jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
try baudline
http://www.baudline.com/screenshots/full_screen.png
This reminds me of something I saw on TV once where a farmer was feeding his chickens lots of spicy red peppers. Made the yolk a deep red and apparently spicy as well.
Are you claiming specifically biased-right-wing <insert journal name> isn't biased? MSM (CNN, CNBC, MSNBC) is 10% as biased (to the left), Fox (probably 50% biased to the right), etc. Least biased is probably Reuters, AP, and PBS, and maybe NPR.

Local news is usually not so biased either.

But Washington Times, Breitbart, Random Youtube Vlogger, etc...none of those can be trusted. That's why they're never linked to on Hackernews, except maybe in comments, I'd imagine.

They're basically tabloids. Good to cross-reference with Snopes or Politifact if you are curious what's true. Personally, I like to read multiple sources and google a topic to get a better picture to see other 'takes'. Only way to not get bubble/group think.
I can do all that right now without inserting a power-wasting cryptocoin layer.
It appears that one long squirt of pepper spray broke up that situation.
I have seen multiple people argue repeatedly that GoT represents middle age as it really was. Including at hacker news. Sometimes as response to criticism of books or series, sometimes for no reason in particular.

So clearly there are people who think GoT is "how it really was" + dragons and bit of magic.
And you assume that's everything that happened? Did she break through a barrier? People were walking right in.You don't know which group she cam in with. In the various videos, she was trying to get out. They all were.

The dude who fired the shot, are you really defending him? A man with no real reasonable threat to his life? None of the people in that shot were shown to be armed.

Honest question, what are your views on Jacob Blake? Do you defend him? Because he sexually assaulted a women who had a restraining order against him, ignored police orders to stop, got up after being tazed twice and reached into a car with children. The DA found the police were completely justified in shooting him 7 times in the back.

This is the double standard. If you say she had no excuse for getting shot, than neither did Jacob Blake, or Breyanna Taylor.
That’s just how the Capitol (and most US state houses) is. My wife has on multiple occasions waltzed down to the (non-public) underground subway that connects the Capitol to the Senate and House office buildings to chat with members of Congress. The Capitol Police usually say “well you’re not supposed to be here, but I guess it’s okay.”
"And after this, we're going to walk down there, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down ... to the Capitol and we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women," Trump told the crowd. "And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong."

He told people to go to the capital, "take back our country", and you can't do it with weakness, you need to do it with strength. That seems pretty straightforward to me. And he did it all while fanning the flames by repeating discredited conspiracy theories that he knows plays to the people in attendance.
To the degree that's true, my guess is that, just like China, it's to manage public perception. That is, not "because of the US", ie some policy forced upon them.
>Modern slavery most often occurs in areas with widespread, violent conflict.

This is completely wrong, China and India top the list with 8 million and 3.8 million slaves respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#St...
It's a real testament to the effectiveness of the BLM protests that the police took a good hard look at themselves and decided to use a light touch from here on out.
Depends on the riot. I'd say the vast majority of riots are quelled quicker and cheaper with hot chocolate than with tanks though.
Every heating issue I had with my T420 is solved by opening up the laptop and thoroughly cleaning with compressed air. It will stays good for a few years until the dust gathers up again.
O1 is a good option I hear.
FWIW, If you use the key commands, the first and third issues are avoidable -- though, I have run into all of the issues when using the mouse.

There's a key combo for that opening the find and replace menu; ctrl + cmd + c. Then you can tab through. Hitting enter will "replace and find next", shift + enter will "replace and find previous."

By default, there aren't any explicit key combinations for specifically replacing the selected text / replace all / replace and find {next, previous}. But, you can set them in Xcode's preferences, under the Key Bindings tab (in the Edit -> Find subtree). I hijacked cmd + r (from "run") for "replace and find", shift + cmd + r is used for "replace all".
Upvoted. You are correct. HTML5 is not yet even approved W3C candidate recommendation.

To be more accurate Apple should have said that it is committed in implementing HTML5 standard, not that it has done it, because at the moment HTML5 is not ready.

From Wikipedia: "Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, expects the specification to reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012, and W3C Recommendation in the year 2022 or later. However, many parts of the specification are stable and may be implemented in products"
The propaganda and hypocriticism from Apple is staggering.

(if you are going to downvote me, at least say why not)
Was too distracted by this message to read the rest of the article:

Do you mind if I ask a favor? If (and only if) you like this article, could you please upvote it on HN?

Is the author misreading HN culture or is it a clever marketing tactic?

IMHO, this wouldn't be a bother if an article really shined, but after a super quick skim, it just seemed like a bunch of regurgitated ideas (good ideas, but nothing profound). That said, out of guilt from this comment, I just upvoted.

P.S. If you liked this comment (and only if), could you please upvote?
Principals of democracy and capitalism underlie each other. If you believe capitalism is by and large the best system going, you probably also believe that free markets require a reasonable amount of transparency and freedom. (Freedom of capital to move, businesses to operate without interference)

These principals apply to science, business, and in governance. Ideas should be held up to the light of day and tested. That's the enlightenment.

You can always accept less...
I'm not a fan of Uber either, but there is an unofficial python client out there.[1] If you've already made an Uber account and have issues with running nonfree software, but not sketchy business practices, you can still use Uber through the terminal.

[1]: https://github.com/tals/uber.py
Too many programming languages, too little time; and no one seems willing to make and publish measurements for all those "interesting" languages.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex
Plenty of political prisoners fit the bill. Here's one guy who spent 23 years in prison in Singapore because he refused to sign a statement renouncing violence -- not being he likes violence, but because that would have implied he supported violence earlier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh

On release into house arrest, he refused a government job because that would have "muzzled" him. 32 years aftert his initial arrest, all restrictions were finally lifted -- and the first thing he did was call for the abolition of the act used to arrest him.

Also Mandela, Gandhi, etc.
Nope, not when property taxes are tied to property values.

NIMBY fascists whine about property taxes because they want things both ways (see: Prop 13). That said, they usually benefit when property prices go up. Let's say that you bought a $300k house and it went up to $500k, and that your property tax rate is 1.25% (that's fairly high for the US). You're up $200k in home equity, but paying $2500 more annually in taxes. Even though interest rates are low now, you can get 2% on a 5-year CD, and possibly much higher rates in bonds or stocks. So, you come out ahead.

Obviously, NIMBYs don't like to publicize the fact that they're actually making bank, because people would hate them more than they already do.

A valuation drop, on the other hand, is unambiguously painful for an owner. Many of the foreclosures in 2008-10 came from people realizing that they owed more on a house than the thing was worth, so they walked away.
Yes. Times change, communities change and if a middle class area or even a slum becomes a wealthy neighborhood that's not such a bad thing.
You suggest that these problems would be faced everywhere. So why is Texas the only one experiencing them?
There's nothing wrong with having a hobby, but you should assume that most people don't find it as fun as you do. If you want to stop reading when you see a word or phrase you don't like, just do that, there's no need to leave a public comment.
737-MAX
Who did and when? Can you provide any evidence. Also, the oficers often have bad relationships with the President and the National Security Advisor and staff, not to mention Congressional committees - the officers certainly wouldn't select them if they could.
Time is money, so my definition of the best strategy is the one that gets you your $250 asap. Potentially giving up if your bankroll gets so small that it would take unreasonably long to climb back.

With this idea we can assign a dollar value to every possible bankroll. Those values should satisfy.

V(250) = 250
V(x) = max(x, max over 0<y<=x pV(x+y) + (1-p)V(x-y) - a)

I can't immediately see how to solve it though.
We disagree it was heinous and believe it's prescribed, thank you. Polanski is a French citizen and will not be given to the US, but if an american is demanded, we ll give him back on the double.

It s what they seem not to explain in movies: we protect our brothers in citizenship against exaggerated foreign conviction, but not foreigners.
That’s not true multiplied across the hours and miles it has driven.

No single human driver could do this amount of driving, so comparing all FSD mistakes to a single human is an error.
Interesting to treat FSD a single driver, when it’s driven further than any human driver has many times over. Objectively, that is a bit of a double standard.
One Germany company managed in January https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/a-berlin-...
Working on a SQL query builder with vim-like keyboard interface to explore data.

Often times, for any real-life data, there are exceptions to the data over different periods of time. Building complex queries that handles these exceptions while not having to hold these in my head gets to be challenging. I want to build these queries iteratively with contextual help and autocomplete. I wanted something that makes me feel like I'm touching the data directly.

If this is something you find yourself wanting, let me know.
What features is it missing to create a complete album?
Sign of the times, just a month ago this headline would be on the guardian, never on this paper.
A vacuum cleaner bag is over 80% effective at catching virus size particles, a tea towel/dish cloth 70%, a surgical mask 90%. There’s no tea towel shortage. Western governments should be encouraging use of makeshift masks.

> Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
I agree with every point you're making, so I wonder if it isn't just one big factor: lots of people routinely put on masks at the first suspicion that they might be sick, even before they're sure. They just go ahead and do it just in case. And they do this all the time, so there's no delay due to self-consciousness or unfamiliarity or having to go buy a mask. It's just ordinary life.

Like taking shoes off in the house and making high school a college-admissions death march, maybe this widespread East Asian custom will spread in the West as well.
Well, you need both. If none would get it at all, it wouldn't spread, but if all got the virus it would show on exams.

Every model around assumes that everybody contracts the virus. If you have part of a population that is immune to it, the population behavior changes.
It's a recommendation by the FDA in the US, not an enforced regulation.
Nice to see there are some small projects (program) that have been running for 2 years (backend services) written on very early V. Quite interesting insomuch that when you get something compiled that does what you want, it works very well.
Interviewing is a performance, it's different than normal programming, but the world mostly expects you to handle that difference.

I was looking last year, I flunked my few interviews. Then I paused and spent a few weeks working through CtCI. After that I was easily getting offers. Was I a better programmer than before? No, of course not, I had just learned how to put on a show, and I forgot it all the moment I had an offer I was happy with.
Yeah lower. Way lower. Maybe it will finally bring some sanity to American worker salaries. Companies can use that saved money for better things. Like executive bonuses and investing in new opportunities.
Nim's defer just wraps the current scope in a try/finally, with the deferred code running in the finally. It is probably better just to use try/finally directly because it's more explicit about what is in the try block. It's not worth it to obscure that just to avoid a new level of indentation...
The problem isn't that we don't think about requirements. The problem is that there are no requirements. The Bomb and the SR71 had two very clear things in common - they were built to address existential threats. The bomb was designed for one reason - to fight Nazis we knew they were building the bomb and we needed our own. We knew exactly what to build and we went and figured out how. The SR71 exactly the same issue - we knew exactly what we wanted, we wanted a super fast undetectable spy plane to spy on the Communists.

The problem today is that we've got no damn clue who we're meant to be fighting against and it's been 30 years since the US has engaged in a war where air superiority was even an issue. The level of development in the US right now isn't "We need to build a system that's better than North Korea's" it's more like "Hey guys, I totally think we could build a system that plucks NK's ICBMs out of the air before they even jettison their first shroud".

There's no reason clear and direct motivation for these systems. So the purpose gets lost and we build something with a thousand bells and whistles because we're desperately trying to find some reason for it to exist.
C# only
I've had similar issues with immature libraries, to a point where nowadays I will usually end up using the Java libraries and write my own wrapper around it if it's not Clojurey enough for my liking. Much as I dislike Java as a language, I don't think anyone would dispute that it has pretty excellent library support, so I figure that there's no reason I shouln't exploit that fact in Clojure.
> If you don't know, a amendatory convention can be achieved by having two thirds of the state legislatures vote for one. If that happens then you must get a two thirds majority of states to agree on the proposal presented and it becomes a constitutional amendment.

The required majority to approve the output of the convention is 3/4 of the states, not the same 2/3 as to call the convention in the first place.

> Entirely side stepping the federal government.

The entity that is required to call the convention once 2/3 of the states have requested it is the federal Congress, so they are not entirely side stepped. But, it is true that they are not allowed to refuse to call the convention in this situation. There is nothing in the Constitution, any federal statute, or any court ruling that addresses what happens if Congress doess not do so.

> This power hasn't been used in a very long time

It's never been used successfully, although it's been attempted at least once by every state except Hawaii. (Some attempts were indirectly successful in achieving their goal, by spurring Congress to propose the desired amendments.)
That's why you jave to open deep-state-war-plans.doc:ze_real_plans

Damn alternative data streams.

Speaking of which, I always wondered why windows didn't make better use of those. Seems like it would cut down on the FS bloat.
Possible? Very. Likelihood of the computer's login password and thus hard drive decryption key attached to the computer's screen with a post-it note thus obviating the protection gained from full disk encryption? On a shared computer, high.
You can both detest the surveillance state and be happy when terrorists are able to be brought to justice.
Deeper pockets than Apple?
The security risk is also less of a problem in a mostly rational society, which is what we have had for a long time. You'll get lone wolves, but finding a group of people so angry with a politician they're willing to conspire to kill them? Very, very rare. Violence is a last resort for people who feel totally powerless. So, in a dark way, easy access keeps politicians from pissing off their constituents too much.

Which is why the stream of "fraudulent election" lies is so dangerous. A person in a position that confers trust is telling people the government is openly defying them. For people who believe that, violence is the only logical way to affect politics.
"However" was the wrong word to use here.

I didn't mean the custom car shop are replacements for finding computing equipment, it was more a comment on "there are large communities of people who who like modding cars, so maybe the same sentiment exists for computers".

I moved from Birmingham, AL :)
Until they're replaced with a team in Jakarta or Dhaka making 10% of what they made.
"In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that speed is 'the essence of war.' While he of course did not have amphetamines in mind, he would no doubt have been impressed by their powerful war-facilitating psychoactive effects. Amphetamines—often called 'pep pills,' 'go pills,' 'uppers' or 'speed' —are a group of synthetic drugs that stimulate the central nervous system, reducing fatigue and appetite and increasing wakefulness and a sense of well-being. The quintessential drug of the modern industrial age, amphetamines arrived relatively late in the history of mind-altering substances—commercialized just in time for mass consumption during World War II by the leading industrial powers. That war was not only the most destructive war in human history but also the most pharmacologically enhanced. It was literally sped up by speed."
That wouldn't make them that much cheaper.

Today's drones are sitting ducks and they've just started to outfit them with air to air missiles.
But they also have to live without an office and may not have meaningful stakes to make the tradeoff worth it for most.
Bay Area tech scene jumped shark in 2016. Was a fun time to be there but that time has passed.
This is false and China obviously considers it so, otherwise they wouldn't apply so much political and economic pressure on countries simply to prevent them from calling their treatment of the Uighurs genocide. And they aren't alone: Turkey behaves the same way.
It’s a full on Diversity and inclusion industrial complex at this point and exemplary of the Shirky principle (they are preserving the problem to which they are the solution), which is why the goals of such people are never put in specific and measurable terms. This allows the goal posts to be continually moved no matter how much progress is made since these people want to keep the firehouse of corporate money flowing.
Thanks.

I tried launching one site called Pen Japan. But what I realized is that any time I considered putting in some effort to promote Pen Japan, I was better off putting that effort into promoting Candy Japan instead. If I look for bloggers to reach out to or write guest posts, I can't justify doing it for the new site when I would much rather promote the existing one.

Why would I prefer promoting existing one? Two reasons: running two sites is almost twice the work. Why launch a new site and promote that, when I could instead push the existing site? Secondly, there are some minor scale benefits when shipping a lot of the same item. You can get a better margin when buying 1000 pieces of the same item vs. 500 pieces of two different items. So it makes sense to push hard on just one direction.

If the sites were somehow less related, but with some synergy benefits, then that would make sense. For example if I launched a buy-and-ship reshipping service where customers can request any item they want from Japan which I then go out to buy and ship to them. It would make sense to promote that, because the avenues to promote it would be different enough not to compete against Candy Japan. It would also make sense in that those services could be cross-sold, so that is something I might consider. But not really wanting to start a "Candy X" where X is just some other country.
The statement "The most terrifying fact about blockchains is rogue AIs you can't switch off" is absurd on the face of it, but as you dig into it, the laughability of it just grows. Stay off twitter when you're high, kids.

Actually terrifying things about blockchains: The environmental cost of the proof of work; the sheer quantity of grift and fraud on them; the way that supposedly clever people get swept up in evangelising this useless thing. The oxygen that it's sucking out of the room by people wasting time and effort and publicity on it.

And not "oh no, what if we forget how to turn off computers" plus "what if AI, but not anything like the AI that we have".
That is completely pointless for a rust compiler. What are they going to integrate.
Brilliant move, must have been one hell of a smart guy.

I hate to say it, but fixed frame rates these days seem very 'lazy'? Obviously depending on use case and hardware.
"Game recognizes game."

People who are really good can recognize each other.

At some point in the interview process they'll sit you down in the room with a couple of their other really good people, you'll "grok" each other and be hired. (If that never happens, decline the offer, they have no one and no clue.)
I've seen some estimates that with the same age distribution as Brazil France would have had half the number of deaths: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-55847831 (Portuguese link)
I agree.

PP was asking about why SV pays so much more in the first place. That's a related question but with different variables fixed constant.

Indeed, it's very stupid to so discriminate between different locals. And it's not even clear this is in the employer's interests besides the higher order effects of dominating labor: in simplistic first-order modeling pay scales like this only hinder the arbitrage between different remote locations that are equivalent in the big corp's eyes.
Defi loans are not actually useful though. You overcollateralize 150% of your ETH or whatever, to get say 100% back in some stablecoin.

But you could have just sold the ETH in the first place...? If it truly is a "currency" then why are you taking a currency loan on your currency? That's like putting up $150 of collateral to get a $100 loan, it makes no sense.

Unless it's not a currency, in which case this is just a margin loan - I think my speculative asset is going to go up in price, so I will take out a loan against it instead of selling it. Which has only two use cases: I need the dollars and I'm avoiding paying capital gains, OR I want this margin loan to speculate on more cryptocurrency!

That's a pretty small use case compared to like, "loans" in general. Plus if/when the ETH/USD price crashes, all of these loans will get liquidated and push the price down further. I fully expect a "portfolio insurance"-Black Monday type crash if ETH ever falls by more than 30%.