jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think there is too much equating free speech with consequence free speech. What we are seeing recently is (mostly) consequence free speech. The trump camp has been able to make blatantly false claims without any accountability (mostly, there are some threats and actual defamation lawsuits now). The bar needs to be relatively high, but I think there needs to be more consequences, especially for public officials, in spreading blatantly false information.

We already have this in some places anyways, like courts. Why can’t we apply this more stringently for government officials?
Just noting:

go mod graph | wc -l
40

Bulk of it because of the S3 support. If someone needs S3, that is not high at all.
Yeah dual, totally disjoint “focus” is remarkable. I liked this a lot too:

> “We believe our bitcoin strategy, including our bitcoin holdings and related activities in support of the bitcoin network, is complementary to our software business, by enhancing awareness of our brand and providing opportunities to secure new customers.”
Absolutely, but it's a three-way street. The experts must be willing to teach, the non-experts must be willing to learn, and the organization must be willing to allow them the time to do so.

If any one of those things is missing, it doesn't work. And in my experience, the most likely ingredient to be present is it willingness of the experts to teach. If you're good at something, it's fun to explain it to others.
IIUC, the literacy rate was for most of the Mediterranean world was around 20%, specifically excluding slaves and women. Which is pretty high, actually.

The Greek schools of philosophy were taught by the equivalent of PhDs.
Going to give this a deep dive. Thank you. Super curious how it works after reading the intro page!
Not a retrofit, but the HiSense Q5 seems to be this, new. I don’t own one, but considering it.
And right on schedule, exactly two downvotes
USPS address changes are not a fool proof way of tracking migration.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/01/26/forget-abo...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tech-flight-w...

[3] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/why-miami-is-the-next-hot-t...

[4] https://www.wired.com/story/miami-mayor-woos-techies-what-do...

[5] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/miami-mayor-pushes-si...

Further, look at real estate prices for the area. The markers are there, just need to look for it.
Something like a sword fighting technique that needs to be trained often, starting early in life, would not take much to die out - probably less than a generation of disuse.

And its funny you mention Patton's manual, WWI was probably the last time a sword was considered a practical fighting weapon except in rare circumstances. Even the bayonet started a gradual decline then.
Can you imagine the next step adtech will take in this arms race? I can imagine adtech giants like Google offering free web hosting and cloud resources to gather most of the Web under a few TLDs. They did it with e-mail, they can do it again with Web.
Thanks I appreciate your empathy. I'm sure there are many, many fabulous people at Google.
About a couple years ago, the NYT published this fascinating article about Sendapackage.com, which it billed as "The Cellblocks' Amazon"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/sendapackage-bill...

Sendapackage was created by a former inmate, and its story struck me as a great example of a promising niche that is in plain sight, yet only a member of that niche would go through the work to make it a business:

> Though it might surprise many who have no experience with prison, sending packages to loved ones doing time can be, as thousands of local families know, a Kafkaesque process. Beyond the hassle of going to several stores to assemble a package, and then having to take it to the post office or UPS, is navigating a welter of rules governing what is allowable.

> The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision publishes a list, currently more than 20 pages long, of who can send what, and how, and what is permitted and what is not. Food cannot contain poppy seeds; emery boards must be “nonmetallic”; boxer shorts and briefs must be of a solid color only.

> “I thought there had to be a better way,” said Chris Barrett, Sendapackage’s founder, who seems to have discovered that way on the Internet. The items that Mr. Barrett’s service sells online (as well as through its catalog) have all been chosen in advance to adhere to the extensive directives put in place for gifts by the corrections department. His selection is comprehensive and diverse enough that the company bills itself as “New York’s inmate superstore.”

Not taking away from Pigeon.ly's announcement, just happy to see another business in this underserved, neglected niche (not sure how sendapackage.com is doing as I've never yet had the need to use it)...any service that makes it easy to navigate the data of the prison system is an overall net benefit to the public, as it impresses the need upon the system to provide this data.

Edit: to reference another NYT article: "Out of Trouble, but Criminal Records Keep Men Out of Work" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/business/out-of-trouble-bu...

Given the lede paragraphs of the OP, I thought Pigeon.ly would also deal with the problem of getting released inmates onto their feet and connected to jobs and resources...that seems orthogonal to their current products but seems like it could naturally grow from their network of inmate/relative contacts.
I have never seen comments on a news site that were worthwhile. It's always a train wreck. Any time I scroll down to look at them, I quickly ask myself "Why did I just do that?"

They give you a skewed perspective of the world. When I read Huffington Post comments, I have to remind myself that all liberals are not this obnoxiously stupid. When an article gets linked by Drudge, I have to remind myself that all conservatives are not psychotic hateful trolls.
Sadly, no. It's pretty much dead. As far as I can tell it's fairly complete, but many or most users have switched back to GNU cvs due to long standing bugs and some missing stuff nobody's interested in working on. The only commits to OpenCVS I recall seeing are mostly janitorial or tiny fixes -- no major work.
I thought the surrounding community was exposed to a level of radiation which cannot be shown to cause adverse effects?

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Radiation dose in the exclusion zone is two red squares; the minimum for an increased cancer risk is eight red squares.
so we should just give them knives since they will just find a way around not having one anyway?
It is. Just look at the GP's comment history and it becomes pretty obvious that it's a shill adamantly defending the NSA.
The web still is about long tail, just that the signal:noise ratio has dropped precipitously.
I was trying Blender like 15 years ago and I was unable to do anything. But lately, for three or four months I am working on a video composed of multiple 3D and 2D animated scenes and it is mind blowing how easy it goes.

I must say I'd never imagine to be able to do stuff I do. Blender is not only extremely stable, but also it is so easy to use. It is the finest software I have seen.

You can see my results here if you like: https://twitter.com/SummonTheJson/status/1365363920417005570...
Good post in whole, but part of #3 really caught my eye:

>>When I go to Kindergarten Moms Night and someone asks what I do, "computer programming" usually ends the conversation

I don't this is specific to women - I run into exactly the same thing talking about my tech job with friends, family, strangers, etc.

There's also always an underlying question that gets avoided in these types of articles - what's the "correct" percentage of people of a particular gender/race/whatever in a profession? Obviously we should aim for a society where no woman is pushed away from programming if that's what she wants to do, but is there any reason to think every job should match society demographically?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Miscellaneous...
While this is obviously great for privacy proponents - I still can't understand how, legally, Google must acknowledge and adhere to browser settings.

Does this set precedent for that?
This is a really good idea and uptake of services like this, and sharing the information generated, could help increase the quality of products sold on darknet markets, and ultimately save lives.

I'd love to see something like this in the UK, and ideally it would be a bit cheaper.

Ideally such services should be ran by governments, which could also help to ensure that items mailed to their addresses are not seized.
Beerby (http://beerby.com) is the only thing that makes checking into places fun.
I can't think of one, but is there a way to make the textboxes more call-to-action?
Wow, I had this idea 8 years ago and abandoned it because I lived in the Midwest.
what do PCs have to do with mobile devices

I see them as pretty much indistinguishable, but maybe my perspective is skewed: my cell phone (HTC Incredible) and my laptop (Thinkpad X31) have roughly comparable processors and both run Linux. There's some differences in API, but I don't see anything inherently different about them. As time goes on, I think the blurring will continue.

How many android devices run flash

I'm not sure, but I presume that anything running Android 2.2 will. This should include all high end phones sold this year, plus everything for the future. I think most of these run it well, and would bet that all future Android phones will.

What part isn't 'quite true'?

I feel it is false to say that either Netflix or the studios require that the DRM be provided by the underlying OS. I think this is proven the existence of Netflix streaming to Silverlight in OSX. The ability of Hulu to use a flash solution also casts doubt, but this might depend on whether 'they' refers to the studios or to Netflix. But if it's a Netflix requirement to require OS level DRM, I'd wonder why they have this requirement.
I experiment with NoSQL stores because they're fun to work with. Who gives a shit what the proper classification scheme is? Why are people so religious over this?
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A Teensy 4.0 just as an example which is much more like this. Has a bunch of general purpose I/O; it's quite powerful; and you can essentially keep it in your head.
> you can choose when to start playing a song

I’m willing to bet a significant number of people don’t wait till it’s safe to use the system.

> If you're driving under the influence, that's affecting you the whole time.

Could it be argued that driving under the influence is only affecting you when you have an at fault accident that you otherwise wouldn’t have had.

I’m willing to bet the overwhelming majority of driving under the influence events are ordinary and uneventful.
Some engineers designed this - used big part of their life for the work and the system was never used.
Why do you assume that native JSON parsing is faster than protobuf parsing using JS?

In most cases protobuf is faster.
That is really smart risk management. Even if they overplayed and even if the vaccines turned out to be garbage, the price is small compared to costs of lockdowns
The comments that try to reassure the reader seem to have become more frequent. Scary.
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I wouldn't say that there's "very little information available". There are numerous books on post-war Japan and Europe as well as countless books on the Nuremberg trials. Just because there aren't documentaries doesn't mean there isn't any information.
In terms of community building, that might not be the worst thing in the world, especially if the community objective is quality over quantity.
And the EAP660 HD.
This kind of thing is a great example of why Snowden had to release a large trove of documents to reporters. Earlier whistleblowers were easily dismissed this way, but now the personal attacks are basically irrelevant -- we have the documents and can make our own judgments about who's horribly misinforming us.
This actually fits in nicely with the Comcast "rinse and repeat" method. Keep calling back asking the same question until you get the answer you want.

Maybe he should have just submitted phantom requests from every address on his street under different pseudonyms. Eventually someone might have made the mistake of initiating the construction... or a regional manager may have unlocked the project due to perceived demand!
Agreed, but the point still stands. 'Unlimited' does not change definition based on price point. Especially if competitors offer paid-for limits above your 'unlimited', wouldn't that literally be false advertising? (Note: I'm not saying Amazon is, just addressing the above interpretation of 'Power user'
The fact that there are two sides debating the story doesn't invalidate the idea that Russian would hire pro trolls.
I do not think Amazon is going after Dropbox, Google and Microsoft with this, as the article title implies. Thus far, Amazon is offering a different service: Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive all synchronize your files (selective or all) Amazon's Cloud Drive does not.
But what caused the huge disparity in the cost of labour between Singapore and those other countries?

In the case of Qatar the disparity is clearly due to oil. For Singapore I think the answer is simply better economic management.
So, I am certain, _somewhere_ in this whole election _someone_ surely stole some votes. I can almost guarantee that on such a big number of people voting that at least some number of votes were stolen, probably by representatives from both parties. What I strongly doubt is the fact that this was widespread, organized or the numbers of these frauds were in any meaningful way impacting the election.

The difference between parties was not insignificant. In other election cycles you had much lower differences but the other party conceded to the process ( looking at 2000).

So this whole thing is, IMO, predicated on one side simply refusing to admit defeat.
This is a great post.

Back in the real estate days, it was all about building value.

We used to say when an objection to price came up, it was because enough value hadn't been built into the product presentation. We had to tweak our pitch and start again.

When people have an issue with the price, it's usually because of lack of information, not that the product isn't worth it. Unless you're charging an arm and a leg for a piece of crap product, in which case you should fail, so you'll learn to build a better product.
While I agree with what you said, and with the spirit of OSM, be aware of the "network effect" here. Which would you rather have: a million people contributing to (AFAIK) the most widely used online mapping tool, or one hundred people contributing to a more liberally licensed tool?
I love taking a break from home working and hitting a coffee shop. For me, it's just a way to improve my mood. Similarly, I'll break out the lawn chair and sit outside to work -- that is just as effective emotionally, but not quite as practical (glare, no real table, etc.)

My only gripe with coffee shops is the bathroom break. No way am I leaving a $2000 laptop on a desk unattended, but after a few cups of anything, you have to go. Sometimes I'll ask someone to watch it for me, but if there's no one who's around consistently or who seems trustworthy, this can't always work. So I end up packing up my shit then unpacking it again...
And here I am on ycombinator.com. I guess it's the little things that gets one through the final day(s).
Start a new hobby, either singing, or acting. That's how I confronted my social anxiety.
I really like this, too. I have a stomach problem that took years to figure out -- would have been very helpful to this kind of tool.
though I think a lot of the sensibilities from QSB have landed in the iphone google search app and the search box for android
I've been using AppEngine for almost a year. It's definitely come a long way, but it does still have some serious shortcomings. Most notably is support. If they could offer a level of professional support to organizations willing to pay, I would both pay whatever they wanted and would no longer have anything to complain about. AppEngine is a great product and watching it mature is fun, but frustrating at times.
Learning to do it yourself, or even code pays dividends beyond the ability to go solo. You can now communicate more effectively with a technical cofounder, get a deeper understanding of the problem space and competitors products, and finally, earn a bit of respect from the technical people who will be on your team.
Nothing to worry about - people will realise in a few years or so that status updates are only feeding their stupid egos and they'll find themselves many other things to distract themselves with soon enough.
back in the days, hospitals were never targeted by hackers.
People are terrible at grokking cycles with periodicity greater than about 1/10th of their lifespan I've noticed.

Something about the lure of "everything will be different" and subpar internalization of the lessons of the past just seems to end up causing unholy amounts of pain in the long run.
Thanks for great explanation.
(I'm not sure why, but the parent comment is currently at -3. I have decided to find this both ironically and non-ironically hilarious.)
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Just as a word of encouragement: I have done all my interviews for the past couple of months remotely (even though I am in Palo Alto!) and got an offer last week. That company currently plans more hiring over the next few months regardless of quarantine. So don’t despair.
> Certain other languages, such as Spanish, I think might also get the same pronunciation.

Most languages, if they use Roman letters, use "i" to indicate the FLEECE vowel. (That is, the vowel used in the English word "fleece".) English is the odd man out for vowel pronunciation, due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift .

Spanish follows the ordinary pronunciation of "i". It doesn't for "h"; the letter "h" in Spanish is silent. So you wouldn't get "hee" from "hi", you'd get "ee". (Compare, say, the Spanish word hija, "daughter", best approximated by the English syllables "ee-hah".)

> Is English your native language? Or did you perhaps study another language extensively?

Yes, English is my native language. However, the word "hipaa" is so obviously impossible as an English word that I consider it normal to use the pronunciation conventions for foreign words.
Out of the loop: the comment you're replying to is referring to the Bolt CEO claiming that Stripe is in cahoots with other organizations, particularly ycombinator & hnews to manipulate the perception of stripe.

The reference to the mob is a play on the fact that the cofounders are Irish.
How do you define a violation of rights?
I mean, Tencent could just be forced by new Chinese law to buy back Naspers stock for $0.001/share. What's Naspers going to do, sue in a Chinese court? Go to war?
I would like a job writing any language.
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> If you're bouncing rent checks because it took too long to clear, you have other issues and immediate withdrawal isn't going to save you anyway.

I'm talking about people who barely make enough money to cover their monthly expenses, so yeah that financial situation is hardly ideal. someone in this situation definitely does not want to set up autopay against their checking account.

it's a sort of death by a thousand cuts for people in this situation. you generally have to pay rent in advance (ie, you pay that month's rent on the first of the month). you get "paid" at the end of a two week period, but then it takes about a week for your employer to process payroll. if your employer doesn't do direct deposit, you now have a check in hand that takes about two days to clear. that two days isn't the bulk of the problem, but it can definitely be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Tell that to Citibank
I was using Emacs in 1982, and it had been around for several years before that.
So did the person you're replying to.
I can't believe that you're talking about the mass-murder of civilians like it's some sort of triumph, especially since you could have made the exact same point citing the trinity test. And it's so weird that you use the term "toxic environment" right after that.

IMO AI progress in the last 10 years has drastically exceeded reasonable expectations.

You can buy a helicopter any time you want.
If you happen to know the public address key you can check if the balance is still there
A friend of mine working on a space telescope had to fix a mistake that someone had made on a diagram. When she tried to figure out who made the oopsie, turns out he had worked on the project more than a decade ago and retired while she was in middle school
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