jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's most likely a factor. It's also not too obvious whether those numbers are high compared to any other country, because it's one of those things that every country has its' own unique standards and methodology for measuring. For instance you might think that North Korea is the gold standard of literacy, at 100%, or you might think that they likely have some serious issues with the methodology they use for measuring that.
And yet it seems pretty accurate to me...
Fantastic example of agile development for real users. Envious. Congratulations. Here's to 10M ARR.
This is a tough one close to my heart.

Working in semicon back in the 80’s, my dad travelled once to the Soviet Union for a semicon show.

Once returned, he had a debrief with someone from an intelligence agency.

But the fact is that during the Cold War stealing some semiconductors was of limited utility without the directly associated and massive sunk cost of the semicon fab supply chain.

So in some respects, we may have over-classified and been too aggressive with export controls, however the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal did help the Soviets to substantially reduce submarine propeller noise.

Today, when you mix several off the shelf capabilities they can be recombined into a new capability with significant military applications.

Even describing some of these examples in sufficient detail could be enough to lose perishable advantage over an adversary.

I don’t know what the answer is or agree with mass export controls, but I also see the problem of dual use technology transfer to adversaries as much harder today than the Cold War of yesterday.
Magento 1 and Magento 2 are not the same piece of software Magento2 was rewritten (twice) and to say is over engineered is putting it mildly, e.g. let's roll out our own dependecy injection.
HQ is really just a name. You can call your smallest office the HQ if your CEO sits there, it has nothing to do with the number of employees. What's interesting to the government is where taxes are paid. But for large companies that got little to do with where workers are located.
It makes it even worse for Europe, then. Cost of living has been growing consistently faster than salaries.
It's really sad that just throwing all the requests to the hard drive and letting the hardware decide the most efficient read order doesn't work.

Clearly ordering by block address is suboptimal on drives that remap blocks. Drives are also aware that certain seeks take longer than others, and that many reads take less than a full rotation.

It's a shame hard drives can't be trusted to just take all the requests and find a neqr-opyimal order to execute them in.
Much like testing what would happen if a migration script dropped a column, features need to be tested against the possible outcomes in the court of opinion. I expect a well-organized corporate to have Product Owners who design the packaging of the feature and have it reviewed by the higher-ups when it’s a user-facing feature, or to design the apology letter and have it reviewed by the higher-ups when it’s an advertiser-facing feature.

But it’s our role as a society to not be gullible, and eventually organize against such behaviors, which this judge is doing.
Not legal advice for sure and take it with a grain of salt, but first I'd:

- Get all of the evidence you can that you distributed it first. If this requires contacting another company to confirm records of when you made it available, do that first to have it ready.

- Contact the FSF, send them that evidence, and ask what you can do/should do.

- Send a summary of the evidence you have (or at least some of it, and depending on what the FSF folks suggest) to the person, telling them you wish them to stop selling your script. They will probably stop.

If that doesn't work and FSF couldn't help I'd either:

1. Attack via social networking. Blog, comment, tweet, etc. the hell out of it in areas you know will affect his/her market, linking to your free source.

2. Just give it up.

Good luck!
I can see why it's a more often requested story; I found that one far funnier than the parent article.
You're asking people to abstain from something that requires less work than what you're recommending. For most people the incentives just aren't in the direction you're arguing.
It definitely would not be for fun.
Yes, distant regulations rarely compose well for unpredictable local workflows. The closer a policy/rule can be to the edge, local to the affected users, the better chance of it being composed into a useful process that can adapt to new circumstances.
You mean such as ISIS/ISIL, Al Quada et al?
> Technocracy is much worse than even representative democracy.

I never said anything about implementing, simply creating a proof of concept would be enough to show that we have tools to make them irrelevant should be enough of a deterrent effect and should in some ways ensure we don't have a repeat of 2020 again. And start to test it to the low hanging fruit: UBI and Universal medicare is is overwhelming supported by the majority of the populace, yet the regulatory capture (who themselves benefit from State issued medical care and salary even in stalemates along in with all the 'contributions' from donors and are exempt from insider trading conflicts of interest cases) refuse to even consider it on either side. Hell, even the $2000 stimulus seems to be defied yet again by this time a Democrat, Joe Manchin, despite the highly contested Republican majority in the Senate. Again, its all theater, and no one there has the best interest of the people in mind regardless of party affiliation.

There has to be some incentive here and all I'm asking is for a better stick if 'representative democracy' is to remain. Furthermore a trawler of all known conflicts of interests of every politician should appear via QR code every time they speak in the house.

We talk about how all of these jobs/Industries are going to be automated and are never coming back, but I have a very hard time understanding that the most corrupt of all (politics) is some how a given that it will remain intact. We deserve better and those in FAANG really should be self-reflective after what occurred and start asking what they could do to prevent it instead of just deplatforming, which is really the worst thing possible as it only emboldens those q-anon imbeciles into thinking they're 'being censored for telling the truth.'

Those riots we saw last year are really just waiting to happen again as we've seen that nothing has changed since then, and now the Trump factions now think they have a just cause and a martyr to back their 'cause' this really is a ticking time bomb.
Who has died?
Can you name names?
These kinds of mob-mandated retractions, especially in the wake of the ongoing replication crisis, only bolster conservatives' skepticism of science and their suspicion that it has been corrupted for political purposes.

I'm seeing more and more outright ridicule of science from conservatives now, or at least ridicule of the emphatic, unqualified appeals to it: e.g., "the science is settled!" "trust the science!"

Is censoring papers that support wrongthink really worth half the country losing in faith in science altogether?
Fair enough, If your intention was not whataboutism, I would suggest choosing a more refined way to present your point. Currently the comment is structured such that it seems like you are attempting to justify the insurrection on Capitol Hill.
They used terror to get what they wanted. That’s the dictionary definition of terrorism. Just because they were bad at executing their plan doesn’t mean they weren’t terrorists attempting a coup.
I'd expect any python codebase which tries to use async/await based co-operative multi-tasking for concurrency at a larger scale would inevitably run into long-tail latency walls -- not just once but repeatedly as the codebase grows/changes.

The potential for a code change or addition to produce unexpected synchronous blocking (potentially with GIL held) _somewhere_ seems really high and I have to imagine it would be very hard to avoid in the context of a real application codebase ...
It doesn't matter if they ban you from X, you can just go use service Y! How's that working out?
Armies are rapey, but there are differences.

The Soviet army during WWII, in particular, was very, very officially rapey: anyone who had coexisted with any enemy army were obvious collaborators, and were therefore by direct order from Stalin to get the worst treatment that could be afforded. For female people of any age at all, that meant gang rape followed by murder.

Of course it was not only women who suffered and died: failing to demonstrate peak enthusiasm for the above was itself fatal. Soviet soldiers who had been captured and somehow survived (Germans routinely starved them) were considered, exactly, deserters (because why were they alive?), and were sent directly to the gulags. Bringing up the rear during an advance got you shot in the back by the NKVD -- although there is no documentary evidence of an actual quota.
Sure, downvote the entire comment because I dropped the wrong name in the last sentence ... or is it because I stated that I dislike him, and most of you fall on the other side of that fence? Either way, real cool guys.
I just submitted this too. I can't believe it didn't take off.
Isn't the consumer and small business often a bellwether to what happens in the enterprise?
Obviously not, but a lot of them reflect back on it and think, 'I was so close, why didn't I try just slightly harder?'

Because (in the hypothetical case of Scouting) those were goals that someone else picked for you.

To the extent someone convinces you to jump through various hoops to win their approval, that person is controlling you. And yes, it might even be for your own good. But more than likely, it's for the hoop-holder's benefit.
"when it seems pretty clear to most of us that Gruber intended to convey (and probably truly believes for himself) that everything revolves around being (or not) a fan of good and complete design."

It's not clear to "most of us" (who is "most of us" anyways? Hackers? I don't think so. MacHeads, probably.).

Of course Gruber isn't going to say, "I think Apple is the best even when they're not." He couches his fanaticism in "good taste". And it just so happens that everything Apple does has good taste, and everything anyone else does, does not. Unless they subsequently get bought by Apple.

I don't know if Gruber has been duped, but when I see someone who believes a single company is universally good and their competitors universally bad, I get suspicious. Of course taste is taste. Someone might say that Coby is the pinnacle of consumer gadgets. No one makes better quality than Coby. You'd immediately flip the bozo bit on them, although maybe you'd be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I just find so little that Gruber says has any objective truth in it, which is why it is hard for me to respect him.

And lets be clear. On my personal blog, I can easily find a lot of really good products from a variety of places. I don't think Gruber has that capacity. For example, could you imagine Gruber saying a positive word about an MS product. For him a product is an MS product above everything else. Quality of the product is a secondary aspect of it. This is why Apple products all get passes. Their first Apple products, and then their quality comes next. And then he justifies the quality of Apple products.

"I also think that in the paragraph you quoted earlier from Gruber, he was assuming that the Android and iPhone fans are fans because they identify with statements like the two he provided, rather than that they would identify with those statements because of their status as iPhone or Android fans."

What does being a fan have to do with having an opinion? Again, his polarization of the world through his lens makes him susceptible to this form of thinking (whether using my or your interpretation).

At the end of the day Gruber is simply not informative, and its due to his fanatical fanboyism. I can pretty much write a Gruber post. I'll take a current Apple controversy. I'll tell you why Apple is right/better, and the competitor is worse. I'll take liberties with logic or common sense, but I'll drop nuggets of insider knowledge (and those are actually useful, and keep his blog from being a total waste).

But then again, I'm sure he's making a lot more money with his blog than I am with this random posting on HN.
> If you've managed to get hiring decisions right there in
> the interview good for you - usually you have to wait a
> bit for them to decide ;)

But that's the thing. The interview was still not over. They were still in the phase that is akin to asking him questions. They wanted to see how well his algorithm would work on live data. I guess a better analogy would be if the interviewer asked the interviewee a question and then started talking on the phone rather than pay attention for the interviewee's answer.

Or if you want to take the analogy to "waiting for a reply after the interview," then this is more like Apple stalling on making a decision on hiring him. They've interviewed him, and he pings them every week, but a couple of months later they still claim to have made no decision while continuously claiming that a decision is right around the corner and/or just needs one more person's approval/review.
You can see that lliamander doesn’t actually agree with all of those points from replies upthread (they are being asked to “lie”).

> But, there are some non-binary identities that I don’t have buy-in for. I will of course refer to people by their preferred pronouns to be kind, but can anyone give another reason?

In the general case your question answers itself. If you don't believe that someone is really (e.g.) a woman, then obviously there is no reason to refer to them using their preferred female pronouns except general politeness and kindness.

If I understand correctly, you are concerned about cases where someone does not accept either 'they', 'he' or 'she' as acceptable pronouns. I would urge you to find a real example, as discussing such cases in the abstract based on Wikipedia articles is frankly ridiculous. But again, the answer to your question in the abstract is obvious. If you don't believe that the person's identity is real, then you can either use their preferred pronouns to be polite – or not.

I fail to see any real philosophical issue that's raised here, given that you already accept that gender and biological sex are not inextricably linked. I guess there's the question of "How do I tell if someone's reported identity is real?", but that seems to be just a special case of "How do I tell if someone is being honest?". The answer is of course that you do so using your general nous.
Acoustic neuromas (almost 100% curable) and glioblastoma (aggressive, very poor outcomes) are quite different diseases. It is unlikely there is a unifying exposure.

One technique to unravel this is to perform whole genome sequencing on the tumours. Mutagenic carcinogens (which isn’t all carcinogens, but generally includes ionizing radiation) will leave signatures in the tumour DNA. The same unexpected signature in the acoustic neuromas and malignant gliomas would be a smoking gun.

Incidentally, I don’t know why nobody has used this fact to sue Big Tobacco into oblivion. You can literally prove cigarettes caused your lung/head and neck cancer.
I initially preferred the old, aluminium Apple TV remote when I first got the new one. But now, especially with kids I really appreciate the new one.

- My four year old can search for shows by asking Siri instead of needing to type

- When we're all watching together you can slide your finger over the touch surface to make one of the icons wobble in 3D. It's great when you're asking which episode someone would like to watch, you can highlight and focus the UI for them

- No batteries and charges by lightning. I never had those R2032 batteries for the Aluminium remote whenever it ran out

Agreed on lifting it up the wrong way every time. I bought a few cheap silicon covers for mine in bright colours and it really helps
This was also true of Zoom, especially all the drama that happened as lockdowns and WFH were rolled out in early 20202. (Though security issues were reported in Zoom previous to that.)
I think today's pocket devices are comparable to a Cray only in raw flops, but do not hold a candle in other respects.
An enemy of Erdogan, not necessarily an enemy of Turkey.
I'm interested: aside from the phone number/backup issues well documented on every HN thread about Signal, which features do you think that Signal lacks?
If your 1-4 are in I/E, S/N, F/T, P/J order then I have this instead:

(1 E/I) How much external stimulation do you prefer. this may be socialisation (Fe/Te), but it can be more general than that, to include things like physical sense stimulation (Se), and exposure to external ideas (Ne).

(2 S/N) I largely agree.

(3 F/T) Whether you focus primarily on values: good/bad (F) or facts (true/false) (T).

(4) What you've put for 3. Identical to Kahnmenan's Fast and Slow thinking.

Of course everyone has an expect of both sides of either dichotomy, but it is never-the-less useful to know where someone is inclined to place emphasis.
This sounds interesting. Any guides for how to use as for boot only and how to attach an SSD to a pi? What powers the ssd etc? The last pi I tried was a 3b
> e.g even the truth tables in it are invalid

that would be a very specific and relevant point to make. can you back this up with sources or more than one example?

> My theory is that the tractacus was a bullshit detector

Are you serious? This seems like a fun idea but doesn't really pass my own bullshit detector.
Out of interest - Why do you use both a PiHole and NextDNS?

I removed my PiHole once I got NextDNS as it just seemed redundant.
Sometimes the most relevant discussion takes place on reddit's /r/haskell.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/30gyie/announce_ghc...
So, if I get it, Vagrant is used to reproduce the production environment locally. Right? Sorry for all the questions!
As of last year about 12,000 mines - they are trying to close smaller mines which are often illegal and have high death rates. However, they are still expanding capacity [2] - so the closure of mines isn't a good proxy to production of coal.

Putting the 13 million metric tons cut into context - China produced 3 billion and change from 2010-2014 [2]. So, while it might be important for Beijing and may signal a change of stance (?), from a China usage perspective it isn't a big difference, by itself.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023046263045795090...

[2] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/669c44d2-a780-11e4-8e78-00144feab7...
Skimming the Contents - this really caught my eye and I had a good laugh:

"Chapter 6: The First Order Is…For Something We’re Not Selling"

...I'll at least be reading one chapter :)
Sounds great.

I would like to read about your experience using ChromeOS/ChromiumOS on a dev PC. What's your workflow (text editor, dev-IDE, web stack)?
My wife, my parents, and other random family members....
Given that this is a little tool that sits in the menubar, I suspect this is an example of an app that simply doesn't fit the model of app that Apple wants the store to be focused on.
Clickable: http://goodzer.com
I had the same email from linked in this morning but became suspicious because yesterday, I was locked out of both my gmail and twitter accounts. Guess I'll be staying tuned.
> It's really interesting that you can clearly see the differences between West Germany from East Germany, even 20 years after the reunification.

That might also be an artefact of young people leaving East Germany for West Germany and Berlin. The facebook population density in East Germany seems to be quite low by that picture.
Yup, the Chrome Extension is new and what makes it exciting (again). The per-client install process was too difficult/error-prone, so when we saw we could "hook" Twitter.com, we jumped on it.
ISDS does NOT entitle companies to compensation when a country changes laws - it entitles foreign investors to compensation when a country violates their rights under public international law, for example the right not to have their property expropriated. This actually does happen fairly often, and in order to promote international investment it is a good idea to have treaties which regulate it.

In fact cigarette companies are claiming that by prohibiting them from using their branding, Australia expropriated their intellectual property. NO ONE expects the cigarette companies to actually win, and as such they will not be entitled to any compensation.

There is a huge number of misconceptions about ISDSs and the TPP in this thread.
Interestingly in the talk he showed that VK had 33 million visitors monthly and Telegram apparently already has 35 million.

His new project is even more successful.
>Xfinity says your wireline speed will not be impeded by others who are using WiFi

From my experience with low throughput 2-4mbps lines I'm deeply sceptical about claims like that. Throughput will generally be OK...but if you want stable latency...good luck. The second someone else is on the same line goes flakely unless its a high powered line (fibre etc)
Given that they survive, many people in third world countries have enough resources to survive and occasionally a few left over.

They are often portrayed as "poor as beyond poor" because many economies are much less money-based than in the West.

Not to say that they're wealthy but if you combine food being less expensive with a lot of subsistence agriculture, a person can have a very low income without being utterly miserable. IE, "Surviving on pennies a day" is a lot easier in Kenya than San Francisco.
One time I tried using Eclipse for a screencast, and it felt like coding with oven mitts on. However, I didn't blog about the experience, because it contributed nothing useful. I wonder if the same thought occurred to the author.
As someone who has been learning Erlang for a few months now, I mostly agree with the article. The only statement that rubbed me the wrong way was:

Many Erlang programs are running in companies with no open-source policy as well - don’t expect the programmers of those systems to even be able to talk about what they do. It is a competitive advantage to keep the mouth shut.

In fact, I see the shut mouths as a disadvantage in some cases: coming from the Ruby/Rails world, it was a shock for me to not find an open-source library, yet find a request for it back in 2000. Further investigation revealed some well-known authors having worked with the closed-source version. What we'll probably do is take the equivalent Ruby library, and make it work through Erlectricity.
I'm a little confused about what problem this solves. According to the documentation, secrets are encrypted by each clients unique key, and the server only has a copy of the encrypted secret? So the sensitive data is essentially still on a single client: lose the keys and none of the secrets can be recovered?
The story is slightly different in each country.

"In Germany, statutory law mandates exclusion of statements obtained from suspects or witnesses by force, deception, hypnosis, or similar illicit methods of interrogation" http://law.jrank.org/pages/899/Criminal-Procedure-Comparativ...

But

"Because deterrence of police misconduct is not the rationale for exclusion of evidence, German courts tend to admit evidence obtained through illegal searches "http://law.jrank.org/pages/899/Criminal-Procedure-Comparativ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence
It does cast it down (to unsigned char). The requirement for int however was is not for "%lc", it was already in C89. I suspect it has to do with default integral promotions for (variadic) function parameters - which I incorrectly disregarded when replying.

So the original code is correct, my reply wasn't.
That wouldn't explain why the other ethnic groups also prevalent in New York don't have comparable wages there.