jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having worked at reddit, I can tell you first hand that direct democracy would never work.

Imagine all of the low information voters you know being asked to vote on complex technical issues that even most representatives can't grasp, most of whom have completed many years of post-graduate college.

Direct democracy is great in theory but the representative part play an important role in balancing the flighty whims of the masses with reality.
Government accountability efforts mis-used by private corporations? ;)
A drag-and-drop engine for building extract/transform/load machines that ran in the cloud at no cost?

You could make HTTP REST requests to pretty much anything and parse the result and do whatever you wanted with it.

You could use Yahoo pipes to glue APIs together.

If you were the creative sort, the possibilities were endless.

Can you name another product currently on the market that can do that?
Amazon workmail.
Most of them live in a very different digital world anyway.
Reminds me of printshop from 30 years ago.
I saw a stately "Family Practice" last week, that had been around for a few years, but now had a big new street sign to the effect of "get your marijuana here!" out front. I don't believe that I have ever seen that sort of thing for other prescription drugs.
You aren't quite getting it. Lords controlling the land is property being sacred. A lot of people came to America because less property was already locked down by the rich. But if we treat "my great-grandfather stole this fair and square" as sacred, we'll end up in the same boat.
You don’t need 80-year-old serum to treat an 80-year-old patient.
In a just world, CTRL-v would paste without formatting, and the more difficult CTRL-SHIFT-v would retain formatting. The vastly more desired (by users, not by product managers) operation should be invoked by the simpler keystroke.

How often do you cut and paste and actually want to bring over someone else’s colors and fonts? 1% of the time? 0.1%?
Continuing here, since my OP was too long:

From my reading, it seems like Taler and the Lightning Network are the two most promising solutions. Taler seems to be very well-suited to micropayments, but is lacking adoption from banking institutions, which would be required for people to actually use it. Not to mention that there would need to be a standardised way to request that your bank exchange some of your balance for tokens to be deposited into your Taler wallet. Given that banks in the US still seem to lack a widely-adopted API like the European Open Banking initiative, this seems a long way off still. The Lightning Network seems promising, but I can't picture how the exchange of fiat / Bitcoin would work. Perhaps there may be a number of companies like Strike competing, with browsers giving the user a choice of which service to use, in the same way a user currently selects their search engine.
TypeScript now supports using ‘let’ and ‘const’ in addition
to ‘var’. These currently require the ES6 output mode, but
we’re are investigating relaxing this restriction in future
versions.

Would be quite nice to be able to use 'let', and just use variable renaming to generate ES5 code with unique names in the case where scopes overlap. I guess it might be coming?
In some sense that is because you are applying a concept of buying that applies to physical goods to intangible "goods" like software.
Well observed, I didn't think about this when writing the title.

It's too late for me to edit the title, but I think "20 000" would be a good option. (The wikipedia article advocates a thin space as separator.) I would appreciate if someone could change this, since the majority here is probably American.
For those concerned about privacy, it's buried on their How It Works page. I'd strongly suggest to the company that such info might be worth placing on the front page.

According to the site, the Genetics Information Nondiscrimination Act covers the data provided and ensures you can't be discriminated against in employment or health insurance matters. Though I don't know anything about the GINA beyond the information they provide, this seems to leave out issues of end of life care (IE, can a family member use legal discovery mechanisms to get at info about potential up-coming medical problems in later life as a means to halt usage of a ventilator should you become comatose?) and probably some other things.
Google is proposing this should be allowed as a modification to rfc-3390. Their draft is http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hkchu-tcpm-initcwnd-01. Active discussion of the issue may be found at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/maillist.h...
I think it does, but only on a certain level - that is providing you with the basics on understanding and becoming more passionate with it.

Becoming proficient with computers, whether it is a hobby or a professional career is another thing which in all honesty, is not taught in the classrooms but learned in the real world.
Is it typical for a government agency to use a commercial data center/hosting provider for this kind of activity?
> Most of the people on HN sell/create digital goods and to say that we have no rights over the things we create is very insulting.

We can say we have rights, and the law supports us in that and in general we will use that to advance our goals, whatever they are.

But that does not mean that we can not have reservations about all this and that we think that there might be a better alternative (for instance, trade secrets).

I'm all for opening the floodgates and abolishing copyright, even if that will hurt me personally.
Perhaps, QB64?
https://www.qb64.org

There’s also a GUI toolkit with an interface designer being developed for it: https://www.qb64.org/inform/
Most of the incorrect code on the article for rust is quite contrived though. It's not perfect, just better, or more strict.
> what max line width do you choose?

80

> where do you break a line if it's too long

Wherever a keyword or name ends, but does not exceed 80.

Gofmt has made opinionated decisions about everything, why stop at line breaks?
I've only just gotten used to the slide-it-in-the-slot kind. Whatever that's called. The thing that's replacing the magnetic stripes, more or less.

I always forget about contactless. I think all my cards can do it? Not knowing for sure is why I never try, and just stick the card in the slot, which always works.

I think I've paid with my phone one time ever. For some reason I can't bring myself to trust it to work 100% of the time so I can leave my cards at home, at which point I may as well just use a card since I have 'em anyway. I guess I could start carrying phone + cash as a backup and skip the cards, but that's even less convenient. I do activate the payment screen (iPhone) all the time by accident, though I couldn't tell you how.

(I'm not even that old...)
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
It is pure optimization - they said it gives them a performance boost and smooths things out.

In their "flat-file" setup though - they are deliberately configured so that, should varnish fail (which was one of their concerns) - they don't actually need it - they could just have haproxy immediateley start hitting the apache servers directly.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Dostoevsky did publish in serials! This is related to a story. Before he finished Crime and Punishment, which was being serialized, he had to write a whole other novel in order to prevent an unscrupulous publisher from capturing the rights to all his future work. In the end he was saved by dictating The Gambler to a young woman named Anna Snitkina who was the star pupil at the local shorthand academy (shorthand was an innovation at the time). During the day, he would work on finishing Crime and Punishment while she worked on transcribing The Gambler. Then in the evenings, he would dictate the next part of The Gambler and she would get it in shorthand. They would talk about the characters too.

They finished on the last possible day. The publisher cunningly closed his office that day and ordered all his staff not to receive the manuscript, but Dostoevsky went to the local police station, handed it in, and got a receipt. Thus his career was rescued. And then he and Anna got married.

It's fitting that this high-stakes drama produced The Gambler (a great short book btw), since Dostoevsky had gotten into it in the first place because of his gambling addiction. The marriage was a long and happy one and his life stabilized after that. His books maybe got a tad less exciting though.

Joseph Frank's biography is the best English source but he spends too many pages on this for a Google Books link to be useful. This one works though: https://books.google.com/books?id=1C1K-BnFGFIC&pg=PA51&dq=do...

Re serials: it's mind blowing that so many great masterpieces of the novel were written and published that way, and yet are so coherent, Dickens included. How on earth did they do it? But no doubt the non-masterpieces were less coherent.
And we seem to be creating more and more dissidents everyday
This pack has 10 characters, 3 dogs and 35 scenes with various situations about life, business, relationships, studies, work, etc.
Fulcro is getting a lot of love lately and a passionate community of users around it. So no, it's not forgotten, just migrated

https://book.fulcrologic.com
I don't think it has been removed, I am still downloading with ~25K/s here.
impossible? I fixed the budget before getting 1/2 way down the list.

I am fairly liberal and I am more than willing to gut medicare let alone the minor changes they are suggesting.
Depends how you define standard of living. If we consider "standard of living" to mean "happiness", as you seem to imply, that actually correlates well with real (inflation/CPI-adjusted) income. Accordingly, happiness levels have been flat and/or declining for the vast majority of the population [1], just as real wages have.

[1]: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/7487.html
That's false. If you're doing it "right" then it will produce the same functional output for all of the possible execution paths. That doesn't make it deterministic.
Imagine you were investing in a company (instead of a country) that was taking this course of action: already in debt, stagnant sales, and had just doubled down on their debt to try and get out of it. Would you invest in that company?

Same analogy applies to individual people. Imagine a friend of yours who has a bunch of debt, is having trouble earning enough money, and just took on a bunch more debt for some new ventures which he hopes will pay it all back.

Most people would tell their friend the prudent thing to do is spend less money for a bit, pay down your debt until you get back on your feet. Not open up some new credit cards.

This is probably why people have trouble understanding the "go into more debt to get out of debt" approach.
I am wondering if by "wisdom of the day" he means the standard IMF and World Bank policy + loan packets for developing countries, that often lead to an increase of GDP but a decrease or stagnation of social indices.

As for "democratization" , it seems somehow there is the unspoken assumption that a country has to go through it and it should the first on the list. It usually comes along with liberalization of the markets to the outside products and companies.

My guess is that most people in developing countries would rather quickly opt for access to healthcare, education, jobs, low crime rate, and peace, even if it means losing democracy.
(without any research, my hunch is a small portion)

It wouldn't have taken long to test that hunch.

http://www.forbes.com/wealth/forbes-400/list

The superrich basically consist of company founders, their kids, and hedge fund managers. So unless your dark conspiracy = hedge funds (in which case why not just say so?), there's no evidence of it.
Most of this kind of things probably slips under the IRS's radar. Similarly, when's the last time anyone here declared the value of gifts they received as income?

The problem with this sort of thing (and the new 1099 rules) are that they criminalize a large swath of the population. Sure, the violations are minor, but the fact is if you break the rules you are guilty of a crime.

The problem with this is that if we're all already guilty then it gives enforcement officials too much power over us.
I don't understand the US tax system, but are you supposed to pay more money when you don't have a job than when you do have a job?
Why should income inequality matter if the life standards of everyone rises?. As a guy who grew up in socialized India and saw the effects of this kinda of rhetoric i am worried about the future of America!
Look up how cold Wyoming gets in the winter and tell me it's a viable place for a lot of people to live.

I don't like saying things like this, but unless you've experienced a zero-visibility blizzard which went on for hours on end, you don't know what rural Wyoming is like.
Based on my experiences, if you live in the DC metro area and have a net worth of 10M, you're considered upper middle class.
I have practically zero experience with mainframes, but I've always heard about their insane throughput figures. I've never really seen much on their architecture. Any insight in how they work and do so much?
I did. White had two queens to black's none. It promoted a pawn and made it... a knight. And it was all by itself too. That part was hilarious, but...

In the endgame black had only a king and a pawn and the pawn was hung up on another pawn in the g column. Black's king was trapped in column a by two white rooks in the b column. White managed to create a stalemate with black king at a5 and white rooks at b4 and b6.
Contrary to what is said in this article, the GnuCash XML file can be checked into git, the diffs are quite readable and there are no additional files to track.
One must not get too hung up on terminology here. The point is that the same argument that applies to "the greatest good that can be conceived" applies just as well to "the greatest evil that can be conceived." You can attach whatever labels to these things you like. The point is that if a great good becomes greater by actually existing, then so does a great evil, and so you can apply Anselm's rhetorical trick just as well to the latter as to the former.
Correct link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-creates-its-own-digital-c...
An iPhone only social app is by definition a bubble.

Let me make a prediction. When the Android version lands, all the "magic" and exclusiveness of it will be gone.
Thomas/Alito get wrong that computer programs are an expression in every form, not invention in any way. Patent law does this too I'd reckon. They then refuse to do the work it takes to determine fair use in this field, which Alsup (and this court) did very well. Open source code being copyright (or copyleft et al) fits in perfectly well with this fair use analysis.

From the market effect part of the opinion, it's Oracle who should be worried if they're different enough from AWS or maybe not if learning any widely-used API means it's a loss if not copied. The WINEs of the world should be safe, Microsoft was never going to bring Win32 or DirectX to Linux.

In my cursory readings about merger doctrine, it's been around for decades, but hasn't been widely adopted by courts, and the justices by little surprise couldn't agree (3-3 or 4-2). The open source lawyers love it, but that means little. Fair use is about as good as it was ever really going to get for the foreseeable future. The industry is just going to have to settle for this or maybe pool it's copyrights like OIN does for patents.
to name a few: immutable data structures out of the box (with literal syntax), macros, being able to share code with the back end (cljc).
Okay, but just so we're clear: This is missing parts of the conversation.
You need to become outright assertive.
While it took me under an hour, I still wonder whether my implementation would have passed an interview. I generalized do_add_delta to three operations (incr, decr, mult) and otherwise copied code paths and extended the binary protocol.
FYI, you will want to launch the editor from inside visual studio. Here is a wiki game documenting the workflow: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProductionPipelines...

Launching the editor from visual studio makes the code and compile workflow quicker. On our project we take map ids from the command line. Thus I can set my visual studio to open a specific map when I hit run. Compined with a powerful cpu and optimized include what you use header usage the iteration time is compatible to a large unity project.

Unreal has a ton of hidden magic most people only learn from other people. Which is fine if you are working at a studio with other more experienced devs. Not great if like me you started as a hobbiest.
How does k8s lock you in to the cloud? The idea is that it's a replacement for things like Cloud Formation that really did lock you into AWS.
Link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
But we are missing the counterfactual of how many lives were saved due to the antibiotic effects of safe amounts of formaldehyde (previously mentioned two drops of formalin). Pasteurisation dropped infant deaths by 2/3rds, so it is quite possible that overall the addition of formaldehyde saved many lives (hard to tell without more study of whatever facts are available).

Nonetheless, the pasteurization movement was gaining steam. In 1909 Chicago became the first American city to enforce a compulsory milk pasteurization law, despite strong opposition at the state level. After vehement back-and-forth editorials, prolonged political maneuvering, and a typhoid epidemic blamed on raw milk, New York’s commissioner of health followed suit in 1914 with the enforcement of a previously adopted ordinance. Seven years later the city’s infant mortality rate dropped to 71 deaths per every 1,000 births—less than one-third of the rate in 1891.

Disclaimer: I am an armchair scientist, so I know nothing about the subject beyond my few searches. I am just trying to follow up on a “fact” that seems to be very biased. Even in modern times with strict standards and far far better systems of protection and antibiotic interventions, raw milk causes problems:

Raw milk and raw milk products can be contaminated with bacteria that cause serious illness, hospitalization or even death. From 1998 through 2011, 148 outbreaks due to consumption of raw milk or raw milk products were reported to CDC. These resulted in 2,384 illnesses, 284 hospitalizations and 2 deaths. Most of the illnesses were caused by E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella or Listeria. A substantial proportion of the raw milk-associated disease burden falls on children; among the 104 outbreaks from 1998-2011 with information on the patients' ages available, 82% involved at least one person younger than 20 years old.

I would like to read this paywalled paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30234385/
In order to draw the PNG, the browser has to decode it, including the transparent pixels. I'm also pretty sure (though I haven't tested this) that the overhead of painting four smaller images is negligible in comparison to the cost of blending the entire center area.

Many sites are very bad about this, e.g. this sprite sheet from linkedin: https://static.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/sprite/sprite_glo...
which, when decoded, takes up ~9MB of almost entirely empty memory. Check out the "Optimizing Web Content in UIWebViews and Websites on iOS" talk on https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/ for more info about not wasting memory on mobile web sites.
The rail accident investigators, are very very good engineers. They area ready attend any accident across the UK in a mater of hours. They even have powers of arrest.
We ought to send Mario to rescue the princesses ;-)
You're not saying anything I don't already know.

If the overhead of an allocation is h bytes, and your allocator stores it in e.g. the prefix of the memory allocation, then all your allocations will be for 2x+h. And this will not have nice effects for your memory fragmentation. In this case, you'd be better off allocating 2x-h each time.

Of course, modern allocators tend to store accounting information using separately reserved arrays of records to avoid exactly this problem. But if you use a language like C# or Java, you come back to around to this problem. Without using a double indirection for array data, object header and array length are stored contiguously with array data. So allocating an array with a power of two will again not be a power of two for the underlying allocator. Much less of a problem with precise GC, but not all GC'd languages use precise moving GC, and some languages let you pin arrays for interop with C. So it's something to be aware of.
Your whole post here could be applied to the folks storming the capitol with equal ease as it could be applied to the stereotypical "triggered" university student.

So it doesn't seem to have much explanatory power as to how we got to the point where the President is inciting those rioters... the President is literally telling them to be offended, and to be angry. Speech promoting violence. How is that speech not itself a threat to democracy?
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You have a very noob view of software engineering. You make a lot of generalizations about coders to support the theory that coding is low impact because coders fuck up a lot. Noob coders fuck up a lot.

When I saved my company's ass those times, no non-technical people were present and it was wholly technical knowledge that solved it. I could have and probably should have ignored the problems and let the talkers try to fix it and take the blame for millions in losses. So it is very apropos to the original comment.
Let me try this, the ui looks great :D