jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wait until he figures out he can use those hands to put things into his mouth. I think that's a major hobby for kids until they're much older.

Good luck with your son! Congrats!
This really sucks. I had something similar happen last December, except the laptop was stolen out of a locked hotel room. Not a shady place either...skyrise elevator-access place downtown in a big US city.

Hotel was of little help, and police don't do much except write down the S/N and alert the local pawn shops not to buy the machine.

Best bet is homeowner's or renter's insurance. Most policies will cover something like this. If you're in school, your (his) parents' coverage usually extends to cover your belongings. I have the basic $15/mo type coverage from State Farm - the kind that reduces your car insurance payment by more than $15/mo under their multi-policy discount - and they replaced my 3 year old MBP no-questions-asked.
> programmable insects

Sounds like a fun topic for a blog of the "updates once or twice a year with results from the latest experiments"-kind. Can you share some examples of programming that you did that the average beekeeper wouldn't think of?
#1 #2 state the same thing, and although it may be true, I can't think of any way this makes the payment system "far superior". Is Amazon something you only use once and it's a hassle to have to enter in your credit card?

#3 is not something anyone believes, even you.

I'd counter with iTunes hysterically bad receipt notifications. Typically you get a receipt between 3 days to 2 weeks after you buy something. Every time I receive an iTunes receipt I have to strain to remember way back when I bought the thing the receipt is for.
The paper defines "crippled epistemology" as:

In some domains, people suffer from a “crippled epistemology,” in the sense that they know very few things, and what they know is wrong.

The term comes from: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/hardin/researc...
ya, my eyes gloss over when I read 'rediscoveries' like this ...

I think the finer point is more about workflow then programming.

That is state based workflow is fundamentally harder for developers to grok, also maintaining state is a kind of fallacy when scaling out and/or up.

Flow based workflows, while probably can't cover easily the breadth of exotic corner cases that FSM can achieve, are much easier to understand and state is byproduct of the system, not to mention that a full record of mutation occurs with a copy of data at every step (similar to MVCC - Multi-value-consistency-control)

This is similar to how http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/ XProc works, which has a serious implementation in http://xmlcalabash.com/ and slowly gaining adoption in XML circles.

Its nice to see yet another XML technology, which of course is based on older established concepts in computing, being emulated/replicated in the JS universe ... shame about the visual programming antipattern/lunacy.
Very well.

As another anecdote, I have met many conservatives who are willing to discuss and debate ideas. None of these conservatives I have met has acted or said anything that suggests they believe women are incapable of management.

I have met chauvinists and I have met conservatives. I don't see a whole lot of correlation.
Bulbflow is great, but a little lower-level and doesn't offer much Django-specific integration (eg auth, admin, signals). It expects you to learn more about Neo4j, for better or worse.
this is integration with Django, not only an abstraction layer. Also it use Cypher querying language instead of Gremlin.
Exactly. They aren't giving users real choice. If Apple's payment system (or any other part of their platform) is really superior, why not let users choose and make up their own minds? Because they want to make it painful or impossible to switch and they don't want their platform to be considered a commodity reader for Amazon's content.
I've thought of putting together a "Netflix for tools" where you order a tool, it gets sent to you with a returnable box and label and you send it back when you're done. A drill is a bad example though. I wouldn't stock commodity tools like drills and saws, it'd be things you're going to have to order online anyway, like tools made specifically for one car.

A good example that I could use right now is a BMW airbag reset tool. I stupidly disconnected an airbag when replacing my window regulator. Now I need a very basic, $20 on eBay, electronic tool to reset the system and get rid of the warning light. I'd pay $10 to have it by the weekend when I'll do the work, and it could be used many, many times over. Every German car I've ever owned had similar electrical and mechanical specialty tools I've had to buy and can't use when I get a new car.
I've got quite a few projects that aren't "finished" because there are additional features I'd like to add some day. However, they are "done" in that they currently work for me. For these applications I just use them as-is, adding a feature whenever inspiration strikes.

I had one open source library that gained some traction, which I lost interest in. Luckily for me, another took over to finish it.
s/not running Windows/not running Windows or refusing to install a free VM/

5 or 6 years ago I had to have Windows to run CAD software, but I found it easier to have a virtualbox install w/ Ubuntu in it for software development than trying to write code on Windows. The performance was good enough an the usability was pretty good. I imagine it has only gotten better since then.
Putting an "word" in "quotes" is the inline way of exactly matching an individual word. It's conceptually similar to putting a phrase in "quotation marks," so personally I think it makes sense that we have one operator for literal searches.

> A + could apply to a single word or to a single phrase

I don't think a + could apply to a phrase. That was one problem with the + operator; it was not clear to users how it actually worked. In fact, though there were many searches whose results were helped by their use of + (many of whom made by users who are commenting here on HN), there were many searches whose results were largely made worse by their use of +, whether it was inadvertent or overzealously applied.
Before I ask someone to come, I check his online stuff: github account, twitter, personal website, Linkedin. If with that I'm not enough sure I don't bother to interview anyone.
Don't tempt me! Can't imagine the look on my SO's face if I set up a half-stack in our little apartment...

Got my eye on the special 6 ultra combo. Too bad there's no headphone socket though
that could just as well be a portion of the text describing an alternative the NSA COULD be taking and hasn't. That alternative providing no 4th amendment problem.
Perhaps not, though if you intend to commit suicide, and the difference between a gun and overwork is massive compensation to your family, then there probably is some sort of motivation to die at the office.
Linus did do the benchmark (see Comment #46).
I don't get a sense that investors are complaining about being outnegotiated. Investors that I respect that are quoted in that article are basically saying, "We didn't like the terms the founders were offering, so we passed, and they went and got terms to their liking from someone else."

I didn't see any particularly complaining evident, just a disagreement/difference of opinion on whether a proposed deal made sense to them or not. It didn't, so they didn't.
Apple One is $30 for an entire family. That includes full music subscription with HD audio, TV+, games, 1Tb storage and fitness+.
Python has urwid.
I've been looking to build something like this, but backed by ETCD. I've had the hardest time finding other implementations or even figuring out what to call such a system. Credential storage and management is hard, especially in a large environment.
''We decided that between now and next year, the P.D.A. is going to be subsumed by the telephone,'' he said last week in an interview. ''We think the P.D.A. is going away.''

As someone who would love to have a smartphone-that-isn't-a-phone, I'd have to agree. The iPhone killed the PDA. Oh well, I'll always have my iPod Touch.
Agreed. If you were to ask me about favorite magazines, BYTE would be in the running, but, in terms of loving - Compute! (and it's associated books) have a fond place in my heart. I spent many _hundreds_ of hours pouring through their assembly tutorials, learning about sprites, collisions, vertical/horizontal refreshes, and pretty much every everything they wrote on the C64, my beloved first computer.
A lot of us only cares about the very basics, and pick emacs (or variations) only because when the choice between editor families that are "always" available it stands between vi/vim and emacs.

Microemacs and derivatives like MG or uemacs dates back to the mid 80's, and has been ported to pretty much any platform and OS you can think of (first time I came across one of them was on the Amiga in the late 80's), so they're practical if you want the same experience "everywhere", including places too limited to bog down with a full emacs, and when you don't want that experience to be vim.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for as they have download links in there under cloud player, but on purchase, I got a choice of Cloud player I think or Download Amazon music player (which also gives access to files). Your Cloud Player doesn't sound like it'll let you download files, so I ignored it, but that's where they have put it.

IMO it should be called Your Music instead, because people want their music, not Amazon's software for playing their music, which is exactly what this article is complaining about.
As opposed to the self-serving corporations that don't like the law and give large amounts of money to politicians to change it?
http://imgur.com/v4vwY

Is the Facebook button meant to be displayed there?
>> claim ownership of a word on the whole Web

That's not what they're doing - they're claiming exclusive use of the word FACE in the restricted context of online chat and bulletin board applications. While I can think of a few groups that are innocent and may fall under this (bulletin boards that focus on the study of faces), for the most part it seems like anyone who's using that word in this context would be trying to poach off of Facebook's notoriety to increase the value of their brand.
What's embedded on this guy's blog? It's using a massive % of cpu.
I found isaac to be pretty cool. I had to fork it and add features because it's not maintained too well, but a neat idea.

https://github.com/ichverstehe/isaac
Apple does not allow these kinds of apps. Even if you use their payment options.

I think they simply do not wish the be associated with any specific charity.

The common workaround is to have a Donate button that opens a link in Safari. To an external page where people can make the actual donation.
I will not deny the atrocities the US has committed and will undoubtedly continue to commit. Any nation with that level of power will end up doing the exact same thing in order to maintain that power. It’s no secret that China wants that power. However I’d much rather live in a world where the US has that power than China. I’m sure my personal bias play into it, being from a western (though not American) nation, but I’ll try to remain objective.

- The US has at least a two party system. It’s not much, and is deeply flawed, but at least the governmental power is not completely unchecked. That and the government is ostensibly at the mercy of the people. Propaganda, disinformation, and manipulation aside, if a government does something egregious enough the people of the US still have the power to vote them out. The Chinese people do not have that power. Their government is much more top down and prescriptive. The only checking of power is the willingness of lower level people to enforce rules.

- Freedom of Speech. Nobody is above criticism. Simple as that. Not being able to question the government is an awful situation to be in. Imagine a world where you could get extradited to China for saying something critical of the CCP online. I’ll remind you that the CCP jailed 8 doctors in Wuhan last year for raising the alarm about the coronavirus, saying they were spreading false rumours online. No thanks.

- From an ideological standpoint the CCP seems to be be hellbent on reclaiming lost territory and retaliating against the evil west who have wronged them for so long. The US has no such motivation, being relatively young.

Please don’t get me wrong. I think China is a beautiful country, having visited several times, and the Chinese people and culture are both wonderful. I just do not want to live in a CCP-centric world.
>but that doesn't mean it isn't up to us to spread information

Something being "up to us" implies and necessitates free will. With mere casuality/determinism nothing is up to us, everything is just another reaction caused by some initial condition.

Logically, we can't have it both ways...

>and we will likely take it upon ourselves to investigate and disseminate, and hopefully start a larger conversation

You can't "take it upon ourselves" since we have no agency, if we have no free will.

>and hopefully start a larger conversation

Without free will, we can't start anything that not already casually chained to start, so predetermined anyway.

Whatever we/you do or don't do can't change anything (even the idea that we can "do or not do" something is an illusion. Without free will we can only do what the casuality chain has us do and think what we're predetermined to think about it).
I thought of that but regarded
'gradually' as too far, too many
words away, from 'get', the word
it is modifying.
There’s all sorts of age, gender, and racial diversity in that photo. Just no black faces.
Dynamic linking isn't actually a problem in the open source world - you build your shared libraries with -fPIC -shared and link other code against them just like you would any other library, because their shared library systems were designed to behave sensibly from the start. Libtool was created for all the existing proprietary OSes with their own, often half-baked, support for shared libraries[1] and uncooperative, opaque corporate developers; it's as much an artifact of the cathedral as the bazaar[2]. To quote the documentation:

"Ideally, libtool would be a standard that would be implemented as series of extensions and modifications to existing library systems to make them work consistently. However, it is not an easy task to convince operating system developers to mend their evil ways, and people want to build shared libraries right now, even on buggy, broken, confused operating systems."

[1] Or worse, no shared library support at all. This is a major headache because linking against static libraries requires you to manually link all the libraries they depend on too; libtool handles this for you on systems with no shared library support or no native dependency tracking.

[2] Especially since it's a GNU tool and their development model has historically been more cathedral than bazaar anyway.
$500 in dues per year is around $20 per paycheck if you're paid twice a month or every two weeks. The increase in benefits and working conditions might well be worth that, depending on the job.
Mostly my and my friends' homes, but I do remember finding an SD card on the ground once... Do you think I'm being targeted by spies? :) It had someone's pictures on it, but no identifying information, so I had no way of returning it.

Thankfully random SD cards should be much safer than random USB devices, but it's probably better to be careful.
Time and attention. In my mind/book it's where you give your time and attention. I really enjoy a couple of radio shows, where I need to download the mp3 from their websites (they host/share a coupld of hours after their shows), and SecurityNow podcast.

The good thing about it, is that I only listen when I want to listen, and IF I want to listen.

Social media, slow and steady, absorb you into giving, increasingly, more time to them. Either by creating an echo chamber, or creating passions, promoting things you love/hate. Anything to get you hooked more.

Majority of the people do not filter/reduce the alerts on their phones. Good luck working on a project when you get 10 beeps per hour from Twitter, CNN, BBC, FB, IG, YT.

Time and Attention.
It's not. I don't have to rely on Twitter's algo to pump irrelevant crap, replies, etc. I don't have to scroll an infinite feed. I just check the influencers that I care about, to get whatever they posted that day. I don't need to see all the noise. It takes me 15-20 minutes a day to catch up and then I move on.
> Why is family stability a structural inequality?

Perhaps "structural" is sloppy here, but it is a way that past traumas echo forward across multiple generations. Like, look at the numbers— 64% of black kids in a single parent home in 2019 vs 24% for white kids:

https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...

Obviously many single-parent families are wonderful and may well be better than an abusive two-parent family, but at a population level, these are kids who are going to grow up to themselves have higher divorce rates and their own kids repeating the pattern.

Regarding the bail system and race, see: "The cash bail system disproportionately impacts people of color, fueling a pervasive problem of structural racism in our criminal justice system. The pretrial population is disproportionally Black and Hispanic and has more than doubled over the past 15 years.1 Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be stopped by the police and experience police violence at the time of arrest; they also are more likely to be poor and unable to raise bail funds. The cash bail system also compounds underlying health disparities in access to care that has led to worse outcomes for Blacks and Hispanics compared to white Americans."

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/how-cash-bail-sys...
Those same absolutists were also cheering Google, Twitter and US government on about a decade ago when the platforms, and the government, really started to censor Islamic fundamentalist content as part of their anti-terrorism initiatives.
it definitely looks like it's for pets here is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/apOq0TA

the guide dogs should be allowed, at least that's what the article is about basically
Please don't try to guess treatment outcomes based on binding affinities.

> it’s clear this should be unethical to prescribe for anyone stimulants would be effective on.

This is wrong in so many ways. Again, please don't try to guess outcomes based on binding affinities.

For what it's worth, some of the non-stimulant ADHD medications such as Guanfacine are strikingly effective for ADHD when titrated properly, some times even moreso than traditional stimulants. The challenge is that titration can take time and the effects are not immediately apparent from the first dose, whereas stimulant medication follows the opposite trajectory where the first dose is the most effective and subsequent dosing has reduced effects due to tolerance. Parents often mistake the instant response of stimulants for superior efficacy in treating ADHD, whereas instrumented tests show that medications like Guanfacine are actually quite good if the patient is given time to adapt.
There is also brain differences between adhd vs non adhd people

Summary: https://www.woodburnpediatric.com/blog/adhd-brain-different-...

Paper: https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366...
I was there when it was shown. Awesome.

For the context, this intro got third place at Revision PC 64k competition.

Revision is the largest "pure" demoparty, and its competitions are of the highest level, especially this year. The PC 64k category is one of the most demanding, as nowadays, you are expected to make a full demo, with good sounding music, direction, multiple scenes, etc... but with the 64k constraint, which, in practice, means that everything has to be procedurally generated.

And FMS_Cat did all that by himself! Code, graphics and music. He also manages to stay humble about it. Big thumbs up.
Had HPD stack up on an apartment I used to live at while I was gone...knocked once, roommate came out, and he managed to talk them out of raiding us. They really wanted the apartment down from us, which had been the alleged source of a bunch of burglaries in our complex.

If the roommate had had headphones on (was a metalhead and a gamer), things could've gone differently. We would've at least been out a door.

EDIT:

Fun fact--if I remember correctly, the first (maybe only?) confirmed kill with a P90 was by HPD SWAT.
Good point!

I wonder how you'd go about the usual annual shareholder meetings and things like that. Without a real person to represent even a single one of the shares it would be pretty hard to get a vote on anything. Board of directors would be a bit problematic, hiring a CEO could be done but who would do the hiring?
I decided I had to see this for myself. It looks like it's actually the travel insurance option, not the seat option, but close enough:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_F1E1DACD-A595-455E-A5C1-E2...

And it wouldn't let me proceed until I chose something; leaving it at the default wasn't allowed. Very tricky.
The same way that you can push a ball just to the top of a hill. Very carefully, because if you push it too hard it will roll down the other side.
You can't afford to have only an intranet. Not if you want to be a leading power. I even had problems looking up pages from small technology companies that were blocked.

They don't have google. Baidu does not compare, not the slightest bit. Yes, they have bing. Try finding an address at bing (or baidu) maps in China. It does not work 50% of the time when google is right on the spot.

XiaoMi? Yes, some nice hardware. But the software comes from the west.
I think it's far-fatched to suggest that the "maintenance mess" of hosting static content with Rails alongside what were then the most demanding Rails apps deployed anywhere caused them to look to PHP. I also think you're being pointlessly snarky.
Thank you for the feedback. Native ads in my opinion are key and ultimately need to try and match up even more so with the content. As in style, colours, fonts etc.
Could be easily avoided with cash or crypto payments, in exchange for a discount. But credit card companies forbid cash discounts, which I'm convinced is a fraudulent tactics and should be addressed through legislation.
If the value of gold increased as rapidly as the value of bitcoin, and the value of all kind of "I pull a fictitious metal name out of the air and make it tradable" materials increased at a striking pace as well, we'd also say it reeks of scam, right?
I have read elsewhere that possibly another good starting point to think about Bitcoin is via the "Keynesian Beauty Content" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

This is additionally interesting because of the critiques that Keynes leveled at the Gold standard when it was being widely used in the 19th and early 20th century, which have turned out to hold the test of time.
Thank you for the feedback! Targeted ads seem to get a love/hate relationship for many people.