jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I like it the same way that I liked the promise of Powerset when I first heard of it. I'm not sure how often I look for information that structured though and whether google doesn't still solve those queries.
I share your concerns about long term viability as well (and I download everything). I really want to see them succeed though...

I've been thinking that a viable model that would keep courses free might be to use a kickstarter crowdfunding model to launch a course offering. If I did it, I'd set it up so that the threshold was high enough to make sure that the course was profitable, then make the course available to contributors first (and they'd get certificates), after which it would be freely available to anybody who wants to take it. You'd have to work out how to do the advertising efficiently so that it didn't eat your time and profits, which is probably a huge problem with the idea. Personally, I'd happily contribute to something like that on a regular basis though.

Periodic relaunches could also be set up for certificate track stuff. You'd get the professor back in to answer questions and all that, but the video content could be left the same so it should be much less expensive to operate existing courses.
http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2433935
We've had the name since 2011... :-)
My was composed by a dissertation and a project.
I went extra mile, it wasn't required.
In my dissertation I "leisurely" verified that the general problems of collaborative filtering did appear also in a specific music dataset (that for the sake of secrecy I'm not going to reveal,but you can consider a music dataset as big as the one available in iTunes Store 5 years ago). My point was, if you like A and B, and another user like A,B,C, is not necessary true that you have to like or be exposed to C as well.

Later on I decided to try out and implement a better solution. In short it was on paper a behavior driven solution for matching preferences, with an underlaying layer of audio analysis and a collaborative fallback. If I look back at it, honestly talking, the implementation was a mess and probably biased towards the dataset.

I did a Master in ML + AI applied to Multimedia with a focus on audio signals. I went trough the same idea, this time with a more scientific approach. Graduated. Patented part of the algorithm, sold to a company, hired by the same company, integrated in their system, and moved on :)

In other words, pick something that you are passionate about, it maybe turn into a shortcut into the work world and give you a starting position much higher than any other grads.
My wife's father died about a month ago - two days after he died his widow got a call from some bunch of scoundrels saying "we need to fix your late husband's PC so you can get at his tax records"....

Fortunately, he never had a PC (he was in his mid 80s) so it was obviously a scam but we were all appalled at the cheek of such an approach and the for the fact that a lot of people, particularly the elderly in a moment of stress, would fall for such as scam.
... Which you must remove immediately when it's flat or it will leak. The improvements in battery technology are one of the most interesting things.
I tried to explain all that to my gf, but she was having none of it. It was either a diamond or hit the road, Jack.

Proposed to her last Saturday with a shiny diamond ring, she's now my fiance, so I think it was worth it.
I agree with you, sorry I didn't state that clearly. I think private enterprise will continue to exist and people will willingly take jobs to make more money, accomplish something with others... the thing is with UBI, they won't have to, like you say.
Interestingly a problem we as nerds often have is thinking that if we have the best product or best skills that it will win out. In reality the best often doesn't win because there are many other factors (and we can see a history of superior technologies being beat out). That assistant that acts as an actual recommendation system and removes the human element could bring us closer to that meritocracy based product world, which seems beneficial to everyone. But determining what is best is a very difficult problem to begin with.
While I love using Julia for many things, I prefer having a Python monoculture for AI to be able to mix and match different algorithms.

At the end the engine that compiles the mathematical expression to hardware is what matters, and I don't think that LLVM IR that uses is the best IR for the optimizations.
Weaponization of another human being's emotions against them, a human who in their official capacity is not allowed to defend themself, for the sake of video views, for ad money, paid for by companies willing to exchange money for bulk attention or bulk meta-data. Man, humanity is fucked.
Well, then enlighten me: what is so special about the Mac layout? I am sitting with one magic keyboard and a BTC5140 right now and I can't see any difference apart from 4 extra keys above the numpad.
Nope on the first part. 8M adults, 300k gun permits. And that's including almost 100k active police/military. As for the latter part, maybe, but there is way more guns in US than in CZ. And last time I checked.. Let's say I don't think there is any correlation between the two statements.
- eBay employees stalk and harass bloggers https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/technology/ebay-cockroach...
> I have the feeling swift never really worked in the server side

IBM dropped Kitura more than a year ago [1]. There's Vapor [2] which seems popular, but I don't know how much.

[1]: https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735

[2]: https://github.com/vapor/vapor
One can still complain about mysqls dumb defaults.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-parameters.ht...

"Hey, let's just not act transactional on a timeout by default"
Affinity Photo (and their other products) are great. And for £25 with COVID discount is a no-brainer. An actual alternative to Photoshop (and InDesign/Illustrator).

GIMP is still an unusable mess. I've tried so many times but it's just too different to the industry standard.

The best change they made was add a single-window mode but it's still nowhere near Photoshop.
Look, there it is again! You’re implying that 100% of their practice is deliberate practice. Which is, I think extremely unlikely. People like Wayne Goretsky, Michael Jordan, or Dan Gable, likely approached high ratios of deliberate practice in addition to high practice volumes, it’s rare.
How short is short? Throughout the winter I'll do 20 or 30 mile trips around town with no problem. I don't even think about range in those cases. It's not until I'm doing 200 or 300 mile trips that I have to start prepping for things.
Isn't the point of ISO to eliminate that guess/search process and replace with 100% accuracy on read?
That's extremely vague. What crimes does the survey talk about? There's a big difference between speeding in your car, and mass murder. I obey speed laws because I don't want a ticket, I don't obey murder laws because I'm afraid of prison. I avoid murder because it's wrong. I'd bet that 8% number goes way down the more serious the crime gets.
I get the complaint, when the browser and analytics stack are both Google.

But what if the browser is Incognito Chrome, and the analytics is another company, say Adobe? Does the browser industry need a universal way to signal browsing is in "incognito" and then all analytics and tracking software MUST adhere to that, or what?
Oops. Yes. But Apple is not applying it consistently. They are still policing us in a lot of different ways too. One of the many examples is that Firefox is forced to use webkit on iOS, and nobody is allowed to have their own web rendering engine in the app store, which goes right against the principles of general purpose computing and having control over your own device. It's nice that Apple has a content-filter for people who are not tech-savvy, or for kids who are not allowed to see certain content, but that filter should be optional.
> First rule of infrastructure funding: Don’t actually spend it on infrastructure. Just pocket it as profits and when things fall apart, say we never could have seen this coming or prepared.

And the corollary: After things fall apart, ask for a taxpayer bailout.
ProRender render quality was sadly sometimes pretty close to garbage. (I heard that ProRender 2.0 changed that, but didn't get the chance to test it yet)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blender-... and Ampere is _fast_.
I think that in the mind of people that think this will work TWITCOIN is _obviously_ going ‘to the moon’, and will be worth 1000s of times what it was at conception, because that’s what crypto does.
API first is actually right in my opinion. Software is very multi-platform now : if you build the API first and then build the clients on top of that, you can make the clients completely decoupled from the server, allowing you to quickly switch platforms.

Technically, API first is a good thing. I don't know about from a business sense.
Why does your solution suck? Producing quality content, even if the attention is short, is far more admirable than consuming social news. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to be learned from reading articles on HN and participating in the discussion, but if you don't apply it then it's nothing more than masturbation.

I'm reminded of some of the recent articles about how the corporate environment needs to adapt to millenials so they can profit from their amazing technology skills of the new generation. It's great that the kids know how to use Twitter and Facebook, and yes there are some nice marketing opportunities there, but let's not kid ourselves: most people are not changing the world with their mobile phones, they're distracting themselves and killing their productivity. In Silicon Valley there is this social pressure to stay on top of technology fads so as not to appear clueless, but a hermit who holes himself up in a cave for a year to work on an invention is much more likely to do something truly interesting than people who are so concerned with staying up to the minute that they're all rehashing the same ideas in rapid cycles with no downtime.
Hmmm .. in that case perhaps you're actually arguing against repetition and redundancy?
We got our first customers from my existing blog / email list - before launching the startup I had been blogging for 2+ years.

Second wave came after the first mentions on relevant blogs/new media outlets (http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...)

Third wave I'd say came from participating in discussions in relevant forums.
"On top of the great steady-state service, we were mentioned on ABC’s The View and had a massive surge in traffic which was handled flawlessly by AppEngine. It transparently scaled us up to 20+ instances that handled all of the traffic without a sweat. In the end, this surge cost us less than $1.00"

That's the peace of mind I am talking about...
You can change all that stuff in the settings; if you come up with a set you think looks better, I'd love to investigate.

As for font, what browser/OS are you on? It is using Segoe UI as the main font, but sadly this isn't installed on all computers. The backup is Arial, which I agree could be better.
Whether you like them or not, you really can't tell? To me it's pretty obvious what goes where, with a few things that are on the edge, like politics that are really important for tech and startups, like net neutrality. The TSA articles aren't tech or startups at all. I think the "pro-politics" people would still vote them up if there were no scanners and it was only about being groped by the goons.
USPS has been fast and cheap. The only real complaint I've had is that they leave pickup tags for some of the heaviest packages, packages that other carriers would have delivered. But it's understandable... I feel sorry for what some of the mailmen have to lift. Most are far less muscular than the UPS guys. My area has had problems with mail theft... I think some meth use among employees, but tracked items show up. It's not safe to get mail with handwritten addresses, things like birthday cards with a little cash in the middle always vanish. And the DMV license plate tags vanish in the mail too... California no doubt has a black market for those with so many illegals from Mexico around.
Their flat rate boxes are extremely competitive for shipping, especially heavier items and/or to distant zones. Mail service has been reliable since one local thief was caught. Many good people don't deserve a bad rap for the actions of a small number.

UPS gives generally great service, but they throw the packages around. Some electronic gear with glass meters on the side arrived with the glass broken. Taking the unit apart revealed it was more than just a bump to the side of the thick box. The power transformer had the brackets stretched up and it was leaning a great deal. For that to happen the package wasn't just bumped or even dropped. It was clearly thrown horizontally and down with considerable force and crash landed... like onto a dock or truck.
UPS seems to have become much more costly than in years past.

Fedex is much more gentle with packages, but it's alarming how many from neighbors blocks away show up. They're not very careful reading addresses, or smart enough interpolating from neighbors addresses when they don't see one.
Hmmm. Interesting point. However, if that were the case, why would ELBs be restricted to single AWS regions?

Anyway, its a nice feature that it just works without me needing to set it up.
I am taking a discrete math course as a non-degree student and just found this text today. We are using Rosen's book in class, but I must say that this free text does a much better job of giving you the intuition behind what you are doing. This is an excellent resource for any discrete math student.
My personal experience jibes with this. For many years I struggled to stay around 200lbs on a low fat diet. A year ago I tried the whole 30 and since then have easily stayed on a no grains or sugar diet and my weight is rock steady at 175 with no effort. I have always exercised a lot (15-25 miles a week running plus other activities) so no changes there and my blood work (cholesterol etc.) are good on both diets. Wish I had discovered this 20 years ago but happy I figured it out.
the strobe lights draw attention to the burglar before he ever enters, so possibly he will never go in at all. google flashfog security for videos with strobe lights
This slightly improved version[1] is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

[1] https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font
Cities should do that to prevent Graffiti (better than surveillance cams).
Is Apple stuff is so well tested why does my Mavericks machine hang with just the cursor on a black screen for five minutes if I happen to move the mouse, or hit a key just as it starts to go to sleep.

Why does my daughters MBP frequently get very hot and the 'genius' in the Apple store tell us there's nothing wrong with it (in the most condescending way possible)

Apple stuff is just as buggy as Windows stuff (perhaps even more so)
They moved on pretty quickly because they couldnt stand listening to it.

Which makes me kinda dislike this solution, as it does nothing to address the core issue, and only shifts the problem on elsewhere.
I'm an Architect and I've worked on projects in Britain, France, Italy, Korea and the US (NYC). America has the most prescriptive and least flexible zoning and building regulations I have seen.
StreetPong - play a game of pong with the person across the street, while waiting for the Green Man. I think this floated by on HN a few years ago.

From Urban-Invention (came out of a german university I think).

http://vimeo.com/113918378

http://urban-invention.com/
I might clean the code up and do that! :)
Interesting. But the article seems to suggest the exact opposite:

In the end, the whole thing turned out to be a misunderstanding. Immigration officials thought that the nomads were actually Punspace employees, and, as such, would have been required to have work permits. After several hours of worry and hassles, everybody was allowed to go back about their business and nobody was fined or deported. Punspace’s owners were, according to Johnny FD, very responsive and helpful and gave everyone a free month of usage for all the trouble.

This whole situation can be a viewed a win for digital nomads, since the Thai authorities, ultimately, confirmed that they can work in the country on a valid tourist visa. This incident also comes about a month after Chiang Mai immigration officials declared that digital nomads could work under a tourist visa.

I mean, after all, any content you create (be it writing a book in your spare time, with intent of publishing when ou come back, or taking a video with intent of showing it for money back home) would be potentially work. If that was the case then any person arriving with less than X amount of local currency could be detained after a few months on the basis that they couldn't possibly pay their way unless they had an income from somewhere.
Enraging facebook higher ups to this extent is a pretty sure fire way of proving you're doing the right thing.

Good on Apple. I fear if it was any other company Facebook would be able to persuade them to change.
Can anyone here tell why these sit-stand desks don't come with (optional) adjustable keyboard/mouse trays?

Doesn't the tray make the desk surface more clutter free?
That's an interesting point of view. Just not sure that everybody on the losing side was rich and complicit in corrupt murderous regime - could have been tiny investors like you and me who put some savings into mutual funds or something.
As far as I can tell, Intel MPX is like a hardware address sanitizer. This is a little different.
It's absolutely fantastic that < 100 years of purposeful hardware research and < 1 year of training can compete with 3 billion years of meandering hardware building and 16 years of training, to the point that the latter feels the need to insist that the former will never be as good.

Given our current trajectory, it wouldn't be shocking if at 150-200 years of hardware research and with <5 years of training, the intentionally created thing surpassed the evolved one.

Ed: I rolled software in with hardware.
I'm not clear why you think all remote companies can't have processes in place that allow them to work the same as those working in a physical office space.
There is no node foundation, "Node.js" is a Joyent's trademark. We had discussed this particular bikeshed in the mailing list last year. :)
2 cups of pinto beans probably gives you 20grams of protein. add the milk in there and whatever else he eats, and he can probably get 40-50 grams a day. ish.

thats more than enough to survive on, since thats what a $3/day diet is really going for.
I'd say their primary interest is knowing how to watch payment flow. They'll develop ways to discover patterns in payment and deduce who is part of what network. Unlikely to disrupt, rather find ways to leverage it.
I'd agree it's low on overall grams of protein (for a male, at least) but he did manage to get the amino acids that non-meat diets usually lack... so it's not a total fail.
Which is the interesting push and pull of our government. While the CIA would love to be able to launder money through a system such as this, the FBI are probably fuming over how much more difficult their job will become because of it.
Soaking beans for 6-12 hours while changing the water as frequently as possible makes a big difference.
First of all, pg, rtm, jl, tlb and the rest of the ycombinator crew are in the midst of interviews and deciding which startups to fund. In other words, they are probably very busy so your suggestion is poorly timed.

Secondly, there is a place for feature suggestions and discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

I feel algorithmically defining the comments adding to a discussion might turn out to be overly optimistic, but none the less, it is still a fascinating idea.
If the government doesn't have a backdoor in allowing them to track and/or tax every transaction, you bet your ass it's incompatible with the goals of government!
Yes I thought he was pretty good too. If you want a train wreck for a Google talk, look at Conan O'Brien's interview there -- the interviewer was cringe-worthy.
I guess this is similar to Quicklisp for CL packages? A stable "world snapshot" every now and then instead of rolling releases.

I works pretty well in the CL world, I think this approach (releases) will become standard for package management in Ecosystem-package-managers (as it has been in the OS world).
The company probably doesn't care about his reference.
Ling, the Erlang VM directly on Xen seems neat.[0]

Folks have talked about composable OS frameworks / domain-specific OSes in the usual suspects of Erlang, OCaml, perhaps Haskell... especially useful for soft-realtime / embedded.

Irdis is neat.[1]

0: http://build.erlangonxen.org/

1: http://www.idris-lang.org/
> In the case of Roundup/Glyphosate we can skip our own interpretations of hundreds of studies

This is a completely insane conclusion for anyone who knows anything at all abut the American legal system. Businesses and individuals settle lawsuits or plead guilty when they are innocent constantly because they believe the end result of doing so is likely to be better for them than the alternative. It is not at all hard to imagine a scenario where a company decides to settle a complicated lawsuit rather than trust a jury to make the right decision and give the press an even bigger field day with dragging their name through the mud.

I have no love for big ag, but this is just an obvious fact about how legal conflicts work in the United States.
Same. My first thought was "I thought Dropbox already backed up your files? Does it not?" After reading it, I'm still not sure what it does that's different from Dropbox.
My page immediate loaded to a cookie error page. I’m guessing safari’s tracking detection automatically blocked them, and Dropbox didn’t appreciate that.
That's because it is a double standard. However, people in low labour cost countries have usually preferred to get something rather than nothing, and they held virtually no power. People in low labour cost countries would need to collectively unionise/strike/fight for their rights, in countries that don't always have the best human rights laws, much less political will to defend their citizens. And if they win? Well, they might get those big companies to leave, because some other country makes it cheaper, or if they have to pay the same as back home, why not move the business back home?

People who are capable of working remotely from low CoL areas/countries are, in contrast, more empowered. Generally better educated, often English-speaking, sometimes fairly well-connected. And it's just as easy to work for <CoL-Adjusting company #1> as it is to work for <CoL-uncaring company #1>.

We're seeing a lot of people who thoroughly enjoyed full-remote work during COVID make it a dealbreaker to work remotely now. Those people often don't even consider on-site positions. This whole CoL-adjusted thing will depend on whether a good % of those people will consider CoL-adjustments a dealbreaker or not. I suspect some might, but not enough that it'll change the balance sheet, and so we'll see larger companies who can "afford" the bureaucracy of CoL-adjustment do it, whereas other companies will use CoL-neutrality as (one of the) carrots to attract talent from CoL-adjusters.
British Comedy Show, pretty good.
Quite an informative and well-structured guide. A quality read!
If you're at all interested in storing eggs long term, look up "water glassing". It needs to be done with freshly laid eggs, but the eggs are still edible months later.