jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Pricing something high can actually increase sales. There is an example in Cialdini's book "Influence", near the beginning of chapter 1. A jewelry store owner was trying to get rid of some items, instead of marking the price down, she marked them up (by a factor of 2), and they were rapidly gone.

It is a nice book to read, and will probably make you feel uneasy when you realize the abundance of manipulation tactics around us.
There are times when this is required. For instance, where I find there is a line of code that shouldn't be called. Commenting it out and explaining that it breaks so and so is preferable to deleting it all together because there is a risk another developer will make the same error too.
In grad school I joined an extracurricular social society where you meet around a table with other grad students and discuss various topics selected in advance while eating pie and other goodies. Sort of like debate but without the structure or positions.

Anyway one time the topic was Myers Briggs and so we all filled out our profiles in advance so we'd have something to discuss.

It was a group of 20 people, and we discovered that 19 of us were INTJ. The other was INTP. That was when I decided the test has strong predictive power, for the same reason you did. Even if it's just able to predict a preference for discussing personality tests with a plate of cherry pie. INTJ has a background rate of about 2%.
My wife grew up in Springfield, until she was 14. She sees it with entirely different eyes as well.

I can completely understand how someone who wants to live an urban life would be unhappy with Springfield. From that perspective it’s kinda the worst of both world - too urban to have the benefits of a small town, but too small to have most of the benefits of living in a city.

That said, you should tell her that some random guy on the Internet said she’ll miss “real” cashew chicken if she moves away. If you don’t have the context, she’ll know exactly what I mean. :)
> Finally, one of Commodore’s big selling points for Amiga was PC compatibility: One of the pieces of launch software was official Amiga-badged PC XT emulation software, and one of the pieces of launch hardware was a 5.25in PC-compatible floppy drive.

I had to go hunting for this one; I didn't remember the Amiga 1000 launching with a software PC emulator, but I found what you were referring to, "Amiga Transformer"! But I confess I definitely don't remember it being a "big selling point", perhaps because from the reports I can find, it was absolute shit, running at the equivalent of 0.3 MHz.

What I remember was the slightly later hardware "emulator" for it called the Sidecar; I put "emulator" in quotes because it was, well, basically a complete PC XT clone.
lol typo of "the." I hate typing on mobile.
So 155 per day on average?

Fair that you wouldn't want a 200 mile range, but either 250 or 300 miles of range could serve you pretty well!
Any good replacements?

I mean, if people really miss Picasa (and I personally know several) -- it's worthwhile to reimplement it and make money.
You mentioned work on the kernel side. Is this entirely a hardware issue or are the Linux pcie drivers for the Pi also lacking functionality?
That's why it's a twin model.
As you can see from today, websites don't exist in the ether. There are even more middlemen since the internet is a lot more layered than TV.
yeah... i would agree if there was actually a "debate" happening. anecdotally i can say the majority of people who are 100% on board his stop the steal stuff are not discussing in good faith. at some point you stop paying attention and if, like in this case, it turns to violence you do what you can to stop it.
He can say march on the Capitol all he wants. If a mob shows up then you can bet your ass he’ll be off the platform.
Author here! I have no idea to be honest, I thought it was strange when I saw it in the Python version too. I'm still learning the API and it seems that

"iRacing’s telemetry comes in three variations, data written to an .ibt file 60 times a second, live data exposed to our telemetry API 60 times a second, and a session string in YAML format that contains more or less static information about the session. The YAML string is appended to the end of the .ibt file but only a small portion of that data is exposed to ATLAS."
There is nothing to investigate. Did you read any of the affidavits filed with the so-called "fraud" lawsuits? There were election observers complaining that they saw lots of military ballots for Biden, which is proof of fraud because they "knew" military members were "supposed" to vote for Trump. There was another observer who complained that he saw an Asian person working the polls, which was proof that the CCP had infiltrated the elections. The lawsuits were just hundreds and hundreds of pages of conspiratorial nonsense like that. The lawyers filing these things are QAnon cultists.

How do you "investigate" allegations like that? If you've really fallen for this scam then you have been thoroughly brainwashed by the far right internet.
I highly recommend you do some studying of how Weimar Germany led to the rise of Hitler.

It is no exaggeration to say that Trump is playing from a handbook which is poorly scribbled and obviously plagiarized from Hitler's.
It depends what you mean by real relation. Both OC43 and HKU1 are betacoronaviruses, in the same genera as SARS-CoV-2. So they're genetically very similar, but there's no reliable evidence of significant cross immunity.
I totally agree, but how do you separate algorithms that radicalize people from ones that show you more funny cat videos?

Like I said, I'm open to the idea that something should be done, just not sure exactly what.
Yes that's another problem, you see one trailer more then once in your feeds.
Thanks for the explanation. Britain seems ideally placed to use pumped storage; it may be a lot more difficult in a country as big as the US.

Interesting about German energy production.
"This Editor Wrote a Clickbaity Headline. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
(FTA) On C#:

"For some reason bit rot in .NET seems to set in very quickly."

(FTA) On Java:

"It’s been slow to catch C# up on language features"

These two observations (which are independently correct) are inter-related in a way that materially impacts what decision I'd make if I were really forced to make one similar to this article's thought experiment.

(FTA) On Java:

"I haven’t done much Java, and I’d like to keep it that way."

As someone who programs in Java almost every day (Android development), I respect this opinion because there's a lot about Java that I hate, but if your goal is honestly to create a system to be maintained on the scale of decades Java would probably be the best, most practical bet of any of the languages mentioned, by far.

It isn't sexy, it often isn't fun, but in my experience (which involves programming in Java off and on in various contexts since the mid-1990s) it hits the biggest cross-section of development system/runtime that bit-rots the least and is most likely to still be around for 10+ more years (even if this is much to my chagrin). This doesn't mean I'm a fan of Java, I'd much rather code everything in Go, but Java is the safe bet given the premise.

Before anyone brings up picking Java over C/C++ (which are older languages and still have robust ecosystems), try compiling K&R era C code with a modern compiler. Java is ironically like the (pre-Windows Vista) Windows of programming languages in that the tools and runtime basically bend over backward to not break your old code that used to work, this is both good and bad in different contexts but is very useful for the specific niche of development this article is talking about.
What's as useless as the pointed article. I tought the university PR would care to add such things as absorption rate of infrared, and why should I care about this instead of looking at traditional black nickel.

Any random black paint absorbs more than 90% of the light, and lots of black coatings survive 700°C.
I agree, more details.

> The new material can also withstand temperatures greater than 700 degrees Celsius and survive many years outdoors in spite of exposure to air and humidity.

For simplicity, lets assume that it's 723°C (1333°F), and there is a nice summer afternoon and the environment temperature is 23°C (73°F). In Kelvin, we have 1000K and 300K.

By the second law of thermodynamics, we have that Q_in/T_in < Q_out/T_out,

so Q_in/1000K < Q_out/300K

then Q_out > 3/10 Q_in.

At least the 30% of the heat that enters has to be released to the environment in some type of cooler. So the efficiency of the heat to electricity conversion is at most 70%. If we multiply that by the 90% efficiency of the light to heat conversion, we get at most 63%. (65% in a cool winter morning :) ).

The Wikipedia article is not very clear ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conversion_efficiency ), but I guess that in a real power plant, we'd get at most a 40% or 60% heat to electricity conversion efficiency instead of the theoretical 70%.
The title explicitly mentions conversion into heat, so it's not fair to call it a misnomer. And turning heat into electricity is how most power plants work, not just concentrated solar power ones.
Uber make grandiose claims about the amount their drivers can earn, these claims have been demonstrated to be false, Uber drives down the cost of using Uber which in turn drives down the amount that drivers earn[1]. Driving for Uber is uneconomical for some drivers in some areas, if the trend continues more and more drivers for Uber are going to find it uneconomical. If the concern the taxi drivers have is that they are going to lose their career, Uber is certainly not a viable alternative, because while it may provide a job right now who knows what it will provide in a years time.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-drivers-say-theyre-making...
or people who live in cities where you can cycle straight for half a mile without making a turn or running in to a stoplight

I think Amsterdam here is the exception rather than the rule - most other places I've cycled have bikes on the road with cars rather than segregated tracks. Then, a faster bike makes a lot of sense, both from a safety standpoint (being able to accelerate quickly can get you out of trouble sometimes) and because you can actually hit your higher top speed, to shorten your commute.

Obviously there are diminishing returns - going from a $150 bike to a $300 bike is a big upgrade, and going from a $300 bike to say a $1000 bike probably makes less of a difference. But certainly in London (and Seattle from my experience, and probably many places in the US) I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that a nice road bike can make a bigger difference.

For context, here are some of the roads I cycle down when I cycle to work:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5110521,-0.0613274,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5106455,-0.0835212,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5118519,-0.0973481,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5091639,-0.1195712,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4853524,-0.1432872,3a,75y,...
I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a serious doomsday-scale worm attack in the last decade or so given the complexity of modern software and the surface area this presents.
> x85

Oh the famous x85 processor architecture, with processors like the 8085, 386 and core i6
Yes, but households by definition don't need to pay two rents, which means if you can afford average rent on $67k, the median household can in fact afford the median rent.
Completely disagree.

Great example is working with Unix streams instead of objects as in powershell.
Is there a USB-C flash drive smaller than the 2022 Samsung USB 3.2 Gen1, https://www.samsung.com/us/business/computing/memory-storage...? For USB-A there is Sandisk Cruzer Fit similar to Yubikey Nano, but most USB-C flash drives are larger.
They should really pick a name that's easier to spell...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)
That's actually one of the arguments for the universal basic income. If everyone gets the basic income, as you make more money, it doesn't decrease your benefits.

Means testing (i.e. reducing benefits as you make more money) is what creates the really high effective marginal tax rate that you describe. The opposite of means testing is giving it to everyone.
To me, this regression just means that the switch is toast in the next iPad hardware release.
The Instapaper app is fantastic. Primarily it is a list of articles, cleanly presented and bookmarked. The reading experience is superior to the browser because one can simple swipe to advance a page. Perhaps a small thing but it makes a big difference when doing a lot of reading. It is just generally a very well designed app.

Also, the app has begun to expose some new features, like finding your friends and getting to see their favorite articles, that I'm not sure are even exposed on the site now.
But then those bombs would be highly susceptible to decay!
I agree with all of what you're saying.

I was just trying to point out to the OP that s/he doesn't need to feel dirty doing all this. I also don't think you need to be dishonest about any of this.

In my case, instead of letting the cat out of the bag by telling them I wanted to take the job, I should've said the offer was well below my expectation (true) and said nothing about whether I wanted to take the job (no lying involved).

One advantage of doing what I did (i.e. not bring in another offer) is that I can now get even more when I quit from here. My suggestion is that if you're getting screwed over and the company want to keep you - get the best deal your company can give and then use THIS as a baseline for your next offer.
Implying a keyboard shortcut is not customizable...
When the author talks about missing features, is he referring to the new self-hosting compiler only? I remember skimming thru the PDF manual when I first heard about Rust, and I'd find it alarming if stuff like deterministic garbage collection and stack growth have been documented but not actually implemented.
I like the idea of being able to do some parts of a desktop application with HTML but would really prefer not to have to use Javascript. Does anyone know of anything similar to this but that can be manipulated with another language.
Just a a question: is there any project trying to wrap the Lua with some ruby-like sugar just like what CoffeeScript do to javascript?

I think that will be fun since Lua's syntax is ... not so sweet i think.
It would be interesting to know the Instapaper and ReadItLater's user break down by OS. I think the percentage of Windows and Linux users who who use Safari and one of those services is small enough to discount. So for the sake of discussion, let's assume the number of Mac users equals the number of Safari users, and that the services' customer breakdown by OS is roughly equal to the global distribution. If all of Mac users then quit using these services, about 10% of the user base would be lost. This is obviously a high estimate, and if I were Instapaper/ReadItLater, I wouldn't be very concerned.

On the other hand, if the primary user base came from, say, iOS, this may be a more significant threat. Never having owned an iPhone or used an Instapaper app (I only use it in my browser. I like to blow up the font and strip it clean.), I cannot comment on their attraction over Safari mobile. Is the Instapaper app more than just a bookmark and viewing pane?
Think about including physical items by organizing crafting events. Everyone starts with the same supplies or has to find them in their homes. Creating the same thing that then is unique to each person is quite something and you can SEE creativity (and everyone feels accomplished.)

Your group size suggestion is great. You want to avoid the Ringelmann effect "in which big groups can become less productive because people tend to feel less committed to an outcome."

And you're challenged by "Social Cooling"(Dutch technologist Tijmen Schep says that a big-data society can chill our personal relationships because we’re being watched all the time.)
So it's not just some cracked pot theory?
Late period John Coltrane (A Love Supreme and after) kind of set the standard. I find his fellow bandmates Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, interesting as well.
I have been using for several years bootable Thunderbolt 3 SSD's (on Linux).

As those are equivalent with 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes, exactly like the internal M.2 type M SSD slots, there is no performance difference.

Only the latest laptops with Tiger Lake, and the laptops with Ryzen 5xxx to be introduced soon, have PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots, so they will be able to have faster internal SSD's.

I expect that the interconnection standards for external devices will also continue to be improved, restoring parity with the internal devices.
>> In Vietnam or China, it's common knowledge (and celebrated) that Vietnam won the war.

China celebrates Vietnam winning that war? Perhaps, but it'd be pretty surprising. Vietnam won it in spite of China. (The Soviet Union was a huge help though).

Happy New Year to both Vietnamese and Chinese peoples.
You don't need root access to an OS to replace that OS with something else.

What you need is a bootloader that is not locked so you can boot a different OS instead.

In my experience most major Android vendors do support bootloader unlocking.
I hope they pay you well. Moving is the worst.
60/40 portfolio with leverage
I'm forever tempted by iTerm, I mean the tmux integration seems so good it's almost unbelievable.

But I have a thing for using built-in tools and Terminal.app gets a lot of the basics right. And has for so many years.
Payments seems at least potentially to have a lot of utility. Don't understand the kneejerk hate for this. For me social media direction is more dubious
Not impossible. I learned from an engineer to go lay down in bed for 30 minutes and stare at the ceiling. It mostly resets the brain.
But if the keys are also stored somewhere where the hackers managed to gain access, they may be able to make use of the information.
Oh, and it's not stretching at all. Take the swap in your article and instantiate it with

T=A*

and you'll see that the arguments to the swap become

A*&
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Anyone recommend a good basic interpreter for Windows? Or even one that would work in Dosbox with text and graphics modes?
1. I'm curious what happened to the pilots: did they remain in their role as fighter pilots or were they transferred to other airframes that pull fewer Gs?

2. I can't help but think about the possibility that software that can take over when it thinks the pilot is non-responsive could be hacked to crash on purpose or be taken over remotely. Perhaps this is a "feature" that will allow the F-16 fleet to be used as UCAVs without telling the public (or our enemies) about it?
You're interpretation of it isn't wrong. You're still wrong in asserting that it wasn't presentes as a fact in the article. It clearly, linguistically is.
I've always maintained that women seem to me subtly more susceptible to peer pressure for most things, and a bigger part of that seems to be representation than for men. This is grounded in the massive shift in how the population of US "programmers" changed from majority women to majority men. "In 1967, there were so many female programmers that Cosmopolitan magazine published an article about “The Computer Girls,” accompanied by pictures of beehived women at work on computers that evoked the control deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise" [1] But in the next decade, there was a massive cultural shift – PCs were sold, and its ad campaigns targeted the image of a young geeky boy playing with toys. The campaigns were successful, so "By the mid-’80s, some college freshmen were showing up for their first class already proficient as programmers." Those were boys who had bought PCs and tinkered with them at home – excluded from ad campaigns, young girls never asked for a PC for Christmas, and they would show up to these freshmen courses like they did before but find themselves already terribly behind. So the number of women in programming started dropping around this time [1]. This was not seen in, say, Russia, which was not subject to the same ad campaigns, and so the number of women in programming stayed about the same. You might note that a lot of the female programmers you find in SV are Eastern European – this is not an accident.

I do also have a citation that showed how the number of women signing up for archery was minuscule prior to the Hunger Games series, but subsequently ballooned and stayed high since. So the above assumption – that visible token women in a particular field makes a huge impact on the number of girls in that field – is based in some fairly well-known effects.

[1] – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-com...

[2] – https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-exho-t...
That's encouraging news. Do you use a lot of sites with SSO? Are they mostly mainstream (where I would class MS Teams to fall in that bracket) or do they tend to be more niche services?

(I totally accept that my "50% of SSO systems will be broken by this" to be a worst-case random number i-have-no-idea-but-for-all-I-know value. Probably shouldn't have been so blasé about it! But very much interested to hear what real-world values look like)
This!

The hardest thing for competing chip manufacturers to overcome in the deep learning world with is the CUDA APIs / CuDNN API etc.
He posted (on his own usenet fan group) the following:

"The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an
ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations,
base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk,
stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story."

But of course nobody is an entirely reliable narrator, and certainly not the author of The Guide so... Maybe?

(Edit: I see a peer respondent already linked it, but I'll leave this anyway)
No, I know several people who got covid. They described the flu as being worse than covid. Mild mean mild.

Hospitalization by definition is considered severe.
After setting up a swap partition of sufficient size, hibernate worked with no issues whatsoever on my very recent hardware and kubuntu. The main reason it's disabled by default on ubuntu is that the default partition setup isn't compatible with hibernation for most memory sizes. You need a swap configuration that's large enough to fit your entire RAM and also your current swap. I find it works at least as well as on any other OS. I currently have it configured to auto-hibernate on low battery or after some number of hours of sleep. From my point of view the Linux community is doing absolutely great on that front, and I've never had a machine where hibernate didn't work correctly. The main issue here is the defaults on one distribution (ubuntu) make it a massive pain to enable.