jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As I've been saying here in HN. The political divide is the democrats. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...

Put your finger on the Median Republican line and it either moves left or stays put. The political divide has not been the republicans.

In the last year that changed for many reasons. The republicans have now moved. That political divide is now much larger. That 'more extreme' that you've noticed is because the political divide has shifted.
There's value, that's why some niches migrated to Signal.

But the general population seems to think they are losing features, instead of gaining, that's why they don't migrate/are upset and surprised when they lose history
>The officer who died to protect the Congress was still clinging to life when you accused him and his colleagues of treason.

How did you possibly jump to me claiming all officers were complicit? Nowhere was I, or any source I posted, even close to that claim.

And trying emotional manipulation over a dying and now dead officer I find disgusting. I'm done.
What bubble are you referring to? Saying it was obvious now doesn't say anything about having good predictive ability. My recollection is up until about Monday, most people were asleep on this. And then around Tuesday the zeitguest was this was going to be a dumb clown show. The number of people claiming that violence was inevitable and the capitol was going to be stormed, outside of the obvious circles, was in my experience marginal.
The end goal is cessation of real and specific incitements to violence against people and property, and planning thereof.

Much as you like to spin it, if there weren't notable, repeated documented cases of idiots on Parler coordinating protests and outright violence, then no-one would really give a shit.

Making this out to be "the left wants to remove our ability to speak whatsoever" is not a "narrative shift", it's your conjecture.
A problem that has demonstrability arisen with even neutral moderation is that, no matter the moderation criteria, a vocal subset of those who are affected by that moderation will still complain loudly about being censored. This applies even to moderators removing death threats and calls to violence. There are many examples of complaints that doing so is censorship even though it is hard to make a good faith argument against the justifications for removing such posts.
Most business now have to pay a Google tax in one way or the other, whether it be adwords, content building, link building or paying for SEO.

That's just the cost of entering a particular marketplace.

Think of it as rent.
The car door analogy is faulty. A designer spent a lot of time making that car door look pretty -after- an engineer made it work. It isn't that exact shape just because it works.
> There has to be more reasonable ways to both ensure flight safety, without resorting to touching genitals.

Maybe there are not. If the plot were executed correctly, the crotch bomber would have blown up the plane, and it doesn't sound like anything in the X-ray / metal detector system was set up to handle that.

The point is, there is no such thing as "ensuring" flight safety. Along with the benefit of increased flight safety, to each added screening procedure is associated a cost of loss of personal freedom and privacy. The traditional debate has vastly overstated the former, and completely ignored the latter.

People who are up in arms about the groping are calling for a fairer accounting. Terrorism is a very concentrated, visual form of evil, so the knee jerk reaction is that it must be stopped at all costs. Loss of freedom is, by contrast, diffuse and widespread, and people are less apt to become emotional over it. It's inherently difficult to balance the two, and yet it must be done.
They're not ditching XML for their regular APIs, just for the streaming API - which has been in beta for just a few months, and probably doesn't have that many XML clients (I imagine Twitter looked at the number of requests the XML endpoint was getting before deciding to deprecate it).
It's an opportunity for a business that can somehow put non-highly-skilled people to work and make a profit doing it. But startups don't usually think that way. Everyone wants to work at a place that sets a high bar for hiring.
To me it reads like the original Urbit writings. It’s not GPT-3. This is human creativity. I appreciate the vibe, it reminds me of text from a Ridley Scott setting.
She offered Swartz 4 months for his crimes, why should she have any difficulty sleeping at night over this?
The problem isn't the computers, it is changing requirements.

If you want to edit text files, do some spreadsheets, maybe send and receive messages, an IBM PC will do the job. Just be sure to have a modem, Qmodem, and the numbers of your favorite BBSs.

With an IBM PC, MS-DOS 6.21, Turbo Pascal 7, Qmodem, Edwin, pkZIP, and a stack of floppies for backup, and you could stay in business for a very, very long time, if you don't expect more each year.

Look at what people are managing to fit into a boot sector... BASIC, Games, Demos, etc. We're wasting most of the bounty of Moore's law. Not all of it, of course...the ability to stream video from anywhere on the planet for $50/month is something I only dreamed of back in the 1990s.

We have amazing computers now, but those old machines, like the Model T, can still do their original task, if you invest the time and effort to maintain them.
Let’s not forget that Telegram backdoored their encrypted chat implementation and got caught.
Frankly, the last thing we need in the pharmaceutical industry is yet another extractive layer with extended IP.
Critical thinking is taught in schools. When I think back far enough to my daughter's elementary school education, teachers were trying to develop it by at least 4th grade (9-10yo). Starting the next year, she had classes in civics that continued through to high school (14-18yo) where she is now. As I write this comment, her world history class is discussing yesterday's events in DC in a point/counter-point fashion.

Despite the effort to develop critical thinking skills, a small but not insignificant number of students parrot what they watch on questionable news outlets.
Speaking from personal experience (I met exiles in Northern India in the 90s). Here's a source, though I don't know how reliable it is: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/22/china-clamps-down-on-the-...
+1 for the i7 x220. I paid £150 for mine a couple of years ago for what I thought would be a throwaway bit of kit at end of life for an experimental Linux build. But what I found was the sheer utility of the thing has been unmatched by any more recent hardware purchase.
If we're looking to pumpkin chucking as inspiration, the pneumatic cannons are a better bet, as they generally perform better than the catapults/trebuchets. The record for those is 1.6km.
My dream tutorial shows how to move from what I have to the new thing, because that teaches me what new ways of thinking I need to adopt.

Like right now at work we have a small team making a website with docker-compose to specify the dev environment, pip-tools to pin python dependencies, and saltstack to deploy new state to bare metal in production.

How exactly, command by command, would nix solve the same problems? What would change from my current solution? How would I think differently? How would my life get better? What parts wouldn't be solved and I'd have to keep some of the old stuff around?

Those are the tutorials that convince me to switch, because they get me over the hump of not getting the new paradigm, and being afraid of the downsides I don't know about yet. It's tricky because it's pretty specific to how someone's currently solving problems, but maybe knowing what I'd optimally want can help with figuring out something doable.

(This blog post didn't work for me because it was too vague. I already have old boring solutions for their python pain points, like pip-tools, so I can't take their assessment of how much better things can be on faith, and they don't show me the details of the new thing.)
The Royal Family costs each Brit around £1.24/year [1]

I doubt I could even get just the chips for that. Amazingly good value.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/the-royal-accounts-this-is-why-th...
https://www.insider.com/poundbury-prince-charless-nostalgic-...
Maybe once we are cyborgs, but not before then.
First, I should point out the original work of Ralph Adolphs, the Damasios, and Dan Tranel on this case [0]. It's a short, important paper that started this whole line of investigation based on the single extraordinary case of SM.

In my interactions with her, SM was uniformly happy, and it's my impression that she's like that in everyday life as well. A former labmate, Justin Feinstein, wrote an interesting paper based in part on observing her in real-world settings [1]. He didn't observe fear in any of a variety of potentially frightening contexts — she generally confronts such contexts with laughter or wonder.

Regarding love, she's deeply attached to her family. I distinctly remember stopping when we walked past the hospital chapel so that she could pray for members of her family. I can't say as much about grief, but she never seemed anxious in any of the time that we spent together, and she certainly never got angry or even upset.

[0]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7990957

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21167712
There are plenty of people out there who aren't paranoid xenophobes that think what Snowden did was wrong. I think Marc Andreesen and Benedict Evans from a16z are probably two names most HN readers would recognize. Edward Lucas (a reporter for the Economist) does a pretty decent job making a case against Snowden in his book The Snowden Operation.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Snowden-Operation-Greatest-Intelli...
Thanks for the feedback. The gifs are the way I use to express my sentiments without reverting to cursing in all languages I know. I am aware that they are not every ones cup of tea but I liked them. I will consider not abusing gifs in the future (even though I love them and will probably use).
> I often [find] a question on [...] Stack Exchange [but] some moderator [has] closed it before it got answered.

How often is often in practice, though? This is a common objection, and I see it mentioned a lot by disgruntled commenters here. This is just another form of observational bias, and in reality the situaion described is pretty rare...

There are many times that SO and SE sites have been useful to me, both is finding answers to existing questions, asking questions that are then answered, and also providing answers myself. I agree that it can be infuriating to see a question that you want answered on the site, but it has been closed as 'off topic' or 'irrelevant' or the classic 'not suitable for a question-and-answer format site.' However, this has not happened to me much in the several years I have used the site(s) so I have to assume one of the following is true:

a. I only ask/search for the 'right' kinds of questions?

b. Closed questions are not that common?

Due to the annoyance factor, I think that b. is what is happening, and people just weight those occurrences much higher in their subconcious. That means they will recall them more readily, thus giving the false impression that it happens a lot.

This is actually a very common observational bias, which people should be more aware of.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

The availability heuristic is the idea that if something can be readily recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternatives which are not as readily recalled. The easier it is to recall the consequences of something the greater those consequences are often perceived to be, and similarly the greater the consequences the easier somehing is to recall. This means strong negative associations with closed answers make those easy to remember, and people incorrectly estimate the frequency of this situation to be much greater than it actually is.
I had this problem. I killed WhatsApp from the recent apps menu, and then restarted it. The "WhatsApp Web" menu item was then available.
Number one pro, besides not having to deal with hardware issues, is the total ease of backing up and snapshotting your Linux VM. About to install a Arch/Ubuntu/Debian system update and you're not sure if it will break things? No problem. Take a snapshot of your VM. Do whatever you want. Problems? Just roll it back to an earlier snapshot.

You can also back your VM up onto an external drive or move it to another machine easily. If my laptop dies or gets stolen you can be back up and running pretty quickly by running your VM on another computer.

The main con would probably be a potential shortage of RAM if you have 4GB or less. Really depends on your workload and software of choice, obviously.

The I/O thing is not a huge deal for most development work. Disk I/O is still fast if you're on an SSD.
"there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific."

This might be hard to prove. They'd have to have something comparable to Einstein's 1905 output, while working at some (dreary?) job to pay the bills. Maybe the Nobel (non-Peace) price isn't the best metric, but there are very few people with more than one and the 1905 work might have generated two that year...

It might be hagiography, but it seemed he had a clarity of thought that enabled asking the right question and no concern about what the answer might be. Most of us are prisoners of our world view, few are blessed with the ability to change it.
IANAL, but:

The code generated SDK is a derivative work of the human-defined data model - just like the binary for any piece of software is derivative of the source code. (Otherwise where'd the copyright for the binary come from?)

The generator's copyright (or the compiler's) doesn't directly flow in. (But if the generator/compiler incorporates pieces of itself, like a support library, that does. Also, the generator/compiler might have terms of use...)

If you write a generator that just generates random APIs, those are basically machine generated garbage and wouldn't be copyrightable. The human input to the generator is missing.

[FWIW, I had to research this due to an "ill-behaved" community member on an open source project a few years back; I'm not completely making this up out of thin air. That still doesn't make me a lawyer though ;)]
Thanks, been 40 years since I read it.

He's backstory. The Silmarillion was mostly backstory, is almost 500 pages, and people read that. They can stand a few pages on Tom Bombadil in their adventure story.

And he's so singularly interesting, that I remember him particularly. After 40 years. With no help from the movie industry for sure.
All of the appeals courts that heard appeals in that situation agreed that animals could not hold copyright, and there are no appeals still pending since then. That's pretty settled--there's no courts with binding precedent arguing for animals being able to hold copyright.

(Appeals courts can still settle case law, even if SCOTUS doesn't hear the case. There are several precedents that are set by appeals courts and not SCOTUS itself.)
> People will buy based on a perception of a perception of brand quality based on perception of a perception of reliability

Fixed that for you.

Consumers are fickle.
And with those companies you actually get the brand name item instead of a knock-off!
> 100% server side rendered

> Progressively enhanced

> request full HTML through AJAX and diff it into the current page

These first three points are actually starting to be "in" again. They're called HTML-over-the-wire[1, 2]. And I am currently looking into implementing them for my site (which uses ASP.NET Core Blazor), because I think this approach is awesome.

[1] https://hotwire.dev/

[2] https://alistapart.com/article/the-future-of-web-software-is...
They do state, copy-write isn't the same in the programming world. Programming is always functional in nature, unlike a book.
Those capabilities are apparently standardised and documented; see these, for example:

http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/41033.htm

http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/42033.htm

http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/43033.htm

33.106, 33.107, and 33.108 on http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/status-report.htm also make for some... interesting reading.
Novelty effect is strong, but there might be a u-shape there. Have you ever tried to get past the valley?
Regulations, probably, but I also don't think you are allowed to randomly walk around the airport looking for empty seats if you don't have a ticket, and if I have a ticket I'm just going to my gate, since if I am at the airport it means my flight is about to leave anyway.
> Read-only, however. :)

Nope! :-) While it's true that plutil doesn't support the format, open the plist in Xcode and edit it and it will save it out in the same old-school format. Editing through the programmatic API will also keep the format.
Indeed. I had never heard of this site but now, thanks to the lawsuit, I will definitely check it out when I am booking my next flight.
Parent's post sounds like sarcasm to me.
béchamel (which would include flour, butter, and some sort of cream) and cheese is the classic sauce for Mac and cheese.
Well, the last example is really a "he said/she said" situation, to be fair. If there's no proof otherwise besides Pao's testimony, it would make sense that de Baubigny would say it never happened.

I did think the "resentment chart" was very high school, though.
Perhaps I'm just jaded or not "in the know," but this seems like a shallow and short-term business model for a SaaS product.

How do you maintain the codebase? Oh, I just go grab a dev on Elance again. What happens when they introduce bugs into the codebase? Elance! OK, cool, that's definitely a long-term solution. Do you perform meaningful A/B testing? Add new features? Do anything to justify the continuous cost of SaaS to the customer?

These all seem like things that an actual team would be good at. But again, maybe I'm just too old fashioned or jaded.

Also, from "About Us":

"Jarrod is a teacher and online entrepreneur whom has built well over 100 online products and services. He blogs regularly about his experiences generating an income online"

How can one person who's generated over 100 products be adding any value? How are they maintained? Are they all just one-off, throwaway pieces of software?
What? I think you're confused.

It isn't the purpose of the US Judicial system to look at an action and say 'We don't like that asshole, so we're going to just say what he did was illegal and punish him'.

You need to cite a specific infraction, charge them with it, and then prove that person/firm committed that crime.

It sounds like you would rather start with an action that upsets you, make it illegal and retroactively punish people. This is pretty much the opposite of how our system is supposed to work.
I'm not trusting any closed-source password management programs. I generate most of my passwords (different for each service) with

from passlib.utils.pbkdf2 import pbkdf2

def gen_password(master_password, domain, n = 0):
thehash = pbkdf2((master_password + "/" + domain).encode('utf-8'), b'', 100000 + n, keylen = 16)
return base64.b64encode(thehash)[0:12].decode('utf-8') + "$1Aa"

I welcome any comments on the security of this scheme.
um, it's a flower
Infocom themselves tried such a thing many years ago - IIRC it was a db interface language called Cornerstone. Somewhat obviously, not a great success.
Well, obviously it's very prescriptive. In theory that should mean it requires less mental effort because it tells you what you should be doing - in practice, I found it required more effort to do things the precise way it wanted. I was far from alone in this belief.

My main issue was with the "related/linkage" stuff (which may or may not have changed somewhat since I was exposed to it), which is unpleasant, to my eyes, in the way it is expressed, and also verbose and often duplicative in what it produces.

A related problem was the Node.js implementation we were using, which generally felt like more of a hindrance than a help (and which we ended up extending beyond all recognition, making matters dramatically worse - though that was no fault of JSON API itself directly, other than by association).

Best of luck!
I'd love to see a similar approach to San Francisco homelessness problem.

At $1000 per unit, housing costs for all homeless people in SF will be below $100M.
I was talking about companies, not individuals. But yeah, anyway, I agree with you.
And then there were the theories that were "debunked" and marked as "conspiracy theories", often by people in powerful positions, against their better knowledge, because a narrative was to be held up. Masks are useless. There is no connection to the Wuhan virology lab which specifically worked on that exact class of virii and gain-of-function research...

I used to be carefully trusty of official sources. I am no longer.
Requirements imo, should be
1) All used words are guessable
2) There are no possible alternate solutions with unguessable words

I haven't done the math, but I suspect there are plenty of solutions like this, you'll just have to calculate them.
Absolutely!

But... my app automatically finds new relevant hosts and adds them to the monitoring cycles, needing 0 intervention after you tell it which domains interest you. Not saying it's everyone's need, but I'm here for those who need just this :)
The W3C didn't kill it, it was Mozilla and Microsoft who decided they didn't want to implement it (for a variety of reasonable reasons) and me who decided to not continue working on a spec that didn't have all the browser vendors on board.
very much look forward to your results. good survey!
1000 tweets/second seems quite low. IIRC, when I was still doing financial software (2007), the markets threw off about 50 GB/day, and a given trade was about 80 bytes. That's perhaps 600 million trades per day, or an order of magnitude higher than Twitter. And at the time, stock market volume had quadrupled over the last two years or so, so it's probably much higher than that.

I wonder how much, say, FaceBook's newsfeed volume is. Or how much data Walmart or Fedex or Safeway process from their point-of-sale systems.
Haskell was my answer too, mainly because it is rather different from other languages I know, so it forces you to think out side the box, and try new things. Which you then bring back to other languages.
Agda. Just for shits and giggles.
Common Lisp. I have just started scratching the surface of the language(one-two weeks so far). The high opinion that many HNers have for the language played definitely a role in my choice.
Quality engineering. It's Red Hat's term, as well as a few other software companies, but its QA.
It's the "interactive fiction" genre.
Named doctors would be a start. Media doing some checking would also be a start. Some person looking like a doctor making claims on YouTube is not sufficient.

None of those reports citing the alleged doctor actually checked with the hospitals.

Maybe that should be the minimum: actually checking the situation, rather than repeating some random claims.