jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's no natural law that says that NL had to be bike friendly. Within my lifetime it wasn't[1]. Paris wasn't a good place to bike in and that is rapidly changing[2]. There's no reason urban environments can't be bike friendly. Suburban environments, which are prevalent in the US, have one root problem: zoning for lack of density and land-use segregation. If locales were allowed to build up, public transport would be more efficient because it would service more people in smaller area, and if shops were intermingled with housing you would be able to walk to get groceries, instead of driving for 10 minutes to get milk or bread. A big problem is that because of land-use segregation all the jobs are in one place while all the people are spread out and for political purposes and historical reasons, urban environments cater to the mobility needs of people going to work, not those that live within cities.

[1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/3052699/these-historical-photos-...

[2]: https://www.francetoday.com/travel/paris/the-paris-bicycle-b...
I don't understand what the problem is with the statement.
One factor: They have underbuilt housing for a lot of years.

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-...
> I can debug code in Vim without needing Reflector and Visual Studio to make sense of what I'm looking at.

Every time I hear someone say something like this, I have a mental image of people manhandling 200kg crates while the forklift sits idle because they can't be bothered learning how to drive it.

Reminds me of that multi-million dollar German-made road resurfacing machine that sat unused in some US city because the road crew thought it was too complicated to learn. Sure... they'd have to read the manual and learn to operate it, but that would only save millions of dollars in labour!
Elm also approaches this way, with type-safe checking.
When I worked at Google, I worked in Platforms, which is the division that makes the servers that populate Google datacenters. They had a program where you could spend a week or two (can't remember exactly) in a datacenter, acting as a low-level tech like this woman. The idea was that you'd see the problems they'd encounter and design servers that were easier and safer to service. I regret that I left Google before I had a chance to do this.

I think they should re-target the program and make it mandatory for execs, and make them live on the $15/hr wage that they pay the techs for a few weeks.
I've been wanting to visit Iran ever since I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc , where a guy tells the story of him riding a Honda C90 through the country.
Isn't a similarly low-effort activity like drinking the more likely alternative for the kind of person who relies heavily on social media to fill their lives? Higher effort activities like hobbies and sports and such are obviously healthier alternatives, but anyone can already do them and they probably would if they had any inclination to do them in the first place.
>There is bike infrastructure: not only are there decent bike lanes, but drivers are used to sharing the road with bikes

You other description matches quite well to Beijing so I assume you are living in Beijing, but this one doesn't quite match from my experience.

Yes there are technically "bike lanes", but Beijing drivers really treat them more like "ramps" that's use to get on and off the main road, or even "shortcuts" when the main road is too jammed. They really have no respect whatsoever to cyclists' right of the way on the bike lanes.
There are plenty of sources that agree with me on the Pilgrims.[1][2][3]

Almost no one is "cancelled" permanently. Maybe they go away for a few months or years, but they almost always are able to resume some sort of normal life eventually. It is much less severe than a jail sentence. If they truly do reform and become a better person, that usually speeds up the process, but it is rarely an actual requirement.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...

[2] - https://www.history.com/news/why-pilgrims-came-to-america-ma...

[3] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history...
There are many, many Facebook clones. None of these platforms are king of the world.

Yet imagine Facebook is "destroyed" tomorrow, literally shut down. Now, where do all those people go to get their fix?

You suggest two alternatives that could grow quickly, and in regions I am concerned about. I don't think it's a sunk cost fallacy, when my premise is "This will exist no matter what" and "Let's make sure any such platform can't work detrimentally".
Interestingly www.TroyHunt.com is blocked by Quad9 DNS!
Why do lispers believe that scheme can't introduce bindings? Every scheme has a lower lever hygienic macro facility that allows introducing bindings. R6rs has syntax-case. Others have explicit/implicit renaming or syntactic closures.

Hygiene is opt-out (except maybe in explicit renaming), not opt-in like in common lisp. That is, IMO, a good thing.
I just checked myself and thankfully I've apparently only been in a few breaches, but of the ones listed, I only knowingly had accounts on LinkedIn and Dropbox. Nothing embarrassing because I'm smart enough to use burner accounts for embarrassing stuff, but I only even recognize last.fm and LuminPDF as services. I'm surprised last.fm still exists. I guess I might have signed up for it at some point and forgotten.

My phone number isn't in here anywhere, so lucky me, but it doesn't make a difference. The State of Texas finally forced me to get a Texas driver's license in order to continue being able to vote, and the State of Texas sells your address and phone number to marketers once they have it, so my number is trash now anyway. 99 out of 100 texts and calls are either politicians or people claiming to want to buy one of my houses. I basically no longer use a phone except when my dad calls.

I guess the plus side there is I'm somewhat immune from whatever location tracking can't be disabled since I don't even take my phone with me most of the time when I go anywhere, but that was an old habit from when I worked in a SCIF and couldn't bring a phone with me anyway.
Don't they have a "real person" policy now? ie. not only phone number but as well a requirement to upload a passport style photo. Concidentally on entrance to US a camera makes a high resolution photo of every traveller during passport control.
"With all due respect" can mean 'you're not worthy of any respect, but plyed with a straight bat, it means "I'm about to disagree with you strongly and in a way that might jeopardise my career, but I have to say this, please don't take it as a personal attack'.
Don't be ridiculous. Some police officers are sociopathic, but on the other hand every robot is sociopathic as it stands.
> Unexpected issues – in addition to routine suffering, long distance live transport can also result in fires, delays or sinking of livestock ships causing the suffering and death of large numbers of animals.

Apparently sinking ships with live stock is not uncommon?
emacs in browser, so you can use your emacs in browser while using your browser in emacs
Sometimes you introduce certain restrictions in the language just for the sake of simplifying the compiler. This is allowed, valid and will be understood by the developers.

For example, for decades most static languages required a symbol to be defined before its first usage. Removing this restiction seemed like a nice little cute convenience but the outcome of it is this horrific slowdown of the build process. Personally I would agree to the restriction if I knew the compiler could be 5x faster which is pretty realistic to achieve, it seems.
or just stop subsidizing a retarded system and instead align the incentives between the business(colleges) and the customers(students) like Lambda school does.
I'm not sure Germany and France should be on that list. Not because they wouldn't try to protect their own even from the suspicion of being war criminals but because they would never got to such lengths as to threaten war to do it.
You can choose to load the SDK or not, e.g. only when the "Log In With Facebook" button is pushed.
If you can sell your tax credits, they are equivalent.
Have you tried out SageMath? It seemed to work pretty well when I tried it out, but I never got serious really. My needs for symbolic math programming are pretty limited.
The sad thing about US politics is that major corporations donate to both parties. They have to. If you don't, the party you "skimped" will punish you sooner or later. It's not really about donating, it's a shakedown pure and simple. It's one more reason corporations shouldn't be permitted to donate to parties...
What when other new person suggests Telegram? I have like four different messaging apps on my phone: WhatsApp, Telegram, Wechat and Link. Don’t need one more random app lol
You would just convert the cash into a money order, and then deposit it that way. Alternatively, some of these digital banks (like BlueVine) actually do allow you to deposit cash. From BlueVine's website:

"Yes, you can deposit both cash and checks with your BlueVine Business Bank account. Deposit checks anywhere, anytime through our mobile app by taking a photo of your check and deposit cash at 90,000+ retail locations with our partnership with Green Dot. For a list of locations, visit https://www.attheregister.com/locations."
He's very angry and wants you to know it. If you don't agree with him, you are an idiot.
What an absolute mess. Whatever political spectrum you might be on, having people roaming around the halls of a sensitive government institution is not in the interest of any US citizen. Security of our institutions, elections and democracy should be a non-partisan issue.
I guess that's why they said that they are auditing aggressively their CI tool.
I started editing only this after I saw some other HNers mention that they are wikipedians. I plunged in gradually to make edits to articles on the subjects that I have been researching the longest for both work and recreation, including topics I've been producing bibliographies or working papers on since 1993. I got the nerve to do that, after seeing how appallingly bad the Wikipedia articles on those same topics have long been, by reading the books How Wikipedia Works and Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.

I'm very turned off by the amount of poorly sourced point-of-view pushing that goes on on Wikipedia. I've tried to light a candle in the darkness by compiling source lists in my user space (which I link to from article talk pages), and by mostly adding current reliable sources to articles, but even at that a lot of my edits get reverted by POV-pushers (or their sock puppets or meat puppets) on ideological grounds. This continues to happen even after one group of articles I work on went through an Arbitration Committee case in August of this year. The sanctioned editors learned how to cheat on their sanctions, and the conscientious editors are still badly outnumbered (at least as to visible accounts actively editing the articles at any one time). The administrators are beleaguered, and aren't using their mops actively to clean up the mess.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/

I have severe doubts about the statement made by Jimbo Wales quoted in the submitted link here: "'I’m not a wiki person who happened to go into encyclopedias,' Wales told the crowd at Oxford. 'I’m an encyclopedia person who happened to use a wiki.'" While I give many of the high-edit-count old hands a lot of credit for trying to maintain encyclopedic standards on Wikipedia, I can't agree that their sound editorial judgment characterizes most of Wikipedia's editorial culture. On any topic that is the least bit controversial, the culture is all about ideological edit-warring, and many active wikipedians seem to be quite proud of their lack of acquaintance with libraries or the other resources used by genuine scholars. There doesn't seem to be anyone at the top of the leadership of Wikipedia backing up the wikipedians who are doing the best work for the project and adding the most reliably sourced content.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

If pg has said that someone could do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica (where and when did pg say that?), I'd like to know how to join that effort. What have any of you heard about efforts to bring about a friendly competitor to Wikipedia? The best way to help Wikipedia might be to build a point of comparison that does better work, just as East Germany was best helped by the continually visible example of West Germany until the Stasi couldn't make the East Germans afraid anymore.
Happy/Merry Christmas colo(u)rs.
Just a FYI - You can uninstall IE9 from your computer. It's not listed in the Add/Remove Programs list but you can find it under the "Installed Updates" list.
I'd imagine that the target is a replacement of the PC. You could (theoretically) have the same utility as a PC with a wireless keyboard/mouse paired with the headset. On top of that is all the holographic applications that will be figured out.
> This is perfectly reasonable because valid JSON can also be an array

Are arrays (and primitives which can be boxed) not considered objects in every OO language ever?

Agreed re: usls ctrctns. That's the other extreme. One wants to convey the required meaning in the minimum amount possible - no more, no less.

Edit: thinking about it, you probably mean that the top level object is a hashtable, since ObjC is strongly typed. If I was going to do that I'd rather check the whole structure (rather than just the top) with an interface.
really? I've been following the guy for a while and think he is sometimes an idiot. For example, if there are court orders: where are they? Unless he saw the court orders, he just made them up. I could give you a bunch of things he was wrong about. He has a forum where be bans people who disagree with him. He was right about foreclosure gate and others such as the financial bailouts, but totally wrong on his deflation argument and wrong about gold. He was so wrong about gold that he deleted the precious metal area of his website from public viewing.
Maybe they weren't talking about multiple simultaneous events (although the concept of time doesn't really apply anyway) but more about prior (in the sense of one having an influence on the other) events that had impact on the initial conditions for our current universe's big bang.
Any chrome extension which uses a 'background page' is listed as accessing your browsing history. This is because a background page (think of it as a daemon) knows which tabs you open and where you navigate and could theoretically store or transmit that data.
it took real work to research, design, and produce, and this deserves a reward.

That's not necessarily the US's position on copyright, either. See Bridgeman v. Corel.
I completely agree with you. I asked one of my professors at my Machine Learning masters course about this, and he said "if I've never heard of it, how good can it be?"

Algorithms that replicate biological processes are popular because people can easily grasp them. Anyone can understand why evolutionary systems work, or why neural networks work (because it's in nature, dummy!), but they don't work as well as other, purely mathematical methods.

In the end, these sorts of things tend to be toys or marginally useful, where other, more mathematically sound algorithms dominate the landscape. I got very excited about HTMs too, when I didn't know as much about ML as I do now, but I've realised that it hasn't made even a dent in academic circles (you know, the ones with the thousands of people who study these things for a living).
While this is not necessarily a recommendation for a speaker, I would suggest using Nathan Furr's Business Model Competition (http://businessmodelcompetition.com) to compel a student population to shift their focus to entrepreneurship.
This is a good start, but won't work for HTTP 1.1 multi-site hosting.

The browser needs to send the HOST header with the correct host name, otherwise you'll just get the default site at that IP.
Why doesn't Apple engrave Macbook Pros for free, too?
I second Stroustrup's book. I liked it a lot.
Hi Inityx—book author here. My eyesight is bad, hence the big font. It should respond well to browser zoom, or if you narrow the page there's a narrower layout with smaller fonts.
This implies that we've stopped trying to discover secrets of the natural world, which is the farthest thing from the truth.

Basic science is still going on. True, the US isn't as good at funding it as we used to be, but it hasn't stopped, and I doubt it ever will.

More importantly, the fact that we're making "internet connected toasters" (and various other experimental gadgets of questionable practical utility) does absolutely nothing to detract from the fact that we are still "discovering the secrets of the natural world".

There are a lot of people in the world. There's plenty of room for some to be doing amazing science while others make weird gadgets, no matter what you or I think of those gadgets.
> Punchline: GitHub accepts arbitrary user input and spits it back out into page HTML without verifying it.

Because of a bug related to parsing integers, the behavior you described can happen in the GitHub pages code. However, it is a far cry from "GitHub accepts arbitrary user input and spits it back out into page HTML without verifying it". That's an exceedingly antagonistic way of putting it - and smacks of "I want to make GitHub look dumb by misstating the problem."
MySQL is as advanced as Oracle on this topic (DDL in transaction), unless Oracle has changed in the recent years.
Is it possible that programming is both hard and easy? I somewhat feel that this post lacks the nuance that it complains of the other side lacking.

I'm of the opinion that anyone that thinks you must be of some special intelligence to become a software engineer is wrong because frankly it's no harder than many other careers. However, I do side with the author that we shouldn't be dismissive and pretend it's extra easy either.

I want some nuance. As with all things, programming is easy to get into, hard to be great at. Doing it doesn't make you particularly special. Working hard and getting better at _something_ is what matters.
By what you're saying Rails is indeed gonna serve you well, that's exactly the use case where it shines: small teams that need to move fast.
I also believe it's simple structure is quite good for big projects/teams as well but that's a different discussion.
> Does Chess sap the intellectual potential of humanity? Does novel writing sap the intellectual potential of humanity? Does algebraic geometry sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

what if it does ?
That's something being a good, skilled programmer working on larger systems needs to be able to do. That's not something every programmer needs to be able to do.
It's not about living like a king, it's about changing the world. If it was just about consumption I would never work another day in my life even though I probably have at least 25 productive ones left.
I haven't exploited anyone either, I created software with my own hands and sold it to people without employing anyone (I have a partner and we sometimes had short term contractors but not employees). We are not a monopoly and we have very smart competitors.

The reason I will not stop working? With enough money I can change the world around me: open a racket sports club/gym, maybe my gf opens a kindergarten for autistic kids (she currently works at one), maybe I can influence local politics so we finally get rid of the biggest polluters from my town.

If it wasn't possible to do those things with money it wouldn't be the game worth playing and that would be a loss for everyone involved: me, my customers
and the government taxing me.

I can only change the world at a very small local scale. Jeff Bezos can send rockets to another planet. Elon Musk can among other things build infrastructure to give everyone around the world internet access. Please let them, the governments have enough money already and they don't have a monopoly for good ideas how to spend it to put it mildly.
https://m.xkcd.com/810/
>since only people with negative experiences tend to write

I haven't found that to be the case at the Apple subreddit on Reddit.

IMO, it depends on the topic and where the discussion is located.
I find it amusing that I got downvoted for stating the doctor probably had little creative input in the show.
Sure, if you already have a mining rig, by all means keep mining!

But I personally wouldn't make a big investment on it if I was only getting started now.
They have been delisted. But just because they've been delisted they don't cease to exist, so you can buy them OTC ("over the counter").
Here is another one: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/electricity_price...
Meh, it hasn’t switched yet, there’s still mining to be done.

I made ~$100 in the past month (stopped during the cold snap/storm here) on my 3080 mining ETH. Of course, I was getting closer to 90Mh/s so slightly more viable.
Would Teal be a good fit for transpiling Lua into SPIR-V intermediate language?

If it is possible, one could run same language across system level, game logic level and GPU shader level. This would be fantastic because you often don't know at which level it would run fastest. When algorithm at game logic level is not fast enough it would be possible to move preparation stage to compile-time (prebaking) and parallelizable sections into GPU, all by using same basic language.
Teachers’ unions and others who oppose safe in‐ person instruction have done more to advance school choice in the past year than could have ever been imagined.

Read on..
So if, for example, a student hacks into the professor's computer and steals the test-question to study from, this is OK as long as it wasn't expressly forbidden? I'm not saying they should only study from materials that are provided... but in this case they were clearly using materials that they shouldn't have had access to.
Oh come on.

gcc simvm.c
time ./a.out
857419840

real	0m0.374s
user	0m0.359s
sys	0m0.003s

meanwhile:

gcc -O3 simvm.c -o fast.out
time ./fast.out
857419840

real	0m0.006s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.003s

Comparing optimized compiled code against unoptimized compiled code is worthless. .NET does some optimizations as it runs, and JITs, your standard `gcc` does very few.

/me goes to comment on the blog.

edit: bah! Foiled!

>Hmmm, your comment seems a bit spammy. We're not real big on spam around here.

Please go back and try again.

edit2: holy cow, that spam filter hates me. I can't get anything to post...
I completely agree. I think DRY is a very single-developer orientated aspect. There is value in repeating your self or copy and paste programming as that can enable further polish and customizing where DRY causes more intense mental activity to keep everything clean.

Inspired new blog article: http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/11/avoid-dry-for-product-...
You should read the debates Objectivists had over the NYC mosque issue, for example.

Applying Objectivism to the NYC mosque issue is a little more sophisticated. That doesn't address my point, though, which is that it's trivial to apply Objectivism to the idea of a guaranteed minimum income.

I'm interested in hearing what your most fundamental criticisms actually are.

I get this a lot. I'd invite you to email me (and certainly won't complain if you do), but answering this question properly would frankly involve a lot of hard philosophical work that I don't have the time or focus for at the moment.