jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the difference between Reddit and 8chan, the difference, is the lack of a voting system. Consider that Reddit, after any post has three more downvotes than upvotes (score of -2), by default, that post will be hidden. Most Reddit users browse not logged in (according to their own stats), and of those that are, most have this "threshold" option still turned on, and it leads to more echo chambering since views that are unpopular will simply go unseen. Another plague is that people will go through your comment history and attempt to use that to discredit you.

On any *chan style imageboard, this isn't a thing. You can hide posts that you don't like, but by design, all posts are equal. If someone posts something you don't like, your options are to ignore it or respond to it, but it's there, in the open, for all to see.

This, I think, is the better system, combined with the default anonymous posting style of these boards that completely ensures that any post is judged on its merits, rather than the identity of its poster. That's not say that board culture doesn't exist, it does, but it exists purely socially, rather than being a feature of the software. The things I've seen happening on YouTube and G+ and Facebook have convinced me that existence of a coherent identity has zero impact on people's behavior.
"Adult entertainment" and, no, I am not joking.

That would be a major market for this technology.
No RT! That's harsh, but the truth is dropping RT like a bad habit is the best thing they could do. Sucks for anyone who bought a copy on a cheap tablet, though.
If the projection surface in front of the eye is also an LCD, it's possible to block out part of the background at the same time you project something onto it. I don't know what happens in this particular product, but from the Mars demo, it sounds like they can do some display of dark objects:

"The sun shines brightly over the rover, creating short black shadows on the ground beneath its legs."

It's possible that they are just getting that effect by making the Mars surface bright, but they could also be actively blocking light from the shadow regions. We'll have to wait for more details.
It is truly amazing how bloated most webpages are these days.
Why? That still uses intervals instead of real time indexes.
The NLP one can be found online, for free, here: http://www.nltk.org/book
I was on a road-trip with my daughter when we drove past the (unfortunately named) Ashland, Talent and (also oddly named) Phoenix, Oregon on Highway 99 shortly after the fires had gone through. What a depressing thing to see. We just stared out the window at the embers of homes right off the freeway. It was unreal.

Pretty sure Google Maps is still showing satellite imagery from the fire.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2414708,-122.7733287,616m/da...
As a professional software engineer, I always found I generally spent more time thinking than actually typing. I'm curious, what kinds of technical roles require such a large amount of typing?
When was that ever not the case?
Someone would sue you, and as a result you would get the best press ever. Sued for being too scary, heh.
I agree, but what would be the driving force for a tech-savvy guy to go work for the start-up, which I think start-ups most require. I am referring about the web-based companies here :)
Part of me thinks Google may be another contender but they don't seem to be investing as much as FB and Apple (correct me if I'm wrong). It's a real shame if they get left behind seeing as they seem to have a lot of the components of what could be a compelling AR experience (maps, translations, google lens, etc.). If Facebook's AR glasses catch on then Google could find themselves in the same position Microsoft was in during the Android/Windows Phone era.
I agree Scalia wrote very tight opinions, but his personal biases were in such intense conflict with the actual constitution that the internal consistency just dosn't make it fly for me. But I see your point.
No, only RM1, but TBF no one has tried much low-level stuff with RM2.
They have a bad data structure in it that it's so low.
Saw UTM for iOS, got excited, only to find out it's not available in the App Store, and I have no Mac to build it with.

Oh well.
The biggest thing you pay for in the Bloomberg Terminal is the chat function, which lets you talk to other people who also have $25,000 a year to spend on a Bloomberg Terminal.

But this is still pretty cool :)
How are you paying ransom-ware then, if not for crypto-cash?
Yes, there can be cases. Though many of them can be addressed with encryption, e.g. just creating a two factor auth.

The added threshold part is often not easy to justify vs, something like having two factors (data and key) and backups of each.

It's also the case that my link is specific to Bitcoin where there are really good alternatives.
Software is economically worthless without making it artificially scarce. A lot of "software innovation" is not about building better software, but building software you can charge for, which means "walled gardens", patents, DRM, license servers, anti-tampering mechanisms, and the like. In essence all content (music, movies, software, books, etc) follows the same pattern.

Note that profit-driven entities can give away software, but only if it supports another artificially scarce good. Google rents space on its search tool, as Facebook rents space on its social media tool. Ad space is scarce, and made more valuable the more Google and Facebook give away (which is proportional to the attention they capture).

But devs generally don't like artificial scarcity, so the platforms need a path in for them. I think Apple demonstrates this most clearly: the iPad and iPhone are software consumption devices, but the Mac is also a software creation device, and therefore is generally more open, free, and changeable.
Yes and yes; all other things equal, performance will be a lot worse when using Python. And you'll need Python installed.
I also want to add that the behavior is different: holding the right mouse button then releasing closes the native context menu, but doesn't close the Firefox context menu. Going into "mission control" closes the native context menu, but not the Firefox context menu. There are a few other differences as well.

Basically, they are not at all the same.
How many plays should it take to earn a dollar? I don't know anything about the music industry.
You're right, benhurmarcel. My input here has come to nothing, and it wasn't a good input to begin with.
I wish there was a retract option.
Look up grand solar minimum.
>computers are ample fast enough to look up columns by name!

Sure, but depending on number of records and/or implementation of the name lookup, it can add up over a large resultset, or have a slightly cost over many smaller queries.

Mind you, I think -most- implementations are smart enough to only need to do the lookup once for a returned datareader, but the cost is still there.
Maybe you belong to that alternate reality.
I don't think you're being very fair. There's no single entity that is "the media." Individual journalists and yes, publications have been at various times principled arbiters of truth. Obviously, there has been quite a bit of sensationalism and yellow journalism as well.

There is currently very well written and researched fact-based reporting. What we lack is consensus. So, the truth is out there currently. But many people don't believe, or haven't heard it. (and, not relevant to the point you're making, but I believe that many people cannot understand the truth in the first place, unless the truth happens to be a simple moral narrative. ie, "one person was bad, and another person was good.")
“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.”
I live in SF. The company I worked at, which you’ve heard of, shed all its contractors on Friday. One week into the shelter in place. i just moved back here to take the gig a few months ago. Now I have a Bay Area rent obligation with little probability of finding a job until this is over, and then some.

I keep saying wait one or two “1st of the month” milestones, see how things look. That’s where my own decisioning is headed.
Likewise in Australia. I suspect this study hints that person to person transmission is not affected but that the virus has lower viability via surface spread in hot and humid climates.

Australia is much more densely packed in Urban areas than other countries like India and in spite of favorable weather conditions the person to person transmission is high. They haven't enforced the shelter in place yet
> I know there's much better ways of testing load/performance.

such as

https://github.com/giltene/wrk2
In the UK? Do you know the relevant law and could provide a link?

I briefly looked at the legal side of offering public Wi-Fi (essentially becoming an ISP) and besides debunking a ton of BS (turns out you don’t need to collect traffic data unless explicitly ordered by the government, and sign-in pages/captive portals/ToS aren’t necessary either) I never even heard of the IWF.

Curious how this law would apply to the ISPs providing connectivity to dedicated servers.
You have a never ending set of goals. You sound like a classic goal oriented person, but you don’t derive satisfaction from discipline which is the only strategy that works for continuous goals.

Shift your strategy and aim for the simplest possible task, it’s gonna hurt your ego but you have to do this if you’re seriously asking:

Pick the easiest thing on that list (reading that book for example) and aim to read 1 paragraph every day.

In fact, start with 1 sentence every day. It sounds insulting right? You just need a framework for doing the same thing everyday and gaining satisfaction from that, even if it’s just one sentence. Your ego is totally in the way.
OK, thanks for the feedback.

When you sign up via facebook you get 200 points. I'll add a feature where you can create an anonymous account for less points so you can try it out.

It's completely free, so you don't have to pay for anything.

You can put up a bounty by creating a challenge. Hit 'Submit' on the top to submit a new challenge. Yeah it's an arbitrary amount that you decide.
[Mac only]

Of that list, I'm pretty impressed with (and just bought) Divvy - it elegantly improves window resizing/moving options for Mac users.
Insurance is based on statistics. The insurance company is making a bet across a large number of people that the people will pay them more than they'll have to pay out.

If you're already afflicted with some illness (a 'preexisting condition') then the insurance company has a pretty good idea of what you'll cost them: more than someone like me, who's young and relatively healthy. So naturally, the rate for someone like this is significantly higher.

This becomes a problem when people think of 'insurance' as something that's a prerequisite for life rather than what it is, insurance. This is partially because as more and more people received insurance, the price kept rising and rising, because the individuals don't see them: they only see the deductible. By now, costs are getting to be so high that it's become a reality: you pretty much have to have insurance, because if you don't, and you get seriously ill, you're pretty fucked. Like, "will be owing money the rest of your life."

You hear "pre-existing condition" a lot because it became a political buzzword used to explain why Republicans want to kill your grandma.
For the record, that is one thing I don't like about 2.0 - I rather have less required build tools. Frontend development is getting quite complex, and I fear that it makes it harder to build up competent developers in the long term - it's already hard enough to teach friends trying to learn about everything else in development.

I am fine working with this sort of tooling myself, but it is more of a concern coming from a lead/senior engineer viewpoint.
Maybe this will be interesting to the author, a complete re-think of computers starting from the hardware level by HP Labs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPQ1AheNro8
I tried to drive in India on the highway after 15+ years living in the US. The highway was mostly empty, I was beginning to gain confidence and upped the speed (barely close to what I'm used to driving here). Out of nowhere, a truck came hurtling down in the opposite direction on the exact lane I was driving in. Had I not been alert, my entire family would have been decimated. Immediately handed the wheel back to my FIL.
In my very first developer job, I was creating a backend for a social media-type phone app. This was sort of a skunk works project that the founder and "Chief Innovation Officer" of a successful company wanted to do on the side, but he only had the budget for a couple of juniors.

Anyway, I didn't know a lot of things, so at one point I got the test environment and production environment tangled up in the code. I don't even remember the details of this confusion and I'm not sure I'd be capable of understanding how this was possible, but the long and the short of it is that one time the boss came down and asked something like "Why am I a horse?", and the answer was that he was being logged in as a user on the test environment which had a name that was a horse pun and a horse for a profile picture. Fun times.
What really concerns me is the following: If you know how I select people, you can assume that all of them are good in their job. Nobody was selected because of their background or color of their skin.

But if you hire for diversity, you can start questions why certain people are there. Because they are good at their job, or to satisfy the diversity?

So in practice, you are discrediting those people, and maybe they don't like to be judged like that.

So in effect, such teams that hire for diversity probably end up least diversified.
>>> Compared to the mass public, the biggest difference between rationalists and everyday Americans is almost certainly that Americans are very religious.

Oddly enough, the people I've known from the past generation who were the most skillful and verbose rationalists were all educated at Catholic universities. I'm not sure they were all still religious by the time I met them. My uncle could demolish any idea or argument.
> A lot of immediate mode "scroll view" systems just have a child lambda passed with an index for which element to render

This sounds a lot like paintEvent() in traditional OO-style GUI systems; i.e. event-driven.

So my understanding now is that with immediate-mode callbacks happen within the scope of a function-call rather than from some event-loop. I probably have to look into it deeper to get a good understanding. It is still unclear where state is stored (e.g. for the position of a scroll-view), and if state is passed through the function call tree on every frame.
Check this page out and let me know if you can figure out how to login to https://www.rackspace.com/login?

It's the worst login page I've ever seen... Any ideas how to login?
Today is Valentines Day. And a Sunday. Living in the USA, I have the luxury to acknowledge Christ, and love. Faith is doing what Adam could not do. Whether good things happen or not, humanity will always find paradise by limiting the violence and not creating it. From there arrives hope, knowing you found paradise while others are not. Their actions are not yours, and you wish them the best. Both annihilate the self, replacing it with paradise. Both require effort. Greater than both is love, not license, or the soft New Age. What's seen in nature, in Renaissance masters. Overwhelming power that dwarfs people, melting away one's faults with cherishment by someone else who's better in every way. No mysticism required with humanistic religion. Something more powerful lets me live. We exist because of forgiveness. That's good enough.

Authoritarians, their unchecked ambition, unrestrained by laws replace life with nothing. To them, a place with plagues and murder is a good place. Billions of people are something to be processed, to be mined for hollow celebrity and ambitious license unrestrained by laws. A genetic weapon released from a communist military lab??? Everyone is very lucky they're still breathing. This could have easily killed the world. And for what? A 1% margin on soy bean prices? Americans, people we trusted with power and money rushed to defend their precious marxism like some teenage girl catfished by jihadis in 2014.

Since everyone gets to what they want, I'm going to emit a matter wave into the center of the sun. The sub orbits a black hole. I make it so the surface of that black hole is a faster, easier path than completing an orbit around it. I expand that to the surface of the Earth for gravity applications, coherent control of pair production. All observable celestial bodies are thermal effects of what's here on Earth.

It's one thing to mine an asteroid with fuel cells and drones. It's another thing to microwave it out of the sky, as if I command the weather around us, the clouds above, and even the great heavenly bodies themselves!!!
Ok, I see it. For the record, I would love Python as replacement for VBA.

I also agree on quality.

What I do not see is the value added to improve quality.
The duplicate detection is based on the URL.

Also not quite sure why I've been downvoted - but - as I said above, in my opinion, the whole thread has a nasty tone to it. So I probably shouldn't be shocked. (Was it in retaliation for something? Honestly, I don't get it)

If I were more concerned about Karma than discussion I'd have just kept my head down and STFU (or is that meant to be "TITS or GTFO"?).

The cost of an article submission is LOW, there are thousands of visitors to HN per day who can choose to vote things up or not as appropriate. An volunteer "mechanical turk" separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of finding articles of value for reading on the front page.

Why then should we worry in any way if something gets submitted a second time? Why imply anyone's done anything wrong by participating in the community or attempting to bring something of value to the table?

The "Here's the list, now stop submitting anything on it" sentiment from the headline comes across with a tremendous chip on it's shoulder.

Is really just me that is getting that?

It is my strong opinion that this place (Hacker News) should be a little more humble than that. Oh, and a whole lot nicer.
Just wait for SiFive and RISC-V, that's going to be the revolution I'll join :)
You’ve made the same point about scarcity here but i think most people just can’t buy it. It is literally not scarce
Elasticsearch existed for years without any authentication on its community tier version, with xpack behind a call with a sales rep and a heavy pocketbook. These days, authentication is provided after you enable the free xpack plugin, but it is not enabled by default and their install guide doesn't exactly point it out to you right away. It starts delving into JVM tuning options before it even references there's this xpack thing you may want to look into.
If you follow this line of thought, the conclusion seems to be that if Facebook were to run ads for illegal drugs, explosives, or humans, it would simply be an indication that some country should be enforcing it's laws better. And Facebook would be totally in clear to continue showing those ads.

This seems obviously wrong.
Death insurance is not compulsory and I'm not sure why the OP pointed out health insurance. I was just pointing out that it is expensive, independent whether you are self-employed or not.
From Lab Escaped Covid to Now Carbon: China Emits More Carbon in 2 Weeks Than Australia Does in One Year
Ok. I tried to help. I hope you figure it out eventually.
Market cap has several issues. Most companies are private. The market cap is likely to tank before any major fine. Company size is a proxy for how much stuff their doing so a minor fine for an individual restaurant is wildly overkill applied all of McDonalds revenue.

Finally, it promotes using lots of subsidiaries to firewall risks from fines which adds a lot of pointless overhead to the economy.
Optional types are a good example of how types make a system safer. Sure, they are a pretty low-level guarantee, but that still counts—
As an Iranian interested in opensource and free software, I thank you for Gitlab.
It is devastating that this was a thing to begin with. But I'm happy that at least we can pull/push again!
Happy coding.
Edit: I misread the OP. But the message is still the same, thank you for Gitlab.
There’s nothing wrong with idealistic freedoms or rights in a vacuum. Of course we don’t live in a vacuum, and most non-trivial and realistic situations are about finding the balance between different freedoms or rights, not about their boolean existence.
You realize the above is simply handwaving, right?

Yes, we do need more housing. We also need to efficiently use the one we already have.
Blame Apple. Safari still doesn't support the Web Audio API in a standard compliant way. it's been 10 yrs since the Web Audio API shipped and it's still only available in Safari as "webkitAudioContext" instead of just "AudioContext"

My guess is that's not the only place Safari falls short for this demo. You also need WebGL2 which Apple has only shipped behind a flag this year. Firefox and Google shipped without a flag 4 years ago
It's somewhat difficult to get Japanese police to even investigate crimes. I once had my pocket picked, went to the police station to report it, and they basically refused to mark it as theft and recorded it as lost instead.
Spanish is also a very good choice for testing. I used it to see if a POS Terminal can handle the translations on small screens.
A related term that seems to have fallen out of existence is "Pneumatic Donkulator."
Will they at least keep existing pages up as static content for historical and archival purposes? Yahoo Answers had some really useful comments on it.

> Your Yahoo Answers data download will return all user-generated content including your Questions list, Questions, Answers list, Answers, and any images. You won't be able to download other users' content, questions, or answers.

I guess not. Shame.
https://www.donationcoder.com/
- Maybe they want to move into it later.

- Maybe they haven't found a suitable tenant yet.

- Maybe they are holding it open for a friend or family member.

- Maybe they want to do some renovations before renting it out.

- Maybe they want to sell the property and it's easier to sell without an existing tenant.

I can think of lots of reasons.
No, an RV's interior is about using lightweight materials and a design that can "flex" with the vehicle. Something like this would add too much weight, thus making it more of a R (ie it wouldn't be able to move).
Nice, but it features one if my pet hates - field errors in modal dialogs. This requires the user to memorise a list of errors (4 in this example) but you can't act on the message until you've clicked OK, and once you dismiss the dialog, you lose the message.
It would be nice if they supported moving the metadata of mpeg4s to the front of the file. I use mp4box today just for this which is fine I suppose--I'd just prefer to not have to use it.
It seems to be an indicator of when are arbitrary rules more important than the game itself... If you do things which make you lose in a normal game, just to satisfy some organisational requirement, it gives an impression that the rules are either not thought through, or there are too many dependencies that make the game itself matter less.

In this example - either winning or losing by one goal meant winning, but not doing anything meant losing... which goes completely against the basic rule of the game (team scoring more goals wins).
You can't have a touchscreen phone without OS support.
I'll be there. I'm currently working on:

- A realtime anonymous chat site (Tornado, message queues)

- Python OpenXML support (the docx module)