jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We can save those experiments for when there isn't 450,000 Americans dead from covid. I prefer the go early go hard approach. There will be a second round of Covid-21, the South African mutated version is proving that.
One of the potential failure modes is getting hit with a arrow, so even failures are impressive.
Closing that gap is the point of the exercise. :)
Haha, socker moms are fascist!
Yeah, Trump should have used whitehouse.gov to share his thoughts, and if people want to follow they can use a whitehouse.gov RSS feed or whatever.
It's not just social media but Big Tech in general - Google is pretty much the only way the majority people look for information on the Internet, so I'd say it has an even larger amount of power in influencing what people see.
> Their legal cases are rejected.

Because their claims are held up to the law and don't pass muster.

> The mainstream media refuses to take them seriously.

Some particular popular outlets are allied with them, the rest of the major media takes them quite seriously (it often investigated their claims and finds them unsupported, but that's not failing to take them seriously.)

> We're not even listening to them, because it's science and they're ists if they disagree.

No, we’re listening to them. The rest of us aren’t agreeing* with them. (On the other hand, this is more literally true in the opposite direction.)

> We're not debating anymore.

You can only debate from a certain degree of shared basis, which does not exist.

> We just assume we're right.

On the issues of objective, verifiable fact, this is a conclusion not an assumption. On the matters of fundamental moral values, beliefs on those issues have a fundamentally axiomatic nature: there is no debating them.

On the other hand, this claim is, again, more true in reverse (especially on the issues of verifiable objective fact.)

> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate,

Or they are excluding the rest of society from their debate.

> and they are powerless to stop it.

They are not powerless to stop disengaging or engaging only in bad faith. Well, I mean many of them individually probably psychologically are powerless to do so, especially while those they take their cues from are doing so, but as a collective group they are not.

> Is it surprising that they are furious about it, and explode in unpredictable ways?

What unpredictable ways? Most of their explosions are publicly telegraphed quite specifically, and have a direction that has been publicly requested by the public figures that they overtly venerate.

It's not chaotic, unpredictable explosions of impotent rage of the factually disenfranchised, it's strategic, directed action at the behest of some of the most privileged segments of society, with the masses directed using mechanisms that are textbook features of cults.

I mean, if you are talking about the Tes Party/Trump/Q/alt-right/etc. group.

If you are talking about the people considered about the lack of accountability for murder of people of their race, actually, barring a partial shift that happened well into the paroxysm of protest over the last year, yeah, you are mostly exactly correct (though the nondisputable nature of fundamental moral principals is an issue there, too.)
They were just reposting the president's banned tweets.
Their policy is that you can't evade a ban using other accounts.
You can't break the site guidelines like that and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690702 regardless of how right you are or feel, or how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You also can't use HN primarily for political battle [1], regardless of which politics you're battling. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The actual reason is Jan 20th is pretty close now.
Gravity isn’t particularly controversial these days, no. Many things that aren’t now, though—like the curvature of earth, or heliocentricity—once were; that a topic is controversial doesn’t mean there’s no right answer.

And I would agree that political science is largely concerned with philosophy, but let’s not mistake any old politicized belief as fitting under the umbrella of “political science”: that e.g. a manual recount renders any conspiracies about an automatic ballot-counting machine irrelevant to a final vote tally is a matter of common sense, not profound debate—and yet this has proved a controversial point these last few weeks.
"An obscure Russian company," I think, was one of the earliest headlines.
Well, imagine harder. ;-)
The diff for a spammer of 100 boxes that run their bot vs 1000 makes no difference to them. The cost is negligible. Even if you make the process slower. They can just scale out or wait it out. If it takes 1 hour vs 2 hours to do their payload there is no real difference to them. They have also already built in the filtering as a % that fails. They are looking for less than 1-2% success which is all they need. The frameworks are no longer some simple script hacked up in VBS. They are packages they can buy from other spammers or rent the bot net with the proper libs built in.
The app can still provide end-to-end encryption while simultaneously piping your private keys direct to FB. They're not really related.
I have never seen that term be used in this way before, nor can I find any references on that. Do you have links to be able to justify this claim?
> This core discovery feature of Twitter means that the content of the messages from people you are not subscribed to must meet some basic criteria of acceptability, or no one would use it.

If "This is a message from the President of the United States" does not meet the criteria of being something that a user might want to hear, what the hell does? And if the President is saying something completely insane then it's even more important that the people can hear exactly what he says! What would you prefer - you hear the President say an insane thing and you can say "yep, that guy is insane we need to get rid of him" or Twitter tells you "look, uh, just trust us this guy is insane, don't listen to him". In the second scenario, Twitter has all the power, and makes all the decisions about who gets to be an elected official, not you.

> We had common-carrier status applied to ISPs for a few short years before Ajit Pai got that rolled back for Verizon. You might have been able to extend that logic to Twitter and then I could see that as a fair comparison if that was how they were operating. But Twitter would never acquiesce to such an onerous mandate and would lobby hard against it.

"That's not currently how it is" and "Twitter wouldn't like it" don't strike me as particularly good reasons for not having a neutral carrier that accurately tells people the things their elected officials say.
I deleted my account today. I’m done.
It should be obvious by now that Trump is all talk at best. At normal times he does stuff and worsen things.

For example, on the whole China trade war. The US’s net imports from China are higher than they have been since the mid 2000s. Chinas economic strength relative to the US is higher than its ever been. Instead of the US being trading and strengthening relationships with Pacific nations until Trump ripped the TPP its now China that has those trading relationships. The EU is reducing interactions with the US and just signed a deal with China, something that may have been unthinkable for them even ( years ago. The US is absolutely non existent in Africa while China continues to build relationships ans trade links there. Thanks to the US trade war China has drastically increased trade with Brazil (to procure soybeans instead of from the US) while US relationships with South America continue to weaken.

Trump has presided over worsening relationships with literally every other continent barring Antarctica, and as a direct consequence of his actions China has greatly improved relationships in all those continents.
I personally use Signal, but I think Session is great for the crowd that wants "Signal but without the phone number".
By playbook, I mean this is a subtler version of the straw man fallacy.
I’m absolutely certain there are plenty of NFB members who will gladly provide free screen reader accessibility testing for apps they use if the developer is responsive to feedback.
Arnold Kling's "The Three Languages of Politics" has a good answer to a piece of this puzzle.

In short, the major political 'camps' think about events with a different dimension. Conservatives think in the 'civilization vs barbarism' axis. Progressives think on the 'oppressed vs oppressor' axis. Libertarians think on the 'authoritarian vs freedom' axis.

The same event, when viewed through the corresponding filter, has different interpretations.
Meh, that's an easy fix. I've got an actual office outside of my house that takes 30 seconds to get to. (AC and hardwired ethernet, of course)
It's not irrelevant. It means your ability to perform concurrent transactions depends entirely upon your ability to decompose your data into a very large number of different actors, otherwise you're bound to be hampered by SQLite's global lock. If you decompose too far you'll end up doing cross-actor transactions, which per the documentation has a substantial performance impact.

This is not to rubbish it - I've not used it after all - but the claims being made for ActorDB are pretty far away from the claims made for Foundation.
The problem I have with this is that a certain percentage of people will get a job anyway. I could, theoretically speaking, set up a school that promises you only pay if you get a job - teach nothing - and then rake in the profits.

Where this falls on a line between 100% of people get a job and only the background rate get a job is questionable - and I'd be interested to see the degree of investment that they place in each student because there will be Kelly Criterion that determine how rational it is for them to gamble on that at any particular point of value-add to the student.
There are lots of small vendors (especially at farmers markets) still using the swipe only Square reader. This will presumably allow them to start accepting contactless as well. The main advantage of this is most banks put the liability from fraud on the business for swipe/manual entry transactions, but not for EMV (chip/tap) transactions.
No, that's completely fair, I think in general Swedes prefer the working day to be earlier, so my core hours before this have been 9-16 (yes, one hour longer).
Here, the pieces are fractal holy messes-- not something you can make a puzzle out of.

(On the other hand, it is trivial to cheat with small gaps, etc, and make such a puzzle).
> Is the point to fail the build if the code wasn't pre-formatted with i.e. Black?

It's this. Ensures that anything merged to master keeps the formatting conventions established in the project.
I think you misunderstand the product. You can take payments from any contactless credential. That means credit cards, Apple Pay, google pay, Samsung pay, and so forth.
Load of bullshit that the air brakes can't be released.

The air horns that they've been blaring at 100-120db (or more) is tied to the air system that supplies the brakes. If they can blare the horn, they've got air pressure to release the brakes.
> When contacted for comment by The Verge, Sweeney described Linux as “a terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.” Asked whether it would be possible to enable compatibility just for SteamOS, he said “Linux is a small market already and if you subdivide it by blessed kernel versions then it’s even smaller.”

Claiming that Linux is a hard audience to serve is BS - just support a single distro (or platform, e.g. Valve's Steam Linux Runtime), and most Linux users will happily use it (or figure out how to get your thing to work on their platform on their own). In the specific case of the Steam Deck, it uses Steam OS and has a very limited set of hardware configurations, so there's exactly one target - Sweeny is just misdirecting/lying in order to obscure the real reason, which is money.
The construction uses the radius of the circle as a parameter. If the radius is bigger, then each piece is bigger.

Imagine that you have this construction drawn as a svg file in the computer, a really big screen, and you can use the zoom. The size of the pieces will match the size of the circle.
Alternative interpretation: git is a terrible terrible tool. It solve's Linus' problem, but he also wrote the damn thing. Had GitHub not entered the scene we'd likely all be using something else, maybe even SVN still.

Maybe distributed source control really is this complicated and treating git as a deep skill is justified, but having also used Darcs and Mercurial I have a hard time believing that git's usability issues are inherent complexity and are in fact an artifact of git itself.
Thanks so much for donating! Appreciate the bitpay info -- will look into it.
Just a tor proxy (socks) instance, and a HTTP client configured to use the proxy. Other than that nothing more than what a web crawler should have.
I work at Netflix and I cannot say that my experience reflects this particular review. I like working here because my coworkers are intelligent and I get to work on exciting projects. The slides we have on the jobs page are fairly accurate.

That said, I can't completely discount other people's experience since I only have my own experience to go on. It would seem that folks are let go because their skills are no longer relevant or they don't perform to par. This does not necessarily indicate that the person is a poor employee, but that he/she was not able to deliver given a particular context.
One year ago, I used Gmail. So, even if you used free software and hosted your mail server at home, writing an e-mail allowed Big Google to watch you. Facebook is similar, though easier to avoid.

Now I host my mail server on a virtual machine on a small hosting provider that I somewhat trust. I'll host it myself soon (I've just received my new Sheeva Plug). So, if you write to me now, your privacy will be enhanced compared to one year ago. So, me quitting Gmail could be a direct improvement to your privacy.

And that's partly thanks to the FSF's advocacy.
20/20 hindsight. Remember this when you feed your baby an "organic" meal, treat your cold with echinacea, or drink bottled water.
English loanwords in another language might help an English speaking person, no doubt. I was more thinking a Chinese person trying to learn English.

Loanwords tend to pe pronounced quite differently in the host language, which detoriates the accent.
I don't think OpenBSD ever recommended the use of single-DES. All the effort of having development outside the USA was to ensure that OpenBSD supported strong crypto without export encumbrances.
Priorities and style. First-class functions are available, and a lot of veteran Python programmers, Guido included, don't like an overwhelmingly functional style.

It's considered opaque.

Personally, I like to fiddle with Clojure in my free time.
Interesting... I had some random crashes with mine, and I have a leather cover. Haven't had any lately. The worst was when our plane was supposed to leave from Amsterdam for PDX, and I thought I was going to be stuck for the whole flight with no Kindle... it wasn't reacting. Luckily it rebooted or something, but I was getting pretty pissed off.
That is something I don't really agree with. Maybe they didn't patrol that area, maybe they didn't have enough people, maybe for some other reason...

Anyways, you know you can get a fine for parking the wrong way, yet you did it. If you said you don't agree with that rule, I might concur. What exactly did they do wrong? I hope that since then everyone is parking correctly. Isn't that the whole point of fining people?
Too late for this ex-Things user, unfortunately. I waited for over a year before switching to OmniFocus. After buying licenses and climbing OF's relatively steep learning curve, I'm too invested to switch back.
"I'm just saying, this is only one guy's take."

There are many other negative reviews of Netflix on Glassdoor. I am sure that some people are happy to work there, but I don't think someone would take the time to write such a lengthy and well-worded review if there was no truth to it.
These guys are massive assholes. They disrupted a lot of people's lives for no good reason.
I think you mean a higher PUE.

Anyway, a better PUE will certainly help your carbon footprint, but saying "using hydro/cleaner power" is meaningless.

You don't get to pick and choose "I'm using hydro, you're using coal" - the power grid is interconnected - everyone is using everything.

Additionally all the possible hydro that can be used already is, so it's not like you can individually promote hydro usage - if you "use" hydro power, all the happens is that someone else doesn't get to use it, which means effectively you are burning coal, but remotely.

There are some slight benefits to using the power near where it's generated to avoid transmission losses, but it's not large.

Unless you can say "because of me there is a new, cleaner, power station that is built" you are not using cleaner power, you are just shifting less clean power to someone else.
Hey Netfire,

My point isn't about low-fi wireframes. (here's a slightly more complete version of the same wireframe: http://d.pr/i/N6Oo )

My point is that wireframes as a starting piece aren't always correct, and that if you do use them, it'll put you down a certain path, and that path isn't always correct.
And again:

Ray ID: 102ec4846ce406ee
It would be so great if there were a remotely-operated "punch" button aimed at reporters writing blatantly incorrect information about topics they can't be bothered to research or understand properly. I, for one, would be dishing out a fair amount of black eyes, particularly in the Bitcoin space. That is all.
Title had me worried for a moment! The whole team wanted shirts, so we loaded up -- we're going to wear that blue contraband with pride.
I think my internal definition is just fine thanks.

Immunity implies that the host body has developed antibodies to neutralize viral replication or interferons which straight up kill viruses. As a result, the presence of the virus is reduced, possibly to near zero.

But that's not really the case here. You might be asymptomatic but still shedding virus just as much as someone on their deathbed.

With respect to children, they still become infected at the same rate. They still provide a place for viral replication even if they are asymptomatic.
Doesn't this permanently increase the number of cells that you have, and therefore augments the chance that you'll get cancer?
Who's the bad guy? Viruses don't have intentions
Has been for a while. https://www.virginmedia.com/help/list-of-court-orders

Also (rightly so) anything on the Internet Watch Foundation list - https://www.iwf.org.uk/become-a-member/services-for-members/...
Why on earth would anyone believe a Trump Appointee on what happened. The administration has proven themselves time and time again to lie through their teeth. And it sure seems to me that Arms Control, Weapons of Mass Destruction don't have that much in common with Global Health. And if it did, where is that agency right now during this crisis?
I love it. I think Anselm's ontological argument is more a proof of confirmation bias than anything else. So as a corollary to his argument, the more beneficial something may be to us, the more biased we are to confirm its existence. Therefore, a maximally benevolent being incites maximal confirmation bias on our part, and any logical argument for its existence is therefore problematic.
Not sure I agree with this. I tend to use way too many tabs, and therefore use up my memory. I was visiting my parents recently, and on their Mac they were leaving a lot of programs running (having closed the window but not exiting the program).

I think low-memory situations are the most likely explanation for slowdowns experienced by typical home or office users.
Sharp eye on the easter egg ;). Interested in working with us on making email awesome? mixmax.com/careers
I really do not want to come across as a proponent of genocide, but I do not know how to phrase it any better (not my first language sorry)
Some of those are because photography is, in fact, completely forbidden. The first item on the page being a prime example.

There are also plenty of examples where commercial use isn't the issue, like with the trademarks, where things like "tarnishment" can come into play.
Yikes. If you want to "improve" on a perfectly adequate joke, it helps to have tried the language before.
Because Americans foolishly still believe that 'one day they can make it too'. How else could one explain why millions vote for 'lower taxes for the rich' if they are quite poor themselves?!
I didn't get an invite awhile back when it was first announced but I just made up some random string and got an account fairly easily. However I never really used the account or went back since.
Could you imagine using this with all 3 connectors wired at the same time? I thought the trend was for wireless.
Hmm... ok, I guess I can see how some people would be OK with this. But I'd never go for it. My relationship with this woman would last right up until the first time she asked me to turn this on.

It isn't about having anything to hide, it's just a matter of principle. Nobody needs to know where I am every second of every day. Never mind the stupid conversations that would emerge from random observations:

"Why were you on Greer Street today, people only go there to buy drugs?"

"No, I just took a short-cut through there on my way to $FOO, and stopped at a convenience store to get gas"

"Oh, mm... ok, I guess that sounds semi-plausible."

"WTF, don't worry about it, I just went to get gas."

"Why are you being so defensive if you weren't really buying drugs?"

...

...
my brain stopped working after -like
> On the flip side, I wonder how much better the support from a cloud provider is if it's an isolated problem and not something that's setting twitter aflame.

I’ve had 4w to resolution for major service degradation on a big name provider and ~2d for full site outage (highest support tier)

You said it yourself - aws, goog, msft have very good sres but they’re not your sres. Meaning they dont care if you have a big event/demo/deal close coming up before they start doing network gear upgrade and such...
This is a _ridiculously_ charitable interpretation. These comments were immediately following other presenters talking about success in sterilising surfaces in hospitals etc.

"bringing the [powerful surface-sterilising UV] light inside the body" and "injection inside or a cleaning [of, again, powerful surface disinfectant]" is a five-year-old's idea of how stuff works.

And "oh it wouldn't be through injections, almost a cleansing and sterilization of an area" - what does that even _mean_? Clearly just backtracking once people started making fun of how dumb the original statement is.
I don't know that ERCOT has any similar program - here in the US, for areas that run a load-shedding system, load is typically dropped after 0.2 seconds of 59.5hz or lower (nominally 60hz). Some consumers may choose to cut themselves off prior to that point, to prevent damage to equipment at the lower frequencies.

ERCOT (and others) also implement peak demand charges, where some portion of a large user's overal yearly rate is determined by their usage on days when the grid is under the most stress. Usage for that particular day ends up setting rates for the entire year, which makes it not only risky but also very costly.