jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Heh, similar experience here. In fact I'm part of a facebook group for 2nd hand stuff, one dude always posts bikes for sale there, like 2-3 a week, but from like 50 different accounts. (hey it takes 1 minute and the bike sells for ~$100) Problem? He makes the pictures in his garden with a very particular fence I always recognize.

I wasn't quite sure if he was just a repair guy with a small business, someone buying cheap broken bikes and fixing them up, using FB as a sales channel, or a proper thief. Until one day I saw someone comment on one of his bikes on facebook saying he went to buy a bike and that the guy had an elaborate camera and a television screen to see if the police rang the bell or just a regular buyer as well as some other negative comments.

Police didn't seem to pick up the case though, he's still at it. But yeah I always put the phone number in google, if I get a load of different names I just move on. It doesn't happen that often, but when something is too good to be true it happens like 9/10 times.
Replacing fossil fuels is not as simple as having high-efficiency solar panels (which these may not be when converting sunlight to electricity instead of heat).

Fossil fuels also have the advantage of having extremely high energy density. They can be transported cheaply and efficiently and they store well. Electricity suffers large losses when being transported long distances directly, and batteries are significantly heavier per kWh. Batteries also degrade over time, are expensive to replace, and often require substances that can be as (or more) destructive to mine than oil is to burn.
"From a legal perspective, purging emails can lead to accusations of "spoliation of evidence," [2] which in some circumstances can lead to the judge instructing the jury that the jurors can presume that what you destroyed was harmful to your case."

What if there was a policy to delete all email older than some cut-off age, e.g. 2 years? Would that assumption still be made?
Do you believe that this legislation promotes openness, personal responsibility, free choice and minimal government?

I'm not European, nor from the US, but I'd be hesitant in thinking those are all universal or even desirable values.

Personally, I'd agree with the "openness" value, mostly agree with the "personal responsibility" and "free choice" values and mostly disagree with the "minimal government" value.

But these are personal views, and somewhat irrelevant to this discussion. I raise them now because you appear to believe your values are the only ones that are reasonable.

In my country there are very similar reactions to Uber. Interestingly there have been similar reaction to other app-based competitors to the Taxi industry here too, despite them not being from the US.

To me, that shows this isn't a largely pan-European phenomenon.
If it's not water (coffee etc) shower the motherboard with no battery the wash it with distilled water let it dry.

And that works :)
What’s the problem with low fat diet?
edit: Took 15 minutes to go from Level 2 to 3.

"Energy conservation is critical. Rotating outages are underway to reduce demand on the electric system. We urge Texans to put safety first during this time. Traffic lights and other infrastructure may be temporarily without power. 01:25:40 150221"

https://nitter.42l.fr/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361215084010352644#m

(old stuff):

They just went into Level 2:

https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361211669788176384

"has declared an EEA 2. Consumers are urged to reduce electricity use. Rotating outages may be needed to protect the system. 01:12:06 150221"

Not sure how much load-shedding is available at 1AM...
It is part of a collection of well-known phrases that are also translated into many languages.

• https://enwp.org/My_Hovercraft_Is_Full_Of_Eels

• https://enwp.org/I_Can_Eat_Glass

• https://enwp.org/Omniglot
> It is best to ignore journalism completely

Quality journalism still exists and is invaluable, but is done as long form articles in select publications by people established enough to do it.

A snippet of conversation from the All In podcast:

> Jason C.: Having been a journalist...if you look at trust among republicans.. all time low in the press. And just all americans don't trust the press right now, they think there are hidden agendas...

> What happened was, the internet caused the revenue streams of the press to get violently compressed or eliminated. You had craigslist take the classified business google and facebook took the ad business in subscriptions netflix spotify et cetera... so you have all that revenue gone.

> They didn't have the resources to do fact checking and then ... because of blogging which i was involved in required that people file two three four times a day just to keep up... and so when you're filing even just twice a day there is no time to get quotes from the subjects. So we have all as people who are subjects had quotes attributed to us that were like: "where did you pull that quote from?" like oh "three years ago you said this" or whatever.

> And you don't even know you're going to be in the story. Like the hit piece they did on you, Chamath. Some sports writer [from] sf gate did some hit piece on Chamath. Did they ever call you did they ever say "would you like to respond?". That's how it used to work... when you get a degree in journalism.

> David Sacks: You said something really really important it's the craziest thing where these guys will not even call you and say "here's what we're running" or "here's what we're going to say do you want to work through this with us? Do you want to tell us are there any inaccuracies? We're really seeking the truth." Nobody's really seeking the truth they're seeking clicks ... and so here's what happens: your salary is now determined by your number of followers on twitter.
> Pretty much everyone has failed. Football teams, film studios, politicians, the lot. It's like trying to catch the wind.

It did work for the NBA finals AFAIK. And it worked for the 2020 MotoGP season, even though it wasn't a "persistent" bubble and people were allowed to leave the venue between events.

But I don't understand one thing from the article: were all the people locked into the venue? Or would they go out eating? If they were locked in, what about the staff which served meals and such? Was it actually a bubble?
Anyone bothered that this website is rated by Chrome as insecure?
Low level alert, relatively . . . still . . ?
> Science is where almost nothing is proven. Most findings are mutable, preliminary and incomplete.

This may be debatable, but seems to accurately describe what most academics call "science". The more common understanding is what's described in the parent.

Often times when people say "trust the science" they're referring to results in the first category, but people take it to mean not "these results are preliminary and unproven" (and filled with asterisks), but instead "to deny this is denying empirical fact."
Unfortunately, I don't have sufficient data to compare, but I believe that big cities come with a "work hard, play hard" attitude that is not for everyone.
Can anyone with a voltmeter see if they've cut voltage to 110V or 115V?

Ontario Canada regularly does tests for 3% and 5% voltage reductions to see what the effect on demand is (and if the system even works):

https://www.energyplus.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=b37...
Yes, it's everywhere when you search technical topics in Japan.
"Who the hell is VikingCoder? hmm... if I click here, and here... and cross-reference these histories... yeah, looks like that's the Nicaraquan guy I talked with last week in Counter-Strike after researching fruit flies. Banana something, I think he called himself."
So the last statement in a block for a matched if condition gets assigned to the variable? That's pretty cool.
Watch this and tell me if you'd like your company associated with that conduct.

https://www.wsj.com/video/video-moment-pro-trump-rioters-cla...

The people charged with felonious conduct during the summer riots may or may not have been fired. The absence of coverage in whatever preferred news bubble(s) you have doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Most, at least. Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Emergency broadcasts under LineageOS. It's a great feeling when everyone else's phone sounds off for some bullshit.
I am the creator of the infinite loop in the 2020 show! Was a lot of fun to attend, and a great venue to bring together architects, knitters, professors, and undergraduates like myself.
Heh, I just go on my phone in meetings that are truly useless, especially these days when it's an audio call (my camera is off). Or better yet I can just work on something not requiring an entire brain/focus.
> Why not pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who came to DC to protest but had nothing to do with the storming of the capitol?

Because they didn’t break into congress? There’s a special type of attention you deserve when you form a mob and storm national legislatures (as seen on TV!), and neither the peaceful protesters from the Trump rally or BLM did that.
The President can send a Presidential Alert to all cell phones. This cannot be turned off by the user.

https://www.wired.com/story/presidential-text-alert-fema-eme...
Individuals don't have to treat these things "the same." But the First Amendment requires our government to be "content neutral" in the way it regulates and limits expressive conduct.

Similar lawful, expressive conduct should be treated the same, regardless of content. Similar unlawful expressive conduct should be punished the same, regardless of content. (And illegal conduct should be punished the same, regardless of party or contact with the government -- which is why Americans complain about crony pardons).

Many people will say the Capitol building is a special symbol of American democracy, and it is. But the White House and the (Portland) Federal courthouse are also symbols of the democracy. And they were targeted this summer for weeks with fires, some explosives, and physical destruction. They were egged on by groups who say American capital is "fascist," and the New York Times, which published articles characterizing American democracy as really being a slaveocracy founded in the 1600s -- a theme roughly as defensible as American democracy falling to election fraud.

And in response, left-wing politicians and groups opposed the use of federal troops to arrest "their" protestors, claiming a usurpation of local authority, and an overreaction by "facists." The Biden campaign paid bail for some protestors "wrongly" arrested.

So, yes, the nuance is that Americans are sensitive to whether our politicians treat similar expression and misconduct the same, without regard to content or partisanship. Neither the incoming group or the outgoing group is upholding this bedrock principle very well.
"Meet in the middle" says the man in bad faith.

You take one step forward, he takes one step back.

"Meet in the middle" says the man in bad faith.
> Beyond the HackerNews crowd, most people don't care about privacy.

I really do not agree with this often-made assertion. The main difference between the HN crowd and the general public is that we are more likely to understand how, and how extensively, our privacy is being compromised. We are used to considering computer logs and monitoring as very real (because we work with them / create them); the general public not nearly so much.
Trump definitely had a chance to remain relevant post-election. As someone that monitors "alt-right" type people, he did a very poor job capitalizing on any of that. The past couple months have basically been the losing team talking up a big game to make themselves feel better.

The riots have been going all year. It was a different crowd this time, but riots are old news at this point. It wasn't a good look for the MAGA crowd and more than anything probably would have cowed them into submission.

But then Big Tech had to turn around and give everyone a reason to be pissed off again.
gotcha. in the US at least, there's little chance of that because property ownership is so tied to identity. i'd support some form of land value tax because it would nudge development toward the "highest and best use" of real property, but even that's an uphill battle here.
For years Digicert used to be marginally cheaper than Comodo with a better service.

They got to be the code signing CA by being this exact combo - inexpensive product with good support - and being granted the top link on the high-traffic MSDN page because of that. That's what DigiCert was.

Now they are suddenly 3x more expensive with comparably troublesome support.

What unrealistic expectations and who's being cheap here exactly?
You must be thinking of Coldfusion.
As a 25 year career DBA, moving to a DB agnostic methodology has merits as it allows very re-usable code, however the downside is that you never get to realise the strengths a particular DB technology can offer in terms of performance. Wriing in ORMS and high-level frameworks may be good for making your product very adaptable but don't expect your product to be lightning fast when it's performance pounded and tested. I've worked on performance testing DB techs and seen what happens when a vendor tries make a "one-size fits all" solution, it quickly loses scalability. If raw performance is your goal, don't even try to be agnostic, tweak every last advantage you need. When you have a trading app that's making thousands of upserts a minute you need every bit of help you can get in your app. If simply allowing data storage is all you need, then agnostic may be right for you. However to throw a curve ball in, buying raw processing power is dirt cheap these days, and you'll get something by throwing more CPU and memory at a problem, but your scalability will tail of at somepoint and you have to decide if that platau point is acceptable.
Read up on the gulags sometime.
The SymPy online REPL is very good: https://live.sympy.org/ You can test out commands w/o installing. It also has a very useful feature to turn a session into a URL: https://live.sympy.org/?evaluate=factor(x**2%20-%20y**2)%0A%... (e.g to share the solution to a math problem)

For more info on SymPy, check out this short tutorial that I wrote: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...

And for even more details, the official tutorial docs are here: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html
They got awesome ideas but a really awful implementation of them - Tablet PC and Pocket PC devices/mobile phone (MDA anybody?) are two examples...
Are you serious? Despite the 1% spending to aid, US gives more aid to developing countries more than any other nation. You're scared because if you make a fuzz they'll drone you?

People that didn't like obama talked bad(even death) about him when he first became the president, they're still alive.

I don't support what the NSA is doing by spying on everyone but detaining someone of probable cause is necessary for saftey measures.

According to your view, US should've nuked North Korea already by now.
I did some quick googling and it seems like there's some preliminary research that indicates it might help you reduce stress[0]. But I wonder how this stacks up against going for a jog or riding a bike, which have a well established record of reducing stress, and have other benefits.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455070/
Taiwan were preprepared for an outbreak, and started acting on the 31st December: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

They are using many overlapping layers of solutions to contain the virus.

Everyone using masks is surely a great help in reducing the R0, but it is the breadth of multiple solutions that is protecting Taiwan so far.
You tell them the same thing regardless of the outcome of the test.

The 80% of the time it returns positive, you tell the epidemiologist, and they prevent a few further infections by investigating close personal contacts.
Canada is considering criminal charges for situations like those
because the public was not told the truth soon enough

Nobody knew the truth (as the "Spanish" moniker makes obvious). Germ theory itself was new, and viruses were unknown. In fact, a substantial effort to make a vaccine to combat the suspect bacteria resulted in actual deployment to thousands despite the fact that they had misidentified a bacterium as the culprit.
Pi-hole works pretty well for that - I don't see a lot of ads in phone apps when I'm at home.

https://pi-hole.net/
For a more humane take on networking, a good read is the "Working Out Loud" blog from John Stepper. You can find out more at http://johnstepper.com/working-out-loud-the-book/ or http://www.workingoutloud.com.
Overestimating 100k per user, it would only be 6 terabytes.
And all those low-entropy passwords etc should compress quite well.
Ahem... the comment I was responding to said that he outcompetes everyone by being pragmatic. Not using a tool that would yield better productivity for himself doesn't count as outcompeting people. It counts as working as part of a team. Part of my point is that the idea of out-competing people is a joke to begin with. You succeed with your entire team. You fail with your entire team.

Secondly, I dispute the notion that clever, compact code and extendable, maintainable code are at odds. Code becomes extensible by simple virtue of there being less of it. I do agree that clever, compact code is at odds with one thing: someone else looking smart. Do people write clever, compact code to look smart, or do you dismiss it to look smart? Because my experience is that it's almost always the latter. If I really did write the code in an unmaintainable way, they usually have more precise criticism than "It's too clever and compact."
Software management through packages is a killer feature. Not having to hunt down installers and keeping track of what was updated and automagically installing those is pure nirvana.
Yes, I did see that, and it wasn't clear to me whether that will be an intuitive step to non-git users or not. I haven't used the feature yet.
Well that decides that then. :)
Here's an alternate solution to the issue. It rewrites all Lifehacker urls to ca.lifehacker.com and works client-side. Just replace lifehacker.com with io9's address and you should be good.

http://sjstrutt.com/restore-old-lifehacker-and-gawker-layout...
do they offer quiche as well?
Couldn't find your email address. Try this:

http://sjstrutt.com/restore-old-lifehacker-and-gawker-layout...
There are less viruses engineered for Linux, so it's safer than standalone Windows (no anti-virus, etc). I use Crunchbang Linux. Check it out. :)
You are pretty much at the peak of income for your current amount of effort and risk for any role in the global economy. There are higher paying positions but you'll have to risk a lot and work a lot harder.

How much of a life do you have outside of work? What would you spend your time doing if you were independently wealthy? Do you have a family? You are honestly at an income level where you can do nearly anything you want, maybe take some time and figure out what that is.
I think it should be somewhat obvious that it will be impossible for us to avoid the absolute worst of global warming. Humans simply don't have the capability to act in the coordinated, political way that is necessary. Somehow holding out hope that we'll all come to our senses and things will change is like holding out hope that we'll never have any wars again. It is just not compatible with human nature.

I'd love it if I were wrong, or if someone can change my mind, but in a world where we have never had as much access to information, large swaths of the population don't even believe global warming is _real_, let alone something we should do something about.

We should just start planning for the worst case scenarios, because they are going to happen regardless.
I don't entirely agree either. I was just expanding on the idea. However, when there is no employee, such as in the example you gave, there is also no profit. What you have called profit is actually your wage. Do I make a profit when I go to work for a company? No, I earn a wage.
Those modules will sometimes stop working, and then you're back to having the solve something that looks a lot like the current problem.
I don't understand why globalism rarely, if ever, factors into the debate. It boggles my mind that if I walk down to the drug store to buy a toothbrush that toothbrush was likely made in a Chinese factory, shipped across the Pacific ocean in a diesel-spewing container ship, and then driven a good thousand miles in an 18-wheeler. It seems like a tremendous waste of energy for something that could be made locally for cheap.
I mean, that's a pretty accurate description of Statistics as a field.
Use economic sanctions if necessary to encourage better behavior from participants in the world economy. There will be some bumps on the energy transition journey. We fixed the Ozone hole [1], this is no different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Public_policy
We're close to the tipping point for geoengineering.

Elites don't want to stop global warming, they've spent billions of dollars trying to stop a response to global warming.

Ordinary people say they want to do something about global warming but if it inconveniences them such as an increase in gas taxes, they will riot in the streets. (See the Yellow Shirts in France.)

The conspicuous inability of governments to make elites feel a little pain (Macron and the wealth tax) means that governments have no legitimacy with which to demand sacrifices from anybody else. Thus you see "last straw" rebellions just about anywhere when there is an unpopular change, say a 4% increase in subway fares.

With geoengineering you only need to scrape together a few billion a year which could be done by a small group of elites or governments (if Bloomberg didn't waste his time and money and reputation running for pres he could do it...)

The best part of it is that a credible threat to Geoengineer might solve the collective action problem for other interventions:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0102-0

As for all the reasons why geoengineering is seen as a "cop-out" note that if it's really an extinction worth rebelling about, then we have to use "all means necessary" and that includes solar radiation management.
+1 it’s a deal-breaker
Because Rust is not competing with the HQ9 language. It's for writing programs that do more than just Hello World, so the startup initializes common things for non-toy programs.
Amsterdam isn't particularly good for cycling compared with other Dutch cities. I like Groningen ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWf5fbSUNAg ) because they designed infrastructure so that it is often faster to take the bicycle than the car in the city (in Amsterdam that happened more or less by accident).
You’re right. You don’t get read-your-own-writes guarantees in a typical Kdb tickerplant architecture, as the event streams are propagated to the real-time nodes asynchronously.
There are several battery chemistries with the potential to get 5X capacity. Maybe we can do without that but it sure wouldn't hurt. It could help price too, if you need 1/5 as much battery.