive checks to citizens and/or provide financial assistance in exchange for employers not laying off all their staff

* Price gouging for emergency essentials like masks and hand sanitizer, forcing local governments and marketplaces to act aggressively to punish it

* Government officials delaying necessary containment measures like closing beaches or banning gatherings as an attempt to preserve local businesses at the expense of public health

* Cruise ships... just cruise ships in general. The idea that they are still operational as floating incubators for hundreds of new cases is just obscene.

* COVID-19 spreading more rapidly among the elderly in WA because care home workers have to work multiple jobs to pay rent, resulting in them taking it between care homes

Other less-capitalist nations are still struggling with COVID-19 but capitalist responses to it have so far been wildly insufficient.
There is a bit of Shooting the Elephant as well. A large percentage of the public will be unconvinced about the 'no evidence' and expect the authorities to do something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_Elephant
If you are focused on the U.S., then I understand your sentiment. But if you look beyond, it is really promising. Medical science and biology are producing new scientific knowledge about CoViD-19 and SARS-Cov2 at break neck speed. That alone is amazing to see. On the other hand, you really see that people get it and that they have to do social distancing to help them and everybody else. On top of that you see, e.g. China helping European countries in their crisis. That is unprecedented. The outlook for the U.S. might be more grim, at least as seen from Europe. It seems pretty obvious that medicine as a business is not the right setup to tackle a pandemic. Germany moved into that direction into the last 20 years. And everybody is realizing the downsides of that move, now. Although it could be seen for 20 years if you bothered to look. Back to the U.S., I find it deeply worrying that people started to buy guns. Do they believe they could shoot the virus? Or do they expect looting and civil uproar? That would be the worst people could do in such a crisis. I hope it doesn't come to that. And finally, Trump. I think I don't have to write anything about him by now.
171.3 million transistors per mm^2 is mind boggling. Were Apple's A14 to have the same area as their A13 (98.48mm^2) and maintain that density throughout, you're looking at ~16+ billion transistors. Some comparisons:

- Apple A13: 8.5 billion

- Apple A12X: 10 billion (iPad Pro)

- Nvidia Titan RTX: 18.6 billion

I wonder what kind of use cases are unlocked with 16 billion transistors in your pocket. This node might be the one that gets us to AR.
This will really mess you up psychologically and question your reality and your agency for a while.
I posted this a couple of days ago. It’s a powerful illustration. Fiction, so it cherry-picks “facts”, but that’s not necessarily bad.

I agree the title isn’t compelling enough for how horrifying the story is. I suggested How Coronavirus Will Kill You, but that’s probably clickbait.
The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pranav_mistry_the_thrillin...

I haven't seen the one by Microsoft. I really recommend watching this, it's pretty intense.
>I've noticed a pattern every time any website launches a redesign: users immediately and vehemently dislike it; a couple of months pass; everyone looks back and wonders what the fuss was and would hate to go back to the old design. -spatulon

I've noticed a bias against change too, but sometimes the redesign is just worse. For example, the wait for mouse and then fade-in change to Google is just as obnoxious today as when it went live.
I believe the "We need contacts permission" message is key here. The message should include the purpose for what the contact data will be used for when asking for consent.

> Specific – consent must relate to specific actions relating to the data rather than for any purpose the business wants it. For example, if the data is for a newsletter subscription, it must say exactly that.

https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/consent/
I like Canadians and I like Canada. I am hateful and distrusting of closed-source voting machines. Perhaps it was wrong to appeal to the tired old "let's have ruinous economic sanctions on most foreign nations" prejudice that so many public officials pretend to have... At some level it would be nice if the people administering elections in a particular jurisdiction were subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.

Voting machines are inherently a challenge to verify. Even if the voter herself compiles source code and loads the resulting object into the machine before voting, it's impossible for her to verify the hardware is actually using that object. The paper ballots produced by these machines have marks next to candidates, but they also have an opaque bar code and that's what gets scanned when votes are "recounted". On top of all this, considering the design and code of these machines to be commercial secrets ensures error and distrust.
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : We need to talk about your flair.

Joanna : Really? I... I have fifteen pieces on. I, also...

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Well, okay. Fifteen is the minimum, okay?

Joanna : Okay.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Or... well, like Brian, for example, has thirty seven pieces of flair, okay. And a terrific smile.

Joanna : Okay. So you... you want me to wear more?

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Look. Joanna.

Joanna : Yeah.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, okay? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. Okay? That's what the flair's about. It's about fun.

Joanna : Yeah. Okay. So more then, yeah?

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Look, we want you to express yourself, okay? Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don't you?

Joanna : Yeah, yeah.

Stan, Chotchkie's Manager : Okay. Great. Great. That's all I ask.
Your really going there after the events of the 6th of Jan?
If the tech company had filed other (related or not) patents previously then it is feasible that they authored and submitted the patent in less than a week.

They may also have been working on the same thing at the same time as you, and then needed to accelerate their patent application after your MVP posting.

The only thing that really matters is the claims section of the patent, so if you can access those be sure to read them to determine how much it overlaps with your stuff.
I was in the Panhandle last week at my family’s place. Can confirm about the chin straps and no mask wearers.

There’s a big restaurant nearby that had 200+ people in it and no table or space restrictions. It was a full house.

In Georgia we are still under restrictions and restaurants are at half capacity.
One niche iuse is that it lets you legally run macOS in a VM under Linux, I think. Which you might want to do if you have some stuff that only works under macOS, like iPhone app builds, but you otherwise need or prefer Linux. But they're often all around ok machines for general use too if you're not too price conscious and/or your employer just hands them out to everyone.
Standard is what's agreed upon, nothing more or less--standards change.
For mobile users:

> Make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone

> 1. By crafting policies that address the needs of systematically excluded groups

> a. Designing gender responsive and inclusive data plans targeting women and other systematically excluded groups
Does it work, if the people lending it, are just planning to hold the stock forever?
Depends. By this metric -- applied to me -- there are no famous American-football players, either.
I think holding duration is part of the contract.
Get a sharp electric shock, fall over and insure themselves? Might be grounds to sue you, unfortunately.
Well, I just sent almost exactly that email (reworded, of course, not actually copied-pasted). We'll see what they say.
Complex in the sense of "complex numbers" or in the sense of composite data?
Wow, I was just thinking about building something like this, maybe a month or so ago...

...it would be beautiful if you could plug other things into the "provider" side of this, like RDBMS's, etc. and make the body of data available "queryable".
Wow... a lot of responses. I guess I forgot the "</sarcasm>".

All great points though, nothing I don't already agree with.
Where does it say "Lisp" in that article?
Also the government really threw the book at Lamo for being an Aspergers kid who didn't know better then openly hack into websites. It is quite understandable that he would immediately turn over anything even remotely suspicious after that experience.
Well, none (well I mean plenty if you want to go through thousands of years of history, but realistically, none), but modernizing largely meant copying Western ideas and that included having their own colonies and spheres of influence, just like Western powers. It's not as though that is the reason the US went to war with Japan.
> Now that we're finally actually making a proper PHP spec, I'm not as excited about 4 and 5 as they'd like us to be.

I was the only person who seemed to care much about the spec, and I quit. The spec has several broken tests, numerous omissions and inaccuracies, and doesn't mention any of the really important PHP 7 features.

I'm not too optimistic.
Do they not have reclamation requirements once they are done mining? Most strip mining outfits are required to do that after they take what they want from below.
A lot of people are giving you some great feedback here, and I hope, at the very least, it's giving you more confidence in your actions at the workplace. I've definitely been in a similar situation, and I empathize.

A lot of people are suggesting you leave, but I think that's rash and there isn't enough to make that obvious. Here's why:

1) Your issue is a people issue, not a work-subject-matter issue. Is it possible to switch teams? Group dynamics can vary tremendously, even with some underlying company culture.

2) My take is that you need to find that middle ground between cocky interviewee and suppressed team member. Regardless of how you think reactions might be on the team, you certainly don't want to continue what's going on now if there aren't signs that things will get better. Take the extra liberties you have as a new member of the team and ask questions; your team really should be open to them. Otherwise, try hard to get to know your teammates, and otherwise be a genuinely good person to them.

To be clear, I'm on most people's side here that something needs to change, but it might be worth considering things outside of flat-out leaving right away.
I made the same assessment, strongest on ibi7
I find this -very- same effect very useful for doing Dungeon master work in D&D.
Ruffle is pretty bad what what I've seen so far. It's not there yet.
I like how on the front page this is currently right next to:

"The brain expands and shrinks over time"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048591
This article conflates multiple distinct mechanisms in a way that doesn't make sense.

For instance, the author implies that stock returns (in the long run) are comprised of economy-wide growth and dividends. The author provides a hypothetical example of 8% stock return being explained by 5% economy-wide return and 3% dividend return. This is wrong on so many levels.

First of all, dividends are a mechanism to transfer wealth from the company to its shareholders. Emphasis on "transfer". Dividends do not magically create new wealth out of thin air. If a company decided that - all else being equal - they will reinvest profits instead of paying dividends this year, the investors' returns would not be affected. Value of the skipped dividend would simply appreciate the stock price instead (when a company pays a $1 dividend, their stock price drops by $1).

Secondly, the author implies that without dividends a stock investors's returns would be constrained by economy-wide growth. This is nonsensical. You can own a company within a stagnating economy and that company can still turn a profit. Even if the economy is growing at 0%, a company might still make 10% profits per year. The connection between economic growth and company profits is not what the author believes it to be.
I remember vividly that when we moved here from Bangladesh in 1989, I couldn’t eat the chicken for months. Going from eating non-optimized chickens bought live at the market and slaughtered right before cooking to eating store bought Purdue chicken was a massive downgrade.
> What about Fox and MSNBC channels that spew hate and conspiracy theories non-stop?

For those of us who don't watch either of them, does anyone have a few examples of hate and conspiracy theories they have pushed?
Thank you so much for such a profoundly insightful comment. I'm now even thinking of changing professions thanks to it.
Cropping isn't behind a menu, isn't counterintuitive, and isn't slow.

Select the part of the image you want to keep. Press Cmd K. Done.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404245
Well, Marco has no solution - he has to lobby Apple to include APIs he needs for his app. His lobbying isn't going to improve his users' experience. I also can't port my app to the iPhone, as it would require me to lobby Apple to include APIs I need.

I'm trying to illustrate how there is no perfect ideal approach.
Reimplementing it is not that difficult.
Or D.

I had thought D was designed to be, among other things, a reasonable next-generation replacement for projects that would otherwise use something like C.
The links are not working in the post, so paste them here again:

http://blog.libinpan.com/SafariExtensions/HackerNews/HackerN...

http://j.mp/hn4safari
Their site says "This is an educational initiative and not a profit-making venture." Sounds like a great way to get some experience in startups. They get to meet with a lot of well-connected VCs and put them in touch with some smart Stanford students. Not bad for some kids who haven't graduated from college.
whoa - it'll be cheaper for me to fly to Moscow (from DC) and travel to Eastern Europe by rail than actually flying directly in -- by about $420. This is dead useful; thanks for the link!
Will Unity be allowed to include mono's .NET runtime as their scripting host then? There's little practical difference between that and a game scripted with Lua.
I have seen both extreme: no index v/s all column indexed, no cache at all v/s cache at every level.

I have seen caches having more inserts v/s reads.

I have seen them replacing MySQL by NoSQL as it does not scale for them.

This is common for early stage funded startups founded by non tech founders.
Only if you don't properly know JavaScript. Which is basically what this entire article is about.
How come C# is on the rise 11% but .NET is on the down -15%?

Seems a bit odd to me
Ironically, you chastise me on stats but then use a figure for the leaf half its total global sales. Nissan announced hitting 400,000 total sold in march: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-a70f8c4b4e...

It's a little hard to make an apples to apples comparison because tesla was apparently taking money-down preorders for years while Nissan was actually shipping cars. Shipping obviously results in installed base advantages, but preorders obviously result in sales rate advantages.

I'll take your word for it that there are just now more tesla on the road although articles at least as recent as two months ago state otherwise-- but that doesn't really contradict my comment above that the statement that the claim that tesla is the 'benchmark ev' is odd to me.
That would imply you're smarter and have more power than the law which is not the case.

They'd ask you to provide actual readable files, pictures, etc, or else would reject your "decryption".
Ethereum has the first ever decentralized banking system based on on-chain smart contracts. I'm earning high interest on usd stablecoins for several months now. The interest rate was double digit until very recently, but even 5% is still very good for a completely anonymous system.
DAI itself is a decentralized usd stablecoin, meaning it can't be confiscated by the issuer. It's overcollateralized by locked eth. Anyone can generate new dai after locking eth. Those two together make the previously impossible possible - an Iranian or Venezuelan citizen earning interest on a USD-denominated savings. This is all called DeFi. Once mortgages and other external assets are tokenized, it's going to allow fully decentralized mortgages.

https://trade.dydx.exchange/markets

https://app.compound.finance/

>Bitcoin solves a real problem: it allows people to escape and bypass existing financial system and continue doing business, save and not be subject to policies outside of their control. It is black market money which governments hate and will try to outlaw in some way.

Bitcoin completely failed, as majority of its hashpower is located in China. The Chinese government can tell miners to censor transactions tomorrow and to orphan blocks from non-compliant miners and it would happen. There's no defense against this. Changing PoW via a hard fork would result in a gpu-secured network that's even more vulnerable than an asic-based one, as it's easier to a large entity to rent or buy enough gpus.

PoS is the only defense against such centralization. Most hashpower is going to be an impossible to hide industrial facilities, while PoS only needs an internet connection, much harder to catch. More importantly, even if a determined attacker acquires a very big fraction of the tokens and attacks the network, a hard fork can just delete the hostile accounts. One a gpu based PoW network is attacked there's no solution, as it's not possible to make the attacker's mining hardware ineffective via a hard fork.
React might go away, but javascript/typescript will probably be a good bet for the next 10 years (who knows beyond that).

I'd like to think that people will come to their senses about Python and use sensible languages for ML + data once they relearn all the problems that software engineers learnt about it all that time ago (fast development != reliable/maintainable development, fast development != easily-scaled development with teams of 10+ etc)
Here you go, programming languages and their salaries:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#top-paying-te...
Well, maybe, but that's the human condition also. All of our actions — even the most well intentioned ones — can have unexpected and even disastrous consequences.
>Censorship is when the powers of government or the marketplace are such that nobody could, if they wanted, get their message out.

No, that's not the definition of censorship.

>censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

It's funny how many people are trying to redefine the definition of censorship in recent times; since Big Tech has grown more powerful than governments in their ability to control information flow. Though I'm glad it seems we have moved past the "only the government can do censorship" psuedo definition that many on HN were so frequently asserting.
What I meant is that they sure as hell check every ticket, every rider. And people seem to understand that not having one is serious. Not like here.
If launching from vacuum directly into atmosphere, sure.

I think that it poses an interesting engineering problem, not unlike the space elevator. If given enough velocity, a projectile with retractable wings could be launched into an atmospheric gradient and generate lift after leaving the accelerator.

Whether or not we have materials used on the craft could survive the acceleration to escape velocity is the big question. It would take some serious testing.
I am not sure that I got understood - I meant that you should not give the homeless a house. You should give the homeless a house and a job if you want the issue solved (or better access to healthcare, or whatever was the stuff that put him in the downward spiral). I absolutely support providing roofs above the heads on the vulnerable people. I just think it don't goes nearly far enough.
I use the software I do for many reasons. One of these reasons is that I dislike Microsoft and their business practices. I don't want to deal with them on any level, and for RPi to assume this low barrier to entry is welcome assumes many things they shouldn't assume. MS bought GitHub, which is bad enough. Their telemetry is reason enough to avoid them. America needs a version of the GDPR stat.
Yeah Bupropion is also used a little for ADHD. It has those effects a little. Hell, there are people abusing it for those effects.

And ADHD meds were used previously for loosing weight. I think it will be the same with Bupropion.
I wrote a blog post about this once[1] because I was totally shocked how few people actually use a separate domain for their status page. It's like < 0.5% and I'll never understand why.

1. https://statusgator.com/blog/2020/04/21/your-status-page-des...
As someone whose studied both situations pretty extensively I disagree. Israel practices something more akin to apartheid. There is no eugenic component as far as I’m aware, Gaza has a significantly higher birth rate than israel. In Xinjiang, forced sterilization is a systemic aspect of the campaign thereby fitting into the UN definition of genocide.
Total side note, but the chair pictured really reminds me of the aluminum folding chairs that were ubiquitous in backyards when I was growing up. I'd love one like that for the (home) office!
Job advertisements are a type of advertisement and are what is being talked about here. General advertisement has nothing to do with the OP article, isn't legislated the same, and nobody is surprised about demographic limiting general advertisement.
That's interesting and I didn't know that it was a common occurrence, although, still, in the example you showed wouldn't that be because it's being used in a face to face situation (or in writing if you're narrating human discourse, like in a novel, or something along those lines), the 'and by the way' has the effect of highlighting what comes after (and I would guess it isn't unique to British English but a common occurrence in many more languages/cultures).

Anyway, I just found it ironic in the context and I still see it as, consciously or not, that idea is projected by the choice of their words, specially given it's in written form, if this were two blokes talking to each other it would be different - and there's nothing wrong with it either way, plus, I can be wrong, which is fine too - the same way I don't want thought police for me I don't want it for anyone else either.
Since it's hidden I believe the only way it get upvoted is when another person submits it.

[I also submitted it, FWIW]