jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your other comment said I wasn't being logical enough. Now I'm being too logical? I didn't think it was very passive either. That leaves... respect of my peers. OK, I have a lot of time on my hands so I'm game:

I think that exaggeration of the effect of Manning's leaks is what led to the overly harsh sentence in the first place. The least we could do in discussing it is not make the same mistake.

I think Manning's sentence is much too long. But at the same time, I don't think misrepresenting how harsh it is does any side of the argument any good. I'm sensitive enough to realize that if we want reasonable sentences, we will have to be honest about how harsh a sentence really is. I can also predict that critics will write us off as irrational or whiny if we make a habit of overreacting every time something happens we don't like.

I'm not insensitive. On the contrary, I can imagine much worse sentences that could have been handed down, up to and including capital punishment for treason. As crushing as the final sentence must be to Manning and those near him, I can also understand the coping mechanisms they will resort to to deal with it. One of those is that the sentence is not as bad as it could have been.
Again, it’s not an OR situation. One can try doing side projects while one works full time.
Steve Jobs answers tough questions at the D8 conference.
What's it like having an entire town in one building? Crime? Illness? Religious events? Births? Deaths?
Here is a defense fund for him: http://www.gofundme.com/ji4xh4

All proceeds not used go to UGA and GT equally

(disclaimer: I went to GT and think this is a ridiculous indictment but am not affiliated with the gofundme site or Ryan)
emphasis here being on local music collection.

I don't want to have to upload a huge library of music just to stream it to my local network, where I already have the music on my hard drive.
Probably because an EMP would fry most electric devices? I'm not sure it would affect the heating (there's likely electricity involved, but I'm not sure how an EMP might affect it precisely), but the GP might have thought along those lines.
For any serious work (coding), I'd still greatly rather use a laptop with a real keyboard.
Not decidedly false at all. This is the one part of the LVT that I actually agree with. Wealth is a zero sum game. The only ultimate source of real value in the world is from labor applied to material of the world. Time spent laboring towards one thing trades off with time spent laboring for another. Seems zero-sum to me given that financial capital does nothing to increase real value or real wealth.
That's kind of fun when you are paid a lot, if not - that's a pain...
Did you mean that they should be nice because the upper levels can see them and intervent? I can agree that in such situation they should be good to their simulated selves.

Or did you mean that even when upper levels are not watching, their (upper levels) behaviour depends on decision of lower levels? Because I can't see why it is so.

People at any given level are either:
a) at the top and have nothing to worry - their universe won't stop working no matter what they do
b) simulated and have no choice - what they decide is just result of simulation inputs and, maybe, tinkering of upper levels

Ether way - the real decisions are made only at the top level - if not, why all simulated worlds have the same history?

People would make different decisions earlier in simulated history if it was possible, and after many generations of simulated people and their different decisions worlds would diverge beyond recognition.

Even if free will exists on lower levels - why decision of lower levels inhabitants should change probabilities of upper levels decisions? Either they have free will, and their decisions are independent of upper levels - or they don't have free will, and their decisions just mirrors their top level selves.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding sth, English isn't my native language, and the subject is hard. Anyway - it's very interesting thought experiment.
I have heard you can remove that noise by putting magnetic snap things over the power line of the speakers you have. It looks like a capsule that opens halfway and then you snap the cord in between. I have a ton from old plasma/lcd installs as most people just throw them away in the box.
Yes, if the differences were clear-cut, there'd be nothing to quibble over. It's only in areas that are within the fuzzy factor that opinions are paramount.
I run this site at http://NearbyGamers.com
Eschewing Chrome for a browser based on Chromium doesn't do much to combat the browser monoculture, does it?
There's no doubt that we're getting an ever-widening variety of clients, but this "general purpose" notion is a bit slippery. I remember when "general purpose" meant that not only did computers crunch numbers for science and engineering, but they could finally handle more general business computing such as accounting and text-heavy business data processing, which was much larger than number crunching--more general purpose.

Then we got microcomputers, and we added consumers and individual employees to "general purpose", and "word processing, word processing, word processing, and spreadsheets" became the new definition of general purpose computing, dwarfing big iron data processing. Then laser printers and desktop publishing, then Photoshop, CDs and "multimedia", and then The Internet (meaning the web) exploded and general purpose computing suddenly meant email, instant messaging, and so many new home pages that Yahoo could hardly list them all.

In the Internet Boom, nobody defined general purpose computing as mostly word processing, much less business data processing, and forget about scientific calculating.

Fast forward a couple more decades, and general purpose computing is streaming YouTube celebs, texting, binge watching streaming "TV", getting most of your news managed by Big Tech censors so you can't "misunderstand", keeping up with ever-streaming timelines of your 900 closest friends, going to work or school via Zoom, doing most of your shopping....

And where is word processing in this general purpose computing? Probably bigger than ever, but now buried in the "other" category because newer components of general purpose computing dwarf it.

So if some of this is done with a laptop, and some with a "phone", and some with a flat screen in your car, and some with your TV remote, and some with an iPad...I suspect that "computers" could easily be described as either declining or growing for general purposes depending on which of many reasonable definitions you employed.
hate-upvoting this
we have jobs. infinite scroll is bad for jobs
> The word privilege has strong connotations of undeserved luxury

Taking your point further, the crazy thing is that this part also fits! If you take academics at face value about the concepts of white privilege (and you don't have to agree with it, we're just discussing the terminology) in western society, then one aspect of it might be: "As a white person, you have the privilege not to be assaulted indiscriminately by the police."

Is that a Luxury? Well, compared to the alternative, not being beaten by the cops is damn luxurious compared to being beaten.

And it's completely undeserved! You did nothing to earn this except be born white.

Now, here, I acknowledge is where Academics made a huge mistake. The key is that the people advocating for social justice say that "EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THIS LUXURY."

The idea of acknowledging privilege isn't to then follow up "and you should give it away", but instead "and you should make sure that EVERYONE is afforded the same privilege."

But the thing is, the end result is the same. Once a just society is achieved (hypothetically) and police treat all races the same (for example), then there is no more advantage to being one race or another.

So in essence, the point IS to give up the privilege by ensuring it becomes a non-entity.

> The cynic in me feels that the word privilege is used precisely to illicit defense responses from a subset of the population.

Depending on who you ask, humans are either social/collaborative/altruistic, or individualistic/selfish/xenophobic.

This spans race, culture, and class lines. Those that are in power and also in the second group seek out likeminded folks in the lower classes and preach to them that their life isn't so bad so long as they are better off than <insert other race here>.

Can every human being be convinced into seeking the common good? Can every human be assumed to have good intent? I don't know. You say you're cynical but you're more optimistic than me.

I never thought of this language being an INTENTIONAL divisive force, but in some sense as a way to identify those allied with you, and those who would fight against you it's not awful.

Like i said at the beginning - I do remember having an angry response at the first mention of this concept. But I realized in time that was my own immaturity and lack of empathy for others. Ironically it's the same privilege of being sufficiently well off and having my foundational needs being met that allowed me the space to start thinking of others. I acknowledge others may not be so lucky. If you are a coal miner out of work in West Virginia, the plight of black folks in inner city Minneapolis is hardly a concern.

And if we were talking about reaching THOSE people, I would agree with you. Every tactic and skillful negotiation idea should be on the table.

But a bunch of (privileged) well educated technologists on hacker news? I do expect a little more from them to do the bare minimum of reading a couple wikipedia pages before freaking out that someone is claiming they have some undeserved luxury.
100% agree.

I think there is space for a programming language with first class support for typed tables. A blend of C# and SQL. F# with type providers does have some of that, or C# with linq, but in both cases, tables/relations are second-class citizen.
Contrary to popular beliefs, programmers aren't very rational people, but still prone to emotional beliefs when choosing databases.

Another reason is for "resume driven development".
I ask because I can’t remember the last time I heard of a policy disagreement debating the merits of two approaches to the same problem. Both sides don’t even see the same problems.

Will be interesting to see what policies Biden goes for I guess.
Bitcoin is at all time high, meaning just about everybody who ever bought bitcoin is currently in profit.

There are very few bagholders.
Alternative to the main website if it fails to respond: https://archive.is/NkDyg
K8s targets a long list of things that Nomad just doesn't want to deal with in the name of simplicity - and that's ok, if that suits your use case.

Some are mentioned in the post but I can think of secret management, load balancing, config management, routing, orchestration beyond workloads (e.g. storage), rollbacks/rollouts and many more. Perhaps in few areas there are some support but it's not what Nomad intends to do anyway. I also like these points from another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26142658

In order to supply those needs in Nomad you'll need to spend time finding out how to integrate different solutions, keep them up-to-date, etc. At that point, K8s may be a better answer. If you don't need any of those, use Nomad or anything else that's simpler (e.g. ECS if you're in AWS, K3s if that's simple enough for your home server, etc).
I can scarcely imagine a worse concept to try to explain in tweet form.
Neutral language doesn't work, we can see it in its price.
Thats a terrible idea. Get traditional light bulbs and warm your body and a small room.
iAds will definitely not be able to track user behavior within apps the way Facebook does.

If there is some documentation you claim shows iAds being privileged, please post a link.
> if they’re not part of the company where insider trading or anything could be a reason, how is that really anything that should be regulated? Sounds like free market to me.

The “pump” is the action of fraudulently inducing someone to buy the security which is against the law.
Doctors can prescribe medicines "off label," using a medicine for a condition that it was not developed or approved for.

So why not this?
Varies greatly based on state or even county. Hundreds or maybe thousands of utility districts each with a unique set of regulations and resources.
Not sure if cases like "No Parking 7AM - 9 AM every 3rd Thursday of the month" are covered in her design.
Yes! I have seen the stuff Yelp is doing. Reviews are definitely integral to Yelp so they must eliminate those fabricated reviews to maintain their reputation otherwise no one would be using their website.

1) You are correct, a large number of the fake reviews are actually a result of agencies that offer their services to manufacture high star reviews to increase their product ranking. Now, these people use bots (or an army of trained monkeys) for most of their review entries and Amazon has in the past detected them. However in the past year or so I've noticed a lot of fake reviews still lingering in Amazon and that is a shame as a lot of the time they mislead consumers. This is why I created the site as I have fallen victim to it too. Just take a look at the health supplements section of Amazon and look at the amount of dishonest marketing some companies are doing.

For case 2), at the present moment Fakespot would be unable to distinguish such a scenario where a reputable reviewer was paid by a company because that would be indeed a "real" review written by a real person. However, a large chunk of the analysis algorithm does look at the language and if the review text is extremely positive and not very detailed to relevant to the product, it will raise a flag.

3) For false positives, the machine learning implementation records votes and modifies itself to eliminate them.
I'm pretty sure he said in the demo that it did not use a camera.
Well, that's a different issue, having to do with the also relatively recent understanding that trace amounts of a substance can also be toxic over long intervals.
Hey! I was a mentor at PennApps and I came by on your table early friday night and loved the idea. I was the one who suggested shipping your own .deb packages for opencv with all of the good stuff built in. You should publish that if you decided to do that... would love to hear from you guys... great work!!!! pennapps@boun.cr
It's taxing on development and introduces unnecessary limitations. If jQuery is just like any other framework, <td> is just like any other tag.
If everyone is based on WebKit then we'll eventually wind up in an IE 6.0-type situation where nothing moves forward because there are too many cooks in the kitchen. I think the competition between WebKit, Gecko, Trident, and KHTML is healthy and spawns innovation.

Honestly I hope Microsoft keeps trying to make the best browser possible if for nothing else just to keep WebKit on its toes. Otherwise the others will spend less and top engineers will grow bored and move on to impactful problems.
Dogs won't contract heartworms naturally here but dogs brought in from other areas are definitely at risk of already having heartworms and possibly sharing those via feces. Basically an invasive species.
I feel like you stopped reading after the first sentence as we ended up saying the same thing. I certainly don't mean to say that determinism implies predictability in the first sense you define above. In the second, more general sense "knowing a future event before it takes place" predictability really could depend on the concept of emergence (or solipsists notion of macro-levels). Here's a thought experiment: It's conceivable that you could perfectly simulate a higher level of organization in a system (which would require less information). It's also conceivable that objects on that level (emergent properties of the lower levels) operate according to their own rules distinct from (but derived from) the lower levels. Here's the kicker: given that the higher level is an emergent property of the behavior of the lower level, when we look at it in isolation, it contains much less information than the lower level. In fact several state iterations of the lower level could pass before a state change percolates to the higer level. Thus, in such a thought experiment by having a perfect model of the higher level, you could outpace the lower level and know a future even before it takes place.
Then they do you for "contempt of court" rather than whatever they charged you with originally, surprise surprise the sentence is the same.
An incremental refactor is a possibility too, but almost everything must be refactored.
Definitely agree with you, it's contextual to each person. I'm Japanese, Japanese stuff stands out to me. Out of curiosity what do swahili and polynesian ones sound like?

EDIT: why can't I reply to you joshu? That sounds interesting, would be curious to see the results.
I don't think those are options under the Chinese penal code.
What's the easiest way to accept BTC as payment on the web?

For example, are there drop-in examples for common web-app frameworks? Would it involve the customer cutting & pasting a few long BTC strings between the browser and some separate wallet app?

Would the web-app keep polling a separate Bitcoin service to achieve confirmation/confidence that a payment has gone through?
No one squirrels away money-- savings in a bank is still reinvested into the economy, by the bank through lending. Unless you are literally sticking money under a mattress, it gets circulated.
Where does "generalist" usually fit in your mid to large corporate structure these days?

It seems to me a good generalist tends to either leave/get fed up because at some point the company grows and he doesn't fit within their new structure - so they try to pigeonhole him into some role - losing the somewhat abstract benefit they had from having that generalist around.

What do you do with a guy who can debug better than 3/4 of your coders, handle networking better than most of your network team, see the "big picture" where others won't - but really doens't like to be painted into a corner.

If these people make it into senior positions with management backing, they tend to stick around, and help out where they can and drift to where they are needed - but that's often not the case.
I think the author is only interested in the box model that TeX uses insofar as it influenced the typeface design. He’s contrasting TeX’s “box and glue” setup with the rigid matrix design needed by Monotype faces, and the much more expressive non-box layout model used by Cambria.
Maybe I misread your intent. I thought you were mostly pointing out the section titled “When No Facemasks Are Available, Options Include”, which would mean we’re talking about something that is not in short supply. I thought you were pointing out that, among other things, the CDC is saying that home-made masks are better than nothing, even for health care professionals, and even if it’s a last resort.

I mean I agree, of course, that they’re trying to maximize public health benefit, I just don’t think the guidance is at all clear to the public. The idea that anything less than N95 is useless is pervasive, you can see it right here on HN. My parents and co-workers believe it because it’s been reported in the mass media in the last weeks: “the CDC said masks don’t protect you!”.

For people who need to work or shop in public places, any kind of masks at all might well be statistically significant alternatives for people who are unable to practice social distancing. China seems to be doing it effectively right now; people are required to wear masks to go to work. They’re not telling the public to avoid masks because doctors need them, they’re telling the public not to leave the house and not to enter a work building without something over your face. It seems like the CDC is saying the opposite, you should not wear a mask unless you’re a doctor. If a bandana is even 50% or 30% or even 5% effective, and they want to maximize public health benefit, why aren’t they recommending people start with what they have at home for times when public exposure is necessary? Seems like that would both increase public health and deflect demand for surgical masks & N95 masks at the same time, no?
Been struggling to find any AP flour in the suburbs of Portland unfortunately.
Amazon is pretty liberal about giving credits if you complain about Prime service. Not sure if that policy is still in place at this time.
I think the reason is that some foods are cheap enough in materials, quick enough to prepare and maintain their edibility in transit that they are conducive to home delivery. Those foods have therefore been available for home delivery for some time.

Pizza has very cheap ingredients and has a consistent highly transportable form factor. A kebab (Schwarma) contains a lot of expensive meat and will fall apart in transit. Therefore pizza has long been available for home delivery and kebabs haven’t.

I suspect a lot of restaurants are willing to stay open using deliveries just to stay open, even if they get no profit of make a loss, just to stay open. At least they get to pay some of the rent, keep staff and hopefully keep a customer base until they can open properly again.
The big paying companies in software aren't in the software business, they're in the data business. The software is a (very cheap, to them) loss leader.
I think the logo with the cassette tape is (was) for the Swedish Piratbyrån.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyrån
Forgot the links:

[1]: http://www.ettus.com/product/details/USRPPKG
[2]: http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic/wiki/freeswitchConfig
There's a difference between ads and ads that are likely to end up loading malware with a few accidental clicks or distasteful ads for pornography, or ads that talk, or ads that do all three.

"Are you a boy or a girl?" Popping up when I'm in my office at home is something that makes me want to use adblock. And I don't use adblock.
He's probably impressed because while that should be "a given for a non-trivial and widely-used desktop application", in reality it rarely is.
Interesting. Are these things also available for citybikes?
Why is there no option 3?

"I am looking into the matter; more details will be forthcoming."
As long as the "when" is: after the investors and principals have played it through.

Sure, every company gets more vulnerable as it gets bigger and markets evolve, etc. as stated here. but if you notice, NONE of the examples cited above "became vulnerable" before the liquidity event happened.

I could make an exception with Apple, but that seems to be the exception not the rule. in fact, you could argue that there is a 3rd phase of a company (which Apple is in), after the liquidity event, after the company gets vulnerable (think apple 10 years ago, think yahoo now). some die - but some survive to see a new healthy dominance.
I realise that you are joking, but if you have seven monitors and can't feed your family your priorities need readjusting. :)
From a personal and business perspective, the thing I find most appealing about Chrome is that it feels so much faster than other browsers. In practice, this means you can extend the life of old hardware which is primarily used for browsing the web, and save money from having to upgrade.
Depends what potential uses you're referring to. If it's context-sensitive advertising, ICQ did have (has?) ads and supposedly could match an ad to a message text or a user's history.
What's the URL of the site? My side project is also a gay discussion site (gaygeeks.org) so I'm surprised I don't know who you are :-)
Maybe it's a cultural thing (I'm an East-European who's never been to the States), but what's with this obsession about "winning", "not being a loser" etc?
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