jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is true. It would be nice if the welfare didn't have to come from the state.

I'm solving this and am announcing my findings Sunday at the Texas bitcoin conference.

The fix is really pretty simple.
> But great players don't do that

I remember in my teenage years hanging out with some friends. The son was always encouraged to perform. Even when he did not want to. Even at age 12, he was phenomenal. He now plays professionally for an orchestra in the string section. I wish I remembered more about how he practiced - I think he did it because he really loved playing.
The problem is that they specifically made it sound like it was a late-breaking decision in their wording on the online poll and elsewhere.
I still prefer using well-formed XML when serving HTML, even if it is HTML5 being served as text/html. I like being able to use XML tools when dealing with html, e.g. XPath queries in automated tests, etc..

This obviously does take some effort to get right, and for most people may not be worth the trouble. W3C has some info on this practice here:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-a...
You would hope so, in fact I have a business that I'm working on that has dumb obvious patents filed in the US but I'm a UK citizen.

I still reckon they'll come after me though, they love to waste time and think because they 'had an idea' that they own the rights.
I read once that you could request a gift card and unplug the machine's phone line, causing it to give you the full cash value.

http://www.antiyawn.com/guidetocoinstar.html
I imagine this is prompted by Amazon's free usage tier. I hope it's successful for Linode, though with the AppSumo credit and now this I can't help but feel a little envious of the new users.
Everyone always seems so positive about Rust. I'd love to try it for some personal projects. Are there any downsides beyond the niggle the author mentioned?

Are compilation speeds an issue for anyone?

Is there much that can be done to improve this? (Both in Rust itself and at a developer level; presumably a faster dev machine helps?)
You can see the same kind of psychology in those that claim they've created free-energy machines and also the "Einstein was wrong" crowd.

It's peculiar kind of chip-on-the-shoulder combining a sense of under-dog angst with a large heap of obfuscation to counter attempts at understanding.

Some are better at this kind of stuff than others, and remain as high-functioning members of society. The Bogdanov affair comes to mind as well Eric Weinstein's mathless and paperless "Geometric Unity" theory.
I'm not sure that's what you intended (2.2mm - did you mean 2.2m ?), but people wouldn't even notice a 2.2 millimeter difference in their coffee cups, much less in oceans.

Even if you live right next to an ocean, or a river, or even run a hydro power plant, a 2.2mm difference in that water level is literally smaller than you can measure even if you really tried to - the natural random fluctuations of "your" water level (e.g. the effect of current, or small waves or ripples even in very low wind) are far greater than that.
You can also use ddclient, it is available on most Linux distributions.
Read the article. Despite poor results from China, WHO feels larger testing against a wider variety of patients is warranted.
I think it's due to a multitude of factors:

1) It sounds like a trivial amount, it's not much more than your arm span. It's difficult to translate this to understanding how many places would be flooded.

2) There's an insane amount of fake news out there which leads to cognitive dissonance.

3) They simply don't care. You'll often hear people say "well what do you expect when you're right next to water? These people accepted the risk, it's their problem"
is this on addons.mozilla.org? I couldn't find it there.
Yeah, but a good programmer who thinks he's a great programmer will likely be a pain in the ass to work with.
20 tries?! That's a lot. Could you let me know what browser/OS combination you were using?

Your idea sounds brilliant. But my concern is, don't you think the teleporting will start to look like cheap AI? I mean, teleported pixels will jump walls of pixels and might evade any strategy the user is trying to adopt. It will essentially break the rules of the game and will give a totally different experience (in the negative sense) of the game. Imagine a strategy game like Age of Empires in which all the AI does it to fly across the map and attack your area directly!

Or is it just me thinking this way?
This.

Can someone with some financial background refute this? Why is buying assets a better idea? In concrete, non-abstract, non-hand-wavey, laymen terms, how is it going to make the Average Joe get through this crisis? How is it going to help him pay for his rent/food/etc in the next 2-3 months, and potentially longer when he possibly will have no job?
I would be worried about the ocular toxicity and ototoxicity side effects.

I would only want this drug given to me if there was no hope of recovery.
Depends on where one is coming from.

For example, while I do find quite interesting what Rust developers have managed to do with linear types, to the point that they have influenced language designers from D, Swift, C++, Haskell, OCaml to find ways to adopt them into their language designs, if Go community would be more welcomed to modern language design, that would be enough for my use cases.

As I am a firm believer, that even it takes beyond my lifetime, all modern OSes will eventually be like Mesa/Cedar, Oberon, Singularity, Midori,....

By the way, Java is not a Web / glue language, there are plenty of embedded bare metal deployments using it, e.g. PTC, Aicas, IBM, Gemalto, Kyocera, Ricoh, all have offerings in that regard.

If you want examples for systems programing in Go have a look at Android's GPU debugger, gVisor hypervisor, F-Secure USB key, TinyGo for micro-controllers, or its boostraped compiler.
The presentation is over-the-top, but could someone help me assess the content? I'd especially appreciate input from people who have advanced knowledge of economics.
And to think I was going to joke that what we need is an OpenIDID standard to manage our OpenIDs for us.
I had hoped that less people on HN are familiar with Dan Brown's books.
Yeah, totally pointless post. Buy it, plug it in, install the software. Great.
Do you have any idea how expensive a child is for that same 20 years? Way more expensive than the computer maintenance and energy bill, my friend (I offer my beleaguered bank account as evidence) - and you can't copy the software after maturation, either.
I'm going any deeper except to say that Chertoff (a) is a lawyer and (b) was the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. I can't think of anyone on the planet more informed on the regulatory issues surrounding airport scanners being purchased by the department of Homeland Security than Chertoff.
Indeed. Ever the ones for brand originality, we're using artwork from iStockPhoto. At some point, I'll probably commission an illustrator to redo it all, but for now it works OK.
I think this is an object lesson in the value of social skills and conference going. I doubt that Calacanis would be able to keep this circus going if he hadn't cultivated some excellent relationships inside Google. I can't really blame the Googlers involved; it's hard to knowingly wreck the business of someone who's been a good friend, even if you know they deserve it.
The promess of Voice Recognition has never been the actual transcripting of the spoken word - although even that would be quite useful if a high degree of accuracy is achieved - but rather in the idea of controlling a computer by simply talking to it using natural language. People want the computer to behave as if it is a colleague, not a machine.

Of course we're a long way from that goal. Firstly, people don't understand just how difficult it is to express clearly what it is that you want. I have a good friend that had bought an iPhone whilst she was living abroad for 6 months. On returning back home, she wanted to be able to add new songs to her iPhone without losing the stuff already on there. That's how she described the task to me, as the go-to person for computer problems. So I started asking a bunch of questions - do you still have the same computer that you were using abroad? Do you want copy the music already on the iPhone onto your computer? What about other data on the iPhone, do you need to recover that too, or can I blow it away? She got very frustrated with all of these questions and finally just snapped "Oh, you know what I mean, I just want to be able to use my iPhone normally, including adding new stuff to it!"

Sigh. She really didn't (doesn't) understand that this just isn't enough information for me to work with - and that's me, as a walking talking human being with a strong understanding of what the computer is doing. How is a computer, with problems in transcribing the spoken words, let alone understanding the underlying meaning of those words, and not having any idea of the real world context of the problem, supposed to figure out what she wanted?
And, slightly older MacBooks always run Ubuntu great :-)
Incredible to have marketing and spec-sheet, for an electrical car, without ever mentioning the range.
That's what I was wondering... is it just the increased growth hormone levels in the young blood or is it the blood cells themselves?

If I'm reading the article right, it was neither, but actually just the plasma:

> Plasma alone had the same effects. “We didn't have to exchange the whole blood”

Did they remove the growth hormones from the plasma? It doesn't say...
Who is claiming that every one should be using an ORM? Even SQLAlchemy can/should be used without the ORM.
This is of interest because it provides a much better methodology for lengthening telomeres, with more control than genetic engineering, and therefore a faster path to establishing why telomerase therapy extends life in mice.

Average telomere length in tissue is a measure of health in general: since telomere length decreases with each cell division it is a proxy for some combination of cell division rates and rate of influx of fresh new cells with long telomeres provided by the stem cell population maintaining a tissue. Since average telomere length is often measured in white blood cells it goes up and down with health and generally downward with age. Stem cell activity declines with age, so this shouldn't be surprising.

Lengthening telomeres via telomerase may extend life in mice for any number of reasons, some of which actually have nothing to do with telomeres. Telomerase, like all biomolecules, has a lot of roles, not all of which are fully understood. Alternative and more controllable methods of lengthening telomeres should help narrow down what is going on in those studies. Is it greater stem cell activity, something to do with telomerase influencing mitochondrial function, something completely different?

In general if you're thinking of aging as accumulated molecular damage, telomere shortening looks like a consequence not a root cause. It may cause further issues itself, but targeting it is probably not as effective as going for the actual root causes that lead to it. The interesting question is why telomerase therapy does do comparatively well in extending life in mice.
Is Google is going to stop putting ads on her content or remove her content from Youtube? I don't think that's what they're saying. Aren't they just saying they're going to stop paying her. Actually the hell of it is that she doesn't really have the choice to get her content off Youtube at all. Is she going to take her $324/mo payment stream from Spotify and use it to pay for the barrage of DMCA takedown's she's going to need to send to keep her content off Youtube?
Of course there is. It's just slower and more cumbersome than YouTube would like to deal with, for the sake of their business model.
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It's significantly different from the stock orange, but it complements the logo well. I only care about it because it lets me know whether I'm logged in or not.
In war... archers always fired en mass

There are more kinds of battle in war than set-piece battles between large hybrid armies.
Same here (but with Zork)... Zork lead to Hypercard... Hypercard lead to a career as a programmer. Pretty cool when you think about it.
I feel obliged to quote Adam Chlipala of Ur/Web fame:

I also want to emphasize that I'm not trying to maximize adoption of Ur/Web. Rather, I'm trying to maximize the effectiveness of people who do choose to use it. This means that I'm completely happy if basic features of Ur/Web mean that 90% of programmers will never be able to use it.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ur@impredicative.com/msg00327.ht...

I think that "rejectionism" could be quite justified. And I think that Adam point is applicable here.
What is the history of the term "fat binary"? I first heard of it as a term for Mac applications that combined 68k and PowerPC code, and wasn't really aware of any wider use.

Can you make a program these days that runs natively on M1, x86, PowerPC, and 68k Macs?
I was searched with one around the year 2000, IIRC, at the San Francisco airport. I think it was pretty experimental.

edit: there might have been a similar setup at Orly in France in 1997, come to think of it. The striking thing there was the soldiers with rifles (just 3 of them, but walking around) and the way they searched one of my grandmother's bags when the x-ray showed something that looked like a grenade. (it was glass in a weird shape) They were friendly and had a sense of humor about it, and it didn't slow us down, which all made a big difference.
I was annoyed that my media is only available on my main machine, if I wanted to watch something on my phone or show a photo to someone, I needed to boot it up. So a home server to host files for me and my household seemed logical. Since then I went on a degoogling trip and as part of that, I installed Nextcloud, also very useful. I also do my backups to the homeserver (and then back up the homeserver too).
Only if you're doing science. It's possible to find things out without science slowing you down, but I wouldn't ordinarily recommend it; science is a great way to avoid the common traps that humans invariably fall into when they try to bypass the scientific method.
I see, I apologize for the unintended misrepresentation.

However one of the things I jumped into the assumption that the blog post was stealth advertising for Nomad was a few exaggerated claims that feel quite a stretch to be able to come up with anything in favour of Nomad over Kubernetes.

One of them, for example, is that

Nomad is supposed to be "significantly easier than microk8s or minikube or kind" to run locally as a dev environment. Well, anyone familiar with minikube is well aware that to get it up and running you only need to install it and kubectl, and quite literally just run 'minikube start'. Nomad agent is not only far more convoluted to get up and running according to Nomad's official documentation, but it is also explicitly stated that it's use is highly discouraged. Don't you feel that you're misrepresenting Nomad's selling points?
Central limit theorem does not apply unless each experiment is independent. This is not true of the concepts which psychometrician operationally define including personality factors and intelligence.

As an example: Human height is not normally distributed. It is multi-modal based on geographical location, socioeconomic status and sex. There are genetic and environmental factors that makes it so that each childbirth is not an independent event marking a new height.

The same holds for personality traits (if they exists) and intelligence (if it exists as described by IQ tests). The field of psychometrics has a problem with assigning normal distribution to everything even though there is reason to belief things are not normally distributed.
There should be a fund that guarantees a return in excess of an index (adjusted for fees).

In exchange the fund managers would get fees and excess returns on their clients capital.

This way instead of arguing over which approach is better, both groups can benefit from one another.

An example could work like this:

Someone (Goldman, why not) starts a fund called the AlphaPlus fund. Its a mutual fund. You pay a 10% up front commission to get into it, and can withdraw your money whenever you want. Goldman promises to return the exact same as the S&P 500 *PLUS* 1% apr.

Say I hold for 5 years and want to get out. The S&P goes up 10% per year during that time. Goldman owes me whatever an 11% rate of return on whatever I invested up front.

Say I hold the fund for 5 years and want to get out. The S&P has a rate of return of -12% apr. Goldman owes me a -11% rate of return on my principal.

Goldman does this because they get a fat 10% upfront fee from me, plus they can use their super-wizard skills to invest my money in something that returns like 30% apr. Thus, their profit is fees + however much they can beat the market by (and the 1% they owe me).

(edited to give better example given access to keyboard)
Facebook is not the only evil site on the Internet. I recommend PrivacyBadger in addition to defend from many other trackers.
Rather than getting a tax card, those in the US get Free File. Free file is deal Intuit and others made with the US government in 2001 to "improve ... Government to Citizen electronic capabilities". Filing companies offer a free filing option an in exchange the IRS does not develop their own. 70% of filers are supposed to be able to free file, however in practice ~2% actually do so.

Since then Intuit and others have been a powerful lobbying force against filing simplification for obvious reasons. In fact they are incentivized to make free filing as impractical as possible. The path to free filing is best described as an anti-funnel. Online tax filing systems are a field guide to dark patterns aimed against finding their way toward free filing. And why not? Tricking millions into paying for something that is ostensibly free is a great business tactic.

What we actually get is a resulting tax system which is purposely confusing to get people to pay for something they should be able to get for free already and which funds lobbyists to fight against changing it. Good for us.

Edit: found this funny. Turbo Tax's Encroachment strat https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6483061-Intuit-Turbo...
This yet another example of why gift economy members need to understand that you don't owe anyone support. If you publish As-Is, thank you. If you promise to support the OS/Hardware in your lab, thank you. If you accept patches from users with weird use-cases, thank you.

If you get too much bug spam, you need to set up filters and auto replies and volunteer helpers to help you find the reports you care about.

You don't owe anyone support.
Unfortunately I am on iOS where there is no such functionality :(

Kind of makes it worse in a way as it clearly shows they do care about backups just not doing it consistently.
I think the question is less about "can it maintain a (premise of) scarcity" and more "are the scarce tokens worth having?"

There's plenty of things that are scarce but essentially worthless. There's no robust secondary market in Penn Central Railroad timetables, the little plastic caps that SNES cartridges came with, or copies of the May 18, 1986 edition of Arizona Republic.

Having a built in utility factor is a very strong way to answer the "is it worth having?" question. It provides a stickiness to the asset, rather than just being a pump-and-dump vehicle.

Gold says "I'm worth having! I can be made into jewelry and really good connectors for premium audio cables."

The paper dollar says "I'm worth having! I can keep the IRS from sending you to jail."

Hell, even MMORPG gold says "I'm worth having, because you can trade me for a Sparkly Unicorn Rainbow Dragon of Death mount."

Different cryptocurrencies are making a wide range of cases, ranging from "I can let you transfer value cheaply and quickly across borders" to "I can let you buy contraband goods without an obvious paper trail." And a lot of these claims are still to be proven or fully realized.

It's entirely possible we're barking up the wrong tree with blockchain. Maybe there's a killer app for it that's not currency, but the current trends seem to be predominantly about it. (It feels like a lot of the supply-chain-tracking and registry-of-ownership hype died down)
Why not just use a stablecoin for the transfer?
Lol "you aren't likely to share the same opinions as me because of a word you used so I I'm going to ignore you". Very intellectual, rational, and nuanced good brain type thinking.

This article is about surgical masks which are basically tissue paper not N95's. In some healthcare settings N95 is required especially when dealing with immunocompromised or extremely infections diseases like active TB or SARS. The evidence for these is much stronger
I'm getting a Chesterton vibe (big fan). I've probably read this before, I remember the twist about the cat :-)
How is that different from the USD, the scarcity of which is enforced by the USG?
From a strictly rational perspective, avoiding any and all infection is not the correct decision because that way you don’t build up an immune system and remain massively vulnerable to the mildest of diseases.
I’ll bite. There is actually a very simple argument to be made as long as you accept the premise that 1. Death is a natural part of life, and 2. It’s not years of life that should be saved, but _quality_ years of life.

I find it unethical to take away all quality of life for hundreds of millions of young people in the prime of their lives, as well as destroying thousands of small businesses, so that bed ridden 90 year olds can be bed ridden for a couple more years, at best. Yet this is exactly what is happening, at least in Europe, with draconian lockdowns and curfews in place while vaccinating groups that didn’t leave their houses pre-COVID either.

With how things are going currently in my country my peers and I will be lucky if we can be vaccinated in 2021.
I tend to disagree with this sentiment only because our actions in life have consequences. The SV bro club have/had their issues for obvious reasons & I think its more than fair that entrepreneurs that might be interested in funding from so etc should be aware of such a past.

Harvey Weinsteins's new fund is here to help save the world... Should we not mention his past?
In Texas, at least, police can't pull you over in a car that doesn't say "Police". I suppose they could have plainclothes officers drive the "stealth" cars with their decals in reflective light gray, so long as they still would be "undercover" under the wording of the policy/laws.
I've often worried about this but when I do go back to my old projects it's usually not that bad. Sometimes I'll find something dumb I did and rewrite it, but for the most part the code is easy enough to read and modify.

More than once I've thought I've run into a bug and figure out what the problem likely is, only to go into the code and discover that I already covered that case and the bug is something else entirely.

Most of the rewrites are because I had to do something awkwardly because some feature didn't exist in a library, or it was broken and I had to work around it. Then a couple of years down the road that bug or missing feature has been fixed and I can pull out the hacks and do it the elegant way.
Would add that in addition to the time the chance to make money at it (in various parts) is not that great. Like any art there are many people willing to work for next to nothing in order to be in that business. I'm not seeing that with the startup industry. (Perhaps because in the startup industry you have golden handcuffs throwing money at you for your skills that doesn't happen in the movie industry for all but a few people).