jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, the distinction is that the Athenian democracy was a direct democracy where every citizen could vote on legislation, as opposed to representative democracy where representatives vote in a legislature. The US was a democracy, albeit imperfect, even when slaves and women couldnt vote. There are still some remnants of direct democracy: ballot measures and New England town meetings.
Well, and so what? Nobody claims he is an expert because he appeared on TV. He is an expert because of what he has to say. Even if he paid for it, I am happy we could hear it.
Inevitable I think.
Any particular reason you pick SQLite over more featured DB's such as MySQL or Postgres? I am assuming that they would be faster, with the only downside being more difficulty in the initial install/setup.
Real estate costs have risen - thats a huge undercounted cost. I remember reading that at one point the avg house price was 3-4 times annual household income. In many economic hotspots around the West today that seems like a fable from a mythical past.
Google added offline browsing to Chrome late last year. To enable it go to:

chrome://flags/#enable-offline-load-stale-cache

"When a page fails to load, if a stale copy of the page exists in the browser, a button will be presented to allow the user to load that stale copy."
> This is what the brain does

Good to know you know what our brain does, science hasn't figured out yet but you have...
The history in Slack's free version is limited to only 10,000 posts. If you have even a moderate number of active users, your history drops off pretty fast. My last job used Slack without paying, and wanting to find something in the history that had cycled out was almost a daily occurance.
I highly doubt it, "identity theft" is pretty much unheard of, because we're not tied to secret identifiers like the US SSN, and because it is more centralized.

(I was very surprised when I moved to the US and realized that changing your address here means going to every single government agency and business you have a relationship with, and independently changing your address with them, instead of just doing it once in the central registry. I also found out that apparently you can't change your name on your driver's license if you have unpaid parking tickets. This is hilarious and unfathomable to me)
What makes value investing better than index investing? Surely if it is statistically impossible to beat the market on a risk-adjusted basis over time, this also applies to value investing.
Likely obstruction of justice/some other nature of obstruction that may leave you with some pretty serious charges.
OP wrote:

> just click through the scam marketing, ICO offers and "airdrops"

That's what I meant by UX.

> user experience can still be confusing because a payments feature is… surprising

Everything new is "surprising", that's a low bar. Chat apps in China have had this feature for years now, and it's also a feature in WhatsApp, a direct Signal competitor.
For filtering opinions in areas I"m unfamiliar, I don't have a best approach—though I'd love to hear one.

One thing I've done which has been helpful is to try my best to be conscious of my relative level of expertise, and to treat opinions as interesting places to begin research. A plausible sounding theory from an "expert" in a comment isn't inherently factual, but provides me a good jumping off point to research the topic if I'm curious. As a corollary to this, I also do my best to be conscious of this relative level of expertise when sharing any information I might've gleaned from an HN thread with others.
I also have knee problems. Hope all the best for you.
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This might be a very dumb question but it always bothered me - silicon wafers are always shown as great circles, but processor dies are obviously square. But it looks like the etching etc goes right to the circular edges - wouldn't it be better to leave the dead space untouched?
Given that, how many programs do you install even on your computer each month? I bet there are a lot of months where there are zero no new programs.
Duktape looks quite nice!

Because we built React Native around an asynchronous batched bridge, we can plug it into any JS execution environment. For now we plug it into JSC, which is available on iOS 7 and 8. We also use websockets to execute the JS in chrome so we can utilize the debugger.

Without much difficulty, we can make the bridge work over a WebView (if we want to support older iOS versions), or Duktape.
Even if it doesn't mutate it might be possible to get it again due to a weakening of acquired immunity over time.

This possibility was discussed on episode 591 on This Week in Virology.[1] I wrote up a transcript of the relevant segment here: [2]

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-591/ about 15 minutes and 50 seconds in to the program

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609136
A service where you agree ahead of time and whenever you need a dental appointment instead of emailing you they just kidnap you with a panel van and you wake up later after the procedure.

Toothly: Anxiety free dentistry.
Interesting — I wonder if that’s the reason the article says that one recovered persons plasma could treat just two additional patients? It’s not clear how much plasma would be needed for the treatment
I hope Tesla’s quality control issues have been resolved if they’re going to be creating life support equipment.
“This clown” landed rockets and made electromobiles mainstream. He already won.
Oil is normally a fungible commodity product(with refinery limitations based on the type of crude). Perhaps that plays a role in the large discrepancy between other oil prices. Or the large drop in demand in the locales it serves.
That doesn't explain the difference in death rates. If Japan were turning away severe life-threatening cases (especially despite plenty of hospital capacity), you'd expect an increase in deaths and rioting in the streets – at the very least, _some_ indication that something was wrong.

And if they _weren't_ turning away life-threatening cases, you'd expect reports of hospitals stretched far beyond capacity.

There really aren't any other plausible explanations than "Japan actually has significantly fewer or less severe COVID-19 cases than expected". It would have to be an implausibly massive cover-up.
Here's a dump of an Elasticsearch database with 7573 of them in it and whois information attached to each document: https://shining-inferno-2609.firebaseio.com/.json

Here's an `asn_country_code`-based aggregation of countries:

{
"took" : 2,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 7612,
"max_score" : 0.0,
"hits" : [ ]
},
"aggregations" : {
"countries" : {
"doc_count_error_upper_bound" : 5,
"sum_other_doc_count" : 1894,
"buckets" : [ {
"key" : "cn",
"doc_count" : 1891
}, {
"key" : "us",
"doc_count" : 1155
}, {
"key" : "de",
"doc_count" : 894
}, {
"key" : "kr",
"doc_count" : 457
}, {
"key" : "ch",
"doc_count" : 398
}, {
"key" : "mx",
"doc_count" : 244
}, {
"key" : "ru",
"doc_count" : 178
}, {
"key" : "ca",
"doc_count" : 171
}, {
"key" : "it",
"doc_count" : 167
}, {
"key" : "gb",
"doc_count" : 163
} ]
}
}
}
I doubt that. NK is a useful pawn for China, and an ally and buffer against the US military in SK. Nukes there also make them more of a problem for the US, Japan, and SK than for China.

And there's no way they'd ever let the US take the entire Korean Penninsula. Remember they pushed the US back when we got too close to the Chinese border in the Korean War. Not happening, ever.
I don't have a problem with this. I think it can and will be useful. Although, I really believe innovators are missing a huge market for this kind of product (one that is trying to ease a physical buying experience).

And that's the retail/shopping market. If I had it my way, there would be large screens in department stores that displayed ratings and reviews of products congregated from a number of websites.

For instance, take the Nordstrom shoe department. Instead of having shoe displays against the wall, I really think they should have scrolling reviews displayed on sizable screens.

When I walk into a store, I rarely know what's worth my money. And who really thinks a salesperson is the right person to be helping you make a decision (or talking you into a decision...)? And yeah, I could search my phone for product reviews, but that's a hassle.

I just threw these images together, so you can get rough idea of what I mean. BEFORE - http://www.dropmocks.com/mUKVS and AFTER - http://www.dropmocks.com/mUJoj

Sorry to get a little off track here. Best of luck to the E la Carte people!
That actually makes sense since the lower half of the state rarely gets cold enough to warrant a complex heating setup.
The area that we've seen Dask shine the most is ML. This is because the Python ecosystem has more advantages when it comes to ML and there is better GPU support.

https://towardsdatascience.com/supercharging-hyperparameter-...

https://towardsdatascience.com/random-forest-on-gpus-2000x-f...

Disclaimer: We produced those benchmark. I'm a founder of Saturn (https://www.saturncloud.io/) and we focus on providing Databricks-like capabilities with Jupyter + Dask + Prefect, so I definitely have strong feelings in this area.
The article describes what's wrong with media, unless I've blanked on some ripping satire. What serious journalist would ever let themselves be quoted lamenting, "The subjects are winning." It's like her extravagance knows no bounds or something.

The headline occurs mid article and it's a good choice. When writing is about power, its job becomes to deliver narrative in that power struggle, and that means it's no longer good. Who wants to read that? Maybe these institutions are losing their influence because they suck at the one thing they were supposed to do well, which was produce compelling, brave, and thoughtful writing that people wanted to read so much they would tolerate advertisers. Maybe if they were more interesting, more people would read them?
I wonder how much this has to do with bitcoin mining?
Shell aliases aren't as useful in a CI pipeline, or when trying to provide instructions on how new to Julia installs a new package. Also, with Julia being so different from everything else does mean everyone has to learn a new way of doing things. This isn't a bad thing, I like that Julia has a programmatic API for most of these things, but the UX is definitely not amazing.
After the Harry Potter bit I started thinking this might be authored by GPT-3... but no, it’s just good satire lol
I think that this study is very specific to novice oenology students - they were too biased by the framework what they were taught - they saw red colored wine and they tried to fit it into the framework they know.

What this study did not show was that a general public would not distinguish between red wine and colored white wine.

It also did not show that seasoned wine experts would not distinguish between red wine and colored white wine.

This is a really interesting study but it has its clear limitations and these should be acknowledged.
Looks like a nice tool, but it seems to be built around a very specific workflow that you've found works for you.

Personally I have been managing most of my plaintext notes with the minimal tools required to do so: a text editor and a file system. For technical notes about software I add git into the mix[1], mostly as a means of synchronization between machines.

[1]: https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/cheatsheets.html
> The official policy is to use British (AKA "Commonwealth") spelling when writing about British (or Commonwealth) topics, and American for topics relating to the United States. General topics can use any one of the variants, but should generally strive to be consistent within an article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing#ENG...
Hi Josh, thank you for taking questions. Can you speak to the financial distribution of coins/funds for the employees and foundation?
But modern techniques exist to deal with problems in a large die (ie testing and then segmenting off cores with mistakes on them), so the fact they’re starting with large chip die sizes doesn’t really tell you much, no?
Exactly. I replied also before reading you answer.
There is the Brigade engine[1] that I know of. It's as far as I know a one man project. I haven't heard of an update in a long time though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpT6MkCeP7Y
Right, yes, the guy who famously despises escapist fantasy, and whose most popular and prolific character is an albino elf-prince who has the most awesome magical sword in the world, and totally kills anyone who fucks with him, and takes drugs any time he wants, and has bitchin' magical adventures, and totally acts like he doesn't give a fuck about anything, but horribly tragic things keep happening to the people he loves and it's so romantic you could just die.

Escapism for goths is still escapism, and there's nothing wrong with it either way. Tolkien is great. Moorcock is great. It's all good.
That's eye opening if true.
Is that an example of SVG including a script tag or just manipulating the SVG DOM through javascript? I think that's 2 separate concerns. Browsers already understand both, I think the article puts it under "The Bad" category because if you're building a renderer from scratch, you'd need to also handle javascript and DOM stuff.
It's not a terrible question, and even if the reference to God is via Erdős, there's still a reference. I think it's evident in the sciences as well, e.g. "God does not play dice with the universe."
the 'random mix' and monoculture points in here are the topic of the first chapter of Seeing Like a State, the book about why institutions over-simplify the societies they govern
And basically immediately after this event, traders from Europe were interacting heavily with traders from the Islamic World. The focus on these military campaigns (Constantinople + Vienna being the big ones) is based on modern narratives around "the clash of civilizations", not actual history.
I remember when I first discovered this. I was implementing a raytracer and test runs were taking forever. Then I read about enabling compiler optimizations, and with the flip of a switch my performance increased 16x...
Agree a vector graphics format isn't the use case for markup languages. SVG's saving grace, though, is that's designed to be embedded in HTML.
I’m suddenly interested in making a neural network that can mute a known reference audio from a stream while leaving the surrounding audio in tact. Doesn’t something like this already exist? It seems like Instagram and YouTube could pretty easily leave audio-edited videos online while addressing the copyright violation, without resorting to takedowns or account bans.
> Kassewitz searched for nearly two years to find a touchscreen device that dolphins could reliably activate with their rostrum (or beak), while still being powerful enough to record or play back the high frequency sounds associated with dolphin language and durable enough to work in underwater environments.

If someone had faith in this area of research, you'd think they would have been able to find funding for the construction of a specialized device in that time frame.
IANAL, but the "pay a dividend" approach can cause problems. It's generally illegal to pay a dividend which makes a company insolvent (for some definition of "insolvent"); and in many jurisdictions it's also illegal to pay dividends beyond a company's profits (for some definition of "profits").

If the company is spectacularly successful none of this will matter, of course -- but if the company fails, you'll want to be able to put it behind you without being hauled into court by allegations of fraudulent conveyance.
Exactly. Take this quote from the parent:

"He merely said that whether it's a tablet or a laptop or a desktop, it's still a personal computer. Fair point."

If the best reaction you can muster from a question such as the one posed to Ballmer is "fair point", then the speaker hasn't said anything of any significance or depth.

Contrast that with Steve Jobs' answers, and the difference couldn't be more clear. Either Jobs is far more skilled at veiling his true intentions, or he's a lot more introspective. Personally, I enjoyed listening to Steve Jobs' answers a lot more than I did Steve Balmer's. Ballmer just sounds a lot more like your typical corporate "talking head".
Since it's been added to the Chromium project, then even if they haven't pushed it upstream to WebKit, WebKit can always pull it from downstream if they want it.

Granted, it may not be that simple since Chrome uses V8 for its Javascript VM, and these features likely tie directly into V8 abilities that may not be available in the basic WebKit package.

Or maybe I'm talking from ignorance. Please let me know if I am.
You could group us in an SEO/Web Analytics category. For our particular niche service, our competitors pricing schemes are all over the place. Our service is born out of our frustration using the other services out there on a daily basis, so we are rolling our own and putting it out there for others to use.
True, however there is something saying "the people who do this are less desirable", thus if you do that you are less desirable. Why these people are considered less desirable is debatable. Also, in science don't we include medical personnel? In math, quantitative finance? I would hardly say those people are perceived as less desirable.

Also, as a comp sci guy, I don't like the "tolerance for all quirks" thing we have going in some ways. It is great that we are passionate about our stuff, but there is social decorum that we should follow. Showers, general professionalism, and paying attention to how others feel about things -- these should not be considered polite suggestions but requisites.
Thanks.

Since I have a local web server running that will respond on 127.0.0.1 I'd just as soon avoid the overhead of the wasted hit and rendering of the local page, unless there was some notable value to using that address over all nulls.
Any word on iBooks? I'm not seeing it yet, only for the iPad.
I am mostly talking about administrators, but some professors are included. A non-trivial number of professors (10-75%, depending on school) are deadwood (i.e. people with tenure who gave up on work).
Compared to non-web programming, the tools are better, more well developed and the languages/formats require substantially less knowledge. This is all well documented.

If thats not easy, what is?
That's pretty much it. Any penny I won at gambling did nothing to harm the broader economy. It might harm some other guy who gambled it, but he knew what he was buying into.

My problem with Goldman and their peers isn't that they won money gambling from other people. It's that in so doing they knowingly destabilized the global economy. The actions of investment bankers have harmed every American, most of whom couldn't even spell CDO let alone know why the existence of so many of them led to Joe Average getting laid off.

I'm not some sort of moral crusader by any means. I really did mean I had less against crack dealers (in fact I think drugs should be legalized, but that's another topic entirely) because the person buying crack knows what they're getting. I don't think everyone can or should be saving lives, they just shouldn't be harming people who aren't knowing and willing parties to the transaction. If my playing poker could have caused economic collapse (in fact the opposite happened, poker became a huge industry that provided lots of well-paying jobs) there would have been an issue.
You are right about Office 2007 (the one license I found), but you are wrong about Internet Explorer. It's license states clearly you can only use IE if you have a license for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 or 2008 (the IE8 on my wife's corporate notebook has a Brazilian license that doesn't mention Windows 7)
Don't make this about me. Read the history of math & tell me what conclusion you come to when you see people making algorithms, essentially, for dealing with natural processes.
Tiling window managers existed long before xmonad.
> yet the only way to view the actual episode is through a torrent for a 1.1 gig file?

You can download a 350 meg Xvid version from the site.

Your point still stands, though. It would be nice to be able to watch a nice 480p version on Vimeo or some other streaming site.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-Wittgenstein
Not a cannon, but i'm really excited to get my Panasonic GH1 on Monday. Its incredible to be able to afford a device with this much potential. First test will be in Costa Rica when I fly out there with my girl friend on Wednesday!

(http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMC-GH1-12-1MP-Thirds-Interc...)
I agree with your thesis but I wouldn't classify classic VB as particularly powerful either. Usually when people say a language is powerful, they seem to mean that a small number of primitives can be combined to produce a large variety of structures or that brief code can accomplish a lot of work.

Maybe a better term for powerful would be "power to weight ratio".
No. JFDI
someone has already written an R library to handle basically any type of statstical or probability application

Also, frequently the person writing the library is the guy who invented the estimator in the first place. To me this counts for something.
This is an epic mess in the making to be honest and no one takes it seriously. It’s really not important at all for anyone I have spoken to. Most of our stacks are magical fucking unicorns to the marketing and decision makers and the majority of the developers these days. The level of response I get is akin to “but it’s got electrolytes” while blindly downloading god knows what into production kubernetes clusters. Hell even kubernetes does it. I’m waiting for something to waltz in and do some damage. Even worse is some of the scanning software which itself ships with CVE ridden dependencies. I mentioned this to one of the larger supply chain scanning vendors and they didn’t even know.

99% of our tech is like smoking to look cool and being in with the crowd. But someone’s going to get cancer one day.
I agree realpolitik is certainly a thing, and as long as we can see that with clear eyes and not settle on one side or another being 'the good guys' or 'the bad guys' we're all much better off. The best outcome for everyone is for de-escalation and peacemaking efforts that reduce the suffering of the regular people in the region.
That’s a delightful result you all; and beautifully explored, too!
Considering that the FDA let thousands of Americans needlessly die because they delayed the approval hearing to enjoy a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend... Yes, I don’t trust their judgement.

As for more general critiques, there’s mountains of evidence that the FDA is too risk averse, even before Covid.

https://www.hoover.org/research/fdas-risky-risk-aversion
Would each greenhouse have its own desalinization plant?
Do you not get spam calls on your phone? Phone numbers that are put into this site are likely to be valid & active, making them valuable data to sell.
They did also get involved with some bad people and rounded them up too, don't worry. But a lot of their work seems to have been ruining lives in order to look productive. Tragic!