jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been a fan since Opera fit on a floppy disk (3 or 4)? It has always been the fastest browser, except for the stinch in 9 and parts of 10. I've always had it installed and would use it along Chrome, FF, Flock. Eleven is just wonderful. Its fast as lighting, you can try this test, load up like 20 pages and close it. Now open it again, no 30 seconds of waiting for it to crunch it all up like in FF. Amazing! It also seems to respond more like it did from 6 and below where back mean truly instant redraw. Bravo Opera. Now we just need some extensions...
I totally forgot flickr, its the site I most visit.
For future reference: never mention registering a domain in a public forum. Some douchebag will always register it and try to sell it to you.

In this case someone has already registered wordlensapp.com. We can only hope it's the Quest Visual people.
They are still best for apps that rely on high content value, thus I still use them for Finance and Fantasy Sports.
Do you see yourselves extending this to languages based on non-Latin characters? This could be an amazing, amazing tool for Chinese characters- both for foreigners and natives.
Perhaps the timeframe of 200 years may have been a bit short - given that the French Revolution had just wrapped up, and despite the conservative victory, the idea of absolute monarchy was on the decline. If you want to pick the French Revolution as the point in time where the world (the Western world, anyway) started to really think that at least some form of election was necessary - I'd be willing to accept that. Though the monarchist victory in that war proved it was still holding sway, and it's very debatable.

Yes, Santa Anna was no saint, and clearly the Mexican people didn't think so much of abolishing the elections. The point of my using the quote, though, was to illustrate that in an international context saying "Elections are a bad idea for the people" was at least a vaguely reasonable thing to do at that point in history.

You don't usually see dictators today saying "The people can't handle elections; my enlightened rule is much better without the turbulence." Instead they say "Everyone loves me! I won the election with 99% of the vote!"

So I wonder - when did that change? Is it because the view of the people changed? I feel like it's more of an "international legitimacy" thing, like governments are supposed to represent the people.
Looks like it'd be a real pain in the ass to open when the motor fails.
This is a good work around but it doesn't solve the root cause. We need this to stop. Net Nuetrality needs to be maintained. Airtel is an infrastructure provider. They cannot charge for different use of the infrastructure - internet bandwidth in this case.
No. Coursera courses could be good for experience but it's a red flag to claim that something that is A. online and B. not college is "some college."
>But it's also true that it's a bar that your opinion doesn't even come close to clearing.

Yeah, that's were traditionally people engage in discussion and evaluating each other's arguments (and even each other's opinions). Instead of expecting to settle things with some link to some research here or there, that they know even less about it that the ones that conducted it, and they have at best took a quick read of the final paper, without attempting to verify the results or anything.

Really, scientific papers, as far as their consumers in popular science are concerned, are not more than the holy scriptures of yore. Something you believe because it comes from a source of Truth.

Personally, if I'm allowed to say so, I don't believe in anything not mature enough to make it to a university syllabus. That would be 20 years and several papers by different authors at least to get to that.

>As soon as you formalized your epistemology, though, it would start to lock you into its logic. What sounds right would take more and more work to justify if it was not, in fact, true. That's one of the benefits of having an epistemology.

That's only true if epistemologies are not, like religion, flexible. But epistemologies are not some external entities, they are practiced and believed by fallible (like everyone) people.

>Meanwhile, you are responding to a person who has related his first-hand experiences and observations about a personally tragic case of clinical depression with a glib, slightly incoherent and profoundly reductionistic non-theory about the causes of his wife's illness.

Well, I'll have to disagree about the "slightly incoherent and profoundly reductionistic non-theory" part. Modern life is out of touch with the human animal and messed up, what's incoherent about it? It's an insight we celebrate in our most famous poets, writers, artists and philosophers. It's also something that can be gauged by the increase of depression incidents in particular countries and particular decades.

And who told you I, and people close to me, haven't experience depression? It's not like that persons first hand experiences are the be all end all, and it's not like first hand experience mean that much in any case.

There are all kinds of people with a wrong opinion (could be me, for example, as I'm saying this) that had "first had experiences" that got them to that opinion.
We might also get some commentary with this next release.
I have never seen a company post a blog that said "we're shutting down" only to hear later that they got bought. Ever.
Making small portable things with long power life can be difficult. Making money selling small volumes of custom hardware is even more tough.

Why not make a sensor that clip onto your pillow? Then they could be powered by a wall socket, or at the very least have a large battery once you take the necessity of size and weight out of the equation.
How is it that we went through at least 40 years of incorrect diet advice without controlled studies giving us accurate and science based broad understanding?

"Tell us what you think: Are carbs to blame? Add your own comments to the discussion"
Take a breath and a step back.

Now, ask yourself, is this an object lesson on having such a prominent role of government in everyone's daily lives? If so, what can we learn from it?
The ideas are simple. Instead of having a double sum, we can have a matrix product of the form 1_m^T X 1_n, which is nothing more than a compact way of writing the sum of all the entries of matrix X. Note that vec(X) is a mn-dimensional vector that contains the n stacked columns of X. Hence,

1_m^T X 1_n = 1_mn^T vec(X)

which is an inner product. Note that the equality 1_mn^T vec(X) = c defines a hyper-plane, whereas the inequality 1_mn^T vec(X) <= c defines a half-space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-space

The intersection of half-spaces defines a polytope, which is nothing more than the higher dimensional equivalent of a polyhedron. Take a look at Boyd & Vanderberghe's book on Convex Optimization for details:

http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
This is phone manufacturers selling 1.5 million phones - does that mean actual activations or does that mean it includes inventory sitting in stores. It sounds like the latter to me.
The thing is, that would require that your smartphone be sufficiently aware of the context of your words that it could correctly map one ambiguous statement in one language to another in another language with a different set of ambiguities.

For example, the German 'ich mag sie' could mean 'I like her' or 'I like them' or 'I like you' in formal settings, while the English 'at least' could be translated to German as 'zumindest', or 'mindestens', or 'wenigstens', with different emotional significance.

I'm not sure you could really do adhoc translation at the language level with any real fluidity: you would probably need your phone to monitor your brain before you spoke to get at the pre-language meaning of what you are saying, if that is even possible.
this makes more sense to me than the second article, thxs
The advantage of OO has always been its accessible constructs and abstractions that mirror how we talk about things linguistically. Nouns are just sticky that way. It isn't a big delta over procedural programming, and you can find object systems in many C programs written before OOP was even a word. Heck, even Clojure has its own object systems; they just often call them entities rather than objects (what is an entity? well, its an object, but not the object you are used to). I think our current OO abstractions suck, but the paradigm is OK, especially when considered in the abstract (go back to the treaty of Orlando to see how diverse objects can be!). And the biggest pushers of objects in the early day were CLOS people like Richard P Gabriel, and CLOS (edit: Flavors actually as lipsm points out) gave us mixins, which are a pretty advanced OO construct (though RPG argues the mixins that got adopted in OO languages were not the ones CLOS intended).

People were using LISP in production in the 90s as an advantage, but then they were also using Smalltalk or Objective C also (ironically often in the same places...on Wall street). A new generation is discovering LISP while learning other languages first, but the phenomena is the same: OO was just less popular in the past and so they would come from C or Perl instead of Java.

[edit: not sure why you were downvoted, I thought your post was completely reasonable]
Not to mention the $700+ upfront hardware investment if you don't already have an Apple machine.
I wonder if Apple will embrace Linux as Microsoft have done. If they are still a 'hardware' company at heart then they will.
> Countries that have felt threatened ([...] Israel) have developed nuclear weapons.

What evidence is there for this? At the time, Israel claimed that Egypt was trying to develop a nuclear bomb. However in his 1963 letter to Ben-Gurion, JFK says that American intelligence agencies had found no evidence of this and believed Egypt did not have facilities capable of it (unlike Israel.) To ny knowledge, in the decades since then, evidence of the alleged Egyptian bomb program has never surfaced.

> "I can well appreciate your concern for developments in the UAR. But I see no present or imminent nuclear threat to Israel from there. I am assured that our intelligence on this question is good and that the Egyptians do not presently have any installation comparable to Dimona, nor any facilities potentially capable of nuclear weapons production. But, of course, if you have information that would support a contrary conclusion, I should like to receive it from you through Ambassador Barbour. We have the capacity to check it."

-JFK, 1963

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kennedy-letter-to-ben-g...
I noticed the share funcionality uses a Vagrant URL (vagrantshare.com). Sure enough, when I scrolled to the bottom there was mention of a web service. I imagine this web service will be monitized as it just makes a lot of sense, but hoping that single devs can still demo their projects to friends without having to pay a fee.

If my above assumption is true, would a Vagrant Share Enteprise be in the works/future, similar to Github Enterprise?

Thanks for the awesome tools HashiCorp!
I faced this same problem a few years ago when I started learning C. The best way I solved it was to take your favorite project in X language, and dive in. To find out where to start looking in the source, use tools like grep, or CTL-F to find a particular error message or some distinct message that your language yields.
> Some sites will allow you to simultaneously enroll two devices, so you can keep one as a backup

For WebAuthn (the actual standard for how to do this which is what you should be rolling out if you have a greenfield authentication environment that doesn't already do U2F today) the specification explicitly says:

> Relying Parties SHOULD allow and encourage users to register multiple credentials to the same account. Relying Parties SHOULD make use of the excludeCredentials and user.id options to ensure that these different credentials are bound to different authenticators.

https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#sctn-credential-loss-key-mob...

I'm aware of (and along with many of its other users annoyed that) AWS only permits a single authenticator. If there are other popular sites that do this, this is no worse a place than any other to say so.

FWIW I have two (or more) FIDO authenticators with Google, GitHub, GitLab, Facebook, Dropbox, Login.gov and Digidentity (the Gov.UK verify provider)
> I'm not sure how you can spend 5 years and not learn at least one thing in depth. You'd have to rotate technologies every 6-12 months and there's not that many technologies.

That's kinda how SV is these days though. It's very common for engineers to jump companies every 1-2 years for a long period of time and the companies very frequently undergo a shift in technologies while engineers are there. So, unless you join FAANG or some super stable company - I could see it being natural from just how the market works that you end up having a very short fat engineering career.

For myself, the only consistent thing from my five jobs over the last 7-8 years is that they've all had JavaScript (actually - one had CoffeeScript but then we migrated to JavaScript when I was leaving) - but that's mostly just because of the nature of web development. In the middle of my sixth job search right now and it's looking to be a backend role that won't be in JS now. So, there goes that stability...

Personally: fullstack LAMP -> fullstack Python + Django -> frontend role with backbone/knockout/angular and majority of vanilla JS and CSS -> fullstack Python + Django + CoffeeScript -> Fullstack Angular + Node -> Backend Node with shift to TypeScript near the end
> A job provides perspective and can show you that you are truly worth something before you even believe it yourself.

People feeling worthless for not having a job is entirely down to society telling them that they're worthless if they don't have a job. This is exacerbated by the fact that not having having a job currently adds a great deal of stress by putting you in a position where you're highly likely to lose food and shelter.

> I don't think most people would ever get as far as being able to create anything worthwhile without a job forcing them to work. It's easy to see in young people who haven't found the right job. They waste their lives plating video games or netflixing all day. Without to pressure to do anything no open source developer will be born out of this. No artist will emerge. They will Just stay in their comfy situation.

I think you're vastly underestimating how creative most people can be and I find the fact that you believe the only path to self worth is by selling your labour to someone else very sad. There are plenty of people with ambition to create out there that are instead busy flipping burgers. The current work oriented approach does a really good job of suppressing the expression of that creativity, but it still doesn't manage to get rid of it. There are millions of artists, musicians, and hobbyists churning out bland corporate shite instead of the work they'd rather be doing and we'd be better off if they were free to pursue that instead.

Of course not everyone would immediately go out and start contributing new things, but I don't see how you can imply it wouldn't lead to a great number of more people doing so.
In a theoretically optimal world, all engineers would have immediate and omniscient knowledge of all dependent teams, and stakeholders interests. They would also have immediate knowledge of all system complexities and have no operational burden or customer's that they need to help. Of course in this optimal world engineers would always have instant access to all knowledge of their toolchain and not need to perform research, and the build would of course never break.

The unfortunate reality is that developing roadmaps/managing stakeholders/building team collaboration takes a large amount of time.

Arguably 90% of this effort could be eliminated if the number of stakeholders was reduced, or the company exercised more trust that their engineers were working on the right things. There is a tremendous amount of waste introduced by the endless tracking of engineering deliverables.
Michael is great. Here's a link to Michael's Sandia National Labs website, which has links to some of his publications:
https://cfwebprod.sandia.gov/cfdocs/CompResearch/templates/i...
That’s really solid advice, thanks for sharing it! I’m not in the market for a new card at the moment but I’m sure there will be many other people here who can benefit.
Religious muslims don't say that the weather forecast is heresy, that would be nonsense. Perhaps someone said to you that God can change the weather to be other-than-what-was-forecast, which from the Islamic POV is simple plain sense.

Religious folk don't deny that the course of the moon can be calculated, some say that for establishing the start of the lunar month a sighting must be obtained, this is a complex issue that has nothing to do with believing or not in the predictable motions of astronomical objects.
I am not sure how you interpret the AG report to think it shows they were functioning properly. They haven't shown proof of backing at any point. They have shown they had the money in the account at one point which is nowhere close to showing you have backing. Statement of balance is completely meaningless, especially when it comes from ac transfer done from your sister company like a day before.

All the AG report shows is just more evidence it's one huge scam.
Well -according to the article- they're taking the time to do a review, so we can be hopeful!
That is not a good reason for choosing such charged language. You can get your point across without comparing a venerable (if flawed) programming language to one of the most feared class of diseases that kills millions each year.

I think there are good points you make that people should hear, but less people will listen if you turn them away by making grotesque comparisons.
In a way it's worse than Windows now. Microsoft doesn't lock parts of the filesystem or prevents you from editing files. As an example, I like to change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to permit only pubkey authentication. But even since Catalina it deletes any changes to this file with any system update.
I wouldn't pu the Eurofighte rin there. It is working just fine for the Brits and others. And is still a rather capable fighter, even if more dedocated strike aircraft, e.g. Tornado or a strike eagle, are slightly better in these roles.
It is neither necessary nor sufficient to meet the definition of genocide.

Forced sterilization with the intent of destroying a people, in whole or in part is a form of genocide, but that second part is required.
The general point is that confidence is more attractive than baldness or any of 100 other kinds of uncontrollable issues that impact physical appearance.

When you become comfortable and confident with who you are and recognize what you can't change, you attract the same.
Wow, I had no idea that ffmpeg.wasm exists!
False. It will never be a mainstream medium of exchange because its block size can only handle 10 transactions per second.

It will be a reserve asset, used to back actual payment systems.

And eventually other newer technologies will supplant it, as long as there are “synthetic bitcoins” that can be on that new network, crypto collateralized.

If that new network launches as a sidechain though, then free unstaked BTC will be a perpetually dwindling amount of coins, and perpetually going up in price like collectibles or gold. With no other thing giving them value other than everyone else wanting it, and the miners / HODLers shilling it. It is a perfect investmen vehicle, it can go to $50 Billion a free coin once most coins are staked in other things. So, ironically, competitors better in every way will drive up the price for those who don’t switch and keeo HODLing for decades. And mining rewards will be worth so much that electricity will be wasted on a bigger and bigger scale until people can’t afford to power their homes since bitcoin mining makes more $. It’s sad... but where is the flaw in the logic
> Paypal would have to eat the difference from buy to sell price.

Why? If they never offer withdrawals then they don't need to worry about that.
> sense of accomplishment and intellectual superiority

This, I feel, is underneath a very large proportion of everything in our industry.
The good intention behind mandatory fairness is to fight good old quid pro quo corruption.

Of course it seems hard to separate "the hiring manager wants to work with them [because they are a great vendor]" from "the hiring manager wants to work with them because they pay for the hiring manager's kids' school and family vacation" without adequate documentation.
Lobbyists and Political Party refers to the essentially same thing.
"It shouldn't matter how rich the richest people on earth are."

It does. Bezos and Musk can influence Policy. They can influence for their own ends. Also, it depends on HOW they make their money too. Do they create things? or do they buy up everything such as Real Estate and then jack up the price. There's different kinds of "Capitalism". Rent-seeking is the worst kind. Producing goods that people can use is much better.
Why are most people using Windows computers? Is it because it was so much better than other operating systems?
Did Bill Gates make his $Billions because his operating system was so good? or did he use other "techniques?
That's great, but also, nobody cares about the opinions of "the litearti". Actual political structures are pretty clear. Marxism is not a popular ideology in America by any definition.
> A true shift to remote work, should it happen, spells the eventual end of insanely high SF FANMAG salaries.

... and the beginning of a new wave of entrepreneurship. The best talent goes towards companies that are too big to take risks. If you're ultra-competent, and the fat juicy wages aren't there to tie your resources on maintaining the status quo at some giant tech firm, maybe taking a punt on your own product (or teaming up with a friend) might be a little more appealing.
Originally the Xbox console itself was a loss-leader, with the games being sold to make back the money.

Now, I'm not so sure if that would still be true given that they must have made back their initial manufacturing investments by now...
Not sure if you have spent much time inside an enterprise. It doesn't matter if there is no excuse, they won't do it, and calling them mythical isn't going to help convince them.
Nope, there are no currently viable alternatives to chemical rockets. There are possibilities such as nuclear rockets and space elevators which might be viable in the future. A space elevator mainly requires advances in ultra-strong cable materials. A nuclear rocket would require a drastic change in government policies and public attitudes about nuclear technology.
Okay, but you wouldn’t come up with PageRank until you’d thought about searching and sorting big quantities of data for some time. If you were just trying to sort 10 numbers, you wouldn’t come up with PageRank. It took a “search the whole web” scale problem for the ideas about how to accomplish it to start bubbling up to the surface. (Probably a bit of an oversimplification, but you get the idea.)

Ricci flow isn’t even meaningful until you’ve developed up differential geometry – not exactly an afternoon stroll for a layman.
Fodder for a meta-argument:

Just about any undamaged human is capable of understanding some kind of philosophy, but I suspect that not even 1/2 of all humans are capable of understanding many particular philosophies.

Questions: What are the problems with the above? Is it precisely worded? How many of those observations also apply to the parent-post assertion?
None of the people in that video were armed with AK47s or RPGs.

Also, way to completely ignore the van they shot up with two children inside. Which they knew were inside.