jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> More and more I distrust non-technical people. It just seems that if someone doesn't come from a technical background, their modus operandi is simply to take stock of the social situation in their field, rather than try to look at the evidence. If they do come from the technical side, then they have a choice, so it's not all smooth sailing either, but at least there's a chance they'll listen to facts.

In the context of a team environment, where you need to rely on others to either manage or handle their delegated tasks effectively, I can see the merit in this. It’s not uncommon of course to have a non-technical founder who is more adept at bending social realities to their whim than competently managing a technical effort.

The risk I see in adopting this attitude whole-cloth though is that it seems to preclude seeing folks from the humanities, social sciences, etc. as having any value whatsoever in tech domains. Sure, we should all base purely technical decisions on the “hard facts”, but another part of understanding reality is to accept that much of what technical product development produces ends up in the hands of users and ultimately has potential to affect individual well-being on a large scale. That’s not to mention its unforeseen but often demonstrated impact on societies, governments, and markets.

The enabler for much of the regrettable status quo – rampant tech addiction and vanishing personal privacy, among other things – is myopic, tech- and facts-centered thinking that seeks to solve fine-grained problems at all costs without considering the broader social impact. The unfortunate truth is that the soft sciences must base their reasoning on things a little less certain than the laws of physics (which, since you mention Kuhn – those are also subject to change), but I believe they still have a seat at the table if we have any hope of building a happier, more sustainable, and more ethical future.

My question is, how do we bridge that mistrust?
Well, they can at the “real world” interface. They can prevent it from being used, but they cannot confiscate it.

Whether this is a problem or advantage depends on your point of view; The people of Cyprus, who woke up one morning to discover that any deposits they have above 200KEur were unilaterally borrowed by the government until further notice, or the Americans whose gold was confiscated in the 1930s just before the USD devaluation, might have a different opinion than yours.

Personally, I think it’s a good idea for government to have such a power if and only if a proper system of checks and balances is in place ; and the ones currently available are less than stellar.

For the US, for example, I would rather have confiscation power require 50 state AG mulitisig (or at least, say, 40 of them) - the fiat system, as is, effectively allows one person to drive confiscation.

Also, yours is an argument against any bearer instrument. Consider gold or well hidden cash - if you don’t know where I put it or what the serial numbers are, you can’t confiscate it.
I did't want you to stop talking, I wanted to hear your ideas. And thanks for your ideas, and I hope the western leaders could hear them as well.
If they need such a time, they haven't their house in order. At that size and the sensitivity of the data Google deals with, there must be constant monitoring or they act irresponsible.
In fish, tab does normal completion. Right-arrow accepts the current suggestion. You can use Ctrl-F instead of right-arrow (as usual for Emacs-inspired movement keys).

Edited to add: A suggestion is a complete command line based on the history. Completion looks at the disk for file names and the like, and only talks about the current "word".
The NY Times story was the catalyst for Weinstein's firing and eventual arrest.
Parker Higgens made a really cool Twitter bot using this project, which creates a little clip of a random record playing:

https://twitter.com/78_sampler?s=21
Banishing certain speech to less accessible realms is, in principle, the same as book burning.

"It's not about eliminating ideas from history," the censor explains, "it's about protecting the simple minds of the masses from ideas they can't be responsible with. The ideas are there in the dusty library for them to ponder in quiet consideration. They may even allowed to discuss in secret, hushed behind closed doors. Possibly even publish them if they can find a publisher willing to attach themselves to such vile print. But they just cannot be allowed to spread in public. The internet is too powerful a tool for spreading the lies and hate of the simple-minded, and the masses are too gullible. In order to protect democracy, we must protect the fragile minds of the voters, lest our enlightened and compassionate ideas are challenged."
The F-16 and U-2 run Kubernetes. I assume soon your fridge will run it.

Edit: not F-35
Cryptopals was by far the most fun and the most educational set of puzzles I've worked on. It was also a great way to spend my unemployed Covid summer, right after my startup went bust.

I used Go to solve them, which are here incase anyone's interested: https://github.com/0xfe/cryptopals
> ~42%-45% of the US population is in Medicaid, Medicare or other government healthcare solutions

Please, not this argument again!

Medicaid is an health insurance, not free health care!

They are completely different things (no, it's not the same thing as providing free healthcare)

And btw, only 23% benefit from it

"providing free health insurance to 74 million low-income and disabled people (23% of Americans)"

> Progressiveness is vanishing from Europe, while the US is becoming more progressive by the decade

The only progress US has made has been the number of homicides...

A nation where a thousand people every year are killed by the police and that has almost 700 people in jail every 100,000 of population (25% of the global jail population) looks more like a dictatorships than a progressive country.

As a comparison in Italy for the police to kill a thousand people it would take 333 years. USA has only 5.5 times the population of Italy.
I'm not in the legal loop, but would it be beneficial to move to a different country or region? For example, the EU comes to mind. Would also give me peace of mind regarding my data.
You can actually send a message without saving a contact. Using WhatsApp's click to chat:

wa.me/263xxxxxxxxx?text=Hello

Note: The phone number with country code and no preceding plus.

Opening that link will launch WhatsApp (or WhatsApp web) to the user's number and the text "Hello" in the message field.
I did the same for my Go library [0], but I don't think it's "pretty easy" if you want to do it right. Especially filtering out bots is a constant hassle, it needs to be tested, maintained, just like any other software. So, paying something like $4 is worth it, if you don't want to think about it as much.

You have a very good looking UI there. I really love the simplicity.

[0] https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch
In the West it's commonly believed that working too many hours reduces creativity and productivity in the long run. So that feature of the Chinese economy may be good for Western competition.
Recommendations for good, helpful, non-toxic tools: https://goodreports.com/
If you don't want a library but a complete product, I will do a small advertisement for OrgPad.com here. It is completely free currently and we plan on keeping a basic account free, with no adds etc. forever. OrgPad is used quite a bit in alternative education here in Czechia because it is very simple and opens usable ways to less linear education and thinking. It seems kids even in the 4th or 5th grade like it a lot.
You can actually browse explicitly published OrgPages at https://orgpad.com/list even without an account. There is quite a bit of JavaScript, that is calculating the topologically stable auto-layout and animations. That runs best in Google Chrome, because it just calculates this kind of JavaScript the quickest. We will probably rewrite the animations from React Motion to something that could be better accelerated. Basically, the idea is, JavaScript will calculate certain CSS values for transformations etc. using differential equations - this will make for nice physical animations. This should land sometime in January if all goes well. We also work on our own collaborative editor inside the cell/ unit that should be a lot simpler and enable us to e.g. do also things like table calculation in spreadsheets or maybe even enable simple music scores/ snippets.
Btw. this is all written in ClojureScript/ Clojure. You can watch more about it in Pavel Klavík's talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoIfeb31UU
It was an interesting article but at the very end I feel like the description more so describes television than the internet. And I think it's being too hard on the web, the internet had allowed for the blossoming of alternative cultures
HN is not universally friendly toward YC. As the person who has to keep tabs on this relationship I'd say it's a tricky one.
Kickstarter-like services with both a payer and a recipient are exactly the kind of case where I hope cryptocurrencies can contribute and unlock all sorts of unfulfilled potential.

People who have only been on the customer side and are in the (small) majority that haven't encountered major problems think credit card systems are working fine. The truth is that there are major problems. First, the fees are substantial and even prohibitive for some types of services. Second, fraud including "friendly" fraud is prohibitively expensive in some industries such as those selling highly re-sellable items and/or accepting payments from certain countries. There are various vague arbitrary rules that fall under anti-fraud or anti-money laundering imposed by payment processors, bank or jurisdiction (which is ambiguous) that can suddenly deal a mortal blow to the service. Things are often dealt with callously penalizing people for being statistically suspicious.

The downside is the loss of all the fraud protection and guarantees offered by CCs. But, the onus moves to the wallet owner who is really the only person who can do something about it.

I wonder, can you start or contribute to a kickstarter in Nigeria or is that whole country effectively banned?
Or you could just not develop mobile games.
I know an awesome Node developer here in Baltimore with no prior experience, who had gone to a bootcamp for six months, and who was offered an intermediate-level position. Talking with her I felt like she was more of a colleague than a brand-new dev.
Where does he claim that exercise doesn't matter?

"Exercise: You can’t out-exercise a bad diet, but regular exercise helps keep weight off, and changes your attitude for the better. And exercise has enormous health benefits beyond any impact on weight. What exercise? Something. Anything. “Some is good, more is better, everything counts” Freedhoff suggests."
Two things:

1) They grabbed these images just to test their image recognition.

2) Earlier leaks have already shown that cameras and microphones can be accessed without user knowledge, and earlier defects in products show that the light does not always come on for cameras.

You're imagining that they will ask for consent. They will not. You are equipping yourself with a lot of sensors in a network connected device, and to this they simply say "Thank you". Or would, except they're not going to say anything.
"Without haste, but without rest."

"The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say, but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I looked around and couldn’t find the latency for these in the manufacturer’s spec sheet. Do you know what it is? Bluetooth does not bode well - usually hundreds of milliseconds, which is enough to interfere with conversation turn-taking.
> If unvaccinated people pose a threat to the vaccinated, what exactly is the benefit of the vaccine then?

Unvaccinated pose a threat to other unvaccinated people. There are people who just cannot be vaccinated whether they want to be or not.
"Wildly wrong" may be stretching it a bit, but you're not entirely off base. There's more to the vaccines than simply getting antibodies to show up in the blood stream.

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

Along with inducing antibodies for immediate defense, mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 also stimulate the lymph nodes to generate immune cells that provide protection over the long term, a new study confirms. The early wave of antibodies are generated by B cells called plasmablasts. In healthy volunteers, blood tests showed that two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine induced "a strong plasmablast response," said coauthor Ali Ellebedy of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The immune cells that will produce antibodies upon exposure to the virus in years to come - called memory B cells - are generated by germinal center B cells found only in lymph nodes near vaccine injection sites, his team explained in a paper currently undergoing peer review for possible publication in a Nature journal. In repeated biopsies of volunteers' lymph nodes, "we saw a robust germinal center response," Ellebedy said. The responses lasted at least seven weeks, "with no sign of cooling down anytime soon," he added. "While we do not have long-term samples yet, it is safe to assume given the magnitude and persistence of the germinal center reaction that those individuals will develop a durable immune response" to mRNA vaccines. Moderna Inc's vaccine also uses mRNA technology.
Not necessarily.

On Windows for example there is Everything search engine which scans NTFS table and installs filter driver. Its instant on any disk size. If it were keeping its database in sqlite, we would have exactly what AtlasBarfed suggested.
Is that "sprinkle atomics" stuff in bindings/interfaces for non-Rust external code? I'm not particularly surprised that you would have to wrap atomics around externalities and not doing that would be a source of errors if the external code has race conditions.
> This might bother me if any other browser engines seemed to give a damn about battery life

How do you know? How can you have measured it if Apple are having an ego trip and not letting them try?
> Until you can retrain your staff or transition to different staff, a manager might be better off asking people to come back to the office.

Meanwhile, those who already have remote work skills won't stick around to have their time wasted by being forced to work in an office.
As long as you permit or even enforce periodic rotation between the "tracks" when appropriate given the performance/speed of learning, you might as well start early.
You are right! These domains mean nothing to most people. But actually, as the trend of domains is going... no domain will make sense anymore. Register a .com? Wait, register a local domain, .berlin, .paris or where your business is. Or register a .ninja, or a .ink .. and the list keeps growing.
At least domain hacks allow some creativity.
Yikes, that site makes noise shortly after opening it. Fank you very much, will never visit again.
I've taken a bunch of MOOCs, mostly technical. Only one involved writing "proper essays" (The Modern and the Postmodern, Wesleyan University) but it was one of the best courses I've ever taken.

There was a lot of peer assessment, but

a) Peer assessment is actually amazing for the graders (reading other students' work, and providing feedback), and

b) It can work well enough for the gradees if you're careful.

The tricks to making it work depend on

- Having enough people grade each paper (involves making your grade depend on your grading),

- Having some TAs grading or having some sample papers of known quality to provide "ground truth" values,

- Trusting the grades of "trustworthy" graders (an eigenvalue problem),

- Trusting the grades of "good" students.

That said, I've looked at some other humanities classes and been scared away by poorly constructed multiple-choice quizzes, so it does take effort to get it right.

(Might only work for introductory/survey courses, though.)
> "Our pneumococcal vaccine is one of the most complex we've ever manufactured, essentially combining 10 vaccines in one."

And there's the problem. What they need are vaccines for the most deadly diseases, like tuberculous and polio. They don't have to have vaccine for disease like HPV. Even measles and chickenpox have extremely low mortality rates. Prioritize. By focusing on the most important vaccines, the cost would be much lower and more people would be able to get them and more lives would be saved.
If your boss sends you somewhere that's a business trip. The article is not about business trips.

So no, neither 1 nor 2 make sense because they've got nothing to do with the article.
Everything is online in the browser with Clara.io - modeling, animation, rendering, sharing, etc. Just sign up and try it.
I think this is nearly identical to using a dark theme; it doesn't actually reduce the brightness of the backlighting.

I have been wondering for a long time what determines the backlight minimum, why can't we go darker? Surely phones can be expected to be used in pitch black?
I don't understand what this has to do with the original question.
At the risk of incurring self promotion issues (and I really don't understand what qualifies as acceptable self promotion), I didn't feel that this article was all that clear if you are an AWS focused user, so I wrote up all the steps it took to use Eternal Terminal in an OSX / AWS context including an Ansible playbook for configuration.

https://fuzzyblog.io/blog/aws/2019/11/26/using-eternal-termi...
> Twitter is a gold mine where you'd find relevant content, but you'd have to literally mine it out.

This is true and by comparison, Facebook isn't. It's a barren wasteland.
Interesting tale about a Columbus voyage to Ireland. Have any info on that?
You have to calibrate your speed for the information density of what you're communicating. Spanish can be spoken at a much higher syllables per minute than English because there is less information per syllable (look at English vs. Spanish translated text for proof). So Spanish speakers are sometimes unintelligible if they try to speak English at Spanish speeds.

Similarly if you're communicating something very complex and novel to an audience you need to slow down vs. if you're just recounting your latest trip to McDonalds.
which is what I got and which is what is bugging me. There is no way empty Google+ page is the first result.
Rewatching ST:TNG recently, I spent quite a bit of time harumphing over the science word salad they served up. A phrase that stuck with me ... inverse tachyon pulse ... is a great example of this.

This was fine for late undergrad/early grad school me when it aired. Not so great now (old-fartitude setting in, getting that feeling to tell kids to get off my lawn).

FWIW, I generally like Charles Stross's work, though the recent gratuitous injection of some (current) cultural bits did turn me off on one of his novels. I'm hoping this trend is temporary. Nothing ruins a good story like injecting useless diversions that aren't relevant to the story, back stories, etc. and exist only to signal virtue.
Hmmm...

[citation needed]
Inside fusion reactors? They’re pretty hot.
Mind describing the value you gained from How to Take Smart Notes? Sounds interesting to me, as someone wanting to catalog all "information" i take in
I seriously considered the Golf TDI, and didn't mind the premium options, but I ended up not liking the high-torque of the turbo diesel on the front (both my wife and I could picture us slamming into the back of someone in DC traffic), and went with the GTI instead.
Looks fascinating. Have you used it in any real projects yet?
Firefox is actually much less resource-hungry than Chrome, though that's largely because it doesn't (yet) use different processes for different tabs....
I just wish being removed from the Apple app store wasn't certain death.

Yeah it's a private platform they can do what they want but they're basically a monopoly too.
If you absolutely need a C library, almost all languages give you a way to do that. But why hobble your compilation strategy for all programs just to support this occasional use case better? You may well want to target a runtime (JVM, .net, Javascript) for which no good C compiler exists. Even if you're solely interested in building native executables, compiling to C would mean throwing away a lot of information (e.g. knowing which values are immutable) that an optimizer could use. Look at Haskell; performance-optimized Haskell performs a lot better than machine-generated C ever would (indeed, it often comes close to the performance of hand-tuned C).

(If you're worried about duplicating effort in optimizers, do what many languages do and offer an LLVM frontend. LLVM optimizations are (mostly) language-independent, and LLVM bytecode, while imperfect, often allows a better representation of language semantics than C source would)
My Nexus 4 isn't working well and I regret getting it. The speakers pops, it lags when playing audio, and most importantly, the camera bug is still not fixed. I can't make video calls on my phone because it could reboot at any second.
Retraining is one-time event, it doesn't require equal cash flow, just that there is some cash set aside for it. I don't advocate permanent welfare, except maybe for those who are past retirement age.
This will happen after the conference
It is mentioned on this mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mjolnir-io/sRimOiYqM...
This was touched on (in the context of surgery rooms) in The Checklist Manifesto - as I recall, having everyone introduce themselves helps make people more willing to communicate and correct.
I just mean I think we will start seeing more interest/investment in things like progressive web apps that aren’t beholden to centralized platforms but feel like native mobile apps.
This seems like a pretty non-denial denial. I don't see any real substantive disagreement about facts. Just whether or not heated arguments over access to documents should be viewed in a good or bad light.
Not any more apparently. Fascist, socialist, communist, alt-right, neoliberal, etc. just mean whatever they need to quickly slur someone with them. Hell ever Marxism seems like it doesn’t actually refer to anything Marx or his contemporaries ever said anymore. Did you know Bloomberg is a Maoist?

Fascinating how the site obsessed with their pseudo-intellectual superiority can’t add anything other than downvotes.
Nicely designed site, but did anybody notice that the background texture is exactly the same as the one that OhLife.com uses (clickable http://www.ohlife.com)?

Is this a common bg texture, or is there some "borrowing" going on here?
Presumably whoever wrote an app that sells for $1 to $5 realized that the barrier to entry was low and leveraged that product into a product line. No revenue stream is going to last forever, eventually phones too will commoditize and squeeze the margins out.

As long at the developer retained more revenue than it cost to develop the product then it was a success. I don't care whether my startup is a 'company' or a 'feature' I care whether it makes money. If you can sell to another company just before your product becomes a commodity then that's even better.

Sounds like he's just jealous the IM Sense guys got a pay day for a $1 app.

Money Quote: "Surely their sales would drop to near zero since the feature is now free."

Better let the bottled water industry know they are about to be put out of business by the tap.