jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I understand that I kinda Godwin'd myself but if you read the wikipedia page on the Weimar Republic:

"The Great Depression, exacerbated by Brüning's policy of deflation, led to a surge in unemployment.[8] On 30 January 1933, Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. "

or

"In 1933, the American economist Irving Fisher developed the theory of debt deflation. He explained that a deflation causes a decline of profits, asset prices and a still greater decline in the net worth of businesses. Even healthy companies, therefore, may appear over-indebted and facing bankruptcy.[59] The consensus today is that Brüning's policies exacerbated the German economic crisis and the population's growing frustration with democracy, contributing enormously to the increase in support for Hitler's NSDAP."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Br%C3%BCning's...

Now the above paragraph puts emphasis on businesses with debt but even non-indebted businesses can get caught in these currents if they are put in a position where it's more advantageous to hoard currency than to invest in maintaining or growing production.

It's a fairly low probability that cryptocoins could create this kind of disastrous Nash equilibrium without the involvement of a powerful central bank. However, when I see the fervor in parts of the cryptocurrency movement and the fact that businesses are starting to hoard large amounts, I wonder...
I’m so torn on guns. If you had asked me about them when I was younger, I would tell you that I don’t think they have a place in society and that we should ban them.

But as I’ve aged, I see class structures and the power of the elites much more clearly. I see how systems can be more violent than people. And that individuals do not have a lot of power these days because society is filled with so many systems.

Owning a gun returns some power to the individual. I don’t want my power for defense given to the police, I want to control that power. I don’t care if the situations I want it for will never happen, I want the comfort of having that power.
So are the barriers to entry obvious or nonexistent? Because you described both. Not only are they barriers, but vertically integrated monopolies have been illegal for a century. If erecting economic moats is the entire point of Amazon like you said, then it’s obvious they need to be broken up.

You really don’t think small, independent merchants are affected by Amazon’s 2 day delivery or taking back any return? That’s naive.
It is. For example I've warned others about the eula shipped with Dell systems with Linux (Ubuntu) on them for similar reasons... and encourage people to do their own installion of images (containerized or otherwise).
These sites are likely non-GPDR-compliant, as the "Deny" must be as easy as the "Accept", and clicking "Deny" must afford you the same functionality. This is frequently not the case.
It also has interesting implications for programs like government-run healthcare where you have zero power if you agree with a decision. At least in theory you can sue a private insurer for breach of contract if they don't cover what they promised.
If anything it'd make fistfights easier, since there's no thumb in the way.

Not to mention kicks, slaps, and karate chops.
It is much more common to over value social skills than to under value them though, as you are biased in favour of those you like. At some point someone has to produce something of value, and having tons of people around whose only good quality are their great social skills doesn't help, they are leeches in that scenario and their social skills makes them hard to remove. They create similar inefficiency problems as the people who lack social skills entirely and sit on their own writing a huge messy system only they understand. Replacing competent people with likeable people is a common way for companies to rot.

(I know you said soft skills, but the poster you responded to talked about stuff closer to social skills than soft skills.)
Cities and counties don’t have sovereign immunity. Sovereign immunity is a holdover from Britain, where you couldn’t sue the ruler or any of their assets. Because states started out viewing themselves as independent countries, sovereign immunity was extended to them by courts. Smaller governments have never had sovereign immunity.
Wow, every language should have such a nice working environment, with graph & math rendering built in. Too bad Haskell is such an impractical language.
Optimization of NP problems via Coursera, Clojure in conjunction with that, and a wee bit of C all on its own.
https://github.com/openimaj/imageterrier
No, I primarily use 4chan.org/new/. HN is relevant to me because I live in SF and work at a startup, but I'm more interested in politics and world events than tech news.
Does anybody know what Shopify uses for their editor for example?
Even if that's the case, why can't Wired just come out and either confirm or deny that the withheld chat logs substantiate Lamo's claims?

And if portions of the chat logs do in fact substantiate Lamo's claims, why can't just those portions be released?
This article takes something simple and funny and makes a rambling, complicated, and funny riff off of it.
via the Hacker News Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
HN is one of the three:

1. Tech Crunch
2. Hacker News
3. Tech Meme
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Wow. What are you running that's getting 5 billion requests daily?
Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server.

It's fairly interesting to note what it's not: Android or Chrome OS. I suspect Microsoft will do quite well out of this, especially in the digital signage market, anywhere which is reasonably price sensitive but if developer time and cost can be reduced then they get a lot of leeway.

Still, yet another reminder that the cost of computing is collapsing. Most of the cost here is Intel margin and in the case of the more expensive one MS licenses.
Can you sue someone for giving you false insider information?

"Your honor, I was trying to conspire with these guys to break the law when these guys lied to me, costing me millions! Fraud!! It's fraud I tell you!"

The judge should put them all in jail for insider trading.
Yes, but it's overpriced and the specs are poor (when compared to other embedded-like solutions)
Isn't what you describe (documentation first, then code) basically a poor man version of literate programming ;) ?
Apparently the discussed proceeding is open for comments right now [1]. Among the proposed exemption classes are unlocking abandoned software, unlocking customer devices, and security research.

[1]: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
And I assume that contract has a clause in it that says Twitch can revoke their streaming status for any reason, otherwise they would have been sued to death by now.
Could this be expanded to hot-swap code as you write it?
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For a beginner I'd recommend Python/Django, and start from there.

I mainly recommend Django because of its incredibly friendly and well written documentation. It should teach the basics in an approachable way.

Also you might want to watch some lectures on how the web works at a high level as well, so you have a good idea of how all the pieces fit together.
> where each call transfered one RDBMS row at a time.

Surely this is not the fault of boring technology, but rather poor design. You can easily make the same mistake using the latest and greatest.
Indeed! And the "BRIGHT RED WARNING NOTIFICATION SOMETHING TO CHECK!" bubbles aren't nearly so grating either. They're still present, easy to read, but not as visually abrasive.

What's really funny, on iOS, at least, is that the accessibility settings persist across device upgrades. You can configure a triple tap of the home button (or power button on newer devices) to toggle the accessibility option, so you can toggle quickly between greyscale and full color. This is nice if you're showing people photos, though I do tend to forget to switch it back.

I set up the option for someone on their phone years ago, and they'd apparently not used it much, because they entirely forgot I'd done it. On a phone or two later in their upgrade cycle, he had it laying on the table (locked), so I reached over and triple tapped the power button. And the setting had persisted all these years such that it still jumped to greyscale!

There are very, very few things that you can't do with a modern smartphone when it's in greyscale - any sort of colorblind aware application should be distinguishable without color details, and if you're not showing photos to people, it's entirely possible to go months in greyscale. I suggest trying it out!

(however, if you take a screenshot to show off your fancy new greyscale scheme, be aware that they're still taken in color)
If you want to earn income via Twitch, Patreon, etc., you have to provide your real identity though, no?
People have been making individual choices to improve CO2 emissions for decades and the only thing that reduced global emissions was a pandemic.

You need structural change or it all really doesn't matter. Now maybe you think that structural change is unlikely to happen, and I agree with you, but then we're in really big trouble.

> let's not let perfect be the enemy of good.

This is not the perfect vs the good, the is that meaningless versus the possibility of having an impact. We need to do so much more than have only bikes in cities that it is almost impossible to image we make the changes necessary to avoid climate catastrophe. If you think even that is out of the realm of possible, then there's no need to worry about what type of fuel powers your car, it quite literally will make no difference. The gas you don't use on your car will just be used by amazon delivery trucks to further reduce shipping costs and increase sales.
But a lot of those unofficial docker images are of unknown quality and could easily contain trojans. It's completely different from installing a package from your distro.
The parent comment you're replying to notes, correctly, that the behaviors you label "corporate libertarian" are the choices available today. It's not valid to infer and label the beliefs of the poster of that comment for describing these choices under the current US situation, even if those choices seems unjust and cruel, as it's entirely possible they don't agree, or they have more nuanced beliefs, or maybe they're just bitter today for reasons wholly unrelated to the topic at hand. You could instead indicate that what they describe is precisely the circumstance you wish to change (you do wish to change that, right?), and maybe you could even go into detail how you'd change it (would you pass new laws? what would they say?), and what approach you think would be effective for making that happen. Anything along those lines would be valuable and relevant.
Taking time out from my job and responsibilities to engage in personal hobby programming projects (e.g. games). When I muster enough energy to actually engage in this, it makes me remember how much joy life can give you, rather than just being a constant grind.

It's also refreshing to have a sense of complete creative control over a thing, rather than being subject to external whims; the latter of which gradually chip away at your humanity.
Sadly many who want to control the gateway with something safe and open fall in the trap that is pfsense.
Yes, would highly recommend the book! Our lab does plenty of work with optimization theory and linear algebra, but his approach is very practical :)

It's a book that, when read from front to back along with a good number of the exercises, you'll come out being able to solve quite a large range of problems. We've gotten many fun emails from ex-students who said that they got a few jobs just due to the methods taught in this class!
I work with some local governments in cloud consulting. They use different clouds the same as anyone else.

We actually see a lot of local governments (cities or metro agencies) doing things in AWS.

I'd say the likelihood in my experience of them grabbing this kind of thing and deploying it is probably pretty low. The ones I work with would leave that up to a contractor.
Virtual machines.

If linux only, docker is great for that because it's so light, and it easier to compare layers of an image.
If you are willing to throw a bit of money rather than code at the problem:

Ubiquiti has a power strip in beta now that uses statistics from their routers to decide when to power cycle upstream devices.

You can also find "Web Power Switches" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0765NCB2L) under $200 that are scriptable, so when a ping to a specific site fails it cycles power to a set of devices.
> - I use and have fun with written content generated by transformers (GPT3)

> - I listen to and enjoy music and audio generated by autoencoders (Jukebox, Magenta project, many others)

Really, you've "replaced" normal music and books with these? Somehow I doubt that.
Yes, it's also really buggy. One of the API calls return bad data (after the mac wakes from sleep). Side loaded extensions get corrupted on some macOS/Safari updates requiring the user to fully reinstall apps.

They make reporting bugs impossible because you can't just reproduce it by updating your OS again. Native app messaging is done through shared data which forces you to poll for updates.

Urggh. I wish they could just own up to the mess (like Microsoft did) and fully move to Web Extensions, including native app messaging.
I don't see how this is any different. Where does the proposition, "do good directly, with your own mind and hands", lead? Should the first step not be "consider who is most in need"? Should the next stop not be "consider how best to help them"? And should the last step not be "help them in that way"?

It almost seems like you're arguing against examining the problem at all. What would the world look like if everybody just quit their jobs so they could do good "directly"? They'd realize pretty quick they needs planes and ships to move people and things, and farmers to grow food. Not to mention doctors and chemists to develop and administer medicine. If they were smart about it, they'd end up allocating their own time to the things they were best at, and then liquidate and donate any excess they produce.

If you just follow your heart, in the most basal sense, you will probably do some good and you will likely feel very good about it. Which is great for you, and good for those you help. There's nothing wrong with that. But that approach will never help those afflicted with malaria, because your heart doesn't know about them. Your head has to hear about them. And then your head has to tell you not to fly down there yourself, because if everybody did that then there'd be nobody back here running air traffic control or formulating medicine.
In NL, some banks issued mortgages with interest percentages linked to Euribor interest rates (like +0.5% on 3-month Euribor rate). Once the Euribor dropped below -0.5%, the banks actually had to pay out the interest difference (if there weren’t other bank charges added)... Some people, but likely to be just hundreds of customers, not much more, actually have a mortgage (with ING and Rabobank) for which they receive money at this moment.

The same mortgage product cannot be bought anymore...
That’s a logical albeit unhelpful argument. My observation of how engineering is done and the economic pressures involved make me think that such cost cutting is inevitable. So the short term “we’ll just make this single point of failure component more reliable” is not an effective strategy as “design in depth” that assumes any single component will fail. It can be more expensive but in some ways (maintenance, up-front cost) but can also be cheaper since the individual components don’t need as much testing/validation/reliability.

That being said, engineering is all about trade offs so the takeaway I have from something like this is blind faith/hope that the domain experts make these decisions better than an outsider (me) and that when mistakes are made they’re corrected in the longer-term. I don’t know a better way than that.
Is the start menu listening to that setting again? I had to block it in the firewall.
Just install this: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual
I just keep my templates and config in separate files.

There are good reasons to keep them separate anyway (allows config without recompile for example) and for the apps I work on distribution isn’t a problem. So I haven’t really had to use comments as code in 7-8 years of go. Perhaps it’ll become more common with the embed stuff. But then I don’t use struct tags either so I guess I’d prefer Go to be even simpler.
They're not singled out. North Korea is also being treated similarly in regards to their pursuit and build-up of nuclear weapons. North Korea has been suffering under brutal sanctions and embargo on and off for decades now.

Pakistan already has nukes and they're dangerously unstable. Pakistan is by a large margin the most unstable nuclear power. North Korea by comparison is a stable insular kingdom ruled by a dynasty family that has held power through thick and thin for 70 years. Pakistan is a powder keg always waiting to explode. Applying North Korean style sanctions on Pakistan is a lot more likely to result in an exceptionally bad outcome. And Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, so if they crack into revolution right now that would not risk potential nuclear war or proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Further, Iran has openly declared their intention to genocide Israel, on repeat. They say it whenever they get the chance. North Korea for decades has declared their desire to conquer South Korea and create one Korea under their rule, they repeat that at every opportunity (and when a country says for decades that they want to conquer you and they have nukes, you have to take them at their word).
It's actually very simple code, if you're at all familiar with go. That's probably what I would have written just by sitting down at the computer to do so for work.
Is anyone working on this? As I see it, it's not too complicated a problem. Who's in? Someone to help build the database? ICU administrators would have to be on point to do actual counts and updating....tiles could be used for real time tracking if hospitals don't already have their own methodology...Amazon/UPS logistics might be tapped to do the actual movement of ventilators to address the waves...
Seems like Taskrabbit sort of fills this space at the moment, unaware of other startups in the space though
Yes, I’ve been using IRS free fillable forms for over 10 years, I think, with no middleman between me and the IRS. Similar with my state taxes on my state’s revenue website.
> Additionally, programmers don't want to pass huge lists of parameters to every function, but instead bundle things into structs to be easily passed around, however this model makes it impossible to treat a value as Optional at an early part of the callstack and Non-optional later in the callstack after it's been checked and verified.

No, it doesn't; there's a couple easy, obvious ways to do that depending on how you get the data components and how far it is useful to pass them as a group without ensuring none are null. It's not even mildly challenging, much less impossible.
They are basically terrible, as they spread whatever is on your hands all over the room.

Paper is actually really effective, but only if you use it properly (don't crumple, always fold in 2, and wipe). 1 small piece is actually enough for both hands unless they are still dripping water.
My mom still uses her Hoover from the early 70s. It's mostly metal and the bags for it are still readily available at the store.

A Dyson would probably clean better, but she's not going to upgrade until her old one breaks, which may be never.

That said, it hasn't been completely care free. My parents have had to replace the belts several times, but those parts that are easily available and very cheap. The light bulb is more of a special order part, but you can find them on the internet.

In comparison I bought a Dyson vacuum back in the early 2000s and it died due to the plastic at the joint between the handle and the body breaking after about 15 years. There was no repair that didn't cost more than a new vacuum cleaner. Also, the hose that connected to the corner brush never connected properly because of a factory error, so it always had tape holding the hose on.

But we replaced it with a Dyson ball vac because my wife was convinced they did a better job getting the dirt up. The ball vac is still going strong, although I think we may have shortened it's life at one point. It had gotten plugged up at one point and after my wife had tried to vacuum two rooms it suddenly shut off. I took it apart and removed the blockage but it still wouldn't turn on. So I used a shop vac on the blow side to force air through the motor to get it spinning again and discovered that it had probably thermally shut down because the air that came out the other side was so hot you couldn't put your hand over it. A few seconds of that and the vacuum turned back on and sent out a blazing hot stream of air for several minutes. I'm pretty sure if I took it apart I'd find cooked and now brittle plastic around the motor housing.
I generally agree. However, these can become bubbles themselves or be overcrowded trades. Plenty of the value in those investments is pure speculation and not productive investment. A typical hedge against equities being overvalued would be bonds but those don't look that attractive right now either. Maybe the world needs another alternative. I would argue the current price of bitcoin is the market agreeing with that.