jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree with this, at least as far as the statistics are concerned.

According to Stack Overflow [1] the median age of a developer is 33 years old, whereas the median age of a game developer is 31 years old [2]. That's not likely to be a big enough difference to substantiate your position.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro...
[2] https://igda.org/resources-archive/diversity-in-the-game-ind...
Ex-smoker here.

So, what do you advocate? Reward smokers? Encourage smoking?
Ignoring the social commentary, I’d love to find an easy platform to set up alternate tunings from instrument to automation. CMusic and CSound (from when I was most immersed) give total control for example. What I hear in my head is usually bent a bit, like 12-tone but not equal temperament, and sometimes many more tones. Building a good physical instrument is hard but at least you can shape each note however you want (cut the tube just so, put a fret there or don’t, etc.). For the instrument side, it could just be banks of touch- and velocity-sensitive buttons that can be arranged and assigned, not just in piano layout.
I can't say how it'll effect everybody else or what the overall effect will be but I do use WSL quite a bit. I don't use Linux as my main desktop but I have been using Linux since '98 in some dual boot but mostly headless installs. For me it makes life much easier.

All I want from Linux is the command line. Instead of having to fire up a VM or SSH into a remote box and transfer files I have access to them on my PC.

Based on my experience it makes Linux more accessible to me. It doesn't really change the way I use Linux other than to give me more options.

I can't imagine it being hurtful to Linux overall. Because of things like the Raspberry Pi and Android people are already in some ways getting familiar with Linux. Because of MacOS some people are getting familiar with Unix in general. If anything I think people will be like me in that WSL will simply make Linux more accessible.
"...I can't prove it, but I'm sure..."

You said you can't prove it AND that you're sure.

This is not a good way to think.

In the words of Mark Twain, “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
> Your position is just another that has yet to catch on to the fact of asymptomatic transmission.
> Just take the time to read one.

This isn't my position, its from virologists. And I'll thank you to not presume I don't already know of those sources. Those aren't relating to aerosols in the air for 3 hours.

Listen to practicing virologists on the matter not me:
http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-592/

And as a note, I'm really resisting not getting pissed off at your comment which seems to presume I'm too dumb to know about asymptomatic transmission.

Perhaps you could, I don't know link to some bioarxiv sources or actual information rather than alluding to things. My comment was exclusively in regards to the virus surviving in aerosol form for 3 hours. Its a contrived environment where that can happen. Transmission in the air isn't what I am discounting. Capiche?

Actually forget about it. I'm just going to stop commenting entirely on this matter.
I understand that this is how things are now.

But shouldn't an effort be made to make things easier and safer? Imagine a drive-through location with the web address of an intake app over entrance. You do intake with the app in the parking lot and then get cleared to go through. Everything automate and nearly free of human contact.
Many times. It is trivial but would go even faster if the reference software would use network resources better.
The layout reminds me of Everipedia, but cleaner. Well done.
I need a shirt that says "No integers? Totes OK!"
IRC was essentially created 25 years ago. In all that time we have still to make anything significantly better.

Why does a system with the following features not exist:

1. Requires all implementing servers and clients to support the full protocol

2. Allows users to communicate to users on other servers ( not just users within a
server )

3. Has free client open source reference implementations for native use ( C or the like ) and some web language ( Python & Dynamic JS )

3b. Has a free open source server reference implementation

4. Logging on the server indefinitely

5. Is always encrypted ( end to end via public keys, so that clear data never
reaches the servers )

6. Offline messaging

7. Large file transfer with clean re-connection and continuation ( if neither party has a publicly accessible port, payment/membership to the server would be required to facilitate the transfer... )

8. Random chat

9. Group chat

10. Utf8 for full multi-lingual use

11. Index of users for finding other users

If someone would just create such a thing it would put an end to all the stupid shifting from one system to another from year to year. I'm getting tired of switching systems and reverse engineering shitty protocols in order to continue doing the same thing with less features.
> For the non-programmers among you, here's the executive summary of how to program: 1. Surf the Net for packages by other people that do what you need to get done. 2. Repeat step one until you've gathered everything you need. 3. Write a program that calls the modules you've collected. This is a great method, because step three is potentially very brief, provided there are enough modules out there.

This is true of some programming, but not all. If I need to do some quick data munging, or build a CRUD application, lisp may not provide any benefits over another language in which I am equally skilled. But if I am programming in a complicated domain or doing exploratory work, I would rather be using lisp than any other language.
In case the title might lead to you expect he's arguing for the rules for social media influencers to be loosened to match those of movies and TV and radio, it is actually the opposite. He argues that those other media should also have the stricter disclosure requirements that current only apply to social media.

The video is fairly long (about 30 minutes), but goes into a lot of the history of advertising (explicit, product placements, paid endorsements, etc) in radio, TV, and movies in order to make a thorough case.
What he is doing is good.

He is using his platform (i.e. the fact that people know his name, journalists want to write about him, and people want to read articles about him) to promote policies that are created by experts.

When those same experts say the same things it doesn't generate the same level of awareness/conversation.

If you want to read these ideas straight from the experts, then go read the IPCC climate report, but most people aren't going to go read that on their own.
I wanted to understand if the numbers you presented reflected a real snapshot of California's fossil fuel consumption or not.

I think the conclusion we came to is that the numbers you presented likely underestimate the fossil fuels, but there is still a big gap between Texas and California, and there is no material impact on the discussion. Thats OK.

I had an honest question about the data you presented, so I asked, and explained why I thought the data could be different.

You said my understanding was completely fictional, so I demonstrated that yes, in fact a significant portion of California imports come from fossil fuels.

Turns out that California's coal could be up to 3x the stated number, but is still less than Texas. My question is answered and hopefully we both understand the subject matter better now
The one thing I can't reconcile about BG is how he could supposedly be in favor of helping the poor and especially poor regions like Africa, but then support #ImaginaryProperty laws (copyrights and patents), which absolutely crush the poor. He is with one hand supposedly trying to help India and with the other hand part of the conglomerate trying to get India to block SciHub at the ISP level, cutting a billion people off from access to the world's scientific knowledge.

I just can't figure that one out. The only possibility I can see is that he came to that realization about the public domain late, and Microsoft's recent moves toward open source are him quietly but methodically turning the aircraft carrier around.
- Inability to find good but smaller sources of information

- No way to personalize my search own results

- Google being too powerful and using that power to remain in power rather than get better
I think when people here say Asymptomatic they are probably talking about people that had a very mild symptoms maybe a bit of sniffles or a blocked nose not the scientific Asymptomatic of no symptoms at all
It depends, I live in a country with a lot of regulations and inflation. I would've to change prices every week. I do it because I have a platform that allows me to, but not everyone has as much data.

On the other hand, we offer a custom plan that has a contact us for pricing button. Because in that plan we are gonna do whatever we can to add as much value as possible for your business. Mostly integrations and updates on legacy systems.
> secure than the old mag-swipe

Though at least in the EU the mag-swipe method was phased out and replaced with a chip based method years ago. (A chip with secure module, requiring PIN if you pay for more then a small amount, or otherwise unusual.)

And as far as I know that method is still more secure then Apple pay and similar.
Yes, that supports my point that it’s a useful and helpful thing to add to a compiler.
"Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?"

I don't. Probably best to look at your personal life rather than professional.

Also, the frustration, bureaucracy, etc is also present in the private sector. At least that's my experience. If anything, you'll have less worker protection than working as a civilian for the government.
"why give my body more tools to fight off infection?" This is a strange question to me.
I noticed both on twitter and his HN posts, there's a big gap between 2015 and 2019.
Well I know that when I'm searching for say torrents or cracks, Google and DDG (Bing) are absolute trash while Yandex returns useful links to assorted forums. I have no idea how sparse those results have become (heck I can't even read the language most of the time), but I know they continue to have at least some results whereas the western ones seem to have been thoroughly cleansed.
You do not have nearly enough information to make this determination. If tablets like this reduce the demand for bigger laptops and desktops, making them more popular through various forms of marketing may in fact reduce overall environmental impact.
"... the law specifically gives ticket inspectors the power of arrest ..."

With very limited non sworn powers.

"... To deprive a person of their liberty is a serious matter. Authorised officers should only consider arrest as a last resort and when contemplating doing so, consistent with arrest powers under the Transport Act. The following guidelines must be followed. Persons will only be arrested under Section 219 of the Transport Act 1983 as a last resort. Specifically an authorised officer must believe on reasonable grounds that a person has committed an offence against the Transport Act 1983 or any regulation made under that Act and arrest is necessary for one or more of the following reasons: ..."

but the act also warns

"... If an arrest is made outside the strict requirements of this section of the Act, an officer carrying out the arrest may be liable to civil and/or criminal action ..."

[0] CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT AUTHORISED OFFICERS ~ http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/doi/internet/transport.nsf/h...
http://www.google.com/preferences

At the bottom is 'Subscribed Links'. I recall having the same java search thing enabled, but it looks like there's only a lame javacio.us thing now that doesn't work the same way. They still have a manpages search option which is nifty, though it doesn't show up at the top anymore, unfortunately.
You might find this interesting:

http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/19/the-great-ruby-shootout...

It shows 1.9.2 to be a bit faster most of the time, and to have a smaller footprint. Still, Rubinius could be the better choice in some cases. The best thing is to run your own perf tests specific to your application, and rvm makes that head to head comparison easier to carry out.
ycombinator?
There wasn't user revolt, but is Instant widely regarded as a success? I find it mildly annoying myself, but maybe I'm in the minority.
Another question: are there other scenarios outside of playing Scrabble where something like this would be useful?
I know it feels like prissy micromanaging when your title is changed, but what you're really asking here is for us not to do our job. Having titles be neutral and (to use pg's original word) bookish is one of HN's key features and a far bigger deal than it might seem. If we didn't maintain that, HN would go to seed.

There are important principles behind everything we do with titles. In this case the principle is that HN works better when the emphasis is on content over personalities, so we edit out most author names and/or celebrity names in titles. This has been consistent for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7518157

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7950730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9919304

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12573986
After working on startup projects for a while, I decided to take a shot at blogging about my experience. Let me know what you think. If you find my first article useful, I'll keep on posting.
It comes down to cost.

It's cheaper for Netflix to have you use their box than it is for them to develop & support a Linux client for the relatively small user base.

Licensing restrictions and other politics likely prevent them from accepting open source clients, even if they wanted to.
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The article pointed out all of the ways these things actually generate more value than they consume. They create water, they create electricity, and they dispose of sewage. The park service pays for water, the park service pays for sewage removal, and it pays for electricity (somewhat, gas for vehicles more commonly).

So the budgetary exercise to run here is to take the cost of running the septic system as it is today, and the cost of running it using one of these gizmos and trying to exploit its benefits, and then doing a lifetime cost comparison to compute the internal rate of return on the park service funds.

I note that this is the first sewage treatment system that I've read about that actually provides net energy output. Energy consumption is usually the 'hidden cost' of most of these systems. Or water costs. This produces excess energy and water, so someone in the park service should run the numbers.
It is extremely difficult for large organizations to create the sort of innovative leaps that startups can create.

Amazon is attempting to do this. They have been successful in many different ways, but for every winner they create they need to create multiple losers. The fire phone seems to be one of these losers, but time will tell.

I really admire Amazon's tolerance for failure. Most large companies would never take such risks.
The feeling in my lymph node could simply be something else, so that could be a red-herring. However I am familiar with how a cold and flu feel to me, and the only other time I have had shortness of breath was during the H1N1 flu season. It is a very unusual symptom for me.
One point that Jordan Mechner makes is the limitations made the game better. The whole idea of the mirror guy as an antagonist was inspired by these limitations. Here's someone who is actually in the game world (not just in cutscenes or a final boss battle) that would manipulate the environment to frustrate your efforts to escape.

And then some extra memory was found so guards were added, and the ports had even less limitations and could reach a larger audience. But the original limitation inspired creativity that might otherwise never have been.
An alternative perspective to this self regarding mindless nonsense - written by someone worthy of respect :

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1241549349999411201
Interestingly, Merkel herself is in quarantine because her doctor is tested positive. Why did German think that social distance was not okay, or even harmful, when it was clear that covid-19 was highly contagious? And why are people so resistant to wearing masks? How do I know for sure that people around me are not contagious? How do I know for sure that myself is not contagious, under the current pandemic situation? Yet people freak out when they see a person wear a mask.

Just saw this paragraph in the article "The politics of pandemics" in The Economist: "To see what is to come look to Lombardy, the affluent Italian region at the heart of the covid-19 outbreak in Europe. Its hospitals provide world-class health care. Until last week they thought they would cope with the disease -- then waves of people began turning up with pneumonia. Having run out of ventilators and oxygen, exhausted staff at some hospitals are being forced to leave untreated patients to die". So, this article is telling people that Italians thought that they were so good that exponential contagion was no big deal?

An honest question: isn't what the Europeans have been doing a classical example for the quote "Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is"?
There is a retail level toilet paper shortage due to hoarding and swine reselling it at massive markups. The supply continues to flow however
--ignore-rev: https://www.moxio.com/blog/43/ignoring-bulk-change-commits-w...

Personally tho I haven't had an issue navigating back another revision. UIs are good at handling that kind of interaction, and I rarely use blame without a UI. (nearly every other git interaction: CLI all the time. but not blame.)
That's just plain FUD. The only release I remember breaking CSS was 3.20, and that was because all the CSS was refactored to allow for way more theming possibilities.

Regardless of that I don't see anything based on "cascading styles" as lending itself to a stable theming system anyway. The CSS is probably going to change any time a widget is added/refactored/bugfixed, this holds true on the web as well once you build up a complex library of React components or whatever. The point of it is that there are multiple styles from multiple sources that can cascade together. It's powerful but it can result in a lot of complexity, anyone who's had to add !important directives can attest to that. It needs to be strictly managed by the developers to really work correctly and to prevent the style overrides from getting out of hand. Allowing custom user CSS is only for power users who understand the caveats.
I took a covid test on Tuesday. Still haven't gotten a result :/
In the case of the big Nascar race today, the winner (Hamlin) is a professional IRL racer who was discovered in the eSports world
Some background on the project: https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2020/03/18/1064/
> Because a 400sf apartment in NY is not 1/2 of the cost of a 800sf apartment in NY.

OP here. This is true, but given its flaws this measure is still the industry standard for benchmarking various markets in rental housing. We actually seek to rectify this problem by creating market rent estimates based on a rental's detailed attributes in our product.
Or Remote Access Trojan.
> there are all sorts of fun import tariffs and such to deal with (at least on the US side)

Hopefully some free trade agreements help eliminate blockages like this in the future.
Mancini's corollary: the robustness of the scientific foundation of an article is inversely proportional to the frequency of the word "chemicals" in the article
Amazing to hear the numbers. I'll file this one under ifart and question my career again. I can has breakdown.
Why? Because of the Resource Curse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
The cost is measured in number of dead pixels. On a 4" screen, it's easy to avoid dead pixels. On a 30" screen... not so much.
Calling this the worst thing that could have possibly happened to Afghanistan indicates both a lack of historical knowledge and imagination.

Yep, now they can join modern, enlightened, resource-rich nations like Saudi Arabia and the Congo.
The questions that I want to know the answers to:

1. Will the next iterations of the iPad and MacBook(s) have this sort of display (perhaps as an option), or will it be the iteration after that?

2. How much will they cost?
"Also, why does the article call people "perverts" for looking at porn?"

Perverts on their own terms: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,443678,00...

Whether those opinions are utterly universal in the Muslim world I can not attest to, but surely they are popular.

I've always understood this to be a real part of the strategy we've been pursuing; indeed, understanding that our primary goal is to disrupt leadership and prevent "competence" and "leadership" from coming together means suddenly you can decode an awful lot of American strategy pursued over the past near-decade, and especially in the past three or four years (and ongoing). I think perhaps history will not record this effort anywhere near as "incompetent" or "misguided" as those of us stuck in the moment may be tempted to think. You can't destroy the hatred, you can't destroy leadership, you can't destroy competence, but the intersection of all three is in fact rather targetable.
More like "Welcome to the G21" for Afghanistan. This could give them the initial footing needed to reestablish their economy.
This might actually not be good for Afghanistan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
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Energy-mass-information equivalence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle#Energy.2C...
> Planned future experiments will help researchers choose between the two pictures. But whichever model is right,

I would expect neither model is "right", and instead each is better at capturing slightly different aspects of the true behavior.
They may have lasted longer if they had a useful online presence. It's hard to justify the trip to Frys when it's not possible to see what's in the inventory. Their webpage was terrible. I'll miss the store though.
Fun fact: the mRNA vaccines were developed in about 2 weeks after the publication of the SARS2 DNA sequence. (At least the Pfizer/BioNTech one was.)
Human pilot optional. I would argue that physical humans are not the limiting factor in bomber performance, and the thought of a Kubernetes cluster autonomously flying around with nukes scares the fuck out of me. In addition to the philosophical implications there's also political reasons to go with a hybrid approach.
What does a "run on BTC" mean?
oh god, I never knew how much I needed a scrollbar gutter for search results. So great.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but, being Polish, I have to say I was quite disappointed with "1983".
I could tell that the screenwriter wasn't Polish before I looked it up.
The core premise - that the society would flock to back the communist party in the view of the terrorist attacks, post-9/11 style - is by itself American to the bone, and totally out of sync with Polish political reality of that era.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26100776