jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
RedReader isn't bad either. UI looks a little more dated compared to Infinity but it's been around awhile, stable, and still getting updates.
The problem is that true random is quite expensive without dedicated hardware and you can still easily bias true random if you are not careful.

IMO there is no use of true random unless you really know what you are doing.

Also there is true random - pure entropy bits and there is cryptographically secure pseudorandom, seeded with true random bits.
I like the spirit of your comment - that's the actual hacker mindset. Way too many comments on Bitcoin/Crypto-related submissions on HN are just knee-jerk reactions that don't really contribute to a constructive conversation. When I started lurking on HN in 2010, it was a very different culture. I miss these days!

Regarding your concern around economic inequality: why do you think that people would fall further behind? I'd argue that cryptocurrencies have had a positive effect on inequality, particularly in countries like Argentina, Nigeria, Venezuela, etc. Without cryptocurrencies, people in these countries - particularly the ones who don't have assets in other countries - would have lost a lot of wealth due to the financial instability of their respective economies. As cryptocurrencies are here to stay, I'd even argue that they are currently still underpriced and hence provide many people from the lower income strata of society in 1st world countries with an opportunity to improve their financial wellbeing. This might not be true for people who don't understand technology, but then I ask myself what the current system has to offer to improve inequality for those who lag behind economically and in terms of education.

A constructive idea how we could avoid further deterioration in terms of economic inequality: countries / communities could set up cryptocurrency trusts similar to Norway's Oil investment funds that are funded from cryptocurrency that was mined from e.g. excess energy in the grid from renewables. They could then invest a certain percentage of their cryptocurrency in trustworthy DeFi platforms to further increase yield. Returns from these trusts are invested into causes that benefit the public, e.g. education, health care, etc.
I think the point is that the Mayor of a local municipality is not part of an agency of the Federal government, the FBI

Although "black democrat" seems more relevant to some people than others and I'm not exactly sure why.
First line of the "history" section:

"... developed by Ivan Vassilev Marangozov ... rightfully accused of cloning the Apple II"
Except that being a tax haven is a net positive for the Netherlands. Without it Apple wouldn't be in Amsterdam, they would be in Dublin or Luxembourg. And without Apple paying their low percentage on a huge number in Amsterdam, the Dutch would have to pay more tax themselves.
Interesting post, better than most making this side of the argument.

Do we know if those ERs would administer vaccines from another hospital's punctured vial in their facilities? Do we know how long it would take to get the answer to that question, trimming off the 42 minutes per person Dr. Gokal had to find, administer, and properly document the vaccine injection? And at the end of all that, would there be enough high-priority individuals on hand, ready and willing to be vaccinated? Was that clearly better than calling up people the doctor knew, and knew to be vulnerable?

Yeah, I don't think you know any of that. It's fine to speculate about the hypothetical optimal course of action in this situation, but it's deeply wrong to judge Dr. Gokal without certain knowledge of all those things.
Downvoted due to unnecessary thread
A lot of traders come from a social stratum where being pro brexit is the in-group opinion.

Reasoning doesn’t really come into it with brexit.
I'm not making claims, I'm posting my opinion about what I read on this website.
Well IoT has come back a bit too with "edge processing". Buzzword trends kill me, mostly because of non-technical managers asking about using them with no real understanding of what, how and why, rather than the public buzz they generate. Blockchain is the king of that, but I do think calling ML AI was ridiculous development and I hold steadfast in my use of ML.

You are right too, of course, about the investor situation. That one is really bad because nothing says "employ a technology you don't consider a good fit for your business" like $1M...

I had to switch prematurely to microservices before due to investor pressure, and the company wasn't ready and you can imagine the rest.
You didn't spend as many years as my mother did.

Also best world wide price is a fiction.
Sites aren't persons and don't develop awareness. Please don't use this community to diss the community while participating in it. That's in bad taste.

A blog post is a blog post, not a claim to academic supremacy. Blog posts are for thinking out loud and meandering, and that's welcome here. No one needs to be an expert on HN, and the job of genuine experts here—like yourself, I presume, given how you've been posting—is to share some of what you know in a friendly way, so the rest of us can learn. If you can't or don't want to do that, please don't post.

Edit: I took a quick look through your account's history. Everything I saw was completely fine and sometimes superb. I hope you'll continue contributing like that, and not so much like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really like the phrasing in that donation-text :D
> In the wake of the Journal exposé, investor Michael Eisenberg and WeWork CFO Artie Minson held a conference call with WeWork’s directors and argued that Neumann had to step down, two people briefed on the call said.

So Minson went to the board behind Neumann's back and suggested that Neumann should be fired. Ultimately, Neumann was fired and Minson became co-CEO. The human dimension here is interesting.
I am aware that there are kind of music which are not based on normal octaves (e.g. Bohlen-Pierce).

Of course, the middle C and the one octave higher C are not the "same note", although they do differ by an integer number of octaves, so in octave-based music they are related in this way which is the kind of music that it is. It is called "same note" because it is both called "C" due to being based on octave-based system (such as 12-TET), and the style of music which is based on it is such that many cases can be considered as a "same note".

What I did not know is that octave-based music is uncommon in some places.
That is a wrong way to look at it. Journalists dig into stories that pop up or give them a reason to look into. Without this fall from grace and outed as a cheat, he is just another success story, a valley billionaire so nothing really to look at. They have limited time and will try to invest in stories that they feel are important.
EGLStreams is heavily used in industrial embedded, eg in nvidia's car platforms.
> a huge chunk of Reddit lives with their parents

This seems lost on most people but is painfully clear if you read post histories. For instance, most of /r/childfree (an interesting topic no doubt) is a younger sister overexposed to her parents' excitement (because she's living at home) about older sister's kid. Most of /r/QAnonCasualties is the same sort of angst, directed at parents. Most city subs are the same way, edgy "right wing" guy turns out to live with his dad, who he's parroting. It's incredible that the site is taken any more seriously than 4Chan; there ought to be some great business studies on Reddit's "teflon" nature.
> What you may not believe is that you are no longer in control of wanting to get more. That’s the reality of a drug.

Really? I’ve repeatedly asked to stay at the same dose even though my doctor and I both agree it may be too low, because the next step up could be too high and disrupt my life.

> Anyway, have the paranoid episodes hit you yet?

When I was drinking way too much to self medicate? Yeah. Not so much since.

> Give it some time, I see the anxiety is already consistent.

I sought treatment for ADHD to manage my anxiety, it’s been consistent my whole life.

> Just be sure to manage your drug holidays and control tolerance.

What holidays? I take my medications as prescribed, I’ve never taken more than prescribed, I’ve never wanted to, and I have a fair bit left over which I haven’t needed and keep only in case I have a lapse in care.

Look, I get that you’re coming from the perspective of personal substance abuse history. I understand the difference between medical treatment and abuse, and I understand also from experience. I’ve had an on and off unhealthy relationship with alcohol. I can relate. But I do not appreciate you projecting that onto my healthy treatment for a condition that impairs my life and mental health, and without which I was suffering from substance abuse problems.

Learn to hear people’s experiences. It’s a matter of basic respect.
The inability to batch network calls in a single unit of work makes the ORM needlessly slow. That's also one of the main advantages to managing transactions/session yourself. It can save a huge number of round trips in a complex view.

The Django ORM itself is also slow at generating SQL. Recently I was bemused by a query, which took 500us to actually be generated. This wasn't doing anything particular wild, it just had a `select_related` call to an object that had about 50 fields (not great DB design, but beyond my control). The query actually took longer to build than it did to run.

That itself wouldn't be an issue if you could LRU cache the SQL query itself. But you can't, it's Django.
Wait, you'd think that the four human coronaviruses that supposedly confer partial immunity against COVID-19 are endemic all over the world. If that's the case, why is Brazil doing so badly?
My friend is an IC layout engineer. He really enjoys Factorio. I'd say he excels at both.
I’ve been trying many of those but failing to switch because I’m too brainwashed by bash (even zsh trips me up when some non-bashisms happen to trigger) and ended up writing one toy shell for me to peruse.

Goals/Plans/Ideas/Experiments:

- interactive, compatible with the subset of bash I use the most

- written in Ruby, forks only when necessary (e.g for subshells uses Ruby threads and pipes to spawn and connect new Shell instances)

- extensible via Ruby (i.e can define new functions in Ruby, accessible more or less directly from the shell)

- fzf support

- can be built against mruby to embed a Ruby VM + code in a single binary and not require any Ruby installed

- can be assembled into a single .rb to easily curl it into any machine where there’s a Ruby already

- no dependencies

- some sort of concurrent/async evaluation for fast start, prompt, autocompletion...

Still a long way to go, but I find the experience rewarding even if it ends up going nowhere.
It’s called an Oversight Board. Calling it a Supreme Court is silly
All the evidence is 2 Full Time Developers are equal to the workload. People aren't using Python because it is going to be good enough in the future, it is good enough now.

If more people are working on it full time, we'll just get more Walrus Operators. A very hypothetical gain at cost of an increasingly complex core language.
City Skylines traffic simulation is mediocre at best. This project is extremely impressive. I sat and watched the traffic simulation for 15 minutes before I realized it.
I guess if you don't see the distinction between someone who has 4 more years in the office with broad political support from his own party, and someone who has 2 weeks left and appears to be trying to incite a coup on his way out while being almost universally shunned by allies and foes alike, I'm not sure what I can say to change your mind.
Acronyms are absolutely meaningful and descriptive usually, you just don't have the context. They're used and abused in corporations for exactly this sort of situation. If you have access to the source but not any context, it becomes increasingly difficult to copy what something is actually doing.
too good to be true.
I'm only 35, but even when I was young (90s) the rotary phones we had were considered dated technology. (Pushbutton phones were more typical; cordless phones were the new thing.) Northeast US.

My mother still uses those rotary phones, BTW. Somehow the telco in her area still supports click-dialing. Incoming calls are great, every damn phone in the house rings simultaneously; sounds like a fire alarm.
Also see this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/CorneliusRoemer/status/13294909719780474...
Your recollection does not comport with my own. A lot of sensitive classified information was leaked, a good deal of it having nothing to do with warrant-less wire-tapping, etc.
I had that at one point, but on Windows, with a high resolution screen and maximized windows there are too many useful operations dangerously close to every corner.

Some folks at my office have ID cards that need to be inserted to operate the computer (it locks when the card is removed from the reader). The smart ones have attached the card to their belt so that when they walk away, the card goes with them and the computer locks.
Culture is such an intangible unquantifiable thing that many people overlook.

I think it's pretty obvious once you start to look for it.
See also: everyone who's written about how continued GDP growth in industrial countries is both pointless in terms of improving quality of life, and a bad idea environmentally. For example, commercialized child care and food service are a huge distortion of traditional household duties.
"Meaningless platitude" has lost all of its currency.

;) for the humor impaired.
clickable link: http://letsphotobooth.com
> I have no hard data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that your average woman in her 20s is FAR more likely to be at least partially dependent on a husband or parents than a man of the same age.

Careful with your selection bias, though.

My experience mirrors yours (all my male friends are completely independent, many female friends are dependent on boyfriend or parents), but almost all my male peers are software developers, engineers, some PhDs, etc. My female peers, on the other hand, are from a more diverse pool of people.
The high frequency trading (HFT) systems that seemed to cause the drop you mention also make it more expensive for ordinary investors to actually buy stock in the first place, thereby minimizing your potential return (as Buffett says, "you profit when you buy" or something to that effect).

There was an article on this a few weeks back where a guy in the know was explaining how such systems are a bad thing. Say you bid a price of $2 per share for a share that is currently at $1.92. Since the advent of HFTs, there's a much higher probability that the price you eventually pay will be a lot closer to $2 than to the current $1.92, (perhaps $1.98 or $1.99) whereas before HFTs you could get it closer to the current price. This matters particularly when you buy a lot of shares, and when you hold them for a long time, as the couple of cents difference compounds a lot over time.

I'm not an expert on the subject, that was my takeaway from it.
Life would be so much easier if this were standardized!
Every Facebook game I've ever played is in the first category. Some MUDs. WoW, apparently -- I haven't played it, but its effect on friends who have seems negative.

In the second category . . . well, my choices are going to reveal my age and biases, but here goes. Starcraft, Nethack, and Descent are the big three that have eaten whole years of my life through simply excellent and deep gameplay, so they're my standby examples. Any of the Civ games would count. Deadly Rooms Of Death is a puzzle game that's a genuinely tasty hacker snack. And one of the most direcly addictive games I've ever played was Starscape.

I agree with your distinction between in-game and out-of-game work. Bad games convert time into progress. Good games convert time into skill into progress. Great games convert concerted mental effort into progress.
I've been using openX since phpMyAds old days.. and I couldn't agree more with you.

Unfortunately it continues to be the best open source option out there :S
Maybe they won't be able to find the true SO questions if they're buried amongst the lesser quality ones.
Instance cost for Rackspace is basically nothing depending on data transfer, they have a relatively new program they call Developer+[0] which is basically 50USD for free per month. The VPN server software is open-source, I use OpenSWAN (couldn't get the new fork Libreswan up an running correctly).

[0] https://developer.rackspace.com/developer-plus/faq/#what_is
Speaking as a judge of the 27th competition, formatting doesn't give an entry as much of an advantage as you might think - what it does beyond the formatting has more influence. Code "quality" is always evaluated after pre-processing and restructuring. Credit is definitely given for compactness, functionality, uniqueness and the handling (exploitation) of boundary conditions.

Quite often there is something that "has not been seen before" - those entries do have a greater chance of being picked. The Ig-Nobels are seen as anti-Nobels. It is somewhat ironic that one of the few programming accolades you can be awarded is for writing code that will win an IOCCC award.

Of python: I am quite biased against the language - there are limited ways to speak or communicate it to a blind or deaf person. Python relies on the physical layout and structure to be semantically correct. (Python correctness does not survive whitespace or silence removal - which requires both working eyes and ears)
The US just voted for Biden who will probably have a different policy position than Trump and that's part of the package.

It works on some level.

Also, it's definitely the job of the US diplomatic corps to set out the strategy there because most plebes couldn't find Iran on a map.

It'd be nice to try to explain the policy better, but as I check in with TikTok for a few minutes now and again, I don't think there's much hope there.
Alas, that won't work in Denmark. Any politician threatening to do something that would result in housing prices going down would be voted out of office by angry homeowners and Copenhagian landlords.
> even Obamacare was labeled as controversial

Obama lied about it: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/obamas-whoppers/

Also, some like to point at European countries (e.g. France) as proof that universal healthcare works, ignoring that a) some of those countries are very different from the US, and b) even the "successful" ones aren't proven viable for the future, i.e. rising costs.

If you want to improve things, how? The money has to come from somewhere, and so far may of the plans punish those that already have health plans. Some administration needs the balls to truly reform healthcare laws - but that's one hell of a fight, especially while concurrently fighting all the other issues/culture wars at the moment.
>The blunt truth is that arbitrary lives are probably nearly valueless and certainly worth less than $1000. I have tested this hypothesis by describing GiveWell's mathematics to people at varying stages before they would spend money similar to that: in every case, people choose to spend the money rather than save arbitrary life.

Yeah it is pretty obvious that the value doesn't lie in the person but rather the relationships. In that context a job is just a beneficial relationship between an employee and employer. Parents and children form a strong relationship. Same with friends.

The idea that you value your own life and thus it gains inherent worth doesn't work out because how are you going to pay for that value if not from a currently ongoing or previous relationship? Are billionaires really a million times more productive than the average worker? Did they really do everything themselves?
not just "don't have to" but I'd say that they have a responsibility to make sure that their platforms aren't used to incite violence against anyone but there are better ways to handle an outgoing but still an elected President and it's not clear if that's what really happened. I thought people had the right to protest in this country?

If an elected President of the country is acting deranged then that's the responsibility of congress to do something about and not of glorified CRUD app creators.
Can someone explain what this means? Does it benefit those working on Linux support for M1?
>> Are you claiming one cannot get paid for their work if it build on the works of anything taxpayer funded?
>No.

>> Are you claiming anything taxpayer funded must be open access to all?

> Absolutely.

Ok, then good. In many, if not most, fields, the vast majority of academic papers are not completely taxpayer funded, and in many cases they are privately funded. For example, in CS, big company R&D researchers did the work. In medicine, a significant amount of papers are from Pharma companies, and a lot of academic work is partially funded by companies. The same is in every field. Sample a top CS journal and you'll see how much of it is not from taxpayer funding - MS, Google, FB, etc., researchers likely constitute the majority of top CS publications for some time now.

So, given that it's now clear that a significant amount of the papers sci hub copies were not taxpayer funded, and probably the majority are not totally taxpayer funded, care to drop the claim it's ok for sci hub to copy these because you thought they were paid for by taxpayers?

Because it, like make things people claim here with no understanding of the complexity or bothering to even look, is wrong.
~97% of retail trades lose money. When things dont immediately go they way they panic sell and when they do they never sell. Crypto is no different.
On Tesla, like any other publicly traded business, cashflow is the value driver. Fundamentals end up catching up with valuations.
I have a 65" Sony Bravia with Google TV and it's great as long as I reboot it once a week. If I don't do that, then audio eventually stops working when I change inputs, Spotify will hang, or it will keep telling me there's no video signal.

Fortunately, Sony made this easy - if you hold down the power button on the remote you get a restart option.
Autonomous cars would be in contact with the cars ahead so it would react to car 1 braking, not number 9. IMO we will see this years before we see actual autonomous cars, no matter what fever dreams Elon Musk have.
Fully agreed. Nintendo has a very differentiated market of game offerings on their platforms, and that's the reason people buy it. They don't buy Switch for the (underpowered compared to competitors) hardware, or something else.

That's imo the biggest problem Xbox console is facing. Does it have good third party games? Plenty. Does it make sense to buy Xbox if you already own a PS4/PS5 or a gaming PC? Not really, since the overlap of third party games available on all of them is giant. The only game I know people care about that is Xbox exclusive is Halo series. I don't know a single person who owns a PS4/PS5+Xbox or even gaming PC+Xbox. I know tons of people owning a PC+PS4/PS5, and I know a ton of people who own either a PS4/PS5+Switch or gaming PC+Switch (or all 3 of them). And that's Nintendo's unique offering, being an incredible complement to other consoles, not a direct competitor, while also being a great product of its own that doesn't just function as an add-on.

Mind you, I am not saying that Nintendo shouldn't increase the number of third party games present on their platform, quite the opposite. The increase of third party games on Switch is a really welcome development. However, under no circumstances should they decrease the number of first party games, otherwise they would end up in a losing position.