jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do not trust an accountant who makes blatant accounting mistakes.

I do not trust the testimony of someone who has falsified evidence, or processed it incorrectly.

Neither of those are an ad hominem attack of a factual claim. They show that someone is incapable or unwilling to provide evidence that should be considered. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and if the evidence presented makes demonstrably false claims, then we're done with that evidence, and should frown upon the person who presented it. They should lose credibility.

If you want to find another accountant, offer up someone else's testimony, show an untainted evidentiary chain, in support of a factual claim, I will gladly consider it.

I am not either "Group" in your scenario, by the way.

I accept that the Constitution of the United States enacts Laws, and Checks and Balances. I accept that we have Courts to make determinations of fact. We are a nation of laws.

I am not in and of myself rejecting claims, and satisfied with that as the conclusion of my interest in the matter.

I am informing you, I will accept the outcomes of the courts. I accepted them when I disagreed with their outcomes in the past, and I expect others to do likewise. Not that I think each outcome is Just, but that the long arm of history bends towards Justice. When I am upset enough, I petition my representatives to change the law, or to impeach officers of government. We are a nation of laws.

WHY would Georgia order a forensic analysis of counting machines, when a hand recount has agreed, within a reasonable degree? It's nonsense.

Is there a paper trail for voting machines? Yes. Voters are responsible for checking the paper record. The paper record has been checked against the electronic record. Aren't we done?
You are not wrong. Replace 'efficient execution by machines' with 'efficient processing by a compiler' and you will be even more correct.
> Therefore, it must be assumed that if you worked only 80% of the time, you're only 80% effective.

This is the exact logic that is causing the issue. I would posit that a statement like this could only be true in an environment such as a factory line, where the output of widgets is truly linear over time.

Study after study have shown that for information workers, there's a strong trend of diminishing returns as workers clock more time.

Modern offices are truly an exercise in Parkinson's Law.

Further, I would speculate that the way companies encourage employees to optimize for duration of time on task leads to an insidious effect of individuals adopting less efficient methods to complete work, as there is no incentive to finish tasks more quickly within a timeframe when any time saved isn't recovered to the individual.

This stifles innovation.
With sous vide the collagen breaks down, but the internal temperature never gets high enough for the proteins to denature. Internal temp should not be higher than 135. The meat is still pink if you are doing it right. With pot roast, internal temp is going to 190 degrees or higher and the proteins denature (in addition to the collagen breaking down). I find that sous vide chuck roast taste better on its own than chuck roast, but it is worse than chuck roast seared and served rare. But the sous vide version is more tender than rare chuck roast, while being less tender than pot roast.
Full time equivalent.

Basically it means one person.
Eh, I don't buy that argument. I think there would be a market for "mini-cows"; the customers would be the same people who have indoor herb gardens or backyard vegetable gardens.

Fortunately for the author, his analogy does not hold up anyway – milk is in high demand by home consumers; custom-made plastic widgets are not. (I'm racking my brain for "small things in a home made only out of plastic" and all I can come up with are disposable utensils, combs, and guitar picks.)
Absolutely. Coming soon!
I've read the book, and it is well referenced and researched, at least on par with modern scientific standards: Which means, the author _probably_ picks the sources that support his ideas, and ignores those that don't (that's how modern published science works in nutrition, health and medicine).
PyCharm's been the only thing that made me leave Vim for any length of time.

It's not about having it all in one place, it's the attention to detail and the little conveniences that are everywhere. Whereas in general purpose editors I'm mostly fine, but eventually stumble on small roadblocks at the edges, with PyCharm every once in a while I stumble on wonderful gems (remote debugging, auto-fixing common issues, etc.)
And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be problems like they are now.

And they were not ... until very recent times. If you look at the data available about the hunter-gatherer tribes, they did not have heart disease, diabetes, obesity, even cancer - despite sometimes having the higher saturated fat intake compared even to today's US.
Look up the Kitavians, Masai, the Inuit ...
Email clients avoiding going out to fetch external images, because that may be used to track user reading (when the image has been fetched, you know that the email was displayed on screen, so you can code every email you send with a unique URL, and get a date & time & ip & operating system etc. signature for every time it is read).

They have no problem with inlined images, whether that is css or data: url. Thunderbird (for sure), and Gmail (I think) will display data: image urls inline; not sure about other clients.
update: Tumblr has now restored boyd's account name: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/04/27/tumblr-...
It looks like they updated it because I used to be able to do 1+-/*23= and it would accept it because it couldn't compute it as incorrect.
Yeah I feel the same way. I want wordle to be about guessing words, not constructing some max entropy string within the constraints.
Exactly. It just becomes a form a virtuous consumption that is slightly interactive in that you can report people who cross some line. This feedback loop is part of the design and keeps you consuming and interacting.
> Sidenote: one of the reasons i don't touch crypto is possible laundering charge/suspicion if the tokens happens to had passed through unsavory hands/situation

A page recently posted here ([1], citing [2]) claimed that there's a market for freshly mined Bitcoin (i.e. with no history), with people paying as much as 20% markup for it to avoid such risks.

I didn't make any attempt to verify this claim.

[1] https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/fungibility-graveyard/

[2] https://news.bitcoin.com/industry-execs-freshly-minted-virgi...
The idea of a publicly accessible area for a car's maintenance records is a pretty good idea. But you don't need an NFT or the blockchain to do it.

The VinWiki app does part of this already for collector cars, think Ferrari's or Lamborghini's.
Hmm what work is that? Getting a visa? With that much cash I'd leave first (on a tourist visa) and figure the rest out later..
I’m talking about the government banning unapproved narratives and criminalizing political dissent. These controls exist currently in China but not in the United States.
Which is decided by courts
I'd even add basic things like the TSA to the list: the government says this is required for everyone to be safe, but every single study or analysis shows it is ineffective and security experts universally deride it; and yet, the "authority"--which might literally be the agent at the scanner with a smug attitude about the whole thing--is adamant this is important and that maybe you are a terrorist for nothing other than making a sarcastic joke about the situation.
I was once porting my OS to a new platform, and hadn't got the screen to work yet. What I did get to work was the screen's backlight, so I would have it blink to show debugging info. It was a huge pain in the ass.
"Well, it isn't very weird that today's LiSP is better than yesterday's."

I wouldn't be so sure of that.
Bing provides search results for Siri and powers Cortana. I'm sure somebody noticed.
I guess i'll never wrap my head around the idea of working out of a coffee shop...
According to Wikipedia, they did that in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_people_in_Japan

The rough equivalent of herbivore men in the west is called MGTOW. In the west, some blame feminism for similar shifts...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822755
I'd argue that Japan's policy on immigration is just as much an issue, and easier to resolve than convincing people to have children.
You mean TBR? It's never been more than an emergency thing where I used to work. I'd be curious to know which part of Google you are/were in.
I couldn't see a purchase option was it present? I had the feeling it was in the terms in case he decided to do it later.

The image element resource licenses are listed in the Resources section. Most of them appear to be relatively permissive licenses though some require attribution.

I get the impression it's a nice little side project, and mostly for fun. I guess he didn't what to go to the expense of purchasing licensing rights for stock images or searching out high quality resources which are in the public domain.
This is for contributors outside of Google.

I don't know why this is needed, but glancing at the CLA the clause which is most obviously not covered by the Apache license is this one:

"You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your Contributions, you represent that you have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that employer, that your employer has waived such rights for your Contributions to Google, or that your employer has executed a separate Corporate CLA with Google."

Linux requires a similar declaration to accept code, but many free software projects do not, and it's not a part of any of the usual licenses.
It's not like they sit around and say: "Oh, f*ck Android, let's find vulnerabilities in other operating systems." I suppose it's long since they have a team working on Android vulnerabilities, but it's not trivial fixing, deploying - not to mention finding the flaws.
I think you question is very sincere and VERY UNIQUE for this community because every other question is asking for the exact opposite. That's why there are a lot of interesting replies as well as a lot of interest in the question itself.

Is your hobby/"passions (which are not monetizable)" expensive? And are you 100% certain they are not monetizable?

In today's world, I have yet to see something which is not monetizable. Unless you are referring to something which is too competitive - even that can be monetized....though monetization itself might require too much work which goes against your requirement so I understand.
Until you have a rare medical condition that forces you into bankruptcy because the treatments are not covered. Bad things happen to good people through no fault of their own.

Source - filed for bankruptcy due to family member having a rare medical condition. It was a strategic decision, because rich fat cats do it all the time when they make bad decisions. Within 18 months, bought new car at 0% interest, had mortgage within 3 years at very low interest. It wasn’t bad at all.

If any other business was ran like the medical industry, it would have been shut down years ago.
Given the plethora of competing bullshit-castles being constructed online, a google search could easily end with them believing that Steven Tyler and Mary Tyler Moore are not only brother and sister, but are also secret agents of the Illuminated Seers of Bavaria.
> Once we reach the age of procreation, evolution is pretty much done with us.

It seems to me that the same argument could be used against the whole group of social animals. It doesn't work. Older people organize the group, they protect the young, ... One needs to look at evolution like it's at play for groups of people as much as it is at play for individuals themselves.

Besides there are many things that are tough to explain in evolution. Riddle me this. Humans are 7 billion, and have a generational length of 20 years, more or less. Bacteria are 9999999999 trillion (at least) and have a generational length that is somewhere between minutes and hours.

How do humans stay alive with that sort of competition ? Evolution becomes more efficient with shorter generational lengths and larger numbers of individuals. Sorry to break it to you, but bacteria have got us beat, by a LOT (and the gain should compound over time). Why haven't all larger plants and animals died out from infection long before humans or even mammals existed ?
Paul talks about this subject like it's a breaking of the code or something, but it's just economics. If there's a commodity you can get for cheaper than other people, you stand to gain. In this case the commodity is pleasure, which you can buy for negative money.
I had a relationship like that. Not a joke.
I find all these elaborate theories for why the price has fallen, a bit ridiculous.

Here's my simply hypothesis.

1. People got bored waiting for legitimate uses for Bitcoin that aren't in some way or another black market trade. I'm one of them.

2. The recent online black market busts made even those who were just betting on Bitcoin being a black market currency, uneasy.
We've changed to that from https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleBanking/comments/ksize0/simpl.... Thanks!
>surveillance by US intelligence agencies? There are many reasons to switch off whatsapp, but I don't believe it should be considered insecure

Well, I consider getting targetted facebook ads based on the content of my whatsapp messages to be insecure.

Being secure also means secure against the company that created/provides the software also.
In 2015 Jeb Bush used the massive amounts of cash he had on hand to corner all the Republican campaign operatives. Democrats spent the years between 2008 and 2016 making sure there wasn't going to be a repeat of 2008 where Obama got the nomination instead of Clinton.

You can think of election cycles as a series of games of rock paper scissors. Not uncommon for the winner of the primary to be a guy that can't win in general. Scissors beats paper in the primary. Goes up against rock in the general and loses.
I have found a little bit of success writing my own single file projects (no fancy web servers or build pipelines) and directly messaging people that I think would like to use it. They haven't grown organically from there yet, but I haven't tried to make the projects grow organically either.

The people who use my files seem pretty happy and get a kick out of them. I've written a few games and a few utilities like a flashcard generator, a practice exam generator, and higher level objects for other frameworks.

I wish the world would release more barebones and easy to use projects like these, but it seems that more people are obsessed with using the latest tech du jour.
He can't talk on those platforms anymore? The opposite of talking is silence
I concur, especially given that automotive CD players are almost universally slot-loading. (And the rest are caddy-loading changers, which also only work with 120mm full-size discs.) That's the only thing I've burned CDs for in the last decade or so, thus 80mm minis are right out.
This is rather strange communication imo, with no timeline provided, no information as to why, or, well, anything. Looks like Stripe atlas still lets you use them as well, so maybe they didn't give others a heads up before this either?
You're right. We will see. EMC tests are part of our program.
Makes more sense than most real estate prices in California.
I bet those 11 million illegal immigrants are concentrated in larger cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami, and Phoenix. If I came to the US illegally, I wouldn't move to Montana or Wyoming...fewer job opportunities and harder to "blend in" with the locals. These are the same people who would prefer MTV in Canada - Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver, so I doubt they would go to Manitoba
We're not talking about parental or family abuse here. This is bullying, which is not the same thing. Being less bad, it admits of different solutions.
Demographics are a distant 100th to competence, talent, personality, and 97 factors of more import. If anybody thinks otherwise, let them build a diversity rainbow startup fund that outperforms the rest.
"all online sales" is not really relevant. Nobody is anywhere close to monopolizing all sales on the internet. Saying Amazon is not a monopoly because they don't dominate all sales is like saying PacBell wasn't a monopoly because they didn't control all forms of interpersonal communication. Instead, look at their chunk of sales of their core items, such as books.
Although I am not expert on these things but it seems to me that Idris has better support for so called dependent types
http://ejenk.com/blog/why-dependently-typed-programming-will...
I was born in the 70s, and I feel my whole decade was left out of your age range.
It would be relatively simple to do, I'm surprised that http://asciiflow.com/ doesn't have an option for it, but now that I think about it a little more I think most people create these ascii diagrams because they just want ascii for embedding in a text doc and probably? don't need to convert them.
L'arroseur devient l'arrosé ... ahah
> Only a nutritionally deficient person could shop solely at TJ.

I shop almost exclusively at Trader Joe's* and am not (to my knowledge at least) nutritionally deficient. I get fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats, eggs, bread/cereal, and the odd snack. What am I missing?
The subsequent felony charge of "Improper Visual Photography" charge was more alarming; here's the statute, though:

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/5/21/21.15

This actually sounds like a sane law.
I was thinking the same thing, but ended up using square cash instead.
Now, one wonders, why is it this massive one-time investment? And does it really make the world a better place that we are catering legally to people with an inefficient business model?

(the usual arguments about authorship, creation, and reward ignored for the sake of brevity)
How? My post is not a top level post, is a specific complaint (top level posts calling out nobody in particular), about a specific comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307696), made by a specific person (@srl).

If you want other examples of similarly egregious comments I'd be more than pleased to provide them, but we already have a perfectly functional example right here.
Development does not hurt but that's not the only requirement.
I would be hard pressed to find a clean sidewalk in France. Many people just throw everything, from cigarette butts, gums to random garbage.
I wonder if following Japan example and having the student clean the classroom would be helpful.
Very cool. I had never heard about that project.
For some reason he decided to make the section collapsed by default, but Drew did address it:

"Let's quickly address the present state of the ecosystem. Matrix rates well in most of these respects, much better than others. However, their software is way too complicated. They are federated, but the software is far from reliable or robust, so the ecosystem tends to be centralized because Matrix.org are the only ones who have the knowledge and bandwidth to keep it up and running. The performance sucks, client and server both, and their UX for E2EE is confusing and difficult to use.

It's a good attempt, but too complex and brittle. Also, their bridge is a major nuisance to IRC, which biases me against them. Please don't integrate your next chat app with IRC; just leave us alone, thanks.

Speaking of IRC, it is still my main chat program, and has been for 15+ years. The lack of E2EE, which is unacceptable for any new protocol, is not important enough to get me to switch to anything else until it presents a compelling alternative to IRC."

I thought it was interesting that he would prefer new protocols to not bridge with IRC.
> What would have most impact in getting the app in front of people?

Can't it be web-based? I'd like to try it, but I'm on Linux.

I mean - Linux certainly isn't your problem, but not being web-based probably doesn't help.
I can't agree. I have used Linux shells for some time (since 97), and while the olden days would be me laughing at vbs and all that awfulness, I'd take PowerShell any day.

The short terse commands and the really awkward, confusing, mistake prone syntax of sh or bash really reels their ugly head in scripts.

Interactive shell? No problem. But that's the beauty of PowerShell: verbosity and correctness in scripts, where the IDE quickly expands those long commands, and short aliases for interactive use.
Great article. This is really about a mental shift. When given a problem like "dormant customers should be charged", it's natural to model the problem as verbs: "find the dormant customers and charge them".

However, that description relies on implicit state: it assumes a world where all dormant customers have not been charged. As we all know, relying on hidden implicit state is the source of all evil. When you describe your problem using verbs, you are essentially modeling it in terms of a diff between how the world is and how you want it to be. But that diff is only correct if you have a perfectly correct description of how the world currently is.

It's better to take a step back and think of your problem purely in terms of the world you want to end up in as a result: "all dormant customers have been charged". Framing it that way makes questions like "which dormant customers have already been charged?" more obvious to consider.
You really don't understand how multiple years of education plus a notoriously difficult exam count as a restriction on supply?

Again, if you think there are no restrictions, hang out your shingle and start giving legal advice. If you're right, you should be fine.
We regulate capitalism all the time. You just make something "cost" more by fining, taxing, or sending people to prison, and then people choose the now-cheaper Made-In-USA alternative.
Googler opinions are my own. I work on payments stuff.

Payments at Google defined some specs for payment companies to build to, which allows easy onboarding as a form of payment on google's platform. We have a page talking about idempotency and expected behavior.

https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/reference/id...

I don't think it's that different from other payment companies, like adyen or worldpay, but we attempted to explain our view of idempotency on a single page.