jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I typically favor the 'hands off' approach to social causes. That is, individuals can do more good on their own than benevolent corporations or governments. That said, Google doesn't exist to do good deeds. It is a corporation designed to make a profit by providing a valuable service and charging for it. Donating was not necessary, and I applaud these 'giving back' efforts. I particularly like how it was quantified primarily in terms of number of people affected, instead of amount of money given.
Flash is disabled (not JS).

Boy am I starting to get tired of companies talking about how much they love HTML5 without walking the walk. Google employes Ian Hickson, the “dictator” at HTML5’s helm,† but fails to support <video> with a Flash fallback. It’s really not hard!

Adobe is guilty of this hypocrisy; Google is quite guilty… only Apple is mostly walking the walk (you never need Flash for any of their web properties), and increasingly Microsoft (no Flash or Silverlight is needed for http://zoom.it).

Edit: YouTube supporting HTML5 ≠ this Google web page supporting HTML5.

And FWIW, even the YouTube HTML5 beta is insufficient — Many times nothing at all will play, even though third-party sites like DetURL or File2HD can find .MP4 files for that video, and the video plays fine on iOS(!). And I’m using Chrome with the plugin completely disabled, for Chrissake — Given there is no technical reason they can’t tell I don’t have Flash, it becomes obvious no one at Google cares about walking the walk.

†Dear downvoters: I am not making up, Hixie refers to himself this way. http://adactio.com/journal/1600/
Tell that to Mr. Boole and his logic + algebra...
<quote>
Can you explain how Azul's pauseless garbage collector works?

Gil Tene: At Azul, we've been building high performance Java virtual machines (JVM)s for the past eight years now. We started the company in 2002, and we aimed to solve several scalability and infrastructure problems for Java back then....
</quote>

Anyone else really hate then people don't actually answer the question? They should have edited that useless part out.
You might have Flash or JavaScript disabled: it's a YouTube video.
This is just way too complicated for the average user, especially if they're already using iTunes to manage their music (which they probably are). Instead of just plugging in their phone and having it just work, they have to:

1. Plug the phone in
2. Figure out that they have to pull down the notification shade and choose "mount disk"
3. Figure out where iTunes keeps their music files
4. Find the mounted disk on their system
5. Copy over the files
Sort of like my feeling about politics - if the far left and far right hate you, you're probably on the right track.
RHEL uses systemd.
Amen.

I shudder a little when I read about people dismissing Linux because of Unity. You haven't gotten the full Linux tour until you've tried out a few WMs - it is painless, riskless and pretty fun. You'll find something that is close to your needs and then realise that you can actually customise EVERYTHING.

That WM was i3 for me, but my point isn't to spam my personal preference and/or preach: There's so much stuff out there; something will work for you. Make it your own.
I want to quit OS X but can't until I get (as almost everyone else in the world has said):

1.) Laptop hardware/construction that rivals Apples. I hate plastic. I hate it.

2.) A usable trackpad. Apple has by far the most usable trackpad and it works well. Windows/Linux laptops force me to bring a mouse because the trackpads/drivers are essentially crap by comparison.

3.) Hassle-free wireless and graphics card drivers. Linux I'm staring you in the eye poking you in the kidney. This isn't always a crapshoot, but boy howdy can it be.

4.) An supported upgrade path. Too many "PC" manufacturers put their hardware out to pasture the day it's released. No updates. No support.

Windows is largely unusable for me for development work[1]. Babun or cygwin make things better but I hate having this fucked off environments disconnected from the core of the operating system. It's like working/developing in a vagrant box without wanting to...

Linux is damn close but without a good hardware vendor it's a no go. I could buy a Mac and install Linux on it, but what's the point? Might as well just use OS X... and here we are.

[1] I want to emphasize the "for me" part. I'm not trying to say you can't enjoy it, or that it's across the board "shitty" by any means. I gladly recognize for some folks-- it's wonderful.
> There are fixes no doubt, but this lack of "customizability"

System Preferences -> Notifications -> [Application] -> Style -> 'Alert'

Under that it says

> Banners automatically appear in the upper-right corner and go away automatically. Alerts stay on screen until dismissed.
Everywhere but two points, anyway...
My term for OP's agony is mud wrestling.

I feel the pain:

<rant> YMMV

#1 Problem in Computing: Poorly written
documentation to explain the system, tool,
program, whatever. The OP had this problem.

#2 Problem in Computing: System management as
in hard/software selection, installation,
configuration, monitoring, updating. The
OP had this problem, too.

#2.1 Special Problem: System security.
The source of my most recent case of
mud wrestling.

#3 Problem in Computing: Hard/software
design that results in tools that are
efficient and effective to use. Yup, OP
had this problem.

#4 Problem in Computing: Everything else.
Maybe OP didn't have any of these problems!

YMMV </rant>
> I wouldn't want to compile an operating system on one

The number of laptop users that actually "compile an operating system" are relatively small. This seems like a poor choice for an example.
This seems similar to https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/how-to-make-diy-air-puri... (2013)
yes, but on mac it will make both apps in separate desktops and in windows is just simple window tiling
A hardfork to algorand consensus would solve this
No. MonkeyType is open source.

It's exactly the kind of tooling that makes your life easier if you have multiple teams and wanted to start enforcing static type checks with MyPy and having an IDE that understood your types.
because price is currently calculated similar to how stocks are calculated. While not entirely accurate, it essentially goes down when there are more sellers than buyers, and up when there are buyers but little sellers.
What drives prices up, is more people buying than selling at market rate, which requires the market rate to go up, in order to find more sellers.
From the article:

> What’s more, the hair is expected to be incredibly short-lived, lasting just fractions of a second.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem

> Thus any black hole that has been isolated for a significant period of time can be described by the Kerr–Newman metric in an appropriately chosen reference frame.

The "no hair theorem" was a result for a black hole after some time without interesting changes, so I don't see the contradiction here.
I currently use dyson v11 cordless vaccum. I am in the market for a new one, what do you recommend instead ? Price is not too much of concern for me ATM.
The actual cost per transaction in Bitcoin is ~$150 now once you include both the direct transaction fee and the miner reward (inflation cost). It's an incredibly inefficient technology.
[...people voting out of curiosity...]

If voting reveals the score, then there would need to be a new way to abstain and reveal the score.
Thank you very much for the very interesting study. The truth is that your findings are actually fairly correct. The problem is, however, that the vast majority of those who reply, do not use the hashtag. They just don't. There are usually more, much more replies that the ones with the hashtag, although relatively speaking it's still not what you probably would expect.

A more accurate average number of replies can be estimated if you consider how many users participate in a poll:

http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/62126045498839040

This poll was published on a low traffic weekend day which is clearly reflected by the number of participants.

Polls published on weekdays have of coruse a better response ratio:

http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/55762312174370817

http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/54897184239398912

http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/54221240826732544

We never get over 1000 replies to a single tweet, but 300-500 replies is a very reasonable number, especially if it's accumulated over a couple of days.
So, I guess this is like going to Freenode#RubyOnRails, but for people who don't know what IRC is?

You should absolutely, totally, utterly figure out a way to charge for this service.
That's what I do. I work at most 2 months a year. But draw salary for the rest of the year. The company doesn't mind too. They are happy to keep me on board as insurance against sinking projects.
Comment scores are currently visible for the author. That's what I mean by not learning from other's examples:

Let's say you say "mysql won't help with foo" and get no upvotes. Ten minutes later, in the same thread, someone says the same thing but adds a link and get 20 upvotes.

You can't tell that their behaviour - adding the link - was valuable to the group. They're above you, which could be a time thing only, so you learn nothing from their actions.

And next time, you make the same reply. If you could see their votes, you would learn from that (for most HN instances of "you").
Depends on what you mean by "grokking Lisp".
If it means a full exploitation of all the language's possibility, I agree, but it seems a bit obvious that a mediocre programmer would be unable to do that.
If it merely means being able to program in the language, that's not true.
With the comment score not being displayed, I find myself commenting less often for some reason. Others have echoed a similar sentiment in some of the earlier threads.
> Something might expose bugs in my code?

You're assuming the worst of me. Please try again, starting with this: Something might expose bugs in other people's code that I don't have source for, can't assume will be fixed if reported upstream, and can't assume will be patched downstream even if fixed?
Better examples? Behaviors. States. Event processing machinery. Objects to help support those things.

Containers are also used to demonstrate OO, but they're so abstract only a compiler geek could love them.
> Free speech doesn't mean you have the right to hijack others' resources to your own ends, even in the most expansive interpretations.

That's what this argument is about... Currently, the laws don't require companies or individuals to uphold free speech when they are providing a public square venue.

If people want to create private subreddits or private Facebook groups, go ahead and moderate.

But twitter isn't doing that, they're providing a quasi public space but then dictating what can be said.

The argument were making is that is dangerous to democracy and the same free speech rights should translate here.

Arguing from the point of view of what current laws say when we are arguing that laws need changing is just tiresome, please either argue why your current laws are actually worth keeping using first principles or just stop.
It completely depends on how you approach the term idealism, and what your consider ethical. You're framing the argument as-if goals should be above ones ideals. If you can't convince people about the importance of free-software then the project should die off. I don't see the value in diluting the mission.

Someone who thinks eating sick animals (most meat products) is unethical, isn't going to compromise their personal values just because you're treating them to a meal at the local steakhouse.
> [for odd len] as soon as `ii` gets to `len/2 + 1` the unsigned subtraction became `2^64 - 1`

That's actually a completely different problem, namely my tendency to mistake x/2 as rounding up rather than down. The original code generates sinc(+scale) on the last element of a odd-length array, rather than sinc(0). (So apparently my guess that the original had a bug was correct, it just wasn't the negative multiples. Admittedly, I should have caught that immediately from the fact that it aligns the zero point to the end of the array rather than the beginning.) Correct code would be:

double scale = <non-integer value>;
for(size_t ii=0; ii<len ;ii++)
{ data[ii] = sinc(-scale*((len+1)/2-ii)); }

This reinforces my belief that unsigned integers are preferable: they (occasionally) make off-by-one errors explode loudly rather than quietly producing subtle rounding and (visual/audio) alignment issues.
What’s your alternative? This is an alternative to leetcode vomit at the least. I agree this question isn’t 100% inclusive but then no other method I know of is; at the least the only thing to worry here is people being frustrated or getting anxious. This can be mitigated by being nice and reassuring them that even a suboptimal solution is okay. As others mentioned, 3 hours is generous and probably accounts for people freaking out and then cooling down.
Even if you subscribe to this belief that somehow artificial conditions allow for taxis to exist, you have to start wondering maybe they have a good reason to exist since taxis are pretty much universally available everywhere you go. Even in their previous crappy form, they were ubiquitous like cockroaches. If literally every city in the world adopted this form of regulatory capture, maybe Uber et al can benefit from the same thing, except with a better non-cockroach like UX.
It is really hard to decide on the best way to model, since it doesn't resemble any real-world programming problem.

But OO culture has an unfortunate tradition of using bad examples by using physical objects as analogies for objects in code. Cars, fruits, students, teachers, whatever. Problem is, objects in code rarely correspond to physical objects. In the cases where physical objects are represented, it is most often in the form of database entities, which are typically treated like data-objects, which makes the discussion in the example moot.
Have you seen What I wish I knew when learning Haskell?

[0] http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/
I'd also suggest practicing nadi shodhana pranayama with breath retention. There is some evidence that holding your breath in a controlled way exercises your spleen, like endurance divers train for, which injects oxygenated red blood cells into circulation. [1][2] It obviously has an effect on respiratory capacity as well. [3]

There are plenty of resources on Nadi Shodhana -- I'd suggest Iyengar's "Light on Pranayama" -- but I'd recommend starting with a 1:1:1 ratio of inhale:hold:exhale counts through alternate nostrils, then moving on to 1:2:2 and then 1:4:2.

[1] https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/enlarged-spleen-key-div...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694106/

[3] PDF warning: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1113/EP086...
Sure, there are niche categories that would be hard to get. But for your two specific examples you could use those simple sets of criteria:

1. Target specific articles with advice for older runners in running publications.
2. Target Italian recipes in cooking websites only for users located in Denver.

You don’t need to do those things manually, it can be automated. Sure, it might not deliver the scale that FB and Google are promising, but to say that it’s impossible to do contextually is not accurate.

Use Google Search ads to capture all direct intent.
American Gosplan.
> if it is growing exponentially, you’d expect the number of people meeting the criteria to also grow exponentially.

I don't know for Japan, but here in Canada, on top of showing symptoms, we need to have taken an international flight, or be in contact with a known carrier. The number of people having taken a flight won't grow... that's for sure, and contact, well it's recursive at that point and depends on whether you were in contact with someone that has taken a flight, has shown symptoms, has taken the test instead of following the quarantine asked, and has been positive. So essentially in our case, the number of people meeting the criteria can only go down actually.

We would expect the number of people requiring hospitalization with symptoms to grow though. I don't know if that's enough to skip the criteria though, here in Quebec our number of death got lowered yesterday because the test came back negative...

It does makes sense though to keep theses criterias, because most case doesn't require hospitalization, and there's a very limited amount of test available. In Quebec it seems like we are now able to carry enough test for people with theses criterias, so with some luck, we will remove the contact criteria soon, and get a better picture of the propagation.

In South Korea 30% of the infected are in the 20-30 range, it's most probably the same everywhere but we just don't know it because they would most probably be asymptomatics.
Having purchased X-Plane 11 while waiting for the new MSFS, and previously coming from an unmodded copy of FSX, I have never been more disappointed in a simulator product. I don't know how a system made with more than 10 years of extra effort can fall so far behind the competition. The terrain looks like garbage and doesn't make sense (Why did you generate a high voltage power line IN the road, you know exactly where both are!?) and the roads look amateur at best, the built in planes are mediocre and uninteresting, with half of them feeling nearly unimplemented at best, ATC that is completely unusable, and somehow worse performance, with a VR mode that feels not even quarter-assed. The minimum I can say for it is the interface seems okay and usable.

I guess it's not the market leader for a reason
Covenants are the smallest part of this.

Without the flow of money the funds/banks/institutions which own those bonds are in-turn going to default to their creditors.

Hence the internet analogy: you cannot just hack in a pause on your local machine. There is a world of complex interactions which would also need to be paused, so complex just figuring out who owes who would take years/decades.
I remembered your question from yesterday when I saw this on HN today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664675

Still in pretty much alpha form, but might be worth keeping an eye on it for your needs.
Any know if Teams has any dark patterns such as this? I haven't heard of anything.
People keep linking to the techempower benchmarks, but last I checked they did _not_ do Python web deployment quite right (i.e., no gevent, no gunicorn, no uWSGI).

Things might have changed in the meantime (on mobile, so hard to check), but despite their benchmarks being open, I don't think there are many contributions from folk who do production deployments...
So, what the hell are you doing? (Tongue barely in cheek.)

I ask that, because I'm of an age where I and my cohort get asked that question. The question always strikes me as conveniently indignant, because it's easier to trace the results backward than forward.

But mostly, I didn't even know I was doing anything. I thought I was doing reasonably good when I thought about it. I Got Milk (probably not so great an idea), I didn't eat grapes (for awhile), I recycled aluminum (for awhile), and ate from the food pyramid (terrible idea).

It's an interesting question. What are we fucking up today? I don't think it's global warming, that's probably my generation's fault from years ago, but we didn't know, we thought it was going to be global cooling if not nuclear winter.
>An alternative to live meetings is to move any procedures involving the full House to a web-based medium, similar to HN.

Can't wait for $PARTY party to yell "Conspiracy!" when their comments aren't showing up on the congressional web message board, while $OTHER_PARTY says they were simply "accidentally" deleted by the spam filter. Also something about Russian bots and hackers.
Nice idea! Thanks for the extra space.

Here's a question: I'm very inclined to pay for Dropbox, but I don't actually need 50 GB - I use 1% of that now. On the other hand, I would absolutely pay the same amount for 10 GB for 5 years. It would give me the warm fuzzy feeling of giving back and I would feel safer with the service. Have you ever discussed this model? Any plans to implement it?
No, the answer is your ssh configuration. You're hanging on timeouts, either doing DNS resolution or trying multiple auth mechanisms.

Use -vvv to find the hangup.
I'm not sure it was always common in the US, I'm sure I heard a rumor that in olden days, cable didn't have ads, or had fewer ads because you paid for it. Some places in Europe pay for OTA TV so that could be connected with the quantity of ads, rather than the inherent superiority of the citizenry in all respects.
You can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations_in_curve...
Sorry, but we'll have to agree to disagree on this. Visiting amazon.com is exactly like walking into a shop, and nothing like "sending messages to a server".

I totally understand that that's what's happening behind the scenes, but that's like saying "I vibrated the air in specific harmonics" rather than "I said yes".
The average wealth of ten penniless homeless people and Bill Gates is in the billions.
Can we dissolve Facebook and put Zuckerberg and his cronies in jail now? Federal antitrust law says we can, so let's stop fucking around and do it.
Does it, though? The Internet is pretty "comprehensive"...
It's also ignorantly false. Never is a very long time. They were the same peoples or coexisted peacefully for the majority of known history. Only "recently" has there been divisiveness.
Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions. We are looking into options to support long term development of the platform.
There’s too much to untangle for a brief explanation, but if this really happened when you tried writing Python on Linux for the first time, or using a program written in Python you installed through your distribution’s package manager, file a bug report with your distribution.
If they were there to wreck the joint, it would have been wrecked. From what I saw many protestors were stopping the anarchist from causing any real damage.
so a bit more secure than mint then?
Would be also interested in a deeper comparison to Svelte here.
> What would you say if the answer to your questions were yes, yes, and large enough?

Then their model isn't replicable as a "better way of working" in general. Most companies with 50+ headcount aren't going to suddenly slash their headcounts down to 25 so that they can assert the cultural benefits that can be achieved with a small workforce and clear messaging that exponential growth is neither expected nor desired. If their model isn't replicable, then it doesn't have as much to teach us.
> Being in Congress is not an automatic ticket to having all the country's secrets on your desktop

I'm not suggesting that they have _all_ the country's secrets on their desktops, but surely the speaker of the house needs access to their emails on their desktop. Those are private, but without them, why even give the speaker a desktop at all?
how do modern compilers like clang/gcc handle the debug info while still doing TCO? Any description or links appreciated.
Are you here in Portland? I'd love to hear your story.
The university I attended had a single family home neighborhood only a few walkable away where many faculty members lived and raise their families.
The article has answered most but two questions: what does Gumroad do? How is it meaningful in today's society?
That's interesting, and your Perl scripts sound like the sort of thing I would utterly fail at were I to attempt to create them. What about the hardware of the robots though? Would all of the various interesting parts be covered by patents, etc., and thus be unsuitable for opening up? (Sorry if my questions tread on NDA territory - that's one long-lived NDA.)
First thing that I saw was:

"Members Trying To" and then a users name. So my brain parsed it as:

"Members Trying To Rose"
"Members Trying To Insurance"