jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
During a recent discussion on this topic, this emerged with regard to "what is AI":

A. System should, without prompting, identify areas of improvement and innovation

B. Automated collection of data and the processing thereof, combined with application towards a concrete goal — does not qualify under A.

C. Part of A. is willing and unwilling discovery and exposure to both benevolent and adversarial environments and operating conditions
How can you invest when you have to decide whether to fix the car or eat?

The rules aren't fair, they're made by the rich. Learning how to follow them won't make you richer because they're designed to increase the wealth at the top.

Almost no-one advocates seizing wealth hrough tax. Merely work (income). Since the rich have wealth and the poor work (earn income)
This is very true - it’s not hard for a practical man to build a quality piece — my reference to the twenty yard pie plate was more a Home Depot pipe and nail model.

YouTube censored the vids of casting your own AR lower out of beer cans, but it’s still online[0].

If you have a modicum of skill in the garage you can also fashion an AK receiver out of a shovel (or so I am told).[1]

“So, there you have it. In 2012, a drunk guy named “Boris” -who lived in what he refers to as “Communist Massachusetts”- built an AKM from an old $2 field shovel and a bunch of parts kits that can be found all over the country. His total cost was $232.”

[0] https://forum.full30.com/t/ar15-made-from-beer-cans-complete...

[1] https://warisboring.com/extreme-diy-man-makes-akm-from-a-sho...
Yes, those are great, and makes you realize that NYT not quoting SSC was intentional, because it would nuke the narrative they're trying to build.

Edit: here's an example, that's pretty instructive.

From NYT:
>That week, a Google employee named James Damore wrote a memo arguing that the low number of women in technical positions at the company was a result of biological differences, not anything else — a memo he was later fired over. [Emphasis added]

But that isn't what Damore said, and you can go google and read the memo yourself, which NYT doesn't link for you, because it would directly contradict their framing.
And the "in prison".
the whole foods in union square NYC was using a multiple register, multiple lines feeding those registers, using an employee as gatekeeper of 'who' got to be next between the 6 lines.

From a customer point of view, it looks like you are standing in a short line (and kinda have to due to limited space in NYC). but it's basically managed by a person to be a single queue to multiple registers.
Isn't JavaScript currently the 5th most understood language in the world?
Sounds like a good prediction for longbets.org.
In Nepal the year is 2071 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_calendar)

It is an amazing country. Nepal is the "roof of the world".
I believe (but have no proof) that Wren is more amenable to running on a microcontroller than Lua or Squirrel. Wren has a more compact representation for instances of classes and simpler/faster method dispatch. It's still duck typed, but it gets closer to statically-typed language where an instance is a simple in-place array of fields and field access is just a pointer offset.
Not necessarily; sudo on Fedora has CAP_SETUID instead of the setuid bit, so it doesn't actually run as root.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID
We must not forget that they threatened the US. So it would not make sense if they did not react (to the allegations and the movie) in the first place.
> Lizard Squad ruined Christmas for people around the world

Come on!
The sad thing is that while Taubes is a quack and his book title is quackery, he probably is 40 years more up to date than many nutrition or medical professionals.
USDA sucks pretty bad.
I was considering organ meats at one point, but unfortunately there's a bit of an ick factor to get over when you haven't been raised on the stuff. (Saying that, I used too eat liver as a child.)
I think the future of social interactions online is in forums rather than social networks, since these exert a top-down hierarchy rather than a decentralized (more natural) approach to networking.
I dropped my LinkedIn years ago because they either tricked me into connecting my email contacts or did it without my permission.

Every time I logged in it would ask "Do you want to find new connections from your mail list?"
Every. Time.

One day it stopped asking. Week or so later I got a suggestion for random people I emailed once years earlier. Got curious and checked settings and saw it was connected to my email contacts.

No idea how, maybe I accidently clicked it? Maybe they decided they knew better than I did. Whatever caused it I closed my account that day.

Couple years later (I think?) MS purchased linkedin and I smiled to myself safe in the knowledge it was only a matter of time until MS ruined it and every abandoned the platform. I was mistaken on that one.
> And claiming that the Fed is the root of all our problems misses the bigger picture.

I think you are missing the bigger picture here, When Fed steps in to bail out failed companies, it increases the moral hazard, there is no reason to be responsible when you know the Fed will bail you out.
Pretty much. Not realistic to assume someone comes to the US with nothing and then buy a home in say San Francisco.

The American Dream is typically "come to the US with nothing and build a comfortable life, no matter who you are". I still think that's possible. Guaranteed? Of course not.
Interesting. I actually thought this was the case, but when I made a similar argument in a chatroom I got pretty severely roasted by people who were sure real audio engines never used locks in the audio thread. It seems like whichever way I go I’m wrong with audio :P but that’s OK, because I really am not pretending to be knowledgable here, for me it was only ever for fun.

The main reason I felt Rust was nice was simply the re-assurance that I could not, even if I wanted to, accidentally cause a data race within the confines of safe Rust. It’s not that the actual code was hard, but it did force me to ensure that what I was doing with the data model was actually safe. It wound up guiding how data flow worked in the playback engine.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer to the interview. I don’t expect myself to be writing the next Reaper or Ardour so it is probably OK if I don’t quite grok what you’re getting at. But, I do find this stuff rather interesting, so I would love to have a listen when I get a chance.
Is there a plan to maintain a bootstrap path over the longer term?
Ctrl+F: "sometimes"
Rust has smart type checking. The really smart stuff is (IMO) the beauty of the borrow checker.

In PHP, modern typecheckers can verify that the first element always exists on an array after an emptiness check:

if ($some_arr) {
echo reset($arr);
}

Whereas in Rust you have to explicitly unwrap:

if !some_vec.empty() {
print!("{}", some_vec.first().unwrap());
// .. more code
}

The Rust version requires you to use your intuition to figure out that `unwrap()` will never panic here.

In my Rust port I consistently rely on the PHP typechecker's knowledge of the equivalent code when using `unwrap()`, because it knows which array fetches are safe.

> At the cost of introducing a bug/technical debt.

At the cost of shipping a product!

-------

Edit: user ibraheemdev proposes this Rust equivalent which more closely matches the idealised pseudocode, and type-checks:

if let [first, ..] = &some_vec {
print!("{}", first);
// .. more code
}

It's preferable IMO to

if let Some(first) = some_vec.first() {

because the latter relies on a property of a non-empty vec, and checks that property, rather than checking the non-emptiness of the collection.
LED lights still get pretty hot, e.g. the big metal blob at the bottom of this one [1] is a heatsink.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/suml2Ei.jpg
Ha my bad. Fixed :)
While I got also shocked at first by Go's time formatting, is by far the easiest to learn and memorize once you get it.

The argument from the issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/444

> It would be much easier to port preexisting
code if you could just copy your time formats over.

It's not really much of an argument, since transforming the sprintf format to Go is a trivial as printing an specific date.
This is entirely a matter of what the law says, and in a discussion about adapting laws, it is a very weak argument.

If the law says you cannot lie about your reasons and that you must have them, then there is a means to enforce it. I mean, I could say I didn't rob a bank and get away with it due to lax laws and inadequate technology, but that doesn't mean it is impossible to protect banks from robbery. It means you reform the processes.

For instance, if employers went through independently regulated agencies to conduct hiring/firing/pay, then they wouldn't be able to make decisions like that and get away with it.
Take the code here: https://github.com/logicchains/levgen-benchmarks/blob/master... and run it. Then, take the same code, change the genRooms function to contain:

where

noFit = genRooms (n-1) (restInts) rsDone

tr = Room {rPos=(x,y), rw= w, rh= h}

x = rem (U.unsafeHead randInts) levDim

y = rem (U.unsafeIndex randInts 1) levDim

restInts = U.unsafeDrop 4 randInts

w = rem (U.unsafeIndex randInts 2) maxWid + minWid

h = rem (U.unsafeIndex randInts 3) maxWid + minWid

And change:

let rands = U.unfoldrN 10000000 (Just . next) gen

to:

let rands = U.unfoldrN 20000000 (Just . next) gen

The running time should double. Does it? Or does it increase by orders of magnitude? The latter is what happens to me.
you don't deal with false positives by doing the exact same test multiple times. that's insane.

given the fact that he did not have any explosives or was planning anything nefarious, this whole story shouldn't have happened (in any free and/or sane country) because other tests and checks should have quickly revealed his innocence.

and from what I get, they did so, but chose to detain and harass him, and break into his house (ffs!) regardless, possibly because religion/race/background/non-WASP-ness
I think the best writers actually enjoy writing. pg told me that to him an unwritten essay is like an uneaten piece of cake. I realized that that feeling is foreign to me. I'd probably be a better writer if I liked it more.
How was admission determined ?
Tracking started because struggling students need more help, and the best thing for them is to get the advanced students out of the classroom. So fine, don’t have advanced classes, send those kids to play outside, whatever. But this is pure ideological self-harm.
Thanks, that makes the differentiation very clear.
I would also recommend not doing yearly subscriptions too, but as someone who was forced into doing such..

It's easier to bill and can result in more up-front revenue for your growing service BUT the psychological angle means billing monthly can make you more money (e.g. how $5/mo "feels" vs $50/year.. yet the former makes you more money), plus the angles `citricsquid` mentions.
Don't just complain about this. Show Wired how much interest there is in releasing the chat logs. I'm organizing response here: http://kommons.com/questions/418
don't guess. split test.

i.e. for me at $50, I sold X. at $40, I sold 2X, at $30 I sold 2X and at $20 I sold X.

Placing value on your product is important, if you charge too little, people will think you are selling crap and won't buy as much.

Your price is pretty much the single most important thing you can split test.
You need to grow up and realize you're not really as smart as you think you are.

...and to realize that you're not as smart as you can become if you work hard and focusedly.
Fair enough. None of this is news but the information about the relationships is useful for people who aren't familiar with the backstory.

As for Lamo's story continuing to shift, gee, what a surprise.
Who posts an article behind a pay wall? That's just obnoxious.
Amended by Congress with the approval of the States. It's a slight difference. In the grand scheme of things like checks and balances, it matters, but in the real-world Congress is the only one that has the power to start the process. The States themselves can't float a Constitutional amendment so far as I understand it.
You're badly missing the point. A neuron is not an ODE solver in the sense that you feed it some sort of mathematical specification of the ODE and it sits there and performs algebraic manipulations until there is some solution that pops out in the form of IEEE 754 floating point numbers. Neurons aren't Mathematica. A set of neurons is the ODE solver. If there is a set of ODEs that describes some neural system in terms of the solution to the ODE, then the neural system profoundly is an ODE solver.

You're now asking for a demonstration of something that can't exist because having already demonstrated a reasonable isomorphism between some ODEs and some neural nets, there isn't another layer of some sort of "REALLY REAL isomorphism", that is only a product of human cognition and the failures it has thereof. (I mean that in general, not specific to one person, humans in general are surprisingly good at creating distinctions where there shouldn't be.) A system is what it does. If the activities of some set of neurons can be accurately described as a solution to an ODE, then it is an ODE solver. If the activities of a set of neurons can be accurately modeled by a clock function, then the neurons are a clock corresponding to that function. If the activities of a set of neurons can be accurately described as an edge-detection algorithm, then the neurons are edge detectors. (Both of my other examples here are real too, by the way, I didn't just make them up for didactic purposes.)
Inconsistency, very prone to security mistakes, poor type system, and some people just find its syntax "ugly." For example lots of folks hate $strings and $_WTF['bbq'] type syntax. Perl is another language whose syntax draws a lot of haters.

I'd say the second problem is the most objectively bad. It is very easy to write PHP code that exposes you to all kinds of known exploit classes like SQL injection, command injection, cross-site scripting, etc. The language seems to encourage poor practices like building query strings directly from remote input without the use of a true query builder.

PHP also has a problem that it shares with JavaScript and to a lesser extent Java -- the quality of the user base and user-contributed code is often very poor. If you look for PHP code on StackOverflow or Reddit or similar sites, you are likely to get something that is horribly wrong, comically inefficient, or whose use will immediately introduce a dangerous remote security vulnerability. This comes from the simple fact that it's often a beginner language, so you have a lot of inexperienced people participating in forums and contributing sample code.
Unethical, immoral, obviously. Criminal? Not at all. Starting with different laws in different jurisdictions, over the difference of criminal acts and civil offenses to the point where an AirBnB is your private home and not a hotel ("obviously" you're allowed to film your own home right?).

If it's criminal or not is not a matter of simple opinion, but of the laws in that jurisdiction. DanBC doesn't deserve the downvotes.
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Yes i'm replying to myself.

> I'm not sure if continuous form are merely cheaper or the delimited form are simply newer and lock makers a little wiser?

Found this article [0] on exactly the same thing. Except he goes further to ask the difficulty added by simply increasing the alphabet by one (without adding delimiter key, and remaining vulnerable to de brujin sequences) vs adding a delimiter key. Answer: It depends on whether n > k.

The reduced alphabet attack works equally on both forms as far as I can see.

[0] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/10/22/hacking-with-de-br...
In French, yes.
My take is that they are inherently bad for the relationship, as they are:

a) asymmetrical

b) biased and subjective even when they're framed in terms of metrics

They are essentially a star rating of how compliant an employee is and how much the employer likes them.
Ah yes, let's do business without concerns of morality. Make western funded technology available CCP SOE's. After all, they gotta power their "exciting" and "innovative"[1] algorithms with some sort of architecture. Less we miss anyone[2].

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/11/12/chinese-firm...

[2]:https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/sep/23/footage-...
Amazing. A repeat of the "Windows 95 crashes after 48 days uptime" and other timer rollover bugs.
> if I remember correctly, employees are even expected (obliged?) to use their personal Google account for work.

You remember completely incorrectly.
I turn to Reddit for that. Here on HN humour is generally very lacking and even frowned upon. Things lighten up a bit when people like idlewords[1] show up, but that's pretty much the exception. For a recent example, just read through the comments in here[2] (a Show HN that reached the homepage yesterday). This is a regrettable state of affairs.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714

Edit: forgot that HN also lacks Markdown besides humour
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260787
I appreciate your response! I wish you had written this comment instead of the other one or at least explained why. I think the internet at large encourages people to be snooty/witty/sarcastic in order to be the “winner” of the conversation. HN is a little smaller, smarter, and nicer. I hope that as a community we can stay that way despite being on the internet.

I also totally get where you’re coming from. There are so many people who have great ideas on how to tell you what to do and no willingness to discuss how it works in practice. That said, we are the ones who have to reach inside ourselves and instead of responding with something that wins you more internet points, it can be more beneficial instead to attempt being fair, insightful, and kind. That can be itself a simple benefit to reality.

And then maybe one day we won’t have advice given without context or insult with the same.

Be well.
This is only for HTTP/2. If could have been for HTTP/1.1 also, if there had existed a registered ALPN name for “HTTP/1.1 with TLS”. As it is now, HTTP/2 has both variants, but HTTP/1.1 stands alone¹.

① https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/tl...
I made a good case that they do care, which you didn't address, at all.
she got 6 months of her salary just for behaving like a complete jerk impossible to work with (i've read pretty much whole Recode live stream). Most probably taking the money she even signed typical papers accompanying severance like waiving right to sue, etc...
Ruby/Scala: Keep the language small, "Let our community enhance/extend the language" by writing DSLs (this, Rails, Chef), even at the expense of consistency

Python: Consistency trumps all, ship a large, complete stdlib, make programs easy to read because everything you need is included, and everyone does things more or less the same

Python's way provides better readability, but at the expense of power, IMO.

Thanks for posting, I have a friend who works at Zen Payroll and we were talking about whehter something like this could work well for modeling the tax code.

Also sidenote, Martin Fowler's book on DSLs is pretty decent, check it out.
Not speaking for the previous poster, but in any case, that severity is not easy to measure. I have the understanding that in the U.S., there is institutional and deliberate discrimination against Asian Americans. For instance, in the admissions to Ivy League colleges. A random article about the issue:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/do-
diversity-initiatives-indirectly-discriminate-against-asian-americans/384054/

"...students who self-identified as Asian would need about 140 points more on the SAT than their white peers would need to get into elite, private schools. That number jumped to 320 and 450 when Asians were compared to Hispanic and African-American students, respectively."
Whites are favored on dating apps (e.g. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3244459) and the model proposed would make that division pretty explicit
https://web.archive.org/web/20160401023052/http://www.recrea...

Looks very different from a few years ago.
Nobody who could reasonably be described as poor is going to commute by black cab or Uber in London. Think about the cost relative to minimum wage or "London living wage". They'll take the night bus and/or walk. It's a big nuisance that the Tube is closed overnight, though.
> You'll need the latest Chrome

Well that explains why this seemed pretty underwhelming on Firefox
Isn't Netherlands in the nine eyes?

EDIT: "We will never share your personal information with any third party, except when we need to respond to a legal request from Dutch authorities" - https://www.wifimask.com/terms

As a VPN service that means it is not thoughtful about privacy.
Right? If your goal is a buyout, make sure to have a good sales funnel.

On another note, can I buy equity/get hired for equity only? I like your chances at a buyout, and I want in.
I don't think so.

The person would not know how much the sender "paid" for the "postage" for that message. From ANYONE's point of view, they are not receiving more than N messages per day, as N+1 would become exponentially, prohibitively more expensive.
Two weeks ago I searched to buy excel on premises install / own - and could only find it for Windows 10 and Mac (not compatible with windows 8, 8.1, 7.

Last time I bought the on prem off pack (few years ago) it auto installed spyware (one drive) - I did enjoy the multiple layers of phone support though, within an hour it was determined I needed to uninstall and return for refund, no way to run it without the spydrive addition.

open office and libre office have been installed on all systems since.

I understand some orgs can't new software, I think most just need to very basic formatting tools to be highlighted, open and save - which it does great now.

I have to search 3-4 times a year on how to do something with calc.. I see many devs search 4 or more times a day on how to do basic stuff with their daily tools.

Sounds like a couple UX templates would benefit the average company workers out there - one that is super basic, very few icons, and one that mimics word.

I was going to take classes on excel but can't run it.
Just wanted to add I concur wholeheartedly, that's why my #1 commandment is "make progress every day". http://pzxc.com/ten-commandments-of-business-and-life