jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lexer_hack
>that for the sake of shortness

This is the part that makes it a sham. You call it that to give it a legitimacy it doesn't have. The entire thing is a project in giving economics as a field a legitimacy it doesn't have.
> I'm not talking about computer assisted proofs or anything like that.

No, I'm not talking about proof assistants either, I'm talking about actually doing math using any kind of computer system.

> Just using a readable syntax and the mathematical equivalent of a word processor would be an enormous step forward.

Do you have any idea of how to do that? I've done research in math, and I've written software for safety critical systems. I don't know how to create a system like a word processor for math that would let me actually do the math.

Do you know how to do that? If so, please, let me know.
For what? For scraping public data?
But doesn't "fork" imply that it's not actually a re-write or a clone?
If we and up following this approach, it is clear that it will be combined with some sort of virtual-world building, where a machine builds an approximate world based on the real-world data, then runs the simulation inside the virtual world for eons, ends up with the best possible, but still inferior action model (of course because the virtual world was not real), goes back to real world, adjusts the model, and repeats etc.

It is even possible that our brains just do the same thing BTW. How many times do you run that scenario of a job interview in your head before you go there? How many times does it run in your subconscious virtually? How many times does it happen in dreams? And more profoundly, how often do those scenarios in our head are very inaccurate and simplified, and yet they still help us act in the real world nonetheless?
Yeah, my bad, I messed up my comment, I was editing it as you wrote yours.

I meant to say "capitalism" not the free market.

The socialist broadband was created in those communities because the privately owned broadband was so bad.

But yeah, you're right, there's still a market.
That video shows a CG head and says CG face replacement. Typically sequences like this are done on a shot by shot basis and end up being a very healthy mix of compositing, cg face replacements, CG head replacements, etc. These types of effects have been used for literally decades across a wide range of movies and have nothing to do with the recent trend and techniques of 'deep fakes'.
Tools can be put in either the cab or the bed, and presumably both can be locked. I can see where some people might not like the high side-walls on the bed where you can only really get stuff in and out through the back.

I suppose Tesla could possibly add a tool storage frunk in the front if they thought it was worthwhile and they can spare the room in their design.

Pickup trucks in general are sometimes criticized as not being great work trucks [1], and I generally agree -- I think it's an awkward form factor and would probably rather use a large van for most of the things people use pickups for, but clearly people still buy them and many of them are used as work trucks. Many people also buy them and don't use them as work trucks. Making a pickup truck that people could use for work or for non-work is consistent with Tesla's goal of getting as many electric cars on the road as they can.

[1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-wo...
Everyone focuses so much on censorship but nobody focuses on the opposite, that is - what does social media promote by default.

Well, this is what they promote: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 . They promote content that results with engagement since thats most profitable for them, above all else. It just so happens that emotional fake novelty spreads the most and leads to maximum engagement.

Optimizing for engagement above all else is what has lead to that unhealthy, toxic environment. Monsters have been created, and they are out of control. It doesn't matter who social media companies ban, or what was actually tweeted: if there is a way to interpret it in the most emotionally charged, exciting way, it will eventually be reinterpreted that way, just like a game of broken telephone.
This is a great point that is not made often enough. The logical conclusion is that the de-platformed actors get mad enough that they start lashing out in criminal ways, doing stuff that gets them locked up or killed, or otherwise "de-platformed" in real life. There's some short term pain, but ultimately society has a net win.

Convince me I'm wrong...
Yeah I feel the same way. I don’t like Trump but Twitter’s justification is weak and their message is pandering to the masses. No sustenance.
I can only speak for my home state. Maybe we have shit hospitals
> Their legal cases are rejected.

Not-an-American here. When their cases seek to disenfranchise large swathes of voters based on zero evidence, what’s the alternative?
So you don't support FDA, EPA, Net Neutrality etc?
I fear REAL violence is coming.

If people feel trapped and their voices aren’t heard it is just going to create a spring release. Like a cornered animal.

These political activist employees and executives are going to get real people killed in the name of owning the President.

Everyone on every side is so wrong here it is heart breaking.

Trump has truly broken both the Left and the Right’s minds of this country.
> In short: it's slow because there isn't just one kind of Java array, and if you don't say which one you mean, Clojure has to do reflection to figure it out.

But it can't need any less reflection than "count" needs, and "count" is 100x faster. Surely whatever alength is doing in the non-type hinted case can't be... ideal?

> If the type is unavailable at compile time, the Clojure compiler emits reflective code which inspects the type of the reference, determines which specific clojure.lang.RT/alength implementation to dispatch to, then executes that call dynamically. That's the slow part!

But where do all those clock cycles go? Doing runtime type inspection and then dispatching to one of 9 static functions based on that doesn't feel like it ought to be anywhere near that terrible (especially in a JIT'ed language).
I think twitter needed to do this far sooner, they showed that some people are held to different standards and allowed to break the rules. Someone followed religiously by half the country is not just going to go away. Gab is going to have massive growth now, and will further increase the divide between left and right viewpoints. This is not something to celebrate.
>why do we need a distributed ledger?

well the most obvious answer to that question is, we don't.
Good point. Definitely an iteration or a version of an educational platform geared towards students.
Or you could make high-security posting optional, for users who get a lot of traffic; much like how E-trade will give you a two-factor authentication fob if you've got enough money invested with them.
Asking about the funding status, burn-rate, lead investors, and related details is pretty standard. While most companies won't put this data out in a press release (well, actually, they usually put out a release when they raise money, they just don't talk about their burn openly), it's not a taboo subject. It might be better suited for a round 2 interview though.

They should tell you about funding, if they won't divulge burn rates, you can usually factor $8K-$15K/employee/month for a grossed up burn rate (ie: salaries, rent, equipment leases, travel, etc.). Startups that are more hardware-centric and/or have a large sales force (which == travel) are on the upper end of that. A dozen guys squatting in Class B office space building a webapp are going to be on the lower end.
Nobody's going to want to say 'No' for fear of incriminating themselves. However, this is a serious issue. These changes went into effect in July, and I have seen very few hosting companies that offer PCI DSS compliant options. If more people were trying to get up to compliance, I suspect there'd be more of a market for those services.
Apparently not, because his blog had "any level of popularity" long before it was hacked. Since this is the first I've ever heard of a Posterous hack, clearly it's not true that all decent sized blogs are being hacked constantly.

On the surface, what you say makes sense, but the real life data doesn't back it up.

Compare to: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_ther...
London's tube map almost lost the river recently, too, but they quickly put it back on the map.
I find it bizarre that it took this long for someone to do this...
We were just thinking about something similar. We'll se what we can do.

Also, we're just now now working on an interactive CLI guide that auto-detects the project type, asks you a few questions, and generates the YAML for you.

Personally, I don't mind writing YAML at all, but we've heard a lot of people do. We'll do our best to make it easier.
End the H1B program. Create a program to train Americans or provide free tuition to fill tech jobs.
And when you're not struck...?

Seems like such a goofy attitude/plan, so many failure modes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220416175850/https://www.insid...

> I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS

Worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991641 (depending on the carrier)

And look who takes the cake again this time: "Sprint offered the cheapest prices to report locations back to law enforcement, charging a flat fee of $100 per month."
A subject close to my heart!

This is one of the reasons why I dropped out of CS program from the university in Singapore, after struggling for 2 years to progress through school. Gave up after few failed attempts to change some idiotic "rules", get permission to do something not written on book, etc.. Got same "NO" reply on levels starting from individual professors all way up to university administration. I can share some personal stories of NUTS in action, not sure If anyone is interested?
Might be worth looking at Reaction for ideas: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Reaction/

In Reaction the model is split into "Domain Model" and "Interface Model". Also the View is broken down into layoutsets, widgets & viewport components.

Here's some inks which may (or may not!) show some enlightenment on the methodology behind Reaction:

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Reaction/lib/Reaction/Manual/Int...

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Reaction/lib/Reaction/Manual/Ove...

* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Reaction/old/Manual/FAQ.pod
I can confirm that daylight bulbs really help, especially during the winter.
Phil Hellmuth has 11 WSOP bracelets and 75 "in the money" (ITM) finishes

Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have 10 bracelets as well as 33 and 42 ITM finishes, respectively

Erik Seidel has 8 bracelets and 57 ITM finishes

Phil Ivey has 7 (two of which he got last year, and he final tabled at the main event as well) and 36 ITM finishes.

Daniel Negranau has 4, and 42 ITM finishes

and this is just in the WSOP. I'll leave the WPT tournaments to you to look up :-)

I don't know what's going on with Gus, I don't really follow poker much anymore, but I know he's still a formidable player, even if he's not winning as much as he used to. That being said, Gus isn't someone I'd consider a "grandmaster"

Playing alone does not make you better unless you strive to improve (this, at a high level means, learning. playing != learning in the game of poker. playing is definitely crucial, but you really need to review and study the hands and the players post mortem. This is very similar to chess, imo.)

The younger players coming in (i.e. Tom Dwan) have the stamina and energy to put in _serious_ hours that allow them to improve and adapt much quicker and faster than older players, it's just the nature of the beast.
This is really intriguing. I've the tendency to slip into a 10am-2am schedule really easily if allowed. The only reason I'm on a good schedule now is my gf's work is an 8am job. Having something like this would certainly make it easier. Just might have to do this.
You continue to be able to use it under GPLv3 terms, but if you distribute it (and don't hold the full copyright) you must distribute it in a "or newer" compatible way.
If any nation on Earth can pull this off (or a wealth tax for that matter), it's the USA. The reach of the US financial system is immense: blocking off access or otherwise making life miserable for companies that attempt to offshore operations on paper is certainly something the US could do if it has the political will.

In 2010 Congress passed FATCA [1], which forced financial institutions in foreign countries to give up information on assets held by US nationals in their borders. This was extraordinarily unpopular with other countries: I'm in Canada, and the amount of negative press was astounding. In addition to privacy concerns (the law applied to dual-citizens, including "accidental Americans" who didn't know they held US citizenship), implentation proved to be very expensive for foreign banks.

However, the US played hardball: if a financial institution was non-compliant with the provisions of FATCA, the US government took 30% of any payments made to them as tax. There was tons of grumbling, but foreign financial institutions went ahead and implemented it.

To add insult to injury, the US is itself not compliant with FATCA, as the information sharing is supposed to be reciprocal if a foreign country signs a reciprocal treaty. That has not happened.

Access to the US financial system is an extraordinarly big stick when the US government chooses to wield it. It's often said that preventing offshoring or creating a wealth tax is impossible without global buy in. Really, the US could do it if it wanted to. It would not be popular, but FATCA shows there's precedent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
If I'm wanting to write about something I want to write about that thing, not write about that thing in the midst of a bunch of extraneous fluff like header tags, script tags, CSS, etc.

The author's thoughts about layers of indirection are confusing to me, I'd actually take the comparison the other way. If I'm not using markdown plus a static site generator now I have to keep track of things like layout, styling, script tags, etc myself plus the actual writing I was intending on doing.

I used to have an extremely simple markdown server. It presented 2 types of page, an index and an article. The index simply read the /content directory on the server. Requesting any file under /content would render the markdown into the article page and affix a date and time from the .md file's metadata.

Takes <1 hour setup and means you never have to copy and paste random files or do whole site page transformations (as the author has admitted to in that very post) to clean your mishmash HTML beast.
fluffychat and nio both have good apps similar to whatsapp/telegram
Same for the 'Sorry' word that is missing as I commented as well.

Any admission by Facebook can and will act against them in the [highly likely] class action that will be executed.

I'm sure their legal department checked every letter in this statement with a x100 magnifier.
Great. Download a private payment app then.
The act of "sending" a cryptocurrency payment is actually the publication of a cryptographic signature.
Government legacy software maintenance.

usually 95% of your cohorts cant get past a leetcode easy. you will be a god among them and can easily get by with 2 hrs work a day
that fresh water is rivers and ports used for shipping, so the water isn't available. Or fishing villages that have more than enough dry land to build on.
Thought this would be an interesting thought experiment for engineering the best solution to the problem. I guess since Colombia isn't that rich it would have to be feasible economically, too.
Never before has a free service been relied upon by so many diverse people, from business people, to students and demonstrators. Long live Twitter!
> That said, if you allow your own mature 9 year old daughter or so to have laissez-faire, unmonitored sexual relationships [..]

What I can say is that my sister does fit that description, and she alright

If that's true, you might want to be careful with sharing that online. Whatever I think, the law is a different matter entirely and social services look grimly on parents who are allowing underage children to have sexual relationships.

Again, good luck.
Moving into the basement, watching porn, clashing with your dad, making bad decisions about relationships and staying up late are all pretty standard male adolescent behaviors. The fact that he stayed up all night coding and went to college, and got through all of that shit early in life, are actually pretty encouraging.
Pay to pitch events are evil, they are a business source for the event management team and add no value to the entrepreneur or the investor as there is no filter on quality....the best way to run pitch events is for the event management team to engage with entrepreneurs and to filter on quality.... They can't be invcentivised by entrance fees!!!
Remember that from when I was a teen, the first crack took months after the initial release and came on like 20 disks, while the retail game was on 10 disks. Kevin R. Kachikian is the name on the patent, currently he is CTO at Amuse Inc. according to his LinkedIn page - must be a very smart guy.
The only gripe I have with OpenELEC is the fact `their` linux isn't as easy to add applications to than raspbmc is (or other distribution paired with xbmc/kodi).
I knew it was only a matter of time until I refreshed to someone watching YouPorn. NSFW, kids.
This is another excellent Nim resource: http://goran.krampe.se
Yeah, so that's the problem we're talking about: the presentation implied that a split network can still accept writes, because one side will have a majority. But what if neither side does? Is the cluster just in read-only mode?

But, as I rephrase the problem, I think I observe that splitting the network in two is a rather general case of partitioning. If we partition each node to be on its own, then of course nobody has a majority, so an odd number of nodes doesn't solve the general partition problem.
2 Qs: How have tiger-human relations/(co/non)existence changed in the last few decades? Are there more/different interactions in rural, suburban, urban (?) settings?

(Anyone from/in India or the nearby area know?)
It didn't help that the IETF refused to admit NATs exist, and every other home router added poor "fixup" code that usually just breaks things even more. (Although, that's more on the SIP side.)
You don't hash credit card numbers because doing so would mean you would need the user to input the credit card number again upon a purchase which defeats the whole purpose of keeping the number around in the first place. If it's encrypted on the server it must also be able to be decrypted at some point (on some Sony server) to be able to process the transaction, so it all depends on how deep the hackers got.
To be totally honest with you I haven't noticed much of a change in the overall thread quality at all, except that I feel like I'm missing half the picture. The community has definitely felt some growing pains, but it is absolutely not clear that hiding comment scores has helped.

Looking at the best comments page, no I don't think it looks particularly better (or worse) than it did a few months ago.

On that best comments page, look at how many of them are on threads (including this one) asking to bring scores back.

When pg put it to a vote, more people wanted to see them than not.

Since the community was the backbone and validity of the voting system, by taking away the visibility voting system we are taking away quite a bit of faith in the community. If we don't think the voting system is valuable for viewable scores, why is it valuable for sorting the threads? Adding to the fact that a significant majority wanted them shown, it doesn't really seem like we've got a lot of faith in the community as a whole. And if we don't have faith in the community, doesn't that mean HN is kind of dead and we just don't know it yet?

I don't think it is, and I think the upvote system is imperfect but worked much better than nothing. And maybe exact scores aren't what we need, but just sorting the comments isn't enough.
> usernames provide identity.

No the don't, they provide a social signaling function that can be just as powerful as a vote count. When a "popular" name is attached to a post it gets read more closely and frequently voted up. If HN users were truly interested in letting the "quality" of the content stand on its own then comments would not have names attached to them and the content would truly stand on its own.

> when evaluating someone's comment it would be good to see other comments they've made that might provide insight into their biases.

In other words, let the popularity of a username influence the visibility of the content. If you are suggesting that people (including yourself) actually go back and check out user comment histories with any frequency I think you are mistaken.

Karma is not just popularity, it is also a measure of perceived authority and insight that a comment provides to a discussion. The consequence of losing this signaling function may not have decreased the quality of the comments, but it has certainly decreased the utility of the comment sections at HN.
this quote was golden:

"Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces."

Really shows you how he thinks. And I think he's correct too. And life is like that, in general, not just business. One big multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. Or perhaps a Rube Goldberg machine, where parts of the machine are not completely ludicrous. Part of the reason why I'm building a startup that simulates life. Because making models of multidimensional probabilistic Rube Goldbergian chessboards is fun!
$1 on each credit card. Just like they did in Superman 3.
There's a lot of talk about this from time to time, but it's nothing new. For example, the book _Free: The Future of a Radical Price_ by Chris Anderson discussed it extensively in human-readable language. 1st edition was July 2009.
HTTPS appears available [1], interesting that they don't force a redirect.

[1] http://darkmail.info
> I knew this would be a problem, so keeping code complexity to a minimum has always been a priority

I'm in the same position, except that it was never a priority for me. Even if I knew it would create a disaster in the future I prioritized getting things done. Basically I had the game idea and started coding without even thinking about architecture or maintainability so you can imagine what a mess my codebase is.

Still, I regret nothing since without this mindset there would be no game to speak of.
Your post made me cringe because I mentally extrapolated the trend for cheap goods you set up onto everything else. Honestly I don't know if it would be for better or worse without living in such a world, but I cannot fathom disposable computers, high end electronics, or tools.

This also makes me worry about the concept of ownership. If we have no attachment to anything because the price is driven to zero, will that erode our values (craftmanship, upkeep, environmental stewardship, ...)? Sounds like a future full of walled gardens, shovelware, and products headed for the landfill.
I'd rename it 'Trustmail'
Because it's not always faster and there are always exceptions for some devices.
Agreed. Helmets for cyclists should be mandatory, just like seat belts are for drivers.
3 of 5 comments so far mentioning that the name is a mistake. Allow me to make that 4 of 6. Come on guys, authoritarians are going to argue that this is just about defending criminals and terrorists, do you want to make that argument for them?
Call it 'Liberty mail' or something.