jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thats a very good question Im also interested in knowing the answer. Currently I have seen that every company I had a pleasure to work with had to settle with „eventual” consistency of replicated masters. This is ofcourse totally unacceptable in case of some industries. Thats why I would like to know whether someone found a holy grail of multi-region database design and is willing to share it for free!
Is it fair then to say that the only way to “lose section 230 protection” is to cease having content partners by paying them, or employing them, or something like that? I don’t have a political point with this question and apologies if it was covered in the article and I missed or misunderstood it.
Crazy in a general context of cars but not sure they issued recalls? That seems normal wrt Teslas. IIRC the root cause was water intrusion into power steering ECU on MS P100D, could be rain or condensation.
> Why would I want to tell people they are wrong about how they experience the world when they disagree with the way I do?

This is about facts, not experiences of the world, or opinions.

Factual statements can be wrong. If you don't believe in telling people they are wrong when they are plainly wrong, what are your criteria for telling people anything at all?

Granted, the relationship between facts, truths, experiences, opinions and voices is a complex one, but somewhere in there are still the underlying concepts of true and false, right (correct) and wrong (incorrect).

More pragmatically, pertinent to the recent USA election, unfounded ideas that are hypothetically possible but unlikely, investigated by many independent minds of good standing, and found to be lacking anything approaching adequate evidence have to be treated as settled for the purposes of moving forward on an issue. As "no, seriously, we have looked at this hard enough now that we have move forward treating it as a checked truth even while acknowledging the now-unlikely possibility that we are incorrect".

People disagree about how much effort to put into investigating such things and how to assess evidence (or lack thereof), but for democracy and social stability (safety) to continue, most of them need to agree that sufficient process has been followed at some point. The quality of process and conclusiveness are essential. This is one of the hallmarks of effective democracy.

If you want to be especially respectful of people who you believe are wrong about key significant facts, then I think it best to acknowledge their facts are not literally impossible, but have been investigated and are looking strongly unlikely as a result.
I start to feel like whats the point, I'll just be told its "fake news" and they totally ignore it.

Good article though.
Twitter, Facebook et al. have been getting a lot of flak recently for having algorithms that lead to radicalization of users (i.e. maximizing engagement/controversy for ad revenue). I think Trump is the best scapegoat they have for the alt-right radicalization phenomenon, rather than the platform themselves. The events that transpired recently are a perfect distraction for a deeper problem that lies with Big Tech.

(Similarly... I don't support Trump either, etc. etc.)
I'm referring to two things(although really just one) here
- WhatsApp claims to store messages only as long as they are undelivered, after which they are purged from their servers. Even if they are retained, they are e2e encrypted. Telegram on the other hand, from what I can see, store all messages in plaintext or in an encrypted-at-rest form where they control and have access to the keys. It comes down to whether I trust them, and I have no reason to.

- Tying back into the encryption point, in the event of a breach or an MITM, whoever intercepts or accesses WhatsApp messages will get encrypted dumps, while my Telegram messages are pretty much going to be in plaintext.
Don't know what the "costume of destroy and set fire" is, but the MAGA folks yesterday had actual weapons.
That is literally specified in the first or second paragraph
Enter the Dragon

-- Do I bother you?

-- Don't waste yourself.

-- What's your style?

-- My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

-- The art of fighting without fighting? Show me some of it.
>The analysis that simple cloth masks "work" is a guesstimate based on physics and not medicine - or at least it was at the time.

Actually, there were medical studies on this issue predating the pandemic showing a small benefit for respiratory diseases. Yes, a guesstimate (nobody could have tested for effect on Coronavirus in advance), but at least it's a guesstimate based on some things WHO, Fauci, etc. had knowledge of. Fauci says he was aware of this but worried about a run on mask supplies.

My point was that assessing social behaviour was far beyond the remit of the typical WHO member or apparently even epidemiologists. They should have 'followed the science' themselves and talked to people who actually have some expertise and experience in that, rather than make policy on a whim.

>That sounds questionable, epidemiology certainly does have human behavior as a component of study.

Fauci worried that if there was a mask mandate early on, would people have made a run on masks, leaving nothing to doctors. What's the epidemiological answer? What's the epidemiological model for even getting an answer?

There isn't any, because their toolbox for humans is much more limited than their toolbox for viruses. One really needs to ask other professions - you know, sociologists, economists, etc. for that one.

There were alternatives even if the answer was 'yes'. One could have mobilized production via DPA, or banned the sale of N95 masks. Instead, Fauci made a personal call based on no data.

>> Even now, in no place with a mask mandate has there been an increase in human contact.

>How would you be able to tell? What's your baseline?

Google (and I believe Apple too) release aggregate positional tracking data on activities. Most of the world shows decreases, including places with a mask mandate. I haven't seen any reporting of an increase tied to mandates in places that have them.
From all the reviews and comments I've seen nobody else with an M1 is seeing that kind of sluggishness. Are you maxing out memory?
IRC. IRC has been around for the rise and fall of everything else on your list, and a dozen more that we've already forgotten. I have used IRC for my entire life and I see no reason to switch.
There are many things that can happen to a non-profit that can change the way they provide software or a service. Apart from a sale being possible (albeit with regulator approval), a non-profit could split (see MozillaCorp), or simply act against its own stated interest due to internal politics (see PIR).

Or the change could be smaller such as the non-profit changing focus and transferring one of it's products to another entity. e.g. Signal could hypothetically pivot to focus on crypto lib dev/maintenance and transfer the messaging service maintenance to another org.
>Even the example code for Groundhog is not written in idiomatic R which does not inspire confidence.

Not to mention the given example for irreproducibility in base R looks at code that would be a bug in the script for 3.6. It's only useful to keep this reproducible if I'm debugging the script.

And, in this case, anyone who's proficient with R would recognize this problem from personal experience or the many warnings in tutorials. I usually wouldn't shoot down a given example as though it disproved the existence of any example, but I don't know if there is another example. Unless old code relied on undocumented or contrary-to-documented behavior.
Facebook could push an update tomorrow that subtly modifies the RNG in a very difficult to detect way that allows them to easily brute force all messages.

No published source code or alternative implementations so it may take months of RE to notice if it is ever noticed at all.

If only a single party with no accountability controls your encryption keys with binaries they compiled from code they wrote that no one else can practically review with an undocumented protocol they can silently change or backdoor at any time, it is not end to end encryption. It is marketing.

I hate and refuse to use Telegram like all centralized chat services and feel it is hostile to freedom, privacy, and security but unlike Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage and others Telegram at -least- lets independent third parties like F-droid compile and distribute binaries offering accountability for their E2E claims.
Technically, you need 100% hashing power in order to block a valid transaction forever.
I assume you mean staff status? Mine was great - as they cancelled my astronomical library fines.
for important meetings, I use pen and paper and then jot down the most important details in an google doc
For scribbling self thoughts and details while reading, I directly write them down in Evernote or another google doc. Evernote helps in saving multimedia snippets as well
No, but the moment you depend on Javascript being enabled in the client, why not get rid of as much of html as possible and use a sane language like TypeScript?
So all of this was a long con?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/mobilecoin-a-cryptocurrenc...
I am by no means knowledgeable enough on this topic, but what we think of as increased order may not always equate to physically having larger order.

Eg. your atom/molecule example, it may only be more orderly to a human brain, when in actuality the added entropy of the tight packing is overcome by the favorable energy state at the temperatures we are used to. So there may be a difference in a fixed order by energy expenditure like a cell (Neumann’s point) and seemingly ordered state that in physical actuality requires no additional energy like a salt crystal (your point). With this (maybe faulty) distinction, Neumann’s point still stands in my reading.

If we were to have an immortal supercell that didn’t reproduce, it would likely seize to exist at an “infinite” timeline due to some rare external event, even if it is superior in every way to a simple cell that only reproduces. While at the other hand a “single” crystal will similarly not survive a long timeline, but by simply its structure being a law of nature, it will form again in the same way.
They are working on it
https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/05/whatsapp-chat-history-migrati...
This is actually working very bad in most practical situations. The way to go is Telegrams way, where you store all data on the server and happily sync ut easily between devices. Just do it on your own server using xmpp. E2ee helps mostly against server owner, and you eliminate this risk by being your own server owner.
This type of thing was addressed by Yahoo! Answers in Taiwan which has a very strict scoring system for their mainline Q&A product. Basically they setup a separate section that was for discussions type questions called "chat" and provided no points on that side of the site. It was also not nearly as controversial to just move a question over there rather than closing it.
You're confusing dynamic/static typing with weak/strong typing. JavaScript typing is dynamic and weak, while Python's is dynamic and strong.
It has everything to do with politics: one party is more prone to regulation than the other, and it's easier to build where there is less regulation. There's a spectrum of regulation levels in the country, and Republican areas tend towards the lower-regulation side of the spectrum.
As someone who's currently facing that daunting task myself, may I ask what you ended up doing? Did you have to roll your own reliable stream-oriented protocol?
SSD's are not too expensive these days.
I'm a Canadian, but this article equally applies to us. I've been waiting for years now for Mazda or Subaru to bring one of their diesel cars to Canada. Now and then you see articles like this [1] in the Canadian press celebrating that we will soon have diesel cars in Canada, but it never seems to happen. I had really high hopes when Mazda announced they were bringing the Skyactive-D to Canada for the end of 2013, but there has been nothing but delays since [2].

I spend some time in Korea for work and always drive diesel rental cars and modern diesels are great. I once almost filled one with gasoline because I didn't even realize it was diesel until a Korean co-worker corrected me.

In the end its probably very good for my pocketbook as I've just kept driving my 10 year old Mazda 3 and waiting for the diesels that never arrive.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/auto-shows/north-...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2014/01/09/mazda-delays...
It might demand greater production, but the higher efficiencies of diesel engines would mean less of what was refined would be needed for transportation (admittedly not perfect). And we would have to find something to do with all that surplus gasoline... which makes biofuels look more appealing (I run B50 or B99 in my VW, depending on the season), or better yet, using solar power to synthesize diesel fuel.
Is there any scientific way for measuring latency ? ping'ing seems kind of stupid for measuring right latency of connection.(Maybe I am wrong and ping is reliable way) .
That worked for C++, right? :)
The ABC not being general purpose (a term I use because it was used often in the book I referenced) is common knowledge. From it's Wikipedia page: "Conceived in 1937, the machine was not programmable, being designed only to solve systems of linear equations." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Compute...

I suggest you read the book I referenced - the relationship with von Neumann was not straight forward, either. Mauchly clearly did get ideas from Atansoff - but the ENIAC was not just a straight copy of ABC. Eckertt and Mauchly innovated as well - as much as we expect anyone to when we say they "invented" something.
Interestingly it now looks like some sites are getting blocked by IP address as well...

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ecllk/the_4_litt...
Re: the comments, there is a system of code residuals. It's spelled "licensing."
Does anybody know why nobody has sued over this yet? it has to be blatantly unconstitutional.
See the author's post above about how the rounded ass corners line originated for a simple example of why that isn't enough.
Final sentence:

We cannot take this sitting down. This must not be allowed to stand.

So... We let it sit down, and we have to stand?
I know lots of entrepreneurs who don't care what others think of themselves. And their client/customers/investors don't care as long as the product is good.

Look at Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg; you think they care what others think of themselves as a person?
The whole Gruber-school of finding hidden meanings in whatever Apple does read like Talmudic Torah interpretations, pontificating on why a comma is in a certain place in a certain sentence.

If you want to resell your iPod, don't engrave it. Modern Apple products seem to be designed to expire after a few years anyway - see how Apple really doesn't want to let you replace the battery in said iPod, for example.
Not sure why this suddenly hit the front page of HackerNews, but, uhh. I wrote this. AMA.
A few weeks later she signed up for Amazon.com's free shipping service, Amazon Prime, which guarantees delivery of products within two days for an annual fee of $79.

A free service that costs $79?
In C you can implement a "your build environment is being deprecated" message like this:

#ifndef I_UNDERSTAND_THAT_SOON_RUST_WILL_BE_MANDATORY
#error "Starting with version xxx this package will need Rust to compile. Recompile with -DI_UNDERSTAND_THAT_SOON_RUST_WILL_BE_MANDATORY to acknowledge that you understand this warning."
#endif

Anyone building from source would get notified in a way that's impossible to miss but easy to turn off.
I also had always assumed that Little League was just local kids baseball, but it's a big organization that goes back to 1939. It has millions of members, its own official rules, rating system, World Series, board of directors, TV partners, and museum. It even has a federal charter in US law.[1] It's a bit alarming to discover that something you thought was casual turns out to be a giant organization.

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title36/sub...
I'm reminded of the scene in The Politician where they aren't letting a high school student vote for student body president because she doesn't have her school ID on her by saying "if we let anyone vote, they would just bus in kids from other schools". Feels like about the same level of importance.

I suppose you could theoretically have all the best players apply for the league in one area to try and game the system to have the best team for the little league world series, the horror!
I had to use this trick to kick GTA Online back into action when it got stuck forever on entering buildings (mid-2020). Didn't know it could be used to cut the load times in general.
Lighter than air is flight - one cannot say dirigibles and hot air balloons are not flying machines.The distinction is made between lighter than air and heavier than air - for which the first was success was by the Wright brothers.
Deriving something from a decompiled binary isn't illegal in itself.
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act (Especially as it relates to photographers: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-23/world/photography.protest...)
Well, there are a lot of people that think that we should prevent Chinese immigrants...
If you've already committed to having a good OO design, then Inheritance is a brilliant tool for handling special cases.
Evolution doesn't cause individuals to perform selfless acts for the good of the species. Where possible, it will select for selfish acts at the expense of the species.
It's audience is dated and not tech savvy - think Yahoo and AOL users. They cant get all flashy.
I was commenting on:

> (It really sucks after downloading an ISO on a shoddy
> connection only to find out you have to download
> another 300mb in order to replace the software you
> just downloaded
I think HN sends you to the previous post if you submit a duplicate, and that was what I was intending to do with this submission.

I find the notion of this sort of personal development interesting for people (like myself) that would be interested in starting their own company but aren't at that point right now. To me, the notion of running your department like a small business lends some life to the tired notion of "internal customers".
Part of the problem is that previously they were a value add as part of a service provider. There was no intent to generate revenue from it because the revenue came from the provider's operations. If I'm building a chat client now, though, I've got to find a revenue path. You need the walled garden so that you get lock-in and can find a revenue model from it.
the pricing calculator does not work for autopilot which is really really sad. it always shows:
Estimated Component Cost: per 1 month when configuring a pod with zero/1gb epheremal storage and 0.25 cpu and 500mib memory for 24/7.
>So it's a muscle memory friendly change

It's not really. Now when you right click (long press) to open a link on a new tab it opens it in the same tab group as your tab. If you then use the button at the top to switch tabs (how it worked before), you are now switching tab groups. To switch tabs in your tab group, you have to do it at the bottom.
Niche subreddits more or less are the original users base. As long as you stay away from any sub that gets anywhere near the front page, and only gets readers who specifically sought that sub out, then reddit is still great.
Your friend was joking.
> the general UX issues aside.

I think those are the issues, at least according to the op. I mean, anyone can write a chat app. That tech has existed for ever. Putting the right UX on it is the hard problem good chat apps need to solve.
Does that remove full binary compatibility for those running on older OS from Microsoft with an older cmd.exe?
> only the other 96% of the planet

Ahem, ISO8601 fails for Taiwan and Japan...
I imagine getting the trackpad right is either a giant pile of heuristic rules, or a nice tagged data set for ML, or both, maybe with a side of online learning from usage. A trackpad that automatically does the right thing for me coding, my 12 year old gaming, and my 8 year old with sloppy fine motor control does seem like rocket science to me.
I'm guessing subscription-based streaming.
If? It's already happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin#Results (and this was in the 70s).
> You can't criticize iOS for doing this, because you can't see their issue tracker.

At least they're honest. I can't be bothered to report bugs for most software I use, because it's enormously time-consuming and usually does nothing. Even for a relatively receptive Free Software project, I have to successfully argue that it's a bug, that it's not caused by some peculiarity of my system, that it's still present in the latest development version, and that the fix I propose is better than whatever poorly-thought-out fixes the "core developers" might think of on the spur of the moment. Better to work around it and move on.
Indeed, and it goes in the same direction as the linked article, which does look like flattr lowering the barrier to entry because they're not getting enough traction. This kind of trend never ends well.
Marry the problem, not the solution.

- Dan Greenberg (@mrDAG)

http://startupquote.com/post/5016630855
"I'm not sure that of the potential downsides to Dan's strategy, a significant impact to the success of the company would be among them."

Really?!

Employ that strategy and then interview a series of great co-founder candidates. If they bring more to the table than you, imagine their response when you say, "You're bringing more to to the table than I am, but given that I will be CEO and the idea is mine, I think I should be getting slightly more equity than you."

The "you should have this in your DNA and thus shouldn't be motivated by equity" argument has nothing to do with Zappos. Staying or leaving is almost always based on a lot of things (equity, comp, passion, team, opportunity, risk etc). Everyone weighs those differently, but very few people ignore the equity/opportunity part of it entirely.

If you subscribe to that argument, why exactly are you reaching for more than half of the equity pie? Or reaching for ANY of it? And why offer stock options at all? Telling people to "do it for the love of the game" is a pretty self-serving thing to say.
There is next to no evidence in favour of the multiple intelligences theory.

Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and
Emotional Intelligence: A Critical Review

*
This article reviews evidence for multiple intelligences theory, the Mozart effect theory, and
emotional intelligence theory and argues that despite their wide currency in education these
theories lack adequate empirical support and should not be the basis for educational practice.
Each theory is compared to theory counterparts in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience that have better empirical support. The article considers possible reasons for the appeal
of these 3 theories and concludes with a brief rationale for examining theories of cognition in
the light of cognitive neuroscience research findings*

PDF link

http://lynnwaterhouse.intrasun.tcnj.edu/Multiple%20Intellige...
This is exactly it. Facebook is 2000 people serving 600 million. They all work 10-12 hour days and still can't keep up with all the work thrown their way. Its not that they don't care, they are just swamped.
Been there, done that.

Yoy body will adapt if you give it the chance. Your mind, that's different.

Right now I will barf within a couple of days if I don't eat some fatty pork. I never eat rice and potatoes after 30+ years of eating them daily, and I don't miss them at all.
WTF is a survey doing on the front page of HN?