jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. There's always scope for improvement especially in the field of accessibility. I was just highlighting that people should never think that "everything has already been done" because it really hasn't.
Dunno if it's a regional thing or what but the last month of Android YouTube has been just insane with ads. I used to only get video ads, then earlier this year got a little banner below the video that was about the ad that played before the video.

But now I have entire blocks of totally unrelated traditional-style ads for nothing YouTube or video related (like women's shoes) in the suggestions section.
"no politics" is still a political position established by the programming authors as a form of control.
> It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living.

So, invalid?

Selling organs is such a curious example because people present it thinking it's a completely clear-cut case. But it's nowhere close:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Ethical_debate_for...

https://www.npr.org/2008/05/21/90632108/should-we-legalize-t...

Please note that you don't have to be persuaded that organ trade can be good, just understand that it's very far from obviously and always being bad.
Overall I agree with you, my comment is just pointing out that this kind of tricks are dangerous, Cool McCool style, use at your own risk and so. Things you stop doing after your first million bugs fixed.
By all means, steal ideas from math. (Great artists, etc.) Math has had a couple thousand years practice in learning how (and how not to) express abstract ideas as formal written text.

But don’t abuse math. Like redefining summation to mean any old thing under the sun. Least of all when it’s a fricking union, for which the math symbol is ‘∪’, not ‘＋’.
What - are they couriering the money from a secure vault in Germany by barge, horse and carriage? I think not. It'd take a day or so to negotiate and then a few hours of banking transfers. Governments around the world are currently engaging in multi-billion to potentially multi-trillion dollar emergency spending programs. There is room for negotiation and cash up front while the company holds all the cards.

It isn't a good idea to fight economics in this crisis; beyond cushioning people in the very short term against quarantines. It will leave everyone in a very uncomfortable place if the incentives push individuals to avoid helping in the next crisis. Or worse; avoiding the entire field. The problem with all these 'experts should give away this lifesaving X for free' ideas is that then only an idiot would try to become a medical expert - anyone smart would try to go to Wall Street where they are allowed to make crazy profits.

The people working on this stuff are doing an insane amount of good. If there aren't a few billionaires minted in the medical community out of this something has gone terribly wrong - the incentives aren't there to guide resources towards preparedness.
> On the other hand I have met quite some folk in the pre-retirement age ~50-65 that are in technical jobs and had 30 years of experience in explaining and understanding things and are passionate about teaching what they've learnt.

Because teaching to everyone and not just the motivated is really freakin' hard. And it takes an amount of energy that most 55+ year olds do not possess.

My father taught high school for 35+ years. The biggest problem was not knowing the material--it was motivating students to want to know the material.

And that is a very rare skill.

And he retired because eventually that skill took too much energy for him to muster up at his age.
Isn't this what React and precursors were invented for?
I presume GP meant that keeping an unruly high-school class on track is... a skill you won't develop in most workplaces. Not literal "babysitting", but a large part of what teachers do, orthogonal to actually conveying content.
From my perspective, it's better as a data structure because I can do more with it.

It's much easier for me to introspect, and I can easily build dynamic state-machines by changing a data structure, take a look at interceptors[0] as an example. There the stack is dynamically alterable based on what is within the request and each piece of middleware can look at the current context, analyse it and behave accordingly.

I write a lot of workflow based systems with dynamically changing functionality based on user input. This sort of thing is invaluable in that context.

- [0]: http://pedestal.io/guides/what-is-an-interceptor
This is ironic, because your posts are part of the problem.
laravel spark
My reading of the article was that it wasn't about Scott at all. It was about the comment sections on Slate Star Codex, the Rationalist community (which the general public knows very little about), and its connection to the centers of power in Silicon Valley.

If you read it as a story about Scott instead of as a story about Silicon Valley, it's less coherent of an article.
Company doesn't pay based on the "value of your work" - it pays based on what other companies would pay you.

Local candidates are scarcer than remote.

Personally, I hate the resulting dynamic. Move to SF and the company basically subsidizes a million dollar mortgage. Move to Manila and your subsidized mansion could be $10k, 100 times less (maybe I'm exaggerating, I have no idea about real estate in the Philippines - but you get the idea). That's insane!

The worst part is that landlords get a huge cut of this, and I don't think they add a fraction of that value to society.

I hope that in the end, with the pandemic, it all balances out to two tiers: on-site and remote. I get that many companies still value attendance, whatever. I just hope that all remote positions balance out globally. It doesn't make sense to pay some guy in Utah twice as much as some guy from Honduras, if neither come into the office.
In the US, teacher to student ratios are generally not fixed. One wchool may have 25 to a class. Another 35.

If you can select only high performing students with fewer individual needs, you can increase the number of students without needing additional staff. Likewise, you can higher fewer or no language teachers, special education teachers, etc.
but also, maybe? http://liliputing.com/2013/07/intel-atom-z3770-bay-trail-chi...

There's some evidence that the new Bay Trail Atom's should be pretty competitive against current ARM stuff.
So wait, now US soldiers must take the blame for one set of terrorists killing other terrorists to prevent the latter from talking? Maybe also the police is to blame when Mafia is killing witnesses? Abu Ghraib abuses are bad, but it looks like you're losing perspective here and try to paint every wrong being done as US fault, no matter who did it or why.
If anything I think we should read this as "Users with a browser toolbar installed are more likely to use yahoo"
NSA builds general purpose computing in massive scales. The bitcoin network is beyond the scope of all of the world's supercomputers combined. I don't have some irrational belief that the NSA has a bunch of ASIC SHA256 devices laying around. They're too late.
I am just curious, what is the difference, in relation to that oath, between "swear" and "affirm" (under which circumstance would one be affirming and not swearing and vice-versa)?
This was a delightful read, but I don't believe accurate. I'm writing this from tokyo at the moment (on vacation) and I haven't experienced any software hiccups.

The fingerprint reader at customs worked fine.

WiFi on the high speed train from Narita worked wonderfully. I signed up on the browser redirection, registered for the 1-day free offer for Visa cardholders, they correctly allowed me access to the CA so the connection was secure and their certificate signed. It was generally quite smooth.

Google Maps' detail in Tokyo is unbelievable. "Ginza line towards Shibuya station. Walk for 2m. Take the stairway down to the 1st floor. Walk for 25m" I am not making this up.
Could this possibly be the reason? http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52805929240/yourname-yahoo-com-...

I went to yahoo for the first time in 3 years because of this opportunity.
the network is the virus
For non-designers, telling whether something is designed well or not usually is a feeling. It would be very helpful if it could be put into words why each logo was in each category. That usually turns a feeling into substance that can be reused.
It is a bad example. Or at least a contrived one. A class with one member, that member being __call__, would be an odd thing to write. Showing how to convert a class which should have been a function all along into a function is not hugely helpful.
"fully supported" and "across all major browsers" don't seem to be in conflict with partial support from various vendors in prior years.
In the case of HCOL places like the Bay Area, yes, perhaps they should move somewhere cheaper. The money they would make from selling their house gives them a lot of options.

As it is today, young families are the ones buying in far out places like Tracy, Stockton, etc., and they still might pay higher property taxes than a retiree in the heart of the Bay Area. It seems backwards to me to have an incentive structure that keeps the labor force farther from work than retirees.
>> "That's using the government..."

The majority of residents of an area using the government to control that area is the pinnacle of democracy.

>> If everyone lived on 3 acres, you know how much truly wild land would be paved over?

Actually, no there's plenty of land in America. Nothing would be paved, it would just be moved to yards (hint yards aren't paved). And if the population doesn't grow, then there's no reason America can't live like that forever.

When excluding illegal immigration, the US population is actually shrinking. There's no need to artificially box ourselves in.
The colour Maximite [1] is a good approximation to this for the modern era. Arm Cortex M7 at 480MHz so quite powerful but not many abstraction layers between user code and the hardware.

More coverage here from the 8-bit guy here. [2]

[1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA7REQxohV4
no, again, the state is the canonical unit of government in the united states of america. states can delegate zoning to localities, termed "local control", but it can also revoke it and madate zoning (or not) at a state level. the federal government is not an umbrella organization, but rather an interstitial one with limited, delegated powers from the collective states.

the feds can regulate pollution generally because it's an interstate (and global) concern, but can't reach into states to coerce zoning directly.
But that’s not the C++ way! /s

In reality, C++ is insanely complicated, and you’d be right about needing to avoid “wankage”, but sum types make sense sometimes. But the C++ committee refuses to do what I would consider sane and implement pattern matching. Instead, they gave us `std::visit` and all the confusion that goes along with it.
Heck yes, I remember LiteStep.

There was also the (commercial) WindowBlinds[1] by StarDock, and; for 10.3/10.4 OSX versions, ShapeShifter by Unsanity.

I used to be obsessed with desktop customization...

[1]https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
[2]https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/unsanity-shapeshifter
Absolutely. I work with C# all the time and I am now working on integrating R statistics and data mining into a SSAS cube product we are doing. Having more seamless integration between .NET, Visual Studio, and R would be amazing.
You? You don't care. The people who pay do. It makes them feel special and gives them something show off.

I think of it like having your name in the credits of a movie. Nobody should care about that, but they do.
The important thing I see in the NFT space is the potential for "speculation all the way down" to occur. You can make tokens for the research paper you just wrote, own one and sell the others. The owners who bought the token have a strong incentive to increase the value of their investment so they create derivative work - new research, inventions, etc. They, too, issue NFTs. On and on this process goes until you reach the finished good or service, at which point the speculative value of everything that went into it is realized. Wouldn't you like to own the ideas of an Einstein? If the original author was a crackpot, of course, the value chain breaks down somewhere in the middle and the token is forgotten. But on the whole, this would be a way of measuring credit that wasn't previously feasible.

In contrast our existing system is an "exploitation" economy instead of a "speculation" economy; the momentary value has high correspondence to enforcement of your property rights through the state and industrial apparatus(laws, marketing, distribution, etc.), and if you cannot afford enforcement you may well never see a dime, while the process of enforcement itself constricts efficient usage. Not everything makes sense as an NFT, but many things could.
That and certain states will force the transition. California being one of them. After 2035 the USPS wont be able to register a new diesel van.
Deliberately fooling people into giving the wrong account numbers for transactions they wanted to make, but to somebody else ("Push Fraud") was a thing in the UK. So, they told the banks to make the previously merely reference value for the recipient's name actually enforced.

If I try to give money to Victoria Smith 12-34-56 0123456789 then the backend will notice that's not Victoria Smith's account, and tell me I need to figure out what I did wrong. Maybe the problem is Victoria married, and is now Victoria Jones, you can clear that up. Maybe I got the number wrong. Maybe she's Victoria Smyth or Smithe and then it'll suggest this was just a typo using some heuristic. Or maybe it's the account of a scammer named Michael Black and the scam fails because the name doesn't match.

This was a bit awkward for my ISP because their name has an ampersand in it, and so of course this means some banks end up believing their name is "Andrews &AMP; Arnold" and similar stupidity. But it's been bedded down now a bit.

This approach leverages a reference for the payee that existed but was previously not checked, plus KYC checks already in place, it's hard these days to open accounts for names that aren't yours or with no apparent credit history for an organisation.
Keep downvoting me, fanboys!
Long live the resistance!
exactly! https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ is the system I'm using on and wanted to avoid writing a resolver in JS
This is probably the final blow to unions. Without sharing a physical place and with many distinct jurisdictions, employees will not get a chance to unionize. Enjoy your serfdom!
Where can I buy stocks for gold?

Honestly though, a crypto-based brokerage probably isn't too far off. Might even be a billion dollar idea.
Not anymore ;)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?votes=136&list_id=1...
For the COVID bailout one, depends on how much 401k you have.

If you have a decent amount, then yeah, the asset price inflation came from a fire hose none other.
Even for many enterprise applications it is not necessary. What is the point of enabling mitigations on a single tenant database server, for example?
In my country, WhatsApp, Facebook and Youtube are not free, but are a lot cheaper than general data packages. Which means we must organize even harder to get rid of these non-internet-neutrality believing companies.
Yes, which is a misleading mantra. If nobody is looking, then it doesn’t matter
Over half of us kids are playing it. There are millions of user created games and worlds.
The whole fabricated evidence thing has been pretty funny. With both Biden and Clinton, the number of fabrications meant that the few times real things came up, they were simply ignored by the main stream media.

The main stream media has engaged in slightly less fabrication, but there was definitely some of the same "boy who cried wolf" dynamic in the other direction too.
Signal has (even automated) backups. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by chat sync, but using multiple clients at the same time causes no issues.
Last I checked, my phone and my computer do not require me to use only messaging app.

WhatsApp is "critical" now only now due to its network effects, but you can transition away to something else.

Right now I have maybe a dozen friends and family members on my matrix server. I helped them set up the app, configured their communick accounts, made a few video calls to ensure it was working, etc. Current step is to help my wife to do the same with her friends. Slowly but steadily, we are moving our communication network away from WhatsApp and into Matrix.

Each one that we move makes WhatsApp less "critical" and makes us more free from monopolistic assholes. We don't need the Government to control any of that, in fact I believe that waiting for the government to do anything is not going to achieve anything.
New PostgreSQL STIG includes updated guidance for PostgreSQL 9.6 through 12, including how to use SCRAM authentication, a new logging location for PostgreSQL 10+, and usage of built-in defined roles added in newer Postgres releases. The Crunchy Data PostgreSQL STIG also provides expanded information regarding the use of any Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) compliant operating systems.

Link to download the guide:

https://www.crunchydata.com/disa-postgres-security-guide/dis...
It sounds like the crowd was much larger than anyone expected, and the organizers didn’t think to provide bathrooms. Probably the same folks who organized the press conference at the four seasons.
Business is not outside the domain of software engineering. "building the right thing" is more important in engineering than "building the thing correctly". If the proposed solution or problem to be solved misses the mark, most of the potential value has been lost, and excellent execution will not be able to recoup that.
If I may: http://www.continuityapp.com :)
I was attempting to make the point that Django is Python code that sits on the server as a backend for web pages like your stated common use of PHP.

So why PHP to Django? How would the Python crowd feel if it was the other way around, for instance: Python to Codeigniter.
UltraEdit for Mac seems to prove that the mac feel has nothing to do with beeing all cocoa. This feels like a windows app written with mac frameworks. Courier default font, really?
all the founding fathers thought a Christian religious foundation was essential to such a system working

What? You're misinformed. Adams didn't believe that for one. A quote from the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the Senate in 1797 and signed by John Adams: "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." The vote was unanimous, there was no public dissent, and Adams had the following to say about the treaty (emphasis mine): "I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof."

I'm not trying to argue that Christian principles aren't present in our history (they are). But you're regurgitating a common talking point in an attempt to rewrite history.
Off topic, but I love the $1,400 worth of monitors and $1.50 worth of chair at those workstations.

Not sure whether that would send me running if I interviewed there.
Possibly fixed?

I'm not seeing this vulnerability now via Mac FireFox 3.6.12 or Safari.
Google is massively bigger than Yahoo or Bing. They have or are close to having monopoly power in search (It doesn't take 100% to be a monopoly for antitrust purposes). When a company achieves that much dominance in a market, regulators generally frown on them using that dominance to gain power in other markets.
Many of those plants are decades old, and poorly managed. But they're also ran by state owned companies which means there's no market incentive towards efficiency and a huge amount of politics regarding what you do.
I worked almost 10 years ago for a European company doing district heating in China. In a smaller city in the north of China, they were able to replace the 19 existing coal plants with a single one.
Those compression algorithms are not really designed for the type of work lz4/density is. It's basically shooting fish in a barrel. You can find plenty of lz4 benchmarks comparing it to other compression algorithms.
When I started to learn python, I bought his book.
It was okay.

I actually found youtube tutorials,videos,and codeacademy to be far more interesting and effective.

I don't think I would recommend a book to a pure beginner anymore, places like code academy have matured to be far better.
Perhaps they just rejected Windows XP on tablets with keyboards, not tablets with keyboards.
There is s5-support in Pandoc :)
I learned that people tend to understand better if you say "a string of characters". It still confuses people, but less so. I did this when explaining strings to intro-to-programming students; they don't get things right away, so it helps to include some redundancy in your words.

Actually, that's not a bad lesson for communicating in general.
I agree... sort of.

As someone who did not join live journal, friendster, orkut, myspace, etc, I too think Facebook is likely a fad.

However, these days even I am tempted to get a Facebook and/or twitter sock puppet account, if only because more and more of social interaction is moving to them. More and more of the "Hey we'll bet at X around Y" chatter is exclusively on Facebook.

And I am old enough to remember when only anti-social geeks made appointments on-line instead of IRL!

I don't recall myspace or anything ever reaching the scope and popularity Facebook has. And I am starting to wonder if Facebook is in fact NOT a fad?
That's interesting, actually. I think Facebook Connect might be the start of preventing that from happening.

Say, for instance, they chose to become more platform-oriented, providing the data/services of facebook to developers. Suddenly, developers could build on top of an fb-platform allowing users to update from one central location. They could provide specific services (wall or no wall) and extend services (which would be specific to that site...)

"Have a facebook connect account? Sign in today to expand your profile page on the-latest-greatest.xyz!"

All your friends are still "friends" and communication is still possible, regardless of where on the web your social networking "home" resides.
This is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables.

You should put up a donation link.
as long as there are people who is ready to perform the acts of violation of rights or torture, it will go on. "Nothing personal, just doing my job" is a lie. It is always personal. The people doing it are enjoying the power over their subjects. It is human nature. You'd see it the moment you understand that any "inhumane" behavior is a behavior exhibited only by humans.
Yep. If half the world complains it does too much and the other half that it does too little then maybe it's got it about right ;-)
I've got some open-source projects as well that are hosted on GitHub, where I accept (and appreciate!) pull requests. But there are some projects I work on in my spare time, just for the fun of it. I don't need feedback on these. At least, not yet. For this, it's just nice to have something "locally", yet automatically backed up on my SMB share.
There is also this[1] meta study that claims that you are only about half as likely to catch a cold if you treat your vitamin D deficiency. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

It also predates the COVID craze.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583