skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing you aren't a fan of Citizen Kane. Or how about stories that even bill themselves as based on real events like Accidental Billionaires/The Social Network? Those must be even worse if they bill themselves as the truth. Could you imagine if most people judged your personality off made up dialogue and stories told by someone who was suing you for billions of dollars?
Cheating in video games is nothing like steroids. The people using steroids are equally as skilled as their opponents. Steroids aren't magic and don't miraculously give the user abilities they didn't have prior.

Both Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis were on steroids, fwiw. "True winner" is a joke.
Z Nation is possibly the best zombie show to date. Low budget doesn't mean it has to be bad.
Google faces one more lawsuit
> However, 7 years is not a significant age gap (even when the younger partner is only 18)

I'm going to strongly disagree with that, and not sure how you decided that was objectively true. An 18 year old who's finishing off their senior year of high school and going to college the next year dating a 25 year old adult 3 years out of college is a red flag. As a 25 year old myself, I would probably not even date someone that's still an undergrad.

I would very much question any friend my age dating someone under the age of 21. On paper, that would only be 5 years, but I would have far less concerns over 23+33 both working full time despite the age gap being double. Again, context and life stage matters.

> that varies as much by socio-economic status as it does by the age range in question

You're 100% right, people of different socioeconomic statuses can mature at different rates and get to different life stages at different ages. That doesn't magically up the total life experience from a time perspective, though it does make a great point again for nuance, not hard and fast rules on specific ages.

> Do we hoist the responsibility for self-reflecting on potential past relationship abuse, a serious charge, on anyone who is of moderately higher wealth and life experience than their partner, even when they are the same age?

I don't think this gap gets to a point of being a problem often, if ever, but there's no harm in reflecting. I don't see why we wouldn't all want to reflect on the health of our relationships of all sorts. You speak of abuse in a binary, but it's a spectrum where some of that wouldn't even classify as abuse but as maybe mildly taking advantage of someone. There's no harm in trying to ensure fairness in your own relationships, as it is actually one of the few places in the world that is fully in your control when it comes to fairness.

> It is a dangerous trend in our society of taking tenuous theories about power disparities and using those to put the burden of proof on men that they are not taking advantage of younger women. And, pardon the hyperbole, it won't end with 7 years, and likely not even 5.

There's no gender bias here, the same goes with all genders. You see this type of power issue in same sex relationships too, to say nothing of non-binary people. This is not a burden of proof though, there are no accusations floating around. The only claim here that this asks on society is that if you potentially are in a power imbalanced relationship, just take care and examine the details. I don't see the danger here you speak of.
The second file is just not stored, because git thinks it's already there. Nothing complicated there.

Discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392365/how-would-git-ha...

It costed 6500 CPU years to create the first collision containing a valid pdf document. Storing both versions into git still works, because git prepends a header before creating the SHA-1 of the blob. I believe because of that it is harder to create a git blob collision than a pdf collision. (I admit I did neither read very carefully nor try to think it through very seriously.)
Just refuse. He has the choice to accompany you to the ATM, or trust you. He can't hold you hostage. Remember, it's "his" problem not yours.
It’s not great, but definitely not ‘terrible’. Besides, how could you possibly do a better job given the constraints?
Love the description of the problem in the article, so familiar.

I do my best work at night, when everyone is asleep.
They gave little to no evidence that video games and other uses of the red cross symbol are responsible for those deaths; what they did is assert the importance of their mission and the risk in diluiting the meaning of the logo.

Personally I found that part to be badly written; but it is still reasonable position.
Steroids don't really work the way that video game hacks work though. The analog would be if only elite players could access the aim hacks, and they only impacted a small percentage of play. And, if we're being very realistic, all of the elite players' opponents would also be using them.
Not the original commentor, but I guess what they were talking about was the low contrast of the description text of text posts on HN with the background.
No, GPL3 has a patent clause that is nowhere in GPLv2 (to counter Tivoization.)

So GPLv2 is acceptable to most people using GPL software already, but GPL3 is not.

Note that linux is GPL, so most companies do allow GPL2 for OS' and databases when pressed hard enough.
It started a long ago.

I want to go to the sea and my car brings me there faster than I could if I walked. Actually, I'd never been at the sea if there were no machines (trains first).

But the train, the car, the AI are only tools. Not much different than a knife or its first ancestors, the flint shards.
While I wouldn't say they have "very" different cultures relative to almost anywhere in the non-English speaking realm, I would definitely agree that language isn't the only factor. However, more language unification would at least theoretically continue to increase cultural cohesion.
>I am guessing you aren't a fan of Citizen Kane.

William Randolph Hearst certainly wasn't one!
It's funny to think of how expensive taxis felt. I remember when they bumped up the initial charge to 2.50.

I'd bet that a given uber ride is 3-4x as expensive, easily, these days.
It’s not a grey area, it devalues the degree for everyone and betrays you as a fundamentally dishonest and low value person.
It’s time for ARM to embrace traditional hosting
I mean, just don't take a taxi if you're leaving Manhattan. There's a great subway system for that.
Maybe this could be the reason why these drives have had so many failures?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
The worst part is starting to believe in the stranger's outlook on things in one's life. Infatuation with "universal" and "objective" will turn any tenderness you were surprised by into unambiguous creepiness in the eyes of the people you allow judging it
My 2 cents, 1 Bug(?) and 1 feature proposal.

Cant view my post without setup before username? (account created with google, write post without username, publish, click "view", nothing, click-click-click, nothing, setup username in settings, it works)

You might want to implement some kind of import/export feature.
That's fascinating. How did the software work with that? Were they native apps flagged to run on the different processor, or was DOS booted on a screen (can't remember what they were called in workbench now) and programs run from there?
The irony here generally applies to Oklahoma and perhaps California as well, and these three regions are perhaps much more culturally similar due to the imposition of language on a region with such effectiveness. I'm not sure if that's the point they were trying to make.
I'm not surprised it's about the infamous ST3000DM001, one of the few models of hard drives to have its own Wikipedia page and HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27419072

The broken ramps clearly use significantly less material, and are thus weaker as a result. If you look carefully you can also see what looks like stress whitening (slightly lighter colour) forming on the bottom half of the cracked one, as well as both halves of the one below it.
Out of curiosity, what kind of stock data should a 'good' data provider have or what data is useful, perhaps easily monetizable? I'm not affiliated with Styvio.
Of course private methods should be tested. These are unit tests, not functional/integration tests.
While I like the play on words I don’t think we should be posting unsupported cynicism like this.
Any hiccups with that? How are their laptops? I might look for a replacement for my dell soon
Curiously, not as strong as one might think.

"Judge Robert D. Sack of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, author of the defamation treatise, Sack on Defamation: Libel, Slander and Related Problems, describes when a libel suit might result from a work of fiction:

“Where the defendant invents defamatory dialogue or other defamatory details in what purports to be nonfiction, uses actual people as fictional characters, or bases fictional characters on living persons but fails sufficiently to disguise the characters, so that the fictional characters are understood to be ‘of and concerning’ their living models, liability for libel may result.”" (emphasis added)

https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...
> Elfdalian sounds nothing like the country’s national language, Swedish

Well that's provably false. Different yes, "nothing like" is an hyperbole.

> But the national government of Sweden is a different story. They currently consider Elfdalian a dialect of Swedish, not its own language.

Okay...

> Speaking in Elfdalian, Swedish MP Peter Helander recently asked Parliament why that’s the case. But before Culture Minister Amanda Lind could answer the question, the parliamentary speaker interrupted them both to say that only Swedish may be spoken in the chamber.

Well, congratulations, you played yourself!

It is obvious that it is not that different, linguists can talk all day about what makes a language vs. a dialect, but it is obvious here that it's much closer to a dialect than a new language.

Same with all the "multiple different latin derived-languages" at some point, if your neighbour speaks something different than you who cares? Are you going to be so petty that you won't understand him? So maybe it's not a whole new language, it's just you that talks in a slight different way?

Too much nationalism sucks, and too much regionalism can be petty in the extreme.
Nice experiment! Would be nice to see some example text in the end..
It got upvotes
I wish we could just go back to "analytics" being an moderately complicated awk invocation on whatever logs your webserver produces.
That is not really an excuse, though. “But Jack did it before” wasn’t even an excuse in pre-school.
Analogies can be a useful way to generate questions but dangerous when used to provide answers.

-- misremembered paraphrasing of someone else's snappy quote

So, a fun question could be: what are "first principles" for car engine design? what are "first principles" for data storage in distributed system design? are those two sets of first principles the same, or are they wildly different, with different goals and constraints?

i clicked through the link and was sad to see no clear articulation or evidence of any kind of "first principles" thinking. it would be genuinely interesting to see a solid analysis.

edit: aha, it seems like it i am remembering something Martin Fowler wrote once:

> [...] I'm very suspicious of using metaphors of other professions to reason about software development. [...] it all comes down to how you use the metaphor. Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

- https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MetaphoricQuestioning.html
VPNs are fine for normal people. The post is misleading. Just do some quick research on VPN company.
Interruptions are very challenging with any deep work that takes hours. This is true.

What I am facing however, is a related issue. Perhaps because I have not been doing much programming lately, I find it increasingly difficult to actually get and be in the zone. When I go in, I go all in, and enter a kind of fugue state where the hours slip away. While for some this may sound advantageous, in the past, it has been associated with some bad physical and psychological health outcomes. Now, I actually have anxiety about going into such a state, and try to piece meal my problems, and focus on the non-programming work and thinking.

Situations change, and I am about to be in one where I do really need to perform a lot of coding myself. I suppose I am answering my own question, but I need to split up my work and take notes to reduce the numbers of abstracted layers upon which I am working. Take more breaks with confidence I can return.

I suspect this technique can help ease the burdens of interruptions as well, but it does come at a cost in time. For me, the severe crunch time requirements and gained insane last minute skills should still be less necessary for some time. This is likely called being in a startup and getting older and, well, recognizing long-term limitations.
Maybe, for you. Probably you're lucky to live in a country that doesn't abuse its financial system. But others pay this price gladly, because bitcoin provides clear and undisputable value for them.
The game itself can just send data to some server at will if it has network access. DRM is still nice to avoid. Gog is great
Visual Studio Online (now Azure DevOps if it didn't change again) used to have a wizard/UI to create CI scripts. It was very handy and allow to create them quickly.

One day they imposed the YAML version (probably close or the same used now for GH actions) and it has been a huge pain to use: all discoverability is lost, and it's now a painful cycle of searching documentation with a search engine, try something, commit, lose build minutes, wait it to fail, restart at step one. I want the wizard back.
sounds like a preview of a very close future of drone wars. The humans would just have no chances to participate effectively in such a fight.
I'm not sure what inconsistency you're pointing out; if I was related to John Updike I would not be happy if I ended up as a villain in one of his books. Wouldn't anyone not enjoy that?

As a relatively famous silicon valley person, it might actually happen to you some day, and although it would probably never happen to me I can imagine empathizing with you if you ever ended up as the bad guy in a short story.
Against SQL
> Guess what, in an interconnected international arena, wealthy countries have more culpability about those conditions than we care to admit.

That has been talked about ad nauseam for the past 10 years. Maybe it's time to remember that non-wealthy countries have more culpability for their own conditions than anyone dares to mention?
I used to use HTTrack pretty often to save entire sites. But I learned that wget can take care of my copying needs even more easily most of the time. Something like this usually does the trick:

wget -E -r -k -p --span-host http://mycoolhomepage.com
A bit confused here. Small teams doesn't keep notes or at least store information in readmes. Big teams use wikis like Confluence. For whom it would be the most useful?
FIDE rules bar you from writing down notes. You are only allowed to write down the moves of the game.

In correspondence it is bit different and there I usually try and write down lines.
Asimov had a thought about machines battling for supremacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
Paywall:(
That’s rude. 10 years ago I could buy a $75-100 keyboard that would last 6 years. Now the same money gets me something that lasts 6 months so I have to spend $270 to get one that’s decently made. Old $20 keyboards from thrift stores and the drug store used to last me 5-10 years. But yeah, everyone should spend $250+ or else they are chumps
Why can’t we?
The link you've provided is interesting, but the gist of it is that it's very unlikely that you can successfully sue someone for basing a fictional story off of you; you might be able to drag them into court, but the case is difficult to win.
I just read the original article after reading this link.

This situation is a perfect microcosm of how the media / contemporary culture at large will take a very human situation with complex personalities and shape it to fit the ideological narrative. The actual story (this link) is nuanced and filled with insights on modern dating culture, while the semifictional New Yorker piece is pretty one-dimensional.

As far as I’m concerned, the only villain here is the author of Cat Person. She apparently got a million dollar book deal out of it, while Charles had his reputation ruined and “died suddenly” which sounds like code for suicide to me. The author of this Slate article even seems to be gaslighting herself into thinking the fictional piece was more true than her real experience.
> There are many small steps between n00b level and mastery and a lot has to come together to be at expert level in gaming...

Absolutely. One thing that I may not have made clear enough to people who have never played competitive online games is that it takes so much practice to master these games that your progression can't possibly go unnoticed, even in a large community. If you're good enough to take games off well-known good players, people will know you.
I assume whomever bases a fictional character after me will at least get the detail right that I live in Chicago, not Silicon Valley.
And how are you planning to get your luggage if it's in the trunk?
> If Helen Keller were never to learn to communicate with us through language that we understand are we to have believed that she has no consciousness.

I was only referring to emotions and their intensity in species that exhibit no ability to self-reflect, not consciousness in general.
What percent of visits are bots and how do you detect them serverside? That’s the only part I’m unsure of
Or is that 80% of HN uses adblock?

> Is GA still relevant today?

Of course it is. While a large part of HN audience might use adblock, very few regular users do and almost no mobile users.

Looking at my logs, however, I get a similar proportion. ~25k in GA, ~100k in logs.
This is great stuff! I think I’ll be in touch. I’ve come from systems perspective to social sciences and have found it tremendously hard to gain traction - the data mindset is just so different. Finally got some things published but basically gave up as nobody seemed to care. Would love to pick some complexity related research back up as a hobby
I would have liked the idea if the front page would have linked me to more info, since I understand the idea of the front page is to generate a call to action (which I like, to tell the truth)
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

What are you trying to say? This comment made me the most upset×angry I've ever been on HN. Feels like an abuse of language.
> It’s interesting to see the comments on eink patents — I was never aware of how much it stifled innovation in that space!

I'm really curious which comment that people are referring to because I happen to work in the display industry. I'd never heard anything like that amongst my peers or during conferences. The main place I've seen this refrain is on HN. Please have a look at my comment history as I keep asking about which patent people are talking about. I'm still trying to figure out if the issue is real.
Where does the data come from? How often is it updated?
because developers don't know how to build anything anymore. they paint themselves into smaller and smaller focuses relying on someone else to provide them with everything they need.

no more web developers... now we have front-end and back-end all fighting over who needs to do the architecture and build the necessary tooling.
Minor correction: Romance languages are evolved out of Vulgar Latin, not Latin itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
Where are you getting dark pools from? That’s usually intentionally not publicly visible.
Facebook investor and surveillance tech billionaire wants access to peoples brains now. What could go wrong
Yeah, but we don't really need to worry until it starts using Emacs.
Can you detect bots client side? I sorta assumed they used headless Chrome and looked like real users nowadays, although I guess with effort you can probably fingerprint?
https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl this seems pretty popular in Julia, inspired by Drawille mentioned in the article.
If I wrote a story about ptkecat, accurately included most of the broad details about your life, but then inserted some fictional ones that portrayed you as a lying, manipulative person, would you consider that to be fictional? Would you be unjustified in being angry about it?
Our database is updated around every 10 minutes for intraday data, once a day for everything else (yearly prices, news, fundamentals)
I am not competent to rate the linguistic quality of this translation, but it certainly is amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXpznIhT08 .
One of the fundamental ideas the parent mentioned is divident/split/"corporate event" data. If you're serious about understanding equities, you have to account for these or everything will be off.

If you're new to stocks, the main corporate events are:
1)Dividends - stocks sometimes pay out some cash or cash-equivalent stock to holders. This causes the price to briefly drop after the date because if you tihnk about on one day you were going to own (say) Microsoft with $100 in the bank, the next day if you're a holder, you own Microsoft (with only $95 in the bank because it's paid out a dividend) and you get $5 dividend. But if you buy on that second day, you only get Microsoft with $95 in the bank. So the price on the second day should be lower.
2)Splits/reverse splits - Companies sometimes decide to adjust the number of shares issued and the price will adjust pro rata. So for example, say the price is $100 and there are 100 shares, then next day the stock splits 2 for 1 so there are 200 shares now. The company is the same, so the price will be half (ie $50).

If your market data does not adjust for these (or allow you to adjust), then these effects will wreck any kind of model you try to build.

Other things you definitely need to be able to do/get:
1)Basket/index/etf compositions. If you're doing any kind of trading of stock etfs, index options/futures etc you need to know what's in the basket and how that changes. This also matters if you're trading things like the russel rebalance, where there is a lot of trading around what stocks go into or out of the indices
2)Calendars for earnings, market holidays etc. You can get this from a third-party source but you definitely need it from somewhere.
Yes, you've got a credit line and pay off the balance at the end of the month.
The parent comment mentioned why: to extract the absolute maximum amount of work you can from this employee. As you said, evil.
The prices don't seem up to date.. Check $FB for instance, shows 349.27, when in reality it closed at 350.42.
I'm trying to understand what you're trying to communicate but I don't get it. Could you elaborate what you're trying to say because it sounds like you're claiming patents are bad (absence of patents = innovation growth) but we know that patents arose initially at least to protect inventors. Anyway we've gone well outside my initial question which was about which eink patent.
It definitely depends on the audience you have and the adblocker adoption for each country.
"mainstream" websites still show a 5-10% gap. That for marketing usages it's still ok.
This is the right answer - HN is absolutely not representative of web users at large. If we were, I'm sure there would be much stricter anti-adblock/ad protection systems on large sites.