jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
According to my calculations, the Japan earthquake will not require us to adjust a leap second - at least not within the next ~761 years.

The Japan earthquake shortened the day length by 1.8 microseconds. [1]

1.8 microseconds * 365.25 days * 20 years =~ 0.01 seconds off. Not enough to require an update, even less an urgent update before the 20 years.

1.8 microseconds * 365.25 days * 761 years =~ 0.50 seconds off.

[1] http://www.space.com/11115-japan-earthquake-shortened-earth-...
I would gladly discuss it, but I don't want to post like this (i.e. just to prove something).
Can you summarise his point for those of us who can't watch that video right now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6410821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122

and sundry others: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=psd#!/story/forever/0/psd%20format
Calling someone a "X apologist" is silly.

You disagree with someone, awesome. That's not a reason to try to ridicule that person imo.
More likely it's because the container which fell off the Tokio Express had a large number of nautical kits. According to the article, 10% of the lost pieces were diving fins, for example.
That's fair. While I called myself rational, I would never claim to make exclusively rational decisions. I would not want to go down the rabbit hole of trying to define rationality, or force myself into the Procrustean bed of a specific definition. If rationalism turns into some sort of utopian or self consistent ideology, then I'll remain aloof from it.

At the same time, while the human brain isn't set up for objectivity, it is set up for survival -- including survival in a social milieu. Some non-rational behaviors such as emotion and stubbornness may be valuable survival traits.

If I were to put anything on my own checklist, it would be: "Did I give myself enough time to think about this?" I can be persuaded by reason, but on my own timeline, and I'm a terrible debater, so I don't change my opinions based on debate.
Those examples are used for teaching because they are interesting for novices. In a real project, you use your objects that are useful for organizing your code. Modules, layers, gateways to external systems, etc.
Surprised they don't mention the giant minifig that washes up on different beaches across the world: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20111025/WIRE/111029721
First, you're conflating "cross-platform" with "fragmentation". Yes, ZFS is on illumos, FreeBSD, ZoL, etc. -- but thanks to both the common code base and the well-defined feature flags[1], there is no fragmentation. (You can even take zpools from one system, export them on one OS and import them on another -- something essentially unique to ZFS.)

Second, with respect to our Manta experience, the point was not that we hit the issue but that working with the community, we resolved it. Manta hits ZFS way, way, way harder than you ever will (and in particular, hits rollback harder than anyone else ever has), and in that dimension, our experience should inspire confidence. But if you're still concerned, you have two choices: you can either buy ZFS support by buying a product that supports it (thereby making it the problem of one of the "big players" that you cite), or you can appeal to the mailing lists when you have a problem. In that regard, ZFS is no different than any other piece of open source software -- it just happens to be a pretty solid piece of open source software.

[1] http://blog.delphix.com/csiden/files/2012/01/ZFS_Feature_Fla...
In the US class is defined by either income or capital and nothing else.
I think you missed the point. It's not that the fear is itself intrinsically wrong, it's that the fear is leading to an irrational belief: that I will likely die if I do this wire-guided fall. That's just not a belief that comports with reality.
I had a big OS migration project, where we moved all the RHEL machines to Ubuntu. We had a big set of Python scripts that would go out and query a bunch of databases and logging system to get the current state of the migration each day, but we published the results as a spreadsheet that was emailed rather than some website. It worked very well to get people data they needed and to put it in a form where they could ask their own questions of the data without talking to anyone else. It worked better than I expected, having not used excel for decades.
Well, it should be pretty straightforward to first check whether the loop is working at all and then step-by-step echo the variables for example to see what's missing.
> At the moment this question is closed as "opinion based". Which is ridiculous.

The -6 answer [1] also displays one of SO's other ridiculous habits: kinda ignorantly wander in to unhelpfully say the question is wrong and hope for sweet e-points.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/44244140/216353
Hey, finally got around to playing with Smalltalk; their interactive tutorial makes a great appetizer.
And if that money is used to purchase financial instruments, say bonds, from investment banks and hedge funds, those funds then have money to put into other bonds or stocks, both of which have risen spectacularly in price.

The velocity of money may still be low in this case, but asset inflation happened.

It may be that the money hasn't trickled out into the real world in large enough quantities to cause inflation yet.
What do you think the attraction is?

I guess it's one of the easiest things you can do as a mod, so if you want to do a lot of mod things... to the extent SO gives you "points" for it, it might even be engineered (on purpose?)
Also, 9 out of 10 radio stations say that listening to this song is good for you. Then again, all 9 of those stations are owned by the same evilCorp.
Right, playing with fire, by creating an environment that would hyper-evolve virus better than random natural species interactions.
"Since the campaign didn't meet its funding requirement, refunds will be processed to backers within five business days, Canonical said."

Do you think Indiegogo made interest on that 12 million dollars over the past month? If so, how much?
> > Herd immunity hasn't worked. It's been a catastrophic failure that's flooded hospitals with very ill people.

> I assume that you know many people with Polio then?

It's disingenuous at best to ignore that the parent comment referred specifically to seeking herd immunity (as opposed to early lockdown) of COVID-19.
This type of attitude is what keeps some aspiring people away. How does a beginner know what an obvious question is? Honestly I'm long past tired of this attitude among developers. When you're really good at something you've been doing for a long time, your definition of hard and easy changes so much.

I can say that building web applications with Rails is the easiest way to go, but I've been doing it for almost six years. When I teach a class on Rails to complete newbies, it takes us 8 hours to comfortably get through setting up the environment, writing some basic code, and ending up with little more than a few pages and a scaffold.

So when I ask for help from someone who has done significant work with something I want to learn, I'm hoping that they'll remember what it was like when they get started, and not tell me that my questions are "stupid" or "obvious". I may not even know what resources I should have looked at first.
is relatively modern

I don't know how true that is. In the middle of the 19th century, piles of Chinese were used as low-cost labor to build the railroads. (And were, generally, treated far worse than the black slaves because the latter were property assets that needed to be preserved, whereas Chinese men could still be imported and paid a subsistence wage)

A century ago, Americans were arguing about the Chinese "immigration problem". Governments were passing laws preventing them from competing with native-born (white?) Americans for jobs, so great was their influx perceived to be.
Learn to follow Metamath proofs. (http://us.metamath.org/)
Metamath allows you to start with the axioms of propositional calculus and go all the way up to set theory and beyond.
When you understand Carew Meredith's sole axiom for propositional calculus, you will know a lot about logic.
Eric Fisher who also produced the tourists/locals photo maps has some pretty dramatic visualizations of racial distribution in various metro areas: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4981444199/in/set-721...
The author simply doesn't know what segregation was at all. If all the black people lived in one neighborhood and all the white in another, and they never crossed, why would you segregate bathrooms? And restaurants? And water fountains? And schools? And busses?

Housing was already integrated and the services were segregated on skin color. That was one of the quantifiable objections to segregating school other than the obvious moral reasons - the students had to walk or bus further to school when there was a perfectly good building closer to their homes reserved for white people. That's segregation.

Real estate agents preventing black people from buying near whites was called Blockbusting, and was different.
Is RunwayFinder the open-source flight planner? If so, it seems anyone can just run it by itself? Is the source out there? I bet they wouldn't send lawsuits to all their potential customers.
That's not how grocery stores put on a show. They do it by doing things like spraying the vegetables with mist, even though it doesn't do anything to help them stay fresh. And by making the floors look immaculately clean even though whether or not the floors are scuffed up has zero to do with food safety. And of course Asian food stores do the exact opposite; they make their stores look cluttered and dirty on purpose, which signals to their customers that the staff is hard working and their food is fresh and cheap.
And 95% of the commercial, closed source software is also crap.
That has nothing to do with being open or closed source, good developers are rare, and so are good ideas.
Well, yes, people with higher education tend to be smarter, yes.
It's worse than delusional paranoia.

Because it's not necessarily delusional, or paranoid.

Give them the benefit of the doubt: Assume they are competent, healthy adults, who really believe in what they say.

With that assumed, it's someone choosing to sacrifice other people's lives for their political values.

Personally I think that situation crosses the "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" line.

We should certainly build systems that protect privacy if we can, to the extent we can. I'm very pro privacy, not against privacy at all.

But to the extent values conflict in a material situation, such as privacy versus not harming other people in a deadly way as the current crisis, we have to choose priorities, and then be smart and subtle about retaining as much of our overall values as we still can given the priorities.
You still need to access indexes if you're working with arrays though, which is a very common data structure.
Agreed - it's a great opportunity for "HN" to realise, whether they like it or not, that "asian" does not only relate to "east asian".

It is appalling that the commenter above had to edit their own comment based on these responses.
I'm opposed to delaying doses in the absence of data, but it should be noted this theory of escape mutants has become controversial. In the area of antibiotic treatment it's a fairly standard idea but has been increasingly questioned, and it's not clear it applies to vaccines as readily anyway (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378080/).
Ok, but that’s a surprising direction to go in.

Sure, this would make it less likely to use suicide bombs against soldiers — perhaps even politicians will put skin suits on the robots and use them for public appearances a-la Westworld for similar reasons — but grenades and RPGs and anti-material rifles and IEDs would likely all still be used.

And £10k robots can also be used by terrorists, perhaps stolen from warehouses, perhaps hacked.

That said, what worries me about terrorism is not cargo-culting shapes that look dangerous (be that robots which look like the Terminator or 3D printed guns), it’s people with imagination who know there are at least two distinct ways to make a chemical weapon using only the stuff in a normal domestic kitchen and methods taught in GCSE chemistry.
I played Caesar II for days and days as a teenager. Awesome game.
The video shows a block of ballots being scanned multiple times. There are other YT videos with close-ups showing this, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G48ywNxVSfM

So here's how the fraud works:

1. Take a pile of ballots that you are very sure are voting for Biden.

2. Hide them so they don't get counted.

3. Get rid of the monitors by telling them everyone is going home for the night.

4. Start passing the opened ballots through the counting machines multiple times.

This would result in the number of ballots not matching the number of voters, but, there are lots of allegations of that happening.
To be clear I don’t think FB is using humans to manually facilitate this. They develop and own the algorithms that do. They are directly responsible for the negative effects of that which facilitate extremists as their own research presented here demonstrates.
You need to reword this as a top level comment and repost. Some will say that having to make such a request is proof that scores need to come back, but I'm just concerned that everyone on the "pro" comment score side will never see it.
I liked the article, but it's very much not about "How to write a Haskell program". It's about how to create and distribute a Haskell project.

"How to write a Haskell program" would be much higher level because the joy (and challenge) of Haskell is that composing a program is really a process of composing functions or monads and the interactions can quickly become non-trivial (though, unlike OO systems, the interactions are generally visible). Whereas writing "Hello World" in Java can actually get you started in Java, writing "Hello World" in Haskell gets you just about nowhere ("But it introduces you to the IO monad!" <giggle>).
The feedback button is to the right side (on nearly every page other than About which we'll add). We use UserVoice for Feedback
hackernewsed?
Is the GPL "standard" for Haskell programs?
Reading this and pockethotline.com, and thinking about your offer to help set up other community hotlines: what about a Founders Hotline? Call to talk to a real live business founder, whether to get some advice, get a recommendation or opinion for a particular service, bounce an idea or pitch off someone for feedback, or just get a different perspective. And the "experts" would get the benefit of hearing from some interesting people doing interesting things, and having a nice conversation with a fellow founder, as well as the recognition and networking you mentioned elsewhere.
Market cap is irrelevant when we don't know the trading volume, if I created a million random coins and sold one of them for a thousand, I'd have a billion dollar market cap coin, despite only having a thousand dollars of real money involved.

And we definitely don't know the real numbers, reported tether trading volumes are total nonce, they wash traded them to the point that they report higher volumes than all the world stock/bond markets combined.
Imagine Half Life without 3d graphics. Now you see why scripting is a 'minor' feature.
I think it's easy to forget about the diversity we have here on HN. We've got traders, climate scientists, ex-Marines, lawyers, chefs, etc.
The one time I've actually made a pitch to someone for money I was accused of using too much technical jargon. Looking back on it now, many years on, and having read so much here, perhaps it's true.

However, sometimes jargon is not avoidable if real communication is to take place, and the listener really does need to learn. This article is just to raise the question, not to provide any answers.

And I found it funny.
Adding an /en/ when you decide to translate the documentation isn't a major inconvenience either. I would rather add it when it's relevant than include something that will probably never be anything but noise. This is pretty much the same reason I don't put in a bunch of non-functioning UI controls that will hopefully have features attached in the future — my interface is meant to be practical, not aspirational.
> He chose to use mongodb [...]

I find it rather surprising that somebody who uses Haskell, i.e. clearly sees the value of types as an aid for reasoning about programs, would default to using a schemaless database which gives you essentially zero ways to reason about your data.

It makes much more sense coming from someone who doesn't really like static typing and so prefers run-time, informal reasoning.
Whats interesting to me is that all the big players had Video meeting software that is exactly like Zoom, more or less, pre pandemic, and they were still losing out to Zoom, just at a much slower rate. I recall Zoom pre pandemic was still a profitable business[0][1]. Not the gang busters it was during the pandemic, no, a good, profitable business none the less. So whether Google or Microsoft or Slack can win now is debatable. They should have won this out before hand too, if you look at how things are stacked on paper. I don't know that the pandemic has changed the fact that these businesses are playing catch up in users minds.

Ironically, if anyone is going to threaten Zoom, its likely to be Microsoft with Teams, and only because so many organizations are already on Office 365 and Microsoft seems to be sinking some sales channel hooks into Teams specifically, and arguably Teams is good enough and has most of the same extension points as Zoom does, including its own add on store and API for most major integrations[2][3][4].

It seems Google is having a lot less luck here, first hand experience being that every business I've worked for in the last few years have been Google Workspace customers, yet still prefer to use Zoom over Google Meeting, despite Google Meeting being effectively free with the rest of the Google Workspace product.

I'm still mind boggled that Slack didn't capitalize on video meetings, they had all the technology and know-how, however execution matters like anything else, and I don't think they've been able to entirely execute on adding strong robust video offering to their core product.

[0]: https://investors.zoom.us/news-releases/news-release-details...

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/06/zoom-earnings-q1-2020.html

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/03/1...

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/sam...

[4]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-teams-apps-d...
It also fails gracefully. Logged-in users may find the site unusable while it still loads for logged-out readers just fine (from cache).
Since you have a diagnosis you should find some cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medications specific for ADHD. The meds will help you focus in the short term and the CBT will help you develop cognitive and behavioral tools to help you manage your ADHD for the long term.

One cognitive approach is to become mindful and curious about what triggers your ADHD. Are there any patterns or habits? What activities do you engage in when you feel bored with a task? ADHD is executive brain dysfunction so what you really need to do is engage/train your executive function skillset and build up your resilience for longer term rewards or to devalue the reward of task switching. Some people try to build structure into their environments so that they don't have to think about it.

So learn about ADHD and learn about what you can do to help yourself. That's the ultimate reward. Your ADHD makes you naturally creative etc... which is a valued skill.

In some sense ADHDers live in the future which is great but you still have to get things done. And accomplishment is the ultimate reward.

https://www.additudemag.com/brain-stimulation-and-adhd-cravi...

https://www.additudemag.com/what-is-executive-function-disor...
I've lived in France since September, and I think I've used cash... once? You can live entirely off using your phone/credit card to pay these days (if you don't frequent "cash-only" shops).
It's multiple hundreds of pages, and a gigantic waste of time for anyone who isn't interested in the mechanics of strength training.

Not everyone is interested in the same things as you.
The former, in my case. Last thing I want is someone merging their own "creative interpretation" of proper formatting.
Anyone still there has already counted the cost and decided that jail and fines are insufficient to dissuade them. Just like every other protest movement that you like. Now what?

Also, you’re Canada, not China, so you’re hamstrung by those pesky human rights. Jail and fines is all you can do; you can’t just shoot ‘em all
We have no idea what the level of exposure to lightbulbs is doing to people. That doesn't prove there is a problem. That's the issue here. Zero evidence is no evidence of a crisis.
His post about Taubes still being wrong does that http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-we-get-fat/

I'd like Taubes to be wrong on some points, but the author would rather argue against his misunderstanding of Taubes, which doesn't help.
The value of this new Lemur Pro is completely in how well the software works.

I had IT at my job buy me a Lemur Pro (previous model) a year or two ago.

If I just stayed at my desk all day it would have been better than the Macbook Pro.

But software issues were always letting it down, and I was wasting lots of time trying to patch/fix linux configuration issues & bugs. It got to be such a waste of time I gave up and went back to the MBP.

Main issues were:

- Lots of issues with wifi not connecting, wifi setup 1000x more complex than windows/osx.. mostly around linux not having autodetect on the myriad options on wifi

- Switching between wired at the desk and wifi was problematic, difficult to get up with the laptop and go to a meeting

- Lots of issues with applications needing to be restarted when switching from external to internal monitors

- Lots of extreme battery drain when trying to do certain activities.. e.x. video conferencing apps like zoom, webex, etc.. the fan would go 100% the whole time and the CPU would peg due to video acceleration issues. The battery could drain down 100% in a 30 minute meeting, etc..

I tried 2 different distros. It didn't really make a difference.

So realistically.. hardware on this thing is probably fine, if not as fancy looking as a MBP. It has more useful ports, so less need to carry dongles.

But it's a time waster in a lot of office/dev environments if the software integration hasn't improved.

This is the kind of stuff that wouldn't bother me on a personal laptop where the goal was to hack on linux. But it was a deal breaker on a corporate laptop where I needed to focus on the product.
out of curiosity, what HN law are you potentially breaking? I'm guessing there's a law that prohibits posts that simply say another comment is good?
I have a similar question - why is Amazon not in the ad business?
Recently, I switched from iOS to Android. And I was missing Apple's Continuity feature. Where I could easily make or receive phone calls on Mac, get access OTPs, messages quickly on my Mac.
I noticed I was ending up landing social media or hacker-news :D spending hours every-time I picked up my phone for a call(there're a lot in this work from home situation).

And then after spending a day, going through a lot of spam! I noticed this app on App Store called "Connecton"(I'm surprised why was it hard to find it).

Putting out loud my personal wfh setup, so that I can save someone's time who needs this.