jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hope this doesn't sound deliberately obtuse, but can we be specific about the parts of the social media space (and probably Facebook specifically) that feed this?

- I don't think private or group chat is on the hook.

- I think that if group "pages" are responsible, then this at least potentially applies to BBSes and mailing lists and any blog with a comment section. Along this argument it sounds like Facebook is responsible because it's big, lightly moderated, and easy to use -- none of which I find particularly egregious. (Should we expect every website to fail at least one of those three conditions?)

- I think that leaves the "news feed algorithm" argument. That the content (news, ads, friends' posts) you see is tailored for engagement. I think this argument is the one most commonly held. I disagree with it, but it's the one I'm most partial to.

Are there other parts of social media that deserve the blame?
It’s hard to be sure of anything that happened so long ago, but there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence, and scholars almost universally agree that there was at least a person by that name doing things in the area at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of... are two good places to start.
Django is much larger with its ORM, template system, admin site, and so on.

Feature-wise it seems close to Flask. I suspect that Flask is more opinionated than Falcon: it requires the Jinja2 template library and your project may end up with a tight coupling with Flask if you use its blueprint system or don't think through how you use Flask's context variables flask.request and flask.g (Flask tries to be too clever here IMO).

Falcon looks more like a library than a framework to me and its design seems less likely to affect how you structure projects compared to Django in particular but also Flask.
Mueller himself said he made no determination on collusion.
you still have to pay taxes to irs - taxes paid elsewhere
oh how the mighty have fallen
Telegram is quite popular in India too - especially for group communication since it has a much higher membership limit. A lot of the Whatsapp groups I was part of have now moved there.
An N to Y mutation is associated with tighter specificity in binding protein protein interfaces. An E to K mutation is changing the surface charge from negative to positive so it shouldn't be surprising that it reduces antibody's ability to recognize, assuming it's in the most recognized pocket. Hopefully this will be a relatively easy cut and paste into the existing vaccine cassette if it turns out to spread really widely.
Comparing Google and Apple to the local pub is disingenuous. Google alone could buy all the pubs in the UK with its one-year revenue (or one-year profit, if my calculations are correct)
And ease of mobility/transportation/cost of storage too. The mRNA vaccines will be difficult to administer in India due to the refrigeration requirement for sub zero storage.

Anyone can be trained to give the nasal drops. It’s like the polio drops. Mobile clinics can access rural areas to deliver it quickly and to everyone.

My mom says that twice a week someone comes around for health checks. Esp for senior citizens. For obvious symptoms like fever, cold, flu symptoms etc. they record it and are responsible for 10-15 streets(500 approx homes a day, I’d imagine).

They are not even nurses. They are community health workers. They just document ‘community health’. They can just easily go to every home to deliver the vaccines.

I can’t imagine anything like this for the USA. Don’t know how this kind of grassroot health check is possible in a 1.4 billion country and we can’t manage it in the states. Just woolgathering and pondering. Not enough data to make a meaningful comment or observation.
That's why it has been labelled a "failed coup".

It didn't work. But they all thought it would. Unless this is the most method-acting troll I've ever seen, those who barged into the chambers with zip-tie restraints and tasers truly believed they were there to facilitate the overthrow of the legislature and keep their leader in power.

It was an attempted coup, and a failed one.
Ninja is a carefully tuned system that befits the name "software engineering". I highly recommend reading Ninja chapter of the book The Performance of Open Source Applications.

http://aosabook.org/en/posa/ninja.html
CRUD apps. ... the bane of enterprise programmers and managers everywhere. Yes, they can be banged out quickly, but will they scale? Dear god the problems I've seen when a stupidly architected CRUD app suddenly had hundreds of gigs of data or tens of millions of records in a poorly designed database.
I did do something similar to stacklead, but returning an xml document, as opposed to receiving an email. Not sure about the accuracy of stacklead against what I have done.
You can check it at https://www.bankaccountchecker.com/apiSocial.php?email=alain...
This is my own email address, so it should not be a problem.
If you are using your own email address, please ensure that you are replacing @ by %40
What gives sonic more power against wiretapping with gag orders?
Okay. In my doctoral school and the 3 or 4 other that I know of (because friends are there) it's not possible to register as a PhD student without an income justification (you of course don't need to provide it if you are paid by state or one of the universities/school to which the doctoral school is attached). I wasn't entirely sure if it was just a coincidence or if it was the law. Thanks for clarifying this.

BTW, just saw your webpage: hi from an Ulmite to a Cachanais ;).
"Microsoft word on a macbook, and your penultimate version of a file is not backed up."

Your comments makes me think that neither you nor your wife knew about tracking changes in office documents:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/track-changes-wh...

But then considering that the unfortunate loss of data happened after an already lengthy sequence of manual actions, I wouldn't be surprised if the "o crap" would come after a longer sequence that involves disabling whatever should have been prevented the unpleasant events. I'm sorry for the loss, but I don't find my profession responsible more than I would find a car designer/engineer responsible for a car accident caused by driver's deficient attention.
I'm with you here. I reread the entire post to see what I might've missed and it's bugging me that I don't know his magic sauce.
By the way, how would you go about getting work from real clients? I can easily get work on elance but I find it hard to make the switch to "real" clients.

I'm a generalist, should I find some sort of niche? Or should I raise my rates to attract better clients?
I'm looking into polygot markup for an api at the moment. This makes lots of sense and explains the idiosyncrasies that easily confuse me.
Hi wrath,
thanks for your feedback.

I'll update the Guide to make it more clear, the flow is:

1) You download the Library.

2) Write your implementation, in a PHP file that includes the Library, without caring about handling HTTP requests, verbs, errors, serializing responses, etc.

3) At this point you have declared some methods, as usual, and in an XML file you specify the name of those you want to distribute and automatically the Library creates a REST API for your methods that handles all the API stuff for you.

4) Just tell us the URL where the Library is located, and that's it. Without uploading anything.

SSL Support: Just put the library under SSL on your server.

Reporting: We'll extend our platform with API analytics.

Here are some samples: http://www.mashape.com/guide/publish/php#samples
Which unnecessary body parts are those? The appendix is there to repopulate the intestines with beneficial bacteria when they get wiped out. Extra kidneys, lungs, etc., are there because that's what naturally happens with bilateral symmetry, and provide useful redundancy. I'm having trouble thinking of other "unnecessary" ones.
https://github.com/SocketTornadIO/SocketTornad.IO
Sometimes WiFi is flaky and turn it off in favour of 3G (maybe the router needs a reset, or cable internet is out).

For some unknown reason Scrabble recommends that you turn WiFi off and BlueTooth on to play multiplayer w/ an iPad as the board. It's an odd request but I do it anyway.

When I leave the office my iPhone can see the office base station even when I'm kitty-corner waiting for the bus, but the signal isn't strong enough to work so I have to turn WiFi off.

In order to check my wireless usage w/ Rogers' iPhone app they require me to be on 3G. It's lame but that's how they roll so I have to go along with it.

Sometimes once it's off I forget about it because I have a 6G data plan which I haven't been able to burn up even using Grooveshark for a couple of hours a day. Then if I want to do something on a LAN at home or work I need to turn WiFi on.

I leave 3G and BlueTooth on all the time. Some of my friends turn BT off when they're not using it and I try not to hassle them about it. It doesn't wear your battery down unless you're using, in my experience anyway. So less savvy users want to do this kind of thing too, not just us nerds. :)
For anyone else who was wondering why the one really important piece of information was completely missing from the website, here it is:

libgit2 is under GPL2 with linking exemption, which basically means you can link to the library with any program, commercial, open source or other. However, you cannot modify libgit2 and distribute it without supplying the source.
Maybe take a look at this then: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Vimpulse but it all really matters how much and which way you use vim.
Curious. All of the advice I've read about women in the work place contradicts this assertion. To wit, that women tend to be TOO candid, and should restrain this compulsion in order to thrive.
This depends on your product / idea. Both Android and iPhone have a substantial install base, why not pick one and test first?

If you get traction, then expand etc. Choose the platform that makes more sense for your app (capabilities, payment options).

As for outsourcing, depends on the complexity of the app. Basic apps you could use a consultant off CL for some quick prototyping.

IMHO using consultants is OK, if
(a) speed is essential,
(b) you can build and test the code yourself, but just don't have the time
(c)Make sure you have a rock-solid contract
Being paranoid does not mean they are not targeting you.
Some of them are though:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/agent-storm-m... (second paragraph before the end)

FTR, I don't believe we should compromise everyone for these cases. Clearly traditional HUMINT is still viable.
S/PDIF has a parity bit, and the control messages use a CRC, but otherwise there is no error correction. I'm not really sure how "lossless" it is, but it's a pretty neat trick regardless.
It seems to me that we should really be looking for browsers to compile (or at least appear to compile, even if they skip this as an optimization) Javascript into a lower-level 'assembly' language, so that Dart can be made to compile to the same form. A LLVM for browsers, basically.

JS is a terrible assembly language. But the work that's been done on making it passable for that purpose is remarkable, so we're getting by with it.
A Google engineer just got a call: add a case statement for this guy's site.
1. The practice of programming

2. Advanced programming in the unix environment
But you'd have to do that for each brand that he sells. It's not the DecorMyEyes keyword that people are getting the "wrong" result for.
piracy is probably a big enough problem to make the aforementioned potential solutions a lesser evil.

Got any particular citations for that? I happen to think exactly the opposite, that we've already gone way to far to mititage an almost non-existent problem.

I'm dreading the day when I can't use "bittorrent" to download the latest Slackware distribution, because using "bittorrent" automatically makes you a theif.
I don't think that social media is a zero-sum game. I mean, it doesn't really matter how many pageviews your competitors are getting as long as it gets you more. The point of business is to build businesses, not to destroy other peoples'.

If we were selling cars, then preventing competitors from selling cars would likely mean that you sell more cars. However, if I view an article on reddit then I'm not really taking anything away from digg (except probably a view of that exact article).
Which basically proves the point that "Intellectual Property" isn't property: not everybody has even a similar view of what the phrase denotes.
That guy's like the opposite of Zappos' Tony Hsieh and his odds of a big exit for his company (or any long term profit after lawsuits, etc.) are also the opposite.
I agree that the trend of single-language package managers is unwelcome, but that doesn't mean that package management as a field doesn't need to innovate. And building package manager that can co-exist with systems own package manager is a lot easier in many ways than building a new distro at the same time.
As somebody in the newspaper business, I think it's very unreasonable. Editors also put a lot of effort into choosing good font faces, weights and sizes, but you're insane if you think you own the copyright on mixing 11.3 pt Minion Pro-Demi with 12 pt Balboa-Bold. The fact of the matter is, it may in fact be an excellent and highly creative look, but it's still unreasonable to copyright something that simple.

Headlines are even worse, because they're the piece's name. If headlines fall under copyright, it becomes potentially illegal to talk about a news article. That makes copyrighting a standard font library look downright logical.
Starbucks has a separate China app. I suspect a part of this is due to app size because there are regions specific SDKs. Another is likely security. Regulations in some countries require data to be shared with the government and they don't want SDKs that collect this data to be included in more privacy focused regions.
Sadly I think you're right, there is no sign of a return to the Iran deal even, let alone an actual change of policy there. This is housekeeping at most.
Isn't that a good sign? I prefer people investing in new tech than killing people just to stay in the old tech.

The more they are able to diversify their profits away from oil towards renewables (or other assets), the faster we all can transition to cleaner tech.
Simulations and modelling are great! They are a powerful way to generate and explore hypotheses.

Neuroscience has a lot of success this way. The properties of cones, the cells that detect colored light, were accurately modeled from behavioral experiments (e.g., people matching paint chips) in the 1800s, even though we didn't have the technology to measure them until the 1960s-1980s. The Hodgkin-Huxely model of action potential generation from the 1950s is still incredibly useful and predicted aspects of ion channel structure that took decades to confirm. David Robinson measured the physical forces produced by eye movements and used that to predict, and then reverse engineer, huge aspects of the "oculomotor plant". Real neurons have incredibly complicated behaviors, and yet artificial neural network models, where those are reduced down to a sigmoid or ReLu, have been very informative, first in the 1980s and then again today.

On the other hand, attempts to produce highly realistic simulations haven't really panned out. The Blue Brain Project has spent tons of time, money, and compute on very detailed simulations, but I think the consensus is that we have not learned a ton from these efforts. One of the most interesting outcomes (IMO) is actually the atlas that was built to build the model. There are probably many reasons for this difference, ranging from technical things like uncertainty propagation to very human expectations about what a model "should" be able to do.

In the specific context of C elegans, there's some data showing that diffusing peptides are essential for certain worm behaviors (e.g., Chen et al, 2013: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...). The other mechanisms I mentioned are certainly there too. How much they matter is still up in the air: even for very simple organisms, we're still at the stage of figuring out what we don't know!
Not OP, but

* US military action anywhere

* CIA kidnapping and torture of US and non-US nationals

* US sponsored regimes and regime changes around the world

That's a decent start.
Trump continued (and even increased) the drone killings, but removed the reporting requirements. Calling it the "Obama-era drone killings" ignores the unprecedented amount of killings under the previous administration.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-kill...
You aren't exhibiting a finally tuned sense of ethics.

Exactly which ethical principle(s) are you following?

This seems like a 5 minutes of thought kind of solution to an incredibly complex problem.

North Korea can buy/steal/grow the knowledge they need. They already have nukes, and are working on missiles. I think the notion that we should sanction education (on top of the existing sanctions) is just playing by the already broken playbook we (the rest of the world) have been to date. We are feeding their propaganda machine on how evil we are.

Just a question, how is the DPRK any MORE evil than other states the US happily does business with? (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, China, etc) What in particular makes them evil?

I agree that it is a messed up situation and some horrible shit is going on. But I also have a feeling we are being manipulated by the media.
Eh, it's different. Nobody denies that.

In practice I don't significantly care about the "record problem" in Haskell. It is a pain sometimes, but it is not so bad a pain to trade in complexity everywhere like one would have to to use one of these "batteries included" record replacements.
As libraries they're alright.
.. having advertised Powershell upthread, I found it fell on its face at the last hurdle. I wanted to grep a file, and discovered that the default output formatters will either truncate or wrap lines, even when directed into a file. This is wrong and destroys data. I ended up with

Select-String " 23:56.00" -Path .\input.txt | ForEach-Object { Write-Output $_.Line } | Out-File outpu.txt
Depending on where you are and how good you are, 5% (or 2.5% semi-annually) annually is likely low. Any competent developer should be able to negotiate $5000+ raises in 6-12 months based on performance (or jump to a job paying much better).
I love that such a simple equation has such incredibly beautiful and complex behavior - and that nobody noticed until like 50 years ago. What else is out there, right under our noses?
> And is probably smaller than the original device's power supply.

It's smaller than the VMS installation tape cartridge ;-)
Oops, my own writing wasn't clear. I left off the end of the sentence. I meant to say: PG's essay was clearer to me, as a Canadian, than it seems to have been to other people here on Hacker News (who generally oppose it)

Your essay was clear!
You're adding an extra step, unnecessarily complicating your idea.

The blackmail information doesn't need to be passed to a third party. It can be brought directly to bear on problematic government officials by the NSA.

All they would need to do is make the senator understand that a record of all correspondence and browsing history exists.

Considering about 5% of the population has some pedophilic tendency, and estimates are around 10% of people have an incest fetish, 10% of people are estimated to be gay yet only Tammy Baldwin is out in the senate, lots of successful people do drugs, and everyone else has tons of relatives who may or may not have those problems, you can not underestimate the power wielded by someone with access to all our communications.

It's too great a power to comprehend. And someone wouldn't even have to be consciously doing ill to exploit it. I imagine that anyone in the position would believe they're protecting the USA from terrorism, and righteously punishing the deviants by leveraging their 'sins' while unconsciously building the infrastructure for future tyranny.

Furthermore, I've only listed the problems I think could be discovered through software. We aren't getting into conspiracy theory stuff like what would happen if you put a secret team of 10 analysts and 20 lawyers to work for a year looking to find laws broken by the members of the legislative branch. I mean, Hoover has been dead for a while, right?
This is article was simply terrible. It was written by a guy that calls himself an "energy philosopher." This philosopher does not work off facts, and has not seen the data. The well-to-wheel efficiency for a Tesla is approximately double the well-to-efficiency of a 55mpg Toyota Prius. The efficiency of providing gas to a station from the raw source is much higher than the efficiency of electricity generation and transmission. However, electric motors are so much more efficient that combustion engines, that electric vehicles win in overall efficiency at the end. Don't need to take my word for it, just look at the engineering: http://www.stanford.edu/group/greendorm/participate/cee124/T...
Because when it comes to this topic, normally sensible nerds throw out their good engineering sensibility.
I meant "sales" in the sense that "all jobs are sales jobs." Selling your team on a particular technical approach. Selling your boss on a raise. Heck, even selling a member of the appropriate gender on hooking up is "sales"; you're just the product you're selling in that case.
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I agree with striking about Go and Rust. But I think Python and Ruby is not going anywhere soon. Most large systems still use Java (or Scala) right now so this is a good skill too
Until there are actual consequences, people will just keep trying.
Agreed, the first half of MLK’s famous “a riot is a language of the unheard” quote states that the conditions existing in America which foment riots “must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots.”

Our collective goal should always be to resolve the conditions that lead to rioting. But when a riot occurs it should be stopped and dispersed as safely and expediently as possible.
While I don't entirely disagree, it does imply that intersectionality by this definition is dehumanizing, which I don't think we should infer, unless we should? (many would agree) Otherness is a historical human norm, but it's very possible your examples are also a necessary condition.

Othering and deception, are necessary conditions, unless there is an example of a massacre where these were not present. The sufficient conditions, who knows, I think that's in the details of the otherness and psychopathy of the leadership, but the sufficient conditions to make it possible are more complex.
Yes, I like to buy my machines 2nd hand but I'm not going to touch anything with that keyboard.
I was the first person to allow bitcoin donations for music and netted roughly $10 at the time, which today would be worth nearly half a million dollars. I happened to be lucky my interests in emerging tech and music lined up when I had an album finished. So I'm definitely an artist who has benefited from cypto. That said, I've read a few NFT FAQs and this seems wholly pointless and idiotic.
I'm not. But you could ask them. Except nobody is asking. That's the point.