jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I find this a really fascinating instance of micro-propaganda. CCP could evoke associations with "CCCP", but CPC might remind Americans of the Congressional Progressive Caucus or Canadians of the Conservative Party of Canada. It could be that neither acronym is especially neutral, not after surfacing the accusation that using one is implicitly biased. I have to admit to having used both acronyms in the past, but it was never for any malicious reason, it was just to try create continuity with other people in the discussion.

The funny thing is that people in China use neither of these acronyms, they just refer to "the government" or "the party". This is probably the safest terminology to avoid being seen as biased one way or the other.

What's so interesting to me, is that even your choice of a three letter acronym, which literally means the exact same thing just with a different word order, is considered to be taking a side. It goes to show just how fraught conversation on China has become that it's even considered important.
Th is is the one we used.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-knowledgebase/
As you can see, you can organize art icles in categories and there is even a search box. Initial feedback is good so far.
A knowledgebase system is essential in all companies regardless of the feedback some users might give (usually those who are bored to search for answers), since all knowledge should be stored centrally. If a key person leaves, all his/her knowledge will be the re!
It doesn't mean 'bitch' (that would be "tispe"), though in many dialects it's only used about women in the same way that word is. The literal meaning is just '(grown-up) woman'. In some dialects, it's still just used to mean 'wife' or '(old) woman' without anything negative, though in modern times the negative connotations have spread so it's used less and less like that. But it shows up in fairy tales and kids stories ( https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjerringa_som_ble_s%C3%A5_lita... ) and songs; you'd never see the word "bitch" used about women in English in material meant for children …
Why would it be misleading to say they are applying for a license?
I am not a parent but I am a product of parents. I have friends that were pushed to learn a musical instrument. They hated being pushed as a kid but as an adult they are so happy to have been pushed. My father was a musician but his POV was unless I showed an interest he didn't push. I'm jealous of those who got pushed.

Similarly I have American friends that speak a 2nd language because their parents forced them to go to language school on the weekends. As kids they hated not being able to go play on Saturdays like their friends but as adults the love speaking the 2nd language. Conversely I have a friend who's parents sent him to language school but around 11 or 12yrs old he complained enough they let him stop. He still regrets it to this day.

I have no clue where the balance is but I don't believe it's 100% only do it if the kids want to side of the meter.
All I can see is a blank page. That means needlessly excessive use of javascript. Is that really needed? Why?
I think the plain answer is that if they didn't, you wouldn't know about them. Just like all other parasites. In some sense, we're all parasites on plants, that in turn feed on the energy delivered by the giant fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system.

In the case of viruses, remember that there are viruses for much simpler organisms, like bacteria. And yes, you can use those to treat bacterial infections.
I don't even understand how the "health care" system and the insurance industry can be both so messed up in the US.

It may be just anecdata, but In Hong Kong, my family has an insurance agent whom we work very close with. We're just middle class. E.g. only my dad has a car; my sister is 42 and I'm 38, and we still don't have our own car. Whenever something related to making use of the insurance plan comes up, the insurance agent would be very helpful and ensure we get our money's worth. She would teach us what to do in order to not miss out on benefits. The claims process is also easy. We don't get this nonsense where the insurer tries to deny us and hope that we don't dispute.
It seems media companies have a different interest in political races: if they call it a tight race, the candidates will pay them to run ads. And indirectly, if they report that it's tight, people will keep tuning in, and they can sell these eyeballs for a better price to their advertisers.

For example the 2008 Dem primaries with Obama vs Hillary. Obama was sure to win it months before the Dem conference, but I can recall CNN still calling it a race...
I understand that science is multi-facted discipline and there are a lot of people who have dedicated their lives to their craft and discovering truth because of their desire to solve human suffering and figure out how the world works.

I also think there are a bunch of "scientists" that like the veneer that comes with the title like to spend their time talking on TV, going to parties, chairing committees and stealing credit from people doing work. They are aided and abetted in this endevour by the popular media and politicians who just want to slap out some new "discovery" to get clicks.

The first group is anxious for their work to be peer reviewed, tries to explain things simply, and will do what they do even if there was no reward and no one appreciated their work. They have qualifications.

The second group uses jargon to try and confuse people, hate when people call them on things, use their influence to restrict funding to others and publicly deride their opponents who disagree with them. They have credentials.

Unfortunately, society generally listens to the 2nd group over the first group because they often tell them what they want to hear.
All haskell threads are cancellable. This does mean you have to take extra care when using certain constructs.
I remember when this came out. I read the paper out of curiosity and was amazed how simple it was to follow, even though I hadn't even heard of the sensitivity conjecture before. It's beautiful.
> Salesforce announced this week it will let employees choose whether they want to come into the office again, saying “the 9-to-5 workday is dead.”

:(
Unrelated. But why does this site need a sticky header? Such a waste of space on a small monitor. Stop designing for 30" screens people!
Axel F ... that or the crazy frog version.
Another article quoted 3 tons of thrust coming out of the back bumper.

>“At minimum I’m confident we could do a thruster where the license plate flips down, you know, James Bond-style, and then the rocket thruster behind it, and that gives you three tons of thrust,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/elon-musk-says-he-wants-new-te...

That's pretty crazy and, unless it ramps up slowly, is going to be a bit of a beast to control the steering the first second or five.
Hedge grammars have really nice features, which can be parsed by a class of pushdown automata. However, my experience is that not many people understood and valued those features in the XML ecosystem (see SVG but also Xpath). Would be nice to see actually a schema first language that has a good binary and human readable representation. IMHO we can do better than zipped JSON even if is hard.
Also what is the password rotation policy if this password was valid for years and intern had access to it? Reasonably I would expect all of the shared passwords to be rotated every time some person leaves.
So, if you want to compromise the security of 100,000’s of IT departments, get an internship at SolarWinds?
While I'm also somewhat disappointed he doesn't discuss important topics as much as he used too, I think there are some hidden gems in this letter - especially this one:

"Investing illusions can continue for a surprisingly long time. Wall Street loves the fees that deal-making generates, and the press loves the stories that colorful promoters provide. At a point, also, the soaring price of a promoted stock can itself become the “proof” that an illusion is reality.

Eventually, of course, the party ends, and many business “emperors” are found to have no clothes. Financial history is replete with the names of famous conglomerateurs who were initially lionized as business geniuses by journalists, analysts and investment
bankers, but whose creations ended up as business junkyards."

He is using the example of conglomerates, but to me, it sounds like a warning about current valuations.

Regarding his investing performance, I think we should never judge his N last years - he's definitely looking longer term (which is amazing, given his advanced age). Berkshire is sitting on a huge pile of money, waiting for the bubble to pop. It may take a year, maybe 5, maybe even 10 - nobody knows. But when it does, we can safely bet that Buffett will put this money to work - and secure exceptional returns for the following 10-20 years.
Sure it may not flow directly to Berkshire, but let's take employee compensation for example. If the business value of Apple is 10% higher because it had retained the value it created instead of Berkshire owning it then wouldn't Apple's stock in turn be 10% higher in theory? If so then if I'm an employee at Apple I would be happy with 10% less stock as part of my compensation package and that's money Apple would have had to pay me if that were not the case. So wouldn't this affect the price of Macbook?
Oh god that first comment rings so depressingly true. Is this just the nature of mankind forever or is there some way of setting up incentives such that this doesn't play out exactly the same way every time?
Apple has a reasonable track record with selective acquisitions like this, but they bought App search company Chomp* back in 2012. Over 2 years later the App Store search and navigation system is still painfully bad, so I'll believe this will make a difference when I see it.

* http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-acquires-app-sear...
"If you've never experienced the productivity that comes from being able to think without interruption, you won't know what you are missing."

I keep a diary of learning notes and have throughout my career. It's interesting to go through it and see that in my university days I was picking up concepts, tools, and techniques far faster than I do now despite the fact that I am considerably better and more experienced. I chalk it up to the fact that I can't just "go dark" for a week to properly learn something distraction free even if it would be in my companies best interests.
It's an interesting read, but the author leaves us all hanging without any closure. What else did he talk about in the manuscript? Is it published yet? Have you scanned it yet, and if not why not? If I lived in Seattle I would hasten to go take a read but the world doesn't live in Seattle... and the attempts at making it a thought provoking ponderence leave us with very little substance or data.

All I can do is say "very interesting" and move on with my day because there's nothing else to follow up on.

I count two links in total, one supposedly about the architecture of the Seattle Public Library, but I don't know because it's broken, and another a link to a wikipedia page.

And what's with the random pictures of astronomy? Did they come from the manuscript or are they just randomly inserted by the author for "flavor"?

All in all this is a horribly written article that needs heavy revision, and I don't understand why it is here on HN.
but can someone explain to me why we are spending SO much $ and neurons on such projects rather than our impending ecological doom

I'm a naturally skeptical person so when I see even the proponents of anthropogenic global warming theory going about their lives business as usual it really raises alarm bells with me.

You're bringing up a problem with spending time/money on the LHC - I'll give you something simpler. Every year there are 150,000,000 Christmas lights sold. Think about that for a second. We're supposedly on the way to our (as you say) ecological doom and we still insist on this tradition. If you want to reduce humanity's carbon footprint I'm not sure there is lower hanging fruit than stopping the manufacture and powering of hundreds of millions of Christmas lights every year.

So when I see everyone doing things like this - basically fiddling while Rome burns - I'm skeptical that anyone really believes in AGW. It doesn't affect my actions mind you because I'm also naturally a conservationist. I think it is only logical to preserve finite resources.
While it read very negative the end sums it up in a much better light:

"In some cases, McDonald’s franchises may have taken the opportunity to truly hire new employees. But, for the most part it was for show. Even the second largest commercial employer in America can’t solve our recessionary woes, but it’s nice to know that at least somewhere along the line they made an attempt."
Much better now. It will always be a pain to flight with them, but at least the site got less clumsy.
This creates incentives for going after re-countings if your political opponent has won the lottery, not because the result will be much different, but simply because you get a second chance in the lottery.

For a perfect example of this, see the presidential election in 2000. The vote totals in Florida were within the margin of error, making the election a coin flip with the pretense of counting [1]. Politicians behaved exactly as you describe.

[1] At the time I was in college, and had just learned stats. I advocated just flipping a coin in full view on TV and moving on. Everyone thought I was crazy.
I agree with you on the graphic, it does need a bit more explanation.

The purpose of the service is to complement IM, for when you want to share things with people who aren't on IM right now or don't want to be bothered (or sharing with multiple people). You send a link to the people you want, they get to it on their own time.

A crucial feature that is sort-of missing is the ability to comment on links, because sending links is an inherently social act. I'll work on this more if people start using the service, but there are a few problems due to the way the service works.
I'm not sure that this is enough as it is stated here and in the original comment. There may be a technical solution that allows it to be done in one go, but an alternative would be to do the count, have a window in which the count can be challenged and then do the draw in a pseudo random deterministic way with seeds coming from a number of sources (e.g. different candidates).
I cannot parse this title at all. How about "Why it matters where you place buttons that call for action."
In the US, as I go through the airport, I am physically violated routinely for my 'security'.

All of the data I transmit are recorded, for the agencies to go through them, if not now, then later, when they figured out how.

People who don't obey the leftist narrative are cancelled, have their jobs terminated, and so on.

China has always been independent. They pride themselves on that. Taking away investment money isn't going to influence them.

If you want to influence somebody, first you understand them, then you build a friendship and rapport with them, and then you influence them. Turning off the phone does the opposite.
I liked the reviews and am disappointed that they removed them.
Non-participating ISPs get it from participating ISPs. Basically no one hits AWS.
We're rather selective in terms of which customers we serve given that we see the verification of someone’s identity as a privilege rather than a right.

With respect to Sift, we see them as good stewards given their narrow focus of preventing fraud as opposed to data brokers that sell your data to ad networks, hedge funds, etc.

Sift has taken a privacy-conscious approach to responding to data access requests by ensuring the individual is in fact who they say they are. We’re proud to help them prevent fraudulent access to sensitive personal information.
Nope. I’m not mistaken. What you’re talking about only applies to Xbox 360. For Xbox One, you lose access to your claimed Free Games with Gold when your subscription lapses until you resubscribe. The same is true for the free games to PlayStation Plus subscribers.
> This is “moral grandstanding” — publicly opining on morality and politics to impress others, and so to seek social status.

Around these parts we used to describe performative, status-seeking wokeness as 'craw-thumping'.
Is that really a viable strategy though? You're talking about spending months, if not a year or more, for a chance to make a friend. Then once you've established a group of friends there is an even smaller chance that you will meet a potential romantic partner. This in turn leads to an even smaller chance that the relationship works out.

It seems to me that approach could easily take decades. I'm not sure that's a realistic strategy.
I don't agree with your points.

1. It ran for me on Windows 7 not too long back - a year or so ago, IIRC.
2. I did not say that it fully implements Common Lisp. I said is useful as a learning tool - meaning for beginners to Lisp. This scenario is quite possible and can make sense for beginners: install an easy-to-setup-and-start-using tool like Corman Lisp; try learning _some_ of the basics of Lisp for some time using such a tool; if you find that you understand it well enough, and are interested enough to proceed further, THEN find a better/more advanced/professional Lisp and start using it. In other words, gradual learning curve, less investment of time (on installation/setup, etc.) at the start, etc. All good reasons.
3. A beginner is likely not going to want to run "much of the useful software written in the past 10 years" - or however many years. A beginner is going to want to learn the basics of the language - by definition.

And I was talking about beginners in my previous comment - hence used the term "learning tool".
I always have ideas about some questions to my co-workers like this: "do you practice after work ?" "How do you improve? " "How do you balance your life" etc etc.
But I think I am too shy to ask them directly. Can you give us an example of your cold mail ?
> and you can hear the neighbors do everything.

I'm in a rental for this month, and I just woke up to this - noise of a baby playing with balls on the floor, above my bedroom.

I am surprised this is still a problem in the 21st century.
Woah, this just gave me an uneasy feeling...
Let's just swap entities in your sentence, shall we:

"There's a major difference between someone actively choosing to go to a website vs a phone manufacturer choosing for you what you can and cannot run on your device."

QED.

Also exploits for latest Android versions are more expensive than latest iOS versions. Let's not conflate topics however
Portugal or I think any other southern Europe country is perfect for the 100k plus Dev nomad. Living like a king while running their own small business or working on remote projects.
I did that for a couple of years. Absolutely enjoyed it. Food, people, weather, party. I do miss it sometimes.
But man, some things are really f@€ed up there. Bureaucracy, badly organized government, healthcare and education. Sometimes dominant complain culture. Absolute shit quality of housing and public roads. Much larger difference in poor and rich. You ll get to notice these things after 1, 2 years while getting settled in.
Then you realize to move.That's what I did.
This story feels incomplete. How does it end? :)
Ironically, this is exactly what's going on right now... Except it's the US denying advanced chips to China. The US forced TSMC and Samsung not to sell to Huawei for example.
Ethereum is battle tested and has the adoption to actually utilize scalability improvements.

It's moving over a trillion dollars in value every quarter now:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ethereum-on-...

And it's highly probable these are economically meaningful transactions, as opposed to a party sending transactions back and forth between two accounts they control, given transaction fees per transaction are over $10 now.
But he should atleast ask github to ban this fraudsters, worst case senario sue github for supporting users who violate such licenses. Maybe sending a leagal notice to github would get you results. Atleast there is no doubt that he violated the license
The helicopter with "Gotham Air" on the side is a fake photo based on a New York Heli publicity shot. It's a Photoshop job.

Original: http://hereandtherewithoutacare.com/wp-content/gallery/new-y...

Faked, from Gotham Air site: http://static.wixstatic.com/media/b49883_4bfd352941a043ba83c...
Not as obnoxious as - on iOS - having my browser's focus stolen by an appstore link which switches me from browser to App Store.

This is particularly bad when visiting Pinterest. So bad that I stopped visiting Pinterest at all because I hate the behaviour. It is so obviously broken that I'm surprised they still do it.
OP resident here. Probably not, as Sprint does not sell local ISP services. Could have been Time Warner though. That article is dated though, as Google is now building in OP. It actually worked out for the better as both Google and AT&T are laying fiber in OP; competing 1000/1000 services. My ISP (CCI) just bumped me from 30/5 to 100/5 for free. I can't wait to dump them though. Some areas of OP will have three competing 1000/1000 services; Google, AT&T, and CCI. My area was wired 10 years ago by CCI so it's just hybrid fiber-coax.

The real fuck-up is Leawood, KS though; just next door. Google pulled out recently when they were told no "new" ISP lines could be run on existing poles. It had to be 100% buried, despite existing cable ISP on poles:

http://www.govexec.com/state-local/2014/11/google-fiber-leaw...
> the logic in Paul Graham's essay seemed a lot clearer to me

How so? I wrote this to refute a lot of the mistakes I see on these immigration discussions, so if you can list specifics, I'd be appreciative.
Did you read my comment?

> CondoInternet is...building neighborhood-scale fiber service to Eastlake

http://www.condointernet.net/fiber/
Such a person in biology is impossible. Biology does not have any underlying common principles other than evolution by natural selection.
Why is there no information about the Inmarsat and Iridium networks that a lot of aircraft already use?

ADS-B is fantastic for fast, accurate position data, and apart from the hardware is essentially 'free' for an aircraft to make use of.

Satellite transceivers are also relatively cheap (a few thousand dollars), but the main expense is in sending data to and from the transceiver. This cost can be alleviated by having the transceiver programmed to send a position report from every 30 seconds to every few minutes.

It's also possible to switch between ADS-B, and satellite networks when in range of ADS-B ground stations to make things more efficient.

Satellite tracking fairly ubiquitous in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US – there's even some consumer level products such as SpiderTracks [ http://www.spidertracks.com/collections/hardware/products/ha... ] which provide similar SBD modems (Iridium network) to those used in commercial aviation.

I'm guessing it's just not a requirement for aircraft operating in that airspace to use satellite tracking, as there was even less data about Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370.

Source: Worked at a company that provided both hardware and a web based application to commercial airlines to track their fleets.
In what sense is Charles Darwin not that person for biology? (I looked up the author of the short essay post submitted here, and it appears that his career has been devoted to nonbiological technology. I wonder what analogies from mathematics and electronics he is using to think about biology, perhaps without having looked at what the theoreticians of biology have had to explain in biological data?)