jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am so stressed, distressed, angry, in pain that I don't even know at this point. I need stability so I can assess things. See what the baseline is without all this bullshit here. I need to get back to Warsaw where I lived before and my only friends and reliable doctors are,or at a minimum some European city with dense services, affordable healthcare, and transport so I can live within a small area. This country is too costly and lacking in services in this rural hell, and I don't trust the healthcare anymore in general. But anything will require money. I cannot earn well or at all because my health requires all my energy to endure most days except for basic household stuff and even some days I don't move much at all. I simply cannot dig down like one can when they were a 20yo and scrap and build a new foundation. I don't know if I would EVER be able to work reliably...but for sure never full time.The money I have access to isn't enough for anywhere and there is no safety net. I have no insurance. When they ruined my health they took away my means to guarantee that financial security...and then denied assistance. Nothing went right.

People always think you should be able to do more than you say but my body is the boss and will fall out from under me and that takes my mental state with it...as you can see now. Nearly two years ago someone here offered me a very bespoke job part time with the ability to immigrate, but my health problems and personal tragedies (family betrayals and death of the person I loved most...one I may have been able to prevent had I been back there instead of across the world) all came at the right time to confound even THAT chance. Now things are even worse physically, financially, and mentally and my capabilities less. In a modern country I'd be on social aid so I could have stability and time to assess and long term help if I couldn't improve...not feel I would be cast out at any moment with no survivable path. Maybe I'd be like this for the rest of my days...maybe I can improve a little and do more. I can't know until I have that security and access to trustworthy doctors and systems...and those are not here in America.
2006 is how far back the Internet Archive goes, so I guess we'll use that for now.
This is great! I have a feature request:

One thing that worries me about HN is that I've had a _link_ changed by a moderator in the past. And I don't mean removing query junk or changing between mobile/non-mobile sites -- I mean changing the link to an entirely different site. Even worse, by the time I noticed, I couldn't edit or delete my post (which I wanted to do because I disagreed with the new link). I was essentially forced to post content I didn't want to post! I think this is crosses the line from curation to impersonation.
I've always liked s/he but don't see that in much usage.
How did you get Create-React-App to transform markdown files and build separate HTML files for every page? Because it doesn't do any of that out of the box.

Of course it's possible to set this all up, but I don't think it's fair to refer to Create-React-App a static site generator.
Not exactly drum corps, but 2:28 well spent if you appreciate music. It's playing in the background and I just got chills, you'll know when if you listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EDIDCdy5Es
> and humans are such narcissists that they assume those babblings refer to them, the parents :)

Or mama, papa, appa, amma, etc are the easiest words for infants/toddlers to pronounce and hence we used these word for children to call attention to the two most important people for their survival?

Is it narcissism or the fact that infants/toddlers cannot even pronounce most vowels/consonants other than a, m, b/p?
Consider:

- Stories in the backlog are unassigned and should be executable by anyone.

- If you finish your assigned stories early, you’re expected to pick off the top of the team’s stack rank, not your own agenda.

There are project management approaches that involve making individuals responsible for large, coherent wholes. I’m fortunate to be on this kind of team now. But despite daily standup and biweekly sprint planning, it is not Scrum. Scrum explicitly trades off context and domain expertise for fungibility and cross-pollination.
react-router, I assume.

See more on nesting: https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/docs/guide...
I combed through the paper and found this paragraph for you guys, the organization only answered two Klingon ones correctly:

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Finally, the results for ImageToText are impressive. Relative to the other services, ImageToText has appre- ciable accuracy across a remarkable range of languages, including languages where none of the other services had few if any correct solutions (Dutch, Korean, Viet- namese, Greek, Arabic) and even two correct solutions of CAPTCHAs in Klingon. Either ImageToText recruits a truly international workforce, or the workers were able to identify the CAPTCHA construction and learn the correct answers. ImageToText is the most expensive service by a wide margin, but clearly has a dynamic and adaptive labor pool.
Isn't one of the main benefits and best things about the internet is anonymity? Obviously FB and Twitter have information about my real identity, but why would Instapaper, or Reddit? Having a global login takes away that anonymity.
I was hoping this article would touch on the issues raised in the "Open ID is a nightmare" article - http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-ha... - rather than restating the conceptual basis for using Open ID authentication systems
Absolutely - not making email integration easier was a big FAIL. It would have made the adoption of Wave so much easier.
That'll be 26.3 yotta-degree.
I have tried quite a few different languages/frameworks on App Engine and Gaelyk is the one I have stuck with. I love it now. If I don't know how to do something in Groovy there is no hiccups because I can just default to writing Java code. Pairing it with Objectify makes it a very productive, fairly lightweight setup.
This solution is utterly stupid. Why do they pay their engineers millions of dollars if they don't even know the basic semantics of the HTTP protocol?

Per RFC 2616, the POST method should be used for any context in which a request is non-idempotent: that is, it causes a change in server state each time it is performed, such as submitting a comment to a blog post or voting in an online poll.

The solution to the security problem is to not pass the authentication data in the query string which is intended for specifying parameters that vary the result of the performed query. Instead the authentication data should be passed as custom HTTP headers. E.g. "X-Fb-Sig-User: 218471".

I am very amazed that this is not common knowledge. This is a 20 years old protocol that might possibly be the most widely used and implemented high level communication protocol in human history. Get your shit together people. Seriously!

edit: I guess I was a bit quick to judge. Didn't realize that the request originates from an iframe in a browser where you can't easily set custom HTTP headers. Maybe it is possible to do with some XMLHttpRequest magic, but I can't think of a solution that would work of the top of my head.
That was quite a contrarian rant. Thanks for posting it.

I have a feeling both sides spin this issue for their own purposes. Things like total VC dollars spent take on new meaning once you realize that VCs are trending to invest in much larger companies using much bigger investments. Then the question becomes: where are all the big companies that VCs might invest in located? Which isn't the same question as: where are all the startups located?

CEO Magazine voted California the worst state to operate in. California has hundreds of thousands more people leaving than arriving. Numerous politicians from all parties have commented on what a basket-case it is. The two states have the worst credit rating? Illinois and California.

Those are also facts.

As for me, who knows? Who cares? My gut feeling says that there's a lot spin on both sides. I don't have a dog in this fight, so I'm more than happy no matter how it turns out. I'll just sit back and see what happens. I _do_ know that if the California-will-default crowd is correct, its not like it will be a secret. It will be a long drawn-out affair, will all sorts of accounting tricks, yelling at each other, voter referendums, and budget crises that just continue to get worse.

Kind of like we're seeing now.
I love this because it's a reminder that simplicity is just around the corner if we only are open-minded to rediscover old truths. No complex server software, no package managers, no git, no SSG bullshit - just basic HTML and CSS.
Of course!

And the people "asking" can also be considered assholes.
Let's build an AI to regulate it!
We can start by not identifying this software as AI, and then work through what it can actually do with scientific rigor.

Thinking we can boil emotion down to a well qualified set of states and rules is as reckless as it is presumptuous.

"You like this"

"Untrue"

"Computer says otherwise"

Think that through for a while. Each of us is the authority on our intent. We are the authority in who we are, what we feel, and so forth too.

I won't have anything speaking for me or mine and neither should you.
Might be nice if the code examples were all compilable - this would mostly mean simply #including the relevant Standard Library headers.
I agree. Writing a static site generator can be very easy to do. I just use pandoc, a makefile, and a tiny python script to insert articles into the index. Stay tuned for my blog post.
(NoiseTorch maintainer here)

This is a limitation that will likely be lifted with the pipewire version. Pipewire 0.3.25 released yesterday which added some of the things we require, still some other things missing, but it seems like things are happening.

In the meantime it is possible to configure NoiseTorch as a systemd service[0], but it's not recommended because it constantly uses CPU even if no application is actually using the microphone. Afaik PipeWire uses a pull model where it pulls data when it needs it, so it shouldn't use CPU to denoise the microphone when it's not in use.

So it is currently possible to do that, but I'm deliberately not making it easy via the UI, because I don't want to deal with complaints about NoiseTorch killing people's laptop batteries or whatever.

[0]: https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/wiki/Start-automatically-...
Check out Filecoin[0] or even just IPFS[1]:

> Filecoin (⨎) is an open-source, public cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method.[1][2][3][4] It is made by Protocol Labs and builds on top of InterPlanetary File System,[1] allowing users to rent unused hard drive space.[5] A blockchain mechanism is used to register the deals.[6] It is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information.” Filecoin is open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants, with transactions made using FIL, the blockchain’s native currency. The blockchain is based on both proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filecoin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
I think this is a danger with any powerful language. In order to aid readability, abstractions need to be chosen, or designed, to be intuitive to readers and to align with their understanding of the domain. Sometimes people can be overly determined to decrease the verbosity of their code, and after spending enough time immersed in it, almost any detectable pattern can start to feel "intuitive." Using these patterns to compress the code can feel like a process of discovery and innovation to the person doing the writing, but if the abstractions are not intuitive for readers, it has the same effect on readability as gzipping a text file. Patterns are found, verbosity is decreased, but readers are not aided by the abstractions and must mentally decompress the code in order to understand it.

In my own day-to-day work, I see this issue with Scala programmers (myself included) who suffer from a tendency to see any kind of struggle with code as a valuable learning process. All of us got to where we are, slinging around monads in a "hard" language, because we have an appetite to expand our mental repertoire and a tendency to lean into difficulty. Selectively applied, this is a wonderful attitude to have towards learning programming. It is a counterproductive attitude to have towards your own codebase, though. In your own codebase, you have to flip your assumptions on their head and assume that if code is difficult to read, then more work should have been put into writing it.
As much as I am anally pained by the following things in JS:

1 + "2" = "12" but "1" - 1 = 0

0 == false ( "if window.scrollTop ..." will occasionally break on user scroll )

undefined == null ( why do we need 2 empty sets? )

undefined + "dog" != null + "dog" ( breaks transitive property )

undefined !== null ( but native operators like ? and if uses == and not === )

I'm really glad Javascript is taking over. Mostly because I am a small business / indie dev and using Javascript allows me to off-load a lot of work onto distributed client computers. Which, in turn, allows me to piggy back off of Google, Github, etc., for free hosting and be massively "scalable" to traffic spikes with no cost to me. Js has become massively portable so rapid prototyping and deliver is more possible now than ever.
The light cream golden retriever has not been taken yet. Quick to closest word editor !
>So far, the minds we know are quite intractable, and can be affected in very crude ways

Depends on your definition of crude. With a virtual mind, you probably have a good understanding of how things work and be able to edit them trivially. You can have a working mind without complete freedom or with limited capacities. Look at accident victims with brain damage who, say, can no longer do math or some other weird edge case. Its plausible to selectively edit minds but to also have an acceptable range of self-determinism.

>A "mind" and being able to "control its parameters" could very well be mutually exclusive.

Maybe with biological beings but there's no reason to assume that with artificial beings.

>We're many, many decades, if not a century or more, away from what people imagine when they say AI.

Except guys like Musk are helping move that number farther and farther into the future for their own selfish and short-term need (sell rockets to the government) via politically charged anti-AI propaganda. If AI research is chronically underfunded and feared, then it will never happen. Decades aren't too far out. Imagine if there was a big anti-computer backlash in the 1960s. We wouldn't have the toys we have today. Its important to keep a steady head and consider plausible scenarios and stop feeding the anti-AI bullshit of "OMG SLAVERY!!!"

As far as the economic argument goes, I still am very skeptical that AI would instantly run to a discredited and inefficient economic system (slavery). Its laughable to even think it plausible. It just shows how easy it is for guys like Musk to make people scared.
I'm red/green colourblind and the final version (with the stripes) is pretty readable. The first version (with out the stripes), not so much.
After digging into the financial statements this company is reminiscent of Nikola, I've compiled some due diligence and I'm taking short positions.

Due diligence here if anyone wants to dig in:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eq4wg48p8gkeqnz/To%20whom%20this%2...
Thanks! Couldn't remember this specific privacy violation amongst the daily occurrence of them by big tech companies.
This is irresponsible. This drug has severe side effects, it makes absolutely no sense to prescribe it for a completely different disease without first confirming in clinical trials that it has positive effects.

> if there's no suscipicion this drug could cause new problems, we should have people massively use it

That's not how evidence-based medicine works. The drug is known to cause new problems because of the side effects. Clinical trials are needed to determine whether these are outweighed in patients by positive health effects.

You do not prescribe medicine on the basis of hunches.
What if it turns out to shorten the illness in 80% of cases but cause liver failure in the other 20%?
Hello all I am taking cless via zoom meeting someone come and type fuck you how can find who is he can you help me in this how can find id and ip address
Its hard to enjoy the content when the website:
1) starts autoplaying frickin ads WITH SOUND;
2) asks for notification pop-up;
3) adds additional pop-up for subscribtion;
ALL IN PARALLEL. wtf is happening to the internet?
> "embrace being a loser"

I like how you worded that - I plan to borrow it.

Hmm ... if you're good at even one thing, then you're not a loser. If you're not good at anything, then it's time to do some self-reflection.
Perhaps less funding for the researchers or clickthroughs for the journalists would accompany a failure to provide such a conclusion?
I think a lot of it is finally feeling safe to experiment. I'm sure ideas like this were always around but people knew they'd be in prison if they tried it.

The west gone wild
Pioneering spirit
A golden age for cowboys
Warstories for grandchildren
Yeah, you need to split crude oil into simpler fuels and gases to burn it efficiently, so it looks even worse for crude oil.
Agreed. It doesn’t seem obvious to me whether or not censoring results in less violence in the parent’s examples.

Maybe it is obvious to those more well read on them.
I worked at a company that thought they had bought their way to reliability with Sun, Oracle, and NetApp but we had a three-day-long outage when some internal NetApp kernel thing overflowed on filers with more than 2^31 inodes. Later the same company had a giant dataloss outage when the hot spare Veritas head, an expensive Sun machine, decided it was the master while the old master also thought so, and together they trashed the entire Oracle database.

Both hardware and software in those days were, largely, steaming piles of shit. I have a feeling that many people who express nostalgia for those old Unix systems were probably 4 years old at the relevant time. Actually living through it wasn't any fun. Linux saved us from all that.
Big omnibus social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) is about to split by political lines.

Driven by divise events like this; a group of popular figures and their followers will leave omnibus social media in favour of platforms aligned with their political views.

For example: Right-wingers leave Twitter for Parler, Youtube for Bitchute.

Ultimately social media will be a bit like newspapers; each outlet with their own particular affiliation and no single dominant outlet.
I had one (on a bad recommendation from an SV friend) and sold it, because in addition to being totally closed, the music in the classes is also utterly abysmal.

I dumped it on craigslist and replaced it with a $250 "dumb" spin bike, a $10 tablet mount, and an Apple watch I already had. I don't get cadence data, but I could with a pedal magnet thing if I actually cared.

Their reddit is also heavily astroturfed, which makes me never want to do business with them again.

Kudos to them for figuring out how to make 100%+ margins, I guess. It's just very much not for me.
Lets be clear though, those people would have been better supported such that they wouldn't have needed to make a choice between eating and the pandemic if the outgoing Federal government hadn't made such a mess of their response (and refused point blank to support state and local governments who cannot borrow).
>The actions today were dictated from the top, by a large portion of Republican leadership. They created the lies, promoted them, and made sure the people heard them wherever they could reach them.

None of this is tantamount to incitement, or sedition. Which is why despite whatever bloviating we're not going to see any prosecutions of public officials (at least not regarding the Republican efforts to contest the election.) This is 2020's version of "Lock Her Up!"

These sorts of rhetorical exaggerations are contributing to the problem, and are scarcely better than the outright lies on the other side.
You're not legitimately looking for an answer, therefore few are going to spend the time on it. Your questions are answered by honest research and taking the time to argue against yourself before doing it to other people.
Doesn’t stop usps for making money from spam, or from speed traps from being primarily dedicated to revenue from out of towners.
People with ADHD would be welcome - as long as I'm confident I can manage them (manage as in helping us both help each-other and the business). This would be the same advice I'd give to anyone hiring me.

Neurodivergent-friendliness is extremely broad, but generally, yes, being less of a dick to people who can't help being the way they are is always good :)
See also

* https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.webdav.html

* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/http-...
It seems to acknowledge itself as not being accurate, at least from what I gather in this passage:

> it determines the Baywatch intro to be somewhat NSFW at a glance

As nothing in the Baywatch intro is NSFW (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0nqwgu_Us4), it seems the model is failing at large here.

Interesting subject and lots of praise to be had if the model can be made accurate, but seems it's not really there yet. I wish you luck in getting there!
Old Norse seems way more linguist-hipster than latin?

However, reading about Haskell makes me feel like sitting in front of a bad university math book throwing hard to pronounce words and proofs at me, when I just want to pass the exam.
"I'm slightly wary of a free lite version, at least at first, as people who get things for free tend to be more inclined to leave a bad review."

If someone were to take his/her time to post a review - it has to be something very extreme - either should absolutely hate the app or really love it. From the reviews I have seen on the app store, it's actually people who paid for an app and didn't like it who make a fuss..

I guess at the end of the day, there is no easy way about this. If you want leads, you need to either have a free version which will allow more people to try it and hence convert, or else put in the advertising to go for the paid customers. It's a situation that's quite similar to what I am facing too, but there is no easy way out of it. The viral loop doesn't occur always :)
Interesting that Radio Shack is only changing their name and image now. They objected to Auto Shack's name in the late 80s forcing them to become AutoZone which really took off after the rebranding. It seems like they would have seen how well AutoZone did with a modern sounding name and done the same before now.
>However, I wonder whether such slight, but no doubt data-driven, infelicities, such as the launch of Google Buzz, the riotously misguided home page designs, or the launch of Nexus One, might have done with one or two fewer data-driven managers and one or two more people who offered suggestions about what real people like and how they might react?

It's very easy to look at a company like Google and find examples of significant failures.

Though actually, I think the 'failures' he brings up are not quite the failures he thinks they are. They're not actually data-driven decisions. They're data-collecting experiments. Google is in no way wedded to any given device or approach. It's pivot, pivot, pivot, often in eight directions at once. Releasing a polished product with top-notch marketing is a good way to make a lot of money in the short term, but your customers get very attached to what you've given them, and it makes it a lot harder to innovate in the long term.
Frontline did a great piece on this called College, Inc.