jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think you're paying too much attention to Trump and politics. The people actually getting work done are cooperating and moving at a pace that has really never been done. The articles I've read and podcasts I've heard with scientist all echo the same sentiment. Ignore Trump and the politics, the science is happening at a pace unseen before.

> the while thing has just been wave after wave of delayed and reactive actions that were underprepared to begin with.

I do agree the US has been slow to ramp up, but that is quickly changing. Although, I would once again offer up to ignore Trump and watch the governors. They have been acting quickly and decisively.

Underprepared with respect to supplies is always easy to say in hindsight because now we know the war we are fighting. There is a saying that armies are always tooled to fight the last war. Until you know what the next war will be, it's impossible to fully prepare.

> if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish.

IMO, that is naive and optimistic. The problem, for lack of a better word, is that the large majority of cases (80-90%?) are mild. For many, it's mild enough that they would have not deviated from their normal routine. Once this thing escaped China, and definitely once it got out of SEA, it was going to be incredibly hard to stomp out without herd immunity either through infection or vaccine.
> “The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.

How else could deaths be recorded? It would seem negligent to not record someone who died with coronavirus as dying of coronavirus.
Then again, public given non-virtuous money helps more then no money.
I thought about this too when I read about how the FBI seized Ulbricht's laptop. I decided that a simple string isn't sufficient. You want the loop to be either a conductor or fiber optic, so that the system can detect when the cord is cut (not just when a USB device is pulled out).
Isn't that exactly what the bet is?

A bubble that never bursts is indistinguishable from real value. Remember that money is itself a bubble; its only value is that you believe other people will continue to accept it to give you the things you really value. The dollars in your pocket are just pieces of paper; the dollars in your credit card are even more nebulous, they're bits and bytes in your banks' computers. And yet somehow it's worked for thousands of years.

Plus, it's pretty likely that several of the companies listed will go public in the next 5 years, and then their valuation will be the public co $X. If that's lower than the stated figures in the bet, well, Sam will lose.
On "social networking", I guess. Just like with instant messaging, Facebook has a monopoly on social networking thanks to network effects. User join Facebook because all of their friends are already on Facebook, which leads to even more users joining Facebook.

Its the same scenario we saw with AIM in the instant messaging space. Lots of people were already on AIM (thanks to having AOL accounts), making AIM an attractive choice for new users. The trend was only broken when the AIM protocol (as well as those of other proprietary chat networks) was broken, allowing multi-protocol chat clients to bridge the gap between networks.

We're already seeing the same thing with social networks. Many clients support both Facebook and Twitter, allowing users to transparently bridge the gap between the two largest social media networks on the Internet.
I use my microwave to get off of the phone. I put it on mute before I stick it in so that they don't hear the door closing.
Like this one https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330 ?

Threatening with violence if Trump appointed a new SCOTUS. He has almost 300k followers. The tweet is not deleted and his account is untouched.

There are several more like him, with hundreds of thousands of followers. Some deleted the tweet but their accounts are still there.

But we could go even further. The VP-elect, Kamala Harris, asked for money to bail BLM/Antifa rioters. https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1267555018128965643
The US Capitol Police is a federal agency. The Park Police is another federal police force that has concurrent jurisdiction over the area. DC's police is the Metropolitan Police of DC, which has oversight by the DC municipal authority instead of direct federal authority.
Honestly, I think you could say the same about both sides of the left/right divide.
That is censorship. Prior to this point in time only hate speech, inciteful, vulgar, things were censored. To remove speech from the view of others that is contrary to your own simply because you believe it is "garbage" is censorship. Perhaps the other side believes your speech should be censored. Let's have your comment removed because of your generalization of speech you don't like as "garbage" doesn't conform with the guidelines i just thought of right now and actually, i think your comment is "garbage". How to punish you for your opinion now? 12 hours ban? 24? Deplatformed? Where does it end? THAT is censorship.
What you're saying isn't true for Europe, actually. It's true that in Tokyo you can live far from the center of Tokyo and still have a lively neighborhood around the station, and reliable train to commute to the inner-Yamanote area. You still suffer if you need to commute because the trains are packed at peak time (station staff literally pushing people in so the doors can close).

In Paris however, you either live in Paris itself (roughly the size of the Yamanote line) but it's crazy expensive especially if you have kids and need a bigger appartment, or you live in the suburbs that are mostly just housing and train (RER & Transilien) is unreliable.

If you want to live in the "15-minutes neighborhood" with everything, but can't afford to live inside Paris or down town of a big metropolis, you need to move to a middle-size city but then getting a job in your area is more difficult.
Except Nokia is pretty much around, their business was more than just mobile phones, and happen to own Bell Labs nowadays.
It's the same with internal combustion engines. And on a smaller scale, when that bit of custom code you wrote is obsolete because someone else wrote a better library.

I find it a bit sad and hard to let go of such things. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
TI has also cancelled distribution agreements with several of their top distributors recently. (Avnet, etc).

They have a few global distributors remaining, and if you talk to any of them for a new design, you'll notice they try to avoid promoting TI parts because of TI's new pricing and commission policies.
You don't have to become a member of our community, but I might be able to give you a couple of reasons why it is what it is today, if you can let me know which one we should put up on the page according to you?

- hosted/organised by an independent non-profit with the goal to help founders
- using slack, easy and unobtrusive cross platform system
- members are selected upon their motivation

Or because it already exists in a great form? There are multiple others, but we are open to anyone that can provide a motivation.
Lowe ascribes the speed of vaccine development to mRNA vaccine technology. Given that adenovirus vector and inactivated virus vaccines were also developed within a year, this seems to me to be simply incorrect:

> mRNA as a vaccine technology has been worked on for some twenty to twenty-five years now, from what I can see, and (as I never tire of mentioning) we’re very fortunate that it had worked out (and quite recently) several of its outstanding problems just before this pandemic hit. Five years ago we simply could not have gone from sequence to vaccine inside of a year. And I mean that “we” to mean both “we the biopharma industry” and “we the human race”.

By far, the longest step in development was running the trials, not actual development of the candidate vaccine itself.
> I'd be able to download packages of that application that worked for the systems of 20 years ago, but it would be a lot harder to run those on my current machine.

The JAR is still there, though, in the package. Although I'm not sure why you'd think that a long-abandoned piece of software is more likely to run an a much later runtime than on its own embedded one.

BTW, it is still perfectly acceptable to deliver an application as a JAR to developers who are expected to have a JDK and to know how to use it, and, of course, JARs are how all libraries are packaged.

> Depends on how much attack surface there is to that application and dependencies vs runtime

Ah, but that attack surface is smaller thanks to jlink. An application only distributes the runtime modules it actually needs.

> Often for a small application the Java runtime (including standard library) is actually the only part of the whole stack that's doing high-risk things

For a small application that is local, i.e. not a server -- perhaps. If it is meant to be used developers, they can run it with their JDK, and if it is meant for end-users, then surely it shouldn't dictate how all other applications are run. The author of such an application would use some library that adds auto-update for the application (or just its runtime).

But I think that the belief that most attack vectors are due to the runtime rather than the application or its libraries, at least when it comes to servers, is less reality and more wishful thinking. The monolithic runtime in the JRE was both large and heavily studied, so there was a good stream of vulnerability reports, but that doesn't mean it was any less secure than your own application; it could have just felt that way because the application's security wasn't as well tested.
I don't drink a lot of beer, especially lately, but I do like to have a different one once in a while, and I certainly can taste the difference between many, and also can get an idea from most descriptions, what "fruity", "nutty", etc. means. That may have come with experience... Through given a beer in a blind test, I probably couldn't write a useful taste profile and if I tried, it would probably come out very embarrassing for me, since I had no training for this, I think given the description I could have if not exact than pretty useful idea of what to expect.

Interestingly enough, though I like taste of coffee in general, I have never cared for different sorts, it's all "coffee" for me, though I know people who swear there's a huge difference (and they are not generally pretentious kind so I tend to believe they genuinely think so).
Aside from that: The US, UK and Israel have all proven that it is possible to do better than the EU here. They didn't know as well and ordered way sooner and more. AFAIR the UK even recently claimed that they vaccinated more people than the EU even in absolute numbers.
We are eleven months in.

I voluntarily restricted myself for a long while. Far, far longer than I should have, to the point that I may have given myself brain damage.

Now I am visiting my family because I'm not willing to do it indefinitely. The UK government is waffling on about restrictions until 2022 despite the fact we'll have vaccinated most of the vulnerable in a month or two.

Everyone has their breaking point, and I've reached mine.

Two weeks to flatten the curve, yo.
He is, and the heaviness of that is not lost.

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/sixty.html

http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/seventy.html
But on the other hand there are only so many hours in a day to run your HVAC/space heater. So from 8 hours per day, it can go worst case to 3x.
> Reduce classroom sizes. Give teachers adequate time to plan engaging lessons and make personal connections with students, their families, and the community.

Side note: This also increases demand for teachers, because any single teacher now teaches fewer students.

If you reduce class size by 1/3 you need 50% more teachers than before (at the same workload, to teach the same number of students). If you reduce class time by 1/3, you again need 50% more teachers.
> "Rotating outages primarily affect residential neighborhoods and small businesses and are typically limited to 10 to 45 minutes before being rotated to another location."

I don't understand. Here they shut down a couple large factories (that have agreed beforehand to emergency shutdowns) when there are capacity problems. Those eat so much power that it usually solves the problem.

They don't shut down power to residential just for capacity, if you're without power at home it means something blew up on the path that delivers to you.

Also, how can a gas pipeline freeze? Almost everyone is heating with natural gas here, we have a cold wave, and the only question is if they can deliver enough volume. Which is again fixed by shutting down some large industrial consumers, not by freezing homes.
This is a really good arguement to get more teens working again in low end jobs. I got laid off from a job at 16. My buddies regularly got laid off or had hours cut to 0 at various jobs. It kind of stunk, but the consequences were near zero and it set realistic expectations for business relationships.
you can't honestly argue that said boss leaves that all at home when they meet at work in the morning

If they never mention their non-work life at work, and work is going fine, then isn't that pretty clear evidence that they are leaving it (whatever "it" is) all at home?

consequence of making a hostile workplace.

It's pretty easy to argue, and yes argue honestly, that any hostility here is introduced by the person who brings up something from someone else's non-work life while at work, when previously the two were separate. That's actual harassment.

Someone having an opinion we don't like but that they never bring up at work, is clearly not workplace hostility or harassment on their part.
I see no reason why DoJ wouldn't, in a case like this, employ some sort of ombudsman or public defender with clearance to argue on behalf of the plaintiff. In some way the two parties should be represented in the decision.
That is up to the team though. This is closer to a TV station banning somebody so now they can't compete in a sport that will be broadcast on that station, forcing the team to kick them off.
https://www.rsync.net/ has been selling this solution for years. Price competitive these days. Not affiliated, just looked at it recently and thought it was extremely cool.
If you shut it down, competitors would immediately spring up and become way more popular. If you "just" ban someone you don't like, that won't happen.
So you think companies are acting in a moral interest and not in perceived financial interest?
Your CI pipeline builds and tests your project, which is the same thing your build system does, except they are each using different specifications of how to do that. The author argues this is a waste.

I think by introducing continuous deployment you are changing the topic from what the author wrote (which strictly referred to CI).
Anything about his divorce in here?
Great post Gaurav!
Don't TechCrunch encourage real names and still get snark in response to start-up announcements? There's more anonymity on HN and people are generally more civil.

A karma system can help, IMO.
The message(s) are the point. Misgendering people isn't nice, especially after someone has specifically laid out how they wish to be addressed. But yes, I will conceed I have been a little spammy and probably could have gone about it with less.
I think it's actually "-C -" to tell it to automatically figure out where to restart.
I think writing (not short blogs, but longer writing) is a process, and you have to enjoy the process, or at least enjoy the end product to struggle through the process.
I think writers can hate a part of the process while enjoying the creating and end part -- and I think we should encourage people to navigate the hard part.
I love that the website demonstrates why the “rebellion” will fail. The designers of the site know about one annoying thing, enough to lecture others, but are perfectly oblivious to another even more annoying thing that they themselves do.
Shoutout to some excellent software for ebook wrangling.

The first is the "Standard Ebooks"[1] toolset, which is a suite of Python scripts to create, process, and build ebooks in all common formats. The results on the Standard Ebooks site speak for themselves. They're impeccable in every way, and far better than many big name, commercially produced efforts.

GitHub: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

How to use: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...

The second is Sigil, which is a great editor if you prefer to work with a GUI:

GitHub: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil

Homepage: https://sigil-ebook.com/about/

[1] https://standardebooks.org/
Honestly, I don’t really see your point. Yes, We keep our commit messages as clean and descriptive as possible. Yes, if we have the time, we split our commits into logical groups of changes. Yes, we work on feature branches for mature projects.
We do all this with the git integration of IntelliJ, and I don’t see the slightest reason to waste any time with the syntax of our version control tool! I’d gladly force everyone on the team to use „stuff“ as the single, exclusive commit message, if that improved velocity (which it obviously doesn’t). Because all this discussion about proper git usage is nothing but bike-shedding.
Why do you think jail is the only punishment doled out by the judicial system? As I just wrote, we ban computer hackers from using computers for life - that's not jail. ~Cancellation~ exile was a preferred punishment, also not jail. We currently sentence people to community service and other metered, lesser acts of contrition/penance/punishment. For instance, we make graffiti artists clean up their art with soap and water (still not jail). Another favored punishment is the fine, in which society confiscates ill-begotten proceeds or perhaps resorts to mere punishment as recompense.

I don't see much of a difference between a judge issuing a fine and an Internet mob merely destroying your life besides due process.
You say "sue the inspector" like it's obviously a bad thing. If the inspector used their special government appointed powers to intentionally or negligently screw you over, they should be sued. Prohibiting individuals from being sued created two perverse incentives:

1. It emboldens those who do harm and allows that kind of behavior to become systemic (as it has in police culture)
2. It removes an incentive to improve our court systems and legal processes, because those closest to those legal systems have generally been immune.

> If you are found guilty of a crime, then you can be sued.

?? Generally, people want justice to be served. If a police officer had already been found guilty, they've already been given a sentence. That rarely happens because police departments and their unions stonewall efforts to determine truth and charge appropriately.
What little I remember from the 737MAX issue is that manufacturers are generally thought of as (and regulated as if they were) providing fully complete systems and processes to airlines, so even for things like maintenance or day to day operations—while technically shared liability between the manufacture and airline—generally falls more on the manufacturer to ensure the safety and consistency of. That said, could just be a quirk of the reporting that we're seeing the manufacturer side of it and not the airline side here.
Oh boy, you aren't going to make friends here. Upvoting you just to mitigate the damage.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21442330
speaking of weight

over/under 2.5t on weight of that tesla cyberwart?
>3 kids that fit in 3 car seats

Would all fit in a compact
This isn't they by finding. There is a difference between finding an object on the side of the road versus finding an object arched to your property.
Elon sounded hurt for real. I think it just happened. They went on banging on car doors with sledgehammers that went fine, it was just one piece as part of the show around the same theme that it's a strong car.
I think this car will be popular in Japan.
Isn't the original required when watching/reading/playing prequels?

I mean, I know people who watched the Phantom Menace without having watched the Original Trilogy, but they lost the significance of who was that little boy or why he mattered...
Removing artificial invitation limits is key if you really want to go viral. Most places have people called "whales." They are the ones that send out to their entire address book, while most just send none or one.

However a cap does serve its purpose for scalability and hype reasons. To which you choose, is probably a function of how engaging the app is outright.
See Barrkel's post below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022642 - it's not something you can always negotiate. I don't care if others choose money over time - I'm saying many just don't have that choice.
feefighters. Real business model, solves a real problem.
Fair enough, though I know what == means in Ruby and eq is additional, duplicated syntax to learn (as with assert_equals). Without hitting the docs, I wonder what the other comparisons are in this alternate DSL. I could have a good guess.. lt, gt.. not sure on less than or equal to, regex matching, etc. I'd have to look up or memorize those rather than use syntax reinforced over years of use that already does the job. How something sounds is not so important to me, AppleScript swore me off the "sounds like English" route :-)

Naturally this is a matter of opinion, but it's testament to your fine work with RSpec (and particularly in the recent modularization work) that it deals deftly with differing opinions without putting anyone at a serious disadvantage.
Humanitarian housing designers don't design construction components, they design with construction components. Open hardware designers do the same thing with electrical components.

My point is that if humanitarian housing designers want to actually see their designs used they should open source the designs as open hardware people do.
Yeah, any domain that's "serving up copyright material" should be seized. Let's start with these:

google.com
news.ycombinator.com
youtube.com
reddit.com
Does anyone know if this can be used effectively for power naps throughout the day? I'd love to nap, but tend to sleep for an hour plus. If I set a traditional alarm, I always feel like I'm jarred awake and a little off for the next hour or so, completely defeating the point of the nap.
Please refrain from libelous statements. I’ve never read anything from Stallman that defends any behavior a reasonable person would identify as Paedophilia, rather objections on the extremal formal definitions the US judiciary has for the status of “child”
The last company I was at was switching to HANA when I left, none of it was cloud-based.
Yes, many of them were.

Here's the lead developer of the HURD: https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

Here's someone who spent about two decades of his life at the FSF, including as executive director, and won the FSF's award for contributions to free software on the same day that RMS announced his return: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

Here's a whole bunch of GNU project maintainers, publishing a statement on gnu.org: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

Here's a couple of high-profile GCC contributors: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235091.html https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235096.html
If "Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?" setting wasn't set to "Everyone" in your privacy settings, then your phone number wouldn't be visible to the scraping campaign that was the source of this.