jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
this is certainly my new favorite way of making kids excited about science =)

i will have to try this with the next young and impressionable child i come across lol
Interesting - I don't think we covered even a tiny bit of Dutch Independence in school. They were just 'there', rocking out with their international trade and huge market place.
I don't know. I would say I'm d) believe that the West cannot and should not enforce a lockdown the same way authoritarian China or Singapore can, and therefore it is doomed to fail.

So:
* lockdowns are guaranteed not going to eradicate the virus the way it has in China.
* lockdowns are guaranteed to crush small businesses and restaurants, creating an L-shaped economic recovery and putting the West at a disadvantage in future geopolitical conflicts.
* the vaccine works but will take a year to rollout to everyone and it is unimaginable that the public will tolerate a lockdown for more than a month
* herd immunity might work

I truly welcome any debate on this as I'd love to be wrong about my critique of my country's (Canada) approach to all this. We seem to be not having our cake and not eating it too.
The Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge -- holds a special place in my heart!

You see, as a child possessing the 2600 console in the 1980's -- I never possessed that specific cartridge...

But, oh did I want to!

But now the $64,000 question... WHY?

You see, every other cartridge for the 2600, every other cartridge,

WAS A GAME !!!

But the BASIC cartridge?

It was the one cartridge, the one cartridge out of hundreds, perhaps thousands that existed at the time -- THAT WAS NOT A GAME !!!

In other words, no matter how crappy it was, no matter how many bad reviews it got (and it got plenty of bad reviews and negative feedback even back in the 1980's!) -- it was the one PATTERN BREAKER -- in other words, it was the one cartridge that did not fit the mold/template/class/parameters/specifications/purpose/intent (use whatever terminology you prefer!), etc. -- of all of the other cartridges, of which all, were GAMES...

Because it wasn't a game and thus broke the pattern of all cartridges released up until that point in time -- IT CAPTURED MY ATTENTION!

Now, even though I encountered much better BASICs later on (most notably PET, VIC-20, COMMODORE-64, AMIGA and PC BASICS), and even though, beyond BASIC, I went on to be a programmer later on in life in other more complex languages, the 2600 BASIC Cartridge STILL holds a place in my heart -- if for no other reason than IT WAS DIFFERENT, IT WAS RADICALLY DIFFERENT -- than all of the other cartridges released both before and after it!

That is, it was a PATTERN BREAKER -- an anomaly, a singularity, a "Googlewhack"; call it whatever you will...

Now, on a broader note -- that same pattern of investigating things that seem alien, wierd, or out-of-place, in a variety of contexts, in a variety of disciplines -- has made all of the difference in my life, and to a large part, makes me what I am today...

And the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge -- was one of the first things that stood out to me as "matching the above pattern" (of my life!), by simply "not matching the existing pattern" (cartridge/gamewise! <g>).

Ah, there's a future essay or blog post here! <g>
20 years ago, every computer available was a general purpose computer.

Today, very few computers available are gpc.
All the comments along these lines seem to be factually untrue, considering that the police killed a protestor at this protest. That alone makes this one of the most aggressive police responses to a protest in the past year, even ignoring the thousands of national guard and police in riot gear who responded with pepper spray, tear gas, and guns.
> They are overlapping, but, sure, both criminal and civil wrongs exist.

> If you think you have been criminally wronged, you contact criminal law enforcement authorities, who decide how to follow up, and may eventually file a criminal case.

The issue here is that even the civil filings were not taken by the court, they were dismissed due to technicalities rather than hearings. And no one checked the paper trails (which is not enoguh to establish legitimacy, as the paper needs to have correct signatures and other credentials) in the swing states and reported back to the court under penalty of perjury. There was no final judgement on the matter that would establish whether there was wrongdoing and if it needs to be re-qualified as a criminal one, or whether those who signed affidavits may be committing wrongdoing themselves. There was only a final judgement regarding the prcedure of the filing and whether there's standing. The end result of it is a constitutional crisis, where institutions begin to lose their own "standing". Authorities lose authority if they do not demonstrate a just process, regardless of the actual technicalities that take place during case filings. Is there a clear legal path to follow to file the correct case? Yes there is. There's also a legal path to follow when it comes to elections, as well as there are articles of the Constitution that define whether states or state legislatures make and change election laws. Were they followed as thoroughly as you propose the other side to follow the procedures related to case filings? They weren't. The end result is today's events.
Seems like it will end up primarily being CSAM (child sex abuse material), pirated copyrighted materials, and other content that reputable hosts restrict. Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to use this.

If you did publish your own original content, what stops someone else from downloading it and then re-uploading it with a lower fee?
Right now YouTube translates ads in my country Kazakhstan which literally ask people to overthrow the government at Jan, 10 with specific isbstructions. YouTube moderators accepted that ad and they did not remove it after complaints.

Big companies are influencing politics right now. They dictate their opinion to billions of people because they can.

What would you think if you would see an ad in YouTube which asks you to come to White House at specific date-time and start storming it? And you would see the same ad few days later, after you filled complain about inappropriate ad. I’m shocked.
What I don't get is why anyone would believe that the Presidential election was stolen, yet not also believe that down-ballot races were also stolen.

Oh, right, because they weren't.

Yes, Dems, barely managed to flip the Senate. That that was just a +3 / +1 affair. But...

Look at all the House races. Repubs won all the red-leaning districts, nearly all the purple ones, and even some light-blue ones. They did better than expected in all states including the ones where 45 lost in the Presidential race.

If you're going to steal the election of the President via a comprehensive, super-sneaky, multi-state conspiracy, why the fuck would you also not also steal House and Senate seats? That makes no goddamn sense. You're going to alter ballots, inject fake ballots, etc., etc., etc., and not bother with the Congress and local elections too?

Moronic. Totally moronic. How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe that only the Presidential race was stolen, but everything else was fine.

Who out there is a supporter of 45, that believes the Dems don't hate Moscow Mitch nearly as much as 45 himself? Or Louie Gomert, Devin Nunes, Matt Gates, or the other lackeys? "Yeah, let's steal the election for Biden, but then leave in place all the other assholes. Great idea! That will work out perfectly!"

Morons.
I don't know how you make your loved ones stop using specific software, and generally speaking I wouldn't want to. But if people want to contact me, well, they have to use a mechanism I also use.

I know what you're asking, but I don't think there's a fix unless you somehow have tremendous influence with them. So you either put up with being coerced by your group, or you don't.

This is probably easier if you never used the services in the first place. My mom will occasionally whine that she has to open Imessage to talk to me, and that's about the extent of it. But of course, I am missing whatever they get up to on FB without me. And that's OK with me, but I know it isn't with everyone.
It's hard to even get that far at this point. They (and I - I don't want to pretend to be a neutral party here) are still reeling from the idea that you can forcibly enter the US Capitol without being shot dead on the spot. Basically everything we thought we knew about the typical processes of policing is, apparently, wrong.
Whenever the experts volunteer their precious time--making words and pictures for total strangers--to convince us that we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads over something, it's probably time to take precautions & make preparations.
Sounds compelling. Is there a list of projects following this advice anywhere?
Where is it stated that he was tracked for 2 years?
Your comment came up as a bit aggressive for me (non native so I may have misinterpreted) but I'll try to answer in the spirit of HN:

We had candidates that were 'frustrated' because of the code. Some were frustrated that the code was low-quality, others that it used Canvas for drawing and they have never used canvas. Others about the way the logic was implemented originally.

The best candidates worked with what they had, and used the "tools" at their disposal: for example, use the code that draws a circle in the canvas already, dont try to reinvent it. At the end of the 3 hours, we talked about their experience doing the project and they had good feedback.

The bad candidates just deleted most of the code and added their own logic. My thought process is that, I could imagine them on their first day of in the team: the code startups have is never "the best one". I dont want someone who wants to throw the baby with the bathwater, but someone who can improve what we have.

A detail is that the challenge lasted 3 hours. Of those 3 hours , 1.5 hours wage candidate was "pair programming" with some developers (segments of 30 min spaced to give the candidate time to work alone). And during the pair programming , the devs were instructed to help him, give them hints and ask "revealing" questions.
Apparently, we were chosen for a second-chance pool. You can read more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

I didn't have a chance to read it myself tho.
Good. 99% of coding boot camps are frauds making promises they can never keep and they know it. Most people can NOT code well ever. The economy can't possibly absorb having much more than 5% of the population being coders and that's unrealistically optimistic.
If it hasn't been mentioned, you should learn from the social media app Path.

It limited the amount of friends you could have. As a result, people didn't add friends because they didn't want to give up a space for a potential future connection. The scarcity worked against Path.

You might find the same result where people won't post because they'll be afraid of using up their allotment when they may have a better one later.
Actually, technically, StackExchange is not profitable yet: (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2015/01/20.html). However, "We could just slow down our insane hiring pace and get profitable right now, but it would mean foregoing some of the investments that let us help more developers."
How people expect to, at the same time,

having thin, light, fanless laptop, and it being fully upgradeable with replaceable parts

i think the people who want that are either delusional, or are just not the target audience

looking at the sales, it's probably only just people who like to complain at Apple for doing what they can't do
Also throw in the generic Trump anecdote to add further disgust/rage. I think Trump is an exception in terms of super super sketchy wealthy people - I don't think he is the example they should be using.
Most limits exist within what AWS has determined is 'normal' usage. Once you pass that, you can request a service limit increase.

Service limit increases are typically only denied when raising the limit would negatively impact the availability of the service (noisy neighbor issues, for example), or if the customer is needing a limit increase because they're trying to use the service in a way it wasn't designed.
While I hold a modest amount of Bitcoin, it’s pretty clear that it’s just digital gold at this point, and not really a currency in a practical sense. And the mining situation is ridiculous, both from a power usage perspective and a miner centralization perspective.

I’ve been digging into this project lately and it’s pretty exciting: https://www.chia.net especially considering Bram Cohen is the brain behind it (the BitTorrent guy).

Really good real time community on Keybase, I also launched a forum that I’m trying to get some traction with to preserve knowledge for the project at https://chiaforum.com

It’s a lot of fun building and running the chia farming rigs, feels way more accessible than the mining stuff. Also, since it’s barely just launched, and it’s on good tech foundation, it’s exciting to be in “early” on a new coin.
Top 1% in the US is a hair over $500k/year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/01/how-much-you...

Top 5% is around $160k/year.

Those are both household numbers. So, the top 1% wouldn't be unusual for a couple in mid-career working for a FAANG on the West Coast. But, definitely not normal or easy, especially anywhere else in the country.

Top 5% would be just about any dual-income, white-collar household in a reasonably sized metro area.
They aren't saying "we can't fix this right now". They're saying, straight up, "this isn't a problem".
A lot of people are talking about how it looks awesome. I guess they've done their market research to target the audience that wants this. It's looks like 1980s sci-fi threw up and I think it looks terrible for appealing to most of the general population.

They'll probably make their money off of it (with tax subsidies, which is still keeping most of Musk's enterprises afloat .. so we're all paying for it, sadly), but it's because they target the demographic clearly represented in a lot of these comments.

Personally, I think the design looks awful and terrible. I don't even really like the current Tesla with their terrible UI, stupid "touch-screen-everything" and lack of tactile buttons. But whatever, I'm sure it will sell.
> In most U.S. state and local jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected to office. On the federal level, district attorneys are, in effect, members of the executive branch of the government; they are usually replaced when a new administration comes into office.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/prosecutor
Because it exists to raise awareness about FB's practices among the general public.
Writing vectorizable code is certainly important for some use cases, but it’s not relevant for the majority of programming tasks, even in systems/infra programming. Most things outside of numerical work just aren’t bound by the effective width of the core backend.

Rust doesn’t have to solve every problem in order to be useful. The major problem it does solve (relative to C++) is explicit compile-time tracking and enforcement of the scope of object validity, preventing (or at least making more unlikely) a class of bugs including use-after-free, uninitialized reads, buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and so on — without requiring a garbage collector.

This C++ code, a real mistake I’ve seen in the wild, would be totally impossible to write in Rust without explicitly using the “unsafe” keyword:

SomeType* foo()
{
SomeType x;
return &x;
}

None of this has to do with vectorization, but it’s still important and useful for many tasks.

(As an aside: I would be curious to know if there are any languages that make it easier to write auto-vectorizing compilers. Personally I’ve never seen numeric tight loop kernels written without explicit use of architecture-specific intrinsics and/or raw assembly language. But I’ve only worked on that sort of code for at most a few months in my career, so I’d be happy to learn if there’s research in this area.)
> "Every Apple product is free of PVC and phthalates with the exception of AC power cords in India, Thailand, and South Korea, where we continue to seek government approval for our PVC and phthalates replacement."

Investigating magsafe cable durability in those countries might be a way to corroborate or refute the PVC theory, though I wouldn't know where to start.
Wow. This thread is going to be one of the most commented of the year.

Tesla has been really bold with the design, I love it, and I hope Tesla will be rewarded for it.
Recovery numbers should be stored somewhere safe, like your house. If your attackers have access to your house they could beat you up with a baseball bat instead of going through the trouble with finding your recovery codes and phishing your passwords.
I think there's a bit of an endearing "Oh elon" quality to his demeanor that seems more authentic than a polished CEO.
Even if the target market fails, they’ve got a fallback. These things are going to be on Hollywood sci-fi sets for years to come!
I'm 100% with you on this. That c-pillar makes it a non-starter for me.
The NYC helicopters in general have a terrible track record. There are constantly articles about them crashing into the rivers, into buildings, into other helicopters or planes, etc. Someone else in the thread posted an article about how the overall helicopter fatality rate compares with the car fatality rate, and while it's hard to say for certain, it doesn't look promising.
I don't know that they have a submarket cornered per se, but my university seems to be using them exclusively for the online class system (log in / download lecture files, etc).

On my own I've been using them for about 5 years, give or take. I use it over Dropbox a majority of the time. I personally like Box. I think it works well enough and it has a desktop syncing client for regular customers now. Used to be exclusive to business customers IIRC, so that was one of the things people didn't like.
I was hoping to see the drop size decreased to the point where it no longer was repelled.
I don't see selfie sticks anywhere in that list.
First of all, you can't just mention a bunch of ways in which smaller aircraft are unsafe and then declare that they somehow don't count. If pilot experience and currency is a big factor for why small planes are more dangerous (and it most certainly is), then it's just a factor for why small planes are more dangerous, not some way that small planes aren't more dangerous.

For this specific service, there are a couple of things that do make it inherently less safe than being in a brand new 747-800. Specifically, there's much less redundancy and fewer emergency options for when something goes wrong. If you lose an engine on a 747 then you just keep going. If you lose an engine, or rather the engine, on a Manhattan-JFK helicopter flight then you're going down extremely fast and you have few or no good options for where to put the thing. It's similar for suddenly encountering a flock of geese (the odds of a safe landing in the river with a 100% survival rate are considerably lower with a helicopter than with an A320), fuel exhaustion, or a sudden pilot heart attack (I'm guessing there aren't two pilots in these things).

Mid-air collisions are another potential danger. I'm guessing that a helicopter like this doesn't have a TCAS system, and not all of the airspace in question requires ATC clearance. Nine people died in a helicopter/airplane collision in NYC in 2009, and it could happen again.

I don't mean to paint an excessively bleak picture here. I'd have no qualms about taking a flight on one of these helicopters, aside from the price. But at the same time we shouldn't kid ourselves by thinking that it's safer than taking a car, let alone as safe as an airliner.
Off the top of my head for business:

- Shopify

- Xero (accounting)

- Stitch Labs (Inventory/integration)

- Slack

- Shipping Easy

- AWS

- Adobe Creative Cloud

- CrossWorks for ARM

- EAGLE PCB (PCB layout - the real good stuff is all 10k a seat)

- Dropbox

Personal:

- Tivo

- Netflix

- Crashplan

- Dropbox

The better question might be what would you buy given more resources.
I don't get it - Yahoo is shutting down a service where humans are obsessively tagging a shitload of handpicked URL from the abyss that is the internet these days and they cannot figure out a way to keep this alive?

Am I missing something here?
Delicious was one of the best resources for finding articles on niche interests, for surfacing articles that were especially good, and for finding others interested in the same topics as you.

I wonder if this could be implemented as an API of websites? (Or perhaps on behalf of websites?) Instead of one single site, you'd have a p2p network of sites using protocols similar to those used for digital cash schemes. Think: a distributed open marketplace of middlemen. A sort of Diaspora middle tier.
So now its 2 for applications and 1 for modem?
I'm not the only asking this question: @davewiner ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014341 and this thread by @petercooper http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014074 & thread by @simonw http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014257 what would it take to capture delicious? It's an important question on a couple of levels, because:

a) replacement services exist but nobody will pay, eg: ~ http://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/15552773542117376

b) and I remember the effort & fun it was to read about how Geocities was saved http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903567 into http://www.reocities.com/ by @jacquesm http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm

c) and this effort, "Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent" ~ http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720 all one terrabyte of data recovered.
It checks submissions against the links that are cached in memory -- you can resubmit the same URL if a page containing a link to it has not been requested since the server last crashed.

You can submit links that nobody's looked at recently (modulo the consistent crashiness of Arc). As a hack I think it's clever and terrible all at once.
Why can't they sell it? I'm assuming there is a buy with the amount of traffic and user-base? I don't understand why they would shut it down.
You are right that assessments are based on the highest and best allowable use, but actually land assessments are the easiest part. Pennsylvanian mayors are on record that assessment changes (both technical and legal) almost completely evaporate from shifting from buildings to land.
Regarding modifiable, fluid, math notation editor - I heard of this post through a friend and would like to bring your attention to the Graspable Math Canvas with embedded Desmos graphing features: https://graspablemath.com/canvas?load=_607afeebfb63a5be
(Sorry if my formatting is weird, I've never used this platform before).
Unions are at least nominally directly elected by their constituents and beholden to them, which is why they are protected when engaging in politics.

If you think they do not represent them, then maybe the solution is to develop better union structures that are more democratic and representative.

But by and large, teachers do not support the Libertarian party and instead favour the Democratic party, quite heavily in fact. So why is it wrong that their alignment follows their base?
I’m customer for years and I don’t use any of the features you mentioned past the first two; I’m part of the 5$ VM crowd for who this is the killer feature. Should OVH have provided on-demand instead of yearly plans for VPS I would have stayed there as I’ve my domains there already.
> a wired RJ45 ethernet port is not a thick connector.

……………
You can only decrease entropy locally by increasing total entropy, hence look for an entropy source.