jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you feel that strongly about Teams imagine when you are forced to use truly bad software.
In my opinion the difference between then and now is that now you have a contingent of scientists that actively promote the position that you cannot simultaneously be both religious and a scientist. I understand the positive goals they are trying to achieve, but I don't think they are considering the ways it can be counterproductive to their cause. I don't think you can do anything about fundamentalist Christians, but I wonder how many people were pushed into fundamentalism because something less extreme was still treated with utter contempt.
It did, and it is now. This is one of those things that's trivial to check before you tell someone they're wrong. Not everyone could watch it exactly live. Everyone who was was kicked out.
It’s gonna cut any pedestrians it hits into half
Does the US not have pedestrian safety standards? An all metal front grill must be horrible on any safety tests.

I can only assume this is a joke and in a few hours Elon will do a "one more thing" before showing the real Tesla Pickup.

This take on a pickup looks like some engineer accidentally left their Halo fan-art on the shared CAD file server.
There are a lot of very strong opinions in this thread on whether this code would be "production ready". I don't think that is the point here. This is awesome because of its brevity, it is like writing a ray tracer in 100 lines of C. It demonstrates that a task which might be perceived to highly complicated can be reduced to a file, of which the size many of us would just define a single class in such a system.
I literally checked my watch to see the date.
Eh, no. This is simply not targeted for rural work/job type applications.
You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk.

VERY disorganized presenting. Badly rehearsed. Awkward speech. Speech is almost never in sync with slides. Demos failed spectacularly. The rest of the event was him with a backdrop of two broken windows.

They didn't show the interior, and barely talked about the bed. Is this even good as a pickup truck? Is there enough storage?

This all seemed hastily put together (probably as a response to the other pickup truck press). But for an Elon presentation, this is pretty normal (high awkwardness).

Signed, Model 3 Driver (who loves his car).
You have stated this multiple times without explaining why farmers etc. wouldn't buy it. Not saying you're wrong, just curious to know why.
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand what this means.
yes this could be even cheaper, though I'm not sure if perhaps the co2 is released quicker as the trees decompose- charcoal can keep the carbon locked up for centuries.

Either way, these methods greatly improve the land-use efficiency of growing trees for carbon capture/storage, as it is stored in the soil over many years, not only in the living trees. "putting coal back in the ground" as it were.
Agree that this kind of incompetence exists in all sectors and I think we don't talk about it, it becomes acceptable. We're not trying to blame a single developer, that'd be inappropriate. But, the management and QA culture in a AAA game studio that rakes billions ought to be better.

The complexity is in reverse engineering the binary. The developer has access to the full source code and the profiling tools I presume.

Another one is in Microsoft Flight Simulator, instead of downloading multiple archives, it downloads one, unzips it using a single CPU core and then downloads another one. MSFS 2020 takes a few hours to install and that's not just because of the internet connection, but this shitty installation code.
Others have spoken about how the Linux experience have improved vastly due KDE Plasma et al. I think something which has been part and parcel of the Linux experience always been the latency(From opening apps to performing other tasks), that's what made it usable on even older hardware and I feel it's underrated.

I switched from Kaby Lake-based Core i5 MacBook Pro to Kaby Lake-based Core i5 Linux laptop half the cost due to the Big Sur issues and the productivity has improved several fold.

The apps just opens at the blink of an eye, A phrase often used to describe M1 based Macs is absolutely applicable to my Linux experience after switching from a Mac. Further with KVM, large enough RAM VMs run like any other apps without bogging down the system.
Nah. No-one cares what kind of porn other people are into.
It gets worse they're brand new game Red Dead online does the same thing as soon as it did it the first time I logged out and charged back
>Clearly it has something to do with nudity especially, because while Instagram definitely is a place where women are scantily clad, the lack of nudity, the hilarious specific ban on even just women’s bare nipples, has something to do with why the app is more than 50% female users.

Twitter and Tumblr are very popular with female users, and both have had a significant amount of porn on them.
Fascinating story. I love how they nearly failed and the song got rejected over and over by the studio bosses.
Oh wow, I did not know this one! And the browser compatibility seems top-notch [1], really nice, thanks! :-)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/use...
Klein Bottles are not something that company just made up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
2 suggestions:

1) Ask people in mechanical turk to write those sentences. Then you can ask others to verify them - you get far with few dollars

2) Include higher level features - for example bi-grams, there is more information in them

Also: corpus at http://thatswhatshesaid.com/ (I have no relation with this site)
How does this sit with them generally not writing about most startups? That's going to be either a valid reason competitors don't get a mention or a convenient excuse to hide behind, with no way for anyone outside to know the truth.

As disclosures go it seems kind of hollow in that context.
Great idea! Thanks!!
3) is known as an offer you can't refuse.
while this diet is high in beans and is okay, most people avoid beans for some reason. which results in many vegetarian friends of mine being constantly low on iron. tomatoes are a great source of this. just dont go for tomato juice to get it. its basically salt.
We sincerely apologize to our customers and other parties who are affected by the continuing service impairment of the Playstation Network since April 21st.
lots of websites do not consider the '+' character to be invalid for an email (I do not have an example in my mind at the moment). Annoying as hell.
oh ok, so it's restricted to only 1 book?
The case that subprime mortgages were in a bubble was made very efficiently in public by several people - I was subscribed to Nouriel Roubini's widely followed blog at the time; Gillian Tett at the FT also did good work exposing what was going on with property prices - and believed by many people. The bubble continued for years after it had convincingly been called.

However, relatively few people figured out how to efficiently make use of this information. Shorting the stocks of banks like AIG is very high risk, and can cost you everything if you don't know when the bubble is going to burst. In the end, the only shorting strategy that was effective was to use CDS, a newly popular derivative (which was a very smart idea). Jon Paulson's hedge fund made $15 billion from this, but Kyle Bass, another person who made money from this, says only 15 people figured out the CDS trade and made money from it. The amount of shorting that happened was tiny in proportion to the size of the bubble.

The EMH is a hypothesis that was contrived in an analysis that does not take account the actual way that information gets incorporated into prices, the actual trades available to market participants, or the asymmetry between upside and downside risks (aka. the Keynesian risks of opposing the market's animal spirits).

The EMH states that market prices correctly price in all public information. The weaker proposition, that it is hard to get rich quick from spotting market mispricing using just public information, does seem to be true.
Thanks! Be sure to get your company to sponsor me on Github if you can!
>The systemic question here is if we should allow it to be a financial advantage for companies to do that - especially large profitable ones with a footprint all over our nation.

The tying of health insurance to employment is the core issue. We give massive tax breaks to corporations via tax-deductible health insurance which naturally favors those employers with larger labor pools (who can therefore negotiate the best discounts).

We need to move to medicare for all and then treat health insurance over and above that like any other taxable benefit provided by an employer.
There are about 40 countries without a minimum wage. I cherry picked countries that most people on HN would recognize since I'm assuming people would not know much about the economies of Tuvalu, Tonga, or Rwanda.
I recommend using the open source Pandoc utility for converting file formats.

I agree, for collaborative editing, I also use Google docs.

Anyway, we have several good choices.
> Guess you havn't had a hanging Safari or Chrome tab take down the entire OS.

Pray tell, how did you diagnose this? Was flash running on either of those pages?
Hi,

yeah, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated, as I'm definitely no web-designer. I will do that together with a pagination and will roll that out hopefully next week. As the holidays are over and I have a normal day-job and a family next to it (or vice-versa), I try to keep working on the core as much as I can and keep the design as simple as possible.

I am personally a friend of infinite page scrolling, but it seems that not everyone likes it. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.
"if something goes wrong you'll have to re-install anyway."

This is probably one of those things where experiences will vary but for me most of the time on my old win7 laptop when a bad install broke stuff system recovery worked fantastically.
Yeah, and it's more than just the grade too. The Steck Salathe [1] is "only" 5.9, but I suspect it would rebuff ~60% of "5.12 climbers"

[1]: http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-Senti...
The mainstream trajectory of web experience from AOL to Google to Facebook is ironic. If it happens.
My immediate gut-reaction toward this kind of statement is negative: do we really want to have private companies in charge of all mail in the US? And no doubt there are some people who rely on it and wouldn't get acceptable service (due to remoteness, etc) from a private company. Etc.

BUT: the vast majority of the mail I get through the postal service is junk mail that I don't want. The remainder is almost entirely stuff that I'd prefer to get electronically and, if the USPS were to disappear, I feel confident I would.

So I'd like to hear arguments for the continuing subsidy and existence of the USPS, but I wouldn't personally cry any tears if it were abolished tomorrow.
... what about it? Your question is so fuzzy I don't have a clue what you're trying to get at.
I agree...I was a big fan of FourSquare at first, but now that the wow factor has worn off, I don't see the point anymore. Now if being the mayor gave me coupons or discounts, then I'd have more of an incentive to check in more often at more places.
by all means, if people have the time they should read the article. but for a brief summary to accompany the headline this seems like the most important thing to me.
An argument could be made, a really depressing argument in so many ways, that including children and grandmothers in the TSA's sexual assaults is for their protection, because if they were exempt, they could be targets for hiding contraband.
Issa voted against TARP

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
With enough karma, you'll see a "flag" link when looking at individual comments.
Yes, that's one aspect discussed in the podcast with Christian Drosten that is linked in the blog post. This is the relevant part:

> We have a lot of experience. We have made the most precise description of an untreated patient cohort among the Munich patients. And at the Munich group, we saw how the virus concentration in both the throat and lungs behaved over time. And we can say that at the beginning of the disease the virus is in the throat and it goes away on its own through the - let's say - the first ten days of the disease. After that, many patients in the throat have little or only irregular evidence of the virus.

But that has nothing to do with how the virus behaves in the lungs. The virus is then really replicative in the lungs, especially in severe cases. And we can also say what the patient has in his throat, it has nothing to do with how the clinical development of the disease continues, whether the patient quickly gets well or only goes through a difficult phase. So what is being measured in this entire clinical study has nothing to do with the outcome of the disease, with the symptoms, but is only an initial indicator of how the disease starts. For all patients, the virus concentration drops in the first week, but if you now imagine that the group being treated will be included a little later and the untreated group being included earlier in this study, it is in nature the thing that with this group that was later included - they are already further in eliminating the virus from the throat - that the virus then goes down in the throat, faster. This disappears faster because they have simply been in the course of the disease for a long time. Whether this is due to the fact that they are treated, cannot be said at all from this entire study. Perhaps it would have been so if the groups had been put together as here, but if they hadn't given them chloroquine, but some headache pill, the study would have been the same.
If it's exponential growth, then that's pretty scary.
I would argue Germany hasn't gotten over it, living here now. Also, slave ownership wasn't in the same stratosphere as the Holocaust. Both terrible blights on human history of course, but comparing the Holocaust to whatever other terrible thing is a tired trope.

Germans have loads of memorials, big and small, obvious and subtle, scattered all around the afflicted areas. It's part of frequent conversation here.

Also, there's a cultural difference - Germans are not sensational. They don't let emotion get injected into every news piece or current event. They don't "clap back" or cancel each other. It's not a constant race to see who is the most oppressed.

This is where the difference is. As an American, I can safely say that America has a culture problem that has absolutely nothing to do with racism/slavery/whatever and that is present across the political spectrum. It's not super obvious to most until you leave the American sphere and look back into it from the outside.
It is explained in the court documents. Please read the PDF.
I haven't read the other responses but here's my take

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that humility might be the best course of action.

Keep learning, and growing. It's harder for some to do that when your coworkers are lower in skill because you won't have the mix of talent and experience. You need to learn not just in your field, but everything related to it: communication and interpersonal skills, business. Taking an interest in those and putting time into practicing or reading up on them is a great way to advance yourself.

Always be open to learning from your peers, but you don't have to think that their way is the best or only way. Even if they have more experience or seem smarter they're not always right (and the fact that they have the attitude of some mid-level developers means they are likely to still make the same mistakes).

Don't get too down on yourself for screwing up. Remember that you need experience just like everyone else and there's no shortcut for that. It will just be a matter of time before you're the same level of smartness that they are right now. You might close the gap some.

Keep kindling your passion for learning and improving.

-mh
AFAIK Drupal doesn't use symfony "framework edition" , but symfony/http kernel library at its core to abstract the default PHP http api. So it is a Symfony app as much as Laravel is ... it's not Symfony full stack.
What is the enforcement like for Marijuana in the EU? Why isn’t it legalized there yet? The US will be legalizing it nationwide most likely in this decade.

Honestly, I would expect EU to take the lead in liberal drug policies more than anyone else.
I'm moving to Apple after being a long time iPhone hater. With how insidious Google is getting with Android they should be paying me to use my flagship phone, not me paying roughly the same amount of an iPhone. I do everything I can to not feed into the (free*) services with the cost being sucking down more data about me than I know about myself.
> The need for very senior technical people is often not very high and there is not much of the type of work that these people could do.

I don't buy this. There are bizillions of technical challenges, people are waiting for any sort of relief from Covid, Climate Change and all the other - sometimes more happy - challenges of every day life. Few of these things can be solved in a purely technical way. But we rather want to work on commodity problems. This observation ironically holds true not only in Software Engineering but probably anything Tech/Science related. On the one hand there are these really obvious problems that need so many people hours and on the other hand everything slightly difficult is too risky, too expensive or just too much work.
Is there some reason you're under the impression that Japanese criminal punishments are more harsh than USA criminal punishments? Look at the incarceration rates and you'll find that's completely backwards.
May I blow your mind? ;)

Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-8 accesses the first eight tabs directly, Ctrl-9 jumps to the last tab. Enjoy!
Your comment is based on the premise that there is, in common use, a directory called “-rf” but not one called “/rf”? Why would the former be any less likely than the latter?
View from a Googler: Autopilot stitches together existing GKE functions and is just a cluster creation decision. The layer it adds is automating the different tools together and SRE support magic so that we're monitoring it now.
This is absolutely true. Both companies play the game of selling customer acquisition. But we seem to be generally more okay with middlemen squeezing a two sided market. Sometimes. If it’s DoorDash or Amazon then public opinion seems to go the other way.

But regardless it’s not Facebook’s value prop to business that people have an issue with but ya know, how they actually deliver it.
My god, Forbes ads are so obnoxious.
Thanks, we updated the link from http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/who-really-controls-revol....
The "lame duck" government is a weird anachronism. The transfer of power should be significantly accelerated, and probably a lot of power transferred away from the presidency too.
This is not really an article about Houdini's dark side, it is a book review about his dark side. As such, any details are extremely thin which is quite a bit frustrating. In fact the description of his dark side is limited to essentially one sentence in one paragraph: "He disliked competitors, possessed an outsized ego, could not abide criticism and was prone to extreme exaggeration."

If you follow the link expecting to find out about Houdini's dark side... you will be disappointed.
>1. have one or more stolen credit cards (obviously not on your name)

>2. sell a book under a false name and buy it with the stolen credit card

That probably won't work too well because you'll have a unusually high chargeback rate on your account which would lead to your account getting flagged. You also eat the charge of chargebacks so that will eat into your profits. This could work as a part of a larger money laundering scheme though. eg. you have cash from selling drugs and you want to clean them, so you buy amazon gift cards with it and then use them to buy your ebook. now you have a clean source of income (selling ebooks) that the IRS would be satisfied with.
I am not sure I agree with your characterization of Indira Gandhi.

> brought Sikkim into democratic fold removing the monarchy

She also de-democratized India through the emergency and became a near-monarch in her time in power.

> spiralling economic decline

Indira Gandhi was the leader during majority of India's biggest decline during the 1980s. It led to India going entirely bankrupt, begging the IMF for money and being coerced into liberalization.

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Indira Gandhi was an IronLady with accomplishments that deserve respect, but her failings with regards to sectarian violence, economy and soft authoritarianism are quite well known and well accepted.

edit: changed phrasing to less inflammatory
> I couldn't find anything stronger than "german doctors say" which means nothing.

That's all there is to it.
Yes of course. You have to give in at a point, because you have no options, it's probably simple as that.
Reminded me of the potential in proximity chat online outside the realm of video games where it’s most prevalent today.
Why do you think I asked the question? ;-)
Iconaircraft.com is a realistic attempt at making flight more widely available. They are designing their aircraft around the "sport flight" rules of recent years, which mean you need less training but you can only fly in good conditions. They haven't shipped yet, however.
I'm all for cracking. In this age of multi-TB drives, it severely pisses me off when I can't rip a DVD/CD to disk or must have the CD/DVD in the drive to play a game. As an admin, mention of "flexlm" gets my blood boiling.

As illustrated by the zillions of man-hours wasted on the cat-and-mouse game of protection/cracking, as opposed to productive furthering of the software or other coding pursuits, protection is a waste of everyone's time, especially of the end-user who must put up with it.
Oh, okay. My apologies. I'll take the site down. Please forgive me.
I don't buy these reasons. I know of a startup which hits all the bullet points. If it works, the CTO has enough equity to never work again (unless he wants to). They want a full partner, not a coding body, which is precisely why they are giving away equity. They want the partner to completely own the tech side [1], make all the tech decisions, as well as participate in strategic decisions.

Local talent was completely uninterested. So they recruited an American who worked remotely for a few months, and is now moving to Pune and joining up full time.

[1] No PhP. The stack is Python/Django + Hadoop for analytics, and they have already released an internal utility as open source. More will follow. https://github.com/styloot
No, that was never "the promise" of Haskell.

Making automatic implicit parallelism in Haskell is trivial - but it will yield too much parallelism and the overhead will trump the benefits.

The `par` and `pseq` combinators allow the programmer to specify which computations to parallelize explicitly to avoid parallelizing computations that are too small to be worth it and to allow the programmer to care for data-locality.

Despite being explicit, they are still far easier than other explicit parallelism mechanisms such as explicit threads because they are:

* So easy to throw in the program

* Guaranteed not to alter the semantics of your program - so you can just throw them in there and profile the performance changes -- and you know they won't break your program. They can alter the performance for better or worse.