jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am not against putting up answers to a problem which may arise for even a beginner programmer. But hey, you would call a programmer beginner when he/she would at least know the syntax enough to write a "Hello world" type of program. Below that I would just recommend reading material which are in the top google results anyways.
hella,

How much time will you have for the trip?

What time of year?

Solo or with Family/Friends?

Any particular interests?

Sorry for all the questions, but the number of beautiful and interesting things worth seeing between LA and SF is rather substantial.
Actually I worked at a McDonalds in high school, did a lot of research on AI and robotics in college, and do automation with robotics now for the biomedical industry.

I've explained it in detail before when someone made your point, but suffice to say that nobody is going to automate a McDonalds anytime soon.

A robot equal to a human costs $50,000 at least. If you have someone working for $10 an hour, that is 5,000 hours or 2.5 years payback on the robot. And the robot is far less flexible (and $50k is a super low number). When you have 3-10 year pay off on a robot, why would you do it?

Robots really aren't built for menial tasks. Where do you see robots in the auto industry? Painting and welding. Painting is a skill job. Welding is a skill job. A good painter or welder is not making far off of what an entry level coder is making (if you don't believe me, find out how much it costs to weld oil pipeline or ship structure). They didn't take over Detroit to displace cheap labor, they did it to increase quality. The reasons for automation are usually increasing quality or doing something humans physically can't (speed, precision, strength etc). Rarely do you see it worthwhile to replace a human with a robot for a menial hand task.

So no, McDonalds will not be taken over by robots. The economics of it just don't make sense.
Obviously, In-n-Out in Kettleman City off the 5. Its what I look forward to most on my drives.
smart optimization involves pruning the decision tree such that all remaining branches lead to victory.
What kind of interns? Engineering or something else?
That point is perhaps a bad example because of reliance in other kinds of technology like LIDAR. Innovation in sensors is a confounding variable in addition to algorithms and processor speeds.
I can remember switching from Win 3.1 to Win NT. It was slower to boot up, but in the end saved me much time. I was developing C software at the time, and pointer bugs would usually crash Win 3.1 and leave the system in an unusable state, requiring a full reboot. However, under Win NT processes were much better separated from the OS and rebooting was suddenly a thing of the past.
how about we spend our points to downvote others?
I think the idea is that if your operating system is listed as supported, and your specific device isn't mentioned as specifically unsupported, you just hope for the best.

If you go digging through the support forums, they do actually have a more detailed list of devices supported. It's just the front page that most potential customers will see first that's badly designed, and as we all know, if a customer doesn't find out what she's looking for quickly, she will always go on to devote extra time and resources to digging through support pages.
It's a pretty bad strategy for hiring great programmers. Given how many cool, interesting, VC-funded startups are hiring, good developers can work literally anywhere they want. A job description that doesn't reveal the company or at least the general domain is likely to just be ignored. When I started my job board, I had a rule that the company name had to be on the posting. When I let one company avoid this rule by posting as a "stealth startup" I got tons of email complaints and the stealth startup got no applicants.
I'd argue that if you can't make money without tricking people, you shouldn't be in that particular branch of business.
The point most people want to make is not that he may be treated in this way if he has been proven to be guilty, but this is exactly what you are doing in the eyes of people that consider the treatment acceptable. The constant calls upon the 'innocent until proven guilty' mantra are a huge red herring. If you want to argue the treatment is wrong, you should argue exactly that and not argue against the treatment based on the current circumstances.

Effectively, this argument achieves the exact opposite of what you want: it strengthens the other side in their belief that Manning may be treated in this way. This is because of two things:

- he's in the military

- he's pretty much confessed

People feel that 'innocent until proved guilty' is not really an issue because of those two things and arguing against that feeling is a colossal waste of time, when what you actually want is to convince people that Manning shouldn't be treated like he currently is, period.
gcc and vim with proper c++ handling work really well for me.
A big part of the fun of programming IMHO is seeing the results of what you are writing. I try to center my workflow around that – always having my app buildable, working in small increments, changing what feature I work on as soon as it starts to bore me. Being rather new to programming, a lot of common issues can be real problems for me (e.g. xcode build settings). Be sure to standardize your debugging process. What helps me most is starting to write a question on stackoverflow and thinking what people would need ask me (did I check X? What Y returns?).

Regarding your main question, web seems more fun to me (I've done both a bit). You can iterate faster and push updates more often. Surely I hate having to mess with the server, but generally I set it up and need not touch it for another couple months.
I hope you do not really think that allowing others to use your internet connection will protect you from any problems arising from bad things being done with your internet connection. But please do run a Tor exit node.
iirc, one big reason is leap second handling. The closed-source GPS receivers' firmware tend to behave strangely around leap seconds, in a way that contradicts their documentation. And their behavior is untestable in advance: a global satellite network for time synchronization is the ultimate un-mockable time bomb input.
Schools are providing bundles of tools: computers, textbooks, teaching, videos, testing, classrooms, group work, childcare, 'nutrition services,' libraries, etc.

The crisis takes away the classrooms and exposes the tools to parents. And for some people the classroom made little difference, or held them back.

By fall, I think you'll have people asking whether school boards shouldn't just offer the tools. Let people pick and choose their own arrangement of teaching, video, testing and groupwork. (This would let wealthier parents recover some of the amount spent on unproductive childcare, and put it into learning and socialization.)
I understand what you're saying, but it can be frustrating at times.

"I got a counterfeit product on Amazon, therefore I won't trust AWS".
There is a difference between (a) observing what happens for some organisms, and then saying it is "as if" X were the case, and (b) asserting that X must necessarily be the case.

The parent comment is similar to the fallacy you mention, but as phrased is not an endorsement nor assertion of the fallacy.
Yeah, I've seen and read leadership lessons from the dancing guy although I haven't seen the Ted talk you are referring to. (Do you have a link?)

Thanks for clarifying what you mean by socially contextual mode of analysis. I think it's very possible in this country but it needs some stability which it will not get from the government soon. That's really where most of the money issue stems from.
...over a single key, which is an extremely limited guarantee compared to what a lot of applications need. I'm aware that Cassandra offers a limited notion of linearisable transactions, but last I checked they weren't all that great in terms of functionality or correctness - that may well have changed in the last year or so, of course.
Did you not read the article? That's exactly the sort of thinking that prompted the author to write it.
>It's all well and good for the unmanned vehicles to fly to a particular GPS site, but how does it then find the package's intended recipient?

The drones could be almost fully automated - fly to this GPS point above the person's house, at which point control is handed to a pilot for the landing & package drop.

>How is the transfer of the package enacted? What stops someone else stealing the package along the way?

I'd imagine the same way it's done today, the same way USPS/UPS handles packages - by dropping them on my porch and hoping my neighbors are honest.

>And what happens when next door's kid decides to shoot the drone with his BB rifle?

He gets a spanking and the drone gets repaired? The same thing that would happen if he shot the tires off the Fedex truck?

This article raises some good points about the political ramifications of drone technology, and some excellent ones about it being a PR move to squelch negative reporting, but I'm left with the feeling that, if he were alive a century ago, James Ball wouldn't be out of place writing an article titled "Sears & Roebuck to stop horse-drawn carriage delivery in favor of the automobile? Don't believe the hype".
I'm in the dev channel for both Chrome and Firefox. Each updates automatically, and I take turns using both. Why do you need a compelling reason to use just one? Each has different plugins and both are improving at a rapid pace.
"Almost"? Nice! We are glad you gave us a chance to prove ourselves. We will definitely think about changing it.
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Abstract: "We analyze Airbnb's entry into the state of Texas, and quantify its impact on the Texas hotel industry over the subsequent decade. We estimate that in Austin, where Airbnb
supply is highest, the causal impact on hotel revenue is in the 8-10% range; moreover, the impact is non-uniform, with lower-priced hotels and those hotels not catering to business travelers being the most affected. The impact manifests itself primarily through less aggressive hotel room pricing, an impact that benefits all consumers, not just participants in the sharing economy. The price response is especially pronounced during periods of peak demand, such as SXSW, and is due to a differentiating feature of peer-to-peer platforms enabling instantaneous supply to scale to meet demand"
As a Canadian who doesn't have much patience to spare for what passes for British royalty these days, it's fascinating to think of a time, just one human lifetime ago, when Canada was a part of an empire ruled by a monarch who actually mattered. There is much fault to be found in Victorian values, but those values and Queen Victoria herself did much to free the British empire from rule by British despots. Victoria's rule, and the values she promulgated, paved the way for the Commonwealth of today. Even though Britain typically acted with rapacious greed in exploiting its colonies, somehow most of them achieved independence peacefully and, in most cases, are today better off than neighboring countries that were not a part of the empire. Victorian values are largely to thank for this implausible bit of history.
On HN, the oldest I was able to find is

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926713

linking to

https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-...

from Jan 1st, which is 8 days earlier than your second link, but with only 3 points and zero comments, I'm not sure how much that counts.

The BBC story that you linked to is from Jan 3rd, the AP had a story[1] on the 5th, so the public had opportunity to know about it in early January. I can't get Reddit's search to cooperate, so I can't say if there's an earlier mention there (plus Google's dates about Reddit don't agree with Reddit's). Wikipedia has an early timeline page with a lot of details.[2] Public statements were made on December 30th about pneumonia of unknown cause.

If there had been a US pandemic response team, we could have started mobilizing December 30th. Hong Kong did.

[1] https://apnews.com/7cfe53b9e7c7509c1f61c6c09e6fc4e6
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...
That's for function pointers though, which is a bit different...
Glad you approve Albert :-) I really don't how I lived without this before. This is definitely the coolest thing I've built.
Amazon ran Linpack on 7000 cores and submitted it to Top500, so that's what appears on the list. Maybe they could have done a larger run, but keep in mind that regular EC2 machines are unsuitable for HPC; I can believe that they only have 7000 cores in the compute cluster machines.
What is the connection between globalization and airport security, exactly? Are they outsourcing the TSA now, or do you have another explanation?
Thanks a lot, very helpful information!
Twitter has now realized it's a platform company. Wow.

Dick C - here's what Twitter should do:

- give users the choice to use any number of third-party interfaces, but implemented into the main site.

- give users the choice to install add-ons into any or all of these interfaces on the main site: like with the Facebook.

- have a pool of funds allocated to be distributed to developers based on the popularity of their apps and interfaces.

- If Twitter doesn't do this, a third party could come and create a platform on a platform. If they're too successful they'll either be acquired, copied or choked by Twitter. For the latter two, they can split entirely with Twitter and compete in this micro-messaging space, and aim to make it useful for inter-machine messaging too.
Me too. I'm waiting until someone invents a cavity searching robot and tries to sell it as mandatory given the fact that the TSA claims that the current machines cannot detect items hidden in body cavities.

If I had more graphics skill, I would be tempted to draw out exactly what it would look like, but I'm envisioning a metal chair with straps and a hole in the bottom, through which a chrome tube emerges. The end of the tube then expands to make its passage wide enough, creating a loud, sharp, metallic noise. Finally, a camera comes out from the center of the tube and a red LED on it blinks.

"It wont hurt as much if you try to relax."
error: aren't (midway through)
the offset is there as a comment next to each declaration.
But how do I lose it quickly?
I was looking around the websites of a leading Anti Union consultancy and I found some interesting quotes:

"Expert research found that a newly organized business experiences a 25 percent increase in payroll and benefit expenses. Your company will inevitably pay higher wages and have to offer more benefits because unions promise your employees they will fight for these things to the bitter end during contract negotiations."

https://blog.unionproof.com/communicating-with-the-c-suite-a...

"A study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics supports these claims. Researchers found that union-free employers paid an average of $19.06 per hour (wages and salary), while union employers in the same sector were obligated to $22.76 per hour. Additionally, unionized workers received $13.82 per hour in benefits, whereas union-free workers received $7.33 per hour in benefits."

https://blog.unionproof.com/the-cost-of-unionization-2/#
They have a pretty generous free tier though: https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
So you mean that extrapolating that, everyone has left California?
I don’t know about your experience but TypeScript has saved my team an enormous amount of time and resulted in the near complete elimination of showstopping bugs on deploy at my company. We’ve had maybe one fire in two years of rapid growth and a large part of that is thanks to TypeScript.
Webster definition of investing: “to commit (money) in order to earn a financial return”

I think your definition of a true investment is more of an opinion than actual fact.
Interesting, what does he think of Winston Churchill. As an Indian we are not fond of that guy.
Summary: conference leader [edit: and wannabe vaccine manufacturer!] tries to DIY an illegal quarantine bubble, ignores basic safety measures, recklessly endangers dozens of people, writes blog post, is not held accountable.

The absolute worst line is: "my deepest apologies to all for whom my actions may have caused suffering." Why the "may have"?
Any idea what does the "beta" dimension mean in the graphs in the Twitter thread?
If anybody else is interested in 'unfiction' stories like this, there's a discord community dedicated to building a 'collaborative hypertext novel' in the form of a wikipedia-like site where all the articles are fictional: https://discord.gg/fFqRkTM

OP: If you're reading this, 'Basilisk Collection' looks exactly like the kind of articles our project hosts and I would like to collaborate with you.
I'd love to be able to filter or have the system filter even further. For example in sports, just baseball or football not all sports.
I don't believe the TSA, at the routine level, make distinction between domestic and not (unless you fit a racial profile). It's when things heat up that the problems begin. Being arrested in the UK as a citizen of the UK is not a big deal IMHO, a night in a cell is a bummer, but not the end of the world. In the US, on a visa, I have no idea what is and isn't being recorded about me, and a reasonable amount of paranoia is required.

As the OP said, the other aspect is that you are flying because you need to be somewhere and flight is the only option. This more heavily biases international travelers towards compliance, because they have a lot more to lose in time/money if they don't board their flight.
Why on earth would a parent subject their child to this? There is no way in hell some TSA worker would lay their hands on my child, for any reason whatsoever.
Yep! He's in #atomo, and I'm in #slate; there's a ton of back-and-forth.
It's just that you write it once and it can run anywhere without "installing" many dependencies other than a browser. No fugly GUIs, no inconsistencies, etc.

By web-based I didn't mean it to be on the Internet.
As someone who sells exactly such a system, let me advise everyone not to use them as a replacement for a single, central, simple, coherent firewall.
1k+ deals were happening for single building properties more than 10 years ago in the first large-scale MMO, Ultima Online.
This is one of the reasons I co-founded https://www.incoin.io, so you can choose to get paid partly in bitcoin (or not, if you don't want to) without a 1% fee.

Your identity is already verified for tax purposes. It's a straight up facilitator.

As a shameless plug, the other reason is savings. We've implemented splitting your paycheck up into multiple accounts to incentivise savings, and it's working really well.
Yes, definitely needs a screenshot walk through!
> I'm sure that rustaceans disagree about the "No Silver Bullet"

Rustaceans tend to be a pretty practical bunch, so I'd imagine most of them do agree with it. It was also the one part of your post I didn't agree with (if taken literally)
> Calling both the housing market and internet startups a bubble is not doing anyone a disservice.

Well it is. It is hurting the egos of many people here as many are involved in startups. Accepting the fact that it might be a bubble would mean somehow joining the ranks of the hated housing market speculators and bankers.

I am not saying whether it is a bubble or not. But if you see a large rationalization effort into making this "not a bubble" that might be a plausable explanation.
My issue is that I can't seem to ever stop thinking about work
I don't think the format changes anything. It's perfectly possible to have sci-fi TV without the insane levels of "tech" that Star Trek has. The Expanse is probably the best example. But even something like Star Wars (the original trilogy) is way way better.

Another good example is something like Limitless. Not a space opera but the point is that it works because they break one or a small number of rules and then explore that. They aren't constantly saying "aha, but actually he also has the power of teleportation" or whatever.

In The Expanse, they have rockets that allow exploring the solar system. In Limitless there's a pill that makes you clever. In Star Wars (original) there's "the force" which lets you be a space ninja.

But in Star Trek they can basically do anything. Travel back in time? No problem the... err... there's a convenient Borg Queen that can do it. Need to teleport to another ship light years away in warp? No problem, Scotty can just invent it in a few seconds. Don't use it ever again though!

Same in the newer Star Wars. Leia's about to die? Aha no! She can use the force to fly! Rebel's about to die? Aha no! Hyperdrives can be weapons now too (just the once mind, and no autopilot).
I know people who carry cash just so when they are robbed the robber wont get angry
> Drop the IRS and let the government simply print money it needs

When the government's "needs" are determined by the rich, what happens to the money that gets printed? That's how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Simplify the tax code, eliminate loopholes, raise tax rates on extreme wealth & income, and fund the IRS to investigate major tax fraud (instead of the nickle&dime shit they go after today). This isn't about funding the government; it's about retooling the government to work for everybody and not just its richest citizens.
Certainly true, but by a process of self-selection, the population of the site does seem heavily skewed.
While your example deal might work, that's not what new social media services are doing. They aren't preventing users from using the existing ones whenever they feel the urge.
In one of my previous roles we had an ongoing argument about using Confluence vs Mediawiki as both were already deployed and we wanted to promote MW more due to the cost (plus it's opensource). The main reasons cited were as follows:

* Easy usability, Confluence was a lot more easy to use than MW
* Great integration with other tools such as Jira (You could embed Jira tickets etc in the Wiki)
* Looks nicer
this is why i think teen summer jobs squander potential. young adults should be learning skills instead of doing shitty jobs, although someone has to do that work.
>You have to experience something to have an opinion on it now?

No, but if you haven't experienced something, your opinion on it should hold less weight.
It was something “smart contract” proponents used to say, maybe still do.

When I say code is law, I mean “law” in the physics sense. We can code, print “hello world”, and know exactly what the code will do. We can write code up to some threshold of complexity and know exactly what it will do in all cases. Like how given certain information about a physical system we can calculate trajectories or whatnot up to some threshold of complexity.

I was making the point that civil law is a different kind of law from this physics sense of the word.

With more clarity, code is physics law, but civil law is not physics law, i.e. civil law cannot be fully ported to computer code.

Maybe I'm wrong and all civil law could be translated to computer code. Might that make for a better world? Even if possible, there's so much inertia in the system with lawyers and judges wanting to keep their job which is another human complexity that would have to be worked through.
Related: sometimes I wish most of my data was in JSON streams so I could simply map and reduce the data using jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/), pipes and possibly filemap.