jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Every time I see one of these articles, I get confused. I have to wonder what mysterious world they live in.

There are many reasons I don't use a car (I own one; I rarely use it). They're all touched on in here. But beyond a shadow of a doubt, the number one reason: fuck. traffic. FUUUUUUUUCK. Traffic.

Traffic infuriates me. It's filled with people who drive unsafely. It's filled with people who drive too fast. It's filled with people who drive too slow. It's filled with people who don't understand left hand vs right hand lanes. It's filled with people who can't read street signs or don't know where they're going. It's filled with pedestrians who think they can dart out between parked cars whenever they feel like it. It's filled with cyclists who ride too aggressively. And, most importantly, it's filled with a billion other cars.

I went on a day trip to Berkeley -> Monterey last Saturday. Google maps said "116 miles, 2 hrs 10 minutes". Door to door it was 4 hours 15 minutes. An average speed of 25 mph. On a fucking freeway rated 70. This is insanity.

Even ignoring the fury, how does anyone plan their life when traffic can swing so wildly. How does anyone get to work on time and not get fired when LOL TRAFFIC YOU'RE NOW AN HOUR LATE.

Public transit might be dirty and smelly and crowded and out of the way. But I also know that, pending someone suicidal, I will always get to work at the same time.

Is traffic that much different everywhere else in the country?
Because iOS is a huge market all by itself.
Open strollers are okay I'm Chicago, both on trains and buses. They're okay I'm the DC Metro, NYC subway, and Metro North. They're ok on the DC circulator but not DC buses.
It seems to me that one reason IE declined was because developers hated it. So we stopped using it, we stopped relying on IE-only features, we started implementing features IE didn't support, we threw our weight behind alternatives, and we labeled IE as uncool. Maybe I'm overestimating how big of an influence we were, but I don't think our influence was trivial, either.

That's why I'm kind of surprised that this preview of Spartan is not really developer centric.

You can talk to and write on web pages?

As an end user ... cool. Not really revolutionary, but cool.

As a developer, though, I don't really care, unless it is easy to build things in IE. For years, IE gave us headaches and heartaches. Give us something that makes up for that, please.
To add to what you're saying there are also government departments and giant companies out there that do your tax, pay for the roads, handle your insurance and handle your banking where somebody 20 years ago chose a technology that wasn't boring.

These entities are now having huge problems trying to get off 1980s or 1990s non-boring non-standard technologies that are no longer supported.

There are places that have bought the company that was going insolvent that built their non-standard database or framework....

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" had good reason behind it.
But what you're branding Triton in fact appears to be a PaaS GUI on top of SDC? i.e. the way people manage their containers/hw in Triton the service, is not available in SDC which seems to be all CLI tools?
You could be enjoying more meals by counting the cost - or working less and enjoying more free time. I feel like that's more along the lines of the point.
I am confident we'll know more in few years. Something being merely illegal has never stopped anyone.
The Wuhan lab ATIP documents identify exactly what was shipped to China. The list includes two vials each of 15 strains of virus:

Ebola Makona (three different varieties)
Mayinga.
Kikwit.
Ivory Coast.
Bundibugyo.
Sudan Boniface.
Sudan Gulu.
MA-Ebov.
GP-Ebov.
GP-Sudan.
Hendra.
Nipah Malaysia.
Nipah Bangladesh.

> "The only reason the correct packaging was used is because the Chinese wrote to them and said, 'Aren't you making a mistake here?' If that had not happened, the scientists would have placed on an Air Canada flight, several of them actually, a deadly virus incorrectly packaged. That nearly happened," Attaran said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-s...

On both sides of the world these labs are not acting responsible.
I couldn't repo this. What am I missing?

http://jsfiddle.net/greggman/bkfxefgL/
Destroying and stealing is not "peaceful", it's just not "violent against people".
Nope, he did say exactly that. He felt very special about them and loves them. Transcript and video is not hard to find.
Zuck chooses to do it when it is certain that Trump is going and won't be of much use going forward. This is just a sham unless Facebook ensures that the platform doesn't provide space to those indulging in malicious propaganda.
> Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.

In other words, we're not lifting the block after 24 hours as initially planned, and not until at least after President-elect Biden's inauguration is complete, and possibly forever.
"indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks"
What the hell does that mean?
The people also lose when others abuse free speech to incite violence.
The power to create Facebook? You have the power to create a social platform as a private company. Then you can as its owner make decisions regarding the platform you created.
Yep, but the problem with people commenting there is, that thay don't like Trump, and cheer for his removal.... when the turntables are turned, and someone else is cheering, it'll be too late, because the precedent has been set, and we've let them do it.
I'm just talking about what I saw if there is other evidence I'd love to see it.
I wouldn't call this an advertorial, but there are some key points you need to "pitch" to get Forbes interested. 1) business metrics. in this case it was the MoM sales jump. 2)something timely/ what we call "newsworthy". Again, in this case, Vayable pivoted and launched a new site design. 3) A competent spokesperson that has a good "twist". Vayable's went with the "happy accident" theme
It works fine, but there's still no official repository.

Maintaining your own or using a third party is possible, but that's more of a temporary fix.
We dont report power because we dont have a way to measure power accurately.
These guys have given the world a lot and they deserve to make some money. Without people like them we'd be running abominations like MS IIS.

I am not however very sure the open core model would work that well, people generally dread it as it tends to be crippleware.

Serious question: can anyone name one open core product that is really successfull?

If I were the people behind Nginx I would make my money through selling my technical expertise and support. Pretty much like RedHat make their money.

On the other side, this would make room for some new projects or for older to pick up some new steam (e.g. lighty, cherokee).
That's a little unfair. The spec was presented when it was already implemented in the browser by the spec authors. That's why they are so far ahead of the curve. Mozilla had a spec and implementation of another approach that predates the Web Audio API. Once the working group settled on what spec to go for then implementation started.
You can compensate humans for what you do to them. We invented money for that. Furthermore, humans can make decisions to weigh up the costs, benefits and risks associated with any such offer.

Animals can neither be compensated nor communicate their preferences for such decisions.
Be sure to check out the mailing list post linked from the G+ post which contains more technical details and proposed fixes http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=137714769606183&w=2
>Second hand re-hashing of other people's experience is the best.

Didn't you read the bit he talks about selling AR to a hospital?
I don't know, looks amazing to me. Yea the branded button isn't great, but let's face it, it's going to be sitting next to the branded box/bottle anyway.

If your toddler presses it, the worst they can do is order once. It's configured to only allow one order until the item is delivered. That isn't to say your toddler still cannot do damage...
Perhaps residents of WA will now contemplate the wisdom of higher taxes.
They should not through. You are supposed to assume you are infected.
Type safe? NPE en masse.

IDE friendly? IDE support is only good because you absolutely need an IDE for this language.

It's an unwieldy, verbose mess of a language.
> The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic. [...] there hasn't been a pandemic in the west in over 100 years...

Recent counter-example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic_in_the_Unite...

Key stats:

* global cases: 700 million - 1.4 billion

* global deaths: 150,000–575,000

* US cases: 60.8 million

* US deaths: 12,469

A few more counter-examples can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

(Edit: added key stats)
"Consume YAML, emit JSON". I've been using this pattern for the last several years on most projects, ever since someone else on the internet recommended it. Since YAML is a superset of JSON, people can input either JSON or YAML (or mostly just JSON with JS style comments, like I do most of the time) and have simple JSON output.
Arch has a package in aur as well which makes it pretty straightforward.
Why? Tell me how long are you going to isolate everyone? Years? COVID-19 isn't disappearing after a month or two. It can flare up again.

We don't have any proof that would Covids flair up again if it was suppressed. China and South Korea have surveillance that has allowed them to catch Covids cases coming from abroad and eliminate home grown cases. This is simply not the flu.

The idea that "it's just a flu" is still attractive in people's heads. People aren't good at estimating personal risk.

Me: Yeah, these are the deluded and despicable ideas going around. No, the economic cost of dealing with the massive death of any group would be huge.*

I'm just pointing it out. People over 70 generally are not economically productive, but they do cost a lot in terms of health care and social security, a lot of which is unfunded liabilities.

It doesn't matter if someone is economically productive, their death can still be extremely expensive. If enough people die together and there aren't people to remove the bodies, the cost in lost economic activity and other diseases is pretty bad.
> This will all be over in a few weeks.

Not likely.

Many countries are still weeks away from the virus reaching the "oh-shit" numbers, effective lockdowns take weeks more, and then the whole thing is likely to reoccur at least once or twice in most places.

This is going to make the entire year 2020 spicier than we would all like...
FDIC protection being invoked will still have anyone holding US dollars to rush for the doors trying to put it into anything else. There's absolutely no guarantee of protecting the value of assets, simply the number of them.
There is the device tree[0], which Linux uses to know where all the ports are on an SoC. It’s become the de facto standard for ARM. Even non-Linux OSes like iOS adopted it.

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/devicetree/usage-mode...
I do think there's a use case for zero-confirmation transactions which, although are not settled fully, have to pass a long list of acceptance rules to be fully propagated to the mempool across the network. While this doesn't have the full double spend protection that you get after 6+ confirmations— its arguably reasonable enough to use network mempool quorum for buying a cup of coffee.

Beyond that though, there are a number of solutions at layer 2 that can be used here as well, lightning network being the most widely used at this point.
OK, SpaceX applies to launch an orbital bombardment cannon and launch approval is denied. That was a good day, next.

OK, SpaceX ignores the denial and launches anyway. Elon Musk threatens to destroy Washington DC to gain independence for ... some territory somewhere. Unclear where, or why he'd want that since he already has enormous wealth and influence and doesn't need to run his own military to keep it. The United States arrests Elon Musk and seizes all of SpaceX with overwhelming military might. The end.

Is that really as threatening as North Korea developing nuclear weapons?
Bitcoin isn't the only decentralized ledger system, just the one with the largest current market cap.
You have to be attractive in the first place. Bald, hair doesn't really matter. What's probably more significant is if people lose confidence or are self conscious about their baldness.
Good point, thanks. The OLPC once was heavily documented, perhaps the relevant portions still exist somewhere.
IAM shouldn't be a thing to learn. It's account management, default and easy to access options should be sane enough for most people to use. At big companies, sure someone has it as a dedicated part of their job description. But if you're in the majority of smaller companies, ones maybe that's just doing e-commerce and tech isn't their core skill set, account settings should be near invisible and still be trustworthy. It's not the Slacks of the world that have an issue with this, but the long tail of the world we now live in that software has eaten and companies are just scrambling to exist in it. Flutter integration is not in the list of concerns of this long tail.

And telling them to "just learn it" isn't the customer focused mindset, it's the engineering one.
I find useful the Picture-in-Picture feature when was introduced, but find it really annoying that the icon has to be visible on every video (on mouse hover), and I disable it.

Hope they introduce an option to show a PiP icon on the address bar when a video is on the tab, which is less intrusive, like the Reader View icon/feature.
My favorite part of nitter.net is the RSS feeds. Stick them in your reader of choice, refresh them with an hourly cron job, and you can keep up with all your favorite twatterers with no need for an account.
"nobody really thinks it's the future"

Yes, well people did really believe we would have flying cars and biodomes on the moon by now. So I don't invest too much faith in future wishes and hopes.

Short of unfeasible and economically devastating projects such as solar panels covering the earth and turning water into wine, er hydrogen, we don't have much reason for hope. I think we're all adults here and we all get how important it is to find alternatives to oil. But smarter people have thought about this well before Al Gore was born. You can't invent sources of energy. You can only discover what is already there.

"Europe and China are going to kick our ass at this unless we step it up"

That's an odd bit of protectionism to throw into the mix there. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter one way or another who gets there first. What matters is that someone does. But I don't think tossing federal funding at a dartboard is the way to go about it.
Agreed, the parents asked the child's permission too frequently rather than simply taking control.

I don't ask my dog permission when I take him outside, but I see many owners that do and they have dogs that quite frankly I would be scared to let small children be near. And I truly believe the same principles apply to children as animals, the nature of the relationship is vastly more complex but authority isn't. You're the boss or you aren't.

These parents were not the bosses of the household, Alex was. My father was the boss, it was an undebatable fact and I experienced very little drama in my childhood. I never got grounded, and I rarely got disciplined because if I ever did something wrong I simply had to be told not to do it again.
I think it will be outweighed by the respect and understanding he will gain from it. I for one would be more likely to want to hire him given I have walked a mile in his shoes.
its kind of backwards. they charge you NOT to deliver. you pay for the storage of course. but delivery isn't cheap. its mandated by law though so they can't change it easily or even stop Saturday delivery without an act of Congress (for real)

But, even so, the PO box is tied to a city. people can't keep using it and have mail go to the right place automatically. the best they can do is forward it. so something could be shipped from nyc to a PO box in LA and then get forwarded back
It's just really confusing, since it has literally nothing to do with the established meaning of "isomorphism". Also kind of cringe-y, since you know it's just JavaScript people trying to sound cool. Another commenter suggested "JS which runs everywhere"; that's cool, or I'd even suggest something more mundane like "shared code".
Would one supertanker really do it? Because once the first one goes, you'd have a pretty rapid response before they can get others anywhere near.
I hope it is a joke too. Even if it isn't true, it's sad that it seems so believable.
I was going to point out that UK Green party supports a basic income, but now I find that they have dropped it from their 2015 manifesto.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/green-party/1138380...
i have simply assumed that the purpose of this requirement generally is for the platform owner to establish your real identity for monetization and/or indemnification, and that any benefit to the user is incidental.

who ever said that "security" meant yours? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
misinformation is hard to characterize.

This week I was reading about how cholesterol studies are funded by the egg industry 60% of the time. They have a financial interest in the studies going their way and those studies do. Yet, many studies not funded by them go a very different route.

Is it misinformation when you speak out against them?

The same can be said for a lot of things. You need to dig into the details to have an understanding of what's going on.

The other day I was listening to an edge theory on something. I didn't know I would be hearing one when I first took the time to listen. The theory was based on evidence, the case was logical and well reasoned, and what was different was assumptions. The conclusion was not the majority. Is that misinformation?

We don't tend to go deep anymore so how can we tell where misinformation really exists? Who decides what's a kind of hard that needs to be stopped?

There is so much depth to this topic.
I would love to contribute to it, but I am not an expert on the subject. Its just something I tried to do a while back, but couldn't find a clean way.

Let me see if I can figure it out and will try to give you a pull request.
Ah, Cheat Engine. I used to use it for multiplayer flash or shockwave games, as well as a couple other games along the years. Poor Nitto 1320, we killed that game. Got me into disassembly and hacking at that level, which was a lot of fun too.
If you just want to persist data between sessions, you can do quite a bit with HTML5 localStorage.
Wait... where's the letter? All I get is a box that asks for my e-mail.
They do seem to be getting closer to sanity with each one though. With the advancements in browsers, in a few years the experience of web development may not be completely awful!
Perhaps it's a sign of the times, but when I read, "Experts assure that there will be no penetration of air from the atmosphere in the relict lake and there is no threat to its ecology," I feel like it's guaranteed that we'll find a way to do exactly that.
It's murder rate by race. Black people account for 15%-20% of the US population, while white people account for about 60%, yet their tallies are nearly the same.

It's not really taboo if rationally discussed in a small group (like a college classroom) since there's a long and complicated history surrounding the contributing factors which have been fairly unique to the Americas, but in an open forum on the internet it's practically impossible without moderators.
I would like to see one that goes the other way.I would love to be able to write JavaScript and compile it to run via the LLVM.
Well, I am trying to make the name known to people who don't know him. It doesn't matter if it's an ordinary tool, Even if 1 guy finds out about MalcolmX through this tool, I'll be a happy man.
This is always a good idea when dealing with color schemes. More often than not, the colors found in nature are pleasant and easy to link to an animal, place, or situation in nature. Using a photo of a spring sunrise in the mountains or one of a fall sunset surrounded by trees to make swatches can only end up in a beautiful color scheme, granted you use a photo that really evokes the feeling you want to convey.

Of course, color is not enough of a design element to bring your ideas across the internet unscathed... but it sure as hell will mark the mood of your application/website, and should be given some serious thought before committing to any one scheme.
This long article is mostly true, but it doesn't contain any strong reconciliation of science and religion. The author states, correctly, that there is a huge amount that science can't yet explain, and that effective scientists must not rule out any possibility prematurely. He then suggests that this idea can help make religion and science more compatible in one's mind, but not without so many qualifications and reservations as to demonstrate that even he doesn't quite see how it's possible, which it isn't.

Most "atheists" are, strictly speaking, agnostic (or "possibilian," the author's preferred term). No scientifically-minded person is absolutely certain that no god exists. That doesn't make belief in a god in the least bit scientifically justifiable. Nevermind belief in a particular god. Until evidence for the existence of any god is found, the only rational position one can hold is that no god exists.
Please be remindful that the statement is that "all companies are branch of military"...

And to be precise, "People's Liberation Army owns and runs many businesses" this is almost certainly a misunderstanding of the organizing structure.

Mr Deng Xiaoping deliberately not disallowing military involving business activities [1], in part it's because the military is starved from support and resources, and they need some form of self-sustaining to maintain the basic infrastructure, especially ensure the continuation of the talent development relevant to high-end military capability.

That was banned in Jiang Zeming's rule [2]. In part, just like the purge done by Xi, was because military with its own finanical sources will become a plitical risk to the party head.

Today, there isn't any military owned business, officially. There are state-owned military equipment companies and research institutes. But their relationship with military is not too different from Locke-martin & US government & US military. (I mean, US system works better, right? Then CCP will happy to copy...)

Of course, there could be grey areas, and exceptions. But it should be common sense, here I repeat, military personnel cannot have financial support in their own control, that threatens the political leaders' authority.

If you can name one "active duty officers serving as executives", I'll be very surprised...

[1] http://congressionalresearch.com/98-197/document.php?study=c...
[2] http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/981596.shtml
[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-tells-chinas-military-to-...
I think Kotlin will become the dominant JVM language in time.
CamelCase is terrible as soon as you have an abbreviation in your function (like "DB"). I run into this extremely frequently at my place of work.