jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I respect that this sucks for bikers, I gotta side with the Mayor on this one.

There is a limited budget for enforcement, and it makes sense to focus that enforcement on crimes that cause loss of life or serious harm first.

And frankly, the economy of NYC would come to a screeching halt if people couldn't double park to make quick stops. The cost of delivering anything would go up significantly to account for the cost of parking and time spent circling for legal parking at every drop-off, or the cost of all the fines.

Also, you probably should have started with, "And I understand some of this is a state issue, but can you clarify which parts are a state issue and which parts are things NYC could do?". That would have been a lot better than "And don't tell me it's a state issue!!"
What do you want to make!

Starting with a software renderer is nuts.

Start with unity, make an unlit shader, start doing basic effects (in colours, then using texture samples) using uv coordinates. (In frag, ignore vertexes to start with). Just remember youre just colouring a pixel, on a bit of a surface.
Perhaps public entities should not enter into collective bargaining agreements with public sector unions, but freedom of association is guaranteed in the constitution, it's not going to be possible to ban unions in the US.
I believe Moderna was also shown to be effective.
> Personally, I experienced this with programming. When I learned to program in high school, it never struck me as a chore; it was always just interesting and I enjoyed it.

that was me when I picked up my first K&R book in elementary school. It was interesting and fun.
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This seems highly over-dramatized: "The stakes are high, higher even than most of us realize. Our answer to this question holds the very roots of our salvation… and our demise."

From my own experience (I'm a sophomore studying computer science, physics, and math at MIT), nobody assumes that their brand-name degree will automatically get them a job. The most lucrative jobs for CS involve interviews that grill you relentlessly regardless of what your educational background is. For the most part, people are here to learn about science and engineering that interests them, while at the same time hoping to get a job with what they've learned.

MIT helps a lot with this by being very flexible about what classes you can take. Prerequisites are all soft, and there is no credit limit. A lot of this may not generalize, but for a motivated student I think college is absolutely not a waste of time.
Meh. I stopped using Linux a few years ago because KDE 4.1 was ugly and slow, and there was only one viable WebKit browser (Chrome) while Firefox was laggy, and pretty much everything X was laggy and so was apt, which took forever to read its package list...

More recently I tried xmonad on my college's Linux desktops, enticed by the idea that it might solve my window management woes and that it was a "killer feature" of Linux, but I couldn't stand not having control over window placement-- it was too hard to just temporarily maximize a window. Maybe I needed more practice, but it didn't help that I couldn't figure out how to get dzen2 to not go off the screen in the desktops' dual monitor configuration, so I didn't have a working clock on my desktop.

I could switch to Linux on my laptop, but I love OS X's trackpad gestures, and as far as I can tell the only Linux support for them is by some proprietary "Gesture Suite" crap that only supports Synaptics trackpads.

Yeah, Terminal.app doesn't support a mouse (although it is extremely fast and responsive, like everything), and MacPorts takes time to compile things, and I had to manually patch gccgo to compile on OS X. And I love open source and hate to be running code I can't read. But all in all, it's hard to conclude that Linux is worth the pain.
Thanks! No express experience so the term didn't mean anything to me. My understanding of the word "middleware" is "well, it has no UI and it isn't a database or robot arm either, but we don't really know what it is either".
That would be great if detecting neutrinos was related to India's food industry.
I'm over 40, but was once like you. I am also lazy, so I'll be brief:

* Do things, gain experiences. Build robots, take a rock climbing class, go on random hikes, take a dancing class and own your lack of dancing skills. Experiences build a more interesting you, which in turn provides for more interesting things to talk about.

* Read more books on a diverse set of topics that interest you. Watch much less TV (some TV is important from a conversational stance), play far less video games.

* Talk to random people regularly. People next to you in line, the homeless guy that asks you for spare change, maybe even a woman that you do or don't find attractive (this was an excellent crutch in my youth for gaining confidence and it made me realize how deep women were).

* Fake it til you make it.

* Study Buddhism. Learn how materialism and attachment affect you and work to fix it. When you do, external variables will have less of a power to drag you down should something go wrong.

* Realize that everyone else has their own inadequacies and issues behind the facade they present, even people like Obama. And that's OK, it's what makes humans beautiful and interesting.
I'm not a self-identified libertarian, and I never said it was necessarily a good idea, just that public (or publicly contracted) enforcement entity with special priveleges isn't an essential feature of a libertarian system; some suggest that citizens should contract with their own enforcers, and that enforcers should have no special privileges beyond those of all citizens.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard the Comics Code Authority called "liberal".
Why? Like Galileo, you are a heretic,
fighting the orthodoxy, willing to contradict
the true religion! Pope Laureate Guru
will send out his acolytes to deliver his
inquisition and excommunication! That's why!
1. The counterweight is in geosynchronous orbit. It is "held up" by its absurd speed like any other satellite.

2. One of the reasons you need a very strong material. The tether will be in tension, but probably will have quite a bit of movement to it. The tether dynamics are not a solved problem.

3. Most plans suggest that power will be beamed from the ground to the climber, either as microwaves or visible light. Some plans might use a paired tether to carry electricity. In either case, no onboard fuel is needed, which us pretty nice, as that's a lot of weight you don't have to pull against gravity. There have been several competitions in this area already.
Also I guess any space elevator system will deploy a 'tether maintenance' activity every some interval with intermediate stations. There will be likely bots moving up and down the tether to keep it free from debris and other approaching objects.
Nexus 5, fully updated on chrome. The site looks great, and I'm excited to have free mobile spreadsheets.
When I see R&D spending comparisons, I wonder if certain companies are more liberal about what they account as R&D.

Every year at work we fill out a survey where we estimate what portion of our time was spent on R&D vs other things like maintenance. We're told it's important because there's a tax credit for R&D. My (probably faulty) memory says that our guidelines classify all development on new features and products, as well as any research necessary in executing my job, as R&D. Which is very different from something like Bell Labs or ATG.

There're clearly also companies with divisions purely focused on advanced technologies unrelated to products for this year or the next, and I'm curious where the majority of spending falls.

Edit: or, maybe it comes down to very different numbers of employees making products. A quick browse online suggests that Nokia has more employees, does some (all?) of their own manufacturing, and that many of Apple's employees work in the retail stores.
I think you are essentially talking about a 'traffic signal' equivalent of space.

If launching satellite becomes cheap with space elevators. You are going to have absolute mad rush to launch satellites, any way. In any such situation, you will have a lot of satellite traffic up there and merely managing that traffic among satellites itself is going to be difficult.

But even if you discount space elevators, if cost of launching satellites gets cheaper by the day. At some point you have to worry about this satellite traffic problem.
It would require nothing more then the browsers to implement it in the same way

Oh dear. That'll never happen (examples: CSS, Html5 video, Javascript), which means this idea is dead in the water.
"It is obviously irrelevant whether any of this is true or not. Arguments like that are not _true_, they are arbitrary."

http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3232434814758067@naggum....
Story previously submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988110 - 4 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2001426 - 1 day ago

Also, from http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please submit the original source. If a blog post
> reports on something they found on another site,
> submit the latter.

Here's the original:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
Except anybody playing this game has the salt, there's no need to guess it.
I wear clothes, pretend I appreciate compliments, etc.
"On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its own merits."

And 10 years later, I know a bunch of hackers using Java, and not one single person, even former perl junkies, that is using Perl for anything besides "it's a little too much to do this in awk".
Of course, you do now have to trust LastPass! I do, and it's fantastic the difference it makes in these situations. No sick feeling in your stomach, no rush to change passwords everywhere, a few clicks and the problem is solved. Extra credit: use their security challenge to verify you're not using the same password on more than one website: https://lastpass.com/?securitychallenge
Those come as stickers too, and make your laptop look really cool!
I got mine from 4keyboard.
Judging from another American tech company that faced the same challenge, one could argue they would not block. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Your answer makes sense and is illuminating.

It is not easy to keep it simple.

The problem here is not that "simple is not easy", it is rather "picking partial and sacrificing/neglecting whole". Since one is only part of a team and a part of the whole design/develop/use circle, the "whole" problem is not (necessarily) "my" problem, therefore it is easy to pick a simple and easy solution from "my" perspective. The "my" and "whole" can also be swapped with "now" and "future". "now" is here but "future" is uncertain.
From the speech:

> Twitter could deploy an algorithm to remove more white supremacist hate-speech, but they have reportedly haven't because it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform.

> Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

While I appreciate the sentiment behind a lot of Baron Cohen's speech, and generally distrust Facebook, the idea of having what can be said on the platform regulated either by algorithms or by a large number of monitors does sound to me like a step too far. An algorithm that ejects prominent politicians is political censorship—that should not be OK.

It seems to me that misinformation should be fought with information, not censorship. Steps that are already being enacted, like “reduc[ing] the distribution of that content” and adding fact checking annotations to incorrect information, seems to do much of the same good while not also shifting the overton window towards Ministry of Truth roles for our already-too-powerful tech companies.
They actually got busted in 1992 for stealing records from the SFPD to spy on their enemies:
https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228
We basically see a blob of light from which we can deduce origin, energy and particle type of the particle that created the air shower.

If you have multiple telescopes observing the air showers this gets much better. MAGIC uses two 17m telescopes, VERITAS 4 12 m telescopes and HESS 4 12m and one 28 meter telescope.

CTA is currently in the planning and construction phase and will build around a hundred telescopes at two sites, Chile and La Palma.
I upvoted this specifically so the people who still believe in the essential lawfulness of police would have a better chance of seeing it. The slang term is "testilying".

There is low conditional probability that a drug dealer smart enough to locate and remove a GPS tracker would put it in the same physical locker compartment as a crack pipe after taking it off.

Were I the judge, I would be especially wary of "automatic probable cause" objects that were coincidentally found with the search warrant target, namely "drug paraphernalia", "the distinctive odor of marijuana", and "the K-9 unit alerted".

Ask to see the glass pipe they found. Ask to see the photograph of it in situ next to the tracking device. Compare it very closely to evidence taken from previous drug cases. When the cops are unable to back up their bullshit story, throw their whole case out and cite someone for perjury.
The only person harmed directly seems to be PDL since they may find it harder to charge subscriptions for bulk access to the data.

I am not sure why this stuff being online in bulk is so much worse than being online behind a paywall that someone should actually go to jail for it.
These are all valid points but as humans we’ve never encountered anything like this so we shouldn’t think about it using old world examples.

Also think to yourself why this is front and center? Whereas cigarettes literally kill millions a year and they are perfectly legal. Why? Because politicians cant control their agendas with open social media platforms.

Corporates should not be responsible for regulating their content, unless they are publishers. Social media platforms should be open with the onus on society to teach truth and government to prevent threatening behavior.

Publishers should then be directly held accountable for anything that’s posted on their sites. Fake news, racism, slander, etc.
Cats attack laser pointers. People flail when they encounter a spider's web. They are responding to a perceived threat, in which there is no threat at all.

Responding to a threat is not a validation that there is a threat.
Are charitable donations taxed in Germany?
I don't use an external boot disk but I certainly understand why people do. And yeah this needs to be fixed.

But is anyone else shocked at how well the transition to ARM has gone for Apple? Because I am. I figured this would be something I would avoid as long as possible but honestly I'd probably be happy with this year's MBP M1 refresh.
Well, for one it gives me the yearly summary once the year is actually over.

It's not particularly actionable to know you listen to more music on a Saturday than a Sunday, but it is mildly interesting for those who are curious about such things.
> should they be

This is the point of people suggesting things like bans or explicit warnings. They "shouldn't", but what's stopping them.
All of the known side effects for drugs can be found in the prescribing information

https://www.novo-pi.com/ozempic.pdf

Potential side effects include thyroid cancer, kidney problems, blindness, allergic reactions, low blood sugar, and pancreatitis
By that logic shouldn't we be able to take steroid, or at least HGH, and other performance enhancing drugs that are less dangerous than steroids? Lots of people do less crazy amounts and don't have problems. Plenty of people have lived full lives after juicing, possibly even better lives. I'm not saying either way, just food for thought. If we banned something because you might get cancer alcohol, cigs, and junk food would be banned too.
This was my first response as well (it's not the data sharing that's the problem, it's that you noticed).

Thinking about it though, a lot of it is a question of surprise and unknowns. I would find this message to be a lot better - "We see that you've taken advantage of the Ubuntu image that Canonical provide in the Azure Marketplace. I am available to you for (etc.)".
> most things won't ever need to scale beyond one server.

Yep. But don't tell anyone. This is a secret weapon/super power most juniors (and many mid/seniors) have been conditioned by the GOOG/FB/AMZN/MSFT approved project literature to believe is simply untrue. The number of experienced, highly skilled founder devs I know that reach for shiny tech stacks that solve issues they don't have but can "scale" is a 100:1. That choice comes with staggering costs.
This activity is all speculation and gambling.

There's still no evidence of any value to cryptocoins.

The only "benefit" is allowing every transaction to be tracked.
The paper has nothing to do with polynesian or colonial era contacts. It's about the genetics of the people whose descendants would go on to populate the Americas and what they say about the routes they took to get there (pacific coastal route or inland).

I'm a bit surprised to see it here, this is a pretty niche subject.
Those aren't really options. The syntax of the find command is

find <options> <paths> <expression>

Those thing you list are part of the <expression> part of the command. The <options> part in BSD find, and I believe GNU find, only uses options of the form -X where X is a single character.

It's a little confusing because the man pages for both BSD and GNU find do call some of the things that appear in the <expression> part of the command "options".
In bash I can type, for example, "git <tab><tab>" and it will list out all of the git commands. Not quite as nice as a menu, I suppose, but still helpful for discoverability.
exactly, as someone who recently had to come to the realization that there is always a 'better' way of coding something I can tell you that really the programming community is filled with arguments on forums, newsgroups etc about how xxx way of doing something means if you do xxx you suck at programming and should just quit, but the reality is, customers don't care. Programming something in Rails as opposed to Java or whatever isn't going to get you any more customers.

Spending your time second guessing the way you have started something (if you are anything like me) based off stuff you have read is not going to get you anywhere.

Build it as best you can, but don't waste time redoing things just to make it better internally. Think of it as if you were working for a company, and you spent a month re-writing a piece of their software, how can you explain to the directors the benefits of them paying you for that last month. If you think they'll scoff, don't do it.
In most religions, God is an omnipotent, omniscient, and generally perfect being.

Mathematicians simply borrowed that definition.
For example, Rubik's cube "God's number" is 20. Because, of course, God, as an omniscient, omnipotent perfect being will solve the puzzle in the minimum possible amount of moves. And that number is 20 in the most complex case.

Computer science have a similar, more formal concept with oracles. An oracle is a machine that can quickly solve a problem. How it does it is not the question, it can be supernatural, but we simply assume that such a machine exists in order to study some theoretical problems.
You clearly didn't understand how the path element in SVG works. The M, L and other characters contains valuable information. M stand for move, L for trace a line, but you can also have instructions for bezier curve or Z for closing a path. Your json format by removing this information is useless.
I would love for the term "neoracists" to catch on.

Much bigger problem than the other "neo___" that we hear so much about.
> I would argue that having no male voices hurts PoC

funny that this the only possible angle we can argue for more male representation. What case do we have for male representation if lack of didn't hurt POC?
This is the first time I read that a cloud storage can work without data-centers.

What are the advantages in doing so? I’m confused
It feels like a de-escalation tactic? This is pretty classic passive-aggressive behavior. And aggressive behavior, whether in the form of overt aggression or passive-aggressive tactics, does not contribute to de-escalation.

Recording police in public as they perform their official duties is a constitutionally protected activity, upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction covers California. The police are trying to deter and prevent people from exercising that right.

The mature way to send a signal that they're not interested in engaging in conversation is to say, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in engaging in any more conversation. I've got to attend to the duties of my job. It was nice talking with you."

I do acknowledge that police officers often face special scrutiny from the press and from the public. But that is because they are public servants with the ability to impinge upon people's life and liberty. And the more the public records LEO interactions, the more bad apples they seem to uncover.
> They are looking for people with specific backgrounds

Why would anyone think that race is a good proxy for one's background? This seems pretty racist, in the most literal, original sense of the term.
Because your in the minority. Why should rand() be reserved for your use case and people with other use cases need to use a more obtuse SecureRandom() API?

Defaults should be secure. The simple case should be secure.
In my opinion Hacker News isn’t strictly an IT community but a platform that focuses on technology, startup culture and entrepreneurship that allows followers with a mix of technical obsession, business ambition, and aspirational curiosity to discuss among themselves to have some sort of intellectual reasoning.I may be wrong.
So one of the things I realized writing Erlang is that when concurrency is 'free' (or so close as to be indistinguishable in most use cases), more things end up being easy to write concurrently than we traditionally think.

An instance I ran into personally was, effectively, task scheduling. Sure, I could have done the 'normal' thing, of a priority queue being populated from the database on some interval, having some thread reading from that queue, sleeping until the first item needs work, pulling it off, throwing it onto a threadpool. Have to take care to ensure the threadpool is large enough for the maximum amount of concurrency I need, have to make sure that I'm careful in what data structure I use for the priority queue (I need to make sure I'm not adding the same task multiple times to it, and that when adding items to it I'm not locking it), make sure the polling thread can't throw (or at least, when it does, it restarts or kills the program and that then restarts), a few other niggles here and there too. And a whole 'nother level of complexity if tasks lead to follow up tasks (i.e., a task represents a state machine through a series of transitions, which themselves take a sizable amount of time, to where just leaving them on the thread is a bad idea, since it uses up the threadpool).

In a 'free concurrency' world, I just spin up a new concurrent process per task for some window (same as how many items I added to the priority queue). And that's basically it. Each process can step through its state machine, sleeping in between tasks for however long, without issue.
It's more leveled than before, not (anywhere close to) fully leveled yet, but blogging is playing a positive role not negative (in my opinion).