jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From my perspective, someone who bought the Marshall Mathers MP when it came and loved the song Stan (I'm mid 30s). I would say "Stanning" isn't ubiquitous at all, in fact, I've never heard of it until today.

Just did a quick check around my office (Fintech company)(mostly 25-35) and no one had heard of it.

So yeah, I don't think it's that commonly used.
Going by the article linked in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26112657

It indeed seems more like evidence in favour of a long-held theory.

Also though, as the OP says:

> It is already known that the smaller bluestones that were first used to build Stonehenge were transported from 150 miles (240 km) away in modern-day Pembrokeshire.

> But the new discovery suggests the bluestones from Waun Mawn could have been moved as the ancient people of the Preseli region migrated, even taking their monuments with them, as a sign of their ancestral identity.

I don't live in Wales but have definitely heard that before too, the discovery seems to be about larger ones and that they were previously erected (not just mined) in (what is now) Pembrokeshire. Is it definitely that that he thought to be common knowledge, not just that the stones were taken from the region?
For several years I've been following the "legal design" discussion from afar.

1. The goal is certainly laudable: easier understanding of legal documents for lay readers. BUT:

2. The contract is by far the most common form of legal document — and working lawyers (and other contract professionals) seem unlikely to become skilled in using graphics software for drafting and revising everyday contracts; too many don't even know how to use Microsoft Word properly.

3. Graphic images are useful to convey broad concepts but too-often insufficiently precise for use in conveying the fine points of the parties' rights and obligations.

4. D.R.Y. applies here too: Careless editing can easily lead to a mismatch between words and graphic images, which in turn can lead to expensive litigation. We already see this when drafters repeat numbers, for example "ONE MILLION SEVEN THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($1,700,000.00) DOLLARS" — exactly this wording cost a Texas lender $693,000 because in this context, words take precedence over numbers; [0]

5. Clients won't often want to incur the expense of bringing in a design specialist to add graphics to a routine contract when old-fashioned words will be (perceived as) "good enough."

[0] See Charles R. Tips Family Trust v. PB Commercial LLC, https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=659315655971355...
This is very interesting and insightful. I 100% agree with the notion that small communities require an organiser to keep things going.

I personally believe social media can be a positive force in building better human connections online. Because I think none of the existing platforms are optimising for this (better connections and discussions), I've been working on it myself. I believe group chats with a small circle of friends are the rare form of social media that actually works well today, so we're trying to build something where you could be connected to group chats with people you may not know in advance. In this way, the social media app would act as the "organiser" of these micro-communities, which would hopefully grow into real friendships.

Thoughts? We're looking to launch a landing page next month, and the app itself (which will run on the web browser) in a couple months.
+1 for Designing Data Intensive Applications, it's a phenomenal book that's helpful if you've never scaled before.
Anyone can state what the problem is but until you can come up with a solution it means nothing.
Does he even have to care? If he spent his time shoveling cash into a furnace he wouldn't run out any time soon.
I would be delighted to have that sh-t gone from everyone's iPhone,

because it would create an obvious a compelling opportunity for someone to finally break the stranglehold of FB's monopoly.

I miss my friend and family connections, but most people in my community won't go near that ecosystem with a flaming 10' pole any longer, and many friends like me, despair that our loved ones' reaction to e.g. the Social Dilemma and ongoing revelation after revelation of sociopathic corporate amorality is "yes that is sad but I have choice" because "all my friends are only insta" or "my cottage business depends entirely on my pages" etc etc.

I cannot wait for them to go down in flames.

Bring it Apple.
Thank goodness AAPL is here to protect us from doing cool stuff.
Carrington Event does have overlap with EMPs, if I understand my physics correctly, so there's at least an overlap with military concerns, which is tied to unlimited budget.
And struct extend!:

struct Person {
id:i32
}

struct Customer: Person {

}

P.D: This is not subclassing, is not redefine all the same attributes again and again. Is partially supported to copy the values but not defining them.
"I'm completely carless in Beijing where ... taxis are ubiquitous."

I don't know about you, but I had a bad experience when I've needed to use a taxi in Beijing! Taxis are ubiquitous, yes, but they won't take you if your destination is not far enough for them, and most of them don't use taxing machines (because you know, there are plenty of tourists around), and prefer just to wait for someone willing to pay ten times the rate that they actually should bill. And there's more - you can't call a taxi in order to come to pick you up even from hotels (which is ridiculous), and most of the places where you might have some certainty that you'll land in a taxi are taxi-stops (often posted near bus-stops), and you also may have to stay in line for one!
Given FB's power to influence, they could "promote" Apple bad news more, and demote Apple good news (e.g., it's pro-privacy efforts). Then at the same time, do the opposite for Android.

It might not be severe pain, but we should not underestimate FB power as it controls our individual feeds.
Someone else[0] posted a twitter link to the animation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125020
Yes! Sorry, I mixed up two sentences in my head there. I meant to say that you can color 2ⁿ⁻¹ green and 2ⁿ⁻¹ red (or, alternatively, you can color all 2ⁿ vertices with one of green or red) such that no two vertices of the same color share an edge. (Which is what you describe!)

It’s a bit late for me to edit now, but alas :)
This trick can also be used with the Gaussian integral to compute similar integrals of a Gaussian multiplied with a power of the integration variable [1], e.g. the integral of x*exp(-x^2).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral#Integrals_of...
Big oil has been funding anti - nuclear and anti - hydro efforts for years.

The truth is that far more people die from pollution from fossil fuels than have ever died from nuclear or hydro.
I was talking to a manager at a former job, sharing my views about some process issue.

She said she appreciated my passion. Which is probably the managerial equivalent of the southern "Well bless your heart."

But I took it at face value, and told her that in my opinion passion is only for friends and family. With cancer-curing exceptions, work is just a way to support your family.

She was visibly taken aback, and annoyed.
Not without Apple's permission on iOS, you can't for longer than a week.
Don't we want the people who make our iphones and oculus rift headsets and shiny usb-c devices to have apartment buildings to live in?

I'd rather they had nice houses instead.
Collaborative editing is great, and I wonder if this project could be adapted as some sort of browser extension that would allow teams to collaboratively edit on pages that don't otherwise support it.

For instance, the project-management software my team currently uses does not allow us to collaboratively edit tickets. Sometimes we've resorted to writing tickets together in Google Docs and then transferring the text back into the project-management tool. It would be awesome if we could use Fiddle.md or a similar tool right there on the page, rather than having to transfer text between tabs.
This is very similar, except it is automoated so no one have to do the steps each time someone wants to configure openVPN server quicky.
I'm sick to my back teeth of 'platforms'.
The two with discussion are certainly relevant. The others were not. To me, they served only to give the false impression that this has been discussed a lot more than it actually has.

> They are not intended to scold people for submitting things that have been submitted before

So I guess that explains why you began with 'oh no, not again'
I disagree with a lot of this.

MLS is absolutely huge in most of the non-dense U.S. It's not that much of a hindrance for people to self list on Zillow if you live in California where tons of people use Zillow. It's more of a hindrance in rural areas where you'll get far less eyes on your listing if you're only on Zillow than if you were in MLS. The power of MLS comes from the fact that it's aggregated everywhere for you and it's what agents use for their buyers. Also, it's still extremely popular for house buyers to utilize agents, because it seems like it's just a free service and buyers don't need to do any legwork at all. Agents will arrange times for you to visit a property, will make phones calls for you,

As far as contracts, I'm certain a Google search for "Purchase Agreement" will get you a boilerplate contract for free or for just a few bucks. The bulk of the paperwork in a real estate transaction happens with the title and mortgage, which a title company or attorney will handle for you. I'm not going to go out of my way to insult real-estate agents, but they aren't attorneys and aren't doing any legal work on behalf of anyone. They are just presenting or filling out boilerplate contracts or forwarding stuff from the state/title company/underwriter/etc.
XMPP (Jabber) is probably a more direct analogy. But the idea is similar. Unfortunately most of the big providers (Google, Facebook, etc) are disabling XMPP federation for their chat services, even if they still use the protocol internally.
Everyone has an email address. I know only three or four people who have even used IRC since 2000, typically for developers on open source product chat rooms like Drupal.

Whatever the pros and cons of the technology, or the whys and wherefores of the reason for this lack of widespread use, it clearly has not been adopted by the mainstream. If the goal of a protocol is to be used widely, then clearly IRC has failed.
Google's blog post: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/01/easily-run-d...
Wow.

I've just had a heated debate about this at work. I think it's pretty cool, my colleague thinks it's the worst idea ever.

Does this actually work in the real world? What if i'm moving?
That may be true in some but certainly not all cases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/us/roswell-new-mexico-miss...
> I sometimes don't understand the tech's sector hypocrisy: tech wants to become a solution to the problem

Only if it can be assured to make them money in the process. Besides, you can't paint with such broad strokes, the "tech sector" can't be guilty of hypocrisy, only individuals can, and from where I sit, it's all pretty clearly about money.
I'm frightened that 63% of citizens in their sample value "protection" over privacy. When I've tried to explain the need for privacy to those outside of my circle, I always find my explanation lacking due to my inability to articulate why exactly privacy is important to me.

How have others been explaining why privacy is important?
Well, not quite irrelevant. Just because language interop is easy doesn't make the fact that there doesn't exist the interop for a library you need. That said, it's also a good chance to get good sane default implementations in first. On of the problems with CPAN is finding the best of the multiple modules available that fit the need.
> No one nowadays is going to make a delivery platform without considering (and optimizing) thermal, audio, and radar signatures

Sure it is not an all or nothing. What the article is claiming is that investing hundreds of billions into it at this point then hundreds of millions per unit is stupid because even older Russian UHF, VHF radar can detect those. Now they can't be used for targeting as much but that has improved, even the Chinese caught on and developed their own UHF/VHF radar.
There are no shortages of strange battles. The city wide brawl in Wellington, New Zealand, when American troops ended up in fatal brawls with locals over the refusal to enforce US ideas on segregation, for example.
Interesting. The title originally read:
"Why Python 3 Isn’t Being Used More"

If this wasn't moderated, then my apologies.
I never claimed they can generate a nuclear detonation, but consider your strawman thoroughly refuted. They can, as demonstrated, leak radioactive particles.

You continue to claim that because something hasn't happened yet, it won't. Flight happened for 60 years before the SR-71. Just to pick one obvious example.

301 people dying in Turkey is irrelevant (though obviously my condolences to their families). Coal doesn't have the ability to, for example, leak radioactive particles over the entirety of nyc. Which we have no practical method to evacuate.
let's also build it in tapes and call it "samaritan"
That's an interesting idea. There are off the shelf tools that can recognise famous people already (Amazon Rekognition, for example). The problem in connection with this hack, is in not wanting to call a third party web service.
No; not suggesting this has to with excessive short selling. I’m just supplying a data point to support the point that a large decrease in stock price needn’t have a material affect on the ability of a firm to operate.
I bet you broke this patent as a kid https://patents.google.com/patent/US6368227B1/en
There used to be sites that would do this diffing on news-sites, I even tried building one at some point. The idea was to reduce the memory-hole effect that the web infrastructure has produced and promoted. I remember Mark Pilgrim at one point targeting Dave Winer with something like that, as they were feuding and Winer is/was known for rewriting his blogposts.
Yeah. I imagine there being "metaverse clients" that don't enforce any NFT DRM and will allow you to copy whatever 3D asset you see as well. I would definitely connect with a jailbroken client / choose the "Indie Metaverse" in which none of the NFT nonsense is enforced.
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$220 was a steal compared to what I got mine at. But I was never under the impression that the what /r/wsb was saying was going to come true. I was just rolling the dice on being able to find a greater fool. I knew the price was very high, but I expected the hype to go on for longer than it did.
Thank you for the link! That helps a lot.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think there would be people who were upset, but it would not be a material loss. Meta repeatedly overestimates the appeal of their products. If Microsoft, Apple, Google decided not to do business you would not only hear an outcry from users, it would in some cases be a material loss and make people's lives worse. I don't think you can say that about any of Meta's products. I quit using Facebook and Instagram years back and the next day was a better day.
> treating human height as a bunch of iids is the simplest approach.

Sounds fine.

If you treat heights as some i.i.d.s, then can use the central limit theorem to argue that in the limit for large samples (we get convergence in distribution) the probability density distribution of the sum of heights expressed as a z-score (mean 0, standard deviation 1) has Gaussian probability density distribution.

But that does not mean that the probability density distribution of heights is Gaussian. Indeed, if include both males and females, then for the density likely get two peaks instead of just one. If also include children, then get a left tail longer than the right one.

So, net, we cannot expect that heights are Gaussian. And we will have a tough time finding a large population that is Gaussian. z-scores in the limit for large samples Gaussian -- sure, can get that. A large population Gaussian, not much chance.
I’ve run into weird situations using git rebase to edit history.

For one thing it doesn’t just edit history, it rebases the branch (shocking!).

Also, you run into extreme weirdness messing with the main (first, not default) branch and initial commit.

I’m an experienced user, so I understand the logic behind the weirdness, but I always caution new developers about it.

It’s “git rebase” not “git branch —edit.”
I think friction works best when it's not completely out of the player's control. That way it's an opportunity for the player to exert their agency. If the player can't exert any control over friction though, if it's a fixed cost they have to repeatedly pay and can't do anything about, then it's just drudgery.

As an example, in Papers, Please, the UI is a significant source of friction. But the player can compensate for it by figuring out the best way to organize their workspace and the best "route" to go through all the pieces of information they have to check, and then implementing that consistently. Figuring out the best way to do things is a substantial part of the gameplay.

Also, in general with cases where there's no fast travel and travel is used as a source of friction, the player may still have many ways of reducing its cost. They can choose more efficient routes, find shortcuts, or obtain faster ways of traveling. An extreme case is Morrowind, where, by the middle of the game, most players will have memorized the network of various overlapping travel options and/or found or created a magic item that will allow them to zip around at ludicrous speed.

I haven't played Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, but if organs eat each other, I wonder if there are any mechanics that allow the player to compensate for that, such as being able to re-arrange them as they're loaded to keep organs likely to eat one another far apart.
You're learning clojure and don't know scheme?
My complaint had more to do with the fact that the article contains no date information than the fact it was resubmitted. Since it contains no date information someone that is seeing it for the first time might think this was a brand new issue and no one was aware of the problem.
But does reddit let you claim RSS feeds and auto post them as submissions? Supposedly Digg 4 does this.
It isn't in any stable build of any popular browser yet, and you expect it to be in MobileSafari's stable build that is released as GM today? That's unrealistic.
just wondering why video is not in HTML-5, or am i missing something?
If books don't help, you might try your local community college. Here in San Francisco they have all sorts of web-related courses, from basic HTML to graphic design for the web.
I have gym weights near my desk, and do curls etc. a few times a day; wouldn't do that in the office (maybe I would if I had a private office)
Imagine putting nuclear weapons on your lawn and pointing at your neighbour and being surprised that they decide not to trade with you.
Imo, always value options at 0.

If you find a job that pays what you want and has options, that's a potentially nice perk.

If you find a job that does not pay what you want to but offers options to make up the difference, just be very aware that you're just gambling and there's always a chance you'll get burned.

Treat options like a nice perk and you'll always be ok. Same with the promises of performance bonuses or whatever. These are just levers that companies can adjust to try and make sure you are locked in there and don't leave.
I was in a similar position a few years ago too, until I forced myself to learn Docker.

Now, all my projects are started from the same building blocks: Docker + Django + Gunicorn + Nginx + Postgres. And I love it.

Now I have traefic at the top of My to-learn list so that I can host multiple projects in the same VPS.

Last weekend I learned to use 11ty — the first static site generator I managed to grasp — and I'll entend to use that for projects that don't need this level of "complexity".
The realtor being a creep still doesn’t change the fact that the guy who says you have no privacy, wanted more privacy.
Would love to see something like this but that would expand abbreviations. E.g., corp -> corporation (and the reverse).
People here typically expect a higher level of quality in a comment. Not that you said anything bad, just nothing that added anything meaningful to the discussion. I wouldn't recommend whining about the downvotes. I've had plenty of comments end up in the negative, it happens, no big deal.
One thing I'd have liked to ask if I hadn't missed the window of opportunity would be regarding his desire to go to Mars himself. I have often wondered about the psychological effects of being effectively stranded on a barren, lifeless planet potentially for the rest of your life. On Earth, we can "get away from it all" and go to the country, go camping near a nice stream, listen to birds sing, go for a swim in the ocean, sit in a nice garden and eat our lunch, and so forth. How would one cope with the loss of all of that, not to mention also having to deal with the long-term physiological effects of a change in gravity?
> if you're willing to testify

Relevant satire:

https://medium.com/@blakeross/uber-gov-29db5fdff372
What? It has no mode for finding anagrams? Useless.
Flexbugs creator here. For what it's worth, all of these bugs have been fixed in the tech preview of Internet Explorer 12. Also, my co-maintainer (Greg Whitworth) is a member of the IE team, and he's been as adamant as anyone that we educate people on the shortcomings of older IE versions, so we can all build better websites.

This isn't about assigning blame, it's about empowering developers to be able to use flexbox today.
Having worked in both Europe and the US, and being from neither of those places, I can absolutely say that the amount of _open_ racism in Europe was significantly greater than in the US.

One example out of many: while walking on the street in Denmark, there were two instances of passersby on bicycles yelling racial slurs at me as they drove by.
I don't think my loss of confidence is the cause.. I was more than confident (if anything overly confident) before I was losing my hair. I'm not sure if you are also dealing with hair loss but it's hard for me to converse with people who simply aren't going through what I am experiencing. And I'm able to shield my emotional strife and lack of confidence for the time being with hair fibers so it hasn't affected my body language (I know it's not healthy to bottle my bitterness inside).

The general consensus of people who try to "fix" my issue is that I need to go to the gym and become Dwayne Johnson lol. It's not that simple. I'm already a gymrat and I would say I have a great wardrobe and style (thanks to my brother).

But more to the point, I don't think my hair determines my overall attractiveness. BUT, I do think it plays a big part. There are not many bald 23 year olds that attract women who are also 20-25 years old. That's the hard truth I'm trying to deal with.
Pretty much the same reason Wordpress marches on. The advantages of a "better" language are just not worth rebuilding the entire ecosystem around WP or Rails, both of which have massive leads and neither of which are standing still. RESTful APIs are pretty much a solved problem, the next language isn't going to get big by being a better Rails, it's going to get big by doing something new.