skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that both uses are incorrect here, and that's probably why it caught me so off guard. If you look at "it does effect the content", what does "it" refer to? The production? In that case, it'd technically be true that the production brings about the content, but that's almost certainly not the intended meaning here because it's a tautology. The much more likely intended meaning is that the specific manner of production affects (as in, makes a difference to) the content.
It took me a while to work out why this doesn't feel like a full solution.

I can imagine it working for simple one-line commands and their switches.

I can also imagine it failing to work for any application that requires multi-line code blocks and/or more detailed how-to examples.

For example - as a hypothetical, imagine you change your API from Oauth to Oauth2, and you have to provide examples of new standard code, perhaps in different languages.

That's very much a how-doc and not a why-doc problem, so supposedly it doesn't belong in the Wiki.

But I really can't see the changes being explainable in a fyi.

Of course you can say "The new code is in repository X instead of X-1." But if there are other questions and fyi's around Oauth2 - and there will be - there's no guarantee that important fact is going to be at the top of the read list.

For complex breaking changes that read list is going to get very long.

Simpler changes are going to have the same issues on a smaller scale.

So this isn't really immutable documentation - it's more of a database-hosted command cheat sheet.

That's a useful thing in itself, but I don't think it's a complete solution for documentation.
There are a whole lot of random sharp edges there to be jumping around and then suddenly dropping out of the air every 30 seconds. one of them almost faceplants into something, yikes!
This website doesn't seem very informative to me. I only found one screenshot of what it looks like, and I'd particularly like to see how much it costs but the pricing page is just blank in my browser.

In any case, if people want something like this but don't want to tie their entire lives into github or don't want to pay whatever the price of this service is, based on the one screenshot of this tool in action it seems conceptually similar to node-red: https://nodered.org

Node-red is pretty neat. It's not super-polished and certainly has a grassroots feel to it, but it's a great tool with a pretty sweet set of contributed plugins. I'm a big fan of using the dashboard plugin to make impromptu monitoring pages for whatever random service API I happen to dealing with this month: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-dashboard
> The net neutrality laws were non-existent at that time and nothing of the sort happened

Facebook was founded in 2004, but didn't pass MySpace right away. The FCC articulated it's Open Internet principles in 2005, but actually first applied neutrality principles to a case (not governed by other industry neutrality regulations) in 2004; it's true that the first Open Internet Order was in 2010, but the principals were applied case-by-case without regulation previously.

Also, much ISP action was under net neutrality like rules incidental to regulation of other industries (e.g., telephone service for DSL) prior to this time, as well.
You can only see massive corn and soybean "farms", where everything labour intensive is imported. The world is not like that. Most fruit and vegetables you eat have some element of manual labour.

> None of those things are relevant at all. The genetic difference between crop species and their wild ancestors is tiny, and in fact most crop species out-compete their wild ancestors when sowed together.

Try growing tomato. It needs to 45-60 days before you can eat anything. It requires herbicides and sometimes manual weeding. Special plows are used to prepare the field. It is often chemically pollinated. For high yield, you will manually remove the lower sprouts. If you want to grow vertically you need again manually lace tomatoes. Often tomatoes will use drip irrigation that needs to be manually setup.

https://bit.ly/2zYZ9s7
https://bit.ly/2UHvZGL
https://bit.ly/2UJr0VW

In EU you can have Tomato Farm. Farming is an umbrella term for food production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm

> How do you think that driving equipment, literally the only labor done on a farm, is not labor? This isn't the 1800s, all farming involves is driving slowly for hours at a time, unless you have a self-driving tractor in which case it involves playing games on your phone. Tillage is literally the slowest and most fuel burning procedure in many primitive farming operations. Only for some crops is harvesting worse. But hey what do I know, I am totally not a farmer right? I bet people who study this for a living in the biggest farming area on the planet will say something else right? Oops, they say I am right. I guess it because they are not a farmer too!

That your idea of farming. Compared to tomato production tilling is a low effort.

> No we do not. The coulters on the planter simply open the soil for the seed to be deposited. Seriously, go look at a no-till planter before pretending they don't exist. You are thinking of strip tilling, which is a form of conservation tillage. No-till is not conservation tillage, it is no tillage.

In Europe only like 4% farmland is zero-till. Everything else is either conservative or full till. Zero-till can only be used for very specific crops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas
There's also an Irish band, a Jamaican guy and a Spanish lady in that list, but I agree, the title was a little misleading, should have probably included the mention that this list is centered on the Anglosphere world.
> Ever notice how this discussion evolves consistently, like clockwork every time? This person/role looks like someone deserving of a tip -> Tipping is stupid, do it like Europe. -> Service in Europe sucks. -> That's just a different kind of service/What about Japan? -> You can't compare, that's a different culture.

It makes perfect sense when you view it in the broader theme of HN loving to demonstrate the "superiority" of European culture, oftentimes taking inconsistent stances on different issues in order to maintain that position.
I read this every time it gets posted. Just too good a story.
Right, most of the time, when people criticize algorithms these days they’re really critiquing algorithms that have a fundamental role in social processes that is—algorithms that begin to influence or shape opinion, taste, or judgement. Selection algorithms. Algorithms that decide “what I like” not how to achieve such and such a goal or to solve a particular problem. Most people don’t have anything g against this latter class of algorithms.

In other words, folks aren’t annoyed by algorithms per se, they are annoyed by the application of algorithms to social problems, as such application tends to lack the nuance and sophistication of old school human centric processes.
As measured it was actually talking about total round-trip time including server processing, but it was measured from within the JS on the client, from start-of-AJAX-request to finish, and so it included both server/client hops in addition to processing time. That's part of the red herring: since you expect the bottleneck to be server processing time, you look there first.

A decent partial answer to "How to prevent this?" is to look at additional metrics - graphing server-only latency would show the expected correlation with server load and an inverse correlation with total RTT, and would narrow the search space significantly.
Did he get the job, or was his GPA too low?
Related to "passive dynamics," see "preflexes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preflexes

"Preflexes are the latent capacities in the musculoskeletal system that auto-stabilize movements through the use of the nonlinear visco-elastic properties of muscles when they contract.[1][2] The term "preflex" for such a zero-delay, intrinsic feedback loop was coined by Loeb. [3] Unlike stabilization methods using neurons such as reflexes and higher brain control, it happens with minimal time delay. Its chief disadvantage is that it works only to stabilize the main movements of the musculoskeletal system."
I think the idea was the homeowner plants the package with the horn, not orders one.
Actually I meant to say that the news on the grapevine is that the big cloud players (GCP etc.) are potentially outsourcing demand for cloud services in excess of their capacity to AWS...
Qt feels incredibly foreign on macOS, but still less foreign than GTK+.
I believe the problem here can be used as a proof of proximity in a blockchain. Imagine 2 specially designed devices that can receive a string, perform a public key encryption on it, and transmit it with very low turnaround time.

A bitcoin block hash is found, and 2 participants begin a back and forth hashing session in which billions of round trips are performed...every minute or so, a transaction containing the latest result is submitted to the network, and eventually one is locked in.

An interested party could then verify that the transaction could not have occurred unless the 2 keys involved were within a certain physical distance from one another.

Not sure what it could be used for yet, but it's something that feels like it could be important for some purpose.
I've never thought about the execution order before but that makes a lot of sense. Thinking about it now, an async function is just sugar for wrapping the return in a Promise (besides the async/await restructuring). And constructing new Promises works that way exactly.
Of course I tip but my point isn't that I won't tip, it's that you can't call it free shipping if tipping is customary. Reread my comment.
I'd say tupac wasn't exactly an example of a good member of society
Be aware of this regression with 1.11.3: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29241
good for you, you've read the book about common fallacies used in arguments. go back to /r/iamverysmart
Show HN: AI.Decider – intelligent decision maker (ML,NLP\U)
> At most the server will "interrupt" you once once your food arrives to check in

My experience is that is closer to a (frequently exceeded) minimum in US restaurants offering full table service than a maximum (except for the rare case where the server completely disappears and neither checks nor can be summoned without accosting a busser or some other server, but those are presumably employee failures and not restaurant practice.)
Explanatory video: https://youtu.be/vBWYWjiBG2E
How I Went from Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor
It'll have to do a ton of work to be as walkable as Williamsburg. Bellevue's streets are mostly car sewers.
When the Mythbusters took a ride in a U2 there were several days of training including how to operate the pressure suit required for the trip. I don't know of any commercial U2 rides and I assume it would cost way more than the Zero G plane ride.
> which tells me there is something about the Saudi case.

It being done on foreign soil is part of what made the Saudi case so egregious.
> "vendors who are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government”.

Australian government only allows extrajudicial directions from a local government or an allied foreign government.
Amazon may be big, but the CIA knocks over entire countries. Seems like a good way to jeopardize their own military-industrial complex play, as well.
Try j-Core instead:
http://j-core.org

They can do non-MMU SMT which is kinda cool too.
Coming from a Middle Eastern country, I understand very well what low respect for life could look like. It runs through all layers of the society/culture, and probably takes generations to fix.

For a better depiction of how low the respect of life could be, I suggest (at risk of psychological trauma) reading or viewing videos about how some drivers in China would rather run over an injured pedestrian (in some cases small children) a few times to ensure they're dead. Apparently a dead victim costs less than ongoing medical bills.
3 percent is insane and not sustainable. One year treasuries are at 2.7 percent. I could short treasuries and put all my money in Robinhood... ripe for arbing. How are they making money? My first inclination is to think parking my money with them is super risky...

Edit: Looking at today's market and interest rates.
But then it would not be an application class processor.
She was physically prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss if persons had cheated to get their PhD by invoking GDPR, that is pants-on-fire misuse. This really has nothing to do with the framework chosen.
It depends on your parameters - Yanartas / “Mount Chimera” was in the Iliad, it’s hard to beat that level of fame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanartaş
You just have to remember that there are humans behind it all. Before a war happens, we would agree to fork the chain, like most people did with Ethereum's DAO hack [1].

There certainly could be many life changing bugs happening for smaller entities. But that's not a cryptocurrency-specific point. Humans are more and more willing to accept trusting technology with their lives (factory robots, pacemakers, automated cars, risky snapchats).

The key for cryptocurrencies is to keep humans in the loop: keep it incremental and require human confirmation for meaningful transactions. Machine learning can be used to detect anomalies in busy transaction flows.

[1]: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/the-dao-the-hack-...
in general, yes (natural selection is amazing), but the knowledge in this case has been readily available for literally decades but not applied appropriately.

organisms have evolved over billions of years to take advantage of passive dynamics, which is basically the application of newtonian physics to what is mostly a mechanical design problem. we've known for a long time that passive dynamic elements are not only energetically more efficient, but also makes computations simpler.

by contrast, active dynamic locomotion is akin to putting a joint between the front fork of a bike and the shaft, and installing a hand pump that you have to constantly actuate to keep the bike stable while you're riding it. you could do it, but it's not the best solution.
all the other top savings accounts are currently 2% to 2.2%. i think they are not going to maintain that lead.
I'm choosing to include "protocols for setting parameters for the mathematical model" into the "mathematical modeling" line item - please note that is the phrase I used, twice.

I'm not "blaming the model" - probably everyone recognizes that all models have limits.

I call your attention again to the point of my original comment - the GGP comment was claiming that the best mathematicians in the world could not have foreseen the kind of conditions that caused the 2008 market failure. I'm arguing that it was possible, and that it was clear (mostly in retrospect) that the model assumptions were being violated most promiscuously.

In fact, the real reason I chimed in is that I think this crisis was a really awesome example of the power that quite abstract mathematical constructs have over our lives. I felt that point was missed in the generic comment about "who could have known" that kicked this thread off, and I sort of wanted to rescue that underlying mathematical issue.
"Coal fires are a problem all over the world. Such fires endanger nearby communities, waste precious resources and produce tons of noxious and greenhouse gases. Centralia is not the only coal fire burning in the United States. In fact, it’s just one of 38 burning in Pennsylvania alone. The hundreds of underground fires in the United States, from Pennsylvania to Alabama to Wyoming, combined with the thousands thought to be burning in China, India and elsewhere, are one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide and pollution on Earth."

What really?
And without global climate change that iceberg would have never been there. It would be happily attached to its ice shelf chillin' with its friends instead of escaping to the open sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_safety_practices_af...

Radio and Distress flare procedures; International Ice Patrol; Ship design changes, including taller bulkheads
If it's anything like the Brazilian process (and it probably is, because we explicitly copied it from the US), there should be a document somewhere that relates each comment, says if it caused any change and explains why it caused or not a change.
> And even then there might be some other advantage to not castrating oxen that isn't being considered.

I supposed you could come up with one. Your OP basically gave you a really knowledgeable counterexample, rooted in a rich field of study in anthropology (treatment of animals), in societies that long predated capitalism.

This is actually a pretty common pattern in HN.

When the HNers hear something like: "According to this book that the recipient of the information (the HNers) didn't read, here's an illustrative example of how rich the study is."

They respond: "But capitalism."

You've adopted a world-explaining model (capitalism) that works most of the time (that "single examples don't necessarily refute") not because it's powerful, but because it requires extremely little knowledge. That's really why derivatives of this line of thinking (think LessWrong/singularity/Paul Graham worship) are so widely adopted. Not because the ideas are right. It's that the ideas work for people who don't read, or are just really god damned rich, or who don't really know anything, or think they 'know enough,' like true hacks would say.

The downside is that when someone tells you this fascinating tidbit of Talmudic law, instead of typing in "anthropology of the treatment of animals in historic societies," the reaction is, "Well fuck this guy's knowledge."

One name for this phenomenon is "first principles." A great, positive spin on knowing nothing! This forum's discourse has declined exactly because of first principles, and others have observed the same (characterizing their criticism as a criticism of "first principles thinking.")
China Involved in 90 Percent of Espionage and Industrial Secrets Theft, DOJ says
Ask HN: How can I help animal welfare?
What kind of pro bono work can a backend engineer offer to help with problems related to animal welfare? I was recently moved by the [horrific story of a dog abused in my old neighborhood](https://abc7.com/4882938/?fbclid=IwAR2htHg-BN6zMW69S0ixOtVmnRnpd6g5U_xW7kxuQH6OxrTV4yVYJCf4TJw). Aside from donating money to help the issue, I am very interested in how I can use my skills as a backend/full stack developer. I know there are non-software ways of helping animals, but I am specifically asking how I can leverage a skill set that is normally very expensive for non profits to utilize. Specifically, I would like to work towards preventing animal abuse, but am open to hearing other animal welfare issues.
> Maybe they're tricking customers into paying a 10% markup with their "service fee". That fee reportedly does not get passed on to the workers and is optional but most customers probably don't realize this.

Ha! “Optional service fee” sounds like the reverse of “mandatory tip.
Only works if there's no router delays in the middle. The vast majority of consumer Internet connections fail this - I've already got an 8ms ping just to get to the first Comcast node, from my home wi-fi router. It's near instantaneous within Comcast's network, but then loses a couple milliseconds handing off to their fiber backbone provider.

He could use timeout as a proxy for distance because all the e-mail recipients were within the same university, with a direct-switched network. Once it got on the wire, the only latency was from speed-of-light.
I spent like 2 mins looking at this and I still don't know what I'm looking at.
With transaction fees alone, there's plenty of room to make money. A huge chunk of the population doesn't have money parked in savings/investment and literally spends nearly all of what they have coming in. Especially in younger/millennial targets.
> They [Microsoft] have lost me for life. I'll be switching to Mac and Linux from here on out.

The power you rightly object to is not limited to Microsoft, or the Windows OS. That power comes from the power of proprietary software over the user. All proprietors possess that power and leverage that power largely in ways we can't describe in detail until it is too late to stop it from being used against users. But we know that all proprietary software is untrustworthy precisely because it doesn't respect a user's software freedom.

Microsoft got caught leveraging that power against their users before, this isn't new. But given how long it took us to learn about some of their abuses, it's a safe bet that there are other ways they have of using the Windows OS to report on the user without their consent and do anything else the endpoint is capable of doing. After all, Microsoft has a universal back door on every version of Windows. Since a lot of those endpoints are connected to the Internet, it is not hard to get those endpoints to do whatever Microsoft wants them to do.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html has a list of Microsoft's back doors, insecurities, DRM, instances of surveilling users, and more.

Switching to Apple won't address the underlying problem -- a lack of software freedom. There's plenty we know about Apple's proprietary malware too listed at https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html. But picking one proprietor over another isn't gaining freedom, it's switching masters.

Consider a free software GNU/Linux distribution (some are listed at https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) and run it on hardware you get to control (https://www.fsf.org/ryf has pointers to such hardware), and then install nothing but free software on top of that. That will go quite a ways to keeping you in control to the degree you're willing to look into things or have others do this work for you. I find it's a big job I can't do all myself, so I have to trust others in this. There's no known guarantee against malware. But a free system is the best practical means to avoid malware, and computer security is impossible without free software. The structure of proprietary software immediately tells me that we simply can't do away with the malware you mention if we run proprietary software. You'll also need to have a stiffened spine against those who try to frame the issue around convenience -- run the software on this website, install and run this program, etc. -- because there are a lot of ways to run proprietary software on your computer these days (installed or not). Liberating yourself from forced upgrades, ignored/reset settings, advertising, nagging, surveillance, DRM, and more is all possible. But not with proprietary software.
Yeah, this all needs a human friendly title and tagline. The "Why" section is the first thing I should see on the GitHub page, instead of the buzzword soup I see.
The Federal funds rate is currently 2.00-2.25%.

A decade ago, the rate was 1.00%. (And three days later, it was 0.00-0.25%.)
Where exactly does it mention individuals, elsewhere under the definition of provider, individuals are specifically included. 317ZG appears to make no mention of individuals.