jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I want to see any particular country progress as much as I want to see tech and the world at large progress. I also agree with the fact that when a lot of people skilled in one particular domain gather at one place, amazing things happen!! But would a small area 100% full of programmers be better or worse than something like SV? At what point does the innovative progress being produced by a city start to plateau? 25% full of high earning programmers, 50% full of high earning programmers, 75% full of high earning programmers?

The point that I'm trying to make is that, without a lot of empirical evidence, I think it would be a much better idea to try and create more such centers across the world. Thus, for those focusing strictly on tech progress (as opposed to American progress) it might be a better idea to let the US immigration laws be the way they are, while encouraging VCs to travel a bit more (even to other American cities, for starters) and helping the amazing culture travel to other cities. I can't understand why we focus on one particular country instead of combined innovation of the world!

The future doesn't lie in Silicon Valley being 100% full of programmers from across the world. It is just not big enough!! The future lies in a 1000 silicon valleys having a certain threshold of programmers. Just a thought.
Nah it's because we're testing some new code on the beta box. I just filed bug #2430 which looks like the problem.
Only problem with this is I can't figure out how to spend all the money generated by the tax. Obviously it should be used at a technology or process to reduce carbon from the atmosphere, but I don't think that's what governments are going to decide to do. Add a new tax, waste most of it. Or worse, use it to fund societally harmful things. That's what the history shows.
I find this entire situation comical. First of all, who in their right mind thought that a good way to price electricity to consumers was through completely unhedged spot buys on a wholesale market? That’s just bananas. And then, when the market has a big excursion, as it is wont to do, everyone starts running around and screaming about how evil the market is, and how we have to bail all these people out. This just screams moral hazard.

Second, it seems like all these folks signed up for a demand-priced power plan with no concept that they should ... I dunno ... track the demand pricing. Presumably the price is just so low all the time that nobody bothers to look. However, something is fishy here. There’s one guy who is all over the news claiming he got a bill for $16k. From everything I’ve read, the market peaked at around $9 per kWh. Which is high. But for him to get that kind of bill, he would have had to burn over 1 MWh over the period of a couple of days when rates were that high. That is over twice what a typical California home uses in an entire month. Maybe his whole house is heated with electric baseboards, but again, it seems like he did nothing to conserve power.
It’s single digits in some states, but all it takes to end up with nothing is for the owner to notice you and file eviction one day before the end of the period. Actively hiding from the owner also invalidates an adverse possession claim.

The main point of adverse possession isn’t squatters. It’s to give you or your descendants good title after a certain amount of time. There’s a bunch of reasons you can end up with imperfect title even if you think you validly bought or were gifted your property. Adverse possession clears up your title once enough time passes as long as you actually use the land and no one comes along and tries to assert their right.
It had been this way with private moderation basically since forever. What makes you think the owners need your acceptance?
I know that’s what you see. You see that because you believe that and spoken language is ambiguous.

Trump followed up with an almost identical statement. You understand what he said differently because you believe different things about Trump.

It’s OK. It’s politics.

In the end all I want is people to be consistent in how they describe violent mobs.

Personally I don’t think these violent mobs in the summer or yesterday are terrorists. I think they are simply violent mobs that were allowed to get out of control through lack of policing and bad politics. I blame both sides.

The meta problem I have is the rapid political capitalization by Democrats (including Harris) and the media following one violent mob after granting persistent cover and gaslighting readers for months over the significantly worse BLM/antifa mobs going off all summer.
You think there were white supremacists?
The president for the last 4 years used the leniency of big tech to work up his supporters. Then told them to take over the capitol on his way out of the White House.

Now everyone is surprised to see when big tech says enough is enough.

Where else would these people draw the line if not here?
>I get what you're saying but the other side of the coin is maybe the society at large is rejecting them.

"Society at large" isn't doing any of this - a few billionaires in silicon valley are - that's the issue. Who is this, "them" you speak of? The false, binary left/right paradigm is a contrived illusion used to fool and manipulate simple people. What speech isn't okay? What's the standard used to silence people from the public square forever? There is none. Its an ever-evolving, subjective imposition of censorship. What "bad" speech results in your erasure? Many are suggesting its, "violent behavior". Others say, "incitement to violence". Many on capitol hill are saying, "aiding and abetting" those who would incite violence. Anyone who is informed and aware of what the phrase, "aiding and abetting" has been construed to mean since 9/11 knows just how amorphous that phrase is and how wide a net it can cast. If you defend the principle of unfettered free speech (as I do), can that be considered, "aiding and abetting" violence? Nobody has accused Parler of engaging in violence, but merely offering a platform for people to engage in free discussion is good enough to have them erased from the public square in a coordinated effort by tech oligarchs. This is exactly the concept of "prior-restraint" that our founders warned against. Silencing people because of what they might say. Watching sitting politicians openly calling for a, "domestic war on terror" should absolutely terrify anyone who has been paying attention to the results of our original, ongoing, "war on terror". Anyone who doesn't fully understand that any deviation from the official narrative on any issue will be silenced and considered, "domestic terrorism" has their head buried deep in the sand. How long until a comment like this is considered, "aiding and abetting domestic terrorism"? How long until Hacker News will be forced to ban me and censor comments like this in order to protect themselves from being silenced ala Parler? Even worse, how bad will the self-censorship be by people and platforms who are terrified of being erased, or put on a no-fly list, or have their bank accounts closed, or being subject to government sanctions and criminal charges, for saying the wrong thing?

Hunter S. Thompson made a prophetic quote after the towers fell on 9/11 that is very poignant in light of what we are seeing today:

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
> and not backdoored.

Are you saying that Signal is backdoored? Evidence?
It is #FunnyNotFunny to watch a society embrace tyranny in the name of some Jacobin wokeness.

Let us do victory laps in the name of tolerance and diversity in all but thought.

This message may mean nothing until some innocuous pursuit of yours has a fatwah pronounced against it, and suddenly Niemöller[1] becomes personal.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Plenty of gas was used, and so were other less lethal weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCHra6JuuQ&t=3s
An important but often overlooked fact is that while there's no universal freedom of speech in British Law (although the UK is a member of the European convention on human rights which has such a protection), universities specifically are required to act to protect freedom of speech of their members.

The University of Cambridge is legally obliged to stand behind this research under the 1986 Education Act which states:

(2) The duty imposed by subsection (1) above includes
(in particular) the duty to ensure, so far as is
reasonably practicable, that the use of any premises
of the establishment is not denied to any individual
or body of persons on any ground connected with—

(a)the beliefs or views of that individual or of any
member of that body; or

(b)the policy or objectives of that body.

Full text:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/section/43
"FWIW, there's already a thread on this topic:"

Thanks for pointing that out. Had no idea.

You've quite an impressive list there!
The headline is disappointing given the contents of the article
Just curious - why the popularity in Redwood City and the same txt message for all of them:

"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto)
That might be explained as guarding their information, yet I still have trouble believing that they are unable to distinguish two artists with the same name from each other. Each week, my Release Radar playlist is basically invaded by 0 listener rappers who "feat" defunct 70s rock bands who do not manage their artist pages... Response from Spotify: please report them individually, from the desktop app.
I bet it was still more within delivery parameters than HS2 is.
This is nothing compared to obliging the Chinese government when Google backed out there.
It seems the site is actively preventing it somehow. It might enable clicks only after onmouseenter or onmouseover events. You might want to try simulating them. It also might register onkeydown events that catch pressing enter key on them. You might want to disable those.
Not sure about Chrome and Android, but iOS global market share is still very low (15%). In my country it is higher (about a third of the market) but nowhere near the market share of Windows in the 1990s. IANAL but this could be part of it.
A cursory reading didn't turn up anything obviously wrong or insecure with this setup, with the possible exception of there being insecure defaults in openssl.cnf which is minimally edited. Would love if anyone else could confirm that!

Other instructions on this site include setting up an intermediate CA using a similar process and details of the signing process. Great info, anyways.
The first article, the abstract, refers to hypospadia, a urethral defect. The second, full text article, is the one directly addressing the article above.
Well that seems exactly like what I'd expect a refugee shelter designed by affluent software engineers to look like.
We have approved languages for projects at work (Java, Scala, Go, and Python in special cases), but I let candidates use any language I can read, and it’s never been a problem.
We do tell them not to have unprotected sex, right?
Maybe - but the numbers have been going in this direction since October https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

How much of that is the new strain, how much is Christmas, and how much is government decisions (reopening universities, encouraging office workers to work in person, allowing foreign holidays, announcing an end date for the second lockdown before it had even started...) is hard to say.
Goodhart's Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
it's also the case that some groups have become hyper-vigilant about academic "cancellations" in the last several years, which could account for why so many purported incidents have occurred since more attention is being paid to the issue.

I don't see any evidence that this spreadsheet is the result of someone systematically reviewing every case of a professor or other academic being dismissed, rebuked or whatever since 2014, so I don't really see how it could constitute a trend.
SQLIITE first and then PostgreSQL.
The OpenKinect group is working on the Kinect One.

You can totally come participate - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openkinect
Agreed, if you feel the need to alert your friends whenever you arrive somewhere, or take a picture to commemorate tonight's dinner, you're definitely in no danger of going off the tech-grid.
>great products if someone would actually pay attention to the details and implement a forced eating their own dog food policy.

When it comes to consumer tech, I don't think Microsoft's products are bad. The Xbox is amazing, the Zune HD was amazing, Windows Phone is a great product, and I'm sure Windows 8 has its strengths (I've never used it).

I'm not in the position to say so, but I believe Microsoft's problem is either one of leadership or culture. Microsoft doesn't innovate, its a "me too" company in the consumer space. Zune, Windows Phone, and to a lesser extent, Xbox are all "me too" products. Even worse, there doesn't seem to be any incentive to switch. What does WP have that the iPhone doesn't? Now What does Android have that the iPhone doesn't? You can argue that Android copied iPhone, but Google didn't just copy it, they made a conscious effort to take risks and go one step above. I haven't seen that with Microsoft.

It seems to me any consumer decision that doesn't either 1.) Make more money for an existing product or 2.) Attempts to step into a well known, fast rising space gets killed. The biggest example in my mind for this was the Courier. The Courier was first hinted at in 2008, 2 years before the iPad. Someone at Microsoft had a hunch (because Microsoft has a ton of smart people), that this wave was coming and created a brand new experience. It wasn't me too, and it wasn't a proven market. It was innovation and vision. And we all know how it turned out, it was killed because it couldn't sell more copies of office[1], and instead we got the HP Slate, which was lackluster, and then the Surface, 4 years later which ended up being written down.

At the end of the day, I don't see Microsoft taking any real risks in the consumer space (aside from Xbox).

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20128013-75/the-inside-sto...
That means "don't step into traffic". It doesn't mean "you're not allowed to cross the road unless there's a pedestrian crossing". Crossing the road outside of marked pedestrian crossings is perfectly legal here (Germany).

"(3) Persons on foot shall rapidly cross lanes on the shortest path transverse to the direction of travel, taking into account vehicle traffic. If traffic density, speed, visibility or traffic flow so require, a carriageway may only be crossed at crossings or junctions, at traffic lights within markings, at pedestrian crossing aids or on pedestrian crossings (sign 293). If the carriageway is crossed at crossings or junctions, pedestrian crossings or markings at traffic lights shall always be used." - translated with deepl from https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__25.html
Thought this was gonna be a cybertruck jab.
... and I'm just sitting here wondering if the rims really are not round (as it's interlock the tire design seems to indeed indicate), and why on earth one would do that?
Linking cause and effect in the big picture is too slow to stop and worry about intent. History is replete with horrific injustices that didn't happen because anyone intended it to turn out that way.

Intent is a reasonable yardstick to assess who goes to jail and who doesn't. It is a terrible way to deal with systems and processes. There isn't time and it isn't productive to defend a system with bad incentives and outcomes because it wasn't intended to be that way.
Mine is actually on the side of the house, behind the trash cans (also forbidden). The HOA hasn’t messed with me because I let the HOA guy borrow it. Utility trailers are very useful.
This new truck doesn't follow Tesla's former design language.

Absolutely bizarre.

The concept renders both assume, which we all did, that Tesla would remain consistent with a design language that's been successful.
I am not comparing Trump to Obama, I am comparing the Dem/Rep reaction. There were two minutes of hate before the inauguration.
Relevant: Brandolini's Law

"The amount of energy needed to refute misinformation is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it."

It can take ~15 minutes to create a Twitter post containing misinformation, but a team of fact checkers can invest hours/days/weeks into the post. The fact checkers research the topic and write a refutation that's well-sourced and hopefully as objective as possible. Meanwhile, there are 1,000 more posts freshly minted with exciting new misinformation.
It's not though? Sure, there are edge cases (breastfeeding being labeled as porn, for example), but the vast majority of what is blocked as porn on major social networks is actually porn as understood by most people. That's not the case for most misinformation.
I have this theory that what-about-ism as a debate technique, elevated by more readily available un-helpful "facts" (e.g. single varient evaluation of complex system), hased cause people to forget the utility of facts. When you and I have a REAL disagrement about something importand and complex the FACTS that we can both agree on and take for granted are what ENABLES us to find a new higher resolution understanding - we can get further because we can focus. I try to look out for what-about-ism disguised as refuting evidence, and approach people's belief epistemologically.
I signed up with a few agencies (some required interviews and a small project or a test), used local sites connecting workers with employers and improved my LinkedIn profile. So far agencies work best for long term, well paid projects, sites for smaller, short term. From LinkedIn I am getting lots of spam from recruiters and calls that usually lead nowhere.
Intel just got 10nm up to reasonable yields last year, and their first "bigLITTLE" design is quite good.

There have been obvious problems, but don't count them out just yet.
You are totally correct! But another way in which email is 'expensive' is troubleshooting deliverability issues, handling bounces, unsubscribes, landing in the 'promotions' tab of your gmail inbox, etc.

Webhooks are... easier to consume.
You’re posting benchmarks for versions that are now more than 7 years old
Yes they _could_ do a bunch of engineering and infra work to support a niche use case.
everything disappeared when I dragged the viewport/board.
You might want to check out "Mighty Joe Young" from the late 90's. Not the greatest flick, but pioneering hair vfx to be proud of (from the late Dream Quest Images).
Do you think they’re trying to monopolise user data to sell to advertisers?
>You'd trust The Economist (or the CBO) to be the arbiter of what other people are allowed to say?

They already do that with their own employees. They censor and control what statements they print to control for accuracy. Journalism concerns in part determining what true statements we should print. I think the Economist and CBO do a good job of separating the facts from the fiction. I would trust them to fact-check statements. I would not trust CNN or Facebook or the Democrats to fact-check statements.
Interesting, thanks! Is there an easy way to do that on mobile?
Motion activated lights would be far more distracting. It's easy to become accustomed to a constant lighting, but if lights were going on and off every 1-2 hours through the night, it would be unnerving for anyone triggering them or positioned to see the light.

The innovation is living in the countryside on your own land or vacationing in those areas. Being away from people and their lights is a privilege, especially when lights improve safety.
Also there’s the issue of many of Quora’s answers being generated by sales and marketing content purveyors. The platform has been reduced to useless marketing content as is mostly devoid of quality answers. Just like content marketing killed blogs, it’s claimed Quora as a victim as well.
15/50 is pretty good actually.
For us it's an easy way to get Microsegmentation for our services which is a huge boon to our security posture.
It's not elitism to say this article is bad, go read about that instead.

When Einstein was a patent clerk he organized a reading group to study Poincare and Mach. His annus mirabilis was six years after his first published paper. It's not impossible to for someone to swoop in and revolutionize a field with no background knowledge, but it's vanishingly rare in one as old as philosophy of mind, and Einstein is not an example of such a thing in physics.

This isn't an outsider connecting the dots; like most responses to Bostrom from non-philosophers it's barely on the right side of crankery.

It's 13 years after "dabblers and blowhards" and this site still hasn't developed the requisite self-awareness.
It may be that you aren't using many / any of the premium features and they are afraid you might cancel because you don't understand all the fabulous advantages you're getting by paying. Sort of like, if you purchased the winter package for your car the entertainment system were to boot up reminding you that your rear view mirrors are heated.

I hope it's clear I'm not defending them; just theorizing what sort of hamfisted reasoning might have gone into deciding to spam you.
I'm really grateful for my current team because of this.

It takes 5 minutes to have thoughtful naming and "this is why because..."

They have done a stellar job at that.
Index funds are safe bet only with economy growing. This is ending now as we are entering japanization of the economy.
Percona XtraDB Operator (mysql-like) https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-pxc/inde...
I would choose the EU if the EU were to grow some cojones.
The New York Times is no longer a thought leader in society who helps people consider important ideas. Speech and thought are both heavily regulated there. I refused to believe that it was committing acts of "fake news" for all these years, but now realize that it is a hollowed out institution advancing identity politics at the cost of unbiased truth.
Why do we have so much drama? Can we all just get along and be kind to each other?
If you guys haven't already got a relationship with TÜV, you might consider talking to them about certifying your next revision. They handled all our regulatory (domestic and int'l) with a lot less difficulty (and deadline slipping) than doing it in-house.
I'm missing this particular feature in T::U that I have in RSpec -- nested contexts + lets/subjects blocks.

context "parent" do
subject { Factory(:something, :value => other_thing) }
let(:other_thing) { "Value" }
it "has 'Value' value" do
subject.value.should == "Value"
end

context "nested" do
let(:other_thing) { "Totally other value" }
it "has 'Totally other value' value" do
subject.value.should == 'Totally other value'
end
end
end
Actually no, HN is not a good research for big life decisions if you want to keep your mind open. The demographic here is too narrow. 90% startup people, so everybody here basically hates higher education. If you go by HN nobody will have a PhD in poetry or something.
I think you underestimate how banal people in 2010 are willing to make a lede. As evidence for this, I offer the first paragraph of the article in question.
it is more sustainable: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46654042 and I for one don't drink oat milk because it's healthier, but because it's not cows milk.
Thermaltake box. The best.