jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not that I know of.

Also, not that “alt-s” will produce an s character on a US keyboard on windows, but will not produce an s on MacOS with a US layout - alt-anything will produce all sorts of interesting characters on MacOS.
I mostly agree.

I think we need a free(er) market in education. The Joel Greenblatt charter schools would soon be available everywhere, if market dynamics were allowed.

We also are undeniably in need of healthcare reform, and on that front, I think we need to just make up our minds and choose between a single payer system or a free market. The Frankenstein we have today is the worst.

And we need to break up monopolies, starting with cable companies / ISPs.
epub supports MathML. are you saying Chrome doesn't support MathML?
Yes, but I find it to be too slow at times and IIRC, you cannot customize your domain, or can you ? (I can set a CNAME record , I guess)
There are a few of unique-ish features of Gold that what caused it to become a trading lingua-franca. It seems that that long history plays a really important role in today's value of Gold. It explains a big part of the 'semantic value' - although I appreciate there are other contemporary reasons for its value.

These features are `unique ish` in the sense that they're not unique alone to gold, but their combination with the items mentioned in the thread grant them particular functionality as an intermediary asset for trading.

* Fungible. There are early methods for detecting and measuring purity (Late Egyptians I believe) which means that one unit of gold is obviously interchangeable with another unit. Not the case for jewels, livestock, crafts.

* Divisible. Two pieces of one unit can be combined to make two units. Two units can be split to make one unit. Again, better than jewels, livestock, slaves, crafts.

* Portable/durable. Small, light, dry, durable. Much better than oil, water, stone (these were used on some pacific islands).

* Distinct. With a small handful of exceptions which weren't readily available in pre-industrial revolution, there's nothing that looks and behaves like gold. Jewels, metals, crafts all gonna fail this.

* Persistent. A lot of other metal candidates are going to fail this test.

Does anyone have any knowledge about whether Gold use spread like other ideas or if there was convergent discovery all over the world?
Reading them feels different, right? Books have pages so you can go back and forth, they have editors, and so on.

More importantly, dense literary works exist but usually pop essay books are trying to prove a point. SSC essays usually try to make you forget you had a point, and instead go up a meta level in service of his extremely evenhanded let's-all-be-friends persona.

Which conflicts with the pretty bad comment section that always wants to sit around discussing culture war. (Which exists but is not worth quite as much time as they want to put into it.)
While you are right and I applauded your caution.

It is also fair to note that no (electronically non-conductive) heat dissipation mod is likely going to cause a runaway thermal event hot enough put the kind of stress you are talking about on a battery, at least not on an M1 Air. If you were using liquid metal and it caused a short, sure, but that is a regularly occurring issue with liquid metal.

This is an electronically non-conductive thermal pad with, what do you figure, a 5w/mK thermal conductivity? On a device that probably never cracks 15w peak. And you can bet if it does, it would only sustains that output on the order of seconds.

That said, I'm all for stopping unskilled people from attempting unsafe things. But then again, doing those sorts of things would sum up my hobbies neatly.
I feel ya. I'm in a life phase where I have to believe most people are just trying to do a good job most of the time. The alternative is too bleak. Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk most closely captures my current thinking. My TLDR: Strive to create systems and orgs which will increase likelihood of good outcomes. Peace.
I guess you haven't had chance to join a conference call (Zoom, BlueJeans, Hangouts ...) where someone has a fan running in their relative vicinity?

At first I also didn't know why is one of colleagues sounding "weird" - never would've thought they had their fan running, until one product manager asked "Hey X, do you have a fan running nearby?"
Masks cover one's facial expressions. Showing one's own facial expression and being able to see others’ is an important part of social interaction in many cultures. Indeed, whether one person feels he or she can instinctively trust another is often based on getting a view of the other person’s face.

This behavior can be suspended temporarily on a short-term basis when a population perceives an urgent state of pandemic or (as in Japan) when an individual says he has a cold, but it may not be sustainable at a society-wide scale beyond that. Seatbelts faced cultural resistance before adoption, sure, but much less than masks would once the acute COVID risk has passed.
I don't drink coffee, and probably never will, but I remember listening to a podcast once where two coffee drinkers who derided the whole "eat coffee beans shit out by a civet" idea tried it and said it was the best coffee they had ever had. YMMV
I did not ask for his past not to be mentioned, I asked if it could be discussed in a different thread, as an optimization. It is much easier to join a discussion in anither thread than to filter out comments in an intermingled thread.
The current assumption here in Israel is that this was a joint operation. Mossad brought the detailed intel (possibly with US assistance) and the army intelligence unit 8200 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200) carried out the execution.

Unit 8200 is not only in charge of SIGINT collection, but also oversees and coordinates the entire cyber-warfare effort in the IDF.
Am I better off buying the new (13") MBA, or a Sony VAIO Z? http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryD...

FWIW, I'd want to install Ubuntu on either one (anticipating that the MBA will be much more difficult in this regard.)

Any advice?
Why can't you work and travel? Many cities in the world have good wifi, cafes and cheap hotels and its possible to work and travel at the same time.

In fact, it can be quite refreshing to meet different kinds of people (not just more startup people). I did this for three months this year (lived in Saigon) and I look forward to doing more of this in the coming years
So when the little light in my fridge dies I have to send the entire thing away to get repaired?

Perhaps it is a shoddy kitchen product that could be improved, but you shouldn't use that criticism to support a corporate (design) philosophy.

There is nothing unique about apple except the sheer amount of effort they put into refining their products.
Yes, this is exactly what we need.

Beautiful refrigerators that reject food items without explanation that don't meet Apple's secret standards of nutrition and aesthetics.

Coffeemakers that are works of art but only brew coffee bought from Apple.

Toasters that have to download 120 megabytes of bug fixes, DRM, Quicktime and Safari before they'll toast your bread.
Every December from 1998 to 2009, we have seen "The next year will be the year of Linux (for the desktop)"

Alas, it never happened.
obviously the metric for "rehabilitated" needs to be judged by someone other than the prisons
The chair of Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University has announced that: "Without a doubt the finest university in the world preparing undergraduate Electrical engineers is Sharif University of Technology in Tehran"
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharif_University_of_Technology...
If you liked this, you may like Bruno too:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Ascent_of...
The obvious (and obviousyl better/correct) name for that type is Result; instead, Either should be unbiased.
I agree that there is no intrinsic value here, but it's a " ponzi scheme" that has been going on for 12 years now, and there are no signs of this stopping. I think we can safely stop calling it a ponzi scheme. Otherwise, by the same logic, other assets would also have to be labelled a ponzi scheme.
Human trafficking is a second order effect of bitcoin.
Honestly... Why don't you find yourself a real villain... I hear oxygen is the great enabler of all sorts of evil.
It took years to get any sort of buy-in from app-developers, and I know quite a few users who are actively running from it. Just last week I helped a friend who was surprised and somewhat disgusted by the fact that certbot seems to have embraced it.

It’s not a question of which one will succeed between snap and flatpak, it’s whether the ecosystem really needs either one of those.
> CamelCase is terrible as soon as you have an abbreviation in your function (like "DB").

Yeah someone always wants to capitalize abbreviations/acronyms weirdly, or treat camel case like it was title case in handling short words or...

Getting people to be consistent with snake case is much easier, for some reason.
Perhaps. But methodology should be independent of being able and willing to ask questions. A close colleague recently left a company because the talk was "we're agile" but the walk was "don't ask questions, just do what you're told."
Free software is about user empowerment, and the ability for users to be hackers if they want to (or employ people to make changes on their behalf). “Sike, we've been stalking you and you can't do anything about it” is antithetical to this ideal.

Privacy protection is not an obligation, but transparency and openness is. Yes, you're not contractually required to not make a separate computer system that's proprietary and closed and disempowering, but that's so pedantic as to be malicious.
Buy the hardware when you need it. Better hardware will always be coming.

Is your 6 years old laptop still good enough? Wait. Do you want/need a new faster laptop with an exceptional battery life now? Get a MacBook pro M1.
As a comment, it is still relevant.
Next up: "exponentially" to mean "a lot!", when there's just a single comparison being made and nothing in context which is varying.

I think I'll have to be a snob and side against the masses and the "linguists" on that one. A lot depends on who you hang out with and read, I guess.
What? 17.42 units of water to 1 unit of coffee? This is not perfect coffee, this is slightly flavoured water!
I'd like to see Firefox's password manager work on more sites. This change will prevent that since the problem sites use funky forms to get around password saving "for security purposes".

Sorry, but forcing me to choose a weak password that I can remember is fake security.
wikis yes. forums.. not really unless you abuse the bug tracker. Github+Google Groups seems to be the complete package these days. BitBucket also provides website/wiki/issue tracker/source control features.
You haven't really paid attention to the US's attitude towards the global neighborhood in the past century, have you? "Neighborly" isn't really the word I'd use to describe things like isolationism, walking softly and carrying a big stick, AMERICA WORLD POLICE, and the like. Even offshoring goes into this bucket, because cheap labor is cheap.

This is entirely besides the fact that we have roving unsanctioned militia units shooting people trying to illegally cross the US southern border, and we tried to build a goddamn fence to keep them out. An actual goddamn fence. And the immigrant-hostile legislation in Arizona and Alabama and Mississippi.

...yeah, in the 19th century, we were pretty psyched about immigration. We were still pretty happy about it in the 20th century, but we were building up muscle to throw down outside our borders. In the 21st century, WE ARE NUMBER ONE LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY AWESOME.
>In addition, let's face it and right or wrong, Eton educates many of the future elite (CEOs and Cabinet Ministers) who will have to carry out this sort of task during their professional life

Exactly. People are upset about the question, yet every day, all around the planet, normal people and politicians are forced to make such decisions. Isn't it best to have considered it before the heat of the moment?
You can still buy a permanent/stand-alone license - and that product can optionally the 'cloud' apps if you want.

From my perspective its a huge cognitive burden for an organization to change Office apps that they use everyday. For a technical group like easydns its probably easier and most of the staff might even support it. In my organization we have some manufacturing folks that don't like computers and don't want to learn anything about them. Its hard to make this kind of change, there is a cost to retraining and effects on productivity and happiness.
I clicked to see discussion on the topic of the thread but you’re linking to threadripper discussion. Disappointed in lack of linux kernel compile time discussion.
Survivorship Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

I met my wife online after a year of fruitless first dates. Maybe I'm just unappealing or something but it was truly a miserable part of my life.

Edit: I'm gonna add in here that most people don't have the stick-to-itiveness that most readers of this site do.
I matched with my wife on OKcupid, for me it worked well.
>The problems are less difficult to solve, but also much more frustrating. A lot more black boxes that you can't reverse engineer when you get stuck. Working with other people in a big company means things move far slower than my ability to get things done.

The part about black boxes you get stuck on strongly resonates with me. Programming can be a lot of fun, when you can rely on your own, or well documented programming.

But enter the world of development in big companies where everything specification never leaves alpha phase, is done in retrospect, only on request, 3 month later then needed and if missing half of the absolutely needed information is the best case, it's just so miserable.
>The prospective students of Eton are then asked to imagine they are the prime minister and write a speech to explain how they would convince the public that they did the right thing.

If they disagree ... isn't that kinda the point? Eton's like, the future-PM factory, right? Do they honestly expect they're never going to have to give a speech defending something they disagreed with, or at least, had strong reservations about?

(And, as others noted, it's not fair to call this killing "protesters", but rather, "rioters".)
PCI-ex version 4, double the xfer rate. It can handle a massive 16 GB/s. Are there even disks that can handle that speed?
To add some data to the "exploitation" argument, consider this:

“Imagine developing a company specifically to take advantage of people’s ignorance of how expensive it really is to drive their own car. What would this company look like?“

(the answer is of course that it would look like very much like Uber or any other ridesharing company)

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache...
You ignore the problem of inputs. What if the unfortunate truth is that educational outcomes are mostly determined by the native capacities and attributes of the students. If the input determines the output and school or teacher level effects merely mediate some of that, then isn’t it all just a cruel charade designed to give the illusion that we live in a meritocracy. It seems like students and our society are the ultimate victims If that were true.
What I would like is a way select() over a set of futures.
It's pure speculation, but it is a possibility. The addresses that Gox at one point had access to still have a sizable chunk of bitcoins, so that rules out the possibility that all of Gox's bitcoins were stolen or lost because of the transaction malleability bug.

This opens up the question of why Gox hasn't signed a message with the private key for the address to prove that they still have the bitcoins. One possible explanation is that they lost the private keys, but there are many other possible reasons.
Yes, definitely. The first part is very high level. It’s our opinionated perspective of the most important AWS products and how we think about them (which is not exactly how Amazon describes them). The second part is more technical and focused on developers who want to set up an AWS environment and understand what’s going on.

And if what you find doesn't match what you're expecting, just reply to the email and you'll get a full refund – no questions asked.
It boils down to the deeply ingrained human psychological need to believe in higher powers, in a universe governed by the struggle between the forces of good and evil that are fundamentally human. The same thing happened with space exploration: as soon as we discovered - even conjectured - the existence of other worlds, the first thing we did was people them with imaginary elder civilizations. Real life threats don't fire the imagination to the same extent. Even if we end up going out in a nuclear war, it's more likely to happen by stupidity than malice.
The Nokia Asha 210 is close to that, except it just have a 2.5G connectivity. I don't know if 3G is worth it on features phone. Don't you think it won't be powerful enough to take advantage of a 3G connection?
There's another possibility that the universe doesn't need a creator, it has always existed, going through a cycle between 'big bang' and 'big crunch'. That doesn't exclude the possibility of higher powers within the universe (or multiverse if that idea floats your boat).

A universe without a creator might seem scary to those who have been brought up to believe in a creator, but how would it affect your day to day life? The pleasure and the pain found within existence is just as real as it was before, you can still take time to reflect on the nature of existence as it's a fascinating but unanswerable question, the only real difference is taking advice from different sources about the path you take through life.

Furthermore, if there is a God, and this God designed us, then our natural state is what God intended us to experience. By separating ourselves from the life that surrounds us we can disconnect from these experiences. How can a God judge you for living according to the nature it designed?
I think by "straight through" he meant that the ends were wired with pairs on 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8, instead of the correct 1/2, 3/6, 4/5, 7/8.
That's not very clever. Nothing is more annoying than the absence of a timestamp on an article. Often I don't even bother reading such articles.
With Bazel, it's pretty easy to make this transformation:

- Get a list of source files changed.
- Use bazel query with rdeps to get a list of tests that depend on that source file.
- Run those tests.

A little less implicit than the code coverage approach, but roughly the same effect.
Yes, it does take years.

And you know what? The cities that started doing that years ago (like Portland) are now blanketed in bike lanes, bike thoroughfares, and bike-friendly infrastructure that makes the city thick with non-car commuters.

On some streets (North Williams and Vancouver, for you Portlanders), the bike lanes are always full. You can sit there and watch hundreds of bikes roll by in an hour. That's a lot of traffic that, 10 years ago, would've been cars.

So, yeah, it does take time.

Start lobbying your city to start it today. 10 years from now, it's a whole new world.
Did the authors take the expansion of Norwegian glaciers into account?

There's a glacier arm in Norway named after the farm it swallowed during the Little Ice Age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigardsbreen#History

> Between 1700 and 1748, the glacier moved forward about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) completely covering and crushing the "Nigard" farm (hence the name of the glacier). By 1748, the Nigardsbreen covered about 48 square kilometres (19 sq mi). From 1930 until 1939, the glacier retracted again.
Icon fonts do not work for users that have browser configured to use specified system fonts. Either unrelated characters are displayed or browser tries to substitute a different font covering uncode private range.
Just the acquisition costs would cover the entire NIH budget for a decade, though.
"I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!"

-- Dick Jones, Robocop.
See the response to my comment below. My impression is that the best solution is actually a high-thoroughput cryptocurrency for settlement.

But cryptocurrencies are philosophically opposed to central control. And authorities are generally behind the times when it comes to technology. But it boils down to outdated technology based on "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The way I think about this stuff (maybe my mental model will prove useful to you): imagine a parallel economy that only a small subset of people are plugged into. These people happen to belong to the top 5% of the "real world" economy. The lowest ranking member of this economy is your average software engineer.

So if you imagine a FAANG salary as being just slightly above minimum wage in this alternate universe you can derive all the consequences of what happens in crypto markets from there, including the new top 5% who can casually pay these sums for art.
SpaceX is an interesting exception. They innovate really fast, their pace resembles that of the positive examples you mention.
Others provide good reasons why it's not in place. But if you want it anyways, here's a snippet you can put in your browser JS console:

(new IntersectionObserver(v => { if (v[0].isIntersecting) {document.querySelector(".morelink").click()}}, {rootMargin: "0px", threshold: 1})).observe(document.querySelector(".morelink"))

You'd have to rerun the snippet for each page load, so not quite effortless. Throw it into a browser extension content script and you'll get it truly infinite.
Did you not have any desire to do these things? This strikes me as an odd "rule" to have since a lot of people genuinely enjoy these activities. Playing football in high school was one of my favorite parts of the time period, and going to a summer camp legitimately changed my life path. I think these things can be extremely good if the child wants to participate.

I couldnt imagine not letting my own child not do these things if they wanted to.
For some reason I'm reminded of The Tick Omnibus, wherein was featured "How to draw The Tick" (The Tick is an unlikely superhero).

The complete instructions were something like this:

1. Draw an oval.

2. Bisect the oval with a straight line.

3. Draw The Tick holding an oval bisected by a straight line.

Gets me every time. As a programmer, though, I actually do something similar for my artwork--except step 3 is "hire an artist".

I'm not sure I can bend my brain to work like that of an artist, but what I do is look at graphics design pieces and do A/B comparisons between them. What's better about one or the other? How are things aligned? What are the nuanced technical details of shading, shadows, colors, highlights? Why that font?

It's really the same procedure I use if I want to learn the best, say, coding style or technique for a language. I look at code, and compare it to other code, and choose which looks best, and analyze why that is.

That's very procedural. A lot of art people I've talked to just mess with stuff until it "feels right", whatever the hell that means. It works for them, though!
I kinda assume that's why this functionality doesn't exist already -- that and some of the "missing"/desired dropbox API features.
True... but sometimes I go to the bar just to hook up ;) But your analogy still holds true.

Managing expectations and emotions seems like an important piece to building a startup. Things like pride and ego can help fuel you, but can also get in the way of clear thinking.
I love good news stories about the environment, hopefully it happens sooner rather than later, certainly a lot of people are betting as much with their wallets.
Fascinating. More fascinating still is that they got Boulderites to eat sweets.