jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Now that access to large broadcast mediums is the norm, it's absolutely a blow to free speech to selectively censor some of it. Maybe we choose to make tradeoffs, but let's do so with our eyes open.
Does it ("social media influencing elections->government should step in") also apply to traditional media ?
My take is to ask: for who?

"Who" is this great company culture for?

Is it for the company to be more competitive in the market and make more profits? Well, Amazon seems to be doing not too bad.

But as an individual, would I want to work there? Not from all reports...
> Sometimes it seems to me that the perception of your importance is proportional to the number of bugs in your code.

That's incredible, isn't it? it's one of the many possible manifestations of "worse is better", I fear.
> the evidence on increasing volume leading to greater hypertrophy is crystal clear.

To a point. It also depends on your level of experience and age.

Systemic volume also needs to be accounted for. Generally speaking 10-20 sets per muscle per week. This can be from one session or spread out over multiple sessions.

I'm 38, have been lifting weights for 20 years (do not and never have used anabolic steroids of other performance enhancing drugs). if I try to do 20 sets per muscle group over the course of a week I will run my body into the ground.

Schoenfeld, the lead author on your link has research on these topics. His Instagram is a good aggregator of his work.

https://www.instagram.com/bradschoenfeldphd
People interested in this topic will likely enjoy the /r/selfhosted subreddit.
>> Switching from gas car to cycling is something that would require major investments from my city and developers.

...

>>Switch to electric now, and also encourage new roads and new developments to be bike friendly, so that switching to a bike is something that will be viable in 20 or 30 years for most cities in America.

Your attitude towards the proposal of moving to bicycle is literally the same as those against moving from fossil to electric.
I've been doing this for years by starting with meat/veggies and only then with carbs. Feel a lot better this way.
That's overtly cynical. The truth is, in many cases, we won't know what we should possibly be concerned about, unless we are offered the right information.

We all have our blind-spots, and we all have our partialities.

If 'ritualized concern' actually means, to you, that people aren't as concerned about your beliefs, as you think they should be, then that's quite different to a discussion about whether the whale in the visualisation, really feels the way I suspect it might.
No. The NYT has a liberal bias. Not a left bias.
> In the case that the third party code does in fact always return no empty lists of positive numbers, the author might just type it as a list.

Yes - but as I said, you can be confident that the list type is accurate, and if you want to convert that list to a specific-length list type then you're nudged towards doing it in a way where you handle the case where the list isn't actually the length you specified.

> And by the List[str] bit, I mean you can annotate it as doing whatever it in fact does. You aren’t protected if you get that wrong, of course

Not "of course"; the whole point of a type system is that it's automatically checked and therefore you can have reasonable confidence in the types you're given.
This is interesting as I had the exact opposite experience. Fish is screaming fast for me compared to zsh, primarily because I don’t need to use any plugins to achieve all of the functionality that I needed to use many plugins to achieve in zsh. The totality of my fish config files, not including functions, is maybe a couple dozen lines [1].

Regarding a bare shell: perhaps I’m not understanding your exact needs, but fish is able to check whether or not it’s being used interactively with `status is-interactive`, so you could certainly try wrapping all of the plug-in loading machinery around a guard like this.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/item/.confi...
Thanks, I am looking for specific ideas on how to reach out to this group. My best idea now is to scour the web
Snowden exposed mass 'metadata' collection, most didn't seem to care, sadly.
I’m curious why the NYT hasn’t been the victim of a large scale hack/infiltration/leak/exposé. With all the shenanigans their staff seem to pull and the enemies they make, you’d think their communications and files and finances would be a big target. Is their op-sec really that good? Do they get help from the intel community?
ShitBox has had sharts since like version 2.4
Yea, the countries of Europe and North America collaborated in the earlier 20th century to wipe out cholera in those regions.
Macroscopic decoherence has explained away Schrodingers Cat. It's been a non-mystery for years.
In most parts of the world there would be a heavy social cost to supporting gay marriage.

The costs of cracking down on undesirable opinions greatly exceed the risks of allowing people to voice them.

Not that it makes much of a difference. People will continue to be closed-minded, whether I like it or not.
At a $1 billion exit an undiluted 0.1% is $1 million pretax. Exiting at $1 billion is a VC sized homerun. $1 million pretax is not super rich. In the US, once taxes are paid it doesn't even make a person an accredited investor.

The opportunity cost of the 0.1% should be seen relative to things like a controlling 30% at a $5 million exit and similar exits unattractive to VC.

There seems to be a fallacious premise that the size of an equity grant is inversely proportional to the odds of a massive exit.
Can I ignore this user?
Ireland? CRO[1] gives details about registering a company and the requirements, and the New Companies Bill of 2014[2] will make things easier for smaller companies.

[1]: https://www.cro.ie/Registration/Overview
[2]: https://www.cro.ie/New-Act-2014/Overview
>how does one go about deciding what field within big data to specialize in?

In my experience your job generally dictates what you specialize in. I ended up being more data engineer than scientist since my job had a lot of tricky data warehousing problems.
You could consider people with "unconventional" schedules to be similar to people in different timezone :)
so, basically, a person signs up with some site with high degree of identification ( ssn, state id, email id, office id card, whatever, depending on the situation ).

So, his identity with the central site is intact.

Then, this person creates a throwaway id for this particular posting, and this throwaway cannot be openly linked back to the person, by anyone other than the site itself.

The weakness of course is in the central site. And to solve this problem, there are a few decentralized trust solutions
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and we ban accounts that do it. The flamewar style doesn't lead to interesting internet discussions, it leads to boring and nasty ones, so please don't do it here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Problem worked around.
Use `qsort_r()`, which gives you an extra argument for your closure.
I don't see how "our" lust for cheap Chinese products is related to their demand for ivory trinkets.
That's how it works right now on x86.

There's no reason hardware can't be given a notion of processes, and used to set boundaries between each other and the kernel. It's not an untested idea.
Is there an ongoing development program for the procaine injector ?
Yep

Truth is, no one can stop any one doing anything.

Free market can dissuade your competitors from creating their own supply chain because that won't make economical sense. But once that illusion is gone, the ones that are getting hurt is the current market leaders.
Addenda: looks like normal text --> looks and behaves like normal text.

If it looks like normal text but get rendered to a different text it is a negative value proposition.
It has some duplications.

Search for "goons". 10 comics will show up. The first and last are actually the same one.
Is this a good example of transparency, or an admission that you don't understand your market?

EDIT: Hey downvoters, this is a genuine question. I think the idea is good, but most of the activity is from open source fans, which is great but they represent a small subset of Dell's market. Many of Dell's potential customers won't get involved - they'll just buy Apple.
What people should look for is a well preserved meme.

Fasting is a very, very well preserved meme - across broad geography and many different ethnic and religious groups.

That means something. Regardless of whether or not we understand the science of it, or how we feel about "the messenger" (in this case, religious teachings that we may or may not harbor animosity towards), a very well preserved meme is worthy of our attention.

Is it true ? I don't know. It's interesting, though, and is worthy of our attention.
Yes I agree with using the term namespace instead of PG schema. I have also never understood why the default schema (namespace) is called "public". Why not "default"? Anyway let us say how do I expose multiple namespaces in the REST API?
>I am confused. If you feel there are much better languages than Haskell, how would Haskell be the "theoretically most advanced language"?

Let me rephrase: I think that there are much better languages out there, that haven't been invented yet. The most theoretically advanced languages right now are dependently typed languages. Haskell isn't a dependently typed language, but learning Haskell is a necessary stepping stone to learning dependently typed languages.

Regarding LYAH, it's not really possible for me to comment given how little data I have. I know some CS courses for undergrads teach Haskell, I wonder what textbooks (if any) they use?
One place where this would shine is running compute intensive tasks (especially the ones that involve GPU) that are usually queued. Instead of throwing too much money to the cloud providers, setup this tunnel on your unused/even new machine and throw tasks at it.
The `.git-blame-ignore-revs` file can be used to ignore that (and will be [1]). Unfortunatly GitHub doesn't support it but at least it's possible to have clients behave in a reasonable way.

[1] https://github.com/django/django/pull/15387#issuecomment-103...
Then why even mention it? Power steering isn’t anything new or unique.
> completely skip their wrapper

Why use Spring Boot at all then?
Just wait until the government mandates you need the booster to participate in society :^)
I've worked with numerous people with PhDs in Physics (and Math and other heavy science fields) and they tend to be pretty awful at production software while at the same time having very strong opinions that the field is "broken". I mean, think about it, 99.99% (at least) of physics and math is learning what has already been solved. It is heavy, complicated learning, but is far from the type of learning you do in a new field like software development.
I worked for a fitness company for a few years and it was really nice helping people who wanted to workout and sometimes hearing the stories they'd share about using our platform to change their lives. But that job was the exception, not the rule. I find purpose before and after work, and on payday, when I take care of my family.
I'll open a GitHub issue for this. It has been asked so many times now. Just haven't had the time.

PS, I added an "Add to home screen" option for individual presets about a month ago.

And a hack: After adding to homescreen, if you delete the preset from the app, the homescreen icon becomes a shortcut to Preset list (limitation from Framework).
“Only” covers first 100k, has a bunch of other rules that make it impracticable
Good luck hiring anyone for a struggling company. Can't turn it around? You get punished.
What would you use use it for if you had one?
Um. Did you mean to link something else entirely?

That's a Plipbox. One side of it speaks 10baseT (or maybe 100baseT, it doesn't really matter) and the other is a literal Centronics-style parallel port, not Ethernet at all.

The idea is, your Amiga can do PLIP (IP over the Parallel port) and this box turns that into Ethernet traffic which you can drop into any network with IP.

But if you've got some 10base5 or earlier Ethernet, this does not help you at all.
T-Mobile was doing stuff like this before the fcc adopted their current policy so I imagine stuff like that is here to stay regardless of net neutrality rules
In an ideal world, all of our clients would use RFC 2474 DSCP values to mark the QoS/Traffic Class IP header fields in order to voluntarily participate in traffic shaping prioritization with ISPs. Exceed your monthly quota at high priority, and all of your traffic gets dropped to base priority.

Though, realistically, nobody is properly incentivized to make use of QoS/ToS (except internally to some networks), because ISPs aren't incentivized to implement anything until application developers label traffic, and consumers won't pressure application developers to implement anything until ISPs provide incentives to consumers.

Also, OS/API support isn't great at present, and application developers in most cases would just always label traffic as high priority. At least for phone apps, tagging traffic as high priority could be a an app permission that could be flagged/denied to the app at installation time (or later granted/revoked).
As someone who has lived multiple years in Brooklyn and Boston, this actually does well to explain what I like about both.

I also don't think people understand the density and scope of Brooklyn. It's 5x the people of Boston in a smaller land area, but it's very few traditional skyscrapers. The brownstones really do a lot to give a homey feel to many areas.
> Corporations in the USA have the same legal rights as individuals...

They don't. For example, 5th Amendment protections against self-incrimination do not apply to corporations. Also, corporations have a right to an attorney but one is not provided to them free of charge by the government.

> But when it comes to criminal liability, the people in charge are not held accountable...

Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Skilling, Martha Stewart, and others put in jail for corporate crimes would disagree with you.
I'd hoped so! Somethings are lost in text and you know what they say about assuming
Past cases not a great control group because there's are different biases in "everyone who was sick" vs "people who asked for chloronique".
Banks are fine as long as they aren't holding the debt of companies that hit the wall. It's a bailout.
It's not like the shop has information on individuals, they only have information on the total number and total flow. It would take a lot of collaboration with each and every store owner to be able to get to a point where they know exactly who you are.
I'm not entirely sure. I think this line of inquiry is interesting, but I'm also not entirely sure that you're declaring Rust's original principles correctly. That is, the safe/unsafe dichotomy was always there. It's impossible to build real systems without it, and so I think that's why people gloss over it a bit.

See slide 16 of http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf, the original presentation of Rust to the world.
I'd like to balance all of this concern for the worker with a broader perspective.

Consider that business isn't charity.

If Amazon made a promise to deliver in 2 days, and I'm paying for that benefit, doesn't that mean I have the right to demand that benefit or be compensated? Does a pandemic mean that Amazon has the right to profit at my expense?

Isn't it a bit self-centered to say "Well, I can afford to toss money away on Prime membership without reaping the benefits, therefore anyone can"? What about those who rely on Prime membership and use it heavily but aren't rich enough to waste money on a service that isn't provided?

Now if normal delivery endangers the health and lives of deliverymen, then would it not make sense to ask for compensation from Amazon?
I have had good success with the document scanning built into iOS. For some reason it's buried within the Notes application.
Long time back, I built an extension, by which you can take the openrefine mappings, and run on a hadoop cluster. The idea is you would run all transformations on a small dataset on your local machine. Once you are satisfied with the mappings, you would deploy the same on hadoop cluster. I have tested this on large datasets, and it works. Let me know how I can help.
You can check my github: https://github.com/rmalla1/OpenRefine-HD
Though I've grown up with programming languages that have zero-based indexing, I've never become a "native speaker", as I always mentally add or subtract a one as needed when trying to understand code involving list indices. Zero-based indexing may be common, but I'm pretty sure it's far from natural to most people. It is likely a main cause of many off-by-one bugs. I wouldn't blame a language designer for choosing one-based indexing instead.
As part of the fix, they mention changing the Python etcd client code to send the request in a single packet. How would one force that behavior? And is that even a good idea?

It seems like TCP fragmentation would be handled at a much lower level in the Python networking stack.
The only bus I ever took from Dublin to Belfast and back was boarded by immigration and our papers checked.

This was 2006.
> I know security people at Apple. I do not believe for a heartbeat that they would cooperate with NSA on a backdoor.

In other words, you're not being objective. You already attribute good character to the people you know at Apple, and are therefore are looking for ways to defend them against an accusation that hasn't even been made. The fact that you unnecessarily called Schneiers current occupation as 'sad', imo, tends to support this rationalisation.

None of the issues with Flash or certificate verification bugs you bring up are relevant to the discussion Schneier is having about this being the perfect kind of backdoor, and that, if it were a backdoor, it would have been hugely successful over the last year or more.
Oh, that's a great term. Think I've seen it a few places. Thanks for the reminder!
Burpee's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee_(exercise)
Not bad. A few suggestions:

1. Explain in the posting why you need someone "atypical." Is that just an attention-grabber? If so, remove it and figure out a way to actually differentiate.

2. This sentence is off:

> Working for a startup is sure to be exciting and fast-paced, but if you're up for the challenge the reward is immense.

because it's structured like:

> Working here is [positive], but also [positive]

which makes no sense. Either change it to e.g. "challenging and fast-paced" (not outright negative but not straight positive like "exciting") or just change the "but" to an "and." I prefer the latter.

3. Get rid of the "Intelligence" bullet point, that's silly. Recruiting is marketing--you're marketing your company instead of your product but it's still marketing. So the same rules apply: to differentiate your product (company), you can't say anything that your competitors would disagree with. If you can't imagine a Careers post saying "We hire dumbasses" don't say you need "intelligence"
Not many have ever heard of it, but everyone has seen the design that borrowed from the most well-known software that used Zope - Plone.

Of course, I'm referring to the early design of Wikipedia, which closely copied the design of Plone.
A lot of users have said they really appreciate how accessible LaTeX is with ScribTeX. I know that's not an important point for everyone but it is a big help to some.
WHAT... why would you completely black out the number, where you could instead use random coloured squares, that look like it is a blurring, so someone can go through all the effort, decoding your white noise, and thinking in the end they have your number... when they don't ;)
Evolution is not about optimization.
The last paragraph says it all:

Even after all that, many medical experts still question how much human disease can be traced to viral invasions that took place millions of years ago. If the upcoming human trials work as well as the animal experiments, the questions may be silenced—and so may the voices of schizophrenia.
Hi, I'm the creator of ScribTeX. I'm a regular reader of HN and it was great to see this on the front page this morning. Most of my effort is focused on the technical side of things and I've been relying on word of mouth for promotion. (Sorry to those of you who have been looking for something like this for a while!)

Thank you for all the positive comments, they really mean a lot. The constructive feedback from HN is excellent as always.

For the interested, here are some features I am working on at the moment:
* Better history navigation. The current implementation is quite flat and cumbersome.
* A much better editor. Currently it's just a textbox with syntax highlighting, but I'm working on something to rival the functionality of a desktop editor.
* Overall design, in particular the splash page and information pages

Push and pull access to the underlying git repository is currently a feature I am testing. Send me an email (james@scribtex.com) if you would like me to enable it for your account.
Awsome! Arrived exactly in the write moment :)
Personally, I'm a big fan of open-uri for super-simple requests and HTTParty for anything more complex.
I agree, ScribTeX needs support for XeTeX and other LaTeX compilers. As the creator of the site, I guess I'm in a unique position to make this happen! It's been on my todo list for a while now and isn't without its difficulties, but I'll use this conversation as renewed motivation to get it done.
The author is right about PowerPoint wanting "to organize the talk" - does anyone know any presentation software which breaks from this?
Can't say about them all, but Vitamin A could be stored in the body for like half a year after taking high dosage supplements. Of course, there is a limit, much higher dosage are harmful (the widely known polar bear liver toxicity as example).
There's a fundamental difference between LIDAR based self driving and vision based. The difference is LIDAR tells you EXACTLY where EVERY possible obstacle is. It easy to develop logic to avoid hitting something else.

With vision, you're basically having a machine learning model guess where the object is, its size, etc. So there's a chance of failing the basic task of knowing that there's something possible to hit.
There are plenty of places with visible security guards.
Depends on what you think the purpose of a professor is. If they're to teach, there's no time to do significant research. If they're to do significant research, there's no time to teach. And who will pay for replication - you can't publish it and students/p-docs can't get credit for it. And they want to get credit...
> Each write is striped across all of the disks.

It sure shouldn't be. This isn't dumb RAID.
It's true that "tree" and "Black" are both not meaningful biological categories but the reason why is very different. Trees evolved thousands of times and we have a large number of species that could either be shrubs or trees. The reason why our ideas of race are not meaningful biological categories is more similar to why certain "species" of citrus aren't meaningful categories. Because phylogenetic evidence turns out to show that the genetic distinction is not meaningful or distinct enough to separate them into separate taxons. Which could be to hybridization, or just plain lack of genetic differences