jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's a fair assessment . Square is coming from the merchant acquiring side (traditionally strict B2B), and branding themselves to consumers at the same time (theoretically, to breed trust). Square manages risk, don't get distracted by the hardware.
i fixed that, thx for the heads up!
This is the classic one from 1990 I believe: http://tamw.atari-users.net/camus.htm

I do think the one linked in this post is a particularly nice one, and yeah the way it develops while maintaining a beat I think is fairly unusual.
If they're all perfectly equivalent then even very young kids will catch on to that quickly. Here's an improvement: make the choices equal in EV but different in variance. That adds a little bit of strategy: take the predictable choices when you're ahead and the risky ones when you're behind. Nonetheless, a child with no concept of this strategy can sometimes win against an adult who plays optimally.

N.B.: I was home-schooled through preschool. My mother designed a bunch of board games that she used to teach me basic math. Then I got to kindergarten and got introduced to Chutes & Ladders. I saw through it immediately and got into arguments with my classmates about what a stupid game it was.
I can't wait to be hassled by the first homeless person who's sign advertises that they can securely process credit card transactions!
Hopefully it will work without errors and as fast as advertised, because I'm already tired of fixing the error "Field 'Browser' doesn't Contain a Valid Alias Configuration", I do not know why I am so lucky, but I constantly need to add a field in the browser, make sure the right extension and allow the import
Thanks for the tips: https://techisours.com/field-browser-doesnt-contain-a-valid-...
I couldn't have done it without this article.
Thank you! I had no idea this existed.
But then you have to put on a whole new set of zip ties too.
Agreed, this is kind of an annoyance with many companies, who don't think about those who have shown willingness to pay them in the past.

On the other hand, I don't really loose anything by it, so why worry about it?
In the 9 or 10 years since I first heard about OpenBSD, it has never come up in conversation without the related scene drama also popping up.
Meant to point that out as well, but definitely within your own social circle or even your family social circle.
No.

This is an idiotic puff piece, I assume triggered by a nice phone call from someone at Microsoft to someone at Forbes.
Yes, it's absolutely huge. A while back I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation trying to account for the direct and indirect economic benefits, and it was on the order of a trillion dollars a year. That might even be low, because I don't think I considered your points about parking and real estate.

I would have agreed with your barriers, but I'm very encouraged by Google's experiments. They show that you can deploy automated vehicles alongside normal traffic, and that getting government permission isn't an insurmountable problem.

If it does gain traction, there will be a point where our collective rationality will be tested. It's nearly certain that occasional system malfunctions will occur resulting in deaths. Hopefully we'll be able to realize that such incidents are on balance vastly less harmful than the damage done by human drivers, and won't allow manufacturers to be sued out of existence or shut down by demagoguing politicians.
> Even with all the tech problems solved, the regulatory hurdles to implementing this are staggering.

I think we will "back in" to self driving cars. I think they will first appear as safety features on luxury cars (this is already happening). The real statistics of these features will become obvious. Eventually the car won't let the driver do anything stupid and people will become annoyed that they have to hold on to the wheel when basically the car could be doing that for them.

Earlier production models of self driving cars will work like cruise control. Perhaps the system analyzes the road conditions and in optimum environments it enables a button that engages autopilot with warnings when conditions degrade (eventually stopping the car if the driver does not resume control).
https://www.box.com/security
Would that defeat the point of inflation?
Should have clarified I meant regular recurring priced bills power/water/internet/phone/investing.

I definitely missed it when Verizon upped my bill by $10 a month. But on the other hand I've never had a late fee and I get an hour back a month. So on net I'm positive money and time ymmv.
nice one

slightly related I remember as a kid I used to hold Dragon Ball cards collection called 'trading collection'

look at this offer https://www.ebay.com/i/142949370670?chn=ps

also, people are starting to create soccer team tokens so maybe there will be a basketballcoin
This analogy falls apart because time spent to write != value to the reader.

An expert can take 5 minutes to write something that is far more valuable than an amateur can write in years. I'd also argue that it's much easier and common for amateurs to write books nowadays, so it's becoming less and less good of a heuristic to say "books > blogs, articles, etc"
If you have more than 20% equity in your home, open a HELOC. It’s like a super low interest credit card for up to 80% of your equity.

Then never use it. There’s your emergency fund.

Critical thing is that you won’t get approved for one when you need it, so open it when you don’t.
That's the big issue with these formats. There's an inevitable minimal complexity in any data format, and it has to be dealt with somewhere. The "simple" specifications optimize for ease of reading the spec, which is a kind of marketing trick to make it enticing, but in reality leaves so much ambiguity that you get the kinds of problems in the article. A tighter spec on the other hand reduces ambiguity but appears more complicated to anyone reading the spec.

I went the tighter spec route in https://concise-encoding.org because that's the only safe way to go, and also versioned the spec AND documents because I know that even with the care I'm taking there will be mistakes to fix in the spec after release.
Yes, BY CUTTING FAT.

See, your goal is not just to lose weight. Your goal is to lose fat. Your body will burn a hell of a lot of muscle if you just sit still and not eat.

And becuase you're burning more muscle than fat, you're even going to lose more weight. Hooray!

For added bonus, you can lay in bed all day so that you lose bone density as well. Even more weight loss even faster! So much better BMI. Much healthy and awesome.

Point is, nobody's goal is JUST to lose weight.
Just as a side note, I like reading a report about something where it's clear the author did their homework and pounded the pavement.
On the topic of having one IDE that just works for multiple languages/platforms, you should check out srclib (https://srclib.org), an open-source language analysis tool (I'm one of the creators) that abstracts away the language-specific parts of IDE support so that IDEs/editor plugins can hook into one API and automatically get support for a bunch of different languages. This way, you don't have to build MxN plugins (M editors, N languages) to support all combos of editors/languages people might want to use.

The currently supported languages are Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby, so this wouldn't work yet for iOS, but Objective-C and Swift are high on our priority list. Editor plugins exist for Emacs, Sublime, and Atom. Would love to hear anyone's feedback from trying it out.
> The mother tongue of more than three billion people is one of twenty, which are, in order of their current predominance: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Javanese, German, Wu Chinese, Korean, French, Telugu, Marathi, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese, and Urdu.

Arabic listed as one language? Can Gulf Arabic and Moroccan Arabic speakers understand each other? I've heard people speak to each other where one speaks Spanish and the other Brazilian Portuguese. The main difference between Hindi and Urdu is the different script. Don't those languages have more justification for being counted as one than those of Arabic? It's even a bit iffy to count English as one language -- put 3 people speaking Indian English, Ebonics, and Geordie in a room together and see how well they communicate!
> Git won because of Github, it's an unpopular opinion but I stand by it.

Quite often you will find the exact opposite statement: Github succeeded because it rode on the success of Git.

I'm not saying your position is wrong, but they cannot both be right.
Geez, I built an overpowered and heavy desktop for twice the price a few months ago when all I needed was something like this.
On the other hand, I am more likely to assume that a similar level of deliberation would have gone into thermal design and component choices.
Those are multiplied by the number of cores. This one only has 2 I think. The top one has 6 cores. The CPUs in the first link that are faster are laptop CPUs with 4 cores. So per core this one is much faster than the other ones. Also has a good amount of L3 cache per core.

The main problem here (imo) is the RAM, because you can't go past 16gb.
That's exactly my issue with drivers. Many of them (most of the ones I know personally) get angry at people driving the way they are supposed to. Apparently the "right" way to drive is to be a total asshole with complete disregard for human life.
Like paths of ants crossing over, essentially.

I find it a bit amusing that we're having to invent some incredible technologies to overcome our sense of self and resulting selfishness to act like the cooperative insects we often step on without noticing.
No. It's moving into everything because it's well established in browsers. Otherwise nobody would use it.
>It already did evolve this way and will continue to do so.

I'll need a soruce for that, as all reports I've read indicate that Covid has mutated the typical direction - that is, to be less deadly.

>Any novel virus evolves in ways that helps its spread into popularions previously unavailable for infection. And only after it is at risk of wiping populations it infects it evolves milder variants that are careful no to kill too many hosts to quick.

Also a source for that, as this is an idea I have never heard of before.

I haven't even seen any definitive answer whether younger people are just less affected by Covid, or really do not become infected. The whole "asymptomatic carrier" idea really makes it hard to prove anything.

Saying that, how will we stop a virus mutating with a vaccine that is between 60% and 90% effective at preventing symptoms, and with a currently unknown effect on transmission?

If we are just delaying the inevitable, then why wait? If it's about the young (which would be quite the reversal, as to date, it's all been about "not killing granny"), then we need to consider the effects of on-going lockdown and destruction of opportunity for young people (which is very real).

If I had been told at the start that we would be under effective house arrest until researchers had developed a series of vaccines with the intention of stopping Covid from mutating into hypothetical potentially worse variants, I would have called BS right then.

Edit: Also, interesting that you point out that "it became known that Covid mutates rapidly". That's not at all surprising, it's long been known that coronaviruses mutate fairly rapidly. In fact, whenever I pointed out this fact, and that it makes vaccine development difficult and pointless unless we are going for continual vaccination, the "online Covid expert" crowd gave me a lot of flak for it.
Han unification was definitely a mistake. To this day people in different countries will use different fonts so that text looks how it is supposed to in their language.

The promise of unicode was that you can losslessly convert any encoding to unicode. However, because of the failed attempt at Han unification, some important information can be lost.
In other words, the reason we cannot have nice things (universal basic income) is because people stand in the way of progress.
A wedding is a ritual to celebrate the marriage between a man and a woman. Marriage itself is the lifelong bond, the wedding is a day or two of festivities to celebrate said bond.
This is Lisa Bronner of Dr. Bronners which I used as a starting point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLCBz6JdQI

There is also a girl who hasn't used any plastic for years and makes everything herself including beauty products:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuABgFsv5pw

Lots on Youtube in general. Again, I do it because I needed to, I don't want to preach or shame.
Loser pays has negative consequences. If you have big pockets you can afford to sue, if you lose it isn't a big deal, but if you are a small guy you don't dare sue a big player: they can lawyer up, even if they only win 10% of the time via confusing legal loopholes that shouldn't apply but they can make apply anyway, that is still enough lawyer fees for the loser to pay that no regular person dares go to court.

I don't know of a solution. The problem is very complex. So far every option I've heard of (including what we have now) has serious negative effects.
It's the same deal as creating a circular references using `std::shared_ptr` in C++.
Costs and fees are completely different.
I'm a lefty of the George Carlin-type, and know that "microaggressions" spring from microaggressive / thin-skinned crybullies looking to police everyone else's thoughts and behaviors with chilling effects; make everyone else walk on eggshells to not cause even the slightest offense to anyone, ever. You know what? F that. Unless they're trustfunders, the real world isn't going to care about any of this made-up, illiberal crap. Supposed "liberals" who don't hold liberal values, common-sense, or anything intellectual because they're delving into political, etiquette, and social mores rather than learning or debating something meaningful. They make a mockery of the cause and beliefs of what was once "liberal."

Meanwhile: economic inequality, climate change, warming arctic, mass shootings, police excessive force of all kinds, celebrity idolatry and a subtle caste system, sexuality exploitation with sex-negativity, race/gender/sex/etc. not ignored and de-biased towards meritocracy instead of victimology, screen addiction, widespread friendlessness, the precariat, downfall of civilization, decline of quality journalism, political-billionaire complex, social media manufactured consent and beliefs, American imperialism.

Rebels without a cause or a clue.
Yes, powerful lobbying organizations not only had success with the food industry, but with things like Brexit too.

There's also an interesting finding[1]:

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
You can access the current posts from any good NNTP server, but Usenet isn't used that much these days anyway. What's more interesting is the historic posts from its heyday and I think Google might own the only good archive of them by virtue of purchasing it.
Not placed against my head. I try to use speakerphone or headset when I talk.

There’s a reason standards have different values for head vs other parts:
https://www.apple.com/legal/rfexposure/iphone13,3/en/

Also read the manual. For iphone 4 apple stated at least 15mm separation between the iphone and the head (5mm? nowdays). How many people just push it against the ear instead?
Well that was a very long read. Yep I agree, very little doubt it escaped from a lab. The arrogance of the corona virus researchers is astounding.
Wikipedia has long been unreliable when it comes to politically tangential articles, especially ones that cast characterizations. Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger said so on his blog:

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
This is more like the NYPostTimes
>platforming other prominent members of the neoreactionary movement.

Can't wait till we move past this infantile reframing of "showing people something you read" as "platforming".

We used to read the works of our enemies to understand them and read the works of kooks and crazies to avoid following their path (but also to see what truths, when followed too zealously, lead to ruin).

Now we have to read things, figure out the social credit of the things we read, and then decide whether or not to tell anyone we actually read it and thought about it.
On Error Resume Next

The pinnacle of error handling!
> Are we now pretending anyone pursues the concept of 'profanity' or defines it as broadly as Puritanical christians?

Literally Puritanical Christians don't exist anymore, it's a defunct sect. Metaphorical puritanism in any sense relevant here isn't restricted to Christians.

And, yes, plenty of groups are at least as opposed to profanity, and define it at least broadly, as any Christian groups (certainly, I've noted Islamic groups that that applies to.) Sure, in, say, the US if you run into this its mostly likely to be from Christians, but that's true of most things because the US is a majority-Christian country.
This has gotten a lot better with the internet.

Almost everything in VBA can be found with a simple Google search, and Microsoft's technical documentation online has gotten very good.
Very useful indeed, thanks!

I'm missing one important feature though: there is no way to test different host names. I use rewrite rules that check country specific TLDs on the domain name and also rules that check if the domain starts with "m." for mobile specific access by matching against %{HTTP_HOST}. This would also allow one to check if the URL is using an IP address instead of a domain name. This would seem a common need, right?
About 25 to 30 years ago:

- I got my first computer: an Atari 400 computer with 16k of RAM and no storage, so I would write a program and then just turn it off. The OS and a BASIC interpreter also fit in that 16k so it wasn't hard to write a program that would be too big to fit into memory.

- The APPLE ][ was a spark of pure genius. The first time I played with it, it changed my life. I would walk a couple miles to the computer store on weekends so I could work on one. (I rememeber the Lisa and then Macintosh coming out and somehow not being impressed.)

- Software piracy was rampant. Software was sold through publishers, like books.

- Elephant memory was the cool makers of floppy disks. I had this big poster in my room: http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/ems-mag-ad-2-smal...

- My first modem was 300 baud. That was so slow, it took a second or so for each character to appear.
But whose sensitive personal information is it? BradAss87 or Lamo's? Does it shed light on why BradAss87 would admit to treason to some guy on IM? Does the sensitive personal information identify Manning as BradAss87? Also: will Manning's lawyer get to see the entirety of the logs?

I agree that you can't put the genie back in the bottle, but a enormous genie has already escaped.
Yup, that's a bug. All assignments are treated as properties and moved to the top. Fix to follow shortly.
I’m so confused how this holds up in a distributed system like Bitcoin.

There is this ownerless software running.

I don’t see it as theft.
Tweag hired 50+ developers in 2021. We're aiming to hire 50+ developers in 2022. https://tweag.io/careers.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the Pixhawk org. was more cautious about fail-safe systems than Tesla
Use Firefox with 'Ublock Origin' and add one of the following to it's 'My Filters' section:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Actually both things:

I'd like to see something that's more databasey as a desktop app. I mean, hell, just let me rename the columns, or something.

I'd separately like to see a "forms and workflow" webapp that you suggest.
I said, I believe the principles apply, it's not 100% accurate because humans are infinitely more complex than even the smartest breeds of dog. However the principles do apply.

I believe in authority not in a disciplinarian as the head of the household. I've seen parents who are simply discipline 110% of the day, and you don't necessarily just get #1/#2 that you pointed out, you too frequently get #3 which is balls-out-psycho-shit teenage runaways and daily physical altercations. Incidentally, this is seen in dogs and especially in the obedient breeds who can be consistently disciplined and obey.

I don't mean treat our children like they are dogs, but treat them evenly, fairly and consistently like you would your dog. The parents in the article never acted consistently, they fully knew what behaviours they wanted out of their son but never showed the consistency in their efforts to control it. (I understand there was more in the story about him accessing pornography, however there's ways to relent on a situation without essentially saying 'fuck it, do whatever you want', they could have bought him a playboy subscription either magazine or TV rather than give him free access to the billion different fetishes available online that - allegedly - manage to screw up the marital lives of mature adults)

I mean I lost all respect for these people when they not only flat out gave up on stopping their son trying to date a homeless woman, but aided their son in doing so by moving her into their house, buying her clothes and trying to help her. (It might sound like a noble act, but they essentially bought a homeless woman as a prostitute for their 15 year old son)

It's simply ludicrous why these adults thought this was an appropriate thing for them to be doing. They gave their son free access to pornography and essentially bought him a prostitute. It's a miracle they haven't been charged with aiding and abetting child abuse by repeatedly allowing a legally responsible adult to have sex with their under-age child.
The only thing worse than a company that knows you have no leverage is a wife that knows you have no leverage.
Good points well made. I heard a similar differentiation when moving from investment banking to a hedge fund years ago. It's all about adding tangible value.
A friend of mine is in the same situation you describe. She teaches for a fairly well known for-profit online school, and is in a position where she has to ignore plagiarism or lose her job.

A huge percentage of her students turn in plagiarized papers; so many that, if she were to follow the school's guidelines on them all, would result in 1/2 to 3/4 of her students failing. The teacher's pass/fail percentage is one of the criteria used to determine whether a teacher gets any more classes, and does not take into account students failed for plagiarism.

So, if she were to fail those students, she would not get any more classes to teach, thus she'd be out of a job. She's forced to keep track of who she's failed what paper for, to spread the bad grades across as many of the plagiarizers as possible, to cut down on the number that outright fail (and thus impact her).

She has gotten absolutely no support from her superiors about this issue. However, another teacher I know at the same school has a slightly milder version of the same problem, but her superiors are more supportive of her, meaning she's not always worried about her position.

It's pretty fucked up, and kind of depressing.
This will either inspire you or further depress you:

Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

Thirty is not old. Keep working. It doesn't matter if someone else swoops in and "steals" it. You'll have other and better ideas.