jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article is a bit too fluffy for my taste, but in observing my own online behavior, I think that this part is key:

> People are searching for products on Amazon, rather than using Google.

My own habits suggest that I have a "looking for something to buy mode" and "looking for information mode". When I want to buy something, I go straight to Amazon (and sometimes New Egg). When I want to look for information, I use Google. These two modes don't seem to intersect very frequently, if at all.
> So anyone who thinks that there should be public distributed protocols for exchanging money is a hopeless idealist and just making things worse.

No, anyone who thinks people should exclusively directly make use of “public distributed protocols” is a hopeless idealist.

They aren't “making things worse”, though, except from the perspective of their own hopeless ideal.

> So I guess in your opinion it would be better if digital transactions just continued to go through monopoly private middlemen.

It can't be both “middlemen” and “monopoly”; it's at worst an oligopoly. And, no, I didn't say that. But more competing low-level payment networks makes middlemen that can abstract them more valuable to most consumers and merchants.
As long as that citizen has a Samsung Galaxy S20, which is currently the only supported phone. [0]

[0] https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TVert&from=&to=en&a=htt...
It is not (just) about paying. It is about a condition that demands Google reveal their algorithm. This is a common problem with modern legislation, where the awful, disgusting, dirty politics of the things hidden in legislation gets lost behind the "big ticket" dispute.

Here is the part Google objects to from their propaganda piece https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/ under "Why does the revised Code not work for Google?":

> 14 days algorithm notification: It requires us to give news publishers special treatment—14 days’ notice of certain algorithms changes and ‘internal practices’. Even if we could comply, that would delay important updates for our users and give special treatment to news publishers in a way that would disadvantage everyone else.

I would argue it is even worse, as a SUBSET of publishers that the Australian government deems worthy qualify. Basically Rupert Murdoch, for my English speaking cousins in other countries, and their only real local competitor.

If this was ONLY about paying, it would be a negotiation. This is a bizarre law that aims to profit the people who are supposed to hold the government of my country accountable, and give a leg up to specific publishers. None of that bodes well for democracy in my country, and this is government getting in bed with specific businesses, the cynic in me believes to win the government more favourable reporting.
Everybody appears to be holding a foot gun here. I’m very much looking forward to seeing which one goes off first.

The outcome is uncertain, but it should be fascinating to watch.
“Did you just quote yourself? Why not just say that without the quotes?”

- nindalf
Call me noone then.

I write this kind of stuff all the time because parallelizing long-running tasks without dependencies is one of the easiest wins when it comes to wall-time.

But this kind of optimization is somewhat orthogonal to async/await. You don't need fine-grained async to optimize long-running tasks, you could just throw a bunch of closures into a threadpool for that purpose. Async only makes sense when you're interleaving thousands of tasks with readiness/completion based IO.
He also tweeted praise for the insurrectionist and justifications for the insurrection during the attack.

Any idea that he hadn’t realized the effect his words would have and had learned his lesson go firmly out the window.

(If there were any remaining doubts before that... did anyone believe he didn’t know what he was doing?)
You have to discern what people here are really outraged about - and sadly, it's not free speech or constitutional rights or any real high principle. Those are just intellectual cover.

After all, you don't see people clamoring in shock and about "unsettled" feelings regarding the moderation that happens here on HN.
"Nobody is going to call you a racist because you claim that 1=2."

? A woman is under arrest for trying to grab what she thought was her phone back from a black kid. It's a national story.

In 2020, getting into an argument with a Black person is 'racist' and 'criminal' if you happen to be wrong.

The woman did 1=2, in that, her actions are wrong.

But because someone is a different colour, she's being destroyed and doxxed on the MSM for the assumption of racism. (Ironically, she could easily pass as a 'person of colour' if she chose to).

This is unfortunately a problem right now in politics and it's perpetuated by the press.
The Up Series is the most wonderful piece of work. Maybe I’m predisposed, but I watched Boyhood some years ago in the cinema and being able to see life happen is incredible. Apted didn’t start the series, he was a sideman on the first, 7 Up, and possibly 7+7, but it is very much his body of work. I wish he had been able to retain more of the people and also, as he said, had more women, but it stands alone atop the visual and motion picture database in my head.

Unassailable.
Suggestion: Arxiv and many blog archives encode the year in the URL; you could probably add a 3-line filter that suggests a year in case it’s arxiv or /yyyy/ in the URL when yyyy is in range 2005-$currentyear

Also: thanks for all your work making HN the pleasant awesome forum that it is.
Its called a case study - it usually the first step to multi-person large breadth studies.

Its a “we encountered X anomaly, which is very i interesting and hopeful, and we arent taking money to get lambos. Plz give funding”

Just the scientific method,

Case 0 (we are effed, ppl die. God will be done)

Case 1 (ooooh) - case study

Case E(mperical, study funding yay - larger chunk of department funding allotted)

Case E+1 Peer review, fellow/sister studies adding proof. Sometimes skipped for major which bring experience or reputation, often natural sciences due the existence of logical verification methods.

* For social sciences, we have tests such as ANOVA, Eta^2 and Omega^2 (McDonald’s reliability) - there is an absence of logical verifications here due to systemic constraints, ie: its impossible to do studies with (Inf) participants.

Case E+1 -> N+1 (proof or generialized applicability, or enough confidence to yolo a vaccine or medicine or new tech onto the population)

Edited: actually E comes before N and N+1 by expanding the case study to studies with control groups and more participants.
worth noting that there has been a ruby-on-smalltalk-vm-technology implementation for more than ten years, but it didn't catch on

http://maglev.github.io/
I’m pretty sure those rioters were also chanting about overthrowing the government, calling it illegitimate, burning the flag, setting up independent zones trying to secede from the country, literally attacking the seats of power in their local districts and states. The Trump protestors went for a bigger target but their actions were tame in comparison to months of riots, arson, assault and murders.
This is simply wrong. It would mean platforms that don’t moderate have no liability. The law was created because a website that didn’t moderate was found to be not liable for the comments it’s users posted, and a website that did was found to be liable. This is even on the Wikipedia page for section 230.

I guess the conclusion that repealing it would result in more censorship is based on the idea that platforms would moderate more aggressively to try and avoid all liability. When really, that’s simple not possible, and they would have to abandon the practice all together. Well, the larger platforms would have to at least.
I'm working on one, every account is based around a bitcoin wallet and the source of truth is one the client side. Will be open to testing soon!: https://chapo.app
You need to have a new job. In so many ways. I got a sysadmin "internship" right out of college with a studio art degree (painting) and was make $3K a month. And for a company that I feel is extremely exploitative of its workers. I completely agree with everyone. You can feel completely entitled to making 4-5 times what you are, salaried with benefits.
Also, your boss is obviously just an ass. Only someone on the megalomaniac end of the personality spectrum would be calling you to task for showing up a few minutes "late", especially when you are a contract worker.
got a 404 when downloading flock-sdk-android.zip
I have updated the title. It represents the article better, and hopefully makes it clear that the article is tongue-in-cheek :)
When it comes to advice: Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it. And those who want it the most, like it the least. There's plenty of fish in the sea. Life's too short to waste it with people who can't/won't return your affections. Of course, if masochism is your thing, by all means go ahead and reopen that old wound, and bring on the pain.
The mental sickness wouldn't be using any proprietary software. The mental sickness would be acquiring a closed source database and keeping the tech closed source. Databases specifically seem to have a huge mindshare and usage share around open source. And when conventional stores haven't fulfilled a need, solutions like Cassandra, CouchBase, and Mongodb have been released as open source software. I don't really think Apple has some unique data persistence needs to require such an obscure path, if that is really what they were doing
Please read the algorithm in code. No threads ever wait. :-)
This week's Lively Morgue features this picture:

http://livelymorgue.tumblr.com/post/114439803705/dec-21-1937...

I wonder if that's a car Paternoster...
I'm glad I didn't go to college, so I don't have to give any money out of guilt to a place which wastes so much of it on landscaping and sports.

That's what I saw when I visited more privileged friends at Universities, anyway.

I'd really rather give money directly to someone that needs it than to a dysfunctional organization (and they are pretty much all dysfunctional). I wish that was actually feasible.
But that hotspot goes through the same line that neighbors are connected with, no? Or Comcast doesn't count the hotspot traffic towards the plan bandwidth?
I'm using my own modem, so no wifi hotspot in my home, but I've never been blocked from using another xfinity-wifi AP.
It'll only get raised with additional battery technology, I think. Around a normal track, where an F1 car will get up to that speed, it will use about 1.7kg of fuel per lap, and this corresponds roughly to about 8kWh per lap, taking thermal efficiency into account.

Formula E cars have about 200kg of batteries (a Tesla has >500kg), and these provide about 28kWh - which would run out a little after 3 laps, or perhaps less than that if the incredibly high rate of discharge caused it to catch fire. You couldn't feasibly add too much more battery capacity without weighing the car down too much.

You can get an appreciable fraction of the speed of an F1 car with a fraction of the power, and the difference is even less noticeable if you're on a street circuit; for example around Monaco an F1 car will use only 1.2kg fuel, with a much higher drag aero package.

The Formula E driver lineup is a bit embarrassing, in that almost exactly half of the drivers are failed or retired F1 drivers.

Also, F1 drivers since the turbos returned are much lower pitched, since they rev only up to I think 12000rpm now - you might be surprised!
I also have XfinityWifi. The box that provides it is extremely buggy. I recommend setting it to "Bridge mode" (which turns it into a dumb modem) and then using OpenWRT in a normal, router configuration. You get a really good speed boost, especially over wifi, just by taking Xfinity's routing out of the equation.
co-founder: https://twitter.com/archajain shrug
Added the monetary base (MB) now for you: https://m1chart.com/?m=mb&stock=sp500&time=5%20years
The “detected in Barcelona sewer water in March 2019” stories from June 2020 didn’t seem to go anywhere either.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Kept searching for followups, didn’t see anything till this:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

That’s from 21 January 2021 and says:

“So far unpublished data, analysing retained wastewater samples from Barcelona, Spain, taken in March 2019 showed positive RT-qPCR results for SARS-CoV-2 (Chavarria-Miró et al., 2020). The authors conclude that the virus was introduced to the Barcelona population due to global travel and remained undetected.”

So as of then, still unpublished.
>It seems the publication is in the midst of a takeover by woke radical authoritarians.

I'm skeptical it's an actual takeover per se, and not the older generation being completely blindsided by the force with which the younger generation(s) release their demands. They probably just don't know how to deal with it, and so are giving too much deference to them because doing otherwise risks the online twitter mob.

Is legacy media really leaking talent and cash like I hear so often (honestly asking, haven't seen the data)? If that's true, and social media and technology have neutered their position atop of opinion-forming institutions, that is going to build some very bad incentives in these legacy media companies as far as journalistic integrity goes.
I tried restricting to later hours, basically just lunch and dinner, but that made me super cranky by 11. But now I stop eating by 3 or so (and sometimes earlier) and it's fine. I did ease into it, with my last food 30-60 minutes earlier than the day before.
>No need for you to preach to the choir about not trusting the Chinese government. As can be seen in the thread,

Great expression! I have the same strange feeling but couldn't put in correct words. Other than the topic of this thread, there's a meta topic which reflects some interesting human natures showing up more often among politicians and lawyers: Spread bias opinions without being caught misleading, disguise subjective speculations under objective delicately organized articulation.

Being constructive in discussion is extremely difficult. Sometime I watch the debate with fun on meta topics other than topics.
Not sure if this counts but I really enjoy Terraform.
Haskell, hands down.

And here I thought there were jobs to be had in Clojure. Am I deluded by the functional Kool-Aid?
Actually the barriers to entry aren't that low. You need to have at least 6 figures to deal with the "float" problem (7 or 8 figures if you're successful), you have to hire people to deal with the orders, etc. Then you have the whole fraud aspect, which if not carefully managed could quickly bankrupt the business regardless of its bankroll. If I were a Russian credit card thief, I'd be hammering away at Magic right now. "Find me a Rolex submariner with 2 tone gold and mother of pearl face".
But a good PM has to be able to manage projects using more than one methodology. Agile (or at least, agile as it is commonly practised, because I just know that someone is itching to say "No, the reason that's not working is because you're doing agile wrong") is inappropriate for many projects.
Please don't do this here. It's off topic and never leads to interesting discussion. It's also against the site guidelines, in spirit if not in letter: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The whole thing is bizarre. The author has been working on this piece for something like 10 months now, and he can't get a basic definition of EA right? I saw a hot take on twitter that Metz deliberately did a bad job because he didn't actually want to write a hit piece and his superiors forced him into it.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN27W1J2

Very interesting. Does that mean Covid was in Europe 3 months before the supposed patient zero in Wuhan (December 8?)
There was also VBScript, one of the two active scripting engines shipped with Windows and available from IE and WSH.
In my experience, this doesn't work.

In my country the R&D budget is quite small in the first place, and there were huge cuts during the 2008 crisis.

The result of the cuts was mainly that the mafias, old researchers with political influence, and people who are experts in gaming the system got to keep their funding. In general, newcomers, young researchers, and genuinely good researchers who aren't that good at gaming the system suffered the most.

No, the truth is that these problems are caused precisely by the insane levels of competitiveness for funding - and solutions must reduce that level of competitiveness for funding, not increase it.
Bitcoin has been running non-stop for the past 12 years, used by tens of millions of people,has a market cap of 1 Trillion and all that while protecting the human rights around the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ldyy7s/bitcoin_is_...

But even if you are clueless enough to think that Bitcoin and blockchain isn't working at least you should appreciate all the breakthroughs in cryptography like Zero Knowledge proofs, networking like libp2p, distributed storage like ipfs etc. that emerged from the evolution of cryptocurrency tech.
You absolutely have a right to privacy in your house.
I don't have access to Clubhouse but don't you lose an additional ton of valuable information when there is no video? Like non-physical (video) communication already has its challenges but this takes them to another level. Or am I missing something here?
Of course, I've read everything, including the article by Nic Carter [1] (which I highly recommend) and all his related articles on the subject.

The comparison with gold mining is quite apt actually - one of the use cases for Bitcoin is to act as a store of value and hedge against inflation, precisely like gold.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...
Your point about the FP crew being seeming obnoxious sometimes is true. The style itself can be great, I use IO daily and the monadic style is the glue that holds our apps together. The difference with my team, or approaches that work generally, is that we don't go on and on about these abstractions. I barely mention the 'M' word and just talk about chaining things together. Once that is appreciated then IO isn't that hard to get a basic idea of either. We talk a bit about lazy evaluation but I try not to freak everyone out by mentioning purity, higher kinder types and functors every second breath. It's enough to gain a working intuition for these things without bringing theory to the foreground. That can come later if / when ppl are interested.

I guess we also choose our style and abstractions carefully and only use things when we can justify it as a team. If someone raised a PR full of novel concepts that we hadn't grokked as a team, it might well get rejected. For example we started using monad transformers a while ago only after the concept and benefits in our code was explained and bought into by the team. This doesn't just apply to Scala but is especially important when using it. Reach consensus with your team about the style and evolve it together.

I get the feeling that other language cultures, maybe Rust being one, are good at just using FP, without talking endlessly about it.
Yeah I can see where that might end up being an issue. We always leave the door open when it's not in use, and we run the cleaning cycle once a week, so we haven't had any problems at this point (knock on wood).
> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy.

In my experience, I find that regardless of policy, windows computers are more likely to break down at one point or another. Curious though, what do you do different to mitigate that inevitability?
This is an interesting post, but I think it would be better posted as a link rather than text. I believe text posts are penalised in the news rankings and, at least in my experience, tend to get clicked on less.
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Yes, I'd like to see it run across the entirety of the available data.

Also, if I came up with a method like this, and I actually had evidence that it worked, I'd be patenting it and selling it to an investment bank for very large sums of money before I published the details.
Imagine being a mathematician at the NSA and working there for 10 years and then wanting to go to work in Academia.

And realise that you can't publish most of the things you've been working on for years because it's classified.
For me, this was more the case in graduate school than as an undergraduate. While I did like my department (mathematics), my advisor, and the other students in my class, the majority of my undergraduate studies really did end up being direct completion of coursework (with the occasional group project). The social "coming into your own" aspect of university was there, but I'm not sure it's worth the price that we seem to attach to it. Maybe this is just the reality for state schools.

On the other hand, post-calculus/diffyq mathematics can be a difficult subject to grok on your own, without at least some face time with a subject matter expert to refocus. I can't predict with confidence if I really could have MOOC'd my way into graduate school. I thinking that it is unlikely. This is probably also true for the traditional physical engineering disciplines (electrical, mechanical, civil, aero, etc.)
>> I mean, we're starting to see phones with 2GB of ram, it's completely unacceptable for a modern tablet.

I run Chrome with a lot of tabs open on my Asus Vivotab Note and I don't really feel the pain of having only 2GB. I'm one of those guys with bad habits about closing tabs.

The thing you have to remember -- Atoms are serviceable CPUs, but they're nothing like the Core series. If you're looking to do heavy lifting, you should probably go for a Surface Pro anyways.
That is the case. All the way at the bottom of that page:
[6] Surface Pen sold separately.
What a great idea! BioTool works really well for me.
I am happy to pay for my production, but I feel as though part of the benefit is that I get a cost-free development playground. If they take away that, I'd rather put the money into something else where I get even more control.

I guess they want to go leaner, which is fair enough, but they will lose paying customers as well.
Thanks for pointing that out; I think the syntax highlighter may have clobbered some code. It's now fixed.
Perhaps get a VM from DO/AWS/etc and setup something like dokku - https://github.com/progrium/dokku