skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that anyone who doesn't believe that the election was legitimate - i.e. that no meaningful fraud occurred - should be banned from the HN community.

Their "arguments" are full of shit and are a bunch of pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-analytical, pseudo-objective cant.

Their "evidence" is literally disinformation / propaganda.

They act exactly like those crypto-racists who knows that their true belief would be deemed unpalatable or unacceptable by the community so they'll blow as much smoke around as possible without ever stepping out to say what they're actually driving towards.

Enough is enough. It's clearly dangerous to allow these views the shroud of legitimacy by giving them space in the public square. Otherwise HN is just enabling them.
At which point in history did words have a centralized and objective meaning across all usages?
Indeed. External display detection often bugs out after sleep in Mac OS.
My point is that you raised as completely separate point on a thread that wasn't discussing that point.

Do you walk into a conversation mid topic in real life and attempt to change it? If so I have something to tell you about yourself.
That dramatically changes cost calculation. Currently "cheaper than X" models don't account for such overcapacity factors. If there's no wind in summer and no insolation during winter you'll have to overbuild each by a factor of 5 or so and then build short-term storage on top of that. Conversely that means the bar to meet now is (renewables + storage) < fuel-based / 5.

That's a rather fat margin. And things would be a lot cheaper overall if we could shave that off with some long-term storage.
That's a great reaction ... I was hoping you'd take it as positive and encouraging, that's certainly how it's intended.

There's a lot in this world that takes time to work on, and time to come up to speed with. If you have seventeen lifetimes then you can do a lot, but otherwise you need to make choices. There's a lot you can appreciate from the sidelines, and agree is amazing, without necessarily understanding it all.

But other things you will want to get stuck into and get your hands dirty with, and it takes time and effort.

Smart isn't where it's at ... persistence and resilience are the critical components, combined with a desire to make progress. Absolutely you can look at something and choose not to engage with it, but if you're interested,have a go! Be methodical, be persistent, read around, ask questions, and go for it.

By the way ... I certainly don't know everything ... far from it ... very, very far from it, but if ever there's something you think I might be able to help with, just let me know. If I can't help, I'll say so. If I can, I'd be happy to do so.
The data is available for download so you can plot as you please.
Might be best to make the suicide plans now. Do be sure to inform your parents that you'd rather not help them through their elderly infirmity.
I'd argue maintaining clunky legacy systems requires more passion for software. It's easy enough to run off to a startup and make the same CRUD app that's been made 1000x before, but maintaining something that grew organically over decades, that takes craftsmanship.
>> ... You have Matt Shea, an elected Republican: ...

> None of those are the government, sure there are radical citizens (domestic terrorists), admittedly. Everyone universally thinks this is bad. ...

Is someone who is part of a state legislature not part of some level of government?
The only way to do it I can think of: have two teams or individuals develop the same thing simultaneously and measure the time required to get a result of the same quality. This should be done in longer term to take into account code quality (poor code quality slows down future development).
If you have to stop "early" please get through the simple DCE and LVN passes.

A solid basic-block level DCE & LVN optimization along with a judicious "compile time evaluator" (simple constant folding) will let you produce code at around 80% of the level of LLVM.

Obviously, you're not going to get the magic that comes of LLVM's scalar analysis pass, but you're not going to be embarrassed with your performance, either.
I really wonder who all the sellers were in the IPO. In my case, were I to get allocation from my broker (I didn't) I would be subject to a 15 day holding period. Presumably the institutional investors that got the lions share of the $68 allocation weren't subject to this holding period? I read somewhere else that ABNB employees were allowed to sell 15% of their holdings at IPO? Perhaps that's where another initial set of shares that hit the open market came from?
From the linked article: "The raw death counts help give us a rough sense of scale: for example, the US suffered some 275,000 more deaths than the five-year average between 1 March and 16 August, compared to 169,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths during that period."

So that's 275k-169k=106k extra deaths, which is a napkinmath'd 17% increase over the baseline (assuming that's 106k deaths over a 12wk period, and baseline is ~50k/week).

A 17% rise in extra deaths seems pretty dramatic to me, regardless of the graphs.

Granted, I'd love to see error bars on this stuff, but I don't think the axis starting at 0 is some nefarious plot to dramatize the data.
These random domestic terrorists are a part of a disparate and loosely affiliated network of religious extremists ranging from white power prison gangs to the federalist society whom control the supreme court of the United states of America. Underestimating the threat of radicalized religions is a mistake.
I would guess nursing homes haven't developed LAN parties because the people who grew up doing LAN parties are currently in their 30s and 40s. Not quite nursing home age yet.
Spot on. MBA's aren't meant for 0 to 1. They're meant to optimize and sustain business models with the foundation of innovation and revolutionary ideas. Companies that only stick to one or the other are doomed, or require their industry to be that much more technical or business focused.
> That being said, the right appears to be concerned about all their constitutional rights taken away. To me, that seems far more of a direct and far larger attack on millions of people than these random domestic terrorists.

You can be concerned about something without it being a legitimate threat. The right was concerned about Obama "coming for the guns", and before that, with Clinton "coming for your guns". Yet Obama got an "F" rating for his efforts in "controlling guns" from the gun control/reform lobby.

Theorizing that Operation Jade Helm was an effort to repeal the Second Amendment by force doesn't make it so, and elements of the right can be concerned by it all they like, it just doesn't make it something the left is responsible for.
If there is another pandemic there is no guarantee that the same group of people would be vulnerable. The 1918 spanish flu, for example, was particularly dangerous to infants and younger people [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/spanish-flu-largest-influenza-pan...
I recollect the "brick-wallers" and the train track photos, yes. I always thought they were a little hard on the bands who had not a lot of money or inspiration, and "hired" photographers (or just cousins with cameras) for covers, but they did have some very, uh, interesting covers in the mix as well.
I find it fascinating that time with children goes up significantly while time alone stays steady 20s to 40s... that in no way mimics my life :D

I've had a ton of "quality me time" when single; and a fair amount once I got married; and have absolutely zero since we got the little ones :)
Under the Obama administration the CIA was funneling billions of dollars worth of military equipment -- ranging from small arms and ammo, to vehicles and even anti-tank missiles -- into the hands of Syrian militant groups[1][2].

These groups specifically include ISIS.

It's hard to think that the Syrian civil war would have been so bloody or lasted as long as it did without USA involvement.

[1] https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mystery-of-isis-toyota-arm...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/isis-weapons-cia-missile-...
That's fair, thanks for the reply.
Or they are all counted as Covid. If you go to the physician with a respiratory disease, they will test for Covid first. Will they still test for the flu? What about people who get to the hospital because of the flu and get infected with Covid there? How will they be counted?

How come number of Covid infection rates is rising, while flu seems to be eradicated? If the measures help against the flu, why not against Covid?
> People aren't dry brush though

In the analogy the dry brush are the vulnerable that die. Once the dry brush is gone, it can't burn a second time. Just like small pox wiped out all the vulnerable native americans, but then the offspring of the survivors were increasingly more resilient. Except in this case the fatality rate is 1% (or less) instead of 90%.

> For one, we don't even understand all the long term effects of having COVID as it is: there's heart damage, lung damage, brain damage, extended fatigue, and that's just what we're seeing evidence of now.

This just seems like fear of the unknown. On the contrary, for the vast majority of healthy humans, it seems like the immune-system is well equipped to deal with the virus so there isn't much reason to fear IMO (i.e. most people recover at home with no modern medicine needed). I have several family members that had it and recovered with seemingly no other long term effects, so there is no reason to believe they are going to be screwed later in life.

> If another disease like COVID strikes in a couple years, it could still tear through the surviving population and cause similar long lasting effects.

More fear of the unknown. Novel viruses don't come along very often. Getting sick is not a bad thing, natural selection is not a bad thing, it's the very mechanism that has allowed humans to survive this long on planet earth.
I have genuinely struggled to find this information.

* How wealthy was Elon before starting his own products ?

* How much of this investment in various companies was non-bootstrapped / not momentum from a past sale ?

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I feel that many people born rich do not wider idea behind Henry Ford's famous quote:

" don't ask me how I made my first million. "

It highlights the inbuilt privilege that those born rich/stable have, and the luck/shady-ness required to reach that 1st point. Would Musk have been able to do any of the things he does if zip2 wasn't such a huge success. Would have been able to start anything if he didn't have the financial stability due to being born rich or the access granted by a network at UPenn.

I'd say the goalpost has been moved to the point of FIRE. A silicon valley employee won't be able to take any of the risks/efforts needed to summon lady luck. If you're spending 60 hrs/week at work, have family to support or simply a bad visa situation, then good luck taking your 1st leap.

"The 1st million don't pop out of thin air."
A question I haven’t seen answered anywhere so far is whether it’s possible to connect these to a computer via a Lightning to USB-C cable to transfer the audio signal in addition to charging. If so, how does the audio quality compare to the wireless Bluetooth operation.

Or is that not an option, and the only wired audio support is via the Lightning to 3.5 mm cable, which adds an additional analog conversion into the chain.
I think that anyone who doesn't believe that the election was legitimate - i.e. that no meaningful fraud occurred - should be banned from the HN community.

Their "arguments" are full of shit and are a bunch of pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-analytical, pseudo-objective cant.

Their "evidence" is literally disinformation / propaganda.

They act exactly like those crypto-racists who know that their true belief would be deemed unpalatable or unacceptable by the community so they'll blow as much smoke around as possible without ever stepping out to say what they're actually driving towards.

Enough is enough. It's clearly dangerous to allow these views the shroud of legitimacy by giving them space in the public square. It's gone so far that anything other than a rejection functions as a legitimization.

By allowing the lie of election fraud to be presented as just another thing to be discussed on HN, HN is enabling those people and their cause, which is to overturn the results of a legitimate election.

The irony is anyone was to be banned it would probably be me for making this comment. Think on that! ; )
Worked in The Matrix.
And none of those things involve listening to the news and getting worked up thanks to their scare tactics to increase ratings.
>Along with the fact that most people don't even have the option to take risk with the massive increase of cost of housing.

This just means people won't be taking risks in places like SF. There's plenty of cheap housing out there. Just not in places where the market is driven up by supply constraints and money printers. And before anyone says "hurr durr, nobody wants to live in BFE Alabama" I'm talking about places like Buffalo, Hartford and Atlanta.
I agree that a startup shouldn't (yet) put a lot of time into redundancy if they don't have a product or customers. But a code pipeline that can be used to quickly develop, test and deploy is essential. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using containers. In fact, in 20 years in tech, it's the best packaging solution I've seen. As for Kubernetes, as long as you're not managing the backend, it's fine. I joined a tiny startup less than a year ago, set up EKS with Terraform and created CI automation to build and push containers when tests pass. It's not hard. And it does encourage good practices. If we had to move everything to Azure or GCE, it would be much easier to do so because we haven't painted ourselves into the AWS corner.
I feel like you're trying to sell the utter lack of a security model as some sort of feature.

Power users and developers have always had the ability to circumvent the Android sandbox on their own devices.

Windows CE just never tried to implement security. Malicious apps had unfettered access to everything, just like in most Windows based ecosystems.

N900s were pretty rad little toys, but anything you could do with them you could also always do on Android. The base Android OS doesn't have a built in package manager, but you can easily run a more classic Linux distro in a chroot or something.

Linux Deploy has been around for almost a decade now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linu...
This is a great series. Thank you for this.
This is an entirely different idea. Banning inheritance makes corporations even more powerful, as they can increase their wealth from one generation to another and families cannot.
FWIW, I don't think of myself as a Lisp programmer, but I still answered that as "able to write my own packages" because I have.

Writing a basic package really isn't that difficult.
How generous of you. Since we were comparing it to something that has only one year of support to come, I thought it was fair to count any more than that as "years"

Amazon has a historically good record and reputation for supporting things longer rather than axing them early. Look at what they've done with Amazon Linux 1, which was supposed to be EOL this summer: (they made a judgement call that people still needed the support, and extended security updates for at least another year.)

Regardless of the dates that are on paper, I think you're the one that's being pedantic now. What's the last time that Amazon ended support for anything that was in GA? It's absolutely fair to say years to come, when making this comparison.
Great sarcasm predicts the future.

While you were joking, this is honestly what I think is happening. Our country has already started a number of "wars" on groups and this is only going to get worse now that a significant portion of the population feels that our soon-to-be leaders are illegitimate.
Completely irrelevant. The graph under discussion is excess mortality, without cause.
Does anyone else have a problem with the headband breaking or cracking after a year or two? That's my major concern about buying this style of headphones now. The old-school Walkman headphones were pretty great in comparison - flex all day and they wouldn't break.
The police are not part of a system of government. Removing the police would leave the US a democracy.

You removed the words "system of" which changes the phrase from a democratic to a nationalistic one. Blind support for the government isn't healthy for a democracy.
The way I read their comment, they meant that even though Sony doesn't use the term studio headphones, they probably might be as good as whatever Apple is claiming the sound quality to be. The doubt was on the marketing term and the worth of the actual quality on the price.

Airpods don't have the best sound, several rival wireless earphones beat them to that.
I think a large part of the issue is that people that lean slightly one way are getting lumped in with the extremes of that direction where they don't see themselves like that.

Someone that questions immigration laws isn't necessarily a white supremacist for example, but that narrative isn't as interesting (doesn't sell as much advertising) as the white supremacist one.
Yeah, Dell definitely has enterprise support all worked out, and can use the economies of scale on that to provide what are usually rock solid systems which they partially assemble themselves. If you're shipping a few 100k units of a desktop spec, it pays to make sure you can control costs be removing problematic components, and in their case, they often write their own firmware so they can quickly work around bugs.

Dell may actually be the PC provider closest to what Apple does, since I believe they source components for their own hardware in some cases (or use white label in others, but with their own firmware as I noted).

That said, I think the only thing that prevents Apple from competing in this space is desire and experience providing that service to enterprises at scale. It's not like they don't have the money or manufacturing pipeline, and lack of experience solves itself after a while.
They were fine when FB created the biggest private espionage system in the world with their "shadow profiles" and mass targeting, but not fine when it fails to make soviet-style censorship on its platform?

What a time be alive.
He actually addressed that 6 days ago [1] when someone posted a link to that page. His answer is that it is BS because they do not take into population growth since the years they are comparing to.

His argument was not very convincing, because (1) the chart is only going back 5 years, which is not long enough for population growth to have affected anything, and (2) population growth effects would change the height of the curve but not the shape of the curve, whereas the actual curve shows large shape changes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312460
Any resources you can suggest to point interested engineers in the right direction?
I can vouch that delivering quality, scaled, enterprise video conferencing is a much bigger technical challenge than it seems after, say, a weekend or two hacking with WebRTC in a hobby capacity. It combines the challenge of supporting a huge landscape of differing hardware devices with that of supporting a huge landscape of differing network environments. There's a near-infinite combination of corner cases that can cause problems and handling them poorly creates the impression of severe instability for the users who experience them. The nature of video conferencing/collaboration software means if 1 user's environment makes the experience unusable, the value for everyone who needs to collaborate with them is also seriously hampered.

That said, when we started dogfooding our own conferencing product it was partly because Slack consistently had issues dropping calls after 5-10m of group video. I'm kind of surprised to read such similar complaints 18 months+ on. Presumably it's harder to solve those problems at mass market global scales, we're pretty vertical specific.
I love watching my posts get insta-flagged by the far left, which absolutely detests freedom of speech. Terrible people. Sad.
And we’re still doing storage wrong. My A/C could have a reservoir of refrigerant that is compressed overnight. Same for my fridge/freezer. Or my fridge could make ice that’s held until peak hours. My deep-freezer could have an ultra-chill zone that runs at night. My dryer could run in slow-mode if I turn it on at a dumb time. My water heater (even a gas one has a 250w powered vent) could ultra-heat during off-peak. My dishwasher could auto-delay until 3am......

We don’t even need “smart” 2-way comm appliances. Just a weather forecast should work well enough to predict.
I assume "Endless Sky" was the reference, at least that's the first thing that came up on Google.
Having applied to a few COBOL jobs in my youth, and getting no response back, I suspect that the COBOL shortage is like the general "programmer shortage" in that it really means "(senior) programmer shortage (willing to work for below prevailing wage)"
I have worked in multiple Scala shops and contributed at the highest levels to the Scala ecosystem and my experiences confirm that this rotten attitude is very real and increasingly the norm, as everyone but the fanatical FP-ers have long-since moved on to other more professional/productive circles.

With the exception of shops using Scala exclusively for Spark, someone entering the ecosystem can expect to be constantly talked down to if you dare to use something deemed by the FP hivemind to be evil (so, anything other than pure, immutable, FP-style with all side effects controlled, no exceptions or nulls, no inheritance (only typeclasses), etc). They'll be derided and skoffed at constantly for being "just a java++ programmer".

Meanwhile, for all their smugness, the FP community has achieved nothing at all that has reached beyond to the world outside of Scala. The projects successful in bringing in developers to Scala have been decidedly in the disparaged lightly-FP/"Java++" style: Spark, Kafka, LinkerD (1.X -- they rewrote 2.X in Go/Rust), Flink, Akka, PlayFramework, Twitter's stack, Prisma, etc. Shockingly, the predominant view among these delusional pure-FP-obsessives, which usually goes unchallenged, is that the creators of Spark don't know anything about Scala or are bad engineers!

Scala 3 is a joke and will do the exact opposite of the stated goals from years back. It was supposed to streamline and simplify the language, remove gotchas, add a few high-impact simple features like Union types and trait parameters. Now it's a grown into a monstrosity of complicated features that your average dev will never use. Rather than streamline and simplify Scala 2's issues with having dozens of ways to do the same thing, it introduces multiple new dimensions by which people can do things in multiple ways (legacy implicit system vs new "given" syntax; braces syntax vs indentation-based).

Control structures helpful for imperative programmers are being removed (you cannot early return from a for loop without a huge hassle), `do-while` is removed, etc. These breakages were not pushed back against because the only people still around are FP'ers who don't want people using loops in the first place.

New type-system features are being added without even knowing if there's a possible use-case. The whole thing is a mess.
You might describe the product directly for those who don't know what netlify is (seems like some kind of combination of a static file server and rsync aimed at enterprise).

It makes me a little concerned that there are so many features.