skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well that is 100% not true. Democracy in no way gives the people a voice, many many studies have proven this.

Citation most certainly needed. While democracy is admittedly imperfect, it sounds like you're claiming that citizens of democracies have no more political voice than those of authoritarian countries like the PRC or North Korea, which is obviously false.

The only plausible theory that supports your claim is that all decisions in democracies are made to benefit some corporate/financial elite, but the election of Trump rather than Clinton (which none of these elite groups wanted) is pretty strong and straightforward evidence against that.

> I have seen more than a few companies put completely under by unions that believed the economic health of the company was better than it really was and those "privileged leadership classes. " that you clearly have a disdain for was just out to "get the workers". The conflict lead to an economically unsustainable business

Maybe it was true that union was wrong in that case (your story is far too vague to verify), however it's plausible other unions were right in other, similar cases. Typically, management's priority is to be as generous as possible to the shareholders, not the workers.

> "privileged leadership classes. " that you clearly have a disdain for

My comment was a pretty straightforward observation that people with power tend to make decisions that benefit themselves, tend put far less weight on the interests of those without the political power to influence them, and a solution is to spread political power more widely. How exactly did you jump to that conclusion that I have "disdain" for "leadership classes"? You're reading in emotions that aren't there, and if you're going to to that, you're not worth talking to.
U.S. newspapers have shed half of their newsroom employees since 2008
I don't see how we can meaningfully estimate the reproductive rate with such variable testing rates and patterns. Some places barely test people with severe symptoms, other places are testing anyone they can that may have been exposed. Some states have tested less than 0.5% of the population, others have tested 3% plus. Testing criteria and rates and test availability are all changing from place-to-place in ways that I have not seen sufficiently tracked. So we can't even correct for those variations if we tried.
While it was an interesting point, it doesn't seem completely applicable here. Presumably the classifications include context. "A shirt with no stripes" should be distinguishable from "a stripes with no shirt" in the this context.
Author here. I was really proud of this piece - it's a very detailed tutorial on how to use GitHub Actions, which for me fulfills exactly the kind of content I want to see on Hacker News.

It's the article I wish I had been able to read when I started working on this project.
As a Bay Area native I wish this hadn’t happen, but sometimes radical change creates radical results.
I had the same thought -- it seems like many of these ideas overlap heavily with R1C1 mode, which is already how Excel internally manages formula copy-paste.

Joel Spolsky explaining how it works:
https://youtu.be/0nbkaYsR94c?t=567
Really not sure why both of my comments are getting down-voted into oblivion, but case and point, oil is now trading at -$37.00 (negative thirty seven dollars)

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...

Can someone explain the down-votes?
New Yorkers consider relocating post coronavirus
You're arguing the search is "good enough". Because we can adapt to the machines. But the company who will not force us to do so will get our business. The company who creates the best digital butler will win. They know this. They try hard. And they still fail at simple stuff when judged by humans.
Hm, seems like that would leave a mechanism open for blocking those kinds of sites. One reason I can think not to is if other apps, like YT for Roku, have to access the data directly and then process the relevant view count/ad stuff client side
> Whatever happened to, "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend with my life your right to say it?"

People started blowing up churches and synagogues, and reasonable people decided they'd rather support the people being killed than the people doing the killing.
>I would imagine the majority of Europe -> US traffic at the time is Americans returning home, that's a rather weak closure.

Over 10 million a year from Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and UK alone. Just tourist visas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#V...
"you and everyone you love are employees" This is a weird forum to make a blanket statement like that.

(I generally agree with your sentiments, incidentally, I would just expect that the ratio of independent freelancers, corporate founders, and outsider oddballs here is extremely high)
The Search team isn't some helpless independent group adrift on currents outside of their control.
A friend of mine recently got a workstation with a threadripper processor, and apparently some games have so much trouble with the core count (lookin' at you, Far Cry) that you have to reboot into "game mode" with a substantial number of cores disabled.

But some other enterprising threadripper user worked around that by stuffing the game in a Linux VM to avoid the rebooting.

Crazy to think that a Windows game would perform better in a Linux VM under Windows than running on Windows natively, even if the reason is that it's effectively presenting the game with worse hardware that it understands how to use more effectively.
It is negative right now.
> In ordinary economics, things do not have negative prices: If nobody wants a thing, if you’d have to pay them to take the thing, you just don’t make it.

I think it's more that when something consistently has a negative price we reframe it as a positive one. Garbage has a "negative price", but we normally call it a landfill fee. Some kinds of grad school have "negative tuition" but we call it a stipend.

It's things switching signs that breaks this way of talking.
This post was quickly taken off of the front page. Can we get an explanation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22923025
I think the main idea distinguishing grassroots vs astroturfing is the idea that grassroots campaigns are about individuals deciding to self organize around and idea. It's ok if that idea came from somewhere else, but the organization and push is coming locally.

Astroturfing, on the other hand, is when an outside influence is actively trying to organize spread out groups to make it look like a grassroots campaign.
Oil in most countries pays the producers and some subsidies to farmers, truckers, etc.

Oil in Saudi Arabia pays the entire country

$8.98 might be the breakeven price for Saudi Aramco, but for the country, the breakeven point is, iirc, $80/barrel
Applications for S20 ended on March 16th, haven't they? I wanted to apply but definitely could not travel, this change makes it interesting/possible again but I'm not sure it's not already too late to apply.
Note that NYC trains have just one conductor, AFAIK. The second person is the driver.

For dragging, it's not just where the train stops. You have to be able to see the entire side of the train as it leaves the station (e.g., for 100 meters, at least).

Video might be possible, but it'd need to be attached to the train, because that's where the dragging happens. Realistically, though, NY doesn't have the money for this conversion. And more importantly, the driver needs to attend forward, not be carefully watching the dragging video.
Do any companies set wages based on a benchmark of purchasing power?

I don't know about you, but I've never been asked about my family size or my housing situation when I've applied for a job.

It's the legislature's responsibility to set reasonable wage standards. A hiring manager's job is to simply fill a job position.
But then the price in June should also be down.
These rules aren't for regular people, they are for rich coders. "Lean In" wasn't for everyday housewives, it was for rich executives.

That's the pattern.
I'm sorry, but MR is a mainstream, reliable source. The author has a column in Bloomberg, previously in the NYT, and is widely cited. The rt.live model is very bad, and you should take those criticisms seriously.
What are the odds there'll be a project zero blog post on Zoom in 90 days?
Have a look at the list here: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-...

Basically anything in the top 250 is the kind of school I was talking about.
True. One thing I remember is that it had shortcuts which were introduced only in win95. Unfortunately its UI was not very intuitive.
Not to mention one had to pay for it when win 3.1 was widely available for free at your local pirate.
While this is indeed an example of the attribution problem, I'd argue that this particular query will never be solved. I don't search for a "shirt without stripes", I search for a "solid <insert color here> shirt, or a "<insert color here> hawai'ian shirt".

I'd be curious to see how many sentences with attribution problems actually have other structural issues. If I want to write clearly and without ambiguity, I rewrite sentences that have these problems. Why wouldn't I do the same for search queries?
Maybe a veterinarian's customer database? They would have to distinguish pet names from humans, but keep a record of all.
Bing results, "person" shows stick figure drawings, Pearson Education logos, Person of the Year, people named Person, etc.

"Person without stripes" shows several zebras, tigers, a horse painted like a zebra, and a bunch of people with stripes.
Yes it's an oxymoron. EOT
Looks like they're dead, I wonder if the MEMS latency issues killed it.
nothing unusual about those words in that sequence. unambiguous.
I would agree due to the nature of the engagement I require the entire payment upfront.
Yeah, stopping is the problem for me. I can deal with the cravings for more... but damn if I don't get pissed off, cranky and depressed without it. It was way easier to quit Adderall.
The USA has the self-inflicted problem that we need to keep a maximal number of corporations intact in order to keep employees solvent because US healthcare is unfortunately primarily "employer managed".
I have also found that search results are getting frustratingly worse. Often even when I put in explicit search terms and quotes, and filter out words that I don't want, Google will return results that don't adhere to what I am looking for or just return no results at all. I remember when I would search for something and find much more relevant information. Now the first 5 or 6 search results are ad-sponsored and aren't relevant, but I have to go to the 3rd or 4th page to find something that matches. I also often have to search for things that were posted in the last year or less because the older postings are increasingly irrelevant.
I've seen a lot of "just asking questions" about the difference between astroturfing vs. grassroots in discussion related to this issue. Phrased in an oddly similar way.

Keep your head on a swivel.
According to the whitepaper, one of the (original) goals is/was to create various "personalities", including that of Linux, OS/2 being the "base" personality.

http://osfree.org/doku/en:docs:general:index
I also did not own it, but got to play with it at conferences and read quite some literature back then.

Here is some information that does better justice than I would be able to do,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_Shell

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Extending_the_Workplace_Shell_...

https://books.google.de/books?id=GL59pngdbfQC&pg=PA542&lpg=P...

https://books.google.de/books?id=yurvRCerf_UC&pg=RA1-PA515&l...
For the google search, I get better results by typing "shirt -stripes". Still not perfect, but it's better than the seemingly redundant 'without'.
Ask HN: Any good resources, case studies about bootstrapped Hardware startups?
I think if the internet has proved anything thing it's why pay professionals when someone is willing to half-ass the same job for free or significantly less.
Richard Passman, Space-Age Engineer Who Kept His Secrets, Dies at 94
I tried to search for "cheese without holes" on Google and it yielded good results. I think the problem here is that the query is something people would rarely search.
Oil prices dip below zero as producers forced to pay to dispose of excess
Modern RDBMS's can now address "graph"-like schemata and use cases via recursive queries, which are part of the SQL standard. No need for a separate abstraction on top of it, much less for "processing of data at the abstraction layer".
I'd have more patience for "hey these are the laws, corporations just live by them" if corporations stayed out of lobbying for anti-worker laws.

So yeah, I agree it's like tax avoidance. Legal, but still a sign of a corrupt system.
Google was good at launch because it was harvesting data from webrings and directories to provide it "high quality" link ranking data. However, they didn't thank or credit or share any of their revenue with the sites whose human curation helped their results become so impressive. Seeing that Google search was effective, most human curators stopped curating directories and webrings. The SEO industry picked up the slack and began curating "blogs" that are junk links to junk products. This pair of outcomes led to the gradual and ongoing decay of Google's result quality.

Google has not yet discovered how to automate "is this a quality link?" evaluation or not, since they can't tell the difference between "an amateur who's put in 20 years and just writes haphazardly" and "an SEO professional who uses Markov-generated text to juice links". They have started to select "human-curated" sources of knowledge to promote above search results, which has resulted in various instances of e.g. a political party's search results showing a parody image. They simply cannot evaluate trust without the data they initially harvested to make their billions, and without curation their algorithm will continue to fail.
Here is the definition for astroturf:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Astroturf

Seems to match up to me.
It's more of a "give a man a fish / teach how to fish" problem.

If you fight an insurgency today, there will be a worse one tomorrow for you to fight. But if you fix your economy, you'll have a healthier economy tomorrow to tax or sell into.

But well, as you said, it costs less today. Tomorrow you can always flee the country or sell your stocks before the shit hits the fan.
You can make digital transmissions cope with arbitrary amounts of packet loss, if you design your code accordingly.

It's not digital compression that the important bit, but the error correcting code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory
"And we’re still accepting late applications if you’ve always wanted to do YC but couldn’t move out to the bay area" - Aaron from YC.

https://twitter.com/aaron_epstein/status/1252267533555470338...
Top China official for Hong Kong security, Sun Lijun, probed for corruption
NPR's Planet Money also bought some oil: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plan...
Another possibility is that maybe it really is "good enough", and they get a bigger advantage by competing with each other on more important aspects of usability than these kind of trivial issues
It's analogous to in-ear monitors.

https://blog.64audio.com/protecting-your-hearing-while-weari...

> Most pro-level IEMs are capable of producing SPLs (sound pressure level) well above 120db. A phantom power spike or a microphone falling on the floor can easily produce a signal loud enough to damage your hearing.

The article above recommends putting a brickwall limiter on the monitor mix. However, a brickwall will only do so much for a sudden screech centered at 3kHz, right in the zone where human hearing is the most sensitive. And what if the limiter gets disabled? Murphy's Law guarantees that at some point the safety system will fail.

The only way to guarantee that devices like these won't emit signals which damage your sensory organs is to make them physically incapable of producing such signals.
Are they also building AI cars that drive without accidents?
Sure, pure gasoline will eventually go bad too. But that’s on a much longer timescale than the ethanol water problem.
> Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and sticking around because of the compensation even when they are unhappy. We believe that it is healthy for the company when unhappy people leave.

What??? Only in SV could a company get away with saying it’s “healthy” to not pay people their value. Usually, golden handcuffs refer to retirement and other benefits, not base compensation.
Anyone interested in small form-factor (SFF) builds should check out Optimum Tech on YouTube. He specialises in SFF builds and reviews, the style is chilled out, and the videos are nicely produced.

No affiliation, just a fan of the channel:

PC Builds - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv8HwYhBwOOoYxKyLMJTX...

Cases - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv8HwYhBwOOpUFPiBs6QG...
I'm actually not sure I expect this much from a search engine. Typically there is going to be a useful word to describe what you want without having to hope it can understand "no" or "without" (for example, without stripes -> "solid" or even "NOT striped" in many cases).

Anyone with a programming background knows there is an art to forming useful search queries--it is an acquired skill. I'd personally much rather the engine bring back predictable results given mundane rules and keywords than attempt to understand sentences using an opaque method of understanding.
Is it just me or does it feel like in the last couple years all of these companies have had the quality of their search go down? I've noticed large portions of my search will go ignored and it will just grab the most popular terms in my search rather than searching all terms.
US oil prices crash below $0 a barrel
Writing Resilient End-to-End Tests
"And you can submit after the deadline - though keep in mind that if you apply late, we can’t guarantee the exact date of when you’ll hear back from us with a decision."

https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

Do it!
Sure. It's as implausible as (say) your car not starting, or a water pipe bursting, or your phone arriving DOA.

Personally, as cool as it sounds, I'll pass.
For software like games, all that pain is abstracted away by SDL. No need to deal with userspace libraries!

And, of course, the syscall layer is stable in Linux, so no issues there either.

However, companies claim Linux is still a pain for other reasons, so I guess it is mostly about testing/support cost and perhaps OpenGL driver issues?
Can you name one game, electronic or otherwise, that doesn't involve "beating" something, whether it's the other player, the rules, or even just random chance (dice rolls)?

I honestly can't think of any. If there are no goals (and goals imply obstacles to be overcome in pursuit of them) then you've got a toy, not a game.
I was on the ship ship ship, bandwagon for a long time.
Until, I realized there is a technical debt that you eventually need to pay down the road. Its like playing tetris. There are only soo many blocks you can place at will. Eventually, it catches up with you and game over!!!
Only kidney beans though
Somewhat relevant xckd what if about planes: https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
Good point, I'll look into it. I'm NOT an expert in infectious disease, I study human behavior. These creepy coincidences were just gut instincts. My point was not to draw a conclusion but to just push people away from being anchored to this being like the flu.
An 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing (2013)
Fuck You Android Framework (2018)
That makes total sense, thanks for the info and perspective.
I suppose "frequency modulation" (FM) would mean that you'd need to separate frequencies so each station can "modulate" without running into the neighbors. That's quite a satisfying thing to learn.
I get the feeling pretty much anything that Project Zero team even glances at will have a post made about it at some point :)
Thanks for the non walled link!
How does a search engine know whether you wanted shirts that didn't have stripes or results that contained the words shirts, without, and stripes?
Now trading at -$37.00.

That's right. Negative thirty seven dollars. Today: -54.67, -299.23%.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...
You are arguing for the sake of arguing. OP said JS is not a good choice when performance and robustness is important... any programmer knows exactly what they mean, but I will spell it out for you as you clearly do not get it: if you're going to write a DB, you want it to be performant (run fast) and robust (does not fail or lose data, or get into a corrupt state easily). JS is absolutely not the first choice when performance is very important, but I concede it can run fast enough for some kinds of a applications... but would a DB written in JS be robust? The answer by anyone who knows anything about programming languages has to be a big NO!

Any language that has a dynamic & weak type system, and where monkey patching is not only allowed but used widely, cannot make a claim to leading to robust software.

I would argue that languages focusing on correctness are the ones that would have a good claim at producing more robust software. As you've asked, I would say that Rust, Ada, Haskell fit the bill... but even languages that focus on keeping simplicity and boring uniformity at scale, like Go and Java, could still make such claim (and lots of software written in them can be described as robust) a lot more than JS, which offers basically 0 features focused on correctness beyond the bare minimum.
That's because all these things are readily labelled by humans as such. So they don't have to understand the sentence. Just match it.
This is a list of articles—probably a good one, but HN is itself a list of articles. A pointer to a pointer to a pointer is too much indirection.

Submissions that are lists usually give rise to threads that are about the lowest common denominator of the list elements [1]. Generic discussion isn't as interesting as specific discussion [2]. It's better to pick the most interesting item from the list and submit that.

Since the helicopter is getting the most discussion, I was going to change the URL to the helicopter story, but it turns out to already have had a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843691.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Why do you think geologists are the right specialists for this question? I would imagine geological concerns would indeed be mild, but meteorological effects could be monstrous as the weather created by this new sea would massively impact local climates, which could have far-reaching downstream impact.
Applying the Golden Ratio to Dreaming Makes Death Less Final
That's because these examples are commonly described in text with those words, but "Shirts without stripes" are not.
A recommended link from SO article - https://wiki.haskell.org/Parallelism_vs._Concurrency - mentions the following:

"Warning Not all programmers agree on the meaning of the terms 'parallelism' and 'concurrency'. They may define them in different ways or do not distinguish them at all."
Funny, but not very fair: presumably a Windows VM with the lower core count would work as well.
This is just not true.

Windows NT has ALWAYS been based on Dave Cutler's code, which shares a lot with VMS, because he architected that as well.

Windows 3.0 and 3.1, the non-NT flavors, ran on DOS.

Windows 3.11 added networking to Windows 3.1, and was wildly successful. Google Windows for Workgroups.
Why do you wish so?
Kagame warns Africa’s recovering from ‘Covid-19 shock’ could take generations
If you're wanting to read more about causal inference, I liked this flowchart on "Which causal inference book you should read"

https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book