jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Be concerned all you want, but look at it this way: without the most populous nations (for instance, the USA) at the top of a list like this politicians can downplay the seriousness of the threat. HN has a small army of people who do nothing else than trying to make it seem like this is 'just a flu', or something slightly worse.

All of that taken together translates into people simply ignoring the danger and continuing their life making things much worse in the long run.

Viruses don't have legs, they need people to transport them. And as long as we're willing it gets spread around and some people will die. If rankings like these send the message loud and clear that this also concerns you then I'm all for the rankings, even if they are a bs statistic without taking into account the total population size. People find it much easier to relate to 5000 people dead than they do to 2000 people per million infected.
AIDS, Swine Flu, probably MMR?
In the video they warn about what you said and recommend to develop and use such a device only with the supervision of experienced doctors.
Visiting my mother-in-law the other day I helped her with a TV on demand "app" built into her TV. For some reason it needed her to log in again and she was stuck. She had successfully entered her email and password (I was surprised and impressed), but had absolutely no inkling of the final step required - moving the pointer to the button marked "login" and pressing it. So easy to forget that a tech-centric mental model can be completely alien to "normal" people, especially older people.
Back in the day when I used desktop music players on linux I cycled through a whole bunch: Audacious, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok, Songbird(Mozilla!), Moc(Oh, so minimal!), Cmus, mpd (server/client), and probably more that I'm forgetting now.

Feel a touch nostalgic for the uncomplicated time when I had music on my devices, regularly "organized my music library" and could play whatever whenever, and shared them with friends. I can still rummage through my old disks and spin up some of that music from time to time.

Mostly use cloud players these days; crazy to imagine that there's nothing I can do if my favorite song/recording today is not available ten years later!
I don't think you realize what the severe cases look like.

This isn't chickenpox.

This is people drowning in their own fluid-filled lungs, having to be physically restrained to keep from pulling out their tubes, with a surprisingly rapid progression from mild symptoms to requiring a ventilator to being declared dead.

You willing to sign up for that?
Would ActiveX have been so bad if it was open source and not tied into the operating system?
Moore's Law doesn't just bring processor speed, but also vast quantities of RAM. How much of the improvement credited to algorithms came from newly-affordable time/space tradeoffs brought by Moore's Law? I like the question this post is raising, but would like to see it approached in a more careful manner.
I'll bet some grocer out there could make a name for themselves by shaking up the traditional ways we shop. This queuing idea is one example. Would be a smart move in fairly commoditized industry..

Great comment, but I'd want to ask a few questions before committing to a start-up :-) One conjecture is that grocers aren't in the sales business, they're in the real estate business. They make their money by renting shelf space to major brands and the rest of the groceries are just there to get the customers to visit the shelves owned by their tenants.

They certainly would like anything that gets more customers to shop, but if the conjecture holds, the perception of a convenient check-out is far more important than its actual efficiency.
> Under no circumstance should you install Ruby, Rubygems or any Ruby-related packages from apt-get

I really wish the RoR book I was reading had told me that before I spent multiple hours trying to properly setup Rails.
California is facing potentially catastrophic future problems from unfunded pension liabilities [1]. And ridiculous numbers of blue-collar state positions get six figure salaries and the generous pensions that go with them. It would be nice if we could do that, but the math just doesn't work, which is why California's problems are only going to get worse unless drastic action is taken. And it won't be until things get really bad.

1. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/06/opinion/la-oe-crane6...
Best way to look at it is as a person's view on the probability of any god existing.

Theists are of the opinion that the probability that god exists is likely, in say 50-100%

Agnostics are of the opinion that the probability that god exists is uncertain, in say 33-66%

Atheists are of the opinion that the probability that god exists is unlikely, in say 0-50%

One gotcha is that, if you account for the greater number of theists, the distribution is not symmetric. Atheists tend to be less certain (more agnostic) than theists.
Our main servers are named after X-Files characters

scully.domain.com

mulder.domain.com

skinner.domain.com

reyes.domain.com

etc. :)

We have other servers with single roles given "normal" names, such as chat.domain.com and mail.domain.com
The shortfall itself is due mostly to decreased revenues as opposed to increased expenditures. That said, pension expenditures are a fairly good size chunk. There is a decent overview here http://reason.org/news/show/fix-california-pension-crisis but if you want to drill down through the data itself, it is available here: http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/Enacted/agencies.html
I also found the following tutorial invaluable for setting up rails on 10.04 (via RailsTutorial.org)

http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2010/09/01/How-to-insta...
It's pretty misogynist to assume the only reason a woman could have a different opinion from you (a male) is because she was misled.
Everyone's going to die of something, if it takes 1 day or a billion years.
"Easy to invite others. Just sends a simple SMS/text"

and then

"In countries like the US, SMS/Texting is very expensive...Whatsapp solved this problem"

You need texting (a X dollar/month service) to use the service ... which solves the problem of... expensive texting?

I always found that to be somewhat odd, using a service you're trying to replace/compete with as the sole authenticating factor.

Edit: I realized after actually using the app, they do in fact offer an alternative authentication method (call). You have to try (and fail) at the texting method first.

Also, in response to derefr (I deleted my ignorant parent comment), I block texting as even if you don't pay for a plan, you still get random spam texts that you must page for (even if you didn't ask for them)
People want to play God of War, Little Big Planet and Gran Turismo. I think Sony could do just about anything and stay in business. As sad as that is, it's probably true.
>You can diss your competitor for poor security practices only if you have some confidence in your own.

Nope, companies usually don't leave any chance to point to the competition's faults and laugh, even if they themselves are worse in that regard.
I had the completely opposite experience when using Lua: tables felt like a great structure to base a language on.
The farther out you go on the lines, the cheaper it will be. Be careful though. Not everywhere in Queens and Brooklyn is safe.

Living farther out isn't that bad if you manage to find a spot near an express line. I'm sure you're friend in NYC will know the tricks.

Good Luck!
There are several competitors already, have you tried them all and found shortcomings? Is that what you're alluding to with the comment about not sucking? (I have, just wondering if you had the same experience)

Suggestion: Make use of android's press-and-hold feature, where if you hold a button or link for a second or two, it can pop up a menu. Put your upvote link there. Check out the opensource 'Reddit is fun' Android app, it's really good and might give you some more ideas as well.
Momentum and hydra-esque qualities. Sony manufactures parts for a lot of tech companies, who would suffer if Sony ceased to exist. So it's in their best interest to keep them alive, especially in the short-term as it would be crippling to have to change suppliers suddenly.
People read what they want to hear. I’ve posted comments that make it clear I support stuff, but because I (essentially) argued devil’s advocate, I was downvoted. I can only assume it’s because I’m supposedly showing sympathy to the other side (even if I’m not).
That all sounds great, but with semiconductors you always have to worry about double ordering, stockpiling, etc.
Who makes a decision like this? The only reason I have a Yahoo account is for delicious.
I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding.

@pavs - Where do you work that's better? What ideas have come out of it that are even worthy of having a Hacker News thread? What products do you work on that people love so much they're distraught with a mention of them not existing? Link me, :D.
Can I temporarily hijack and ask if any Ruby guys want some local contract work? Drop me an email via profile if so - I can't make it in person to ask.
Sorry Josh, it's them not you.
Looks like a cool site. Free link juice?
What are the odds of someday independent software developers being able to file liens on companies that stiff them? People who work on your house are able to do it, what's the big difference there? I suppose if you develop somebody software, there may not, necessarily, be anything to put a lien ON...but I suppose that could be something that the contractor could check up on ahead of time.
This action doesn't hold up to historical treatment of other apps /platforms.

Was Facebook banned from app stores when shooters live streamed on their platform?

Was Twitter banned from app stores when calls for violence against Nick Sandmann were spreading?

Was Youtube banned from app stores when it was discovered that child predators were lurking in the comments and exploiting underage children?
A big part of it is likely that they didn't know if the National Guard would be called out if things got out of hand. I believe the police let them in because they were outnumbered and thought letting them through once the premises were evacuated would prevent an even worse outbreak of violence if they (the police) were overwhelmed by the crowd.
in the case of illegal content, this usually isn't something that doesn't exist at all one day and then exists in volumes too big to moderate the next.
> Apple does and will use your data to push Apple products. They should be transparent about that.

Explain how?
I personally have been archiving Trump's tweets in a SQL like database. https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/alexis-evelyn/president...
Your argument boils down to "I agree with one cause and reject a caricature of the other, so the first should be allowed". Not agreeing with something is not a reason to ban it.
Verizon will close accounts that are used to commit crimes.
Most people get this kind of logic from their CMS or publishing platform. Jekyll, hugo, wordpress, 11ty, etc. all have various external state stores (yaml files, JSON, CSV, calling a graphql API, etc.) that you can query and interpolate or insert data into your document using a bevy of different template languages. Check out Gatsby or even Next.js for something that's really pushing the boundaries of static + data-driven content.
IMO this should be a feature of the window-manager, not the application. But that requires a change in the interface between window-managers and applications, to allow the window-managers to be more heavy-handed. Which I've wanted for a very long time.
Heartily disagree. Half of the serie first season (the complex episodes) is somewhat interesting. The rest is mostly the usual sci-fi trops and goes from mostly avoidable (the other half of the first season) to plain bad (everything after). It has neither the depth nor the artistic chops of the two Oshii movies.
War with Canada or Mexico?
Bromite is de-Googled Chrome. It's the reason why notifications are not supported; push notifications rely on Firebase Cloud Messaging / Google Cloud Messaging.

It's actually less tied to Google services than Firefox.
How do I get started? I use Zettelkasten and have hundreds of pages of notes but can't focus to and don't have the confidence to put them into publishable entries.
Nope. I'm saying I've made more since I mined the bitcoin, apologies if that didn't make sense.

Ok, I have a proposition. Let's negotiate. How many BTC/year do you require for me to buy all of your work product, for the rest of your life? How many BTC do you want? Choose carefully.

I posit, there is no amount we can agree on to make this transaction.
* A lot of properties that might have previously been purchased and renovated by investors sit idle because the investors can't turn them into short-term rentals.*

This is a good thing. Because it means that the properties can be occupied by people actually living there.

We have a lot of cottages / really small properties here, that are good short-term rentals but not great regular rentals. so basically a lot of garbage rentals came available that did nothing to actually help our rental market.

Cottages are great rentals. They may not fit your needs, but in large cities, there will definitely be thousands or hundreds of people for who cottages are the perfect fit.

Most of what you describe is actually good for the rental market for the people actually living and working in the community.

The hotels knew they now had a more captive market than previously.

Hotels cannot "capture" the market. They are dependent on tourists coming in to the town, and that means that other parts of the town must provide a reason to visit. Right now, hotels are bleeding money.
Byuu, your code base is awesome and I've been studying it a lot lately. I'm not programming emulators, I'm studying your architectural design more than anything. Your passion and dedication really shows. Best of luck in your future.

I've also had bouts of RSI and it can really be frustrating, especially when what you do shapes so much of how one thinks of oneself, and that starts to whittle away.
If only disease actually worked that way.

Covid19 is not the only germs they will be carrying. The people who are the sickest are the ones that most need oxygen supplementation. Reports suggest that most of the people dying from it already have other serious medical conditions.

This is exactly how antibiotic resistant infections get bred. You would be creating a melting pot of horribleness and cross-contamination and god-knows-what would come spewing out of it.
Was it also a joke in the 25 other instances he's said this on twitter?

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/deep%20state/tfff

Or here:

"I am fighting the Fake (Corrupt) News, the Deep State, the Democrats, and the few remaining Republicans In Name Only (RINOS, who are on mouth to mouth resuscitation), with the help of some truly great Republicans, and others. We are Winning big (150th Federal Judge this week)!"

How is that in any shape or form a joke?
Rust has a feature that somewhat provides this - doctests[1]. Rust doc comments begin with `///` and will be parsed as markdown when generating documentation. If there are codeblocks in the documentation comments, they will be run with all other tests and the test runner will report if the blocks fail to compile or if they error at runtime.

So if the API changes, the example code in the documentation will fail to compile.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/documentation-tests.html
I've got 1050 books all catalogued in LibraryThing. I find it quite worthwhile – I can search my library, useful if you have an extensive reference collection on a particular topic. And if I'm out at a bookshop wondering if I have a book already, I can check! :)
Focusmate. Nothing beats it.
i am trying to understand memory management under golang: https://github.com/MoserMichael/openshift-memusage/blob/mast... that's part of my larger effort https://github.com/MoserMichael/openshift-memusage
It's the root word of "disenfranchised", which is the form most people are familiar with.
there is an abundance of empty space here in canada
Without knowing what the Y axis is this actually doesn't even look yikes, if anything I got flashbacks of this graph I remember seeing in one of Tufte's book: http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/djia-suns...

EDIT: Just saw the link at the bottom of the "article".
How is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA not a secure password? Unless you're standing over the person's shoulder, how are you going to know that their 16 letter password is all one letter?
I could echo your sentiments (just for a different industry), but I won't to save space.

There is always something to learn, though it may not be helpful right away. Product and domain knowledge not so much, unless you intend to compete in the same field, but most other things are universal. For example:

• Social issues will exist for any organization, no matter the size. Knowing the outcomes and common signs, perhaps you can find a better way to prevent the issues you don't like.

• Surely you've encountered some implementation bumps or failures in your tenure with MegaCorp. What caused them? How can you avoid them? These issues could be just as likely at a startup.

• Think about the physical production/office environment, too. What could you change from what MegaCorp does that would make you more comfortable and productive?

You may have seen a thousand ways that things are done wrong. Perhaps that's all you need to find the one way that's right. Henry Ford didn't develop an assembly-line controlled-labor auto factory by accident. Maybe he didn't know it would work, but he'd seen the ways it didn't work. Just like Edison with his electric bulb.
I'm not a RIM fan by any means (I love my iPhone), but I think Lazaridis did the right thing in ending that interview.

Of course, standing up to people isn't enough. RIM's real challenge is to make competitive products. Will they do it? Showing spine in the interview seems to say yes, but what they actually have on offer right now seems to say no.
"Yes, because if Richard Stallman was wget'ing his daily webpages, he would have a lot of trouble interpreting that site without going into xwindows."

Your indifference to the Blind is touching. But at least you got your off-topic troll in.
I've got an idea for a Mint for personal finance!

(no, I'm not serious)
People questioned Page's decision to base bonuses on 25% social.

Ben makes a clear argument that wartime CEO isn't about making people happy, it's about getting people focused.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=ampersand&sea...
yesterday evening.
> But most "wtfpython" things don't actually affect people using the language

Plenty do though. I've passed that page onto co-workers a lot, back when the list was smaller, and almost every time they've found something on the page that explains a bit of weirdness with Python that they'd just dismissed as buggy behavior and avoided touching.

The ones I remember them mentioning:

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-mutating-the-immu...

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-beware-of-default...

And I multiple times I've had to explain the difference between references / shallow copy / deep copy to bootcampers, which falls under https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython#-a-tic-tac-toe-whe...
The game cabinet (at least in the US) called them "monsters"
> This notion has both practical problems-- who can fire an "independent" bureaucrat run amok?

The President; “independent” officers and agencies (to the extent that this is a formal distinction, “independence” is often attributed on a softer political basis to regular executive agencies and officers, too) are those who (or, for agencies, whose group of principals are) legally protected against Presidential removal except for specified cause.

And also Congress, as such officers are civil officers subject to impeachment.

> For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a director who is appointed by the President for a 5 year term, and can only be fired for a narrow list of reasons. The Supreme Court struck down that restriction and said, roughly, that any inquiry into why the President is firing a particular bureaucrat would infringe on the Executive power that is vested in the President alone.

No, it didn't. It struck down the combination of that protection and a single-director government structure, declaring that because Congress had established a single-responsible-officer structure, it could not also (even though the CFPB exercised quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions, do which the Court had allowed similar arrangements for multidirector agencies) restrict dismissal of the director to limited cause.

It very much did not find that any legal restriction on why the President is firing a particular bureaucrat “would infringe on the Executive power that is vested in the President alone” (and, in fact, a wide array of bureaucrats in the federal executive enjoy exactly the kind of protection that was not permitted to the head of the CFPB because of the structure of the agency.)

And it even moreso did not find that any inquiry into such a firing (such as the Congress might do before applying after-the-fact, discretionary consequences like impeachment and removal) would violate the Executive Power.
The trade cost is different for both, as you can tell from your comment and sister comments that show how BTC trades cost much more than BCH. Given that they said 'bitcoin' and not 'bitcoin cash', and that BCH's low trading fee isn't seen as a negative, chances are they were referring to the one with a high fee.
I have an 8" Dobsonian that I bring out for my kids and the neighbors to use. With a lot of light pollution, it's really only good for seeing the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn--which should NEVER, EVER be underestimated as objects of awe, even when we're used to seeing MUCH better images.
More closely related to proctor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor

> In the United States and some other countries, the word "proctor" is frequently used to describe someone who oversees an examination (i.e. a supervisor or invigilator) or dormitory.
Tried Brave?
yeah, but you're cleverly (or nefariously) pitching this as both a neutral unit of measure - say, $/square meter in the US - then right away using it as a non-neutral measurement based on the individual (/your/ $60k - as if it was "ours" to begin with). that's not really appropriate.
Yes, that is a temporary exemption made by the Librarian of Congress, as the law provides for such temporary exemptions (which can also be renewed by the Librarian -- or not).

Nonetheless, the existence of the DMCA as a legal framework, I think, belies the picture the original comment I was responding to paints, of "Just because there is fair use doesn't mean the content providers need to make it easy to copy their works." The DMCA specifically gives the content providers technological "challenges" the force of law, and makes it illegal to circumvent them, without any general exception for fair uses. There are some few specific exemptions (not a general one for anything that constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law), which are not actually part of the law explicitly, but temporary and at the discretion of the Librarian of Congress.
Looks like you got one thing out of it! The ability to take naps on command!
>>As far as I know, there's currently no law that requires you to pay taxes on bitcoins earned.

Tax is payable on anything earned. This is an invitation to arrest and tax evasion charges.

BTC is also a fundamentally bad idea for an economy.
I'd call it Obamaism, except it seems to have been properly started and revved up under Bush, so giving that lying scumbag Obama all the credit for this seems undeserved.

Perhaps link the two. Obama-Bush-ism?