jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C

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From an ethical standpoint, ad companies should make better ads.

There is nothing about a simple text or image ad that is annoying enough to block. Yet they went way further than that, and here we are.
5% is the number usually passed around in case of a healthcare system over capacity and having to triage people, and that doesn't count people dying because of untreated things other than COVID-19.
You're searching for malice where there is none. I said nothing disrespectful.
This post along with this very comment do at least:

* fearmongering

* Accusing of disloyalty

* Personal insult

* Gross oversimplification

If the media law has a clause about being active only in national emergency, it might be OK (not that I'd vote for it).
This line of thinking is so much in fantasy land. Here is what would really happen:

1. Lots of businesses would fail, and we would experience another great depression.
2. You don't like populism now? The risks of outright fascism (beyond what you could say we already are experiencing) would go up exponentially.

The main problem with the Ron Paul acolytes is they think that society wouldn't have a massive breakdown in the face of an extremely deep depression - it would just be "the smart entrepreneurs would buy up the assets and build something better!" - but they never talk about how they would deal with the breakdown in democracy and basic government systems that would be a likely result.
Weird political rant at the end there. Nobody at ICE has even said that they are responsible for this; it could be a rogue employee at ICANN for all we know. Eventually someone will have to answer for this, and the answer might result in trouble for ICE.

The body scanners and patdowns are similar; while they are in use right now, it's far from certain that they will exist forever. There is just too much backlash.

So I wouldn't say that we are a police state yet. Some renegades have made decisions, and the wheels of justice turn slowly. Sometimes it looks like nothing is being done, but that's just because the machinery of the government is slow.

Hell, 19 prominent senators couldn't even get their "censor the Internet" bill through Congress, even though they really wanted it. The system works!
The article says he's a mathematics doctoral candidate. "Doctor of Philosophy" is what PhD means and is the credential in which doctorate degrees that are not another type--Medical Doctor, Juris Doctor, etc--are issued.

Given that he did fulfill the requirements for the degree, I suspect his knowledge means he won't have much of a problem finding a job or perhaps a research post at another university.
What are those big quotations in the article? Who is being quoted?
Two programming books that I actually did read cover to cover was:

- Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. Lively presentation of standard algorithms, with some very fun war stories thrown in. I found it a lighter read than CLRS and TAOCP (those are books you study).

- Segaran's Programming collective intelligence. Quick paced introduction to data mining in Python. The code in the book is very informal but easy to understand.

I read The Little Schemer in three or four sit-downs. (I think the author advises not to read it in one sitting.)
Sure, it's volatile. But do you think Justin Bieber chose BlackBerry because he wants one, or because he got a huge paycheck to use it? Product placement does not end at television and movies.
Is this only a DNS block? Can you still get to these websites by pointing your browser directly to an IP address?
Governments have always used their power to try to further special interests.

The US as a constitutional republic was designed to frustrate that tendency. Recent calls for the repeal of the 17th amendment (senators used to be selected by state legislatures; that amendment made it popular vote instead) are based on that argument.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/252825/repeal-sevente...

Under the original arrangement, senators had strong
incentives to protect federalism. They recognized that
their reelection depended on pleasing state legislators
who preferred that power be kept close to home. Whereas
House members were considered representatives of the
people, senators were considered ambassadors of their
state governments to the federal government and, like
national ambassadors to foreign countries, were subject
to instruction by the parties they represented (although
not to recall if they refused to follow instructions).
And they tended to act accordingly, ceding to the
national government only the power necessary to perform
its enumerated functions, such as fighting wars and
building interstate infrastructure. Moreover, when the
federal government expanded to address a crisis (such as
war), it quickly retreated to its intended modest level
after the crisis had passed. Today, as historian Robert
Higgs has observed, federal expansion creates a “ratchet
effect.”

Just as important as its role in securing federalism, the
Senate as originally conceived was essential to the
system of separation of powers. Bicameralism — the
division of the legislature into two houses elected by
different constituencies — was designed to frustrate
special-interest factions. Madison noted in Federalist 62
that basing the House and Senate on different constituent
foundations would provide an “additional impediment . . .
against improper acts of legislation” by requiring the
concurrence of a majority of the people with a majority
of the state governments before a law could enacted. By
resting both houses of Congress on the same constituency
base — the people — the Seventeenth Amendment
substantially watered down bicameralism as a check on
interest-group rent-seeking, laying the foundation for
the modern special-interest state.
If you read books buy a Kindle or a Nook (Kindle is great especially when you are buying books, but nook gets wonderful reviews as well and supports quite a bit more). If you are going to be reading pdfs an Ipad is the way to go.
scanning through the text, your name jumps out at me, which makes me ask myself what kind of HN consumer would call themselves that... to which the answer is, one with high average points karma
The verdict just happened. Writing the article did not.
> I actually miss that style of learning; I like to understand my tools comprehensively, and not to just skim whatever I need from the reference and leave the rest as a mystery. I know that there are lots of programmers who spend their whole careers glomming together bits of other people's libraries, but that just doesn't appeal to me.

I think you're presenting a false dichotomy, and expressing inappropriate disdain for people with different learning styles from your own. For one thing, you can gain a deep understanding by using a library, language etc. in a nonlinear fashion. For my part, reading a book about programming from front to back 5 times and working the examples will leave me with long-term retention of somewhere in the neighborhood of 0%. Actually using the language and libraries and digging deeper as I need to gives me a far stronger grasp. I don't know everything there is to know about every feature of Core Graphics under OS X, for example, but three years since I last touched it, I could easily ramble for hours about all manner of crufty real world knowledge that I gleaned from using it.
Well, then software salesmen are taking advantage of the ignorance of their customers.

Of course, "auditing" as I described it is not just a button to be clicked on a GUI - it requires the user to know what stuff he is auditing in first place.
Combine it with Google's autonomous vehicle technology, and you can begin to envisage a future where the idea of owning your own car with ~5% utilization is viewed as ridiculous, or at least an unnecessary luxury.
Amazon (and Oracle) just has a different bin of the existing Haswell die; it's not really comparable to the gaming SoCs IMO.
It is not about terrorism - it is that technology like this threatens the current level of the capability of the state to enforce its laws. Imagine instead the use of encryption among the financial elite to conspire to defraud speculation markets or manipulate stock prices. Or enemy states using encryption to thwart espionage attempts. Or insurgents and soldiers engaged with US troops around the world to organize efforts to put up resistance.

Remember that Julius Caesar famously sought to make pen and paper illegal because he saw such low barriers to fast potentially secret communication a threat to Rome's security.

I know of no case reasonably called terrorism where encryption played a role in thwarting intelligence efforts.

> I suppose if we make it illegal, the terrorists will just have to make do with weak encryption.

When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
That's only true if you don't count the storage cost necessary to maintain a highly reliable base load supply.
The point is that even without pollution costs - and without subsidies either way - it might be more expensive to build coal plant than an equivalent solar plant. Operation costs are clearly higher in case of coal. Pollution is the cherry on top, or possibly the proverbial elephant in the room.
I'll admit solar and wind are more attractive than I had thought, which makes me somewhat more optimistic.

That said, I think this analysis misses two important factors when it comes to impoverished countries. Otherwise, you would see more solar there. Developing countries have much lower standards when it comes to building a new power plant, so don't need to pay for sulfur scrubbers. The other factor is that unskilled labor much cheaper there. Solar and wind require much higher-skill labor as there is much more maintenance that needs to be done.
Simple was the best banking experience I ever had. USAA or someone should buy their tech.
A consequence of the US being richer. They spend more on education too. Baumol’s cost disease means as a country gets richer more money will go to labor costs and medicine is really labor intensive. I’m not sure I’d say the US needs more healthcare so much as they can afford it and that’s how they choose to spend the money. Healthcare and education will soak up a practically unlimited amount of money, and if you’re the richest country in the world you have more money. The US has higher household consumption than anywhere else bar Hong Kong. Rich countries spend more on healthcare and the US is the richest.
I wonder if the implication is that being run like an “engineering firm” is no longer able to produce a competitive company culture. What the MBA vs Engineer framing doesn’t do is explain why other organizations run by engineers have had the same type of mistakes. I think there’s a more general through line
You keep using "addicting" in a misleading sense. Facebook does not optimize for addiction, it optimizes for engagement. The addiction that makes nicotine and other substances so harmful refers to the physiological & psychological dependence these substances create. Repeat engagement is not the same as actual addiction and it's misleading to conflate them.

Coffee companies do the same, their goal is that you repeatedly come back to consume more of their coffee, decaf or not. The more frequently and voraciously customers consume their coffee, the more money they make from coffee sales. You think they don't also market test coffee variations for popularity?

Almost every company in the world optimizes for more; more consumption, more usage, more sales. The idea that Facebook is somehow in a league of its own for how it optimizes is clearly not true.
I want my door knocked on! Don't make assumptions for everyone based on your own experiences.
There is a ton of info about the church that isn't widely known in Mormon circles. The CES letter does a good job covering tons of it
https://www.cesletter.org
Ah, the good old "if it hasn't happened yet it can't happen" argument.

I'll come back at you: what technological component involved in underground storage of hydrogen is not already demonstrated?
(offtopic)

> Ethiopia has a border on Google Maps

IIUC Google Maps has more than version of some contested borders, displaying one or the other depending on where you view it from (eg. India or China). I’m curious how OSM handles this.
Yup, "has a" vs "is a". From my experience in gamedev the former is a lot more common than the latter.

Had an engine where each entity could only have one mesh object since it was a part of the base entity type rather than a component. Led to a lot of multi-entity shenanigans that were brutal from a sync/off-by-one-frame perspective.
There is also index deduplication in Postgres 13 and the B-Tree enhancements in Postgres 12. All of these enhancements significantly improved the situation for workloads affected by what the blog post calls write amplification. (I myself call this phenomenon index version churn, since it is more descriptive and has less baggage.)

I was the author of all of the above, including the Postgres 14 work you mentioned (though Anastasia Lubennikova was the primary author of index deduplication). To me it feels like one very large project -- the effects are cumulative, and each major Postgres version had B-Tree work that built on the last release in one way or another.
Everyone feels entitled to host their content on others platforms for free.
> It probably has little to do with the rest period itself and more to do with the intensity of exercise.

It's my impression that the actual point of the article is that even though bodybuilding as a community is perceived and perceives itself as being driven by scientific research, it is still almost completely anecdote driven, even when there are scientific findings readily available that fly in the face of or more accurately explain things than anecdote.

It's interesting that you've illustrated this so perfectly. In the article it provides the research findings as to why longer rest periods are beneficial, yet you've still provided your anecdotal impressions as to why it would be the case.

I'm not trying to get at you or put you on blast; I really do find this interesting.
Ah, ok I misunderstood
it really wasn't - unlike other similar laws it is written in terms of world wide revenue (not profit), not a fixed fine, so it's not as easy to simply treat violations as being "free".

The actual work involved is trivial if you minimize data collection, which is the whole point - you shouldn't collect anything you don't actually need and GDPR got rid of the "abusing user privacy is purely profitable" excuse.

Regulatory capture is an anti-piracy bill that requires scanning all uploads using technology that only a few companies have or that costs more than potential income of a business. That's why YouTube was generally pro-that bullshit EU "anti piracy" law.
> Tbh, it's still like that in some countries. Norwegian actors (where I'm from) have felt quite stiff/wooden since forever, and they all have the same backgrounds - i.e classical theater schools, play actors before working on TV, etc.

This is how UK actors are trained to this day, and everyone seems to like Patrick Stewart, Emilia Clarke, Judi Dench etc. I wouldn't call them stiff but they are better at going Shakespearean than American actors.

Really my only complaint is David Tennant's terrible American accent.
Bootstrap 3, Sass, styled-components. I am sure there's more but that's the last few years of stuff

Before Tailwind with PostCSS, I'd probably hand roll some Sass-powered UI, or find a template to base it off of.
With Google being a tracking company, I expect that $10/mo gets rid of the ads but still does all the possible tracking it can – I'm not surprised if anti-tracking people don't buy into it.

Product-first companies seem to be doing fine – Spotify doesn't exactly have a problem with people not wanting to pay for it.
Can someone explain why this FC-MAMR tech is significant?
Comcast paused all its data caps among other things due to Covid https://corporate.comcast.com/covid-19

Maybe Covid restrained other ISP actions we would have otherwise seen
If US treasuries go steeply negative enough (and the spread remains as tight or gets tighter) then yes, banks will pay you interest, while you still pay principle.

Lenders so far stay in the market because they actively trade the debt object even if they lose the business of earning interest. (With debt, the price of the contract increases as interest rates go down)
I would love to hear more about it (if it's legal got you to talk about it).

Did you stay at Apple after the acquisition?
Adidas and Puma are direct competitors though, but Aldi seems to have divvied up the countries between them so they don't compete with each other, with the exception of the USA.
Not the OP but it’s not hard to get a charitable interpretation of his point. You know why gun ownership is important because you surround yourself with men holding guns. But while you do that you want to take away my gun? I don’t have a ring of men standing around me, it’s just me between my family and the world.

It’s literally equivalent to Bill Gates telling us how critical the coming ecological crisis is going to be while his family lives in a mansion. It’s okay though because he paid your family to live in a cardboard box so he can claim he’s carbon neutral. When he moves his family into a 300 square foot home so will I and when you put your guns down, you can talk to me about mine.
It is a not-completely-frivolous argument in this procedural context, you could say. This is not the final determination in the case; it is just a question about whether the law can be enforced right now, while the case is pending. If the ISPs could show e.g. that there was significant harm to them and no harm to CA in temporarily barring enforcement of the law, then the judge might be obligated to rule in their favor. It’s more complicated than this, but this is the general idea anyway.

It’s still a BS argument, to be clear, and good that the judge rejected it...
How big a deal is this? That is, how much does it cost? How many short-term employees does a typical startup tend to have?

What percentage of short-term employees exercise if they leave? Are there any statistics, or does everyone blindly use a year-long cliff?
I'm in the same situation re not having an account.

I work in web development and have had to integrate those disgusting 'like' buttons and examine closely the API for other jobs. All this led me to decide that Facebook is not for me.
You'd still have that choice if there was an alternative app store or side loading.

Facebook is easy to ignore. As an app developer there is no way for me to ignore half of all phone users in the US.
In the the more common lab theory is that it was a natural virus being studies in the lab. It escaped by accident.

China has had multiple SARS escape accidents.
Given "Planck's Principle"of "Science progresses one funeral at a time", it does not seem that scientists within the system will be the best to figure out who should be favored over them.

That second group cannot emerge if it does not have funding. Einstein was 'lucky' in that he had his job as a patent clerk that allowed him his theoretical studies until he finally found his way into an acedemic career.
Just because a person is killed does not mean that a crime has been committed. There are lawful reasons, such as self defense, defense of a third person, etc.
Another simple hypothesis: a frantic-looking animation is more likely to get upvoted on Reddit so if 5 people posted animations at different speeds, a frantic-looking one might have a better chance at surviving
Google has been known to connect to wifi hotspots without permission using their mapping cars. Not only did they connect to people's wifi, they also took dumps of any unencrypted data they happened to find while they were connecting. They only got rid of the data after a lawsuit forced them to.

They had terrible privacy settings on Google Buzz, letting anyone you had any email conversations find out where you've checked in to.

They're the only mobile OS maker who will not put a proper update system in place, leaving millions of their users without patches. Google is unapologetic about this, even going as far to say 4.4.4 is out of support and users should upgrade to 5, even though most Android handsets are incapable of upgrading. Serious security flaws exist in older versions, and the systems will never be patched.

Let's talk about the anti-poaching agreement they had, hurting not only their staff, but all of IT in general.

Google is the only huge company I know of that still believes it is a startup that can get away with anything, including breaking the law. I have nothing against the people at Google, they do amazing things. But the company needs to learn the value of corporate responsibility sooner rather than later.
It's amazing how much peer pressure via culture accounts for us being "civil".

There is a link between an individual mostly-harmless action (flick a cigarette butt on the sidewalk) and the very visible systemic effect of a million people doing that same thing. But even for individuals that want clean sidewalks it is actually not a very obvious correlation to articulate in the moment - it takes a collective consciousness to draw the conclusion that a specific harmless transgression might add up across the population.

And so the cultural code-of-conduct could be looked at as a "caching" technique for worldly experience and logic. Very convenient, except when it gets in the way of evolution of the originating logic and experience.
The 75% result (chance to survive) seems about right, but the confidence in this result seems completely unnatural. The sharp peak in the posterior plot suggests that I have nailed down the exact probability to +/- 2%. No way.
Usually people are downvoted for only stating their opinion without giving any reasoning, especially if it seems like they're just trying to be controversial for its own sake. Nothing funny to see here, really.
While we're at it, let's have BP teach us all why their oil spills and dumping of even more toxic chemicals into the ocean to cover those spills up are really no big deal.
it's ironic that a blog post like this would use an image that appears to be poking fun at the fervor with which people record and analyze paul graham's teachings