jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> We are not comparing data usage, we are comparing the value of two different currencies. The value of 100 US$ in India is different from that in the US or the EU. In order to normalise the value between two currencies, PPP is used. It doesn't matter what the 100US$ is spent on, data or food.

But you are comparing value of currencies by comparing two equal goods. That would mean also comparing acquisition of raw materials, labour costs, import/export of goods, availability of resources etc which is never going to be the same. PPP itself has shortcomings (you can read them here: https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/international-trade/15-cr...).

For example, India might have abundance of rice while USA might have shortage of rice. But rice is used for making noodles in both countries and demand for rice is equivalent in both countries. Would you price it according to PPP index? Nope. You take into account any tariffs imposed by host country. What about transport? What about labour costs? There are so many variables that can influence the pricing of a product. PPP is a bad way to judge cost of living and cost of goods/services.

If PPP is 21.3 (2019 data) between USA and India, a Harley Davidson in India should be 21.3 times cheaper than a Harley Davidson in USA. It isn't. The cost is pretty much the same. So is the case with iPhones. Even if iPhones are manufactured in India it would still cost slightly less than in USA. It will never be 21.3 times cheaper.

Also, let us take Big Mac Index into account. It was a humorous take on PPP devised by economists to compare the costs of a Big Mac between countries (as McDonalds maintained standards between countries). Now the cost of a Big Mac in India and a Big Mac in US might not reflect the true PPP of the country because it all depends on the appetite of Indians for a Big Mac. We are avid consumers of street food. Street food for us is what is McDonalds for Americans. Now how can you make McDonalds as a standard for the World when in my part of the World a tiny percentage of the population visits McDonalds to consume their delicious burgers while a large percentage eats street food? Wouldn't that obviously influence the price of a McDonalds burger in India as the demand for it is next to non-existent? Now let me reverse the case and say that India tomorrow undergoes a massive cultural change and everyone shifts from eating street food to eating at a McDonalds burger joint. What would the price of a Big Mac in India be then? Obviously with high demand the cost falls rapidly. PPP should blow up right? But does that truly reflect the standard of living between two countries? That is a food for thought for you.
> Joker comes to mind as one of those.

A Joker-to-Go compiler would be awesome...
It’s a big question this time of year, at least for me. My last deep thinking on it left me with the idea that it’s better to refuse to think of life in that term; happiness lies within.
Wow, that's exactly what Judith Butler is talking about when she talks about which lives are grievable and which are not[1].

[1] https://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_16/review...
Germany:
My wife got her license rather late, recently. The costs were roughly the same (for "B"). You're on a two year 'probation' period. Any offense that would lead to an entry in our "You did something wrong and we're awarding you points for that" database means that you'll lose your license - with a well-defined process to restart / try to recover it. This includes speeding over a certain limit (say, 20km/h over the limit in towns for example) or running a red light, ignoring a stop sign etc.. All of these are - in theory, if you're caught, instant reasons to lose your license.

We don't have costs after the 2 years though, the license just graduates and becomes permanent. Now you'd receive a certain number of points for the offenses listed above and there are limits that might require you to take driving lessons again or - in bad cases - might again lead to the loss of your license.
The most important data on attributing the Sony attack might be out-of-band data: data that has been collected and analyzed totally separately from the data involved in the attack itself.

There's no question that the U.S. and allies are heavily invested in surveilling and analyzing everything that the North Korean government does, so they would have a lot of opportunity to collect such data. And if they did, it's not likely that they would publish one bit of it.

I think the firmness of the U.S. statement that it was North Korea, combined with the waffling on the execution details (maybe they outsourced some of the hacking, maybe not) points pretty clearly to out-of-band data. They would know who to blame, but not necessarily every detail of how the attack was conducted.

For everyone else out here in non-classified land, trying to analyze the attack using only the data that the attackers themselves leaked is going to be tough, because the attackers have total control about what data we see. They can redact and obfuscate to their hearts' content before releasing it.
really cool idea - i have always loved the backbone/underscore/coffeescript code documentation - hope there is more of this to come
In 2008, cheap cell phones were ubiquitous.
Link to original article: http://www.macissues.com/2015/03/17/safari-bug-saves-web-pag...
"It's a regressive tax!" is the universal torpedo; you can use it to shoot down anything. Congestion pricing, parking meters, the gas tax, drought-driven price-of-water increases, fishing licenses, soccer field rental fees...
Clubhouse is surprisingly helpful in feeling connected to the outside world right now
Do you use a library for Material Design theme?

Any books or tutorials that you considered very helpful to tackle the UI side of the development? (front-end, chrome extension, etc)
That's debatable. Remember the Geneva Convention?
the performance degrades to a point where it'll be too
slow to do anything

Do you have any examples? In my experience, Redis is pretty fast even when it lives partially in VM.

You can get boxes with a ton of RAM these, days, though, and if you go beyond it, you can always shard/distribute the database, like you mention.
I can understand what you are saying and I somewhat agree.

However, are you naive enough to think that just because your emotions run so high on this issue, that someone might still offer a much better product than you already have or that just because they are using Twitter to contact you, that they might actually have something useful to say ?
I read about PHP's traits on the RFC system a few years back. Knowing Traits and Closures were coming soon was one of the main reasons I decided not to bail for the ruby/python world.

To me traits are actually a better solution than mixins via dynamism, since you get syntax checking via the compiler along with the benefit of compiled speed. You also have less confusion due to mixin conflicts.

I am super excited about this. Thanks PHP!
You can use third party service that provides you with social media information associated to an email address. Rapleaf and FlowTown are two such services.
> People get so worked up about what they want government to do that they never get around to talking about how it does it. If the overall structure is bad, the results are going to be bad.

This is a very good point that needs to be emphasised. Get the structure right (the right set of incentives), and the organisation will run well. Get the structure wrong, and bad results will inevitably occur.
If they are going that far, it would probably be better to get rid of more in one go, rather than giving people legacy code headaches with each release.
Lately I've noticed that more and more TextMate users are switching (back) to VIM.
For years TextMate has been really popular, but now it looks as it's losing more and more users.

Would be interesting to know why. What made you switch from TextMate to VIM?
Came up with a beautiful and elegant solution. Have a look: http://ashishlive.blogspot.com/2010/11/puzzle-poisoned-wine-...

(quite detailed, believe me explaining the approach in words was hard.)
Internal corporate politics don't contradict the ideas of free markets. It's just that there's complex signalling going on (which an outsider can't be privy to) that erects barriers to entry.

These barriers are beneficial to the individuals, but don't help the corporation - a typical Agency Problem. Same thing with government : a huge corporation with monopolistic rights, and no profit motive.
You posted an article in French..
If you walked around behind someone all day, and secretly recorded them, that is still "accessing something in public".

But if you did this, Id still call you a creep stalker, and if you did this to a co-worker, I think that you should be fired for it.
There might have been some small changes, but the bulk of the code is likely copy pasted from a common codebase that is shared across models or even families. There's no way they're rewriting the entire controller code just for one customer, it doesn't make sense technically or from a business perspective.
Indeed, this doesn't show which truck is more powerful / greater torque. It shows which truck is better at towing, which is arguably more relevant for a truck. Greater mass also means greater control while towing.
We are probably not the most accurate observers of our external behaviors, since it’s too easy for us to mix memories of those with our internal state.
And Google said it wouldn't be evil, so you're either wrong or naive.
Where did I suggest we should transport live animals thousands of miles by making them walk the whole way?
> Lisp had this kind of interactive programming support for a long time using SLIME and Emacs.

For those like me who have Vim burnt into their fingers and brain, there is Slimv[1] for Vim. Another alternative is Vlime[2] for Vim. Both these plugins are based on the same client-server architecture that SLIME is based on. In fact, these plugins rely on Swank TCP server (the same thing that SLIME also relies on). Swank receives SLIME commands from Slimv or Vlime and executes them. Of these two Vim plugins, I prefer Slimv personally because apart from supporting Common Lisp, it supports MIT Scheme and Clojure too. Vlime supports Common Lisp only at this time.

[1]: https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv

[2]: https://github.com/l04m33/vlime
The point in the article was that if you sent the coins to an address that never spent any coins (like the reference client does where it will always create a new "change" address for left over coins from a transaction) then the public key of the address that holds your coins will never be seen on the network.
There are plenty of alarm clocks available that either fade in ocean noises (or similar), or will play an MP3 that you upload (and you can choose something like that -- slowly fading in white noise).

I actually generally agree with the advice -- my wife and I only use the alarm clock when we have some kind of morning appointment or travel -- but in that case the one we have works well -- it gradually increases the lights and fades in the "alarm" (mostly white noise), and it's gentle enough that when only one of us needs to get up, it's pretty rare that it wakes both of us, just the one who's "primed" to wake up unusually early. And it never wakes the baby (who sleeps in the bed with us).

So yeah, any kind of "jolt" alarm clock is a really bad way to start the day, but they're still useful devices (and waking to an alarm doesn't need to be so painful).
There's a page on the Be User Group website about their proxying of the various file-storage sites, with workarounds. I'm with O2, and have found the messages about "failed the captcha too many times" or "you may only download one file at a time" popping up sometimes.

I don't suppose the ISPs are too bothered about the sites being filtered - although there is some legal content on them, they're mainly used to host copied music and TV, so there is little incentive for them to make allowances for access to the non-porn content.

http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/?id=468
git's UI is great; as long as you understand how it works.

The good thing is: "how it works" is really simple.

You should treat it like a language (just like all system/unix tools), not an "app".
Agreed - if it's a site aimed at a non-technical audience I put it on www. and 301 domain.tld to www. And the other way round for sites aimed at a more technical audience.
The fact that a person who agrees with arguments didn't feel personally patronised isn't exactly shocking... Think about the structure and arguments used here, things like "You lose." and "Tricked you.". There wasn't any real need for the childish hostility against some imagined libertarian

If you don't understand why the NHS is relevant to the topic of government healthcare intervention (which is discussed at length) then I'm not sure?
Someone needs to set up an Internet Watch Foundation Watch Foundation.
We should be less worried about overt propaganda like DeepFakes and more worried about the assumptions baked into the media of all imperialist nations, the misdirection, and the selection of "what" to report on. States have been lying to us since time immemorial, and they don't need fancy video evidence to do it.

But this is a cool demo, and since the Genie is out of the bottle, this can be a great tool. You could use it to force those who speak in public the most to be accountable for the things that they don't say, or equivocate on, by making videos of them saying it, and forcing them to go on the record denying the video, in contradiction to their established (unspoken) position.
I've gotten some strange spam phone calls this last week, including like 3 from Egypt. Wonder if this is why.
Please forgive the tangent, but I'm curious about how people are using Rust if it's not in their primary day job? My impression is that there aren't yet many Rust jobs, but many practitioners. What are people building with it? For Rust enthusiasts, how do you use it? Are you contributing to an open source project or do you have your own pet projects? In either case, what are the projects? I'm asking because I might have some time to play around with it over break.
I would understand the need for a "Cloud" print if you'd need to print in another country that you never visit, but what does someone need a cloud print for otherwise ?
Yes, it's Cmd+Alt+V
operating system. I downloaded the swf and played it with flash player 10.
Ahh, this reminds me of when wikipedia used to have a "list of ridiculous measurements" page.
Not all porn is created equal.

I don't find it at all unlikely that the same sorts who would resort to the most intimate form of animal husbandry might have truly perverted pornography.
Your first client is your current employer.

Don't use an "existing consulting firm", they take half the money for providing contacts. Find your own contacts.

All your contacts will be personal. Before you quit, find and contact them from your employer's customer/vendor/peer space.
Spend some time here http://markorodriguez.com/Lectures.html
I'm sure they/we can write bad poetry. She didn't say it would be good ^_^.

If sufficiently bad it I'm sure it could achieve the design objective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_from_T...
Curious... How are they planning on handling situations where user created feeds are breaking the TOS? What liability is there upon this company?

Below is an example (google map TOS). Not that one could input a google map feed, but it provides an example... Almost every major news media site has a similar TOS restriction.

2. Restrictions on Use. Unless you have received prior written authorization from Google (or, as applicable, from the provider of particular Content), you must not:
(a) access or use the Products or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Products, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate...

Not to rain, just asking.
Interesting... I've never been in a really big datacenter, so I'd like to see some (hopefully non-biased) reviews from somebody that does work in those places.

Would this really work well for the intended market? There are lots of startups over here that plan on massively serving webpages - would something like this (only cheaper :) ) make you reconsider using whatever cloud services you're currently using?

Articles I found on Google:

http://gigaom.com/2010/06/13/seamicros-low-power-server-fina...

and the Wall Street Journal's take:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/14/seamicro-tries-to-ret...
I disagree. If it's Jobs driving things (and he is), he'd be pushing for as high a resolution as they could afford in their power and dollar budgets; he's always been a typophile. It's only at this point that it has become generally feasible. (Yes, Android beat them by a few months, but such are the technology cycles. Apple started the iPhone 4 development 18 months ago, according to what was said at WWDC.)
The part that confuses me is my knowledge of cheques runs like this

1) You deposit a cheque into your account
2) The bank debits the account on the cheque
3) The bank credits the money to the account of the receiver.
4) Cheque clears.

Surely step 2 has been missed out here? The account number on the cheque was probably fake so this sort of thing should have been nipped in the bud straight away.
MySQL is certainly more popular, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a better database from a technical standpoint. MySQL is a fantastic piece of technology and it will likely serve most of your needs if you are building websites. If you have used it before and are familiar with it there may not be a great reason to change. You also have to consider that databases are "sticky" products. Once the choice is made it is unlikely to change for the lifetime of the project due to high switching costs so there is not really an incentive to go out of your way to learn about multiple databases.

MySQL was basically the default database for developing web applications from 1998-2013. (It is the "M" in the LAMP stack) It gained this position by being free to use, reliable and stable. This began a virtuous cycle where more companies catered to MySQL users. Deploying, managing, and MySQL was easier since everyone catered to the audience which drove a virtuous cycle of more developers using MySQL.

A lot PostgreSQL's popularity can be traced to Heroku where it was the default choice for a database. Heroku made it even easier for developers to deploy their applications to the internet. Instead of having some janky build process you would just type "git push heroku master" and you changes would be live in a matter of minutes. This ease of deployment drove the virtuous cycle for PostgreSQL.

For the web it's unlikely that choosing either database would be a mistake. They both are great options. Going into the technical reasons why I believe PostgreSQL is a superior if you don't know what to choose would be a separate post in and of itself, but I've already gone on long enough.
If you're in the market for speakers, trying to find ones without "bluetooth" or "Alexa" support is just as difficult. I ended up buying speakers built for computers because they were simple and dumb and just played sound.
Wouldn't the manner in which a person interprets questions be part of their personality, especially if that interpretation is consistent between e.g. high school and their time in industry (as mine was)?
While full automation might not happen in my lifetime, it will for sure happen in my theoretical children's life.

Considering how the working class is treated while our labor is essential for the economy, I highly doubt we will get better treatment after full automation. When we are "useless eaters".
To add a perspective outside of high value art - NFTs have an interesting potential to change the virtual goods space ($XX billion dollar industry).

Today Fortnite and games like it get major revenue streams via selling special skins, game items and other art work. Now name a property that let's you trade or gift items? If you can name any - do they let you trade on ebay? How many platforms let 3p artists contribute to the platform? I don't think you can honestly describe this market place as anything but primitive.

NFTs solve the hard problem of accounting for virtual goods in a wildly open, secure and interoperable way. They can codify an incentive structure that allows trading on a secondary market while ensuring creators, platform owners, and even former owners can receive percentage royalties. You could easily imagine Fortnite's Ninja streamer selling one of his skins on a stream to a fan for a significant premium - and some of that revenue could be codified to flow to the platform, the artist that made it, heck ninja could set it up that any later sales send 5% to a food bank.

Thats just one reason for me why NFTs are a high potential technology. Are there challenges? Tons of them (look at eth gas prices...) But it doesn't seem insurmountable. Ultimately there is utility and value. Definitely not hype.
Yes, you should be able to seamlessly share the data from multiple processes & languages at the same time already via the .realm file to achieve what you describe. No need to wait for a C++ release :) We do have a bug right now with inter-process synchronization but I believe it should be handled soon.
Forgive my ignorance - genuinely curious if there might be a different way of thinking about this.

10-15cm underneath the floor seems so shallow that one would assume it would be picked up with such a scan. With that context, why shouldn't we assume a scan hadn't been performed?
You're hyperbole strikes me as ... kinda out there. Not sure anyone has guns pointed at anyone in this case.
I've found that most people in the economics space know how broken the CPI is, so it's boring. That's why no one talks about it. The reality is the CPI doesn't affect as much as people think, so there's little pressure to force its needed changes. And if you do ask people to change it, the factions that split in terms of what changes are desired leaves the "keep it the same" camp being the largest.

At a personal level, the CPI really isn't set up for cities. It is simply not considered in the CPI that housing would be such a big cost that would outweigh anything else. The "why" seems to be speculated by another poster, though I can't speak to that as I'm not deep enough into economics.
I get that I said USD, but the fundamental premise doesn't get that altered.

Bitcoin is heavily resource intensive. In an environment that is already resource pressed either due to political instability/natural disaster/inflation/whatever, what are the chances that the resources are going to be found that can actually operate bitcoin, and won't be better utilizied elsewhere?
Why does it blow your mind? Have we learnt nothing about democracy in the last hundred years? Why do we still think modern society has no place for corruption. I am sure societies two hundred years ago were saying the same thing. In fact I would suggest that technology and the global economy we live in has made corruption more accessible to the masses.

The fact is society has always been corrupt. It doesn't matter whether you are living in a democratic, socialist, communist country or dictatorship - there has and always will be corruption. It's human nature. You are never going to stop bad people doing bad things.
Your acceptance of this kind of corruption is the very thing that enables it to flourish.
Yup. Private citizens and organizations can do many shameful, reprehensible things, such as engaging in arbitrary (and legal) censorship, such as what Twitter does.

Only assholes decide unilaterally for other adults what they're allowed to see and read.