jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anyone in the Middle Eastern region is considered native to historical Palestine because of Ottoman citizenship.

That's not quite what I said. Palestine was a British colony on a fractured sliver of a former empire that existed for less than 30 years. Unless you consider native status to be determined by where you lived for a 30 year period, there's no "historical Palestine" for someone to be native to: Palestine was not a region in the empire that preceded the brief British rule, and people's identity was not distinguished on the basis of Palestinian borders. They would have been considered Jewish or Muslim or Christian, and lived in one city or another in nearby areas, but wouldn't consider someone to be an "immigrant" if they moved cities, as you've previously described Jews in Israel: some of whom are in fact literal natives and have lived within those borders for hundreds or thousands of years, and some of whom lived in nearby cities but not technically within the boundaries of Palestine (which again, at the time, didn't exist as a meaningful concept).

What would you say if a bunch of bedouins from the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula decided in 1948 that they were sick of the desert and went to conquer Palestine

Um, first of all, the British mandate of Palestine was in large part a desert. So, bad move on their part if they were "sick of the desert." Second of all, the Bedouins do currently live in the deserts of Israel, as they also have for thousands of years; they are not confined to the Arabian Peninsula as it seems you're claiming (they do in some sense come from the Arabian Peninsula, just as the Palestinians do — although in fact the Bedouins arrived thousands of years before the Palestinians did). So I'm not sure where you're going with this; they were also inhabitants and would not be some non-native interlopers, as you're claiming they would be? And as you're claiming Jews are?

Jews, like Bedouins, have been native to the region for thousands of years. They were also native to the region you call Palestine — there are synagogues hundreds of years old in Safed, Jerusalem, and other Israeli cities — but the boundaries of that region were not historically meaningful, and they were spread out throughout the surrounding area as well, as a small but meaningful minority. After WWI they faced massive repression in the new Muslim countries and consolidated in the boundaries of what is now Israel, but previously was also not meaningfully separated from the surrounding countries. Referring to them as "immigrants" is disingenuous: there was no country they were "immigrating" from or to that existed for more than a handful of years, and the previous longstanding country was one they were already citizens of and had been for its entire existence; they were native to it, and to the region it occupied. They predated almost anyone in the region by millennia.
> writing their code against a GPL'd library constitutes creating a derivative work

I’m not at all convinced that a court would agree, particularly when the effect on the code is fairly insubstantial.
PS: Warren has 140 billion sitting in cash right now. He just bought his own stocks because there weren't many opportunities left. The man has been around for 90 years and investing for 80 years.
I know we live in a time where youth is glorified and "old people don't understand the world" but I'm pretty sure he learned a thing or two.

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble”
It took them a week to release a non-statement, which they only issued after Congresspeople started complaining about why the service was down for so long. This is not a victory for transparency.
That was my first recorded video and I preformed badly. Also it needs to be updated since the product has changed a lot from that version. The same for the photos. Thanks for remembering me of them :)
Is it just me or is the video of the talk at http://shellhaters.heroku.com/ broken?

On closer examination I noticed the video is here http://confreaks.net/system/assets/datas/1177/original/363-g...
Maybe having Yahoo as a captive client while they figure the business plan out?
Tried to code up one of the hair papers. Realized I need to math up.
Paid Sick Leave?
You can't even use MobileCoin in the US (Not that I'm a Signal user) but are they either planning on focusing on foreign markets, or planning on getting audited heavily by all the US financial agencies?
If the owners of MobileCoin own 85% of existing coins which at current rates is valued at $14 billion, you actually expect they're not in this to liquidate their coin for that $14 billion if they can snooker people into using it?
I have a theory and why the internet is the way it is. It's because it's mainstream. It used to be "better" (as some would put it) because it was niche. Only the passionate and the interested were on it. Nowadays everybody and their grandma is on a social network... literally. Stands to reason the space would "devolve". Why? Because of what Carlin once said (paraphrasing): Imagine how stupid the average person is. Now realize half of the world is even dumber than that.

Most of the complaints here were basically about human behavior on the internet. If it were complaints about actual technical problems or engineering problems related to the internet, I'd get it. I mean, you could argue that Facebook being a walled garden is actually a structural problem of the internet, but really, it isn't. The internet hasn't fundamentally technically changed. You can reach content outside of those silos if you want and search for it (i.e. you're actually interested), but guess what? People don't want to leave that walled garden. They want stupid videos, recycled quotes and propaganda. Propaganda is soothing. Searching outside of your silo would run you the risk of finding conflicting opinions, or God forbid, conflicting evidence.

The internet is "worse" today then it was some years ago because more and more dumb, ignorant and uninterested people are on it. Which is to say the internet now more resembles the real world then it did long ago, when it more resembled a (somewhat) private club for more interested and passionate, educated people.

The way I see it, the world has always been full of dumb people who screw it up for everyone. The internet just makes it much easier to see.

So I don't have an aversion. I understand the frustration as well, I just find complaining about it risible. Given that complaining identifies the problem and nudges people towards a solution, how do you cure mediocrity and stupidity?

P.S. When you have a chance, check out "The basic laws of human stupidity" by Carlo M. Cipolla. It's a 15 minute read and well worth it. You'll get a better understanding of where I come from.
Jeff Bezos sold over $10 billion in Amazon stock last year, they absolutely are making that much money. This whole 'net worth isn't liquid' meme is incredibly damaging and overstated.
The problem here is that the code doesn't throw all the requests at once. In the previous version they where using a small number of threads which did provide a notable performance increase but issuing ~8 requests at a time doesn't allow for that much reordering.

It would be interesting to try a version that used async IO to try and read literally all of the files at the same time and let the kernel send you the data as the disk spins to it.
And even income. This is the argument for basic income, people would be free to pursue their artistic desires and inventor ideas.
Isn’t cryptocurrency inherently public?
Heck, I bristle as it is when people equate the internet with the web!
I wrote a log file viewer (https://lnav.org) to help me debug the software I was working on at the time (2006). This software generated multiple log files and I got tired of manually collating messages to figure out what went wrong. (The stuff ran in an appliance so we would get dumps from customers.) I’ve used this log viewer practically every day since and it’s been useful as I’ve moved from one job to another.
"private payment" ≠ "payment using an ID that can be trivially linked to your phone number on an indelible public record"
They argued that separate people should look at a problem so as not to make the same mistake twice:

> The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it

You said that issue could be applicable to everyone:

> The same is true of pretty much everybody - PMs and QA included. Everybody misses details and edge cases.

I pointed out that the issue can't be true of everybody, since everyone other than the original developer would generally avoid it. You then said I repeated what you said. Which is it?
It blows my mind that you think that people wishing to be referred to in a certain way that has absolutely 0 negative effects on you or anyone else is somehow a bad thing which you need to argue against so much.
They're considered a design darling in terms of their OSX and now iOS apps. Really high quality software.
Maybe. But I also feel that Panic's apps are not particularly well suited for the iOS App Store. They're a bit too "power user" for a platform that's almost never used at home, with the comfort of a keyboard.

In contrast, some of the most popular games this year (Monument Valley, Wayward Souls) have come out with premium pricing, which is a refreshing change.
Most people want a waiter to come by because its rude to wave a waiter over.

European service sucks.
Interesting, although I found their pricing more confusing than anything.
Now we can be astronotes on earth:-)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/water...
It’s not intentional. Insurance companies are better labeled “managed care organizations” (MCO).

They offer services for adjudicating services and prices for self insured and non self insured clients.

Self insured clients would be governments (Medicaid, Medicare, large corporations that can afford to pay for all of the healthcare). Non self insured are clients like smaller companies and people on healthcare.gov that pay insurance premiums, but are not liable for the entire amount of healthcare.

In the event the MCO is administered a self funded plan, they are simply following rules laid out by the payer. The payer (usually government) can come in and audit the MCO anytime and penalize them for approving healthcare that the payer deemed outside the scope of the rules. This works out quite well for the payer, as the MCO serves as the fall guy and takes the heat of being a “bad actor” and denying people healthcare.

The reality is that healthcare in the US is rationed, and MCOs are tasked with rationing it. The government gets to avoid being blamed for denying care.
> Wasm also provides a lean execution environment enabling Wasmer containers to run in places where Docker containers are too heavy to work.

Is WebAssembly really faster or lighter than virtualization? Or is this about the virtual os you run in Docker?
I'm not a Trump apologist, but I've spent time around his based.

The second and third order effects of this are going to be terrible. You have a large portion of the country that feels disenfranchised, unheard, and forgotten (the rural American working class). This is why Trump got elected, and why the Capitol was stormed.

These people had some hope and felt heard through Trump. Removing him, along with the purge of many other conservatives (they've even banned an account I followed which posted documents on the Flynn case and provide some legal analysis) will serve to worsen this.

I heard the phrase "violence is the language of the unheard" to justify the unrest and rioting this summer; I agree with this statement, and why I fear for the worst.
Well, civil war is the least of it, it's hard to see how democracy itself survives as a method of government if half the country will just believe everything that is uttered by the latest freak of the moment, even when they've been lied to a thousand times before. Cults have always been limited in their impact by the very small number of people willing to join them -- so the cult leaders just disappear into the woods with 50 women to have weird sex parties. Democracy can't survive that behavior at mass scale.
Are they going to ban Arthur Chu?
https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
I'm sure most people here know this, but https://www.thetrumparchive.com is where all his (past) tweets are at.
Trump has no shortage of places that he can speak his voice and people will hear him. He can call any news station right now. He could make an account on Parler or many other social media sites.

No specific company is obligated to broadcast his messages. The government can't obligate anyone who doesn't want it to run his propaganda.
I am an AWS employee as well, and I'm definitely one of the biggest critics of the company. That being said, AWS is definitely still customer obsessed.

I feel dirty defending AWS, but this is one case I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. There must be _a_ reason they haven't implemented this yet and that reason must be somehow protecting the customer. "Customers want this" ends the discussion around here. You must have a really good reason to disagree.
A reputable source typically does not help non-experts dilucidate whether something is controversial in the field, except if the document specifically caters to non-experts. But then the information is watered down and analogies strain the actual information.

Sometimes it will be useful to provide appeals to authority as a shortcut to skeptical verification of internet facts, but it seems wrong to attack the fundamental basis of clear communication - asserting a clear and concrete statement that enables you to independently check if it's true or who thinks the same.

We can't go around the internet citation-needing every statement; you should find the equilibrium of faith-disbelief-verification that works for you, that's the only thing that scales.
I take it you're not a very big Xbox One fan, then?
What's the goal of this ? Building a biometric faces database ?
Excellent stuff.

Not sure if it is feasible but a slider control for height would show the transition from high altitude (circulation currents) through to surface conditions really nicely. Hard to cache the animation I imagine.
I don't understand how there's much of any difference in readability between html and xhtml style of coding. Do closing tags really make it that much more difficult to read for some people?
I think there's likely a ton of people using it, since it's so fashionable right now.
From Scheme (or even Common Lisp), I would agree with you, Ruby isn't exactly beautiful. But from Java (which the article compares it to), it's glorious.
The lines of longitude are always long, whereas the parallels of latitude can be shorter, and are always "parallel" (in some sense).
This feels a lot like scala implicit conversions/views made into idiomatic Ruby.

In scala, you could write an "implicit function" that converts Foos to Bars. If and only if you imported the function, you could then (1) pass an instance of Foo to a function accepting Bars and (2) call methods of Bar on a Foo.

For example, if you defined an implicit mapping from Int to IntWithTimeMethods, you could then call something like 1.seconds_from_now, and get a Time back. You can see something like this at work in https://github.com/robey/xrayspecs/blob/master/src/main/scal...

In scala, it's not required that the class you convert to is a subclass of the original, but it's a really common use case. This "refine" behavior gives you this same ability, but just with an anonymous subclass.

FWIW, I like Scala's implicit conversions. Usually, I see them with things like 1.seconds, or object.toJson, and then you just look among the imports for something referencing time or json. I guess people could think up absurd uses, but then, those people were writing bad code anyways.
Where can we go to get the code now?
(first year electrical engineering student here) Could you explain what you mean by space/time complexity? Is this just Big-O notation and the associated ideas regarding complexity, or is it more than this?
Reminds me of when I had to write a front-end for a web search feed. It was easy to test the standard case (millions of results, of which the first 1000 can be paged). But what about the case when there is only one page of results? The solution seemed to be, rather than finding a topic with only a few results, to keep appending common words until the # of results shrunk enough. For example, from Google:

"antelope" has 14,100,000 results
"antelope walrus" has 118,000 results
"antelope walrus biscotti" has 8,100 results
"antelope walrus biscotti eisenhower" has 1,690 results
"antelope walrus biscotti eisenhower lambchop" has 8 results!

Bonus if you can find a word combo which produces a single page of interesting sites, not word spam. Of course now that this comment is on the web, make that 9 results for "antelope walrus biscotti eisenhower lambchop".
Thanks, it's definitely helpful as a comparison to my own activities the past month. Though in my case, I talked to an acquaintance about what I wanted to do and got his advices on what would be needed to build my idea, such as the languages, database, hosting, etc., so that I had an overall idea of how everything should work. Afterward, did a lot of background research too.

As for coding, part of the reason I'm not hiring a developer is because I don't have the money, so I'm making it up with having a lot of time and effort to spend.
Then how about McDonald's as an example of this? Do you think they wouldn't unleash the lawyers if you opened a restaurant and started selling a McBurger with McFries and a McShake?
I think it comes down to how a given user works and thinks. Personally, I agree with you about hierarchy (my app doesn't have it and the issue comes up periodically) but I know some that need it. I'm often amazed at how such a simple problem (managing tasks) is solved in such different ways, each which suits one subset of the population!

Sometimes the tool is irrelevant. I have one friend who used a directory structure and text editor (pretty simple) to create an enormous cluster of tasks he'd never get to. Many thousands, like the Windows registry after a couple years of random software installs. His issue was just needing a mechanism to periodically clean it out, so a change in approach rather than a different tool.
interesting .. thanks!
In 1980 the British Standards Group produced a document, Method for Preparation of a Liquor of Tea, setting out the British Standard method of tea brewing. This was BS 6008:1980.

ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea) later created ISO 3103 from this.

You can see the documented process at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_6008

It's an interesting read and won the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
One of Seth Godin / Scott Adams had a posted that's related to this. The way I look at it is there are people all over the world with diverse skill sets tapping into the internet. There needs to be some sort of collaboration engine where units of work can be posted and exchanged, something similar to http://www.builditwith.me/, but on a much grander scale. I can't really think of a way to make this work, but yes, this is a great raw idea and absolutely begs for some more brain cycles to be put into it.
Yes, I prefer this, definitely more lispy.

I blame seeing too much of clojure's "defn fart [ args ]" syntax ;-)
I have to admit to detesting Oracle but I am glad to see they have seen the light of day regarding OO.
Finally, I'll be able to throw away my mouse and only use vimperator, or better, uzbl. Thanks, Apple!
off-topic: I disagree completely. I am crazy about the panic blog, I think it looks great. The promise of html5 is that it allows you to be more creative in what your website looks like. That kind of a layout, with a curled page and drop shadow and, yes, the rotation, are something that you might see in print, but here it is in standards based glory. Pretty cool. Unfortunate that it doesn't look so hot in some browser/OS combinations, and that might be something they should consider, but I think it is pretty exciting for them to be experimenting in this way.

Also, if you didn't notice, every time you refresh you get a new random rotation.
For a device designed almost exclusively for email, I'd say BlackBerry is astoundingly poor at email.
It is a bit like a rancher asking the founder of the vegan movement how to raising livestock while making a living, pay his rent, pay for his children's education, etc. The conversation can very easily become non-constructive, even when the more optimal answer could be focused on improving things, like using a more humane method of killing and better treatment when the livestock is alive.

I would have just answered that the best way to develop free software games is to not be forced to rely on copyright in order to get paid. Get paid to work on it, rather than get paid after work has already been done. If one has to rely on copyright to get paid, a CC BY-NC license might be the best choice, as then the author still have exclusivity to put the game on stores. An other choice is a contractual trigger where once the author is not interested in exclusivity they they will release the code.
You could play with friends of friends of friends. We can make software for making these checks automatically and transitively, and automatically distribute responsibility when someone is found cheating.
I think it’s a convenience phrase, meant to impart unambiguous innocence. But it’s definitely a little dated, in both directions.
Any interview question that takes 3 hours is bad by definition unless of course the 3 hours is a red herring and the interviewees who pass are the ones who do it in much less time.
> How do you balance the difference in national labour right laws and public holidays? The easiest is to simply give all employees enough vacation to decide themselves which holidays they want to celebrate and for how long. Everything else is an HR policy nightmare and an interference of the company in your personal life.

This is probably illegal in many countries. I assume in many places you can't just give extra vacation and use that instead of giving holidays.
can you PLEASE use a longer word? this is hard to google and bad in an environment. everyone can abbreviate it with their shell if they want to.

at least the go people started calling the language golang. for heavens sake.
The typical advice is that timing the market is so hard that we’re usually better off just riding out volatility. JP Morgan observed that about 40% of gains between 1995 and 2015 came on the market’s ten best days, many of which came within two weeks of the ten worst days.