jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An interesting perspective I've heard is that she should have been more political in a few extreme cases. She is the head of state and her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out.

She should really be like a couples therapist for political leaders.

She never did this. She always stayed out of politics.
It hasn’t been a telegram for at least 20 years. She sends a birthday card these days.
Yeah, I just disagree with "iPhones are making people unable to use computers well" concerns, whatever the definition of "computer literate".

My experience has been that outside of enthusiast or professional tech circles, and those directly adjacent, knowing stuff like where to expect a USB disk to appear when it's plugged in, or that you can cut/copy/paste files, what you can and can't drag-n-drop, where to expect common actions to show up in menus, the concept of UI focus and how it basically works in practice, and so on, places you in the (lower end of) top-tier of computer users, and pretty much always has. People, in general, have never understood how to use a computer well. We've had the term "power user" for folks who halfway know how to use a computer for decades now, because even most people who work with a desktop every day do not know that, and it's not like that was different pre-smartphone.

Either simple, ordinary GUI computer use is actually much harder than we (on a site like this) think, or the UIs and metaphors we use are flat-out awful and need to be re-thought from the ground up (what might that look like? Well, iOS has tried...). Or some combination of the two.

[EDIT] My point about the definition of "computer literate" hardly mattering is that I think you have to stretch it so far that it becomes useless before you manage to capture most computer users, since at least when they became common in offices. You have to put the bar practically on the floor before most users will pass it. I don't (entirely) blame users for that, to be clear, and think it has a lot to do with fundamental mistakes in how our profession and industry build & present UIs to ordinary folks who don't want to devote half their brain to understanding how computers work. It has very little to do with iPhones.
After what happened to Ma who would criticize the CCP? He has everything to lose.
I wouldn't really class Wolfe's books as SF or fantasy, but more as extended puzzles. Particularly in the case of the "New Sun" books, but also with the "Long Sun" ones, you spend a lot of time trying to work out what the heck is going on - and most times failing. But they are definitely well worth reading.
> Nor does it have a nuclear program

If only there was some international agency that could have people on the ground that could walk into any place in Iran under any suspicion that they might be enriching uranium beyond the levels needed for nuclear power plants, overriding basically any local laws that might prevent them access. We could call it International Atomic Energy Agency or something.

Now seriously, this was in the deal that the US pulled out of, as well as an agreement that Iran will not enrich uranium beyond like 4% (enough for nuclear power plants, not bombs), reducing their stockpiles of uranium by 97% and much, much more. Now just days ago Iran let IAEA know that they're going to enrich it up to 20%.
I remember watching a video from Wendover Production talking about the decline of 747 and A380s mainly due to a lack of guaranteed passengers to fill the plane routes in both directions.

Exceptions being some airlines which are able to operate hub and spoke models and where fuel is cheap like the middle east airlines.

Wouldn't these types of planes be more suitable for a role in logistics which can benefit the greater density of packing?

I am guessing this is something to do with fuel savings, and new composite materials meaning that smaller planes are still more efficient. However, would that necessarily apply to recent 747s/a380s which I think have composite materials and can be retrofitted to efficient engines? I figure these specific planes must be on sale as they are withdrawn from service so I am curious about the use of 767s here.
Looks like a recall effort is underway based on this event.

https://abc7news.com/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-district-att...

http://recallchesa.org/
Please remove this conspiracy nonsense. TheBlaze is not news, it's right-wing propaganda. mrfusion, this is pathetic.
Are there any combination solar, hydro, fracking/oil plants? I'm joking but not entirely. Not sure how much water would fit in an oil field but it seems like a natural reservoir one could use.
I think that the point of the article was to rally the audience behind the goal of piercing the image that the suicide bombers have in the Muslim world to make it much less glamorous. The author wants us to attack the terrorist organizations' ability to find new recruits as well as attack our own fears about suicide bombing (i.e. it's no longer terrorism if we don't allow ourselves to be terrified).

The author went on at length with various anecdotes about how terrorists are dumb, but I think that I missed the call to action that you are so upset about. Care to point it out to me?
He writes about algorithmically filtering articles on sites like reddit and hacker news.

To me, part of the appeal to these sites are that links and content are driven by the users, and not by what someone else wants me to read.

I'm sure this could highlight interesting stories, but I think it starts to break apart the community these social networking sites provide.
You're joking right?

PatientKeeper (full disclosure, I'm a cofounder) has been doing this since '01:

http://www.nanzando.com/m-palm/figs/fig10-2.gif

http://www.carrollsearch.com/newsletter/images/mcb0508_pkhh....

and more recently

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/PatientKeeper-Ports-Free...

And if you want to stick to a pen, take a look at what's been done by PK's founder:

http://www.shareableink.com/
Suicide bombing isn't about killing people; it's about scaring people. Right now, the US government portrays terrorists as scary, which probably increases their ability to scare people. Portraying them as inept would most likely reduce their ability to scare people, regardless of their ability to kill people.
You're completely missing the point. Terrorism is about spreading terror, killing people is just a technique. Finding reasons to laugh at these jackasses makes them a lot less terrifying.

The best way to fight their ideas is to avoid buying into their romantic self-image as heroic martyrs, and reveal them as the sad losers they really are.
Maybe. If they're really that fake and superficial maybe it will trip them up in the long run.

Even when everything is documented, there are still gaps in communication, and trust fills them.
You're forgetting one of the basic laws of diplomacy: don't try to starve out someone with thousands of artillery tubes pointed at your capital.
yea, I like the fact that you can yell at it to turn it off.
Just in case you did not see this before - there has been a talk about the Crypto AG and some of the background at last year's replacement for the CCCongress: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-103955-cryptoleaks
If it's anything like the UK, the hospital experience, and life expectancy, will vary a lot between regions.
> a working class boy has the same education and opportunities as a boy going to a boarding school?

I didn't say that, but even within the same school, people end up doing different things. I went to one of the worst schools in the country. When it was closed down the OFSTED report said it was in the "most deprived area in the country".

We could certainly talk about the differences in opportunities between being rich and being poor in this country. The class system is alive and well. No matter how hard I try I will never be part of the elite Oxbridge club in this country. And realistically speaking poor people can't become rich just by hard work. Being rich requires inheritance.

But that's a different issue. Rich people have just as many girls as boys. Rich girls have far more opportunities than poor boys, yet still we see more boys end up in tech than girls. You might say the same barriers exist throughout all layers of society, but then tell me why if I go on Github and pick any random project, it was in all likelihood written by a man? There are rich women out there with not a shred of responsibility and all the time in the world to dedicate to programming. But they don't. Because they don't want to.
Traits which are unlikely to produce offspring tend to be uncommon because, well, they don't reproduce themselves. We are the ancestors of people who had kids because they wanted to have sex (or at least one of the people involved did), or who actively wanted children.
It's the best scene in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo1OSqBQYmk
"When I spend $100 on materials and labor, and I can -- at best -- sell the result to you for $80, $20 of wealth is destroyed. Why? Because the original $100 came from the creation of wealth equal to that, and I transformed that $100 into something that is now only worth $80. Literally, wealth was destroyed."

In your example, no wealth is actually destroyed in the global sense, only relative to your bank balance (where you lost $20). Most people would call this a negative return on investment rather than wealth destruction.

The $100 you spent on labour and materials doesn't disappear into the ether - it is transferred to the people who worked for you and manufactured your materials. They could well do much more productive things with the cash than you and raise the wealth of the society accordingly.

Granted, Microsoft may not have used their resources particularly efficiently and there are indeed opportunity costs with their strategy, but who's to say that these resources would've been optimally used?
Unfortunately they may have passed the Rubicon with that. I suspect that many of the people (including me) who would have been willing to pay have already gone ahead and signed up for another paid bookmarking site. The most active users are the ones who are most likely to have already heard about the shutdown, and the ones who would be most concerned about it.

Just as well, since it looks like pinboard gets the things that bugged me about delicious right.
Very much this. Big events are well covered and documented. It's the ephemera that I find most fascinating.

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pegenre.html
Just a note "I am produce a series of videos to accompany the text" was bugging me. Its nice that this is available for their students.
We'll see... currently we feel that having this as a native app is a major advantage, because it's much faster and integrates much more seamlessly into your workflows.

Yosemite only is a trade-off we made for now. We'll re-evaluate this going forward.
And therefore there is a direct arithmetic connection between rent control benefit and tenant age. The article involves improbable convoluted statistical conjectures yet is incapable of noticing that extremely simple correlation. Perhaps more disturbing than the ethical issue is the unconstrained confirmation bias.

The "story" built here and in other articles is the minimal believable tale that gets rid of current generally older tenants to make those units available for people with more money. To reach the front page of HN, it only needs to be believable to those who will benefit from its implementation. Not a very high hurdle and usually easily reach by hand waving some misunderstood "free market" juvenilia.
Good question.
From my perspective, it's a text editor done properly which doesn't get in your way. You almost don't feel it.

Put it another way - there are very few annoyances that I've noticed about it.
It's very fast, it's configurable, it takes me 2 minutes to set it up on a new machine and have the same environment, regardless of the OS.

Here's a story:

I've recently started learning Clojure and I've been looking into editors which are best suited for it - I've tried LightTable, looks nice, but still rough around edges and slow, I've given a (new) shot to Emacs, but got discouraged when I realised I'd still have to learn all the shortcuts and stuff in addition to Clojure, IntelliJ Idea....

But then it struck me - does Sublime have a Clojure REPL ? It sure does and it's very nice.. 10 minutes later I was hacking away with a split screen and REPL, just like in Emacs.
And I didn't have to do anything complicated, no files to edit, no environment vars to set up, it was easy.
I use twitter
That must be because of the ternary operator:

condition ? result-if-true : result-if-false

although you're probably right that a smarter parser should be able to distinguish between both cases. But then the next guy comes along and complains that he can't use a colon as a valid character in his variable names...
> Uber drivers cancel, too, of course,

Or never show up. Twice with uber (I'm not a frequent user, so this is a high percentage) the driver never showed up. The app didn't let me request someone else until a very long timeout (don't remember how long). Good thing I wasn't going to a flight or other time-sensitive trip on those times, but waiting around in the dark in an industrial park, not so fun.

Pre-uber I'd reserve cab rides to a relative remote area and not once was there a delay or missed pickup.
Apple actually ships a proprietary ARM extension for lateral exception levels to help enforce kernel integrity, which includes gating access to code that fiddles with page tables.
Corporations do the same thing via end of year bonuses and dividends. Those things are considered expenses too and can be used to offset income. If Uber is going to get taxed 20% on their excess income for the year or they can give out some bonuses to their employees, incentive bonuses to their drivers, and ramp up their marketing spend, what do you think they'll do?

You can't just declare 0 income. You have to actually spend it to declare 0 income.
> On that note, if you dislike sleazy dark patterns, stay away from Audible.

What, having to confirm 6 times in a row is a dark pattern now? heh.

Amazon.com is pretty bad at this too.
The real reason the board doesn’t want Elon in charge is because he is trolling them and doesn’t have, or more likely doesn’t want to spend, the money to do what he claims he wants to do.

I can offer the board double of what Elon is offering them right now, and also say I will figure out the financing later in the year. Do you think the board would be derelict to turn down my offer?
I counted my google searches for yesterday from my browser history. 100/day may just be enough for me if I make sure I don't run the same search twice, because there are dups in the list.
Exactly. Type 2s are great at getting things done, but the team's going to have to wake up at 3 AM on a weekend because of random errors.
With all the fake reviews and flame wars of a few in current times I see this point as very valid and would at least take everything stated or claimed on such forum with a big grain of salt.
Small vocal and organised groups are able to give the impression of a minor issue to be major. In top of that are many people who jump onto such topics. A good example is the recent vote for a vaccination mandate in Germany. Representative polls show a clean pro law attitude in the population yet the politicians have been flooded by anti vaccination 'activists' on all channels.
It's much easier to pay taxes for transactions on crypto exchanges. They have APIs for tax software to call into.

I don't trust a traditional bank, or much less some random retailer accepting crypto, to get this right. Huge headache.
It's not about paying taxes, it's about not wanting to have to declare the cheeseburger you bought for lunch as a line item on your year-end taxes.
That isn’t as helpful as it might seem. If each person has an average of 2.4 offspring, and reproduction still requires two people, and the generation gap is an average of (say) 50 years, and if the average person has a mass of 70 kg; then after 27,000 years the biomass of humanity exceeds the mass of the universe, and after about 18,000 years you need FTL to reach that mass.

That said, this remains true even if we don’t solve ageing. Exponentials grow faster than polynomials like “volume”.
People who don't give a hoot about the rules are more prone to be spreaders anyway. After medical staff, we have the prioritization of who should get vaccinated completely inverted.
If that book is as good as you say, it's a pity he published with Packt. Their stuff is typically very bad.
What exactly does this mean?

Basically what Visa is doing by facilitating the Coinbase card or something more involved?
Suggest OP add (Not Weaponized) to IEEE's terrible title.
Bitcoin = store of value. Network effect is reducing the chance of government intervention, as well as blockchain tail risks.

Getting 1 of the 21 million bitcoins is like decentralized proof of saying "I had 48k worth of value in Feb 2021!"

It locks in the value that you created forever. Otherwise governments will just keep printing money, and your value gets diluted arbitrarily.

Assuming the mechanisms of protection for the blockchain holds, it should work out exactly as that.
its important to say that the vast majority of kids at the bottom get left behind because of the parents. Parents that aren't involved, don't review homework, don't instill good study habits, set their kids up for failure. There are plenty of reasons why parents don't get involved. Those reasons range from working too much, to they don't give a shit.
Listen -- we all need to get vaccinated in the next few months. The order in which it happens makes little difference.
i like that, and i like using the advertising industry's standard PR line to justify it.
The amusing irony is that the best way to elevate awareness about soda alternatives might be advertising. So by eliminating certain types of ads, the side effect might be to encourage people to stick with what they know, which in many parts of the world is sugary soda instead of other flavored fizzy water that either has no sugar or very little sugar in comparison.
> Trump took action in January ...

* https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/timeline-trump-covid19-res...
Lack of liquidity is just firms stubbornly trying to force this kind of move to happen. Yes, marking down prices based on actual demand would result in a financial loss for some firms (and likely insolvency due to lax underwriting requirements), but there are also winners in that scenario who should be rewarded for anticipating the future.
before you go down the spark route, consider perl/unix-tools may do this kind of thing quite well: https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/using_awk_and_r...
I agree about being better at learning. Maybe they (we?) tend to sometimes vastly underestimate the difficulty of learning in certain highly complex areas (like medicine) due to past successes learning difficult (but not as difficult) things.
Hungarian here. We are totally fucked.

Many people want the gov to make quarantine real but it's not happening yet.

The old people (they are mostly Orbán voters) are on the streets. When I look out to the window I rarely see a mask. 10-15% of the people. Elderly people and many others still claim C19 is fake. Orbán already has the whole control of the country, now with that we're going to stay here for a dozens of years. Good bye EU, good bye civilization. I'll leave to a better place as soon C19 will go away in the world - if there will be a chance for that, not sure.

Hungarian health is shit. Lombardy has something like 9.3/10 in terms of peoples health, Hungary has 2.2 (higher is better). My estimation is 500k deaths (10 million population) in my country in 3-6 months - based on data from Italy and South Korea plus health data.

The worse thing is our sociaty. We don't have. There are mostly poor, stupid people with no ability to even read, understand, etc. I am not kidding. I know it sounds harsh. That's fckin hungarian culture based on our sad history.

It's done.
Sure it can: tax it out of existence. Or apply deflationary monetary policy; braise interest rates, increase reserve requirements, or sell bonds.
Also want to point out that if companies can't afford their expenses, they'll stop paying rent (usually a huge expense and one that is fairly easy to stop paying while still occupying the real estate)

Then landlords can't pay their expenses, and will default on their own payments

This trickles up all the way to the banks and could result in their insolvency, which is what the Fed is (rightfully) trying to prevent
High typing speeds (9001, for example) seem to cause problems.
Thanks! If anybody else is interested in getting a community hotline setup, we've been working on making that really easy.

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The entire point of this system is to produce a voting system that does not discourage people voting per their conscience. All deterministic systems so far have flaws that encourage people to vote "strategically" to improve the chances of their candidate being elected or other flaws.
Well, Google Mail does this too.

For the last part I agree the with the pro you mentioned, but it is also a con, with following possible cases where it breaks down:

- they won't show all of their info to you

- you don't care about all of it, only a subset

- they did not update their info correctly

- not everyone uses Facebook to the same extent, if at all

Having a consolidated address-book you manage, regardless of what service you use to interact with each of your contacts. Besides I can normalize the data the way I want.

That said, it would be interesting to have Facebook and others as an available source (among many others) to an address-book. Of course I suppose Facebook won't ever expose it as an LDAP endpoint of sorts.
National Instruments' LabVIEW is a really good graphical representation of code. However, my experience was that it got frustrating after the program got larger than about 40 subroutines because each subroutine gets its own graphical window (two, actually: one for the UI and one for the code). This leads to a lot of clutter and it gets hard to debug. That and debugging loops or errors in a complex algorithm in a graphical setting is not fun. Text based is a lot more efficient.
Ditto. A simple mobile interface (ala Groupon's mobile app) would make this very useful.
As I said, shove 'em where the sun don't don't shine, hypocrite douchebag.
Good that it’s working well for you! :)
That's unfortunate. I do like the model Vero has created, though I would never be impacted by the sales model since I was just looking for a social network where I can keep in touch with a group of friends and family.

Unfortunately, I never been able to get people to try it.

Even so, the fidelity of access you have control over is brilliant. I can hide my content, open it up, hide it again...whenever I want and instantly.

Something to think about if anyone were to try to create a new platform.
The inner space of our reality is linear.
It's working now. I appreciate his points, however he is not a psychological researcher or psychiatrist, he seems to be a technologist selling apps. This is in NO way scientific evidence of ADHD misdiagnosis, it's a simple blog post about how to improve schools.