jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh sorry guys, I wasn't sober enough in my reply.

Dear Sir,

Your submission that an eye patch would cause the wearer to see in only 2 dimensions is false. I myself wear such an eye patch full time (here is a self portrait for illustration: http://www.petermichaud.com/about/ ).

I have not seen from 2 eyes since I was 7 years old, and I am perfectly capable of seeing in 3 dimensions. To prove my claim, I can also perform tasks traditionally associated exclusively with 3 dimensional vision; for example, I excel at ping pong.

For a tldr; see my much shorter and more entertaining parent comment, which was downvoted into oblivion.

Thank you.
Show me one cloud offering that gives consistently good or even average disk performance.

You mean like newservers.com, SoftLayer Bare Metal Cloud, stormondemand, or one of the other metal clouds?
In the context of wanting "people to read through the Tarsnap code":

Any reason why the source is being served as a tarball instead of putting it up on github?
Very unfortunate.

It's probably flagging, voting ring detection, or some moderator intervention (not sure if they can do more than killing or standard flagging).

I'd put my money on user flagging. There are lots of people here who have a knee-jerk negative reaction to anything that dares speak to the idea that women or black people tend to have a harder time getting VC/angel funding than their counterparts.
> If you make statements about the "vast majority" and "most" situations, I expect more than anecdotes.

Good for you. I took notes while doing my observation - are you going to come over to read them? (I'm not typing them in for you.)

> All you're doing is exhibiting confirmation bias.

Actually, you are. You're assuming things about my observations without any supporting evidence.

> You just dislike some claims of racism, and you've decided to generalize from there, apparently making no allowance for the possibility that you could be wrong. This isn't some thoughtful or carefully measure approach you're advocating here, it's an emotional reaction.

Pot, kettle, black.

Why is it so important to you to defend "anti-racists"?
I've seen posts rise and fall quickly. I assume there's an algorithm based on time and the karma strength of those up/down voting.
I hated the indention specific rules until I realized how productive never missing a tag is.
Imagenet is a pretty open task. The images are taken randomly from the internet with real world clutter and noise and other issues. There are 1,000 classes which is pretty large compared to previous datasets.

When it started getting attention a few years ago algorithms sucked at it. No one would have believed in a few years we could beat humans on it. It seems like a case of moving goal posts, where every time a milestone is reached, it's disregarded.
I've found over the years that there's a fairly widespread prejudice among many enterprise developers in general and .NET developers in particular towards Python. Mention to a few random .NET developers that you're using it on a side project and perhaps about half of them will give you a look of puzzlement at best.

The main problem isn't anything to do with technical failings of the language, but a misconception that it's an obscure niche language that nobody uses outside of academia, with an ecosystem bordering on the nonexistent. People seem to think that if you start using Python you're going to end up with an incomprehensible codebase that's impossible to maintain because you can't hire developers who know it. They're generally quite surprised when I tell them how widely used it is and what all it gets used for.
I'm almost comfortable with the choice of metrics, except for:

>> The name of each item opened in a pane such as EditorView, SettingsView, and MarkdownPreviewView <<

Why would they need to know my filenames?
I can appreciate why Google would want to add this functionality, but adding a new icon to the system tray (space in there can be quite a precious commodity on a Mac) and providing no obvious way to hide it isn't cool, so I'm disabling for now.

I'd much rather they integrated with the system-wide notifications, or if that's not possible because they want to show "rich" notifications, then at least provide a way to use them without taking up system tray space.
I always liked the analogy from here: http://zidbits.com/2011/04/why-cant-anything-go-faster-than-...

The speed of light can be thought of as infinite speed in that context. Since time slows as you get closer and closer to the speed of light, it stops completely at 299,792,458 m/s (hypothetically, if you gave photons a reference frame).

Trying to go faster than light could be compared to a car slowing down for a red light. Once at the red light, the car stops. Going faster than light would be like asking the car to go slower than completely stopped. It just doesn't make sense in a philosophical or mathematical sense.
It's been apparent for sometime now that the next step in monitoring/IoT will be:

- CMOS UV laser diodes for spectroscopy

- microfluidics + chemsensors

Or so it seems from my view in the sensor network space...

Anyway, since the parent post is kinda without context, are any HN'ers currently working on such things?
As a 35 year old developer who was using CSS and Javascript in the pre-jQuery days, this really strikes a chord with me. Things like Meteor and Angular and Bootstrap BLOW MY MIND. I understand this is the way of technology but truly we live in a gilded age of app development. Sometimes it's nice to take a retrospective and think about how awesome things really are.
Visors are metallic gold. The foil surrounding other equipment are most likely not metallic gold though.

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/188963main_Extravehicular_Mobility_U...
What isn't really apparent to me from this article is WHY Saudi Arabia, or China for that matter, would even want to censor this.
I just want to single out the ')' at the end of the post, a classic Cheshire Cat smile where you only see immediately his smile but not his face/eyes (i.e. compare with ":)").

If this is a coincidence and you done it by mistake (i.e. mistakenly have not put a ':') then this is one sweet coincidence. If not, then kudos to you :)
I am going to change my HTC Hero soon and read lot's of reviews for new Android phones. Am I the only one who sees the title of this review plain WRONG?

Ugly? Does not seems to be ugly to me.

Buggy? 1st problem is with T Mobile, 2nd and 3rd are some bugs which every new OS release has(this is first Gingerbread phone), 4th problem is well - not a problem.

Slow? 1) Scrolling - perhaps software fix. 2) T-Mobile 3) 3G or 4G - when you buy the phone I suppose you know you are buying 3G phone, no?
What do you mean it's amateurish?

Writing style != the importance and truth value of points made.
So is he wrong or not?

Btw, color theme, look and feel, tech support, service: all of them important.
There was this, too...

I was saying to myself, OK, time to learn Python so I can try to make something cool with Django. What Python to learn? Oh, wait...

I wasn't sure why I would write the code in Python 2 and then convert it to Python 3, if it could just be run in Python 2 anyways.

In any event, thanks for some of the clarification, HN-folks!
That's not a very quiet way of doing it, though. Even if they hid the reset email from me, I'd be locked out of my account, which could raise suspicions.
Google cache works - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.g...
A few problems with this:

1) Much (most?) of the time, participants don't get to verify their safety numbers, and in those cases you are at least trusting the server to deliver your messages to the right client. There's a potential vector for man-in-the-middle attack (witting or unwitting) on the server side which shouldn't be dismissed here just because users are "supposed to" verify safety numbers.

2) Their behavior regarding server software might be predictive of their behavior regarding client software in the future. Given network effects, it might not be so easy to leave the Signal ecosystem in the future if your social network is on it, so it's worth knowing right now that it's possible that in the future the client software will also be closed-source.
What do you even mean? It doesn't even catch that an argument's type doesn't match on a function call with types specified. It also can't catch trivial stuff like misspelling a struct field on a variable of known type.

If you want to be called a "super strong" type checker, you really have to catch that kind of simple issue at compile-time, _not_ when I run the code.
> Do you have any evidence that COVID policies were designed with the goal to hurt people

I didn't say - and do not believe - that they were designed to hurt people. Rather, they were designed in such a way that the modification in acuity is different in different groups. Specifically, lockdowns are not designed to leverage low-risk groups, and are instead designed to leverage privileges which are distributed with profound inequity in society.

And this point is entirely transparent. Look at every supporting document of this concept (none of which existed prior to 2020, by the way). They all, without any exception that has been brought to my attention, presume that the ameliorating effects on the virus are related to staying in homes, reducing human contacts, etc. - things that do not apply to members of our community who are experiencing houselessness, to people who have left college dorms with no place to go other than multigen housing, etc.

They are transparently designed to reduce the acuity of spread by leveraging privileges that these groups don't have. Another way of saying this is that they are designed to cause the most acute spread to occur in these groups.

Consider also that lockdowns - and even the word lockdown - comes from the American prison system. It is part and parcel of the kind of thinking that precipitated the marginalization of these groups in the first place.

I think that capable, reasonable, good people designed this policy, but did so without listening to what the most qualified experts had to say on the subject.
I can deal with that encryption. Thanks for the links, didn't hear before this being a discussion topic at all.
They could also hire more engineers or expand into new territory which requires additional (non-engineering) labor. The cost of living in the bay area seems almost an artificial constraint on the supply of labor at these companies
There are, they just aren't common. I'm only aware of two companies in my area that use Clojure at all. One is Walmart.
That's an interesting idea, but in what situations is it superior or preferable to just signing a traditional contract, and taking any disputes to a court?

Cross border maybe, but then what court would you go to?

> Look into newer projects like Solana, Polkadot or Cardano

Are these newer projects more or less built with the same vision? What is their reason for being?

Censorship resistance would be nice, so would laws against private censorship in certain areas.
Distributed mechanisms of censorship resistance would be more trustworthy and transparent. But people find information in centralized locations, be it a library, or Twitter, etc.

Is there legit headway towards combining beneficial aspects of distribution with the efficacy of centralized platforms?
What are the mechanisms that keep it running and the incentives involved?
Yes, the relative action was lower on other stock - we know this was a unusually large event - but it's absolutely false that "nothing like this" has ever happened. If you compare the post-squeeze prices, there's only few dozen of percentage points of difference in that same timeframe. The specific price before the squeeze doesn't really matter.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... has some details on flagging and vouching. Your account is below 31 karma so you don't see the links/features in the user interface yet. Besides users there's only two people working on HN. https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ lists only one, but I see somebody posted the New Yorker article that includes the second moderator.
They're called the national labs, and they're pretty awesome.
So here's what I would do if I were in this situation. I wouldn't build a graphics processing unit per se, but instead would build a highly parallel SIMD CPU organized in workgroups, and with workgroup-local shared memory. These cores could be relatively simple in some respects (they wouldn't need complex out-of-order superscalar pipelines or sophisticated branch prediction), but should have good simultaneous multithreading to hide latency effectively.

Then, if you wanted to run a traditional rasterization pipeline, you'd do it basically in software, using approaches similar to cudaraster (which is BSD licensed!). The paper on that suggests that it would be on the order 2X slower than optimized GPU hardware for triangle-centric workloads, but that might be worth it. The good news is this story gets better the more the workload diverges from what traditional GPUs are tuned for - in particular, the more sophisticated the shaders get, the more performance depends on the ability to just evaluate the shader code efficiently.

It would of course be very difficult to make a chip that is competitive with modern GPUs (the engineering involved is impressive by any standards), but I think a lot would be gained from such an effort.

I should probably disclaim that this is definitely not legal advice. Anyone who wants to actually play in the GPU space should plan on spending some quality time with a team of topnotch lawyers.
But aren’t you concerned about the possibility of Trump voters going over the edge after that?
No. Spoken language, and religion are generally hereditary. They're not genetic. Such traits are socially heritable. Lots of other things (wealth, approximate birth location, etc. are also heritable, though perhaps not as strongly. This are also clearly not genetic.)
That is not incompetence. This is a hatchet job.

Stop giving malicious actors the benefit of the doubt.
>As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.
Java stagnated because Google torpedoed Sun, left it sink without bothering to own Sun, Oracle was the only one that bothered to keep their buy offer (IBM withdrew theirs), and and to spend a couple of years setting the house straight.

Yet, there are no FOSS language that matches JIT and GC capabilities of the JVM.

Looking forward to the KVM, if Kotlin is so great.
An article entitled 'How to Make Perfect Coffee' is probably going to be as popular as 'Why Vim/Emacs/Nano is The Programmers Editor'.

There's at a certain stage a level of subjectivity, the perfect cup of coffee is the one that makes you smile. There's a similar argument made in photography that a perfect photo conforms to rule of thirds/perfect whitebalance/correct exposure triangle/tripod shot, but it's not always got enough soul to work.
1. I've stopped using Facebook. although my account is still active.
2. Completely stopped using Chrome, it's a privacy-hazard.
3. Installed some of the software mentioned on https://prism-break.org and telling friends to do the same.
4. I've stopped uploading files to Dropbox. For backup, I've purchased an external hard disk of 1GB capacity.
5. I've switched and donated to Autistici mail for personal purposes.

Any more suggestions? You're welcome.
Yahoo's new search design will be rolled out to all users soon.
I'm not sure what you mean by "it goes into the first/second schema".

My understanding is that you use views to manipulate the data going in and out. The views are in the first/second schemas, but the tables that hold the data don't have to be.
Is he a very productive developer? One of your best?
Random fizzy buzzy observation:

Always a little baffled when I see three cases (fizz, buzz, and fizzbuzz) rather than both fizz and buzz handled well such that modulo 15 gets a fizz and a buzz.

The normal fizz buzz is divisible by 3 gives a fizz, divisible by 5 gives a buzz. It so happens that 15 is both, so should exhibit both. But as I see it, handling the 15 right should be emergent behavior of a correctly written fizz and correctly written buzz, not a separate test case.

But what if the business requirement changes that divisible by 4 gives a fizz and divisible by 5 gives a buzz? Now the "3 cases" programmer doesn't just change 3 to 4, and correctly see fizzbuzz emerge on divisible by 20, he's still got a spurious fizzbuzz on the divisible by 15 case. He's got to remember this case, do some manual computation, and change his 15 to 20. Structuring the code in such a way the programmer has to track all ancillary implications of one business rule change seems a recipe for disaster.

So I consider as broken all code that explicitly prints "fizzbuzz" with a third conditional.
"Tracking" becomes a little more subtle for websites that try to maintain some per-visitor state in order to function. But if it were well defined legally, it could probably be a really nice move for the sake of peoples' privacy.
>There is an argument that there will be bitcoin banks to act as custodians for people like you.

Paypal, Visa and Mastercard are trying to corner this market.
Hotellier claims price gouging was not intentional, but algorithmically driven by occupancy during the wildfire emergency.
It could work if they demonstrate that Apple does track its user across apps for advertising purposes without showing consent dialogs. I am more than a bit skeptical, but you never know.
Google doesn't fingerprint browsers like other adtech networks do - that's why they're really pushing for on-device ad auctions[0] and removing the usefulness of third-party-cookie-based tracking all together[1]. It would strengthen their monopoly (other providers would have to invest in supporting this ad model) while also directly benefiting the consumer's privacy and not hurting their business model: ad clicks.

0: https://github.com/WICG/turtledove#turtledove

1: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...
Cutting off the pipeline goes against the green strategy. Putting thousands of trucks on the road adds many jobs and raises the demand (those trucks run in gas).

Saying that you have enough production (with a negative million plus barrels a day) and then saying that peace needs to be made with Iran to protect supply from going to China seems like an extremely risky strategy with very little potential of cutting off China.

The Germans made a series of unsophisticated decisions in the east that cost them when Hilter started to assert direct control over the army. Not really comparible. The number of tanks do.
There’s a lot of history certainly. Though I’d rather read historians with as much physical connection as possible - familial ties, visiting ruins, practicing the traditions, speaking the language etc.
Thank you! We’re looking into building sync now (it’s the most requested feature for us right now), trying to make it work not just with Firefox but all popular browsers. Thanks for pointing to Kitt, I’ll check it out.
While chunking data, it's non-trivial to handle fast scrolling and populating the scrollbars with the correct size of what the eventual size would be.
We need one of these for The Web. That'd be a truly revolutionary contribution to the mass-communications zeitgeist: how to communicate to your social sphere, effectively, using email. How to do it with RSS, how to do it with The Web. How to stop doing it with Facebook, et al.
Everyone is driving the same car only for the first season. Second season they are opening up the motor and inverter for improvement and modification. In the third it sounds like the battery will be opened up as well.

My guess is that they want to keep things as competitive as possible between the drivers. Slowly opening up the playing field for modifications will keep the races interesting but still foster innovation (at least for the first few years).
Will V8 objects that reference Go objects, and vice versa, be properly garbage collected? How are these cycles handled by the GC?
PM me if you want advice :)
I honestly don't like anything I've seen on this site...
If you simply need to test a website on a simulated slow connection, then Chrome Devtools. For all other purposes, this looks great!
I don't think that's necessary - when the pupil moves, the whole eyeball rotates, but the light still passes through the center of the eyeball. So we can just that center in our geometry calculations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#Extraocular_muscles

Possibly, we might want to track the pupil size, but it seems reasonable to assume it is always small, since glare is only an issue in bright light. Although, once the glare is hidden, the pupil would dilate slightly, so it's probably best to use that pupil size in the calculations.

If we wanted to cover the whole retina (not just the fovea), we'd need a much bigger blackspot. Actually, the ideal is not to have a sharply delineated spot, but a gradient, corresponding to the sensitivity of retina that it falls upon.
I plan to add that to the standard win user system ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/win/blob/master/pages/std.w... ).
I agree with your points. The only thing that I would ask for is to date new submissions of old posts with a label such as [2004] so that readers can immediately grasp whether it is a new essay or an old one.
Wow, it takes me back to when I was in elementary school and we practiced going to the fallout shelters in the basement ...
If it is US, they're not following US sweepstakes law, which is the reason every other sweepstakes you see advertised says "no purchase necessary". So it seems anything goes for their contest?
> I guess to prove they aren't just playing with lego all day???

Actually, that would be a good idea.
No, but that does sound like an interesting service. ObitWatch
In the spirit of Greenspun's 10th Rule

Any sufficiently complicated C program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of C++.

For example:
1) Macros for data structures instead of templates
2) Virtual functions emulated with function pointers
3) goto fail instead of exceptions
The one pain point I can see coming up again and again is that the way of making something full-width isn't to specify "width:100%" but instead to use flexbox. While that makes sense to me, I've already seen quite a few people (on SO for example) tripping up on this.

For the rest of the properties I imagine anything that's really needed will be coming - many seem trivial to implement.
I agree that having this issue dominate discussion is incredibly annoying, however I have to say, Facebook needs to make this more clear. There should not be confusion about this.
Mr. Aeolist,

As a practicing U.S. patent attorney, I get this question quite a bit. What I usually advise clients is that you should protect your invention, but you shouldn't protect it to DEATH. Your goal is to monetize your invention, and that means selling products or services. You can't sell something without showing it to people, right?

I find the best balance between secrecy and disclosure is to file patent applications for your invention, thereby starting the patent process, and then start the process of developing it, showing it around, etc. Legal work related to patents can be expensive, but you could get a provisional patent application filed for $1,500, which is affordable for most. Enforcement is another issue, which can be costly. But law firms take patent infringement actions on contingency all the time, if you have a good case. This would not cost you a cent.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Mark Terry, Esq.
Why couldn't I just use my Facebook status, or Twitter to tell my friends that I need something?