jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Saving-a-Core-Image
The point was how quickly it went from theory to implementation.
I'm a huge Liberal supporter, but am disappointed by Trudeau's decision on this. I never thought I'd say this, but good for the Tories. The most generous interpretation I've heard is that Trudeau's government is currently engaged in highly sensitive talks with China regarding captured Canadians and couldn't afford to take a stance on this.

Canada is part of the core UN group about to present a resolution in the UNHCR on human rights violations in Sri Lanka soon and I hope the government shows more spine.
Here's the article: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/genocide-is-the...
My wife and I co-sleep with my two boys, 1 and 3.

Our sex life has probably never been better in either frequency or quality.

We typically do it in the living room on the couch in the morning before they get up, or same location during their naps, or in my work-from-home office also during naps. Or where-ever we want when we have a baby sitter, although with the pandemic that's pretty rare.

I'd say about 75%-80% of our sexual activity is essentially scheduled at least 4-6 hours in advance, sometimes more. This works great for all involved. Occasionally if we miss our window because one of them wakes up early, we just reschedule to the next soonest window. We'll occasionally even stay up late after we put the boys down to makeup a missed session.

I also think breaking the habit of only having sex in our bed at a particular time when one or the other kind of vaguely expects it is a big contributor to the improvement in our sex life.

Instead we have explicit communication about when and where we're going to have sex. There's still some room to be spontaneous, but it's very limited with kids.
all relevant work, even if it is more coordination. I think knowing Delphi one can see a fingerprint in style that can be found again in C#.
That's not what single family zoning does. It keeps the value of the land a bit lower than it would be otherwise by preventing denser development. In most areas, a developer can get a lot more money out of a medium-density condo building or a tower than out of a house.

If that wasn't the case, developers wouldn't want to build denser buildings.

Consider how much would it cost to get a standalone house with a sizable yard on Manhattan?
Maybe someone with more industry knowledge or interesting sources can corroborate --

But I believe that one of the things that happened to the military aviation industrial complex was that in the WW2, early Cold War era, planes and military development programs were very much driven by individuals or very small teams responsible for designing the requirements, overseeing the planning, and the outcome of new aircraft. That was how you got such distinctive (and long lasting designs) that served well the needs of the military, even in use up to today. Let's call it (using today's fashionable term, "passion" about the aircraft, and unwillingness to put out a piece of crap.) You could name who was responsible for an aircraft design.

But in the 1970s, 1980s, something happened where the size of projects or the professionalization of military projects caused them to have distributed (read, lack of) ownership by very critical people, and instead by an anonymous/dispersed "committee style" management. Also, the experts within the military often left for better pastures at the contractors (NG, LM, etc).

Add to that the requirement (by Congress, regulation) that you couldn't just use your expert / private connections to other experts to "get things done" and bring in contractors who had expertise, and instead had to farm out RFPs to every company, get their bland input, and fill out a heat map of who did what best, and cobble together a solution "mutually acceptable to all stakeholders".

So no longer was an aircraft project owned by someone who had very certain opinions about what was needed, and not needed, and who something should be designed for. But instead, projects follow a certain recipe, hoping that form produces function, yet not actually produce useful output because of what happens when you lack ownership. You cannot today name who is responsible for an aircraft design (I would say). It is the metaphorical side project among many, of a large dispersed group of people.

It seems to me something was missed in the migration to this new method of working.

But as I said, I would love to hear corroborating observations about whether this was a major factor.
That is a very strange sentiment about the bombs.
More than that, thr SR-71 was purpose-built. That means fewer hands on thr steering wheel, and fewer compromises to achieve multiple missions.

The F-35, by comparison, was a platform vehicle, with the base suited to adapting to a variety of capabilities and missions. That means more voices demanding priority of features, more expensive engineering to get a variety of polygon pegs into the same round hole, and many first-of-its-kind features for a variety of ancillary tasks.

No real surprise that it didn't work out.
too much work.. need coffee in under 5 minutes of waking up
> It is posts like this that make me realize how slow and outdated traditional media is ...

On the topic of correct grammar, s/media is/media are/
While this idea is mathematically sound in that our returns so far exceed the interest we would pay on a loan, there are numerous examples against investing money you don't have (the subprime mortgage crisis comes to mind). As well, there are many precedents for investing in technologies or ideas that are not yet proven. You are reading a Y-Combinator site, after all.

I am not purporting to claim that FX Machine will always return 40%+ annual profit forever. Rather, I'm presenting a technology we've developed (as a startup on a startup site!) that trades automatically and, so far, has yielded returns that average (across all currency pairs) in excess of 40% annually. This number was higher on our forward tests, but we have two years of historical data for those and only two months' worth of live testing.

As I said in my reply to ep25, there’s a good chance that our 40% claim will need to be revised either up or down as we continue to dogfood our product. Investing is never a sure bet, even (or especially) when computers are involved. For that reason, I will continue to invest only money that I already have. I'm dogfooding our product with my own hard-earned cash--not somebody else's. What greater measure of confidence is there than this?
It seems like college Linear Algebra expeiences fall into one of two buckets: either you took a "Linear Algebra / Differential Equations" class where you learned no theory and saw a bunch of practical examples and did problem sets that were routinely north of 10 pages, OR you took a highly theoretical course where everything was far too abstract for your first year of college level of comprehension.

I took the first route and retained none of the information, despite doing well in the course. Then I took computer graphics and cried all the way home.

This link seems like a happy middle ground.
"Good", "evil" and "good faith" are all too ill-defined to be used in a philosophical discussion like this: you will have to define them. It's fine for pg to used, because a) He's almost using good as the opposite of mean, and b) He's not discussing about morality. When it comes to morality discussion, a lot more bets are off and you have to be careful on what basis you're defining "good", "evil" and the like.

To be more on point, there are a lot of "evil" people that are acting on good faith - the comical image of an evil genius who's hell bent on taking over the world for his own greediness or for fun doesn't really exist in real life. You can truly believe that the best way to win a war for your country (and help your fellow country men) is to exterminate the other country, so you make an order to massacre everything that move. That would be evil acting in good faith.
How would any of that lead to an increase in accuracy or decrease in bias in reporting? There are already plenty of local news stations no one trusts, and social media has plenty of voices in local communities no one should trust.

>some other outlets could run articles fact checking the NYT.

Why would anyone trust them? Who fact checks the fact checkers?
Hanson is very pro-Scott and funnily enough much more contrarian and sucked into what the nyt would think of as questionable beliefs based on analysis than Scott is. Quoting him like this is downright amusing and only just dishonest enough to push you towards having a negative opinion without being 'wrong'.
By most definitions, a good person cannot support evil actions ("moral downsides", really?), no.
I agree with the author’s point that code is read far more often than it is written, and so we should prioritize readability by humans above other things by default.

However I think the concrete examples given are misleading. I’m grateful for the explicit dependency imports at the top of a file even when they increase the number of symbols I have to parse. The alternative seems to be a scripting environment where I’m never sure which package has monkey patched the global “echo” by default.
Connecting a keyboard via pcie, now thats a commitment to low latency. Although Apple keyboards are great at that even via USB:

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
This comment seems a bit odd given that the connections between physical neurons are qualitatively very dissimilar from the connections in artificial neural networks, so invoking the human brain seems like a red herring in discussing AI methods.
At least, they always have been. With many people pouring money into them solely because they're "safe", it's possible that they have managed to turn a safe investment into a risky one,a la mortgages in the 2000s.

Currently the S&P 500 has a P/E of 40, a number it historically hits before crashes. Of course the pandemic makes that figure less meaningful long term than it already is, but even before the pandemic it was well above a justified level.

I have no better advice for people. I have theories on why it's overpriced, but I am also invested in broad indexes for lack of a better idea. But it may just be that the long-standing advice has become dated.
Project Loom: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/loom/

The view being that async-await leads to a "What color is your function" problem ( https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... ).
I was wondering the same thing! For the dust problem, I’d like to imagine that the machines could be modified with an air pump to blow away anything ahead of the pickup. One probably wouldn’t want that extra noise in a listening room, but for archiving, it wouldn’t matter.

I guess when you can get a ‘good enough’ traditional turntable for a couple hundred bucks but an ELP laser turntable costs over $14,000[0] the economics just don’t make a lot of sense. I wonder how much the IRENE systems cost.

[0] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=elp+turntable...
>The article was published in December 2020 and these events happened in June 2020:

I see. I haven't read the article itself (it was/is behind a paywall), but a report on it, that read like the article publicized this story ahead of the events.

Still, from the snippets I read posted here, what's with the "slave auctions" and the BS innuendo about her city?
> I don't need office software to be that innovative, because the problem space hasn't evolved since 20 years.

Workflows evolve all the time. For example how many word processor competitors that target specific demographics are there (technical writing e.g. Markdown, authors e.g. Scrivener/Storyist, academics e.g. LaTeX, etc)? The problem space is evolving every day, LO/OO and even MSO haven't kept pace, but that doesn't mean things have remained static around them.
> We have CDNs and Rust and all that fast crap. It's amazing.

Where’s the rust? What is it used for? I couldn’t find it on the repo.
As someone who used it frequently before and after, it’s not really much better or worse. The primary user impact I’ve noticed is that the ui is more “modern” (ie has more spacing between everything)
The first one would be very weird considering there is also ESA, JAXA, etc. in the game. The world is not regulated by the US. Focusing on research seems to more likely.
I will let you know. Good thing I made it so easy for potential buyers, huh? I don't know why more services don't do this, I mean, if you're going for a big exit, why not allow credit card payment?
Desperate ugly men will crowd out handsome guys who can get laid on Tinder without paying for anything, and you will basically have a service for finding a sugar daddy.
Also consider that in embedded software the hardware changes much more. You can't just "not commit something that fails". Something might work on hardware v1 but fail on v2 (that uses the cheaper version of the microcontroller, whatever).
> shell does not adequately escape filenames that can be misinterpreted as arguments to 'rm'

That sounds like a bug to me, or at least depending on suboptimal behavior.
Same here. My barrier for "starting" a project is much higher than it used to be. I might think about a project, or bounce the idea off some friends. However, if I commit to starting something, I finish it. I usually have some sort of deadline, but will finish the project regardless of whether I think it's still worth pursuing after I've started.
In general, my feeling is that the Matasano process (which I currently manage) works outstandingly well where there isn't a flood of qualified candidates. If you have a glut of folks who are ready to start working, you can get away with a terrible process.

We do free-form technical interviews, but only to try to detect candidates who really aren't ready for the work-sample challenges. Our in-person interviews are standardized and try to evaluate consulting/architecture skills that are hard (impossible?) to measure without people. These involve open-ended intermediary questions, but the final answers are structured.

The bottom line is this: you cannot compare candidates using free-form interviews. You must compare candidates who are going to be doing similar work. Thus, free-form interviews have no evaluative value.
I use this for our static pages at TheDrop.club and it's great! Makes me feel like a web developer (I have a business background).
I always wondered how much of the push towards open offices and that sort of working conditions was driven, or perhaps, enabled, by recent grads who were accustomed to hot-desking in the library and working in study groups.
>If you do a reset and don’t know the SSH password on APs or cameras

Who's fault is that if you don't have it? First thing I do when I set a new site up is record all the vital information like that for when I will inevitably need to recover stuff.

It should be standard backup/disaster recovery practices - for ANY system. Making sure you have critical information BEFORE you really need it is preparedness 101.
> Signal chose MobileCoin because nothing else met their performance and privacy standards.

Signal has obvious financial connections to MobileCoin, something that frankly nobody else has ever heard of before today. I find it really difficult to believe that MobileCoin paying Moxie (which you've acknowledged), and Signal/Moxie happening to choose MobileCoin for inclusion in Signal when nobody wanted it was a coincidence. It's insulting to the intelligence of the reader to even make that claim.

> Before you label MobileCoin a scam, I would encourage you to take a look at the Github.

What would that tell me?
Ah you're right. I couldn't find it on the original link in this post, but the post links to https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-..., which mentions the 70+ languages statistic under the "Fairness" section. Thanks!
Jewish guy here adding his 0.07 shekels.

There's no real consensus about it, though in the US it's fair to say that most Jews can be included under the "white" category.

I think it's evident that there is a genetic makeup that can be considered "Jewish", in that it ties back to the genetic make up of residents of Judea and Israel in 500bc, but 2500 years of exodus brings about a strong difference between the genetically Jewish, and the culturally/religiously Jewish. While we Jews were relatively good at keeping it in-the-tribe for those millenniums, a significant portion (maybe most) are mixed in with the genetics of their host nations. Even if they were always religiously and/or culturally Jewish, they might still appropriately identify as racially white, black, or other depending on their exodential* heritage.

*If there's already a word for this, please share with me.
Where is the reference to an article? More importantly, where is the (relatively easy to do) controlled study of the effects of radiation on plant life vs. the effects of pollutants from exhaust or anything else? This is nonsense.
Yes, you can earn points, level up, trade points for special powers. We have all those elements in place. But, to earn those points in the first place, you need to play a game, for which we need several people, for it to be fun! And that's our problem.

And sure the game is live at
http://pixza.com/lite
Ah, my Desire has a Radio app, so I don't need to root it for that either... Do you know if there is a compelling reason to root an Android phone? I haven't found anything I can't do yet, and the phone is close to supplanting my computer (especially with Swype/Swiftkey, K9 email and Skype/Meebo).
The next Haskell will be strict

-Simon Peyton Jones

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/%7Egmh/appsem-slides/peytonjones.pp...

The latest research fads in CS aren't always beneficial.
In these games you can usually level up or something by yourself. And than you do fun stuff with friends. Is there any way of making your character better by things you can do alone?

By the way I'd like to see that game, can I be a beta tester? :-)
Life is definitely too short for "We Should All Be Feminists" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Hey guys, I'm working hard trying to get the site back online. It's not taking the load, probably because of wordpress. I'll keep you updated.
I know how mandates work. I was just coming up short for a better word. You haven't really said anything I didn't already know, (possibly because you didn't think I understood the point, which is fine. I didn't do a good job saying what I meant), but I will respond to one statement.

"The states can receive (refuse?) without punishment, they simply can't receive the contingent federal funds."

This isn't really true, in my opinion. They really are punishing the states. The money they are willing to give out in exchange for cooperation does not originate with the federal government, it originates with the people of the states. By taxing the people, they are depriving the states of revenue. By not giving it back because they are not cooperating, they really are punishing them.
Quite possibly, but you would likely not get prosecuted. If you actually want to do online GSM decryption you need a lot fancier software radio than this thing, because GSM involves a lot of algorithmic frequency hopping/multiplexing.

Also there is no realistic practical way to passively detect a passive detector. Plus how would they distinguish you from someone on a normal mobile phone?
No, there are several reputable brokers like SecondMarket and Coinsetter that can do that.
Probably because it's advertising.
There is a big difference in commuting patterns, which is the difference I noted. Even comparing only suburbanite Americans to suburbanite Europeans, the Americans are likelier to drive, and when they drive, they drive farther and faster.

See, e.g., a study comparing commuting habits of American workers with their British and Irish counterparts [0]. Aside from the more well known differences, the study points out that the average commuting speed is over 45mph in the United States compared to under 30mph in Ireland.

Typical European cities and suburbs are not like typical American cities and suburbs.

0. http://abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/download/id/4040 [PDF]
Ugh, slony is awful. You use Slony when you have to do a live migration from one version to another (say 9.3 to 9.4) without any downtime. WAL replication is the way to go most of the time. I've used Londiste, it's better than Slony if you need partial replication, but still messy to use compared to WAL.

Personally I haven't used any of the others (i.e. Bucardo).
I keep using them on this one set of day trading ads and they keep showing the exact same ad to me.
Its thermal insulation/fireproofing properties are incredible, it's basically a material out of science fiction.

A few years ago I acquired a pair of asbestos gloves at a flea market. They are absolutely mind blowing. I have held glowing red-hot pieces of metal for upwards of a minute at a time with my hands only feeling mildly warm. You might be able to do this with certain welding gloves, but they would be thick like oven mitts, leaving you with basically no dexterity. These asbestos gloves are no thicker than ordinary leather work gloves, are lightweight and permit your full range of motion. As an experiment to see how far I could push them, I poured a bit of molten lead over them (my hand was not inside this time) and it just beaded up and wicked off, like water does on a waxy or oily surface. If my hand was inside, I'm sure it would have been fine. I'd even go so far as to say that you'd probably be fine if you submerged your hand in molten metal, since the pores in the woven asbestos are so small that the metal would probably be prevented from seeping in by its surface tension.

All that said, they probably do release microscopic fibers into the air, so I wear an N95 when using them and store them in a sealed ziploc bag.

edit:

check this out too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwUXGyWlHQ
Seems unlikely but I’m very hopeful about Apple sneakily creating the world's largest mesh network. Slowly, but surely adding functionality to the mesh.

First, tiny packets piggy- backed through wifi/wireless carriers. Seamlessly sharing wifi passwords with friends.

Next, peer-peer downloads without any network. Specifically for sharing public, location sensitive, and cacheable data through UWB without any network involved. e.g. Apple Maps, Weather, News, Offline Translations, Stocks.

It seems even less likely Apple would expand the capability further, but maybe.

I hope they don’t open up the API though, or do a crazy good job to bake in privacy. It’ll be too easy to track people near each other. I’d be ok with an app permissions model of Wifi/Data XOR Mesh Data Transfer.
He has problems with the metric system though: "Extend left foot and shift weight 300 centimeters forward.". :)
> doing anything practical with languages like Erlang or Haskell

Why do learn it for a specific reason? Why not learn a language to expand your mind? Scala is awesome, but Haskell will help you make use of some of its more powerful features. By all means, learn both.

Erlang is interesting and is quite practical too (albeit Scala tends to be practical in more kinds of problems: there many times where you want an easier way to deal state shared between processes than ETS/Amnesia). Knowing Erlang you can make a better decision when to use Scala's own actor facilities and when not to.
Ruby. My favorite language is Python and I really like Django but I think I'm missing something by not learning Ruby and Rails. Haskell is the other language I want to learn, and probably more than Ruby but I'm currently looking for a job and RoR is the better choice...
Note that there is a transcript underneath the pictures, it's a lot easier to read.