jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SSHFS?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
haven't seen the similar Three Sheets Research mentioned yet: http://threesheetsresearch.com/
I am sad that they don't carry on the line of phones like Nokia 1202 anymore. http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php For once, I liked the sunlight-readable monochrome display that doesn't have to turn off, the snappiness and lack of features. I guess the 105 and now 215 is the new 'lowest end' now.
"(with the best equipment and furniture available)."

So... why insist on spending money on high end equipment and furniture while not giving people what they asked for?

I was at a place years ago that was happy to spend tens of thousands of high-end chairs, but giving developers private offices (those who wanted them) "cost too much". Bear in mind that they'd custom built a second office with private offices that were sitting empty (and devs were in the second office). The "it costs too much" doesn't carry much water when that sort of money is spent on things that people aren't asking for.
Got down-voted pretty quickly! Was it after a rational analyze of the contents I've written or was it just an emotional response?
Do you actually think somebody at Github/Google is individually watching you?

As individual data points, I doubt we're that interesting.

It's like NetFlix knowing what movies I watch.

I doubt any single NetFlix employee could give two cents that Victor in Australia likes watching Once Upon A Time. (Awesome show, btw).

However, if I watch Once Upon A Time, and I also watch XYZ, and then other people do the same, maybe they get to improve their algorithm. Woot to them.

Maybe Github want to know what features get used. Or what performance issues people are experiencing.

Maybe it's definitions, but I don't consider this watching - they want to know what we do as an aggregate, but it's not like there's a little imp beside me watching me as I type.

(Although I get how some people might feel that way, if it's just a black box to them).
Derren Brown uses a lot of misdirection, including making you believe that he's using psychological techniques when he's actually doing traditional magic tricks. He mixes psychology, hypnosis, and traditional magic in such a way that it's tough to tell exactly what he's doing.
FTA:

> In this case, 50 stands for 5/6 and 8,20 stands for 8 1/2
Plenty of people in that community have written at length about how "rational" only applies to "understanding true factual statements" or "achieving your goals". No end goal is irrational. There is nothing you can care about where someone can correct you and say you ought not to care because "rationality".

I feel this community generates more reading comprehension failures in the general public than almost any other.
This article from 2014 covers giant vegetables in Alaska and discusses why they can grow particularly large: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/20/341884706/wh...
There has been a long tradition of people writing books under pseudonyms. I don't think the NYT has made it a point to publish, for e.g., every book review with the author's actual name. I honestly don't see why publishing a rather non-controversial blog should be different.
I think I can kind of relate to the existential crisis, but I have decided that the other side of that coin is that you can intentionally build your own reality. Of course there is still plenty of things about life that you can't control, but you aren't necessarily stuck with some set of fixed personality traits and you can't decide to make something different out of yourself.
The population of people who get an INTP result might have quite many asperger spectrum non-neurotypicals among them. If MB contains an accidental asperger scoring system within itself it does not make it relevant in the _general case_ for other personality types.

That said if INTP can be used as a lodestar for creating asperger communities and peer-support groups it's not a bad thing. But it does not really validate MB in any way as a general purpose psychometric tool.

I personally filled an online MB questionnaire or two in adolescence and certainly found the INTP score as something that helped me acknowledge a few things about myself. But it was not really something I would call fundamentally important.
While I don't know a lot about Objectivism, it feels like there is a very fundamental difference. The Tractatus bans things like ethics and perhaps even metaphysics (and therefore itself, which is the ladder-type argument) to the realm of the unspeakable, whereas Ayn Rand seems to try to draw ethical or moral conclusions?
I'd rather take performance, if the computer is replaceable.
Housing prices don't change (much) after you buy. Rent is at the mercy of your landlord and the market. Here in metro Milwaukee rents are up 30% since I bought a house, but my mortgage/taxes/insurance is up 1% (I pay $18/mo more now in taxes).

My home value has skyrocketed as well, but so has every other home. However, the growth cancels out, I get my home's growth as a sort of discount were I to sell and buy another home. It's called the housing ladder and is key to preserving wealth as your housing needs change and the market gets more expensive.

Your example works in shorter time frames, buying vs renting in a given year or 3. But over the long haul I've only regretted thinking like that in my 20s and not just snatching up a home and land.

It's easier to make a person who will need a house than it is to build a house, and it's extremely difficult to make more land to put a house on.

Edit: grammar/clarity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad
Wow, I don't how to feel.
On one hand it's amazingly inspired, and very well done.
On the other, It feels like its a little distasteful.
Referring to the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics as a flat place in the Kansas category is a bit odd. If I assume you mean the valley floor then, yes, it's as flat as most cities, but Salt Lake City, like Provo, builds up the sides of the mountains. If a fiber installation can manage that, as local gas, electricity, and plumbing do, then almost all American cities should fall within this "flat like Utah and Kansas" category.
Will It support OS X Applications as well?
Also Longplayer[1], played on singing bowls, which will end at midnight on the 31st of December, 2999. It's written to constantly evolve and never repeat. You can stream it!

http://longplayer.org/
That is a big excitement killer
Brilliant.

I'm someone that over-analyzes every purchase even if it's at a price I'll never notice. This is great advice. The thought-hours and calories I've spent on "finding the best choice" for things that turn out to be less interesting is horrendous.

I've been following this thread because my 6 year old has expressed several times that astronomy is interesting to her. I've been wondering what the right choice of telescope is to support her, while realizing a 6 year old is fickle especially after bedtime. That hasn't made me pause at the rec's of a $700 8" Dobs, which it should.

I don't think binocs are great for little kids, as you can't point and then show and they have stability issues, but you're absolutely right that a cheap Amazon telescope will give us the moon (literally) and maybe some more, and then we can follow the interest from there.

Thank you.
The only thing you know that is likely to be true is that someone got fired from Amazon.

From the article:

> The warnings about privacy and compliance failures at Amazon come from three former high-level information security employees — one EU-based and two from the U.S.

So 3 employees involved with security and not 1 employee. Also, they were pushed out AFTER alerting about security issues.
Debatable is an understatement. their discount model is completely disproportionate to the benefits that those features bring. If an auto now costs 50% more, and CPI really is 0% increase, then I expect to see a monetary benefit of 50%, either through reduced maintenance cost, increased MPG, or maybe it makes me breakfast of the equivalent cost. but, I don't see new cars have anywhere near this benefit.

And it becomes even more preposterous when you look 50+ years back. CPI, says x3 increase in cost of car, but it's actually about x10. So, how does a car return +233% of it's value to a user when MPG hasn't even doubled over that time.

i mean sure, monetary rewards are not the only advancements but they should the primary basis for the inflation discount model. those auto-dimming mirrors and countless other features just don't mean very much.
> Should probably qualify this as "geographically decentralized".

What a loose use of the definition, which is oddly very much like Armstrong to attach his name and Coinbase to Bitcoin's virtues. And this is despite him actively helping push Bcash during USAF.

> As long as there are C-level executives, VPs, and the usual corporate heirarchy, they're not really decentralized in the sense that cryptocurrency itself is fully consensus-driven.

Also recall that these guys are ex Goldman Sachs with deep ties to VC, which includes YC and is definitely not decentralized in anyway. Why this is on the front page is showing it's ties to YC because otherwise the focus should be on how they keep shutting down during ATH, and price dips.
This is absolutely engrossing! Thank you, pepys, for posting this.
If you're flying an Apache and you crest a hill and there's a ZSU or an SA-9 on the other side that is a brown pants situation. Obviously you try everything possible to avoid that engagement envelope. But with a drone it is feasible to push harder.

It's possible that the Pantsir-S export firmware isn't as good, but being totally spanked can't be good for export sales. The Turkish drones (eg Bayraktar TB2) have the indigenous KORAL EW system for both sensing and jamming, and given the platform SWaP constraints it must be pretty smart, though I don't know how they are preventing algorithm compromise given drones get shot down fairly often. Crypto presumably.

Given the relatively static setup, it is likely that the positions of the SAM sites is heavily compromised via local informants, leakage from cell phones and aerial surveillance. And rather than integrated A2AD it is probably more isolated sites. But still very impressive for a 659kg drone to be able to take them out.
>Being able to access Wikipedia or Google through speech recognition

Terrible. Absolutely hopeless. Every few years I have another go at speech recognition, and it still sucks.
Does AWS not pay their support staff and engineers salaries?
> Presumably, Apple knows how to pick winners, so it's likely that at least a small fraction of Apple's acquisitions would have gone on to become ubiquitous house-hold names had they not been sold.

Not necessarily. If you’re only interested in acquiring technology, the commercial success of prospective acquisitions isn’t particularly relevant.
The body of evidence about the effects of endocrine disruptors/gender bending chemicals on the destruction of species is many decades in the making. Axios is just one of many to publish such stories:

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/

[2] https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/research-endocrine-dis...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0273-8

[4] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

[5] https://academic.oup.com/mend/article/30/8/833/2747295

[6] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-c...

[7] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625023-300-infant-m...

[8] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1298-gender-bending-c...

[9] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24505-w

Another 739 studies:
[10] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726844/citedby...
"Isp.netscape.com" was the title.
I'm having trouble understanding whether you are

(1) a troll hiding behind Carl Hewitts name using a veil of CS lingo that's just complex enough to appear legit but is actually nonsense, or

(2) actually Carl Hewitt losing his mind with a bunch of nonsense, or

(3) actually Carl Hewitt who is on to something big and the world has just not caught up with you.

To convince us of (3), have your theories been discussed at related conferences and what does the community make of them?
Inaccessible without visiting guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers

DNS ad-blocking shows up a fair number of these methods because the sites become unavailable (not a bad thing)

Latest fetch: https://web.archive.org/web/20210408062043/https://isp.netsc...

Earliest fetch (2004): https://web.archive.org/web/20040205013205/http://www.isp.ne...
The author mixes different things like linting and testing into the packaging process, which (IMHO) are not really part of making a package. The process is really much easier than this article makes it seem:

- Write a simple setup.py file.

- Generate a source or binary release by e.g. running "python setup.py sdist"

- You're done!

Adding a setup.py file is already enough to make your library pip-installable, so you could argue that this is a package already. The files generated by "setup.py" can also be pip-imported, so they are also packages. Now you might want to upload your package to a repository, for which there are different tools available. The simplest one being twine. Again, you just install it and run "twine upload -r dist/*" and your packages get uploaded to PyPi (it will ask for a username and password). So why complicate things?
> That is exactly how it works today. Once you have been found guilty in a criminal court, you no longer have any protections against civil cases.

I don't think this is true?

The test is much more narrow than this. You could potentially be convicted of a crime even if you didn't have a reasonable belief that you were doing so, but qualified immunity explicitly dictates that you have to be intending to break the law or that your actions both violate a law and that there is extremely clear precedent that they do so.

That seems, unusually for civil cases, to be a much higher bar than criminal conviction requires.
Well the first "PC-compatible" using a 386 came out only 5 years after the IBM PC. And the CPU itself came out only 7 years after the 8086. It really was only a few years!
Probably because setupmeta seems to only supports setup.py, which this guide doesn’t use (and isn’t generally recommended for most use cases).
I know today Windows is not going to run very well. But why? What are they doing to consume so much resources? Today Windows and Office do exactly same job they did 20 years ago (I even used 3-rd party bells&whistles to make Windows 2000 and 98 look at least as "cool" as it does today as I was a kid and enjoyed that).

Also, I can imagine using an Excel spreadsheet with some sheets, thousands of records on each one (Excel 97 max rows was 65536) + formulae and macros even 20 years ago so, again, 5000 doesn't seem an impressive.

I can't remember how much would SQLServer with a database take those days though so perhaps a 4GB HDD might indeed be insufficient.
Signal does not require KYC, so there is no direct link there. As far as public ledgers are concerned, pseudonymous activity offers reasonable privacy controls as long as you know what you are doing.

There are also entirely anonymous cryptocurrencies with no readable public ledgers. Everything is still decentralised, no centralised control of any kind, but you can't see what people are doing (Monero and Zcash being good examples. Signal uses Mobilecoin, which still needs to stand the test of time).

There is still a long road to go before there is a fool proof anonymous, liquid, consumer friendly, usable cryptocurrency, but it is the last bastion of defense against complete total state and corporate surveillance. - One of the greatest threats to human life, on par with climate change.

Your use of the word "craptocurrency" is rather childish and naive. Eventually you will take a closer look at the situation and reconsider. Good luck

I will leave this https://www.theengineroom.org/dangerous-data-the-role-of-dat...
That's wild, I think we were Facebook friends for awhile after I interviewed and hung out over there on a few occasions.

I was doing an onsite with Ilya and the folks at MixRank (in 2012) and talking with the team, and I mentioned something about cryptography and some basic codes that I learned as a child in gifted class. They had no idea what I was talking about - not the codes but "gifted class". I was telling them it was pretty common in public school systems - once a week or a few hours a day where you took advanced topics in another classroom with other kids that had tested into the program. They had no idea.

I started asking the founders if they went to public school. They never had. And then they were curious and started asking the other employees. Not a single one had ever set foot in a public school for elementary, middle, or high school. Then one guy in the back piped up - "you know, I think $devname went to Berkeley."
This was really interesting to see some kind of Matrix-Metaverse integration. I skimmed it and it seems to me that things are just going to be Matrix.org acting as a free host for metaverse content servers (doesn't really solve the users demanding other users to generate content they can freely consume problem), and a little bit of coding and tooling done to allow metaverse world deletions to work with existing matrix moderation code?
MSI X-Slim and Acer Timeline are both available as 15" CULV machines - not sure if they are available in the US, but they are about as close as you get to a 15" Netbook.

Otherwise, a 13" Macbook Pro is also an option - 13", amazing battery life, only a bit heavier than a Macbook Air - and much cheaper.

http://gizmodo.com/5158557/msis-x+slim-x340-x600-are-two-mor...

http://www.acer.com/timeline/spec/spec.html

http://www.acer.co.za/timelinepro/home.html
And when I try to view http://moolave.tk/ in Firefox I just get a message saying:

This content cannot be displayed in a frame. To protect your security, the publisher of this content does not allow it to be displayed in a frame.
Hmm, I didn't catch all of them. Well, none, in fact, except the first: 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell.

What are the others?
I don't really understand this.

The coder (Drew) took 8 days to produce code that doesn't work. He asked to be released, and that was OK'd. He then asked to be paid, and wasn't.

What was the threat he made? How did he get revenge?

I'm not sure I care, but I'm certainly confused. I'm also pretty sure this doesn't engage anyone's intellectual curiosity, so perhaps it really doesn't belong here.
Interesting that you post this at 2am Pacific. I'm falling asleep but had to write mail anyway.

To keep this on-topic: I (nearly) always have success with milk, cookies, quiet music, a fiction book, and a bed. Getting off the computer and into the bed can be trying at times however.
Once you have the basics in place, adding a filter to say you only want to go a place with nice beaches or close to ski slopes or whatever should be fairly trivial. And anyway I'm sure my friends and I could have an awesome vacation in Frankfurt.
War is always the worst option. Especially a war against somebody with tens of thousands artillery pieces on the border, with medium range missiles and with nuclear weapons that can reach something like 200 million people.
You're welcome to dislike it because it's "impure". Actually, depending on how rigidly you define purity, either both implementations are pure (both return the same output for the same input) or both implementations are impure (both modify global state via the implicit global allocator).

But you're mistaken in thinking it's something obvious such that others should agree with you. As I said previously, the reality is that you cannot write a program that lets you differentiate whether String + &str reused the same String or allocated a new one. So your hangup is entirely over the documentation revealing the extra information that it has the efficient implementation, not the inefficient one.
Pascal's wager is an example of motivated thinking - there were very real and certain consequences to him if his wager didn't demonstrate you should obey the Catholic Church.
I'm in the same boat (10 years of experience, a good 6 doing serious programming work) with no degree.

However, because I know I will always do web programming I have definitely not focused on issues like compiler design, low level memory management [1], etc because most of the languages I use are either interpreted or compiled to bytecode and thus those areas are irrelevant

I would therefore argue it very much depends on what kind of work you wish to do - sure read some more in depth stuff but if you are doing web programming spending some of that time on product development knowledge, server administration, etc might be more beneficial.

[1] clearly some memory management is important in languages like Java and Objective C but using the built-in alloc/dealloc functionality is not really "low level understanding"
Donate it to the Mozilla Foundation.
the manual.
The reward is one-click sign-in for 500M users. If you're an instant personalization partner, zero-click sign-in for 500M users.

To have zero-or-one-click sign-in for half a billion users is a useful feature to have. Just keep your own login system if all else fails.
That's awesome, I have the same tendency to overextend myself. Also, I am considering taking 565 next semester. Any tips you find in keeping up with a considerable workload?
This has been addressed quite eloquently in John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids", and elsewhere. 'Civilization' would last at most 2-3 generations before reverting to a pre-industrial stage. There simply wouldn't be enough people or infrastructure to maintain manufacturing or industry.

There'd be an inevitable decline, and eventual loss, of technological skills, as people would concern themselves more with everyday survival than the 'luxuries' of modern civilization.

Hence, no replacement parts for the inevitable damage to your device(s). And, of course, no power supply.

What we REALLY need is an Asimov-style 'Foundation', with all the accumulated knowledge of humanity, and methods for bootstrapping a society from stone-age to silicon-age tech...
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response.

I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter."

A good (non generic) answer to "What should I learn?" (asked by a self educated programmer here) depends on the answer to the question "What (kind of programmer) do you want to be?"

Step 1, answer the Cheshire cat! )
The windows version seems to auto-update now. My 1.0.6 has auto updated to 1.0.10

I guess auto-updated was introduced in the betas?

As for my linux ones, don't know. I can't figure out how to get the version string from them.
It sounds cliché, but I truly believe that each person learns in different ways. For people who are visual, video stimulation works quite well. A good language course combines many different styles of learning.

The Destinos videos kept that Spanish course interesting for me, but I tend to learn better by doing than just observing. The most useful language course that I have ever taken was an advanced Spanish translation course that I took in a university in Japan. The course was conducted in Japanese, and every student translated a novel from Spanish to Japanese. The Spanish was easy for me, but that course advanced my Japanese more than any other.
https://hopsie.com

I wrote a site creator for non-profits that allows them to create customized fundraising sites.
DDoS'd doesn't mean hacked. Not responsive doesn't mean DDoS'd.
And it works fine now.
Nice idea. Thanks for sharing!
> Just a couple days ago, I read that three times as much money is raised from crowdfunding than from VC.

Citation required. That doesn't sound possible.
Er, okay, what's wrong with that statement?