jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Could you provide some sources?

The figure about the proportion of nuclear power is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption, the figure "140 years" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium.

> Could we really build enough solar and wind at today's level of technology (assuming sufficient economic motivation) without also blowing through our CO2 budget?

A back of the envelope calculation suggests that the necessary construction efforts require the emission of a couple of Gt CO2e. For comparison, at the start of 2018 our CO2 budget was 420 Gt (now it's about 320 Gt).
Still with a protectorate.
Yeah, this is basically exactly what Nintendo is doing. I guess for PC and larger consoles you could use larger memory cards that might be cheaper to make. But anyway, it's still a problematic approach since it eats into the margins unless you increase the price of the game, which most game publishers try to avoid.

I really like Nintendo Switch cartridges, I prefer to buy physical copies when I can, but I don't think there's a future in them. I kind of wish someone would make "smart cards" that just gives you access to the game online. Since there's so many essential updates to games these days, that's almost what cartridges are anyway.

You forgot the reference link btw.
I had a similar feeling with that one, found the corners by counting edges on part one, and really got de-motivated for part two and actually solving the puzzle and looking for the patterns
I don’t have a list, but historically SCOTUS has ruled that legislatures are responsible for election laws and those cannot be changed by the whim of the state executive branch. Minimally Wisconsin and Pennsylvania (and possible Michigan and Georgia) sent out, received, and counted ballots that were outside the bounds of their respective election laws. Pennsylvania was especially egregious in that they were told to separate ballots received after the cutoff defined by law in case there was a challenge (which there was); they did not, making it impossible to separate late ballots from on time ballots. Some counties in Pennsylvania also contacted voters to cure ballots before Election Day; (again) my understanding of the law is that mailed ballots could not be opened until the polls opened on Election Day so there would have been no way to identify ballots that needed to be cured. This was inconsistent across counties.

Wisconsin’s screw up had to do with who was eligible to receive a mail in ballot. There was a ruling that confirmed that ballots were sent to people ineligible for mail in voting, but that they would have to be argued individually. IIRC there were 200k mail in ballots provided and now separated from the voter. Even if you could identify all ineligible voters, there would be no way to identify their ballots.
I have a dedicated device for wechat. I recently put whatsapp on it (with a burner phone number) because my parents refuse to use anything else and would attempt to reach me via nearby people who happen to have whatsapp. I will likely remove it again rather when it forces me to "consent" to data sharing. I am extremely uncomfortable with whatsapp, much more so than wechat even.
Why? The vast majority of the requests they serve are cached at multiple layers above the DB. Switching to an entirely different DB would require rewriting a lot of code, a much larger learning curve to contribute (MediaWiki is FOSS), and limit its use to large sites (MediaWiki is widely used by small sites).
But somehow more difficult both to pronounce and hear clearly.
I'm curious what the point of using this app is after Facebook introduced a feature allowing you to download your entire profile a few months ago. It comes down as a zip file containing a nice, offline-browsable HTML minisite with your wall, pictures, videos, etc.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-...
Mine ( https://github.com/sartak/ ) is currently a 558 day streak. I'm studying Japanese, so I've been committing the new words I learn (at least one every day!) to my "vocabulary" repo. I started a while before GitHub even started tracking streaks.
Yes this is what I've been looking for. I gave up trying to get Vert.x running before, but I'm willing to give this a try.
The third world is utterly fucking doomed to an eternity of indentured servitude if people in the first world don't stand up against those who might implement a global electronic panopticon.

The second world, meanwhile, is likely to collapse and fall prey to assimilation by the inevitable first world borg collective, if they're prevented from committing thermonuclear suicide first.

If the first world doesn't save us from itself, then who will?
Invite. Offline. Not yet.
For web browsing, the bundle is the definitive, closest-to-actually-being-secure way to do it. Tor's FAQ explicitly calls what you're doing "a really bad idea." I'm too lazy to write down all the ways it is a bad idea, but I'll just summarize it to say that you can't make Chrome always use the proxy, and it's still possible in various ways for a site to induce Chrome to give up information about you.
The file revision history is - to the best of my knowledge - an OS X API that applications have to use (opt in). I don't think it comes "for free" with an OS upgrade, unless you mean Time Machine.
I just realized why your username looks familiar -- we just talked in the Kyoto HN Meetup thread the other day.
It 'used to be' 500 karma. But I've heard it goes up over time. I've heard people talk about having ~2k karma without the privilege. So I don't really know to be honest. I wish somebody could answer your question more precisly.
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How about in response to a lousy interview question?
Would be really awesome if there was some way to provide feedback on the effectiveness. My experience with cat medicine showed that what it says on the package is not to be trusted (for example all the "natural" stuff against fleas was completely useless)
It's not always a mistake. Abstraction has a purpose. The key is using abstractions that are helpful.

Some people find the concision of lambdas helpful, so it's not necessarily a mistake.
Which is to say: in pretty much the same position Perl is in now.
You're correct that CS isn't about code. Programming is, and that's what I was drawing the comparison with.

Most of the CS we have from pre-1950 is fundamentally mathematics: algorithms, theory of computation, etc.
My first idea was that some of the pesticides in different medications might block or interact with each other, which is the reason why you usually get conditioner and shampoo in two bottles (the chemicals in most conditioners are cationic while the ones in shampoos are anionic)

Having now looked through quite a few Wikipedia articles of the pesticides used, I can't find no such statements... Except that I learned that some of these have a vague link to CCD.

Another thing is that the application time-scale and use-cases between these drugs differs - some you give every 6 months or so as prophylaxis, some you only give when there's an actual infection.
Glidden’s design took off, and by 1876, his company was producing nearly 3 million pounds of barbed wire annually.

Sentences like this always bother me. Of what use is this information? Barbed wire isn't used as a counterweight. How much fence is 3 million pounds?
Pluses: Stripe increases EU coverage

Minuses: global financial earthquake

Hmmm.... :)
Microsoft was charging vendors for Windows licenses per computer; even computers that were sold without Windows.
> However, it uses the Russian spelling of Crimean place names on its maps in Russia, rather than the Ukrainian spelling.

The vast majority of people in Crimea are Russian speakers (as well as being ethnically Russian). It's been that way since the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula from the Ottomans in 1783. In fact, there's nearly as many Tartar (descendents of Ottomans) speakers in Crimea than Ukrainian. Last time I was there (early this year), I saw a number of new mosques under construction.

I'm not justifying the recent annexation, just noting the linguist realities on the ground. Also, politics aside, if you ever have the chance to visit, do it. The peninsula is very beautiful and there's lots of interesting geographical features and historical sights to see. Also, the infrastructure has improved significantly since the Russian takeover (unfortunately Ukraine being poor, neglected the peninsula after the collapse of the USSR) so getting around is easier now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#demographics
>Increasingly, if you want to be in infosec, you have to learn how to code on the level of a SWE

I think this depends on what kind of infosec work you plan to be doing. I have been a security engineer for the past 4ish years, and while I do have some programming/scripting skills it certainly isn't at the level of a SWE. Most of the projects I work on I end up doing pentesting, risk assessments, remediation for compliance, assisting with policies/procedures, and/or security focused devops work. It would definitely be useful if I could program at the level of an SWE, and I do plan to continue to develop my skills, but I wouldn't say that to be in infosec you have to learn to code at the level of an SWE. I agree with all your other points
Because I'm sure in the context of a revolution, the American gun owners would be super hard to identify.

How closely does the NRA guard its donor list, or Guns & Ammo its subscription roster?
I would highly recommend looking into dtrace or bpftrace (depending on your platform).

They're not as powerful as a debugger, but you can use them when nothing else will work. They're totally safe to use in production, because they can't modify memory, and they have a very small performance impact when in use.
Cliff Mass, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, recently wrote a similar blog post about climate alarmism: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/08/is-global-warming-exi...

> Global warming is a real issue and we are going to slowly warm our planet, resulting in substantial impacts (like less snowpack in the Cascades, increased river flooding in November, drier conditions in the subtropics, loss of Arctic sea ice). But the world will be a much richer place in 2100 and mankind will find ways to adapt to many of the changes. And there is a good chance we will develop the technologies to reverse the increasing trend in greenhouse gases and eventually bring CO2 concentrations down to previous levels.

> Global warming does not offer an existential threat to mankind, and politicians and decision makers only undermine their credibility and make effective action less likely by their hype and exaggeration. And their unfounded claims of future catastrophe prevents broad national consensus and hurts vulnerable people who are made anxious and fearful. And just as bad, all this end of the world talk results in folks turning away from the issue, both out of fear and from intuition that a lot of hype is going on.

He also wrote a VERY disturbing post about how the university has tried to censor him and retaliate against him because he would not kowtow to the pressures of student and faculty activists, who are polluting universities with their ideological fervor. I highly recommend that anyone interested in protecting scholarly attitudes, academic rigor, and neutrality give this a read:
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-was...
Lithium fire also ends in a damaged battery, that needs special care. Better sources in German, but the problem is still described here: https://climatechangedispatch.com/wrecked-tesla-recycle-car/
I went to a Elon Musk's talk. He said he wouldn't have started spacex and tesla if he hadn't had the initial capital he gained through paypal.

I want to start a robotics company and I guess I would start by selling robotic toys and kits.
Cerebras's "wafer scale engine" [1] takes some of these ideas and applies them narrowly to deep learning training. 400,000 cores, 18GB of on-chip memory, 9.6 petabytes of memory bandwidth in a 1.2 trillion transistor package in a gigantic 46,225mm^2 package.

[1] https://www.cerebras.net/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-why-we-...
There is no need true, but if clicked and was logged into google, they now know. True I should have use an incognito but the point is there.
> The average person tends not to care too much about their privacy.

This is not quite accurate. The average person cares a lot about privacy, but understands privacy differently from the HN/tech/anti-Facebook zeitgeist.

People care about privacy from people they know. They care about whether their parents, significant other, coworkers, and friends can see things they intend for them not to.

Most people don't care about whether private information about them is collected and stored on servers without any human ever looking at it (even if, hypothetically, some humans with nefarious intent could look at it someday). But this is an extremely narrow interpretation of "privacy".
A search on Google reveals many websites dedicated to just that product category.
> I would love to see inmates having the ability to pursue a trade, learn programming

Brings a whole new level to the saying "Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
Back in 2004 I wanted to use Kleinberg's hub-and-authorities algorithm on Delicious, and I ran a crawler on it anyway, despite the robots.txt file. I got blocked, and when I complained, I got an email from the founder telling me to buzz off.

I've long seen the no-crawling policy of Delicious plus the Roach Motel API that was all about getting people to put their data in but not about letting people get it out as the dark side of "Web 2.0"; often we hear about an API as if it were a gift, but it's often a self-serving effort to take our data and give nothing back in return.
The thing that struck me about some of the recommended reading on the list was that I suspect some of the books in the highly voted answers are probably not recommended texts on a good CS course (as is the author of the posts wish). I mean it's been a while since I took an undergraduate course but there were very few books recommended that looked at the more practical side of computer programming - apart from maybe in the first year of your course, and I'm assuming the author was looking for more in depth reading. Senior years on many CS courses tend to focus on theory behind topics which is something that I think is probably a lot harder to get motivated to read than say Code Complete. I mean you really have to want/need to learn Edmonds' graph matching algorithm as things like that are not comfortable reading. It's the reason why I think doing a CS course has some benefits as it's not often you are forced to approach the subject in that manner. That said, the accepted answer has probably provided a decent list of books with a more academic slant.
Zuckerberg has certainly earned the attention he's received over the last few years, for better or for worse, but my first thought when I'd heard that TIME named him PotY was, "What a pedestrian choice." Safe and boring.

Granted, this is the same news organization that declared "You" to be their pick for Person of the Year previously.
If you've got your own opinions nobody is going to convince you otherwise :)

Personally I don't like the look and feel of Galaxy S, and I guess this phone is no different.
Theres also the issue that the main site is like a one stop shop for all questions. Whereas the micro sites seem kind of pointless unless theres more to them. Like more ability to be social or something. Plus they all apparently have different designs which causes inconsistency and frankly headaches having to deal with all of it.
Interesting that in the screenshot there are 23 for books and 23 for trees, perhaps compensing the chop of trees to make books?
I can answer a few:

Package management: Yes[0]

DLLs: Do not know

Local Repository: Seems to be a part of package management based on things I've seen

Command line/scripting: Powershell has been around for a while now and is quite good, but a very different idiom than UNIX shell[1].

Disable GUI: Don't believe so, but can't say for sure

Onboard: The above is all native

Easy compiler: unsure.

[0]http://www.howtogeek.com/200334/windows-10-includes-a-linux-...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
Agreed. The software doesn't strike me as really symmetrical or isomorphic. Perhaps a whole different metaphor is in order, assuming the idea is even concrete enough to warrant a short label in the first place. Not all labels need to be (or can be) reduced to a single word.
While that is the title, it is an incorrect interpretation of the evidence. The actual statement is:

> entry visas are only granted to Pakistanis who wish to visit immediate family members in Sweden and who can show that they are established in Pakistani society. Being established means having a family (husband, wife, children) in Pakistan to return to and/or to be established in the labour market.

I interpret that to mean that an unmarried Pakistani with a job (and/or real estate) in Pakistan can get a visa to visit Sweden. No children are needed.

The author, OTOH, translated it as "married with children". I believe this is too broad. It appears to be there as enumeration which is narrower than "immediate family."

I agree most with the comments by Hafiz Abdul Azeem ("This article shows author's immature understanding about visa process.") and UzairH.
Not ironic, not funny, not much of anything.
I think on a few levels, MIT is not the source of problems in the US university system.

People do not tend to graduate MIT in deep debt and without job prospects.
Well, there are other ways to tell them that this interoperability is important: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet-explorer-... (no registration required to vote).
This is a really great library. Thanks to Microsoft :).
>More information would make the higher-education market work better.

Not by that much. Most graduates get jobs that their degrees are irrelevant to. Also, more selective universities will have better results than less selective ones even if they are merely equally good at teaching as less selective ones.

>Common tests, which students would sit alongside their final exams, could provide a comparable measure of universities’ educational performance. Students would have a better idea of what was taught well where, and employers of how much job candidates had learned.

There is no necessary connection to universities here. Why not just straight up separate teaching and testing? Why restrict taking these tests to people in their final year of university? P.Eng. exams are respected without being a university degree, like the Royal Statistical Societies certificates and diplomas.
It isn't new.

Look up how the Leapforce/Lions Bridge raters who indirectly work for Google have inconsistent/unguaranteed work as independent contractors. When those programs started, the pay was near $20, as time has gone on, the output demands have increased and the hourly pay has decreased to ~$13 the last I heard.

Why not squeeze the IC's? They aren't represented and typically have no recourse besides quitting, to be replaced by another IC at possibly even lower pay. It just seems like a race to the bottom, with the primary victim being the most vulnerable parties to begin with.
Just a one cent slide switch will do the job. Even a jumper will do the job.
The thing I don't get is why not try to mass manufacture the candidates before we know they are effective? It seems the work of what drug to make was done really quickly, and most of the time is spent in the trials, and then mass production.

Maybe I missed it, but you'd think with something so devastating we'd just make a bunch of candidates, get them out to the clinics for storage, and as soon as we thought a given candidate was effective start injecting everyone?

And if a given drug doesn't work, what's a few billion?
Understandable. As long as it remains available, the price hike seems to incentivize operators to expend energy on manually thawing them. I'm assuming they could rig up makeshift natural gas burners/heat lamps to keep critical sections above freezing.
With the number of lockdowns in Europe it feels like a spit to the face for all of the businesses and tax payers in Europe.

Even throwing more money at the problem sounds better than not doing anything but I wish the EU would have forced Pfizer/Biontech and other pharma companies to just produce the vaccine en masse.

This is a war time and only those that cant fight back are forced to suck it up.
Yes: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/69 :D
Well, you're trying my patience by putting words in my mouth that I didn't say: I didn't suggest decisionmakers immediately give everyone one dose. Are you making a dishonest argument, or did you just fail to read what I originally said.

Your assertions are hard to reconcile with e.g. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et4moRCXAAAZ18o?format=jpg&name=...

Note that most of the people positive at 21-27 days would have been exposed before the 2nd dose... Yes, it's crappy time series data, but...
Microphones and playback quality have come a long way

The technology has come a long way (or at least some way in the case of microphones), but we still deal with the choices that recording engineers make. Recording microphones are not flat, they are treated as musical instruments -- whether you chose a mic from Shure, Rode, Audio Technica, Blue, AKG, Neumann, Beyerdynamic, etc, they all color the sound in different ways that sound pleasing to when exposed to different sounds. If a microphone is chosen because it has a nice low/mid frequency boost that makes accentuates a male speaking voice, it's not surprising that a female voice may not sound as pleasing when using the same recording setup.

The reason that we don't use "flat" microphones (a measurement microphone for example) for recording is that they basically sound terrible to the casual ear. There's a demo on the Stereophile test CD that demonstrates this (if you can find it).
Are you seriously asking me why I didn't write something which I just told you is a worthless thing to spend time writing about? Probably because I think it's a worthless thing to spend time writing about. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here.

Look, just because I don't buy your argument doesn't mean I buy the premise that "genius" exists the way it's constructed in society. I find that pretty fallacious too, but for different reasons. I don't think you're going to get to the core of why genius is a flawed concept with a strained analogy to computational complexity (which doesn't work) rather than by digging into historical context. I think if you focus on that, you'll probably make more progress on coming up with something interesting to say.
It's not just Quora, I think about half of notifications, whether by email or on mobile, don't take you to the thing you're being notified of.

Or they insist on sending redundant notifications. Or there's a mysterious number and no way to see that actual notifications. Or the notifications won't go away. Or the notifications go away instantly. Or, naturally, the notifications are abused for spam.

As to why... I think it's one of those features that tends to get neglected, and because users are way too forgiving of broken software.
It's supposed to be "sciency", not science. Look to scientists for meaningful
energy to accounting. This a political art project, where accurate facts are not important.
If you're using Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hide-w3schools/