jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I never understood these concerns in the US, for US web sites. What do they even care about our laws?

If there was a US law stating something similar for people connecting connecting to my French site from the US I would just smile and live on. I do not expect the CIA to kidnap me and bring me in front of a US court.
Never new about this feature! Super interesting. Congrats
I don't have much yet, but I'll send you a link when I do.

The reason Gambit is required is that you pick characters by drawing from a deck. So you both know you can't have the same person. But if you let this knowledge affect your guesses then you leak information. So there's potentially some amount of bluff required.
Again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Incorporated
If you can write software, have you never once encountered a bug in something you use or a tiny feature that would have made your life so much easier + just done it yourself?

I understand not wanting to do a ton of weekend projects and having other hobbies, but it's wild to me to think that being able to do these sorts of things but never doing it happens.

It's sort of like a car mechanic who doesn't fix/tweak his own car.
Source of this? Unless you meant it as an anecdote
You still do all of those things on an e-bike, all it does is provide assistance, which means you can go farther, spend more time outside and see more of the world around you. You can adjust or even completely turn off the assistance.

There's an argument to be made for purism, but where do you draw the line? Do click shifters ruin the purism of cycling? The presence of multiple gears? Freewheeling hubs? Are clips, straps or clipless pedals just crutches for people with bad technique? Does the presence of a chain and gearing decouple you from the raw and pure connection to the wheel?

Where does one draw the line?
> But I want to ask all of you: what replaces it as arbiter of truth?

That's like asking what you replace your cancer with once you are cured.

Nothing. You're cured.
If you're suggesting that there's room for improvement in ORMs, I agree. It'd be nice if the ORM figured out exactly what was going to happen and just fetch the data exactly required. Maybe that's something to work towards.

If you're suggesting ORMs are bad because they make developer lives easier, I don't understand how one relates to the other.
weird.

.NET ORMs don't do this (at least Entity Framework Core)

`db.Users.Select(x => new { x.Name, x.Age }).ToListAsync()`

will perform something like `SELECT Name, Age FROM db.Users`

but ofc if you tell it to load everything `db.Users.ToListAsync()`

then it will perform

`SELECT Name, Age, Salary, ... FROM db.Users`

but not *
I feel like this is a weird title. An equivalently bad title would be "SELECTing fewer columns than you need is bad for correctness."

"SELECT *" should be just as performant as "SELECT A, B, C" when your object only has A, B and C as columns.
Why do people buy porsches? For a much more reasonable amount of money you can get the porsche of the bicycle world. And you will notice the difference more than with a porsche because with a bicycle you form a large part of the machine.
In the first paragraph, you argue for freedom of expression. Then, at the end of the second paragraph, you call for regulation against it. Huh?!
It probably depends greatly on the sport. American Football seems particularly well suited to first person speciation, given there are only about 11 minutes of actual gameplay in a 3 hour broadcast - there is already a lot of detailed replay after you've seen the bigger picture. There are also lots of individual sports where the big picture isn't as important to understanding what's happening, where a mix of first and third person sounds pretty exciting - skiing, maybe tennis if it isn't too disorienting, for example. And some team sports have predictable moments where the big picture is not necessary, like the pitch and swing in baseball.

Plus, if first person is compelling enough, sports may adapt to be a better fit, especially if they suffer from competition with sports that are already well suited to that type of spectation.
I'm afraid you're completely off base.

Most keyboards support aftertouch, but only as channel pressure, where the same aftertouch value is applied to all notes. Only a handful of MIDI controllers have ever supported polyphonic aftertouch, where the aftertouch value is applied per-note. On conventional keyboard mechanisms, this is extremely expensive, because each key requires a separate pressure sensor rather than simply measuring pressure across the whole keybed.

The LinnStrument also supports polyphonic pitch bend, which is even rarer than poly AT. Due to the limitations of the MIDI protocol, polyphonic pitch bend requires note-per-channel support, which is available on less than a dozen software instruments.

The only mass-market controller that is remotely comparable in expressiveness is the Keith McMillen QuNexus, but this is a much less musically useful product with only a two-octave range. The Eigenharp Alpha is truly comparable in features to the LinnStrument, but this is an exotic built-to-order product that costs $6000, has a six month wait list and requires proprietary host software.
Autopilot was switched on in this case. The problem was the pilot had adjusted the target height to be inside a mountain. (He'd specifically set it to 30 ft). Technically speaking the autopilot crashed the plane, albeit on the pilot's instruction.
Why not just allow ground control to open the cockpit door remotely?
That "usually proven wrong" argument works both sides. The point is this: there is evidence that glyphosates' are carcinogenic, and the WHO - whose job it is to report these things - is reporting it, based on a scientific and impartial process.

What's your point in attempting to refute this position, from the perspective of PR of Monsanto - who has a history of covering up its failed science in order to reap profits - with anecdotes and "good ol' boy farmer"-style arguments?
> I fully support this if it works both ways, ie. Regardless of gender.

This will not be equitable both ways, since women elect to marry men who make more than them more often than the reverse. This NPR program (http://www.npr.org/2015/02/08/384695833/what-happens-when-wi...) says that the percentage of wives who earn more than husbands is ~38%, which I guess is an encouraging trend though.

> You are either surrounded by friends with low income (who divorce at 44%)

I specifically said that they stay in their marriages, (albeit unhappy), which is exactly the point. Low income marriages are easier to dissolve, it's harder when you have half a million in the bank.
Not even that, the author clearly states that being defendant in a certain kind of lawsuit should be grounds for termination. Quoth the article:

> Airlines should be able to automatically fire divorce, custody, or child support lawsuit defendants.

You really want to discriminate against pilots with families? The logical next step would be fire any pilot who gets married or has a child - because obviously the pilot's personal life is from thereon a potential cause of depression and mental problems.

Hell, why not require pilots to be eunuchs while you're at it? That way they couldn't have dangerous relationships.

Talk about slippery slopes and unintended consequences.

EDIT: looks like the post I replied to was deleted while I was composing.
Why stop there? The best way to get rid of persons involved is not flying the passengers.

Until then, having the human pilot capable of overriding the computer is actually a good thing, see danieldk's comment. That the computers should help the humans as much as possible is indisputable, but it's a gradual and hard process to bring the real improvements.
Well begin by the website of Monsanto, lol.
Let just boil this issue down to what it really is: closed source vs open source. With the "in-your-face-doubters" revelations of Snowden that many of us have been raving about for years, it still boils down to the main issue which is control of data. Closed source and you never fully control your data, it's that simple. Stop making it more complicated than it really is, and once again, I say that RMS was a man that will be increasingly vindicated over time.

Also, fuck the "cloud".
"37 Watts lithium ion battery" is meaningless as a capacity.

As is "10,000 milliamps per hour".

You likely have a 10 amp hour, 3.7 volt battery yielding a capacity of 37 watt hours. This is about the same capacity as an ordinary smart-phone (perhaps a bit larger, I think an iphone is 5 or 10ish ).
Feedback on the actual app:

Make the pictures click-able in the search view. In fact, why not make the whole search result click-able...

Also the -/+ and the </> buttons are just a bit of a strange UX feature and have too small a hit area for such an important feature.

I was a bit confused as to what the '£500' actually meant, turns out it's pppm. I now notice you have a hover state, but hmmmm.

Also the font looks horrible on Win 7 Chrome. I know, I know, it's Chrome's fault, but it still looks horrible.

Overall, nice app, looks good.
Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why, yes, reading Symbolics CL docs or David Moon's "language for oldtimers" makes me happy, like any other decent reading.
"HSBC failed to monitor $670 billion in wire transfers"
To be honest, I thought these logos were if quite variable quality. Some of the logos were just fine. Some were quite good. Others were really bad.

Some of the logos were unreadable, sent derisive messages about the work, etc. The bazaar logo of a sign meaning "Caution, merge traffic" is a good example of one that could be seen as light-heartedly (but probably poorly) poking fun at oneself. Others were just non-functional (clisp).

But for the bad ones there were good ones too. Logos don't have to be perfect to be effective. The Ghostscript logo struck me as actually pretty effective. It might not be pretty, but it is quirky, meaningful, and readily identifiable.

So I certainly wouldn't put these as a set down as the world's worst logos. There are some bad ones there, to be sure. But there are also some good ones.
the Varnish "Guru Meditation"[1] page never fails to give me a little smile, reducing the anger about unavailable pages

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Rich for Fareed Zakaria to lament a loss of creativity in America

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/steal_this_idea.php
Okay I concede I hadn't considered that. It can definitely be upgraded to evil status then.
I lost my bitcoins by trusting MtGox. Therefore, Bitcoin is a failure.

I lost my USDs from a mugging. Therefore, the USD is a failure.
Zappos sold for 15x the 60M investment, so seems unlikely.
I believe you are mistaken.

Pointwise, the limit is a circle. Every point on the enclosing shape gets mapped to a sequence of points. Each of these sequences has a limit, that limit is on the circle. The resulting implied mapping of the original square to the circle is a continuous bijection. By every sense that we usually talk of the convergence of lines, this enclosing shape does approach the circle in the limit.

The point is that the mapping involved is not a length-preserving mapping.
You can, you just need to use ``git add -f`` otherwise you get an error.
If they -really- wanted people to take advantage of the Kinect on PCs, they wouldn't have just failed to protect it. They'd have written and released official drivers. They obviously weren't hard to make.

Edit: That isn't to downplay the accomplishment of those who made the drivers. But if someone could do it in days without any idea of the official design, someone with that design could do it even quicker and better.
"The days of finding a new way to cheat the system are over."

He's full of crap! He doesn't do any attempt at proving at all. He merely keeps threatening and intimidating, and the only thing he knows is that the numbers are suspicious.
Yes, although, I do find that those words do help make certain statements more convincing to those that read them -- without need for evidence.
the boolean array indexed by char effectively is a hashtable isn't it? where the hashing algorithm is index = ord(theChar).
Regex syntax can get nasty at times but after all these years it's still the best tool we've got for what it does.
I can't support this enough. The economist's summary had me just saying "so what", but after reading this comment I started looking at the actual report and I must say it is much much more interesting.

http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_34637_2671576...
I find myself wishing for a leather bound set of dictator books, translated into English of course.
I don't think graduating students, MBA or otherwise, have a hard time grasping the concept of following their passions. Rather, I think they have a hard time figuring out what their passions actually are.

The educational and employment system in this country has beaten relentlessly on the drum of incrementality. Everything is a box on an endless checklist. Everything is a step towards another step. No time to stop and figure out where all the steps are actually leading. Need to focus on working hard right now. So you go through life like this for 10 or 15 years, and eventually you wake up wondering how the hell you ended up nowhere near where you wanted to be. You allowed yourself to become a slave to expectations, short-term ass busting, and conventional wisdom. You may have squirreled away some decent coin in the process, but how much of that squirreling have you really enjoyed? And was it worth the price?
If you can make it for a couple more decades, you almost certainly will live long enough to witness a computer/robot passing the turing test.
Like I said, my understanding is very limited. I was parroting an informative comment I read sometime atleast two years ago.
Just a thought: Whether a prediction is objectively good or not is different to whether the prediction is seen as good or not. If you can think of a mechanism to figure out whether a prediction was good or not after the event has happened, the system could then make a second order prediction about whether that user's a good predictor or not. Keep me up to date if you manage to solve any of these problems.
Digital was making great money just before PCs took over their minicomputer business.

The smartphone and tablet categories have most growth currently and forecasted - and ARM is well on top of both. What growth areas is Intel in?

I'm interested, because Intel has a unique history of keeping ahead, and they are well aware of the danger, having done it to others themselves (and Andy Grove even had a blurb on the cover of The Innovator's Dilemma).
What does Pixamid do that the iphone/facebook android app with integrated camera doesn't do? From what I've deduced Pixamid is a feature of current Facebook clients, not an independent venture in its own right.

This puts them in a similar position as Foursquare or Gowalla - once Facebook introduced places, you saw the stickers on the outside of businesses become "Check-In with Facebook".
There's generally not all that much point to rollback-style netcode in first person shooters, because you can just run asynchronously and do client-side prediction. If the prediction was wrong, it doesn't matter that much: you might have missed a shot and they're not quite where you expected they were. In fighting games, that's completely infeasible, because each player's actions are completely determined by the previous ones: either I hit you, and I'm going to continue into a combo that's very timing specific, comparatively, or you blocked the hit, and I'm doing something completely different.
I wonder how much that is marked up, however. Compared to just buying bare gold, I mean.

Obviously even bare gold would have a markup, but probably not as much as coins.
Which puts it in spitting distance of some of the highest end Samsung TVs (or short throw projectors) anyway.

(Samsung LSP7 is $3,500)
My favorite part of the process is that they only refund you for the part of the meal that is missing as if they didn’t just ruin your entire meal by leaving out your kid’s cheeseburger.

On that note, we had a driver eat our entire meal and not deliver it at all. The sad part was we’ve ordered some nice meals and this one was just fast food. We had to contact them to find out why our food wasn’t arriving.

We’ve watched drivers clearly go about their own business and show up whenever they feel like it and then our food is cold.

These delivery companies have all this data and yet there are still constant shenanigans...
It’s supposed to encourage long term thinking. Although I’ve always wondered why in that case it’s just one more zero. Maybe they could spare 2 or 3; have some optimism about the future! I guess it’s just a shibboleth, if I’m using that word right.
RSS readers existed before Google Reader and they still exist after it.

https://netnewswire.com

https://feedly.com
>We are used to working with private chefs that may have households, and they sometimes have multiple cards.

Didn't realize that was so common in Santa Monica and LA for that to be a real sentence.

I want that

What a country
In Bucharest all my delivery bags are stapled so it would be impossible to open non-destructively and consume the food
So it’s possible to videoconference with viasat’s long ping? Unpleasant, or unusable?
Ironically Teslas have issues with binding brakes due to lack of use.
They may have tried already. It turns out that financial software is really complicated. The basic functionality is never too complicated, but most of these systems are edge cases that needs to be treated specially. Also, a lot of behaviour has legal implications, so it would take a long time to develop software to compete with something like SAP.

Unless Google wants to get into the ERP software business, spending years developing such a system is a waste of money. Also, they'd need to maintain it for a very long time, and we all know what Google feels about keeping software maintained for long periods of time.
Very cool video, thanks for sharing
If I sent you a link to a yahoo answers page, would you worry about the legal repercussions of opening it?
I was only joking but you have made a valid point.
>Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that the neck restraint that Derek Chauvin used was not a policy or training that his agency endorsed. That seems odd considering there is clear evidence that it was. Part of that evidence includes the 2018 training given to officers and the the Minneapolise Police Department policy that specifically says that “a neck restraint can be used as a form of a “non-deadly option” and is defined as “compressing one or both sides of a person’s neck with an arm or leg, without applying direct pressure to the trachea or airway (front of the neck).”

The Police Chief can't be that far out of touch with the allowed forms of restraint used by the people he oversees. It appears to me that he is taking a cowardly path of disassociating himself from the process to appeases the masses.
Can anyone shed light on which specific "finance software" of Oracle is being migrated off from here?
“Remove the social nets”? Your family is the social net.
Oh it would be much better than what we have now. Not only would you get to keep much more of your money, you’d get to use it to support your family yourself — or even use it to plan for your own retirement, your way. It would, of necessity, bring families closer together and encourage forward thinking. By default the family is the social net: this experiment we are in of shifting that to the massive, bureaucratic state is immoral, and on top of that — not going well.
Noticeable but not a panacea; with the way folks talked about it you'd think the _only_ cause of housing price increase was foreign speculation, when in fact it turned out to be an altogether minor factor.
Well, to be fair, I think you could claim self-defence against someone attempting to practise vampirism on you. ;)

I see your point though; if a person were doing as little harm as a mosquito does, most people wouldn't kill them in retaliation.
Where can you download that?
It would have been an executive order the Trump administration reversed, he wouldn’t have had the authority to reverse a congressional passed law.
Yes, everyone on Zoom is fine. Half in the room and half on Zoom has never been easy and I am not sure how that will be solved going forward.
It's also important to have diversity. For example, on the Boeing 757 there are two computers that control the stab trim, that do the same thing. They must agree or both computers are automatically locked out.

The two computers are developed by two independent teams who are not allowed to talk to each other. Two different CPUs, two different algorithms, two different programming languages.

The idea, of course, is a design problem with one does not propagate to the other.

If one program is used in all your infrastructure, all your infrastructure is compromised when that program has a bug.
Tarkovsky movies are boring, so I would ask someone if they minded boring movies before recommending him. It's just that lack-of-boringness is not the only axis by which to judge or enjoy a movie. I can put up with being bored for 2 hours if I get something else out of it. I don't think you need to like Tarkovsky -- I don't think you need to like anything -- but Tarkovsky is a good examples for the pleasures of cinema orthogonal to the boring-not-boring axis.

I like the way you put it about feeling the movie. When I try to picture what it was like to live in the Middle Ages, I usually end up picturing something like Andrei Rublev.
Happens to me all the time and very often the reason is "Video not available in your country".

Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it's not a problem for many of us.

It also depends on the type of content, InfoSec stuff disappears all the time while popular music videos probably never vanish.
"Despacitio" is not going anywhere.
Sure, but with the cruft of the next 30 years, and not the cruft of the last 30 years
Sure. It paid hansomely for a time. Then I got the hell out. :)
You can't remove the consensus mechanism part and still call it a blockchain.
Follow up to this:

Many telescopes come with one or two eyepieces, and you may want to get a few more in various focal lengths. Generally, the tradeoff is long focal length: everything is small and bright, short focal length: every thing is small and dim. So, generally you start out with a long focal length to find the thing you're looking for, and switch to short when you find it and want a closer look (assuming it's something small and bright like a planet).

There are also barlow lenses, which are sort of an adapter with lenses that increases the magnification of whatever eyepiece you're using. They're occasionally useful.

Most mid-range telescopes have standardized on 1-1/4" diameter. Cheap/older telescopes sometimes use 0.96" and big telescopes sometimes go with 2". Adapters are available to mount DSLR camera bodies to the telescope without using any lenses at all, which is a great way to go on a Dobsonian because there aren't any lenses at all in the whole optical path to introduce chromatic aberration, only mirrors. (I don't have a DSLR camera, but in the past I've had a bit of fun taking the lenses off of old USB webcams and adhering them to the focusser shaft with poster putty. I was able to get some decent low-resolution footage of an extreme-close-up of the moon that way.)

Another thing that might be useful sometimes is something you can use to cover most of the telescope aperture, for cases where you want maximum image clarity and are willing to sacrifice light-gathering. That can be handy for looking at the moon.

I haven't tried using filters, but those can also be used to bring out contrast in certain things.