jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Then don't pay scammer merchants with payment methods that don't have chargebacks. That's no reason not to do it when you're confident that you can trust the merchant and the merchant has legitimate reasons to expect that some of their customers are unreliable.

It's a common problem for adult products that the buyer's spouse sees the charge on the credit card statement, the buyer claims not to know anything about it and the spouse disputes the charge even though the merchant did nothing wrong.
But how does reddit browsing scale? We may choose all-electric activities, but we still have only 24h/day. As far as I understand it, PoW mining and its energy consumption can grow arbitrarily, the only limit is a mining economy that grows with a coin value. And it grows fast. How much energy will it take if BTC or ETH hits e.g. $1M in few years?
But they're a stranger. They don't know that you're you.
It's a misleading number anyway, since it doesn't include sales taxes, payroll taxes, or property taxes (whether directly or through a landlord), among other overlooked categories. For poorer people, those are actually most of their taxes, whereas for wealthy people income taxes are of course most of it.

And most people focus primarily on the balance or refund due and their marginal tax bracket, not on the total tax liability or the effective total tax rate. Lots of confused or inaccurate conclusions get drawn.
I am a new user but I hope they don’t start charging for listening in, there is much value by experts who are not there for promotional reasons but rather for intellectual discussions: ex: tech talks, medtech, AI.

Their target demographic seems more like conferences or university lectures with active participation, where education is the primary goal. I used to think that this might go away after covid, but after examination, the social utility is of tremendous value. I am usually against all social media (deleted most), which I think corrodes society, but clubhouse seems to be onto something.

Some controversial topics that could not have been discussed in person can be started here (and across the globe), expanding understanding on both sides: ex: politics, gender discrimination, Taiwan vs. China, etc.

There are also some funny/serious ones, for example “Attractive women explain things to tech bros” started as a joke but evolved into an advice place.

Yes, with every content platform you will inevitably have the quality issue, but I their content filtering can improve over time
Or have a fallback, maybe?
I was to be under the impression a great deal of Reddits issues were linked to Amazon.
http://www.reddit.com/
Because various forms of textual peacocking are frequently used by people who have no status, or knowledge, in a particular domain to try and appear as if they do.

This is part of what a system like karma tries to address, if you see a comment that seems accurate, but is delivered in a very direct or even slightly annoyed tone by a user with high karma, you assume that this user is held in high esteem by others and while their comment may not be elegant, it should be taken to heart.

Additionally, in the hacker sphere, it seems that many of the top hackers are also VERY busy with their projects. Thus, they may
have less time to spend prettying up a comment. The goal is to share knowledge or information in the most efficient manner. Not to share knowledge without worrying about hurting feelings.

Meanwhile, a direct comment from a new user with no standing in the community is likely to be met with some distrust or skepticism, even if wholly accurate. That user has not earned a status in the community. They have two options: 1) be brutally direct with all their comments and wait for people to realize they are frequently right, just inelegant. 2) start at least initially with more of a 'hearts and minds' campaign with their comments and build status in a more traditional method, slowly letting more of their actual personality come through in their comments.
It is covered in the EULA. You did read the EULA right? The only issue IS the lack of encryption.

Relevant portion: http://pastebin.com/EdFJr6iU
On the left is my desktop computer, on the right is my notebook, both are work machines.

Mostly I do web development and I use to use VM's for Windows testing, but that stopped once I got the notebook.

Hardware - Desktop Hardware(Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD, 2 Monitors) | Lenovo Thinkpad X200s.

OS - Debian testing (Wheezy) | Windows 7

Languages - Python, PHP, C++, C#, Javascript

IDE - WebIDE for PHP | SharpDevelop for C#

Shell - bash

Editor - Nano, Vim, Quanta+ depending on my mood

Source Control - svn, git
works fine for me in the UK.
how to exercise options?
You brought in the welding shut of doors. Which has only been reported from Wuhan but which did not actually happen there and has been blown wildly out of proportion by the usual suspects on the web.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/46044/were-covi...

If you seriously suggest that the US or any other Western government will resort to such measures than I don't know how to continue the conversation. It is preposterous.
Fuel is super cheap, only a few hundred thousand for each Falcon launch and a full Starship/Superheavy stack launch is estimated at only a half million. But it's going to be many decades before launch costs come down close to fuel costs.

Right now it's been estimated that SpaceX's launch cost of new Falcon 9 is around $45M, and their cost for launching a re-used Falcon is around $25M, a far cry from the $200k cost of Kerosene & LOX.

Re-use is great, but they are still in the early stages. Their goal for Falcon was ten launches per first stage, but they just lost their first attempt at a 5th first stage launch (albeit after it successfully put it's cargo in orbit), after suffering several major anomalies with it's engines.

Falcon first stage re-use takes over a month because there is still some re-furbishment and re-testing, and that costs money too. The second stage and fairings also cost around $15M together, and they are destroyed every launch (though they keep attempting fairing recoveries, they haven't been very successful at).

SpaceX won't be able to significantly lower launch costs until Starship is successfully completed. Starship gives you have a system designed for up to 100 re-uses, and a re-usable second stage without a fairing. At that point they might be able to lower launch costs to the $10M range, but it's going to be hard to get much lower. There are still a ton of people involved in every launch, and those people need to get paid.
Although it isn't as full-featured as most of the aforementioned applications, Keybase is a great privacy-focused tool.
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Here is the very informative briefing Cuomo gave today [1]. Quick facts for the state of New York:

1. ~15,000 cases of confirmed COVID-19

2. 114 individuals have died from COVID-19

a. 70% of deaths were ages 70 and over and "majority" had underlying health conditions.

b. ~80% of those who died under the age of 70 had underlying health conditions.

3. 18-49 years old represent 53% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases.

4. hospitalization rate of 13% which is very good, flattening the curve works. Stay inside.

Cuomo has mandated the City of New York to hand over a plan in 24 hours (as of today) to outline how exactly the local governments will curtail overcrowding in parks and other public places. When asked why Cuomo can't do this himself, he stated in a fair manner that while he does have the power to do so, he would not be as apt to devise the plan as the local governments are. This is the right move.

Gov. Cuomo made a similar judgement when pressing the federal gov't to curtail fed regulations and to allow him to open over 200 labs available within the state of New York to provide faster testing than what the federal government was able to do.

This opening of state-wide labs is why NY has nearly 15x the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases when compared to the next highest, the state of Washington. NY also has a more accurate hospitalization rate because of this, which is a very important number to be tracking when figuring out how to "flatten the curve" which currently sits at 13%.

Governor Cuomo is following the playbook of South Korea as effectively as possible in this current political climate and has successfully deployed every move available to him and helped push federal barriers down to allow NY to attack this virus faster than any other state. He is showing leadership that everyone wishes to see at the Federal level.

Having all of these laboratories in the state of NY makes me grateful every time I think about how much I pay in state taxes. But I can't help to think about how all of the bloodshed is a direct result of the failure of leadership at the federal level to be proactive about the situation. There is nothing of greater importance than every individual human life. The federal government sacrificed these people and all the people who will suffer and die in the future in the name of better polling numbers, placating a fan base, and keeping stocks afloat for a mere month longer than they would have.

Edit: Moved 53% statistic into its own bullet. Don't know know why I had it as a sub-bullet of the deaths statistic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbIVnnMT18
So some ISPs are rigging the results like some car manufacturers were cheating on diesel eco tests?
>To say that is non-constructive would be an understatement; it's just shutting down any conversation and exploration and how we can improve things.

This is probably one of the best critiques of his approach (and by extention the FSF) I've read. Very true, and it is a tremendous waste.
Are you implying farmers raise these fast-growing, extra-large birds through "malnutrition and nutrient deficiency"?
There was Windows Server Nano, but now it's a Container "OS" only? [1]

Edit: ahh Server Core is probably what you're looking for as the base OS [2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
I wish people would stop calling it ride sharing, as it implies that one of your buddies is giving you a lift. It's just a marketing term.

Uber and Lyft are (gig economy) cab companies.
Did you read the whole article? It actually covers a scenario where the wrong person was killed-dead due to some bad intel.

In fact, the whole point of the article is that there's a population of people who got lied to and manipulated in order to kill people whose culpability was questionable at best. This is a completely valid journalistic subject, separate from the people who were killed.
Looking at pictures like this I get the same feeling as when I'm swimming in very deep water, loneliness and chills.
Well, yes, roundabouts reduce fatalities for the same reason. Unfortunately most people's intuitions about what is safe on the road are out of sync with reality.
Wow, I have rarely encountered a more ludditic comment on HN. The number of bare assertions alone is bemusing.
Please be the Internet Archive BookReader.

Yes! It's the Internet Archive BookReader!

I loathe, detest, despise, and hate every online application ever created. And several which haven't been.

I LOVE TIA's BookReader. It beats damned near every local client reading interface. At full-screen maximization, it's as close to actually reading a book as you can get, and tied in with TIA's book scans, it's pretty amazing.

It's faster, lighter, more intuitive, and less annoying than any of the half-dozen or so PDF readers I've got -- the simple fact that once you position the readable window of text on your screen it stays put is goddamned golden. UI/UX designers everywhere look at this and bow before your god.

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

Much love to the dev crew for this. Oh: it's open source and you can use it on your own site as well.

(Oh, and the diary's pretty interesting as well.)
Suing someone is a huge pain in the butt and costs a lot of money. It's also extra difficult when you are trying to sue someone who knows what they are doing is wrong and is actively trying to cover their tracks and obstruct the case. At the same time there is a concerted effort among corporations to limit their liability through legislation, and via PR campaigns against lawyers and lawsuits.
These new floor plans are ideal for maximizing a company’s space while minimizing costs. Bosses love the ability to keep a closer eye on their employees...

From my limited experience working in these areas, I do believe this is the crucial insight and the real reason behind the movement...Occam's razor and all that.

Where I last worked in an open-office environment, we had a fairly strict "no talking" policy, and were expected to use IM to communicate to the people next to us.

I always thought, "well, isn't this defeating the purpose of the open floorplan?", and of course it does, unless you factor in the above insight.
I used to have to work in an office with 2 industrial printers, a large cooling fan, and at least ten mailroom employees with no respect for indoor voices. My solution was I purchased professional musician custom fitted earplugs. They were a godsend.
I still firmly believe I work better from my house. Companies such as automattic seem to work fine in that setting. I know peraonally I block off 10am - 2pm for meetings in the office (early lunch at 10am, or late a 2pm).

I then work from 3pm-5pm and 10pm-12pm at home. Im usually one of the most productive and it keeps me fresh. Fyi I have done this at several companies and my bosses always seem happy with it
Which is a self-correcting problem for "people with the best vision" :)
Yeah, but they're using radars. Or fixed-pointing LIDARS. They are more discrete and blend more easily into the car.

As for other companies not using LIDARS, I beg to disagree. They do, but they use the far far simpler (and cheaper) variety.

But the Google tech has a broader view of the surrounding area. In the end, it won't matter as much how pretty the sensors look as long as they get the job done.
This is awesome! And it comes right as I've been getting my feet wet with Haskell (and property-based testing).

It was really easy to get up and running with a simple test: https://github.com/ecordell/pymacaroons/blob/property-tests/...

and I'm excited to use it in more places. Though I'll have to configure tox/travis not to run hypothesis tests on Python 2.6.
Regarding your comment about log scales, is there a "sense" (or kind of perception, etc...) beside earing that "obviously" logarithmic ?

Also, as another "I don't get stats get me out of here" question, isn't it problematic to plot against a "perception" level that (unless I'm mistaken) is linear ? What do you do with someone that answers "I'm happy at a 10/10 level". Do you consider it an outlier by definition ?

Assuming the "happiness" self-rating is indeed linera, is it still a fallacy to think that, behind the mathematical rightness, there is value in knowing that after $x/year, y% of the population rates itself as above, say, 8/10 ? I'm under the impression that it's a different argument than say "after $x/year, everyone is happy" ; but that it can still be practical (especially if you can corelate lower levels a happiness with stuff you want / should / need to get rid of. But again, talking politics at a math cocktail, probably bad manners.)
Why do you think Google has invested so much in self-driving cars?
No pictures of day to day work space, alas.
Validating or creating blocks, which to be clear is _significantly_ less work than mining.
If you take a random sample from a population, then you'd expect the sample to be representative of the population. All else being equal: if you categorize a population in some arbitrary way, and there's a particular distribution of those categories in that population; you should expect the same distribution in your sample.

In this case the distribution in the population was not identical to the distribution in the sample.

Clearly something isn't right.
Is this not simply an attempt to cover up their own failure?
“He conclude the book by saying that when you don't know what you're talking about, it would be better for you to not speak about it”

That’s NOT what he wrote. The quote is:

“whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.” (or “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.” in this translation)

Proposition 7 is about the limits of language, not about dissing idiots.
It is a common trick of managers to only measure things that make them look good. Is the number of regressions going up? Remove the isRegression checkbox from your bug tracking system.
I'm a bit of an ideologue on this point, but I would argue it's not just Facebook -- nearly all modern advertising is divorced from the idea that ads need to provide value to consumers. At best, ads are treated as an annoyance that users put up with in order to access content that they want.

But the advertising industry desperately doesn't want to acknowledge that. They want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore that most users don't want to see anything that they're making. They want to argue that most users are benefiting from ads, even though that's clearly not true.

A system that aligned incentives between advertisers and consumers, where advertisements themselves actually needed to justify themselves and inform/entertain users enough that they provided positive value to the viewer -- that system would look very, very different from the advertising world we have today.

I think that disconnect is why you see people in the advertising industry fighting about ideas like users' Right to Filter, or why they're so paranoid about users having more control over which ads they see. Advertisers know that nobody likes ads and that for the average consumer, their ads aren't providing any kind of actual value. There's no incentive for most online advertisers to make ads that improve the quality of anyone's life -- the biggest incentive in the current system is to alter consumer behavior against their will regardless of whether that ad helps or hurts the viewer.
I guess enrollment in public schools will continue to drop after 2020, which will not be great for equity.
You're not unhirable, but if you applied for a senior web systems/operations position on my team, you probably wouldn't be hired. It's not because you're not a smart guy, but you don't have the experience we're looking for. Seems pretty easy to understand.
Also on Hacker News home page: "Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8915681

Well, which is it?
I don't think that argument would be particularly easy. You need a mix of practical and theoretical experimentation.
Why come in with a prepared message? You don't have to counter their message, when you can just dismiss it. Focus on the numbers.
Those are some high spirited friends, wish you could order them in mail just like that. But anyway, what about the permissions, is everyone going to start doing this now?
Exactly! Keep interviewing, and be ready to jump ship. If you are willing to relocate, the world is your oyster.

And you don't have to be all that great and unique. Interviewing for a tech job is a skill you improve with just a bit of practice.
It's almost like creative people are individuals; breathing beings who experience complex lives. Lives that will later be scrutinized and categorized by others trying to figure out the "secret sauce" to humanity's most prized possession.
No, we're not decades away, we're dollars away. A base on Mars in feasible with today's technology, see for example the Mars Direct plan by Zubrin. The only thing we need are about 30 billion dollars, that's like eight aircraft carriers or 1/3 ISS.
> Creating new objects in functions and returning them should be avoided if possible.

Isn't that how "constructors" in Rust work (i.e. `Foo::new()` calls)? Plus, with return value optimization, it should be pretty performant.
I found that the "creativity" from sadness is mostly pseudo intellectual thoughts. The kind of thoughts that are pretty meaningless. Example: "Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death." This thought makes the one who made it up feel smarter, and so maybe a little happier, but in reality it has no actual meaning or purpose other than make people feel good about themselves.
This is basically our approach with Blazor now. I am not sure Microsoft has even picked up on or documented our pattern yet, but we do something where:

1) Define a domain model + service(s) that fundamentally addresses the logical business functionality without any notion of a specific UI or its stateful nature. This service should be written in terms of a singleton and injected as such. This is something that should be able to be 100% unit testable, and could be exposed as a prototype in a console application or back a JSON API if necessary (i.e. pretend you are writing a SAAS).

2) Define UI state service(s) that take dependency on one or more domain services. These should be scoped around the logical UI activity that is being carried out, and no further. The goal is to minimize their extent because as we know more state to manage means more pain. These would be injected as Scoped dependencies (in our use of Server-Side Blazor), such that a unique instance is available per user session. Examples of these might be things like LoginService, UserStateService, ShoppingCartService, CheckoutService, etc. These services are not allowed to directly alter the domain model, and must pass through domain service methods on injected members. Keep in mind that DI is really powerful, so you can even have a hierarchy of these types if you want to better organize UI event propagation and handling.

3) Define the actual UI (razor components). These use the @inject statement to pull in the UI state services from 2 above. In each components' OnRender method, we subscribe to relevant update event(s) in the UI service(s) in order to know when to redraw the component (i.e. StateHasChanged). Typically, we find that components usually only inject one or 2 UI state services at a time. Needing to subscribe to many UI state events in a single component might be a sign you should create a new one to better manage that interaction.

This is our approach for isolating the domain services from the actual UI interactions and state around them. We find that with this approach, our UI is quite barren in terms of code. It really is pure HTML/CSS (with a tiny JS shim) and some minor interfacing to methods and properties on the UI state services. This is the closest realistic thing I've seen so far in terms of the fabled frontend/backend isolation principle. Most of the "nasty" happens in the middle tier above, but it is still well-organized and easy to test. By enforcing immutability on the domain services, we ensure discipline with how the UI state services must consume the model. Blazor then goes on to eliminate entire classes of ridiculous bullshit by not forcing us to produce and then consume an arbitrary wire protocol to get to our data.
Can they really have right to know where you are at every instant in time?

You could be a resident of San Francisco but just rent a token shared bedroom with a bunch of people just to have an SF address, or even a UPS box, and actually be on working vacations in random houses across the country close to 100% of the time, and I'd say they shouldn't have a right to know exactly where you are through your journey, only what times you will be working. Everything else including location should be abstracted out if it's defined as a remote job.