jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The gotcha I have with Nix is it's too much abstraction. I have to look at the upstream documentation, then try and map it to Nix's config syntax, then hope everything works.

For me, the big benefit is that even though I have to read the upstream documentation, I can use the same syntax for everything and do not have to learn and use N different configuration file syntaxes.
The codename for his death is : "Operation Forth Bridge"
It's obviously not a social fiction, regardless of what you may think about monarchy in general.

They have power because they inherited it from someone that conquered it. Just like people may inherit companies and fortunes.
That’s still showing a break even around ~30$/gallon fuel costs in 2020 dollars for pure heating applications. It’s hard to reach those kinds of delivery costs. It’s even worse when you want to use RTG’s for electricity as you add complexity and lower efficiency.
So if I properly understood this article, Bill and Melinda Gates are morally incompetent?
I used to use React a few years ago for all my projects, and a friend recommended I try out Vue, and I rewrote my massive project in less than a quarter of the time. And in the past year I discovered Svelte/Sapper, and I rewrote my app in even less time than that.

I guess my real point is React is great, but not for all use cases, and I've come to really love using Sapper for my purposes (small, fast API-driven MVP web apps built by a single person team)
Reading other threads, I'm realizing that video chat is a bit of a blind spot for me as I don't use it socially.

If you do though, maybe that group is small enough to move the people you really care about videoing with.
I'm actually thinking of their treadmill, which is $4K. But okay, fine; it's "only" $2K. My question is just as valid: "on a $2K machine? My half-that-price rowing machine can adjust resistance on the fly."

Hell, the pricey-but-not-as-pricey-as-Peleton computerized trainer I had almost 15 years ago could adjust the resistance on the fly. I just figured that was table stakes these days.
I too am happy about advances in nuclear energy research, and would like to make a remark regarding its suitability for fighting the climate crisis.

In 2019, just 4 % of the global primary energy came from nuclear power (the figure is about 10 % if we restrict to electricity). Hence replacing fossil sources by nuclear would entail large-scale construction of new nuclear reactors. By the time we're done building these, we will already have exceeded our CO₂ budget for keeping below 1.5 °C at a reasonable certainty.

Also, at the current rate, the Uranium reserves last for approximately 140 years; if all fossil sources were switched for nuclear, it would last for 10 years. This problem can in principle be alleviated by innovative reactor types, but realistically they won't be available for large-scale production in the next couple years.

Luckily, we do have all the technology for phasing out fossil energy while staying within our CO₂ budget: water, wind, solar, storage of synthetic gas, gas-fueled power plants (fueled by synthetic gas obtained using renewable energy). Energy production with these alternatives is cheaper than with nuclear; this fact is an additional issue for expanding nuclear power -- it's not economically viable.
It's an atlas, so no. It's supposed to be a broad cover you can skim and dig into some of the sections.

It's also not that huge given the scope -- it could be taught as a multi semester course like a lot of the similar statistics textbooks
The important thing is that non-technical people can understand it.

Like hiring managers.
Replace gay marriage with racial segregation. What should be the social repercussions, if any, when a person advocates racial segregation?

At what point does a good faith disagreement become taboo?

Edited: A closer analogy would be interracial marriage. Laws prohibiting interracial marriage weren't struct down until 1967. Could a respectful person advocate banning interracial marriages ?
That's misleading definition of GMO. Genetically Modified Organisms is not the same as Gene Modified organisms. Gene modified organisms are made through selective breeding. Genetically Modified Organisms are made by splicing genes from other creatures.

The former means application of genetics, while second implies selective breeding.

I've honestly got nothing against GMO, and I know that GMO carries a stigma, but honestly, so do vaccines. I've got loads of problem with Monsanto, their business practices and Round-up but not too many problems with GMO as GMO.
It's worth clarifying that macros differ from functions in clojure in some pretty important ways, most obviously that you can't take their value - you can't (map macro coll) etc, which to me at least is a regular frustration.

That aside, clojure.core.match is implemented pretty much as you describe:

https://github.com/clojure/core.match/wiki/Extending-match-f...

I too was a bit confused about what the article was getting at.
hubicfuse works but is unreliable (make sure you verify your transfers) and slow.
I have a number of friends who are huge gun fiends, who are always hounding me to go with them so they have the second person. This is just for handguns, long guns, for some reason, don't have that requirement, and allow you to go out on the range solo.
Very similar :)

We do use a proxy/router. The main difference is that instead of using etcd for service discovery we are deeply integrated with Mesos.

Our framework scheduler does the registration/deregistration, resource allocation/colocation, etc.

The main reason for a proxy at this point is to have unified metrics collection, distributed routing (each reverse proxy knows only its immediately connected downstream operators), tracing (think dapper), and facilitating the communication with other languages (c++, java, go, js - node, ruby, etc).
April fools joke released 1 day early.
Well, the benefit here would be battery life considering the chipset uses less power. Not too long about we were buying ~5-6lbs Dells and HPs that maybe got 90 minutes of heavy use or 120 minutes of light use. Now multi-hour life is the norm on a form factor that weighs almost half that.

Performance, depending on your needs, is probably not CPU bound. My biggest performance upgrade was installing SSDs into all my equipment. Turns out I've been disk-bound this entire time. The CPU just sits there waiting for disk data. Even with super-fast SSDs most people aren't CPU bound. Now they're network bound (why isn't this webpage loading fast enough?).
If you don't like to code scrapers, you can always use something like http://import.io

the 'magic' API works on alot of list websites: https://magic.import.io/?site=http:%2F%2Fwww.indeed.co.uk%2F...
You connect the two extortion and cybersquatting. Again, different things. They can overlap sure, but cybersquatting has a narrow definition. Extortion also does. Buying domains really doesn't meet the definition.

As far as doing nothing, they 'do' something. Most have nameservers and resolve to something.

As far as demanding payments. That's funny, you want something but don't feel obligated to pay. Nobody is forcing you to buy any particular domain. You simply feel entitled for one reason or another.

I think first-come, first-serve is the least worst option and also is in line with the spirit the internet was created. Allowing anyone to compete at minimal cost. Just because you don't get software.com doesn't limit you from selling software. If you really cannot come up with a name or put up some money and buy a decent name perhaps you need to rethink what you're doing.
Again, I don't think blogging about this will influence your A/B test, because your (future) customers and people reading your blog don't overlap very much (or at all).

But, I do think publishing the A/B test does influence the outcome if they do overlap.

You are talking about the $30 that you could get but miss the point: you might get some extra money but in the process corrupt the validity of your A/B test and make a bad decision afterwards, based on that result. Well, not that it matters anyhow, as I'm pretty sure you have actually decided already to stop doing the Java app.

I would like to have somebody that knows more about sociology and statistical surveys explain if what I am saying makes sense or not.
If a VC trashes my idea cause it came from my gmail; thats his loss.
This post is just plain wrong. Obviously it's tempting to get caught up in ideas and ignore execution, but saying ideas are flat-out worthless is simply being ignorant of history. A few examples:

- Creating an assembly line to mass produce cars in the early 1900s was a good idea. It clearly wouldn't have gone anywhere without execution, but if Henry Ford had instead decided to execute flawlessly on a hand-painted rock business the results would have been far different.

- Starting a software-only company in the late 70s was a good idea. I'm sure most people here know Microsoft's story well enough to understand the importance of execution in this case, but they never would have achieved the same level of success if they weren't executing on a big idea ("a computer on every desk and in every home").

- I think you could argue that the company that makes Snuggies has executed their idea as well as possible. But because of the nature of their idea they will never be anything more than a flash-in-the-pan business. There's nothing wrong with that type of business, but the potential is much smaller.

Yes, your idea matters. It determines what market you'll be addressing and ultimately sets the upper limit for your success. The real problem is that people get caught up in ideas because they're more fun than executing. Realistically the time spent on the idea should probably be a fraction of a percent of the time spent on execution. Pick an idea that you think you can execute on and that has large enough potential, then focus 100% on execution.
This is a MIPS-based system. I rather hack something that is ARM-based.
This looks to me like something I never thought would happen; it's one step worse than the usual proceedings of network expansion by "dumb-greedy" suits in charge at ISPs - just lay one cheap channel of copper, don't spend extra on fiber, then dig the lane up again when bandwidth is short and put another channel of cheap copper, then dig up again, and again, instead of just laying down fiber from the start and be done with it for years ahead for one tenth the cost of digging the lane up - but instead, these brilliant suits cut all their costs by just selectively choking the web infront of their customers. What an utterly backwards, bone-headed move.
Not the Apache one... the other one! :D
I seem to have one of the outliers. Well, let's wait for the detailed analysis to see whether my test cases were good enough. ;-)
We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

Could someone post a summary for us Linux users?
I wrote a small jQuery plugin around that idea ( at https://gist.github.com/435668/85466138a24814baef3ec6a73b7cc... )

This approach allows you to specify parameters as JSON. So data of arbitrary length can be passed without having to resort to some global variable.

It solves a problem I had where I needed to pass some template engine generated content into an otherwise static script.

Thanks for the tip :)
As venomsnake points out, the concern is not these "unfortunate episodes"--aberrations of justice do happen from time to time, and though we ought strive for perfection it is only human that sometimes we'll goof.

No, no, what is troubling is when you look at the system as a whole and how it is evolving, and you start to ask questions:

1. Is there a best effort attempt at justice for all?

2. Is there any ongoing program to limit and reduce .gov security organs?

3. Is there anything to be done peacefully if the .gov security organ decides to attack dissenters?

4. What is the cost of non-peacefully reigning in a malfunctioning .gov security organ?

1 is far from sure, 2 is a no, and 3 is an empathic "oh shit", and 4 is just a shitshow.

The concern must not be "how bad are the outliers today"--the concern must be "are we setting up a system which will be infeasible to repair in the next five to ten years".
It also turns out that we don't test everyone for HIV. In what I am sure is some form of irony, we probably test more folks for carrying bombs than we do for having HIV. When the numbers show there are more folks with HIV in America than there are those carrying bombs.
I do it for a few reasons.

1) It requires agents turn away from their normal tasks and clogs up the works to some degree. I disagree with the program and opting for the pat-down is a legal action I can take that will, ever so briefly, disrupt it.

2) I do it in the hope that the agents doing the pat-down will be uncomfortable while doing so. Any legal action I can take that makes their job ever-so-slightly more unpleasant is something that I will do. If it were done en-masse and people in their personal lives ostracized them for their job, then maybe (just maaaybe) the TSA would experience higher turnover.

3) To add one more data-point to the agents' awareness that a portion of the population does not approve of them or their job.

4) So that other people waiting in the line can see me skip the full body scan and learn that they can as well.

5) So that I get to tell other people what I just told you.
Would feel like playing BF3 all the time
Reminds me of the movie Sunshine, with their striking gold space suits. I thought it was just for theatrical effect until I read it was actually based on this theory.

The gold-leaf shielding in Sunshine was influenced by NASA satellite designs for deflecting heat and other forms of radiant energy. Boyle designed the gold-coloured space suits along these lines despite persistent encouragement to model them after the NASA template.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)
A few months ago I started working only 2 days a week, if that's enough to cover the bills and you can find a (usually small) company that only need a developer some of the time then that might allow you to work on stuff you like while still being able to eat!
Maybe the time has come to resurrect Wave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave) and usurp email by turning Wave into a p2p PFS communications platform.
$1400 is cheaper than any good scanner on the market, true.

But this is not a good scanner.

This is a hobbyist-class scanner like the ~1100USD CADscan (http://cad-scan.co.uk/) and the 599USD Matterform Photon (http://www.matterform.net/). These and the Makerbot product share essentially the same technology.

The next level up from this would be something like NextEngine (>3000USD to get going): http://www.nextengine.com/.
How is this not about Francis Galton?!
An AGI with a superior intelligence could probably also design totally autonomous factories. Being smarter than us it could even convince us to help it in the beginning in that regard.
Regarding the post-AI-art, this still presupposes that humans will be somewhat superior, out of the AI creative league, despite it being more intelligent, and that the AI won't actively work against human interests -- something I wouldn't bet our existence on.
The C64 is rather more impressive in this domain of new hardware: cases, motherboards, SIDs, Ethernet and (S)NES Classic/Mini adapters, keycaps; but most of all new software, by the truck load: http://csdb.dk

The only thing that requires 16-bit is 3D and not much is happening in the Amiga retro scene on that front.
I agree that a Tether reckoning is coming, but point #10 of that thread is the most important: it could be weeks, months or _years_ before it's fully corrected, so be super super super careful about using Tether as a reason to short Bitcoin...

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
This is propaganda from a competing altcoin.
The book isn't for people who aspire to something greater than passive income and free time. In this case I'd say you're not the target audience.
is gcc clever enough to optimize

a() {
b();
i++;
}

or should we code for tco?
Absolutely, election meddling and invasions are terrible and should be punished no matter who does them. Currently Russia seems to be the primary perpetrator, so they are the ones that we should be discussing sanctions for. (They also did the most recent invasion, in Crimea). All this "but the US also!" is exactly the kind of whataboutism that Glavset trolls routinely engage in, and it's not constructive at all. Yes, the US plays dirty, as does China, but that's no reason to let Russia do so too.
Not OP, but anesthesiologist and hobby programmer for 15 years. What you are describing is a fundamental flaw of the current AI effort: the data that supports AI models is mostly irrelevant to the problem. In medicine, the saying goes: 90% of diagnoses are made on patient history. Ironically, there is no reason that would change for AI-enabled systems given the same information.

So to answer you directly yes, it's a better route until we have better information available. But it's also the wrong route to take in the long term. It would be far better to attempt to produce better supporting information.
Is this where I post the code I wrote twenty-five years ago to do 16-bit fixed-point 3D rendering? https://github.com/pjc50/ancient-3d-for-turboc

The target architecture was a 33MHz 486 PC running in "real" (ie sixteen-bit) mode. While hardware floating point was sometimes available (DX systems) it was quite slow.
80s/90s demoscene had a lot of exactly this :) And of course the 3d blobs via marching cubes.
And be equally careful about the experienced ones.
> For computers, a day is 86,400 seconds, no matter what

As far as I'm aware, daylight savings still has an effect on the number of seconds in a day.
> a picture of Buddha wearing headphones on Facebook gets you jail time.

In the West, wearing a shirt with a racy graphic design can cause a literal rocket scientist to be pilloried on social media to the point where he is literally crying on TV -- despite the fact that said shirt has nothing to do with his job. [1]

Cultural differences, that's how they work. What is perfectly normal to you can appear extremely strict, weird, or ridiculous to others.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11231320/Roset...
I've started many MOOC's but never finished because I couldn't keep up with watching the videos. Not being able to flip back and forth is really limiting. The only courses[1] I've finished had good quality notes and completely depended on them and avoided the lecture videos.

[1]: Roughgarden's Algorithms part I, Programming Languages by Dan Grossman and Machine Learning by Andrew Ng.
Tidal's great, but I really wish they'd update the player.
While there are certainly many interesting "features" in the broad sea of programming languages, a risk of enumerating them is that of missing the forest for the trees. More concretely, the things which make certain PLs really, truly great tend to be gestalt "features" that arise from well-designed (or just lucky) combinations of traditional features. For example, both Ruby and Python could be checklisted into appearing very similar on a feature basis. But I'll argue that DSLs are more easily designed and implemented in Ruby, stemming from the details and combinations of its features. Related, Haskell is reknowned for being "DSL friendly", but due to completely different interactions of its features as compared to Ruby.
Beer is very easy. So is wine--actually easier. Lots of people have made them over the past 5000+ years, so how hard can it be?

I had helped a friend a bit with some beer, but it wasn't until a few years later I tried on my own. I started with wine, initially with a book from author of _The Joy of Home Winemaking_ [1]. Apple, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, elderberry, and also grapes (piesporter, carmenere, barolo, grenache, viognier, etc.). Cabernet / chardonnay are boring choices for boring people; there are so many other choices available.

Good results right away.
More extreme experiments, perhaps questionable results, but learned a lot in all of them.

For beer, can't go wrong with _The Complete Joy of Homebrewing_ [2].

I went to my public library and got a dozen books on each subject before going to the bookstore. Besides the techniques and recipes, there tend to be a lot of history and related books on those shelves, so definitely check your library and return for more.

It can seem like a lot of details, but it's not that hard. Easier with a friend. Even easier, you can go to a brew-on-premises place (with a friend). There's probably a homebrew group near you, maybe a meetup; go to your local brewing supply store and check it out--they're knowledgeable and usually pretty friendly too.
Relax! have a homebrew.

And don't forget cider, mead, metheglin, cyser, perry, etc.

[1] http://www.joyofwine.net/
[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Homebrewing-Fourth-Editio...
> I recently went to a recruiting event of theirs in SF...

Could you please share how you discovered said event? I'm curious enough to want to attend one.
Yes! I discovered (completely by accident) that 00:11:22:33:44:55 is authenticated to someone's account, so I just set my mac to that when I need to use their shit
Yes! I took investment for one of my businesses during the product / market fit discovery faze. I regret this. The implication is we burned equity whilst trying to create a working product / business model.

I will only now take money to scale a business that's already working.
Many people hated flash years before the iPhone came out. Our reasons still hold.
Zed is a busy guy!
If it is a traditional hard drive, generally failures do not damage the platters. What some recover places do, is remove the platters and put them in a new drive enclosure, it is pretty easy to do actually. You can save some money by finding the same drive on the web, and swapping the platters into a new enclosure.
Thank you, India.
What about the Mongols under Genghis Khan? The UK in the 19th century?
ACTA is not a win-win proposition for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
That is besides the point. The main point of the article is that people want to see him get emotional and thats just not who he is. Its silly for people to want that... its a waste of time. But, since people will always want it, lets get someone good looking to do it and let him do his job.
What the hell was that. It made no sense to me (B.S. Mech Engineering, plus Masters in Information Systems).
I would argue that the indian government is doing this at the pressure from the united states government.
If you're part of the 10% that pays attention, one of the people that looked forward at the professor, instead of to the side at the trees, you might find that you've learned something. Ancient mythology is full of fascinating stories and tales, surviving movies from the 1920's can tell a story like no other. And both of these tend to get referenced in modern culture and movies (although you wouldn't realize it, if you didn't know about it).

To put it more simply: If you treat something like a waste of time, you'll come out of it having wasted your time.

And in the 8 semesters[1] that it takes someone to graduate, I find it hard to believe that the class was only offered once.

1. Usually.
Percentage is what matters. You are less likely to start a startup than your parents were.
Glad to hear it! I was hoping it could be useful to other people. I'm still working on it, so let me know if there is anything you'd like to see in it.
I didn't say Murray was a racist or a bigot. But, in fairness to you: I do believe he is one.
#cancelcovid - it will totally work