jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's worse than that. "Patriarchy" makes me buy the whole framework in which the analysis is done. If you're trying to persuade me, I probably don't already buy that framework. In fact, I probably reject it. But if you show me that the distribution of chores comes out unfairly to females, you now have a starting point for persuading me about the rest of the package.

If you want to convince people of a point, tie the point to as little extraneous baggage as possible. Choosing the terms you express it in is part of avoiding baggage. (If your point is to let those who agree with you rejoice in the obvious rightness of their opinion, that's different. But that's an approach that does little to actually change things that, per your position, need changed.)
I created all of the IAM roles that our 100+ person company uses. It was and is important from a security standpoint that we do not just blindly give too many permissions to employees. I had to do some research to understand what the bare minimum was and it wasn't too difficult to do.

Custom roles created through Terraform helped a lot.
"an equivalent Visa purchase (which clears faster)"

How long does it take for a Visa purchase to clear equivalently to bitcoin? I think to be equivalent to bitcoin it would have to be, I have some cash, and now someone else has that cash. Not a promise of cash. Not a balance in my bank's database. Actual cash. How long does that take using the Visa network?

EDIT: also, what are all the costs involved in that Visa transaction? Payer has to travel to an ATM, deposit cash, Payee has to set up a merchant account or use stripe or something, they have to travel to an ATM, withdraw cash, etc., etc.
>The idea is that the government can regulate what you are enjoying and modify your desires and actions. It is the ultimate expression of paternalistic governance theory.

As usual, Turley's hyperbole can be seen from the moon. Laws against the sale of heroin primarily prevent people from enjoying heroin so they will not desire heroin. Laws against child pornography prevent people from enjoying pedophilia so they will not harm children. Laws against street racing prevent the enjoyment of speeding so people will drive more safely. Laws against hate crimes control certain self-reinforcing criminal dynamics. The last three do refer to a real harm-to-others, but the motivational intent of the law is obvious.

Wikipedia states: "Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences". Indeed the legal concept of punishment still maps well onto the behavioral psych definition of punishment, and the latter is routinely used as a model to critique and inform the former.

That's not to say I support this video game ban, nor even am I saying I don't think it's stupid (it is). But all of this "the government is trying to control your thoughts!" chicanery is just that. Everything is trying to control your thoughts.
While this may be true, there's no point comparing yourself to other countries if you did achieve success, and are slowly losing it. The article makes the point that previous generations did have that success and slowly for newer generations it is being lost. That's a failure that needs to be highlighted - in the end against previous generations livings standards if you agree with this article we do not currently measure up to those standards.

IMHO I think globalization is to blame for this; it has transferred equity/ownership from Western countries over time. It has given us cheaper electronics, cheap aviation/holidays, and other discretionaries but in return has denied people of the essentials (cheap houses, job security, etc) and has transferred existing wealth away. The rich have the means to protect themselves and even profit from this redistribution of wealth; it's the middle class instead where much of the wealth was has slowly been drained. Instead of wealth they now substituted it with debt to keep the system running.

In the country I live in house prices are highly proportional to debt growth, much accrued to foreign debt. Our exchange rate stays high since issuing debt in the local currency despite increasing the CAD and draining wealth bids up the currency on the FX market. As long as houses don't crash (which is where most debt is issued) the dollar's worth doesn't deteriorate and we don't see the drain of wealth. As long as debt growth keeps growing we always create positive pressure on our exchange rate. The sad part about this of course is while young people can't afford houses, the goods they may substitute for this (cars, holidays, gadgets) are all underpinned by the debt used to bid those houses higher via a higher than otherwise FX rate.
Thank you for your comment. I updated the article and did a strikethrough in the sentence about e-ink and patents, 'Correction, this is an unsubstantiated claim.'
It was love at first sight. Since the Android update it's even better. It does what I want from it: it reads eBooks and becomes a second screen in an emergency. Most of my work is text focused so black-and-white is not a problem here. I know in theory it could do even more but I don't need that. I am reading a lot, I had an eReader with me for more than a decade now always and if it doubles as an emergency monitor, that's insanely valuable to me. I can't really say how good a tablet it is, I have zero interest whatsoever in using it as such.
The best I can see from there pdf is that the data will be "pseudonymised". Maybe I'm misreading it... I'll be impressed if there is some clever mathematical process to truly anonymise it!
> For regular retail banking customers your deposits have FDIC protection, not a thing you can get with BTC.

If you use Bitcoin, then you remove the bank, and you don't need FDIC.

FDIC is there to protect bank customers from a bank going insolvent. Banks go insolvent if they lend too much money out, and then all customers demand their money back at once.

Your Bitcoin wallet doesn't lend your money out. It can't go insolvent. You don't need FDIC for it.
Well, the internet is currently really governed by the ICANN, a private corporation.
OK, now we're just missing a nice open cloud solution and we can finally get back our data :)
You're correct - fear of snakes is not instinctual in humans. Most young primates will avoid a snake, while a young child who hasn't been taught otherwise will blithely walk over and pick one up.
For completeness, here is the interactive version: http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html
Hasn't his sign-up free increased by two dollars (2,000 users) or more since the leak?
I guess it all depends on how valuable the service is to you. For me, the one-time signup fee seems minimal for the value I get from a service that I use nearly every day. I've used many other bookmarking services, some of which have already disappeared like Gnolia. Pinboard is very stable, faster than Delicious, and the developers respond to requests quickly. I have no connection with Pinboard other than as a happy customer, but I regularly recommend the service and think it is worth paying for.

I use Pinboard to help collect data for many of my research projects and the archiving capability ($25/ year) is great retrieving pages that have already disappeared, that I want to go back and reference. Yes, I could use other free services and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (which is amazing), but the speed, support, and reliability of Pinboard make it easily worth the cost. I prefer that services I rely on have a sustainable business model. Charging a very reasonable fee to provide quality service seems like a good model to me.
If I'm not passionate about something I have a hard time investing in it. I never was captivated by college. When they stopped paying me I left.

Never looked back and never regretted it.

Do what you love and the money will follow.
Just another example of how private business and hackers are more effective at creating open and accessible government data.
I actually prototyped something similar a long time ago. It allowed for authoring sections that could be composed into a number of views. The only difference is that I wanted to capture the different "facets" of an article as well - so you could have a tab that was just the code, or statistics, etc.

You could possibly prototype with a coda template:
https://coda.io/@michael-joseph-rosenthal/essayist
These days it's more about the code than the books. I don't think there are any books up-to-date. It's all in the source code (and man pages).

https://git.kernel.org/
Wow. That is next-level stuff. This makes me think of how varied the human experience is, even for the most routine activities. I've heard the word "skimming" hundreds or maybe thousands of times before, but clearly it is an inaccurate abstraction of the range of things someone can mean when they say "skimming."

Here is a dictionary definition: "The action of reading something quickly so as to note only the important points." If you showed me that definition before I started skimming effectively, I would have never extrapolated the behavior you described from that word. I didn't even know people did that.

-----------Idea ----------

I could see value in an open source "Verbose Dictionary" where people from all ages and walks of life would be able to add their own definition of a word. There would be two general rules when someone makes an entry:

1. They would need to write their definition in a verbose manner. I'm thinking at least three sentences, usually more, but also not as long as a Wikipedia entry.

2. They would need to be as open and honest as possible, so that there's minimal translation loss between what they're communicating and what we take away from it. Importantly, the word needs to be described with both intellectual and emotional cues. The author would also be able to let the reader know basic facts about themselves, and there would be some mitigations against trolling or fakers.

Over time, we would converge on a more universal language to maximize our mutual understanding of what each of us truly feel and think about words, concepts, current events, people, etc.... There would also be optional tags and slider scales (i.e. 1-10) that can attach to each definition so that you can correctly communicate the breadth, depth, and magnitude of your thoughts and feelings on the word. Critically, the goal would not be to achieve groupthink and converge on the same definition. That would be contrary to the premise of the Verbose Dictionary.

Not only would I find such a dictionary highly captivating, but I also think that it can serve as a useful tool for conceptual mapping or things like artificial neural networks. What are your thoughts? Would you use the Verbose Dictionary?
Thanks, fixed! :-)
It is absolutely insane that we are so limited in this capacity, months after we knew we would need it. It is so limited and dire that we are barely able to provide for our own healthcare workers.

I really hope that after this is over, we have the political strength to diagnose the problems and deal with them. However I fear that the current regime will prevent any such correction because of fear that they could blamed, and the extreme dictator-like narcissism that prevents any corrections because it would mean admitting imperfection.
It's just easier to get going with programming stuff on linux (other than .net)

Need python? Ruby? docker? A different compiler or a specific library? They're just an apt-get install away. It just feels more natural and integrated.

Windows has always been an odd duck for programming on.
Thanks! Will add soon
Thanks Tin, I'll checkout Slab soon.
> Raft is for synchronized writes. It's slow in the case of a single-write being slow because you have to wait for an "ok" from replicas, which is a good thing (compared to async-replication in, say, cassandra/dynamodb). Keep in mind that s3 also moved to synced replication. This is fixed by having more parallelism.

We have synchronous writes without Raft, meaning we are both much faster and still strongly consistent (in the sense of read-after-write consistency, not linearizability). This is all thanks to CRDTs.
No, it's more than that, it's threatening to take away a large portion of the bread and circuses too.
You're right. Still, mentioning SHA-256 brings better possibility of "someone knowing something", compared to, say, GUI, Visual Basic, and tracing IP addresses.
The poor and the aspirational class works for the wealth.

The wealthy work for power and control.
>Unless you understand what the problem actually is there will be no way to fix it.

Oh that's easy. The problem is with society. No one is in any way damaged or traumatized cause they saw some sex on a screen at approximately 13 years old. Its ridiculous we go through the intrusive charade of trying to stop them. The problem is there is no problem.
I never liked Spotify, most music I listen to is not available there, you have to login/make an account of someone wants to share a song with you (pfff) and ofcourse the total bs about 'paying artist' while pirating music themselves[0]. This is just a company interested in making a profit [1]. Nothing more nothing less

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-threatened-researchers-who-...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxxkn/musicians-are-draggin...
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I feel like you missed the point of this discussion: the server code in fact hasn't been open source for the past year, and so one couldn't make a fork of it.
That's cool. Reminds me of https://ivanish.ca/hest-time-travel/
If you're not drinking coffee for the taste and experience - stop drinking it.

In my opinion, there's no point in sustaining an addiction without any of the main benefits.
While it is Oracle vs. Google, Oracle is buddying up to Apple at the same time, this is one of the best viral marketing campaigns ever. Attach/Attack current big names and be very visible.
"How does a full body scan not provide additional security over a metal detector? Another absurd counterintuitive postulate based on no evidence."

Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Full+body+scanners+waste+...

A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.

"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.

Sela, former chief security officer of the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, helped design the security at Ben Gurion.
One major pilots union is already instructing its members to bypass the scans, out of concerns that the radiation dose is absorbed disproportionately by the skin:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/american-air...

... a concern echoed by a group of UCSF biologists:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1268330...

I don't care much about the nakedness aspect, but I do resent security theater, which now apparently extends to physically intimidating "enhanced pat-downs" and making everyone remove belts, even at airports without backscatter imagers:

http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the_pilot/2010/11/04/bel...
"JavaScript already has gotos in the form of labels and break."

Actually, no, it doesn't. I don't know anything about JavaScript.
Alternatively, props to AOL for disguising a press release as an internal leak.
This touches on the core of my enthusiasm about sweet-expressions. I'd like to make a "SweetScript" that compiles to JavaScript (via some lightweight lisp) and could essentially serve as a CoffeeScript with macros.

Would you find such a tool useful? What challenges would you foresee facing such a project?
"After the firing of google ethics researchers, i am going to pee"

This headlines are hairpulling the issue in every news.
That's really for you, and I mean no disrespect or judgement. But at some point in the future you'll have a need to "do something" again. Maybe after you've built a family and put them all into motion, you'll find a place where you want to do something again.

And for better or worse, your kids will be shaped by the environment you provide. If you have so much money that they need never worry, then it will actually be harder for them to find their own place and be motivated. Think back honestly... if nothing you did really mattered in terms of your financial success, would you have been motivated to do what you did? I probably would not.

Already my children are a mix of complacent and unconcerned of the financial future and also driven to create. They know they will never be poor or hungry. Will that limit the raw expression and energy they have? It did me. I could not fail if I tried. I knew I was capable of anything, and I demonstrated some degree of that in various ways. But I had nothing to lose.

Eventually everyone begins to ask what the point of anything is. And frankly, we are left with no answers and just some guesses or assumptions. We basically decide what life means. If it means nothing, then why bother with any of it? If it means something, then we should put energy into whatever that something is. Money makes most of it nicer, but it can be a distraction for those who have it and for those who seek it.
That was a good read. We are currently working on a tool to match product images and its hard (but fun) to do. I'd like to know if anyone has created anything like this already in Python and if so if you'd be prepared to have a chat with us?
"It'll never happen"

It would mean he needs to get out of his leather couch, but why not?
Direct link to EventBrite meetup https://frontendframeworkshowdown.eventbrite.com/ showdown with Backbone (Sam Breed), Angular (Brian Ford) and Ember (Tom Dale)
Yes, it could. And I suppose you're going to argue that user experience means nothing? That, as a company, getting "locked into the wrong $10 service for a month" is a perfectly ideal way to treat your customers?
Absolutely agree. I am all for competition but the fragmentation currently is disturbing.

In the end it probably is caused by the stupid subscription models where you pay for everything (and you don't want 99% of it). Similar to all-you-can-eat it basically promotes mass consumption without too much depth.

I quit Netflix because there were only a few shows I really liked and the rest was just garbage. I really prefer buying single seasons on Amazon if that is possible. I hope this will be the future but i doubt it.
With Java code I get notifications on github about unsafe libraries. I also have tools to verify my dependency tree.

In new platform, this would be one of first tools, I would seek.
Never trust caller ID or senderid on phone calls or SMS.

The reason is that phone companies interoperate grudgingly and do the minimum required to pass calls and messages between each other, and also most phone companies are 100+ year old companies who have just layered modern tech on top of their old stuff.

They handle a massive unending stream of calls/messages and they can't possibly validate each one (even if they wanted to), so when a call comes into your provider (mobile or land line) it comes with all the metadata fields (sender, etc) populated, and your provider just passes that along without any verification.

This was less of a problem with there was a reasonably limited number of phone companies (a few per country) and they were all large enterprises..

Now with the rise of Twilio and tons of other pay-as-you-go companies that can hook into the global phone network to send calls and messages, and MVNOs (virtual phone companies that sit on top of the incumbent ones), there are too many players to track and in the name of convenience (and cost-savings) we haven't kept up with the verification part of the chain.
Oh, facebook will pay for this breach. A lot. One thing is breach, the second part is hiding and not notifying "natural persons". They have basically violated (ignoring data collection methods etc.) what GDPR is about. But probably they wont notify non EU users. As they are not obliged so they don't care.

Article 33.

"In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority competent in accordance with Article 55, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons. 2Where the notification to the supervisory authority is not made within 72 hours, it shall be accompanied by reasons for the delay."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/

Article 34:

"When the personal data breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller shall communicate the personal data breach to the data subject without undue delay."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-34-gdpr/
During down time, work on outside projects. Nobody knows which project you're working on. It's just a editor with code :-)
> but everyone is apparently cool with that because "kids don't get sick from it" (ignoring any long-covid repercussions, which seems foolish to me)

If kids don't get sick, then they don't get sick. What's foolish or difficult to understand about this? BTW when someone says "kids don't get sick from it" they don't talk in absolute terms. Kids also can get cancer, yet we are not screening their prostate yearly like we do with old men.

Wanting to harm children's future, education, development and mental health because out of your own fear is rather distasteful.
Can you recommend any transcription tool for work purposes?
Hm, apparently it does not support Amazon Prime Video in germany.
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Wait, it's worth $300M according to its owner. How much is it worth according to other people?
This just goes to show you why we normally have due process. When you don't follow the process, you fuck things up badly.
This reminds me how most people seem to see programming as some sort of black magic that only happens when the stars align just-so. If only they were aware of how different things actually are...

Python solution:
def under_the_limit(response):
return len(response.split()) <= 150
A million isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars. I couldn't resist.
I have heard this before many times, and I tried to find a study that would defend that assertion one weekend and failed miserably. If you have a citation for one of those studies I would be in your debt.
You're preaching to the choir, most of my day- and nightjob involves just that. ;-)

That's where a bit of skepticism stems from, as I've dealt with both of these databases first hand, also various other stacks ranging from java, python, ruby, even lua.

The not-so-stellar uptime record of Heroku shows that making one size fit all is quite hard, even when you're doing it only for a relatively small set of components.

Doing it well for nearly all of them is nothing short of the holy grail in systems management.