jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As reprehensible as it is, legally they absolutely are. Remember how country clubs didn't / still don't allow woman, african americans or jews? Common carriers (stores, hotels, etc) are treated differently, and is very much debated. (ie can a bakery deny service based on sexual preference.)
That's not a fair comparison because nuclear material for weapons and reactors is enriched. There's not much naturally occurring U235. Not that you can't safely put it in the ground, but your comparison isn't exactly fair.
Correcting people helps preserving the precise meaning of words rather than letting them drift into thingy words. Donate to the endangered word conservation fund today!
I think its an attention economy where companies try to get you hooked by slot machine rewards getting social approval from like buttons.
https://archive.is/DuxBD
If I'm not mistaken, the Win32 API is actually a subsystem to the NT kernel. You can call the kernel itself a layer below with functions beginning with 'nt*'.

Hardware is actually mapped as an object namespace, which is presented to the user as the drive letters. This was exposed with Windows XP booting in safe mode; during the boot process it would print file paths as object paths, not drive paths.

Much as I'm more in the *nix way now, there's plenty of curiosities to explore and tinker in Windows.
This github naming convention (that I see often with Go code) of using the product target name as the project name is starting to annoy me.

Also does anyone have any idea why Gopherjs would be better than Clojurescript, Typescript, Coffeescript, etc?
The problem with deflation isn't that everyday things get cheaper, it's that investments (like houses) devalue, which leads to people hoarding cash.

Now that's not to say it's always a bad thing. In Canada right now I'd argue houses are way too expensive, and that market needs to correct itself. If housing prices were to crash (and they very well might), they'd eventually bottom out at a reasonable level, because many people who held off buying a house when then buy one.

However if deflation happened year after year, and everyone expected that the price of anything they bought would devalue, they might not buy it today. Enough people do that en masse, and you have problems.
Growth is geometric. Whatever has come before is the smaller part of what we will need in future. We're always, constantly rebuilding a non-insignificant amount of the US.
Haha, great list! Depending on your job profile, I'd also add putting light music. Or rainy mood sound. I dunno, just makes me focus better.
Given that ebay is a worldwide company that is relevant to pretty much everyone on the plant, it seems like they are exactly the case for targeted ads being least useful.

Nearly every company in the world does not fit that description, and I would bet that the vast majority of them would benefit from targeted advertising. One example being local stores targeted only to local people.
Food is incredibly cheap. If you can get to a farmers market on a not busy day you'd be really impressed what you can get.

Food distribution is a complete disaster. Lots of middlemen between farmers and consumers inflate prices
Thanks for digging into that. Very interesting. And great point about the time since the more recent study.
But because the field jumps and the Google Search button disappears, it serves absolutely no purpose on the page. If you try clicking on it before typing a search argument, it does nothing.

The fact an element doesn't do anything isn't necessarily a reason to remove it. The 'useless' Google Search button serves an important purpose - it acts as a design continuation, connecting the Google search page of the past with the Google of today. If the button wasn't there a user who doesn't visit Google very often (eg most users, because the Google homepage isn't the main entry point to search any more) would wonder how to submit the form before they typed anything, and consequently might not type anything because they'd be thinking "what do I do once I've typed something?"

The "useless" button is essentially a placebo that makes the user think nothing has changed. That is far from useless.
The Chromebook is a good piece of hardware for the price. And it's not a laptop but a Linux laptop which you don't just pick up at the local Best Buy. It's a mess putting Linux on a Windows 8 laptop.
The problem is that sometimes you do need to do some heavy processing while servicing a request, and then you're blocking all other users.

Event-driven processing is much like cooperative multitasking from the Windows 3.1 days. It only works well if every part of the machinery behaves properly and predictively.
It is incorrect to say that the c approach is no generics. C has its precompiler macros which functionally provide a crude form of generics.
What arguments are there against it? I had assumed that evolution applies on all levels (and not only to organisms). and what about ants - their evolution would always be to benefit the community, I suppose?
> no real progress

but surely we've been accumulating knowledge and engineering abilities that will enable progress in those areas. It may enable the progress just by being a stepping stone. That is a kind of progress. (Note that I'm not saying we've been accumulating these as fast as we could have been).
It certainly looks very complex and feature heavy.
LOL.

Australia is the richest nation (that isn't just a tax dodge) on earth. Sure because the metric used is USD it varies.

I'm going to give you a great grounding example. A typical gardener in this country can take home $80k USD a year. That has to be 4 times or more someone in the USA. I'm not talking a garden contractor in Bellair I'm talking an average Joe.

Google are great at hiding their revenue but I guarantee you that Australia represented a good 20% of the US based revenue. Despite having a population that's only 10% or so.

They would absolutely have their bottom line impacted by withdrawing but they aren't going to. Because of the former sentence.
NRW reporting in, too
Ever heard of Edward Snowden? He exposed how three letter agencies were engaging in mass surveillance, even including American citizens in violation of their very own constitution they've sworn to protect.
It depends on the style of code. In both C++ and D world, code with many template instantiation builds slower.
I would not call it a common word. But every native speaker who reads more than Facebook status updates should have met it. Being an obvious compound of 2 words really everybody knows it does not require any real learning effort, the first time you see it you understand it intuitively.
Well that is just stupid. Google results are full of crap and good sites need to be at the top.
I don't see it in mentioned in the article but could be a driver issue for the enclosures of theses disks. Had that happen when I was using shitty cables for an SSD to my Raspberry.

Otherwise it's entirely possible it's for security reasons and somehow related to the secure enclave stuff.

But I might way out of my depth here.

What is the use case for using an external boot disk with a mac?
> What the nobility had to offer peasants was safety.

The purpose of the article, as I read it, is to identify that this claim was written into history by the nobility.
Hi, how is this different/better than last.fm?
Riak uses InnoDB as its default disk storage engine. Membase is built around the well-established memcache protocol. Both are very promising projects.

I see an encouraging trend in enhancing proven technology, instead of re-writing everything indiscriminately.
Yeah, the website is very early and I just implemented basic commands. I plan to implement keyboard shortcuts, history, and all other fun shell stuff.
> I like to keep business and charity separated.

I don't know if that really tracks, tho. You still have ethical obligations in your day-to-day business. As an extreme example; if your business is "I sell fentinyl laced heroin to elementary school children" isn't really something you can make up with any amount charitable giving.

But aside from that, I was making the self-interested argument that even complete sociopaths wouldn't necessarily want to work in an environment where "My coworkers can and will try to fuck me at the first opportunity" is a true statement.
It likely depends on the /terms/ of the settlement more than the /cost/ of the settlement in this case.

As activists, they may be balking at NDA or non-disparagement language, rather than at price.

From Amazon's perspective, the NDA/non-disparagement part is probably incredibly valuable.
That’s the one bright spot, student loan interest is above the line (i.e. can be taken in addition to the std deduction). But the other limitation are very low.
In that case, the website can just do a get request when I click on the app. That should take like <200ms and won't even be noticable imo. The notification is only there for the use of Push API.
Who is this "Java" you're personifying?

Perhaps the measurement should have been a count of bytecode instructions rather than lines of code.
I spy an Oracle employee.
"I know people think Mac is the designer's platform, but that has not been the case for quite some time."

Maybe you should send out a memo to set them straight, the entire creative industry is still using those overpriced toys. Surely designers don't need high quality type display, font and color management, and built-in multi-language support.
I meant that if you were willing to count a few days a month as "not really working", then you can trivially bill $2k quickly. Otherwise, niche software is an option.
Well said! However toxic parlor is, I think there is some danger in painting it as radically right or alt right or whatever term. Someone just has to pull up their homepage and only slightly avoid critical thought to come to the conclusion that freedom of speech and anti-censorship is somehow a radical right wing value - which could not be further from the poli-sci meaning of right/left WRT hierarchies.

> even if it’s 80% right, perpetuating the same lazy thinking (sic) has resulted in a future that is guaranteed to make the future of our kids a major struggle.

That is extraordinarily well put.
The comparison to be made is between a society that values and supports freedom of speech with one that doesn’t. Which will contain more violence and misery?

I would contend it is the latter.
Speak for yourself. Illinois just proposed House Bill 163 to greatly limit police.
Is it really that implausible that half the population isn't willing to think critically about a nuanced problem, or to accept evidence that contradicts their desired narrative?

Statistics aren't always reliable, but somewhere around 1/3 of American adults believe that climate change is a hoax, and evolution is a lie.
I don't know about Google, but Apple just told them they needed to moderate speech which incites violence (and maybe hate speech?). This isn't remotely like China where they are censoring people who post images of a stuffed bear with a vague resemblance to Trump.
Do you think only Trump himself has been affected by this? Even just on topic for this forum they're talking about an app used by thousands (or more, I honestly have no idea since I don't use Parler) of people. Do you think all of those people have incited violence? What about Parler itself? All inciting violence?
I do that semi-often, it does get better for a bit and then trash again.
There is also video of them shooting and killing people trying to enter the capital and video of them actively pushing back and being overwhelmed. Much more than one out of context clip.
I don't think their decision is some day trading stuff
I wrote 3x not 3, let me update my post. I already read that Lyn Alden post. Way ahead of you buddy.
Even if inflation literally only tracked those things, it is still many orders of magnitude off BTC's growth.
In which editor? This would really help me. IdE support and no pandas/numpy are the main things holding me back from full nim adoption
Similar story for the F/A-18, but even later. The technology exists—Boeing even did a demonstration in the early/mid 2010’s. Navy only finally approved installing it in FY2019 budget, so it may not even be fielded yet.

I used to work with a Marine F/A-18 pilot who came to the program office with an axe to grind about this. He requested meetings with PMA-265 (not our office, but same building—this was a very weird thing to do) to _politely_ show them the USAF F-16 AGCAS video and a list of folks he personally knew who died because we didn’t have AGCAS in F/A-18. I just looked him up, and he’s been promoted to Lt.CoL.; now working as the air systems lead for legacy F/A-18 in PMA-265–and it sounds like even legacy hornet is going to get AGCAS. I’m impressed (but perhaps not surprised) that he’s been able to get them to invest AGCAS in a platform that hits end-of-life in 2030. 11/10 would work with SOCK again.
I'll throw this out there - being over cautious in mountain climbing is a good way to get killed by the weather.

I'm kind of a safety nut - and had to learn that a little risk of falling let me get back to base in a timely fashion.

I'd love to head the nail gun issue - sounds like there's a good lesson there.
Won't bitcoin be due for a bit of a drop one quantum computers unlock some percent of the wallets.

https://decrypt.co/28560/quantum-computers-could-crack-bitco...
>What even is the connection!

The economy is currently in the middle of an enormous asset bubble. Them buying SP500 Index Funds or Real Estate would probably raise more eyebrows, but they're a tech company and Bitcoin is tech stuff so it's ok or something.
>Do you assume the child never sleeps? Even co-sleeping, our son would go to sleep before us (either staying in the bed on the floor or being transferred to a crib). There can be other places in the home to be intimate.

I assume that banging in the kitchen is a fun adventure sometimes, but I'd prefer to do it in my bed most of the time. And accusing me of being "oddly focused on the individual" is both wildly inaccurate and quite frankly a lazy attempt at trying to explain why people want privacy. On this site, of all places, I'd expect better.
If you are big musk fan, you should read the book like I did. Its good shit!
I cycle more than use mass transit. But, having switched jobs a couple times, this is less a big problem than you might imagine.

One you decide it's important to you to not waste hours in traffic all the time, it's easier to organize your life to facilitate that. It's not even all work, being about to run errands near your home is important too.
Here's the link if you want to 'invest' https://www.crowdcube.com/investment/hybrid-air-vehicles-lim...
It just can't, email is like a part of one self.
It may go in the more secure direction with some privacy under the hood, like HTTPS is for HTTP.
If this becomes a serious issue, my bet is that the government will be forced to start monitoring or background-checking GPU cluster use. This is one case where the cloud will hurt privacy, because Amazon will not risk their empire to protect criminals. Distributed computers cannot be subpoenaed so easily.
The sleeper feature of these pads is clearly using them while chatting up girls for their phone number.
isn't it illegal for a German to post on how to crack passwords ?
Bills are just an example of "important communication from those outside your circle of friends".

Only someone has a rather low level of responsibility in the world is not going to get anything of that sort - though different people will have get a variety of different sorts.
Heh, the impression I've got from the previous announcements was obviously right:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904205
Maybe, maybe not. see http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/

Basically, if your WPA network is vulnerable now, it already was vulnerable. A decent password and non-default ssid will still slow people down.
Oracle needs to wake up and see that J2ME is dead and deader...
> In fact, in one of the news accounts they say they will bounce emails from non-contacts.

Bouncing is an interesting choice. Many/most of the large e-mail providers stopped bouncing several years ago. (Instead, they just drop the message.) Many/most companies do the same thing.

Any idea why facebook went the other way?
I don't think Apple is making a gross majority off of (1), it just happens that Apple's products can appeal to an even larger majority since they do appeal to "hackers/nerds"

I'm constantly amazed when the "hacker" types lack the ability to see the bigger picture wrt (2) you described. At least on internet comments, so many lead a very self centered viewpoint. By sheer numbers, it's clear that "hacker" types don't provide the influence that directly leads to the critical large-scale adoption that is desired by so many.

I don't think it's necessary to choose between (1) and (2) at all. "Hacker"-types and early adopters are necessary for any product to gain any traction. They hold early influence (which obviously varies depending on the product) which diminishes as the product gains a higher adoption rate.
cliffs for those of us who don't have flash?
Compliance with a published API doens't mean it's a derived work.

While it obviously can't be distributed with the mainline kernel due to licencing issues, it can be distributed standalone to work with Linux, or any other hypothetical system that provided the same API.
If you think looks don't matter, then this shouldn't bother you as you are just as likely to make a match no matter how attractive the subjects are. If you think looks do matter then you have no right to complain. I think people are just upset to learn that they are in the unattractive group.
This is pretty interesting but I'm not sure about your example of Kitty Genovese. Although I think you use it in the standard way, I think the standard way is actually pretty wrong.

I live in NYC and have since I was born. The number of times I've heard screams going to bed is definitely in the 100s. So, I do think the Kitty Genovese story is a story of bias, but I think it's one of "boy who cried wolf" more than "herd mentality."
Thanks, I think I get it on a superficial level. The British seemed to have some pretty useful statisticians during WWII.
See this also : http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/bomb.htm

EDIT : So there's about a fifty fifty chance that the second observation will be bigger than the first.
After the second observation the range of possible future observations will be divided into 3 zones, 1 below the lowest of the previous 2 observations 1 above the higher and 1 between the two previous observations, so there is now only a 1/3 possibility of the next observation being above the higher of the 2 previous observations. Next time that drops to 1/4 then 1/5, so that's how the standard deviation decreases proportional to 1/n
This boils down to the simple fact that the truth sometimes hurts, so we avoid talking about it as much as we can. Thus it's difficult to be marketable and reflect reality at the same time.
That would be...interesting. Are these pictures public?
And all I was saying that Arc90 was well aware of the terms of their license when they chose it. Should Apple be paid for others who make use of WebKit? After all, it is the core of Chrome OS and Google gets to use it for free.
If you're interested in learning more about computer graphics I would recommend checking out cs184x in October: https://www.edx.org/course/uc-berkeley/cs-184-1x/foundations...

The only problem with the course is that it uses some deprecated OpenGL in order to ensure maximum compatibility, but it's still quite worthwhile.
I think you are using the word "polite" to refer to the Christian ethic "don't judge others". As widespread as it is, that ethic should not get to rule discourse without justifying itself. And in practice it is almost always hypocritical: those who violate this dogma are usually castigated, thereby violating the rule they dogmatically insist upon.

I see no reason why we should refrain from morally evaluating what others say, whether that evaluation be positive or negative. In fact, I think it leads to a great deal of evil to not so evaluate.
This is crazy!! So we can't rely on a startup who has raised millions! Where should we go now?
Yeah, if there was one I would've noticed it. Nothing to click like that, just a login page. Now it loads fine though, I guess I fell into some anti-fraud/DoS system.
> Helps prevent runs on them?

Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you mean by this? I have zero knowledge about the stock market.
Part of having a liberal society, as opposed to a strictly libertarian society, is that the larger social contract of law overrides any contract between two individuals.

I, for instance, cannot sell myself into slavery. Shopify cannot have terms of service in a contract that violate federal law.

The whole concern with terms of service on HN just convinces me that the practitioners need to get out more. They should also quit foisting some weird conception of software onto society. Irrespective, the objective fact that there are many ironclad things business cannot discriminate on is true and has been for a long time.

Simply put, Shopify believes they should be able to discriminate against people for holding political views.
If I'm creating something from scratch or refactoring then a keyboard definitely gets in the way. Of course when I'm writing something from scratch I usually iterate a few times before I have code that I'm satisfied with, so going through those iterations requires a lot of moving things around.

If I'm solving a hard problem (i.e. architecting a system or coming up with an algorithm) then 99% of my time is spent thinking rather than typing.
Batteries are being disrupted by hydrogen though. It's unlikely we'll see this all-electric world since it is basically obsolete given the rapid pace of hydrogen advancement.
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/08/20/does-the-democratic-pla...

>My question was whether you believe if Joe Manchin was more liberal (for example) that by 2020 we would have two more states, a packed judiciary, etc.

It's a simple matter of whether they have the votes to do it. All they need is a simple majority to accomplish all of the things I listed. You said it yourself - everybody wants to have a one party state, right? So who, besides Joe Manchin and perhaps Kyrsten Sinema stands in the way of adding new states, abolishing the filibuster, packing the courts, or any other part of the democrat agenda?

There are no shortage of voices for these things. Where are the voices against them?

If Joe Biden, who is supposed to be some kind of moderate, can't tell the American public whether he's for or against packing the supreme court, what does that say about the state of the democratic party?
After seeing how the tech community seems to leave political problems for someone else to solve and how that has worked out with housing in the Bay Area, it does make me quite concerned about the future.
true, but let's not put words in peoples mouths.

its bad form
I use a construct like this to ensure that the value ends with a newline.