jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Rack::Offline for Ruby, and optionally Rails, (written by Yehuda Katz) looks like it does that, though I haven't actually used it: http://github.com/wycats/rack-offline
It looks like the systems, ie standard practices, were in place, but that the appropriate practice was overridden at several places. Haliburton did a poor cementing job but BP chose not to fix it. That is BP's failure, not Haliburton's. BP chose to ignore the warnings about pumping out the heavy mud, overriding Transoceanic. BP seems to have a culture of ignoring government regulations, industry practices, and operational warning signs, not to mention going for cheap rather than fully functional safety equipment. The blame for the dysfunctional culture lies squarely on the shoulders of Tony Hayward.

We do have a problem of the regulators being in bed with the regulated. The rig should have been shut down because of violations long before the blowout, just as the WVA coal mine should have been shutdown because of safety violations
What I'm trying to ask is whether offering them something which they don't want is going to help the conversion. My intuition says no.
Once you understand 4chan, you don't want to analyze it. I'm convinced that anyone who posts an analysis regarding 4chan does not have enough experience to accurately analyze 4chan.

The author makes a couple good points, but I think her writing would be better served by not tying in 4chan as some sort of example.
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I agree only to an extent that leaves a gap unresolveable without a nerdy dorm-room argument.
At this point, Bitcoin is one of the best performing assets of the year, which is something I never thought I'd type out, espeically since we're still in the first week of the new year.
I'm more impressed with tsmc's 5nm process than the M1. It will be interesting when we have more processors out manufactured on the same process.
When I switched family on Xmas day 2019 it took hours for contact data to sync so that it was possible to message each other. WhatsApp setup took seconds to propagate. Luckily I was eventually able to persuade it was worth waiting for signal.
I would wager that most people using WhatsApp know the difference between one tick (server receipt), two ticks (client receipt) and two blue ticks (client actually read it).
All the mainstream exercise gear seems to be pretty locked down AFAIK. In the rowing area, even the latest Concept2 controllers look to be pretty old school though they do seem to have a way to connect to phone apps these days. (Though there still isn't a lot there.)

Hydrow goes for the more immersive experience--haven't used one; don't know if it has any third-party support or not.
> When I delete my account I'm going to lose old conversations, but that doesn't bother me anymore because I already recently lost them once when I switched from Android to iOS... WhatsApp has no way of keeping your history in that case.

You can keep the unencrypted DB files.
For all the nocoiners on HN (there are many) - is there a price at which you will admit bitcoin is successful? And if not, what is the reasoning behind why you will forever see bitcoin as unsuccessful? Thank you
If Signal had a 'Create group from WhatsApp' option then most of my groups would have switched over in an instant.
> but perhaps they didn't because of the symbolism of the location.

I think there were a number of things going on, but one of the not to be discounted is that individual police officers probably had a lot of sympathy for the protestors. There are pictures of police officers taking selfies with protestors etc. They saw each other as sharing similar politics and backgrounds. Very different from the individual police officers attitudes toward Black Lives Matter protests.

Note I am not saying it was some kind of conspiracy with orders from abovve, I am saying individual police sympathies in aggregate led to much increased tolerance.

In many cases in the USA the cops are quite happy to create puddles of blood, for better or worse (and it's usually worse).

Note I am also not saying they "should" have created puddles of blood here.
> they will definitely not switch.

How do you know? Have you asked them?

Many of my family and close friends did install a new messaging app when I asked them. How do you think WhatsApp became so popular in the first place?
Wikipedia deleted the bitcoin page :(
At least one old style PHP project is crossing over into the MVC camp. phpBB4 will be built on top of Symfony 2 http://blog.phpbb.com/2010/02/18/moving-on-the-future-of-php...
Maybe whole reason for the altruism is to create opportunity for future occasional free-riding for an individual.

There are many examples in human society when someone shown and loudly encouraged altruism just to free-ride on others where nobody was looking carefully.
I'm thinking I need an app that immediately encrypts the flash should it ever detect its been placed in a "Faraday bag".

I've actually tried to isolate a phone from the network for testing. Its much more difficult that it seems like it should be. I'm wondering if such a thing works or if this more of a gimmick.

The only reliable way I've found of making sure my iphone is truly off the air is to take it to San Fran(1)...

(1) I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
> A) its not gonna be good anyway

I couldn't disagree more. "Artistic talent" is not what makes you a good designer, regular practice and passion are what matters most.

Check out this thread from conceptart.org forums: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

The guy starts in 2002 drawing stuff like this: http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?s=7c...
or this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid...

And here are some of his artworks after a couple of years of hard work: http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?atta... http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?atta...

I'm sure you could achieve the same level of progress in web design or UI design field as long as you are willing to devote enough time for practice.
One nice thing about go is that you don't have to hire good "Go devs", you can just hire good devs and they can learn Go in a week. We do that on Juju. 2/3rds of our devs wrote their first line of go on the job, and were still productive right away.
Mh, it's unclear in the article, but perhaps the US nuclear energy companies will finally be able to install the new and safer designs they haven't been able to build because of the high-profile fuckups of the old, unsafe designs?
>jumping in front of self driving cars etc just to f@#$ with them.

Much more fun would be jumping in front of the beer truck while your buddies empty the thing out the back. I would imagine crime would be a huge issue with these things. On a par with the ratio of car burglary smash and grab vs carjacking crime rates.

I would imagine those things would have elaborate and easy to use nationwide systems to shut down in case of an accident or runaway vehicle, such that no matter what antennas were knocked off or radios burned out a fireman anywhere in the nation could just pull a lever... once the criminals learn, it'll be open season. Water softener salt delivery truck is probably safe, but the beer truck is in serious danger...

Replacing licensed drivers with rentacops wouldn't necessarily save all that much money as rentacops aren't that much cheaper than drivers, and if the rentacop is sitting there doing nothing while the truck drives, some beancounter is going to demand they work, perhaps by driving the truck...

Something that's interesting to think about is people who've never worked retail have some peculiar ideas. I worked retail as a student and got to know some delivery guys and they spent surprisingly little time driving. They'd go from the warehouse to the store to gas station to bar to restaurant wheeling around kegs and 6packs, stocking store shelves by hand, and selling to the businessmen. Data entry filling out little forms and receipts for each custom delivery, etc. Stopping them from driving would have about as much effect on their employment as the deployment of hand trucks to wheel around beer. It would make the job a little easier, but not much.

Of course you could outsource the labor to the recipients, but then you go from 10 trucks and 10 drivers delivering to 100 sites, to 0 drivers and 100 reception clerks at each site to do the manual labor... Given two competitors the guy with the drivers will provide a better cheaper service than the high tech competitor, so ...
Yeah, but it's interesting - the parable would definitely work better if Charlie were the super-experienced engineer who knows enough to value simplicity and Alan were the fresh-out-of-school greenhorn still impressed by fancy one-size-fits-all methodologies.
"PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the number of vehicles on the road will be reduced by 99%, estimating that the fleet will fall from 245 million to just 2.4 million vehicles."

This isn't remotely close to possible. While it is technically true that cars spend most of their time sitting idle, the demand for transportation is lumpy. A huge percentage of the population works, sleeps, shops, and eats at approximately the same time. That means that with only 2.4 million cars available for use at any one time, the US economy would almost completely shut down. If the majority of those were Uber cars, surge pricing would be in effect most nomral hours....literally only the reviled "1%" could afford to go to work or do anything else from sunrise to sunset.
Might be slightly tangential, but reading the post reminded me of Rational Optimist[1], a book about how key parameters of our lives are improving despite constant global pessimism. (e.g. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down)

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolv...
> For example. Try looking and you will find.

I'm still trying to grasp what has to do the Aliyun case where a member of the OHA was developing an incompatible Android version with pirated Google apps in its store with your claim that Google forces OEM's to have geolocation enabled by default.
I was ignorant of the term, but am unsure how it is different than other country's child services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Welfare_Services_(Norway...
Yup. I tried to save it be heating gpu few times. Each time I got few months of life.

Now it would need proper reballing.
I remember reading Bill Gates's own writings on how he chooses where to put those money. He has a very clear and developed strategy; it's basically investment except that the profits come back not directly to to Gates, but to the society as a whole. He doesn't just spend the money, he tries to find the spots where applying money would give the greatest and most lasting effect.

For example, his donations to malaria researches nearly doubled the overall money that went to these researches over the world and it's not that his donations were so huge, it's just that these researches did not get much funding (compared to the effect of malaria). Similarly, he wanted to fund a program in education of teachers, but he specifically picked a program that looked it could make the greatest profit/expense ratio: filming great teachers as they work and distributing these films to other teachers.

That said, I'm sure Mr Gates will be very interested in hearing any sound businesslike proposition in regard to where to invest his money :)
PHP frameworks are lame. Seriously. PHP is simple enough that you don't need a framework. None of the frameworks are very well maintained. All the frameworks are more trouble than they're worth. Later on, you will end up spending more development time getting away from the framework than you did implementing it.
We have implemented caching mechanisms to speed up the load time. Thanks for the wording suggestions, we will look into them.

About the restrictions on times/dates, usually hosts provide their arrival/departure policy so if you haven't seen the information it maybe because it was not provided yet.

Our marketplace allows hosts to provide opaque personalized rates, so sometimes the hosts prefer not to make their rates public and provide the offers by request. I love your price range suggestion to clarify what is Upscale, we will try to add it soon.
Not to go against the grain, but this could be useful. Say you already have some sort of datastore that uses xml. Now somebody hands you JSON for some reason, maybe a list of companies. Convert it to XML, stick it in your datastore and use XSL to do whatever you want with it.
Anyone else bothered by the fact that there are no pictures of a bike actually locked to something?
disrupting quantitative finance
Here is a sample email with one link shared: http://cl.ly/15300W0g002N1n3t2L2O
My explanation may be confusing to you, but it is certainly not confused.

I did not confuse additive and subtractive primaries, and I clearly know the difference. It is my job to know the difference. I have profiled everything from litho presses, to numerous ink jets, displays of every kind, scanners, cameras, and light-jet photographic emulsion printers.

It just so happens that the same essential principles apply to either. Both reflective and emissive color gamut can be expanded by adding non-primary colors. People tend to understand ink on paper better than they understand light. I used it as a point of comparison.

Furthermore, color printing is no more "mixing" inks than display technology is "mixing" LEDs, LCD cells, or CRT phosphors. Discreet cells. Discreet dots. Same principle.
The North Koreans could easily shoot anyone who tried to flee to China, if there were more than a tiny trickle of people trying to do so.
This is nonsense. When you place a limit order, it is made publicly available to everyone with a market feed. Everyone with a market feed is informed that someone out there (no name is given) wants to buy 3000 shares at $20 or less.

If anyone out there had a sell order at less than $20, their orders are immediately matched to yours. Lets say someone wanted to sell 1000 shares at $15.1, someone else 500 shares at $15.2, and nothing above that. So you just bought 1500 shares at $15.1 and $15.2. Now there are no shares available to buy below $20, but your order is only half filled.

What happens next is that an HFT system will rush in with a sell order of 1500 shares at $20.0. Your order is filled within a second, and at the price you asked for. Without the HFT system, you'd need to wait a few seconds for a human to come along and fill your order at $20.0.
Thymer? http://thymer.com I've heard a lot of good things about them. Tried them last week as a single user and liked the interface very much.
This is taking an argument to the extreme. Placing a red box on the floor does not suddenly turn the whole place into North Korea.
Yet another great reason to self host
I study economics as my personal hobby. In particular I study Austrian economics which has proven very useful for me in business and my own personal finances.
I disagree that financial markets are the foundation of society. Instead, I think they're more near the top or to the "side". Closer to the foundation of society is more basic and primal human needs and wants, and people doing real work, making real things that other people need or want. Finance is just a very modern abstraction. It can be useful, but also just another form of gambling or parasitism. Again, not to say it's not useful to understand. Just not part of the foundation of society.
I believe the parent is most likely referring to all the costs that are externalized on to the employee related to e.g., commuting; the office-induced inefficiencies related to lack of control of one's work environment; poor communication that relies on face-face happenstance vs intentional and document oriented exchanges; and the executive-induced mal-control syndrome, such as 'if I can't see you you aren't working' kinds of things.
Growing up, every summer vacation for me was basically like being in quarantine: the miserable florida sun was oppressive, so I'd be inside all day, and I lived so deep in the suburbs that I couldn't go anywhere without getting my parents to drive me, and with 2 working parents I mostly didn't bother.

With a bit of experience in this, I can say rather easily: during the school year, getting a chance to avoid going to school is wonderful. But months of being stuck at home becomes boring and miserable.
I’ve been getting paid a San Francisco salary for 7 years while living abroad working as a Sr DevOps Engineer (I have 25 years experience).

After the pandemic hit, my company slowly fired half the staff and replaced us with Russians & Belarussians for 1/5 the price.

Now it’s a buyer’s market and wealthy startups (including many ycombinator startups) are offering me 50-70% less than I made at my last job. Literally so little money I would have $800 leftover after child support and paying my dying mother’s mortgage.

I ask them, “do you understand that paying employees 60% less for the same work creates a toxic environment? You are already struggling with 18 month average turnover. If I take this job, I will quit in a month, without notice, if somebody offers me 5% more, since you view me as a commodity.”

It has disgusted me enough that I’ve left tech entirely and instead am about to buy an apartment building. I would rather be a rent seeking parasite than get paid less than interns and junior engineers with 2 years experience.
This is an interesting theory. It also seems somewhat testable, because if true and Metz's superiors are not tone-deaf they we'd expect they will fire him, no?

I wonder if it was Metz who had the idea for the original more positive-angled story re SSC's COVID info.
> So even with exceptions off one pays the price either in the form of non-standard library or accepting non-optimal performance.

Holy moving goalposts, batman!

The "don't pay..." thing has only ever applied to runtime, there nothing in there about not having to write more code yourself, etc.

(It's also a bit dubious in the first place. Chandler had a good talk about this at one of the CppCon's, IIRC. Can't be bothered to look it up, but it should be on YouTube.)
The underlying principle here is competition.

A worker sells their labor and a company purchases it.

When everyone lived in SF, a worker wouldn't accept a job paying below $100k because they wouldn't be able to afford to live. That same person in a cheaper state could negotiate a lower price, but most of the talent was saturated in SF. Now that everyone has left SF, there's no point in paying those prices if they can still retain you for a lower wage.
What about the second night?
The nth night?
Can we plot that?
When sleeping in a new place, new home, hotel, or vacation I often have this fairly stressful reoccurring dream of living in a slightly dilapidated house (different every time). I often wake in the night feeling very confused where I am or if the dream is real (if that’s where I actually live) it takes a few minutes for me to figure out what’s what.

I’ve often thought that this was probably something left from when we were living in caves or hiding from predators were you need to be sure that a new sleeping place is safe.
I guess your comment highlight the real problem of trying to describe tools for handling complex scenarios with just simple examples, they often don't make sense because the first thought is always "Why not just have one function instead of all of that?".

If you're just printing some text to the console when doing one thing, then surely one function is enough. Once you start having some state and different views depending on values, normal state machines might be enough. But eventually, your application might grow so much in scope that you want to have state machines nested in other state machines, and you want to avoid the classic "state explosion" that you end up with when using state machines, then Statecharts are a very useful tool.

But before that, do the simplest thing that can work for your use case, complexity is evil and all that... Statecharts are simply a tool for handling complex and intertwined state, not for simple stoplights. Unless those stoplights are all connected to each other and also control/read other state machines, then Statecharts might be right for you.

Not sure if you took a look at the links I put before, but the https://statecharts.github.io/ website has a "Why should you use statecharts?" section with small descriptions and links to more elaborate information as well. Might give you a better view than what I can give.
The idea is to separate the state of the application from the presentation, which in practice leads to not having circular dependencies in the first place. And you can update the display after all changes are finished, so you won't get the flashing xmas tree effect.
> "The only good use cases that come to mind is if there is some particular reason for you to evade the conventional and easier systems of communication and storage."

* Nailed it *

I've long said the killer app for blockchain already exists: international money laundering and untraceable transfers.

This also happens to be the precise use case where folks want to "evade conventional and easier systems".
Fitting that it's released in November 2019, the month nad year the original Bladerunner was set in
You can also add that to this type of audience which pretty much sums up what the technical bias of a typical HN reader/commenter really is.

So far it is more like all things:

Linux, Rust, AMD, ThinkPads, Elon Musk, Rick and Morty, Stanford, MIT, Web-Tech, Stripe Design, Mr Robot, Space Travel, Kubernetes, Data Structures and Algorithms, and now Telsa.
> Vastly more research

We've done a vast amount of research. You've dismissed it. How much more research should be done to convince you, personally?

I guess you're not old enough to have noticed the seasonal temperature changes in your lifetime.
I guess it’s a good thing that trucks like this aren’t really a thing in the EU.

They exist, but I don’t know anyone who has ever owned or rented one. They’re hard to find, dealerships don’t tend to have them so you’d have to find a specialist importer I reckon.
In a sense, yes, but someone, somewhere had to be the one to say "we could be courageous, but let's softpedal this and come up with a lame excuse". They also (perhaps with others) had to build a culture where people know they can't speak up on it.

Of course, there's a question of causality. Are businesses "morally agnostic" because they choose to be, or because the ones that aren't don't survive? Companies that say "we don't do business with places that harvest organs from prisoners" will struggle against ones that say "we were able to cut the price of our phone 50% by doing business with (said regime)"

This would actually be a good reason to impose import duties on those places - to make goods from ethical regimes more competitive.