jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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I believe overall cancer incidence rates have risen while cancer mortality rates have fallen.

Influencing factors could be improvements in the early detection of cancer and advancements in medicine for treating it.

Another possible cause is the almost global increase in exposure to non-ionizing radiation from the ubiquity of wireless devices. The International Agency for Research on Cancer have stated that non-ionizing radiation could cause cancer in humans. [1]

[1] http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
One of the participants here.

It's been a crazy few days. We have documents drying in the former president's sauna, prosecutors waiting for each file to be scanned before confiscating it, and an incredible group of journalists working night and day to save as many documents as possible.

A few articles with more background:
http://gijn.org/2014/02/25/yanukovychleaks-org-how-ukraine-j...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/ukrainian-journa...
http://gijn.org/2014/02/27/yanukovychleaks-update-the-projec...
And of course now Cadbury UK is owned by Craft, its taste has changed, and I find it disgusting too (although not as disgusting as Hershey). I have managed to find a dark chocolate made with trinitario cocoa (so it isn't bitter like normal dark chocolate), which is as cheap as mainstream chocolate. It is so far above mainstream chocolate that it's like night and day.

I think a few people here in the UK are getting a little annoyed with Americans buying our chocolate companies and wrecking them. Could you stop, please?
Sure, and maybe some people find that hacking away on personal projects is... fun?
If your actions will cause less of the things you like to be produced, you probably shouldn't do them.

So I shouldn't pay off my credit card before it accumulates interest.

However, if they're selling an ad-free, timeshiftable version of the show you're Tivoing, you will be better off if you make their business viable by paying for it.

And public libraries are evil.
Have you watched pro basketball since the NBA legalized zone defense in 2001? Most of the shots taken in games these days are 3 pointers. The days of Dikembe Mutumbo (or even Shaq) hanging out in the paint and doing tiptoe dunks ended about 8 years ago.

Even 7 foot guys like Rasheed Wallace and Kevin Garnett take 40% or more of their shots from 3 point territory. Wallace shoots 35% on three pointers (30% is the "he's a good three point shooter" threshold). The real three point shooters make half of their shots... a feat of accuracy which is really fucking hard, even more so considering they also have to get to the shot and deal with defense. There is no question most basketball players are genetic freaks but anyone playing in the NBA these days is also scarily accurate.

I hate to agree that I now find the NBA kinda boring... but it's not because it's a circus act (circuses are pretty interesting, actually.) The NBA is boring because almost every player is now so superhumanly good that it's hard to imagine how difficult what they are doing really is.
lol, ok the site owners don't "owe" web carers, but they're very vulnerable to their actions. People who are building the web and profiting from it are not people to cross. Either the web stagnates as they give up, and you lose, or they block your abuse, and you lose.
If I may self-promote: the application-form-compatible programming-problem bit is exactly what I'm trying to solve with http://codeboff.in/
Big whoop. This kind of post pops up every few days. No business plan. No market analysis. No real idea of who will use your shopping service and why. No description of value, benefits, and features. Reads like wishful thinking and dreams of grandeur. All you have is an idea and a domain name.
One of the entrepeneurs' role in our economy is to see the gaps in other entrepeneurs' plan.

So, to me, it's quite obvious that there's lot a whole of inefficiency in our economy. The idea of "perfect information" in our economy is not real, but an artificial condition that could never be reached.

If you think about it, uncertainty is everywhere. People lust after certainty all the time. Think about how many economic predictions that were wrong like off 1 percents or 2. Think about the economists who tell people that the housing boom is going to last. Think about the fortune tellers.

That to me, tell that information can never be perfect, because there wouldn't be tons of people who offer services predicting something, who nonetheless get it wrong anyway.

And that why patio sometime talk of economic inefficiency as a kind of Nirvana for entrepreneurs, because there are ton of opportunities.
Is this the only way? Any Iphone App Developers want to expand on this?
That's all wrong. It's an ethics-free [1] arms race right now. If they want us to see their ads, they have to make us want to see their ads. That's all there is to it. Pleas to ethics'll work about as well as file-sharing lawsuits.

[1] "Ethics-free" because we won't have enough perspective to judge until ten or twenty years from now.
This premise is a false dichotomy. Agile and the Waterfall development cycle are not binary opposites. If you take a waterfall and break it up into a number of smaller milestones, you start to get something that resembles the bare bones of Agile. If you look at a single Agile sprint, you will see a miniature Waterfall. Finding the balance point between these extremes for a project and a team is what makes "agile" work.
It’s quite the opposite. Economics is generally the most rigorous of the social sciences.

Even the “worst” discipline, macroeconomics, tends to yield high quality predictions. Larry Summers was screaming from the rooftop about how the Covid stimulus would result in inflation
There are times when some corner of software development speaks a specialized language and this is an example.

1. Conveyor belt(?) of environments. Hydrate(?) the env(ironment). Mask(?) from prod(uction)

2. I think I got this. Typical "merge to main pipeline" with built product and test results as outputs.

DevEx(?). And not sure why I wouldn't see pipeline #4 in my build loop because I can't deploy unless 2, 3 and 4 pass.... Maybe you mean I don't wait to see it.

Also not sure how it's faster because environments still need to be brought up. Unless you are trying to say that the environment is already running when the merge to master pipeline succeeds.
Can someone point to the article in PRL, I couldn’t get more than moonshine from the linked news article.
I used it as recently as a couple years ago to make short work of some build + deployment stuff on some slightly unusual platform. Might've been Garmin wearables? Something like that.

When you need "expect", it's wonderful.
They take power from a usb plug. You can flash the camera and use it as a plain streaming 1080p camera ( you can't return it to being a Wyze cam after that though ).
Again I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I was not the author. I meant to say "it was one of the best articles I had read".
How is that different than just copy pasting a new page?
Really wish they would implement texture memory for CUDA, I used numba initially but switched to pycuda for that feature alone. I gained a 2-3x runtime speed up for a raytracing based simulation.
It doesn't solve the same problem as a static site builder. e.g. A static site builder lets you build templates using whatever plain html/css you want, and then you can write individual pages in markdown and have them generated using your template.
If all software was designed for scale, there would be no use for expect. It's 2019 and I still have expect in production:

* to deploy commercial software whose configuration is only through an interactive terminal session and stored in an undocumented binary format
* to drive gdb to inspect a suspect Red Hat 6 "will not fix" GUI component that can go into an "impossible" pure cpu loop, to determine whether to kill it or whether it's busy in a more benign state.

Edit: the deploy is invoked by ansible, whose own expect module recommends the real expect "for complex cases"
> Americans enjoy a higher general standard of living than most others in the developed world precisely because our government has a relatively hands off approach to "managing resources".

How can one come to this conclusion?

Does it account for the boost the US got for not being destroyed in WW2? For having tons of natural resources per capita? For having land borders with only 2 countries, neither of which can threaten it, and oceans on other sides?

I can easily see how there are more factors to the quality of life in America than the government being relatively “hands off” managing resources. Although, even that is tough to define as the US government is very hands on in many businesses.
I’ve used Jekyll a lot over the years. It’s always worked well for what I’ve needed
First as in, he's the first example, not the second example.
Here you go:

Factsheet on the "€œRight to be Forgotten"€ ruling (C-131/12)

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
That's not really a great read on the situation, at least according to military historians: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1508947030273671177

In another thread, he describes it as:

> So to put it bluntly, if the 'clever plan' was to lose 10,000 KIA to set conditions to walk away with the Donbas, that's a stupid plan. That's winning the negotiation on a $15k car by cleverly offering an opening bid of $55k and throwing in your old car as a sweetener.
Is abseil used at the codec API surface?
And young people are still learning Fortran today, though it's not the most common language any more, and we tend to learn several different ones.
Not if you need to support HTTP Digest authentication.
I felt largely the same way, but now our company has enough microservices that without something like k8s it's hard to actually sufficiently test anything well. Sure, we have test setups for any one service, and tests for that service with some other services mocked, but there's really no way to spin up a real full dev or QA environment with all the services interacting without herculean effort, and keeping it up to date would be non-trivial.

I still haven't done anything with k8s, but I suspect it's the solution to this problem, even if it would take that same herculean effort to finally get everything moved to using it (we don't even run containers, we run our own application delivery system that has some similarities without the process isolation, because we've been doing so since before Docker existed).
Gosh, really accurate. Reminds me of Eric Weinstein's "Kayfabe Politics" concept a bit as well [0].

From the article:

> Mr Curtis: No one is really sure what Trump represents. My working theory is that he’s part of the pantomime-isation of politics. Every morning Donald Trump wakes up in the White House, he tweets something absolutely outrageous which he knows the liberals will get upset by, the liberals read his tweets and go “This is terrible, this is outrageous,” and then tell each other via social media how terrible it all is. It becomes a feedback loop in which they are locked together. In my mind, it’s like they’re together in a theatre watching a pantomime villain. The pantomime villain comes forward into the light, looks at them and says something terrible, and they go “Boo!!”. Meanwhile, outside the theatre, real power is carrying on but no one is really analysing it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGVk4d6Gkk
Maybe.

How would you feel if an investigation stalled when a bank said “we have no idea who these people are, or where the money went”?
I was looking at some cup marks on some rocks near my house recently and it made me realize how good stone is for permanent records of civilization

I'm half considering getting some stones and carving some bikes, cars or planes into for future civilizations to discover
I like this a lot more than I expected to.

A lot of social ills are rooted in "The world doesn't work." And then we try to find the right feel-good pill or the right talk therapy when what we really need is a jobs program or a bridge or store that sells a thing that works and if you come up with a real solution, no one will connect the dots and say "Homelessness is down because someone built a better mousetrap." Instead they will turn their baleful eye to the latest earthquake or the latest revolt or the latest political drama and continue to complain that the world is broken.

Doing things super well is hard. Heroics make headlines and headlines have something of a tendency to actively interfere with problem solving. Problem solving tends to be done quietly at your desk, in your lab, in some back room and people who love good press tend to be better at playing to the crowd than at actually solving anything.

If you want to make the world a better place, make a business that solves a real problem and be decent in how you deal with people. Don't be a hero. Don't focus so much on the social and emotional stuff. Build a better widget instead and build it with an awareness of the social and emotional stuff and a sensitivity to the current state of the world which is always high drama and lots of pain points.

Doing anything well is really hard. There are lots of ways to do things badly while getting lauded for it in certain circles.
>The company can choose not to, but they will be unlikely to procure the amount of labor they require.

That’s...exactly the point. Collective bargaining (aka freedom of association) swings the balance between of power intentionally, but that doesn’t automatically make it anti-competition. That’s why it’s often in the company’s best interest to work with a union rather that not; they know there is a cost to bear for hiring and training new employees. There is the chance for rent-seeking, but it isn’t a forgone conclusion.

When rent-seeking does occur, it’s mitigated by mutually assured destruction. If unions get too greedy, they can drive the companies out of business so it’s in their best interest to renegotiate their contracts and pare back their demands. This is exactly what happened in Detroit after the 2007-2008 recession and why unions may have tiers of employee benefits.

To your point about it being a cartel, you’re right to a certain degree but I don’t think it has the distinction you think it does. Cartel, Co-op, Corporation, Cabal... they’re all groups working together for their own interest and there’s nothing inherently morally wrong with that as it derives from the individual right of association. The major distinction that makes one anti-competitive is when “the few” work to against “the many”. Unions are the direct inverse of that.
Ah, dang, I don't have access to that portal anymore. Looks like the price is between $200 and $250 for a perpetual license.

Just call CDW or one of the major manufacturers - Dell, HP Enterprise, etc. They can all sell you windows 10 LTSC volume licenses.
It does and it doesn’t. Can you go to the shareholder meeting and speak? Sure. But your time will probably be limited and if you ask something contentious you’re likely to get a politicians non-answer.

For anything more meaningful you would need to meet one of the three criteria of Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 which the SEC recently “modernized”.[1] It used to be a requirement that a shareholder own $2,000 or 1% of the outstanding shares in order to bring a proposal. The new Rule is you must own $2,000 or 1% of the outstanding shares for three or more years in order to bring a proposal. There’s also criteria for a shareholder to bring a proposal in a shorter amount of time if they own a higher dollar amount of shares but I believe the shortest time period under the new rule is one year.

So one share probably isn’t going to cut it for most public companies other than AMZN and Berkshire Hathaway.

And even if you meet the requirements to bring a shareholder proposal it would very likely require advanced notice which is a whole big thing. Especially if management doesn’t agree with whatever it is you’re trying to do.

So I guess the answer is no, securities law is a lot more paperwork and a lot less exciting than in the movies.

[1]https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-220

Edit: It just occurred to me that your question about standing at a shareholder meeting is different from the topic of the article which is private lawsuits alleging securities fraud. Management’s duty is to the shareholders (collectively) so the “own one share” question doesn’t really apply the same way. You’d need to show that you purchased or sold the security in reliance on the fraudulent information (or undisclosed information).
> EDIT: I see that, at least for now, it's optional and you can un-enroll, which is good.

It's always going to be optional. It's their solution for high-risk users (think: journalists, whistleblowers, and similar), it's not meant to be for everyone.

Disclaimer: No Google affiliation, but I've tested the program a long time ago before it was available to everyone.
I don't like meta gripes either.
I'm definitely better off now. If I had been fired, it's unlikely I would've been successful in the space. I managed to sit on lots of panels, meet some top-tier people in the valley, and make some great connections. I didn't hit a $$ homerun this way, but my long-term prospects are good.
I like the URL: /everyday-items-hackers-targeting-right/
Targeting the Right? I'm filled with so much outrage and disgust I'm not even going to read the article! Clearly the liberals are at it again with their freethinking and college educations.
Technicalartup point of view - what value are you adding, and what are you doing that someone else can't duplicate with a minimum of effort?

Right now this is a fairly transparent re-use of S3 with some clever features on top - I can see the appeal - but I'm thinking "Yeah, we could rig that up over the weekend and do the same thing here.... no need to pay double the price for S3 storage when a few hours of in-house work will take care of it.

Also - as to "never delete" "Never" is an awfully long time. Mistakes are made, and while "never" might seem like a safety net, there also might be a time when I need to delete data that's been stored offsite -for legal reasons or because someone screwed up.

It looks like something targeted at technically-savvy users, and those users are probably equally capable of doing this themselves with S3 or otherwise.
It depends on the schools. A graduate student at a UC school is way cheaper than a graduate student at Stanford or Caltech. It also depends on the PhD program, or more to the point, on the course requirements. If a PhD student already has a MSc when he enters the program, he can start doing research right away, and his advisor get a return on his grant money way faster.
Should make it
And why not?? This would be the biggest reason I wouldn't go with Linode. Their Linode 512 instance only consumes 16GB of disk space, why couldn't they just compress the data and store it just in case the customer returns? 16GB is not a lot of money these days... a 1TB hard drive is around $60 and they could store 60 customers on one of these drives. The drive doesn't even need to be running for archival purposes.
A lot of people. Noobs, for example. Or people who think it unwise to sign up for an account to download warez.
Perhaps an even better idea would have been to get rid of cars in Hong Kong completely (and then switch over buses and taxis to right hand driving).
This completely neglects the enormous gains to consumers of having cabs that (1) will actually show up if booked ahead of time (2) don’t discriminate by race/ethnicity (3) don’t take the long way round (4) always take cards instead of the machine being “broken” (5) will pick up and drop you off anywhere.

Uber and their competitors are and were 100x better at getting drivers to follow the rules taxis were always meant to follow than their regulators ever were.
A comple of months ago I experienced the auto-landing system (as a passenger of course). The captain made the announcement before landing as meteorological conditions weren't that good (fog).
I must admit I felt a little uneasy...and I am an engineer (maybe that's the reason :))
interesting...do you have a source?
I guess I just don't see it ("How difficult is it to understand _____?" being a rhetorical question). It sounds like a pretty straightforward and legitimate question to me. Of course, your perceptions may differ.
print version?
I'm more excited to see that the project is based off one for the STM32F4. I've got one of those lying around and I'm looking forward to trying this out. :)
First it's "never abused their power". Then it's "never abused their power intentionally" (those tens of thousands of spying "errors" every year don't count apparently), then it's "only a few" intentional ones. Then it's a lot more - "but you should trust them anyway".

I wonder what Obama will say at his next conference on this. I think we can predict pretty well what he's going to say, though. He'll tell us exactly what we want to hear (how civil liberties are important for them and so on), but without mentioning any specific ways to stop the abuses, or if he does, the people he will put in charge to fix it will be all insiders who were leading those same abuses before, too.

But nobody should trust Obama until Clapper and Alexander get fired. Heck, I'd say impeach Obama, too, and send a very strong message to every future president that will assume the role this century that spying on own citizens, and even abusive spying against any and all foreign citizens (even abroad, spying should be done on specific targets, not everyone en mass) - that such spying is not acceptable.