jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Good arguments. And I stand corrected, there are reasonable alternatives to Facebook - I was thinking of Twitter.

I understand where you're coming from and I probably should have said this in my previous comment; given the widespread usage of FB and Twitter, it is somewhat concerning that so many people are at the mercy of those rapacious scumbags.

My primary concern is the market and network effect power of these organizations. If you limit those, you limit the ability of these corporations to exert so much influence on online discourse.

Rather than removing their free speech (and section 230 liability protections) rights, requiring and enabling competition would be a better solution.

I wrote the following on another site (a section 230 discussion) a few days ago and think it apropos here. Your thoughts and criticism would be welcome:

"Personally, I'd rather see the following:

1. All social media platforms are required to share APIs to allow other platforms (e.g., Diaspora, Mastodon, etc.) to pull as well as post content from/to the larger platforms;

2. Require ISPs to provide a minimum of half the download bandwidth in upload bandwidth (e.g., if you have 100Mb/sec down, you get at least 50Mb/sec up);

3. Modify the licenses social media platforms require for posted content (currently, a non-exclusive, perpetual license to use, modify and display for any reason) to a more user-centric one (e.g., a limited, revocable license which retains copyright and ownership of content for the creator, which can only be used for specific, opt-in purposes and must regularly be renewed);

4. Require platforms to obtain opt-in agreement to all forms of tracking, whether on or off the platform.

Doing the above would reduce the powerful network effects of the big platforms, provide a wider range of interoperable choices for social media connections and platforms including self-hosting.

Throw in federation services and you can create seamless user networks across platforms.

This would promote competition, stronger control for users over their data and information, the ability to congregate/associate as you wish, and allow anyone to create the environment that they want, curated (or not) as they choose.

And it would force the big platforms to compete on features, privacy and quality experience to retain their user base.

That can be done while still maintaining the important section 230 protections that promote free speech, regardless of the size of the platforms.

Most importantly, it retains the ability for people to seek damages for libel/defamation without heavy-handed regulation and/or some person/corporation/entity deciding how much [filter bubble] is too much/too little."
> RE: Tether I don't trust them either, but we need more evidence of this alleged printing. We saw that they did remove the 1:1 peg briefly when Crypto Capital in Panama (?) froze a few hundred million of their USD.

Tether's page (https://wallet.tether.to/transparency) claims $23.6 billion in total assets. Despite their claims to transparency, I see no report of what those assets are, how risky those assets are, or any audit that assets they even own those assets. Their front page has a big link saying "Proof of funds", which leads to an audit published 2½ years ago, claiming only $2.5 billion in cash in two bank accounts with unnamed banks.

For a company that claims to be "always fully transparent," that is shockingly opaque.
Thank you so much for the first link! The very same "very black unix domain sockets magic" has been confounding me while reverse engineering a binary. OK, it calls recvmsg and then a wild FD appears from another process!? I had no idea...
Bug reports:

1. Try "BELIVES".
The answer it accepts is "believes, beliefs".

2. How about erasing the input box on each new word?
One kampung remains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampong_Buangkok

That page says rent is $13 per month for each of 28 homes, and the entire thing had a purchase offer of $33 million which was rejected. Interesting place, for this an other reasons.
I grew up with two identical twins from elementary school onwards, and it was always super easy to tell the difference. They were completely different people to me (and had really different personalities, which might have helped). In high school, another pair of twins arrived from one of the other middle schools, and I was never able to tell the difference between them, even after 4 years. Why is that?

I would guess is has to do with exposure and knowing them from an early age. It's weird how that works, but I imagine parents of identical twins can very easily tell the difference, so there must be some major difference. Recently, I met another pair of twins and I couldn't tell the difference between them either. It must be extremely nuanced and only obvious to people who have been around both twins for a while. I would guess that it would be easier as twins get older and diverge in physical ways (body fat, muscles, and other physical traits).
Got to look at the actual original Oxfam report from 2015 which said it used the latest data available which was 2007/2008.
In case it isn't clear to people who only watch briefly, the people in the video are Trump supporters, yelling at Graham for giving up on perpetuating the "stolen election" lie.

These are people who are nominally on his side, angry that he's no longer carrying water for Trump.
Hi go snuggle your pup for the night!
It’s driving me a little nuts last couple months on iPhone 12 pro. The paragraphs frequently stretch wide requiring horizontal scroll. Historically I could double tap to set width/zoom level to child comment width, doing that results in all kinds of weirdness now. I’ve not inspected the CSS but seems like it’s forcing my device to iPad width or something.
How is it my side?
True, but I am not sure that changes things. It's possible that the dose increase doesn't lead to a relevant clinical difference.

Ultimately, someone will have to do real world analysis and get conclusions from that. Right now, IMHO, there's better reason to think that a smaller Moderna dose is fine than to trust a single shot Moderna vaccine regiment.
AC transmission has worse power loss per unit distance. But has very little 'base' cost.

HVDC has better marginal loss , but you pay a loss up front for conversion
no, it means that i think he has an active imagination and is inclined to write fiction which is dramatic enough to sell ads.
> Brands don’t have a frame. [...] The brand is an idea, not logos and advertisements.

Ideas are framed in the facts, context, beliefs and assumptions that surround them and lead up to them. Even though the article defined frames at the top as visual rectangles, the rest of text mixes in unambiguous uses of the social sciences definition of the word ‘frame’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)

For example “What is art? How is it made? Where does it belong? Context changes meaning. Frames change the way we think.”

The article is freely mixing the two definitions, hopping back and forth between them. I haven’t decided if I like it or not. It might be considered conflating two different things. But I think that’s their very point, and in art and literature, as in advertising, metaphors and suggestions are useful and common. You might even think of this article as a framing that visual frames are as important as social frames, which is an idea that makes a great story for ad firms that are good at and depend on selling visual ads.
Spotify stopped doing P2P once it got big enough. I don't care what it is doing now. I already banished it from my devices and networks. Nobody needs pop music that badly.
> aren’t commits isomorphic to diffs?

Nearly, though renames are only approximately extracted from the snapshots.
Can I make a shallow clone in Pijul?
Yeah, it's annoying. But Black has so little configuration that I'm ok with hardcoding command-line parameters in my Makefile/tox.ini/precommit hooks (`--skip-string-normalization --line-length 79`)
Well sure, the jobs at job boards should be listed on those job boards also, but you'd have to wade through a deluge of non-job board jobs.

If you're only interested in jobs with job board job boards, you really do need a jobboardjobboardjobboard.com to cut through the cruft.
What was the offer for the people staying in Echo Park?
We're not talking about all women or my opinion of women, we're talking about actual women that actually complained about harassment and discomfort, which is the reason stated for the change in the linked article. Besides, it's not "infantilizing" to acknowledge the situation might feel different as a woman in a male-dominated group. You seem to think they should just tough it out because most men wouldn't have a problem with the "reverse" situation, which is a pretty rough take. Men and women's experiences with the opposite gender are not interchangeable.
Lyft is an app. Git is a tool for developers. I have no clue how they're related.

That being said, I googled "How to use Lyft" and there's a ton of results.
Please add some content so that I can start scrolling through it, and halfway into the content, have most of it blocked by a new modal!
No train there. Rent a car? We're back to square one.
> “The numbers indicate that women more often drive smaller, lighter cars and that they’re more likely than men to be driving the struck vehicle in side-impact and front-into-rear crashes,” says Jermakian. “Once you account for that, the difference in the odds of most injuries narrows dramatically.”

It doesn't seem to make sense that women are more likely to be driving the struck vehicle (compared with men)? Just that when they are struck the consequences of being in smaller, lighter vehicles are more severe.

Unless smaller, lighter vehicles are more likely to be struck or men are targeting women drivers?
For some reason I find these quite disgusting to look at. I wonder why!
From skimming those articles I'd tend towards yes, but I'm neither a legal professional, nor would I claim that I know enough about those situations to make a judgment myself.
Instead, they get apps that can change their voice and face in thousands of ways.

I mean I get the "born in the wrong generation" vibe, but at the same time it's easy to get blinkered and not realize what came instead. In a LOT of ways, they (and we) were born in the RIGHT generation.
Google has world class influence in multiple fields:

* Search engine

* Email

* Operating systems (through Android)

* Web hosting (Google cloud)

They also made a serious play into social organisation with Google+.

Murduch controls a broadcast business which tells people what to think using mass media. I don't like that.

But Google is more threatening, and its strategy is more threatening, no matter what you want to argue News Media has done. Murdoch isn't reading my work emails, doesn't control infrastructure my company relies on, doesn't track the physical location of my friends and associates. Google does. Google's potential for political activism is more scary.
I am not clever enough to understand this analogy, at all.

Why would Google be opening a coffee shop? Could you please translate this analogy into the factual situation, so that I can understand your point of view?
Writing a de/serializer is pretty straightforward, the only slightly tricky bit is handling graphs (you record each object, associated with a label; when you encounter it again, you serialize a ref symbol to its label). It sounds like a whole project, but it's only for your specific use, it wouldn't be that much work, and definitely be worth it.

But hand-serializing everything is a serious grind. Would you use a code generator (or use BCEL or similar) for the default case? I bet the vast majority of cases are automatable, and for the other cases it's a starting point.

For cold start, I personally like the idea of reusing a JVM. It would be nice if it just had a reset or clear button. :-)

BTW: Even though serialization is just a tiny part of your project, you are right on top of it - I'm a little awed.

Thanks for this discussion, you helped inspire me to write my first Ruby program tonight (a regular expression engine) - it felt much lighter-weight than Java (but it's a bit difficult to judge, because it's a problem I'd previously worked out how to implement in Java).
I'm earnestly conceding.
tactical tip #1: Before you submit a link to your website on HN, do a little bit of capacity planning.
I know far too many families that have broken up because of "Daddy who is boring". When your kid says that you know that your wife has been thinking that for even longer. This isn't just those in the start-up space. Microsoft, in their WP7 "Really" ad/social commentary already summed this up perfectly.
It's impossible to prove there was no fraud, however if there was fraud it's extremely likely someone would be able to find it, so the lack of evidence is reasonable enough test of the election's validity. Otherwise there can be no democracy other than direct public democracy.
They’re clearly realizing it. There’s no need to be so condescending by acting like they’re too stupid to seek out alternatives.
The old one was a duplicate of an earlier post.
That doesn't sound like a good-faith argument to me. Is Boeing the government also? AT&T? Did Chrysler become the government during the WW2 supply push?
I miss the Usenet days when hackers were Libertarians.
It's already exhausting to explain that free speech is not a technicality, and that the constitution is not a formalistic document.
Changes to copyright law are probably more likely to pass Congress as part of international trade agreements these days, rather than as stand-alone bills.
I was try to renew my warranty just a couple of days ago. I called multiple times, Lenovo CS just keep telling my credit card didn't go through(Of course, I have enough credit). And my bank told me there was NO ATTEMPT to shop on my card at all! They just wasted a good chunk of my time(put me on hold, transfer between departments) and did noting. Lenovo is just killing the Thinkpad from all ends(ergonomics, build quality, CS)
Even when I was in Iraq, there is not reason to have bad coffee. Life is to short for bad coffee.

This french press cup can provide the best coffee anywhere any time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008TYX1DW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
ugh, bad kerning...
> I think the core of the problem is heading into the mathematical tall grass way to quickly.

In my experience non-mathematicians don't like listening to loooong mathematical talks (although those would be necessary for introducing the topic in a more smooth way).
You, on the other hand, have made it clear who's the religious bigot.

Raising objections to ideas is something you're opposed to, while hiding behind the innate sexuality of gays and lesbians and pretending, as so many religious bigots do, that it's a choice. You exemplify why it's a commendable idea to oppose the misguided thinking of religions.
> It makes me wonder if Moorcock has ever actually read Tolkien.

Probably he just didn't read it thoroughly enough. Recent writers put characterization and moral ambiguities at the forefront of their stories, like Moorcock wanted. Tolkien (and the pre-modern works he imitated) put those elements in the background and make the reader dig them out.

Agreed about Jack Vance. I recommend Eyes of the Overworld/Cugel the Clever.
Won’t that kill any chance of recovery though? If you need this under normal conditions then surely if there is damage then it’s game over
Will JavaScript-based web apps ever run as smoothly as FamiTracker (and to some degree Telegram Desktop) on a Core 2 Duo machine, or take up negligible memory (so you won't have to close some apps to start others) on today's 4-8GB machines?

But then again, modern native apps are dog slow on old hardware; Visual Studio 2022 would hang for over 10 seconds at a time, but it's arguably excusable since it doesn't support running on Windows 7 which I was doing.
I owned a pirated version of C64 Spy vs Spy (don't judge me: nobody owned legit versions of any C64 games in my country) and I never figured out what you were supposed to do.

I understood it was about setting traps for the other spy, but what the overall goal was eluded me. And I didn't even know it was based on some obscure comic or cartoon.
One of the many, we indians experienced few years ago, where the prime minister simply announced on national tv that from tonight 8pm onwards two denominations (the highest ones at the time) are not valid anymore. I think he gave few/20 weeks to deposit old notes to banks.

One of many, the housewives who saved money from day to day house expenses, had to come out clean to family that they are holding 1000s of currency in old now defunct notes.
New games come with new firmware that is mandatory. Firmware installs off game card. Firmware burns e-fuses to prevent firmware rollback.
Do people actually claim Uber is a successful business?

In the UK, none of the original companies that built the railroads still exist. Many of the railway companies were never particularly profitable and the railway boom was a stock market bubble. Lots of them were fraudulent or poorly run. Eventually they all either went out of business, or amalgamated and ultimately got nationalised.

Nevertheless, they proved the railway as a viable technology and built infrastructure that still exists and is used today (Ship of Theseus caveat). Were they successful as profit making businesses? Ultimately no. However society benefited greatly in the long run from their existence, even though we've all forgotten their names.

I can't see Uber as a company surviving the next few decades, but without them the taxi experience would likely still be as horrific as it was in the 90s.
>I almost didn't get an Uber because the market simply doesn't for the drivers to stick around that late.

The market does, but it is bad PR for Uber to offer sufficiently high surge pricing to attract drivers. So Uber makes the choice to simply not offer a driver $400 for what would normally be a $40 car ride, even though $400 would get someone on the road to drive you somewhere.

It makes no sense that people complain about surge pricing.
Here is my hunch. It is not a shroud, as in, it is not a piece of cloth that was used at some point to envelope a dead body. But it is not a forgery per se, either.

What do I mean?

I think this is what happened: at some point, after christianism had already settled and there was known iconography, someone made a sculpture of the crucified Jesus. Said sculpture had to be transported somewhere, so someone covered it in cloth, then maybe baled it in with straw or cotton or whatever as protection.

Then it was forgotten for a century or two. Long enough for the sculpture to leave a clear impression on the cloth.

Bam. No need of supernatural whatchamacallits, no need either for advanced forgery techniques. Just a statue and a bit of time.
Where am I mistaken that having this bug deliberate is meaningful only if you control most of the networks? In which case there are a lot scarier things to worry about.
Shameless plug: We're looking for really smart hackers to join our team -- including an Employee #1 position: http://gopollgo.com/blog/gopollgo-is-hiring
Details about the site, founders, philosophy, etc would be welcome. At least I didn't see this information on a quick pass, and it's information that I feel is important.

It looks like YC News combined with advertising for a bunch of startups and a twitter feed and something that may be an Angel List clone.
Wish you had an email :/ jbm @ ordisante.com if you want to continue this.

I feel like less of a foreigner in Japan than I did in Quebec. Does that blow your mind like it does mine?

The politics & lack of hope in Quebec is stifling. A lot of economic boom cycles were missed because of the squabbling and identity politics that plague the province. I can honestly say that I don't recall a single time where I felt like everything was going "OK" in MTL as a worker.

The positive things I have to say about Montreal is about the quality of cheap food, the quality of education I received, and the quality of the people I knew. Not insubstantial, but not enough to ever tempt me to come back.

Perception problem? Maybe. I'm not going to struggle against that when there are much better things to do with my time.

As per Tokyo; you can do whatever you want if you exist outside the salaryman system. I play the role of the "brilliant system engineer" (whether I am or not is another story). I work normal hours (10 hours a day on rare occasions) and get paid quite well. I have no major complaints. It does seem to be going down the same road of ruin, but I don't plan on being here forever either.
This is an even better example: http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-...
Confirm. I have same issues with groups.
Look, some people (not me personally) prefer using the iOS platform. The OP may be interested in building apps just for his own immediate benefit. Even if he is looking to make money, Apple's app store is still an extremely viable (and proven) option. I don't think you should be telling him what and what not to learn.
Generally speaking, central banks don't dabble much in foreign policy.

That is hysterically naive.
not 1000's of documents [...] of which many probably contain actionable information which i would dare to say puts the EU as a organisation, and you as an individual at more risk than anything the NSA will ever did or do.

Fearmonger much?

So far my statistical risk to be killed in a train accident is significantly higher than being killed in a terrorist attack.

And somehow it has been this way since before the internet was even invented.

How did the internet make the terrorists suddenly so much more dangerous that we now need mass surveillance to defend against them?
Woven Planet Cyber and Vehicle Security | All levels | Full Time | US and Japan

The Cyber and Vehicle Security division at Woven Planet has a variety of roles open in the US (generally west coast based) and Tokyo, Japan (relocation included). (Other areas are hiring too, but I can only comment on the Cyber and Vehicle Security group.)

Woven Planet is on a mission to make the most programmable cars on the planet, what this means is that we're developing what you might consider a car operating system. Teams are small and well resourced. Working from home is an option regardless of where you are based.

Job's link: https://jobs.lever.co/woven-planet?department=Cyber%20%26%20...

Tech stack:
C++, Autosar AP, Linux, and a variety of RTOS.

Email me at caleb.mcgary@woven-planet.global if interested or if you have questions.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494231
Maybe he didn't take that into account. I doubt that he's eating that much rice every day. On the other hand, if you are cooking for more than one person you might be able to go through the bag in less that six months.
We do this at my company and it's awesome. The idea is it's not at all mandatory. Do whatever you want for lunch. But everyday, at noon, there will be a free lunch served at this location. Most people will participate in that 4 out of 5 days. If they have a deadline, want to meet a friend for lunch, need to run some errands or whatever it's fine. Most often the conversation is about everything but business.

It makes us closer as a team and some of our best ideas come out over lunch when we're not trying to brainstorm or think about business issues.
I guess I'm just a lone wolf who likes to get things done during lunch.

Typically, I go for a walk and get some errands done. Or sit quietly and reflect. Or I'll go have lunch with non-work friends.

Occasionally I'll go out with work friends.
His point was something completely other than what happened, and what was reported on. It doesn't surprise me that I missed it.

The reporting matched the event exactly.
I was a little disappointed that this wasn't about _why
When it's open, traffic is open to sniffing.