jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the intention, we should all be applying our skills to solve this problem we're all facing but just playing devil's advocate here, my resting heart rate has gone up lately.

And it's not because I have the infection (I don't), it's because I've been stuck working in my apartment in Seattle for the past 3 weeks and I feel like I'm living a boring dystopian novel. I also stopped weightlifting, as the gym is closed. So my 'convict conditioning' workouts aren't giving me the same dose of endorphins as before, which helped keeping me happy and with a steady calm heart rate (I'm a huge hypochondriac). People I run into when I buy food also seem on edge.

Not sure how relevant something like this would be for someone living in the middle of the outbreak, which is probably the exact target of such a tool. Yes, I am aware that I'm aware of my stress (as you stated in the readme) but again, it wouldn't help me or others by tracking my heart rate and associating it with an infection.
> This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that's given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done.

Based on what?

What I see is the same scenario play out over and over again, from one country to another, delayed by a week, or two, or three, with most of them making the same mistakes that their predecessors made.

Nobody in the West lifted a finger to prepare themselves until mid-February. We didn't jump-start mask production. We didn't start building hospitals. We didn't start building ventilators.

If this is what the world's reaction to global crisis is going to be like, my sole reassurance is that I'll likely be dead before the worst of climate change hits.
A bit odd at the end, but supremely fascinating. Biochemistry is truly awe-inspiring when you take the time to appreciate it
Ask yourself again in two weeks whether it's a stretch.
You know, my HIPAA training is out of date and it's possible that new legislation applies. One of the more aggravating parts of my insurance job was dealing with people who thought I wanted them to sign an authorization because the insurance company was a meanie face trying to screw them out of their money and I would explain "No, ma'am, we need this to comply with federal law. Please and thank you." and they would be all chagrined and get me the auth, at long last.

But I only see App Store guidelines cited, not federal legislation. So the odds are good that someone in the company has the power to overrule that.

Given the circumstances, it seems to me this would be an appropriate time for an executive to say "Yea, verily, fuck them there guidelines. Let this person do this thing."

And if they don't want to or can't do that, it would be a good time for someone to hand walk it through the process and get it hooked up post haste with whatever doohickey would make everyone all happy.
Why do they keep saying 'until vaccines are ready' as though it's a foregone conclusion that we can make a vaccine for this? Is this type of virus always a good one to make vaccines for?

There are tons of viruses we have failed to vaccinate for, despite trying for 30 or 40 years. People seem to be universally saying a vaccine is '12-18 months away'. Is this just misinformation?

I would love to hear from an expert about this.
Interestingly this is actually untrue in a statistical sense. Purely statistically, we never prove an assertion, we merely find that we cannot disprove it for a certain strength of disproof.

The old adage that 'you can't disprove a negative' is more specific in scope than your allusion to it here.

Mostly, however, the nature of collaborative argument is such that yes, we are disproving and attempting to disprove each other all the time.
Surely your distrust should be aimed at shell scripts not at everyone who has written one.
It's undue paranoia. It says essentially the same thing as the Apache 'Grant of Patent License' section. Namely, if you instigate a patent lawsuit, the free patent license offered by Facebook no longer applies. It would be impossible for Facebook or Apache to engage in patent lawsuits if they did not include this termination clause.

Besides, Facebook is gonna sue you if you violate their patents, regardless of whether you use React or not. And the termination pertains to the patent license. They can't restrict your access to a BSD licensed software package.
You have not been completely accurate here.

Using code written by Facebook is not a huge business risk, unless you consider the use of any open-source code to be a business risk.

The PATENTS file that Facebook distributes with it's open-source projects grants additional guaranteed rights. It does not place any additional restrictions or risks on your use of the software, above and beyond any that exist with other licenses that do not grant patent rights.

If you "try to fight it or even suggest it's not valid" then you do not lose your license for react and all other Facebook projects – what you lose is the additional patent rights grant. That's a huge difference!
It might be your vantage point. For several companies I personally engage with this has absolutely been a point of discussion for Gsuite vs O365.
I think systems generally only use one block, and so ignore anything after the first 8 characters.

Even if they were to use multiple blocks, I think most simple ways of doing that would only add linear difficulty to cracking rather than exponential.
Does the dock have a hinge, trackpad and speakers? Maybe a large battery as well?

The hinge is a deal breaker.
There are quite a few videos there, any in particular that are especially good?
I agree -- I applaud the password reset, but would urge them to be specific about the reason, and the fact that this was a bulk action. At first I thought it was just me, and that someone was targeting my account(s). Needless worry could be avoided just by LinkedIn explaining its reasoning.

In contrast, here's the email I just got from Blizzard about my World of Warcraft (battle.net) account:

Greetings!

We’ve recently been informed that several Gawker Media websites have been compromised. These websites include Gawker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. To help minimize the effects of this compromise and help keep your Battle.net account safe and secure, we’ve reset your account password. To complete the password reset, please log into Battle.net Account Management (https://us.battle.net/account/management) and follow the provided instructions.
Python covers all of that with the exception of multi-threading, and according to an internal memo at Sun linked at the bottom of the article (http://www.archub.org/javamemo.txt), it (at least initially) had comparable performance to Java while using much less memory.
This was not 4chan. Not affliated with 4chan either. Reading the dump shows this is a group calling themselves "Gnosis".
A VAX and Z-80 have essentially the same model of computation. The author is talking about simulating one metaphysics in a different metaphysics. If such a thing is possible, it seems all such analogies fail.
Except then you can't eat? It's not that it's not profitable, it's that the earnings drivers make are meager compared to what people need to sustain themselves. You make it sound like anybody who's on minimum wage just doesn't realise that they could go elsewhere for higher wages!
A few of your points do not work out precisely because of China's "harmonious' culture. It's more difficult to be accepted as a foreigner _even if you are of Chinese descent_.

But I agree there are a large many things that can be learned.
Thanks! It was an interesting read regardless of the understandable controversy of the topic. Sorry to see you were downvoted. Anyone else?
Less information? maybe! but still they will know what website/app you logged in to.
If tfl sees Uber not operating by the same standards as others do, then of course they should be punished. Londoners are ofcourse free to use any other other app based ridehailing companies that so comply with tfls regulations.
>The Church didn’t lift a finger against science. It just accidentally created a honeytrap that attracted and destroyed scientifically curious people.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...
From what I've heard about TSA I'd already hesitate bringing my main phone to the US at all, let alone one that's connected with my ID. And what if the phone dies during a trip? Now you've got the 2FA problem but with borders instead of just a Gmail login. Fantastic.

I don't think saving a few grams of paper is worth all that.
Strange that Darwin's theory of human evolution was so culture bound. One would think looking to the science would transcend culture to a greater degree.
Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old “Use native context menus on Mac OS” next?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
> Has she tried sending a wire outside of US lately?

Costs at most about $35 for any size wire, shows up in a corresponding bank within a day. If the corresponding bank is not the ultimate destination, takes whatever the amount of time it takes for the end transaction to complete. In event of a bank mess up on a transfer, the wire gets rejected/credited back. For banks that do "online" FedWire rather than batched, wires show up and are credited within seconds.

What, exactly, is the problem?

P.S. Non-immediate transfer is a feature and not a bug.
I've never heard anyone call free markets communism.
same and ended up with hetzner.. great inexpensive service.

Only thing I miss is firewalls for cloud (they have it for dedicated).
As great as Fuschsia’s architecture (the Zircon kernel) may be, I’ve yet to see any devices that come with it.
Man, I know there's a real joke here about ACH and FTP, but the older I get, the better I feel about systems that are almost too simple to a fault.

I'd rather have that and deal with its limitations than try and stomach what passes for modern engineering these days.

Some solutions I see these days should be considered criminally negligent if they were to be used in any HA environments for governments, health care organizations, or similar bodies.
Organizations change. I heard recently at Skunk Works the engineers were told by some bureaucrats that they couldn't change the skunk logo (they had a modified version for some project). It's like how Boeing used to be a great engineering organization and now isn't.

The sad thing is when a downturn happens those bureaucrats saying you can't change the logo will probably keep their jobs while the engineers who could probably be making pretty cool stuff if they had better leadership will be out of work.
Couldn’t he simply answer: “No, I have not shorted.”, or alternatively, “Yes, I have shorted.”?

Okay, I get that the question is ultimately stupid and useless, or there may be some other stuff he has to be careful with. But he did sound a bit like the way politicians sound by using the word “long”. Maybe I need a dictionary..
"The problem is that transaction fees easily become a significant part of the total cost to the end user meaning that Bitcoin becomes unattractive for all but large purchases."

This is NOT a quality of Bitcoin, only the Bitcoin implementation called "Core". This "problem" was solved by Satoshi himself and has been activated in the chain, Bitcoin Cash.

The whole argument in this article is baseless and assumes that for some reason the "Core" implementation is the only one possible.
How can you say with a straight face, " There is low inflation risk since the production of coins is algorithmically limited and has a cap at 21 million." Inflation is "A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money." Meaning, one bitcoin has less purchasing power than it used to. The purchasing power of Bitcoins plummeted recently, and everyone knows it.

"Payments are irreversible (there are no chargebacks), so there is a reduced risk of payment fraud." If I'm not mistaken, many people use intermediates like mtgox that don't actually keep your money in bitcoins. Meaning, they reserve the right to reverse payments, and have done so on several occasions. You can argue this is not an inherent problem in Bitcoins, but if many (most?) users are susceptible to the problem, I think you're remiss to gloss it over.

"Payments can be made without identification." But they're only pseudo-anonymous. It's possible to track a bitcoin from me, to you, to someone else.

"Satoshi Nakamoto," I think it's crazy to not mention that Nakamoto is not a real person.

You mention Scarcity, but not divisibility. There are 100 million satoshis per Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin's primary use so far has been to facilitate illegal activities such as drug dealing and money laundering." This is a strong assertion without evidence.
Is there one for hidden posts? I have accidentally clicked “Hide” on mobile SO MANY times.
I mean, we did this. It was called CFront. Now we have C++ templates that are probably Turing-complete and we use them to create things like Boost. Regardless of howyou feel about compile-time metaprogramming like Boost, Go exists as a direct reaction to its complexity, and that's exactly where go generate will take it.
Directly from link

To win, I have to be right on all three propositions.

1) The top 6 US companies at http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/the-age-of-unicorns/ (Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and SpaceX) are currently worth just over $100B. I am leaving out Snapchat because I couldn’t get verification of its valuation. Proposition 1: On January 1st, 2020, these companies will be worth at least $200B in aggregate.

2) Stripe, Zenefits, Instacart, Mixpanel, Teespring, Optimizely, Coinbase, Docker, and Weebly are a selection of mid-stage YC companies currently worth less than $9B in aggregate. Proposition 2: On January 1st, 2020, they will be worth at least $27B in aggregate.

3) Proposition 3: The current YC Winter 2015 batch—currently worth something that rounds down to $0—will be worth at least $3B on Jan 1st, 2020.
I think it's pompous for both you and Sam Altman to be wasting our threads with these bets.
I wonder how this works, is it necessary for Sam to acknowledge the bet? What happens if more than one person wants to take the same bet?
Get a oven thermometer every oven is different, and you want temp of atleast 220 C, wood ovens have temps of 500 C, so the higher the better. I would even put the grill on.
And put the tray into the oven while it preheats.

For the dough...
Instead of room temp water use cold water (even ice cold water). For the second rise, leave it in the fridge overnight, the idea is to let it rise slowly for a long period of time.

After 2 minutes of pizza being in the oven. Spray with water, I just use the garden water spray. You want mist rather than a pool of water. This will reduce the temp a little, but will give the crust, without having to burn the pizza.
No, it's not a straw man. Austerity has very much been promoted as a cure; it was not an inevitable consequence of the economic situation.

The debate is maybe best exemplified by the debate between Krugman ("against austerity") and Reinhart/Rogoff ("pro austerity").

> Nobel laureate Paul Krugman refused to back down in a dispute with Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff over a 2010 paper they wrote that’s been used to justify austerity in the U.S. and Europe.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-28/krugman-f...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr...
Labor conditions and pay are theoretically covered under fair trade.

> How harmful is the product to the environment (manufacturing through disposal)

This one is more in line with Cradle 2 Cradle: https://www.c2ccertified.org/

> Is the product I'm buying reasonably advertised.

I'm unfamiliar with this organization, but a search popped up the Trustworthy Accountability Group: https://www.tagtoday.net/certified-against-fraud-program/

I didn't find anything on my first page of results for certificates of non-subsidisation.
Also ddgr: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Same author, no tracking, works over Tor.
This honestly sounds like a perfect case for a business connection. Not only does it give you a static IP without NAT, possibly in an address block with other high paying (==reputable) people, it also bumps you up a lot in terms of customer service and service availability. Usually the first two questions in an outage are "how many customers are offline, and are any business connections impacted".
I believe the money is supposed to go to the Internet Society, which uses it to pay for things like the RFC Editor
Yeah, I guess that's my point. Humanity has been guided by largely autonomous systems for much of our existence, but only recently have those systems become sufficiently complex as to remove the possibility of human intervention in some processes due to the complexity involved -- nobody can intervene if nobody can understand the whole story.

I think this is why late-stage capitalism feels so bad to live under: these artificial systems (corporations), by design, stand in direct opposition to our humanity. They exist to prevent our humanity from getting in the way of their perpetual growth by abstracting any ethical problems away so that no human is faced with an ethical dilemma. Which explains why the world so often feels like a dystopian nightmare.
I seriously think the best reaction to deepfake technology is the same as Photoshop: let a bunch of sarcastic teenagers pirate the software for it and use it to make jokes. Wise people will get wise to it quickly enough, and the gullible will always be with us.
I just want to say that this guy is brilliant and deserves to get a couple of dates from this.
Maybe their thinking is that if you are just requesting IPv4 you probably aren't set up to support IPv6, but if you ask for IPv4 + IPv6 then they want to know why you can't just use IPv6 for everything and so ask for justification for using IPv4?
Since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a huge percentage of its wealth still in MSFT stock, I think Bill Gates can make a case to himself that picking the best possible leader for MSFT will save hundreds of thousands of marginal children.

If I were him, there would be two candidates: Qi Lu (insider, obvious choice), or, for the ultimate in turnaround ballerdom: Ben Horowitz (from a16z). Either would be a vast improvement on Ballmer, but Qi Lu would be the "safe" choice, mostly doubling down on trends within Microsoft. Ben Horowitz would put Microsoft solidly at the core of Silicon Valley, plus it would signify that Microsoft views the next 10 years as "wartime" with a CEO to match.

(The other low-odds pick would be Bill Gates Round 2, but that seems unlikely just due to where he is in life. I could maybe see it as "Interim CEO". He'd do an awesome job I'm sure.)
This sounds naive. I've been involved with several early stage SaaS companies. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make any real money from it. Even if the business has good margins, the growth is often so slow, you'd do better getting a regular job and investing on the side.
Agreed, just because you're a senior engineer with decades of experience doesn't mean you shouldn't brush up on general fundamentals every once in a while. Leetcode, while being pretty useless in the real world, does get your brain into "answer hard questions under pressure" mode. Systems design questions prompt you to architect things which may be considerably different than you deal with during your day-to-day.

Preparing for an interview, for more senior developers, is mostly mental - even if you know the information required, can you retrieve it quickly? Do you get flustered under time pressure? Are you in hour 4 and getting tired/sloppy? A bit of studying can help make some answers automatic, and help you present your best self.
Amdahl's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Interesting, I'll have to dig in some more. I have a similar story with Prioritized Grammar Enumeration (PGE) for Symbolic Regression. It's my PhD work that has been sidelined since 2015 and I've been thinking of resurrecting it.

Nice work!
> The author is basically just putting out a detailed study plan for passing an exam.

My issue is that someone at a senior level (yes I realize at some of these companies "senior" means "two years of experience") should have to study for 30 days to pass an interview. It should not require the equivalent of preparing for an advanced CS course final exam to evaluate the abilities of someone who has presumably been in the industry for many years.
Nice work. It looks like a fun new take of The Palace Chat!
I have the Windows 95 DVD version with all the extras, including the 176-page Official Strategy Guide (from the back cover: "UNCENSORED PHOTOS of DOUGLAS ADAMS in the VERY ACT OF WRITING!", "DESCRIPTIONS of natural language parsing engines and object-oriented programming by people who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!"). Even with the guide ("SOLUTIONS so complete we despise you for needing to use them!"), I found the game a bit slow-going, and eventually gave up on it. I bought it for my kids, but I'm not sure if they ever finished it, either.
Sad to see that FAANG is so attractive - sure, pay is nice, technical problems are nice - but you are actively working on walled gardens. You become a walled gardener.
No, it was about bringing DRM and DMA to the human centipede.
And they'll just keep being disadvantaged by unilaterally-leaked information until they adopt a different "stance" (or until they shoot him.)
You mean something like this?: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/01/fast-incremental-regular-expr...

Note that the post has 'prerequisites' at the beginning, which you will need to read, but they are actually pretty cool.

Also I am not saying this is exactly what you mean, I'm just suggesting it as a possible connection.

This sort of thing is one of the admittedly-rare exceptions where computer science is actually making surprising amounts of progress in relatively practical fields. Parsing has gotten noticeably easier in the past ten years, if you know where to look for the right libraries, and it has been affecting my programming quite a bit. Often, a parser is the "correct" solution, but we used to reach up for hacked up crap with regular expressions or worse because it was ten times easier and did 80% of the job (and ignore the 10% that is a serious security vulnerability since everybody always does). Now it's maybe twice as hard, or, given how easy it is to underestimate the difficulty of getting the hacked up crap to actually work everywhere in the real world you need it to, sometimes it's just flat-out easier if you make a full accounting of costs to actually do it correctly.
>Having the knowledge that the situation exists out there might actually put pressure on the parties involved to do something about it, rather than to let it persist.

Or a government with a tenuous grasp on power will simply have to forgo any kind of agreement to dispose of the weapons-ready material to avoid internal backlash.

>Also, I'm not at all afraid of the 'terrorists' acquiring such weapons of mass destruction, I sleep pretty good and I estimate my chances of dying from crossing the street significantly larger than from rogue states or terrorists acquiring a dirty or fissile bomb.

You know, there are reasons for seeking nuclear non-proliferation that have nothing to do with terrorism, like the fact that Pakistan borders a bitter enemy which is also a nuclear power.

>If you want to be credible about non-proliferation I think you should not only commit to reduction of your own stockpile but you should commit to elimination.

That's the ultimate goal. It's not going to happen overnight, and treating steps toward that goal as if they don't count is nothing more than childish fantasy.

>30,000 bombs or 5,000 it makes no difference.

Ah, this is why preventing the production of more arms in Pakistan isn't that big a deal. If they've got one bomb, they may as well have them all, I guess.
So now all we need is a leak at NYT.