jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> One of our business coaches, a successful entrepreneur himself, suggested that the programming can be done with little problems

He's sort of a maroon. You can figure it out and be 'functionally illiterate' fairly quickly with some ingenuity and hard work. You'll produce some hardcore drek that will need to be cleaned up by a professional at some point though (maybe you after a few years of programming :)).

Python is the current fad language for introductory programming. I am not a huge fan, but there's lots of gentle reference material, which is probably more important.
I always thought it was from binary. 1 being on and 0 off.
Yeah, the website is awfully outdated and information free. BitMover is working on it.

One example that bk gets right and git doesn't is precisely the one explained in the article.
I have seen tutorials about that method in several forums. People were adding funds to their account for free and downloading tons of paid content. That's plain stealing, and I'm happy that Sony may be fixing that.
You may find this interesting http://www.nominet.org.uk/tech/hostcount/
It doesn't have the data you need but the approach would be he same
Now it will be easier to do that. With unions you only need to bribe several people who are already political by nature(who else would want to run the union?).
Kudos to Apple for taking action:

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/exclusive-email-from-apple-...
Parler, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook were definitely used to storm Congress. Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook also were definitely used to burn down parts of Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA.

Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predatory algorithms which have inflamed 7 years of sectarian chaos.

It's not a free speech issue: It's about Too Big To Fail.
That's a good point, especially since Thatcher the conservatives haven't even been all that economically right wing. They do have a tendency to cut public sector spending, with austerity and such policies, but the UK starting point for the welfare state is much more than the US.
Because those are links to the HN Job Board, rather than HN self posts. These have comments disabled, for obvious reasons.
> there's a certain level of deceit that both the universities and lenders are complicit in: they know that they are charging excessively for a degree, based on the salary the student could expect to get with that degree.

The charge for the degree isn't based on the income you can make from it, it's based on the cost of producing it (ostensibly). This is true of most things you buy. How much can you buy a steak for? How much can you sell it for after it's cooked just right? But the price is determined mostly by the cost of production and its intersection with the market's willingness to pay.

The real solution is to remove all special protection from college loans. Bankruptcy should cancel them like any other loan, and they should not be especially easy to get, especially not for poor people (who, despite all hopes for an equal world, will probably be making less on average after school and thus be in a worse position to pay back). Let the banks take their risks and let the shareholders pay for the mistakes. And if people have to go to state schools or (gasp) not get educated in retarded subjects like womens' studies, so be it.
Seen from a more realistic angle, the school sold her a defective product for $100K. Better yet, the banks bought themselves a sweetheart deal where they sell one of the very very few products that is almost impossible to discharge in a bankruptcy. Hmm... I wonder how those two things came to be?
Like what Mike Shuster said on Jason Calacanis' interview (or rephrased), "You have to give up your current job, be passionate on what you're doing with this startup, and then believe that it's going to work no matter what." Ok, I didn't say it right, but you get the point.
This is a bit out of topic and I hope that "savemylife" will find out more about his/her problems.

I find that a "crowdsourced diagnosis" approach may have a revolutionary impact on the way doctors and patients look at diseases. Recently I have lost a close family member because the doctor who first visited him overlooked some symptoms that could potentially lead to the discovery of his disease (a cancer). Time passed and the cancer developed to a stage that was impossible to cure.

Following this experience, I've started playing with the idea of a world-wide user generated symptoms database, managed and moderated by real doctors and experts. The main issue with such database would be the enormous amount of "false positive fright" triggered by casual users just checking out basic symptoms (for instance, a sudden high fever can be a symptom of a cancer initiated infection http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16257792, but can also be a symptom of many other less life threatening diseases).
I'm not a doctor so I'm not aware if something similar already exist - probably it does, on a country specific basis maybe? I know for sure that some doctors use Google regularly to double check their diagnoses. In most European countries, the majority of initial diagnoses are done by General Practitioners, who are doctors assigned to a patient by the national healthcare system. These doctors actually redirect patients to specialists or to hospitals for specific analysis based on - often very quick - assessments of the patient's symptoms.

I'm not sure how the healthcare system works in other countries, but I believe that there is always some kind of initial medical routing based on symptoms.
I wonder if the precision of this initial assessment could be improved through this database and some statistical algorithms? Any doctor, biologist (and of course, regular HNers) care to share his/her catch on this idea?
You don't know though - by the guys own admission he isn't a great business man. He might have driven the fledgling Apple into the ground by making some poor choices.

As for your own choice - go for it - you can't win if you ain't in the game.
I'm not sure what you're saying here.

Obviously, ISPs could charge by the byte. To my knowledge none do, for reasons others have mentioned already. We don't like thinking about the marginal cost of web pages, and nobody wants a nasty surprise on their internet bill at the end of the month.

Tiered pricing isn't germane to metering. A power company might place me in one service tier, and a megawatt aluminum smelting operation in another. They might pay less per kWh than I do, but we both pay ~20% more if we use 20% more power. OTOH, while Time Warner will let me pay an extra $10 to upgrade from "5Mb" service to "15Mb" service, my monthly bill is fixed regardless of my usage level.
Because competition is.

Being closed source plus the half-hearted job and lip service to support means bad experience for users. And users are not masochists, so they will use whatever works better.

In this case, Transmission.
Whenever I've tried to reuse the same controller for two URLs, I usually end up with some conditional logic within the controller to handle difference in parameters available from the URL.

I think a better approach would've been for me to subclass one from the other, or have a common parent class, and then handle the parameter differences within each subclass. At that point you'd end up with a 1:1 mapping between controller class and URL anyway.
PG said on many occasions he silently tweaks the backend.

Does he do A/B testing?
You have a good point - my question would be why the studies of feminism and religion carry a $100K price tag. My engineering degree cost about half as much (in Canada, mind you), but is understandably pricy due to the earning potential.

Sure, there is a minimum cost to a degree that may or may not line up with its earning potential... but $100K? How in the world do schools get away with charging that much for a degree whose earning potential is so low?

This whole problem would be a lot less of an issue if degrees cost proportionally (or at least roughly proportionally) to their market value. People who want to study "useless" degrees can do so, and their costs would be likewise much lower than people who want "useful" degrees for employment. Perhaps we'd all be better off as a society this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_carp#As_food

Kentucky Tuna.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/apples-stash-of-cre...
About 18 months ago I stopped posting regularly on HN after my former account was downvoted into a type of purgatory that was impossible to escape from. I still read the interesting articles and the occasional interesting discussion, but something I discovered in the intervening period of participating in unmoderated/uncensored forums is that trolls make you THINK.
There are some exceptional trolls out there on the interwebs, some of whom do it as a day job. They post articulate but specious arguments that are very difficult to debunk unless you do meticulous research, double check your calculations, edit your reply for succinctness, remove any possible semantic ambiguity.
I think there is an argument to be made for the stimulating effect of trolls on the rigour and effort of the opposing participants. I agree however that trolls can and have destroyed valuable forums of discussion, but so has lack of interest.
'That being said, in most "declarative" languages, there still remains the risk of being bitten by issues related to order of operations and structure of the code that aren't apparent if you view the code as purely declarative statements of intent rather than as to some degree imperative instructions. And if you call anything that presents that issue as "imperative", virtually all programming languages are "imperative".'

Yeah, particularly painful is massaging something purportedly "declarative" in order to get particular operational semantics out of it.

I sometimes dream of a future language that will have a denotational layer separated from an operational one, with each playing off the other. In the limit, you can implement things entirely in the denotational and the compiler will fill in the operational details - but when that breaks down you have the option to specify how it works in a way that's built for specifying how it works (and, ideally, then checked against your declarative specification). Ideally here, you can express arbitrarily strong or weak constraints upon both and the compiler will say "done", or "I don't see how", or "I can prove that's impossible."
I think that's true of many people (responding to the headline).

Many people also accept existence of a problem more easily if they relish the possible solutions.

For example, our currently developing budget disaster. I find it easy to talk about because it finally means some finite end to dumb government spending. But we don't exactly know how far the dumbness could continue or if sanity will kick in soon or if the die is cast.

And, on the other side, there are people who love government spending who claim its not a problem at all.
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> And what's the recourse when the same forces collude to shut someone or some group out of the hosting platform for wrongthink?

I don't believe that "violent overthrow of the democratic process" specifically is a valid political position. I am comfortable discriminating against it. I am also comfortable with private parties exercising their constitutional rights to freedom of expression.

> Build your own server farm? Build your own cloudflare? Build your own DNS?

Yes, or find someone else to do business with. Or... change your behavior so it is less objectionable to those companies.

I consider a free society to be a competitive marketplace for ideas. Some ideas thrive and grow, others wither and die. The first amendment is a mandate for minimal governmental regulation so the forces of competition can evaluate ideas.

> How far do we go in allowing tyranny by a loud and powerful minority?

We don't allow it at all, that's why these companies are able to set these policies and issue bans. Exercising first amendment rights is not tyranny.

> If we can regulate corporations to prevent corporate monopolies, perhaps it's appropriate to implement loose regulations against social monopoly.

It's not and whatever the concept of "social monopoly" is can only make sense if there is one party controlling all social expression, which is obviously not the case. You could also call this "social discrimination" and reuse the ideas of protected classes. But political views are not (and IMHO should not) be protected. This would be the equivalent of picking winners in the free market of ideas.

Regulating social consensus and private beliefs is itself tyranny. The constitution is clearly designed to prevent exactly that outcome.

> Collusion to silence an entire set of viewpoints by unilaterally associating them with a minority of extremists is quite literally oppression.

This is not "literally oppression". There is no evidence that there was any collusion, only that violent overthrow of democratic processes is widely objectionable to many corporations and individuals. That many independent organizations came to the same conclusion is evidence that the system is working and that the idea itself has failed in the marketplace of ideas.
Best control group would be people who went through the lockdowns, had flu but suspected themselves to have COVID.
> Live-streaming service Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wednesday.

Can't be part of a hate group or threaten violence no a mass scale. I believe the only reason that banning these two things are considered an infringement on free speech are because they are core to American ideals. If we viewed hate groups or mass violence with the same contempt we view something like child grooming for example then I don't think we would be having the free speech discussion, but here we are.
So 50% is only a “little worse”?
Twitter made the mistake of publishing their reasoning [0] where they attempt to construct a violent interpretation of two perfectly mundane Trump tweets, including the jaw-dropping "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.".

After the 2016 election, the left ginned up enough hatred that some bloke attempted to gun down a Republican representative [1]. It passed with comment but not any particular shock. This is a good example of the routine (happened in 2011 against a Democrat) level of violence in US politics. The US famously resorts to action when passions are high. Trump simply wasn't inciting anything violent, especially against that high baseline.

Twitter's actions are unjustified, and it is highly likely that all the big tech companies are thinking like this, they are known to be left-leaning. This is a wake up call to the right that these companies are threats. Any right wing government anywhere in the world that ignores the tech companies is at risk of them becoming powerful and effective politically opponents - that is a much bigger thing than people have cottoned on to. This move was big.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shootin...
What do you mean by this? This seems like a vast sweeping generalization. There are lots of areas where ML already outperforms human accuracy with open and available tools, are you saying these should be avoided unless there is a very good reason to use them?
It’s about ramping up the production. Given time we can produce ridiculous quantities per day if needed, but it takes time to set it up.
I’ve been building an email newsletter with stock market indicators like futures, premarket data and historical performance going from one day up to ten years of all the major indexes like S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The idea is to send an email every morning before the markets open so I can plan my day and decide if it’s time to buy, sell or hunker down.
https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/On-line_Games&redirected...

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/9azbnw/is_there...
They have gotten better about it, but for a long time they absolutely advertised FSD as mostly complete, and capable of actual unsupervised self-driving. Even after people started pointing out how much of an overt lie the marketing material was, it took a year or so for them to walk it back to something that at least seems to match what you are actually going to get.
It’s worth noting that, while this is true, the reason the fed exists is because if they didn’t do that, we’d have bread lines.

I’d argue that recent fed actions are the reason supermarket shelves aren’t barren which is in the interest of all Americans.
Needs (2014). Still, it's a nice one.
Would you rather take a chance at greatness, or a certainty at mediocrity?

No guts no glory.
Honest... about their scuzzines.
What are the Github issue IDs for these 4 problems?
What’s the est development burden to add support for Split Screen in Mac OS? I noticed VLC doesn’t support this yet and wasn’t sure if it’s going to be a huge thing to add or not.
Amen. It's useless.
another recent PRC story: https://thediplomat.com/2019/11/how-china-influences-media-i...

>How China Influences Media in Central and Eastern Europe

>China has successfully planted its narratives on topics like the Hong Kong protests into major news outlets across Central and Eastern Europe.

>…

>… Moreover, interviews with journalists in Estonia uncovered that op-ed published in Estonian Postimees was allegedly facilitated by a PR company hired by the Chinese Embassy. …
That's why I think that Microsoft is walking a fine line here, blocking other people trackers while keeping their own may be considered anti-competitive. If Edge had the market share IE had in the past, that would be calling for legal trouble.

Google themselves also suffer a lot from bad actors. Many people start installing ad blockers after visiting abusive sites, and these ad blockers block the more tolerable Google ads as a collateral. For that reason, they want to introduce a built-in ad blocker in Chrome, and unsurprisingly, given their position, they are taking a lot of precautions.
I don't think making everything free would make the www better. In fact it had been proven wrong at this point
Location pricing was done before the internet and ad tracking. Some countries have richer people who can afford to pay more for luxuries.
For me the waybackmachine rendered all the equations as boxes and I couldn't read any. In a certain way having the detail missing and just having a taste from the descriptions somehow made it better. You can fill in whatever blank you want.

I feel the same as this guy in many ways. I dread to say it, but maybe it isn't the lifestyle (I didn't follow his path). Maybe this is what getting older does to us.
I mean in general, not for any specific agent involved in the sharing of the information. But where information is flowing, someone is turning it into profit.

I am 100% certain that people have made significant revenue facilitated by their ability to look things up quickly and efficiently on Wikipedia. I know it has certainly helped me do my job. The fact that that revenue hasn't flowed directly to Jimmy Wales's institution is because nothing about commerce guarantees that everyone involved gets a cut of the money flowing.

Imagine how much money they would make if they started running ads though.
Am I the only one that's bothered by the left-lane merges? That's really difficult to implement, esp. in the way it's drawn in the diagram in TFA (no lengthy merger lane).

In the left lane, people go fast. It's dangerous and difficult to merge from an exit ramp onto the left lane.
I have to report after using it for a while, I love this new feature. The text is remarkably much more readable.
It probably wouldn't have been posted.
Good question! – I am unknowing but I think we would have a great many insects to deal with. Mosquitoes among them!

This comment helped me to think to find out – thank you – and indeed: https://www.batswithoutborders.org/role-of-bats-in-our-ecosy...

I see it such that we must learn from bats. And nature. And learn to collaborate better among ourselves.
But this is true even with companies that have only two stores. Even one if it's open for more than one shift.
Disagree on private healthcare being abolished. If people want to spend their own money outside the single payer system, why not let them? It doesn't absolve them of contributing to the public system, so the public system benefits when they decide to go outside it.

And in Canada, there isn't much private healthcare because of the way Medicare is set up. A doctor has to choose - practice in the public system or the private system - they can't do both.

As a result, you have a handful of doctors who do private with the majority in the public system. For certain procedures there is actually a lot of private healthcare in Canada. Take a look at MRI's. Instead of waiting 2 or 3 months for an MRI you can pay $300 and get one this week and send the results to your doctor.
Genuinly interested in any more detail you have on this, any articles you know of?
SocketXP is a cloud based Remote Access solution for multi-cloud or hybrid cloud Kubernetes Cluster resources such as nodes, pods, databases, applications
Are there open source projects like this?
Another cool thing with Tibber is that they provide APIs to access your usage etc. THAT is something I would like to see from all general companies.

https://developer.tibber.com/docs/overview
My bet is that "interior air is renewed less frequently" makes most of the effects.

It doesn't look hard to test experimentally.
They're not talking about people who sit around in cafes reading Finnegans Wake, they're talking about people of low socioeconomic status. This theoretically includes more than just blacks, but in practice the specific reforms they are talking about are only being applied to predominantly black innercity schools. You don't see any poverty stricken districts in Vermont or Appalachia using these methods, because they are specifically designed to 'correct' black culture. This is also what bill gates and Obama are endorsing, incidentally. Anyway if you want to learn more, go read Paul Toughs new book. (But read Punished by Rewards and Underground History of American Education first, because then you'll appreciate why it's fucked up much more.)
Depends on which kind of facts you are prepared to alter. E.g. you could construct scenarios where Germany and the Soviet Union would not attack each other. Or where the U.S. would not enter the war.
Now that I think about it, I expected a tech-oriented like techcrunch to be hosted on something a little more exotic.
That's one of the most informative and well-written comments I've seen in a while. Thanks for providing such a cogent explanation of the basics.