jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am Czech but I’ve been living in Sweden for the past 6 or so years. The biggest difference I see is consistency and trust between population and the agencies and government.

Sweden did this:
- we now have to do XYZ, this is the new normal. The things we ask you to do are designed to be sustainable in the long term (the fact they didn’t close schools is a perfect example. Closing schools is absolutely not sustainable long term)

Cz did this:
- cases are up, close everything
- when cases are down, open up everything. Chest beating ensued as you wrote. We won, why should we help Italians who didn’t manage as well as we did etc..
- when cases are up close everything
- repeat with confusing variations on what is allowed or banned this time

This eroded the (already weak) trust between people and the government IMO and nobody gives a shit about following even the regulations that make sense. Listening to my family describing what is going on in CZ gives a very Kafkaesque feeling.
From what I hear, it’s all pretty nicely containerized/turnkey already. There are even several “meta apps” (Eg: Homelab OS, YUNoHost, etc) which are like the base layer on which many of these services are available as “applications” which have been pre-configured and can be trivially instantiated.

Those curious can check out /r/SelfHosted.
> the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy

This is an awful attitude. Not everyone understands computers at a technical level. Not everyone has the knowledge to install and troubleshoot Matrix.

Most users are non-technical, full stop. You can't expect them to use something that requires technical knowledge.
This is amazingly relatable. I do appreciate the work, coordination and decision making that PMs drive, but in practice it does not require much work.

In truth though it does require a lot of meetings. Not great for a 2-hr work day.
He says:

> So many of us have spent significant time and social capital moving our friends and family away from the exploitative data siphon platforms that Facebook et al offer, and on to Signal

And then he says:

> Signal users are overwhelmingly tech savvy consumers

I find it hard to believe that both of these can be true at once. If the second statement is true, then the time spent moving friends and family was wasted. If the second statement is true, people won't actually use MobileCoin currency if they are skeptical.
Is this really shaming?

It's a quote from the article that's key in presenting the principles of their open letter. If the poster had gone to Molly's website and found it for themselves, and posted it here I'd certainly contest it's flamebait.

This seems different, because we're accepting that this article has a place here, I don't see how you can not quote key segments of the article.

The rest I definitely agree with.
I do wonder how big his influence was there. Or in general. Given that the company bet highly on this and it involved the whole Windows platform, there were quite a lot of cooks in the kitchen there. So a "designer" probably acts more like a "language manager" there, as opposed to clean room academic settings. Do this, don't do this, have a deep look at Cω…
Changing the way the fund managers look is the easiest way to project a progressive image without actually doing anything meaningful. It’s great for the brand.
Neat! FYI you are missing include guards.

Edit: looking more into it, the header is rather unhygienic: if I include print.h from multiple .c files I break ODR, which is undefined behavior. You have variable definitions in a header which is not good. You should guard those variables with a preprocessor define (something like DECLARE_PRINT_VARIABLES or similar) so I can then #define that to 1 in one and only one .c file and then we don’t break ODR.
Hot take: QML is criminally underrated/underused/unknown in the industry.
From an ops perspective, managing Cassandra is a bitch. Just use a managed service unless you have the money to hire a dedicated Cassandra expert. I’m so glad I’m done with ops
Both strategies are useful. I would be interested to hear what the audience and author were in your statement about "getting away from hourly". Was that in recommendation adding business value and not being hourly labor or something else?

I see fixed price being more of a tool in design projects, where the goal might be concrete but the path to get there is open, or the client wants a basket of options.

Where as doing an n-party integration between multiple inflight projects at a fixed price would be poor idea, UNLESS, UNLESS the fixed price is some high multiple of the P99 and some low multiple of the P99.9bar

In the first case, the value is in the answer, not the difficulty in which it was arrived at. In the second case, the actual work is what is needed and being paid for.

But at a high enough level, all contracts are fixed price.
My favorite is a giant sideways facing "lawnmower" mounted on a small utility truck.
I was in a similar position a few months ago. After reading the Rust Book, I felt I knew the concepts but still lacked the experience of writing Rust programs.

That being said, I have found the Rust track on exercism.io the best way for me to become more proficient with the language. It is great working through a challenge, getting mentor feedback, and also seeing how others solved the same problem.
Come again, $100/hour is the "lower end of mid-end"? The median wage is around $25 in the USA, the minimum wage averages around $10...
Statnett, a state owned entity operated by the energy ministry, runs the Norwegian grid.
want to report a minor bug in the application form

when typing the symbol ' (as in pg's) and then pressing update, a bunch of letter looking like "Ã‚Â" appear in front of the symbol ' in the updated version.
I can understand each logical step of MAD, but if you look at the whole picture it really does seem kind of silly. Like, why not both agree to allow the other to place a stationary gigantic nuke in each major metro area under the control of the other, and call it a day? Of course that seems absurd, but it's not more absurd than not developing anti-ICBM weapons. And think of the savings it could have produced? I haven't looked at actual numbers but there has to be a phenomenal amount of resources that have fueled MAD over the last ~60 years. Now that I think about it, an even more cost effective measure would be the ancient practice of exchanging hostages. Each top political or military official has a loved one live in the other country while they're in office. Also sounds absurd at first, but probably would have been just as effective at avoiding war which is all MAD is good for anyways.
I maintained a browser extension tha works on Chrome and Firefox, and it depends on a third party project that uses Angular 1.x. Publishing the extension on Chrome Store is easy, whereas Firefox's reviewer requires that only the latest version of Angular 1.x can be used. The third party project that I depend on uses a older version of Angular 1.x, and the author refused to update it. So it forced me to fork the project to update Angular. Although I think this reviewing process is better to user, but as a developer, it is more annoying to deal with.
The HN submission guidelines do allow for changes in title, though usually it's to combat undue sensationalism.

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case, the problem is an excess of bureaucratese, euphemism, jargon, and vagueness.

As Orwell wrote in "Politics and the English Language" on five badly written English passages:

[T]wo qualities are common to all of them. The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...

It's very common to see this tactic used in communications from* organisations or institutions about matters of significant import. Take the recent " Email from Jeff Bezos to employees", as a classic example:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jef... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006656). The title entirely fails to adequately describe the actual subject.

As is the case with the IMF's blog entry.
Maybe yes, maybe not, but who cares if nobody ever finds out? And cops are pretty much immune from most illegal acts on the job, once they are sure they are doing the right thing, or can convincingly pretend they were, and once there's no law on the books explicitly, in minute details, prohibiting exactly this particular behavior. That's "qualified immunity". As for the other side, who's going to prosecute them if the law loves them? Private users, who probably can barely afford one hour of lawyer time?
> Both dimensions can be useful; but breadth gives us perspective, and thus wisdom

No, it really doesn't. If you haven't ever gone through the work required to become great at something then you lack that perspective completely. If you have gone through that journey at least once you start seeing that journey in other domains as well which gives you a lot of understanding about the field, about engineers, about what projects actually require etc. I really don't see how you can be considered wise without having seen that, not as a software engineer at least. Maybe you could be a great product manager though.
My point with this post isn't that Google is being evil, it's that what they're doing is frustrating. And the most frustrating part isn't even that they rejected our extension on a technicality, but rather that they weren't consistent with this policy, as demonstrated by the fact that they accepted the exact same extension with the exact same permissions a couple months earlier.
In the same vein:

https://frinkiac.com/

https://morbotron.com/

Invaluable. I use them all the time to clip things to paste in several group chats.
I've felt this way before too. There are quite a few options.

- Look for a new job that satisfies your desire.

- Work on open source projects in your free time.

- Start a new project which you feel could contribute to x.

For my personal experience there was something deeper for me, I wasn't happy with the 'do good' job I found and ended up going to just a better job even though it mean making some product for profit.

I did however become a certified personal trainer and train clients on the weekend. Which helps me fill that void of doing good with my life by helping myself and others live a healthy life and be fit.
I followed a train of thought recently that's somewhat related to this. It appears to me the one branch of government that has stood up reasonably well recently is the court system. Courts require a standard of evidence, and while it's clear that justices will try to interpret things as favorable to their partisan beliefs, for the most part they are not willing to simply accept alternate realities. Some people were worried that Trump's lawsuits would find friendly judges despite the lack of evidence, and that overwhelmingly didn't happen.

So that got me wondering, ironically given your listing of lawyers as one of the named bad-faith groups, could government be made to act more like the legal system, or could the legal system be incorporated more into government. One specific idea I was considering was whether you could have the option of a defamation-style judicial review of statements of fact made by elected officials. Obviously you wouldn't litigate every statement, but what if there were some sort of challenge process - perhaps with a fee to bring a challenge, and/or consequences for spurious challenges, so they wouldn't become overwhelming - by which the opposition could challenge any public statement of fact by an elected official? Critically this challenge would be brought in a court of law, with all of the professional standards and requirements that entails. (As opposed to being litigated by politicians, like an impeachment proceeding.) It wouldn't be a criminal proceeding, and there wouldn't be criminal consequences. Probably the result would simply be made public, and maybe the losing side would need to pay the costs of the winning side. Of course they would also have had the opportunity to retract and correct the untrue statement at the outset.

As things stand, the president and his supporters are able to say whatever BS they want publicly, then they go to court with these lawsuits, and they say different things, because there are actual consequences there. Perhaps if there were consequences for any knowing lie by an elected official, you'd see fewer of them? The idea wouldn't be to use this for everything, just for clear, baseless statements of fact with reprocussions. And it's not like truth is unknowable; we already have this kind of litigation around defamation, and it largely works.

Anyway, not like I see anything like this happening, but if I were designing a system of government it's something I'd want to consider. (I suppose there's also the chance of it backfiring, simply politicizing the judiciary by involving it more in politics. But again, the responses to the election lawsuits give me some hope there.)
Facts not in evidence. The actual numbers are unknown. But...

...a suitcase hidden under a table surely contains more than "dozens".

...a (D) electoral judge missing his (R) counterpart can surely "adjudicate" more than "dozens" in the course of a night.

...far more than "dozens" of mail-in ballots were received from "voters" who are either dead, registered elsewhere, or otherwise ineligible.
> The removal of calls for post-curfew peaceful protests in DC seems like a move that will galvanize the right against FB, given that they didn’t do this six months ago when Democrats were protesting. They weren’t rushing the Capitol back then, but this removal notice isn’t limited to that.

No, those Antifa protests mere months ago were rushing the White House. But that's OK because Trump. [0] [1] [2]

How is one supposed to process such brazen hypocrisy?

Edit: Since I've been flagged for this comment, I'm adding links to video of the violence and destruction in front of the White House seven months ago. Don't remember these people being called "insurgents".

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KeITz_JYQE
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERQjWhIIfY
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOl2nHMDO7E
> If you know an example of a social media that managed to escape this fate I will be happy to stand corrected.

Mastodon has a growing active community, is completely open source, federated, and community driven.
Google doesn't exactly help people find what doesn't already speak to their biases anymore, and hasn't for a long while.
Anyone here have experience comparing this against Open Web Analytics (OWA)?
The interesting thing about these particular measurements is how they cut against the meme of AMD dancing on Intel's grave. The i9-10900K, a $500 part that's readily available, is 1st or 2nd place in many of these benchmarks, and where it's 2nd place it's to the quite unavailable and more expensive Ryzen 5000.
Since I can't edit anymore, Dan pointed out to me that he did not include development branches in his Travis analysis.
basements in Donetsk (Ukraine) today many people use as shelters, for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jY15tgcE7c

A lot of the buildings there are typical USSR-style 5-9 stories concrete block apartment buildings with basements made out of concrete blocks of between 0.3-0.5m thickness.

The modern, high precision weaponry, isn't available in Ukrainian army, instead it is mostly "classic" low precision "area attack" USSR stuff, like artillery guns and multiple unguided rocket launchers. When the city is shelled from a system like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan) using cluster munition, such basement shelters work great.

(http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2014/7... - starting 2nd photo - the buildings itself ok if no direct hit with basements having very good chance to be ok even in case of direct hit into the building)
No, white (and asian and jewish) students perform much better than for instance black students from equally wealthy families.
> IC analysts assess that a natural origin and a laboratory associated incident are both plausible hypotheses for
how SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans. Analysts,
however, disagree on which is more likely, or whether
an assessment can be made at all, given the lack of
diagnosticity of the available information. Most
agencies are unable to make higher than low confidence
assessments for these reasons, and confidence levels are
tempered by plausible arguments for the opposing
hypothesis. For these hypotheses, IC analysts consider
an exposure that occurs during animal sampling activity
that supports biological research to be a laboratory associated incident and not natural contact.

[0]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
That's a terrible analogy. A huge proportion of well-intentioned pilots are crashing their planes.
I've been asked to produce this data structure as an interview question. Aren't patents supposed to be non-trivial?
If the input string begins with "0", radix is eight (octal). This feature is non-standard, and some implementations deliberately do not support it (instead using the radix 10). For this reason always specify a radix when using parseInt.

While the radix parameter is optional, always specify it to eliminate reader confusion and to guarantee predictable behavior. Different implementations produce different results when a radix is not specified. [1]

----

[1]:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
On the other hand, they had patients with crohn's disease in the sample. Its hard not to see this as a decisions taken based on the hypothesis that people affected by crohn's disease have a different bacterial flora.
As an Indian junior, this makes me even sadder. Especially considering that there are like 7 schools in the US that are need-blind for overseas applicants. :/
There was an interesting statistics/modelling competition on Kaggle for different approaches to chess ranking.

http://kaggle.com/chess
No, not really. The question can be summed up as "do the ends justify the means?".
Those links go nowhere relevant.
Because there is no such thing as correct English.
For me earning a PhD was not about the money or wealth creation. It was about the chance to work on a exciting research project that could make a real difference and contribution to scientific knowledge.

Besides, in the UK at least the scholarship funding is not bad at all. I found the £12K per year tax free funding was easily enough to be comfortable on whilst doing my research.
I got the same email from Crowdbooster. It's the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
Michael Moore has already posted pointing out the falsity in this 'leak'

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/viva-wik...
I think some people are missing a few critical points of this exercise:

1) the homework was supposed to work out your thinking muscles. Getting the "right" answer wasn't the point of the assignment as much as trying to discover how to obtain an answer. (much better described in these comments by pohl)

2) On crying "entrapment": See Orpheus and Eurydice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Death_of_Eurydice). There were rules clearly put in place and whether they made sense or not, if broken carried with them penalties that the perpetrators were well aware of. If that doesn't smell like the "real world" I don't know what does. With that said...

3) Universities are NOT the real world. They barely resemble the real world. The point of university has never been to "prepare you for the real world."
The amount of radiation you receive from the backscatter machine is harmless. Take note that you also receive a substantial amount of radiation from simply flying.
Just to be clear the orientation lock is still there. It's now a software toggle instead of a physical switch.
That seems fair, and I liked the part of the having spent the last 10 years of his/her life in the US. I still believe, though, that a fraction of the person's first 10-20 years should be in spent in the US as well. This could get complicated, but it may work to require that the person have spent 75% of their childhood and 75% of the last 10 years in the USA, and possibly 50% of the time in between as well.
Dare I suggest all 3 clauses are unnecessary, and we should let the voting public & electorate college decide if the candidate is good enough that any foreign-ness could be overlooked?
Maybe 2/3rds of people are just willing to be looked at naked/felt up for no reason whatsoever, not associating it with any sort of internal shame, only external social guilt. As long as they have some sort of social "hallway pass" to escape the repercussions, and thus guilt, of their (in)action (such as "I was drunk" or "he was wearing a lab coat" or "it was for a movie/documentary they're making" or "it will stop terrorists") they'll do whatever depraved things you like, and allow similarly depraved things to be done to them.

I call this the "Girls Gone Wild" hypothesis, although it's probably a corollary to Milgram (though one testable with less ethical questionability, certainly.)
Yeah, if you get a kick out of reverse engineering then it's a plus.

If you don't, then you're better off with something like the BeagleBoard where the TI OMAP3 technical docs, BSP + libraries are all published and have well-supported open source around them.

EDIT: It's worth pointing out that the linked thread is about reverse-engineering the RGB565 graphics mode (for Android) and some of the other esoteric graphics chipset features. Graphics in X11 work fine at the moment, both with Wondermedia's kernel release and with Alexey's open source one. Support for most "normal" WM8505 functions is present in one way or another.
Yeah - I reject that. I don't agree with facebook's approach. So I don't use it. But this isn't black or white stuff... this is grey area that lots of people have different opinions about. By all means critique facebook - by all means critique those who have partnered with facebook.

But demanding that someone else must come in on the fight on your side or your going to denounce them publicly on their site, is a pretty horrible - either your with us, or your against us - sort of mentality. As far as I'm aware, YC itself is not funding any companies with similar sorts of ethic breaches. So why not take the fight to where it needs to be fought?
Should also add a link to one of the developers blog posts on the project:
http://jonchui.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/492/
> I'm not sure why I would need this when Java EE does most of this already.

Exactly. Many people simply don't know what they can get out of the EE box. Even self-proclaimed EE experts never heard of e.g. Web Profile.
Seems like you're confusing seniority with your general role. It's alright to be a mid-level full stacker. :)