jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fortunately Chrome is a dynamo at updating itself. It's generally invisible to the user.
They "jumped the shark" from our perspective, but it's a good move to get retiring Baby Boomers onto the Apple product line.
I had no idea what $10k fine you were talking about, but did some searching and found this (for anyone else who doesn't keep up on all the latest TSA news).

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/14/tsa-ejects-oc...
> Those women did not choose to participate in SeanDav's practice, and it was not cost-free to them to be used and discarded that way.

Isn't it sad that the womens' fathers treated their mothers like inanimate objects when they courted them for marriage (or whatever level of relationship led to child-bearing that produced those women ) ?

Those mothers-to-be did not choose to participate in the fathers-to-be's practice, and it was not cost-free for them to be used and courted that way.

Those mothers-to-be were exhaustedly and demoralizingly and rudely interrupted, perhaps as often as every 5 minutes (although there are no sources to back this up) while out in public, by people who pretended to be friendly but had ulterior motives. Those mothers-to-be considered that interruption unpleasant and at least somewhat creepy, even though that awful inappropriate experience actually led to a couple who created a new generation of human beings for the world.

Those mothers-to-be were not socialized to tell those fathers-to-be to f-ck off right away, otherwise they wouldn't have had (at least some) lifelong relationships that produced children. Some of those mothers-to-be were certainly made extremely uncomfortable. How dare those fathers-to-be take action on their biological instincts?!?
I'm confused. How do spreadsheets require programming in assembly in a way that's different from other software?
I think the difference is that we have models that actually predict things. Science isn't just "combine stuff and see what happens" - it's "test hypotheses that lead to generalizable, simple models". We can see that apples fall from trees and predict that the future apples will fall, but science allows us to realize that that's the same mechanism which causes the sun to rise and set.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

It's often attributed to Steinbeck but in my understanding, it's not entirely clear if that's true or not.
They have complete control since they hire the people ... who hire the people who make those decisions. They won't hire people ... who hire people who don't do what they want. You can bake the bias right into the company without ever having to issue an editorial order.
The scientific method does not give us a sort of monolithic, hierarchical entity, into which everyone collaborates and then an answer pops out from the top of the pyramid.

That's the role that politics serves. To take into account all of the data we're given, think about outcomes across all scientific fields, take into account the opinion of the population and execute on it.

I think that for the most part, snappy soundbites like "follow the science" are a result of social media and reactionaries breaking our normal, carefully considered methods of discourse.

Physics tells us that the Universe has enough space for an unfathomable number of humans.

Biology tells us that the conditions aren't there.

Psychology tells us that even if they were, people wouldn't be happy plugged into capsules.

Behavioural science tells us that, regardless of the other three, we might just have to work out a solution anyway, because we're gonna breed.

Politicians... well, from what I can tell usually they just sort of do whatever they want and manipulate the population into wanting it. :)
Delphi still exists: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
Don't even trust "private" cloud storage. I used google docs in school and randomly they locked one of my documents that I needed to work on citing "tos violation". Week later the document was unlocked but I will never trust them again.
"Cat feed" is raw material for the cat cracker unit.

Where heavy petroleum fractions and other applicable refinery streams are broken down into lower molecular weight hydrocarbons

The cat feedstock is some nasty material that looks worse than most crude oil.

It would seem feasible to introduce a small percentage of waste hydrocarbon plastics to the cat feed as it was being processed, in order to at least recover a bit of the fuel value from the plastic.

I can only imagine it is simply cheaper to continue to purchase the equal number of barrels of regular cat feed than it is to attempt to displace some of it using waste polyethylene & polypropylene which may even be possible to deliver at no material cost.

OTOH, for all I know people may be doing this already.
>I can't shake the feeling that there is some truth or barrier to this problem that the average person doesn't know about/the government doesn't think we can handle being told.

I think the truth is simple. Police officers are regular people, not supermen. They work an awful and dangerous job where they interact primarily with the worst individuals in our society. There will always be bad apples.
Removing a persona non-grata and their related authored material may serves multiple purposes:

- The organization signaling to stakeholders that they condemn and take appropriate action against behaviour.

- The organzation engaging in damage control, minimizing future exposure of events linking back to the organization.

- Penalizing transgressive behaviour in a professional setting, through sanctions and revocations of merit, reputation, licensing or employment etc.

Actually, breach of contract could lead to lecture material not being legally available, if a lecturer has sole ownership of such. It could also be that future use of say, recorded lectures, involves compensation to the author. If an organization want to cut ties to the author, or just withhold compensation for a time, they might refrain from using the authors material.
To consistently assign these IDs you gonna have a tree on your side of the API. You’ll then have two visual trees, one on your side on the API, another one on the framework’s side of the API. And then you gonna be debugging things.

Who and when should destroy backend visual nodes? If you won’t use an ID in some frame, does it indicate the backend should drop the related state? What if an animation is still playing on the element in question? What if the missing control re-appears later i.e. was only hidden temporarily? What should backend do if you reuse same ID for different things?

One can implement simple stuff using any approach, immediate GUI is often the simplest of them. It’s when use cases are complicated you need a full-blown retrained mode OO framework. Win32, HTML DOM, MS XAML, QT, UIKit are all implemented that way, that’s not a coincidence.
What do you find so fantastic? I'm starting to think I'm broken, because I just don't understand what's so amazing.

I read Metaprogramming Ruby. It seems very excited to show you how you can do "myrow.columnname" instead of something like "myrow[" columnname"]. Likewise, I see people absolutely tickled that they can do "find_by_id(123)" without codegen vs "find_by("id", 123)". OK that saves a bit of syntax, but it's hardly breakthrough. And it's more elegantly solved with a specific dynamic lookup operator. It doesn't seem like it's worth the performance overhead or the pitfalls of a dynamic environment (thinking of the fun Rails had in the simple task of serializing HTTP bodies).

The only benefit I've found in Ruby that's not easily accessible in say, F#, is having reflection easily accessible. The .Net reflection libraries are clunkily designed. When you need it, being able to eval and such is handy. All the pieces are there, but they don't just expose an " eval" call or whatnot. But that's mainly a stdlib shortcoming, and wouldn't require giving up static analysis.

Do you have any pointers to examples where metaprogramming is really useful, to the point of paying the cost of Ruby?
I guess this can be view from Jung's point of view where you adopt different personas in different situations. If I understand correctly this is necessary for normal existence but identifying too much with a specific persona can lead to undesired side effects.

I've adopted a mindset where each persona is just a tool for a specific situation or setting, but I always try to be aware that it is just the self using the persona, not the other way around. I had fallen into the trap of strongly identifying with a persona and was wondering why I was feeling so confused, so stepping back a bit helped a lot.

Reading about Jung's map of the psyche has been quite interesting and useful.
Is there authoring/creation tooling anywhere near what Flash had?

I made Flash stuff when I was a lot younger and it was insanely straight forward thanks to the tooling. I haven’t tried to animate anything since… 2007 perhaps? Does JS or canvas have a similar experience to author content?
Where can we find your podcast? Sounds like something I would very much enjoy and find interesting!
I would say there is a place for both. The "village chicken" I have eaten was indeed quite flavourful, but also had a lot of tendons and generally more chewy meat, while "broiler chicken" have more, blander but also more tender meat.
Where is the paper?

This appears to be a BBC journalist and writer, covering some research without citing it directly, and then pointing to a longer article on the BBC America website whilst still not citing the work.

Is it because the work by Ethan Kross isn't open access? So instead the Michigan psychology department organise press coverage for their own website?

Help a person out, does anyone have links to the research?

The closest I've got is this http://selfcontrol.psych.lsa.umich.edu/papers/ which doesn't appear to list it.
The Spurlock demise is a rather strange down spiral. He imploded his own company voluntarily based on conjecture

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/morgan-spurlock-metoo-conf...
as a security professional, there is nothing more frustrating than reading a report that completely misses the mark in terms of audience, and the overuse of industry jargon.
By "artists" the article means painters, and then they compare programmers to artists (again: painters). I'm a painter, an artist generally, and I do program a bit. Neither of those things are the comparable. Each requires a completely different perspective and state of mind. This is where the attention to details comes from: working on details.
> Wikipedia has a list. The list is out of date. I was adding to it to bring it up to date.

If your source for these updates was basically "I'm family, trust me bro", isn't this a case of WP's verifiability for once working well?
You might find the HikariCP guidance on connection pools with SSD interesting. Less disk waiting can mean a much smaller pool is optimal, to avoid unnecessary context switching, among other things.

https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
Yes, they use a trick to make the video game jump to the controller input buffer and execute data from it.

But this year they took that to the next level. Instead of programming snake or pong they made a fully functional Super Mario (from NES) run inside Super Mario World.
But it's the norm and expectation. Theres a reason why the post tax total is the biggest number on the check. (Other than thats how much you owe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D seems to be the new vrml.
> if Russia were to commit further atrocities worse than actual nuclear war

Is this even physically possible? I mean imagine Hitler was winning WW2 and the only way to stop him was to cause global nuclear war with today's arcenal - are you confident which is the better option?
That's not a measure of inflation, it's just a measure of money supply.
They don't support multiple devices/sessions concurrently. You can only be logged in on one device any given time.
Does this mean that those who hacked Target could have just added the card details to their own Stripe account and waited for Stripe to update the data once the banks got around to replacing the customer cards?

At least with my banks, when they send me updated cards, only a handful of the digits actually change and most of those changes have tended to be in the last 4 digits — which Stripe lets you see, along with the updated expiry month/year.

At this point, it's just a matter of brute forcing the remaining permutations. Am I misunderstanding something or are there countermeasures to protect against such attacks?
I agree that it's a powerful tool. It's a short-circuit for logic that, at times, can be useful to apply (such as, for example, wartime when debate can be deadly). I don't think this is one of those times.

If we release our energy as hate and disparagement of harassers without fixing the problem at its core (or even finding out what that is), then all we've done is used exaggeration to make ourselves feel better, and add more poison and fear to the world.

That's why I'm against calling things "misogyny" which aren't. Mind you, I do think misogyny is a real thing and a real problem, but I think it's quite buried in the social media and you'll rarely hear about it.

Real hatred isn't funny, rational, or outrageous enough to be viral, and real hatred doesn't get off on reactions. That's the difference.
I think pornography has also helped bolster sexual freedom to new heights, which I think has been a good thing for humanity.
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Thanks, what is your browser?
(I thought `<input type="number">`would be enough)
The item I find with this is once it's online... it's never going away. Not without some form of incredible draconian overarching system. What could even be done with situations like this. Short of insisting that any content provider (pornhub included) be liable for all content posted to their site in perpetuity. (Which seems like a really dangerous idea and a good way to force extreme censorship online.)
Are you saying that technology can't be used to more effectively organize and influence people?
Whatever the letter of this restriction is, that's not its spirit. Our practice at my last company was per-client segregated accounts, and I have a mailbox full of discussions with Github support staff telling us that was OK.
Art also takes practice.

https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic...
I read their cv's. In fact, Linkedin is a cv itself. But I like to inspect his/her code/design before taking a choice.
Taking zero equity seems like an awful idea. What's the incentive for this to continue existing in the long-term?
In all seriousness, if you think that paying for tax advice is too expensive, wait until you see how expensive it can be when you don't get that advice. I've "been there, done that, paid the outrageous IRS penalties and interest" (I'm assuming that you're a U.S. citizen).

I'm currently in the process of setting up a new company and opted to pay an accountant on a monthly basis. It's going to cost me $150/month to have him handle the books for my fairly small business and ensure that I make the right payments at the right time. I probably could gone have gone even cheaper by paying for him to do some initial setup for QuickBooks and handling much of the rest on my own (with his occasional help). When I hired him, I told him exactly what my business goals were and how much I expected to make. Then I had him tell me what was the best way to pay myself. Ask other business owners you know for recommendations, if you can't find someone who charges a rate that you can afford.

I've been told that the IRS can crack down on you if you don't pay yourself a "reasonable" salary (which would require paying Social Security and Medicare) and only/mostly pay yourself through distributions. I consider the $1800/year that I'll be paying as cheap insurance against getting hit with a 5-figure penalty some time down the road. Plus, I can spend more of my time focusing on income-producing activities.
Except Y Combinator is not an incubator. From the FAQs:

"Is Y Combinator an incubator?

No. The defining quality of incubators seems to be that companies work out of the investor's space. We think that's a bad idea; it makes founders feel like employees. "
Yea but dont rely on the data that is displayed, i just checked out 5 flights and the flights listed there were not even close to what i found on the website itself.

But otherwise definitely damn cool
What I've never understood or appreciated about REST interfaces is that everywhere else in programming, the function / parameter / return paradigm is how we do things. Why do services over the web need to be different? It seems clear to me that something like RPC is what I want. (Which is not to say the particulars of XML-RPC or especially its implementations are anywhere close to ideal.)
The cool thing here is that, although they don't have the posix layer done yet, they do have all the pooling stuff working. That gives you scrubbing, snapshots, RAID-Z{,2,3}, etc. In their example page (http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/example-zvol), they show how you can make a zvol and put ext2 on it, which is a pretty cool step towards having reliable data on linux. Too bad about the license, but I'd certainly consider it for a home server.
Are Safari extensions starting to increase dramatically in number now? If so is it because of Safari 5?
I think this is a really important point. Reacting to new information nearly instantaneously improves the efficiency of the market by factoring in all available knowledge in the blink of an eye.

This high speed, in conjunction with its distributed "cloud" nature, makes the market the most efficient means of allocating resources conceivable. In regulated industries -- say, healthcare (viz Medicare/Medicaid), media (viz FCC), etc. -- decisions take months or even years, and are based as much on lobbying and pandering as concrete knowledge. The markets, on the other hand, produce an efficient allocation in fleetingly small timeslices, and do so with complete objectivity. At these levels, greed even crowds out corruption.

I believe that those who object to the kind of automated trading described in the OP are dreaming that they could be the ones to score a windfall on some specialized knowledge, rather than have to play on the same playing field (scoured of arbitrage opportunities) that everyone else does.
Parents prefer girls over boys for the same reason they used to do the opposite: Because that is the gender more likely to take care of them in their old age. No one wants girls because of "empowerment" or whatever PC bullshit journalists happen to be obsessed with.

I'm not sure to what extent people think that far ahead. If there's an expressed preference for girls over boys it's because:

a) Girls are often easier to deal with as parents than boys are (I'm thinking in the 7-10 age range and then again in the 14-17...)

b) Mothers prefer daughters while fathers prefer sons, but fathers tend to keep their mouths shut about it.
> In basically all of South-East Asia on-the-spot fines are routine and expected. If you don't go that route and it hits the books you are in for a world of trouble and no amount of coffee money will save you.

Except in Singapore. Don't bribe the cops in Singapore — the police and other law enforcement officials are paid a very decent wage here [1], and they'll just report you to save their own skin.

[1] https://www.police.gov.sg/Join-SPF/Police-Officer/Direct-Ent...
No. Chrome is doing exactly what it says it is. It's different data, used for different purposes, by different entities. That's a huge legal difference, and also a significant practical one.
> but you could use that to dismiss any technology at all

No, you can't; you need three (-ish) factors:

1. The technology is sufficiently incompatible with what you're currently using that you need a rewrite to use it (eg, this generally doesn't happen with gcc -> llvm, for example).

2. The technology is sufficiently (faux-)popular that it's possible to convince a pointy-haired boss that you need to switch to it (eg, this won't work with COBOL anymore, though unfortunately it successor Java is still going).

3. The technology sucks.

And really, if you want to dismiss a technology, point 3 ought to be enough all on its own (particularly since that's presumably the reason you want to dismiss that technology).
The application itself is easy to parallelize. And the production version does run in parallel (https://github.com/cselab/aphros) but relies on OpenMP and MPI. My first attempt to get C++11 threads running through WASM was not successful. Apparently, this feature is also disabled by default in some browsers because of the Spectre vulnerability.
Yeah Google warns you when you enable Incognito mode that it's about Chrome won't store, and specifically says website's can still track you.

I think the complaint is that in this case, Google wrote the code that is commonly used to do both. I think the lawyer is arguing that since Google gives the option in one product, they should honor it in the other. Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about that argument, but it reminds me of the character Ned from 17 Again: "I wrote the software the prevents people from stealing music. Of course, I also wrote the software that helps people steal music..." Selling weapons to both sides and all that.
Yes, but historically the environmental limitations have likely been a bit more meaningful than, "this group of males unknowingly bought product X which unknowingly contained contaminants from a grocery store," or "this group of males live near an airport."
That is actually quite positive.
These are also quite common in Canada.

Diesel is common in Europe but so is petrol.

Plugs for block heaters are very common in Northern Europe, Finland is turning them into charging spots now https://insideevs.com/news/332283/finland-has-a-genius-charg...

The heater also does plenty of other things including defrosting windows.
To be fair, they have now started to do it.

One unexplored possibility is that they actually needed to do quite a bit of analysis to determine all the uses the data is put to within their organization and doing a legal review so that they didn’t end up making a false statement.
I believe NYC and other areas provide a much healthier environment for true "indie" productions (aka customer-centric development)

I love NYC as a city, but New York VC-istan is awful. Just fucking taint-sniffingly hideous. Unimaginative, with even more MBA-culture. And the sorts of MBAs that end up in New York startups are catastrophically bad-- people who just weren't smart enough to stay in finance (and that doesn't take much).

Go to "other areas" if you want an indie scene: places that are clearly on the rise like Austin, Durham, Boulder and Baltimore. Funding will be harder to get, though.
"I can't let it die, it's my passion. It's what I think about when I wake up, while I work and before I sleep."

Then why don't you make it your day job?