jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1) In supply limited markets like housing, especially low income housing, there's definitely competition for that limited supply. Then there is inflation in general, which will become a factor to some extent. Bertrand's trap comes into play on highly substitutable goods like apples, so there wouldn't be much competition there, but where there is inelasticity of demand you get inflation. For poor people, this manifests in decreased quality of healthcare and less housing optionality. Healthcare example going back to my mom: she needs to get an in home nurse in the next year or two, or to be put in a home, she has $1200 a month to pay for this. With Yang's plan she would be competing against people who potentially have enough saved to pay on their own, but also have a bonus $1000 a month. This ultimately shifts purchasing power away from people like my mom. Example in housing is the same, but replace a nursing home for an actual home.

2) Yang has actually been around the map on this, the first few months he was against it, lately it has been for and against? He seems uncertain, but either way I don't really appreciate the uncertainty. I do think they should be broken up, and I think Yang should be knowledgable enough of the cause effect relationship to make a decision. Another way to look at this is that the guy who is saying that AI is going to replace all our jobs doesn't seem to have a grasp on the idea of antitrust in technology. It is also a strawman representation of antitrust, no one said it will solve all our problems; antitrust is a nuanced issue that has extreme relevance today, and it takes someone who is preceptive to understand it. Yang presents himself as this preceptive person, and foretells our ruinous future with AI, yet he doesn't understand the issue.
We all suck at probabilities on an intuitive level. We better do the math and take the results seriously.
I'd suggest reading these to get a better idea of the potential harms of screening tests in the asymptomatic population:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-skeptical-look-at-screeni...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the_screening_test_t...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-case-against-early-...
it could work if you made it REALLY simple.. but i mean REALLY simple, sharing and creating
Personally, I would post the entire conversation between you and them somewhere (pastebin, blog, etc) and try and point a lot of publicity towards it. Especially now that they are getting some good press from Arstechnica, you could reach critical mass with disseminating that information. Perhaps you could even point the author of that article at your information, which may even get an update to that article.
/agree SNR on reddit mebbe 5%, slashdot %1 here, I don't know 50%? I see some less than useful posts (like this one), but almost no outright trolling/patently wrong posts.

HN makes my daily read list, even if it is a quick glance. Great community.
Their argment is that HN's community links to and upvotes something useful. Reddit's community links to and upvotes something funny but otherwise worthless.

Not claiming it's accurate - I'm not a Redditer. Just clarifying.
I wish the company would reveal some information on the internal systems he outlined in his letter. Amazon's architecture is impressive and its infrastructure teams build great stuff to help developers get their work done & deployed.

Exposing these things would be a powerful recruiting tool.
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"misuse of GCC front ends"

While Stallman's intent is the opposite, this is sounds awfully like the kind of thinking of big companies that are so easy to hate, where one can "misuse" a binary by reverse-engineering it.
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It very much is a limitation of WebRTC. Real sockets perform better than webrtc since they can attempt NAT traversal or talk to the CPE to perform port forwarding, something that you can't do from a browser. Otherwise p2p filesharing wouldn't work. You may not get perfect connectivity this way since not all NATs can be bypassed but on the other hand webrtc does not work at all without signalling.
I haven't found a picture of a protester carrying a gun, but there are certainly vandals with clubs and bulletproof vests inside the Capitol, and some of them have broken into offices:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/washington-dc-pro...
for large values of "week", the railscast for devise is more than year old, and it had already gained quite a lot of mind share by then
Funny, I'm not religious and from my distanced POV I never took fasting as a sign of devotion, more an old fashioned detox/cleanse with a sense of minimalistic life (which is not far from empathizing with deprivation).
Most ACH transactions take 3+ business days to settle anyway since it's a batch processing system.
Edit: line 4 should be `if string match -qv 0 $s`.
A minimal client that I've enjoyed is https://www.yourtempo.co

Lots of screenshots at link above.
I think the biggest problem about Google is not privacy. It's their way of ruining all sorts of businesses by offering services for free which only works because they cross-subsidize everything through their advertising business.

Consumers are not willing to pay for navigation system anymore because Google Maps is for free. People don't hire translators because Google Translate is for free. Office suites, eMail, mobile games, storage... all free just because companies blow billions of ad money into this corporation.
> API tooling. We'd love to find folks who want to write code against our API. Is that something you'd use?

That's definitely what I'm thinking. There are so many tools out there to visualize strategies, profit/loss, scanners for various properties like IV, open interest, volume, etc in the case of options. But very few platforms go to the next level and provide good APIs to manipulate. It would be extremely impressive to offer both data and trade execution via modern APIs. I've wondered if that's an untapped market, or else why someone hasn't jumped on it :)
API GW is by far the flakiest AWS service I have used with Terraform. Even with all the badly documented depends_on that is required to make it mostly work it still was not great.

It kind of makes me feel like using a reverse engineered driver, it works, but some kind of underlying assumption or knowledge is missing that makes it behave weirdly.
No, they're lower than ever. They're one google search away from a huge amount of usable resources, youtube videos, web IDEs that they can use on their locked down iPad / School Chromebook and more.
I have had so much fun messing around with enombic the last couple of months. The founders are super responsive, friendly and obviously smart!

I look forward to watching enombic grow! Good luck team!
Realise this is a blit blunt, but what you're saying is:

- I have this site

- I want analytics => they have some value to me

- I'm not willing/able to pay for it with my money

- I am willing to pay for it with my users' privacy.

That's the GA value equation. You get analytics, you pay with your users' privacy to feed the google advertising machine.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but we should be crystal clear on what's happening.
Another way to not feed the beast is to use NoScript or something similar and not let google-analytics.com through.
Hiker/backpacker here. If you're doing anything more than a short walk in a city park, don't use Google Maps. Upgrade to either AllTrails or Gaia GPS and pay the subscription fee that allows you to download offline maps. (I use both.) Without going into a full review of each, I'll just say that I wouldn't dream of doing any kind of hike without them. The difference between Google Maps and a dedicated mapping app is like the difference between, say, Notepad and VSCode.
IMHO, when writing long logical expressions, putting the logical operators to the beginning of each following line (instead of to the end) makes them much easier to read.
Sorry? Australia's biggest cities are orders of magnitude less dense than Indian cities. Think 10-100x less.
If you are looking for a 'non-essential', and the item is being sold by "Amazon.com" (as opposed to an Amazon seller like u/toasterlovin), may I suggest ordering from another store? Companies like Guitar Center; Bed, Bath, and Beyond; and the like are still fulfilling online orders, even if the stores themselves are closed. Also, individuals are still selling wares through platforms like eBay and Etsy.

Please consider purchasing things from other stores, where available. Even if you have to pay for the shipping cost.
the media storm has been the most disheartening thing to me. the media (all media: the news, social, tv, print) exist to serve your eyeballs to advertisers. the biggest, scariest headlines win, and it really seems like outlets are only too keen to exploit that right now. the signal to noise ratio right now is MINUSCULE, with "experts" and talking heads and human interest stories dominating.

please try to convince your flatmate (as I do everyone around me) that the media will gladly firehose useless panic mongering, as long as it keeps people around past the commercial break. it's difficult to disconnect, but our mental health depends on it. take in what you need to know for the day, and no more.
I think much of what went well in America had much to do with civil society. I believe we collectively figured out there’s likely no god and mistakenly assumed everything that went along with the whole community & church system was to be thrown out. Not sure what to do about it because I think the weekly meetings with recognizable families was important but the Olstein style self help pastors isn’t.
Mr Robot for sure. I like Sneakers too but it was before my time. The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell and other similar works touch on "hacking" at its periphery - they simply use it as an instrument for social commentary and philosophical inquiry.

While I enjoyed Hackers (1995) it was also before my time so I don't know how well it was able to capture the mid 90s Dot Com Zeitgeist.
Good point. I hear the insurance for the commercial vehicles is much higher, too.
Your citation says they lost money.
This should be good for the Apple stocks.
Good point, although I'd prefer to pay less to not have Android TV (I don't think the TV platforms make any sense compared to "Casting" content from mobile devices).
> You desperately insist on giving them meaning.

They have meaning in the same sense that any words have meaning -- that is, they communicate meaning between an existing group of people.

> And sometimes, which is worse, the meaning you want to give them is completely unrelated or even opposed to everything they are or do.

Like many words, their meaning in a specific technical context differs from their meaning in other contexts. This is not particularly unusual.

> Aside: You realize that the word "monad" (and "dyad") already has a very specific meaning

"Monad" has several distinct well-established meanings in different domains besides its use is Category Theory (and thus Haskell). So what?

> and that you assaulted that meaning and now are trying to beat the poor word into submission?

The meaning of "monad" in Haskell comes directly from its meaning in Category Theory, which is inspired by (though not the same as) its earlier use in mathematics stretching back to its use in metaphysics (particularly, through Leibnitz's Monadology), which has its roots in its use in Classical philosophy, from whence also comes all its other uses.

> If I had to choose I'd say that J programmers have much more of a right to use and define this word

Well, you don't have to or even get to choose that; words can and do have uses in different contexts and you don't get to choose one and make it the exclusive use of the word because you like it more.

> a single-argument function ("mono") makes more sense to be called a "monad" than an instance of "flat-mappable" interface.

Not really. Sure, a single argument function might have a better claim to the title "mono-argument function" but "-ad" isn't generally a suffix that means "-argument function".
"Get off my lawn!"

I find it rather ironic that this would be posted on HN; this is essentially a straw man argument generalizing a narrow perception of society, which is a little worrying coming from a University Professor. It's pretty amazing that after a couple of centuries of fighting against the culture of "Generation (n+1) can only aspire to be as good as Generation (n), but can never be better", we still see articles like this, over and over again.

This is not to say a lot of people are not incapable of fixing things, but I'd argue this has always been true, in one way or another. Culture and technology move on, the breadth of our knowledge has expanded so far and so deep that it has become near-impossible (and it is only getting harder) for any given person to be generalistic enough - whether this is good or bad is a different question.

My parents can do things I'd be unable to do, but the opposite is true as well. This doesn't we belittle each other, it simply means we respect and value what each other can achieve, as individuals and members of society.

This cross-generation bashing (in both directions) is toxic, as toxic as other kinds of discriminations (gender, race, sexual preference, ...).

I suspect the Professor in question was originally upset about our culture of waste, which, again, is a different question.
It might have been at some point in the past, but it doesn't run on modern systems, does not fully implement Common Lisp, and can't run much of the useful software written in the past 10 or so years.

It's still pretty cool, but not as a learning tool in 2015.
There is an increase of about 1% if the pool uses long polling. Pools are more well connected and notify your client, when block changes (without this you can work on an old block for some time before you get notification from the network).

Though this increase is eaten by pool fees :)
The problem is, many pull requests take very long to get merged (because of the size of the PR, the review process, etc.), and by the time that they are ready to be merged, the target branch could very well have changed.
Three ideas:

1) Meetups. They happen around the Bay almost daily.

2) Hackathons. They happen almost every weekend.

3) Talk to strangers at cafes. Everyone and their dog is doing a startup.

It is a great place. However, it has gotten very expensive and crowded. I moved away. I miss it the way it was 5 years ago.
In addition to the comments already made about sounding personal, pregnant women, royalty, and the schizophrenic, sometimes I use "we" to mean "us both - you, the reader, and me, the author." With that in mind, some places where "we" would otherwise sound wrong suddenly become normal/sensible/reasonable.
I cannot stress #1 enough. Don't depend on your remaining loved ones to be your shrink. They're not. You'll risk damaging your relationship with them when you expect them to be.
Since the article uses evolution metaphors, how about this: forks can be a good way to help organisms (read: projects) navigate a complex multivariate fitness landscape. Abandoned forks then serve as concrete markers of particular design decisions that can be revisited later if a similar kind of problem comes up.

We often don't know ahead of time how a decision will work out, so calling these forks "wasted effort" seems to miss their utility as experiments that can drive the direction of future development indirectly.
I don't know, maybe one of the Dutch residents can add on or correct me, but the social relationships in the Netherlands seemed strained.

Sorry, but I have to say you are off the mark. I usually find that the Dutch society is generally very open, and nearly any topic is fair game (watch Dutch TV for fun). This goes hand in hand with strong individualism, which means that the Dutch generally do not have tight bonds. To outsiders this may seem cold and maybe snobbish/arrogant.
Wow. It may just be the simplicity of the two sites, but they share a lot of similar characteristics and design choices. Do you know if that was done on purpose?

Update: Found this on their about page. "The first prototype for Minus was inspired by Glen Murphy's design and was launched on October 13th, 2010."
Thanks ... that looks like the link I needed :)

And the quote that (possibly) comes from Mark Twain is great, too: "Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'"

Perhaps it's the editors part where bloggers get the idea to use we on everything...
I so wish my DSLR ran Android. Just imagine being able to install apps or filters on the camera. Maybe even replace things like the autofocus software. Someone should build that camera.
Awesome, I'll be there!
The entire point of the Bitcoin protocol, and the beauty of the system, is that there's no one authority that enforces legality of a transaction. Transactions are not accepted because they're legal; they're legal because they're accepted.

Any miner is free to accept any transactions they want. It's just that, without the consensus of the rest of the network, mining blocks that everyone else considers invalid is a waste of CPU cycles.
I was confused at first, then I remembered UK is not a Schengen member - if you get a UK visa, it's for the UK only; if you get a visa for any other EU country, you can go wherever you want in the EU, except the UK. Weird situation :-)
I was wondering if this was going to be one of those pages that just says "Probably." or similar in large text.
Try mouse scroll.
"I want to start a company, employ US citizens, pay taxes, and drive GDP growth."
I know it's not a lot, but I am trying to learn from these company.
You could do (a) to force active attacks, and then at the end (after SNI) authenticate the server based on the then-matching cert, followed by checking that you both got the same symmetric key from the ECDH key exchange at the beginning. If they don't match, you know there was an active MITM and both sides know.
It's a compelling vision, nomadic herders wandering the plains of pre-Islamic Arabia, literate, inscribing poems, dreams and prayers on stones; centuries later, their lives are remembered.

I would like to know more about the deities hinted at in the article, about the cruelties of the Romans, about the Arab soldiers (or actors) writing in Safaitic in Pompeii
And his 1994 ad seeking Unix developers: http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc
You're just shifting from the credit card processor to the dollar/euro/bitcoin exchange person.
Hah. You got me there.
Does anyone know what happens to video uploaded through Blogger? Google says it puts it in Google Video but there is no options for me to download the video that has been uploaded. I'd email Google but... oh ya... They don't do support.
And it's the top post, and will likely remain so.
R6RS was controversial and didn't get that much adoption. And yes, this is official.
Also, this clearly breaks web access and mobile device access to your files.

That said, I have been using this scheme for my most valuable data sets for about a year without problems.
Sorry, you're right, I was lumping the two together. Convenient and cheap flights to the Rockies, though. :-)
Because that's how Tom dresses. He's not a "corporate guy" but manages the team who runs our data centers and was directly involved in building this one.
As long as you only use it for "trusted" documents, old versions should be fine. But you can, for instance, never install it as the "default" PDF reader on an internet-connected system.
But you have to actively disable the plugins Acrobat installs for online reading or else your browsers are wide open. Lots of bad sites (and ads) launch malicious PDF files that you never see.
Try to use foxit reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/)
It's ultra fast. I use this product for a couple of years and forgot about the acrobat reader as a nightmare.
I had trouble equalizing my ears for a long time. Then I took some SCUBA diving training where the hold-nose-blow-out method is the first thing they tell you. They should put that in the little packets they put in the back of the seats.
The link doesn't work for me
...would achieve similar hit rates if they flipped a coin...

...No scientific evidence exists to support...

...the TSA is "unsure" whether SPOT has ever led to the arrest of an actual, real-life terrorist.

Which probably makes this program fit in perfectly with everything else that TSA is doing.
When everybody is calling in and people have flaky quality, you are wasting at least some time.

I've never noticed flaky microphones or audio quality from remote participants. Ever. But I've often found that local participants are completely inaudible. If every local participant just used a bluetooth microphone (or really anything dedicated but the shared conference call microphones), things would be so much better.
The Eiffel Tower wasn’t well received at first, now it’s a part of Parisian identity.

Gotta love that cycle.
Adkins has been around a long time and is well known internally. She has always played it straight as far as I know. She isn't some faceless Voice of Google, she has her own reputation to consider and one she has built.

Now let's look at the people on the other side: a nobody who has been describing her own employer as literally evil in public, to anyone who will listen, but who mysteriously failed to leave of her own accord. Google isn't actually evil or even close to it, only someone seriously mentally unstable could believe that, and would such a person harass political opponents by leaking their private lives onto the internet (presumably to somewhere they hoped would cause those employees problems?). Absolutely they would. Googlers already have form in leaking screenshots of internal sites to highlight political disagreements.
This is EXACTLY what I expect to find out in TOS. Along with how they use and with whom they share the data (privacy policy).

TOS actually is stronger than preferences. If TOS doesn't state that I can opt out, I don't expect that I'm opted out of everything, even when I set such preferences in software. And that they can introduce some phoning home at will, as long as they comply with their TOS.
To be honest, if the indicator was renamed to Slavery Efficiency Index, it would better reflect what it actually indicates.
I started using it in ‘99 or so. I distinctly remember using it over WAP in 2000 with my first cell phone.

Having Google access via mobile in 2000 was living in the future. Folks would treat me like an oracle.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110318

tldr; republicans tend to win by slimmer margins compared to democrats