jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think, given the context (accepting food stamps), it's somewhat reasonable to expect the family to cutback on luxuries until they get their finances in order. No one is saying they can't buy a car or take a vacation, but if they don't have any savings and are taking tax payer's money to support themselves, it's perfectly reasonable to claim that's irresponsible.
I've heard a certain feminist (who happens to be married) say on TV that marriage is an old and failed system that we should get rid of.

There are over 6 billion people on Earth. Many of those people are just insane. And television shows have an incentive to bring on the real nuts in order to keep things exciting. As such, the fact that you heard one representative from group X go on TV and say something nutty doesn't allow you to make any inferences about what the median person in group X actually believes.

I think this is not too inconsistent with what the western culture(s) subconsciously believe.

Strange. If western culture "subconsciously believes that marriage is a failed system that should be disposed of", then I don't see why marriage is (1) held in high esteem and (2) heavily subsidized. I mean, when I got married, everyone I knew was delighted and no one told me "this is a terrible idea -- marriage is a failed system". Why would the government give me money once I got married if there was a social consensus that marriage is a failed system?

The problem with asserting things about an entire society's "subconscious beliefs" is that your assertions are impossible to refute. Which suggests that these assertions are meaningless garbage.
Does anyone know who the lady + episode on this photo is?

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2010/image...

So familiar, but I just can't recall it..
No, she did not encourage violence, actually she was trying to shame racists in an irony manner.

In plain English, that tweet reads,
You stupid anti-Japan racists, why do not you guys go to Shanghai World Expo and destroy Japanese Show? You guys are only be brave enough to destroy consuming goods imported from Japan.
Coding horrors: refactoring constant time to linear
We have a 100k LoC project that builds in 15 seconds in maven and that includes packaging everything into an Uber jar.

Do you have a fast SSD? It makes an enormous difference in build times
10 years ago was the peak of the housing bubble collapse (or just after), so the price of houses was depressed for a while.

That said, housing prices have gone up by ridiculous amounts since then, in part thanks to economic recovery, in part due to low mortgage interest rates, and in part (linked) due to low savings account rates. Better to put that money in real estate (and more risky investments on the stock market) than let it wither in a savings account.

But hey, for a while a few people made a lot of money.
Nice result, but their claims are a little misleading, as always. They have come full circle, having a very powerful language model they can attach it to other inputs(video, audio,...) creating an ensemble system that gives the illusion that it has "knowledge" about domains and can reason in context, as they ofter state in all their works. But we should know better that what they are doing is very different, eg. trowing a truckload of data into billion-parameter neural networks, spending millions, if not billions, of dollars, just to minimize a loss function in an adversarial environment (a GAN), in this case.
A few things:

I hate wires coming out of my mice. I can tolerate the thin braided cables coming out of most high-end mice, but that's about it. With Mouse Box, I'd have display, USB, and a bunch of other stuff sticking out of the mouse making it much harder to move around and use.

The mouse itself looks unexceptional. It's not especially ergonomic (my Logitech MX Revolution looks much more comfortable to hold), and the button set is pretty limited. It's fine for basic use, but it would kind of defeat the point if I felt compelled to plug a mouse into my Mouse Box.

Mice wear out. Mine collect dust and scuffs on the bottom and sweat and dirt on the top. I guess the mouse itself could conceivably outlive the usefulness of the computing part, but it seems like a bad idea to put the computer in a consumable device.

The use cases seem a bit contrived. I might accept the projector one because clicking to advance through slides is something that people do, but surreptitiously using it at work by connecting it as a second input to the monitor sounds pretty far-fetched.
First saw the on the prosthetic knowledge Tumblr account years ago. Really miss that account. Whoever was behind it did a phenomenal job of curating incredibly interesting technology developments.
Every charger had the cable completely break apart at
the connection to the brick, because stress relief ruined
the pretty minimalist design.

I had one of these. Mine didn't break. A lot of them broke, to be sure - but that's because the users don't understand that a multiwire cable isn't a shoelace and shouldn't have knots and zero-radius bends inflicted on it.
In an industry where 80% of startups disappear, it's inevitable that they have to shut down products at a rate not much smaller than their introduction of new products. And if "Google Cloud Print" is considered significant, then that will result in frequent headlines of "Google is shutting down <x>".

Considering how annoying I find this meme even though I have absolutely no stake in it, people on the inside are probably telling their therapists about it. The better part of a decade has passed since Google Reader was shut down, and it's still the go-to reaction of people who want to seem oh so unique, rebellious, and cynical.
This has got to be satire.

>I understand this is a very difficult decision. I'm not sure if its right or wrong. From the perspective of Human Rights its probably right, but from the perspective of investment its difficult considering China's growth prospects.

I can't believe a human being would actually write this. The level of cognitive dissonance would be off the charts.
Imposing the tariffs would result in the investment you're looking for anyway. Once you make coal uncompetitive on cost, people still need electricity, so they buy renewables. The investors follow the demand.
Probably yeah. It's hard to tell with emerging technologies, because sometimes they take off and it's really awesome to have been on the ground floor, and sometimes they flop and you just have to pick something else.

And yes, when you focus, it does reduce the pool of possible jobs. However, it tends to reduce the pool of competing applicants even more. You might not fit the profile for job A or B, but somewhere out there is company C, and they're desperate for workers.

The one thing to watch out for is to make sure you specialize in something you enjoy working in. Otherwise, you'll hate it, and chances are all that effort will be lost. If you don't know what you enjoy working in, it's fine to try lots of areas until you find one. But if you do find it, don't be afraid to go deep.
While you are probably right, I find it sad that people would rather read lots of mediocre books than a few good ones. But maybe I just value my time more than most people.
There's also Amazon singles from the low end. See -
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2486013011
Really? damn
Devise is excellent. Jose Valim's gems tend to become standards pretty quickly.
1. `char tmp( rev[i] );` is valid C++, but not C.

2. Your for() loop is still dividing `iLen/2` every iteration. Presumably the compiler would hoist the division out of the loop, but the code would still add some cognitive friction to future readers of this function. :)

Here's my attempt:

void strrev(char* s)
{
char* a = s;
char* z = s + strlen(s) - 1;
while (a < z)
{
const char c = *a;
*a = *z;
*z = c;
a++;
z--;
}
}
Embedly is interesting, but this seems like yet another service that really ought to be a client-side Javascript library. I see no advantage to this being a service, besides the fact that the client-side code can be a little thinner.

Besides, if the source was available, it would be trivial to set up your own "Embedly" endpoint, and reap all the benefits of thin client-side code while having control over your infrastructure.
Good question.

My gut instinct would be to do just that but I wonder if there's a better way. You'd probably also want to track the encryption of each user so you know when you can make the final switch.

Another alternative is to just send "update your password" emails to everyone framing it as an improvement to your site's security.
The fans are much quieter if you plug the power on the right side.
Han unification isn't main blocker to transition to utf-8 in Japan. Just use Japanese font in this context.

Why SJIS is still used is because there are many legacy systems and developers who still think SJIS is fine. We not tend to treat other languages so it mostly works (without emoji).
SJIS is sometimes useful because 1-byte char is half width, and 2-bytes char is full width by design. Old developers still call Japanese character as "2-bytes character" even though the system is utf-8.

Another reason is that Windows OEM codepage is still CP932 (extended SJIS). It's pain like this: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-597-enable-utf-8-mode-by-de...
True. I know it exists for inference though. Wondering where/when solutions like MKL might work for training.
> While the difference in internals are significant (hence LuaJIT staying on 5.1), in terms of usage it's just a handful of changes.

Lua doesn't care about older versions for migration, so its changes tend to be more impactful than it looks. If you write a new code for newer versions you don't need to relearn or unlearn much, but for example `0x7fffffffffffffff + 1` was 9.2233720368548e+18 before Lua 5.3 and is now -1. Can you guarantee that your code is free of such overflows? Can you find all overflows before the migration? This very issue prevented me and my team from migrating to 5.3.

LuaJIT is a different situation by the way, AFAIK it stayed with 5.1 because it allows for more efficient implementation. Mike Pall does share some of my criticisms to Lua as well [1].

[1] For example, http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-10/msg00578.html or https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Port-bitop-to-53,1
They must be Smalltalk hackers...
A quantifiable opinion if you noticed I was referring to entrepreneurship especially amongst software sales and SaaS products, and not humanity.
It's 2021 and we still don't have scalable computer systems with continuations support - that's why his cronjob does not work reliably in the first manner if that script crashed or the machine reboots, it will run again.

The idempotence is nice and I use it as much as possible, but, his case is very simplistic. Imagine you have a complex data migration process, which crashes in the middle - how you safely continue from where you crashed or safely roll back?
K means clustering the color space is certainly an interesting idea, though you might need n+1 colors as I’d guess the background color of the hoop is often prevalent.

Also: it seems like your query function is actually building the tree on each call? If so, that would slow it down a lot (though the lru cache is still a great idea!)
I confused things as there are two separate books with very similar titles by Braun, 'Project Mars' (ISBN - 0973820330) and 'The Mars Project' (ISBN - 0252062272). The first is sci-fi and the second is technical.

Here's a pdf of Project Mars - http://www.wlym.com/archive/oakland/docs/MarsProject.pdf

The reference to the Elon is on page 177.

I hadn't initially noticed the fact it was posthumously published in 2006, however it would seem like an odd kind of forgery, if it is one.

Equally it does seem odd that Braun would choose Elon as the name of the Mars leader, so perhaps it might be a real work but with Elon added as a joke by the translator.

Or perhaps Braun chose the word Elon because he sometimes thought of leaders as trees, or something, and it is all just a massive bit of luck.

Personally I'm starting to suspect another explanation however. And if I'm right, there is an entire warehouse full of empty Elon Musk clones on ice, waiting for the spirit of Wernher Von Braun to animate each one in turn, in the event of damage occurring to the current corporeal vessel.
The scene is never what it used to be.
One young guy named Linus Torvalds upset a whole pile of holy applecarts, as a student, no less, a guy called Mark Zuckerberg built one of the most visited websites on the planet, two other guys built the most frequented search engine while still in college and so on.

He doesn't care at all about not being in charge. He cares about people not wanting nor caring about getting some deeper levels of knowledge required to do their jobs properly and as a cause he sees that they are money oriented first, and tech oriented second.
The Drag-Recalculate feature is neat, but limited and often results in nonsensical operations.

For example, imagine a simple bar chart of fruits that people have:

Alice: 5 apples, 6 oranges

Bob: 10 apples, 2 oranges

From a quick perusal of the examples, you can drag Alice's apples onto Bob's apple stack. Now Bob has 15 apples? wat? It seems you can even drag Alice's apples onto Bob's oranges. Try it yourself: https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/doc/example/bar4.html#-en (not sure what those funny characters on the left say, but imagine they say Alice, Bob, Charlie, etc., and the colors are apples, oranges, radishes, etc.)

The behavior also only really works if you're working with sum aggregations. If you're talking about averages or mins, you again get non-sensical combinations.

It's a neat behavior, no doubt, but it's very limited in the cases when it's appropriate. Some of their examples show cases where you can use it non-sensically. Unless the visualization is being produced by an expert who knows when NOT to use shiney features, I fear people will get too excited by the shineyness and create completely inappropriate visualizations. Remember when 3D bars were the shit?
I certainly wanted this. I even heckled Bill Moore about it. Having gone through the expansion the old way (replace each drive one at a time with a larger one), this looks a lot simpler. Unfortunately it appears to not work with simple mirror and stripes (~ RAID10) so it will make no difference for me. (Drives are cheap but performance is not -> RAID10).
Lots of tools that are useful for marginalized groups are also useful for marginalized groups that want to spread hate. Same goes for the internet. It was hard in the beginning on internet mainstream (late 90s/early 00s) to find any community that didn't have a bunch of racists and fascists in it as well.
For me µsort is a non-starter since it doesn't ignore the import/from part when sorting lexicographically. So when an import changes from `import foo` to `from foo import bar` (and vice versa), the import is moved. Sorting should start at the package name, nothing else.
Someone is behind schedule and _really_ needed to focus on his work.
That's fair enough. I did hear it repeated a lot that 2C-B's dosage curve seems to be particularly steep and non-linear. I don't know that it's been studied very scientifically, but reportedly the difference between 40 and 50mg is much bigger than the difference between 20 and 30.

I stick to low dosages, partly to avoid nausea and partly because I like to be somewhat cautious with this delicate biological machinery I don't understand.

For me it's also something I can take a small dose of occasionally when I have a big night out, if I'd like to sleep early, or if I'd like more stimulation and less headspace.

LSD I use for long introspective trips, physically by myself so that I can tune in and out of online social interactions depending on how I feel.

I feel like 2C-B is a nice option to have for different settings. Since I don't very much experience the downsides it's worth it for me, but I can definitely acknowledge the downsides =)
> were not modern humans but instead a dead race.

"Race" is not really a recognized concept outside of social interaction. I believe "sub-species" is preferred on the level that you're indicating—think neanderthals and denisovans. Even then, it's a measure of phylogenetic distance, not of any quality that directly "matters" (like fertility of offspring).

Anyway, they're all humans in terms of having active sex with humans.
> a UBI won't change that overnight.

Of course not but that doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. Your other objections regarding poor neighbourhoods and so on are not so much an argument against UBI as an argument against the conditions that made those neighbourhoods poor in the first place; of course those causes need to be tackled as well, but not everyone who is poor is also a drunken, sex-crazed, drug addict.
> it is a different race theory

exactly. and we can call this different branch of racism "neoracism".

IMO "racist" has been thrown around so much that I think a new term that specifically describes this new woke branch of racism will have more muster.
We're all a bunch of tech folks here, so has anyone gotten an email from Canonical after spinning up an Ubuntu instance in AWS or GCP?

I've at least done this on AWS and have never seen anything from Canonical.
In developed countries (ex in Europe), fiat currency officially loses at least 2% of its worth each year on average (or you yourself lose 2% worth of purchasing power every year, depending on how you see it). In reality it's much more of course.

Bitcoin gains 200% of its worth each year on average.

Owning bitcoin, any investment you make that brings home more than 200% a year (+ fin. taxes - fiat inflation) when risk-adjusted is worth making.

Anything else is an objective loss, so you want to really assess what it will bring you subjectively before making it.

In other words, "given that you are basically paid by the financial system to hold bitcoin, any bitcoin you spend should be for something that you value more than what it pays", i.e a smarter investment.
I never liked to tinker with hardware. Tinkering with software was more fun, and the hardware that I can run my self-made software on is now more powerful than ever. Even an iPad, or rather, especially an iPad.
I still don’t understand why people use Shopify. And on top of that people equate them to being the next Amazon. Boggles my mind.
As someone who has to deal with this sort of censorship employed "against me" online by the dictator, who wants no one to criticize his actions, the government and everyone subservient to his whims, it doesn't even sound like 1984 anymore.
Big brother was supposed to be an exercise in what "not to do" or am I thinking wrongly? Instead, these people are using it as a playbook of what to do next.

The HN crowd will not really understand how "misuse of social media" means criticism of government that has landed thousands in jail with no recourse. You are treated the same as a terrorist who might have blown a plane or committed mass murder or a rapist.

I have always tried use a different handle online, avoid services that require a phone number, I dont post my photo or have a YouTube channel / whatsapp/telegram.

Just the day before, in a crowded street in the middle of a city capital with a population of 1 mil+, the army organised a sudden "cordon" when EVERY CIVILIAN was forced to stand in a queue, remove any "traditional winter clothing" that might hide a weapon and stand in line for over 2 hours while each person was frisked and made to prove their identity (ID cards, etc) while the whole thing was recorded by them.

Whatsapp/Facebook Admins are ordered to report to the police to get their groups "registered" or else face criminal prosecution.

I dont want sympathies. No kashmiri does. Just the idea that the attrocities committed by India and Pakistan need to be put out and known because these people sugarcoat their versions so brilliantly.

I have a cartoonist friend who is regularly banned from social media because pages get "forced to delete content" and all because he draws stuff critical of government.

I see no light at the end of the tunnel for India or Pakistan also for that matter. They simply have dug their own graves
It's just how they defined it - essentially personal service == employment. They understand that if you really run a business then your client hires your company to create a product for them and it is up to the company who and how makes it, otherwise your company in their eyes is just a vehicle to avoid tax. What is most bizarre is that then you become an employee only for tax purposes - that is you are not necessarily gaining any employment rights, but in practice a freelancer has to be an employee of an agency, so you retain employment rights in exchange for severe pay cut. From April true freelancing will be very difficult because of that. For example if you are signed up to an agency, you are required to look for new contracts when you have a downtime and you may be required to accept contracts if agency finds one.
My own opinion is that such agencies corrupted the bodies responsible for these law changes - agencies will be getting % for essentially doing nothing and freelancers won't be able to use profits to fund their own projects (not in the way it used to be - it has become much more expensive).
So you feel the right solution is to give millionaires massive tax breaks and have middle class folks who can barely afford a house pick up the slack?

It is absurd and an anomaly. Let them stay, but when the reap a $1M+ profit on the house when they sell or die, they can pony up the tax, just like everyone else.
In cities you'd have instead of roads for cars, to cover each individual need, rolling sidewalks, going all different directions. Which means a lot of interconnected stuff to cover everything. If I want to go to my friend who is 3 blocks to the right and then a U turn and 5 more blocks to the left currently I take a car and I am there in 5 minutes. But if this society where individual cars don't exists but something else covers that highly customized needs for each individual - how you'd envision said technology? I would envision sidewalks on different levels, interconnected with elevators, and all of them on winches and trolleys and whatnot. Hence a lot more expensive technology to deploy/maintain. Or are we talking Sci-Fi and some alien technology became available to us?
And it's totally fine and fair
Yeah the UI just doesn't feel polished or full featured enough
Sadly, the UK rental market is terrible.

Real estate managers are incentivized to change tenants frequently to generate more fees. Sometimes, this also goes against the interest of the landlord as depending on his contract he might need to pay pretty hefty readvertising fees.
>If Void had a release recently, great for them

Try "if Void had a release recently, egg on my face because I asserted up thread they 'haven't had a release in 2 years.'"

You're making wild assertions and changing the subject when called out. What are you trying to accomplish here?
I love nomad so much. It never really gets a fair shake IMO. The world needs both k8s and nomad and I hope it continues to grow and see more adoption.

And many years ago we used it as a feature in a product written in Go. We could just tap in to the APIs directly. It is amazing for batch jobs.
"Experience" has nothing to do with compensation. You don't deserve more money just because you have been around longer. It is appropriate to make it proportional to value creation. Experience helps with this but obviously then the correlation will be lower.
Yeah... those fast casual restaurants and cafeterias are just unable to compete.

I’ve worked with big tech companies as a customer for a long time on significant projects. Over time, corporate politics is pretty brutal and without representation good people get into lousy situations, even for high performers. Google is no exception.
Disney+ seems like a force to be reckoned with. I'm not really sure how Netflix can compete with the IP that Disney has.