jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Online is not always a net gain for the retailer. For something like 24 packs of water at Walmart it’s simpler to ship several pallets to one location and have people so last mile delivery to their house than to ship it directly to them. It’s largely shoplifting and floorspace that’s in online stores favor, but that’s only part of the equation.
just use sagemath
It's coming in the future, likely soon we'll see it in Google hardware since they all auto-update.
Does it matter?

It's nice that you save a couple minutes, but I doubt it really has much impact on your day.

Or was that all on Thursday morning?
I’ve been told that in Tamil it would be considered very weird if you used the same word to say you “love” your spouse and you “love” your children
Yes, the same as all the other databases that just “use SQL”. We all know how compatible they are.
Being against personal welfare and being against corporate/bank welfare are not mutually exclusive.

Nobody that I know, is OK with giving out corporate welfare or quantitative easing of any kind. Certainly, I’m not.
There is still public broadcasting and it works pretty good in some places. Germany for example. Even though people tend to lament the fact that they have to pay for it and it's always too much if you have to pay for something, it doesn't look like it's going away soon.
"We excluded trials that included 20% or more of participants with bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, or treatment-resistant depression"

This is an honest question - is it fair to exclude people for whom antidepressants don't work in an analysis of if antidepressants work?
As we move to electric over the next few decades, I wonder what we're going to do with all the ICE vehicles that are on the road now? There's going to be a tipping point where finding a gasoline station will be hard. There are a lot of gas stations, so this is going to be pretty huge by itself. Some states may go as far as banning ICE vehicles all together.

I guess we already churn through a huge amount of cars yearly as it is... I don't see many 1979 Plymouths on the road. They must have been all chopped up at some point, so this is probably a non issue. That said, I can't imagine the transition will be without pain for lots of people...
> "She laughed and said that no, I did not understand what it was to have secret police following you about... "

The thing is, they don't need to follow you around the same way as in the 'old days' because, like many things, modern technology makes it easier and more efficient.

The tyranny of the future isn't going to be like that of the past. That makes it difficult to explain the dangers to people.
Don't you think it's more likely that the Spanish flu was so widespread because of the unhygienic conditions and stressed infrastructure caused by World War 1?
>> Reduced demand lowers both prices and cash flow. Many operators will no longer be able to service their debts. Resulting in bankruptcy.

This is largely a result of long-term excessive supply during a period of (relatively) short-term demand reduction though. This makes the huge upfront costs in renewables very unappetizing, and their variable costs less competitive.

I think we would need a much longer demand disruption to "reset" the capital outlay decision back to one of net-new fossil vs. net-new renewable, when we would actually have a chance of switching energy streams. If demand picks up by Q3 we will just ramp up existing O&G supply.

FWIW I work in the asset planning field for energy where we are often concerned with NPV of the entire project. If you can start to get close with renewables lots of primarily fossil-based energy companies will move forward, but I don't see the numbers yet without massive subsidies or taxes.
We can live in villages! Start over!
Nah, I got another theory.

Basically, people that tend to be more 'intelligent'/'successful' are better at learning. You optimize learning in a similar fashion to a start-up. By failing fast.

In general I think you tend to hear alot of silly thoughts from very 'intelligent'/'successful' people because they tend to speak their thought often and early (even if they do not have a grasp on it yet). Which leads to quick correction and refinement. Or in other words faster learning.
My most recent ex was in probably the top 5%+, I never asked them about their financials obviously, but just looking at their mansion and their friend's mansions one can assume. I remember her parents talking about what they would do in the event that the Coronavirus went pandemic back in January before we broke up (coincidence???).

* They have "nannies" and other people that are on a payroll to send out into the world to get supplies; this way no one in the immediate family will become sick. The food or things would be left outside and the nannies would stay in a separate garage apartment as to not risk contaminating them.

* They live in a gated community so if crap were to really hit the fan then people would have to be really serious about breaking in and dealing with the potential armed guards of other mega rich(er) families. I laughed at this idea, people getting armed guards for this??? Guess it's a possibility...

* Their mansion has another gate/fence that surrounds the house that can be electrified, a few back up generators, typical doomsday prep stuff, etc

* They had a few daughters going to colleges in other states, they called them all back way before colleges announced they were going online

* Three guard dogs so if anyone tries to break in they have to go through them...

* Probably much more that they didn't enlighten me to lol

Granted all these points depend on if the parents don't get sick. They're both doctors so they work on the front line in some capacity. Not my concern anymore though so I wish them the best of luck! The first point made me lose a decent amount of respect for them. Smart, but sadistic to pay others to put themselves in harms way.
Perl 6 is not an upgrade of Perl 5. It is a whole different language.

Perl 5 is thriving too. It has many improvements to the Perl 5 of 10 years ago.
I said throwing out branches you don't want is hard. You said creating branches is easy. Those are both true.
> Portland is seen as hip and comparatively inexpensive

Portland doesn't seems about the same cost-of-living-wise to Toronto, ON. So I don't really see it as 'cheap.' (Maybe compared to NYC...)
Yeah, Comic Sans cut me once after he has ransacked my house looking for booze.

Never let a font like that sleep on your couch "For a week while I get my shit together."
This is exciting news. masklinn is right that it probably won't entirely address Zed's points, but for people like me who don't care as much that it's baked in, this is very cool.
"You can create branches by doing multiple commits off of the same base version." It doesn't sound hard, but perhaps I am missing something?
I agree with mmelin. Maybe it could be more fun if it was a petition you 'sign' by re-tweeting, or a 'meeting manifesto'. Or at least something more provocative like, I won't tolerate poorly run meetings or the people who perpetrate them because they are soul sucking and are wasting my life away.
To be fair, not all GitHub data is accessible via the API. Messages, pull requests, comments, wiki pages, and some gist functionality all lack API access.

Edit: I originally said there wasn't API support for issues, but in fact there is.
Yet restaurants in UK (including burger king) do sell food labeled as vegetarian or vegan, and UK commercial kitchens are definitely smaller on average than in the US. So either enforcement is lax or compliance is just not a big deal.
It's a backpressure issue. It's called handling backpressure.
Pretty sure the bill of rights doesn’t apply to prisoners.
> HN doesn't support proper quoting, which is why people do these hacks.

Yeah, but there's better hacks at least.
Not just incumbents. Have you seen a single startup that uses IPv6 for all their internal networking (running NAT on their internet uplink if needed)?

If every single incumbent and every single newcomer is dragging their feet on IPv6, maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't every single engineer in the industry, the problem is IPv6.

Theoretically we could have had a straightforward extension of IPv4 to a longer address length and the exact same design, but some architecture astronauts took over the IETF and they think it's more valuable to push their weird redesign of the internet than to actually solve IPv4 address exhaustion.
FYI: https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1802/do-disney-mov...
Besides this the reasons for regulation are pretty damn compelling. Clear cut case of market failure. You cannot take your business elsewhere to deal with the failings of big tech. It is an industry with a long run decreasing average total cost curve and has network externalities. (Hence why there aren't 27 similar magnitude businesses competing in the Facebook space, for example).

That's not market failure, it's normal market functioning today. It used to be that the limits of scaling kept companies in most industries from becoming monopolies. The industries with really strong network effects, railroads, communications, and banking, were highly regulated.

Now, more industries have strong network effects. The negative effects of scale, big companies unable to get out of their own way, seem to have been conquered. Planetary-scale companies such as Walmart and McDonalds work quite well, and they're not even "tech" companies. And US antitrust enforcement has been out to lunch for 30 years now.

The European Union has a study, which I've cited before, that price competition seems to require, in practice, at least four major players. There's an implicit collusion effect that makes it more profitable to not compete on price where the number of players is small.
Bill Hicks point of view on this classic story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0BeLz5blM
Get an OTP app for your laptop. It's an open standard.
It doesn't survive to the beginning of the second connection, but do be aware that nc/echo/sed are all run on bastion. You'd have to rearrange the quoting a bit to get sed locally.

If you're being paranoid, you can also break this like: ssh -v 'foo;bar.bast'

Still, the only way I see this being any kind of "attack surface" is if an attacker could control the hostname you're connecting to, and I'll bet there are much naughtier thing possible in that case.
I'll note that when poaching between companies reached a critical mass, major companies like Google and Apple colluded to keep salaries down (see Techtopus for details).
> "assume it failed. How does the airplane survive?"

The very next step of this that so many people starting out forget is:

When the part has failed, and the redundant systems taken over, how will the original be repaired? If a repair does not happen soonish, then other parts will fail, and the system as a whole will fail.

Too many systems are designed to be redundant, but with no self-test, monitoring and alerting system, redundancy is useless.

In the case of the compartmentalization proposed, this means there is no point in compartmentalizing your data if nobody will do anything when a compartment is compromised.
I used to have when I worked in Poland. Was really surprised, after moving to Germany, people don't seem to care about their net salaries.
A country cannot hold a significant amount of cash/gold/value without spending the appropriate amount on military defence to deter other countries from seizing the value. The armed guards at Ft. Knox is a small amount of the total expense, the aircraft carriers also participate at least in part.
Just all the always-on devices in the US alone consume 1.5 times the electricity of the entire bitcoin network. And at least the bitcoin network is doing something useful.
So as far as I can gather, there are no generating units (other than wind turbines) that are down for maintenance? There is really only a low pressure problem in the pipeline system that is causing some combustion units to idle?
Sputnik has pretty much same efficacy as Pfizer. Sinopharm a bit less, but also almost no side effects.
Delphi was great. I remember downloading it (pirated obviously) over a 14k connection. It took like a day.

The killer feature was that it could build stand lone executables with no runtime.

On one hand I really miss those days. On the other hand, what we have today is far superior. Its a great time to be alive for a kid who wants to learn how to program.
4. install sprinklers (!)

Yes, water based sprinklers are not the best choice for inside the server-room proper. But that doesn't mean you can't have other automated fire suppression systems. In the days of yore Halon systems were mostly used for this particular application. Halon has some issues though and has mostly been banned / replaced with cleaner alternatives. These days you see things like FM-200 used for fire suppression in these kinds of applications.

All of that said, speaking as a former firefighter, I'd take a water based sprinkler over nothing, even in that setting. Why? Because at the end of the day, human life is more valuable than a data-center full of computers and data, and if stopping a fire early saves even one life, but ruins a room full of computers, that's an acceptable tradeoff. And of course sprinklers are absolutely invaluable outside of the server-room. I don't have all the numbers memorized now, but to summarize in a succinct form, "sprinklers are wildly effective at preventing incipient stage fires from growing large, and at saving lives and property."

And as @WalterBright continues to say below - you are storing backups off-site, right? And you have a DR data-center on another continent that can be spun up in a matter of minutes by toggling a load-balancer or DNS setting somewhere, right?
What happens when Amazon launches their competing streaming video service? [1] Just a rumor at this point, but when a large set of content comes in-window for both Netflix and Amazon and each needs to spin up a thousand instances to transcode it? Who will get priority? [2]

It seems extraordinarily stupid to entrust such an obvious potential competitor with the keys to your infrastructure, particularly in a single-vendor solution.

This is fundamentally different from the Roku model -- neither Amazon nor Netflix own Roku, so they can remain neutral.

(edit: formatting)

[1] http://technologizer.com/2010/08/31/amazon-subscription-stre...

[2] And don't give me any bullshit about AWS not being capacity constrained unless you routinely spin up 1000 temporary XL instances.
It really depends on what you're doing. The quirks of the JVM mean there are a lot of hidden things you can do wrong and tank your performance.. JNI calls that you don't realize you're making, or suboptimal use of objects and creating GC debt. Some of the Java math libraries are randomly slow for certain inputs, as well.
Checking if any of my emails is in the list there... Do I have an account there? Don't know.

What is funny is that I never remember where I have accounts now...
That's cool! I've only used it with jQuery so far, I might try this for my next project involving mootools.
What's particularly nice (and the reason I'm bookmarking it) is that even though a lot of it is type advice I've heard before in some form, it expresses it well and puts it all in one place.
Many of the reviews (and my first impression) were "Oh. It's a flash game", which I'm habitually used to paying nothing for on Newsgrounds or Kongregate or wherever.

Given the number of people who are playing vs. the number buying I wonder if you might generate more revenue from advertising than from straight app sales.
Some publishers/authors really organize reviews by sending preview copies of books to reviewers.
I'm not quite sure if I wouldn't _expect_ the incognito mode to respect HSTS. I'd think that you would use incognito mode for ~sensitive~ tasks.

Defaulting to https due to a known HSTS flag seems good in this case, otherwise every incognito session would start out blank, right? (I'm ignoring the white list from the browser vendor)
At least he has a fighting chance to talk to a human at a local company. You won't get that from Google. Even if you pay for Google One you can still get blown off with "I've already given you all the information I have" (nothing) because telling you why you actually got locked out opens them up to a discussion they are not interested in having.
> instead of making it entirely visual and almost completely dis-empowering the user

Why do you think that making something visual completely disempowers the user?
> Gravity isn’t a force in general relativity.

More importantly, GR has nothing to say about forces at all.
Interesting! I've never used wireguard before. When you link it with the VPS, is it able to behave as if ports from your home network are running natively on the VPS?

I'll look into using DNAT/nginx, but I really do like having everything in a format where all the configuration is self contained in code and can be spun up / down easily, and I'm not sure if I can accomplish that using those tools
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” - John von Neumann
That's pretty awesome, what provider are you with?
Ah yes, the constant value of gold https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...

As I said, there is no escaping market mechanisms, as value is market contextual. Certainly, there are assets with more or less stable value, but that is still due to the whims of what people (ie. the "public") are willing to pay.
Just because native apps are back in trend again because of the mobile devices, doesn't mean the web is dead. The web is still "killing" desktop applications.

What is happening though, is that the whole cycle is starting from scratch on mobile devices. That means the mobiles also need to go through the "native" cycle before they jump to the "web" cycle, just like desktop PC's.
This is amazing. I wonder how they combine the beginner stuff though. Also, captchas have the benefit of being adopted by lots of websites, while this is a standalone destination. They may not get 10 million active users, but if they do, it will be because so many people want to learn a language. How will they market the site?
Carmack said ‘I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today.’ -- http://www.vizworld.com/2011/03/carmack-direct3d-opengl/
Also, I should mention Application Cache (5MB local storage). Very useful for static game assets: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/appcache/beginner/
_The Little Schemer_ is likely the gentlest possible introduction (unless you have a peanut allergy). It's a quick read, too.

Perhaps you're thinking of SICP?
There isn't an error with the "screenshot"?

How can avg be > of max? :)
They don't need too, but it sure-as-hell improves accessibility & usability.
Because Pixel is not available in most countries, including more than half of Europe. I had the Nexus 5x, I wanted a Pixel and the only option was the gray market at double the price.
> I decided to spend my time learning something IRL

One could argue that spending 1,000 hours in Factorio building cool stuff is still doing something IRL. It's just a different kind of something IRL.

To be clear, I am not assuming that you were making a value judgement about the Factorio player :-) But I feel the need to share this point of view nonetheless.

The Buddhist monk finds enlightenment by simply being still. This is constructive living - in the sense that it is not destructive to nature / one's surroundings.

Along similar lines, immersing one's self in Factorio is an actively entertaining form of being constructively still in the context of one's surroundings.

So is reading. Listening to music. Etc.

Not everybody needs to build stuff or achieve things IRL. And that's perfectly fine.
And the basic climbing orientation covers covert entry, alarm systems, and antiquarian book valuation? Or is that only with the advanced course?
How will the sites in question learn of that court order? YouTube is one centralized site, that's different to the internet as a whole.
How often does the API itself exceed the level of creativity of uncopyrightable plain lists of facts? It's not clear to me that it should be considered copyrightable on its own, especially with the fact that copyright explicitly do not cover functional elements. The declarations only instructs you on how to interact with the actual code, and AFAICT rarely add any creative height on top of what's in the main source code.

If presence and order of keywords was sufficient, such legal precedence would create collateral damage at levels that is beyond absurd - outside of software, this would extend to atypical calendar formats, plenty of paper forms, automatic telephone voice menus, map projections, and so much more. Calling it "destructive" wouldn't suffice. Entire industries would be leveled by uncooperative rent seekers that hold old copyrights.
But it's not defined. States make their own determination, to a degree. The limit for in-cusutody is pretty low and close to 60 days (don't know the case law). Noncustodial prosecution can last years.
As cynical as this take is, you aren't alone in thinking it. This has been a repeating theme among some Bernie Sanders/economic left folks. For example, the concept that the center uses racial politics against the economic left to defuse their efforts has been discussed a number of times on the Chapo Trap House podcast. I'm personally not sure whether I subscribe to this belief, but I can see how people might feel this way.
I think it's naive to think that they're doing this out of pure goodwill. They've taken over $100 million in funding in only a year of being in business. Since they're so new, my estimate is that they're generating goodwill with consumers before any of their investors are expecting to make their money back. Given the sheer number of Clubhouse competitors, this is probably a smart move for their business. They get to generate reactions like yours en masse.

They're building a strong brand and reputation to beat out the competition, and they'll only start monetizing once they've won.
I've been at the same company for 6 years and I think the total cumulative raise I've gotten is probably....$5000. The company has done quite well too, even through covid. Huge multinational financial instution, with employees in the tens of thousands.

Also rumor on the grapevine is that the business side (profit center) employees got pretty good bonuses this year, while tech (we are the cost center) got pretty shafted.

I've long worked with the assumption I will never get a significant raise unless I jump ship - and that this is how things always worked, at least outside of SV?

From what I hear/understand, SV style tech companies do give non-trivial raises? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Who's using them? What market? I have not seen a Blackberry in years. I saw a picture of a guy with that new square-ish one and that's about it.
That's really quite funny--and has the glint of truth. Precisely why no prior comments, the Rubeness of our own inventions makes us uneasy and we are reluctant to admit it.

Reflects easy observations amidst the hyped fervor of technologies, kind of a motto of our era, "why make it simple when it can be so complicated?"
It's not like the order's authority has to be constructed from constitutional primitives. So what? There is plenty in the order explaining it on the grounds of mitigating the spread of a deadly contagious disease within the states. The Health Department has a mandate from Congress to do exactly such things as that, and the CDC cites specific laws which (according to it) permit the order.

It seems like you should be arguing that that law is unconstitutional, or unconstitutionally applied, or that the whole Health Department shouldn't exist or something... But instead you're saying that the order doesn't even claim to be authorized by law, which is false.
Did you even go to https://diversitymemo.com/? It's clearly a spam site right now.