jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have no idea if talking like that "correlates pretty highly to more pay". Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I think people should speak and write clearly for reasons that have nothing to do with money.
Forced sterilisations have unfortunately happened all over China as a result of the One Child policy. To my knowledge that has occurred across the board and no ethnic group was ever specifically targeted. In fact under the One Child policy minorities have the right to have more children than the Han majority, and they do have more children. So reporting that "some forced sterilisations" have occurred is not really significant in itself.

Likewise, when it said that the birth rate has significantly dropped I think it would be useful to see figures (if they exist) on the average number of children per woman in the region because, again, China has a pretty strict birth control national policy and that would allow to see how it was enforced in Xinjiang before versus now.
The figures quoted in an article I quickly found through Google [1] suggest that the One Child policy (even with recent relaxation) was not strictly enforced and that the birth rate was much higher than it should have been under national policy. If so that could mean that they were cut some slack and have now been brought in line with the rest of the country. Of course this is from the Golbal Times, an official Chinese organisation, so I do not know how reliable the figures are.

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212073.shtml
Yes I guess my point is when using Kafka in combination with Kafka Streams and you produce things partitioned in a way that you need them for consumption then you do not need to do any shuffling in the instance where you want to join because data is already partitioned correctly.
Perhaps search engine should be opt-in rather than opt-out. Interesting thought.
CERN manages to safely capture antiprotons and move them around
Ha! I've has the chance to be in charge of technology (including its security) in two different start ups.

The first one was B2C (60+ ppl post Series A). My CEO just did not care about security even though we (myself and our internal security expert) warned about it. No dev cycles had priority for security improvement. For me it was always an uphill battle to sell the need of security .

This all changed in the 2nd startup. This was a B2B. That was the blessing: as sales go upmarket, larger prospects questioned sales about our security, soc2, pci, gdpr, ccpa, etc .

As the tech head it is A PLEASURE that I dont have to fight for that. The Sales team fights for it because otherwise they lose deals.
The Fed is a private entity actually.

The Treasury is US Government. But the Fed is owned by the member banks. The US kinda coopted a seat at their table and Congress + President appoints the Fed head. But otherwise, the rest of the board is made up by private companies.
I see what you mean, but I do think it's a case of motte-and-bailey. The flow is generally as follows:

1. Make statement X that implies action Y should be taken.

2. Someone takes action Y, citing X.

3. Deny that your usage of X implies Y.

And this is extremely typical of woke rhetoric. In the present case, it's summarized by "Coca Cola didn't have my permission to use my ideas", with the implication that the idea was somehow used incorrectly.

Perhaps there's a better term, but it resembles motte-and-bailey to the extent that it involves playing on ambiguity to retreat to a more defensible position.
To me, the video has an optical illusion effect, caused by the bright light from the engine. The rocket is not directly over the platform, it’s actually off the far corner by about 50-100 feet, it comes horizontally into the platform and crashes over it. Meaning it’s not close to the center of the platform and trying to accelerate off of it, it was laterally moving over it from the side and crashed the engine into the barge, which kicked it up over the platform.
We know a lot about heart disease but it looks like most look for magic drug instead of underlying process.

Check Dr. Malcolm Kendrick long series on "What Causes Heart Disease" (list of all posts from drmalcolmkendrick.org):

https://www.emotionsforengineers.com/2018/01/dr-malcolm-kend...
Anyone interested in the Stonehenge topic should check out the Secrets in Plain Sight documentary.

https://youtu.be/DHhgLnIvuAs

Stonehenge starts at 57:27
> Highly doubt that it was an armed protester shooting.

Did you get that from the same place that you got the idea that the election was stolen?
Are you using db-ip data? The results we tested look identical.
Belief or trust in something. Oftentimes that something is not something proven using scientific methods.
I enjoyed reading this. But I'm confused. You posit Yglesias as a member of "the professional class", which you contrast with "ordinary people", and in particular, people like yourself.

But in your profile here on HN, you describe yourself as:

> I'm an appellate lawyer. In a past life, I was an engineer at a cognitive radio startup.

I'm puzzled at why you see the distinction as having anything to do with "the professional class".

I think the word you could have used to good effect here is "cosmopolitan". Its meaning is a subtle and probably used a little differently by different people, but I take it to describe a person somewhat like myself who (unlike you) doesn't have much of an attachment to "soil, language, religion, and shared food, history, art, customs", but instead sees all of the culture of humanity as their birthright, and who feels free to pick and choose (subject to certain political and economic constraints). I find it personally important to me to be able to combine things I love from different cultures from all over the world, and I confess that I regard those with a strong attachment to whatever they perceive as "their culture" as somehow a little (or a lot!) backwards. I also confess to a genuine irritation with anyone who expresses ideas that suggest that certain culture is "owned" by specific groups of people.

Clearly, we have quite different views of the world and our place in it. But I'm still confused why you put Yglesias and his cosmopolitan views in "the professional class" when it seems (from your being here on HN as well as your profile) that you are also a member of this class. Surely Yglesias is just a cosmopolitan sort of person, and you are not?

If so, it's really about "the professional class" vs "ordinary people", it's about people (like me) who view cosmopolitanism as central to the great hope for a peaceful and prosperous future for humanity, and people (perhaps such as yourself) who feel that belonging to a particular culture (and place?) is central their identity and presumably their conceptions of the future.
When will the market be ripe for people/average joe to buy or rent a block data service à la s3/minio so they can plug their app (calendar, photo sharing, blog, messages, etc.) to it instead of being forced to pay for services with their privacy ? They'd just pay for cloud storage that can be used by any apps using buckets/volumes as external storage instead of paying for dropbox like dumb storage.

If I had money I would do a foundation thing to kickstart something like that.

Is that a dumb idea ?

edit: maybe the latency between the app and the block service would be too high to be reliable/tolerable.

edit2: there used to be a lot of applications that relied on dropbox to store things but I have a feeling SSG captured the dev mindshare (or maybe Dropbox restricted the API).

edit3: I just corrected `id` to `idea`, my brain does that when I am tired :D
Oh, so because some people are already there, they get to just abandon the idea behind their job? What juvenile take on responsibility.
> there are no real reasons to apply sanctions to the companies selected until now and not apply the same sanctions to absolutely all Chinese companies

The Trump administration sees buying t-shirts or a pencil from China as less of a risk than high-tech products so they've put export restrictions on components. Though they've put tariffs on more than just high-tech goods. This makes sense because even the manufacture of t-shirts or pencils fuels the economy of China and therefore its tax base and military so sanctioning all products of China makes a lot of sense.

> So they have a single exit, to never buy again anything from the US but substitute everything with alternatives. Sooner or later they will succeed to do that and then the sanctions would not be efficient any more.

China can and should try to do this. Even with all the resources of the state China hasn't yet built a reliable jet engine, let alone leading edge semiconductor plant.

Now they need to do all of this simultaneously. It's very difficult and it's not clear whether they'll succeed at any of these endeavors.

> Now all this formerly very successful US discourse has been exposed as a pack of lies, as it appears to have been just a trap conceived to ensnare other countries to become economically dependent on the US, in order to be vulnerable to economic sanctions.

From what I can tell most countries (like Vietnam and India) are trying to get closer to the US militarily and economically and further away from China.

The only exception is the European Union which was already very close to the US militarily and economically.
> It's a legal issue in regards to section 230 which only protects open platforms from liability from user content. If Twitter whats to be a publisher with editorial authority then they should be held to the same standard as NYT and CNN.

Nope. User-generated content can be moderated and Section 230 protections still apply:

> With that done, we can discuss the various ways you might have been wrong about Section 230. If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher" […]

* https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Only if you own those rooms.
Oh come on, you must have read the very next sentence in that paragraph and deliberately left it out so it looked like that phrase was tossed in there without making any kind of point. Shameful, incendiary posting on your part if you ask me. What did you hope to achieve by stirring up tired culture war drama on hackernews?

> These founders—mostly white men and women—wanted a place to work, but they also wanted membership in a club. Or was it a fraternity?
Do you know what 3200MHz / PC4-25600 DDR4 means?

25600 is the channel rate in (EDIT) MB/sec of the stick of RAM. That's 25GB/s for a 3200 MHz DDR4 stick. x8 (for 8-channels working in parallel) is 200GB/s.

-----------

This has been measured in practice by Netflix: https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/slides/NUMA%20Optimizations%20in...

As you can see, Netflix's FreeBSD optimizations have allowed EPYC to reach 194GB/s measured performance (or just under the 200GB/s theoretical). And only with VERY careful NUMA-tuning and extreme optimizations were they able to get there.
Language is culture, and language is identity
This could be an advantage! If the market truly prices in the entire future, PlunderCoin should be worth trillions!

Now if we can just get Masayoshi Son on board and use the word "quantum" a lot!
My personal favorite way for boosting wages would be a job guarantee. Hand-wavy explanation: Having the government hire people who can't find work elsewhere puts a floor on both unemployment and on the minimum that other entities have to provide in a job. More detail in this interview [0] of Pavlina Tcherneva, author of 'The Case for a Job Guarantee' by Mark Blyth (the most entertaining political economist, IMO.)

[0] https://soundcloud.com/rhodescenter/is-now-the-time-for-a-fe...
In my country it is illegal, however it wouldn't be enforced as this is a minor thing, but if you were a registered company and tried to get someone to clean the pavement around your office for free, then you could get into a serious problem. Even if the person agreed to do it for free, they could then report your for not paying a minimum wage.
I'm going to go against the grain here and say I actually quite like this. It's totally non violent. People can still record cops doing their job. They just face challenges posting and sharing such footage on social media. Honestly I'm of the opinion that social media is a net detriment to society, giving social media more fuel for the fire is not a good thing. If there is truly something wrong, then mute the video and it becomes like watching security footage, you can clearly see something wrong and if there's important words then subtitles fill it in, but it's no longer a viral smear campaign and it circulates on the merits of there being something wrong. The original footage can still be published, there's just a higher barrier to publishing it. The cops are also less afraid of being video taped so it's safer for the person recording the footage. All in all it's quite clever and I hope it catches on.

On the other side, I do hope that this eventually leads to reforming the broken copyright fingerprinting systems in place.
I don't think Github or Gitlab have serious SLAs unless you're an enterprise customer. Don't stake the future of your project or code on the backup and management of a service you pay no money to use. Keep at least your own local clones and offsite backups. The 3-2-1 rule still applies if it's data you care about.
The only difference I can see is that he could do himself a favor by amending the older note. Why do you think it could be sign of insincerity? There are also literally many thousands of political notes in his site, but people seem to be fixated on like five of them.
It would have been weird if he didn't have any account on the competitors platforms. You want to check the features they offer, the UX... This article didn't say anything about how often he is using it.
Links to the actual data (allegedly): https://pastebin.com/sq7UDyVb
Congratulations to the Django project and contributors on a big LTS release. And a huge thank you for the consistently excellent framework that so many have built their web dev careers on.

I'll post this as a Show HN soon, but I'll mention it now as a soft-launch introduction. After a decade of using Django I started a project I always wanted to exist: backported security and bug fixes to old versions that the Django project has dropped support for.

I've seen many Django projects eventually get stuck on an old version as the team I'm on is forced to defer upgrades in favor of commercial pressures and essential product delivery.

So you can subscribe to https://www.codestasis.com/ to stay patched on your old version, removing the urgency to upgrade. Then unsubscribe when you're caught up.

It's free for personal use and a paid subscription for businesses and organizations.
terms say 'pay at the property', not on arrival, and it say the hotel 'reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival', not that it will charge the stay on your provided card.
True, being able to teach yourself is a hugely valuable skill. But I think you also shouldn't underestimate the value of a mentor (as in someone to guide your self teaching) - I've been teaching myself guitar for years and finally got around to getting some lessons. It's been an eye opener seeing the obvious things I missed by just relying on myself.
There is not a big difference between those two statements. In fact they are identical in meaning.
Its inclination is changing too! If this continues, we are dead in just a few billion years.
In defense, I would argue that many modern language design advancements DO relate to multithreading in some way. Rust’s borrow checker and linear/affine types can help with thread safety; OCaml is using algebraic effects to implement multi core behavior; GPU-related experiments (such as Formality [1]) are all about enabling more scalable and reliable parallelism.

That said, I don’t think that multithreading is the only interesting or worthwhile part of programming language theory these days. However, I think it is extremely fertile for innovation while also being somewhat isomorphic with other interesting correctness/performance/ergonomics problems.

[1]: https://github.com/moonad/Formality
> There is a 100% chance of everyone needing healthcare in the future.

1) that's not true. One can die in an accident and not cause an future healthcare costs.

2) health care costs are of course insurable, why not? Just because everyone will create costs with a high chance does not mean that everyone will always create the same costs. The insurance is there for when you have some illness that causes more costs than you could afford.
You mean Americans being average Americans?
I've been working on a messaging app, and at the beginning I started out with Elasticsearch. Now, ES is really a wonderful tool and it got me pretty far, but its lack of window functions made one particular requirement impossible that we all take for granted in messengers: a listing of most-recently updated threads represented by the most recent message on each thread, sorted reverse chronologically. Here is the SQL that makes that happen:

SELECT
tm.*
FROM
(
SELECT
row_number() OVER (
PARTITION BY tm_1.thread_id
ORDER BY tm_1.delivered_at DESC
) AS "row",
tm_1.*
FROM
thread_message tm_1
) tm
WHERE
tm."row" = 1;

The inner query groups all messages by thread, orders them to find the "most recent" message on a thread given my ordering requirements, and then assigns a row number to each such message such that I can pick the most recent message on each thread in the outside query. I still have no idea how I would have done this with Elasticsearch.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the founder vision and passion being a key element which cannot be developed in a shop.

Perhaps, rather than a studio, this is why we see incubators like YC; helping a ton of startups grow and finding funding for the best ideas.

Maybe we will see a movement further down the chain: finding entrepreneurs or "proto-founders" - founders before they become founders - and coaching them on idea generation and developing their passions. I suppose an example of this was Thiel's scholarships and the various "founder schools" that we see.

Innovation is hard to teach, but it's not impossible. Perhaps these trends will continue, and I wonder what we will call the organization format that this leads to.

edit: formatting
Is Rap Genius's pitch deck available publicly?

I've always considered their annotations to be a cute little novelty that's otherwise pointless, and Rap Genius itself a case study in a startup for no reason, so to get all the money they've gotten from investors, I imagine their presentation must be pretty damn impressive.

It just feels like the media and investors want them to succeed (hence the paid-for fluff pieces such as the posted one), but no one else gives a shit. How many of your friends are actually using Rap Genius?
I think the point was he did that 19 times already.
What Tesla offers is more than the cars they sell. They have put battery technology into practice in a way few other car companies have done. This is going to be worth money in the future. Toyota and Tesla announced a collaboration in May 2010.
http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=2509

I think Tesla may well play an important role in the future where they teach other car companies how to "do" battery cars, and I can see that if they do this well they may be hot property.
bandwidth.com - DIDs are 0.17$/month (800#'s are 0.25$/month), 2-way trunk for 30$ unlimited US, and awesome technical support.

Support story: We had some site in Texas making random calls to our 800# over the course of like 2 months before we noticed- hundreds of different CLIDs. They helped us identify it, and gave us a credit for three months for our trouble.
thank you. i actually came up with this question after reading that book (which was fantastic).

does this process apply to everything, or is there some sort of 'phenomena' where an idea can be highly successful without any supporting evidence leading up to launch?
Jason, "luck surface area" is one of the best metaphors I've heard in a while, and certainly one of the most useful. It clarifies something that a lot of people don't realize: the harder you work and the more you get yourself out into the world, the more your chance of being lucky.
> The Post-ABC poll was conducted Jan. 12-15 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on both conventional and cellular phones.

It seems to me people who are able to be cold called (haven't opted out/been careful with their phone number/screen their calls) will be much less privacy conscious than a true random sample
The irony of having Kata Containers or Hyper-V Isolation, because containers alone are not enough.
> at least not unless I export each chat individually.

Careful not to assume that works. Last time I did that some years ago, the export was missing like a year's worth of messages.
Books, courses, info products mainly.
Great feedback, thank you. The proper alternative is probably a Google Form, or an actual doc, I imagine. However, when tested, those long forms tend to scare people into thinking it's too much work. Which it really shouldn't be.

But great feedback, and I'll add this to our product reviews.
When writing my PhD, I used CVS to track changes, and in addition revisioned personal milestones to a new file. All told there must have been ~100 versions, each with a revision history tracked in CVS.
That's not what he said at all, you made an illogical leap there. He was obviously talking about companies seeking VC.
You're probably right. But you've got to admit that Apple itself makes its products seem much more magical than Microsoft does. They do such a good job that it's really easy for the media to pick it up and run with it.

Nearly all of Microsoft's own promotional stuff is extraordinarily bad, especially in comparison to Apple.
I like how we are focussing on this Facebook-Apple story, and meanwhile the real story is that Facebook has nothing against Google.

And that is the big problem.

It’s a form of disenfranchisement: Lowerclass people more often have Androids and have much less choice in tracking, while higherclass people can at least choose, by the sheer design of their phone.
Sure they were, Pivotal was screaming across all winds on Java conferences, just like they are doing nowadays with Kotlin.

They are just betting on a new horse after the old ones failed to win the races they were set off to.

I kept being downvoted when I talked about S4TF going nowhere and the news today prove many of us were right about it.

Similarly I will give about 5 years time for Kotlin fashion to die everywhere outside Android, this assuming that Fuchsia won't eventually become the new darling.

It is quite telling that Google's own business units like Ad Words and Google Pay rather go with Flutter, and write blog posts about it, instead of adopting KMM.

Jetpack Composer is a political answer to Flutter.
Yeah, maybe just consulting? I dunno. Getting paid would be nice, I usually just have an investor-type relationship.