jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think this is actually a brilliant exercise in though. I have no idea what the answer is, and it's likely impossible to ever cancel out the effects of every other source of gravity within a 1 light-year radius, but it seems like in theory, if the force due to gravity propagates faster than the speed of light, your suggestion may hint at a method of communication that exceeds the speed of light.
They had court orders. That means they had due process of law

I don't think court orders automatically mean justice was served. Accusation was levied, and execution was carried out.
For most desktop workloads the disk wait times exceed the processor wait times by orders of magnitude.
>The meme here that they just let them in doesn't reflect what can be clearly seen in the video footage

Because you have chosen to take a tunnel vision and look at some videos to declare the possibility of police being complicit just a "meme"

You fight fire with fire.

If you choose one video to "prove" they are not complicit, I choose another video proving my point.

But if someone has a broader view that includes possibilities and probabilities, I speak their language.

Why? Because I feel the only way to talk to a person with a set point of view is to outright refute them with evidence or ignore them entirely.

No use of trying to show the whole picture.
Slowing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough, we need to be net negative, but we don’t have the technology to capture and sequester 40 billion metrics tonnes of greenhouse gases per year, every year.
I do think we should prosecute people who break the law. Maybe not every single one of them, but a lot of them. I personally find the cause of BLM to be just and the cause of MAGA tremendously unjust, so if it were up to me I would show more leniency (within the bounds of the law) to the BLM group. Probably fortunately for all parties, though, it's not up to me.
I think we’re making the same point, but “organizers of a fascist coup” is a bit rich.

What we saw yesterday will be properly charged as entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds, in limited cases assault on a federal law enforcement officer, and in a single digit number of cases, second degree murder.

No charges will be laid for sedition, treason, or insurrection. Despite what you might read on CNN.

I would say the same thing for all the rioting that happened last year. Even though city blocks were illegally cordoned off and occupied for weeks. Just my prediction.
A better trick is to open the chat on the desktop browser, then do something so it continuously scrolls up until the whole chat history is loaded. You can use a loop or you can put something heavy on the pageup key.

When it's ready, open up the web inspector and copy the whole HTML. It can be huge. After you paste it, make sure the beginning and end are there. It might be larger than the clipboard buffer. If it was incomplete when copying from one browser, try another.

If on X11, I think primary selection can be unlimited in theory, but the browser might not support it in the web inspector. If you want to try that, you'd have to use the console to print the html to it or to the page (more messy, but more likely to work). Then highlight and paste with middleclick somewhere.

Of course, if the web inspector has some type of "save DOM to file" feature, then that would be far simpler.
Science is built on consensus

Also the fact that mask mandates are poorly enforced, or that masks arent a replacement for other forms of prevention, or that some materials dont offer the same level of prevention dont change the fact that masks work
What we have now is neither direct democracy nor representative democracy. Nobody voted for this.
I like your extremely selective responses, just responding to a strawmanned half sentence.

Of course, it's only ever authoritarianism when the others do it.

Interestingly, the George Floyd protests actually caused an order of magnitude more deaths by police than the months of protests in Hong Kong. That isn't the whole picture of course, but it is enlightening how only one of these events is regularly described as authorization. Always the exception.
I suspect you're going to get downvoted to hell, but you're right. And, the fact is, neither of these points are compatible with capitalism.

There's also a point 6, which is reduce and then stabilize the global population at sustainable levels. Having fewer humans around is simply the easiest way to consume less while allowing a reasonable standard of living.
I've found that the more senior I got through my career the more typing I had to do. The more senior you are, the more time you spend writing plans, documentation, designs, and of course copious amounts of emails as part of communication. Now I'm in management, and I type more than I ever did in any of the engineering roles that I held. Perhaps consequently, I've taken ergonomics and keyboard quality really seriously.
There's significant amount of COBOL running outside of mainframes, mostly with MicroFocus offerings and combined with various other presently less-known technologies.

Then there's a bunch of mainframe stuff still running around on IBM clones (especially in Japan, afaik). Unisys is still up, and there are still active Burroughs Large Systems deployments (now under ClearPath name, I think?) and few other niche systems.
In case you’re still looking for a better recommendation system, I use https://last.fm/, I’ve found its recommendations the best. In other respects it’s a bit annoying (it plays music via Spotify and that connection doesn’t always work).
Scientists become famous partly due to their accomplishments and partly due to their life story.

Would John Nash be famous if it weren’t for his tragic struggles with mental health? Would I know about Feynman if it weren’t for “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”, his safecracking, and the topless bars? Would Stephen Hawking be a household name if he weren’t disabled?

WW2 gave a fascinating context to many scientific projects and made lives of these scientists more colorful than they would have been otherwise. Ditto for the Cold War.

It’s up for debate if there’s a slowdown in science nowadays. But it’s certain that lives of those who do science are much more boring to the outsiders. Papers, conferences, labs, petty academic squabbles, fights over funding, perhaps some consulting for the government or the private sector. It’s much harder to create a mythology out of that.

When I think of famous 21st century mathematicians I think of Perelman (a recluse who proved a famous conjecture and refused the Fields Medal) or Zhang (worked as an accountant and at a Subway, then as a lecturer at UNH before making a breakthrough on the twin primes conjecture). Ordinary geniuses who went from top graduate programs to top professorships are comparatively anonymous to the general public.
A friend switched from a Dev role to PM a while back. He wrote his journey on what kind of skills he had to learn: https://blog.thatharmansingh.com/p/a-year-without-deploying-...
The article says there's a linux/no-os option
I hope this business of yours works out because a laptop that isn't a piece of junk with too much stuff I don't need inflating the price is something I've been wanting for a long time.
They are hot swappable, and they latch in place. There is a button on the bottom of the system to release the latch.
This is an ActivityPub implementation. You're going to find a lot more information in its repo or documentation pages:

https://git.feneas.org/socialhome/socialhome

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...

https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It mostly means that you are not forced to be part of a union to work. Which is something I agree with. But I highly encourage people to be part of an union.
We're making a hotfix right now to solve that required profile photo issue.
I always like to think of working at a start up as akin to attending a relatively cheap graduate program where you may or may not get your degree after you complete all the coursework.
I thought the Schweppes one was easily the best but the Lindt version took away from the luxury feel of the brand and damaged the buying experience.
Combine steps 1 and 2. It is free to list your book with Amazon, so go ahead and do it from the start in addition to selling on your own site.

Alternatively, you can use a distribution service. I run Book Hatchery (www.bookhatchery.com), a web service that helps authors publish their books digitally. You can sign up for free and we'll format your book and get it listed on Amazon, B&N, and Apple. We also have a paid plan at $25/mo that provides you ISBNs (which normally cost $125 and required by Apple and some other ebook retailers), print on-demand help, and some other features. We are a startup working with an alpha product, so our service is constantly evolving. Of course we'd like all of the feedback we can get, especially from authors :)

Also, regarding question #2, that choice is up to you. For most authors selling ebooks you can simply operate as a sole proprietor (no fancy/expensive legal work required). If you ever make some reasonable money from your books you might consider forming an LLC.
Because "the government" is an abstraction. In reality the decisions have to be made by specific people with specific interests and biases.

People with regulatory decision-making power are, by definition, powerful. So they have the interests of powerful people, which are unlikely to match the interests of most of the rest of us.
No doubt this appeals to people like us, steeped in the popular aesthetic trends of the web. However, a brand would have to be very well known to be able to pull off a design like that for these sorts of mass market products.
hehe I unoffically doubled in math/chemistry, and I gave up on math because precisely due to its inapplicability, I was competing with people who were learning calculus at age nine. Chemistry was a better choice, because most sane parent do not allow their sixteen year old children to tinker around with carcinogens and explosives.

In retrospect, I should have been a coder. Although all my coding adventures post high-school have basically been autodidactic, I jumped in the deep end and took a high-level undergrad/grad CS class and coded my own web server... I was the only person whose server didn't allow the user to drill through the directory structure and hack the server because at the time I didn't know the posix file functions and actually wrote my own string parser/handler.
Unfortunately I've had that problem with a lot of cross-platform software on Linux lately. Chrome, for instance, doesn't seem to be made with the idea in mind that people might use window managers other than Gnome, or might have settings other than the default chosen for certain behaviors. For instance, double clicking the title bar maximizes the Chrome window - though I have that set to a shade action. There are a few other issues, too, so it's not surprising to me that there are problems with a WM they've probably never tested such as xmonad.
I never recommend people "learn python", but rather that they make an effort to learn both Python and Ruby, and they'll find one suits their way of thinking more than the other.

For me, I quite adore Ruby; I love it's expressiveness and flexibility and the way I can do all sorts of evil trickery with it. I derive more joy from writing in Ruby than I have from any other language I've used over the last 20 years. And Python, well... I have have great respect for it, and I see that many people get the same enjoyment from Python that I do from Ruby.

Telling people which (of the two) to choose is like (to use a very sexist analogy) pointing someone at a blonde and a redhead and saying "The Blonde is better". The Ruby/Python choice isn't a choice between better/worse; it's a preference like blond/redhead
> Surge pricing in Uber's case is not rent-seeking if surge-pricing actually increases supply (i.e. more drivers on the road). My gut says it doesn't ( don't think that drivers get out on the road fast enough), but I don't have the data to prove that.

From what I understand, fear and hatred drive public policy more than objective data does. I doubt it is going to change any time soon.
My children's school sent me a questionnaire on Common Core. They ended with a comment, maximum of 300 characters. Here is what I told them:

Educational reforms usually result in an ambitious curriculum being presented by underprepared teachers to unprepared students. And parents don't understand the homework and can't help.

For example, "New Math" ended with "Johnny Can't Add". I wish my kids weren't victims of the current round.

I stand by that comment. Given how many failed reforms there have been over time, how could these smart people not have predicted what has happened?

Right now we have a new set of standards. A new set of lesson plans. Every teacher has been retrained to teach in a new way. We have new homework going home with kids, which makes little sense to anyone. Kids learn to perform the operations, but do not seem to be mastering the concepts. There is an endless drum beat of positive messaging being sent home from schools. Parents that I talk to are..shall we say..less than convinced.

This is about the worst kind of big bang upgrade that you could have.
Haha. The Age of the Sturlungs, the "bloody" era is after the early Commonwealth I am talking about. Way to not even read my links or have a remote clue about the topic. Look 2 up on the right list on your link for what I am talking about.

You're complaining about what happened after people switched over to the statist mindset you simultaneously are trapped in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth

>Both subsistence farming (e.g. means of production that are by definition not exhibiting division of labor) and an extremly low population density mean that both communication and coordination between people are orders of magnitude smaller than in complex and dense societies. That's pretty much consensus both in macro economics and in sociology.

Seems like just another bullshit excuse for an increase in bureaucracy like OP is joining into.

>Has it occured to you that "my type" simply isn't persuaded by your argument?

I don't care. The fact remains that we are not allowed any land to experiment with. Say you aren't opposed to experimentation all you want but let me know when we can experiment and I will care. Your democracy experiment will crumble before this ever happens anyhow so whatever. Democracy was not common outside the US pre-WW1.
And anyway, driverless cars are happening. Why do you need a drone when the robo uber taxi had a robot arm in the boot and delivers packages during slow times of day?

Drones could be useful for a lot of things but if the problem is delivering heavy packages cheaply to places with road access, they are not a rational choice.
I've seen a huge designer community using delicious. maybe the artsy guys and gals liked the "clever" name ;)
We should make it much easier, and more pervasive, and accepted, for people to be able to work from home or otherwise untethered to a central office. We might not want or even be able to achieve this 100%, but the more we can do this, we can reduce so much waste and pollution, and there would be so many less car accidents, gas/oil demand, pavement area, etc. Those of us in the software field are lucky in that many of us already do it, but there are still a lot of software shops that do not, and many other industries where it is still impractical or at least just not accepted and understood yet.

Less commute-to-cubicle-on-highways-9-to-5-pollution-lemmings-culture. More home offices, craftsmanship, communal/village/nomad/informal/flexible lifestyles.
not sure exactly what you need to have explained, but wikipedia say the event horizon is "an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, most often an area surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer."

so if you could remove the event horizon somehow, you could see what's going on with the black hole. It would look smaller too, because light from behind the black hole could get here, rather than being pulled in to the hole.
Some are easy, just look for the green or red block, but on level 48, this #70eb7e color is hard. Any with simular values for the RGB, it gets much more difficult.
Steve Jobs summed it up in his talk at D8. To approximately quote him from my memory - `Enterprise software is a very different beast; the people who use it don't get to make the decision (of buying/adopting the software) themselves, and the people who make these decisions are _confused_!`
Jason is backing up his rhetoric with action, and the end result will be positive for him, Mahalo, and its users.
Right, but in most of those cases wouldn't they be limited in only seeking a remedy with the party that violated the agreement?

A Canadian exception to this was when a retail store sold some Harry Potter books ahead of the worldwide release time.
Stephen Fry touched on this in his book/miniseries on the US and made a pretty interesting observation: in his opinion, the flag takes the place in Americans' minds that is occupied by a royal family in other countries. The problem is that a flag can't ask a chief of government to justify his policies in the same way a monarch with decades of experience can.

As an American, I can see how having a head of state with decades of experience who's nominally higher than the chief of government, but with no formal power might help check corrupting influences and promote accountability. Of course, it's rife with problems of its own.
This is smaller than the space shuttle so you should also be able to uniquely identify it as it passes overhead. Might not be in the same spot each time, but it is a spy (multi-purpose) plane afterall.
"Gödel, Escher, Bach", "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter", "The Adapted Mind"
They should call it Blockbuster-style Unlimited Storage.
BASIC has a lot of different statement types (phonemes). It must be the mother of all languages!
Maybe I wasn't too clear... I don't want to force my child into any profession or path. It is my duty as a parent to see him succeed at anything he chooses, and a good education can't hurt.

Again - Disagreements with the goals aside, Has anyone done anything with their children that has directly benefited their learning? Are their any little known hacks/ techniques that you or your parents have used to encourage excellence?
Which is after someone has made a dump of all the user info from a database. Which should be detectable by any logging software. Which means the company should have taken steps within the day to change all passwords.

And again, this is what any company at all interested in security should be doing, and is relatively easy to do. Not what they all do. I'm arguing against the blind following of tradition, not that it isn't an easy way to improve things slightly at horrifyingly insecure locations. And if your security depends on changing your password routinely, you have much larger problems.

All of this makes the passwords useful only for breaking into other sites, as people re-use passwords. It's the personal information that's valuable, not that the password was used at location X. A person's password entirely detached from its source is still valuable, because of that re-use.

But a unique random password means they got nothing but a day's worth of access to the location they got it from, which they apparently already had, likely at a significantly-higher security level than you have. Changing it monthly helps this... how?
If you read the comments, it turns out that he's not really aiming to show anything, just experimenting. It's just interesting to know quite how severe the costs of global namespace lookups can be, for me.
I would love a Hide feature that adds a "(-)" in the same place the name and comment links are.

Sometimes, I read a comment that is either stupid, irrelevant or annoying in some fashion, and while they don't warrant a downvote, I want to rid my future reading experience on the thread from it. A Hide feature that remembers the decision like a flag or vote would fix that.

The Hide count for a comment could also be used as an extra variable to tweak HN's algorithms - such as where comments are displayed in a thread.
Also mileage degradement due to extra weight and wind resistance.
> each police district is judged by different crime stats, and promotions are based on those stats, so naturally everything evolves to optimized for better stats

I thought Russia was pretty far on the scale of messed up for having that system, but apparently it's up there with the freedomland.

Judges here like the wording of ‘there's no reason to doubt the testimony of the officer’, but how can you not doubt it when the police has an interest in the outcome—by design, at that.
> honestly it's always looked to me like the powers that be, in America, genuinely try to operate in a benign fashion

Chomsky has a good point about this, that often the most heinous crimes in history have been done with a genuine belief that they are done for good. So, intentions should play a limited role in your judgment of someone's moral outcome.

On the other hand, there have been clear cases where the powers that be in America have gone to violent extremes to protect their interests. Some major examples would be the southern slave holders going to war with the rest of the country to protect their 'right' to hold slaves. Or large industrialists getting help from the army or national guard to stop large scale protests and strikes. Or COINTELPRO, where the FBI used infiltration, blackmail and even assassination against the civil rights movement.
It’s ugly but it’s different. People can see you have one from 8 miles away. That’s an essential part of a status symbol. Like the extremely ugly Louis Vuitton print.
I like your inversion method. For public consumers, we may need a stronger windshield glass for better protection, yes! For side windows though, probably not so much.
(Shameless self promotion) I created something equivalent that has an editor too: http://mathdown.novidee.com/14db95afe202f4c1adfc3214aa57af01
One of Google's core problems right now is that they've hired an entire class of employees that spend all day every day on protests and activism instead of actually doing any work.

It took awhile for management to realize what a bad mistake that was, and now they're stuck paying for it.
Your comment is the most on point here. The real tribe in US politics are those who want status quo vs those that dont. The major parties are both just flavors of the same status quo.
The actual video (not related to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdaDdZHBOZA
I like that guy. He has spirit that I only wish I had. I wonder if it is possible to fund his prison fund or something.

I hope he publishes a book on the corruption of the prison system on the day that he's released and walks across the street of the prison to a book signing or something like that.
The child molester didn't embarrass powerful people.
Considering the alternative, I'd toss my keys.
I just want to know who the fuck has $6000 worth of food in their freezer?

(See Internet of Things category)
It's a cute read but there is really no data analysis. Her conclusion is "I still rather just look at profile pictures."