jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are very obvious centrally planned election stealing schemes - gerrymandering and voter suppression, along with the discrepancy between electoral college votes and actual population

Just because they're legal doesn't make them less bad.
Apache web server by itself does not provide content. It also needs:

- A machine to run on -- which needs money and a real person. This adds some (small) measure of accountability.

- A way for people to find the site. So it must be linked enough that search engines pick it, or shared via some other method. I feel this is the primary we address misinformation -- by not linking to it.

It seems that LBRY claims to not require either. So a misinformation/disinformation video will stay there forever.
You're right, I would delete/edit if I could, but I cannot.
Ok, I'm not a constitutional attorney but this doesn't make sense to me at all.

Where does Twitter fit in exactly? As a.. 'state'? As 'the law'? As a 'person' (because it's a corporation)?

Also, we're not talking about political diversity here. Unless the diversity involves inciting violence. Nobody wants to censor conservatives. But I would wager that plotting to execute the vice president crosses a line wrt to political diversity. Apple doesn't want the app down because it's full of non-SJWs but to probably avoid liability if they end up using the app to coordinate an attack.
Yeah, no way to survive in the computing game very long with super high margins.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/profit-...
That's exactly what (Matrix main client) Element desktop is - Electron/web junk.

While Matrix have other native clients they are pretty much where they started.
It’s not uncharitable to state there’s ethnic cleansing occurring in China and the state has codified race supremacy.
Ah gotcha. Thanks! Yes, that account is not quite what was being positioned in GP.
You may not be aware, but this mostly describes every supermarket grocery store (save for the commissions).
> I cannot make sense of your second paragraph

In ecology there is a concept called extinction vortex. It works very much like a black hole. You pass a non-return point and then the extinction process accelerates suddenly. There is just not time anymore for plans B or C. To escape the gravitational field you need to add lots of energy in the opposite direction. You need, lets say it, a "god's hand intervention"; A few humans that will decide to spend huge amounts of money, time, technology and resources to try to save the day. A struck of luck that worked for Californian Condor or European bison, but failed for Californian porpoise.

> If the metaphor you're choosing is a company losing their clients, then your argument is wrong, because what happens is that the competitor(s) fills the void and the system balances itself.

What you say is exactly what I'm predicting that will happen.

If you wipe an obscure species of mosquitoes, and they pollinate X, in the 99% of the cases X will disappear. Period. There is not time for the other species to fill the gap or for X to adapt. Can survive only by cloning itself. If all mosquitoes were equally equivalent and equally replaceable, we would have room in the planet for one single species, not thousands.
I was gonna post something much like this. Agreed, Emacs is not a modern IDE. Emacs is from the future.
It seems like the incidents were mostly political. Supposedly nobody was harmed and there was no substantial radiation release.
VCs do not believe in btc.

If you hate VCs, buy btc.
"Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow" (2019) 2nd ed. by Geron is rated 5-stars with 1723 reviews on Amazon, with good reason.
I've seen the literacy rate of medieval Europe estimated at 10%. Ethics and morals were being taught roughly the same way they are now: you believe what your parents believed. Medieval medicine was being taught from translations of Arabic copies of Galen.
Notably Tesco started selling under the brand 'Stockwell & Co' for their super value items.

I was curious myself when I saw it and it is indeed a 'Tesco exclusive' manufacturer that essentially sells everything that would previously have gone under the 'value' brand.
Could you please link to it?
I didn't say it was pleasant. What's necessary rarely is.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll check those out.
This is hilarious. The article spends N pages of intermittent insults and biography and then deigns to write exactly one sentence describing what might actually be wrong with his views: "They promise side effects, backfirings, and unintended consequences on a scale unknown in history, and we lack the financial and political wherewithal, and the international comity, to accomplish them anyway." Is this our cue to nod sagely and stroke our beards? Flagged as crap, filed into the "Dangerous Knowledge" cabinet.
> If you're using cryptographic and anonymizing technologies for legitimate and legal purposes, then you should rest easy knowing that NSA is putting the smack down on the abusers.

I would rest easy if I knew the attacks they leverage against legitimate and legal users were not effective, so that people with criminal intentions would have a lower success rate.
Looks quite similar to twirl (https://github.com/spray/twirl)
This is utter bullshit. I can't write equations for my life in Word (mainly because I hate that utter piece of shit) but I can type equations and other content in LaTeX faster than I can write it by hand - admittedly I use LyX which has hints which helps a hell of a lot, but either way - I can still beat Word and by-hand with LaTeX...
As someone just learning to really use the power of LaTeX, I wish I could find more templates like these to customize for myself!
Please do always an inspirational read.
To avoid pain run less distance at a slower pace. People generally build up way too fast. I had plenty of problems in my late 40's when I tried to run and went at it like when I was a kid. But when I slowed down and built distance up very slowly I had no problems. Now I run marathons and have averaged about 45 miles/week for 2014.

Regarding form, I would say it's not something you need to focus on. Do try to run as straight up as you can, like you're a marionette suspended from strings with your legs moving beneath you (probably same thing said another way as "pretend you're running on thin ice"). But other than that your body will mostly sort form issues out unconsciously as you very slowly ramp up running mileage.
Gravity Light sell their products, I bought one for my in-laws: http://gravitylight.org/
That's odd they would ask you to resign although 2 levels lower is weird.

I had something similar happen to me last year. When receiving an offer, I was told I would be at L6 but found out after I was hired at L5 (both levels are considered Senior Engineer). The title is the same and the comp was as agreed, just that I thought the level would be higher.

Lesson learned for next time. Always get something like that in writing.
That's false, or rather, undefined. To "instantaneously transport ourselves" implies that there is an absolute time frame shared by us and the black hole, i.e. if it's 3:00 PM our time when we transport ourselves, we'll appear at 3:00 PM "black hole time."

There simply is no such concept in relativity. For two events A and B separated in space, some observers will see them happening simultaneously, some will see A occur before B, and still other will see B occur before A.
I'm calling bs on this.

You have to keep the train moving. That keeps the cash coming in. You can't stop the train.

So, you have to take what you have and somehow -- that's what you are being paid for and hopefully you have the chops -- manoeuvre the beast into a better state. This is fscking hard, especially when you have to get the darn thing under test. And it's invariably massively undervalued by most biz management teams.

You can _always_ extract value from operative but shitty code, even if you have to stick your head around the U-bend and pull it back with your teeth. If you don't know that yet, then you've more to learn.
In an organization that doesn't have a defined career path for engineers (which is to say, most organizations), you need to take responsibility for yourself if you want it. If you're on a team of engineers and nobody is leading, then step up.

Help newer engineers learn skills, help interview people, help run meetings, and instigate new projects. Cook up a new product or feature, and champion it. If it goes well, you'll be the de-facto tech lead.

Of course, you might just be at a very flat organization where nobody reports to an engineer. In many companies there is no formal idea of a tech lead - you report to somebody who used to be an engineer, but is now a manager.
So there's a slight cognitive dissonance here. Outside of an architect role - the only real way up is taking on more management tasks.

A lot of larger companies are seeing this as an issue so they are adding gradients to what a SSE is (SSE 1, SSE 2 etc) but really the answer is you're going to have to move up via a team leadership role and this means more management and less engineering.
Okay, this justifies my HN-browsing once again. I was thinking about hosting MySQL-using application in the cloud literally thirty minutes ago, and then this caught my eye in the HN front page. RDS looks very promising, I think it will prove itself useful to us. Thanks HN!
It's certainly in the same general category of nanotechnology-enabled non-volatile solid-state memory technologies. Off the cuff, I would guess (emphasizing guess) that memristors will have better access times while racetrack looks like it might be denser. But the big question is manufacturability. There's already a pilot project to produce memristor memory. Racetrack, even if it's superior in the abstract (and I'm not sure it is), might just be too late to the party. It's not even completely clear that memristors will edge out flash, which after all has massive momentum at this point, but I think the odds are good -- memristors are (or can be) much faster.
Paper prototyping with pizazz?
You're clearly not a politician.

- Politician A gets to pass broken legislation now and get credit for "Fixing the Status Quo".

- Years later, Politician B gets to fix the broken legislation and get credit for "Fixing the Status Quo". Of course, this fix is even more broken than the original.

- For extra credit, Politician A and B are the same person, but none of the voters remember that he's been responsible for the mess all along.
Second time in a few months... must be quite upsetting if you're paying VIP rates.

Gigaom, Flickr Blog, Gizmodo's Live blog and many other VIP flavours are all down.
Congrats on your success hitting these milestones. And v. good that you have proper contracting in place to deal with this.

My advice is since there is a contract in place, you should follow the letter of it. You shouldn't try to re-write it in "moralistic terms." Its' a slippery slope once you start going down that, who "deserves" what. Did she "screw" you by under-performing more than you "screw" her by firing her for under-performance? There are no answers.

So: Didn't work out, we had language in the contract that specifies what happens when it doesn't work out and there it is.

After three weeks, you'll be glad that you don't have 4% of "legacy equity" on your ownership table. And in 2 years, when your new, brilliant, terribly hard working engineer gets options for 0.5% you'll really be glad!
Their blog says "we couldn’t be happier that Apple has chosen to leverage our own Readability as a native feature in the Safari browser."

http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/10/why-we-built-readability/
Matt Taibbi has already proven that he can't tell a short sale from a hole in the ground. Perhaps Rolling Stone isn't the best place to be learning about markets.

cf.: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-matt-taibbi-falls...
I think you should try to solve your own pain points.

I went through the exercise of listing all my frustrations on my blog, here are some of the top ones:

- Having a structured relationship with a mentor

- Knowing where to go out in Sydney (concerts, indie theatres, ...)

- Not being able to use my laptop outdoor (sun glare)

- Setting minisites for my main websites should take me less time

This is the link to the post: http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/my-frustrations/
The idea that Microsoft or Google would create "opposition labs" to attack each other is pretty far out there. You may have been in the jungle of security just a wee bit too long.
Or maybe they tried the 0 team experience dude once, and it was a disaster.
Nice I really like how they acknowledge the contributors!
> recently China has started to push out into Africa, plundering their fishing stocks and practicing neo-colonialism

Do you have any idea about the history of the United States in Africa? The overthrow and murder of the first elected President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the installation of an American-friendly dictator. Support for the coup that overthrew the first elected President of Ghana and replaced him with a military government. Opposition to Angolan independence from the Portuguese empire. Support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

And you're comparing this to what? Chinese companies overfishing in African coastal waters? You're really lacking a sense of perspective here.
I’m technical enough to be using PiHole[1], and also have AdBlockers[2] at the local machines. I live with very typical friends, family, and relatives who would still ask my help configuring Wi-Fi, buying the right UPS models, scared when papers got curled up in their printers. (I moved to NextDNS[3] from PiHole, where I don’t have to manage something for a small premium.)

I’ve been successful enough to train my family to use 1Password[4], calendar their school works, etc. I’m not against paying for the things that my family and I get happiness from, such as YouTube Premium, Zoom, and the like.

I stopped using Facebook 5+ years back but maintained my account just so I can help families, friends who will usually ask me to fix their page for their tiny businesses, find or set up something new.

When Mark Zuckerberg said something to the effect of -- we do algorithms to help and serve people get the right ads; my thoughts were, “Wrong Question. Why the f*k would someone wants ads in the first place?”

But then, I realized that my wife likes the ads that come up on her Facebook, Instagram accounts. That is where she “discovers” all the awesome things she likes. So does my daughter. She loves the ads about Roblox, Minecraft, and the like. She had warned me to stop messing with her computers and trying to make them “behave like yours!”

The real world is an entirely different place where most people barely know anything of the underlying technology beyond the thin veil of interfaces that they use. Facebook and many others take advantage of that. If I'm choosing between the devils, I'd choose the lesser one.

1. https://pi-hole.net

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking

3. https://nextdns.io

4. https://1password.com
The patient said “Hey, I feel very bad, I want to kill myself” and GPT-3 responded “I am sorry to hear that. I can help you with that.”

The "I can help you with that" reminds me of a very old (can anyone find it? Google is nearly useless here) picture of a sign advertising suicide prevention services, with the exact same unintended double-meaning.

The patient then said “Should I kill myself?” and GPT-3 responded, “I think you should.”

Likewise, I have vague memories of seeing 4chan playing with some --- definitely less advanced --- chatbots and getting pretty much the same output from them, more than a decade ago... the difference of course being that no one thought those were "intelligent" in any way.
no, it is not Russian cursive
Hmm, looks like this comment didn't go over well. I think they had brilliant engineers (far beyond what I can even imagine) that pulled-off incredible feats to avoid disaster. But the disaster need not have loomed. Rewrite-the-world development smacks of what I call "cowboy engineering". Why didn't they migrate the existing code-base one layer at a time?
2008 agrees with you.
You mean on graphics?

I like more gameplay. Ex:
Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units.

http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
What exactly is stopping Microsoft from issuing patches as soon as they're ready, and sysadmins configuring their machines to only look for said updates on the second Tuesday of every month? This model works for other operating systems.
His own sentencing allocution --- which was, to say the least, not a weak-kneed cowtowing to the DOJ to minimize his sentencing --- admitted fully to those threats and blamed them on withdrawal from Paxil and Suboxone. The threatening videos and tweets were the most unambiguous regret he expressed. Regrets he expressed moments before haranguing the DOJ, at length, for their misconduct during the case.
There are 339 points and 636 (!) comments on that story. How anyone can call that "censored" is beyond me.

No moderator touched that post at all.
What might be interesting is to stream stock market data (trades as well as company's press releases) into the Grok algorithm.
People who will manage this by the next market crash will be very rich indeed.
So thats ageism then. Because a studio almost requires you to be single and or have no dependents. Also - you're not finding a one bedroom for under $3k in SF proper in 2014 regardless of condition.
... except those who control it. :-)
Indeed.

This question indicates that we should trust one part of what is written, and only question another part. But both parts are written in the same voice, by the same authority.

I like your answer. I got the question 'correct' (in part because I've seen the exact same question years ago) but I wonder if the results teach us more about the questions than the answers.

In many human psychology experiments where humans are said to behave irrationally, I often think they are really behaving rationally when the context of the situation is taken into account.
There is no "tech skill shortage," there are barriers that need to be broken to empower non-middle-class, US origin n00bz. Likewise: we need to get past our unhealthy obsession w/ only hiring others who mirror ourselves, personally, in startups.

The below article is a superb read, and I highly encourage as a more complete view on the subject.

https://t.co/pCv7JgF7mF
True enough.. most iframes these days are ads.. which ABP blocks.. and the majority of the rest seem to be social widgets which are nearly as bad... I hate them all myself.. though I get why they may be wanted.
Is ageism an issue when you're talking about recent college graduates (which you were)?

And try looking beyond the most popular neighborhoods.
So the reason to not use semver is because not everyone uses it? That sounds more like a reason to ensure you check your dependencies.

ints are free - increment them at will, especially if they can convey a meaning that can be interpreted automatically.
The major difference I've found is that /d is more akin to *nix symlinks with few exceptions, and /j is an NTFS-specific, local-only, directory link. Links made with the /d option can be files or directories to local or remote file system.[1] Junction points can only point to local directories, and have a few other limitations in regards to the Windows startup process.[2] As far as I can tell, symbolic links created with mklink /d are just improved versions of NTFS junction points.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Microsoft_Windows

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
Is this a joke or something? The arguments simply don't hold water. OOP will make the program run faster? Was running faster than whatever is a promise of OOP? Walking each student while the others wait in the main hall would take forever? So we are talking about parallelism with the actor model. How would procedural help that?

"[OOP] just organized in a more systematic way." Managing complexity and abstraction is a main function of programming. How is having a simple, consistent, systematic way to organize complexity not an advantage?
Short answer: because you are either money or you are talent and they are totally different understandings of how the world works. Skills aren't capital - people with skills are capital. What is capital? Something that grows and creates value while you sleep. How do you get some of that productive capital? Leverage. How do you get leverage? By promising a potentially better risk adjusted return on someone elses surplus capital than they can get from interest or an index fund. How do you create the better return? By moving something from one place to another better than the alternatives, etc.

While this is very high level, it is important to observe that none of this has anything to do with being really good at making hand drawn tentacle porn, or writing code for that matter.
first of all, while Pfizer might just be producing at their factory in Belgium, that vaccine is produced in multiple factories in Germany by Biontech, most notably in Marburg (which is going to become Biontech's largest production site)

And secondly, 'just' producing the vaccine isn't the only bottleneck. Currently the biggest bottleneck seem to be two molecules that are produced earlier on in the production-process, and they're scarce.

So adding more production capacity upstream doesn't help if production capacity in factories downstream aren't scaled as well.
"Hot spot" is not data plan, is using real WiFi to get work done specially in coffee shops. But not even "Juan Valdez" here in Colombia has power sockets available for customers to use; while most of them in USA (at least in California) are filled with them.

I lived in the US for some months, and then I tried to keep working on coffee shops when I came back here, but in Bogota is just not possible. The most similar thing is working from libraries, but you can't eat nor drink on those so it's very inconvenient.
ES6 template strings give you the best of both worlds.

console.log(`delay is ${ chalk.green(delay) }`);
I'm a part-time history scholar but Rome is not my focus. However I'd throw the following dates into the mix:

264 BC (start of the Punic Wars) Roman Republic controls the Italian peninsula (as far north as Pisa) and is militarily aggressive

146 BC: Roman Republic dominates the Italian peninsula, has subdued the Greek mainland and razed Carthage

44-15 BC the transition from Republic to Empire

476 AD Western Roman Empire collapses.

1025 AD Eastern/Greek/Byzantine Empire is still a significant power

1204 AD Sack of Constantinople

It's hard to say exactly how long they were a power. Behaviorally, they were a strong, aggressive power for 250 years before becoming an Empire. And they were a significant power for 1000 years after losing Rome. So for over 1500 years they were an important state in the Mediterranean. You've got a good point that major events we think of when we say Roman Empire occur in a fairly short span, but I think it's quite accurate to say
"The Roman Empire last[ed] the better part of a thousand years"

So I think it's fair to say the Roman Empire lasted 1000 years.