jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My personal observation has been that, while blind-folding might have been good for curation of the comments, by avoiding the bandwagon effect, but it has serious ill-effects on the readability, especially for the new subject matter for the reader.

In the past, there were 2 signals of the comment-quality in the thread.

1. Vote count.

2. Positioning in the thread.

Now, that Vote count is not visible, There is only one signal left.

1. Positioning in the thread.

It makes it very difficult to segregate good comments from the bad ones, and decide which comments add to the topic, and hence worth reading/discussing, especially on a large thread, on a new subject matter, reader does not understand very-well.

Few suggestions to improve the comment readability of the thread.

1. Would it make sense to hide the comment count of a thread till a particular threshold (say votes < 7, comment time < 10 mins), or of the entire thread comments (thread time < 30 mins, number of comments < 30) and the likes, and make them visible to add to the readability/visibility of the thread?

2. Would it help if the up-votes are capped?
There's a link above the FB login button named "what will you do with my data?":

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* We go through all of your friends and see which one's have a defined relationship status.

* For each friend we take everything they like and run it against our database to determine which like reflects their relationship status.

* If we don't have any data, we choose a random like and hope it's funny.

The only data we keep are combinations of relationship statuses and likes.
However, it also eliminate the ability for me to reference a comment with a high score with the understanding it's probably more correct. After all, once I read a comment, I want to know if what others think. Comment scores help that. Granted, it's not the only solution. Having some other visual indicator that suggests a comment is of high quality would be good without needing to resort to simply displaying points.
Oh crap, in .Net there is a OSS Linq to JSON provider I see.
I am a little curious how you detect where I am. For me it shows "Philadelphia", which is indeed the city nearest my hometown, but I am currently at my college in Minnesota, so my IP address would show that I am there.
Those people should be prosecuted for utter incompetence.
So why did you need permission to post on my wall? As soon as I saw that, I closed the window.
No problem man. I just found it on Reddit, but thought the title there wasn't telling enough about the contents, and thought sharing here might interest people as well. Cheers.
Since scores have been hidden, voting on a comment feels less like a contribution and more like talking to myself. I vote less. It seems like one dimension of the community -- an admittedly imprecise form of collective intelligence -- is missing. It's certainly not a dealbreaker, but the comment threads feel ever so slightly "flatter".
From my experience, people really do pay attention to EV certs ("the green bar"), so I'm not sure it's quite as simple as you're putting it.
The old HP still exists, they go by the name Agilent.
In related news, the Chicago mob uses ML/AI to predict where police cars will be located..
What do you find dubious about the insider trading conviction and sentence?
I also found https://cloud.google.com/solutions/rate-limiting-strategies-... to be useful. In particular at the very bottom they link to a lot of other blogs about rate limiting such as:
https://www.figma.com/blog/an-alternative-approach-to-rate-l...

I am only reading about them because for whatever reason this has become a trendy "system design" interview question.
Yes - but you /also/ lose the stack trace and it's /far/ too easy to do; hence my OP.

It is /infuriating/ to be knee-deep trying to work out which of your 30 Eithers failed with a non-descript error.
"This is a good thing, exactly the type of corruption that needs to be eliminated."

I'm not sure this is corruption. Encouraging people to buy a home instead of rent is largely viewed as a positive thing. Helping people afford to have kids is a good thing. Encouraging people to favor green energy is a good thing. Encouraging people to buy a giant SUV like we did in the 90s and 00s? Not as good.

"I do not understand what acting as a bank for the government means."

I would pay more in tax (no deduction) and have to wait for the government to pay me for the kids. They would be taking a loan out of every paycheck. Incidentally, the current income tax system where employers withhold and you get a refund for overpayment is a form of banking on taxpayers. Allowing people with dependents to declare them and reduce the amount withheld is very helpful to lots of not-so-wealthy people's personal cash flow.
AFAIK it’s possible and will save to an on-rover disk.
The current limit to seeing that footage here on earth is the downlink bandwidth limit. So far it’s been used for more „interesting“ data and still images.
This point has been made above, but you think foreign corporations with no meaningful connection to the US are paying significant corporate taxes here?

Spotify is a great example.

>We have significant net operating loss carry-forwards in Sweden and the United States. As of December 31, 2020, we had net operating loss carry-forwards of €100 million in Luxembourg, €1,293 million in Sweden, €461 million in the United States relating to federal taxes, and €315 million in the United States relating to state taxes.

>We have initiated and are in negotiations of an APA between Sweden and the United States governments for tax years 2014 through 2020 covering various transfer pricing matters. These transfer pricing matters may be significant to our consolidated financial statements. In addition, we are subject to the continuous examination of our income tax returns by various tax authorities which could result in assessments against us.

Those two lines more or less tell me that Spotify will not pay meaningful US corporate taxes for the next decade.

Might as well lose that non-existent tax revenue if that's the 'carrot' that gets the public on board with a wealth tax.
although I hate the aspect of cancel culture where someone's tweets from several years ago are pulled up to destroy their career, I think a lot of the stuff around race, gender, ect. is headed in the right direction. We are at a point where hating on an group of people is simply not o.k. and I think the repercussion are fair (although it is socially acceptable right now to hate on white people, I view this as an overcorrection that will go away soon)
Right -- accounting seems simple. It's just debits and credits and adding it all up. Until you get into it, and you understand why "Accounting" can easily be a department of dozens or hundreds of people.
Possibly, until you consider that "natural" does not mean "better"
This attitude that everything is the service providers problem is why service for the disabled is shitty. It does take longer to get into a car, etc, and that does cost a hungry driver more money.

The extra cost should be born by society, which is where the requirement comes from. If we think the disabled should ride for the same price we should make that part of medical coverage and pay the driver for the extra time spent.

As is, any sensible driver will ditch these fares with any means possible. More work, less money, and generally bitchier customers. The next time your fare comes up they'll pull over and take a bathroom break rather than responding.

If we want something, we have to pay for it, not try to stick someone else with the bill.
The 3+ years ago is a good reference, thanks for sharing. The issue could also be Ecto related. Ecto 3, which might not have been out at the time, had a bunch of improvements on this front.
Humans aren't perfectly informed and sometimes they make mistakes.
yes, i see this as well.
at first it was confusing, but later i understood it was the output.
I think there's a significant difference worth illustrating that "there is no feedback path in the brain" is not at all equivalent to "learning by feedback is not possible in the brain."

It's well known in dynamics that feed-forward networks are no longer feed-forward when outputs are coupled to inputs, an example of which would be a hypothetically feed-forward network of neurons in an animal and environmental conditioning teaching it the consequences of actions.

I'm very curious on the biological constraints, but I'd reiterate my point above that feedback is a mathematical or logical abstraction for analyzing the behavior of the things we call networks - which are also abstractions. There's a distinction between the physical behavior of the things we see and the mathematical models we construct to describe them, like electromechanical systems where physically no such coupling from output-to-input appears to exist, yet its existence is crucially important analytically.
Great point, but as a general rule what you don't see in the wild is probably not possible for some reason. I would wager that since increasing growth requires increasing bureaucracy, there's your culprit.
Another shortcoming of eshell is the still-incomplete manual.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...
>The better question would be why do we allow ownership of a beach.

Devil's advocate: why do we place such a high value on a "beach" vs any other kind of land? Is there something extra precious about where the water meets the land?
I saw a youtube interviewing the guy that wrote the code for the HP-35. He said that David Packard got mad when he heard that every engineer in a certain division of HP was going to get their own HP-35. He said that one calculator could easily be shared among 4 or 5 people.
So any explanation on what a company with a $45B valuation needs an investment of $1.1B for?
Gimp currently uses TinyScheme and SIOD was the interpreter before that.
Particularly when you consider that many Republican leaders publicly advocate creationism being taught as science, or that global warming is not happening, both of which are demonstratively and objectively false beliefs. Republican rhetoric over the past 30 years has been increasingly critical of science as a process, essentially arguing for faith and debate as the preferred means of discovering the truth, rather than reason and experimentation.
When dealing with a large repo, an SSD really helps, no doubt about it. When dealing with the Chromium repo on OS X, the difference is night and day noticeable, especially when grep'ing and traversing history (blame, log -S). It also especially helps when compiling large projects as the rest of the system stays usable.

That said, git isn't terrible with large repos on an HD, but you'll want to make sure your repo is well packed and you'll also notice a big difference between the cold-cache and warm-cache cases.

BTW, when benchmarking git, it's helpful to have the output of "git count-objects -v" to understand how the repo is packed. It's also good to take the best of 3 runs to eliminate the cold-cache case.
>That's the limit (unless limited further by something else).

>... what any single machine can push out ...

That number wouldn't be very misleading, and could actually be useful - it's effectively the limit on a dumb fileserver. If their code results in a lower boundary, that's their fault, not yours, and not in the least incorrect because it's being restricted by them.
It's illustrative of the poor state of third party OSX development...as is the idea of the MacApp store.
It's still not clear that another motorcycle company would receive the same deal as Harley Davidson. Surely Harley Davidson wasn't the only motorcycle company affected by the commercial paper freeze. Was it a good idea for the Fed to step in and fulfill that function? Maybe. But that doesn't mean it was ideal and there's nothing to complain about.
"It doesn't hurt them. It fails to help them"

This isn't true. When you don't attempt to prevent piracy, people think it's okay. They then feel they are entitled to getting your stuff for free...and the value will approach $0 (because nobody will be willing to pay you anything). This is already happening.

It's very similar to currency. A $100 bill is really just ink and paper. If society didn't believe it was worth this much, it wouldn't be.
"Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay." - Wikipedia.

I hope this resource fills out. I work at the YMCA in Palo Alto and I meet a lot of people as they move in to the area. I will have to introduce them to this wiki.
The App Store has proven that most software is overpriced. If there was a book store with $.99 and $1.99 books, I think we would discover something very similar.
Simply put, you need to have some assurance that the binary that you're downloading is the one that the developers compiled, and the easiest way to do that is to have crypto checksums. If you don't, all bets are off.

And it's not just a "possible threat" but a likely one, and it's happened multiple times in the past. Sites get hacked all the time, and trojans are standard practice these days (unlike compromised-binary-generating C compilers):

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/savannah-gnu-site-comprom...

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/2248811/GN...

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apache-site-hacked-throug...
Ditto. I find the animations on this one make it slow on mobile. Haven't tried it on my iPad yet (which is where I use cheeaun's on a daily basis), but I think the visuals might detract from the reading somewhat.
I didn't see the size of the cluster described, but watch out for having timestamps as your row keys, for you are going to have hot spots (all timestamps in one token range).

What is your replication factor and the size of the cluster?

This might be improved with vNodes, though I'm not sure how granular and automatic the subnodes are. If they are just an even range (e.g. 256 vnodes across the same 00-ff range), then you will have the same problem.

This is the major reason why Datastax pushes random ordered partitioning so much, it's easy to get into hot water with byte-ordered keys.
I will reformulate, then.

In the current state of knowledge about both ARDS and Covid and given the time available, clinicians rely on traditional teachings to care for covid-related ARDS until solid evidence can be provided.
social distancing is the best option but not it. The virus is still out there and maybe millions have it by now in USA. We needs meds to cure it and/or a vaccine
The fact that this particular treatment has a booster club is odder still. People are acting like they have a personal stake in which treatment wins.

I mean...it seems likely that some of the boosters who have been astroturfing it do actually have a stake.
> But I challenge you to widen your viewpoint; there are so many people out in the world where 1cm would mean becoming environmental refugees.

See, I don't believe that to be true.

Sea levels already rose 7.5cm in the past 30 years, where are all these "sea level refugees" specifically?

> Finally, I want to point out what that means; you lack of empathy for those people.

Of course I don't have empathy for people that I do not believe exist. I also have trouble developing empathy for hypothetical people that may have to migrate in 100 years time.

People are going to have/want to migrate, no matter what. So did my recent ancestors, as well as my ancient ancestors. I don't see that as a big problem, I don't believe in ethnostates of any kind.

Refugees welcome!
I'd argue that targeted advertising is actually a benefit to consumers and businesses a like. Consumers get ads for things they might actually buy, businesses waste less advertising spend.
I disagree that the danger of mutation does not add anything to the conversation. If it is real, then it just shows how important it is to act now swiftly and to not rely on developing herd immunity.

And you are right, mutations can go both ways.
It's Java, but I don't know what's underneath that.

There web browser connects to a local server. You can increase the RAM allocated to the JVM, and I'm fairly sure I've worked on hundreds of thousands of rows, although I don't remember the operations I was using.
Thanks for the tip! Just looked at OsmAnd for Yosemite and it's definitely much more useful than Google Maps.
It may take a long time to get comfortable with how to program in a way that satisfies the borrow checker. How much effort this takes will depend on your brain, and the type of projects you tend to work on. There are a lot of programs you can make where you just don't tend to run into borrow checker issues and everything is easy! Others it can immediately be a huge pain, and very frustrating.

It took me a few attempts at Rust to start building good intuition for it.
You need the sociopaths to make any progress in a business; along with the clueless and the losers. You seem to be advocating for a clueless only employee pool. Your clients don’t actually want what you are asking for.

By the way, you are just doing cya for them. They have already decided to fire the people you are investigating, and not for the reasons you are going to find.
I'm glad to have seen him in concert. RIP.
people still falling for this fraud, ey? :D
1. As larger entities are getting into it, it will decrease the chance that the government cracks down.

2. There are obviously ways to transact anonymously, also P2P/OTC.

3. The government gets to tax all exchange crypto... easy revenue source.
Still use darcs to this day. Darcs is magical AND productive. I use a script to play back my darcs commits into a git repo so i can put my projects on github. I love you darcs, I love you.
When it came to building my own website, I was surfing the web in search of an ideal solution for me. And I was lucky to discover this article - http://www.beautifullife.info/web-design/10-best-ecommerce-b... . I personally opted for Bigcommerce as a constructing tool for my online store. It perfectly met my needs.
Except you have to be in a privileged position to become smart, motivated and hardworking.
Yep. I'd expect them to receive a cease & desist letter within the day. The real Slack doesn't have a choice if they wish to protect their trademark.
> For the rest of us who are actually trying to grow businesses rather than set up IRC servers, there's HipChat and Slack

For something purely internal for a company, that makes sense to me. It's the public, 'general interest' kinds of things where I'd avoid building on something proprietary if possible.

Seems like a good place to mention, on Freenode:

* #startups - pretty informal and sometimes a lot of noise with little signal, but occasionally something good, too.

* #bootstrappers - a channel I'm trying to get going. Not much there yet!
I think you're forgetting QuickCheck, which has been ported to many other languages.
I this in comic form and it is by far one of the best comics I own. It is an absolutely awesome comic, took me a while to find it as well!
Nokia was founded before Nintendo.

Nintendo was at its lowest point not long back with the WiiU. In 2000 they were looking at lacklustre performance with N64 and Gamecube. (and already fallen behind Sony)
A combination of Elon tweeting "Use Signal" and the events at the Capitol are probably to blame.
HTML, CSS and SSI includes would be an easier option. If you don't want to deal with Node.
Trump got under 47% of the votes on Nov 3.

As for the rest, I would think that channeling more people into conspiracy theories (which was the previous status quo) is more harmful.

A woman died yesterday for QAnon.
Yeah, the solution isn't to find a single fount of truth we can all sup from. We are where we are because that mid-century model was fragile. Not to mention it allowed Americans to overlook any wrongs that didn't blip on the radar of the NorthEast intellectual hegemony.

The real solution is a healthy ecosystem of independent news.
How do you pay engineers? This only makes sense if you have the talent to bootstrap by building everything yourself.
Can they? Imagine a christian baker who refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding, is it ok? What about a racist baker who only makes cakes for say black people? Or just white people?
How about a demonstration of something of real-world significance?

- content negotiation (basic building block of hypermedia APIs),

- authentication (and ensure SSL is used when authenticated),

- most importantly, HTTP caching, where

-- unauthenticated users get cached content, authenticated users don't,

-- vary on representation negotiations (media type, encoding, and language),

-- cache is located on server and in browser.

In other words, take basic advantage of HTTP to improve security and performance. Taken together, the requirements listed above comprise a problem of only moderate complexity, and are fundamental to flexible, high performance web apps. Accomplishing it in ASP.NET MVC/Web API is painful and relies on the inconsistent, malfunctioning, horrifically designed ASP.NET response caching module.

Show me a framework that does the above and makes it reasonable to build hypermedia APIs, and you've got yourself a convert.
This project seems to be filled with fail.

Aside from the satellite itself, it seems this project is dependent on a "low cost open source modem", design and details TBD.

They reference a $12 Indian laptop, which has already been mostly proven to be an unrealistic pipe-dream. The $12 cost is the cost to the end-user after a government subsidy. Not realistic or scalable in terms of building a business dependent on this device.

No mention of the ISP on the other end of this satellite that is providing the free access (vague mention of reselling high-speed access through other ISP's).

I'm not familiar with how much bandwidth a single satellite can handle, but it can't be more than a couple of Gb/s, especially for an older unit. They are talking about a footprint of 6-249M people. Even on the low-end, this doesn't seem like it's going to provide a super-usable connection.

This is a noble project, and I wish them luck, but remain highly skeptical that the idea was formed in conjunction with beers, bongs, or both.
I find myself using the Spotlight box for things I wouldn't have guessed...like looking up words in the dictionary, or doing math.
Honestly, how many companies fall into the category of having their data centers be intimately involved with their product/service? Not very many, to me.
silkworm eggs and cocoons.
Duck, chicken, ostrich products.
Weapons and ammunition.
Tobacco. Security systems, software.
Handmade accordions and pianos

Do I get a bundle discount?
This could create interesting situations with botnets.
I think there's no consistent difference between conservatives and progressives on this point. Conservatives, for example, are much more prone to think that human sexuality can be shaped and controlled by society, whereas progressives take the attitude that every variety and quirk of human sexuality must be dealt with as it is. It's the same thing with the desire to be productive and contribute to society: progressives tend to see it as an innate drive that can simply be harnessed for any purpose, while conservatives see it as a fragile thing that withers unless it is cultivated under the right conditions (i.e., low taxation and strong protection of private property.)

Note that it is both conservatives and progressives who worry about media warping the minds of children: conservatives worrying about sex, irreverance, and irresponsibility, and progressives worrying about racism, sexism, and violence.