jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't see your point here.

Hypothesis: Gold economies are more stable than fiat currency economies.

Expected observation: Gold economies have fewer economic crises and panics than fiat currency economies.

Actual observation: They don't.

Any recession is caused by "expanding production", the whole point of a recession is that it's a correction that happens after a boom cycle.
Is it meaningful that everyone she didn't get along with at Google had a name from southern Asia?
The Ethereum PoS chain is already active today and giving "staking" rewards. PoW is still active too but both chains are mining ETH at the moment and the plan is to switch to PoS only.

As the PoS did actually launch and is actually working, I'm not sure it's going to be "never".

They may be late like so many software projects, but they seem to be serious about the switch to proof of stake.
Do we really need diversity though?

I would be perfectly fine if a development of a project would be done by strangers behind incognito aliases. I don't care if the contributed code comes from Black woman or Caucasian man or some cat who had learned to code. I believe that it is absolutely irrelevant topic that is forced on the industry by whatever reasons. If is not like the barrier to entry is too high: anyone who can afford a $500 PC and internet can have access to all the learning materials in the world.
Would be interesting (though probably not possible) to know the other 2 million. I'm presuming some (most?) of those didn't pass the 3 second rule, but others perhaps just didn't identify tech? Most of the Java web apps I proxy don't have a X-powered-by, so they wouldn't have been counted. There may be an element of 'defaults' for PHP and ASP that are causing them to be slightly overrepresented(?). 93% of sites running either ASP or PHP seems a bit on the high side - I'd have guessed more like 70% between the two.
Never. ICANN won't be delegating such common Web filenames as that because there's little upside but massive potential downside. That'd be really confusing too.
I googled [bcrypt api] to see how hard it would be to wrap with JNA (my guess: not very), but the first hit was "jBCrypt - strong password hashing for Java." So I stopped looking.
Good idea! As a suggestion, I think your website could use some extra documentation and examples.

For example, could I create a panel in Grafana showing the busy vs. free ratio over the last three months? That kind of things.
Lol a similar thing happened to me recently. I spun up a Windows VM on Azure because I had $50 monthly Azure credit with my MSDN anyway which I've never used yet. Immediately I get an email from a sales contact asking me if I need help (and who kept repeating when I didn't reply).

It's indeed annoying. It's not as bad as this example because it's the same company I already deal with, which actually makes this legal in Europe. But as someone who is (admittedly) very anti-commercial it annoys me.

The strong ties between MS and Canonical are also one of the reasons I dropped Ubuntu from my private life.

Another thing that really annoys me about this is that MS removed the "block sender" option in their "New and redesigned!!" version of Outlook for Mac. In many ways the UI of the new version is much better but I strongly relied on that version. They kept the "mark as spam" but it doesn't guarantee that sender is forever blocked.
If it matters what “speech” exists on a platform then that platform probably has gotten too big for societal good. Ie it doesn’t matter what balls or strikes they call. Just leave the platform if you disagree with it and go with a competitor. If you can’t do that then we’re in monopoly power situation. Break em up.

The only speech assured by the constitution is from your literal mouth. Anything else is not free speech.
He is into Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome let him have fun. Also he thought that Google Plus was Carthage and Facebook was Roman Empire well it turned out it was kind of like that but only in Social Networking industry, Google is still Roman Empire of the internet.
I know there have been constant cries that Facebook/Twitter are being unfair to Trump and they shouldn't be allowed to block his messages. The fact is, they have bent over backwards to allow Trump to post things that other people would not.

The proof of that: there have been people who tweet the things Trump has tweeted (but not via retweet, just typing it in verbatim) and they get blocked for the content of their messages.
Classic musk :)
I just added a status to my Whatsapp, telling friends and family to "leave Whatsapp and join Signal.org".

None of my friends can see it (I checked for two close friends).

Can one of you guys try the same and confirm Whatsapp does not block such status?
We just don't have a good enough model. Once (if) a good mathematical model that takes into account enough information is created, then the 'deep' mathematics that you speak of would once again be successful in predicting things.
If people online weren't open to having their views changed then Q and PizzaGate and the other ridiculous easily-disproven conspiracies wouldn't exist. People are willing to set aside facts, common sense and their own beliefs in favor of these hive-mind ideas.

The problem comes once they have changed - getting them to change back, or to change again seems almost impossible.
I don't know anything about the WalkAway group, but from your description and nothing else it seems like it shouldn't have been taken down and that it could have been very useful.

But I don't see how Facebook taking down the group is the fault of the Left at large (or in the US). I don't know many serious Leftists who are fond of Facebook, not to mention feel the company represents them.
Because that very likely wouldn't have worked, and it'd more obviously and quickly have consequences for him when it failed.

He thought he could at least intimidate his political enemies, and convince his allies and those on the fence to _at least_ make a bigger mess of the transfer of power.
No, I don't believe so. Any individual can easily create a website and publish whatever they like. It costs maybe $100/year and takes a couple of hours for an inexperienced user to set up a Wordpress blog with manually-moderated comments. Nobody's speech would be censored if Section 230 were repealed.

Instead, platforms would be treated as though they had consciously decided to publish every publically-available comment/file upload/post/etc. That would probably mean manually moderating everything, and rejecting a lot of it for capricious reasons.

But honestly, I am not convinced that that would be a bad thing. It would certainly encourage more people to create their own publishing mediums, and it might help break up the titanic oligarchs that currently occupy the market.

Put it this way: I would happily give up sites like HN to remove the business model that makes mass-scale social media viable. Sites like Twitter and Facebook have inflicted unconscionable harm on our collective humanity, and they have demonstrated a complete inability to self-regulate.
Sudden: check Violent: check Illegal: check Attempt to sieze power from a government: check
I worked there for a few years in the early 2000s and it seemed like such an unremarkable company that wasn't going to go anywhere. The stock was always around $20 and whenever it went up, Bezos usually said something that investors didn't like and drove down the stock price (free shipping, search inside the book, etc).

Then there was the Segway deal where I amused myself by checking the orders database to see how many they sold (because the numbers were so small)

If you told me back then that the stock was going to $3000 some day, I would have stuck around for longer.
To be clear we're talking about the Barr era justice department in this context. The proposed changes would give the justice department a stick to shake at platforms they didn't like for political reasons.

We hope that the justice department would act in good faith, without political influence, but we're fresh out of an intensive course on how naive it is to rely on that.
Basically the issue prior to 230 was that the major precedents worked out like this: if you didn't moderate at all, you were not treated as a publisher and were not liable for the speech of your users. But if you did do some moderation/blocking, you could be seen as a publisher of the things you didn't block. So you have a kind of "all or nothing" type of situation.

The problem is: in terms of legal risk, "just allow everything" is safer, since it's quite expensive or even infeasible to completely moderate the platform. But Congress wanted to encourage internet companies to do moderation for things like pornography and other "indecent" content (this is part of the Communications Decency Act, after all), which is why this "Good Samaritan" section exists: to remove the specter of liability that could arise from even light-touch moderation. (But note that despite that title, the language is broad and not conditional on the presence or absence of any moderation scheme.)

Repeal has a few possibilities, one of which is as you said, just eliminate user-controlled content completely from some spaces, or moderate it extremely heavily (like requiring manual review before something is posted). But, the other extreme is also possible, of totally removing moderation to escape liability the other way around.
In my cases I found that mysql was faster for “select * from <table> where <unique key>=<blah>” — but for anything more complicated than that, postgres won (admittedly I haven’t checked recently - it was around 10 years ago that my 500-concurrent-user site was melting mysql, so I switched to postgres, which is now happy with 15,000 concurrent users - I’m mostly just responding to “historically more performant”)
In addition to priners, smokeless powder is also difficult to home manufacture. Black powder is easy enough, but it's not powerful enough to cycle most modern semi-automatics and fouls up the barrel something awful.

Something like ammonpulver would be comparable in power and cleanliness to modern smokeless powder, but is pretty corrosive and gets ruined if it absorbs too much water.

The same types of people eho develop 3d gun models are also putting effort into developing alternatives for primers, powder, and cases. Homemade metal barrels were an issue a few years ago but ECM barrels made it easy to make them at home with only a couple hundred dollars in tooling.
No. The question isn't "is a cop allowed be annoyed with a youtuber?" or "is this youtuber causing net harm to the public good?". The question is: "can a cop interfere with a youtuber's ability to record and publish their actions?".
What do you mean by data science being a failure?
Yes, but he's hyper woke, so it's 'ok'.

The hypocrisy on that one is spectacular.

Basically any other politician in North America would be completely destroyed and cancelled forever.

Ironically, I think public reaction was appropriate - he obviously was not intending malice, it was just a bit inappropriate.

But make no mistake, if that were to have happened to anyone else they would have been destroyed.
Does he still have a right to talk if he's supporting users who are still intent on using IE6?
First step would be making private browsing the default. Second step would be making strong, capable adblockers built-in. Third step would be something like Firefox containers, one for each domain. Fourth step could be analyzing network traffic for potentially fingerprinting information and blocking it. I am sure there is much more to think of.
When I said that it is pretty good, I base it solely on the fact that my friend is still alive, even while driving 6hrs per commute mostly on autopilot. I will have to ask him how often he has to intervene (mostly highway). But I do know that he has been watching a lot of Netflix during his commute... so your mileage might vary.
235 in my password manager and 15 in the generic 2factor app. Plus a couple where the service has their own 2 factor app (banks).
In Microsofts defense - this could simply be due to the authors inability to address the multitude of different data exfiltration surfaces in FF and Chrome
As an aside, it is striking that we are discussing this strategy on this forum and that it's actually decently-accepted advice given the current context.

What a world ahead of us all.
> states have the power to extend it in times/locations of high unemployment

The federal government under Trump took some of this ability away in December, with changes targeted to take effect April 1st. The plan was that roughly 700,000 people would lose the ability to receive food stamps in order to, according to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, "restore the dignity of work to a sizable segment of our population." I wish I was making that up.

Today, the unemployment rate is likely to spike so high just about everywhere that the new rules will probably not make a difference, but it's important to keep in mind that there's a portion of the US body politic that is happy to see some people go hungry, as long as it's the right people.
I see the logic there, but since whole EU and much more (ie Switzerland) works on purely non-washed non-refrigerated eggs, and nobody bats an eye, I think this concern is overblown. I mean we talk about trillions of eggs over the time. You should rather worry about toxic chemicals present (hopefully only) in non-BIO eggs, those are rather guaranteed
Argh, thanks, corrected.
I know. I was really surprised to see that there has only been ~1000 donations.
The sibbling's recommendations are obviously good, but sometimes rather impractical. I have an advice that has work out great for me and other people I know and is how most contracting business keep afloat and get early growth.

Specialize and partner up. If we use a webdev for example, he might specialize in marketing. Shopping cart platforms, Survey/Forms software, SEO/PPC agencies, basically everything that tangentially touches web development in that particular field. Instead of marketing, you might try HR and go for Companies that resell Sharepoint, Alfresco, Opentext, recruiting agencies, etc. The possibilities are endless.

Carve out a niche that has well-paying clients. Do some cool stuff on your website to showcase your skills. Start outreaching for companies in that niche. Keep in touch with them and mention from time to time that you're looking to build a clientbase. Referrals and/or subcontracts will fly your way. You will also get visitors on your site from SEO/social. In the meantime, you can straight-out cold email target customers with sales literature. It might sound silly, but it works if you're smart about it.

You will build a large enough network to fill all your hours in no time.
More carbon in the ground is also good, and in arctic permafrost can store much more carbon than trees.

Russian and Canadian forests are bigger than tropical forests, but they are much less productive, contain much less life and therefore much less carbon than tropical forests. That's why restoring the native grasslands (which were destroyed by humans) would be an improvement.
"Asked 11 years, 7 months ago"

Has the need to use functional programming languages become obvious yet? Has C/C++ et al. fallen by the wayside, yet?
EO is great and has really changed how I interact with people.

> Obviously things aren't entirely your fault all the time

I prefer using the word 'control' over fault, because fault has so many negative connotations. Things are not entirely in your control all the time, but many times they are. How a person responds to situation is always in their control. The classic one which you refer to is blaming others when a failure occurs - communication or otherwise. And yes, it is completely empowering and changes how one acts as a leader or team member.
No, the United States does not have high employer-paid payroll taxes. The employer is responsible for about 8% for social security (pension) and medicare (old-age health care) taxes, but only income up to $150k/yr is subject to this tax.

States also assess a payroll tax to pay for unemployment benefits; this varies by state and industry. It is also subject to relatively low income caps, especially compared to tech-sector salaries.
in this case texas is net short gigawatts. the largest grid scale battery ever built wouldn't last an hour. you'd have to have 20 to get through the night.
Agreed.

But without anymore context it looks like they’re suggesting that as an alternative.
I am more than ready for my thoughts to be considered economically naïve, but I wonder if it's to do with the ability for labor to move?

In the US it is easy (from a legal POV) to move between California and Texas or vice versa so an American employee would probably move to California if a much larger salary depended upon it. If an employer doesn't really care if someone is in any particular location within the US, they may nonetheless feel happy paying what they valued the employee at if they did force them to move to California, say. Of course, they may also attempt to pay less, but that's a risky strategy since the employee could just as easily then request to move to the expensive location.

The UK worker earning 1/4 the wage does not have this freedom. Very few UK workers can move to the US (or any other economy than Ireland) and so the market rate for developers in the UK is very specific to the UK. Only a fraction of the best developers who both want to leave and be able to leave. There's a certain local demand and supply and the salary has found its natural resting point, protected by a moat of visas and regulations.
Yeah, at least the US has multiple cities with similar pressure on price, the UK market is so unbalanced by London.

But anecdotally a huge swath of the younger population is moving to Birmingham or Manchester to escape the South East price crunch.

It's essentially insane for anyone not on or approaching 100k GBP to even bother with the South East at all imo.
Maybe this is a good reason to buy one of those anti-glare LCD glasses in the other HN thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010367
I have seen one of our large customers (can't name them) do this and it is indeed very interesting. What they do is this: they name one variation of the test each for all the team members in the design and analytics team and then make them live in a split test (irrespective of whether they all agree to specific changes/ideas or not). I observed that they consistently get great results for their split tests.

EDIT: typos and clarity
I would like to have seen a demo site where I could check it out without having to setup a project. Looks good from the screenshots though.

Another rails admin alternative is https://github.com/fesplugas/typus
I have read through it and, while it makes devastating points, I cannot say I love the writing style.

The style he uses is effective for mass readership, but gives vested professionals and politicians an easy dismissal of the whole effort: "well, he clearly has an ax to grind, so nothing that follows can be considered objective. The facts of the matter are: <insert blatant lies>".

Sometimes, a less emotional and flamboyant delivery is more effective, pure facts with logical conclusions and let the readers internalize the resulting emotions.
This is a cool idea, I've always wanted to expand this kind of thing to other similar usecases like getting notified after long CI jobs.

I think the repo is private though.
> Most of the people in my school didn't really care about computers

When I was in university in the Netherlands studying CS in the early 90s, many (I would say most) didn't care about computers; they were there because 'money later' or 'making games'. By far most never wrote a line of code. It was frightening (to me) how much they had to catch up as the lectures were fast paced. Many changed to psychology or law in the first 2 years.
There's an official Vim plugin by Jetbrains for all Jetbrains IDEs (including Rider).

I find it a great way to combine the strengths of Vim with the strengths of a full IDE.
Try to forgive her, you'll make yourself a favor.
What's different between the new collider being built in the US and HERA?
I wonder if you'd like this community: https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self

It's similar to what you're describing and aligns well with the idea of using your personal data in a more open way.
The bureaucratic doomsday of Doctor Strangelove happens because the Russians have built their own 'Dead Hand' retaliatory 'AI'.
Is scrolling on Twitter/Facebook using the Internet, then? Sure, it uses the Internet, but it's not much different from the reade letters section of the newspaper.
FWIW I think the issue is more that it's closed source than that it's using ruby.
"You know, Herb, Johnny can do calculations in his head ten times as fast as I can! And I can do them ten times as fast as you can, Herb, so you can see how impressive Johnny is!"

- Enrico Fermi
It's unhealthy but anatomically possible to breathe while your abdomen is pulled in. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924

Try it. You end up breathing using your rib cage instead of your diaphragm.
I wonder if this is why I saw Displayport to HDMI adapters this morning in the "Health and Household" category on Amazon over the past couple of days, or if those have always been there and been mislabeled.
This (and I'd argue most tech posts) is not at all evergreen content though.
That's pretty cool but I feel like they're mixing up ads and brands. Like I expected a real life adblock to say, blur actual advertisements in a magazine or billboard. Instead in this video they show it blurring brands like on the soda bottle (which isn't that useful). I'm sure the tech could probably do it but the demo could be better.
Some managers might grade their employees more harshly, and some might be soft touches. Within a departmental level, it may be easier for a manager to argue that his team were all stars, but how do you deal with the question of an entire department using a harsher or more lenient grading system?

I think there needs to be a small group of senior engineers -- not managers, or at least, not just managers -- who understand what each team is doing well enough to have a feel for the team's overall competence. Their ratings of the teams can then contextualize the teams' ratings of their members. Over the long term, these team ratings can be checked by occasionally trading people between teams -- if a middle member of one team becomes a star in another, that suggests a difference in team levels. A single such observation is not a perfect indicator because individual skills and interests also play a role, but with a number of such experiments over time I think one can get a pretty good picture.

"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler." The assumption that the teams all have the same average competence is a simplifying assumption, to be sure -- but it makes things too simple.
even that felt meaningless after I discovered how sharp photos can a modern smartphone produce

Maybe, but I still find them inadequate and suspect that in a couple years a lot of people are going to look at their smartphone photos the same way modern people look at photos from the 1920s: http://www.marco.org/2012/07/01/the-camera-you-have-with-you.
Yeah, but I think that's more of an issue with the original article title, which matches the HN title
It didn't teach us anything we didn't already know about the FBI

Well, it taught us that the FBI is capable of carrying out a successful attack against Tor.

Maybe you knew that already - I didn't.
They aren't mutually exclusive. You can have multiple processes performing non-blocking I/O, as a way of scaling over several cores without multithreading.