jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What is the purpose of passing a law? I submit that its primary purpose may not be to bring about a change in the behavior of those subject to it, but rather, as a signaling mechanism by which a politician can say to those in his party, or his constituents, "I'm playing on your team".

We see time and time again regulation that is known to be worthless or even destructive even before it's implemented (e.g., CAN-SPAM, airport porn scanners), yet bureaucrats stand behind them, and even trumpet their "success", just the same.

Recent threads here have discussed whether voting behavior is really based on weighing issues, as opposed to signaling one's identity as a member of the "club" (party, special interest, etc.). If this is true, then it's only logical that the politician's job is to make it know that he is the representative of that "club", and actual goodness of his work isn't particularly relevant.
I'm not a great resource of Silicon Valley startup advice, but if you need any help with the technical aspects (such as rewrite rules so you don't have URLs that look like /~svstartu/index.php?title=Main_Page ;), or if you need a skin, MediaWiki extension, etc, I'd be happy to help. I have some experience with the internals of MediaWiki.

EDIT: Also, for others looking where to start, take a peek at this page for a full list of pages that need to be created: http://svstartup.com/~svstartu/index.php?title=Special:Wante...
Redditors will flip their buckets when they see:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com&hl=en&...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:digg.com&hl=en&n...
No, there's more differences: the Nexus S has the NFC hardware, and has no microSD slot, just double the onboard flash memory (16GB) the Galaxy S has (8GB) .
Is there a price difference?
Worth reading all the way to the bottom; the Python stuff made me giggle.
IMO that's an issue with the law, not what they were doing. I don't see anything morally wrong with what the FBI did - I think they should have been able to monitor US citizens as well.

Ofc, until the law is changed, it should be followed - as it was, in that case. But until then, I don't have a issue with working around it.
Doesn’t make sense from an evolution theory viewpoint to me.

If that has advantages to survival, there would have to be many survivors who have experienced this.

Also, I think shark story is different from this one. At no time, that swimmer was about to die (that could change soon, but wasn’t happening yet). His brain was intact, not dying.

My personal (completely unsupported) theory for the case where your brain is actually dying is that it’s plasticity of the brain at work. As brain cells die, the brain moves around the most important stuff to keep it in working cells. That, to me, makes evolutionary sense. You could use that kind of machinery all your life. That it goes into overdrive when it doesn’t help anymore because your entire brain is about to die would be a side effect.

Alternatively, it’s because we’re living in a simulation, and the caches get flushed to more permanent storage, starting with the more important stuff ;-)
He's most likely referring to the US. Depending on who does the polling and how, about half the population thinks the Theory of Evolution is a bad joke or a scientific conspiracy or something.

The opposing side is known as "Creationists." They like to characterize scientifically informed people as "Evolutionists" but of course that's more misinformation. One of the various tracks of Creationist argumentation is that scientists make the "unjustified assumption that change progresses at a more-or-less constant rate" or, "that the rate of change today is the same as the rate of change way back when." They like to claim we can't know the decay rate of radioactive carbon (carbon dating, y'know) was the same a few thousand years ago (when the Earth was created) as it is today.

I mention all this because this red herring about steady evolutionary progress is one of the arguments of Creationists, and so it's annoying to see those words used in that context in a science-y article.
I think social media that prioritizes engagement just pushes people to whatever extreme they have a potential proclivity for.

Oh, you like x? How about you stay on our site and check out this whole series of content that people like you get really emotional about and can't stop clicking on.

It leads inexorably to extreme content.
Reasonable point - I was thinking about it only from the perspective of a pedestrian, as I don't ride a bicycle myself.
> but at the end of the day it needs to get you from A to B

You really don't understand cars if you believe this.

Cars are second only to property in terms of the biggest investments someone will make in their lifetime. As such people decide what to buy based on a number of factors including "how it feels to drive" and "what this car says about me". Because in most cases they are sticking with that decision for a decade.

If it was based purely on the cheapest way from A to B then there would be no brands like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin etc because they are based on desire rather than value. And if there's one company that understands desire it is Apple.
That is easy, I always include this lines in the .emacs f new users

---

(defun disabled-key ()
"Assign this to disable a key"
(interactive)
(print "All your arrow keys are belong to me. Have a nice day!"))

;; All your arrow keys are disabled Hahahah
(global-set-key (kbd "<up>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<down>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<right>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-up>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-down>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-left>") 'disabled-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-right>") 'disabled-key)

Learning emacs can means many different things.

The first thing you will need to learn is, indeedn to use it as a text editor. But you should also learn many other things, like learning eshell, learn and use elisp to adapt emacs to your work flow, use org emacs, rectangular editing, ...

Yesterday I send this "Mastering EShell" link [1] that didn't make the front page.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002037
GCC which has probably 10x more people working on it than
any commercial compiler

Citation?

Personally I think you pulled that figure out of your ass; especially since the GCC codebase is a mess (on purpose), it's been stable and good enough (and arguably stagnant) for quite a while and all attention shifts lately to LLVM.

With relatively small developer teams, they've increased in
quality as fast as any open source projects I know of

When speaking of both Silverlight / ASP.NET MVC ... they are copying other projects. And we aren't talking only about high-level ideas here, but actual implementation details.

They are great followers, yes, but what did you expect from a company with virtually unlimited cash?
(Half the time a given box didn't even have network access)
the paper:

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstra...
I've found that almost all doors open with a business card, which bends around the corner. The only ones that don't open are the ones that fit the casing too well to squeeze in and manipulate the card through.

That trick has saved my friends' money on many occasions.
I like this. Less so for his actual offer, but more because he is calling attention to how hard it is to do this for people who don't want to deal with a "bug tracking system... optimized for people who spend all day every day working with it".

It would be nice if there was a single, easy to use site for mere mortals to enter bug reports (and others can comment on them, vote on them, process them, etc).....one sort of like Github or StackOverflow, where we all sort of agree to use that site.
It definitely sounds awesome. We've got a pretty simple deployment system at the moment and so it's a solved problem for us, but when it starts to breakdown we'll definitely take a look at CF.
It is completely inexcusable that an end-user application would crash for any reason whatsoever.

If Facebook uses too many resources for Safari, and Apple can't find some workaround, then Safari should just fail to completely load the page. Perhaps it should display a message "Safari can't load this document because it requires too many resources".
> garum—a highly flavored fermented beef extract

I'm guessing they actually mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_sauce from Thailand or Vietnam, rather than
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum from the Roman Empire. In any case, a fish sauce, not a beef extract.
Thanks for providing context. It might be unfair to thrust GitHub, and all Chinese developers into this fight. The Chinese government— if the DDoS fails — may very well just block access to Github, developer needs be damned.

Of course that would provide an opportunity for a Chinese counterpart of Github to take market share, perhaps a favorable outcome?
I don't know about Mark Zuckerberg, In general these show and tell offices are generally a sham. Even if they have a desk in the open work space I'm pretty darn sure its there just as a small time gossip catch up area with other colleagues.

Their actual office work, meetings, decision making and nearly everything else will be happening from a 'meeting room'. So in essence they will have a private office in which they will spend most of their time in.
I don't think so, but Miranda and Haskell are very alike so it's easy to be mistaken.
I think there's a significant difference here between inbound and outbound firewalls.

Edit: I think about it like getting into a stadium, only a few entrances with ticket takers, but there are lots of doors that are exit-only.
I can substantiate this. I've done a few patents (all owned by employers) which take years to go through. When finally granted, I go and read them, and even though I am the "inventor" I can't make any sense of what the heck they are about! They are in no way disclosed in a form and language that makes it easy to fundamentally understand.
Not all performance problems have obvious "bottlenecks", some are entirely second-order effects.

For instance, everyone tells you not to optimize CPU time outside of hotspots, but with memory usage even a brief peak of memory usage in cold code is really bad for system performance because it'll kick everything else out of memory.
IT's not clear to me from this article why exactly a Big sur update needs 600MB of firmware updates and ???GB of dynamic linked libraries. I must confess to not really knowing the design and consequences of Big Sur's sealed system. This article could really use an overview like that.

I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that all updates need to be signed and this makes sure that every Mac gets the same update and uses the part it needs. I guess the alternative is a combinatorial explosion of different combinations of firmware and hardware.

But... there's not THAT many Macs (even years old ones) so I'm a little confused.

Does this SSV system actually improve security or is it just security theater (serious question)?
> I see the hesitation to change legacy code if it ain't broken as a wide spread mentality.

Load times measured in double digit minutes on a significant number of machines meets absolutely every reasonable definition of "broken".
Editing, especially self-editing, is hard.

For the article itself, probably it is tangential and thus you were correct to excise it. I was commenting on a claim about IBM (hardly the only token passing network) which was itself tangential to the arrival topic.
Tbe funny thing is, as a long time SDET, I had to give up trying to get people to write or architect in a more "local first" manner.

Everyone thinks the network is free... Until it isn't. Every bit move in a computer has a time cost, and yes, it's small... But... When you have processors as fast as what exist today, it seems a sin that we delegate so much functionality out to some other machine across a network boundary when the same work could be done locally. The reason why though?

Monetizability and trust. All trivial computation must be done on my services so they can be metered and charged for.

We're hamstringing the programs we run for the sole reason that we don't want to make tools. We want to make invoices.
OP here, just tried and no you can't ollie/nollie (at least i couldn't, but i'm not a skateboarder).

What's on rideonewheel.com regarding movement is all true "Just lean forward to drive forward, back to stop and press your heels or toes to turn."

You are not balancing the board, it is balancing you.

The price is worth it as this is a legitimate transportation vehicle on top of being really fun to ride. Consider some of the premium an early adopter fee as you will be the coolest kid on the block.

The popularity is a double edged sword though as you will attract crowds and will field a lot of questions.

full disclosure i'm an investor in future motion, makers of onewheel
Skin color has nothing to do with visa rejections. There are thousands of visas issued each day in all sorts of "dark skinned" countries. The issue is if the person is likely to overstay their visa. Do they have a job? A family? A bank account? Own property? Have other compelling reasons to return to their home country. If they are young, unemployed and single without many other resources; a denial is likely, for obvious reasons.
Sounds like some pretty crappy hand rolled security to me. Don't ever think of something as secure unless it actually is a secure protocol. You are wasting your time and your code is probably exploitable.
Permissiveness is relative. GPL restricts developers from restricting the code. GPL code cannot be restricted, it is and always will be free. GPL is extremely permissive to code. "You can take my code and do anything you want with it. A person that gets the code from you can also do anything they want with it."
Good point about calories vs. weight.
It's super cool for people wanting to do node on Windows. I used the beta while doing a small side project at my last job, and they worked well for that project.

My issue isn't necessarily azure and VS. It's the state of node on Windows. It's a second class citizen compared to the versions for posix compliant OSes. There are things that just don't work on Windows without installing VS, which is undesirable for deployment, and that's assuming they work even after VS is installed.

I'd rather spin up a local Ubuntu VM and write code in WebStorm, and that's what I do. I get debugger support, test runners, code completion, etc. Plus, I can then just deploy to cheaper VPS providers (DigitalOcean, Vultr, etc).
I qualified my use of never with a specific time span. Within that period of time you never see X. Any other word I could think of would just be more complicated and thus harder to read.

And my timespan was 31 years. That is after several booms and busts. If the pattern holds for even a decade +, that is a pretty significant part of my life span and something I have to consider.

Also on a more personal note, my father was basically forced out of Vancouver due to not buying a house when he had the chance 10 years ago, so it's a very real possibility that I might be forced out too here.

So the reason why people use 'small' samples is because those timespans are not small for a human being!
I wrote about my experience here, and linked to an older article with related observations about why Prolog is a niche technology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25653425
and at Costco with Kirkland and Wal-Mart with great Value and Target and something
In a word - concurrency.
"For other captions, such as “a snail made of harp,” the results are less good, with images that combine snails and harps in odd ways." [0]

You try drawing a snail made of harp! Seriously! DALL-E did an incredible job

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/05/1015754/avocado-...
Oh lord, has that really been 9 years now? Wow.
After going through their "what do I need?" quiz, it seemed to indicate that was an option. It's possible that I misunderstood, and they just give you two independent keys.
Of course, you have to wonder, why doesn't arc90's blog use one of its readability themes?
"The Matrix Was a Trans Allegory, Confirms Lilly Wachowski"
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/08/the-matrix-tran...
I do this today. My energy provider bills me based on live fluctuating rates. It’s no big deal, on most days prices fluctuate less than they would on a regular peak/off peak pricing scheme.

Some days there are short periods of high demand that cause price spikes, I’m given ample warning and can choose whether to adjust my behaviour during that spike. That might mean being more gentle with AC during a heatwave, or pre-cooling the house before the spike hits. (Price spikes can be 10x or even 100x typical rates.)
It is also worth mentioning that the AstraZeneca vaccine is being sold at cost. They're not making any profit from it.
“Make something people want”.
most countries of the EU vaccinate at perhaps 20% capacity due just because there isn't enough supply.
You see this in the preference for small commits.

Small commits are all about trying to preserve an explanation of change intent - but they're not ideal because you can end up doing a lot of incidental code just to keep them actually working if they get merged to master.

Whereas looking at the sum of a big commit, you just get a mess which doesn't tell you much of anything unless it's limited solely to inserting discrete blocks.

Whereas ideally what you really want to know is "there's 37 actions replacing the use of variable Y with a call to function X being passed Y" and the types are the same in all cases.
Why is "free market" a good idea in this case?

What's wrong with simply _enforcing the law_ on police officers?
> Link to a pro-vegan website, you must support every terrible ideology that has had at least one vegetarian supporter?

We're all adults here, you can say "Hitler".

So, unless you completely denounce vegetarianism, you are literally supporting Nazis.

(For people who don't get it, Hitler was a vegetarian.)
Youtube's auto CC feature gotten very good lately, I think it can handle most of the stuff with clear sound. So hopefully auto CC will help to solve this unfortunate paradox of accessibility.
I wouldn't consider FAANG comp to be "obscene", in fact many of the lower-paying FAANGs - Amazon, and recently also Google - are not paying much above market pay.

Facebook has already committed to supporting more remote work, as has Microsoft.
What is omitted from the article is the difference in the _size_ of the tech industry during the last 20 years. In 1995, the year the author romances, he emphasizes that doing anything in tech was hard. Two decades later, the hard problems have not gone away; the industry has broadened such that there are more opportunities across the entire spectrum of "noble challenge". There are more opportunities in making fluff, and more opportunities for even more difficult, admirable, and impactful undertakings than were ever possible before.

The industry has not been overtaken by the get-rich-quick charlatans, it has expanded enough that they can find a place.
I'd say Python, it's a good multi-platform, lower learning-curve, general purpose language that works on desktop or web.
This looks absolutely beautiful. Will there be a way for users to create and add missions of their own?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

It's hard to compare cars and helicopters. From the article:

"Between 2005 and 2009, there was an annual average of 1.44 fatalities (PDF) per 100,000 flying hours in nonmilitary helicopters. Over the same period, there were 13.2 traffic fatalities per 100,000 population in the United States annually. Since the average American spends around 780 hours per year (PDF) in the car, that means the fatality rate per 100,000 hours of driving time is just 0.017. Based on hours alone, helicopters are 85 times more dangerous than driving."
Looks very good and definitively more affordable than
datascience@berkeley.

Thanks!

Looking forward to use it
That's not entirely true:

https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/198#issuecomment-74179...

Panic has explicitly stated in the past that they won't add mosh support to Prompt due to license issues, for instance.
Huh? The luminisence is for very short periods of time, but I don't believe it's particularly challenging to detect. I would imagine it's more challenging to setup the chamber. The first paragraph of the wikipedia article should tell you it's not that hard to detect:

"H. Frenzel and H. Schultes put an ultrasound transducer in a tank of photographic developer fluid. They hoped to speed up the development process. Instead, they noticed tiny dots on the film after developing and realized that the bubbles in the fluid were emitting light with the ultrasound turned on."

Other articles suggest photomultipler tubes have been used, with which you can detect single photons. PMT are relatively cheap (I've seen them for ~30USD on ebay), the motivation seems to be to get good time domain resolution. Even so other pages suggest that around 500,000 photons are produced. This should be relatively tractable.

Obviously it's not as easy as making an LED flash, but I can't see that it would be intractable for a hobbyist.
Once racket tech settled on graphite, there's not much advancement to speak of, regardless of what racket vendors might tell us.

String tech, on the other hand, has continued to innovate in leaps and bounds, all but killing the serve-and-volley style of tennis at the elite level.
At a certain point, these platforms have such enormous, unprecedented influence and control over public discourse, that they aught to be thought of differently than, say a restaurant refusing service to a guy without a shirt or shoes on. We're clearly in uncharted territory, when it comes to the control and release of information.

Just using Twitter and Facebook for example - they've silenced the second-most voted for President in American history, because he isn't their brand of politics. Regardless what you think or feel about the guy, he is a former US President - we aught to know what he thinks, even if we disagree or think it's outlandish - no?

How can we, as a society, claim to value free speech, yet allow social discourse platforms to censor and silence political enemies?
The problem is that the "online outrage mob" often defines "hate crime" as anything they don't like or hurts their feelings. Ie something subjective.

Now, I don't know how well Twitch define what you can or can't do. I didn't read their terms, the article states:

It said examples of this “severe misconduct” include terrorist activities, child sexual exploitation, violent extremism, credible threats of mass violence, carrying out or deliberately acting as an accomplice to sexual assault and threatening Twitch or its staff.

Which by itself doesn't sound so bad. All of those things are definitely things I would want to disassociate my company from and are bad. But I question whether Twitch is a good judge... I certainly don't trust a corporation and its employees, many who have their own views and agendas, to give a fair "trial" and due process. There have been plenty of examples of rogue employees pushing their own agendas in companies and there's no oversight. What is the appeals process like? How thorough are their investigations (and how well will they handle the equivalent of swatting)?

That's what the legal system if for, even if its not perfect either.
Just for this project in particular because of the complexity with sub-contractors. All other ones there isn't any issues because they are in-house.
I've lost interest in a lot of online games because the clients always do their mandatory updates on launch, which is exactly the time you want to play the game.

(Same thing for websites - they show you all the annoying popup signup sheets/survey questions the instant you load the page.)