jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Israel is in a continuous state of war. It is both prepared and aware that a pandemic can disrupt your defences enough to make you an easy target. I think this played a big role in their response.
Hoping to avoid wading into the specifics of this issue, but have you considered that unions are unpopular among software engineers? I am the most pro-union person I know personally, and I am not pro-union.
Eh. It's pretty clear that people blow huge money on all sorts of shit that they think makes a different but doesn't in reality.
How is this materially different from the system we already have?

US dollars are just rows in a distributed database. The database is distributed over a network of banking nodes. The network is highly concentrated [1], and its super-nodes are already very difficult to distinguish from government in anything but a formal legal sense.

Insofar as I can tell, a digital currency would be the same thing as government saying "banks need to provide unrestricted access to their networks" which has basically happened already.

[1] https://www.ffiec.gov/npw/Institution/TopHoldings
Etymology resources:

free web, http://www.etymonline.com/

free Windows app, 1888 OED, 15000 pages searchable: https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407 (modern CD version costs $200+ on Amazon)

$9 iOS app, English BigDict, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/english-bigdict/id397603643?... (includes historical references to ancestral words in other languages)

$30 iOS app, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shorter-oxford-english-dicti... (be careul, there are several similarly named apps made by licensees of the OED brand, this one has 600K words)
The one GitHub project that can't say "fork me on GitHub".
>Companies which put in "backdoors" should face felony criminal prosecution. That doesn't happen by accident.

Hard to do that when refusing to put in a backdoor can have even worse consequences.
https://eyeo.com, home to the world's most installed ad-blocker, AdBlock+, has an acceptable ads policy already in place; whilst Google is trying to tackle the data-collection problem via the controversial privacy-sandbox proposal [0]. Safari [1] and Firefox [2] seem to have the right idea abt it all, whilst Brave is trying a radically new approach [3].

As for the online services needing ads to keep lights on:

1. The pervasive dragnet that the online ad-industry has birthed is a massive reason behind content-blocking.

2. Ads are freq used to spread source of malware, scareware, spyware, ransomware, fake-news among other totally unreasonable things.

3. The end-users should be free to chose what they want to view and what they don't. The service providers are free to refuse service.

4. The tracking that goes on is so covert that it seems to me that it is borderline unethical [4].

5. The online ads business is a scam [5]?

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767891

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20700914

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21497488

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525592

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336762

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992576
fish shell uses expect as part of its interactive test suite. It's for more than just automating a workflow!
There hadn’t been a suicide in that prison for 21 years. That one happened at it was Epstein is extraordinary.
Even using just Google maps I get asked if there was a speed trap where we just passed.
The non jaded are working and not wasting time whining on HN :D

Or they don't want to waste their energy arguing with an angry internet random.
I’m design equipment and automation for biology labs. Much of my work is done at a computer and now I’m 90% WFH. Takeaways so far:
- Remote meetings are better than 10 years ago. But still room to gain.
- remote design reviews of physical products are lacking engagement from the team. Being in the same room helps a ton.
- running actual chemistry needs a lab of course
- managing a team of software engineers, hardware engineers and scientists is ok in JIRA, but nothing beats in person discussion for a diverse team.
They also publish it on github [1]

[1] https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19/blob/master/dati-andamen...
Up next: suspending trading on all stock markets/exchanges during the lockdown?

Perhaps I'm being wildly naive, but this would seem to be the next obvious step. Hopefully then the administration would turn ~90% of it's focus on the health/welfare of the population. Finally, the remaining ~10% of effort should be on brainstorming approaches/protocols to restore the financial systems once the national quarantine is lifted.
> The Army Corps is expected to immediately begin work to construct the [four] temporary hospitals. The Governor is also requesting FEMA designate four field hospitals

NY is creating EIGHT temporary hospitals total. I can't imagine the logistics, staffing, materials, etc. A few days ago I wasn't terribly concerned, but it continues to look worse and worse for the US.
That last sentence makes no sense at all.
These kind of geometrical solutions are easier to grasp than other traditional solutions. If geometry is not your thing but programming is, I really recommend
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares [0] by Stanford's prof Boyd, he has written about fast methods using linear algebra that are guaranteed to converge if they meet certain criteria [1].

[0] http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06324
The thrust of the post wasn’t meant to be that it is surprising that you can even do these things on one core; sorry if it came across that way.

Rather, it’s that when doing the work on one core (with a way simple implementation) you go faster than many of the measurements that popular scalable systems put forward as evidence that they improve on the state of the art. Which sort of invalidates that evidence. Some of the papers end up left with fairly scant evidence, which should be a serious issue for researchers.

GraphChi and X-Stream (http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/188535) are much more sophisticated implementations, ones you might not be embarrassed to be beaten by, so they don’t make the same point. And they aren’t any faster than the systems above, and so have the same issues (though perhaps less explaining to do).
In that case you might want to update your privacy policy, you are mentioning google and Facebook ads.
I can only explain my system but it works like this: try to drink alcohol every day. I'm not sure if it reduces the covid risk, but it just feels right.
https://www.cbs58.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-4-deaths-i...

One person was shot by police. As for the other three:

"One adult female and two adult males appear to have suffered from separate medical emergencies, which resulted in their deaths," Contee said. "Any loss of life in the District is tragic and our thoughts are with anyone impacted by their loss."

At least one one those medical emergencies was simply a heart attack. And possibly another from an accidental fall from scaffolding, though the article says police were unclear. Doesn't sound like violence had anything to do with them, at least directly. If it did, I'd expect that to be made clear.
> But if your [computer’s CPU][0] is so slow that a modern TLS negotiation would take so long as to be unusable

The author is actually pretty explicit that they're talking about a System 6 Mac, which has all the hardware necessary not to be too slow for TLS. It's just that it's so old that finding a working SSL library for it is difficult, which on some fronts I can sympathise with...

But SSL should still be a requirement to prevent your users from having crap injected by whoever the hell is between you and them.

[0] https://jcs.org/system6c
Fast and slow are relative, that’s for sure. But assuming there is a problem before discovering it... isn’t that the definition of premature optimization?

I once watched another developer spend an evening creating a binary tree implementation to do a round robin selection of servers to connect to in order to avoid just iterating over an array and/or having to reinitialize the array when a server is added/removed. We had a total of 4 servers at the time and expected no more than 8 ever for this particular thing. BTW this was written in PHP on top of its built in array().
> Science is built on consensus

No it's not. It's built on hypothesis and experiments (empiricism).

Just because the nazi party banned "jewish" physics doesn't mean that "jewish" science wasn't science.

You think science is a democracy? If 51% of scientists say the earth is flat, then it's flat? You think each nation has their own version of science built on consense of their own scientists?
That was one of the first courses I took that course as I was learning to program. Of course most of it was way over my head at the time, but even to a beginner it was clear that he really, really knows what he is doing.
You can subscribe to the IP2Location DB24 database https://www.ip2location.com/database/db24-ip-country-region-... . It has usage type which can detect data center ranges (DCH).
I think 50 years from now we will look back on IQ tests as a terrible way of measuring intelligence.
I assumed that being nerdy was part of the Google brand, just as being hip was part of the Apple brand, and that explained the difference in presentations.
I enabled OS X's Single Application Mode about three weeks ago and haven't switched back yet. The decision to try it was spurred by more time spent with an iPad. I also tried replacing the mode with Isolator on my work computer, which is looking promising for the more inter-application-focused workflow I need there.

It's amazing what a difference either of these approaches makes. Given that this movement is getting coverage in The Economist now, I almost expect Apple to implement something not entirely unlike Isolator for 10.7.
What gives you this impression? The author uses Emacs, but Emacs is by no means the choice of most programmers.
In schools on the watch list in Nevada where the state has stepped in teachers are no longer really allowed to teach. In 4th grade students receive grades in Reading, Writing, Math, Art, Social Studies, Physical Education and a few other categories. At these schools the teachers are only allowed to teach reading, writing and math. Every lesson plan must be geared towards meeting a standard in one of those three categories. The teachers are required to give out grades in the areas they are not allowed to teach. When pressed on "what" grade the children should receive the answer is typically "whatever you feel is appropriate." These children aren't receiving an education, they are being taught how to memorize information for their CRT's then for their benchmarks, then for whatever test follows that.

This isn't what teachers want, this is what teachers are forced to do by their states in order to achieve the largest number of passing schools and keep federal funding levels high.
Komodo IDE? What makes PyCharm better?
Docks of one sort or another have been around for years. RISC OS had a dock-like icon bar in 1987, GNUStep nicked one from NeXTStep in 1994, and I'm sure there are earlier examples.
In case anyone was interested in buying it JetBrains has a sale going on for 2 more days. (April 30)

http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/index.jsp?home_banner

I ended up buying IntelliJ because the python plugin is virtually the same thing although it does lag behind the Pycharm version a wee bit in terms of features. The other major difference is the way projects are started and the feature to open files from the command line is missing in IntelliJ. If you only use Python Pycharm is definitely a more focused product and doesn't have features from other programming languages hanging out in your face in places like the run configurations.

Also according to the license matrix on both IntelliJ and Pycharm the personal versions are both for general commercial use. The difference between the commercial and personal licenses mainly seems to be about who is purchasing the software.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/license-matrix.jsp
If I were a consultant today, I'd look into buying an RV. No more dirty hotel rooms or questionable restaurant food. And a much lower chance of a TSA encounter.
The Verge had a really good article covering Taser, the company producing these cameras as well as the police departments using them. http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/5/4162478/tasers-axon-flex-co...

I just find it interesting that Police departments are now looking to record every interaction on video when in the past these exact Police departments (Oakland, LA + Rialto) have been very hostile to any citizen using a recording device.
The article points out that it is more the style of the organization rather than the actual content which draws critics. I would say that's a fair assessment- I don't see any harm in spreading information, it's the audience's responsibility to take it with a grain of salt.
To be fair, it feels like survivor's bias. People are more vocal about criticism. When you agree, well, what is there to say? Nothing, you just use it, instead.

In that light, the actual usage statistics are probably a better metric of the language's success than the +/- ratio on hacker news.
You're not forced to use a cell phone in order to fly. The radiation from the phone is not concentrated and directed at your entire body. It's a different frequency and intensity. A lot more time has been spent studying the dangers of RF from consumer phones than the dangers of these new machines based on medical devices that require lead clothing or lead walls for safe use.

You're also exposed to a variety of radiation when you fly in the high atmosphere or eat a banana. It doesn't mean additional radiation from insufficiently tested machines is a good idea.
It's part of the SD specification. See section 4.3.7.1: http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/pls/Simplified_...

There are WP7 devs that are poking at this problem as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9247202
It was on the second page of results for me.
In one situation, large quantities of X cause no visible concern to people. In another situation, much smaller quantities of X cause serious outcry, even when no harmful effects from those smaller quantities have been demonstrated over twenty years of study.

I suppose it's possible for someone to be genuinely concerned over these very small quantities of radiation. But it strikes me that for the average person what underlies the panic is

1. a counter-factual belief that more health-harm is done by a new technology than actually is,

2. a diversionary appeal to concern for safety when health risks are not really a significant negative of a new technology.

This happens in all kinds of areas. Artificial sweeteners, GMO foods, irradiated meat products, and vaccines have all fought or are fighting this battle. The only reason this type of thinking is given a pass here or anywhere reasonable people congregate is because the community is so opposed to the technology for other reasons.
These are almost the exact same arguments used against Gmail.
Also, never underestimate the power we have in numbers. The challenge is in maintaining civility among a group during those fight or flight situations.
I'm actually more horrified by my tax dollars paying for the TSA to sit in Herman Miller chairs, but damn. Beggars belief.
yes my mistake.
Many people believe that the sole reason the Japanese car companies started to beat the American car companies in the late 80s was because of quality. I think that is only part of the reason... To me, the biggest reason was choice and the purchasing process. When you went to buy an American car you literally had about 1000 options (and that might be too low of a number). When you went to buy a Japanese car you had like 3 options: SL, GL, SE (as an example), and about 3-5 colors to choose from. That was it!

We can see the same thing with computers today, and Apple is the equivalent of the Japanese car makes in terms of choice. Guess what, it works!
A discussion on "what you think it's worth" pricing from a couple months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279660
A few tips, in addition to Patrick's excellent advice.

1) Make a nice portfolio. That's the #1 thing people will look at on your site. Do a free site for a charity if you have nothing to show (do your homework too - there's a lot of local business people on the boards of charities).

2) List what you do, explicitly. Don't be afraid of being verbose. You would think most people would assume if you can do a Wordpress site you can probably do Drupal, vanilla HTML, etc. They will not.

They also don't know industry terms, so speak plain English. For example, don't say "I'm going to install a content management system", say "you'll be able to change the text on your website any time you want."

3) Don't underestimate LinkedIn. Make sure everyone you know is aware of what you do and that they can hire or recommend you. Leave recommendations for others.

4) Following on 3, scratch people's backs online. When you order lunch, leave a review on Google Local or Citysearch. Do this for every service you buy - the vet, your doctor, etc. If they have Twitter, mention the great service you just received at @joesplace.

5) Scratch people's backs in the real world. Want to know the secret to networking? Send other people business. If something comes in that's out of your range (e.g., logo design), send it to another firm. You'll absolutely get their attention, and they'll probably reciprocate the favor.

Following on this: other firms are an excellent source of business. There's a ton of print and graphic designers who can't code, and need someone good to pair with. So get good at PSD -> Wordpress, Drupal, etc, and you can always find work.

6) Pricing. As Patrick said, "charge more." If you need a number, start with $50 or $75/hr and go up as you gain experience. Make sure to offer firm estimates when needed (but not without detail! Mockups is worth the $100).

Good luck!
The video was kinda lame, but it touched home because I love climbing, and so does my co-founder. There are few better ways to foster some serious trust than falling through 20+ feet of slack rope, knowing your partner is going to catch you. Makes trusting them with business decisions a bit easier! Not to mention some of the more isolated crags are fantastic places to chat about ideas and direction.
It's not an IPS screen, but it does make going in to work and looking at the cheapo sony laptop they bought me incredibly painful. It's quite pretty, but I imagine there is a lot of room for improvement, especially with respect to vertical viewing angle.
>Optimizing algorithms and optimizing Ruby code in C

> Some key Ruby code has been replaced by C code.

Ew. I feel sorry for them. "C for speed" is C for a calcifying creep across your application. Necessary at times, but only if your language isn't good enough.
Cutting off a drunk customer has no parallel to game design. Asking for game design changes so that people will want to play the game less would be like asking the bar tender to design and sell only drinks with lower alcohol content.
We're talking about a new Firefox add-on being installed here, not an update to one already installed. That's a huge difference.
I am not asking a question, though I do invite commentary or rebuttal. I am making a point, based on my own observations. I am also not making this point because the post has "gender" in the title, but because the discussion has rapidly converged on this topic already. Do I detect some suspicion towards my motives? I took some care to make it clear that I do not endorse any of the disrespectful practices that TikTok has banned.
"You should know" because, you should.

(sarcastic b/c I had the same question)
If I understand you correctly, we have those here in the States as well, but the problem is you're not using your CC in the first place (in the "open bar" scenario) so you never actually use the terminals.
>I'm not claiming the story is fake,

I think then it fulfills the role I intended, as actual consequences of misinformation.

>Bringing up QAnon....

That seems like dangerous amounts of cover for any topic where bringing them up is automatically discounted.
Some characters are longer than 32 codepoints.
" If you do have password requirements, show them to the user before they try to make a password. "

& again as help text when they're logging in.

Constantly have to reset passwords on obscure sites because I don't remember that I've been forced to use, e.g. no symbols. No use just telling me that on sign-up & expecting me to remember 6 months later.
You’re right. I misunderstood the scenario we were discussing.
First, that assumes that the leadership role should be a fixed position, which isn't the case. Second, this statement assumes the only option for an egalitarian organisation is a form of consensus democracy. Neither of these things is true

You can have a flat organisation in which different people are responsible for taking the lead, and the others hold him/her accountable for not doing so. If I am in a small team with a few engineers, a few designers, and a few marketing experts, and each of them has their own specialty too, then obviously each of them can and should take the "lead" in their respective specialty. There is no need for a consensus on the majority of topics if we trust each other to know what we are doing.

Sure, for big-picture stuff a consensus is still required, and it might even be beneficial to have an inspiring leader whose vision we are realizing, but it's a pretty big leap from there to this:

> Democracy in teams essentially divides the team

Why would democracy do this more than a top-down view? People would still have opposing ideas, they would just not be heard.

> those opposed and forced to act according to the majority will not be cooperative

Again, do you have any reason to believe this is less likely to happen in an organisation where the direction is decided top-down? Because the only difference I see is whether or not the opposing views are visible - and having those opposing views hidden and unexplained actually sounds like a terrible situation to me.
I know its a small difference, but I am happy this title doesn't imply I don't know these tricks yet, as some articles of this kind tend to do.
If they're like my kids (6, 2, and 2): 10 isn't their bedtime...it's when I've finished dinner cleanup after their bedtime and can get on my computer to finish up tasks for the day.
This is amazing to me, because I am also listening to the Revolutions podcast (just finished part 1 of the Russian Revolution, i'm sure this Stolypin guy will make some good reforms and Tsar Nicholas II will live happily ever after). However, I come away from these episodes with a completely different lesson: that the people opposed to universal suffrage were almost always the people in power who did not want to risk losing power, and so drew convenient lines to disenfranchise anybody who threatened their regime.

I very much do not think there is any merit to the idea that only those who claim to have "skin in the game" should get to vote. The grands blancs in pre-revolution Haiti - who owned lots of land, wealth, and people - often didn't even live on the island! In what way did they have more "skin in the game" than the slaves whose skin was being literally ripped to shreds in order to generate more profits? Not to mention the Black freedmen who owned property but still couldn't vote!

I think the mere act of being a citizen of a country - and thus being subject to the laws and policies of that country - gives you the right to a share in the governance of that country, no matter what your net worth, sex, race, etc.
Which is a really solid argument for why we maybe shouldn't put profit first when it comes to things like our energy grids.