jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Psychological studies of the kind you're referring to aren't scientific. To be valid science, a study must test a theory, an explanation

What the hell are you talking about?

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/69046

Abstract: To test the hypothesis that Schadenfreude, pleasure at the suffering of others, will result when an envied person experiences a misfortune

http://psp.sagepub.com/content/28/7/953.short

This study tested the hypothesis that schadenfreude (or pleasure in another's misfortune) would be more closely related to resentment and a wish to correct a perceived injustice than to envy, and that sympathy would involve different processes.

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2005-11932-007

The present study tested the hypothesis that Schadenfreude, pleasure at another's misfortune, results when a misfortune is perceived as deserved.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Schadenfreude
If you think that gnu is for some reason spectacularly bad, you have simply not viewed enough other logos.

I just took a random look at openbsd gallery of logos, and openbse logo popped right up (http://www.openbsd.org/art/OpenBSE_2.jpg). Barely work safe.
If your stops are limit orders, then they can get blown through without execution. If your stops are market orders then your limit trigger price can be quite distant from your fill price. You need to do some serious thinking about your risk management and the long tails associated with extraordinary market moves.
That was it. Thankyou.
The story the OP is complaining about was flagged by users. Moderators never saw it (edit: wrong, we put 2010 on the title by mistake, see downthread [1]). Had we seen it, we would have turned off the flags. There's a long tradition of people looking at HN data and posting about it. Edit #2: since the 2010 thing was our mistake (an accident of sleep deprivation by the looks of it!) I've invited foob to repost the original article using the second-chance mechanism described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links there. I think he's planning to do that tomorrow.

The [flagged] annotation only shows up on stories that are heavily flagged, i.e. enough to kill the post. User flags have downweighting effects long before that.

Story rank on HN is determined by upvotes, flags, software, and moderators. Moderators downweight stories to the degree that they don't fit the site guidelines. This doesn't happen by upvotes alone, unfortunately; certain stories routinely get tons of upvotes regardless of how good they are for HN—e.g. anything sensational, indignant, or meta. If we didn't have a compensating factor, those stories would dominate the front page every day and HN would no longer follow its primary rule: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Of course that means HN is subject to our interpretation of what counts as "intellectual curiosity". HN has always worked that way; before we did it, pg did, and he trained us to do it so it would work as before. There's no way around the need for moderator intervention on a site like HN—the clue is in the word 'moderator' itself: left to its own devices the system runs to extremes and it needs a negative feedback loop to dampen it.

When YC is involved, we do this less than usual as a matter of principle. When HN itself is involved it's a little bit different, because the hypnotic power of all things meta causes HN upvoters to go into an upvoting trance. Meta is basically crack, so we routinely downweight such posts—but only so much, to compensate for the crack effect. That's what I've done here, which is why the post is now at #7 rather than #1. It should probably be lower, but I want to illustrate the point that we intervene less, not more, when judgments about ourselves are involved. As a further example, a moderator actually turned off software penalties and user flags on this post this morning, which is probably why it went to #1 in the first place. That's more than I would have done but it shows how seriously we take that principle.

None of this is new information, btw. I've posted about it plenty over the years and am always happy to answer questions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858850
Hey - I combined a response in this link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918746
Wow, i thought that was common sense..
> unfortunately now you have two R+D programs to pay for instead of one, and lower economies of scale and the labor and logistics costs will be higher to maintain two separate platforms.

I'm pretty sure the US government is paying for a bunch of disparate R & D projects already.
Although she doesn't say so, it appears she is assuming the cost function is normalized (range is 0-1), in this formula: exp((E_old - E_new) / Temp). Is that the case?
DON'T USE ALL CAPS!
Money? More opportunities? You can say you wouldn't do so, but these are valid reasons.
Lots of slaves just escaped.

It's is not anyone's place to assign to the oppressed the duty of changing their oppressors' minds.

The Founding Fathers were just victorious. Being powerful enough to deter enforcement is not a reliable indicator of moral high ground.
Yeah, why bother trying to understand a viewpoint when you can just immediately disagree with it?
When I was working in offices I felt the cross pollination was actually superior in that environment. I could have a long (hours long) talk with a co-worker in their office or mine and really dig down into something and share a lot of knowledge (either general or tribal). Whereas with an open office you tend to try to keep things short because you tend to be interrupting many people instead of just one, and because you lack the almost conspiratorial intimacy that you can have with an office the sorts of discussions you have are comparatively constrained.
It's very interesting how much Halo plays an influence into the Microsoft world. It started off with Cortana and now we have a Spartan project!

(on a side, I thought it was ironic how the article said "Cortana is more tightly embedded into the new browser". Like what next? HUDs!?!)
Seems like there's a huge opportunity there when the LV market recovers enough.

The thing is, the core cause of the housing crisis is still there- the cost of money is being kept artificially low. The fed is effectively pumping cash into the economy and keeping interest rates below the market cost of money, which means that cash has to find somewhere to go.

Right now it's going into stocks and a lot of hedge funds and the like, but eventually it's going to result in a bubble.

Like pushing air into a balloon, the balloon can't help but inflate.
I'd argue that Turkey is much more an enemy of YPG than the YPG is an enemy of Turkey.
Turning on Wifi makes bluetooth audio unbearable on my Lenovo Chromebook.
I'm surprised by this. I'm using WINE to play League of Legends on Linux and it works surprisingly well.
Yourself and others interested in detail, may appreciate Daniel Estévez's recent post on his use of GNU Radio and the Allen Telescope Array to detect Voyager 1 transmissions:

https://destevez.net/2021/02/voyager-1-single-dish-detection...

Also this JPL document on both Voyagers is packed. Check out the chart on page 44, regarding diminishing bitrates over the coming years:

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/monograph/series13/DeepCommo_C...
I'd argue that staying at home is doing the world a bigger favor, both in terms of air pollution and in terms of "being a vector". For most people it also doesn't make sense to sit around on a flight to save a couple of bucks, their time is usually more valuable than that.
There are still a couple manufacturers out there, and a vibrant niche community.

Hot air balloon rides are absolutely peaceful and so refreshing! Growing up, I helped out on a hot air balloon crew in Iowa and have gone on ~8-10 rides in that time, and helped setup/teardown probably a couple hundred times. From when the pickup arrived at the launch site, over the years I did every setup/teardown task.

Some thoughts and highlights included:

* You don't feel any wind in a balloon, because you're going exactly as fast as the wind is. Since there's a big flame and volume of hot air immediately above you, you need marginally less warm clothing than being on the ground.

Riding is always peaceful, but landing isn't. Sometimes it's the romanticized perfect soft landing in some longer grasses, other times it is less than graceful.

One time while running across a soybean field, I dropped ~8 feet into a manure release area. My dad reached all the way down, I reached all the way up, and we were just able to link hands. Smelled awful the rest of the night.

* One time I was selected for a ride (the pilot only took crew). We flew for an hour or so and were coming to a property with a vineyard followed by a nice, big mowed lawn. We were aiming for the lawn, but were losing altitude faster than we should have. The basket landed on a post in the last row, then tipped to the side abruptly and fell to the ground. The pilot and I got thrown around, but stayed in the basket. Turns out the pilot picked me because I was the lightest person on the crew. She thought the balloon wasn't acting right and was losing heat way faster than it should have, but wasn't positive since the last passenger was pretty heavy. The fact that we couldn't stop the descent while trying to land confirmed it - that was the last time that balloon flew.
This is an ever recurring critique of McKinsey and as a long-ago (and very jaded) McKinsey associate this isn’t quite right. The on ground teams do valuable analytical and data sourcing work but the clients are really paying for the counsel of the partners/directors. The 22 year old grad is providing the necessary information inputs and implementation details for the partners/directors to make effective recommendations.
If you pay $17,000 more fore the electric car, it would take many years to pay for itself... maybe too many.
Yes, exactly. Bets in the game are determined if they are plus EV, but what game you sit at is determined by Kelly Criterion (or usually a 20-25 buyin roll depending on the game, your life roll, etc)
I'm not the person you're addressing, but - yes, you're wrong. (And an asshole to boot, but that's another issue.)

"Getting a job" has absolutely nothing to do with "serving others," except maybe in the slavery sense of "serving," depending on your politics. The point is that universities are supposed to be dedicated to knowledge and understanding for their own sakes. It's not about "looking good," and I have absolutely no idea where you got that from. It's about learning, in whatever way best expands your understanding of the world, yourself, and the absract.
One downside is that to do this properly, you probably should be sending out 1099s for all of those candidates. Depending on the number of open reqs out there, your payroll department may be less than thrilled with this idea. I’ve seen some teams that have tried to sidestep this by paying in gift cards, but that sure does seem to be playing with fire.
If you use nginx, you can use the excellent nchan module to push messages by having your backend make a POST request to nginx. Clients can connect to nchan via websockets, SSE, and few other things like long polling without your app having to support all of them. Been using it for a recent project and really like it.
Hey, definitely check out Blockpad (https://blockpad.net). It does calculations with units, integrated with documents, spreadsheets, and drawing. Speaking from the Blockpad team here, would love to hear your experience.

We have Windows app and beta web app. Also Mac app coming soon. It's free for students and otherwise still inexpensive.
> The Chinese government is willing to spend what it takes to win and this is the reason why they will win.

But it's Taiwan that is doing the chip fabs in TSMC, not mainland China. While they do have some capacity in the mainland, it's best to not conflate the two when discussing the geopolitical situation.
Sorry, no they are not.
dumping is an international trade concept. For a company to be dumping, there needs to be a differential between what a company is selling for in their domestic market versus a foreign market.

Even if that wasn't the test for it, my understanding is that they have unit positive economics (positive EBITDA), but are losing money because they haven't yet amortized overhead like SG&A. This is not atypical with any new venture scaling up until their positive unit economics are sufficient to dilute overhead and turn the company profitable.
While it drives some point home, the chart eludes the question of robustness (a written script will run twice the same way, whereas human error, especially on routine tasks, may hit one hard) and documentation (writing even a lightly commented script to do yearly maintenance is guaranteed to help your future self remember things one year from now).
For anyone freelancing, any WordCamps in your area may be well worth your time even if you're doing nothing with WordPress. The level of technical information varies depending on size/# of tracks, but there are a variety of other presentations of use (if Chris Lema is speaking, go to that track).

If you're tight on time or money, they're also a decent choice because they're inexpensive by design (almost always under $50 for a 2-day conference; I believe WordCamp Chicago 2014 was $60 if you included the Friday training tracks) and they're generally on weekends.

You can get a fair idea of some of the things you'll find at them and where to find them by going to http://wordcamp.org, and you can find a variety of videos at http://wordpress.tv
For example, I was horrified when I found out that RubyConf didn't pay or even offer cover the travel for their speakers.
Which terminal emulation do you support?

(1)None
(2)Ansi
(3)Avatar
(4)VT-100
(5)Rip Graphics
Delightful! So much information density in so few bytes ..
> expecting more customization options as this gets developed

This is really key. Right now it looks like a great tool to make a résumé that looks like every other one made with this tool. Customization as it matures should really make it useful!
From point of view of programming language/compiler theory, Go is of course quite far from any dynamically typed VM-based language.

But from point of view of where it would be a good fit in practice, majority of large Python/Ruby projects, like those that are driving millions of websites right now, will greatly benefit from being rewritten in Go, without sacrificing anything important. That can not be said about C++ world — hardly anyone who chooses specifically C or C++ for a new project, over everything that is currently available, would consider Go an option.
Its not just Github though. There are a bunch of other companies who will take away the message that you don't mess with the Chinese gov't.

Github is powerful and funded enough that they won't succumb. Its all the smaller websites who might male changes because of this.
The issue is with scoping, not the closure mechanism.

Python will by default shadow variables in an enclosing scope instead of overwriting them during assignment, to prevent accidental introduction of global state. You can use the "global" keyword to force overwriting the outer variable. The list hack also works because it is a mutable data structure, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Note that the name "self" is a convention, not a requirement. If it's just the amount of keystrokes that you're concerned about, name it something else like "o".

Of course, good luck having someone else understand your code...
YAML horrible enough to make me avoid tools when I have other alternatives of functional parity.

Semantic whitespace is the second most horrible syntax "feature" after lisp-y parentheses. I even prefer XML over YAML.
I use PayStand, but there is a monthly fee. You can push the transaction fees to the customer though.
8GB
Direct link: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/edan/default.cfm
elasticsearch has great options for facet search, which can be combined with their text search for some pretty great relevance.
Please explain to me in plain English. I am dumb.
Please don't do this here. This reflexive criticism of everything Wolfram touches, however originally justified, has become a derangement syndrome in its own right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723588

The topic here is George Boole, an important and fascinating figure. We ought to be able to discuss Boole whether the OP's name is Wolfram or not, whether or not he drops asides about himself. Otherwise we just turn into the mirror image of the very quality we find annoying.
Signal originally send messages via SMS. The hosted version using phone numbers is a carryover from that transition.
I don't really care about training some politically correct language model but I'm really interested in the red team model. In some sense they have accidentally created the perfect internet troll?
> Your first part of the comment sounds like the Broken Window Fallacy and doesn’t answer the question.

Then you only read half of it. The question is how would it be paid for, and the answer I gave is that most of it would be paid for through increased tax revenue from increased economic activity. This is topped up by removing spending on the beauraucracy involved in means testing.

> Nice in theory, until you need a plumber for a broken toilet 3am on a Tuesday but nobody is a plumber anymore

UBI doesn't prevent anyone from being an emergency plumber, you just have to pay them enough that the task is actually worth doing rather than what they've been forced into accepting.
I think you've got the right idea, but the way you've set it up will be the fast road to ending many relationships:

It's monthly. How predictable. Small gifts to a special someone only work when it's unpredictable... when you least expect something but when you get something you're surprised. This type of giving isn't best expressed through a Birchbox. The whole part of "You'll get credit for being thoughtful every month" will translate to "You'll remind me how lazy you are each month with this love-as-a-service (LAAS)
Signal still had a single primary device, your phone. What you describe happens when someone installs Signal on a new phone (or reinstalls on the current one).

Linked devices are different. There is no notification when someone adds a new linked device. That's because the only way to add a linked device is to scan a QR code on the device with your phone, then confirm you want to add the device. The device is implicitly trusted, because only a trusted device can add it. (It is also possible to trigger the re-verification from the desktop manually by clicking "reset secure season" in the conversation menu, but that's separate from adding a device.)

Aside: Implicit trust like this is a great trade-off, because otherwise you'd have to verify each of their devices from each of your devices, which means approximately nobody will ever do it. Ask anybody who used Matrix/Element E2EE prior to a couple months ago ;D.
It’s incredible that that’s the best you can do. And Joe Biden calling the election “a battle for the soul of America” is calling for war. Get real. 4 years of pearl clutching and you still can’t stop.
s/express themselves peacefully/spread lies and coordinate attacks with impunity/
With a pure search system, you can endlessly tweak your results to precisely what you need in any obscure topic space using search terms.

With a human curated directory, you will instead find that whatever terms you add, you always get dumped back into the same box of hand built pages of results. Once you’ve mined those out, this will get really frustrating.
Douglas failed for a reason,the absorption of Douglas into Boeing should have been minus the management.
Sorry. I forgot to change the quantifier when I shorten the title.
But you could as well say, the same part of computer's memory where the execution binary is stored is used for the same thing again and again.

I don't think these parallels between the computer and the brain are valid though. The brain is a highly parallel but slow machine, we have very fast and not-so-parallel computers (just a few cores). I think a lot of what the brain does can be expressed on computers without changing the architecture much, i.e. you don't need to compare the architectures, just the outcomes of computation.
Looks like that author suddenly became aware that Oil companies use IT more extensively than Uber. Wow. So many new things to know.
Hi Yoni from Monadd here,
Sharing a product with been working on for the last couple of months.

We believe tech empowers individuals to gain control over their time. We make address updating simple, help individuals save time, and prevent waste generation from misdelivered items.

Problem: Moving is probably already a painful process, and the admin that comes with it is annoying, repetitive, and if you don’t do it you may lose important mail (like bills and medical/legal docs), incur fees, and your credit score may lower. As with all great problems here's an xkcd strip about it: https://xkcd.com/2075/

Solution: One place where anyone (in the UK only for now) can update their address and notify all their services and accounts. All in less than 5 minutes since signup.
They can also cancel services they no longer want.
Absolutely no long form-filling and repetition.
We can also give you a private link to test our magical gmail version that automatically discovers your providers for you.

Currently: Monadd is in Public Beta for people living in the UK. If you’re moving test it and give us feedback - and also will save you a headache. We are looking to learn more and make the interface as easy and painless for the user as possible. We're listening and looking to answer questions :)
If you want to test without moving or have a really annoying thing that is ripe for automation let us know.
>it was obvious from the lengths you go to in order to excuse the murders and brutality committed by police officers in the US.

992 people were shot and killed by police in 2018 [1] with 686,665 sworn officers [2] in the country. For a little comparison to killings by civilians - Chicago alone had 530 murders that year [3].

In 2018, there were an estimated 1,206,836 violent crimes [2].

106 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents in 2018. Of these, 55 officers died as a result of felonious acts [4]

So 'the lengths I go' are simply basing my opinion in facts and not emotion.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...

[3] https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/12/30/18314619/chicago-s-2...

[4] https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...
What you said does not contradict what I said. Do you think the royals is the problem? Would it be better to get rid of the royals and let the wahhabists rule the country?
It's a dream created using information from many other scenes you saw of the person.

The AI "dream" is based only on the single image.