jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
no-one knows how backed it is. iFinex claim it's 100% backed. They may, or may not, be telling the truth.

The question is do you believe that billions of dollars are flowing into an unaudited stablecoin when other, audited, stablecoins exist...
you know http://youmightnotneedjquery.com
> and it's frankly disconcerting how much power certain people hold over society in the media industry

Without disagreeing, most people don't cling to power. They very willingly find someone likeable and give their power to them.

There are always going to be people with a disconcerting amount of power. One of the internet's more transformative facets is that now literally everyone has access to a channel where they can stand up and be that likeable person without being vetted by the media establishment.
That or provide on and off ramps that users can use to arbitrage any deviations from a value of $1.
Does anyone have a book they would recommend over this resource for learning Scipy? Or is this the best place to start?
You should disable the fadeout when the feedback dialog is open. It's a bit weird to have a modal dialog suddenly disappear when it is open.
Saying piracy is theft is theoretically incorrect. Stealing something means that it you takes something from someone who doesn't have it anymore. Digital copy just doesn't work that way.

This is a common misconception. The legal notion of theft does not depend upon taking something from someone who doesn't have it any more. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services

Turnstile jumping on a subway and gate-crashing a rock concert are two trivial counter-examples.

I'll just say that to me at least, having thought long about it, intellectual property is a very unnatural concept.

You think? I have a lot of friends and relatives who have written books, and it seems perfectly natural to me that they should have a moral (and legal) claim against someone who attempted to publish (and profit from) their work without prior agreement.
汉语第一！当然。很多的人，很多的用户。
This is basically why I give everyone a unique email address, and /dev/null the address after I stop needing it.

Offtopic, but what service do you use for this email redirection setup? Or do you run your own mail server? I do exactly the same thing, currently using MyDomain.com, but looking for a better alternative.
Arthur C. Clarke described the prime spiral seven years before it was discovered by Ulam in his 1956 novel 'The City and the Stars': "Jeserac sat motionless within a whirlpool of numbers. The first thousand primes, expressed in the binary scale that had been used for all arithmetical operations since electronic computers were invented, marched in order before him. Endless ranks of 1's and 0's paraded past, bringing before Jeserac's eyes the complete sequences of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity. There was a mystery about the primes that had always fascinated Man, and they held his imagination still.
Jeserac was no mathematician, though sometimes he liked to believe he was. All he could do was to search among the infinite array of primes for special relationships and rules which more talented men might incorporate in general laws. He could find how numbers behaved, but he could not explain why. It was his pleasure to hack his way through the arithmetical jungle and sometimes he discovered wonders that more skilful explorers had missed.

He set up the matrix of all possible integers, and started his computer stringing the primes across its surface as beads might be arranged at the intersections of a mesh. Jeserac had done this a hundred times before and it had never taught him anything. But he was fascinated by the way in which the numbers he was studying were scattered, apparently according to no laws, across the spectrum of the integers. He knew the laws of distribution that had already been discovered, but always hoped to discover more."
> For this regimen, the animals were placed on little treadmills and required to sprint at a very rapid and strenuous pace for three minutes, followed by two minutes of slow skittering, with the entire sequence repeated twice more, for a total of 15 minutes of running.

I wonder how exactly they were "required" to maintain this pace. Sounds like it could easily have been traumatic, which would have its own effects on neurogenesis.
Some decades back during a big crisis, Athens, Greece managed to solve its issues. It was a grass roots movement that the government basically rubber-stamped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HousingWorks/comments/l6im7f/why_do...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/lslfqg/mee...

People may well end up moving out of the big cities. But unless you are expecting a population crash for humanity globally, we just need more housing somewhere in the US.

I suspect California is so hard hit in part because we actively export homelessness from other states to California because the dry, temperate weather means sleeping outside isn't much of a hardship. And then there are myriad barriers to getting back into housing that help keep people long-term homeless once you are there.

It can be difficult to physically leave California on foot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21309036

Climate:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and...

For every 100 families living in poverty on the West Coast, there are no more than 30 affordable homes

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...

Across the US we need to be resolving our housing issues rooted in decades of housing policy gone awry. That's one of the things that needs to happen here.
I thought they present it as ratios as well, so 1:1 is 1 minute on, 1 minute off, or 2m on, 2m off. They give different ratios depending on your level of conditioning, so like 2:1 for fit folks or 1:2 if you're not as fit. I've heard max effort most of the time, but some others have just recommended doing what feels comfortable for newer folks.
As someone who built a website called (roughly) "$5 business ideas" about 12 years ago this gives me great joy!
It was mostly satire but still fun to build and populate with terrible ideas.
Writing is powerful and involves a lot of responsibility. Torturing yourself does not necessarily improve your ability to wield this tool responsibly.

> Good writing often contains some piece of the author's soul and that's always a risk to take.

Ego risk or reputational risk should not be treated the same way as risk to others. It's also easy to avoid.

Very few writers are so monumentally important that the world would mourn for them having never published -- and most of those who would have been were, of course, never published. My advice to people is that if writing feels like self-harm, you're better off not doing it & the world probably won't notice. Folks who have something so important to say (or who are so desperate to say anything at all) that they ignore my advice have made their choice :)
I like the squashed commit approach. I get there by merging upstream into my dev branch when developing, then squashing before I merge my changes into the upstream. As far as I can tell, that has the same outcome as rebase with squash. Both approaches create a simple commit graph, and both avoid fake intermediate commits.
The monster laptop consumes more power because it has all of that RAM, the battery is sized to "not cause a crisis on an airplane if it burns up" not to power a machine of that type, particularly after a year of battery aging.

I have an Alienware that runs rings around any Mac and can do ML dev work with NVIDIA if it is on the plug but on battery I count on it to keep running as I move it to another plug and for the battery to maintain sleep mode for 48 hrs or so.
Quoting the mailing-list (which currently seems down):

> Hugo reminds of us of the history of the current logo, which is a reference to the Barcelos Coq from Portugal which Gérard Huet liked, whose shape was drawn by Julien Narboux and adapted/colored for the website by Jean-Marc Notin.

The story seems legit to me, knowing some of the people. I believe there were no jokes in the logo itself, but could be wrong. This was from a time where research projects had many hand-made logos.
I don't know about California specifically, but I have observed that homelessness is getting really out of control in Portland. It's just crazy how many tent camps have cropped up in public places all over the city. Just in the last year it has exploded. I felt really embarrassed just driving up the interstate and seeing it on display. We don't lack the resources to deal with it.

It seemed for a while like SLC had found a working solution. But as I recall, they eventually dropped it. It feels like a solvable problem, but as a society we will have to come to terms with our ideas of morality, as well as the role of gov't (specifically in health care and psychiatric treatment).
I'll give you an upvote because I hear what you're saying; keeping up with new browser features is tough if you've got other things to do as well. But, you don't need to incorporate every new feature into your own web projects, and you don't need to follow the same rapid release cycle as the browsers.

If my project has an annual update cycle, I want to be certain that any new browser features I'd like to use are widely supported and have been tested in-the-wild for as long as possible before I commit to them. The rapid release cycles of the browsers gives me that, and also ensures that there will be blogs and StackOverflow questions providing useful documentation on the best ways to use the new features by the time I'm ready to learn about them.
Might be useful to point out what you would like to intern doing. Are you a developer, designer etc.? What field are you graduating from?
Speaking as someone who picked up hobby electronics not too long ago, I recommend Paul Scherz's "Practical Electronics for Inventors" [1]. Good mix of theory as well as practice.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S...
This is from the linked website, in the Q & A page:

Wren is a replacement for Finch to me. I gave it a new name mainly so that I can keep Finch around in case other people want to take it and do something with it. I don't have any intention to work on it anymore.
Impostor syndrome, meet fake it till you make it culture.
About the LinkedIn search, you can broaden to companies that have already hired interns/employees from Algeria, or even better: that are founded by Algerians, they are more likely to help you as they have probably already figured out all the visa stuff. Most companies don't want/don't have time to deal with this for interns.
The article is from 2001.
Anyone wanting to try hosting their own HD or SD video portfolio in WebM can try http://www.vive.ly/ which is like parts of Dropbox, Zencoder, and Hulu in a blender, for original video files you want backed up, encoded, and published publicly or privately -- without the YouTube problems of giving up your copyrights or having competitor videos promoted alongside yours.

Drop your originals in a folder, we encode into SD and HD in H.264, Ogg, and WebM, and build you a mini-Hulu video site that works in Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5 across browsers. You can also download the encoded files for use elsewhere, embed them, or rebrand the video site with your own logo and domain name.

Use our Hacker News invite code hd4yc to sign up free, and let us know what you think of the WebM encodes. We encode all the files in parallel, and the video pages update as the versions become available, so you may have to wait a bit for the WebM encodes to finish.
The ability to use CSS/jQuery selectors is really nice, though; In order to find all <td>s whose parents have a class "blah", you have to use list comprehension:

tds = [td for td in soup.findAll('td') if td.parent.get('class') == 'blah']

In jQuery, this is more compactly written:

tds = $('.blah > td')

And if you just want to look for <td>s somewhere within a .blah element, you can use

tds = $('.blah td')

This is a lot less clear in BeautifulSoup:

tds = [td for td in soup.findAll('td') if td.findParents(attrs={'class': 'blah'})]

(If there are better ways to write this BeautifulSoup code, please let me know)

Selectors have some other benefits too - you can just go to the CSS file and grab the selector that matches what you want, and you can be reasonably sure it'll work in most cases.
Heathrow T5. Everyone was accepted it up until the gate, at which point they demanded I had a paper copy, which they printed for me.
Guilty.

I've been playing Gunner Galaxies HD, and have probably downloaded a dozen apps, then deleted them after one launch just to get in game upgrades.
Sounds fun. Here in LA, a couple of restaurant entrepreneurs are building on the success of The Counter, an upscale custom burger quick-serve, with an iPad-based concept restaurant. The first one opens next month.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2011-02-16-ipa...
And of course there's no real mechanism to not get paid for time spent daydreaming if you're sitting in an office on salary.

On the point in question though, no, I won't bill time warming up the dev environment unless I actually use it for productive work. You lose the odd fraction of an hour here and there, but really if you're trying to add up things like that to get yourself paid an extra 2 hours at the end of the week you're probably just not charging enough for your time.
I see someone has never waited tables.

In most restaurants, the busboys and dishwashers get a cut of the waiters' tips every night. Some restaurants extend that to the hostesses. Plus, waiters' hourly base pay is really low. And you have to put up with ungrateful customers who don't know how a restaurant works.
FYI, Coursera is offering a free alternative. No one-on-one, but an active student community on the course. https://class.coursera.org/android-001
Messages, across boundaries is more FP than OO though... it actually adds complexity to do this in an OO paradigm.
Surveillance is not a democratic value even the US is doing it.

I can't imagine if my government blocked my gmail . I'll lose not just my email,play, my app engine websites etc etc.
Unless you're using Joda Time, where YYYY means "year of era" and will be the same as yyyy for years since 1 CE.

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/forma...

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/field.html#yearOfEra
Wouldn't this be a lot more useful if we could search ALL public posts by any person or business (FB pages)? Sort of like Twitter search. There'd be no privacy issue b/c u'd only be searching the public posts.
A bit tangential to your point, but... banks generally don't eat losses due to common credit card fraud (a stolen/cloned card number being misused). When you call your bank and say that some charges on your card were unauthorized, and they give you back that money, it immediately comes out of the bank accounts of the stores that made the charges. They are paying for the reversals, not the card issuer. Each of those stores also pays a significant chargeback fee, which more than covers the cost of that customer support agent that took the call, and reissuing the physical card if necessary. Plus, much of the transaction fee goes to paying out rewards to card holders and to the processing networks that make everything work (e.g. VisaNet), rather than to the banks' profits. That reflects the fact that the banks generally don't have significant fraud losses to cover. The cost to banks from reissuing cards after massive data breaches at major retailers is a relatively new phenomenon and isn't priced into those fees.
As long as there are people like you that value their time so much, I guess they could increase the price even more.

Just mention to people when talking about iFixit that they could by the same product for a few times less.

I don't have a problem if anyone uses them, just that usually resellers increase the price much less than them. I am sure they could reduce the price to half and still make a very good profit, but that is not in the interest of the business. A lot of people are hearing about iFixit now with the right to repair push and I assume they don't know that the products they are selling on their website have such inflated prices as compared to real price.
There're always hacker's versions on torrent sites

desktop one in mine is always from there
He has told people almost that exact thing. I recall an interview from about a decade ago where some asked RMS a question similar to the one the GP mentions, but their phrasing was more like, "I need to make money from software to feed my family." RMS' answer was that the interviewer's ability to feed their family was less important than free software.

RMS' heart is mostly in the right place, but he's a fanatic who is 100% out of touch with the real world.
Good question. My guess, the plight of a remote assassin just hit closer to home (no pun).
I don't see people upset at the idea as opponents, ideological or otherwise. They have spelled out their position, and I accept it at face value.

But they are not really participating in the discussion, which is about facts.

However, I have just read a fair bit of Tim O'Neill's writing, and recognize I will need to read more deeply to be able to hold a non-laughable opinion.
You said “I can provide dozens of such examples in teaching materials.” You did not provide any teaching material examples.
Usually markets consolidate, rather than fragment, especially in the software industry. We actually had more Uber competitors early on (Sidecar et al) and that died off. Most uber competitors are now just regional ones, with geographically segregated markets.
I had a job interview once where I was so anxious that I wasn't able to remember my own address when asked. Usually I'm smart enough to remember my own address. After the interview (no offer) I was able to remember my address and navigate back to my apartment without much trouble, so I think that lends credence to your theory that stress can cause memory lapse.
As someone from Waterloo, this is a very weird reputation our university is getting.
This is great!

Coincidentally I've been working on a prototype that is almost the exact same idea. I had very similar motivations and a feeling that "slow social" (I was calling it the same thing even!) is something that can potentially break some people free from cycles of nonstop engagement and the unexpected downsides of always on, public and sharable social networks.

I hope you have success with it! Know that you're not alone in feeling like we need a solution like this. I think I'm far enough along with my prototype that I might as well see it through to completion anyways, but either way it's heartening to see that folks are feeling the same way I am about social networks.
FTA: Most of the rejected books were for elementary schools

Especially there, textbooks tend to have examples. Those could be racist.
> I'm too busy to take this idea past the handwaving stage, but it seems like someone should have already done the homework.

Indeed. https://www.mightyapp.com/
I'm hoping these features find their way in, too. I was just looking into their status yesterday, in fact, and came across these tracker threads:

* Non-nullable types: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/185

* Sum types: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/186

The short story is that there's some interest in both features, but there are challenges that someone needs to propose a solution to.
Also, let's say I'm willing to pay $2 to use facebook and socialize with my friends. If 2 or 3 close(-ish) friends drop off because of that, facebook would no longer be worth $2, so I would also drop off
And this is the one situation where the 'nationstate adversary' is pretty much the expected thing and not the exception.
Or a watch that projects a screen into midair.

The Samsung Beam isn't far off that - it's an Android phone that has a miniature projector in it. I think it might need to be my next phone actually: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFY6hOVOzE
While this isn't undeniable proof, it's interesting none the less, Simon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWSZ4c9yqW8

He talks about how this scheme can parallelize non-trivial data structures, and how tedious book keeping can be avoided. I haven't used it yet in a project, so I can't speak of its efficacy - but worth a watch, imho.
Headline of the Day. Calling it now.
Is there a reason to use AJAX to write the new JavaScript instead of just dynamically appending a script tag? jQuery handles the latter very nicely. For example, you can use the .html() method to write in the new script tag, with jQuery evaluating the code and then discarding it. You can keep rewriting new script tags into the same container this way.
I thought the same up until yesterday!

Yesterday the replica randomly disconnected from the master and could no longer reconnect, the resyncs were failing because a replication buffer on the master was being hit (https://redislabs.com/blog/top-redis-headaches-for-devops-re...). Once that buffer was increased the replica was able to sync the snapshot from the master but for some reason was taking a very long time to load the snapshot, during this time the sentinels thought the replica was healthy again and started allowing the application to read from them, of course Redis responded with an error "dataset loading". We were running Redis 6.0.8 and upgrading the replica to 6.2.1 allowed the replica to sync and become healthy in seconds.

I'm still not sure why the sentinels thought the replica was healthy as issuing commands to it always returned an error.
I have had post-viral fatigue after flu a couple of times and now seem to have "long COVID". I agree they are probably related but the COVID version is much worse, I have been ill now for over a year with no signs of improvement.
I hate Youtube on dark mode for that reason: it's white text on black background and I struggle to read comments!
This one has a dark theme though.
I built an antithesis to this: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/
I love 99% Invisible.
And even with all these advantages, my four month old Windows laptop fails to resume from hibernation 3 times out of 10. Sometimes wifi won't work, sometimes USB won't work, sometimes it just freezes.
All of those changes *should* be the *default*!

i.e.:

- dark mode should change default colors to white on black.

- viewport default should be "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"

- HTML's only supported charset should be UTF-8.

- Default CSS for body should be something like:

body{
max-width:40em;
margin:0 auto;
padding:1em;
}