jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It took me 4 years to realize the benefits of twitter beyond self absorbed social micro blogging. Its a real communication platform which allows you to interact with people around the world. For example the first thing that brought me to twitter was real time updates on a ruby conference. Where else was I going to get that? I can get information before its been posted as news. The great thing about it is respected figures in almost all communities are participating. In a few words they can let us in on what they are working on or take the time to answer questions. If you have a problem you can throw it out there on some hashtag and hope one in a million will respond and usually they will. Its completely changed communication and I cant see it dying.

However I believe the micro blogging platform should be treated like email. An open messaging system that can be adopted by anyone and defines an underlying protocol so that we can send messages between all micro blogging sites. I have a gmail account, do I really want to create a hotmail account to email someone with a hotmail domain? If I have a twitter account and someone has an rstat.us account then perhaps I want to message them.

I think anyone who did decides to take on the task of turning micro blogging into an open messaging platform would need to look beyond just integrating sign ons. Think of smtp.

edit: I missed this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMicroBlogging
That stuff is 1:1. I'm shooting for N:N. For example, that chat demo is taking an individual request from a browser, passing it to a backend, and then that backend can reply to N number of other browsers on the Mongrel2 server. All async, and would even work with HTTP.

That's damn near impossible with all of the tech you listed.
The issue is in the structure of organized production (business/finance/economy). This device has a deep cost.. and will taint peoples knowledge, effort, goals. All for the sake of high throughput I guess. But we should spend a bit of time thinking of alternative ways..
It's not just phase mismatch. There is error in the frequency domain, both from the digital processing going on and the physical characteristics of the driver.
I kinda figured this out something like this for myself by trial and error. I'm hypoglycemic not diabetic. If I have simple carbs first thing in the day I'll get a bump in energy then crash for most of the day, even if I ate proteins right afterward. It's especially bad if I start hungry and have the carbs with coffee. Don't know what's going on with insulin or whatnot but order definitely matters.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/02/virologist-explains-his...

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6981198/Analysis-...
“Chinese officials urged the W.H.O. team to embrace the government’s narrative about the source of the virus, including the unproven notion that it might have spread to China from abroad, according to several members of the team. The W.H.O. scientists responded that they would refrain from making judgments without data.”

‘“It was my take on the entire mission that it was highly geopolitical,” Dr. Fischer said. ‘

“lack of detailed patient records both from early confirmed cases, and possible ones before that.”

‘“We asked for that on a number of occasions and they gave us some of that, but not necessarily enough to do the sorts of analyses you would do,” said Dominic Dwyer, an Australian microbiologist on the W.H.O. team, referring to the confirmed cases.’

‘In the end, the W.H.O. experts sought compromise, praising the Chinese government’s transparency, but pushing for more research about the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019.’

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-he...

After following this for over a year, witnessing China manipulating or withholding information, reading the article in question, and reading all of the associated tweets, it is clear every team involved has inherent biases.

The WHO investigation team is just as much political as it is scientific. The team needs to seem cooperative in order to get more information, which they desperately need. The team said they would not come to any outcomes without all of the data first yet they did exactly that by saying, the virus likely came from food that was imported and it is not likely that it came from the lab. China is clearly still trying to cover up. The US is still trying to investigate any possible origin story, but don’t seem particularly keen on a lab origin story. It’s mostly far right Republicans like Tom Cotton who originally proposed and perpetuated the lab origin theory in the first place, not exactly New York Times’ bread and butter butter customers.

NYT does not have a prescribed narrative of a lab origin story. WHO scientist have a very strong interest in continuing to gather information from China through cooperative means. So I’m not surprised they would throw shade on a New York Times article saying that they were greeted with lots of hesitation from China. The only part of this I don’t understand is why there is a the Hacker News post with links to scientist’s tweet that all but confirms the bias and intent already illustrated by said NYT story.

TLDR: WHO scientist are not happy to see themselves being quoted as having difficulty working with the Chinese, as they need to continue working with the Chinese. They would probably like the New York Times story redacted, so they are claiming to have been misquoted... nothing to see here folks, moving along
I don't eat processed meat and excercise daily. I like my odds even with coffee.
I was briefly involved in a personalized cancer medicine company and talked to the prof there. He said if you don't smoke, avoid bacon and walk/run a few times a week you have essentially done everything you could.
The bacon thing made me curious and it turned out almost all processed meat has nitrite (nitrosamine) added, which is a carcinogenic element. So much so they in fact used it to induce cancer reliably in lab rats. As to why food industry uses it - it is still better than botulism. As of 2021 we still don't have effective meat preservatives.

"Rats fed dimethylurea and 0.3% sodium nitrite for 36 days developed tumours of CNS, heart, thymus, kidney or thyroid in all animals (Sander, 1970)." http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v05je15.htm
Spectrum is different with satellites as it’s using directional antenna. In theory you can have nearly arbitrary satellite density depending on efficiency. The only effective limit is the user density you’re aiming to support.
Advertising for a practically monopoly like AT&T is like those advertisements to fly Aeroflot back in USSR where they were the only airline. The AT&T advertisement budget just needs to be spent and FB is happy to help.
I believe with UBI people will be able to finally do what they are naturally programmed to do, be creative and work on things they'd rather despite how low it pays but could have potentially 100x returns down the line.
On the bottom left you can see the social networks the author uses. Twitter already got replaced by Matrix it seems.
Amongst other signs, they make it look effortless by identifing problems long before they become problems and taking small steps now to make a better future in a few months time.

I don't see them engaged in "heroic" coding marathons to desperately get something fixed or delivered; they already fixed it weeks or months ago.
Because they used that as a way to harass everyone around the world by manipulating the front page?

They would brigade and attack other forums?

They were a collection site for bad actors and even more dangerous content to the point that a large site like Reddit could get shut down.

There is some wishful thinking going on that all speech is equal, and that such speech was being conducted here.
Peloton is a fad and will be dropped for the next exercise fad in 2-5 years, just like SoulCycle was. For now, they are feasting.
Maybe he is hinting at TINA ( There Is No Alternative ).
Why not Tox? That is the only one I know which is really decentralized
I think most people who say they
This are advocating for 230 to be rewritten, not misreading it. Personally, I think that individual curation of content should be considered an editorial decision, and not simply moderation. Tightly moderated forums where everyone sees the same posts are fine, but twitter/Facebook with their individualized front pages is not.
Multiling O Keyboard (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kl.ime.oh) has swipe. Accuracy is not great and it takes awhile to train but it doesn't have internet permissions at all. It's also highly configurable.
this is incredible.
do you know of any that involve top down animated characters and proximity _text_, not voice, chatting?
really interested in a solution in this space that involves top down animated avatars and proximity _text_, not voice, chatting - anyone seen such a thing?
Jami seems like a very neat idea, but I've encountered numerous crashes and issues with it.

It was also pretty easy to get my family using Signal because it uses your existing address book. The need to send a Jami address is a huge hurdle for the non-technical.
I find the miniconda docker image quite useful for making reproducible R environments.

You can install specific package versions recorded in environment.yml file.

There are probably many ways to do this but this is an approach I like.

https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/user-guide/tasks/using-r-...

https://hub.docker.com/r/continuumio/miniconda
FWIW Peloton does have some of that gamification stuff, at least for the standalone offering (no bike etc). You get badges for taking different numbers of each type of class, daily/weekly streaks, total minutes, special events etc. They also send a summary email each month showing which days you worked out, badges earned, number of classes/minutes, and deltas from the previous month.
The FANG method of software dev is extraordinarily expensive, particularly at the G.
Yes, valued... on the market... as a company... whose goal is to make money.

Ask any IT pro if they've heard of Boston Dynamics: yes! Do you own any Boston Dynamics products? No.

Ask a normal person if they've heard of Boston Dynamics: no.

Ask a normal person if they've heard of Roblox: yes! Do you own any Roblox products? Yes! My kids love it!

You can't take some highfalutin notion of 'potential progress in engineering' and directly translate it to market value. Market value comes from performance in the market.
No, and this has nothing to do with https://ind.ie nor its non-VC backed business model.
> Implicit Interfaces

This is a crucial point. 'We use microservices' does not say much unless you can describe how you design consistent and granular service interfaces. Otherwise you most probably just produce microservice spaghetti.
> Edit: Since this question is getting many replies, I'll be a bit more specific in what I am looking for. Is there a tool that would let me describe the infrastructure and deploy it on a given cloud provider but also have the ability to deploy the same infrastructure on my local machine (using VMs/docker) for development purposes.

Seems like the https://www.hashicorp.com/ guys would have something, perhaps Terraform/Atlas?

I have not done this yet obviously but am in the same boat as you for our company goals this year
You can't. If you want to zero the memory holding the initial values, you have to exchange it with some other memory. This is how current ('non'-reversable) computers work: exchanging junk data with the large number of known-value bits constituting a low-temperature and/or fixed-voltage environment via diffusion (eg, attaching a bit storage location to GND to clear it by diffusing its change into the GND bus + waste heat).
I _did_ read it. Did I miss the part where Rockstar confessed it was a really easy issue to fix and they apologised or what's your point?
Surely they can't drink that much. Could this be explained by tourists or maybe even selling across the border?
I have quite the opposite experience: my stress level decreased since I own. I guess it depends on your financial comfort. Doing the vanlife is great but what happens if you lose your job and your van needs maintenance? Maybe add a downturn on the stock market. Suddenly you have nothing. It’s a very personal choice, for me traveling freely while being assured I have a place back home (albeit very minimalist) was needed.
Perhaps the idea of "pure decentralization" doesn't exist; only partial realizations of it.

If you look at Bitcoin and Ethereum you find concentrations of power, information, and etc at many levels; centralization. Even at the technical level the solution to controlling change is often to have minority steering groups whose membership necessarily suggests a concentration of power enabling them to exert influence.
The fact that trivial things like ingresses don’t have transformers is a PITA.
The helicopter is both only rated for a certain mission and potentially liable to smash straight into the ground.

On top of that, I'm sure JPL would love to move with the times, which is why the helicopter is using the more modern processor.
The 3D engine is highly optimised.
I haven’t played GTAO in a couple years, but I vaguely remember using the suspend process option of windows task manager to jump into online much faster.

Googling gave me this result, which sounds about right for what I remember. https://www.gfinityesports.com/grand-theft-auto/gta-online-h...

I’m not certain it’s still a valid workaround, and it’s not nearly as sophisticated as the OP method, but at least everyone can do it :)
As a thought experiment, consider if we developed a drug that makes humans enjoy slavery. Would slavery then be morally acceptable, provided that drug was furnished to the enslaved humans?
how close are we to realizing zawinski's law with systemd ?
I'm not expecting much, the roadmap is pretty underwhelming: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf/archive/2014/11/12/the-roadmap-f...
True, but you could say the same thing about almost any JIT compiler/interpreter for a garbage collected language. It's not like java is known for it's memory efficiency. I'm not too knowledgeable about the memory efficiency of v8, I imagine they pay attention since it's in a browser, but I'm going to guess compared to a simple interpreter it's probably not great.
Would be nice to have a 'monthly' price for each instance, calculated for 720 hours, for easily comparing to other services.
It's amazing that all of that could be destroyed by a little mercury which corrodes aluminum, it's fascinating.

I've often wondered why cold war spies didn't use mercury more often (there was one incident?) or at all to sabotage entire squadrons of aircraft. Now with composite materials it's not a problem.
>"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

not. There weren't people of equal talent in cotton fields and sweatshops. It is possibly that there were people who at the age of 2 had the brain with the same potential as Einstein's brain at the age of 2 (though not likely as Einstein's brain seems to have unique basic biological parameters like smaller size of neurons and greater ratio off energy generating cells to neurons). Brain development is reflected in its biological structure. The brain of a 30-40 years old is the _biological_ result of the 30-40 years of development of that organ. Different experiences, like intensive studies and intensive manual labor create different brains - different sets of neurons wired differently. Silicon waffers look the same before being lithographed and frequently look the same after, yet they may be lithographed with completely different CPU/chips/etc...
I applaud the notion, but the implementation is atrocious hyberpole:

- simple javascript algebra that does not monitor or report any status data?

- equating the entirety of AWS w/ one region of EBS-backed EC2 instances is hyperbole that does not contribute to the discussion.
The idea is not new ("Facebook is the new AOL") - it's been said many times here. BUT, I did find one slide to be really interesting: "Imagine if before you searched, Google asked you this..."
That's not Java's major problem. It's that generics were implemented using type erasure to stay source and binary compatible with older libraries.
My couple-of-years-old Dell laptop running vanilla Ubuntu controls my camcorder (over firewire, no less) just fine. I used kino or one of the other non-linear editors to cut the files up and add music. Pretty simple with no fiddling actually.

I don't exactly get the people who advocate that everyone should use Linux, but I especially don't get the people who have stuck their head in the sand about the fact that the Linux Desktop is quite usable these days with no extra configuration. It's not worthy of argument and a misdirection at best.
Sure, phones might replace PCs at some point. However, phones with HDMI outputs are already out there and the current use for HDMI is in my opinion impractical.

What you're describing is putting your phone on the desk, next to you while you can interact with it directly with a keyboard/mouse. But I haven't seen a phone that's designed to be completely controlled this way.

The current use of HDMI is pretty much only to watch pictures and videos on a TV, isn't it? In which case you're on one side of the room on the couch, away from your phone. The phone itself still being the only thing you can use to interact with it. There might be a few models out there where you can already do what you describe, (I'd be interested if you know of any) but for the most part, this is not the case yet.

Current example: Flip cameras have an HDMI output. Which makes sense I guess. However it's actually very inconvenient to use: going back and forth between the TV and the couch to select a video...
Thanks for this. Any chance to expand the list overseas?
" How many people out there really make their money checking in open source code?"
As an example -- Last I checked, most kernel commits were done by folks paid to write code. Similarly, most Ubuntu work is done by Cannonical; Debian, GNOME, Mono, Apache and Webkit (among many many others) all have paid open source developers.

"he needs to run .NET non-stop and copy/paste code from Reflector to his Mono implementation"
That's a pretty bold claim to make. If you're not trolling, do you have solid evidence to back this up?
I think mturk is vastly underdeveloped, there are all sorts of things people could be using it for, but don't simply because they don't know about it or it's too complex.

Before I started my current startup, creating an mturk competitor was something I considered, but the fundamental problem is handling the payments. Most payment processors wouldn't touch you due to the risk of fraud without a huge (>1mm) deposit.

Paying individuals small amount of money is hard, you pretty much have to use paypal, and if you're lucky enough not to have your account suspended they'll completely rip you on the charges. And you'll still carry all the risk of people trying to use your system for money laundering.
We already use configuration management to do manage
resolv.conf; any other method of modification is
noncompliant.

So don't run resolvd. Problem solved forever.

This exists as daemon because OpenBSD is in the process of rewriting certain parts of their code to have explicit privilege separation. They just committed another one to handle DHCP leases, for example.
>My guess: given your set of data and browser history, to contact south american women is their best way to keep you engaged.

Let me re-iterate. Because I'm male and on the internet I knew people would question my premise.

I haven't clicked on anything on FB or *elsewhere* on the web that should be getting me random foreign women as friend suggestions. I'm not naive. And even if I were clicking on correlated things elsewhere, which I'm not, I have never clicked on one of these suggestions in FB. That's two layers of ridiculously bad targeting that just annoys their users.
As much as it pains me to admit it, I agree with you here.
As are most of people on this planet. GP's insinuation that most people aren't limited by datacaps is false.
Honestly, a mediocre trackpad is a small price to pay for an ethically sourced system. Considering I do 90% of my work with a mouse, I've never really missed using MacOS. The touch-based metaphors only hurt mouse users anyways.
> If you want to run the country you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is, since you expect the rest of us to die for it.

Do you have this attitude in all fields?

Researchers who want a job in a lab to tackle a disease should only get it if they agree to be infected with the disease so they work harder, maybe?

Police officers have to agree to be robbed once a month so they experience being a victim? That could be another one.

To check they’re putting their money where their mouth is, right?
Because Asians blow up their entire "critical race theory". If racism is truly the cause of certain minorities poor outcomes, then why are Asian outcomes as good or better than whites?
Do you think little league has the investigative powers of the FBI or something?
I think it all depends on your local purchasing department(every govt agency/department gets their own, pretty much). Our department's attitude can be summed up(by me) as:

select the best solution to meet your needs, mostly irregardless of cost, but be sure you can articulate why you are buying from A.

I.e. You can pick whatever vendor you want, provided you are happy to stand up, under oath, in court and talk about WHY you selected vendor A over vendors B, C and D.

So far so I have no experience in court defending our choices.
That's what the higher salaries supposedly avoid, you are less beholden to moneyed interests. I think the reality is that people often get accustomed to money and seek more of it unless there is a true downside.

Singapore has a very similar mindset on political salaries, and they are much higher even than the Australian PM. But as an outsider with one foot in due to family, it seems that they are culturally very anti-corruption after living near their neighbours which makes it work better.
corrections:

다박솔초소의 설경 - snowy scene of guard post Dabaksol

장자강 - river(강) Changja [Zhangjiagang spelling looks very Chinese-y]

백두산 천지 - the crater lake on top of the mountain baekdu is called that
This is terrifying when you apply it to the housing market: the single largest investment for a large number of Americans.

If they're buying now when prices are historically high, what does that say about their ability to generate home equity returns in the future?
at least when Google acquires an existing service, it waits a few years before shutting it down
Google already analyzes backlinks in their context to determine how relevant the anchor text is to the topic of the page.

Determining sentiment (the topic of the NYT piece) is considerably harder though, because it would allow for spammers to write negative articles about a site and link to it and negatively affect its rankings. Also, determining the tone/emotions of a piece of text is probably one of the hardest things to do with textual analysis
http://allurcode.com/2010/03/16/php-session-handling-with-me... I have memcache PHP sessions deployed on a site that at its peak was seeing 4.5MM page views daily. It works flawlessly.
So switch to a different DNS server and see if it works.
I really don't see that many comments about Indians and outsourcing in programming discussions here. Or maybe I am not noticing them?