jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's right, you really have to do this for the love of it when nobody is paying your bills in return. Would love to hear how you get on with it if you do get a chance to try it out.
As sibling said, organisation was there, but also I think most people would feel very strongly about that issue, where here we are a minority.
I doubt that because arguably these problems are significantly worse in the US than in other first world English speaking countries (Anglophone Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
> It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mountain pass. And if the question arises of how a specific device is going to be used, in what I call an abstract ideal society, then one might very well say one cannot know.

> But we live in a concrete society, [and] with concrete social and historical circumstances and political realities in this society, it is perfectly obvious that when something like a computer is invented, then it is going to be adopted will be for military purposes. It follows from the concrete realities in which we live, it does not follow from pure logic. But we're not living in an abstract society, we're living in the society in which we in fact live.

> If you look at the enormous fruits of human genius that mankind has developed in the last 50 years, atomic energy and rocketry and flying to the moon and coherent light, and it goes on and on and on -- and then it turns out that every one of these triumphs is used primarily in military terms. So it is not reasonable for a scientist or technologist to insist that he or she does not know -- or cannot know -- how it is going to be used.

-- Joseph Weizenbaum, http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
Are all of your employees there for true flexibility (ie spending more time on their own project than work?)
Short of the 1% it is unlikley they are going to care about your $500 in an IRA or some robinhood junky
How would you know without the data? There are plenty of medical conditions with wildly divergent rates and pathophysiologies based on human genetics.
>Just tell them to ignore that complexity and only press this and this.

You have used 3 "just do this" kind of statements in this comment. I would not like to be in your class. Students should be encouraged to explore, and its a teacher's responsibility to create an environment where its fun and valuable and not frustrating. This is why newtonian mechanics is taught before quantum and quantum mechanics before quantum field theory. Once a person is familiar with one abstraction you drill down. I know all this is hard, but if it was easy everyone will just teach themselves. The whole point of having a teacher is someone who can setup a protective bubble around you when learning.
I don't think it's that no-one remembers that, but I don't think WhatsApp actually enforces this seriously. I have never paid for the service and each time the deadline for doing so approached, it had been extended.
You're missing the entire point. If they had a better design it would probably interest people more, pertinent information would be more visible, and it wouldn't look like it came out of 2002.

This is pretty much the "sales" page for Nim and it looks outdated and unmaintained. For comparison check out the Rust homepage. It's not "flashy" but it's simple and looks fairly nice. It gives you a simple example and tells you why you should be using Rust in as few words as possible.

http://www.rust-lang.org/

Here's some other sites that have fairly good designs that show that the community cares about how they and their language come across.

http://elixir-lang.org/
http://rubygems.org/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
https://new-www.haskell.org/
http://www.scala-lang.org/

All of those languages/tools show that the community/devs care about how they and their language look to others/potential adopters. I'm not saying that having a great site design (not graphical design, that's different) are going to make Nim the most popular language on the planet. I'm suggesting that it can, and will help if they move forward and pick up a more modern design and simplify the content to get their point across.
Yep, but you have to keep in mind that it was inspired by years of exposures to other languages.

http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007-a...
It sounds like it's not that you don't like Glicko but rather you'd prefer more variety in matchmaking. You can accomplish that easily by changing the way matchmaking picks your opponent.
He is not wrong... OP did not make this point however you can infer it, from his point of view

Actually in my limited knowledge about biology, both are right, when things are way discompensated, you have to use things to kill bacterias which almost take control of a part of your body (the baddies one) .
Legal wishes to remind you that that statement always needs this accompanying statement.

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yeah I made it to the middle of the jane jacobs / corbusier section and gave up

midsection is like fractally repetitive where it's repeating previous chapters and also repeating the current chapter

really good footnotes though
Is it that why now more people live on earth than ever since?
ALAC (and Sony's ATRAC) can be decoded using only integer math, which makes them very power efficient. It's the reason they exist in the first place.

MP3, FLAC (and I assume AAC) requires floating point math to decode.
For what it’s worth, TypeScript had somewhat of the same problem, and yet these days it’s rare for me to find a well known library that doesn’t include type definitions!
Audits. Sounds much like scientology, only at EU level.
This is a demonstration of the abilities of OpenAI's CLIP neural network. The tool will download a YouTube video, extract frames at regular intervals and precompute the feature vectors of each frame using CLIP.

You can then use natural language search queries to find a particular frame of the video. The results are really amazing in my opinion...

If you want to experiment with it yourself, I prepared a Colab notebook that can easily be run: https://colab.research.google.com/github/haltakov/natural-la...
So it only stores the difference between the two snapshots? ;)
Classic form-over-function scenario. If you're only paying attention to the aesthetics of a block of text—rather than actually reading it—it becomes a noisy and chaotic thing, to be reined in and reconciled to other elements in the visual grid.
Define "regularly". I've replaced pedals on bicycles I've owned exactly once in my lifetime. That includes the 4 year period prior to COVID that I commuted by bicycle and caltrain. It was much more difficult to loosen the bolts and get them re-fastened than the training wheels on my oldest's bicycle. Not to mention the handling of the chain.
It's not so simple, though. Retired people can quarantine. They might not want to, and they might choose not to, but they're able. Working-age people can't: they have to go out into the world and put themselves at risk in order to keep this show running.

The real question is: is our goal to minimize deaths, or to do what's fair? For the most part, we've chosen to heed the advice of our public health experts and minimize deaths.

But is it really fair that we vaccinate all the old people first, just so they can leave their home and get back to their weekly bingo nights, instead of the younger person working at a grocery store to make sure everyone has food on the table? From an ethics perspective, I don't think the answer is so clear-cut, and I think it's reasonable for people to gripe about it.
I am one of the programming parents, please help us get the word out to Wired, TechCrunch etc this ridiculous request can not be accepted. We have to put pressure on politicians to stop this now.

Fork our repos:
https://GitHub.org/kolplattformen/

Connect me to journalists:
https://twitter.com/landgren
Yeah, it's pretty rich to complain about UX on your webpage that hijacks scroll.
I shared this link in a sibling comment, but here it is again: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/neighborhood-defenders/...

A big problem is that local governments place a lot of weight on "community input," but the people giving input don't accurately reflect the community. People who show up to meetings tend to be strongly opposed to change and fit into demographic groups that have a lot of free time, i.e. older, richer, and whiter. This causes a lot of positive changes to be either outright vetoed or delayed indefinitely at the whim of NIMBYs.
Jogging through the hills of Stanford and Palo Alto in the 90s, you would occasionally smell something sweet, reminiscent of baking bread, even though there were no bakeries or homes nearby. I was told by an old-timer (worked in SV in the 60s and 70s) that's the smell of the outgassing TCE. Not sure if it's true, but it definitely made the smell less appealing.
This sounds, well, extremely California. Do you remember which proposition it was? I'd like to check it out in more detail, see if anything's actually happened.
Sadly, that is not crazy. Remember it was not that long ago in historical terms that fascism did hold a Western country.

Even now, while it is unlikely, it is very possible for it to happen. It is even possible for it to happen through the democratic process (in fact, that may be more likely with the current makeup of the West). People tend to turn to absolutes when they become desperate and it is quite forseeable that some combination of economic, military, political, or natural disasters will make some country so desperate they will once again try anything.
Understand they can do whatever the hell they like as you say. But I think the problem is in a way they're blackmailing their users. They're leveraging the fact that people are very unlikely to switch messaging platforms that they've invested in building a network in. It plays on our deepest instincts as social animals. No one wants to self exile themselves from their friendship group. Leveraging this instinct to grow your business is evil in my mind.
One of the common regulations you often hear about is "no purchase necessary" - even for games where most player get a chance to win by purchasing a product, they still need to provide some other mechanism like mailing in a request.
Money does not work that way. The debt literally is money. Paying it back would mean there would be no money.
It depends on the country you're in and what country your extended family is in. Whatsapp absolutely dominates in South Asia and South America. You can see a full map here: https://www.messengerpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/s...

Most Americans, for example, have no need for it. I feel like iMessage is the dominant messaging platform in the U.S.
Well, my position is that no institution, private or public, should possess such powers in the first place.
Missing option: none.

Whatsapp's value to me was negligible (that isn't to say I wasn't using it quite a lot; it's value was just low).

So I'm removing it and not replacing it.
I said that exact same thing, and passed on an offer from them- 4 years ago. I am not exactly kicking myself- at the time I was not an exercise bike enthusiast, and my few trips to Soul Cycle with my wife really turned me off- and regardless, I ended up landing a more lucrative role, even factoring in what stock grants would have been worth. About a year and a half ago, the wife bought a Peloton, and I rolled my eyes about our new expensive coat hanger, and I am currently on a 42 week streak.

I don't think you can pass this off as a fad- Soul Cycle first hit the scene around 2009, its still around- and they have just released a bike and service as well. Other look alikes have come on the market as well- Tonal and Mirror being the biggest. This is looking less like a fad and more like they were the leading edge of a smart exercise equipment industry.

Sure the specific piece of equipment that is in vogue might come and go, but I think Peloton is here to stay. This doesn't mean that gyms are going to close in the long run, but workout equipment as a service is a class of product that I feel is with us for the long haul.
A/B testing, probably.
Do you already have ideas when you fire up Photoshop? If not, how about some inspiration?

http://inspirationti.me/

http://minimalexhibit.com/

http://beautifulpixels.com/

If you already have several ideas, I recommend getting something down on the canvas as soon as possible. Just start with one element, like a menu for example.

You might also try prototyping with a simple HTML page with embedded styles. This lets you concentrate on one file in your text editor and then move the styles into a stylesheet later.

I also recommend writing some copy before you start designing; that way the content will help dictate the form of the site (e.g., do you need to present a lot of text or only a little?).
Same as any other rc sub, I'd presume
Spreading orders across manufacturers was actually quite prudent. Sanofi's mRNA vaccine is delayed. We have no reaon to believe that is was impossible that the same could have happened to Biontech / Pfizer and / or Moderna.

Overall the EU ordered 4+ doses per inhabitant, incl. minors. That seems to be enough. Single sourcing is never good. In case of vaccines it would mean that a) vaccines are delayed b) manufacturing issues happen. Also ordering enough from each manufacturer would have blown their manufacturing capacites. The necessary capacity increases woud just have further delayed deliveries, as the Pfizer plant in Belgium shows quite clearly.

And yes, as far as I understood the AZ contract, alocations are the same for each EU memeber state. Proportionally of course, Germany will get more doses in absolute numbers than, say, Luxembourg.
When using a well-known site like TurboTax, while I'm totally appalled by their business practices, I have at least an assumption that I can do my taxes half decent (and not too much more than that either). It will be really hard for an open source project to gain enough momentum for me to have the same confidence. For a lot of other open source projects I can just try, and see what happens. But I'm not going to try and see what happens if I'm ever getting audited. And I'm using (begrudgingly) TurboTax exactly because I know nothing about tax code, so the unit tests (yet to be written) would not tell me much. I find this project very sympathetic, though, but I'll have to pass.
Remote work is a coveted benefit, subject to the same economics as other coveted benefits: employers will have to offer it as it becomes normalized, and offered by their competitors in the war for talent.

Similar to how office food benefits used to be extremely rare niche, and now are extremely common.

Not sure where you got "ploy" or "evil employers", nothing in my post implies those things.
> Mir and WAyland was because wayland couldn't do what they wanted technically.

What exactly is it that you think Wayland couldn't do and why was it necessary to invent an incompatible application interface to achieve that?

> Snap came BEFORE flatpak. Flatpak was the "new competing standard" in that situation.

And AppImage came before snap.
I'd rather say an API is only as good as the clients/libraries for it.

Having an API is nice, documenting it is nice, but this is not what developers are going to use.

If you only publish API documentation, you will end up with tons of half-baked, soon-to-be-unsupported, incompatible client libraries.

And until then, people will have to roll their own clients based on the documentation, which is not fun. Nobody wants to reinvent a REST client, deal with errors, timeouts, data conversion and how to match the API with actual use cases.

Especially when evaluating a new service, the last thing you want is have to read an API documentation before being able to do anything with the service.

Take MySQL. The protocol is all binary, and mostly undocumented. Yet, it's used everywhere because the MySQL maintainers are shipping a C library on top on which people built bindings.

Same for MongoDB. Even though there are alternative/additional client libraries, they are maintaining client libraries for many languages. Getting started with MongoDB is easy; one doesn't have to read an API documentation at all.

What if changes have to be made to the API? If the same team maintains the reference client libraries, it can be totally transparent to users. If you expect people to write their own client, it will be painful.

Please provide good reference client libraries so that people can immediately use the service, even before thinking about API documentation. And writing client libraries is also a good way to realize what's broken/inconvenient in the API.
You are seeing that. In a random repository by a random person who didn't even bother to keep the history of the original repo. The github-equivalent of a chain letter...
FP people do not always, even often, resort to type systems to solve problems. But then I am one of them and it could be DK working on me.
Matches up pretty well with my experience, too. I do not trust fleet as far as I can throw it.
In case you're wondering, you're being downvoted because you're not supposed to say things like "this is interesting" or "I agree" on HN. Comments are supposed to have content to them. Otherwise they should just be in the form of upvotes.
Congrats to Greg and the team.
Income tax is only half of federal government income though, the other half is mostly taxes levied on corporations.
This is what happens when apple forces browsers to use Safari's rendering engine. Could it be better, sure. Use an OS that allows Firefox to use its own renderer if it bugs you that much.
sorry, sometimes my fingers and my brain aren't in sync.

yes in my experience the best IC turned managers are about on par with a mediocre manager that is really good at managing, and didn't come up as a coder, and the best managers I've had have all been from other backgrounds.

No doubt there are great coders-turned-managers out there, but it often seems like the "people skills" are just assumed to be easy to acquire, when actually they take a pretty complicated mix of talent and experience for that sort of thing as well
I have worked in a mostly remote company. Eventually everyone just stops going to the office as they are not sure if anyone will be there. Eventually the real estate sits empty and the employer exits it
TFA does not say that $1B is for Australia - implies it's worldwide.
Companies are motivated by profit. Therefore it is in our best interest for news companies to have a business model such that they profit off of producing quality news coverage. The current market clearly is not doing a good job of rewarding news companies for quality coverage... but I'm worried this might make it worse. Has Facebook published any information indicating how they plan to distribute that $1B?
This whole thread is chaos, but I just wanted to share my experience in case its useful for anybody. Once our kids were out of the bassinet and into a larger cot, rolling and crawling around a lot, it was really clear they just wanted to be with us, and in the end we just found it best for everybody if they just slept between us or even lying on my chest.
The original is:

"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create"

From "Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion":

http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?work...
Another possible solution is to require initialization of reference types upon declaration, instead of silently supplying a new default object if no initialization is given. A bit more verbose, but might be clearer (esp. in Java-land, where stuff happening behind the scenes without explicit code is frowned on).

Ocaml basically does that, though it feels sort of second-nature rather than a restriction, because syntactically, the only way to get a reference is to take a reference of something. Eiffel "attached types" are similar (guaranteed to always be "attached" to a non-Void value), but have a somewhat more complex scheme of possibilities: http://docs.eiffel.com/sites/docs.eiffel.com/files/void-safe...

A big potential problem, I think, would be whether people use null-setting patterns often enough that they would work around the proposed change, by using these default-constructed objects as glorified null values, maybe by having them set an "I'm a dummy object" flag internally or something.
perhaps you meant Gordon Moore?
Yeah, it essentially has no news, economics, politics, science, etc. It's more the HN of 3 years ago when it was way more tech startup focused.
It doesn't have to be $333,333.34 if you know how to invest. Or pick a high-interest savings account if you don't :)
Probably FIGlet font packages have some kind of license, which is open enough, and the problem goes back to FIGlet and not to the original author.

If the original authors had some problem with someone using these fonts (and keep in mind that ASCII fonts are somehow "easy" to think from scratch!) they would have complained way earlier.
Actually I did a little more reading (offline, no link unfortunately) and apparently in this execution four of the five firing squad members were firing live rounds, and one fired a blank. The reasoning for this is that each person can say "well, at least there's a chance that I fired the blank". Over time, each man will believe he fired the blank, to console himself. The weakness in this concept is that an experienced marksman will be able to tell the difference between a live round and a blank (more recoil from a live round).
Crazy to think my $200 phone is now more powerful than my $1200 desktop Mac was only ten years ago.

same old fallacy again. iPhone total cost is much more than $1200.
yra lietuvių, bet ne Vilniuje.
I'm definitely not thinking of SICP, but now that I look at the table of contents of _The Little Schemer_ I must have been thinking of another book. It had an innocuous title but very tricky and subtle contents. It wasn't very long. And it wasn't _Simply Scheme_ either.
"I actually think Direct3D is a rather better API today. [For example], Direct3D handles multi-threading better, [while] newer versions manage state better," Carmack told Custom PC.

http://www.google.com/search?q=carmack+prefers+direct3d

:)
Yeah, but Blackberry - that old, stodgy enterprise phone your dad uses - has the best image of all phones in street culture.

We touched on this in another HN thread recently, but back home in the UK there is even a popular garage track called "Blackberry Hype":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omehnInidjA&feature=playe...

The full lyrics diss-out the iPhone because to them it's all about Blackberry - you wanna tell them they're wrong? ;)

I think as technologists we can pontificate that Apple (usually) imperically has the best hardware and software, but that's not how image and culture decide what is best.
Green color probably doesn't work too well. What would be a good color?

I'll reduce the 3 steps to 1 like others suggested and simplify the message. Thanks.
Not completely true. Permanent residents can, for example, be stripped of their PR status for committing crimes and are required to carry evidence of their PR status at all times.

But in any case, wrt anything that concerns immigration matters (which visas fall under), there is most definitely not equal treatment.