jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've had great customer service from Bank of America for the most part. I switched from Washington Mutual to Wells Fargo to Bank of America in search of better customer service, and B of A is the best so far. I have 2 personal checking, 1 savings, 1 health savings, 2 credit cards, 1 joint checking, 1 IRA, 1 business checking, and a mortgage through Bank of America, and I wouldn't think of switching.

That said, I've found with any bank the quality of service improves as your balance increases. All of the problems the original poster mentioned go away when your average daily balance is $10k or more. At that point every interaction with a teller is an opportunity to upsell you on CD's, IRA's, wealth management, etc. Plus, they are making enough from investing your money to justify paying someone $20/hour to talk to you.
Or you can just lobby your representatives and have the DHS sieze any negative domain names.
Levenshtein is good for many languages.

However, for English nothing beats soundex type algo. I believe major SQLs and php do soundex.

Soundex is an old algorithm, century old, designed to find immigrants by their last name, no matter how they converted it from their native language to english. For example: if one came and had name Szczybliewski or had it Shcheeblevsky , then soundex should return close match.

Metaphone is improved version of soundex (available in php). And if you are careful, you can find double-metaphone out there.

Kind regards
I feel like it would be a frighteningly common bug. I remember one like this from 2011 [1]. Install/packaging/utility scripts usually do not get as much attention and testing as the application code itself.

[1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
Cars come equipped with horns for that exact purpose (alerting pedestrians, etc.), though they are often used as displeasure-signalling devices.
Bigger engines are noisier because more "explosions happen inside" (to simplify). A bigger engine isn't necessarily more powerful than a smaller one, but it's a hint.
Where I work we sell shipping containers filled with products of various kinds. It would be incredible to fit a customer with these and walk them around the containers, open the doors, and interact with what's inside.

Normally you'd need a large open space (and a forklift) to demonstrate the product but with this? You could do it in a large room.

I think this is actually the killer app for anyone too.

Imagine shopping at Amazon and being able to manipulate a product in your hands before you buy? Want to buy studio monitors for the PC but don't know where to place them? Whip out your HoloLens and put them wherever you want!

How would that piece of art look on your wall? What about the other wall over there?

IKEA? Hmm... which couch looks best in my living room?

Imagine seeing a marker shooting into the sky, like an old movie premier spotlight, that marked the locations of your friends and family? Or just anything.

At an amusement park and don't know where the nearest bathroom is? Follow the blue arrows on the ground and you'll find it.

The possibilities are endless.
The sound of an approaching Merlin V12 at full throttle is the most thrilling sound in the world.

http://www.amazon.com/Sigh-Merlin-Spitfire-Alex-Henshaw/dp/0...

"For anyone who has heard a Merlin engine on any aircraft, you will understand the title."

No stereo has ever been able to reproduce that sound.
Thanks for that; I've purchased the C11 standard, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet since I'm not likely to write anything in C11 for a few years yet.
You are creating one of those arguments that really add no value. Really, if your app is succeeding you might want it to shut it down? No you are just creating another strawman argument because you see a service not offering one feature you MIGHT want. Seriously, get over yourself.
Interesting. Can it be used to post and request iMacros macros too?

If so, I can donate at least 10 web scraping macros right away.

PS: The software I refer to is http://wiki.imacros.net/Data_Extraction (open source and commercial web scraping browser addon)
Probably could my mom/dad pick something age appropriate next time?
Interesting read... Two things:

1. I think the argument about objectivistic capitalism being immoral was not fleshed out enough at all, a claim is made that it's just as bad as governmental "theft", but I feel one of the most important distinctions, the use of force, is not covered at all. How do independent actors in the market force you to buy their goods (and pay their economic rent?)

2. The actual idea is extremely interesting, and I liked reading the paper. (SPOILERS) - It's interesting to think of employees as really working for a portion of future proceeds rather than current pay... However, I don't think this model fits all business types, and it doesn't go into the humanist aspects of what happens when businesses fail.
> why do you assume that all the involved experts at the pharmaceutical companies didn't ask those questions?

Pharmaceutical company employees have no power over FDA decisions.

> And as far as I am aware, they did investigate different dosages.

They did, and the result was that half doses produce as strong an immune response as full doses.

This is the basis for this "let's do half doses" argument!

The study was done with the bigger dose, and showed 95% protection.

So we know that (1) dose A has the same effect as dose B, and (2) dose B provides 95% protection.

Obviously (1)+(2) logically implies that using dose A would give twice as many people the same immunity. But logic is not part of the FDA regulatory framework. You have to blindly repeat the protocol of the study, whether it makes sense or not. Whether thousands die or not.
The author is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence to make their point that "we have to stop romanticizing or fear-mongering about the pointless concept of a human-like intelligence being produced by software."
They (Databricks) are not advertising themselves as a best practices way of doing anything, they're just a platform for doing data science and analytics. It's up to the data scientist to use the tool properly and to have proper methodologies. A platform is simply a set of tools that helps a target audience, and that's what databricks is. Now the issue here is that a lot of datascience either cannot code/do engineering or just don't want to. But in my view people like that are just glorified analysts. Data Science is built on the foundation of software engineering (+ stats, viz, math, etc...); this is why it's so complicated. If you cannot code or don't understand the SDLC or best practices you're basically a carpenter who can't hammer or saw.
I mean literally the application and its files. A package for something like KeePassXC[0] places its assets, "shared" libraries, and binaries in disparate directories mixed with other applications binaries, assets, and libraries.

[0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/amd64/keepassxc/filelist

Configuration files are a whole 'nother garbage fire mess, but that's true in Windows too so whatever.
I have a suspicion people who don’t like Clubhouse landed in the wrong rooms. My recommendation would be to explore different rooms, especially smaller rooms with < 50 people.
Clubhouse has been a mixed bag for me.

I love some of the regular shows there like GoodTimes, deep learning research review hosted by Andrej Karpathy etc. When I step into smaller rooms, the signal to noise ratio decreases (on topics I care about).

I felt clubhouse to be more conversational than podcasts (which are often a Q&A format). It also allow new people to participate, ask questions.

Exploration of topics and rooms is pretty hard currently. How do you discover interesting people and conversations? For me it has mostly been twitter, which is non-optimal. My second big pain point has been the FOMO nature of it. I would ideally like to consume content on my time and schedule not the other way around.
As stated in the article, the core problem is nitrates/nitrites. This isn't a bacon-specific problem. It's a problem in all cured meats - hot dogs, SPAM, salami, etc.

Fortunately, there's plenty of "uncured" bacon and hot dog options in grocery stores these days. You just have to read the packaging.
Let me ask it differently -

Has Russell James Ramsland Jr issued an apology and an update on his completely bullshit "more than 100%" audit?

No?

Wouldn't an honest person issue a retraction?
Lies are often how wars start.
Phoenix is an American Airlines hub.
So I made this while working on the triggering system for my game engine. It was originally supposed to be a basic parser for simple commands, but I ended up developing out a lot of features to the point where it's now an actual scripting language. I'm looking for feedback on the language design and the C++ implementation if you have any, thanks!
It is not a strawman. I introduced BLM specifically, because, just like not all Trump voters are violent, I am sure some are. BLM is just another side of the coin in my view. They are a group, who had instances of violent behaviors ( see 'fiery but mostly peaceful' CNN clip for reference ) during the past year(s?).
So five Trump supporters are killed and that's not police brutality? I just want to make sure I got this narrative straight.
GNU's printf specifier language is Turing complete, I believe.
It could equally be said that the Democrats will do what Google wants them to do. That would be more in line with how other industry donations result in.

> how can you believe

I never said anything about what I believe.

If you believe the state is controlling some private organizations to conduct censorship, take it to a court.
Tough call. Which side would Federal help, which reports to Trump, been on? The Capitol Police work for Congress, not the Executive Branch, by the way.

There were a number of other possible bad outcomes.
One was a huge Federal presence of armed troops in the House chamber during the vote. Trump was trying desperately to influence or delay the vote.[1] Having armed soldiers in body armor standing over Congress would have emboldened his people to stall or interfere.

Anyway, that's just speculation now.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuber...
I was talking about the action of walking though a door when the guards opened the doors and allowed them in. If you want to strawman things I say to feel better about yourself, have fun.

2/3 have no relevance to the situation, and 1 requires an assault. So, no, they don’t “all apply.”
No thanks. I don't want to government regulating anything, especially as something as sensitive as free speech online.
I don't think that kossTKR said anything about the ingestion of these substances being unnatural; rather, their implication is that psychedelics are poised as a solution to the depressive symptoms that we feel by nature of living in the societies that we do.

In other words: instead of fixing some of the symptoms caused by society, why not change society and the ways that we live?

There are strong parallels in western notions of mindfulness. In our society mindfulness/meditation are considered tools that helps us mitigate stress. The original intent was to stop the sources of stress and suffering by developing one's mind, but western interpretations fall far shorter of that, opting for a grotesquely simplified and amputated version of the original philosophy that aids in placating the masses rather than bringing about fundamental changes to the ways we live.
Many of the opinions downvoted on HN fit the same mold. They're what I call "if you're an alcoholic just stop drinking" arguments.

They're totally reductive and really just serve to stroke the speakers ego or shame others rather than actually address the issue.
If they choose to be "obvious", they mean to show rather than hide it. It is a more aggressive tactic to bring others into the fold. There is no accident when it comes to these things for the communists. It serves as a warning shot.
> Your example doesn't fit as perfect timing isn’t required, I just realize gains and invest a proportion of them when opportunity presents itself.

If someone's equity-fixed portfolio allocation (given a individual's risk/volatility tolerance) becomes unbalanced, then liquidating one asset class to purchase another is standard practice:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rebalancing.asp

Though, per Vanguard/Bogle, it does not have to be done too often: either once a year, or even every few years once the allocations get more that ±5% out seems to be sufficient.
Yes, but the tests effectively require them. For AP Calc there are what I called the "definite integral button" questions where you just have to identify that an integral is needed and plug in to your calculator, if you did it by hand you would take more than the intended time for that problem and get behind. Same for AP Stats, there wouldn't be time to run all the averages and deviations by hand. It's testing whether you know how to use the tool/what to tell your calculator to do. There's a calc inactive section on Calc that is basically what you are saying, but without the calc active section the scores would probably go way down.
That's what was done before he bought the land though? An easement was placed on it allowing for people to pass through to the beach right? It's the same situation as having a sidewalk in front of your house.
> Once the model is trained, I can run this on any data encrypted with key X and find out if the data contains a cat (with some degree of accuracy). I have no way of telling information outside the tags provided on the training data, but it still gives me, a person without the encryption key, the ability to identify any feature that's tagged in the training set on any un-tagged production set.

I think you're missing the fact that the predictions come back encrypted, so you don't learn anything unless you know the key. Also, in this particular example the model was trained on unencrypted data, but as discussed below, you can do either.
Dropbox is way, way more compelling than iDisk, the equivalent bit of MobileMe. Why? Because it just works: your files are always available on whichever computer you're on, so long as it has been recently connected to the net. With iDisk, that's almost never true, and you have to either put up with a WebDAV implementation that's slower than making your own floppies and posting them or a weird hybrid local sync that always breaks. It Never Works, basically, and even if it did wouldn't have the great social and versions features of DropBox.

As for the rest of MobileMe, the sync is OK, except when it gets confused. The whole setup is definitely a weakness, it's just one to be exploited in pieces, as DropBox has.
You can have more than one PSN account in a home i think (not a ps3 owner), one for each family member, i suppose there is where you can find the gap between the numbers.
Methinks that 99% of PSN users can't remember their own passwords.
http://www.photographybay.com/2011/03/30/photoshop-for-ipad-...

I expect this to be based on Adobe Air, though. That makes it a multi-platform investment. Also, I am not sure this is 'big time' for Adobe.
Airline crashes would be such a bad PR idea I mean, that's just bad taste.
what about satellite images, are there any comparable resolutions available under open licenses?
If you think on a large scale, humanity has a limited number of years left until the heat death of the sun... so this planet..and us..arent going to be here forever. And that's if we don't nuke each other first. Humans are very minimally removed from violent monkeys evolutionarily. It's not far-fetched to imagine a nuclear war being started simply by an insult to a mentally unstable world leader.

It took humans 100,000 years to go from spears and caves to developing portable phones to surf cat videos.

So we have a lot of work to do to get to interstellar travel.
We still don't know who fired that shot, and there were no reports of shots fired otherwise. Given the scope of what happened, a single lethal shot fired is kind of a miracle. And shocking given how many injuries and deaths we saw from protests earlier in the year which were under far better control, with far more law enforcement involved.
Anyone can visit Capitol Hill (I did when I visited Washington DC a couple of years ago). It’s not a building with turrets and armed guards all around it. It’s a symbol of democracy, so it’s intentionally designed that way.
It's the Neverland Law: as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving pedophilia or Epstein approaches 1.
Fair point! Didn't know there was no other way of enabling this.
As of 2-4 years ago, the number of programmers working in the industry was doubling every 5 years. That might not seem relevant until you realize that it means half of all programmers have less than 5 years experience. If you have 10 years in the industry, you're more senior than 75% of your co-workers.

That's why anyone with 5 years on the job is considered "senior", even though most in most professions you're just getting out of the entry level after 5 years.
That appears to be related to competency, not intentions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/pipe-bomb-rnc...
I think sometimes this means they do the unsexy stuff.

For instance, having an easy build process, or understanding version numbers, or preventing an upgrade to this year's compiler.
Constitutional monarchies tend to have a symbolic figurehead for the public to emotionally invest themselves in, but who is restrained from exploiting that public affection for political gain. I think this is valuable.
Windows 10 can be setup to auto-lock if a bluetooth phone goes out of range, and there's a little eco system of third party companies that make keyfobs that do the same basic thing.

Even if it's not a common feature, it's not like I'd be surprised to learn these computers are imaged with some custom software, one of which could be a lock on command (or loss of connectivity to home).

I have no idea how important these machines were, of course.
There's this generally misguided sense of what "intelligence" means - that spooks are different from you or me. I don't believe it. All sorts of people pass information back to the government in both formal and informal ways, paid and unpaid. Does this make them spies?

All this article is saying is that the vast majority of people are so out-to-lunch most of the time that they don't even notice when sketchy stuff is happening right around them. And the very reason this happens has been proved out in the comments - because people don't want to think of themselves as "paranoid loons" or crazy conspiracy theorists.

While tech intel is a bit different than the so-called "situational awareness" described in the article, I think we all participate in the intel process in some way (though maybe not directly by talking to the government, but remember how there's no more privacy on the internets?)
This is the right way to do it. Due to user error. I've had problems checking into a hotel until the receptionist realize my first/last names are switched.

The receptionist SHOULD be shown a list but ALSO wants to be able to search for me if I don't show up in the list (and may ask for my ID/get a particular spelling).

(It was a comp'd room in Vegas, so I have no idea where the mistake was made, but this can't be a unique occurrence.)
You have to see it in action to appreciate how cool this is. Get yourself a copy of Golly, load the pattern, and let it run for 34 million generations (which will take about half an hour on a modern machine). What you will see is a long diagonal line. If you zoom in to the upper left corner you will see the replicator itself. The rest of the pattern is an instruction tape that extends down and to the right. When it runs you will see the tape "running through" the replicator, which builds up a copy of itself piece by piece very, very slowly.

The cool bit is not that it replicates and destroys itself, but that it does so under the control of the instruction tape (which gets replicated along with the replicator itself). This allows you to fine-tune the behavior of the replicator. For example, you can change the rate at which it replicates by adding no-op instructions to the tape. This kind of fine-grain control over the behavior of a Life replicator has never been achieved before.
True, reflection is slower than regular access - though JOS does a fair bit of caching to avoid some of the cost (for when you serialize many instances of the same class). I think your experience with rewriting as Externalization shows that JOS is one of those performance vs. ease trade-offs.

BTW: Are you sure that no-arg constructors and un-finaling fields makes a significant performance difference? The only instance I've come across for this showed the (surprising) result that JOS's setting final fields is actually faster than reflective setting of non-final fields - but I haven't profiled that explicitly. I would expect deserialization with a no-arg to be slower, because then it has to call the constructor in addition to actually creating the object (allocating memory etc). But I haven't profiled this either.

You can customize the initialization of a class by creating a readObject() method for it, which is a sort of extra-linguistic constructor. It is confusingly named the same as the method that you call to start deserialization - but here it is a callback method that you write, that JOS itself will call:

private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois)
throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
ois.defaultReadObject(); // "default" deserialization
// ... your initialization here ...
}

You can also read data from the stream explicitly, and set the class fields yourself - if so, you need to write a corresponding writeObject() method that writes the data to the stream. By avoiding reflection, this should be faster than the "default" (but again I haven't profiled this). If you don't provide a readObject, it will call defaultReadObject() for you by, you know, default. Same for writeObject().

Googling for the specific methods turns up many tutorials. The following docs are for serialization in Java 1.3, but these "basics" haven't changed: for readObject() http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/serialization/spec/i... (section 3.1 has the API, with defaultReadObject() in it). Here's the overall contents page: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/serialization/spec/s...

There's also hooks for validating the object graph after all of it has been deserialized; and for replacing (resolving) one object with another.

I know something of JOS, but not much of its performance, which seems to be your crucial requirement. So I might not be much help, but let me know if you'd like more info or if I've misunderstood something (I might not reply til tomorrow - it's 3am here).
Interesting take on the NYT article here:

http://inmedias.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-any-friendship-coach...
Only somewhat related, but first thing that came to mind:

http://xkcd.com/327/
haproxy can kind-of do this as well: "support for inspecting HTTP contents in TCP frontends and switching to HTTP backends (allowing HTTP+SSL to coexist on the same port)."

It should be possible (and not too difficult) to support non-HTTP protocols switching on the same front end port.
There is someone in a town that wants to kill you, and you want to kill them.

Does having call signs above your friend's head help you?
Does carrying extra gear help you?
Do little popups from an overworked person in HQ help you who is now managing like 300 troops?

Your eyes and your ears help you. Your spirt helps you. Give someone an iphone with things to click on and their attention is no longer in the real world. You have to be there, with the universe in focus and all of the gifts you were born with to get you through it. Though a hunk of body armor and a helmet helps too.

Augmented reality distracts from the real thing.