jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t a robot with the adaptability and trainablility of a human be, in effect a human? I say this only partially in jest. At one time I drove an old jalopy that developed a broken throttle cable, being poor i contrived a fix by splicing the two ends together with a nut and bolt. I joke to a friend the operation required three hands, one to hold the cable together, one to hold the bolt and one to turn the nut. I often reflect on what would be required to “program” a machine to perform such an operation; under the dash where the steering column transited the floor board, no less.

Of course robots aren’t expected to do such tasks, that’s just an example of a complex task that seems impossible to implement. And there are an infinite number of such tasks in the human repertoire.
I’m fairly sure the academic consensus is that agriculture created poverty.
> guild that aids in collective bargaining

Sort of like a worker’s union?
Yes, even in a vacuum. The side of the ISS that faces away from the sun reaches -157C (while the side facing the sun reaches +120C. Heat is infrared light energy...it's not sound.

https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounde...
This is not feasible advice. I can't read studies and correctly interpret and summarize them in every area of science which could affect my day-to-day decisions. That's insane.

But if you wanted to study something out and make your own decision, you should be free to do so.

I think nutrition is a great example. Despite decades of research, there appears to be no one single answer as to what constitutes a healthy diet, or what the most important aspects of a healthy diet are.

Low-calorie? Low-carb? Dairy-free? Meat-free? Low-sodium? Low-fat? High-fat?

As an individual, you have lots of choices, including eating whatever you want with no particular dietary plan at all. But if you want to read a book or read research papers and change your diet, you can.
Considering how quickly CP2077 became profitable I doubt it's a good example of necessary death marches. Quite the opposite. I suspect they could have delayed until winter 2021 and still turned a profit easily.
Well, this is how you get anti-vaxxers as well...don't listen to the experts blindly and do your own "research". Most of the population lacks the skills (as evidenced by general math scores) to make even a partially informed judgment if they were to do their own "research"...
Keep in mind capitalism systematically creates poverty by depriving income to the ~50% of the population that are not full time workers (children, elderly, sick, disabled, unemployed, students, etc).
A high level overview on why different curves like 25519 are chosen would be awesome. The Wikipedia article on it is probably very intuitive to a cryptographer, yet its just a bunch of letters to me.
The person I was responding to had already read about the issues - I was confirming their existing impression and, more important, addressing the fact that they were putting them aside for a reason i didn't agree with.

The fact that you would attack me without understanding the thread (and use it as an opportunity to divert people to your Twitter) reflects badly on you.
I don't know, but I wonder why anyone would want to work in an environment like that, where people appear to be constantly fighting against the company and other coworkers. How can anyone work in that environment? Or maybe they can't, given recent flops like the Pixel 4 and Stadia...
That number of combinations is not consistent with the $300 offer from the locksmith company to have a robot try them all in "up to 3 days".

90^5 / 3 / 24 / 3600 = approx. 23000 combinations/s

That rate seems much too high, for either a mechanical lock mechanism or an electronic keypad (which I guess would have some kind of lockout for brute forcing anyway).
Entirely possible that it acts as a filter for companies that have a superficial evaluation of 'professionalism'.
Besides confusing people, I'd say it's a useless feature for a couple of reasons:

1. If you insert a misnumbered item in the middle of the list then when you come back later to edit the text you will be confused by how the numbers in the source are different from the numbers in the formatted output.

2. There's no point in using a numbered list unless you're going to refer to the number(s) somehow. (In this case I'm using the word "couple" to introduce the list!) Markdown doesn't sort out those references for you so in practice you have to manually renumber things anyway.
"the work that you have done is soooooooo good."

How did they translate the "soooooooo" part? Were ancient people really using this kind of tone?
I hear server-side swift is gaining traction
That was already submitted also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21636361
that's what plain html is for! I don't really see the point of markdown. With modern html5 you do not even need to close most tags.
That’s the one!!!
Nice, I guess author does not have a kids yet. It is fun to teach 1 year old howto use phone.

edit: author has a kid, congrats
If you want to enact change, you have to use whatever means is appropriate.

In a democratic country that is supposed to uphold human rights, public acts such as these can have a strong positive impact.

In an autocratic country such as china, the impact would be zero. Often, limited engagement can have a better impact.
But the thing that makes it hard for some people to believe is not the long term vision, but the short term actions. Musk isn't really doing anything that people could call harmful. However, there are a lot of people who would disagree with that if you said the same thing about Google.
Silly me, I thought this essay was going to be about Ron Popeil (http://www.ronco.com).

Cue the obligatory Weird Al reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BX56syrmWQ

"It slices.."

"It dices..."

"LOOK AT THAT TOMATO!"

"You could even cut a tin can with it, but you wouldn't want to!"

Ah, good childhood memories.

For those who might care but don't know, Lisa Popeil (Ron's half sister) sang backup vocals on that song. Pretty funny.

With apologies to anyone too young to know about Ronco TV commercials ("Now how much would you pay????")

:-D
I've interviewed people who didn't know their way around a loop.

I would love to exist in a world where everyone could fizz buzz flawlessly.
One of the library authors here -- That sounds like quite the table! I wouldn't doubt that Griddle would have a bit more overhead than the solution you mentioned. I wonder if the performance would be better in this version -- not saying it would necessarily but it may :) We stripped out one of the more complicated parts (the piece that let people specify a callback to obtain external data) to its own component.

Horizontal scrolling definitely sounds like an interesting idea. Seems like it would be feasible to add -- I'll have to think about that a bit more. Also, if the solution you came up with is online anywhere I'd love to see it!
Some interviewees talk up a big game. And some interviewers are too forgiving. "He fudged blah, but he probably meant factory pattern. Hired!"

Fizz buzz you can't skate around. Either you know how to implement something, or you don't.
I think I'm in that camp.

I got a D in linear algebra, my lowest grade in university and one of my lowest grades ever, but excelled in computer graphics, and even got permission to take a graduate level course in it for elective credit as an undergrad.

My recollection is that the problem sets in the linear algebra class seemed really abstract and vague, and I couldn't reason through it very well because I couldn't visualize what we learned, given the information from the class.

Computer graphics, however, let me visualize what we were covered, and suddenly everything made sense. I could see, literally, what the end result was supposed to be, and it just clicked.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of a shame I had the linear algebra class first. The CG experience would have helped me out quite a bit.
Are you sure that the agencies you speak of are not able to do this anyway? Even the Hong Kong Post Office has a place among the trusted CA's supplied by most vendors: not really necessary for everyone on the planet, I'd think. If even just one of those trusted CAs would or has become compromised, all bets are off. Which has already happened in the past anyway.

So, how you defend "SSL everywhere".. I don't buy it. I feel more for what the commenter you responded to said, because your counter argument comes with a lot of assumptions that have more problematic implications. A false sense of being secure does seem much worse than knowing that most of the stuff you do is actually insecure to begin with.

Plain text is not a bug. It's a feature! Cheesy, I know.
Totally agree, i sometimes reminisce about the good ol' days with my Nokia N70 i bought in 2005. Here's some memorable achievements:

- I watched most of the world cup 2006 games live streamed over 3G.
-I used to frequently use google maps which without GPS would use cell towers triangulate my position within a couple hundred meter radius. - Used it as a wireless AP
-And even uploaded videos to youtube.

When i first heard of the iPhone i wasn't that impressed as i already been using what i considered a smartphone. Obviously i that's all changed now! ;)
Start here:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
Perhaps creating derivative work could be way to go. Just developing, scanning and retouching images might be enough in some countries.
Google literally is the poster child of Big Tech monopoly masquerading as a “Technology company” which is a false broad characterization of what it does. Revenues are overwhelmingly from search ads.

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you should be familiar with a decade long fight it has put up to fight off its monopoly status.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/opinion/google-monopoly-r...
At what point do you draw the line between individual responsibility and blaming the system? When do a person's failures become their fault?
Is that the same as redeploying your app to an existing container?
That’s why they amended the constitution to collect income taxes. The 16th amendment was necessary for a variety of reasons.

The Supreme Court - the constitutional court - kept squashing attempts to collect one.

It might not be important that it undermines your 5th amendment right when the 16th amendment allows any means necessary - or doesnt limit collection methods.
I saw Ukrainian woman interviewed on TV who said that she tells her children that the explosions are fireworks.
The actual article you are commenting on states he was sainted by the Coptic church…
What if I want privacy on a non-home network? Huge part of my traffic is over 5G/LTE.
@Aerosmile I dont know that you need to look at Austria. You can just look at America over time. Mobility is getting harder and there's no real need to pretend it isn't
I love hearing from the evolutional theorists. They are like Christian evangelists who cannot fathom other possible realities and motives except theirs. They are so single-minded that it is truly fascinating to watch them explain all phenomena through their lens.
This warms my heart to see. I was looking at various hardware (teensy and so on) at the time I originally started the project, but never had the time and energy to wrangle actually putting it together.
The original article that this is taken verbatim from is at http://www.slate.com/id/2269131/
Neat. I did something similar for my graduate thesis project a couple of years ago, but to play pool/billiards on the computer using real cue sticks (for practice and feel) http://mixedrealitybilliards.com
Kind of related: is there something like Dokku but for FaaS?
> As the majority in power, white people have and will continue to make decisions that favor those who look like themselves.

Like suspending classes because they were too white?

> I'm not saying you are racist or that you should atone for the sins of your white peers

It's even worse, we're talking about innocent children and referring to them as "oppressors".
I think making a change like this warrants a major version bump. It won't eliminate all the surprise for everyone, and I do have sympathy for the people who did go out of their way to talk about this on the mailing list and then surprised everyone. But it's common to pin yourself to a minor or maintenance release line to automatically pick up security fixes, etc. I expect breakage when changing the major (or even minor), and that's almost always a manual upgrade. And that's when I do read all the release notes, run tests, etc. before committing to the change.
> In the end, all that is being done to the “advanced” students is that they’re being offered the same education that their peers are getting.

This is generally not what advanced students get. They are usually taught different, more advanced curricula. Not all kids are capable of learning quickly, so the whole point of a separate program is to provide quick learners with advanced curricula and others with the support they need.
I just tried the latest Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon and was disappointed. At first it was looking good, but then the warts started to show through. I could live with some of the problems, but I had to do some searching to learn that the reason Firefox scrolling was laggy was I was using a non-standard hidpi scale factor, the UI froze multiple times in just a few days, and it felt all around glitchier.
If you believe Joseph Needham (who according to George Steiner was not above telling a white lie or two) one would think they were getting rid of rival Mohist siege engineers
I'm curious if anyone definitively knows why macOS updates can't be differental -- why it requires a gigabyte or more to patch something tiny.

Given the expense of bandwidth and servers needed at a global scale, it seems Apple would have implemented differential updates long ago if it were just a straightforward engineering task.

So it seems pretty clear that something is making it incredibly difficult or essentially impossible. Does anybody know what it is?
Your project is just enough working (and up to spec!) that I might just restart my (100% compatible) funnelweb resurrection in literate format. Thank you!
I like rust. What I don't like is people who pretend that unsafe rust is any better than C++ or C.
Nitpick: “...as soon as possible” sounds more natural to native speakers

Ulugh Beg’s observatory was what Ottomans’ short lived one was built to compete with
383 is prime. So it can't be a substitution cipher.
Funny - I'm in the US, and I get a comparable amount of vacation.

If you want vacation, negotiate for it. Your pay might be lowered commensurately, but there is no free lunch. Why would you care if other people choose money over time?
Mexico might not be a good example because they have problems such as cartels being more powerful than the state military and cartel members holding public executions while police turn a blind eye.
Why focus on climate change? Al Jazeera should be concerned about changing the way news networks discuss topics entirely, not just this isolated story.

There is too much forced drama in television news, like the typical "Watch ---- news at 9 to see if your child will die from a toy you might have in your house". I haven't seen any of the new Al Jazeera programming but I did see their four minute promo trailer for the network and it looked to me like the same kind of stuff. The narrator to that teaser sounded like he was doing a michael bay trailer and the news anchors had plastic smiles like all the other news channels.

That isn't to say I don't have hope though. Anything that is better than the methods which current networks employ is a step forward.
> had blocked the interstate

There's a permanent roadblock across northbound lanes of interstates in New Mexico (and, I think, Arizona), and across many of the smaller roads in southern Arizona (and, presumably, New Mexico).

> if I'm a US citizen. Then I was free to go.

It also helps to be white, fwiw.
This is awesome. But, does anyone know how to do this with `--save-cookies` command with wget?
That should be happening in Bash too...
Nothing for Rete? Come on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm
Prove it. You made a statement; burden of proof on you.
The "source" you linked to only contributes to a small portion of this article. The RIM press release doesn't make any mention of how RIM's competitors are doing.
It's mainly because BBM is a non-threatening way to give out your contact information. You can add a guy to your BBM list, chat with him and then if you find out he's a crazy you can block him. The person can't constantly txt you or call you back like with your cell phone number. It's brilliant for us ladies. :)
This a delusional. The author prides himself on his ability to break-in and stay anywhere "by choice", forgetting that someone else has paid or is paying for all the things he's enjoying.

Yes, you can get by without paying rent. Why not pay the $200 and live in a bare apartment? At least it's an honest life.
Thanks for the feedback, and I think you're right.

I updated the site to focus a little more on the specific benefits/advantages of the app. I guess it's a little difficult to market something like this that has deliberately few features. The main reason that I love it is because of how fast and easy it is to use, as I don't even have to think when adding something to a list. Unfortunately, it's hard to communicate that via the web...
I'm a little hesitant, but it is hanging here on the wall so:

http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg

This was an 8 hour marathon of oil pastel madness. I was in my tiny apartment with 6-8 friends and literally spent the entire time engrossed in this thing. The background was the technique that I could never get back. This was a series of this basic type of drawing I did. There were 4 and this one I like the most. Gave one away to some chick I was seeing :/

http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg

Bic pens have always been a favorite as well. These are actually meeting drawings from a fairly recent (sober) time, but are representitive of the drawings I don't want to go dig out and scan. My brain didn't do this prior to LSD ;)
"Interactive whiteboard" / "smart board" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_whiteboard

Wii Remote > Features > Sensing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote#Sensing

.. > Third-Party Development describes a number of applications for IR/optical tracking with an array of nonstationary emitters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote#Third-party_develop...

Augmented Reality (AR) > Technology > Tracking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#Tracking

... links to "VR positional tracking" which does have headings for "Optical" and "Sensor fusion":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_positional_tracking
Yes, that 1-4 was my ordering. Interesting, alternative (external stimulation). As I think about external stimulation though, I wonder if being stimulated by people is fundamentally different from other stimulating things (art, ideas, the stimulation of being in nature). I'm guessing this is an area where the theory could fruitfully get more complex.
Oh, and amusing anecdote...

I accepted a gig where I used that line and got their boilerplate non-compete crossed out and replaced with just "you will not work for $majorClient or any subsidiary of theirs for 6 months", but most of my cow orkers had not done that and just signed what they were offered.

12 months later, $majorClient, who was over 80% of the billings, left. Company called an all-hands, announcing they were going into receivership and weren't making payroll for the previous month that had been due the day before. Followed somehow with am straight face by "Oh, and remember you all signed a non compete that prohibits you from working for $majorClient!".

They were somewhat unhappy when someone raised their hand and asked "So that means you'll be holding up your side of my employment contract and paying last night's salary, and all our leave and other entitlements?"

At least 6 or 8 people were back working on that project either directly at $client or at their new agency within a week.
> Non-competes are not valid or enforceable in the state of California.

The scope of legally valid noncompetes is narrower than California than many other places (but is not an empty set), but just because one of you or the company are in California doesn't mean that California law would be controlling when they tried to enforce this.
actually, "don't optimize prematurely" is a poor advice.
just recently I was doing a good review that had the same issue where they were counting the size of an array in a loop, when stuff was being added to the array in the loop too. obvious solution was to track the length and

arr = []
while ...:
if something:
arr.append(foo)
...
if count(arr) == x:
stuff
...

changed to

arr=[]
arr_size = 0
while ...:
if something:
arr.append(foo)
arr_size++;
...
if arr_size == x:
stuff
...

This is clearly optimization, but it's not premature. The original might just pass code review, but when it wrecks havoc, the amount of time it will cost will not be worth it, jira tickets, figuring out why the damn thing is slower, then having to recreate it in dev, fixing it, reopening another pull request, review, deploy, etc. Sometimes "optimizing prematurely" is the right thing to do if it doesn't cost much time to do or overly completely the initial solution. Of course, this depends on the language, some languages will track the length of the array so checking the size is o(1), but not all languages do, so checking the length can be expensive, knowing the implementation detail matters.
I was about to comment on that same statement. The author seems to be confusing supply with demand.

Simply because you can create and distribute something doesn't mean there is a market for it. If you could, we would see a lot more professional poets.
Thanks! spaCy seems to be really easy to use, but CoreNLP still yields better results, cf. http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/corenlp/process
I don't know that getting a job is anywhere near "an excessively long game" in the context of publicly known instances of espionage. Have you heard about the group of Russian spies that spent decades blending in (somewhat) to US lives and doing nothing much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program

They were arrested around 2010; one had allegedly been a spy for ten years, and another since the 1970s.
And apparently not only do people feel a need to complain about something they can trivially fix themselves, but they also need to downvote people who point out that they can fix it themselves. Guys: how about taking some responsibility for yourselves? If you have a problem that you can easily fix, then you don't actually have a problem.
I am not right wing and I am not sure how you came that conclusion since you don’t know me and are unfamiliar with observations of my child’s school.
If you're not familiar with the system, why are you insistent on changing it? And since you're new to the team, what's the rush to tell everyone their work is poor? What would be your reaction if you were in their place? How do you think your approach will play out in the long term?

Leadership is about people not code. Good luck.
At least wearing masks over flu season might get normalised by this?
You can beat falling markets by not buying anything.

I don't get why is beating the market a goal, isn't making money the goal? I am much happier making 20% while market is up 30%, than losing 5% when the market loses 20%.
It's worthwhile to track whether there's suspicious spike in number of Kodokushi.