jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why would one engage with the content of an article from a vendor one thinks produces self-serving garbage?

That's not to say that's what the article is, just to be clear. But given our incredibly finite amount of time alive, I think it's important to have good filtering heuristics on how one spends one's time.

As an example, people who criticize Qanon as bonkers often get asked to just watch a few (long) Q-fan videos. If somebody asked me to do that, I'd say no. I have an infinite number of better ways to spend my time. All of that goes in my "garbage content" bucket. I know all I care to from the reports of others who have dug around in the bucket.

If you'd like to convince somebody they've mis-bucketed something, I think a better approach is to say exactly what you see as redeeming about the content of the article.
Since most deserts are full of sugar their order in the meal now makes sense.
Exactly, workers have much less benefits now.
At this point the NYT is a tabloid.
Assuming malice is rather presumptive. There's a big difference between negligence and malice. I'm certainly not defending the actions of this company (I have no idea who they are,) but I certainly wouldn't want someone's potential ignorance to be used to assert that they acted with an intent to harm. Malice requires intent. Acting stupidly isn't malicious.
It's more profitable to do scientific research slowly and tediously than it is to automate it?
Generally if you can pull that off you are way past the course material :-) I had a FORTRAN problem which asked to print the current bowling score given a series of numbers between 0 and 10 (number of pins knocked down) and I had it print out spares as '/' and strikes as 'X' and it didn't print the actual score until you didn't get a strike (as is the custom on bowling.) and the TA complained. (the assignment was to print out the score every frame) but the professor was cool about it and had a nice chuckle so I did get full marks.

It is generally a sign of how good the faculty are at an institution based on how they respond to this sort of exceptionalism.
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Length of life or quality of life, I don't think these are parallel to each other all the time. I would prefer to quality, so as long as I am convinced to quality of my life, dying early should not be a problem because of my sleep too much or less.
So I thought I'd test it out a little more. Pretended I'd forgotten my password. Pressed the link and it said 'Password emailed'.

Turns out it's not as bad as that! I wasn't emailed my password. I was emailed a link.

http://appcenter.html5tools-software.intel.com/csd/ForgotPas...

That's fine. So there's this unique token that means only I can reset my password... Except... Let me decode that token...

EYl0htUzhivYzcIo+zrIyEFQUE1PQkk= -> t3+(:APPMOBI

So does this mean I could reset anyone's password, given their email address?

Anyway I went to the page and put a new password in (trying to follow the unstated rules found previously). When I pressed submit, the page darkened and I was told 'Error 500'.

Tried again with a new password and was told 'Password must contain one of the following !@#$% special character[s].[sic]

Well, I was told it for a second, but the message went away really quickly, so I had to keep submitting the password it didn't like until I'd remembered what the characters it required were.

Anyway the password reset link doesn't appear to expire, so if you fancy logging in to Intel AppCenter as me, just reset my password. I can always reset it back if I want to use it.
> One of our doctors will review your request right away. If she needs more information or has relevant advice, she may call you before writing your prescription. [1]

1. http://www.nurx.co/howitworks.html
Do those "specific rights" include antagonizing a police officer while he/she is performing his or her official duties? I don't think the majority of society will agree with that, just my opinion. At the end of the day, we need to see a few cities that let their entire police force resign due to "woke" culture and watch what happens. People will vote with their feet and wallets.
I would write a rebuttal, but you have written it for me. "attractiveness (one could reasonably consider weight to be one determining factor in attractiveness)" does not mean "attractiveness (which means weight)".
Calvin and Hobbes appear every day in my RSS feed and shall continue to do so in perpetuity...
I'm trying and failing to come up with a concise expression of just how utterly evil and wrong this proposal is, and what the assumptions and presumptions it makes

I think the first question needs to be "mu". Unask the question of how, or even whether, individuals' entire personal and informational histories should be deposited in the perpetual datastores of banks, credit lenders, collections agents, slumlords, and repo agents across the world.

Why the heck are we basing all transactions on credit in the first place?

Why aren't we paying people enough to live?

Why aren't we ensuring that at a time when shutting the world down to the maximum extent possible for a relatively brief period of time is the best way to return to a full and normal state of commerce?

Why don't we have mechanisms for distributing trust such that risks of transactions aren't extreme. E.g., do I really need to be able to transact a purchase by connecting to a website continents and oceans away, only to have my payor suddenly get paranoid, deny the deal, and call me back hours later to ask if I'd in fact attempted the purchase? Meantime neither I, the vendor, the payor, our various software, systems, and communications vendors, and others involved in the current state of transactions, trusts one another at all.

Do advances in communications technology inherently degrade interpersonal social trust? I'm inclined to think they do: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6jqakv/communi...

Do people need accounts that can drain their life savings globally accessible to anyone (or any algorithm), any where, at any time?

What would a system in which these are not implicitly assumed or quietly-accepted aspects look like? How do we simply engineer / design around the unstated problem at the heart of this proposal?

Why evil? The dangers of data and surveillance have long been pointed out by key participants in the development of information technology itself. I've compiled a list of pre-1980 warnings from Paul Baran (co-inventor of packet-based switching) and Willis Ware, both of RAND, Shoshana Zuboff, of Harvard University, Arthur R. Miller, and Richard Boeth: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193

Thanks heartily to da_big_ghey for submitting this and working around the inerhent evil banality of the IMF proposal by Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski, signatories to the death of all privacy and the opening of universal surveillance in all commercial and financial dealings. Remember their names.

I'd certainly missed it entirely.
So funny this is coming up just now. My sons (6 and 4) found a C&H book in the shelf last week. Since then they did this https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/24 and tried this https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/06/28
This lockdown has gotten more interesting for the whole family.
Crap :S
Let’s hope it atrophies over time.
What a time to be alive when a Usenet newsgroup is now referred to as a ‘Google Group’.
Those may be common items to have in cabinets at home. They're not common items to take along for a walk in the park, or a tour of a monument.
Their infra is generating those encryption certificates, so WhatsApp can very well decode the message and store it for further processing.

They will most likely share metadata about you with facebook to sell that data to push more ads into your face.

They may very well sell also data to insurance companies making it harder for you to get insurance.

Options are limited only by who would like to pay for info about you.

Its rather a question about “How much you value your privacy?”

Ps. Ppl using facebook from the go “do not care about their privacy” so I dont know how much more it will affect you.
Have you thought about using schemas and the search path for this? That is what Zalando does to deploy stored procedures without risking any downtime.
I really wish they would have picked another way to deal with the fact that people write crappy software that only launches in "1a" and "1b".

They dealt with the resulting capacity imbalances by randomly remapping AZs for new accounts, but AFAIK they're never publicly acknowledged this so most people aren't aware. Instead they should have just started charging more for resources requested explicitly in those zones until people fixed their poorly written software.
Yes and no. In a vacuum, I think the more you know about CS the better--for instance, if you want to be a "full-stack"[0] programmer, reading a bunch of Rails tutorials won't be enough. Unfortunately, studying CS for three months probably won't help much either.

It's kind of a dumb analogy, but I think learning how to do "pedestrian" programming is a bit like learning to translate a Chinese newspaper. There are broadly speaking two main algorithms: (1) read until you get stuck, ask for help, and then repeat until finished; (2) go study Mandarin in college for four years, and then translate the newspaper.

If you need to translate the newspaper by tomorrow, then yeah, do (1). If you think you'll need to translate a ton of newspapers and have the luxury to study for a while, the second method might yield better results in the long run.

[0] http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-full-...
Intel makes both processors and compilers.
Definitely recommend a name change. Cool idea, though.
I think it's like real estate agents. It's possible to luck into a payday even if you do a poor job because the quality of the product being purchased is divorced from the quality of the service you provide - luck into showing the right job to the right person, and you get paid, even if you didn't add any other value anywhere. So you can either try to do a good job of matching people and jobs, or else just shoot for numbers and try to match a lot of people and jobs.

I've recently been doing a job search, and I've had one recruiter who I felt really helped me do a better job searching for jobs. I've had five do zero-value-added resume forwarding. One more who is somewhere in between. And two dozen who didn't even read my geographic or full-time preferences who have received quick nos. The part that really bugs me is I actually like one of the jobs from the zero-value-added resume forwarding, so a poor recruiter might end up getting paid through sheer luck and numbers.
Linus suggested in the OP that automated reference counting (where the language implementation handles reference counting for the programmer) is preferable to GC.

Python uses such reference counting (although it also has a GC fallback to ensure cyclic structures are collected).
It's all fine and dandy till a speck of soot blocks the optics, and the engine dies.

A better solution (IMHO) would be to have multiple spark plugs.
It's like real estate. Recruiting looks like easy money, so it attracts many, many entrants. Only a few are successful enough to stick to it as a full-time job.

The incentives don't make sense. As a realtor, you get a huge, immediate payoff when the house sells. You don't care about the price.

Recruiters are worse. As a recruiter, you get a huge, immediate payoff when your client hires any candidate at any price. You don't actually care how good the fit is, so the rational behaviour is to spray as many candidates at as many clients as possible.
Another good review: http://www.slate.com/id/2233966
Amazon.com has food.

http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic...

It's a killer deal when combined with Amazon Prime (free 2-day shipping).
Another good book for teaching Python to young people is "Hello, World" by Warren Sande and his 10-year-old son, Carter:

http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Computer-Programming-Begin...

Scott Hanselman interviewed the two on his podcast back in January:

http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=212

It was a good program.
Basically it's just an old fashioned icebox without the benefits of actual ice. He also talks about his other "invention" which is a water filter made from clay. Clay water filters have been available in India for a long long time. I recall seeing them 30 years ago. I suspect that they might be effective for some larger parasites but certainly not something I'd want to entrust my health to.
Tail call optimization is not guaranteed for optimized C/C++ programs, and is not done at all in debug mode, so this kind of implementation can cause trouble with large structures.

I used to have fun, too, implementing tail-recursive functions to do stuff like flashing a LED on microcontrollers. I have since recovered :)

It is also my experience that helper functions like "sum" tend to be used very few times, and need a lot of variations, so it's actually better to just write the loop when needed. The theoritically advantageous functional programming is hard to convey into C++. Syntax and other technical reasons are partly to blame, but the biggest has to be simply the culture. Very few C++ coders think functionally, and coding, especially in C++, tends to be a team job...
If we're going to push OpenID support into the browser, then why not just use the X.509 client certificate support that's already available?
> The protobuf encoding carries a ton of redundant crap around (if not as much as text formats).

[citation needed]

One of the features of protocol buffers is that they're backwards and forwards compatible. You can add and remove fields, change "required" to "optional" and back again, and still make sense of what comes to you on the wire. I don't think there's much of anything that can be eliminated from the protobuf binary format.

Eliminating tags for a field (even if you consider it required) wouldn't be backward compatible with a previous version of the protocol that considered it optional.

A message from a previous version of the schema is not "corrupted." Being able to make wire-compatible changes to the protocol is an extremely important feature.
I remember a while ago I read a submission on HN (or reddit?) talking that a founder of jabber protocol is ditching XML for something new. Anyone remember?
I think the problem is the "proprietary" conflicting with the notion of a BSD license.
There has been continuous suffering and pain since the first prokaryotes came into existence several billion years ago. I can't speak for the grandparent, but yes, I am planning to put a halt to it. There is all the reason to do so, and no reason not to.
"Net Income was actually down for the first three quarters to $6.2 million from $10.4 million in 2009."
the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP.

Every node user knows the net lib nodejs uses isnt written in javascript.And most also know that in order for node to be useful,scripts should do as little as possible and delegate any serious operation to C/C++.
It started as a troll (with RAR compression and all other weird things planned), it's becoming more serious as we develop it further.
I would wager that it was this bit:

"it's the sort of cynicism that leads to [...] making sure your rights are respected"
It's not straightforward, you never know which site is still available, how many will work, how many mirrors you'll have to try. Also, most don't have subtitles, at least not in my language. Also, if you don't have super high speed connection, it may stall.
It costs money to recognize and mitigate the risks. Under the current legal regime, it costs very little money to let the negative effects happen because other people will bear the costs of those effects. I.e. it's totally rational for companies under the existing regime to fail to take adequate precautions.
That makes sense. I thought I was asking a technical question, but it's never purely technical, is it?
That's cool. :-)

I wrote something very similar in Node.js at work recently: a JSON-RPC server that accepts TCP and HTTP messages on the same port. I remember being very excited when I realised this was actually possible!
I've not read much about this definition, but it seems that a problem with focusing on the ability to predict is that to get useful work done, you have to reduce everything to a decision problem. You have an ideal fitness function, but how are you generating ideas, plans or theories to evaluate?

I personally prefer (although it's certainly less measurable) Ben Goertzel's definition - the ability to achieve complex goals in complex environments. It's still wishy-washy enough for people to write off any given achievement of AI though, I guess.
Even the best available windows are not very good. My not-very-special house has R-17 walls; expensive triple panes windows can go to U-0.15. U values are 1/R values, so that's a whopping R-6.

If your roof is in good condition, points the right direction and is unobstructed by trees, solar power is probably a better economic bet than replacing decent windows with super-windows.
A very similar example gives Kahneman in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (a great read for those interested in cognitive biases). He calles it "The illusion of understanding". Using an example of Google and a number of books depicting Page and Brinn as role models and geniuses, who leaded the company into its great success by taking always the right decisions.
It is of course easy to say so knowing already that Google is a successful company. It would be very hard to tell it 15 years ago.
Also when you study the history of Google you learn that there was a lot of luck involved, and you won't learn how to build the next google from those books.
You are right, the comment I made on the Internet late at night was not perfectly formulated. I think there is a better wording here, I was trying to say there is a political aspect to how people view everything nowadays (before an edit I compared to taking a knee on the other side, but again it’s too complicated a point to get across right now). Good night Gwright.
Stop treating these people like they are victims. They used force to attempt to stop the lawful, democratic transition of power by the joint session of the US Congress. The are traitors to this nation, full stop.
I'm guessing ours is software restriction policies + mandatory profile: I log in with my network credentials, but I don't get my usual desktop / home directory and the only apps installed on the system are Remote Desktop and Citrix Receiver. Since I don't have either physical access or a web browser I have no way to try to get new files/apps on it but I assume it would be locked down too.
You're evaluating the ban in terms of Twitter as a moral regulator of discussion, not as a media company seeking to control a maximal share of the discourse. Trump was allowed to use the platform because media companies used it to follow him and Twitter wants everyone at CNN and FOX to be reading Twitter. Trump was always going to be permanently banned from Twitter when he was no longer politically relevant simply because he's broken the rules literally hundreds of times. It simply happens that he finally ranted himself into irrelevance (Facebook's ban helps here) and Twitter realized that they could push the ban up two weeks and snag a bit of the spotlight.
The capitol was clearly barred+fenced off. They FORCED their way in. All of it was televised. Why even try resort to fringe observations by "some reporters".
I've not seen a source for this claim
Most of his other videos are about the things he had to do to get that gear to work.
Well, I'll just be over here renegotiating the Treaty of Versailles to deal with those underlying causes. France can wait...
Federal courts are already empowered to define impermissible speech, and the worst-case scenario you describe has not happened.

This is a hypothesis in want of evidence.
so what's trumps alternative communication platform?
it also makes them much more dangerous, because corners & de-normalizing seeing people walking on/near the streets
My main gripe with Windows at the moment is the amount of time I'm staring at Windows updates. It gets ridiculous at times.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri offered 'nerve stapling' [0] as a method of quelling riots

[0] http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Atrocities_%28SMAC%29
Or can they? I suppose we'd need a quality definition of consciousness first - one that is specific, unambiguous, and able to be tested. It seems everyone has skipped over that part to prematurely claim that whatever pops into their head is a legitimate theory.

It's not surprising consciousness research is such a mess - it is a topic that is too close to how people define themselves. If somebody had a nice, simple, practical, hypothesis it would probably be attacked and buried. Civilization had a hard time adjusting to the sun being the center of the solar system, and many still haven't come to terms with the fact that we evolved from common ancestors of other living things. I doubt many people want to hear that our thoughts, our feelings and experiences can be simply modeled on a computer. Or worse, that filthy animals are conscious too.

The reason the problem is "hard" is not scientific, it is emotional.
This is missing parts of the conversation; but seriously Jacques, I've got no appetite for making this about you.

We both agree that it's easy to phish people. I disagreed then and still disagree now that the right way to do that is to embarrass them.

If I wanted to "shame" you somehow, I could have easily done that by naming names to begin with. The only intention of this submission was to warn people that you must be careful with your information because you never know who might be out to get it.

I don't believe you were out to snag people's financial data, but beyond that it was pretty tough to tell what you were after other than "teaching other people a lesson" (yes, this is paraphrased).

I fail to see what positive outcome could occur from essentially pointing and laughing at people because they fell for your scheme.

[Edit: I did a bad and edited this comment. Originally it only said "This is missing parts of the conversation", which is what jacquesm is replying to.]
Thank you. Those are very interesting reads. It's been a long time since I played with really cutting-edge OS concepts and virtualization has never been my main interest (I was into hardware during college).
I have used this trick in just about every web app I have programmed. I first noticed it while looking through the source code for the Vimeo website.
"You can't transfer names between accounts, so unless you buy an account for each name, you can't sell it."

What you can do is delete your app, which will then release the name for use by others.