jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are a dozen ways to encode a message in that buzz if you don't mind the bandwidth being poor. That is, it will take a long time to send a message of any length. The buzz might also be a cover for the message.

There are other considerations. First, it's essential to have a variety of media for transmitting messages. They need to be set up well in advance, so as to be readily available when an operation is set up. By staking out a multitude of such options, an agency is planning well for the future.

Next, by spreading their operations out over more channels of comm, they also minimize the risk when one is compromised. One never knows when a channel will be compromised, and at some point some of them will be.

By using a variety of channels, including radio, packages (diplomatic and not), tourists, etc., and each channel having sub channels, such as different radio frequencies, different encoding methods, breaking one such method doesn't afford much understanding of the others.
That is interesting. Do you know of any attempt?
Companies allowing current employees to exercise options 1+ year before a liquidity event would prevent the tax issue. For a company like Pinterest that is virtually guaranteed to have a good liquidity event, the risk of losing your principal is minimal and you are likely being paid enough in salary to afford the early exercise strike price.
My issue was more about his opposition to recursion than the preference for iteration.

That being said, this is one of the better explanations/arguments for why iterations are more 'Pythonic' that I've heard. Thanks!
Is the video Buffering like crazy for anyone else? I feel like I just jumped back 15 years to the Real Player days.

Edit: It's working a lot better now. I don't know much about 3D but this tool looks amazing!
In this way the HTML is static and when you have to change a presentation detail (like the width of the columns) you just have to edit the CSS - as it's meant to be.
Interesting discussion here. I don't think you're representing the author's point correctly, though, given the larger context of the work he's doing and current debates in the historical field. Here's what he says:

"I suppose the point of this post is to articulate my growing concern that we are so damn good at coming up with post-facto historical explanations to contextualize any given observation, that we are particularly susceptible to confabulating these post-facto rationalizations with the idea that we somehow knew the results of this quantitative work already."

The implication here, I think, is simply that historians should be open to multiple ways of testing explanations (i.e., combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, if those are available). And in the larger context of debates about digital humanities, he's swatting down the argument that DH simply tells us what we already knew, because if done right it can be used to add a new perspective on existing arguments. The point isn't that history should be science but that "scientific"/quantitative approaches can be used to test the validity of historical claims based on more traditional historical work, like finding manuscripts in archives, doing a close reading of a key text, tracing correspondence networks, tracing the material history of a painting or object, etc. I agree with him.

Edited to add: also need to be careful about confusing prediction with explanation. Historians don't predict much, but we certainly try to explain things a lot! I read this post as being exclusively about the latter.
I think that was Hayek's exact point...that economics cannot be like physics either, and in fact goes on to postulate that very few of the sciences can and/or should be treated as hard.
You can generate .ninja files using code in any language you like, including Javascript. Do you have a use case that this doesn't satisfy?
Maybe they are. But we can estimate that they're not too impactful - otherwise we'd notice either the attempts or the effects. If there are ongoing successful attacks, they do not cross the very important threshold, past which US government officials would start making public noises in the direction of nuclear chain of command.
Cyberpunk is not CDPR’s only game.
Yeah I'm not sure what a policy-solution would be here. I'm definitely for allowing states to do whatever they want. It's the great A/B test.

Just seems like the smallest businesses and the largest businesses get the most deals and those in the middle get hosed. Maybe that's working as intended.
> In many places Bitcoin is mined electricity is co2 free.

And that electricity could otherwise be used to displace the use of electricity that generates co2.
Anyone who is partner-parenting has probably had that moment when they tell each other: ‘how could anyone do this alone?’

Available person-hours per child in a loving environment is highly connected to positive academic and emotional outcomes for children (some married couples still suffer from one partner being absent, even in the same house though). It’s no surprise that American school children are some of the most medicated for behavior modification.

Children respond to divorce worse than they do to the death of a parent.

Everyone is punished when more people around them in society is suffering. (except the extremely wealthy, who can afford gated communities with armed guards and who don’t have to ever interact with those below them on the income scale).
These stats focus on fatherless homes, which are dire:

#1. 85% of youth who are currently in prison grew up in a fatherless home. (Texas Department of Corrections)

#2. 7 out of every 10 youth that are housed in state-operated correctional facilities, including detention and residential treatment, come from a fatherless home. (U.S. Department of Justice)

#3. 39% of students in the United States, from the first grade to their senior year of high school, do not have a father at home. Children without a father are 4 times more likely to be living in poverty than children with a father. (National Public Radio)

#4. Children from fatherless homes are twice as likely to drop out from school before graduating than children who have a father in their lives. (National Public Radio)

Sidenote - A central tenet of Marxism is the dismantling of the “nuclear family structure.”
Was something like 2.5 years!

In this era where convenience is super important it's less of a deal but when a not especially powerful PC could emulate the key N64 games and the games were both downloadable via dialup (Mario 64 was like an hour long download iirc?) at a point when they were $70 in shops... Just absolutely mindblowing stuff for the time really, especially if you were from a place like me where you'd have to get a long train journey to the nearest city to get these games.

That being said, I was far too into SNES games at the time and found the analogue controls painful via keyboard to ever look into it that much.
Detailed and updated article on when to use relational databases vs document databases
As an employer that provides free food, I think there's more to it than that in that both sides receive more value. We don't provide free food in order to pay our employees less. We provide free food because we see a lot of value in everyone eating together and employees get a lot of value in just not having to think about lunch or spend the time to go out and eat somewhere.

I think most people get more value you out of the free food than if they were simply paid what it cost to provide. In the case of free food I see it as where both employer and employee do better with the in-kind perk than the equivalent cash alternative.
Thank you for stating what seems like it ought to be an obvious truth, with such a stark example :)
Genuine question then. If you had money to burn (I.e. gamble) where would be the smart place to put it over the short to medium term, and see a tidy return?
As with Gödel's proofs, proving that it is impossible to come up with an experimentally verifiable demonstration that the multiverse theory is correct would be a major achievement. And Gödel didn't end mathematics with his theorems. It simply moved on, as would physics.
What, you don't run AIX 0.9?
Clearly Disney needs to introduce Japan to the Daniel Boone character such that every child in Japan will want a coonskin cap :-) Here in Northern California racoons are a menace, they use the sewer system as their own little underground highway, and they dig up gardens and lawns. They are smart enough that it is difficult to trap them with a catch and release trap.
It's incredible how there is always a relevant xkcd comic.
You have made the considerable investment required to learn a language that allows making such a distinction, and when to use which. Other people have spent that time doing other things, and yet they are still sometimes able to produce software that is valuable to themselves or others.

One man's saw sharpening [1] is another man's yak shaving [2].

Personally, I like my saws very sharp, thank you very much, but I think it's important to also have sympathy for people with different backgrounds and priorities.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SharpenTheSaw
[2] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/34788
Can you quantify the % performance gains you've gotten from this on a given project? Because from what you've said here, it seems entirely possible you're not actually writing appreciably more performant code than they are. This is why the measuring is usually how you know how your software works.
For trip of less than 3 month, you can be covered by your credit card like Visa Premier for instance.
For longer trips, there are several international health insurance like: http://www.worldnomads.com
This is the one I subscribed to for my digital nomad round-the-world trip.
One thing that is strange with signal is that you are required to have a phone number to signup?

That's one reason with I prefer Matrix/Element...
I'm curious whether this actually solves the problem. I understand how this assists with reproducibility of packages, but the R software itself is updated frequently, as is briefly noted in the preamble to this document. Indeed, the release notes [0] are fairly transparent about the relatively long list of changes.

Given this, it almost seems more dangerous to imply through this package that a particular date's results are reproducible, since unless the user has the same version of R, they may see different results anyway.

[0]: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2020/000653.html
> I guess without your dad and uncle, you have nobody old left that you care about.

My 98 year old grandma was the first person in my family to catch the coronavirus. Since then I've an aunt and uncle both catch it. All three have recovered just fine, as have my five or six neighbors who also caught it, and nearly everyone in my broader community who has caught it.

But yes, me and my cold dead heart killing old people. I'd personally much rather that than the reality of my grandma being locked in her nursing home without visitors for the past nine months and the whole place still caught the virus. Maybe now with the vaccine coming out she can finally have some comfort in her life instead of sobbing and threatening to run away every day.
This is often posted as a response: https://qntm.org/abolish

I'd actually be curious to hear what a nation wide timezone would solve?
Different marketplaces have different gender distributions. The electronics market will usually be majority male. The cloth/clothing market will be majority female.
Also, your comment branding an entire country as disgusting reveals more about your character than it does about Pakistan.
Before the triumph of OSS standardization required multiple parties to come to agreement and then each produce their own implementation, so implementers had an incentive to fight for their own objectives so that they didn't get backed into a corner of having to do unprofitable work. Lots of bickering about was was and wasn't worth including. To navigate this environment requires committees and formal standards documents.

But you know what's a great consolation prize for not getting exactly what you want? Not having to do any work! So when Docker comes along with Docker Containers or Google comes along with Kubernetes, the consolation prize of not having to do any work is a lot larger than the downside of not getting to have any input. Working code is working code, especially if someone reputable has also promised to maintain it for free.
True. I know they can bear enough weight for a couple of adults, at least.

I remember my father telling the story of how he drove one of these trucks across the country in his early twenties, hauling sugarcane. He would sleep on the crown at night.
Simple as possible?
Than use email.
The security of the signal protocol is necessary if you look who all wants to read the data.
The EU wants to practically abolish encryption so that intelligence services and authorities can read all messages.
Please don’t report rumors as facts.

The only dead person was one of the protestors.
The Apple, Intel, and AMD memory controllers all look pretty similar in performance to me. Memory latency is the same at ~100 ns; Firestorm is clocked lower so latency is lower in terms of cycles. One Firestorm core can saturate the memory controller while Intel/AMD can't so that should be an advantage for single-threaded scenarios. Intel/AMD are behind, but I wouldn't say embarrassingly so and they haven't been lazy.
I'm not sure why the fact that only offload some of the costs of this onto your family makes it something other than forced labor.

Unless the salary they pay you is sufficient to induce you to join the army regardless of other penalties, it's forced labor. You are forced to perform labor you would not otherwise perform.
I believe this was a flawed conclusion. Some people stay up late and wake up with the light, lowering the amount of time that they sleep, which in turn lowers their IQ.
How do the new feature in WP3 compare to similar features in Drupal?
That was a false comparison in the borrowing words from other languages. The European languages are similar and thus make it easy to borrow from each other. When is the last time you see English borrow from Chinese straight stroke by stroke? The borrowing is usually at the phonetic level, which happen quite frequently in Chinese, borrowing foreign terms phonetically.

In your analogy of Java vs Scala, you got it reverse; may be not what you hope for. Java as small keyword set is English with 26 alphabet. Scala has large building set and can build DSL, that's Chinese.
Of course you're not the only one. There are literally tens of thousands of professionals like you that are not a good match for Basecamp. It's perfectly normal. Basecamp only works for a tiny fraction of what I do.

One of the reasons why 37signals has managed to be so successful with so little code and so few team members is that they are extremely disciplined about what customers they cater to. Catering to people like you and me might kill them.

Like 'nexneo said upthread, you want Pivotal Tracker.
No! I invented trolling!
> There's plenty of marketshare for both iPhone and Android to take away from RIM and Symbian, not to mention that smartphone market is growing very rapidly as a whole.

Symbian is being eaten alive right now and fading fast, so that one's happening, and the iPhone (and Android behind it) have decided to shoot for the wider consumer landscape, not for RIM's entrenched "Enterprise" position. They're slowly adding enterprise-targetted features (VPNs and the likes) but that's secondary for now, they're not trying to battle RIM. Yet anyway.

But this is cast as a battle between iOS and Android because they are going head to head in terms of demographics, purpose, abilities, mindshare. The means are different but Google clearly aims Android at the target iOS opened, and it's not like they're shy about it.
You should blog about it.
I can guess the difference from the name, but do you care to shed a little more light on your method?
this is essentially the same argument people use against the iOS platform.

But clearly from Apple's example it is possible to build a profitable product on a closed system.

Admittedly it doesn't seem "fair" or true to the spirit of the internet. but it shouldn't be any surprise that a company is going to do what is best for that company forsaking all others.
Indexed for inflation?
Relax. Trust me, you'll do a lot better to not be Mr. Guy Smiley- that would be much more suspicious. Just put on your bored face and do as Romans do.

On the other hand, it would be humorous if you wore a shirt, pants, and underwear with the American Flag on them. It'd make the TSA look extra ridiculous during a strip search, so make that Option B.
Sorry I didn't explain too well. That link is to an online demo server of the Kolibri app that has that channel imported.

You can get the same channel locally (localhost; for offline use) using the following steps:

1. Download Kolibri https://learningequality.org/download/ , 2. Install and start, 3. Go to Device > Content > IMPORT and choose the channel called "Khan Academy - Standardized Test Preparation" from the list, 4. wait for import process to finish, then you're done.

I posted the same info in another comment on this thread of this story so I didn't want to repeat here. See that for more info.
I mean, WHO tried to convince people that cov19 wasn't transmissible through the air for a couple months, and they accepted fake infection /death numbers from CCP no?
I count myself lucky because I don’t really know vbscript. Does legacy vb have a notion of first order functions and async?
I also don't understand this claim, given this text on oracle.com's Java page:

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.ht...

Conceptually I always understood the difference between the JRE and the JDK to be that "the JRE lets you run Java" and the "the JDK lets you develop Java".

To me this is the same as having libc vs. libc-dev or xlib vs xlib-dev or whatever installed.

I don't really understand the branding distinctions but I would imagine there's still room for a smaller download that lets you run .JARs without including a javac and profiler and whatever else you might want in order to develop and debug them?

[EDIT: Nevermind, I see that text all applied to Java 8 but not to Java 11 or Java 15. And implicitly as others have explained in this thread the reason being that there is no official use case for someone just wanting a JRE to run a .JAR they have; they should not just have a .JAR they should have obtained all of it together from the application vendor...]

Which Java package do I need?

Software Developers: JDK (Java SE Development Kit): For Java Developers. Includes a complete JRE plus tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications.

Administrators running applications on a server: Server JRE (Server Java Runtime Environment): For deploying Java applications on servers. Includes tools for JVM monitoring and tools commonly required for server applications, but does not include browser integration (the Java plug-in), auto-update, nor an installer. Learn more

End user running Java on a desktop: JRE: (Java Runtime Environment): Covers most end-users needs. Contains everything required to run Java applications on your system.
I think the general belief is that it never hurts to beat a kind - they're either coming from trouble or going to it.

Or as the Russians say, "When you see an Uzbek punch him - he'll know why."
pragmatic and I enjoy pretending to be a perma-bear as much as the next guy, but if the macro environment leads to more currency being created or distributed than prior times, then nothing is overvalued yet relative to how much money has to be placed into them when it is seeking yield, so that means here I will have to disagree:

"But this bubble will burst in due time, no matter how hard the Fed tries to support it"

this either needs to be weighted much lower, can't be the crux of the article, or has to be called out for its ambiguity and uselessness in predictive ability
Because I want users to be unique. If I let different login platforms then we might have a multiple accounts for a single person, which is not fair for voting.
Can I buy options on sending a message in the future, and then sell those options on a derivative market?
Hey vaksel,

I can your point about the PRWeb sales, but the reddit ad pct that I attributed to DDG sponsorship was the percentage above average and we've been advertising on Reddit for a few months now. Also, that was also immediate sales. We have a very good percentage of customers that reorder, especially around the holidays, so the final number will be much higher, probably by a multiple of 3 or 4.
Every function in a protocol is namespaced. There's nothing preventing you from defining a new function with the same name in a different namespace. This doesn't actually replace anything, though, and any references to the old function will have to be changed to point to the new one.

It is also possible to extend a protocol a second time for a given type/record, which will overwrite the previous implementation. This can be occasionally useful (mostly for incremental development), but for the most part runs counter to the philosophy of Clojure. Seeing it used in production Clojure code would raise a lot of alarm bells.
I've taken to printing out something I was going to read anyway (like lecture notes) and reading it on the treadmill while brisk walking at 4.5 mph or so. Going to the gym isn't time consuming anymore - I just get two things done instead of one. Obviously that wouldn't work for real running or weightlifting, but it's better than no exercise (which is what I was doing).
Hi, I have to admit I haven't thought of these two things by using it. But they do both make sense and if I imagine it working like that it feels much better. I will improve the behaviour. Thanks a lot! :) (a little ashamed that I didn't sense this at all)
I think if you're using elaborate software tools to do SCRUM, you're probably doing it wrong already.

I might be having an allergic reaction to the "burndown charts" that were used to micromanage people at Microsoft. But I also think that anything more complicated than a whiteboard and a wiki is over-doing the process.
Call them up and try talking to billing directly about your case. They are likely to cancel your charges, or part of them.
Hmm, there are two possible candidates in the init.d script for the RHEL 6 package of an older version of squid (doesn't look like bug submitter is using a current version).

In stop():

rm -rf $SQUID_PIDFILE_DIR/*

and in restart():

rm -rf $SQUID_PIDFILE_DIR/*

SQUID_PIDFILE_DIR is hardcoded to "/var/run/squid" at the top of my copy of the init script. But, neither of those rm commands check first to make sure that SQUID_PIDFILE_DIR isn't empty (or, better yet, is in /var and doesn't contain ".."), and either the submitter's copy of the script is mangled or something else somewhere is stomping on SQUID_PIDFILE_DIR in the shell environment.

...I should grep my init scripts for "rm".
GuitarRig doesn't come anywhere close to Axe-FX either. I have both. GuitarRig runs on my macbook though :)
"Purple should never be used outside of officially endorsed Heroku products or without explicit permission."

I wonder how others feel about this, I really enjoy breaking apart existing websites and having a guide like this is certainly something I can use for inspiration in any of my projects - but I also wonder about the above clause and any implications it may have on copycat behaviour.
have to say - "pg_rewind" is nice and meta here on HN.

need to convince a postgres contributor to add easter egg "pg_essay".
Not to be that guy, but Massive does FM via the modulation oscillator, though it's only 2 operator FM. Also to continue being that guy, it doesn't actually do FM at all, but Phase Modulation, which is what the DX7 (and later emulations like FM8) also use.