jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
True, but I don't think Math Overflow and SO are really equivalent: most of the Math Overflow participants are academics; if you asked the same question on a SO for academic computer scientists I think you'd get similar results, especially if you restricted the answers to universal truths, rather than things which may or may not be true at some point in time, or under some conditions. (i.e. Apache is a better web server than nginx is not a universal truth, and neither is OO is better than procedural, etc.)
About half of the ones that I understand what they mean seem perfectly plausible to me. We need a page that explains why they are false.

For example can someone explain "Every connected component of a topological space is open and closed."

Edit: found it on wikipedia: "The components in general need not be open: the components of the rational numbers, for instance, are the one-point sets."
Why not use the Bitcoin Lightning Network? It allows faster transactions then MobileCoin and much better privacy than on-chain Bitcoin. Privacy doesn't match Monero, but will undoubtedly improve over time.

Clearly this would prevent the "get rich from pre-mine" benefit, but also remove 99% of the criticisms related to greed, centralization, geographic limitations, etc.

I don't see how MobileCoin can be censorship-resistant, neutral or permissionless in the long run. Are those goals of the project?
Generics that aren't erased.
Properties.
Iterators.
LINC.
Lambdas.
There are also a lot of reasons that storing everything in the cloud, especially from a laptop, isn't really a "feature" anyway.

If you stopped at storing in the could, there would be huge drawbacks. If you stored in the cloud and cached locally, then a lot of the drawbacks are mitigated.
Thanks for the answer and the link. My salting algorithm is very strong but I hadn't considered the idea of renting a bunch of EC2 instances and brute-forcing hashes because the hashing algorithms are so fast.
Apple and Microsoft have two, but one's a touch/mobile OS, and the other is a desktop OS. You wouldn't run OSX on an iOS device, and you wouldn't run iOS on an OSX device.

You might, however, run Chrome OS on a tablet that's built for Android, or Android on a Chrome OS netbook. Google has made two potentially competing OSes, and that's the big difference.
Or Pentadactyl :
http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ [+]
In an emergency context where vital information is likely to change often, this seems a little strange. perhaps with a little (opt-in?) funding SMS could be used - surely that would be more available than internet
This looks like a penny stock. What are the chances that something like this actually takes off and gets a high market cap?
please correct me if i am wrong, but i haven’t seen any evidence that joe biden would do such a thing

he’s been pretty against medicare for all on grounds it “costs too much” just as one example, and just recently called for companies to stop stock buy-backs during covid-19 [0] but nothing like that ↑ afaik...

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/biden-cal...
Alternatively, "Could you kindly provide a source reference for that?"
But when your children are with their friends, and their friends fall over, do they laugh? Maybe their friends aren't as confident
> I believe it's a false dichotomy to assert that either he takes the vaccine home or it goes to waste

I don't see a specific, viable, knowable-at-the-time alternative course of action Dr. Gokal could have taken, from you or anyone else. And the events in question happened over a month ago. Dr. Gokal's boss has had over a month to BS about what Dr. Gokal should have done, and failed to come up with anything. Dr. Gokal had six hours.

> Say I work as the mayor of a city and my brother really is the best contractor for the job, do I hire him? I'll contend that's not exactly an easy question and neither is the case with this physician and the vaccine.

I am disgusted with the laid-back, bureaucratic attitude so many people seem to have about this vaccination campaign. It is truly no surprise anymore that we have managed this pandemic so disastrously, and let so many people die needlessly.

Dr. Gokal had six hours to get ten doses into vulnerable people's arms. It was night time and he had no guidance from management on how to avoid wasting those doses. Wasted doses mean dead bodies.

Do you understand that? And after understanding that, can you explain to me how armchair quarterbacking Dr. Gokal is anything but unconscionable?

This is not a time to gab with the angels on our shoulders about optics, about whether we look like perfect little boys and girls. It is time to actually be good. It is time to save as many lives as we can. Dr. Gokal did that, he made no attempt to hide it, and he paid a terrible price. If you're going to sit in judgment of people, it should be the horrible bureaucrats who dare to judge him, when it was THEIR failures that put him in this position.
Am I dumb? How does something lose over 100% of it's value?
It's not. Actually the government will bend backwards just to keep the big companies in the country, while hunting down regular tax payers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand... . The tax laws here are ambiguous so that the tax man can judge to his liking whether you are friend or foe.
Maybe, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

These sorts of things are like the bible before the printing press. The (metaphorical) clergy don't trust the laymen won't read it and draw incorrect conclusions like "this could happen to demographic groups I'm a part of maybe we need to reduce the scope of federal law enforcement."
Out of curiosity, can I know why you did use Litecoin rather than others crypto???
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-autism-spectru...
Not saying you should, but it's entirely possible to have nodes all over the world managed by a single set of master nodes. The system is not really designed with that use case in mind though, the added latencies will hurt a lot in getting etcd consensus.
In what city?
should be nominated for a PWOTY, Pretentious Website of the Year award
This is amazing. It is all completely plausible, and clearly includes only the most easily explained horrors, with anything that would require explanation just omitted.

It is worse than I would have been able to invent.
I always look up the blockchain addresses for the donation links out of curiosity and it's awesome to see that the creator this project has received 12 + btc! Well earned for providing such a great service and doing it without expectation of this reward.
Some of the things "I've learned in 25 years":

After arguing with a friend who claimed to have discovered a bug in `malloc` because his program crashed (that was a long time ago), I figured that there's a hierarchy of probable causes of bugs, from most probable:

1. The code I wrote [you must understand only your code]

2. A 3rd-party library/dependency [you must understand your dependencies]

4. The compiler [you must understand the compiler-generated code]

5. The OS, or OS-provided library [You must be intimately familiar with OS internals]

6. CPU, or other hardware-related [You must be intimately familiar with how the CPU or other HW works]

It's basically arranged according to how many other programs are using the given facilities. Returning to the "buggy malloc", I did not dismiss his theory outright just pointed out that if malloc were bugged in such an elementary fashion, that no other programs could work, hence there was overwhelming probability of his code being bugged, not malloc.

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Just like security features, error-handling cannot be bolted on afterwards. Robust programs begin with defining error-handling strategies and expected outcomes in case of errors and building the rest on top.

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I could probably go on, but... meh.
"The Singularity research codebase and design evolved to become the Midori advanced-development OS project. While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...
It is OpenNIC you need to petition, so that they accept to cause a schism on the .org TLD
>Emojis feel... complicated. What do they mean?

My first smartphone was a Galaxy S2, and I frequently used an emoji that looked like a character giving a sly winking-type gesture.

It took me several years to realize that this was actually the eye-rolling emoji, and every other system's implantation clearly showed this. Some of the more strange responses I received started to make sense.
Ah thanks! It's funny because I can't recall ever using code page 65001 before 7. Maybe there was a reason for that or maybe I simply didn't know it existed until then. Or maybe I thought it simpler to just use UTF-16. I can't remember.
It's precisely the seeking that kills me. The only interface for seeking a video is a tiny, one-dimensional bar. How do you remember exactly where the right information occurs? On the other hand, text is visible as a whole, and the "seeking" is two-dimensional. Much more efficient to seek. I have a good visual memory and I tend to remember exactly where on a page the formula that I want appears, and just glance away at it without moving any muscles other than my eyes. To seek a part on a video, the process is overwhelmingly more complicated. And then the place where I was before the seek is lost, and you have to seek for it again. Argh!

Thanks for the answer, it turns out that we people are wildly different to each other.
There are additional rules that lock how much lawyers can cost per case, based on "case value", to limit megacorp lawyers to set up fantasy fees.
Downvoting for disagreement is toxic to discourse and how echo chambers like Reddit are born. It may be tolerated but it shouldn't be encouraged IMO.
I feel like the lack of CarPlay on Tesla says no. But I have no actual idea.
Exactly, it only works for the very few.

Accessible cycling is what we need, and that usually means physical separation from cars.
I know, I read the article.

What is not on YouTube is literally every other part of the story. For what we know (as described in the article), it's possible that the student was always calm and rational, or that he screamed abuse at the top of the lungs to university staff; or anything in between. We simply don't know (as described in the article), so it's quite manipulative to describe the university refuting the student's claims as "gaslighting".

Please note that I said that siding completely with the student is premature. I stand by that. If everything the student alleges is true, it is an outrageous story. However, it is very clear that this article was written as outrage porn. So we should wait and see what the court conclude actually happened. After all, it's not like this is a timely case, the incident happened over two years ago.
Ah, TIL. I'm not a native English speaker :).
> While it would have been nice, in an ideal world, to be able to encode and display all 51 (at least) variations in the second kanji for the surname Watanabe [1],...

Unicode has gotten so big, isn’t this included by now?
Doesn't Zuck does Behavioral Science as a Computational Applications since Facemash in about 2003?

Stupid me...
As far as I know, they are one of the few video game compression companies out there. Undoubtedly this is amazing news for Unreal Engine 4 devs, but for those not using the engine this is going to be a bit of a blow.

On the plus side, this opens the doors for a "Pied Piper, but for games" style startup to come out of nowhere and take big market share.
Define "large". What's a good rule of thumb for "too much to have on an exchange" and why that figure?
DISCLAIMER: I think Trump is essentially diabolical, do not support him nor his behavior, and have a visceral loathing for the man and his (lack of) ideas.

This is a grossly opportunistic instance of moral signaling from Twitter. I believe this independent of whether or not I believe they should ban him. Trump's behavior hasn't changed, his tweets are not more inflammatory than they've been in the past, and his influence is trending towards zero. They banned him as a moral signal at a time when the backlash they'll experience is at a minimum.

Twitter is a shit storm and has been for years. They know it, we know it, the public knows it, everybody knows it. If Twitter actually cared about not being a Platform For Evil, they would just turn off the fucking angry echo chamber push algorithms, take a massive hit in their stock price, and be about their business. The "social utility" would be the same and we wouldn't have to worry about conspiratorial asshats going viral and reaching 50 million souls. But instead they go on burning the public good to fuel their money-printing machine and then crucify the enemy to signal their virtue when the wealth well dries up.
Well, the US has been a corporate oligopoly for a long time now. I guess we might as well make it official.
Yep, it really feels like people are actively and willingly giving away control and free speech rights to the government and a bunch of corporations. Once the power is in their hands, it will be very difficult if not impossible to get it back.
They don't seem to care when blue checks empassionately call for the murder of trump supporters

Still up:
https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
There was a little matter of the Civil War that might deserve some of your attention.
If your lawsuit doesn't even go to trial (for a variety of reasons), you clearly haven't won it. Unless you win a lawsuit, "haven't won any of their lawsuits" is 100% true. And the media did report on sme of the lawsuits being thrown out, but I'm sure they would have found something wrong with reporting that too. Or should the courts just suddenly start entertaining invalid lawsuits just so Trump lawyers don't look as incompetent? (And from reading up a bit, multiple courts have judged on merit and found that the claimants didn't provide compelling evidence for their claims)
Wow the Reddit website is painfully slow.
My sentiments as well.

When you're confronted with the "Fail Fast" trope as often folks on here are, it gets predictable to the point where it can be mocked. That's cool. #fumblebrag is actually a pretty hilarious term.

But at the end of the day, as long as we're not too cynical, I believe that a culture that nurtures taking chances to the point where Fumblebrag exists is, on the balance, much better than the alternative.
"Element's client is not "nice": we can fix it"

No, we can't. Because the time aspect matters, and if you want people to switch now, the client has to be polished now, not "when it's done". And right now, it's a mess.
What would this do for the storage of eggs if it could be made into a easy at home process some day? For example, my brother has chickens, which he gives the eggs out to the family. However, they lay more eggs than the family needs. He doesn't want to sell these eggs, but just wants them to be available for a much longer time. Would this process allow for the eggs to be stored for a much longer amount of time?
You're forgetting one of the driving forces behind jQuery: browser incompatibilities. Now, with IE on board with HTML5 (whatever the hell that is) and most browsers at least trying to be standards-compliant, it's easy to forget that without a compatibility layer, building a cross-browser Javascript application was literally impossible.

Furthermore, jQuery offered a pretty nicely-engineered codebase and a very friendly and predictable API at a time when client-side JS was very unpredictable.

I don't use jQuery much anymore, since it's often just as easy to use plain JS. Plus, I'm often compiling so I can use a ES6 compiler to make it even nicer.

But I definitely leaned heavily on jQuery in the days prior to IE8-IE9 and client-side builds.

And even disregarding all my arguments above, I don't think it's fair to call such a carefully-designed and maintained project an "abomination", even if you do disagree with some of its technical decisions.
> I would contact your ISP, or at least publically shame them. This is not how IPv6 Internet should work

Maybe this is true. But as the other guy said. There is zero benefit in moving to v6 so there isn't any point in taking the time to investigate.
Why not to use JWT in 3 Minutes: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-fo...
The only think I really know of is ZBLAN fiber because that has a definite benefit to space manufacture and a large profit margin to justify the lift costs of the base material. I think until we get space refining figured out it's going to be hard to manufacture anything because of the high lift costs. Modern manufacturing also depends on a large amount of equipment and chemicals that will have to be redesigned for zero-G [0] and whole supply chains of chemicals either lifted dry and recreated or created from scratch in space.

I think the first things we'll really make in space will be super structures and pressure vessels because those are the simplest things to make and the materials don't require a massive supply chain. We could even gain a lot just by lifting up generic stock from Earth (metal powders, sheet stock that could be formed into tubes, or just a lot of generic tube stock [1]) and learning how to assemble them via machine in space. It would let us build larger stations or telescopes than we could launch from the ground.

For example if we build a super structure in space we could launch a lot of large inflatable modules to fill it in with that would be mechanically simpler and lighter because they don't have to bear and transmit the thrust force just support their own mass under thrust.

[0] Which increases the amount of benefit needed to justify redesigning an entire chip fab for example to function in zero-G.

[1] Though lifting tubes has the problem that there's a lot of wasted space in a stack of tubes which is one of the problems we're trying to avoid by building vehicles in space to begin with.
> This is why Disney+ and Fortnite logins were hijacked in the first place

Citation? I'm in total agreement with the problem of unexpiring tokens, but last I heard the suspected culprit in Disney+ was credential re-use. If there's newer info, I'd love to get a pointer to it.

> For that reason, Just do not use JWTs.

That seems a bit sweeping. You can apply the "unencrypted by default" dilemma to just about everything. Noting that you have to take an extra step doesn't invalidate the entire concept.
> And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer.

I don't know, I just tried it quickly on my mobile and everything was smooth. If you hire a designer be sure to get a good one so they don't ruin the simple use case experience.
Libre Office thinks its doing the world a favor but it's a pretty weak experience compared to what else is out there. Plus, fun fact, the markup language they use is quite verbose and weak compared to just html/css.

The only document format my beaurocracy accepts is .html.
I don't think a lot of businesses are really that dependent on the sophisticated Excel features. And if they are it's concentrated in certain areas. You can buy per seat licenses (honestly no idea how MS prices this) for whoever needs it and out the rest of the enterprise on something else for their documents.
I'd just like to know why companies who have Macs still buy MS Office as well... because it's compatibility with Windows Office is about as good as LibreOffice.
https://ipv4.potaroo.net/
And now they see the Streisand Effect in action.

This was an unfortunate reaction by them that will damage their social capital (a little at least) among one of their core markets. I doubt it'll drive them into bankruptcy, but it's irritating for me to see this sort of behavior.
It's the fact that it has a culture of grown-ups. Where by "grown-ups" I mean there is an avoidance of cute hacks for the sake of things, there is an approach where nobody assumes anyone is the same kind of expert, and takes care to contextualise.

There is a stronger emphasis on being able to _write_, to explain, etc.

I love really cute hacks and neat minilanguages and metaprogramming and all that when I am doing things for fun. But when I am working, I want documentation, not five-line git READMEs that presume I am up-to-date.
The narrative around Peloton is kind of strange to me. They were doing pretty well before the pandemic, then the pandemic hits, and they spent like this hockey stick growth is permanent and not just a trend, and then went in odd directions- focusing their energy on Peloton stores that sell apparel, for one example. Using that growth to move into different fitness areas and expand on their core product- interactive gamification based fitness- would have made a lot of sense to me- heart rate monitors that actually work, maybe weights that can detect how many reps you did that show up on a weight class leaderboard, would all fit in with the brand's draw. Trying to become the next Lululemon, I mean its not the worst idea I have ever heard, but it kind of goes against the idea of a relatively low fixed cost business model that can scale infinitely with almost zero incremental cost per user.

But the narrative that they are essentially a failed company, when they are still growing their user base, and haven't even really done much of an international expansion, is so far off from the reality that their management just spent money like drunken sailors on new businesses that no one wanted.
They are required for the CC transaction, this adds an additional player that should not be necessary. In civilized countries they have direct bank to bank transfers.
This is a super interesting article.

I'd avoided looking into NFT's because the concept strikes me as being just, well, cringe, but I'd assumed at least that the chains stored the hash of a jpeg or something.

You're telling me that they're not even immutable? They really just store urls with _no checksum of what's on the other end of the url_!?
I made a solver for this and did some comparison with Wordle: https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/solving-nerdle.... TL;DR even though there's an order of magnitude more possible words, you can solve it in fewer average guesses than Wordle pretty consistently.
Different dosing schedules would be interesting if this is the case. Maybe a large dose to start and then small regular doses to reinforce. If that shows promise, then look at tapering off and what the minimal amount would be to maintain the pathways.
Huh, I did not know that, I’ve also never seen one out in the wild.
I don't find it weird. It just shows how popular the app is and how dependent we became on it.
YNAB is excellent. They have auto-importing, auto-categorization, geotagging transactions with the mobile app, and cool community-led addons (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toolkit-for-ynab/l...)
I don't really understand what you're referring to when you say that Iran has a choice to improve their people's lives today. The Iranian leadership talked to the USA and worked out a deal. The USA then went back on that deal, reimposed sanctions without even trying to renegotiate, and basically declared war on Iran, assassinating a top Iranian general. What choice do you think that Iran has right now? Their choices are surrender to US aggression, or continue to resist. I've mentioned a few of the many recent regional episodes - Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the Kurds - which make it completely obvious that appeasement of the US will not end well for the Iranian government or its people. They are making the only rational choice at this juncture. Since they have no alternative they are blameless at this juncture. Since the USA does have choices - to go back to the deal, or to try to renegotiate a new deal with whatever demands they might add - the USA is therefore to blame for current Iranian suffering.