jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So all the explicit rules and regulations about disclosure, etc that participants in the stock market must adhere to are not actually binding? Everything is just a big crapshoot?

Yup. Because although the disclosures are correct, nobody reads them. They invest with their gut or their own metrics.

(Someone who posts to HN regularly likes to claim that certain shapes in the EURJPY graph mean the whole world economy is going to collapse, for example.)
I don't see any reason to be upset that a civilized society spends a large portion of its output on living longer. It seems to make sense that as the material goods and experiences we want become less expensive that we should start spending more of our money on increasing the time and comfort in which we can enjoy them.

With respect to people living bad lifestyles, you have three unappetizing options.

- Let them die.

- Force them to stop living bad lifestyles.

- Pay the price yourself for the bad lifestyles that others lead.

There isn't really a fourth way. Unless you believe that most people's bad lifestyle choices can be fixed through education or non-forceful conditioning. Which, if you do, I have a bridge to sell you.
I think one of the significant reasons in emancipation. Due to the strong coupling between man and woman this affects both genders. Young females today (20-30) are fairly confused about what they want to do in life, and when to do it. Get married? Have children? Cook? Be pretty? Screw around? Do a Phd? Go to work? Have a career? This also confuses guys: what can you expect from your girlfriend, and when? And what do women expect from us?
How about an added value in a well educated person. Like he or she feels better about themselves, is more likely to contribute to society with things as art (or open source software) as well as more likely to succeed starting a new business and bring in even more of that MONEY.
Despite its lack of graphical flair, I enjoyed Fallout 1 and 2 more than any other RPG to date, besides Planescape: Torment, and Baldurs Gate to a lesser extent. It seems that a lot of the drive to create really compelling and believable worlds and stories has been redirected to help sustain the huge amount of effort required to keep up in the graphical arms race. It's unfortunate, because I've found no correlation between graphical quality and fun in the RPG genre.
You mean Dr Dobb's Journal, not Byte.
No doubt this post is good for some one who is beginning to build a website. But this post expects people to do their pages in html. github supports simple markdown pages to be hosted as html.

markdown is clear and easy to write posts. If this post extends to teach hosting markdown pages, one can use the website built using this tool to make his own blog. This might help people more than teaching just to create a website.!
Bern Switzerland has one of these in a sporting good store.
No. If all were equal the top 0.1% would be doing exactly as well as everyone else.
From my (a very layman) understanding, the price of the security is stochastic can be assumed only during a very short period, which does not include major moves. If this is correct, does it mean all these models are useful only for market makers earning money from the spread, or they can be useful for retail traders?
When you put your money in a bank, it doesn’t just sit there. Deposits, while possibly not the most efficient way to do it, support useful economic activity.

Proof of work is also terrible, obviously. Proof of stake seems like an awful thing to _aspire_ to, tho.
I don’t see why you would ever do that. It’s not like the horrible antiquated tools work any better than the modern ones.
But they haven't broken it. And I assume, not by failing to try.
Newspapers routinely skip mentioning e.g. 5,000 young adult males massacred by Boko Haram but ring alarm bells when 100 young women are kidnapped. I guess it sells better?
> Competitive gaming is a particularly good example of this

>> it's more promising if you're creating something, rather than just consuming something someone else creates

Gaming consumes the creative efforts of others. It's fun, invigorating and a healthy pass-time. But it's not good ground for growing genius.
Very cool. I wasn't expecting much, but wasn't disappointed.
I literally spent the past week reading a couple dozen papers on cryptocurrency attacks, in service of a term paper which should hopefully turn into a master's thesis (and possibly more during my PhD campaign). I'm pretty damn pessimistic as a result. Smart contracts basically throw all of your consensus guarantees out the window because they can cause arbitrary exchanges of value in the application layer, which can be used to incentivize miners into all sorts of shenanigans.

All of this research is producing a fascinating array of solutions in search of problems. Fun stuff to think about, but I suspect that the added complexity will only create a system that is just as prone to fraud and abuse as the existing centralized order.
False dichotomy. Other options might be paid search. Personal search engines. Peer to peer search. Or new business models. Yes, it's possible to imagine a world without Google et al screwing everyone out of their privacy.
Learn from W3Schools tutorials

HTML
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

PHP+MySQL
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp
I've been using Jitsi Meet a lot as well.

It has terrible Firefox support but works decent if all participants are using Chromium / Chrome[0]. Asking other people to install Chromium makes me feel dirty but I don't know any other login-free cross-platform open source easy-to-use video conferencing apps than Jitsi Meet.

[0]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4
Seems like the main takeaways from this are that concurrency on BEAM is amazing and the JVM can't match that. So it feels like it boils down to whether you like Ruby syntax versus Lisp syntax. For me that is a no brainer, I love Ruby but always worried about the limitations of the runtime. Is there anything else I'm missing? BEAM plus Ruby seems like an absolute winner here.
Inciting a panic, perhaps.
Eating rice and beans is absolutely no way to live, that's for the zombie apocalypse, not a pandemic lockdown.
The nominal rating is stricter, but is the certification process that the claims of the nominal rating are actually met as strict?

There's what it says it does, and the probability that it actually does what it says it does. Those are two different considerations.
From another reply of mine in this thread:

> AIDS is not a pandemic. Pandemic requires epidemic, which requires rapid spread in a short period of time. AIDS has been slow. Calling it a pandemic is, IMO, motivated by politics (it mostly affects male homosexuals and sub-Saharan Africans). Ctrl-F for my discussion elsewhere in this thread.
I mean, if you're infected and cough its a physical barrier of sorts... it will reduce the amount of droplets in the air and def reduce sputum expelling.

If you're not infected it'll help stop you touching your mouth and nose at the very least.

These are not air filtration protections as such but they're def better than "no protection" and in their own way will help reduce the curve...
Aircraft are only 2% of global CO2 emissions. Generating enough biofuel for just them should be within the realm of possibility.

Even without nuclear, container ships don't have major weight restrictions (they already weigh a hundred thousand tons), so you can fuel them with anything that will catch on fire. Make carbon expensive and they'll just buy whatever is the next cheapest -- sawmill residue, seaweed, whatever. A lot of the difficulty with "biofuels" is the process of making them into oils that can directly replace petroleum in road vehicles, but large ships don't need that. A large furnace like that can burn unprocessed solid biomass.
Some will have mild cases and be able to continue caring (with less need for PPE, even). Others will recover. Not everyone gets hit at once.

My dad’s a doc (not in NY) and got sent home so he can be second wave.
That is the approach the firm I interview with on Sunday is using..seems to make sense in that he is covering a large set of use cases from the end customer/client perspective.
Does the program learns how bad my time estimates are? That would be the something interesting for me.

If I already knew how long it takes me to do each thing, I probably wouldn't need the app.
I don't understand the negative and suspicious comments. How is this different from HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz in Android phones?
It absolutely is from both the operational side and the political side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180#2014_availability_concer...
Those are 2011 and 2012 events - all of the big IRL "teen" subs (which are mostly moderated by the reddit super mods[0] which are rumored to now be paid mods) screen posters for identity and age verification. The only problem they still have is fictional characters that appear under 18 - which is not universally illegal in the U.S.[1] so reddit admins have been mostly complacent on deciding if they're OK with them on the site.

0: https://redd.it/8g5ngn (not nsfw)

1: https://redd.it/b5b9lz (nsfw descriptions/vulgar)
Very cool, but how exactly does that look less “hideous” than an LG UltraFine 5K?

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMUB2LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k...
The most recent update---a pretty big one---has improved the daunting experience a lot.

A big factor of it being daunting, was that the settings were a mess. There are settings for appearances of the DE littered in different sections of system settings. This has been vastly improved.

The default Breeze theme felt dated before (not in a good way); the new update had also improved on that.

I'd say, that the default of the latest Plasma (5.21) is quite sane, to the point that I just chose Breeze Twilight (an included theme) without customization and had been happy since.
Yes, absolutely. Of kids’ sports parents, about 98% are there to enjoy time with their kid and hope they pick up some teamwork skills. The rest are convinced that their kid is the best in the state and destined for pro sports, and will do anything they can to make that happen (even if said kid doesn’t really want it).

The percentage of jerks is small, but given the number of children on organized teams it can add up.
Porn is harmful to human brain, more so for teenagers and even youbg adults. Don't dismiss it as a harmless product.
I volunteer at a community organization that uses a laptop to help livestream some events, and other times it uses the laptop to drive a projector during an event. The laptop is rarely used outside of these events, as it isn't anyone's workhorse machine for anything. In particular it's a good rule of thumb that if someone is booting the laptop up, they have a fairly immediate goal (e.g. they've come straight from work and have 30-60 minutes to set up A/V equipment before a public evening event).

We had to buy a windows laptop, both because of cost and because of strong "I'm a PC person" preference of a few board members. Sometimes we use it 1-2x per week, but sometimes a few weeks go by and we don't use it for anything, so I've absolutely hit this case where the last time I had the machine open, it wasn't concerned with updating itself, but it now, after being off for weeks, feels that I am delinquent in updating.

I curse that machine every single time it hijacks my setup time to install updates. I feel so frustrated, and so powerless. I would so dearly love an option that says "I will stay late after this event. I promise, you can install this update in 3-4 hours, just as soon as all the time critical live stuff is done."

Anyway it's the curse of success, right? I guarantee I'm not the only one with this kind of story, but I guarantee that all of us together are a tiny fraction of a percent of all Windows users.

Still in all, I'd gladly have paid the cost difference for a macbook air that I could trust not to start updating itself shortly before it's going to be relied on for a public event. But I guess the worst case now would be a mac running Big Sur but set to auto-update, cause then you really _could_ be out of operation for 30+ minutes.

(and obligatory - gosh, it has to have been a year since I dealt with this. Everything fades with time but I can still feel that helpless panic.)
That's because local governments give monopoly status to cable companies, i.e. there is no competition due to government interference in the market.

I'm against net neutrality because I fear government interference in the network more than corporate - wherever the government goes it is eventually captured by vested interests and will do great harm.
Too bad, hope Adobe dies forever soon. All of their stuff has become bloated and horrible (Flash the worst among them), and unless there is a serious internal restructuring, I have little hope that decency will return.
Replace the numbers with URIs, i.e., each box has a unique URI and it links to only a single URI (think of a page on the Web or a person in a social graph). Starting at a certain page, what is the probability of visiting it again? What happens when each page has n links (boxes have n numbers in them)? Interesting.
Alternatively, make a simple web app that subscribe for $5 a month, 400 subscribers will get you the same $2k. People are more willingly to spare a $5 change.
It'd feel more open if they actively designed the OS to make it hard to lock down, thus requiring rooting.
And with that kind of money, they can finally afford to implement secure software development, code review, fuzzing, & vulnerability testing.

We'll all be better off when they do.
Looks like every document that needs to be converted has to stored with Google Docs ... could not find anything related to rate limits ... one mischievous way to use this could be to upload a doc to Google Docs, export it in the format I like, delete the original doc, repeat with next doc. Think they'll ban me for abuse soon though (considering the volume I'm expecting to churn).
Alarmist.

EA is running a massive sale- 99 cents instead of the usually $6.99. Because of that, they got a huge, massive boost in sales.

When they increase prices, download amount will go back down.

The Paid charts are based on downloads, not revenue- seems to me they're increasing their iOS install base ahead of putting out new versions of their games, so they can cross-promote against those new paid apps.

EA is usually dominant on the App Store, but not this dominant. The big story is how many independent developers are normally in the Top 10. Ever see a 50/50 studio/independent split on Xbox or Nintendo DS? iOS is still the best deal going for independent game developers.
Doesn't the second paragraph under examples more or less describe the motivation behind NoSQL?

In the database world, developers are sometimes tempted to bypass the RDBMS, for example by storing everything in one big table with two columns labelled key and value

If so, maybe this is not always an anti-pattern.
Those caring about performance are already using Python, in combination with extension modules written in C/Cython. You would have to complete your argument by explaining why they would rather switch to a completely new language without a huge (scientific) ecosystem of libraries, instead of writing more extension modules in the places where it really matters.

The appeal of a scripting language is that "automatation and little applications" do not take a lot of friction to write, I'd say OCaml is less suited in this regard.
Even the boss is your friend, don't tell. The middle ground is 2 weeks notice. If the company wants to lay off, their middle ground is just 30 minutes notice with the security escorting you out.
Yeah, WP7 and Kinect are the same old tired crap, and they're definitely not doing anything interesting with Bing...?
I've been an engineering manager for a couple of years. I'm still expected to do 50% engineering and 50% people management. As the article describes, it is a struggle to do both well. I don't see this responsibility split changing in my current role. I do often wonder what it would be like to be 100% people focused, and whether or not I would miss engineering too much.

When my role first changed, I was very intimidated by doing one-on-ones. I never felt satisfied with the one-on-ones/catch-ups I had with the managers throughout my career, and I wanted to make sure I was doing a good job with that aspect of my role.

I initially did lots of research on how to do one-on-ones, but it was only after getting experience talking to people that I finally felt comfortable. I started getting some nice feedback from my lines, so I wrote some thoughts about how I like to do one-on-ones:

https://www.markbrady.net/blog/how-to-do-one-on-ones-as-a-ma...

I think good one-on-ones are very important to keep people happy and productive. I'd recommend any new engineering managers to spend time learning how to do them.
It depends on what kind of privilege we are talking about. Lumping privileges together is just as blurring as lumping experiences together based on external appearance.

One example I can think of where your two disparate examples may experience the same privilege in many parts of the USA is in a pulled over by police but prior to a driver’s license being shown scenario.
Just watched that video. Thanks! Excellent resource. Moving on to your other links.
> Perhaps the issue is not the writing of the YAML, but the need to have a good understanding of all the resources/primatives in order to get things glued together.

This and the fear of making a mistake with the most important configuration file of the application.

OP this is a clear opporutinty for Stacktape.
How about preserving milk with formaldehyde?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poison-squ... https://allthatsinteresting.com/poison-squad-harvey-wiley

One of the tricks here is that "known" poisons are the same as "agreed-upon" poisons -- or that the definition of "poison" isn't as clear as you might assume.

If one compares the US/Canada and EU restrictions of additives with the assumption that the latter are founded, you'd come to the conclusion that the only thing North America must have more of than cynical brutality is cancer. However, while I'm not going to say they're right, there are typically plenty of folks in HN comment sections happy to say that many of the EU's food restrictions are ascientific pandering.

Everyone has some intuitive threshold about what they'd consider reasonable and what they wouldn't, but they don't always align. Acrylamide from roasting coffee? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-judge-rules-... Nitrates and nitrites are indisputably poisonous as hell, so are cured meats out of bounds? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34615621
Canada will always be vulnerable to cyber crime because the highest paid government technical staff are offered 5 figure salaries.
I hope it does collapse, and when it's $50 I'm going to buy a whole bunch--because it's a limited comodity, and this might slow down desire to grow bitcoin mining farms--and w/ less supply, demand goes up, and w/ more demand, price will inevitably rise again - especially w/ so many businesses now using it. -- This is obviously a rehash of garbage content from other fear-mongering reporters who obviously don't know shit about Bitcoin and currency in general --other than the article/articles that they are rephrasing in their own words to look sophisticated.

Even at $50 a coin--it would still NOT be considered a collapse--as long as anyone holds it or trades it, or any business accepts it--which thousands have based their WHOLE business on bitcoin, so yeah--not going anywhere...

Values will drop, but that's happed all the time, it's a very volatile currency--but that's also why there's so much profit potential--wait for $100, but up 10 bitcoins @ 1000, then watch it shoot to $2000/coin and rake in the profits...

Banks have failed before but that DOES not mean they took the USD, or GBP w/ it! Cause people STILL use it!
Jason brings up a very good point. Especially the first part (where people tend to dislike tough criticisms) resonated very well with me because - my startup, StartUpLift.com - specializes in providing crowdsourced feedback to startups. One of the features that we offer to startups is that they can reject any feedback / feedback provider at no cost to them. It's interesting to note that more than 65% of the rejection happens when when they get some sort of negative feedback, which in fact is a disguised constructive criticism.
News coverage on today's ruling: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/texas-court-expands-cell-...

EFF story on the case from a year ago when the case was going to trial: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/eff-texas-high-court-c...

The EFF post gives some background on the case in question.
I'll be honest, I didn't read to the end of the second of the 2 articles, as the first persuaded me it is a bad solution: you are passing ownership of your user accounts to another firm. This means you are relying on them for your most trusted data, not to mention you have to leave the data centre to log somebody in.

Although I don't work in Flask daily, guess I'm stuck with Flask-Login for weekend projects.
Very nice read, I can relate to everything you write.
"People like to have a single place to go."

I'm pretty sure some do, and I'm pretty sure some don't. Heck, some people would prefer it for some time, and then not for some more. I certainly know that describes me pretty well.

My idea is not hoteling-only; it's the option you can choose and request, like any other you prefer; in case of any conflicts it would be up to the leads/managers to make the decision.

"If you only provide hoteling, I think the majority of people will just claim a desk as theirs, and you effectively have no hoteling at all."

The operating words being "I think". I think otherwise, and there is only one way to find out.
I agree. I suggest the Head First series by O'Reilly. They are much more beginner-friendly and the teaching method is based on research and not some crufty old belief that learning should be "hard."
Is the M1 that revolutionary? It seems more like the culmination of technology that has been around for years. Rosetta 2 is the most impressive part, and even that is kinda the most obvious method of x86 emulation that doesnt suck
For me it followed (other than the pattern matching of the sea monster) directly from my backtracking solution to part 1 (versus his solution). One of the cases where doing the first thing that came to mind ("Well, gotta see where all the tiles go to see which are the corners") was the right thing, poor reading comprehension for the win! I specifically missed this line in the problem description which led to his (and many other people's) solutions:

> but the outermost edges won't line up with any other tiles.
Honestly that's very nice money and more than I make full time. I'd happy take a role like that and work (10 hours per week?). Even if I wasn't that keen on the role (that's 30 hours per week to do what I want!)
I don't think that holds for left identity:

pure a >>= f ≡ f a
> Mask use is nowhere near what it should have been

All available evidence shows that you’re wrong.

Self-reported mask usage rates are over 90%, nationwide. Moreover, many of the places with the highest compliance rates (e.g. Los Angeles) have the fastest-growing case counts:

https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/?date=20201018&signalType=v...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6943e4.htm
That's a meaningless statement. They do die of it, at alarming rates. That's the whole point. Dismissing it with fatalism is fine for you, go ahead and contract it and take the risk. Just quit with the dismissive "everyone has to go sometime" irresponsible nonsense.
If the ghost of Hitler tells you not to hit your sister and take her toys, it's still good advice.
http://mbostock.github.io/d3/tutorial/circle.html

The above is an excellent example of both what d3 is AND how it works.