jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My guesses:

Voting was used to set a comment to the "correct" level. Now no one can see where they're at, so good comments probably get more than they used to (depth).

Overall people don't think about points as much, so overall commenting is down (breadth).
Definitely funny, but Steve Jobs ≠ Apple, even though Wall St hasn't realized it yet.
When does it stop being"protests" in the reporting?
How much variable in rewards and comp are based on the peer reviews?

Another challenge with large firms is the overall lack of variance.
Without hyperbole, this is textbook fascism.
More of a dress rehearsal.
Yes. Armed protestors storming the capitol and taking over the legislative chambers at the request of the defeated president is 100% a literal coup.
They say that they believe an election was stolen (without evidence), and that they want the democratic election to be overturned (according to their signs).
Not quite vertical integration, but TSMC's 5nm fabs are Apple's fabs. (exclusively for a period of time)

During the iPod era, Toshiba's 1.8in HD production was exclusively Apple's only for music players, but Apple gets all the 5nm output from TSMC for a period of time.
Is there ANY credible evidence of fraud, anywhere? Or are people protesting solely because they trust Trump?
> But her scene and the train wrecking was seen as “cool” by kids

Not very broadly, even among “the kids” (who, then and now, are far from monolithic.) She was more seen as a trainwreck that was in cool circles, not as a cool trainwreck.

> Kids look up to Elon Musk

Yeah, kids looked up to successful business and tech figures in the 1990s, and there are trainwreck entertainment industry celebs today, too.

It's not the case that Musk is idolized by a similar segment of the youth as would have idolized Love in the 1990s.
"Out of genuine curiosity, what were expecting to get out of it before you started reading it? "

I wasn't expecting anything but a good read.Which is exactly what I didn't get.

The writing style is (imo) very turgid on the other end of the spectrum from (say) pg's crisp and incisive style. Feynman is another example of a writer who exposes his interest in a wide variety of stuff(Brazilian drumming for eg) but he isn't yawn inducing. I hate writing that tests readers' patience by prolonged aimless meandering. Fwiw I didn't like _why's book on Ruby either.So there does seem to be a pattern there somewhere ;-)

I have no problems if other people like such books. Different folks different strokes and all that. I was just expressing my opinion.

"Also, if you found the proof of Gödel's incompleteness and RNA transcription "ultra basic concepts" my hat is off to you."

I am sorry but these were basic to me or I could find crisper explanations elsewhere. It has been a while since I read the book (I read this when I was 19 or so iirc) but I would guess that a few hundred pages could be lopped off with "computer programs, music and some kinds of drawing exhibit recursive structure" and giving a few examples each.

I don't remember the RNA transcription bit, but I would be very surprised if it didn't meander all over the place without saying anything much for a few dozen pages or so.

There is plenty of popular science and non fiction written crisply, interestingly and in an uncondescending fashion which explores ideas without boring the reader silly.That said I completely acknowledge this is a matter of taste and that one man's food is another's poison.

The question to which that post was a reply did ask for opinions of HNers on the book. And my opinion is that GEB is overhyped and overblown and I said as much. YMMV.And that is as it should be.
I often wonder where these veracious vegans are. I've yet to meet a vegan who has been evangelical, yet have met many omnivores who speak poorly of vegans. Is this a region specific problem?
Why talk in such absolute terms? YC is in it for option of early exists into Facebook (Zuckerberg is frank about his support for acquisition-as-a-hiring-bonus). Facebook sees it as a way of hiring the top talent coming out of universities. Facebook also does stupid things sometimes, like violating obvious privacy expectations set by a recent launch. Not the end of the world (people can tell each other about lamebook in other ways), but clearly a mistake. Your phrasing forces them to acknowledge weakness with the mistake. Skip the ego.
Congrats to them. The FAA seems to be doing a good job not getting in the way of space travel.
This let me get rid of that dangling 256MB that had been lingering since I opened the account and got the first free 256MB. That has been bothering my OCD. Now I have an even 12GB.
> Take the whole "meat is murder" slogan.

There are, you'll be pleased to hear, many vegans with stronger ethical arguments than "meat is murder". Such as, in summary:

* unnecessary extreme suffering is unjustifiable.

* some non-human animals (notably the ones we eat most of) are as capable of suffering at the physical level as humans are. We shouldn't discount their suffering just because they aren't members of homo sapiens.

* factory farms raise most animals in conditions of unnecessary extreme suffering.

* therefore, it is ethically wrong to eat those animal products.

(This is actually an argument for eating humanely-raised meat instead of veganism, but finding verifiably humanely-raised meat is difficult enough that I'm not sufficiently interested to bother, and there are practical advantages in eating a predictable diet. So I just eat vegan.)

By the way, I hate the federally subsidized crop situation too. I wish I could do something substantial about it. It's disingenuous for you to say that vegans are uninformed about health issues or industrial practice or the farm lobby just because they don't "focus" on it; that doesn't match my experience of other vegans at all, and it's obviously untrue that someone can only pay attention to one issue.
Can you explain how? I am a newbie to web development. I have been making sites locally on my machine and using heroku to deploy online. I am thinking of getting VPS hosting.
Can you elaborate on the "wokeness" part of the Google AI team?

It is believed that having a set of strong ethical guidelines and representation can often lead to a high functioning research team, compared to a traditional monoculture team of researchers and developers.

Happy to be proved wrong though.
There's no defence for billionaires existing. 100% income tax for anything over a billion, say I.
You don't get it. All the knowledge in the world already exists. There is no lack of new knowledge for the problems of today. Existing populations are lacking old knowledge.
"find all sorts of minutia & excuses"

Usually those are in there to be found and used. Your energy would be better spent being upset with the politicians for putting it in there than the lawyers for finding it.
Exactly. You could have a million line pom.xml and you'd still most likely just need `mvn clean package` to get a usable JAR. XML is a nasty format but it just works...
Yes, everyone speaking the same language used to watch the same unique channel.
You're right, it includes exchange addresses. Although my stance is, other people's address == other people's BTC. They might temporarily be a custodian for you but sooner or later something bad will happen.
> In the first case you're depriving yourself of the opportunity to be helped by your team.

I find that some people in the team want to help too much, wasting (a lot) of time on things that would've been solved in the same time by the one original person instead of by a bunch of persons while wasting multiple person's time. When someone is really stuck, then sure, but more often (in my experience) it's just the kind of stuck which is there because it just takes time to work through a particular problem and trying out solutions. I find that people often 'want to help' to show they need to be promoted / get more money because 'they are so good' and 'are such a great team player' (aka signalling instead of actually contributing to the bottom line; doing the opposite by, every day, wasting time 'helping out' instead of finishing their own tasks faster). Helping out is good, but I think daily is too often to assess (assessing from a 2minute blurb, because apparently the victim is not asking for it; they get 'help' forced upon them) if help is needed or not.
FUD. If you are uncomfortable deciding your own hardware, you can buy from vendors which explicitly support Ubuntu like System76
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I love the music.
Would love to hear about a Spotify playlist with this kind of relaxing music.
> Site owners have no obligation to be usable. They don't owe you anything.

And people who look at websites equally have no obligation to look at the ads, or even to configure their software in ways that make the ads appear.
BTW, there is one whole website dedicated just for such photographs: http://www.headsethotties.com/
A sampling of the Fossil code. This is the source browser code.
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact?name=23a693054...

C based webapps... lean, mean and blazing fast. And a little masochistic to code.
I found out a few months down the road that the mongodb master/slave replication is very delicate, and can become corrupted if the perfect storm happens, which seems to be a lot around me.

every time i read mongodb blog posts i read things like this in the comments and i decide to pass...
Install mercurial, run hg clone ...

From there on you only need to care about mercurial if you plan on committing stuff, etc.
They're not. According to "How it Works" [1], "[c]omprehensive insurance is included as a part of the low hourly and daily rate." However, Zipcar does not let "every jackass with a driver's license" rent one of their vehicles. You have to apply [2] and be accepted for membership in the service. Meeting their requirements means, among other things, you must:

"* Have had no more than two 'incidents' (moving violations PLUS accidents) in the past three years and no more than one incident in the past 18 months

* Have had no major violations in the past three years

* Have had no alcohol violations in the past seven years" [3]

They're only insuring the customers they choose to insure, and should be doing so according to the "comprehensive coverage" their advertising states. Their insurance does not seem to require anyone to carry other insurance, and doesn't seem to be subordinate to any existing insurance, beyond the subscriber paying a $500 deductible[4], therefore Zipcar needs to pay up

1 - http://www.zipcar.com/how/whatsincluded

2 - http://www.zipcar.com/seattle/apply/?account_id=&group_i...

3 - http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/one-faq?faq_number=1

4 - http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/one-faq?faq_number=28
Something bothered me about it when I saw it. Now I know -- it looks lonesome. It's perfectly optimized for the stylish modern lifestyle of one single guy. It reminds me too much of my own place. (Except mine's not nearly that stylish.)
Bill Gates, Alan Kay and Steve Wozniak would fit perfectly in this format. Other missing guests (yet) - from the top of my mind - Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and even Mark Zuckerberg.
Top-end BMW is more fun. Better-sounding speakers, more comfortable seats, snappier response (not unlike SSD vs HDD seek time), etc. You might not get above 60 in the city but if you want to have fun you can take it out to the country and hope you don't get a ticket
Some of them are going to Facebook, though I assume as part of separate deals.
Rowan Atkinson is a British actor and so it is important to distinguish American form of freedom of speech with European freedom of speech. The American version is based on the US constitution, while the other is based the European declaration of human rights.

Human rights in the EU is not limited to stopping government from doing bad things to citizens, but rather give fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being. The right to not be discriminated against is thus not limited by who is doing the discrimination, and it can limit peoples freedom to not associate with people if the reason behind the non-association falls within discrimination laws.

The US federal and state laws has also similar laws that limit companies from making completely free choices in regard to who them want to associate with. They are however not fundamental rights, and not as broad as the European versions.
> …and I see some patches are fetched from Void Linux.

The Void Linux developers have been discussing switching back to OpenSSL: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935
You and me both. I believe it will happen eventually, it seems inevitable now
I am an economist, and I have no idea what you're talking about.
The early days in my post were the 1980s
> To back up his claim that decarceration doesn’t threaten public safety, Boudin boasted that, “Our year-to-year data show that through April, the city and county crime rate has fallen.” To be sure, the period between mid-March and the end of April, representing the most severe seven weeks of total lockdown in the city, did show a trail off in criminal activity. Unfortunately for Boudin, time didn’t stop on April 30. I doubt he still wants to brag about his city’s crime statistics.

> Compared to the prior year, homicides increased 32%, burglaries 49%, and motor vehicle thefts 35% in 2020 according to SFPD statistics.

Seems Chesa was speaking of overall crime rate. From the dashboard linked, SF overall crime rate is down 24.5% in 2020, compared to 2019.
its not really "native" scrolling. (technically, it is, but obviously the commenter meant to have regular scrollback maintained client-side)

Then again the situation is no better with ssh, and tmux/screen work okay for that.
Yeah, and in the adult world we call that article "making a mountain out of a molehill" and "fabricating evidence by selective reading".

What's the conclusion? That video game journalists are secretly colluding to push an agenda? That's just about the most penny-ante conspiracy theory imaginable. That the evidence is selectively excerpting emails from a professional mailing list (that from what I've been able to discover wasn't exactly a secret) is pretty petty.
Great! That's a big plus for me.
My cynical view on this is that Russia is preparing for a conflict where they can cut ties with western infrastructure, while keeping themselves covered by domestic alternatives. It plays well with their efforts to boost robustness of their local internet under a severance from the rest of the world.
Just curious, what's wrong with plain html/css? Seems more powerful now than ever, with flexbox/grid and the new css features.
Trader Joe's is a bad example, they are notorious for discontinuing items that never return to shelves. This behavior is referenced in this old viral video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk
How do you route power to those Wyze cams though? And just so you know, they send their video to the cloud as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they send it to China in fact.
I think the word "tonality" is used liberally in this article. They didn't seem to be referencing any specific style of harmony, but rather the general act of using distinct tones to create music.
Ehhhh it’s hard to say if there’s really even a story here. Seems like some sensationalism going on.
I am not an ocean farmer. I will try to learn more about it before I comment.

Having said that:

1. I think this is a good model/whole systems approach.

2. But it won’t feed ‘the world’. It’s a responsible way to conduct an ocean mining activity.

3. All Ag is extractive. With field Ag, we surface mine top soil. With ocean Ag, I’d hazard a guess that it’s extractive too. It might subscribe to ‘leave no trace’ or ‘do no harm’ which is admirable and praise worthy.

4. Anything that is extractive is not regenerative.

5. Oceans have a fragile and rich Eco system. I think we make a mistake when we exploit it and imagine that it won’t have broader effect.

These are my initial thoughts. I will look more into it.
Perl did win, for a period of time .. expecting an interpreted language to dominate for multiple decades is unrealistic, especially with hardware advances that occur over time.

while I don't do anything with it today, I do know Perl/6 would be in contention for my 'deserted island' language of choice.

yet another dph
Looks like we've reached "peak laptop".
I just have one advice for those who've read the article or are about to, please read the addendum.
$0 ingress charges and >> $0 egress charges make AWS roach motel.
I think that it is clear than then you post on Facebook about my/your/someone's cancer treatment, data aggregators will mark this in your medical records. An insurer 20-30 years from now will easily correlate that my/you/someone's kid has me/you/etc as a father, and therefore have increased chances of cancer (or some other disease) and thus affect their chance to get life insurance or affect the price of premiums.

When you share with FB (imho) it is clear that you don't share with a person, but with a hungry-for-information beast. Didn't people hear about Cambridge Analytica? Is anyone so naive so as to believe that this was 'the end of information leakage' by FB? (or other similar platforms, such as Pinterest - in the case someone makes a "medicine for my X disease" table).
I’ve attempted, and given up on, writing and reading PDF files more often than I can count.

Conversely, I’ve only ever tried to write a (new) word file once, since it all worked right away.
> By this logic, no collection of people can be considered "people".

Your argument is logically false.

A group of people is not a person. A group of Indians is not a person. Each of them individually has personhood - the group does not.
Right, but the folks I’ve talked to about it in a prison context basically said if you can stay away from the drugs / alcohol you won’t get caught up in the gang stuff. Most “prisons” in the US are minimum security prison camps; if you go to prison for DUI you’d almost certainly end up there. Most of the people there are non-violent offenders with short sentences.

The ones with the gang problems are maximum security, but unless you were involved with real serious shit (murder, armed robbery, rape, etc) you won’t end up there if you behave. This is discounting some of the racial bias however (if you’re black or Hispanic you’re much more likely to end up in high security prisons).
But can you add 32GB ram? Then I'm interested...!
Friendly reminder that he founded the FSF.
Yes, this is true. And they have practically no security compared to the Capitol. Though I have to say, once you get through the visitor center, the Capitol isn't really locked down very tightly, especially off-season.

One thing that's fun to do in DC, if you plan ahead, is get a White House tour. Sadly they don't let you see any of the west wing, but the rest is still pretty interesting, and the Secret Service agents are really cool. We had some really great conversations, they're extremely knowledgeable (and proud of it, too). I asked one of them how many steps he thought I could make it if I jumped the rope and headed for the staircase up to the residence, and he just chuckled. Funny thing is he'd probably not even bother tackling my fat ass, he'd just grab my arm and escort me out of the building. They were pretty proud of that, too -- the discipline they have and ability to use just enough force without going over the top. I was impressed with their professionalism. Not that it should be surprising, presidential protection is an elite detail.
A while back (a couple of years?), someone released a Google Docs CSS tweak that provided a similar appearance -- green on black. Unfortunately, I've lost the reference.
> Mr. Zoppoth designed what he called a ‘slit camera’ and received a secret US patent on it.

A "secret US patent"???

The idea behind the patent system (whether or not you think it works well) is for the government to grant a limited-time monopoly in exchange for publicizing an idea. A "secret patent" defeats the whole purpose.

Secondly, how would anyone determine whether they were infringing such a patent? How could it be enforced?

And finally, if an idea is to remain secret for a time, then, even if the patent can somehow be kept secret, why would you patent it at all? That starts a clock ticking toward the expiration of the patent. You would want to start that clock as late as possible, I would think. Why not wait until the idea is publicized?
"99% of the 88,645 people who responded to the survey said they were against the Internet filter"
Perhaps the percentage is less for a random sample, only 90% maybe. It doesn't help to use numbers from an obviously flawed data collection method to support the cause.
it's neither a floor, nor ceiling. it's just an estimation.
I thought the Hinnom valley was burning, not rotting.
I also disagree with the never delete policy. Since I'm being charged by the gigabyte I'd like to delete things as soon as I don't need them.
Or perhaps they consider the skills needed to pass the test easily to be the bare minimum needed for the job, and anyone who can't pass it quickly isn't qualified (but hey, if you learned something from it, good for you!).
This is called high level synthesis and has existed for a while. The "with caveats" part is quite the understatement
This is true for any medical act you perform on a massive scale really. Including vaccination, supplementation, etc. Everything is a cost/benefit ratio.
As long as those for profits don't share it further, I guess I'd be ok...
I just saw a job posting that was looking for someone with 3+ years of experience, and the list of required skills would have taken easily double that working flat out to acquire
I’m looking for almost exactly this, but an abstraction or two higher - software architecture. Almost like SICP but as a course where I can follow along in more bite size chunks with video lectures. Does anyone have a recommended course?
> Domain names are not a scarce resource...

They are, though, since each domain can only point to one server (per RR type). Or at least meaningful ones are, but if you're okay with a random meaningless string of characters rather than something memorable then it doesn't really matter whether it's under any particular TLD. Moreover, when it comes to .org domains the money you're paying for registration is supposed to cover some background checks to verify that the buyer is really a non-profit organization and not some scammer, to maintain the reputation and integrity of the .org TLD. That takes labor, and labor is a scarce resource.
Been around for a while (at least the proprietary stuff). Certain things that are mere "style" and don't affect runtime for traditional C++ do have large effects on the generated code though. Intermediate variables for example will affect how many pipeline stages it generates (at least with Vivado).

Its a cool tool, but right now it's more of a productivity aide for people who already understand Verilog/VHDL rather than an enabler for software engineers.
Yup. And some of those follow on tests could be quite invasive and risky in their own right. With that kind of false positive rate, you'd be risking the life of a not insignificant number of people.

Either that or driving up healthcare costs significantly as those 5000 people are going to need an MRI or CAT scan or something else to rule out cancer.