jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also, conspiracy theory, contract development has a bit of a moral hazard problem when it comes to these sorts of issues.

On one side, we have the option that helps guard clients against accessibility issues and any problems that they might (though not necessarily will) engender, and is likely to be more maintainable in the long run . But it would also require fewer billable hours to build. And it's not what the client asked for in the first place, so there's the risk of burning social capital in trying to even suggest it.

Alternatively, you can get paid more money to supply the client with more immediate gratification.
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I have operated successfully as an infrastructure engineer, InfoSec Manager, Sr. Sec Engineer, and Principal Security Architect. I love security and automation, and am current writing some custom tooling for the company I am at. On the lookout for another architect role, or perhaps a director level.
Depending on what I'm working on, just dumping stuff to an IDE buffer at 70WPM can be 10% or more of the time something takes. Which is enough that typing slower would have a noticeable impact.
This argument seems elitist. R is more than just technically Turing complete.

It's definitely a specialized language. It's not the go-to for managing servers or anything with a lot of I/O, but it has those capabilities because they're useful for managing projects. And I'd be hard-pressed to justify using a language for statistical analysis if it doesn't focus on statistical analysis. It'd be like rolling my own cryptography.

You need to differentiate between "base R" (everything that comes with a new install) and community-contributed packages. Base R is amazingly reliable. It has detailed documentation[0].

User-package land is more of a Wild West, that's true. I would personally not use anything that's not on CRAN unless I can walk up to the maintainer's desk (in non-pandemic times).

[0] https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
See elsewhere in this discussion why Signal is not much better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25669657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668659
Which leaves me deeply confused.

Daisy-chaining had to be supported. From the host point of view, a hub is barely any more complicated. Why was it optional?
No gesture typing in 2011, ahem, 2021 is not even worth considering to me.

I'm using a closed source keyboard because it just works better than all the open stuff (at least when I last tried various keyboard in ~2018), but have it firewalled off completely in AfWall+. That means no updates, though it learns new words like COVID-19 well enough from me, but also no data leaking (I'd happily contribute typing stats if it were some non-profit handling my data).
Most of the Russian stories were pure election stories, there is almost no merit to it at all.

This is actually one thing I don't understand about the alleged progressive side and many people share this view. You could be made to believe basically anything the same way Trump supporters believe a communist overtake of the US is imminent.

Furthermore the support these stories got from intelligence agencies point to very serious problems that do indeed influence democracy in a very bad way, far worse than Putin can imagine in his dreams. Of course it might put a smile on his face, that much is understood.

True that the zeitgeist has influence, but it is mainly driven by western companies, not by the Russian government. Aside from the language barrier you cannot name one talking point this alleged Russian propaganda contained.

You do understand the implication if you decry any opposition to EU integration as Russian interference? Because any political discourse stops right there with you.

No, there was honest dissatisfaction with the EU in Britain. That might be wrong or not, but the Russian thing just made people reinforce their views, because that actually makes sense now.

Russians, seriously...

Brazil is another story here, although I think the facts have to be checked.
The graph looked like that in 2009 too, and yet inflation stayed around the 2% target.
It’s more a type of persistence I think. More junior people often ask me something along the lines of “How do you immediately know these things?”. But the answer isn’t anything magical. Generally one of:

1. I’ve run into the same or similar problem before.

2. I wrote the code that does this thing.
Amen.

Not to forget the things that were in co-operative ownership, either.
I guess a similar situation happens to programmers who learn a new design pattern or programming paradigm and apply it to every situation, including when it's overkill.
Do you mean the spotify.com frontpage or the content loaded in the Spotify app ?
Sounds fun; I'm don at madwombat dot com. I've been working with Rails and Ruby for about three years...
Saying "small percentage" would've removed that ambiguity.

Now, regardless, the majority trying AdSense make bugger all because they're clowns, half-arsed, give up early, don't know what they're doing, etc. Anyone with either some luck or a half-decent plan, some ability and persistence can build up some passive income or at least give it a shot for free.
As was alluded to in the comments there, most of the loss was probably due to stretching and demagnetization of the two tapes. Generational loss would most likely consist of horizontal scanline offset (due to time base skew) and horizontal blurring, though eventually the time may get off far enough to cause some of the other artifacts seen in that video.
A lot of the points are certainly valid, though somewhat debatable. The #1 one-up (Multitasking) is set to become an iPhone feature in about a month. As for no notifications on the lock screen, have the authors never received a push notification? Again though, local notifications are coming in iPhone OS 4.
"your manhood is not automatically diminished if someone else makes a different consumer choice."

In a sense this is true, but my lifestyle is definitely affected by others making a different consumer choice, at least in regards to platforms.

For instance, I use Linux primarily as my desktop OS. If an order of magnitude more consumers were using Linux, my experience would be better as there would be more software and support for the OS I am using.
If you ever wanna talk, hit me up! Community is important! Kindness is infectious. Check my profile if you feel like you wanna reach out. I've been kind of working on an internet generative pen and paper style role playing chat gizmo (who isn't right?) but also... Yeah man, that family stuff is typical honestly and it sounds like your mother and father had a lot of hurt because they couldn't connect. We have the luxury of doing better because we can know different things because internet.

No matter what, guard your grill with your fam but they did what they could and are flawed like the rest of us. Tigers won't change their stripes. Be who you gotta be and try to share some comfort and kindness where you can. Also give Whooligan a like and follow if you think of it. They don't have a lot of attention and I think they do solid effort and deserve more.

I detect a very familiar kind of traumatic shock in this story here. I currently experience manic terror masked by what looks like jokey beats told rapidly on loop for what I suspect are similar reasons. Who failed you doesn't have to define you though. They will probably still fail you but, probably they don't want to and don't know how to be different and wish they could be. Not your problem to fix. Because you're human and talking to me right now I think I can say with very strong confidence that your chosen family needs you to slow down the tape enough to share your light.

It makes me pretty happy that this video resonated with you. Find your people, be kind, know yourself. Guard your grill because the world is getting weirder. You're a goldmine and ghouls wanna deplete you. Surround yourself with folks that value your modes and can help you with the parts you don't get that well and you can trust to tell you the truth. Rinse, repeat.

I'm sorry if that's preachy sounding, but everything feels like hell to me today. I very much feel for your struggle how you explained it friend.
A clean eviction history for the building is an advantage for a number of reasons, including subdividing into condos. The cash flow concerns are only part of the reason empty units get a premium.
And the game engine is from 2007 which likely built in many of these historically accurate constraints to reduce scope. Remember until recently this much more core functionality was broken; "Fixed looting not making you hostile to looted country if you’re a vassal"

https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.3.X#1.3.1
I love these, put one together for my own site with some hidden features like a theme switcher. One suggestion I'd make on yours is focusing when clicking anywhere on the screen.
4. Those are long running products and google can't build something that lasts more than a year or two
where can i find the dump, I've wanted to check my data as well
Now that not nearly as much of your wages have been garnished, you would have had all that money during your working years to invest for your retirement. You could even use a private ss-like setup if you like. Besides having more options, more people would pursue having a family for this reason, so the situation would be rarer. Beyond that, you’d have a much stronger charity network.
> sacrifice

Recieving an unearned $11.70 million untaxed income for free is the opposite of "our own ends" and "sacrifice". It sounds like you fetishize everyone else having a hard time but want to make a special exception for yourself and your kids.
That doesn't mean much without also accounting for how easily an infected person actually spreads the virus into their environment, as well as how likely copies of the virus left in the environment are to actually infect someone.

I would suspect that as long as people don't sneeze/cough without a tissue they are not actually spreading that much copies of the virus on surfaces. And similarly I would also expect that if you wash your hands before eating or touching your face, you are not that likely to get infected even if you had touched a surface with viral particles on it.

But of course I have no evidence for any of this since the studies have clearly not been done yet.
Health is delegated to the States, not a federal matter, so the respond may differ greatly between each of them.

The title is also misleading, as Merkel does not have the power to decide such things. Well, at least not by the letter.
> To me this drives home one key issue: the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy.

Something tells me you've never given tech support to non-technical family members. (And that's being generous – because outright considering everyone non-technical "stupid" would be a pretty sad worldview.)
Thank you for the succinct answer.
It's interesting how the "common history" of the IBM PC is often "The 8086 came into existence and then later the 386 was released" as if they somehow were only separated by a few years.
First, you need reliable training data to begin with. This can't be supplied by third-party labeling of faces, so it would need to be done with a dataset of self-reported emotions, but self-reported emotions also have tons of pitfalls well documented in the literature.

But second, the correlations of individual facial muscle contractions with emotions has been extensively studied and it's far noisier, inconsistent, or completely devoid of a signal than many people assume. In academic terms there's no such thing as a reliable emotional "signature" to be gleaned from facial muscle activation.

So the point is, it appears that the raw data simply isn't there for the AI to detect patterns that humans can't. Detecting emotions requires far more data points outside of facial muscle activation -- such as the ones I listed.
Android isn't going away anytime soon. Its important to remember the HN is a bubble that may not always represent the broader world...
But if you are promoting something that is opaque and in some situations worse than an already-existing alternative, is it really the right path to recommend the problematic tool because it is more popular?
Generating a 301 is certainly less work than rendering the entire user's profile page.
There are lots of industry alternatives to Bloomberg, such as Refinitiv Eikon, FactSet, CapIQ, etc. There is a lot of technical infrastructure required to be able to constantly provide real-time data with no downtime. Also, some data sets are in fact proprietary. For example, Refinitiv has a historical database that can’t be beat by competitors because they were literally the only ones that started recording the data as early as they did. Anyone else who claims to have an equivalent data set just won’t have the same amount to provide.
Probably a contraversial opinion here, but I think it is a good idea. Parents are often behind their kids on this one, and the current status quo is massively out of kilter with the state of, say, TV censorship - which people are reasonably happy with.

As for the, this is the start of censorship debate... it's not groundless, but I don't really buy it. If anything, 'letting' something like this through could be considered appeasement, and become considered as the only grounds for censorship. It works in other mediums, newspapers can be as critical of the government as they want, but cannot be obscene.
good luck with that....seriously there's always page 3 girls
What about sites that deal with violence or dangerous political ideas? Are we going to censor them by default as well? What about violence in movies which is probably far more damaging to children? Are we going to block that too on the telly? Where do we draw the line?

On a practical note, I can only imagine how many arguments this new legislation would lead to. Typical scenario: Husband openly or secretly wants porn, wife doesn't.
There are two very big assumptions being made here. One is that this is even possible to do, and two that porn is harmful to children. I doubt either of those are true.
I'm all for child protection too. It can't be the parents responsibility though, for purely pragmatic reasons - i mean are there really any parents in the world who are able to put a filter on their net connection their kids can't get past? I'm 99% sure by the time i have a teen son, he'll be more tech savvy than me...
Now if they could do this in a way that's open and honest, to allay concerns such as your point above about photo sharing sites. But i worry that it'll be a black box, and people with legit sites will one day discover that they've been blacklisted with no recourse.
And yet both he and I went through these steps:

get intrigued, look around the page for a link to a product description, get frustrated, hand edit the url to just 'wakemate.com'.

There is no sidebar for me reading in firefox. Maybe it is some fancy script that got binned by my various anti-junk plugins.
The biggest problem with setting a minimum, particularly one that high is that it is extremely difficult to get a lot of karma from comments alone, especially for new users without name recognition.
The color of the percentage numbers could have been chosen a little better. The yellow on light blue background is hard on the eyes.
Great Post. I was just asking a friend a couple weeks back if he could hack my new startup website.
Ok, but (if I understand how Tor works) then the fact that he works on Tor has nothing to do with his control of exit nodes. Anybody can run an exit node, whether or not they work on Tor.
See this is good though that it's the employee's choosing. They'll end up finding a better fit of a company, which works better for a startup. What interests you and what's your specialty?
> Underscores are just bad. Stick to dashes.

I just wonder, why? Underscores, being located at baseline, make less distraction, so they should be more readable.
"If in fact our schooling policies are basically OK and the problem lies almost solely in the homes, then solutions involving throwing more money at school won't work. This is a worthy investigation."

Even if we accept your premise, I'm not sure we need to accept your conclusion. Just because the cause of the problem is a difference in home life, doesn't mean that the easiest solution to the problem is to "fix" the home life (i.e. end poverty).

There are a number of schools (usually charters) who teach low-income students and structure themselves to compensate for any disadvantages students may have coming in (with strategies like longer school days/years). Some of these schools (KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Harlem Children's Zone) have had incredible success.

It might seem strange to "overcompensate" for differences at home in schools - but it's a lot easier to change schools than it is to change people's home life.
"Among those 34 OECD nations, only the United States spent centuries aggressively trying to stamp out literacy among a major part of its population."

I'm Irish, and I'd question the accuracy of that statement - whether the US was unique in that regard.

You could argue over the specifics of what it means 'to try stamp out literacy', but for 100s of years here (Ireland), the native language (Irish/Gaelige), and education through it, got a very tough time from the occupying British government.

More generally, the country had a tough time. The majority of the population (Catholics) had little to no opportunity, and little education ('the penal laws' etc). Many of those who could left as emigrants (going to places such as USA).

Now, Republic of Ireland - the OECD nation - has been around less than 100 years, and we've made big strides in this time. Many peoples parents are now college educated; but this is probably the first generation where that's true.

So, what does it mean to compare the population of Ireland 'corrected for the demography', as is done on the last chart in that page? And then make statements about the legacy of slavery in the USA, using that comparision?

I really think the analysis lies in tatters at that point.

While this post is - clearly - raising interest in the measurement of education (a good thing) the method used is just much too crude to possibly draw the kind of conclusions the author, and others, are making.

There's just too much historical differences between what it means to be an immigrant in different countries, and too much different history, for such crude analysis to support the conclusions drawn.
Pick me, pick me. :)
I thought all men loved sandwiches... "Make me a sandwich!"
"...it's a rather limited view of the problem not really taking into account the various feedback loops each option has when it feeds back into the economy and thus back into taxes collected..."

This would be a difficult thing to do. What would be an acceptable model for these feedback loops? Given that, at the end of the day, the budget MUST balance.

Let's say we all agreed that cutting taxes X%, would have a Y% chance of increasing tax revenue Z% over W number of years. How do we know that? Or, more precisely, what is the probability ratio that we assign that node in the decision tree? Y, right. Now if Y is not 1, then we do not KNOW that the budget will be balanced at date W. My point is, when modeling economic feedback loops 'Y' is rarely 1.

So I think what they are saying is, given the serious nature of the current economic shortfalls, they will confine the discussion to only those cuts whose savings can be assigned a probability ratio of 1 in the decision tree. I think they would readily concede that this leads to 'non-creative' solutions. But the output of that decision tree is also guaranteed to work if implemented.
Come back when you have such a peer reviewed algorithm actually implemented in software. Until then you're just talking about a "sufficiently advanced compiler."
Depending on your workload, 1 node per 2 cores is a better rule of thumb. Also, split the networking across multiple NICs.
With any luck, mahmud will be here to talk about real-world CL web development. He's been using CL for web stuff in his startup for a couple years, I think.

Another approach for people who are just trying to get something done rather than write a framework to consider is to use CL to do the interesting bits and something else for the web frontend. I've built a couple webapps in CL that would simply have been easier in Rails.
It's not that we're cool with it, it's that they don't need it. They can stop if customers decide it's sufficiently important. If all Google had to target ads with was the search terms for an individual search, and they otherwise had no idea who you are or any history on you, they would still be making megabucks. Progressive and All State are still going to pay a ton of money to show ads to anyone who types "car insurance" into the search box.

They might make less money than if they can target more accurately, but not so much less that their business model isn't viable. Which means the issue isn't the business model, it's how to actually design systems that preserve privacy.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26738746 (108 points, 166 comments) and also links to the actual bulletin rather that the Twittersphere
Nice, but imho complexity is never ever a technical problem. Solving complexity is imho more effective than learning to deal with it. So learning system thinking will always help. Some reads https://www.bm-support.org/problem-solving-methods/ or try to use principles before building software. Like https://nocomplexity.com/documents/0complexity/abstract.html
From the article:

> Given the benefits of balance bikes, why did it take so long for them to replace training wheels?

Answer: because buying a dedicated bike just to train how to use a bike is not something you can do unless you're affluent. Adding or removing training wheels is cheap and means you can keep using the same bike.
There’s no dancing going on. He said he doesn’t know the exact numbers but is asking the engineers to dig it up for you. Please don’t be rude and please don’t put words in other people’s mouth.
If the font size is different, em width adapts to that, px width doesn't. Text occupies space in pixels, but not vice versa.
Yes, it is how american workplaces look. It's a bit dystopian in a sense.

Working in a faster-paced environment probably isn't the hellscape you're imagining: most foreigners I've worked with like it. Some don't. It is different, though - in England the slower pace of everything irritated me.
Cloud Run supports websockets now fyi. This is the approach, more or less, that I use for my personal projects. With CR and Firestore are literally free for my use cases. I only pay a few cents to host some static assets in GCS.
There is link-tracking on this article, and that's fine -- whatever. What blows my mind is how my browser (latest firefox) is seemingly enabling it. When you hover over the first link, it clearly shows in the bottom left corner that it will link to 'wikifeet.com', but if you actually click the link, my adblocker stops me from being redirected to 'redirectingat.com'.

Why does my browser lie to me like this?

edit: inspect element clearly shows

<a href="https://www.wikifeet.com/Laura_Bassett"> my wikiFeet page</a>

What's going on here? Is it replacing the links on mousedown?