jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The court of public opinion has always existed.

People now realize that they can assert their opinions and hold people accountable, whereas in the past other people may have just shrugged and gone "well, that's just how it is".

In the case of the article you linked, the first example of "canceling" was someone walking out of a classroom after requesting a song to not be played. This is not unreasonable given the R.Kelly allegations and documentary.

The second example of "canceling" is literally just deciding to ignore someone, and make other people aware of it and reason behind it. How on earth is that a new phenomenon? She had a valid reason too!

The third example with James Charles is also not unreasonable, and by "canceled" they really mean "people got upset and didn't want to watch his videos anymore". Are you seriously going to argue that if I get upset with someone, I should continue to watch their videos? That's not canceling someone!

So I'm going to repeat it: Cancel "culture" is not really a thing. People from these last two generations are more vocal about their beliefs. And good for it.
Yeah implementing traits for functions is rarely advisable. However in this one very specific case (what amounts to dependency injection) it gives us very nice clarity and ergonomics. I'll take that over the macros everyone else is using in this context, or the expensive "runtime reflection" other languages might use to do the same thing. At least its still "normal" static rust code.
Five years ago the dial-in was an issue, but Teams is making it pretty darn painless/automatic.
"...Not only does DNA store information at a density per unit volume exceeding any other known medium, it can achieve one quarter of the maximum information density allowed by the laws of physics..."

Hmm... That number 1/4 of the Bekenstein bound seems suspicious. A quick search gives:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/22/can-data-storag...

"A gram of dry DNA is about one cubic centimeter, so the radius is 0.0062 meters. So, the best DNA storage can do with those dimensions is 5.610^15 bits. A Bekenstein-bound storage device with those dimensions would store about 1.610^38 bits."

That's 10^22 difference. Not 1/4. That's more like it ... A Bekenstein bound is Plank-level. Around 8mb per something like a volume of an electron. And DNA uses chemical level. Configurations of atoms.
Premature optimisation ...

Getting a good idea is usually harder than getting the tech right. Being able to quickly make prototypes is the most important thing in a start up.

FYI I'm not a "brogrammer". I work at a large established company and one of my main jobs is making systems work at large scale. But that's not what you do when starting a company. If you make it you can sort out those issues later.
Agree, this would be awesome.
I don't know much about the future of crypto, but I do know that for now, people love to buy and sell it.
imagine having to go to the genius bar to get your chicken cooked the right way
Slower than websockets or WebRTC?
Take a look at restaurants that run their own deliveries, and you'll see that it makes up a substantial portion of their costs, but they compensate by using smaller facilities in less expensive areas.

Outsourced food delivery services are a large uncontrolled expense which dine-in restaurants just weren't structured to handle. Low liquor sales on take-out and delivery orders are also a huge problem.
Is this the default Mac Mail app or custom-built?
Ding ding ding. It isn't even just the app companies; there were a ton of S-1 postings on HN this and last year of companies with cost of revenue a multiple of revenue. They were spending $3 to get $1 in revenue and claiming customer lifetime would make up for it.
No, actually in this specific case the law specifically gives ticket inspectors the power of arrest as I said in a comment either up there ^^^ or down there VVVV.

But actually in most common-law jurisdictions, citizens do have arrest powers, which is why we have the term "Citizen's arrest":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest

Which (if you look up the bit about Victoria) would probably apply in this case even if the ticket inspector were not specifically empowered to make arrests.
He doesn't run paypal anymore.
As an example of something really risky, see my comment about a search API.
It's meant to be played from http://www.google.com/chromeos/demolab/ which is in flash and should (from what I've read) be excruciatingly slow anyway.
We do have some clients that are very concerned with security (fortune 100 banks), so I am hesitant to go the cloud computing direction.

Our current server is powerful enough, but the challenge with a dedicated server is, how do you keep your site up if the hard drive fails?

As far as EC2 I'm used to developing on a LAMP stack and I'm not sure what that transition would look like.

We're a small shop (it's essentially me working as a full stack developer) so we don't have that many resources.

Thanks for your insights!
I wonder what this means for "Orbitz for Business" customers. At my university, if we need to travel for a conference, the only way to get the school to prepay for the flight is to use Orbitz for Business. Otherwise we have to pay out of pocket and get reimbursed.

And I'm sure there are companies out there that have exclusive booking arrangements with Orbitz. All of that means a loss of customers for AA.
Hasn't this been known for, like, a million years?
I don't know about you, but everything the reviewer addressed was important to me.

Battery life being too short or being misreported means the device won't consistently work to wake me up, which kind of defeats the purpose of having something like the wakemate.

Not being able to associate my sleep data/patterns with events I know occurred during my sleep means that data is next to useless to me. I've used devices like this before to improve my sleep as well as to wake me up on time every day. If I didn't have a diary and good analytics for what I did use (which honestly, I haven't found yet so I'm rolling my own to use with an iPhone alarm clock-type app...if someone would come in and fix this problem and roll it into a nice device I'd be all over their product), I wouldn't have known a lot of information about my habits that affect sleep. For example, I wouldn't have known that it was my punctual neighbor's certain actions that disturb me every weekday at 9am, which meant that if I wake up after 9 I feel more tired and annoyed because I didn't sleep as well as I do on weekends after 9am. (I eventually worked around this problem and feel a lot more rested nowadays.)

Even the additional points the review mentioned about how it works with other people in bed matter to me. All these little things are things I think about when I look at purchasing gadgets like wakemate. Not everyone cares only about waking up...anything can try to do that from a $5 alarm clock to your phone, a significant other, and much more expensive gadgets. Wakemate has the potential to do more than just a dinky alarm clock, so I want to see what came of it.
Looks like the blog did indeed "update" the page at the same URL, after I had posted the link here.

I apologize for the confusion, even though it's the blog's fault. :)
Aw shucks. Here I thought it was going to be totally identical.
To not downplay the severity of the virus, even if a young person were to recover from Covid-19, s/he may experience reduced lung capacity for several years. There are many sources online based on SARS and here's one:

https://thorax.bmj.com/content/60/5/401
> (Their earlier computers may have been big-endian too, I'm not sure.)

Yes, their choice of big endian probably came from their earlier unit record equipment, which used punched cards as input, storage, and output. Since punched cards were (sort of) directly human readable, it was natural to use big endian.
> Apple could pull a “Rosetta” a second time on the Mac

You mean a third time though! The mac went through three architecture transition, and each came with an emulator to keep compatibility for a while. The first one was when they went from Motorolla 68000 to PPC, and they built the Mac 68k Emulator[0] to keep software going.

I also think they could pull it off again. Microsoft has shown us that it's possible to run a lot of x86 software on ARM64 with little noticeable impact[1]. It would, however, require immense engineering effort.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...
I think the key is massive testing and ability to track cases fast and efficiently. If we could do that in the West, people could go out tomorrow. Perfection would be self testing at home, with self reporting on a gov website. But we're faaar from that...
Please don't do any of this. I beg you.

If you want to help, volunteer in a hospital.
That's hardly relevant to anyone who is actually struggling. Someone else halfway across the globe having it worse than you doesn't make things better.
This looks really cool! I recently built something similar, but for notifying you via text message instead.

Example:

./some_script.sh; curl https://nudge.sh/YOUR_TOKEN

Just need to register your phone number at nudge.sh to get a token (don’t worry, your data is safe and not shared with anyone or used for any other purpose)
I want to know what logic he is using to determine how wealthy countries should be, relative to others.
This has been the case long ago and for a long time.

The American colonies led Great Britain in purchasing power per capita from 1700, and possibly from 1650, until 1774, even counting slaves in the population. That is, average purchasing power in America led Britain early, when Americans were British. The common view that American per capita income did not overtake that of Britain until the start of the 20th century appears to be off the mark by two centuries or longer.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w19861

IMHO America enjoys many advantages that predestine it for wealth.
"We’ve pulled out the parking lots to make room for acres of greenspace, friendly courtyards"

Having the stuff they're talking about is commonplace in some countries (eg. Netherlands, Denmark).. but for the services, trains etc. to work, the whole urban area needs the right (high enough) density. I'd like to see a plan of this.. The quoted sentence does not inspire confidence in me.

Also, just for example Amsterdam is uniformly medium density until you reach the edge of the city where it immediately turns to farmland. There is no useless low density suburban sprawl, in which services cannot function (because there would not be enough people living in its catchment area)
Also

Announcement: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn

Weird ad for PIA guys cryptocurrency scheme: https://freenode.net/news/spam-shake
I will try to defend their decision. In era of avaliablity of cheap screens, paper is used mostly as a temporary storage eg. tickets. If we could encourage using more eco solutions this would be one of the steps forward.
What do you use to do the actual ocr?
> What's the point of the constant learning if it's going to be obsolete in 5 years?

Well... that's the point, really. If it didn't change then you'd be able to master it all.

The constant change is the motivation for constant learning and (hopefully) improvement.

There's no point in me trying to make a longer point of it. There's an sort of an eye-opening account from someone coding for years about how our situation as programmers has improved over time.
Does Formula E still have the driver change cars mid race because the batteries are depleted? That's what they did in their first few years.

I don't watch it, not because there would be anything wrong with the cars but the tracks they race on aren't great.
Well, surely the former is a consequence of the latter. Maybe it’s time to learn?
It's probably fair to say Dupont introduced it into widespread use in the United States given that they were the first to manufacture it there.
Sounds like gdb for the brain.
and dynsrc

It was fun.
>The NSA probably specializes in general purpose computational power, they couldn't afford to compete with ASICs

this is an absurd statement because the us military, nsa, and cia design their own custom chips and have a black budget to finance the operations and some of the most talented and experienced mathematicians, scientists, and programmers to back them up. when the central banks actually find bitcoin to be a threat they will crack the encryption, do a 51% attack, or conduct some other discrediting attack on its validity and security. I am short term bullish on bitcoin though I am hoping for the best for btc or other decentralized digital currencies.
> At risk of what?

In the specific case of soldiers in Iraq, at risk of radicalisation of that part of the population which, prior to the events at Abu Ghraib and them becoming known in Iraq (which occurred before they were leaked in the West), had been supportive (or at least tolerant) of the occupation.

For the rest of the military, a greater risk of hostile populations and bigger psyops advantages for adversaries in foreign operations.
I really wish the open-source JP2 situation was better. OpenJPEG is looking good but it's still in need of some performance work – which is a real shame since, as you pointed out, it'd be perfect for responsive imaging - just use HTTP byte ranges and it'd work with most proxies and caches, too.
Would it matter? The rules do not all go away just because they have not been always evenly enforced. It's like saying you should be able to go on a sleepover because Foolene's parents let her go.

Manning was either guilty of not guilty of the things he was charged with, and that is independent of what some General says to Congress. If the system does not ensure equal justice then the system should be fixed, but that would not change anything relating to Manning's actions and the consequences of those actions.

You'd think with as many web devs as we have on HN that more people would understand stateless protocols and independent transactions.
There was a Forbes article on HN about Chris Sacca yesterday, and he's talking about it now - https://www.periscope.tv/w/VvV_yzk2fDY0OTI3wusAmiDk5lk8euhHx.... I think it's pretty interesting, like a live AMA.

EDIT: It's over now. It's certainly an interesting platform, and I do think it will catch on if celebrities start doing these types of AMA talks. Personally, I would love to watch someone like Sam, PG, or Fred Wilson do one.
Thank you so much for this. Can I fork it to add the ability to accept an HTTP POST for the domain/hostname, and return the persistent results URL back to a webhook? (Slack integration)
> If it's a trade off, the question is, what are we trading?

Privacy. That's what this comment thread was about. The privacy implications of storing this data (csmith). Then, when it would be justified to access it if it IS stored for some reason, for what crimes, and how long it would last to address privacy concerns (iak8god). Then I chimed in with some reasoning as to why a somewhat longer retention period might be warranted, and why. Is it unclear there somewhere exactly what we're discussing?

> The police understand how this technology can help them do that. You say 30 days will help solve more crime than 24 hours. Well, they'll say "forever" will solve even more crime than 30 days. End of discussion?

Since when is a discussion about one side saying what they want and then it's over? In an effort to solve more crimes, the police would undoubtedly want a lot of access to data that is kept for a long time. But the other side, the public whose information this is gets a say as well. I, for my part, would argue that if this information is even allowed to be gathered, that if police want access to it there should be strict controls and conditions.

> There has to be a reason we would make it harder for police to do their jobs. What is that reason? To me, that's the hard question, but a lot of people here on HN seem to take it for granted that there is an answer.

There is an answer, or more accurately, many answers. Civil liberties, preventing corruption, privacy, etc. There's a reason police can't detain you indefinitely without charges, why they can't enter your home without cause, why they can't seize your property without cause (and of course, there are exceptions to these which people take offense to, often rightly). Those all make the job of the police harder, but we've tried to strike a balance. It shifts back and forth over time.

> If the subject is "preventing crime," the privacy argument is already lost. So what is the counterbalance?

What, so we don't talk about it? It's not okay to have the conversation because you think the other argument isn't obvious enough? I'm not really sure your point, because to my eyes, this thread is all about balance. It feels like you're just trying to stifle discussion.
So what if Apache committed something that is infringing on your patents and you sue? Does that mean you would have to stop using that specific apache licensed software (e.g. hadoop, maven, etc)
I have been in both junior employee and senior managerial positions during my corporate career ( I consult now ). While it's your superior's job to keep stock of morale etc. it can be hard at time to read people, especially when dealing with naturally introverted people.

Have you considered simply bringing this issue up with your colleagues?

There has to be a reason they hired you in the first place. Somebody must have seen potential in you.

From my perspective it sounds like you're either just not a good fit ( unlikely ) or aren't getting the nurturing you need.

Nobody is perfect, nobody knows everything. Everyone has to start learning somewhere. Some straight up honest conversation with your colleagues could go a long way.
Sorry if this had lead to confusion. This is not a quotation, at least not in this sense. I'm talking about a joke and explaining the "joke" in the next paragraphs in a sarcastic (but honest) way, hence the use of quotes. It would have been really rude of me not quoting my text when I'm talking about thousands of people 'cleaned' from an area. Never was supposed to be taken as a literal extract from the web linked, of course.
Ping me at jason@fieldbookapp.com, would love to hear more about what exactly you're looking for; maybe I can help or provide suggestions. Thanks!
The unfortunate side effect is that it shafts pensioners who should not be investing in equities because of the time scales involved. The UK (though a hefty dose of electioneering is involved) is offering bonds to pensioners which pay a higher coupon to offset the low gilt returns available.
Now that blockchain analysis tools are getting better, I wonder if we'll be seeing more and more criminal activity exposed.

For example, someone linked to this wallet/transaction in a reddit thread, which appears to show one of the $100k payoffs: http://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/08363b86122e340c

Even just six months ago it would have been hard piece that information together, but Wallet Explorer makes it clear as day.
No doubt the case they were working is probably tanked, but my question was meant to be pointed more towards the trial that's already happened, where evidence has been presented (past tense).
Baudelaire is an incredibly powerful poet. My favorite is "L'Albatros", this poem leaves me speechless every time.

The Albatross
Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crew
Catch albatrosses, those vast sea birds
That indolently follow a ship
As it glides over the deep, briny sea.

Scarcely have they placed them on the deck
Than these kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed,
Pathetically let their great white wings
Drag beside them like oars.

That winged voyager, how weak and gauche he is,
So beautiful before, now comic and ugly!
One man worries his beak with a stubby clay pipe;
Another limps, mimics the cripple who once flew!

The poet resembles this prince of cloud and sky
Who frequents the tempest and laughs at the bowman;
When exiled on the earth, the butt of hoots and jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking.
I wish I had bought more dual lands in the early 00s, when I started getting back into the game. I snagged a few volcanic Islands for $35 each, and Underground Sea was around $50 on eBay at the time. I thought it was "a lot of money" (and to be fair 2 me at the time it was a lot!)
What are those now, $700 to $900?

But yeah, like the article says: Taking care of things is hard!
Which is why I store that kind of thing in a plastic bin so that even if the roof sprung a leak I'm not totally screwed.

I don't own enough to warrant a fireproof safe, at least not yet :-P
> I sometimes wonder whether people adopt Rust/Haskell/ReasonML for front-end work because they want it to feel like more of an effort than it otherwise would.

That's ridiculous. There's a lot of garbage to unpack in that sentence, but for example Rust's borrow checker provides valuable guarantees about your code and eliminates entire classes of bugs. It's not just wasted time. Haskell's purity and lazy semantics allows for equational reasoning and more composable abstractions. ReasonML makes it really hard to accidentally write a bug that crashes the program. Etc.

Just because you don't see why those things are valuable doesn't mean they aren't.
there is also fork of actix-web https://github.com/ntex-rs/ntex
Does that video... actually have the "Activate Windows" watermark in the thumbnail?
Of course you will also write the 5% edge case where you've wrongly convinced yourself that it's fine. In general the sort of self-discipline that would likely ensure this doesn't happen also satisfies the borrow checker which might be why some people find this not a problem and others really struggle. Worth somebody studying perhaps.
“They’re not sending their best.”
It's possible to run podman in podman in podman in …, which is nice if you containerize the build system but don't want to pack everything into one large image nor want to divide it into stages called by some main script on the host.
Even better. It”s API compatible with the docker daemon.

You can run podman-system-service and get a socket/port that you can point the official Docker CLI or any Docker library at and it will just work (tm).
> But the academic code is always GPL, undocumented, unuseable, or all three.

I'm not sure why this author is further propagating FUD that suggests GPL code is unsuitable for commercial use. Just because companies are irrationally afraid of the GPL doesn't make it true.
It depends on the person. I am still in college and if you go to the business school, the students in there will say that a suit represents power. If you go to the CIS building it is the opposite. I have seen it, even though I do not think that a suit represents power, a lot of people still do.
To be honest, I left FP for a long time after learning lisp, and erlang is what brought me back.

The erlang syntactic is really quite good. IT's new, yes, it's not lisp, it's not C, you have to learn a new syntax. Get over yourself, it's not that hard.

And once you learn it, it's nice and consistent and comprehinsible.

But elixir is even better. Elixir brings a lot of great features to erlang, while retaining interoperability, and one of the things about elixir is its syntax is much nicer (in my opinion) and it's certainly more accessible to most people.

Learn elixir.
So what needs to happen to run this on the bare metal with stumpwm and emacs on top?
The first law of thermodynamics is not acceptable to me, yet it is natural and there's nothing I can do to change or ignore it (I was going to also give gravity as an example, but that one is more complicated).
I found Higher Order Perl as a good tutor as well: http://tinyurl.com/orwm2ed
I think that a PPP adjustment is required here to produce a reasonable analysis

This article is in response to the recent Oxfam report which talked about the wealth of the global 1%. So in that context the absolute wealth, in the way that Oxfam measured it, is relevant.
are your comments always grayed ?