jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
compare http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Euler_problems - you're just unfamiliar with the functional idiom
bestaudio and bestvideo get it very wrong - have a look at the output of -F and you'll see it selecting the 720P version (?)
I work in robotics, and yes we still do a lot of positional programming although that is starting to change. A couple of outstanding issues exist. (1) Robotics is expensive. Even Chinese manufacturers tend to price robotics grade motors at $500 a piece. (2) Iteration time is long. Our simulation environments are hard to use (poor integration with CAD) and slow (this is changing). Theres also a gap between simulation and reality (which is growing smaller, but still not small enough for everyday use) (3) People's expectations are unrealistic. Its easy to program a robot that can move in a flat non-crowded environment. Its still out of our grasp to be able to get robots to move in a crowded dynamic environment. Similarly, its easy to grasp certain types of objects but handling dynamics of other objects is much harder. (4) A lot of academia tends to focus on rewards, competitions, buzzwords (Deep Learning and RL) and smaller problems that can get them publications. Yet there is little interest in real world problems. There are exceptions to this, but the norm is professors will select low risk projects which use deeplearning to solve a very narrow constrained problem.
Apropos this result demonstrating better predictions of orbital mechanics from observation than with Kepler's laws.

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-machine-theory-nature-science....
Canada is home to one the largest uranium mines in the world - Cigar Lake [i]. Wonder what they're doing with this byproduct?

[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Lake_Mine
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713696
>Science can.

But can we though?
I share your experience. What worked for me and enabled me to grok FP was using Linq in C# (using the extension-method syntax, not the keyword-based syntax). It started-off with me wanting to avoid typing “foreach” everywhere when processing lists/collections/etc and then it all followed from there.

My only complaint about FP, and Linq in particular, is that it can often result in suboptimal execution when you have preconditions that Linq isn’t aware-of, such as a known input size, or known uniqueness of some key-property - and there isn’t a way to supply hints. And C#’s weak support for contravariance, aieee. Still lightyears ahead of Java though :)
Why do you believe this is a predictive measure?
It was an entertaining episode, but I can guarantee you can get that reaction in pretty much any country if you try hard enough (in many countries you'll likely end up in a far worse situation).
I agree, programming can be hard when you have to solve new problems from scratch.

From my point of view, programming is a creative process, like writing, anybody can write, it's simple. But few are able to write a book, and very few are able to write a good one.

If you are relying on others code/libraries, you are not solving any problems, all the heavy lifting has been done for you, and you are only fillings the blanks and/or stitching multiple stories together to write the book.
Does Ghost moderate? My understanding was both Ghost and Substack are essentially "newsletter-as-a-service" companies.
If the shutdown was 3 months, I would agree. I think this is the first time in recent history that way of life was completely changed in such short notice and for such a long time. I think some of the behaviors will be staying with us.
I have no horse in this race, but I’d like to push back on a $60 annual subscription for what’s essentially a static piece of software as ‘cheap.’ Since when did everything have to be paid for on a subscription basis?
This kind of comment is underrated. A lot of advice is really survivorship bias descriptions!

Relatively useful:

“All you need is access to capital, or a lot of stuff that can only be done with capital, and that’s what you’re missing, girl.”

Not useful at all:

“What you really need is this cargo-cult aspect that the successful companies have years after their success, but also tons of failed companies have that we never consider, and it isn’t the main reason for the company’s success”
Sysadmin, then use your developer skills to automate the hell out of it.
>Doesn't this mean that I have to type a bunch of boilerplate every time I create a new blog post?
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>My simple answer is: just copy it. My more advanced answer is this:
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>1. Make blog posts and pages self-contained – in other words, have each post or page reside in its own folder, with its own scripts and stylesheets.
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>2. When you want to write another post or page, copy the folder of an already existing post or page and edit it.
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>3. If you find the previous step too much work, write a shell script that copies the directory and removes the old content for you.

Shell script eh ... OK - that'll work ...

And now you want to adjust your style and have it apply it to all your existing page. Another shell script? That'll work, though you're on your way in recreating a static site generator.
Data driven algorithms are very very useful as moral crumple zones. I don't like this trend of companies replacing traditional decision making with "AI"; the anti-discrimination laws we have are going to be toothless if people can just hide their biases in training sets. Who is held responsible when the algorithm discriminates? Considering how much money these companies are extracting from these algorithms it's really a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation.
You spend the afternoon doing this, then a few more to make it "generic" then it's dozens of your successors swearing at you for doing something so complex to solve a problem so simple.
Should be possible. If someone wants to implement that, i suggest opening an issue with an implementation proposal and then send a PR.
That is not the Streisand effect.
Capitol police != DC Metro police.
Too many conversations inciting violence.
We feel same as amazon felt for Sun, Thinking about switching to fast and cheaper alternatives, or self host it.
Well, it's hardly unprecedented; Gore v Bush anyone?

And in general election fraud, complaining about election fraud, and occasionally even doing something about it have a long history in the US.

Per polls, something like 20% of democrats believe there was a significant amount of fraud.

Democracy doesn't work if a majority of the people don't think the process is fair.

If there are allegations of tomfoolery, then let them be argued in court. If they are groundless, great; many people will recognize that and you will increase confidence in the results.

By dismissing purely on procedural grounds, you weaken the democratic system.
None of us are subject to 100% free will. I'm influencing your opinion of the situation right now. My words have some degree of power over you.

That doesn't mean I'm responsible for your actions or your words. We draw the line at individual responsibility for a reason. Its not perfect, but the buck stops at your own actions.

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I'm sure you trust in a fair number of leaders. I don't know who your role models are, but if they started calling for violent insurrection, it would be your choice whether to follow them down that path of degeneracy.
We know, Captain Blondebeard, we know.
Multiple contributors and no coding standards, I would assume.
Is it actually against the rules to have a Fascist society? Or is there just not one?
Let me save everybody a click. From their website:

> Suncell® directly generates electricity from reaction of hydrogen to dark matter using water freely available in the humidity in the air.

Lol
I find 10-50 person rooms pretty valuable. Basically rooms where I can join the conversation, ask questions, comment on other people’s questions. They have a dinner party vibe. I had a random conversation with guy who creates and sells Shopify apps, woman who teaches a sales technique that avoids asking questions, guy who explained how to use origin stories in product pitches. Pretty good return on investment so far.
Tom Scotts channel is pretty much filled with short, nerdy and well-made videos. Highly recommended.
I would host Parler.

While I don't agree with its content, I don't believe in people like hosting providers applying moral tests to their users. The Government/law should be the only people shutting them down.
I wouldn't think of the remarkable 2 as "less than" an iPad. Part of the point of it is that it is completely focused on being a paper replacement. It doesn't pop up random notifications at you while you're trying to think, and it doesn't offer the opportunity for distraction when you get momentarily stuck on something, which makes it a lot easier to power through.

It's like how not having junk food in the house makes dieting a lot easier - you don't have to use willpower to do the right thing, because the wrong thing is hard to do.
Location-based salary tables aren't new. But salaries that are 5x above the US median for software engineers are. We didn't have such a huge stratification in the past.
How much were you hitting? I haven’t seen contracts that go that high, I’m on 140K base + car allowance now (8K), in total I make around 220-215K cash w/ bonuses. employer pension is about another 20K or so a year.

IR35 made contracting complicated but even before that I’ve never seen anything that gets you to SV levels of total comp.
Click : http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
My employer prefers the http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=&q=filetype%3... terminology. I wish there was a way to get results that only have the terms in the body and not in the title, would probably be even more fruitful.
I've been consulting (as a software developer) for a large home-building company for a while now and this experience has given me quite a few ideas and insight related to your #1. I'd be curious to hear you elaborate on this a bit more. Billions and billions of dollars go through this industry every year (even when it's down) and yet, the industry as a whole doesn't understand the web. So there are plenty of opportunities.
Here is a helpful study tracking the timing of Supreme Court decisions on patent cases following oral argument (http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/06/bilski-watch-timing-...).

Key quote:

"Professor Joe Miller (Lewis & Clark) looked at the timing of 18 other recent Supreme Court patent decisions and concludes: 'if you feel like you've been waiting a long time to see the Bilski opinion, it's because you have been waiting a longer time than usual.'"

Average delay is about 90 days; Bilski is at around 220 at this point.
Posterous email-to-post idea was so simple that it was confusing at the same time. We then saw that they introduced bookmarklet and other standard blogging features. Which to me suggest that not many people are using post-to-email feature even though it is now available at every other micro-blogging services. The simplicity of design almost always works in your favor though.
Sounds like you weren't experienced enough with the technology before you went after a full blown effort to build a product/site.

I'd recommend building some throw away project for fun that might still be useful to you. That will help you learn what design process works for you and help you get comfortable with a chosen technology stack. Once you have one or two of those projects under your belt, you'll be better positioned to start something more worthwhile.
Seattle, WA (downtown) - www.bluegecko.net

Blue Gecko (a managed database services company) is looking for a junior to intermediate MySQL DBA. We're a smallish (< 50 folks) company who has been in this space since 2001. Our corporate culture is very remote-work friendly and flexible.

Questions? mikeh<whirlpool>bluegecko.net
Thanks, yes we're definitely doing our share of cold-calling right now - although we could do a lot more. Since we're still a little way away from launching - cold-calling people outside your city (or country) without a launched-product they can try out, feels like it won't work, but would definitely try it out.
Indianapolis, IN

Angie's List - angieslist.com

The sales shpeal: "Angie’s List is a consumer-driven organization that collects customer satisfaction ratings on local service companies in more than 400 categories. We provide an exclusive list of these companies based on feedback from local consumers who know who to turn to when the gray clouds of disrepair loom. It's the word-of-mouth network solidified into one handy "who can I call" list. We now have over 1,000,000 members and get 40,000 new reviews each month!"

We're hiring in marketing, ad sales, and some IT positions.
Potentially. I guess it depends on what you determine as a connection.

But it’s basically an SFTP session. So you can upload and download as much as you would like from a single session/transaction.

Blurb from the website:
“A transaction is defined by a session. So for example if you were to initiate an SFTP connect to an S3 bucket and uploaded five files and downloaded three files, then this would still be deemed 'one transaction'. However, if you initiated an SFTP session and uploaded one file, then closed the session and then started another session and downloaded another file, this would be 2 sessions.”
Yeah, I suppose if you start with 200k and manage to get someone to give you a mortgage with nothing down for a 20 million dollar house or something crazy like that, your transaction costs might wipe out your net worth.
I don't think the community, or Sublime HQ, would benefit much from an open-source version. I do, however, believe it would be amazing if they released their UI library. I think we are all curious to know how text rendering is done, how UI elements are drawn, is it using GPU or not, OpenGL/DirectX? etc.
Cool app! Doppler looks great but i have a tiny concern about the Bugsnag 3rd party script. Unless Doppler own Bugsnag, i think for a sensitive tool like secret sharing, you should remove it.

Shameless plug: I made a similar tool base off another project after FirefoxSend shuts down but deploy on AWS instead of GCP :) It is hosted here if anyone wanna take a look or roll their own https://www.relaysecret.com/. The design philosophy is the same (everything is encrypted on clientside, no plaintext or password leave clients browser, minimal backend).
Look up the air quality in your area. If it's bad, an air purifier is probably a good idea for your long-term lung health.

If you leave your windows open for longer periods of time, then an air purifier might be ineffective.
> For most peoples purposes, they are almost as good

That's what "may or may not be an issue for you" meant.
You turn a knob to scroll through the alphabet and press the knob to enter the currently selected character.
You don't need to stick to UTC, you just need to stick to a single timezone. Which is something that is generally true.

UTC just happens to be a good natural choice for eliminating timezones, but I've seen companies chose another tz as their standard.
If you believe the account of [0] then running a Matrix server is much more costly than running a XMPP server.

[0] https://wiki.404.city/en/XMPP_vs_Matrix
I'm afriad you've not pointed out any holes. Where does "the mainstream" get its moral authority from? Just from being mainstream? Don't you see how that's massively problematic?

You've not described how my views are amoral either. What's wrong with consent exactly?
Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
The 0.7X releases contained a number of bugs. 0.8X has been significantly better!
Checkout aptible [https://www.aptible.com/]- they do hippa compliance as a service.
No, you're right. There's a difference between making a joke about the similarities between your wife and your friend's wife versus making sexist remarks that some groups of men tend to do. And some women do too, to be fair. Humans all have flaws, and some of us try to put those flaws aside. Others like to put their flaws on display like they are proud of them. There's no excuse for it.
One use case I see is scriptability: You want to have the flexibility of javascript, but deploy a single binary (Go).

There are quite a few js engines/bindings already for go, like duktape, otto, go-v8, ...
Thank you for making a very good comment!

One thing which we will probably inherit from ZODB is server-side versioning of all objects. E.g. if something gets corrupted, it's easy enough to roll back to a previous version.

If the model is "each user has its very own private tree" applies (would be the case for gmail or evernote-like application), I think clients quite can maintain it (having the version history, of course). If it's groups of users having access to the same objects, we should have some maintenance clients.
I'm not sure. I sure as heck wasn't going to click without spinning up a VM :)
They have moved towards treating RPython as a framework:

http://rpython.readthedocs.org/
>idea that there is an institutional bias

Out of curiosity, just what kind of evidence would you need in order to falsify this proposition?
Yes, I really believe it. That's why I said it.

Computers have changed our lives in many large and small ways. Great. Tell that to the traveler from 1915. Show them. They'll understand; they've witnessed the same phenomenon with the technological developments of their own time. They won't be used to our modern world, but their mind won't violently reject exposure to the concept.
After reading this thread I've come to the conclusion that it's ethical to leak secret government documents (from a democratic country) if and only if the document provides evidence of someone in the government behaving illegally.

Random dumps of four hundred thousand random government documents, however obtained, don't cut it.
Cool document, in the same vein, we are setting up a new Wiki that open/crowd source various game mechanics at http://gamification.org
Indeed. See this: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/part3#3__cross_site_script...
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." - Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution
I perhaps am not understanding the graph completely, but doesn't that just mean that they are in favor of having the rich pay more taxes and the poor (or upper-middle class. 250k is nothing to scoff at) pay less taxes?

Sounds perfectly logical to me.

Also, 250k? I WISH I made 250k.
Nexopia, a small social network that saw a bit of success with teens in western Canada, made up some great T-shirts encourage the use of Nexopia "because your mother's on Facebook."

Made me laugh the first time I saw them, and your comment reminded me of them.
Could they be stored at a low temperature until there's an actual need to use the copter?
Some simpler financial news articles are now written by zero journalists. A program just extracts numbers from data feeds and plugs them into a template.
I think there is a term for this: Follow-on Public offering (FPO
I have 121 karma as of this writing and I don't see anywhere to change the color in my settings. I didn't even know this was possible.

I have a custom CSS file using Stylish and my HN is mostly greyscale. (Topcolor is #AAAAAA.)
American or Commonwealth? Most Americans play with 5x5, but in principle you could do 3x3, 7x7, or 9x9. Commonwealth is typically 3x9, often sold in lots of six.
So, does it really offer something that this doesn't: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GIVX0FM/ ?

Except for silver casing...
I thought it was pretty well understood by now that given that manufacturing of goods destined for the US is happening in China or SE Asia, that there's effectively a miscount.

It's not like china is sitting there burning coal for no reason. And all those ships are going to ports in the US and the like.

Of course this is all a shared responsibility, but let's not act like all of those "CO2 emissions by country" calculations are not extremely fudged by how consumption, manufacturing, and recycling happen in various parts of the world.
> Use the camera to scan the machine readable zone of your passport's data page.

You probably need to add a graphic for that part.

Isn't that too easy to fake? What happens if I just print the letters in a paper?
We are in an ice age right now
The only thing I don’t understand is why Nvidia isn’t raising their prices. The supply and demand is clearly out of sync. Prices should rise until there is an equilibrium between demand and supply. Why is Nvidia content to feed the eBay market?

If we aren’t going to be able to buy GPUs I would at least prefer Nvidia make a profit instead of scalpers.
You might enjoy the 'Two ways of seeing a river' passage [0] from Mark Twain's _Life on the Mississippi_ which treats the same idea.

[0] I could not find the passage in Project Gutenberg's copy, though I found it reproduced here https://www.thoughtco.com/two-ways-of-seeing-a-river-by-mark...
See also mirrors and discussion at https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/old_scott...
There’s also an unofficial native Windows 10 + Xbox client:
https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram

In addition, there’s a libpurple plugin should one want to use Telegram with Pidgin, as well as several other clients including one that’s TUI based.

The choice of client is a massive boon. It’s unfortunate that one can’t use a alternative Signal clients, because they’d likely solve many of the gripes people have with Signal.
Hmm this repo doesnt have the currently used scriptlets.js file, weird. I think this is the official one https://git.furworks.de/opensourcemirror/ublock-origin/src/b...

A lot of stubs, a lot of functionality to kill a script when tripping certain trigger action, or force some properties.
I always think of that sketch too. Robot chicken ruined a ton of star wars bits for me.
I'm guessing that kind of setup won't be powerful enough for something like hosting a Plex Server to stream x265-content to a chromecast, right?
> If everyone is routable it cuts the gordian knot in the "What kind of content should be allowed on our platform?" question by allowing everyone to simply be their own platform

No, it really doesn't. It makes easier one aspect of developing peer to peer software. Which sure is a good thing, but it's not some panacea. Our regressive software landscape didn't come about because end users simply didn't have easy access to routeable IP addresses. But rather because tinkering with software can be tedious, developing easy to use software takes resources, and the most straightforward way of recouping that investment through surveillance and control.

Right now, you can get a VPS with perfectly routable addresses for $5/mo. And if you're not interested in or able to afford that, you're certainly not going to leave your own machine up 24/7 as a server. In reality, IP/DNS is a namespace that's terrible for user-facing systems - it itself causes centralization by necessitating that singular authoritative servers answer requests for a named object. What we actually need for a non-corporate net is higher level addressing such as content concentric networking (IPFS et al).

(I've gotten some downvotes, and I would be really interested in hearing the actual disagreement. I know we're all biased to think this paradigm of IP4/6 could do everything we want, if only it were used "correctly". But after a few decades of watching things evolve I just don't see how it's sufficient for de-centralization).