jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The methodology linked from the article[0] defines it as people who answered "yes" to either of these questions:

> (1) Do you use the internet or email, at least occasionally?

> (2) Do you access the internet on a cell phone, tablet or other mobile handheld device, at least occasionally?

Before mid-2013, the survey used different questions.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Non-i...
If curious, related past threads (some with comments by norvig! https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=norvig):

Lisp as an Alternative to Java – Faster, More Productive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21899854 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

Lisp as an Alternative to Java (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197131 - July 2016 (103 comments)

Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045574 - Feb 2015 (21 comments)

Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8446368 - Oct 2014 (55 comments)

Lisp as an Alternative to Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3447101 - Jan 2012 (37 comments)

Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2032743 - Dec 2010 (95 comments)

Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803351 - Oct 2010 (192 comments)

Lisp as an Alternative to Java [PDF] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61320 - Sept 2007 (9 comments)
> "well fuck it, we'll just jam it all into a string.

This is an almost universal disease of people trying to write XML grammars (or database schemas before that). Everyone thinks they can unambiguously decode multiple pieces of data stuffed into the same fixed-width field, and pretty much all of those people are wrong. Over, and over again.

That they never learn is a testament to the developer's ability to make fixing their Kruger-Dunning moments Someone Else's Problem. Get promoted or switch teams before the consequences are unavoidable. You can make an argument that even Tim Bray did this.

There are a lot of reasons XML was never going to succeed, and this is far from the most important, but it's a substantial contributing factor.
> This can be measured non-intrusively by measuring the Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index

Huh. Is this something one’s GP could do or does it require specialized training? The article says it’s unpopular at general practitioner’s offices.
“And he always made up the time he spent helping his sons, he said.”

If this is true and he met important deadlines, it is difficult for the company to justify his removal. They lose a quality employee for basically no reason, especially given the decentralized (remote) nature of work these days.
A few comments below a guy called Don Knuth claims to have shortened the proof to one page
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4229#comment-1815290
I think it’s because God is often seen as the infinite, or uncreated, or all that can be known. The something that exists apart from any material existence.

Mathematical relationships and patterns have this quality.

Really what I wonder is why can’t we all just believe in god again?

Even if it was just to recognize the fact that there are things that exist in an immaterial way. That there are things that are good and true and beautiful whose goodness truth and beauty is not quantifiable or reduced to some set of atoms. We might disagree on what things are better physical manifestations of the immaterial things, but we don’t need to disagree on their existence.

Though I think it is because so many people have said “god is like this” and then posit some religious thing that affirms their often heinous actions, that people have chosen to say yeah I don’t believe in that.

But it seems sad that we can’t just talk about god in the sense of there are things bigger than ourself, even if we don’t know them because they are unknowable.

Even if we just acknowledged “God” as the first cause or the existence of things not material (like 2+2=4 is true even if there was no material thing to represent it), I feel like we could go a long way to finding that us humans, usually have more in common than we have not in common. That the things that divide us are actually smaller than the thing that unites us.

(I don’t see why your question was downvoted by the way)
It would be a very dangerous precedent to deem this stalking.
Yeah, I thought about that possibility, but I'm skeptical because the usefulness of Canonical getting that data directly from Microsoft seems really minimal. Whatever data Microsoft is collecting from its clients (I'd think it's at most metadata about base images, instance types, and maybe number of instances and usage patterns) should be trivial for those clients to provide to Canonical, if needed, if and when they initiate a support contract.
But it's such an enjoyable mind-bend.

I get a little bit wistful when I see people bouncing off of exotic languages. Where's the delight in a chance to discover something new, and the excitement of a new thing to wrap one's mind around? It makes me wonder if some magic has been lost, or isn't being passed along like it should be.
Got a CZ455 varmint with interchangeable 22LR and 17HMR barrels. Good for practice shooting and hunting small game. The weight of the rifle also gives me good training as it’s heavy as my bigger 308 rifle (Sauer 202).
To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. Though I'm sure that could be done too without too much trouble.
The parens are a cue so that the editor indents my code properly. How do you propose to make emacs auto-indent sweet expressions?

It seems that I would have to manually do that as indentation would convey meaning.

Whitespace is a notorious pain in the ass to get right, parens are visible, countable, and highlight-able.

Infix is stupidly ambiguous and is the cause of multitudes of errors; a 'natural' way to describe math or not. (There is a reason some prefer the reverse polish calculator).

Anyway, I don't 'get' the 'aversion' the syntax is trivial to explain and it keeps me from having to remember fiddly rules. Use a proper editor to indent/highlight/reformat, and it is as good as any other syntax.

(If you want Lisp to be popular, just get Justin Beiber to write a song about it).
They don't, however, seem to mention their names anywhere. If Facebook knows the name of the author, they can threaten to ban them from Facebook if they don't take it down (about the only leverage they have to exploit).

However, to get a real name, they would need to get Google to reveal an IP address, and then the user's ISP to reveal account details - hardly a simple process.

Google isn't going to hand over the IP of the authors, so they would need to file a (probably baseless) lawsuit and try to subpoena the names - something Google is likely to fight since the software is in their interests too.
I wonder if there is a third way, just not consuming content. As netflix becomes narrower as well as others in the space, could it led to a natural dry out of media? If I'm trained to not really use Netflix, but I already learned to get rid of cable bundles, I think I'll look to spend my time somewhere else.

I'm already doing this. For the most part I don't want to watch Netflix. I watch because my wife watches. I'm on my phone most of the time the TV is going.
No John Lennon songs?
>In the analogy, people with children would be heavier and need another life vest (if they couldn't find another means to float).

We reach the breakdown point of the analogy because people trying to not drown are spontaneously sprouting new individuals.

>If a woman has a child, a man had one too.

To have a child requires the sperm from a man but requires the womb from a woman. Only the latter option requires the person to be fully attached and involved for the entire pregnancy.

Thus, for a woman to get a man to participate in the required part for her to have a child is much much cheaper than for a man to get a woman to participate. So great is the difference the sperm banks exist where the man is about as removed from the equation as possible.
How about the cost of national defense? That's about the same order of magnitude of expense per citizen per year, and it turns out to be infinitely cheaper to defend an entire nation, in whole, "for free", than to defend an audited listed curated defined collection of specific acres of land that are more deserving of protection than other acres of land that pay for their own private security forces.

I can just imagine an "army" of social workers descending on my city to evaluate the financial records and security posture of every land parcel, and then offer customized packages of military defense to those having issues with the ability to pay. So the building I work in has an unarmed part time security guard but the company has plenty of money, whereas the office down the road without any money might get 24x7 M1A1 tank patrol because they qualify for free military defense services due to poverty. Imagine how many accountants and social workers we could employ if we treated all areas of society this way.

Do these people "deserve" free EPA service to protect their river, or do they only "deserve" it if poor people swim there often enough? We could spend millions and employ dozens.

The TLDR of the whole discussion is we've designed fabulously complicated and baroque systems to save pennies while being pound foolish.
> The latter interpretation of the results comes from Harvard Medical School professors, the former from some random anonymous dick on the internet.

To be fair, said anonymous dick isn't the only person interpreting the results that way. For example, the only two references on the Wikipedia article about MATCH (that aren't dead links) agree [0] [1].

I'm curious what the actual data looks like that so many seemingly-smart people can draw nearly opposite conclusions, but I'm having trouble finding it.

[0] http://www.peele.net/lib/niaaa.html

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1185549/
can you say something about the upgrade path, will that be possible to do live?
More Buzzfeed & more advertorials.
To give an idea of just how whacked the priorities of the Police are, with the recent announcement from the Attorney General of the US that the Federal government would no longer cooperate with civil seizures of property unless a crime has committed our locals (Atlanta and Dekalb county) are now pushing the state to expand civil seizure laws.

This is for seizure of property without proof of a crime. They want it expanded because the money goes to them. If ever a law needed to be passed it is to revert the whole idea of civil seizure and the idea that any monies obtained by the police go to them, if at all money seized by police through tickets or any other means should go anywhere but them
I've been doing a lot of research on creativity lately and the consensus seems to be that any strong emotion can make a person feel more creative. Joy or depression, love or hate. It seems contradictory and people prefer clear messages, which is why I'd imagine that the authors of the respective pieces decided to present only one side or the other.

It makes sense to me at least. People are most creative when they are out of their comfort zone and seeing the world from a slightly different perspective. Whether that's being unusually happy or unusually sad, any emotional condition that changes point of view can lead to ideas that wouldn't normally occur.
I just imagined someone intent on world domination waking up in their secret cave after a heavy night drinking, looking at this and trying desperately to remember what they were planning to do after magnetizing the elephant.
Actually I used to work as a rafting guide. Didn't earn a lot of money, but I had a lot of free time (in nature), and met a lot of people.

I notice that I had way more ideas then than I do now that I have settled into a 9-6 lifestyle. Sometimes that creativity starts coming back when I am on holiday for a while.

I think a "normal" office job / lifestyle is very stifling to creativity.
At the very least wayland can simply be used as a underlying graphics driver via XWayland, allowing for GPU acceleration of the whole of the X session without having to muck around with questionable WM hacks etc.
To make it even worse ropes go over top of second side wall.
That's not the same thing as "high-quality machine translation".

Those are some lofty claims about Skype Translate, but it's not putting human translators out of business.
Well, it is not all the data. Just part of it that is responsible for geolocation (the biggest table with IP addresses has about 10 million rows -> 550MB, spatial data is just 12MB so I ignored it).

Because the data is stored in such inefficient manner in order to scale at one point they decided to separate it into different databases by type of the data, I only used geolocation as example.
Cactus is a static site generator. That is a video about the command line version. The site and docs should do a pretty good job at explaining. Or just download it and check it out for yourself.
http://www.conosco.com/case-studies/moonpig-outsourced-it/

>Protection against cyber attacks

Wow...
It certainly is. I just find it has some quirks like group layers being hidden behind a tiny arrow suspiciously close to the paint layer button.
Obligatory mentions:

shadertoy.com is a "newgrounds + github for shaders", with a large collection of user-created content that runs inside the browser. Easy to look and modify source code, too.

Shadron. Really nice desktop tool for creating shaders.
Cook really isn’t that rich compared to the others.
God no. Have you actually tried using voice commands in a car? It just doesn't work.

Also, I have a turnable+pushable knob in my car and it's frankly terrible because it's very easy to accidentally push when you're trying to turn.

What is far easier to do is to make it so that turning a knob says via audio what action is selected. Then you press a different button to confirm.
Is Spotify car mode still too much in your opinion? I don't look at my phone when driving as much as possible (except for directions, honestly), but it's pretty good for limiting distraction.

https://spotify-everywhere.com/pages/drive
Right because most experienced developers know they need to do something like XP in order to have a successful project and they are used to working around managers.
FB and Adwords is fine, just apply a large dose of skepticism to any data they provide that you’re not able to verify yourself. For example Facebook will vastly over attribute conversions to itself, even if other channels have done the heavy lifting.
Also of interest are Alan Perlis' epigrams: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby.

But to answer this new question:

* You can have bidi without WS.

* Because WS is more complicated.
> seeing some moving video of my ancestors would be pretty neat

I've tested it and it only really works with high quality pics taken against a plain background. Otherwise your ancestors look like ghouls.
This is most likely due to a script screwing up. A lot of these companies retain companies that specialize in filing these requests (see: www.google/com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/faq/ for some more details.

My limited understanding is that these companies just use google search apis to try to find search results matching keywords. Then they file requests for every matching url. This is how obviously wrong requests show up.

There are also cases where requests appear to be malicious, but there are really no consequences since you (iirc) have to prove bad faith which is next to impossible and since everything is being adjudicated via third parties, there is really no incentive.
Mark Zuckerberg holds a lot of power. Sergey Brin holds a lot of power. How often do you see them in suits? This way of thinking is outdated.
"and more about MS abusing its market position and a massive failure to regulate." thats a pretty vague statement.

IMO its simply the fact that Windows/OSX have set a high bar of out-of-the-box usability and shine that GNU/Linux simply hasn't reached. Not that this is a bad thing, it just might be worth accepting that we can't compete on desktop.
The Monarchy, like all rulers, is able to rule because they have the backing of powerful factions. No matter how powerful you think a ruler, ultimately they have to delegate a lot of control to those they want to carry out their orders. There is no difference in any country. Even in the US, were the DoD and some other departments able to successfully coordinate, they could easily take over the government, at least for a short while. That they don't is more a nature of how problematic it would be to do anything useful after that was accomplished, and that it would likely be short lived.

My minimal understanding of the Magna Carta, as taught to an American in middle school, is that the Nobility forced the monarchy to sign a document ensuring they are subject to certain laws like others are (but not necessarily all the laws the average citizen is subject to), which in essence increased the power of the Nobility. They were able to do this because most the military might of the time was in the hands of the nobles. The Monarchy might have had a larger army than any single noble, but the combined military strength of the nobility dwarfed the Monarchy (wars were generally fought by calling on the nobility to supply soldiers).

My point was though that the loss of powers of the Monarchy in the UK had little to do with the citizens, it was a power grab by the nobility. And then I assume eventually much of the strength of the nobility was ceded to parliament and then parliament was eventually opened to commoners (I'm getting into speculation here, but speculation based on snippets of history I do know so I think is likely not far off the mark).

In the end, the ability of the citizens to have guns specifically had very little to do with it I think. AIUI, there are other countries with mostly figurehead monarchies which I suspect had a more gradual shift in power as well, and wasn't explicitly at the threat of violence. It may have been spurred by the sight of that happening in other countries, but really that's more a realization that the populace is learning that they have power in quantity, guns or not, and those ruling them needed to contend with that reality.

Attributing it all to guns is a vast oversimplification in my eyes. It may have had far more to do with the printing press.
The less related it becomes to the original post but how is gatekeeping that relevant, other than using it as a quantitative metric to use to simplify moderation decisions?

And of course generic topics are predictable. If you don't think global security, a generic topic, as important - of whatever planet you're from, or whatever countries/nations - whomever happened to be the first one to excel at capitalism first, and then the other to benefit from capitalism + lower labour costs to accelerate themselves to a global power - then I don't know what to say. You're moderating repetitiveness which is strange, like you don't like boring conversation, another quantitative/pattern based moderation metric vs. qualitative - strange gatekeeping, though I understand how it simplifies it and it is then a narrative you can state as a justification that doesn't require you to actually engage or understand either side.

And I strongly disagree that my comments are interchangeable with the other person's in this case - however yes, if some person is arguing in bad faith and someone else puts the effort into holding people to integrity and good faith, then that conversation will be predictable - especially someone like you who all day long you're seeing patterns of conversation, and adversarial, by definition - there's friction at the point of bad vs. good; perhaps you're bored and/or overwhelmed, so you just pattern match and create quantity-based decisions instead of qualitative to hold the space in a more nuanced way.

There's no question, just perhaps some judgement on the "dumbed down"/simplified moderation practices - ideally there'd be 10 to 100 of you so you could afford the time to not condense things in such a way.

Thanks for engaging.
I think the issue is getting up to the speed of light.
The difference is that with the Odyssey and Plato, commentaries on the work are not considered part of the work. The commentaries on the Talmud are considered part of the Talmud, including inheriting the Talmud's status as law -- making the Talmud very much a living document.
> But, it kind of scares me that they in one sentence say that they will "make our cultural treasures accessible to everyone. Forever." and in the next one asks for money to make it happen. "Forever" is a bold statement and I can't be the only one that sees a contradiction in this. I guess what they're saying is: if the money runs out the data will disappear.

It's not really a contradiction. It's simply an indication that, to reach their goal, they need financial support. In this sense, it's no different from any other organization - no matter what your storage model is, it's never going to be truly free in the end, so the money will have to come from somewhere.

> I've worked closely with archivists and preservationists in the cultural heritage sector and I know that to keep the sacred promise of saving something for an eternity you have to have strategies for what you save in the first place.

I'd like to see a well-argued source on this. Selective saving is exactly why old archives are often so incomplete. It seems to me like solving a problem that doesn't exist, and with severe consequences.

The Archive is trying to be a sort of modern library of Alexandria, and in today's society, that means taking in content from anybody and everybody. Creation of culture and information has become significantly more decentralized than it has been historically, and archives need to adapt to this new reality.
And not only do they offer scholarship money to individuals from underrepresented groups, they give travel stipends as well.
it's prescription only. no one told them to self-medicate.
The World Heath Organization: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coron...

At one point it was the only drug they recommended for fever reduction, but they retracted their statement about avoiding ibuprofen
It absolutely is relevant. A layperson will hear "chloroquine works on Covid-19. The FDA's approved it. The President himself said so."

Like I could go and say "The FDA has approved Rogaine." It's true, but it's a useless statement in the context of Covid-19.
This news story is about a man consuming fish tank additive: https://aquariumstoredepot.com/products/chloroquine-phosphat...

I'm not sure the difference between this and the dosages and chemical makeup of the actual drug being touted by Trump but I imagine anyone with a lick of sense would avoid consuming chemicals designed for fish tanks.
Everyone. E.g. France:

https://www.livescience.com/ibuprofen-coronavirus-symptoms.h...
https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/coronavirus-an...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coron...
>Take a huge profit and leave, for where?

Is supposed to be some joke? You know, if people knew they were going to get knocked out by property taxes they would have a strong incentive to prevent that from happening by simply building enough housing for themselves.
I agree that people shouldn't be using Google Analytics. I disagree that people should just rely on their web server logs. Products are more than the data that is being accessed on them - copy and design make a product usable and don't show up on web servers. Am I missing something?
The brilliance in this is wonderful:

> also though all notions of money and value and human society will be rendered meaningless, so I don’t know what you’ll do with your payout.