jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your comment is a bit strange: what makes you "well-versed" - that is an honest question.

I'll attempt to change your mind with a bit of math. And some context. I've used/use Peloton, Zwift, Future, and finally brick-and-mortar 24 Hour Fitness and Equinox.

My EQX membership is $240/month.
My Peloton membership is $40/month.

You're saying that people are going back to the office and want their classes/gyms, but that's not exactly true. I'm going back to the office, at most 3x a week, typically 2x a week. Work in Manhattan, live in Westchester County (30 min commute).

$240 / 8 visits per month (2x per week) = $30 per visit.
$240 / 12 visits per month (3x per week) = $20 per visit.

That $240 made sense when I could go to the gym 4x+ per week. And use multiple locations linked to the membership. It's now a very expensive line item on my credit card statement for doing something 8x per month.

Meanwhile, I can hit 2 or 3 Peloton classes per day, for $40 per month. Some of the most basic supplemental equipment (bands, dumbbells, etc.) can go a long way with some care after dealing with their upfront cost.

So, I agree with you that people want their gyms and classes but I don't agree that people are willing to pay for things they can't physically use as often. Meanwhile, anything you've built up at home is right there waiting to be used with almost no lost time.
I've read this article and others like it, and what I don't get is if the URE rates are really that high, why I have I never seen an URE in the bi-weekly scrubs of my pool (184 TB of raw disk), aside from when a single disk was literally going bad?
Don't forget to add

- willfully misrepresents data to imply a better safety record than they actually do have

https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808 (I've posted this elsewhere on this thread too)
I use single quotes for items that, while technically a string, could be considered a value or symbol. For example:

syslog('debug',"Just opened %s for output",filename)

While there's no semantic difference between single and double quote, in my code base, there is. And if black becomes very popular, why even support single quotes anymore?
I'd advise looking into some Texas history first. Part of the isolated grid was in response to the unreliability of other actors on the National grid.

Yeah. When you go independent it sucks when you set yourself up to not be helped by anyone else; but in general you at least know squarely where to place blame when it blows up in your face.
It’s not just that it’s one-click, it’s that there’s a single menu in Settings.app that shows you all of your subscriptions, which is helpful in case you forgot you had one, and will show you exactly how much it costs per month, how long a trial period has left, will notify when your trial period is about to end, etc.

You can really only do that with third party payment processors if there’s some standard API/protocol/standard for the management of subscriptions… which would be great, but probably isn’t all that feasible in the medium term. It would be great if Apple did that though.
It seems this is the 17th time that the US uses the military against their own citizens. What is the death count up to now?

Can someone explain why the people trained in handling civilians, ie the police in the capital of the united states, is not enough in order to secure a building?
Yes, the lens is "Kipronar 105mm f1.9". It is also a projector lens, but you can use it on DSLRs and it makes a wonderful "swirly" bokeh.
Wooosh.

That’s not the point.

Clinton claims election is stolen. Uncritical article written.

Trump claims election is stolen? Obvious coup attempt and a need to curtail freedoms.
I am experiencing the same issues with GBoard: suggestions just getting worse and worse.

I dug through the settings and haven’t seen anything obvious.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you copy and paste the package folder into your libpath directory and R can load it that way with actually running install.packages()?
It's not just about slavery.

Today's "Confederate flag" is literally a rebel battle flag from a horrifying civil war.

The fact that said civil war was instigated by the rebels specifically to protect the institution of slavery is just bonus.

It is a very powerful symbol. Anyone who claims it's about Southern heritage is being deliberately ignorant. It's blatantly oppositional, self-serving, and violent.
I'm in Europe, and I'm doing it to the best extent that I can: no permissions allowed to whatsapp, no profile picture, no read receipts, no notifications, sending a standard message to all personal groups that 'lads, I'm moving to signal, ciao'.

Beyond that, I will not entertain personal messages on whatsapp, only work related. Each new person will be greeted with "Do you mind awfully if we use Signal?" Does this come off as self-important? Sure. But it helps that I don't care too much if it does. I had the same attitude quitting FB and Twitter too, I just don't need people that much. I don't have a 100 friends anyway. I have like 15 that I really want to keep in touch with. Those 15 will understand.
You can pay more to have one made in the US. At least you have a choice.
Should it be analysed through the lens of uncooperative game theory of non-zero sum game. Or forming the core ...
Is there price information as well?
I think you have a misunderstanding of the mathematics behind password security.

If I choose lower-case letters only, then the password can have about 4.7 bits of entropy per letter, so a 16-character password would have about 75 bits, maximum.

If I choose from the entire set of non-control ASCII characters, I get about 6.6 bits of entropy per letter, which means that I can get 78 bits of entropy with only 12 characters.

The difficulty of a brute force attack is proportional to the number of possible passwords. So, you can make brute force attacks harder by using longer passwords, or you can use a wider range of characters. Strictly speaking, there is no need to do both, since either option gives you the exact same benefit.

The technique demonstrated in the article is significantly more complex, because the letters in the passwords are not chosen uniformly, but they are chosen to form words that fit the surrounding context according to a certain kind of statistical model (a Markov chain). This makes it harder to calculate how many bits of entropy is in the password, but the bijection shown in the article makes it much easier—when you have a bijection, you are neither creating nor destroying entropy, so we know that passwords selected uniformly from the right column (such as "buill to Sound thand exp") have the exact same entropy as passwords selected uniformly from the left column (such as "0fe5c363d354d7").
And you would be earning a fraction, say $120 per month

That's impossible, because around here the minimum wage for an adult working a full time job is around 10x that figure.
What he doesn't mention is that an increase in corporate taxes will mostly impact SMBs and not giant "Big Tech" companies that have all kinds of ways of avoiding them and employ hundreds of people in their finance and accounting departments who are tasked with minimizing taxes. It's your ma&pop stores that will take the brunt of it.

In the same way that the new "Stimulus package" now requires that payment processors report any transaction over $600 on a 1099-K Tax Form, it's always the little guy that is mostly affected by the changes in tax law because little guys have no lobbyists and don't have an easy access to lawyers to fight the IRS.
The question mark in the corner of each image is not clickable on mobile for me, so in order to view the image attribution credits I have to view the site on my computer instead.
If the workload is PCIe I/O bound, upgrading to PCIe Gen4 would be a huge benefit.
> Microsoft Tay or whatever really is just a thin but shiny veneer over some ML algorithms and is a poor facsimile of "having a conversation and sharing ideas".

"Ages ago, life was born in the primitive sea. Young life forms constantly evolved in order to survive. Some prospered—some did not. All sorts of life ebbed and flowed like the tide. In quiet rhythm of the mother sea, life grew; always seeking to survive and flourish. Soon life began the advance towards land, opening new habitats. A great prosperity came, as life conquered even the highest mountains. Mass extinctions came wave after wave, but empty niches always quickly refilled to once again prosper, grow, and reproduce. Someday the next great emigration will occur as we leave this existence looking for another. The journey will begin anew."
Some strange political beliefs but indeed an unparalleled genius. (He advocated for immediately nuking the USSR!) His faculty with infinite series and other mathematical tricks was rather amazing.
The name "von Neumann" is rightly applied to this, because von Neumann was the first who has written a complete and consistent description of this architecture, so that anybody could understand it and build computers based on this architecture.

The Eckert group had some rather vague ideas about the architecture of their future computer, the successor of ENIAC, and those ideas certainly included some kind of stored program (not necessarily stored in the same memory as the data; stored programs were not new, as they were common in mechanical or electromechanical computers).

However the Eckert group was secretive, because they hoped to start after the war their own company to make computers and become rich, so it is not known for sure how much von Neumann learned from them and how much of what von Neumann wrote were his own ideas.

In any case, I am more grateful to von Neumann than to the Eckert group, because all the other more important computer projects have started from the von Neumann report, while the work of Eckert and al. had quite a little influence.

The ENIAC computer was very important only as a demonstration that it is possible to make very fast electronic computers, otherwise it had much less influence on the structure of computers than the many other slower computers made around that time.
Worth noting that last link is to a different article. It is in fact the original work that norvig's post was based on.
> Downtime for upgrades impacts everyone. Just because you're small scale doesn't mean your users don't expect (possibly contractually) availability.

I don't understand this mindset. Every tiny startup thinks they need zero downtime migrations.

At the same time, major banks and government institutions just announce maintenance windows. They just pick a time when few people use the service and then shut the whole system off for a few hours.

Sure, it's nice if your service is never down. But I'm also pretty sure that most customers prefer paying for new features rather than preparing for zero downtime migrations.

Also, considering how long PostgreSQL versions are supported, you only need to do major version upgrades every five years or so.
That or they really don't care as much about the Oscars.
Maybe Brenda would be a better name.
Delphi is still around in spirit through an IDE named Lazarus.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Trust, but verify.

The fun of science is discovering what a new discovery unlocks.

The responsibility of science is replication, replication, replication!
We've seen that threshold crossed with neural agents like AlphaGo which can be reasonably described as thinking. It decides if moves are good or bad after a little pause for processing, its decisions improve with time, it has an opinion on the state of play, the opinion is formed using basically the same data as a human, different iterations of the neural network can have a different opinion but there is a link between it and the previous one.

I don't see a test that majorly distinguishes it from a human. It appears to be following the same process with a few tweaks around the edges. There are some exceptions in the 2-5 situations in Go where a human can actually use optimised logic to determine what will happen; but they aren't the meat of the game.
> The pricing model of this business means there’s a likely 50/50 chance of it closing in ~12 months because not enough customers choose the paid option.

I think we went too far from the initial point. Nevertheless the cost of such service is low enough that it can be maintained easily, even without a significant revenue number.

> It’s not normal to submit that as “news”.

It depends on the definition of news I guess. The article brings another point of view, though discutable. The promotion happens only at the end, in a reasonable way.

> Every language I know has an easy to use wrapper/functionality for strong password hashing.

Again the password hashing is just an aspect of an authentication system.
> Rationality is defined over some goal, and there's no obvious goal here.

Relieving themselves of (to them) unbearable misery is a goal, quite possibly the most rational of all goals.
This approach is covered extensively in the book 'Getting to Yes And: The Art Of Business Improv' by Bob Kulhan, which is one of the few books I would consider a must read for anyone interested in technical leadership.
> Society needs to recognize that suicide must be some evolutionarily advantageous adaptation.

Bollocks. There is very close to zero evolutionary pressure against (and, of course, even less than that for) having a small percentage of individual of a species decide to off themselves. Especially when it's older males (the most likely age group to commit suicide).
If that's the narrative you're focused on, you'll want to point to something else to support that.

Apple not only uses standards-based compressed media formats exclusively, but the MPEG-4 file format is the QuickTime Movie file format (which Apple contributed to the standard).
We didn't find any metric that surfaced zombie cgroups, presumably because the kernel mostly tries to hide them from user space since they have been deleted, but haven't been cleaned up. The only way we found at the time to track them was via a BCC script and observing the latency on reading the /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.stat file.
Beside it not being a real sim, the viewpoint is completely different and the football most people play for fun is not played by the rules of the pro game.
Not saying I agree with it, but I don't think 'describes' in the sense it's being used above is meant to imply causality.
The tiles are extremely low-density, so their heat dissipates quickly because they don't hold much of it.

So the corners of the tiles become cool within a few seconds, even though the material inside just a centimeter away is at thousands of degrees.

That's why he said to touch the corners. And why you can see the corners not glowing, while the center of the sides keeps glowing.
I think it's sometimes because they see the value of future higher rent after a void is worth more, in straight up cash value, than accepting lower rent with a long term commitment.

I've seen it for years: Empty shop buildings, a glut of local businesses wanting to rent them, but they are kept empty until some chain willing to pay double turns up a year later. For the landlord, it's worth waiting if that will be the outcome.
Yes it does. The interesting thing is that you only realize it later (at least in my case) - probably 3-6-12 months down the road, as you need to do more and more and more.

But that's ok, in time you learn to cope with it.
Blocked in Europe.

https://archive.ph/xVj1D
The US Surgeon General told the public masks don’t work[1]. Doctors and nurses are being told they’ll be disciplined for wearing masks because it would alarm patients and visitors [2].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/1233725785...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa...

[2] https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1241371042020392961...

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/i-have-never-been-so-...
According to the filename, that is an old version of Audacious (3.6).
Could you be more specific? Do you have any links?
Thanks for the tip about the clean install.

And I totally hear you about the way the phone feels. Every time I got a new case, I would leave it naked for a few hours, just -[fondling]-touching and admiring the damn thing.
I don't think there's any ambiguity here. Deliberately downloading personal information—clearly not intended to be released publicly—does not seem to be a defensible action.

We're not talking about downloading a couple of records and alerting someone about it, after all.
http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/215/specifications/

> RAM: 8 MB

That's not much, considering what it can do. Decode H.264, run Opera Mini, and more.
If it had whatsapp, it would have been displayed prominently. I think it is a push for Facebook messenger over whatsapp. A lack of whatsapp could be a deal-breaker, atleast here in India.
Udemy (http://udemy.com) has courses from a bunch of schools (MIT, Stanford, Cal, etc) on programming and a bunch of other stuff too.
Yes, glasses. And I have my brightness way down, and good lighting at work (not too bright, not too dim).
Yeah, I'm just not sure that I buy the idea that there's a big market for an expert coaching you through doing repairs via AR goggles.

How exactly does this work?

You still need to pay for an expert's time -- in fact, you probably need to pay more for it, because the expert is probably faster to do a thing than to explain the thing to you and then you do it. Also, the expert now needs to be someone with these additional skills of coaching someone through an operation.

Tools are still needed -- is there actually a big market for the kind of repairs you can do with the tools that everyone has lying around at home but which is complicated enough to need hand-coaching by an expert?

I mean, maybe! Especially if you can locate the expert in some place where labor prices are much lower (so: India). But then you also need the person to buy the AR goggles. And how often does this use case come up? Is this like 3D printers where people try to sell me on the concept that I could pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for something that can make me things that cost less than $20 and which I need three of every year?
I think his point is you can never be sure when someone is trying to break in to your house/subvert your communications, so it makes sense to take precautions.

I don't want the government actively working to weaken house lock standards for a lot of the same reasons I don't want them working to subvert privacy technology.

Admittedly, in this case the metaphor is kind of flawed since SR2 is the equivalent of a drug dealer's home, which the Feds would have no qualms about breaking in to.
For 99% of startups the cost of web hosting is negligible next to the cost of labor. Even the tiniest gain in productivity will overshadow hosting savings.

Not valuing your time is easily among the biggest mistake you could make.
> Furthermore, machines do not develop when left in isolation, while biological organisms do.

Biological organisms are machines.

Entities which meet the necessary requirements for Darwinian evolution (which are, approximately, that they can pass on their traits from generation to generation, have a source for variability, and have selective pressure in the environment) change over successive generations, and all kinds of machines change individually over time in response to interactions with the environment (in fact, pretty much all physical objects do.) Biological organisms obviously meet the requirements for Darwinian evolution (since that's where it was first observed and described), but there's no magic "biological sauce" required.

> I do not think artificial intelligence can arise naturally because its components are not natural.

The whole natural/artificial divide is unsound, since humans, and hence all of their products, are part of and products of nature. Nothing not-natural exists.

> Personally, I believe artificial intelligence does not require biological components, and I believe that under certain circumstances, it could develop unintentionally from a relatively advanced computer, but that is not the same as naturally.

The whole thing about artificial intelligence arising naturally is a strawman you've constructed. You've just agreed with and illustrated my argument -- which is that artificial intelligence does not require understanding intelligence.
While this is a really well done project (I don't like the icons, though, they look so 2005) and while I love the Serial podcast too, If I was a friend or family of the victim(s) I'd be heart-broken to find how fast the story and the crime is becoming pop culture.
We've scheduled a lot of UX design polish on our posts schedule in the next 2 weeks along with a big announcement first week of feb for you to watch out for.
You're confusing censorship with freedom of association and freedom to chose your customers. If an ISP won't take the KKK's money, that is not censorship. Censorship would be if the government banned every ISP from serving the KKK whether or not they wanted to.

Requiring all ISPs (or forums or whatever) to accept and retransmit the KKK's propaganda is just as much a limit on freedom as banning the stuff.
Yeah. Requirement #1 for any test like this is, it happens in a Faraday cage.
Wow. This is actually still wide open. This is really bad.

Fun fact - you don't even have to send the basic aut header - it'll respond just fine without it.
These Wi.AI t-shirts I have are now a collector's item!
Chromecast accepts URLs to LAN resources. All you need to do is expose your files over HTTP (I do this with my NAS and it works fine).
Why are you all looking for base-10 hours, when it's rather the base-10 which is wrong??? Numbers should be switched to base-12. I mean we often need to divide 1kg by halves, quarters and thirds, and it should fall even.
Read "Clean Code" by Robert C Martin. It's Java-centric, but very applicable nonetheless. It's a compilation of years of insight about how to design your programs, and it explains well why you should care about writing your code one way or another. It's the first time ever that I have seen an illustration of violating Demeter's Law that was actually believable and the proposed solution deeply communicated the intent of the law.

The book progresses from smaller details (like code formatting style) to very large concepts, gets very deep towards the end, so don't be afraid if you get lost a third of the way in. Just leave it and come back to it as you gain experience.
If latency is a concern, use a remote file system (Fuse etc type thing). That way you can edit using local software and only write across the wire when you save.
Was just a curious thing I noticed looking through the [REDACTED]. Little bits and pieces of clues regarding how it works.
Thanks for answer. I'd love to learn about what solution your Sublime coworkers use, as most people here use emacs / vim and I'm most proficient with Sublime.
That does not seem wise. China vs. GitHub, China will win.
Thanks! Still got a ton to learn, but working for yourself makes it fun and definitely worth it.
With multiple different providers, I'm happy with it. I can be "Andrew Ducker - Certified by the UK government", but also "Samael, certified by Slashdot.org", depending on where I'm logging into, and what I'm up to.
my understanding may be wrong and whoever knows better please correct me if so. The copying in Chinese culture isn't a "vice of stealing", it is more like a "virtue of modesty and respect to the masters". I.e. taking a clean canvas and trying to paint something original is like an arrogant statement that one can come up with something better than using that canvas to make a good copy of a great work of a great master. And only when the one has perfected his skills and craft, it is appropriate to make original contribution, say add/modify a couple of details to the copy of the great work.