jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One one level, it's something kind of simple: Buster's character is under-qualified & frequently failing, but he's also determined, unrelenting, and ultimately gets the job done.

But he is special because he's a genius at failure: his disasters are beautiful, cinematic, and spectacular. Here's a simple but representative example from the Cameraman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgS55PvjXHM&feature=relat...

He's taken the title job, but he doesn't really know how to operate a camera, so he accidentally double and quadruple exposes the film. He's ridiculed, since he obviously failed to do what he was trying to do (gather news footage), but the images he does create seem on another level sublime, magical.

I'm reluctant to map it directly to startups/HN, but let me try anyway: People talk about failing frequently, learning from failure; they say that startupers need to allow specific projects/ideas/initiatives to fail. That's correct, but failures still can hurt and sometimes demotivate; it's tempting also to move on before we've learned from the failure so as to put the failure as far behind as possible. These movies remind me that there can be great stuff to see and learn during a failure; I think they make failures less taxing emotionally and sometimes joyful.
I'd be interested to hear about (1) that scrum failure in the 10's of millions of dollars, and (2) what you prefer instead of Agile.

(I'm a developer on a scrum team and really think it helps us, but I'm not dogmatic about it or anything... I'd like to hear about the other side. I'm surprised that a huge scrum failure is possible because the customer is generally shown everything at regular small intervals, so it's hard to imagine how a project could get so far off course.)

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> Of course there's an objective standard. You look at the politicians, the judges, and look up their standard. It's gross (no pun intended) that one needs to do that, but AFAIK lawyers do that all the time.

1) No that isn't true. There is one rule for those that are in the club and another rule for the rest of us. e.g. Just today I saw a new story of Jimmy Carr being criticised for jokes about the Holocaust. I had told the exact same joke and uploaded it to Youtube / Facebook or Twitter I would expect to have a visit from the authorities.

2) Even 1) wasn't true. What you are describing is not an objective standard. I would rather they have in black and white "You cannot joke about the Holocaust", "You cannot say <slur>". At least you know what you could and couldn't say.

The standard is vague so it can be applied selectively and arbitrarily by the authorities when they see fit. Social media platforms do the same.

> More cases (both civil and criminal) are decided on those bases than you'd expect. (Can't speak for all places, but I'm passably familiar with UK law and precedent... and I suspect the US is similar)

You should not be criminalising unpopular speech because it may "caused offence". What is and isn't offensive is entirely subjective and what is an what isn't considered offensive is entirely transitory.
Complaining about "from whence" is like complaining about using "literally" to mean "figuratively", in that both 'misuses' go back centuries.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-from-whence...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
> These things are often tricky to reproduce, but the deadlock should happen from the spec, right?

Pretty sure the spec is entirely silent on the subject.

> Essentially, a pending write lock should block new read locks from being acquired -- this is a feature, if it didn't do that

That is an implementation detail of the lock. I don’t think either POSIX specifies the bias of its rwlock, and Rust explicitly documents that it does not and delegates to the OS.

Plenty of RWLock will, in fact, starve writers under heavy contention (both read-bias and write-bias have their pros and cons).
As others have noted, that's just how I write articles. More specifically, I have an end goal in mind, and to get there I need to establish a scene: make sure that we share a lot of context so that we can consider a problem together from the same angle.

Most articles don't do that, and so they're "short and to the point", but only to a tiny audience that already has the same shared culture. There's always readers complaining that they knew half of it and so I "wasted their time", but they forget about the other half, and also other readers.

Ideally, to please everyone, I would have to write a tailored article /just for them/, filling just the gaps they have. I do that on occasion, but I charge a lot of money for it :)
I moved from a lockdown town to an open one.

I agree about the gym - you can’t replace it at home unless you’re seriously rich, like many tens of millions of net worth. My gym has pools, lots of heavy weights, many odds and ends and equipment you’d never buy.

I can get a vastly better workout there than by doing pushups at home.

For various reasons, I don’t run, which leaves cycling and swimming for cardio. I also like to lift heavy - this means a large variety and quantity of weight. I need a gym.
If I were a colocation facility, I sure would hate to take care of the servers my customers bought themselves.

'Hey Dirk! Why don't you drive all the way across town to pick up this dingy fifth-hand server and install it in your colocation facility. And make it run. And do the maintenance.'

Thanks, but no thanks. The reason why colocation facilities don't offer this is because they don't want to deal with hardware they didn't buy themselves.

Now, you're talking about buying a new server, obviously. But then still, I'd have to deal with a plethora of different servers. It'd would be easier for me to stick with a couple of servers that I'm familiar with. That, or if you buy your own, you'd have to take care of it yourself.
I use this loophole all the time. I'm surprised Priceline hasn't done anything about it in all this time. My guess is that it's only suitable for the mathematically inclined or that they like the idea of a small group of people feeling like they're getting something special.
Either that, or it might get build in one of these newfangled "start-ups". Good luck buying, for $10,000, a company that has a spellchecker better than Microsofts.
When pg implements proper hyperlinking that doesn't clutter up my text with an ugly URL, I'll stop using a shortener. I understand the positives and negatives of using a shortener, but the positive impact on readability seems to outweigh the negatives when I'm confronted with an ugly link longer than the text I use to introduce it. Sorry if that offends you.

I should have noted that my link was a PDF, though. My apologies for that oversight.
Also interesting, the 1700s were not kind to the numbers "six" or "seven":

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
Turn on the flash in the iPhone4's camera app.
I should note that I work for Microsoft, but not for Microsoft Research, and of course, I don't speak for them.
Am I crazy or does "heart" not come up in the search? I mean, I'm quite sure I can find it on my own, but...

Also I don't have the greatest video card so the auto-search is really irritating.
> Photos and videos should at minimum be signed/cryptographically verifiable if they are used as key testimony in court.

This kind of "verification" doesn't work. You're trying to have the device authenticate the image. That implies a root of trust that goes through the device manufacturer, which state actors will immediately compromise, making the signatures untrustworthy regardless. Then people will find vulnerabilities in the devices themselves, or convincing ways to have the device take a picture of a doctored photograph instead of a picture of the world, extending the ability to forge signatures to the general public.

The resources needed to forge a signature aren't going to be much different than the resources needed to create a deepfake to begin with. The creator gets to choose which device to use and can choose based on which device they find a vulnerability in. So it's more likely to be a liability than a benefit because it lends false credence to the authenticity of fakes.

For it to work you would need all devices to be secure against all attackers. It's not realistic.
Krazam's MAKRO MICROSOFT EXCEL video is also hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
HN's debaiting software did. We changed it back.

Submitters: if HN's software edits a title badly, you can override that by clicking 'edit'. Just please don't restore clickbait.
Or the Smallpox in 1905? https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-supreme-court
That is getting harder and harder. E.g. Unifi Video has a great on prem software to manage their video devices on your own devices but was depreciated in favour of a cloud based solution. At least MicroTik has so far steered clear of cloud solutions.
The "extra cycle for a raise" is an upside. You can get promoted into something you're already qualified for. Though I get that there's downsides. Some loss of positional authority, maybe issues getting a new job at a place that uses similar names for levels, etc.
DRM has only been successful in the space of making easily replicable attacks more expensive than what is being protected by the DRM. Microsoft has talked about this publicly in this great talk on the Xbox One's physical device security. 'We can't stop people hacking, but we can make each hack more expensive than what someone would spend on games on average'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

SGX running on centralized servers turns that calculus on it's head by concentrating the benefits of the hack all in one place.
It's kinda funny that apart from the headline this post is a typical circa 2005 tutorial on how to run your own large volume website cheaply.
College life in the US is a massive sink for those who aren't financially disciplined. Getting loans is easy for most who attended, including stipend loans for "living expenses" such as binge drinking on at least a weekly basis.

The lifestyle certainly isn't lavish in the sense that pop star lifestyle is, but taking out many tens of thousands of dollars in an attempt to become a librarian (one friend of mine did just that) is just stupid, financially speaking. Short of having family bail you out or marrying a high income earner, you're a prisoner to loans that's cannot be discharged via bankruptcy.
Syscall tracing works well for debugging applications or pieces of one that interact externally, or for ensuring that the OS is doing what you think it should, but I've found that more often than not the buggy part is "inside"; e.g. if an output file is incorrect, you would be able to see the incorrect data being written to it via the OS (which would've been clear from inspecting the file itself), but not what lead to that.

Coincidentally, I prefer to use an Asm-level debugger (WinDbg, OllyDbg) whenever I need to use one - which for debugging something I wrote, is not very often. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I started with Asm and disassembling other programs, so it's relatively straightforward to map between source code and the instructions the compiler generated. This also helped with figuring out a very subtle compiler bug - I know that they're quite rare, but when they do occur, they tend to be extremely difficult to figure out otherwise.
Every joule which goes into making noise is a joule which isn't being used to make the machinery go.
Where are they based? NY area?
> What they're getting at is that services should leverage open technologies so that nobody's platform gets shut out

No one should force any company anything. It's a company's choice to do native apps, web apps, or whatever they like. They are probably missing some part of the market by not developing for some platforms or not having mobile versions of their apps - that's their problem, and it makes them ripe for competition sooner or later.

And it's also very hypocritical for a company like Blackberry to ask for this kind of things after largely benefiting from being in position of strength for many years and doing NOTHING to drive multiplatforms support. Now that they are at the bottom, they "require" their platform to be considered for all apps. That's laughable at best.
This may be a transient problem as people get used to new technology. It's like using Filmlook to put scratches and grain on HD video.

The 2013 Lotus Evora, a series hybrid vehicle with an electric motor and a fixed gearbox, took this to the point of silliness. Not only did they provide fake engine sounds, they provided shift paddles and required the driver to shift software-simulated gears. They even provided a momentary loss of power during simulated gear shifting. (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/22/lotus-pondering-fake-shif...) The driver could select different sounds, or turn all this off and just let the electric motor do its thing, which yielded better acceleration. Here's a demo of all the sound options: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CzoqEyACQ). Options include simulated straight-6, American V-8, and V-12 engines, plus some turbine-like sounds.

After some snickering from the automotive press, this feature was dropped from later models.

Many electric cars already have an outside noise generator, mandated by law in the EU and US. These switch off above 25 MPH or so, so they don't contribute to freeway noise.
We know that a global adversary exists, and that Tor is vulnerable to certain types of attacks by such an adversary (e.g. [1,2]). Given that the list of relays is public by design, that their (albeit encrypted) communication can be monitored by the adversary, that popular hidden services will be moving a significant amount of traffic to and from a single static IP address in a manner modifiable by any user of it, and that there are known methods of disrupting hidden services to effect a global change in this [3] - it follows that such hidden services are rather more vulnerable to deanonymisation, compared to most other users. Seems like running one is an incredibly risky thing to be doing.

[1] http://cryptome.org/2013/08/tor-users-routed.pdf

[2] https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=...

[3] http://donncha.is/2013/05/trawling-tor-hidden-services/
> The Daily Show is just cluttered with inside gossip about crappy news TV which I don't give a shit about either.

Believe it or not, parodying that crap 24-hour cable TV news was the original premise. Actually telling the news was a side-effect, at best.

Who knew the old Will Rogers gag of reading the paper would go over so big with a new generation, eh?
Representations in the animal sense can be observed as that which is in common across inferential contexts inn which animals are confronted by the need to use them:

My model of "pen" can be observed in action when: I write with a pen; I'm asked to pass a pen; when I'm asked "what color pen do you like to write with?" and so on.

What is this structure "pen"? Is it a latent pattern within my experience? No! It is a means of regulating my body, imagination, emotion, etc. "The pen is mightier than the sword!" is something I can agree, or disagree with; I have a feeling about it. And in inferential contexts which require me to feel, I feel.

This is what animals acquire when they understand the world. This is what everyone believes ML is uncovering, whether they realise it or not. We just dont have these ML-like templates, so we don't realise how thin and brittle they are.

When ML is run on text, is detects character patterns which form "character templates" that other text can be compared to. I cannot ask, sincerely, what the machine thinks about whether "the pen is mightier than the sword" -- because it has no attitude towards that proposition.

The character structure of the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword" relative to a body of text, has nothing to do with any concepts -- that structure has nothing to do with the inferential contexts in which those concepts will become useful.

Rather, this thin character-space text structure can be repeated to people in the form of an illusion: we the dumb apes who have the concepts are fooled into thinking that some machine assembling of these words had something to say.

This is a very cheap trick, and fails pretty trivially. The relevant structure to be learnt, the representation, has nothing to do with sequences of characters.

Though the industry likes to talk about "latent structure" in this data, it isnt latent. It is right there on the surface, indeed: it just is that surface.

When the machine is challenged to do anyything other than report this average surface structure, it fails. ML systems dont work. They improve ROI on the margins, but automating basically broken inferential rules at scale -- it is the automation here, and speed that is useful. Not the actual quality of inference.
Your first citation calls out a difference between "masks" (which protect the environment) and "respirators" (which protect the western and environment) and are the N95 discussed on this thread. Thanks for helping to clarify the differences.
The issue was first noticed by the aircraft regarding the weight difference. So i guess, they have to report an issue to drill down the root cause. This is because several things could be the root cause. It could also have been possible that the weighing scale (i don't know the technical term) of the plane was faulty. Point being they need to report it as an issue. But i didn't see anywhere in the report that it mentioned airline manufacture was at fault?
It concludes that the IT system used by the operator was at fault.
I remember asking my son when he was seven what the color of my eyes are - hoping he would have noticed that we both have the same very dark brown eyes.

He replied very seriously "Dad, you have red eyes".
PBS (and other US networks, to be fair) does cofund the production of a number of UK shows, both drama and documentary.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, "incitement" has a very narrow definition legally, see the Brandenburg test. Of course there are many other ways to incite a mob to violence that would avoid legal consequences, which i'm sure his advisors are aware of.
Aren't these conservative principles? Like Gov shouldn't have any business in private company's affairs?
a conservative social media platform that Google and Apple suddenly noticed because of continuing outrage about the events of Jan. 6.
Here's mine - http://bitbucket.org/dekomote/vim/src/cc45f0d7a542/.vimrc
Not repeating, correcting.
Sure, not many skilled migrants return to their home countries, but this doesn't mean that they're not helping their home countries! They're still forming the sorts of international ties needed to provide opportunities for the home country. For example, by providing contacts and funds for starting companies in the home country, or collaborative research, etc. So it's not very clear to me that the feared "brain drain" is necessarily a "drain" -- in fact, India's very awful-seeming brain drain seems to have started to pay off pretty handsomely in the last 20 years.
He is just having fun :)
The following are of relevance:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

The last of these has the answer to your question on down-voting.
Really? Did you read what they went through to create this on the above link from Google translate? Seems like some serious effort went into this (12 attempts over 6 months), built their own robot controller and processed/checked thousands upon thousands of images

I think the end result is incredibly impressive and the technical issues they solved even more so.
Update: Some people have asked if I've done any apps with Anim yet and yes we have! I should have linked it in the original post but anyways, the app is called "DJ Baby", we created it last year. It's an iPhone app (http://bit.ly/djbabyitunes) but we also have a free flash version here: http://www.cometcoast.com/djbaby.
By being online/mobile, aren't these companies already cutting out large swaths of the people they ostensibly aim to assist?

Also, another ex-PayPal entrant: Vouch.
You have to account for age and gender. Prisoners are younger than average and overwhelming male. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/msp0114st.pdf (prisons); https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm (whole population).

If you look at Table 8, the death rate for 45-54 year olds in state prisons in 2014 was 342 per 100,000. For the 45-54 age group as a whole, the mortality rate was about 400 per 100,000. Note that the figure for prisons is mostly men, while the figures for the whole population is both men and women.

Accounting for the gender difference, the prison population has a lower death rate than the general population at the same age group. The difference is especially noticeable among younger prisoners. In the 25-35 demographic, the death rate in prison is 1/4 the general population. This is not surprising. Prisoners eat a controlled diet, they don’t drive, they have limited exposure to occupational hazards, etc.

All causes mortality rate in US prisons is higher than Germany or France, but comparable to Sweden and Switzerland at around 27.5 per 10,000 (note difference in denominator). http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/apr/coe-annual-prison-st... (table 13)
A similar link spam happened with comments on Hackerrank
I don't buy it. Sure, I agree it can be a factor, but a key factor?

Why I am skeptical: There are many places where there is no light, especially in the countryside or in the forest. Lights have been with us 60+ years, and the insect apocalypse has only been observed in past 20. There is also apocalypse of other species, such as earthworms, also caused by lights?
It’s airport specific. Not every airport in the US operates this way. JFK may require a complete terminal change.

You do not have to do this at most US airports. New York City and Newark in particular is a special case of bullshit.. I avoid that place at almost all costs. There’s a reason those tickets are cheaper.
What's wrong with w3schools? I occasionally find their site useful for basic HTML stuff and it seems inoffensive enough, certainly compared to others mentioned here (Quora, LinkedIn, Pinterest et al)
Ahh but you see, only someone who's NOT exponentially smart would fail to see it's true. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes