jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I am not sure one can have it both ways. Either most people will save a government handout, or most people live paycheck to paycheck and will be severely affected by losing their job/an economic slowdown.

Of course there will be some people who will immediately save any check from the government, but that's a disjoint set from the people who are in dire need (laid off or reduced hours).
> we seem to have many countries who have taken action yet failed to stop exponential growth

Remember the virus has an incubation period of around 2 weeks. China's numbers appeared to be increasing exponentially for 2 weeks after the lockdown, but those were mostly people infected before the lockdown.
Yep, this user flow bifurcation is nothing but confusing for people.

I avoid it and have found people are far less confused
Anecdotal but my eBay sales have been way up this last week. Although honestly I suspect it’s Amazon having problems shipping things.

I’m better a lot of other online sellers are seeing the same as people stay indoors and change how they spend. Of the items I’ve sold they were all hobby items.
I suggest https://github.com/google/google-java-format
All the important parts of Qt are available under LGPLv3. This only makes a difference to you if you want to do Tivoization of your software (Gtk uses LGPLv2, this being the only major difference AFAIK). In which case you still have the option to buy a commercial license.
My father is a researcher in electrical engineering. A while ago, he and his colleagues envisioned a method of developing solar panels that could have blown past the efficiency of the day. Only problem is it involved creating and working with very small crystalline structures. Their research into said structures was novel for its time. Turned out once they learned more about the actual physics, the theory behind the panel design broke down and they had to abandon the project.

But was the result useless? Hardly. To this day he gets contacted by scientists from time to time trying to do the same thing and he has to tell them why their plan won’t work.

Preventing people from going down dead ends is valuable, like knowing how to look for the solution to an obscure software error. Or, to paraphrase Edison, it’s knowing ahead of time how not to make a lightbulb.
Every country starts with (let's say) 1 imported case. From there, it grows. Cases/capita doesn't really mean anything until you get into the millions of cases and start thinking about what the upper bound might be.

And so ranking countries by size of outbreak seems reasonable to me.
You Will Get More Pageviews If You Simply Wrap Others Content
I would name my next son Simon if one of those two would implement optional backtracking in the type checker, so that it would try all of the definitions of e.g., map, foldr, filter, and succeed if there is exactly one assignment of types to identifiers that typechecks, fails otherwise. While surely not trivial, it certainly must be possible seeing as how Prolog can be embedded in Haskell. Then the gratuitous namespacing would be optional.
I like how everybody's most important task seems to be building an iPhone if they've traveled back 30 years in time.
One of targets brands is “up and up” which always gets a lol because like...trust me, these garbage bags are on the up and up. Who are you trying to convince?!
My thesis was the opposite of your statement; those at the cut-off point are not travelling, they are not eating a nice restaurants, and they do not have kids let alone kids in good schools. They are working longer and harder than they did at the beginning of their career, and hence do not have a feeling of having obtained wealth.

To restate, I posit that while they have recently acquired a high income; with that has not come wealth in any sense that has made an impact on their lifestyle.

Concretely, having a 30 year mortgage on a 1500 foot house isn't a significant change from a 900 sq ft apartment. A 6% pay decrease for a 401k account might not be noticable, but when an investment can't be touched for 29 years there isn't a feeling of wealth attached to it.

I would assume that 10 years at this salary level may change that, but with the transient nature of tech this is not something that it assumed by most. I am also working under the assumption that that the distribution of people with earnings in this range is skewed towards those having reached it within the last decade.
Sorry, that's just not true, at least for mainstream large European banks.
At first I was incredibly surprised that Google made this, since it a) looks beautiful b) uses jQuery and c) the UI is darn good - but then I viewed the source and saw this:

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Built by Fi (www.f-i.com) for the Google Chrome Team.

Design-by-committee (or by data) would never have built this. This is why I know there would never be a place for me at Google, even though I don't consider myself a designer.
A test bank is the set of questions and/or possible tests that can be given in a testing period. The idea is that you are able to make it harder to cheat on a (usually multiple choice) test by making potential cheaters either not know or not have access to others answers on a test.
Clojure code is Clojure data. So, these SQL statements are really just nested lists.

Instead of writing an ad-hoc SQL parser and doing string manipulation, you can write relatively simple Clojure functions to manipulate these lists and generate valid SQL.
We studied feminism briefly in a Communications course I took at the University, the prof (female) was very sympathetic of the feminist movement. I didn't make up the notion of the patriarchal society.

I didn't claim you made it up; but your presentation doesn't strike me as very accurate. In particular, "It's obvious that marriage is a byproduct of this patriarchal structure" seems wrongheaded. Marriage is a social institution; that means that the structure of marriage reflects the existing power structures in society.

Even in the most egalitarian societies, like Sweden, people still get married in great numbers. What's more, many of those who don't get married in fact do get married in all but name: they live together like a married couple indefinitely. Since there are often few benefits to explicit marriage, their choice represents little more than a willingness to forgo a religious ceremony. But it shouldn't surprise us that people in very secular countries decide to avoid big religious ceremonies; that's just common sense.

When a man and a woman fall in love, the first thing they try to do in a traditional/conservative society is to try and get married. In the west, the first thing they do is go out together, make out, have sex, maybe move in and live together for years and have children without ever officially getting married.

As I understand it, a great number of unmarried couples in traditional societies make out and have sex; the big difference is that they sneak around when doing so. But if you like, we can pretend that everyone in traditional societies actually strictly observes all their social norms.

Moreover, a great many people in western countries get married and stay married for many years. It seems silly to pretend that they don't exist. Your claims would be more persuasive if they were backed up by numbers.
I am under the impression that it was revealed by Swedish officials that neither woman claimed that she had been physically assaulted.
I heard it this way:

If you can't do, teach,

If you can't teach, administrate,

If you can't administrate, go into politics,

If you can't get elected, go to work for the government.
There are a lot of interesting advanced projects (AI, automated driving, etc.), but I would be worried about the search core right now as CEO.

The proliferation of content-mills and SEO companies is really starting to take a toll on search results. I find myself avoiding Google and going to niche sources directly now (like Wikipedia or StackOverflow) just to avoid the Demand Media trash that is everywhere now.

I think Google should really invest in a new approach to rank -- one that could maybe focus on the content itself using AI and NLP instead of link juice.
I think they generated it using Sphinx, which I heartily recommend as a tool -- you write your docs in REST, and it generates HTML (with built-in JavaScript search), PDF or other formats. It was developed for the latest version of the Python docs.

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
I've done application development for both. The comments here mock Android in the typical fashion that I'm used to. The delicious part is that there is no one responding to anyone of my commentary in asking, is there something magical about iOS that makes the apps just more amazing. (The Android app has been out for 3 years and probably at least a year and a half before their seamless messaging was even being considered. It's no excuse for why the iOS FB app got messaging and Android didn't. I called out XMPP... you know... because that's the protocol that FB Chat uses. Additionally, the entire point of the seamless messaging is that it doesn't matter which protocol the communication goes over, it's all aggregated to the same place.)

Does the Facebook's app presence on an iOS device magically give it photo album support and chat support? No, that's silly.

So, all of you that continue to downvote me and aren't bothering to respond to my actual contention, I'll ask again. Why are we making fun of Android as a platform rather than indicting the developers that don't bake in the same features.

I've seen the code for a simple XMPP client in Android, and I know that it would not be hard to implement in the Facebook app. Yet it isn't. And Android gets blamed for it. The comments here are unintelligent, but then again they usually are on anything iOS/Android related.

Finally, I never ever said they suck. I'm sure their priorities are elsewhere, I just don't understand why.
I think the GP understood this, but their point was that it is a false assumption that introducing the uncertainty principle in a classical simulation would simplify the computation.

That is, if we think that the universe is a simulation running on a classical computer, then quantum effects such as the uncertainty principle CAN'T be a "shortcut" to make the simulation easier - as in fact they make the simulation literally exponentially harder. If we assume that the universe is a simulation running on a quantum computer, then quantum effects are fundamental anyway.

Of course, everyone understands that this is a simple joke. Still, it's interesting that it goes completely against our intuitions as computer simulation designers.
> didn't you guys just have an EBS issue about a month ago?

Yes. Since then we've moved about 1/2 of our stuff off of EBS, but we're still migrating away from it.
I can access all my heroku apps that have their own DNS. Anything with a .heroku.com subdomain is down for me. Frustrating, knowing that the apps are still running but aren't routable.
http://venuetastic.com/ - feel bad for these guys. They launched yesterday and down today because of AWS. Murphy's law in practice.
Proof that good electronic music with artful classical influences gets zero attention is that this comment would be at the bottom of the page with a sub-zero rating.
http://soundcloud.com/alxander/cravings
Why is it more expensive to deploy in zones X,Y in regions A,B than zones M,N in region C? I assume you don't just mean "US West is ~10% more expensive than US East."
US Census estimated 1947 median income at $3,000 (in 1947 dollars) http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-005.pdf

Cost of books in 1947? $0.25 to $2.50 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AmericasBestComics220...

$1.50 / $3,000 = 0.05% of income in 1947
$7.99 / $49,777 (2009) = 0.016% of income in 2009

Some other costs in 1947:
Average Cost of new house $6,600.00
Average wages per year $2,850.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents
Average Cost of a new car $1,300.00
Loaf of Bread 13 cents
United States Postage Stamp 3 cents
Men's Sweater $8.50
Bulova Men's Watch $52.50
from http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1947.html
> The people of Iran pay taxes which funds their government.

Can they stop? Hardly. As soon as one stops paying taxes and gets caught he is officially a criminal. No he can't even emigrate because foreign countries won't give him a visa: you usually are required to provide a certificate of having no criminal records at your home country to the embassy when you apply and they don't take "I just didn't want to support our wicked government" as an excuse.
Yes, and Google can shut down your app or entire account for no reason at all and you have no right to complain about it, because free market capitalism.
> Nothing in the mRNA vaccines was chosen to enhance immune response, nothing is an adjuvant as with other vaccines.

This isn't -exactly- true. There's no traditional adjuvant added, but... the fact that the formulation caused adjuvant-like effects was seen as a feature, not a bug. Added care to minimize immune response has been used in the development of mRNA drug platforms

> Non of the "adjuvants" aren't to be found in common household items, food and cosmetics

You can find PEG in lots of things, but PEGylated large molecules aren't exactly common items around the home.
It's less controversial than the r-word, which is why it's a good analogy. People who insist that it's okay to say one usually insist that it's okay to say the other one, because they don't understand the ways words hurt people.
It's not just financial geekery, it's a complete re-configuring of our society including the dissolution of the state. Combating the eco destruction wrought by entities like the US government is a big piece of the puzzle.
> There's no need to have collective worship.

There is probably at least a billion people on earth who disagree with you.

Curious if you were raised in American Evangelical Protestant Christianity? It sounds like the kind of thing I hear often from exvangelicals.

> Collective worship is only important with regards to collecting money from a congregation. It's a money making scheme, not a religious prerogative.

Those tv preachers who have gotten filthy rich probably disagree with the necessity for corporate worship to make money. They’re probably seeing the covid lockdowns as a great way to make even more money.

I do strongly agree with you in teaching our children about Shakespeare, geometry, and classics though. We might have different motivations for doing so, but I’m glad to see that even a non-religious person sees a necessity for those things.
You shouldn't call them and find something else. It's a money grab.
I once worked next door to a charity that had a name something like "Association For Retarded Citizens." It was very well loved and respected in the community.

Then the 1990's happened and it changed its name to something more politically correct like "Association For Individuals Of Differing Abilities." I found out when the big sign out front that i used to park by was changed.

A year or so later, the sign changed again. Back to "Association For Retarded Citizens." There was an article in one of the newspapers saying that donations dried up because nobody knew who they were or what they did anymore.

Just an interesting anecdote.
Yep as sibling comment says I was riffing on 'my hovercraft is full of eels' [0], meaning to say that that's probably what me trying to ask questions on a hypothetical 'Hindi StackOverflow' would sound like.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
I bought a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled and had an amazing experience for the first month.

Then one day the computer would no longer boot. I had to manually tinker to revert to older version and it booted again, but now 50% time microphone didn't work.

Then one day I installed mysql, and had to do some crazy brute force experimentation to be able to run a local copy of our db.

I accept it's possible the hardware vendor messed up the setup, and someone with greater skills than me could have worked around these issues more productively whilst benefitting from greater flexibility and customisation in other areas.

I will stick to MacBooks from now onwards. I don't have the time to deal with all this hassle.
"Some decision at some point in 1970s or 1980s, Kodak executives/management probably decided against diversifying."

In that era Kodak was diversified in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics, thin-film coatings, and industrial chemicals. They've all been spun out or sold off, starting in the early 1990s.
On the other hand it's 2022 and my GNU/Linux/KDE system is very close from 100% free software, and allows to do pretty much anything I want - audio and video creation and editing with Kdenlive, LMMS, Ardour, writing and typesetting (I mostly use LaTeX but LibreOffice works well enough to be used in most of the administration of my country - I'm nearly 30 and have had the luck of almost never having been exposed to MS Office either in school or professionaly), making presentations (I use QML but there's LO, Beamer or whatever Markdown or JS presentation framework of the day), browsing the web with firefox, managing and processing RAW pictures with Darktable, and then there are entire toolchains and development tools which are more than competitive with proprietary alternatives... and I forget a ton of things.

I am thankful every day of being able to live in the world where this is possible and having been able to do so from a quite young age - at first because when I was a kid my parents did not have the money to buy any software at all so learning how to use free software & systems has quickly been a necessity, and now because I know that whenever there's a bug somewhere in the stack I have good chances of being able to peek at the exact issue and if not fixing it myself, at least reporting it to the person who most likely wrote the code almost directly .
> I appreciate the challenge. :)

Thank you for being friendly btw. So many conversations here go south, it's nice to just talk ideas without it being an unpleasant confrontation.
Found this explanation of 'delay discounting' quite good:

The phenomenon scientists call “delay discounting” can tell a lot about
a person’s ability to set and attain goals. Some people are more likely
to prefer smaller but immediate rewards rather than larger but delayed
rewards. The tendency to prefer immediate rewards, even if they are
smaller, has been linked to impulsive behavior, which is connected to
problems such as substance abuse and addiction.

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/podcast/delay-discounting/
But mistermann is right; his point is the critical one, and you've responded to it by changing the subject.

Another humorist who does this, in a meaner way, is Sasha Baron-Cohen. The lesson here is not how ridiculous the people being ridiculed are, but rather: Who controls the editing controls everything. (Christopher Hitchens said brilliantly about the dinner party scene in Borat that it showed not how racist Americans are, but how polite they are.)

Mercer's portrayals of Americans are not portrayals of Americans at all, but of Canadians' self-congratulatory caricatures of Americans. It makes me cringe with embarrassment.
I was surprised that I couldn't find any info about this until now. I googled every day, hoping to find some sort of information. (Is that sad?)

Nice to know. Thanks alrex021!
Exactly...the new internet based players are, generally speaking, very loose players, and have really change the game in the non internet world. And I'd reckon that a very large percentage of entrants into physical tournaments now are internet trained players, and if you have a large enough % of these people starting, and all (hyperbole) of them "swinging for the fences", a lot of them are going to get through just on luck, but different ones each time.

Whereas, you will generally see at least one or two of the top 20-30 "old school" people at the final table of any major tournament.
waves shipment goes Wednesday, make sure to get your address to me before then
Arnold Schwarznegger popularized bodybuilding, became a successful movie star and is now governor of the most populated state in the United States.

I think the point should be experience in a field is extremely valuable given all the time that had to be invested. It really should stop there.

The second conclusion - that you ought not to jump fields because of the experience advantage that you would be losing - is false.
s/ask for/offer/;
I love how the top story on Hacker News reminds me that I owe Danielle an e-mail after TC Disrupt to get myself a Twilio t-shirt. :) waves at Danielle
Nope, Twilio doesn't do fractional billing.

I can report back on how much it costs me to run this thing after a month. With 5 people coming and going average of 2 times per day each, I expect it is going to come out to around $0.30 per day x 30 days plus the $1/mo for the phone number -- so roughly $10/month... we'll see how close my guess is
1. Who is the intended audience?
2. How do you plan to make money?

looks like a very very tiny niche to me....
To add to what others said, the Chinese government is a bit obsessed with the Soviet collapse, which many in the Chinese system see as having been causes by liberalizing too quickly. Gorbachev allowed freedom of speech and the Union disintegrated soon after, and that was before we had communication force multipliers like the Internet.

It's not necessarily completely self serving; many Chinese leaders do have their people's interests at heart. (Not all do, of course.) It's easy to argue that the many of the former Soviet republics are doing much worse now than they were in 1989.
The terms cathedral/bazaar do have meaning in the community beyond the specific definition in that book. Worse, without some historical hesitation, using that specific definition now, 14 years later, is to ignore the influence of that book on the larger discourse on the topic. (Compare it to the Bible: interpreting it as is without taking into account the 2000+ years of history and cultural evolution is non-sense [although popular in certain circles])
Smoking rates in the US, Europe, and Australia have fallen tremendously. The peak rates were during the 1950s and 1960s, particularly after WWII. Cigarettes had been heavily promoted through films and popular culture, were included in soldier's rations and kits (paid for by tobacco companies), and pitched via advertising aimed directly at children and appealing to women's sense of independence and self-determination.

During which time the tobacco companies were actively concealing the negative health effects and campaigning against not only regulation but simply providing truthful information about tobacco's hazards.

Instrumental in much of this was Edward Bernays, the father of the modern Public Relations industry (he coined the term after the word "propaganda" lost its lustre after its use by Germany in WWI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

The BBC series by excellent documentarian Adam Curtis (I've encountered a few of his other works and writings recently), The Century of the Self covers Bernays:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

Many of the same methods and techniques were applied to corporate disinformation campaigns against controls over leaded paint, asbestos, ozone, auto safety. Look up GM's attempts to smear Ralph Nader:

In early March 1966, several media outlets, including The New Republic and The New York Times, reported that GM had tried to discredit Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones and investigate his past, and hiring prostitutes to trap him in compromising situations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

Naomi Oreskes has drawn the parallels -- in methods, organizations, and often the very individuals -- between corporate disinformation campaigns in the case of tobacco, smoking, acid rain, CFCs and the ozone layer, and global warming, in her book Merchants of Doubt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt