skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't understand that bit to be honest. Maybe because I'm from the UK. Why was the media coverage in the years after 9/11 disastrous?
Columbia becomes “unranked”, losing its No. 2 spot in the U.S. News rankings
If I have to say 'just use Linux' to someone the inevitable response is always Which one? Ubuntu?, Fedora?, SUSE?, Arch?, Red Hat?, Void?, Slackware?, etc, etc, etc.

Even if you have to choose a distro; that is the first problem and the fundamental problem of why the Linux Desktop has been a total failure in general and that is evergreen. ChromeOS is the only Linux-based OS that not only learns from Windows, and macOS but it is also a mostly closed-system and defeats the whole point of using Linux and open-source software.

But it seems that even Google recognises that the Linux Desktop has shown its incompetencies in ChromeOS and will replace it with Fuchsia OS; their own developed OS, both being a mostly closed-source software in there and does not using Linux.

So my response to anyone about Linux distros would be, 'Don't bother to choose, as you are not missing anything and you might as well use Windows, or macOS'
Both enities will be under common owenership. Does the search business share data with the ads business. If yes, I fail to see how this levels the playing field.

Please explain.

Google wants to make concessions before they have even been sued. DOJ has yet to file a complaint. This is a defendant with "limitless" resources to defend itself against meritless claims. To me, this suggests culpability.
That doesn’t sound right. There was a thriving trade in unauthorized editions of American books in England and English books in America in the nineteenth century, since there was no mutually recognized copyright between the two countries and there was money to be made selling, e.g., Dickens’s novels in the U.S., especially if there wasn’t any need to pay the author. The ability to make photographic plates from printed material (a technology developed in the second half of the nineteenth century) also reduced the cost of typesetting.
It is more dangerous to be a landscaper, a fisherman, or a truck driver in America, than to be a police officer. Not a joke. Being a police officer is one of the safer professions you can do outdoors or on the road.

The risk of the job is absolutely normal and zero excuse for any concessions of accountability.
Fast reactor inherently have more fissionable material in a smaller volume, and don't have a moderator that can either keep things separated or remove itself in an accident to kill the chain reaction. If a supercriticality on prompt neutrons alone occurs in a fast reactor the neutron population will increase orders of magnitude faster than in a thermal reactor, because the neutrons are moving so much faster.

Edward Teller in 1967 famously expressed his skepticism about fast reactors because of this safety issue.
> Also, we're going to grudgingly transition, as a nation, towards more efficient, higher density housing whether we like it or not.

After seeing how pandemics can sweep though dense areas, I think many people want no part of being forced to live in high density areas. Quite the opposite actually.
I assume that you are a programmer and from your response you write only open source code ... for free.
What’s it called?
News sources that want to save themselves must alter themselves in this way:

- present multiple extremes

- find the recommended mid ground from their perspective

- show the consequences of extremes

To simply show a single perspective isn't journalism, from my own perspective.
Either you start making a language from a sound theoretical foundation and then implement it (Koka springs to mind) or you implement a language from some syntactic gripes and then try to find the theoretical foundation later… Go was impressive in the practical sense (compiler speed, channels in std and good tooling) but a shit show otherwise. I’ve completely lost any confidence that FANG will be able to make some great language because they always take the easy way (makes more business sense, see Dart). Academia on the other hand will make great languages that never reaches critical mass.
When someone says "an institution needs more diversity" they mean that given two people for any job in the industry the minority should be chosen for diversities sake. They want women, homosexuals, and ethnic minorities and religious minorities to be more qualified for available jobs for the sake of being rarer, as opposed to true equality. It's nonsense. And I say this as a weird person - me being weird shouldn't make me more qualified for any job in which my weirdness is orthogonal - nor should any non-job related uniqueness qualify anyone else.

There are too few (good) jobs and too many qualified people, so it's a kind of gatekeeping. College is similar for the most part, but they do you the favor of teaching you something (while fleecing you at the same time, but that's another issue).
You can't really read laws in the negative. Laws only mean what they say.

You can still for example "interfere" and be more than 8 feet away and pointing to this law won't help you.
This is the original analysis by one of Columbia's math professors that led to this investigation: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigatio...

My own reading is that the math professor's analysis is quite credible, and that Columbia did indeed cheat the rankings by reporting "creative statistics".
It felt like a void that was difficult to replace.
Amazon absolutely sucks for buying books. It's not just the counterfeits, but the way they now ship books in flimsy paper envelopes. The last book I ordered from Amazon (because it was not available at other retailers) was left on my porch, in a paper envelope, during a rainstorm. Book obviously got wet and now has that distinct "wavy" look.
Yeah.

"Hey, come look at this thing! It's really great, and makes pretty pictures, but you'll have to trust me on that. Sure, it's worth your time to figure out the issues; my lack of attention to the readme definitely hasn't extended to making this work on machines other than mine, honest."
Is it down $15B from the post-announcement peak, or from pre-announcement? I’d think only the latter would hold up in court.
Curious, why not Digital Ocean? Which is a YC investment? I get why you choose AWS on a technical basis, but wouldn't it make sense to give the business to Digital Ocean to help their brand?
Note that the narrow-loop shape in modern roller-coasters means that the tightest curve is at the top, where the G-forces are partially countered by gravity. That's an 1-G that they can subtract, and it means the radius can be significantly larger on entry to the loop, resulting in smaller G-forces.
As a simple thought experiment on objective truth: if we are having a debate about objective truth and you say objective truth doesn't exist is it then acceptable for me to beat you to death with a crowbar?

If not then why?

There is an external reality independent of people's thoughts. We have spend so many centuries insulating people from it that they can believe all sorts of nonsense that would have killed them near instantly in previous ages.
I rode my motorcycle to the beach where I helped a little girl build sand castles and capture mole crabs in a bucket. Then we released the mole crabs and I rode back home to hackernews.
A group that represents ~1% of people is demanding representation commensurate with the rest of the human population.

In a for profit environment.

Perhaps they need to readjust their expectations?
we spend over half our waking hours for often over half of our lives spent working — you think it’s a mental illness for a person to consider how all of these hours and expended energy impact their life?

honestly, you think this is a mental illness?

and i think there are many reasonable arguments that huge chunks of the world care far more about their jobs impact on their lives than we (u.s. americans) do.

a mental illness? the way you say everything in your comment, as if that belief is somehow a universal truth is wild.
There is also Hetzner, their dedicated server pricing is very good.
Not for sane people. Financial institutions may disagree though. :P I’ve heard of people who all day long just write PL/SQL procedures.
> Direct democracy via twitter

He doesn't run any of his firms with direct democracy, why on earth would he run his Martian kingdom as one?
I'd say the fact the regulations are there at all, led to this issue. If there wasn't, there would be nothing to 'work around', and Boeing (and Airbus) would be more free to design the planes they and their customers wanted.

As it is, we have a bunch of regulations, and obviously no greater safety; the planes designs have issues anyway, as they did here with the 737 Max.

There's certainly regulatory capture going on in Boeing too, no doubt, but that's also a point for removing the regulatory system, not a point for 'making it better', usually by adding more rules, seldom subtracting rules.
You are engaging in the egregious fallacy of "if the government pays for it, it's free". That's true at the individual level. It's not true at the level of the whole society. And it's that latter level that matters when asking if nuclear power makes sense.

It's hard to see how wasting resources and, all else being equal, doing something the much more expensive way would be "the right thing to do". If nuclear is too expensive than a renewable solution, too bad so sad.
Perhaps the way the war in Afghanistan was drummed up.
> point at and go "this would never have been possible without Chinese innovation"?

Well first I linked you a whole wikipedia page full of them.
Second, I would never ask that question because it is nonsense and any answer given can only be because of confirmation bias.
Just because something WAS invented in the US does not mean it could have only been invented under those exact circumstances.

"Recently" is an arbitrary term you are throwing in there to be able to define the timeframe that suits you. If you really believe that the only things Russia has ever produced is "bad news" I think you could really get a lot out of exploring Russian art, literature, design, architecture and technology from any period you like between say 1900-present and I'm certain you will find something innovative.
Utilities like telecoms can't be free market due to the natural monopoly effect.

We can't have a hundred different companies burying infrastructure or stringing up lines on poles.
Yeah I mean I guess that’s what I’m trying to say. I do think Dorsey is a believer which makes it so odd to me that Dorsey and Musk apparently had enough of a relationship for Dorsey to say Musk was the best person to take over Twitter, and then see the takeover later become so disorganized.
He could sit next to whatever dark lord descendents currently run Ford, for less. But that would make Tesla into a serious car company; which is a real business deal, for someone serious about changing the world.

This is just one of the impacts of the high potency products at the local cannabis dispensary. You can't function if you wake and bake on that shit.
There is no such thing. That is the point. It's up to you to filter out the bias and figure out what happened.
Fox News didn’t even exist until 1996. OP is talking about a decline in trust in institutions that started long before that: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-g...
Why BART uses a nonstandard broad gauge
6 million per day as of 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595
Hopefully! I haven't done the tests but I think you're right. It would support WebMIDI out of the box and you could use webmidi or some other framework on top of it
Thank you! Makes me happy to see people enjoying it.
“I said, ‘What are you going to do, stab me?’”

- Stabbed man
It's temporary.
I’m not so sure there can be exact metrics, when exactly an account is and is not spam is probably impossible to determine, there is a lot of grey area.
Oops I meant states more generally, incl fed
SEC can only levy civil penalties, criminal (aka jail) is another matter. Which they are happy to refer to the relevant prosecutor, it just isn’t their job at that point.
Well, I mean fundamentally you’re either moving bytes or crunching
bytes. And I think someone did a study recently where moving bytes
dominates more and more in terms of operations being executed on modern hardware. So it's only logical to see everything around you as CRUD, because this is what makes the bucks.
I’m not a lawyer, and I suspect this gets into old and bizarre traditions of equity.

But the damages for failure to perform may conceptually straightforward: the difference between TWTR’s market cap and the deal price * number of outstanding shares. Which is over $10bn.
You have got to be kidding.
You are never going to guess how long the HN SSDs were in the servers... never ever... OK... I'll tell you: 4.5years. I am not even kidding.
What if you were on a bus, sitting across from a cop bashing somebody's face in? Ok, back up two rows to be able to video. Check!

What if you have to get out of your car, but leave your camera running and the cop decides to drag you down and put a knee on your neck within 8 feet?
Maybe but:

>College graduation statistics indicate that bachelor’s degrees are the most sought-after, with 2.038 million conferred in 2020.

https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates
I haven’t listened to this podcast, but in my humble opinion, as a previously comfortable user of Ubuntu based distros, the whole snap fiasco is throwing a wrench in the stability of that whole corner of the linux distro-verse.

I really don’t want to use snaps because I’ve run into weird issues trying to use snaps of steam before, but it seems that you can’t even install mysql workbench on Ubuntu 22.04 variations and thats just driving me up a wall. I uninstalled the firefox snap as soon as I got Ubuntu Budgie working (I really dislike modern Gnome) and replaced it with native firefox, but now firefox won’t auto update. Budgie uses tilix by default and its too much of a pain to try and get a workflow going with tmux and vim. There’s a lot of these tiny issues, and while nvidia is finally making progress driverwise, I really want to be able to undervolt and overclock my ampere card, I am sadly on the verge of running windows for “poweruser” capabilities from my graphics card (and finally being able to control my rgb after openrgb disabled support for msi boards) and running Fedora in a virtual box for work purposes. Hopefully things come together support wise to go back to bare metal linux in the next year or so but for now its seems like I can only scratch my linux itch in a rather inelegant fashion :(
This was a really big thing in the 1950s and 60s.
Not the OP, but when an investor acquires more than 5% of a stock, they have a limited time to disclose it. Elon disclosed his Twitter stock acquisition too late (20 days after instead of 10) and using the wrong form (Schedule 13G instead of Schedule 13D), painting him as a passive investor rather than an activist.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-06/elon-m... talks about it.
That how it works https://maxread.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-all-those...
But both of these issues can be solved, at a cost to...shareholders. And that's really where the problem lies. Since the merger, Boeing has been laser-focused on quarterly results and stock prices. In the short run that boosts equity valuations, but in the long run, as we've seen, it really hurts the company when it takes focus away from the product on which they run their business.
There were extreme consequences, but during the Obama era the government stepped in and started spending a lot of money propping up the news industry.
I actually agree with you, I think HIV proved that people very much allow their sexual needs to control them even when theirs and others lives are at risk. It was not so much a strategy as cry out to the universe for people to have some common sense and respect for the safety of themselves and others. It would be such a simple win if people just kept their pants on or at the very least limited themselves to one sexual partner at a time for a little while. Its Darwinism screaming at us in the face. This will likely be a situation where the government is forced to step in and save people from themselves.
That seems likely. Book publishers are also less exploitative than record companies. If you look at the copyright notice in a book, with rare exceptions it will be Copyright 2022 by A. U. Thor, while on music it will be Copyright 2022 by Exploitive Records, Inc.

Then there’s finances. When a publisher pays you an advance on royalties, if your book never sells enough to earn those royalties, you will not have to pay back the advance (although, for a two-book deal, it might reduce the effective amount of money you get on the second book, depending on how the contract is written, which is why a good agent is necessary). The publisher shoulders all the production, editing, distribution and publicity costs. With a recording contract, all the costs of recording are deducted from the artist’s royalties and many bands have had a hit record where they ended up owing the record company money. And for all of that, as noted above, the record company claims ownership of the recording that the band paid for.

TV/movie production ends up being somewhere between the two. Not as exploitative as the record companies, not as genteel as the publishers.
I too think this is more likely to be a mistake, but incompetence also makes you easier to hack.
Because if you wanted to make changes to the table, and your rendering mechanism is rewriting to innerHTML, it's going to nuke all the elements and create new ones (even those that don't need to be recreated).

On the other hand, DOM APIs can get expensive quickly especially if you're calling `document.createElement` repeatedly to create maybe 1000s of table rows.

So then you have to find ways to minimize the amount of DOM operations that must happen. Or like the rest of us, just pick up a JS library that already solved this problem.
Er..I should have also added something like:

All that being said, don't sell your self short. You made a cool tool that makes your process easier and you deserve to be proud of that. :)

Just.. don't fall into the very common trap of thinking "I can build a machine that'll entirely replace $X!" ;-) We can build machines that make $X easier, and easier, and easier but eventually you want a human being there to direct things ;-)

This isn't a diss at ALL, and, full disclosure, I once instrumented a tennis racket ("What if there was a tennis racket that improved your tennis?") and recently started dabbling with the idea of using webcams to teach myself yoga. Note that I know nothing about either tennis or yoga. :)

Edit: Holy crap OP, you know how to SHIP! Impressive home page. I salute you.
> Why the move?

Our primary server died around 11pm last night (PST), so we switched to our secondary server, but then our secondary server died around 6am, and we didn't have a third.

The plan was always "in the unlikely event that both servers die at the same time, be able to spin HN up on AWS." We knew it would take us several hours to do that, but it seemed an ok tradeoff given how unlikely the both-servers-die-at-the-same-time scenario seemed at the time. (It doesn't seem so unlikely now. In fact it seems to have a probability of 1.)

Given what we knew when we made that plan, I'm pretty pleased with how things have turned out so far (fingers crossed—no jinx—definitely not gloating). We had done dry runs of this and made good-enough notes. It sucks to have been down for 8 hours, but it could have been worse, and without good backups (thank you sctb!) it would have been catastrophic.

Having someone as good as mthurman do most of the work is also a really good idea.
I tend to believe it's something along these lines. The real question is why is he going to such great lengths to liquidate stock? He is not the only high profile billionaire who has recently come up with sudden circumstances to justify the liquidation of massive amounts of stock.
So you acknowledge the possibility that he acted impulsively but think his other decision were all rational and intelligent?
> And I actually feel very bad lying to my kids about this whole tooth fairy business

Then don't? You can even preserve the magic by giving them a silver dollar or whatever to commemorate each lost tooth.
Generics are great when you need them, but they will cut you badly if you misuse them.

Generics are viral. When you make something generic, you often have to make the things that touch or contain it generic, too.

Generics also create tight coupling. When you change the definition of a generic interface/class, you'll need to update your usage across the codebase. As opposed to, say, adding a new field to a class, that can be safely ignored anywhere it isn't used.

When this component you're updating is highly connected to other parts of your code, perhaps add another generic parameter to it, it completely explodes and you have to jump all around your codebase adding generics.

The kicker is that you may be updating components which are themselves generic and highly connected, setting off secondary explosions. Pretty soon you're throwing that codebase out, starting over, and swearing to yourself that you'll never touch generics again.

My advice is to assume generics are a premature abstraction until you've exhausted what you can do with more concrete approaches.
This is an important point, but I do believe there's truth to both arguments. The common wisdom in developed countries is that you don't have kids until you're financially stable, and increasingly financially stable includes education and career building through your prime reproductive years for both potential parents. And your point, kids were an asset in an agrarian society without machinery, they're not assets in our modern industrialized societies. I think there are more factors, one is the perceived state of the world as a worse place than before, true or not, and another is the increasing control that external entities like the state exert on the internal workings of families. That's not exhaustive, but I do think overall the incentives to start families are just no longer there, so people are doing less of it.
Legend – A Dragon Ball Tale [video]
(much) more likely explanation is that market tanked in the interim.
That depends on the amount especially since he's already been caught doing this when he claimed he would take Tesla private
For the second example, you wouldn't be a bystander, so I don't think it would apply. If you were the passenger though, I guess it would.
But they don't have servers in US do they?
Someone who's being offered $10 for a $5 bill.
that's not a function (in the pedantic sense).

technically a partial function, or you could say that every function is really of the type
A -> Exception \/ A
Somewhat related, I actually had a great use for Replit recently. Some technically inexperienced people (mostly running Windows) would benefit from access to a python command line tool, but the only commonality we had was a forum thread where we met. So i cloned the GitHub repo from the author of the tool and gave a very short set of instructions and a link to the Replit project. Nobody had any questions about installing because none of it ran on their computer. It was just a simple python script but worked perfectly in the online IDE. I didn't have to help anyone with anything, it just worked.
Guess I wouldn't want to be responsible for an internet stranger's defamation. I'll keep shit posting on HN
Datto founder shares thoughts on kaseya acquisition
Do you account for DNA testing results? (insert obligatory “a pox on orrin hatch” here)
Pretty sure Digital Ocean is not a YC-funded startup.

We wouldn't make HN decisions on that basis anyhow, though, I don't think. Maybe if all other things were literally equal.