jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Funny, as an early windows user, I had gotten very used to alt-tab for inter-app switching and ctrl-tab for in-app tab/subscreen switching... which works for browser tabs for me... add in shift to reverse the direction.
On chance and correlation to other discoveries.

“Novelties are a familiar part of daily life. They are also fundamental to the evolution of biological systems, human society, and technology. By opening new possibilities, one novelty can pave the way for others in a process that Kauffman has called “expanding the adjacent possible”.”
I think it's more an awe for the scale of capital destruction.

In the end this isn't a domino that topples the whole financial system, risk was taken by a guy who had money, and banks who are capitalized to lose money now and again.
This is what I'm doing right now for my home sensor network.

3 ESP8266's with temperature, humidity, and light sensors sending a reading every second to a python app that writes a row to postgres on a raspberry pi 3.

So far the hardest bit has been getting all the services to restart on pi restart. Postgres works just fine.
WeWork's "delusion", in my view, was the amount of value they perceived themselves to add to the equation. On the consumer facing side, they were billing their space as some mass facilitator, incubator, and inspiration for startups, freelancers, and what-not. On the business side, it was that WeWork would be beneficial to landlords, as they'd snatch up large swaths of space, drive businesses desire to "colocate", and offer flexibility to tenants that didn't have things in place to deal with the expanding real estate needs of their business.

Fundamentally though, WeWork was a middle man, and one that shifted as much liability towards the landlords as possible. While you can debate how much value they added, I don't think it's a stretch to say that their valuation far exceeded the actual value they brought to the table. Fundamentally though, space is far more of a commodity than WeWork would have you believe, and in an economy situation where people aren't co-working or that there's a lot of unleased space on the market, WeWork's proposition is certainly depleted.

Combine the inflated view of their value with feel-good marketing about changing the world, unrealistic valuations and shadiness from the founders and ownership, and you get a company that went far beyond where they should have and duped a number of investors along the way.
The biggest wars are fought over resources? I’m don’t know.

The biggest wars the US fought are WWII, WWI, and the Civ

In other threads, I've been decrying the degradation in History education in the US and across the western world. It's gotten so that the current generations in the work force only have a "Flintstones" understanding of how the current world got to where it is now, and what lessons can be learned from history.
The revelations from the Platformer article [1] about how Signal works inside make it pretty clear that Moxie ~= Signal.

[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal
>This sounds about right for a company fraught with so many process problems lately

Publicly the problems have been lately, but the things that caused these problems have happened much further back.

I'm cautiously bullish on Intel. From what I gather, Intel is in a much better place internally. They have much better focus, there is less infighting, its more engineering then sales lead, they have some very good people and they are no longer complacent. It will however take years before this is becomes visible from the outside.

Given the demand for CPUs and the competitions inability to deliver, I think intel will do OK even if they are no ones first choice of CPU vendor, while they try to catch up.
The BS line is just one part of it

The VC and to some extent the Private Equity industry can subsidize money hemmoraging business models and fuel massive growth of bad unit economics until they dump them on the public. Uber and WeWork are just two high profile examples.

In fact, then openly admit they stay away from sustainable and profitable businesses in favor of massive subsidized “traction”.

That’s the loophole - same as colleges can jack up prices on liberal arts degrees and then student loans get bought by Freddie and Fannie.
I think you need to do some reading about Theranos because it wasn't a matter of investing in a charismatic leader. There was outright fraud.
I (sadly) moved from you guys to Backblaze, as they're down at $0.005 (ie. 0.5 cents) per GB. They will charge me (1 cent/GB) if I have to restore the backup, but this is my extreme off-site everything-blew-up-including-the-backups-closer-to-me backup, so, hopefully that won't eventuate.
If the low pressure is at the vent (e.g. Bernoulli + windy day) the higher ambient air pressure at the drain will push the water through the trap and up the vent pipe.

This would only be temporary, but if gases have accumulated near the trap they could diffuse back through the trap and into the room. These would seem to be exceedingly temporary situations however and not likely a source of chronic exposure to pipe gas. The only exception here might be if some HVAC imbalance keeps the ambient pressure in the room at 3-5" of head pressure over the vent.
HVAC intake?

I don’t think new air would be introduced unless the system contains an HRV or ERV.

Additionally, this sounds like improper venting, which is a surprisingly common occurrence.

So the gases could be coming up from the drains and toilets.
Wow, that was a seriously interesting post! Those are some significant improvements in cost and efficiency. One question I had is what tradeoffs you made by using water instead of traditional xenon based propellants?
His movies are ridiculous social commentary. He's making fun of people's fears.
> I think the main factor here, though, is that executive behavior evolved to exploit existing weaknesses in the regulatory environment in order to maximize their personal benefit at the expense of company health. You can call that a "culture change" if you like.

What that else would you call it, though?

It seems to me that the root cause is that the legislators haven't kept up with the increasingly sophisticated behavior of the companies.

> Some (including me) argue we should respond to such changes by patching the vulnerabilities in the market environment. Others disagree and advocate letting the market sort itself out; I maintain that this means continuing to incentivize bad behavior.

FWIW I think I'm on the same side as you here. What I worry about is that all of this patching creates more complexity, which can then in turn be exploited by the (often smarter) people working for these companies. (Seems similar to the infosec problem in software.)
Facebook has a lot of personal information about you even if you have never had a Facebook account. For example: your GPS location data, approximate age, gender, ethnicity....

Welcome to the future komrade. Sadly, it's not a matter of just "not giving them" your location data. Your devices supply it.
> You absolutely can do all those things you just described in VR

I haven't seen a single VR game that allows you to do things a typical competitive FPS shooter character does or games like Dark Souls/Sekiro.
Also volume and scale. Brutalism is about ignoring the human scale and treating us as livestock. Brutalist forms make you feel like a flower in a crack in the sidewalk.
Not really. Take the current position of Facebook. Assume Facebook was around in 1930. Now answer, would Facebook block nazi propaganda?
Love it. Reads like a country version of the Serenity Prayer.
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference."
That's beside the point. The parent comment was saying that being rightfully guilty is worse than being innocent and assumed guilty because they disagree with the severity of the crime.

To me, being innocent yet treated as guilty is far worse, and in fact the US justice system holds that as a core principle.
If I’m reading it correctly there’s little significance to the 4000 cycle count; capacity had already stabilized at ~650mAh/g at around 3000 cycles and didn’t drop significantly thereafter.

Am I missing anything obvious that would imply the cycle stability is limited to 4000? From the trends it seems to me that the headline is understated and these might last much longer than 4000 cycles.
That looks more probable for Iowa than NE. Still, great link! Never seen the before
There is a new trending repo on github where is the link to the list of people who died during the lockdown in Shanghai. https://github.com/The-Run-Philosophy-Organization. The repo itself is mostly about why and how to run from China.
The percentage of customers who have the ability and desire to set up their own sync solution is so small for Dropbox that they are right not to worry about it.
And the tweets and media lives on the block chain? So to use twitter I need to download tweeter? Sync my local copy? Or would it be "somewhere" linked to from the contract? Potentially wiped out in the future?
>> At the end the tax you pay is still the same.

>So, no. That is, IIUC, the tax rates are what they are based on the 50% assessment.

I don't get it. You admit that the tax rates would be higher (presumably 2x higher) to compensate for the 50% assessment, but claim that the tax won't be the same at the end?
If there was ANY value in those shitcoins then it would be flooded by botnets.
> natives

Did you mean “locals”? Don’t think I’ve heard anyone call locals “natives” in my 25+ years of reading stuff on the internet.
The big issue here is that it’s not clear that you need a blockchain for any of it. Economically you’re launching a Twitter clone with the intention of spending $1B on customer and content acquisition. The rest is details of how that’s budgeted.

The smaller problem is in those details—the scheme described is highly vulnerable to attacks like the following: I create a network of private bot accounts who post high-frequency generated content, and a follower account who follows them all and installs the browser extension. Whenever I want I can print money (well, Twitcoin) by uploading these fake hornet tweets to the new platform. I can think of ways to defeat this specific attack relatively easily, but I’m not sure it’s easy to defeat all such attacks.
The subtitle is much more important than the title:

> An estimated 100,000 Detoiters lost their home to foreclosures because of over-assessments
Wow, racist much? "Christians be like this, Muslims be like this"

There's a lot of ignorant assumptions going on in your post, but let me just remind you that those "unenlightened muslims" are those to whom we owe modern mathematics.
I would be much less doubting in your position. I downvoted and flagged you for your jerkish rhetoric because it doesn't contribute to the discussion.
A fantastic article, and I hope we see more relevant research gathered under this banner. Not having a name for something can be a big problem in even knowing what's out there.

As a side-point, I am often shocked that we don't see more research into how to make software teams more productive coming out of places like Google/Facebook/Microsoft etc, given that these companies (claim to) live and die by the effectiveness of their engineering. If a large amount of their expenditure is in software, to the point they'll buy entire companies just for the engineers, why aren't they financing the large-scale experiments that will settle certain questions for good?
That's proof there exist complex systems that can be usefully modelled simply. In no way does it demonstrate that all complex systems can be usefully modelled simply or give us any confidence that the human body is such a system.
and also has not been updated since May 28, 2013
I thought the term "protected speech" usually means speech that is protected from government censorship by the 1st Amendment. But I'm not sure that has any bearing in this context since government censorship isn't involved here.
The multiverse hypothesis by definition asserts that such a thing is impossible. The universes are separate. Any entanglement between universes means they are in fact just constituents of a larger universe.

I think that the hypothesis will be quasi-proven when science hits the ultimate limit beyond which there is no explanation. This will show that the world just proceeds by arbitrary rules that are traceable to axioms. Once you have that, you have shown that it's indistinguishable from any other such a formal system. That is to say, that it exists in the same way: the world is no more or less real than, say, the plane of the complex numbers. After that, although you still don't have empirical evidence of other worlds, there is no short supply of imaginable worlds (such as in mathematics) which are just as real.

In other words, once it becomes obvious that the world is just "math all the way down", it will be as foolish to deny other existences as to deny the square root of -1.
It's certainly a hard thing to measure. I'm approaching this both anecdotally and, I believe, logically.

The vast majority of software developers work in IT departments writing line-of-business applications in Java, .Net, etc. Certainly NYC has a vast number of these jobs. But these roles are all very similar. You're working as a cost-center, in a supporting role, for people who ultimately don't care about software. This is true whether you're a developer for Pfizer or Jet Blue or NBC Universal or any of the other companies based in

I really find the hollywood analogy apt. Yes, you can certainly find work as an actor in NYC. But the epicenter of the industry is in Hollywood.

Anyway, happy new year!
I personally prefer

console.log('delay is ' + chalk.green(delay)));

as it is more consistent with non console.log expressions. For example, just with copy/paste I could replace the above with:

var msg = 'delay is ' + chalk.green(delay);
console.log(msg);

But it's really just a matter of preference as long as only one convention is used throughout the same codebase.
> What was the last war the US actually won?

Aside from wars which end by formal, unconditional surrender -- where its absolutely unambiguous who "won" -- winning a war isn't a well-defined concept. Particularly not well-defined when one belligerent has ambiguous war aims.

But, I mean, there are few US wars where you can't make an argument that the US won. Certainly, the most recent Iraq War conducted under the authority of the 2002 AUMF (which is distinct from campaign against those parties responsible for 9/11 authorized by the 2001 AUMF) -- in which at least one of the stated war aims was to remove the then-existing Iraqi regime before it could acquire and use WMDs -- was "won" by the US.
If you find this guy interesting, you should read the $12 Million Stuffed Shark:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Million-Stuffed-Shark-Contemporary...
So a company that, in your own words, uses dark patterns and addictive engagement, could possibly be this [rose-tinted glasses conception of] Wikipedia? That’s ridiculous. That’s not even alternative history as you are reimagining the whole foundation of the company.

Really, this must come from some utopian idea that company-founders really want to make the world better above else, but then profit-seeking—the modus operandi of all for-profit companies—intervenes just because the world is not pure enough for their vision.
It's the second amendment for a reason.

Modern America is a historical anomaly.

And as inequality grows here in America and we slowly but surely descend back to what has been the default state of humanity for thousands of years...with a few rich and powerful with their neck on the rest of society who is poor...we'll be glad the average citizen has guns to fight back at some point.

There's a saying: History repeats itself.
Well, one argument would be quality vs quantity, i.e. some people may not weigh all lives equally. Fascist systems seem to be good at promoting such outcomes.
Could simply mean they are already sharing all data with Facebook.
A short trip to American where I was able to consume and notice the propaganda content of "both sides" of the media helped me realize the propaganda in my own. It's very difficult indeed to step outside the box.
You have a private conversation with the team manager in some office and explain that bonuses are on the line. And then it gets done.
That is absolutely the right way to deal with it. Bravo! Use the apps that have their own accounts, don't require an account etc.

I do the same actually and don't use apps or services that will only allow you to "Login with Facebook", "Login with Google" etc.
thank you for sharing your work.

please consider accessibility to nojs users, perhaps by sharing plaintext website or screenshots.

i am using device where enabling js is not an option, and feel left out by current presentation.

good luck to you in your work, sounds very exciting!

twitter recently changed their accessibility policy to not allow nojs clients at all, whereas before one only had to click through a dialog each tweet.
India prepares a rollout for 300 million people https://www.vox.com/22213311/india-coronavirus-vaccine-covax...
Thanks, links work.
And also put up tall barriers so people inside the chop couldnt see when someone was gonna do a Dover by shooting
It's heavier than Air - 1.72 kg (3.8 lbs) vs 1.35 kg for 13-inch Air. Every gram counts when inside a backpack.
Same in London, and much of the 'fashion' parts of the UK (Manchester, Liverpool, Edinbrough)

A lot of this type of beard: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/07/article-2385822-1B...
Cool idea.

But here’s the first game I played: https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg

Perfect example of why this doesn’t really work. I didn’t have enough information to narrow down the possible values that could solve the missing parts of the equation I stumbled on in the remaining tries.
What's the evidence that the Clinton/Bush administrations wanted to censor internet content, but decided it was too expensive?
> Poets choose to be poets knowing that they will most likely never be on stable financial ground.

I chose to major in math without the expectation of ever having some great financial payoff for the choice. I was so ignorant of money at the time that when I made that decision I probably would have considered $40k a huge salary. I was interested in programming when I was 12 and didn't have the slightest care in the world about money.

I feel pretty lucky that interests that I've cultivated since a young age happened to turn into a high-paying comfortable career. I easily could have been like most of my friends and instead had interests that fulfilled me intellectually but didn't pay much at all.
It's (b . c .~ 1) with lens. Or a { b = (b a) { c = 1 } } without.
"it's not even possible to learn price without talking to sales" - that turns out not to be the case. Price is listed at http://nginx.com/products/

$1350 a year for 1 server, standard support.

Edit: I realise others have mentioned price, but no URL.
It was nothing like that.

BBSes were linked and people transferred files and knowledge everywhere, much like they do today. FidoNet existed, which had a good sized community. I bought one of my first PCs on there. This was many years before eBay and Craigslist existed. ASCII text files existed, which contained a wealth of information. One of the few free sources of information on how compilers work is an ASCII text file. People still refer to this source, despite being nearly 2 decades old now (http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/)
Having just had to get a hard drive replaced on a server under an "enterprise" warranty agreement, spending 30 minutes on the phone with a heavily accented robot who insisted on being sent zip files containing the output of the array diagnostics utility, to confirm that the drive had failed (yeah, why do you think I'm calling?) I would much rather have sent an email, even if it took a few hours.
I wasn't clear enough in my comment. My point was that the entire process is different, so to single out the piece regarding questioning and suggesting that it works in this other context is not a fair comparison (regardless of how good/bad the Ben Gurion approach is overall).

Also, I'm not in the slightest bit offended. I'm not Israeli and although my name is Persian in origin (I think?), I'm British. When I travel to the US, I usually get sent to 'secondary', so I've hsd a little experience with this type of questioning. It's just tedious.
VB6 didn't have structured types, and its binding was garbage.
I've been playing around with getUserMedia today (via RecorderJS), and in Chrome, it will display a pulsating red button over the favicon whenever it is streaming the data. Pretty neat.

I'm still going to do a lot of messaging around the recording state in the page itself, though, because, I'm not actually recording the whole time that the media stream is connected - I just have it connected the whole time so that I don't need to re-request permission to record.
What that means is that people who trip these explosives detectors should be politely treated while it is determined whether or not they actually have explosives, since they are likely not really carrying explosives.

But this doesn't mean that scanning for explosives is a bad idea, or that people should just be merrily flagged to go on their way, otherwise what is the point of doing any screening?

After all, the vast, vast majority of passengers are just trying to go from point A to point B so each and every single scanning method will generate thousands of false positives every year.
Isn't that the issue with automatic red-light cameras, and automated radar cameras?

That is, we (as a society) have set penalties for infractions that are really high based on the danger of those infractions. We didn't have enough patrol cars or cops to enforce every stop light or speed limit, so we made the penalties quite high because of the low probability of getting caught.

We must revisit all penalties if universal enforcement gets into place.
Degree and money yes. Education as in learning and knowing things, not so much.
Every time I ride a bike on a rail trail, I can't help but wonder how much safer the roads would be if freight was still being transported there, instead of on the road. I guess it's better off as a trail than nothing at all, but it feels like a fresh coat of paint over infrastructural decay to me.
No it's not acceptable. But let the police get the situation under control. Why bring in the military?
Did you even watch the video? Do you not see the person admitting to committing a felony and allowing people without a fixed address to vote?

I feel like this is really dangerous, when we begin rejecting video evidence of the perpetrator admitting their crimes because other mainstream media labels it as "fake news".

Reminds me of the 1984 and Ministry of Truth
I've done a similar thing few years ago. You can check it out at the bottom of the website at http://138.68.65.145/ (website is old and needs updating, same with the domain). I decided to print the output to the alert popup. I have `clear` and `exit` implemented, and going up/down the command history.
Restaurants don't have to serve peanuts at all. They have to allow guide dogs.
Uber doesn't punish drivers for cancelling anymore because it kept being used as an argument that drivers are employees, not contractors.
This was just after I had started at Google, and I was on the same floor as the YouTube engineers responsible for the CDN. I remember a crowd around their dashboards as the spectacle of "we didn't know our metrics could go that high" competed with a spectacle of someone jumping from space.
Yeah, and if an individual creates a sole proprietorship they could probably hire an instructor and deduct that R&D.