jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I accept the spelling correction.

But I look forward to a day when people feel the need to be far more cautious in general than they have been with Murray about making accusations of racism and other forms of bigotry.
I wish NYT was far left. How does the NYT mispresenting WHO scientists to push the story that China was hiding COVID constitute "far left" to you? That is a dead on Trumpian conspiracy.
Difficult to test. What if some workers are chronicly sleep deprived and that contribution was the tipping point for some of them, but not all sleep deprived workers? What if some workers are chronicly anxious, causing sustained elevated stress hormones that combined with other factors put them over the tipping point? So many possible confounding variables
My two favorites are Permutation City by Greg Egan and The Golden Age by John C. Wright (actually that one's a trilogy).

I hear good things about Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. I've only read one (The Player of Games) and while it was enjoyable it was still sort of meh, if that makes sense... (I've got Excession in my queue and I suspect I'll enjoy it more.)

While it's more in the realm of science-fantasy, you might enjoy this alternate universe imagining of the Harry Potter story: http://hpmor.com/
I'd say it's far more likely to be hacktivists rather than the government.
this is not even remotely true

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=34&t=6
It's 100% true, but only in broad strokes. My personal ladder is

- paper

- text files / spreadsheets

- desktop apps / local db

- SSR web apps / single database

- SPA or mobile app / cloud storage

The only thing that challenges that is the reality that around a decade ago smartphones with tiny screens and no filesystem access eclipsed desktop computer, and we're still reeling over how much more expensive that makes development.
It's dangerous if pedestrians and cyclists expect to hear cars and they approach silently.
Zume pizza?
Tons of other games didn't become big esports, and most of the people who dedicated years to those games ended up wasting their time.
When the street gets out, it's time to get in.
Yes, it made the whole article useless.
I agree with what You said.

However, You can still have downward spiral even in case "everyone is talking/preparing for coming crisis". Imagine this:

- China going finally bust

- honkong peg to dolar broken (financial companies there going bust)

- australia mining slowdown and property market bust

- australia banking woes

Even though there are money on the sidelines, you can have crisis and even more money on the sidelines during few fearful quarters.
> By US residents I mean people who live in the US culture

Usually resident refers to people having their domicile somewhere, not just being influenced by something like culture. I think many countries around the world follow US culture, but that does not mean they automatically know imperial system.
I can't seem to replicate it on iOS 13 Safari, does it fully crash your browser or just the page stops working? Did you specify the protocol in the URL?

I currently use HTML5's URL input, one bit of feedback I get is that it shouldn't require protocol. I will look at changing it.
Bitcoin's price dynamics are pure manipulation; there isn't more to it. People participate for the vol that comes from that price manipulation. There isn't more to that either. This Animals Spirit is not very evolved. "Plain manipulation" isn't a bad thing unless you react emotionally to such words, and that's kind of the proof, isn't it?
It’s wasteful in the sense that you use more fuel to carry around more car. You have a harder time parking and maneuvering in a city, and you generally take up more space than needed. Most people forget that what they do has an impact but this does not remove the impact.

How many times per year would you say you need to move furniture? If you do it 1 day per month but carry around a full truck and the above mentioned disadvantages the other 30 maybe it’s not that bad of a trade off.
I strongly suspect a lot of this is a problem of the "no one got fired for buying IBM" type. Surely many if not most organizations have much greater faith in their ability to go high and wide than deep. The former requires opening their checkbook, the latter is "magic" from wizards/non-managers who are notoriously difficult for many to manage, assuming they really even care that much.

You're also looking at this from the viewpoint of the good of the organization, whereas we know that's generally not how things play out in the long term, e.g. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

The deep approach results in a different balance of resources in an organization, which inevitably produces losers, like those responsible for those big fleets of machines. I can't help but notice that half of your examples were done on surplus desktop machines, and if I remember correctly jacquesm's latest reported experience was with a company that was desperate.

This is not to pour cold water on the deep approach, just to suggest in many situation how to target your advocacy and opportunities, to be prepared for blowback if you embarrass people expending massive resources for what you can fit on one idle surplus desktop, etc.
the people who get paid the most are those who can call them experts in the field. you can't do that if you tinker in every field.

pick something, work on it, find work doing it and get paid the most.

if the work goes away and you need to pick a new field, then what you've learned isn't wasted, you'll still know how to solve problems, just you won't know the idiosyncrasies or the eco system as well as you did. but you can learn that pretty fast.

point being, learn one thing and stick at it, that way you'll get more money.
Good point. But I may make the case, that ascii art is more about pictures, and less about text. So the reduced readability of text might not matter as much. I tried shadowless, and its less visually appealing.

/\_/\
____/ o o \
/~____ =-= /
(______)__m_m)

But in the context of ascii-diagrams, then I can see you point of not including stylised drop shadows.

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Btw, no shadow example is added now.
Well the point of this, is to ensure that stuff like dashed lines, appears as a solid line. So in the context of ascii-art, this reduces the screen door effect (At the cost of visibility of alphanumeric texts).

If you look at the style, it's essentially just moving text characters closer to each other.

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Btw, no shadow example is added now.
From the standpoint of maximising human survival it is the right call
But how can you trust your own witness when you are also a person and just as susceptible as anyone else?
> It is kind of childish, but I still need the "beating-the-system"-incentive to learn complex stuff.

I can relate. I had a few experiences like that in college.

I once got a bit depressed and skipped a lot of classes; when I finally dragged myself to a numerical methods class I was told that I might be unlikely to pass it at all given all my absence. For some reason this made me so interested in the topic itself that I spent ton of time learning and internalizing the concepts, aced all the assignments and in the end I put the PhD that taught our lab classes in a very awkward position - he wanted to give me the best possible mark but he couldn't given my initial absence and the established rules (he actually did stick to the rules he set and gave me a reduced grade, for which I highly respected him and later choose him as my BSc advisor). Funnily, the momentum I gained actually transferred to other classes so I pretty much aced everything that year.

I had a lot of other situations of the kind of "what do you mean this language doesn't even have functions? I'll hack it until it gains them." leading to the most crazy final project submitted; or "what do you mean I can't ace this class? I still have 24 hours left to do a project!". As long as I was feeling that I'm beating the system in a most overkill way possible, taking the doomsday scenario and sticking it back to the faces of naysayers, no task seemed like a chore. I was in perfect state of flow.

Sadly nowdays it's very rare that I find myself in such scenarios. But when I do, I literally don't need to sleep at night.
You only need a licence to watch hroadcast TV. Youcan own a telly and use it to watch DVD / bluray or play console games without a licence.
I have tons upon tons of photos and videos and because I'm paranoid, I store them on S3, OneDrive,and an external hdd.
Having used nix for two years now for both work and personal purposes, I agree. Though I have also come to think nix is doing things in much better ways than AppImage, Docker, Snap, Flatpack, and others.

I won't focus on the good parts, but focus on your comment.

Nix has three things that I think are confusing and took me an embarrassing long time to grok, and I find other people confused by as well.

1. Where does the semicolon go? Reading code makes it feel arbitrary, but really the only time a semicolon is used is to terminate an assignment (=). If there are no equal signs, then you don't need any semicolons.

2. The heredoc strings ('' '') are in fact strings. Nixpkgs passes these strings to a shell quite frequently and their docs also make it feel like these statements are shell scripts and not strings. The problem here is that to pull a variable from nix you use ${VAR} and to use an environment variable you use $VAR. When you look at these heredocs it looks like a pure bash script, but it doesn't quickly jump out at you that ${VAR} are being templated in by nix. It also isn't obvious that $VAR is not being templated in by nix.

3. The nix language is very very tiny, and almost everything comes from nixpkgs which is basically stdlib as well as the package repository. Almost everything, including callPackage is in nixpkgs. The documentation is fairly decent, but when trying to figure out how do something, you are basically hunting in that code base.

Bonus 4. In nix it is really easy to build single language applications. However if you need to mix two, finding good docs or examples is really hard. IE, if you want to build the javascript front end of your web app as well as the python backend. These combinations need at least two derivations, and how to make it happen is bespoke every time.
Can you elaborate? As far as I can tell, we're not really composting at any sort of scale. We're not feeding wasted produce to livestock. Not sure what you're talking about.
What might that be?
Link seems to be dead, but doc is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/604f423be90e0...
Just some feedback, the color of your tabs should be reversed. The active tab should match the color of the page.
Diigo.
A few trunk.ly pages:

* mine: http://trunk.ly/alexdong/

* tim's: http://trunk.ly/timbull/

* rand's: http://trunk.ly/randfish/
It only shows that the person is good at doing things that they find interesting. I am a largely self taught man but I have learned a lot of things in school that I am grateful for learning but probably wouldn't have spent a lot of time learning on my own. Probability & Statistics and DSP are two that come to mind off the top of my head. I probably would have done them to a cursory understanding and not spent the countless hours in class and studying that it takes to get a deeper level of knowledge. That is not to say that I wouldn't have been learning though; it just would have been in a different area.

Learning subjects and doing well in school shows a potential employer that you are indeed capable succeeding in doing things that do not interest you. This is a skill that is important to employers.
Who doesn't like cabs? What do you drink with a nice steak?
When I first saw the dup detector working, I thought that this was an interesting problem, and one that I want to see solved. I have often posted a comment on the losing thread only to see that this was the surpassed by the next post.

In the sense of an interesting hack, it was fun and pragmatic. Thanks for doing it. But it seems that the community doesn't see the need for the service.
Math notation has gone through a decent bit of change over time, and has proven amenable to change to suit the needs of specific environments. Lisps don't force you to use "(+ 2 3 4)" instead of "2 + 3 + 4" to be contrary, it's there to preserve a cornerstone of the language family: the power gained by easy manipulation of syntax trees.

Also, math notation is pretty much the only bad syntax example when comparing with other programming languages. It becomes literally the only example when you leave hard asceticism and take the approach that Clojure does of providing literals for vectors, maps, and sets.

So, yeah, maybe dig a little deeper next time instead of dismissing tools out of hand? Many programs never directly perform arithmetic, are Lisp dialects unsuitable for those as well?
> Everyone is taught the first way

Obviously neither one is more "human"; humans don't know the first thing about math until they're educated. This has everything to do with what's familiar and nothing to do with what's "natural" to the human mind.
That's very, very impressive. Traveling would be so much easier with just this app, amazing! Let's hope they'll support Asian languages in the future, for round-the-world coverage.
> This seems like a bit of a nothingburger?

what was a takeaway here regardless of the story being wrong, is that the damage deepfakes will cause might not be what self-proclaimed futurists predicted (e.g. rampant use of the technology as a means to subvert evidence) but the opposite: that people will counter justified allegations of evidence as being deepfakes. So not the technology is doing most of the damage but the hypothetical possibility that allows that these arguments now exist.

Imagine any Karen or Kyle now being presented with video evidence will soon scream "deepfake". And few have seen this coming because we were more absorbed with hypothetical (but less realistic) scenarios.

This is even more fascinating (and was the simpler answer yet most have missed it).

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism...
Some would argue that identity management is the real lock in anyway and while a business may mostly be abstracted from their cloud via Kubes, any Internal IT systems may be such a kludge that moving away is a nightmare hell
> Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site.

> Here's a pair of related tweets I found:

> > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls.

> https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405

> > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need.

> https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627

> Together these might form an interesting app idea.

> Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site.

> Here's a pair of related tweets I found:

> > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls.

> https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405

> > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need.

> https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627

> Together these might form an interesting app idea.
Getting off to feet is part of broader adult sexual freedom. You can’t compare it pedophilia, c’mon.
> Why is the timeline you personally find realistic relevant to anyone else but you?

I don't get this attitude. The author is an expert. Can't we learn from her?
"There is an odd notion among some in the industry that podcasts must run long, be unedited, and natural. Many say it’s part of the charm and authenticity of the medium. It is free-flowing and an antidote to our over-produced culture.

I will be brief. That’s madness."
I don't entirely agree with you here, but I do agree that Apple should be leading by example here and putting their privacy warnings exactly where they expect everyone else to. I want to be prompted for whether iMessage can be tied to data collected from other apps, or whether I should allow “Find my” to “continue accessing location in the background”.

For me, it would go a long way towards seeing Apple as not just trying to leverage their platform to be anti-competitive, but as a company who is honestly protecting my privacy.
The last CMA report[0] concluded[1] that Google's dominant position in search and advertising was partly due to how their extensive tracking enables them to get a higher ROI per user, allowing them to outbid potential competitors for things such as becoming the default search engine on Apple devices, further reinforcing their dominant position.

I agree with you, if I type in a search term from location X, advertisers have enough targeting to serve me a relevant ad which I'm totally fine with.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/online-platforms-and-digital-ad...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-lifts-the-lid-on-digi...
There is the implication upthread that the M1 GPU is similar to or derived from the IMGTEC PowerVR GPUs, anyone know if that is the case?

Also, I noticed that IMGTEC are going to write an open source mesa driver, I wonder how much code the two drivers will be able to share.

https://riscv.org/blog/2020/11/picorio-the-raspberry-pi-like...
As explained by blockstream co-founder Greg Maxwell in [1], the blocksize is constrained in order to ensure a steady backlog of fee paying transactions, that allow bitcoin to remain secure in the long term when block subsidy becomes insignificant.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5306354.0
As long as they can get everyone to trust them every time they shout "Russia" this won't happen. Step one is to not listen to the propaganda machine, otherwise we'll just exchange one broken system with another. I'm amazed at how almost everyone seems to distrust the government except when it points at Russia. If the government points at Russia, PRC or NK I would take a step back and disregard all information from anyone associated with them and then make up my mind. I don't believe for a second that Russia is behind this unless NSA etc. already knew and did nothing for whatever reason and that's far worse than having Russia access your systems.
Pretty much just a color-coded list of American-Left == right, American-Right == wrong. Quite congratulatory for those who agree, but makes for pretty dull reading for those already weary of this forced dichotomy.
Fox News is listed as a good source of any non politics and science news, with those two being in the no consensuses category.
https://tether.to/faqs/

> Unfortunately, Tether has decided to stop serving U.S. individual and corporate customers altogether. As of January 1, 2018, no issuance or redeeming services will be available to these users.
Exceptions to these provisions may be made by Tether, in its sole discretion, for entities that are:
Established or organized outside of the United States or its territorial or insular possessions; and,
Eligible Contract Participants pursuant to U.S. law.

> An Eligible Contract Participant includes a corporation that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 and is incorporated in a jurisdiction outside of the United States or its territories or insular possessions. This will be the principal basis upon which we will continue to do business with selected U.S. persons.

Basically, it looks like they only provide on and off ramps for large clients outside the US. Given their history, I am betting they might not want to reveal where they store their assets, and don't want to deal with US regulators (but not sure this is working).
You are more than welcome and thanks for the words of encouragement imvetri!
I'm also at GMU in the CSS program. I skimmed the PDF after it was recommended by Max or Rob -- I can't remember. Now that I can just buy it in physical form, it's in my Amazon queue.

P.S. To people on HN. Sean has a pretty nice LISP tutorial. I've actually recommended it to friends to get them using LISP quickly. http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~sean/lisp/LispTutorial.html
I think your "Or if you are without honor" line was very intriguing. That is the simplest way of getting your book, and to me (and I imagine most people) is almost impossible to use because of the language you have used.
The point of this post was to request you to post numbers. How many of those that downloaded a free copy, downloaded it after filling the form, and how many did so "without honor"?
I think the biggest factor of the "happiness" was the two airports he went through. I lived in Anchorage for six years and everyone at the airport is about as nice they can get. It is actually a pleasure to wait in the short TSA line. And of course the Twin Cities is the same way and I've had employees there go way out of their way to help. It is a lot bigger though so I can't say it is as much fun waiting in those big lines or finding the right terminal.

So... with that said, I think if he did it again today he would have the same result. If he tried at JFK we would probably read about his arrest in the paper tomorrow.
While reading this, I kept thinking of the excellent Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last."

In it, The book loving protagonist survives the "end of the world" and, after being all alone, is ready to kill himself. But once he stumbles upon the library, he realizes he has the rest of his life to read whatever he wants. Of course, things don't go as planned.
Citation needed. The only thing I've ever seen or heard of even /vaguely/ concerning cognitive psychology and user interfaces is bikeshedding about response time.

Usually it's just: some graphic design expertise, and WoW addict like dedication to smoothing out the details.
I'd be right there with you on this if they support hdmi 2.1
Would you say the Senate Intelligence Committee report, which was released by a committee of 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats, and which found that:

> Russian intelligence services' assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral process[,] and Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity, represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modern era.

was also entirely fabricated by the Clinton campaign?
> he presumption of innocence isn't just an abstract legal concept instead of a very important part of the social contract.

I don't think this is in practice true, as a matter of fact rather than an ideal. People don't, in general, behave the same with other people who are currently being prosecuted for a crime.

This certainly doesn't mean (most) people support vigilantism or witch hunts, or even that you assume guilt. However it seems clear the vast majority of people are fine with the idea that you might be "careful" with someone who is suspected of a crime, especially one being actively prosecuted. To the degree that many will claim they have a right to know this is happening, i.e. they will argue that news should be carried on this (although perhaps no editorializing). This absolutely is not the same as presumption of innocence.

Sometimes this is very unfair, obviously. But "the social contract" as it is practised seems to be pretty ok with that.
That sounds insane. How can you wait for a black swan to clean up all your losses? That's a strategy? By definition, a black swan is unpredictable.
> For those reasons, it feels like advice such as the one given by PG is lost: the people who need it most won't really get the importance of what he means, and the people who will get it can do so because they've already internalized it.

Indeed. If life came with a manual, then people would still say: who needs manuals? :)