jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the software landscape in Japan is pretty rough -- bureaucratic, aged, and inefficient

Quite true. Where they excel is physical processes (hardware and people). Within an hour of being there it's evident: monorail quickly ferries you from tarmac to customs (easy), then fingerprint scanner connected to PC running Windows XP craps itself 10 times before success (annoying). Your luggage is neatly arranged on the conveyor by staff so that it's upright, identifiable and simple to pick up (easy). Go to bathroom and grin as the urinal flushes itself, then wash hands with delightful auto soap dispenser and auto basin then quickly egress to the airport subway (great!). Discover onboard wi-fi only accessible using unintelligible pre-paid system (nuts...I need to check my email). Oh well, I'll be at the hotel soon. Check in and bang your head against the wall as they advise one part of their system has the correct check-in/check-out dates, while another critical system has different dates. Lovely clerk talks with manager to find a work-around to a double-booked room. Finally get in hotel room and whip out Macbook Air...Ethernet access only. Off to the local Softbank store to get a dongle. Plug it in - 100/100mbit internet connection (Lovely!).

You're in a state of flux between delight and bewilderment.
Complexity theory isn't required when prototyping an application.
It is required when engineering an application.
well that and their housing will be built with cement while a great amount of US housing is wood frame construction.

Still its a demonstration of unbound budgets. The future cost of maintaining it all will be the test of time. While much has been made of China's ghost towns quite a few are getting people yet I am curious as to the maintenance being done and in a timely manner. There is also the question of quality, there have been a few newsworthy stories out of China of shoddy construction.
Some components turn out to need logic though - consider some of the Twitter Bootstrap components that rely on JavaScript. They would not work without the JS.

I do agree that there are concerns when it comes to having people edit certain aspects if they specialize, I have seen similar things in the past. I would say that this depends on the people you work with.
It's already been done. PIs, LE and insurance companies utilizes data of a few companies that have scanners all around US; it's just not a social thing at the moment because when most drive they either text or check email or browse net or listen to the music. Dashcams are still not popular here but the services like you mention could be a huge hit in Russia when dashcams are extremely popular.

Here only few would actually go into lengths to set it up on their dashboard and be capturing licenses with the hope to make a dollar.

Good start to read more: http://consumerist.com/2014/03/05/the-repo-man-might-be-scan...
>Wind farms can't operate in icing conditions.

Some wind farms can't operate in icing conditions

(https://www.windpowerengineering.com/the-cold-hard-truth-abo...)
> Some of the electric providers are paying customers to move to someone else on Monday.

I'm on a fixed rate plan and my provider just offered me $150 to change, but I had to do it by tomorrow and the rates available now aren't close to what I'm currently at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_globally,_act_locally
My power comes from, I believe, a nuclear plant in Wisconsin.

$0.098 per kW-h, with $15 a month connection fee.
besides private schooling and private tutoring, how do children of wealthy families obtain an edge? surely there's a way to replicate it without the money.
This article is very bizarre to me.

There is no way to completely avoid the coronavirus whilst interacting with other humans unless it's simply not prevalent in your area (e.g. Australia, NZ).

Pretty much everyone has failed. Football teams, film studios, politicians, the lot. It's like trying to catch the wind.

The way to eliminate it, if you want to, is to accept that it will infiltrate your group, slowly quarantine it out until there's none left, and then allow no-one into or out of the group.

I don't understand how an intelligent person couldn't simply derive this from first principles, it's been eleven months or so now.

Do they exist in a different world to the rest of us or what? Most people I know, unless they're barricaded inside, have pretty much accepted that they're going to get it, the last study I read indicated that 1 in 4 individuals in the UK have already been infected.
I suppose the guy calling Covid-19 "Kung Flu" was in no way trying to deflect blame to China?

Was his treatment of that reporter in particular bad? No, not really. I don't believe he brought up China because she was Chinese.

But I don't think "he always throws temper tantrums" or "he always finds a scapegoat" or "he's always badmouthing China even when he knows there's been a spike in hate crimes against Chinese people" are terribly good excuses. Premeditation and a pattern of behavior make his actions worse, not better.

> because at the time, China was claiming they had basically solved Covid-19 with lockdowns and that the virus was no longer spreading in their country.

You are putting words in his mouth. We don't know what he meant because he refused to answer the question. Immediately after that exchange, he cut the briefing short and left the room.
There is a difference. Fascism is originally defined as national socialism by Mussolini. What Republicans do you see advocating for any such thing? Under actual Fascism, private ownership of businesses was allowed, but the government limited the profits they could make. Point me to where Republicans are trying to limit the amount of profits any company in the US can make.

If the comparison is totalitarian tendencies, you have a lot of effort to go through to frame this as a one sided problem as both sides exhibit such time to time.

The only thing conservatives and Fascists have in common is they are nationalist at this point, that's it. The constant throwing around of the Fascist label upon the right wing in this country is so disconnected from reality, as someone who loves history it makes me cringe to no end.
You argue that allowing free markets for vital needs leads to exploitation.

But look at food - capitalist economies have been much more successful at feeding their people than socialist/other highly regulated ones. (Not that they're perfect, no system is). But I think your story of "people trying to make money leads to exploitation" needs some refinement, because it implies outcomes we don't see in reality.

Just compare HK & Singapore to China in the 1960s - free market countries did fine, while communist economies starved their people. The difference is, if you let people do things they want to improve their lives or offer valuable services to others, they will do it. If you make it tough and complex to do this, or prevent them from profiting by their labor, they won't do as much.

The ability to charge what they want and have a monopoly would be bad - but I don't think that's what is being suggested.

The jump from "letting people make things other people want, and charge prices for them" to "let sellers restrict supply of competing goods, and / or force people to buy items at high prices" is a big one - it's the difference between successful capitalist countries which provide cheap goods for their people, and horrible states. The US and Europe still resemble the former, more than the latter, which is why millions of people still try to emigrate here annually.
Bower for package management. JS needs a better package manager for browser packages. (NPM is great for Node-style packages, but bower is becoming the defacto standard for distribution of browser packages.)
> Maybe some cleaner or the bed bug spray do have legitimate bomb-making uses.

With bed bug spray you can set up a decent fire, maybe even blast an apartment, cf. my other comment. This is why it's not easy to buy it and that's why you should read the manual. Lovely to hear how many people use highly flammable chemicals without reading the manual.
Considering I have something like ten thousand rollover minutes because of how little I use my phone for voice calls, I can let this one slide.
So it's SaaS?
I've always seen this policy as a way to lubricate the quitting process, rather than implicitly instil commitment from those that don't take it (like they're giving up something, so they must like what they're doing).

By paying people that arent committed to leave, you increase the proportion of good, loyal employees. Fewer half-assed people stick around.

Looking from an economic search cost perspective, if $3k > cost of searching for new job with payoff (both implicit and explicit) = working for Zappos, then you take the money and leave. Thus, the only people that stay are those that have higher search costs (and given a constant pay rate and 'hire-ability'[1], the only those with a higher implicit payoff, ie enjoyment) stay .

This only works as long as the pay to quit is less than the search cost for the threshold level of employee that you're trying to keep. It's also reliant on holding the 'hire-ability' of accepted applicants constant. But it means they can pretty much dictate the minimum level of 'enjoyment' that employees get from their jobs by adjusting the pay-to-quit figure.

Pretty cool.

With unemployment so high, search costs go up, which mean that they're probably getting a threshold level of enjoyment that is lower now than it was when unemployment was less. I dont know when the $3000 came into effect, but it could make sense to raise it again.

[1] By this I mean checking the boxes, qualifications, etc. How easy would it be to just find a job without any extra factors. Ie, hiring a non-skilled worker vs highly-skilled worker. If quality of accepted applicants was very low, then it would be relatively harder to find a job, raising the search cost and screwing up the incentive.
Exercise, hackers! Exercise!

We must all exercise!
I agree. It's just a matter of getting used to checking for cars visually. You already have to do that with bikes when crossing bike lanes.

During a transition period I can see it being a problem since listening for cars it can be a strong habit. I had problems with cross walks in the US at first since many of them don't emit a sound when it's green. I would often stand around subconsciously waiting for the sound to indicate that I can cross, and I'd miss my turn.
The noise is a feature. It is a social signal that you are clean for everyone in the establishment, or at least for everyone who can see the entrance to the restroom.
Honestly, the one thing that got me into graphics (from physics and math) was just the incredible amount of: "you can literally do anything so long as you make it pretty in the end."

I took that as a life philosophy and it's been pretty great so far.
This one is a bit more subtle. Assume there are two classes on that uses @property and one that does not.

class Here:
@property
def booleanPredicate(self):
return random_bool()

class There:
def anotherBooleanPredicate(self):
return random_bool()

here = Here()
there = There()

What happens in the following cases?

here.booleanPredicate # as expected
here.booleanPredicate() # loud failure
here.anotherBooleanPredicate # silently always True
here.anotherBooleanPredicate() # as expected

So you might think that you should _always_ use @property for boolean predicates, except that there are libraries that use the anotherBooleanPredicate version so you are now at risk for silent always True behavior (creeping sanity destroying evil behavior). To prevent the silent failure you should always start by calling the predicate so that it can fail loudly. Worse if someone does a refactor and misses going from @property form to function form then the silent failure literally cannot be detected by running the program (!).
The thought of someone actually buying an _idea_ that you have for a startup is hilarious.
I was a Linux/FreeBSD user for a decade, before I switched to mac(have it been 8 years already?) and my preference is still mac > FreeBSD > Linux > Windows, fwiw. Working on something which is not *nix seems odd to me and I've always found windows being extremely complicated under the hood.
This looks very cool! Count me in.
When Visa and MasterCard will warm up to bitcoin they will have ideal product for all the bitcoin millionaires.

When you are long on bitcoin you almost don't care about volatility. Because you can't predict the future the only good time to buy bitcoin is when you have too much dollars and the only good time when to sell bitcoins is when you have not enough dollars.

Sure, now you have 10 mln dollars in BTC at all tine high, and 2 mln after price drops but in day to day purchases it doesn't matter.

MasterCard could offer joint dollar-bitcoin account that works as follows:

You have some amount of dollars on that account, whenever you pay for something price is deducted from dollar balance.

If dollar balance is insufficient then some portion of bitcoin is sold automatically from your bitcoin balance to give you some multiples of thousands of dollars. You could also have manual trading available if you want to gamble a bit and buy some bitcoins if it dropped to 20% of last ATH or sell some ... I don't know when... when you are drunk and think you can predict the end of the bull run..

Not sure how much bitcoins would someone entrust MasterCard with current bankruptcy law but if it was significant enough amount then all bitcoin millionaires would get to use their fortunes totally hassle free.
>> nested_dd = collections.defaultdict(lambda: nested_dd)
>> nested_dd['a']['b']['c']['d'] = 'hello'
Oh yeah -- BIBOP Lisp!
As the steward of both GCC and GNU Emacs, the question of whether RMS is a "nutcase" is apropos.

Many of us who know him well would not object to the essential meaning of that word, even if we don't ourselves use it.
I've really liked using Apiary
http://apiary.io/
It lets you build sample output and URI address for your API's, document multiple routes, and stores everything nicely on your account on their cloud.
I've used it for 2 projects this year already and have really liked it.
Depends on how define "freedom".

I should have the "freedom" to block off my street at night, because the traffic keeps me awake. But dang society (and laws) don't let me do that! Clearly, my "freedom" is being impinged by others! Right?

/s
I’ve been discouraged recently seeing a bunch of friends from under-represented backgrounds being rejected from PAID tech bootcamps because they didn’t pass the screener.

Forget that. We have enough problems with diversity in tech without limiting access to the education itself.

I’m going to be running a 4-week (Mon-Thurs, 5-7pm ET) virtual intensive bootcamp on Ruby, Rails, HTML, & JS starting March 1st. There won’t be a fee.

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Additionally, at the end of the course if you pass the final project - I will send your name to recruiters at every tech company I know along with an endorsement. If you’re a company that’s interested in this, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/RhjWE23pLLUCoN4n6

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I once had an idea about a sci-fi movie plot where an ancient Earth civilization faced with global warming decides to sequester CO2 using bio matter and sink it to the ocean floor. They are too late and get whipped out but the sunk bio matter turns into our Oil, causing the cycle to begin again.
Most brokerages provide real time data to clients.
I don't mean this to sound snarky so I hope you don't interpret it that way, but I think the flow of the conversation makes more sense if you read from my original comment. I was only responding to what was written to me. I made the point about Apple's acquisition behavior because the reply to my original comment suggested my observations could be explained by the cost of Apple's acquisitions as compared to other examples listed in the article by other companies. My response described why I don't think the amount Apple paid should really matter in this context, especially with respect to examples offered to me for comparison, then you came and suggested it's a distinction without a difference, and when I explained the differences I see, you then accused me of cherry-picking, but the context you're missing is that I was never trying to debate Apple's acquisition practices to begin with.
Keep a small video playing a local Comission of inquiry whilst working
Haynes — the linked site — are the publisher, and make real manuals like this for many many cars
https://haynes.com/en-gb/us-super-carrier-operations-manual

Closest they have.
Based on Chromium
That's kind of my point - you need to accept the 'magic' you're given, at least for the time being.

I feel a bit uncomfortable leaving it at that though, I always want to know how things are working. But it's not essential.
The reoccuring problem with the definition of AI is referred to as the AI effect. Basically it refers to the constantly shifting definition of AI as knowledge of a technique that originated in AI research becomes more pervasive and well known. People stop thinking of the technique as AI because now it is just math or statistics or computer science or whatever. The AI effect basically states that nothing will ever be AI because as soon as we understand it well enough to use it, nobody associates it with AI anymore.

AI researchers have been extremely successful at finding and proving specific areas of intelligence. But what they haven't found is the "silver bullet" that is governing all forms of intelligence. For example, intelligence isn't just symbolic logic, as AI researchers from the 1950's reasoned. It isn't just relational logic or optimization, as those from the 1970's and 1980's reasoned. It isn't just statistical reasoning, as those from the 90's and 00's have reasoned. And it isn't just the ability to process mass amounts of knowledge (data) as those today currently reason. Significant advances in any specific area of AI will cause people to think that they have found a victory of Neats over Scruffies [2] (for example, the currently pervasive view that Deep Learning is the silver bullet that can actually get us all the way to AGI), but then an AI Winter forms [3], and all of a sudden the Scruffies were right all along.

My opinion is that the Scruffies have always been right. The only valid Neat view is that true intelligence is really just mathematics, but mathematics is the superset of all algorithms ever. If you want some real philosophy on the subject from one of the most intelligent men that have ever lived, read up on Marvin Minsky.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_vs._scruffies

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
And yet that person who finishes second in the job interview is born in the first world and thus luckier than 90% of the world's population. Is that fair? No but it's not unfair either. Everyone has a defined position in life that dictates the macro environment. Male/female. Tall/short. Handsome/not. Educated/uneducated. In general someone less fortunate than you would want you to maximize your opportunity in life because squandering it seems particularly cruel to those less fortunate.
It's like everyone is afraid of stopping the bully beating up on a weak kid because the bully also threatens to respond to intervention with a gun.

Yet the bully also knows if they actually use the gun they'll be put down like a feral dog before they have time to reload.
If we consider Doordash's approach to be similar to Amazon's then companies such as Chownnow and Ritual are more equivalent to Shopify. They want to arm mom and pop restaurants with the tools to enable delivery without the hefty commissions and fees. I know that personally I don't want to live in a world dominated by chain restaurants and sub-standard options simply because they are the only ones with power to negotiate favourable terms with Doordash etc.
Just came across this article about another serial violent criminal in SF.

https://missionlocal.org/2020/12/sf-man-arrested-in-connecti...

This guy, Jose Rodriguez, 29, was arrested for killing a mother with a newborn while burglarizing a house and also charged in several other "incidents" including:

Following his arrest earlier this month, Rodriguez was also identified as the shooter in connection with an attempted homicide near Jackson Playground in Potrero Hill on Oct. 27. He has been booked on attempted murder and firearms charges related to that incident.

Rodriguez and Martinez are also suspects in a residential burglary on Peralta Avenue in Bernal Heights on Nov. 11, and the two were charged with burglary and conspiracy in connection to that incident.

So there's the double hit-and-run murderer in David's piece and this guy. How many other serial violent criminals are on our streets?
GitLab is looking into whether we may be able to obtain a similar license.

PS: I agree this post should be about GitHub and what they achieved for the thriving community of developers in Iran who are making things work despite their circumstances.
>If you have a really good spectrum analyzer, you'll be able to spot the occasional cellular traffic, but by and large the spectrum that has been auctioned off to corporate owners goes almost entirely to waste.

Just because you don't see any usage in your area (rural/suburbs?) doesn't mean it's unused. They could be heavily used major metropolitan centers, for instance.
Been doing it for 15 years.

We'll see if the trick is to eat healthy and exercise instead of doing neither and then acting like it's the coffee that's going to kill you.
The OP's categorical statement on partial immunity is entirely false. Look at the Astrazeneca data in the Lancet. No hospitalizations in the treatment arm. That is evidence of "partial immunity."
Permanent residency means you are not a refugee anymore and you can work freely because you are authorized as a permanent resident to do so. You have full rights to do what any citizen can do.

I am not going to argue with you or refer you to wikipedia. Instead, you may take a look at any company that hires globally and tells me then what is Syria's status or Syrian national.

This applies to GitHub and all American companies and it's not "work laws" this how financial sector works around the globe.

Another thing quickly, no one is asking to hire on a humanitarian basis. Don't deny people their right to work and profit because of who they are.
Some examples can be found in their public record:
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
right exactly, that's what I was trying to say. The constriction happens mainly in the imagination rather than in the writing. That's the theory at least.