jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It will die when the crucial percentage of people using it does.
But it's explicitly not a WontFix.

It's a "we're sorry, for whatever reason this issue is not getting traction. We are closing it because whatever the issue or reason is, whether it's on our side or the reporter's side, or something else, this problem is not effectively handled by this issue".

Closing as WontFix would inspire a thousand proclamations of "Google is never going to fix X!" when they may very well address it in the future.

I don't think what Google's done is ideal, I agree they should add a comment. However "Obsolete" is probably better than WontFix unless they really did analyse the problem and explicitly decide not to fix it.
Good break down regarding your own comment
Was briefly confused as why we had an HN article about zombies.

I'm very much skeptical of this line of argument: it is generally another spin on how "the good old days" are better then today, joining the lines of every single person who's made that argument since probably the dawn of conscious human thought and definitely since the Romans and ancient Greeks.
I cook constantly 2-3 meals/day for my partner and myself these days, and it's not just COVID. We live in a US smallish high mountain west city and frankly, with notably rare exceptions, the eating out or takeaway experience is just abysmal. But it has been on this trajectory from when we moved here a quarter century ago. All my fault. However, now I know a trifle about cooking. The following is a biased view of a very many country traveler who loves many cuisines, not necessarily expensive.

So I cook. I have good equipment. I'm pretty darn good. I don't do "modern techniques" such as sous vide, tho David Chang might convince me yet. The partner manages the kitchen garden (tonight was the final batch of 2020 eggplants). But the real intellectual property for the various cuisines is to buy the good cookbooks, and READ them. I'm not kidding. Read through entire sections over time. The really good ones have a theme, often not explicit. And cook out of them! Make mistakes. Make glorious successes.

I will not elaborate here, but I find these these English Language authors essential:

"Chinese": Fuchsia Dunlop, for Hunan and Sichuan. I have 6 more for mostly other regional cuisines but none so uniformly excellent.

"Mexican": Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless, and some Sante Fe, NM, US authors whose books are annoying because errors, though pretty awesome overall.

"Indian": Maya Kaimal, utterly essential. But I dip into Neelam Batra slightly less often. I have to because she is encyclopediac.

"Southern/Eastern Mediterranean": Claudia Roden (Oh you really should try out her felafel recipe, but be sure to dry out the surface of the beans after soaking. And um I made absolutely killer moussaka tonight mostly based on her recipe)

"Italian": Marcella Hazan. There are many others. Keep it simple and honest.

"French": Well I am sorry, I am going to go with the classics by Richard Olney and Julia, but I note that I only usually use "Mastering... V1" and "Simple French Cooking".

"American/Anglo": Oh this is too annoying for too many. I use the "The Joy of Cooking" as a starter. My version is copyright 1980, given to me as a going away to college gift that same year. In there is wisdom, that I have only appreciated as I have grown older and more experienced. "The Meat Book". You wonder how an Englishman could have cross cultural accuracy on Anglo sourced materials... and he does! Uhh, sure, Fuschia. Anyway, I love Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. For vegetarian dishes, my goto author is Deborah Madison. She is perfect. Right in the tradition that is implicit in the authors I reference above, but for vegetarians. And now, I want to emphasize two authors: Michael Rhulman & Brian Polcyn, who changed the way I think about food by introducing me to real charcuterie. But I had to read it through and make a bunch of things to understand it, and then, I began to understand how a lot of other cuisines work.

Do I have my own recipe book? I do! But it is not so essential to me as the above authors.
> You kill one thing or change one thing and there are always myriad knock on effects. Always. Anytime you do anything that's actually at all effective, there is hell to pay.

I stand by my earlier claim.

While I acknowledge the potential of unintended consequences, and the often surprising interconnectedness of many elements within an ecosystem, I further dispute the claim that any change necessitates other, exclusively bad, 'hell to pay' changes.

Here I am, in rural Australia, and within a kilometre of me these are the pests that I would be ecstatic to get rid of, and that would have close to zero negative, and myriad positive, knock-on effects:

prickly pear, tiger pear, heliotrope, pattersons curse, foxes, rabbits, several species of med fruit fly & mosquitoes.

Almost all of these are guaranteed to have no negative knock-on effects simply because they were introduced here in the past two centuries.
Not all trained astronauts follow scientific consensus about everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell#Post-NASA_caree...
Basically the change of momentum for the electron sheds some of energy used to accelerate it.
Or dish soap?

For the first time I noticed Dawn Dish soap listing its 10 plus ingredients in clear print on the front label.

I assumed it was lawyers being cautious. I do rinse better now than in the past though.

(Dawn soap is a great degreaser. I like the product, but I am reading labels more these days.)
The pre-covid world is kinda over. Density has very clear downsides that have never been more apparent. I don't know how often you do the train + car rental thing, but the friction is much, much higher than driving (especially if you have any sort of gear like you would for skiing). Not everyone wants to be so contricted both in freedom of movement and in living space.
That sounds like "social credit score" to me.
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I would love to see a parallel universe, where electric cars obtained the upper hand. The battery technology would be developed so much further.

Would we still have the problem of climate change?

Would we be on the same level of development?

Who knows... but it is impressive that edisons thinking machine of engineers developed this battery technology 120 years ago.
I failed to make it clear, but the thing under test wasn't that Guinness is better than Bud Lite, but the assertion that some cheep beers are better than others -- a snobbery which pops up every time I order a pitcher in a bar. That one was really more of a fun testing anecdote of narrow scope.

The wine test on the other hand, I don't think you could take issue with, as its snobbery is second only to -- I'm not even sure, whiskey drinkers? The test was set up exactly as you'd want the beer one to be

>If you put a line up of different beers of a similar style, most "beer snobs" would be able to distinguish them

Just sub in "wine" for "beer." And the snobs failed.
"The paradigm was so disruptive that it was suppressed by computer scientists for decades."

It didn't really get better from there.
I upvoted it. :) Good catch! I did not know that! I really hope they mean that clause for people that would try to frivolously download 200 courses or something, just to have them...I figure that would tax their servers and cost money because of the bandwidth being consumed. Before I knew about coursera-dl, I tried to download one of the courses by hand, and it's BEYOND TEDIOUS. So far, I have downloaded 2 courses with coursera-dl, both of which I have taken and submitted lots of homework to. I think it's ok in that case...
This is about not lying to your users
A jury of peers is a cornerstone of justice. When the accused is an employee where better to find peers than within the same work environment?
He didn't say it did. He said it was revealing of Ballmer, who does have something to do with Microsoft's state today.
I can't imagine that bodes well for Tik Tok in terms of long term consequences. Perhaps Tik Tok has been shown that this issue is out of its control - either by the CCP or US actions. At any rate, I think congress will take action against the company.
> it seems like these drugs affect the brain in a way that's more akin to a super-placebo

When the only thing that's changing is a state of mind, then placebo is actually the real deal.
That represents probably the overwhelming majority of Twitter usage. Your account will be fine.
Could you explain, for someone outside the AFoL community, what the downside to this acquisition is? What do people fear will change? What kind of innovation are fans looking for that Lego isn’t providing?

I’m also particularly curious what you mean about Chinese products – what have they been innovating in where Billund has been stagnant? I confess my only familiarity there has been in trying to separate knock-offs from genuine out-of-production sets on eBay.
Always good to make sure, especially in psychology where placebo effects can be really really strong, especially if you're talking about microdosing psiliocybin. There's no reason not to be scientifically thorough and make sure you have a good control group to compare against
> Copyright only exists to stop humans from being upset over their work being appropriated.

That's not the intention of it. You can read the definition. It's to incentivize creativity. Otherwise it shouldn't even apply.

> The AI, no matter how much you program it to pretend to care, can never be sentient enough to actually care

It's more or less what I said as well, i.e. if it's not comparable to human, it shouldn't be applied.
I suspect that over the next 6 months to a year, everyone will want this truck. They think it is awful right now. They are shocked. This will change. People are going to start asking the automotive industry for the future. I was disgusted yesterday. I'm interested in this vehicle today.
The status was always beta. If a company says their product is beta then you should believe them.
Tesla. It is unnecessary in almost all circumstances, but a lot of people have raved about it when dealing with California's wildfires for example.
On an English-language forum, the context is pretty obvious.
Moon landing conspiracies have already formed a very robust community on YouTube.
If they handle Stadia like they did Cloud Print it'll live on for 10 years and then you'll be informed a year before the scheduled shutdown.

That's pretty great service.
Print isn't growing, but it isn't dead either. Many people don't print as often as they did in 1999, but fewer people than you think never print.
Chrome does this, almost all extensions use it.
I recall reading somewhere that they were adding WebSocket support to Safari 5. ANy word on this?
If you want your truth from authority, join a church. Universities have the same selection method (existing clergy/academics choose the next generation based on whether the existing clery/academics agree with the views of the rising class), and same history (Harvard, Yale, etc were founded seminaries).

Do you apply the same reasoning to the physical sciences? It would be awesome if you downgraded the germ theory of disease to a kooky religious superstition.

I studied political-science at Yale, and the professors are in their own world. Their studies had little to relation to the real world of politics, which I had learned about from actually working in Congress.

So, you chose poorly when it came to grad school. Then you inferred that all grad schools suffered the same problems at the institution you poorly selected. Is that right?

Your description of academia does not jive with the academic writings I read at Lawyers, Guns and Money or the Duck of Minerva or the Edge of the American West. Those academics seem pretty realistic. I have not been blown away by the knowledge, let alone the honesty of congressmen and their staff.

There is no question that the Revolution was followed by a great deal of bad government, political corruption, sectional strife, coarseness in manners, hostility to the arts and refinements of life, assassination, lynch law, and other things which horrified Englishmen and afforded the stock material for the ridicule of such writers as Dickens and Mrs. Montagu.

Um, are we to believe that before the revolution, there was no corruption in the entire British Empire? No bad government? No coarseness of manners? No assassination? I suppose the British Empire was a very polite place. Unless you were Irish. Or Indian. Or Chinese. Then you'd be exterminated by very very polite British monarchists. But that's OK, their manners were impeccable, and in the end, isn't that what really matters?

Honestly, do you have anything beyond royalist propaganda?

It happens most in autocracies that came to a power as a result of party politics, or a violent struggle between political parties.

Really? I think the number of autocracies that have their genesis in military coups shows otherwise.

Elections are the poison, tyranny and civil war are the disease. It's extremely rare in history to find a demagogue monarch.

So Emperor Hirohito is the one exception? As is Ghengis Kahn? And why are we limiting ourselves to monarchs? There are many demagogues who were also tyrants. Demagogy seems related to the availability of modern communications technology. The best tools to facilitate demagogy only arrived in an era where monarchism declined.

If you already have a government that provides rule of law, and a good set of norms about power sharing, why change things up?

Because an embryonic state that is developing the rule of law might not be as sustainable as a mature democracy. Certainly, states run exclusively by elites have to constantly worry about popular revolution.
Well, quality of life for the average Russian changed, not that anyone cares about that. And those who were gangsters in the the 90s are not just "now" in government. I'll repeat myself: nothing is wrong now that wasn't wrong before. Why all this emphasis on the "now", except that The Economist likes this kind of talk?

You are a flawed individual now. How does that sound? I mean it's technically true that you are flawed in some way, as we all are, in the present moment. But clearly the sentence carries an attitude beyond the literal meaning. I am disappointed to see this kind of insidious rhetoric get support on HN.
Type this in the address bar:

javascript:alert('WebSocket' in window)
I also wonder how adversely the titled text affects readability. On Safari 5, the text looks a tad blurry, though it could just be me looking for problems; I imagine it probably looks worse on Windows and Linux, where the text rendering engines don't anti-alias as aggressively and jagginess could ensue.
> No, this is a well-established fact about language learning.

What exactly is your point, anyway? I think you need to review.

I said a person can lose or change their accent, that it's no different than learning a language. You insist, "no! It's nothing like learning a language." But now you seem to be trying to use "it's just like a language" to support your claim that people can't change their accent, because you supposedly can't learn a language properly after the age of 13.

So which is it? Is changing your accent like learning a language, or isn't it? If it isn't, why are you talking about studies regarding language learning?

Anyway, as for this age of 13 business, I've met a number of people who came to the US as late teenagers to early 20's and learned to speak West-coast American English flawlessly. The only indication they might not be native would be communication issues around metaphors.

You can rely on a tautology to excuse yourself from mastering languages and accents if you choose to, but I don't.

> If you say that someone's accent sounds like a speech impediment

There you go again, I said I can't tell if it's an accent or a speech impediment. You're reading judgment into my words again.

> If you're confused by the fact that people tend to interpret things in this way, then I feel sorry for you.

The only things here that confuse me are 1) why you insist on misconstruing my statements repeatedly and 2) why you want to randomly start arguing about language learning after you said it's irrelevant to accents.
Yes, the doctor and pharmacist and administering nurse failed here. But that is not useful. The useful bit is why they failed, and that seems to be a mix of "busy" with "software sucks".

The doctor didn't order 38.5 tablets -- at least she didn't think she was. She thought she was ordering a dose per kg, not a quantity of tablets.

You say the screen is very clear. It's clear enough when I read it. I had a good night's sleep and I am alert and awake. I've been primed by the article to look for the error. I imagine I would easily miss the mistake if I've been working hospital wards for the last 10 hours on a rolling nightshift, looking after some very ill patients.

The fact that it's possible to use two entirely different dosing systems to order medication and have the screen not clearly indicate[1] which is being used is so obviously sub-optimal I'm kind of surprised to see anyone saying that it's "just pilot error".
Kind of like you stopped buying Apple products when the iMac came out in different colors in 1999, instead of just beige? And the iPod Mini in 2004? And the iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, and black MacBook in 2006?

Basically one product line or another continuously for the last 16 years?

A device can be useful and come in multiple colors. The aluminum one doesn't magically stop working as well.
Enterprises are able to pay huge maintenance fees. Single consumers are not and game theory teaches us, that they are unable to unite to get it (free rider problem).

So I fear, that we need stronger consumer protection for software products. I do not know the situation in the US, but in the EU we have a mandated 2 year warranty for almost every product with very few sensible exceptions (food and the like).

We need the same for software. Features that are advertised have to be guaranteed. Of course software has bugs, so the law has to be about software getting fixed, not being perfect. Actually that is the same with physical products as they do not have to be replaced, they can be repaired, so this does not even make a difference.

There has to be some lightweight definition of non-functional requirements. This one is difficult and dangerous as the big players could unite and regulate the small ones out.

Related to that, double or triple the warranty periods. This is not so much an issue with smartphones and the like, as they become obsolete by superior successors or fashion, but with stuff like printers, vacuum cleaners or electric toothbrushes. Of course, this would hurt companies like hell and will never happen. I imagine in the long run, it would actually be super beneficial to those, who remain, because it would create a brand "Sold in the EU" much like "Made in Germany" with all the mythos of the deregulated Autobahn but the highly regulated warranties :D
I think it's changed since they let so many more people submit/curate the links. It's become more hive-like.
am I the only one that has been waiting the whole year for this? Better than christmas.
Scrum daily stand-ups, which we have, and Scrums-of-Scrums which we also have.

__Individuals and Interactions__ over Processes and Tools
Another grasp at keeping an increasingly irrelevant theological worldview alive in the face of overwhelming 'non-evidence' of a god.
Does the economy exist for society or does society exist for the economy ?

> We're talking about macro issues here. We want as many companies as possible to succeed.

This is a "society exists for the economy" answer to the question. The whole point of the economy is to decide division of resources. If that means you don't get any as a CEO, well then you should just get the same treatment as a person entering your store without money.

Congress is not talking about increasing elite programmer visas (those visas exist, require extraordinary support for the visa, ie. extraordinary pay or extraordinary credentials, so these people are not a problem IF you're willing to pay). They're talking about letting the Indian "consulting"(what they call it)/slavery(what every sane person calls it) do double or triple the amount of work they do now. WIPRO will be the main beneficiary of this.

I find it kind of hard to believe that companies actually complain about this. But from a perspective of "more money for me (NOW), not for you" it makes sense.

From a perspective of maximizing our countries opportunities I would argue it does not (by itself) make sense.
I didn't read the article, but only the summary:

>>> High risk patients admitted with heart failure during meetings had a 30-day mortality rate of 17.5%, compared to 24.8% when more cardiologists were there. Cardiac arrest 30-day mortality was 59% during meetings and 69.4% at other times. Not surprisingly, the rates of percutaneous coronary intervention were lower during meetings, too (20.8% versus 28.2%).

In my view, they could have done with one or two fewer significant digits based on the size of the error bars in the graph. My interpretation: Need to collect more data and see if this is reproducible.
Is he actually serving time ?
Should be that the board of directors is responsible.
They get the same amount of money from issuing bonds independent of the interest rates they pay. Injecting money into the bond market reduces their costs, but doesn’t directly hand them more money any more than a home loan at a lower interest rate does.

In terms of stock issuances that’s surprisingly nuanced. Delta Airlines for example has 2.7% fewer outstanding shares in Dec 31 2020 vs Dec 31 2019.
Your link contradicts you. Says such a deal with Swiss will do little to reverse the exodus to Paris and Amsterdam, some 96% moved straight to EU on day of Brexit, and regulations will probably make it prohibitive to manage financial assets outside the bloc.
We do this too - but the other problem you get is that Exception aren't treated specially (like Any and Nothing) in the inference hierarchy so errors are liable to "collapse" to Throwable or Exception. I like wrapping them with a new type if possible to stop this behaviour.
The Romans literally debased their currency into lead as they hit hyper inflation-- then instituted price controls which led to a booming black market. The particular tricks have changed a little over time, it is just more efficient with digital money now. Ruling classes had the basics figured out millenia ago. And it never works.
Definitely gonna try this for my Stars Without Number sessions...awesome
>IMO iOS and Android are terrible examples of how to do this. They break decades of convention in how to write POSIX-like applications

That's a good thing. We should break "decades of convention in how to write POSIX-like applications" if we want to get any further than POSIX-like OSes and programming models...