jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's the problem. This package is very similar to Microsoft's checkpoint package which is based on Microsoft's MRAN snapshots, and this package also uses MRAN. The article explains the difference is that this package allows you to specify the date in the code itself, whereas checkpoint is used to set a whole installation to a specific date. But this is no advantage as it means code will stop working if the groundhog package changes, whereas with checkpoint a paper could just say 'use packages as of date x'.
Yeah, I mostly agree. I'm not sure if the deplatforming push is good or not but I see moves like this only accelerating it, which is going to lead to a deepening "red internet / blue internet" schism that's probably not good for either side. It's obvious that the left feels that they can keep shutting down right-wing media by various sorts of economic pressure and legislation, but I think we're seeing this strategy start to hit sharply diminishing returns but at this point the echo chambers have been so strongly reinforced that it's hard to imagine any other strategy getting support.
> Wire is the better choice if you can sacrifice a tiny bit of usability for better privacy.

Do you mean better privacy than Signal? I was under the impression that Signal was significantly ahead of Wire in this regard with features like private groups and private contact discovery.
Nice to see what I think is a trix[0] editor for the rich text posts.

[0] https://trix-editor.org/
Submitting a PR runs into the most random etiquette expectations from a gatekeeping project maintainer that arbitrarily chooses to not merge

It requires a lot more effort and back and forth than you are describing and its disingenuous. I’m glad you’ve had a good experience with it though.

Writing an automation tool often has nothing to do with the experience and acumen required for a job, it could be a mouse motion recording to a bash script. It requires pure happenstance or contrived altruism to do it in a worse language for the task just to say “see look what I did” for a future employer

I think this requires more empathy, not in an “emotional intelligence” sense just in the concept of putting yourself in other people’s shoes and imagining what they encounter instead thinking what you encounter is normal
Avast is the best you can get for free - I'd buy Kaspersky or ESET if you're willing to pay.
Fortunately the storage business has been ripe with technological breakthroughs since 1990, both for spinning rust and solid state memory. See e.g. the Nobel prize in physics in 2007. I still have my 8MB CF card that cost $40, I think that was around 2000, so for solid state the past 15 years have been insanely good.
Woah, Louisville is much closer. Loiusville may be the closest city to Point H that has an airport.
I have an electrical engineering degree, and looking back on it, there's really not much there that you couldn't learn just fine from the Internet -- if the material were readily available, and there were a community of people learning EE online. In order for that to happen, though, EE education would need to get its act together, and change quite a bit.

It's frustrating to see how much better education could be, if only more fields would start using the internet properly.

(Fun fact: I don't have a CS degree, but I'm taking graduate-level CS classes and doing fine. I know that CS it something you can learn well from the internet. I know what it feels like to learn the equivalent of an undergraduate degree online. And EE could be that way, too.)
FUD has now a new meaning:

Fear, Uncertainty and (outright) Disinformation.
That would be horrible. Replacing it with an ad would mean that they are now beholden to the advertiser, as opposed to being beholden to their donors. Right now Wikipedia depends on their editors to provide content, and donors to provide money. If instead they relied on advertisers to provide money, they would lose an awful lot of credibility.

Also, why would you prefer an ad to the donation banner? Ads tend to promote excessive consumption or try and manipulate your baser desires to get you to part with your money. They tend to be animated, or play sounds, or dance all over your content. They provide vectors for malicious code to be injected into your site.

Instead, we have the founder of a highly useful collaborative educational resource (or sometimes some editors of same) asking for donations to support that without being beholden to corporate interests. Where's the problem?
It really should not be that hard on 10.5 or 10.6. Try Homebrew? http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew
In a race to get better test scores schools stopped implicitly teaching critical thought. Its easier to teach kids how to follow a set of steps to achieve a goal (math equations) rather then teach them the logic behind the steps such that they can independently come up with those same steps on their own. Yet the latter increases critical thought miles more.

In middle school I had a week long course on how to identify the trustworthiness of online sources that talked over topics like what does the site gain by pushing one narrative over another, are they selling anything that might make them artificially favor a view point over another, checking multiple sources but identifying common trends in arguments or even common site themes that might suggest the sites are ran by the same entity.

In highschool in another district all I got on the topic was "wikipedia bad because it can be edited by anyone".
I have never bothered to look for any specific evidence, therefore it is not true.
I believe you could once get a 50 year sentence for dealing crack, so yes.
Why melt ingots in a forge when you can just run prime95?
Something I've seen no one else mentioning: Apple's low-spec tier is $1000, not $70.
>as you obviously spent some time thinking about this topic I'd really appreciate some feedback: https://laptopsinspace.de

While I'm not OP, I remember seeing this project at the end of April in Three.js Discord. It's neat to see where it's gone since. Bravo! :)
I think this is part of the reason where there are so many people trying to find reasons to downplay it: humans love the idea of “one weird trick” which makes a huge difference and we sometimes find those in tech but rarely for mature fields like CPU design. For many people, this is unsatisfying like asking an athlete their secret, and getting a response like “eat well, train a lot, don't give up” with nary a shortcut in sight.
Thanks for posting this list! As it happens I am working on organizing a conference in the coming months and I've been comparing a few similar platforms but there are several on your list and in the comments that I didn't know about.

If anyone has attended a conference recently using one of these platforms I'd love to hear how it went.
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I wondered recently - where do large queries fit in to this ? URL encoding has size limits and is inefficient - but you can't use get body
I suppose I misspoke, your mental model sounds accurate XD. I wish there were a mandated evidence double check sampling rate! The point I was making is that I suspect in most courtrooms the rate is effectively 0.
You realize for every person who thinks it’s ugly another things it’s fucking awesome? Yes, I think it looks fucking awesome and can’t wait to buy one. Also my friends at work felt similarly.

Weird how some people have different opinions on subjective matters right??
I've heard some very vague grumblings about the Dreyfus model but never worked up the motivation to actually dig into them.

But the first thing I noticed is that here's a guy writing a paper about skill progression and he hasn't encapsulated the act of writing a paper about skill progression as a progression of its own.

I suspect it's more like Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert, Artist, Philosopher.
RF/Analog people are wired differently!
This has been happening for years. The deals some vendors offer on weed leading up to 4/20 have always been jaw dropping.
I like how the Tesla employee calls the CyberTruck a "car" within the first 5-10 seconds of the video...
> There is a forthcoming NanoVNA version 2

I've already heard about it, looking forward to the new one.

> I believe there is a large unsatisfied demand for low performance instruments

Yeah, there's a huge demand for low performance instruments of all types.

And a surprising amount of such equipment can be built using low-cost parts thanks to progress in semiconductors - very limited performance, often uncalibrated, sure, but valuable for experimenters. For example, a 1 GHz active oscilloscope probe for $50 [0].

I think the critical part is not simply the possibility of building them, but making them easily available. If you read the old homepage on the web, or old electronics magazines, you can see a lot of similar DIY projects. But a lot of those DIY projects are not very repeatable.

But in recent years, I think the rise of the web and the popularity of free and open source software and hardware design is a game changer in this aspect. Today, I can download a PCB design from GitHub and send it to a factory for assemble simply by a few mouse clicks, and a week later, I can get a prototype. Even if the original designer stopped working on it, others in the community can contribute easily and carry on.

> but nothing beats a device that fits in your hand, runs free code from GitHub and costs so little that you can fry it accidentally and not care much.

Can't agree more.

[0] http://blog.weinigel.se/2016/02/26/ghz-differential-probe.ht...
> An analogy might be an American company appointing high ranking government people (who are still active in government)

It's not at all uncommon for high-ranking government and military officials in the US to sit on corporate boards right after they leave government. There's a well known revolving door.

American companies are also subject to very significant pressure from the government. See, for example, how the US government informally (and successfully) pressured all the major payment processors to cut off WikiLeaks in 2010, or how social media companies are now under significant pressure to censor content.

This sort of pressure, which exists to varying degrees in every country, is not the same as the government directly running a company or dictating its business plans. That is not, by and large, how things operate in China either in the private sector. I see the claim made all the time (for example in the first post I responded to) that all businesses in China are basically run by the government. I think the people making those comments don't know what they are talking about, and are basically advancing a paranoia about China which has become ever more intense in the US over the past few months.
> Because we have laws requiring a lawyer be provided in a criminal case and we have high standards for lawyers, you theoretically will get a good lawyer even if you cannot afford one. Of course the public legal system is incredibly under-funded so in reality this doesn't work out.

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is."

> "Bridge Engineers are too expensive so lets make the requirements to become one more lax" is obviously a dangerous idea.

A lot less dangerous than the alternative of not hiring a Bridge Engineer at all and still having to build the bridge, which is the analogous situation for legal services.

> The issue is funding, not the requirements.

Not necessarily. Standards can be inefficiently high. It's not worth spending A to avoid a 1% chance of losing B when 100A is more than B.
The same can be said for 99cent apps. The access to sales channel has been democratized and this creates a massive inventory of software. Some of which are very good, but still forced to price at a very low level. A piece of software like iPad's GarageBand at 5.99 - who could have believed this?
As an accountant who eventually became a developer, the hard part isn't learning to code, it's all the related lore that causes problems. Version control, shells and pipes, "scripting languages", (free) Unix, editors instead of push button ide's, etc. If someone has had experience with a rigorous field, writing code won't be hard to grasp, butthey won't even know the questions to ask about the ancillary tools that are needed to be successful. Have a 10 things to revisit as you learn about programming page, or something.

Most people could figure out that, say, a miner would need to know about digging and shoring up dirt. That they might need to know about pumping water isn't obvious until you've done it a few times.
Except that's exactly what he did. His .com is available, I checked. He owns the .net.
I routinely tell clients "I am happy to take your money for X, but I do not believe doing so is in your best interest. Here's why: ..."

This can be anything from "Client believes they want X but X just isn't a good idea." (not too uncommon in SEO) to "Client wants X and X is a great idea but they could get X implemented for a fifth of the price if they weren't using me."

People hire me because I'm trustworthy and give them the warm fuzzy feeling. Those, and my own conscience, are much more important to me than squeezing an extra couple thousand bucks off of a contract.

I'll also tell variants of this to clients when sizing up contracts. For instance, smart people who like me routinely ask me to do pedestrian PHP coding, because I'm reliable and they don't know how to find a reliable PHP code monkey. (Canonical project description: "We have a site built on Wordpress which needs a plugin that interfaces with $EXTERNAL_API. Can you build it?" Yes, I could, but I shouldn't.)

I typically refer them to someone who I believe to be reliable, who charges much less than I do. (Though he should raise his rates, since he's reliable, and reliable is worth a premium -- as evidenced by people willing to pay $X00 an hour for PHP coding to get someone who will answer emails in a fairly timely fashion.)
The accounting term for this is "breakage".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakage

Any business that runs a coupon campaign will usually account for breakage. It's factored into the numbers of whether a campaign is executable or not.

The percentage will vary for every business / every campaign even for the same business.
I respect the author's directions -- and Clojure is a fine language -- but I was a little put off by this assertion:

I’m only really getting at the fact that even the ultra-flexible of Common Lisp wasn’t written to handle all computing scenarios.

This came after he noted that Lisp includes destructive functions and implementation-specific multithread schemes. Sure, on the one hand, the CL standard is a little long in the tooth, but on the other hand...

(1) "Pure functional" is less flexible than "functional plus features for imperative programming". It was weird that he cited destructive, efficient functions as a negative, that they contributed to Lisp not supporting "all computing scenarios". We can happily debate functional approaches as being less bug-ridden and all that jazz, and those advantages come with the tradeoff of being less flexible.

(2) A Turing-complete language supports all computing scenarios.

(3) Okay, sure, you want access to some OS services, not just academic completeness, and that does end up being implementation-specific. Fortunately, CL gives us an out: you can implement layers that detect the implementations and do whatever specific thing was provided. Every modern CL implementation supports multithreading in one form or another. There are several packages contributed by Lispers that show different approaches to multithreaded and multiprocessing apps. There is no one true way with that. Clojure provides several approaches, and there are several libraries for Lisp that provide several approaches.

Over Clojure, CL continues to provide some advantages, at least to me... Less syntax; compiles to machine code; mature; no special functions required for recursion, recursive iteration, or trampolining; and not limited by the JVM. A couple of those end up being Clojure's advantages, too, depending on your perspective (syntax, JVM).

Both fine languages. Just a weird comment in the middle of a good essay.
Not necessarily. From the wikipedia article:

"and the other main diagnostic signpost of low levels of serum B12 cannot be relied upon, as sufferers can have high levels of serum B12 and still have pernicious anemia."

It's really hard to diagnose, there are no reliable tests for it.
PS - Keep in mind that B12 can have some side effects:

Hematologic: Peripheral vascular thrombosis has been reported. Treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency can unmask polycythemia vera, which is characterized by an increase in blood volume and the number of red blood cells. The correction of megaloblastic anemia with vitamin B12 can result in fatal hypokalemia and gout in susceptible individuals, and it can obscure folate deficiency in megaloblastic anemia. Caution is warranted.

Leber's disease: Vitamin B12 in the form of cyanocobalamin is contraindicated in early Leber's disease, which is hereditary optic nerve atrophy. Cyanocobalamin can cause severe and swift optic atrophy, but other forms of vitamin B12 are available.[citation needed] However, the sources of this statement are not clear, while an opposing view[45] concludes: "The clinical picture of optic neuropathy associated with vitamin B12 deficiency shows similarity to that of Leber's disease optic neuropathy. Both involve the nerve fibres of the papillomacular bundle. The present case reports suggest that optic neuropathy in patients carrying a primary LHON mtDNA mutation may be precipitated by vitamin B12 deficiency. Therefore, known carriers should take care to have an adequate dietary intake of vitamin B12 and malabsorption syndromes like those occurring in familial pernicious anaemia or after gastric surgery should be excluded."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12#Side_effects.2C_con...

Those are rare but worth being aware of. My friend has been taking bi-weekly B12 injections for over 2 years now with no problems, and it continues to completely suppress the PA symptoms.
Hey Grandalf, while I'm sympathetic to your life-style I think when someone lists a bunch of very serious symptoms that apparently have an underlying clinical cause giving them 'life style advice' that includes traveling to another country and a bunch of mumbo jumbo (plan nice projects/surprises and think about them ?) and to do so for an extended period of time may cause his disease to advance unchecked for another 3 months, which could have some very serious side-effects.

Some of the diseases on the 'more likely' list given the OPs symptoms are progressive and the various stages range from 'mildly unpleasant' to 'fatal'. You probably are not going to treat any of them using fresh fruit and yoga, and to advise someone that says he has 'extreme heat sensitivity' to spend time in Costa Rica makes me think this is advice you did not tailor to the OP so I'm modding you down.

I dislike doing that without giving a reason, I hope you can find yourself in my reasoning why.
Second this, about a thousand times. I don't care where you live, there is somebody in town who will give you a B12 shot. Drop your current doctor, and be sure to write him a letter telling him why. You might save somebody else.
There are pretty hardy variations of the disease that may not respond to a regular treatment, quick link that I dug up:

http://www.canlyme.com/antibiotic_resistance.html

Probably there is more information to be found elsewhere about this. The OP should definitely seek out a specialist on this and not rely on a general doctor, this is a very insidious disease and letting it go untreated (if this really is it) will have dire consequences.

On another note I'm surprised at the authority with which some pretty bad advice is given in this thread.

Second everything you wrote above, it matches the experience in my family exactly.
Clearly the solution is to lease all the parking spaces to your friend's company for 99 years, and let them sort it out.
Yup! (hey dude, long time!)
I do a _lot_ of recruiting - either direct for clients (i.e. wearing a recruiter hat and filling their positions) or indirect for my consulting firm (i.e. people who will help us meet our client's needs). In doing so, I place a lot of ads on CL and personally read hundreds of resumes and notes each month. I read every CL mail myself. Before this, I spent 10+ years hiring at various BigCos and MedCos. So it's one person's opinion, but I do know what I'm talking about.

If you're applying for a position on CL (or, really, anywhere), it is _absolutely_ worth spending five minutes doing _something_ that shows that you've actually read something - the job description, the company's bio, their videos of their technology, something. I'm reading a lot of people arguing their way out of doing so below, and I'll tell you that I'm happy for your ability to argue but you will miss out on great things (and you can hardly ever know great things from a job description) by not spending five minutes. I don't care about a fancy or detailed cover letter, but if you just submit a generic sentence and a resume, you've done nothing to make an initial positive impression - which is why you're applying in the first place. This does not take a lot of work, it's just called being thoughtful.

You don't really know who's reading your submission - could be an HR person, could be the hiring mgr, could be the CEO - but every one of those people has a vested interest in finding somebody who gives a crap, and has limited time.

(And yes, the article is a waste of pixels.)
Just to clarify, did the DDOS stop due to GitHub adding that warning text making the hack reflect poorly on Baidu and hence the perpetrators being subjected to internal pressure? If not, GitHub would still have to serve that JS and hence would still be bombarded by millions of content request.
If you just want a failover option, github + bitbucket is quite possibly more reliable and/or cheaper than github + internal.
The technological change of 1815 to 1915 is pretty drastic: railways, the automobile, the airplane, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, photography, moving pictures, radio transmission, refrigeration, plastics, lightbulbs, x-rays, anesthetic surgery, the work of Semmelweis/Snow/Pasteur/Lister on medical hygiene/sanitation(/the germ theory of disease!), the spread of indoor plumbing and the flush toilet, ...

And culturally? Well, for one (U.S.-focused) example, there's that whole Civil War/end-of-slavery thing smack dab in the middle of it.

It's by no means clear to me that the changes of 1915 - 2015 somehow completely outstrip the changes of 1815 - 1915.

(I see that you agree with my general point, and with good illustration, too. I just wanted to point this out as well.)
Like USDC.
I operate one at work, actually. It's not so bad.
And this matters because?
It used to be called Ubernetes, shame that name didn't stick.