jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, I'm not that familiar with the "spirit" of HN, but that comment seemed pretty mild to me.

To your last sentence, first, yes I believe what I've written. I am an Australian citizen. I personally don't think I do enough to "right [our] wrongs", but that doesn't stop me believing in the principle of democratic responsibility. I recently have gone to a Climate Change protest, voted, and donated 10% of my salary to helping people who deserve help but aren't getting it from our government. Day-to-day I also avoid participating in activities I believe are wrong but which are made illegal/regulated in my society (eg. eating meat).

But again, the above is kinda besides the point. I believe in democratic responsibility so look first to question what I'm able to do rather than blaming some third-party, and wouldn't complain about "you guys chose..." phrasing.
This is absolutely untrue. If you’d like, I can link threads in guns or us to illustrate this, but I assure you that so-called “Israeli carry” is roundly ridiculed.
I think for the larger models now it's more likely people are remotely logging into GPU clusters at this point. I don't think it will be that big of a change.
I think it is demonstrably proven that Facebook has no qualms about aiding and abetting government campaigns of crushing dissent across the world, despite its claims of "cherishing free speech". Facebook (and Twitter) has been doing the same in India [1].

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/02/27/india-climate-activists-...
The standard polite way to request an agent is:
"operator operator fuck fuck fuck"
> Are you working with the OP or is this different?

It is a separate server.

> I wasn't sure how discord works.

Discord (https://discord.com) allows a user to create a "server" for a topic of interest. Other discord users can then join the server. The admins of the server can create multiple channel for discussing sub-topics.

> The OP posted a discord username, not a different channel (I think)

Yes, you are right. OP posted his/her username. Whereas I posted a discord server link. You can join the server by creating a discord account on https://discord.com
> Shall we give the real data, no data, or simulated data.

Or even a selected subset of real+fake data. (With the ability to define sets that could be reused across application.)

Sometimes I want the app to have access to some of my contacts, but not all of them. For example, my work contacts but not my personal friends, or vice versa. Or simply "my contacts that told me they were also using this app". PLUS hundred fake contacts to poison the data.
My parents replaced the roof on their 150-year-old slate-roofed house, as did several other people on the street.

A house that old will often have developed a few minor leaks in its lifetime. It's been subject to a lot of weathering. Probably it was put in without any felt underneath, as was normal at the time. Maybe the nails have weakened from rust. Many lofts are a bit damp, due to condensation as the roof is of course cold. So often the battens holding the slates will be a bit tired as well.

You spend a few years with strategically placed plastic tubs catching drips, then a once-a-decade storm comes along, you lose several slates at once, and it's time for a new roof.
MBTI reproduces much better if you treat the preferences as axes.

Most people who take MBTI seriously don't use the functions.
What is more efficient, and do you have numbers to back that up?
Are more of them being reported of late?
The entire field of astrology is based on similar confirmation bias, very broad and vague assertions on character are likely to resonate on way or the other. That's the main reason I took this test with a grain of salt.

Here, let me paste random lines from the "16 personalities" website describing various types:

> $type may feel directionless or stuck unless they connect with a sense of purpose for their lives.

> Embracing the values of honesty, dedication and dignity, people with the $type personality type are valued for their clear advice and guidance, and they happily lead the way on difficult paths.

> This can earn them a reputation for inflexibility, a trait shared by all $type personalities, but it’s not because $type are arbitrarily stubborn, but because they truly believe that these values are what make society work.

> Despite all this, $type are definitely Introverts, surprising their friends further when they step out of the spotlight to be by themselves to recharge. Just because they are alone though, doesn’t mean people with the $type personality type sit idle – they take this time for introspection, assessing their principles. Rather than dwelling on the past or the future, $type think about who they are.

> These personalities can be both the boldest of dreamers and the bitterest of pessimists. $type believe that, through willpower and intelligence, they can achieve even the most challenging of goals. But they may be cynical about human nature more generally, assuming that most people are lazy, unimaginative, or simply doomed to mediocrity.

I took all these samples from different profiles randomly, and I relate to a certain extent to all of them. Obviously I cherry-picked a bit but it shows that if you want to believe that the test is working it won't be hard to confirm-bias any result that you get.
Logitech's line of Harmony remotes were (are?) great for this. Physical buttons, programmable sequences, and a touch screen.
They are pretty weak points. By his logic, when you join a company and work you are speculating that you will get paid a salary. At that point everything is speculation and nothing is certain. By writing this comment I am speculating that a HTTP call will be made that results in a database entry. Since humans are not perfect and never have complete information about a system they engage in speculation in every single moment of their life. The comment is effectively value neutral or maybe even net negative and merely criticizes terminology and semantics, not the actual topic itself.

Namely Bitcoin generates no returns but everyone expects it to. Since everything is speculation we are still allowed to rate the speculation by how risky it is. Surviving long enough to finish writing this comment has a 99.9999% chance or more. So this type of speculation isn't risky at all. Meanwhile betting that Bitcoin will go up or down is inherently risky since there is no driving force behind Bitcoin other than human behavior itself.
I don't disagree with the author's points but I think that almost all non-tech Mac users are better off with Big Sur.

My preference is mostly using my new M1 MacBook Pro for software development (Common Lisp, Python, Haskell, mostly), but having a nice System76 Linux laptop when I want to do whatever I want with my hardware or system.
GIFs are nice for short looping clips, because they can be embedded anywhere and they don't glitch out unexpectedly like every single "using videos as gifs" solution out there.
My side project is a Windows application I started writing on Windows XP. I had to make a grand total of 0 changes to the app to support Windows 7, Vista, and 10.

It will still run on anything from XP to Windows 10.
BTC mining is using a significant amount of global energy production every year now. The more cynical might say that ultimately it's a waste of human effort, but I have to say that this bug (and it's most definitely a bug) should be patched (and should've been patched) to save the kilowatts of power wasted parsing mostly the same data.
Of course.

It's a useful commodity resource. It can be use for industry, science, dentistry, jewelry, etc.

But I do think the store of value use case where you arbitrarily hoard this useful commodity in a vault so you can sell it later is starting to die. Nation states and companies that need it for it's actual utility will still hoard it as a strategic reserve, like we do with crude oil, helium, uranium, water, grain, maple syrup, etc. But that's a complex risk assessment decision that depends on a lot of variables from predictions of future supply flow to geopolitics that individuals won't be able to evaluate.

I think bitcoin will replace gold as the long term money battery, where you can arbitrarily store value that you don't know what to do with yet for a long time. It might take decades of continued volatility and growth to get to that steady state.
> illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox.

Which is great, except you are punishing the crime, before it even occurred. Remember use of torrents are not illegal per se, sharing files which you do not copyright of, and piracy is.

> there were no legal threats or any other shenanigans to the author or people hosting. (EDIT - No applicable. Read Drew's edit.)

DMCA takedown notice is a legal threat. Worse part is, its not even valid, IANAL, but do you own the copyright of the data or the copyright owner approached you to issue a DMCA takedown notice?

> it auto-generated a DMCA takedown notice to the OP, which as many pointed out here was invalid and particularly inappropriate in this case, and was absolutely not what we intended to do.

Please do not send legal notices, without lawyers reviewing them?
I appreciate the nice-guy approach here, but there remains two problems with it: relying on the goodwill of internet strangers not to abuse the service and exposing Dropbox to false DMCA takedown liability. "Under penalty of perjury," I think the clause goes. That auto-takedown workflow might need a little revision, but I'm sure you already realize this.
If that is his point, I'd have to disagree. In marketing, yes, that holds true. But when it comes to warmth/non functional touches of the actual OS, Android almost has that to a fault (live wallpapers that unnecessarily task the phone, but are fun and playful; widgets that can be almost MySpace-esque; the old fashioned tube TV lock animation; etc.). Especially when compared the mostly functional and staid grid of icons and clean lines iOS goes for with the occasionally playful skeuomorphism.

I guess to just boils down to Gruber preferring iOS.
Let's put this in context. Here's what I don't get: the DropShip code is just an exploit of the fundamental architecture flaw of cross-user content deduplication, revealed earlier this month [1]. As the closest thing to a resident security expert around here tptacek (at least to me, I find your comments very enlightening on the whole), how do you feel about a company dismissing an exploit when it's still just an idea, then rushing to erase all evidence of the exploit once it's realized?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438181
The DMCA notice came as a result of an automated support system. The CTO's understanding was the system blocked access to individual files, but the real purpose is blocking access as part of DMCA requests, so it automatically sends the DMCA notices out.

This wasn't somebody trying to strong-arm somebody else. It was an understandable mistake.
Would the civil litigation be against the company or the person? What sort of penalties are involved in such cases? If they lose, would the winner basically own a chunk of dropbox?

(sorry, none American and not a lawyer)
> Great, and that's all you should've done in this case

I doubt that is what the lawyers said.
Then they should fire the lawyer who a-OKed to send the invalid DMCA takedown notice(s), which makes Dropbox culpable for it.
I agree with your assessment. It seems that the DMCA notice was a mistake, there was no real takedown issued to Dropbox.
> Is such control too much for an artist to ask for in 2015?

Yes. The world isn't designed around you playing mix-and-match with a bunch of different services.

What Zoe has missed is not that the tech world doesn't understand things "outside their reality". It's that we in tech know we have to choose between what's best for the vast, vast majority of people and what's convenient for a tiny handful.

Technology still changes the world for the better, Zoe. The only difference is now you're on the side of the old guard.
I think the idea that aging may be an evolved anti-cancer mechanism is interesting. Death of individuals is itself probably a selective advantage for the species. Though I suppose shorter lifespans are also more commonly seen in species that reproduce sexually so that preference for continued biological variance is probably also a factor.
Bridgewater doesn't need to convince their audience of their credibility. They're consistently one of the most profitable investment firms in the world. If they were just finding an audience, it might be necessary for them to temper their phrasing, but from their position it may be valuable to be intentionally provocative.
In my day job I'm constantly reading PDFs. Being able to zoom in/out, scroll, and move the cursor with such low effort can even bring me a little bit of joy. It's not really about what is most efficient. Computing should feel good. That's why it's hard for me to move away from Apple's trackpads.
In many cases, the cost of the license to the OEM is negative. That's because the cost of the Windows license is more than outweighed by the payments they get for crapware, adware, and 30-day trials, they get paid to pre-install (and the crapware requires Windows). It would actually cost them more to ship with no OS.
I completely agree with you, but I think you might have replied to the wrong post.
Edited: I decided to delete my comment. I do think the hype deserves a dunk, but dunking doesn’t advance the conversation and is lazy.
That would be true iff prices were disclosed upfront and the pricing model was clear. I had a hospital experience recently where the surgeon provided one bill, the hospital a second, and the anesthesiologist a third.

Only the surgeon's pricing was available ahead of time. The hospital provided an invoice at the time of surgery, marked as "SUBJECT TO CHANGE". The anesthesiologist himself didn't know how much his services would cost.

Three weeks later, we're still watching invoices and insurance claims roll in.

Medical tourism is a direct testament to inflated charges as a systematic problem. Finding a hospital with non-inflated costs requires crossing international borders.
Are you planning for android version?
I have to say that I'm shocked that some of the early comments here complete dismiss what I consider to be the greatest and possibly most important of mysteries we are confronted with. If not great and important, at least the subject of who are "you" is a deeply and profoundly intimate question to ponder.

I distinctly remember first learning some basic laws of Newtonian physics in high school, and leaving school that day dumbfounded. If all particles behave in a deterministic fashion, how is it that these particles bouncing around in my head can lead to the perception of free will and agency? It was a question that would pursue off an on for most of the rest of my life. Arriving at college, I dove into psychology with a passion, hoping that understanding the biomechanics of the brain would give me some clues. I turned to computer science and was instantly drawn to AI. I read everything I could get my hands on on the subject, with Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter being favorites of course (I still revisit Godel Escher Bach from time to time). I even experimented with various psychedelics looking for that elusive insight that would explain things.

Now I'm in my 40's and of course I still don't have "the answer". I'm not as consumed by the question anymore, focusing instead on just enjoying my days on earth here with my family and friends.

But how on earth anyone can belittle the question of consciousness blows my mind, so to speak. :)
Oh, and I encourage everybody to come by The Interval: http://theinterval.org/

The Long Now for years had a little museum space that got only a modest number of visitors. But conversation about the long term is their goal, and they realized that coffeehouses and bars are where a lot of good conversation happens, so they converted the museum into a cafe during the day and a bar at night.

If you're ever in San Francisco, it's a great nerdy tourist stop. It's in Fort Mason, on the north edge of San Francisco between Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge.
first, since you seem so eager, what is inherent? what is meat? what is feeling?
https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
How do you know what "they" do or not do?

And who is "they"? Baidu? The Chinese Government? The great firewall administrator himself?
From what I understood from the video it means you get the chance to upgrade within a year of release. They also said you'll be receiving automated updates for the supported life time of the device (whatever that means)
They have a vision, Minecraft was fitting that vision. So they consumed it. It was smart. Project Spark makes more sense now as well.
The other side of the coin is that django's auth system is pretty rigid. Adding additional fields to the user object is clunky, and trying to do an unusual auth flow can be downright ugly. Dealing with that a few times can leave you a lot more open to designing your own and/or patching together other libraries. At least, that's how it went for me a few years ago.
If cost was the only problem, why didn't Hurd take off? Did Minix not suffer from the same problems?
Unfortunately, no. Gitbox is designed on top of GCD and blocks which are available in 10.6 (which is Intel-only). The tradeoff is worth it: with GCD I was able to implement sophisticated control flow cleaner and faster, and fix a lot of bugs.
Certainly never take advice about love from unhappy and cynical people.
It's JS, but not webdev JS, which means they can't really transfer much of the DOM knowledge/tooling.
"Just do it, you've got nothing to lose."

In my experience, the people that make this statement rarely understand opportunity cost. It took me years to figure out that it's OK to let new opportunities pass you by if pursuing them would take your time away from the opportunities you're already committed to.

The more successful you get, the more opportunities come your way, so I think this is something successful people have to figure out eventually. If you make a success of one opportunity, it's always at the expense of another. It's good to be selective.
So have any real world applications successfully used this as a framework?

It looks interesting but I see any moderately complex web app, i.e. more than CRUD, hitting a wall of complexity when using CouchApp as a base. You eliminate so called "fragile custom code" up until the point where the framework doesn't support something and you need the custom code anyway, except now there is the overhead of getting custom code working together with everything else. At which point you wonder what was the point?
Not to mention that if your adversary is the Global Adversary, DNSSEC is mostly useless.
A lat/long position is about 50 bits. Talk about serious bandwidth...
Their phones are already getting there, anyway.
The article didn't say anything explicitly about remote contractors. The two companies it did reference Automattic and Github have remote full time employees.
Isn't there a tremendous upside to being physically co-located? Even if the teams are remote, are the founders not usually located in a 'tech hub' city (SF, NY, etc.)?

Matt says to let people 'live someplace remarkable', but for most of the world that want to work in technology SF is someplace remarkable.

The benefits of using group collaboration tools are still available, but you have other people working on overlapping problems on your doorstep, support and service companies, and access to intelligent finance.
I write a blog[1] and I try to add good documentation to my open source project[2], but I recognize that I'm in the minority. One benefit I get from writing, even though I don't get a lot of readers, is thought refinement. I usually send my blog posts to friends and family for help on word choice and better delivery. Even though Steve Jobs said people don't read, I think reading and writing are critical because you don't always have a camera or a microphone to get your message across.

[1] - https://blog.joeblau.com/

[2] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io
Have you used the Slack desktop and mobile apps? It's patently false to claim that IRC does these things just as well. There's nothing abusive about a company becoming successful by providing a better UX than an ancient alternative technology.
Distributed computing using Python

Techs: HBase, MLLib and Spark (Most of my time)

Spatial SDR Reconstruction with NuPIC (1 day a week)

Spanish using Duolingo (20 mins a day)

Game development with ImpactJS (only 1 day a week)
VHDL. I'm planning on making an FPV quadcopter using an FPGA + using analog signal transmission on a personal project.
Probably just different definitions of what constitutes dislike of Apple. I don't know you but you probably have a lower bar than me for an anti-Apple sentiment so see far more of it
And to be clear—these are all existing sample apps for open source Objective-C projects. The creator of this site does not appear to have done anything but gathered these up into zip files. The complete lack of attribution is misleading.
I believe Indianapolis is closer to H than Louisville (but probably not by much).
The default Tor useragent would be perfect for this.
Thank you, those are exactly the kinds of music typesetting/engraving software (and notation syntax) I was curious about.

Following a few links, I found a great overview:

MusiXTEX - Using TEX to write polyphonic instrumental music

http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.p... (pdf)

For Lilypond, here's an introduction that demonstrates how to "write music by typing text":

Lilypond: "Compiling" Music

https://lilypond.org/text-input.html
They’re pretty similar to Germany’s?
Thanks for bringing back that memory! I had to ship a 55gal drum of my belongings to Dominica years ago. Almost forgot about that.
Wasn't that long ago - it changed fashion - all those hounds-tooth jackets, paisley ties etc etc stopped being seen in public (on TV) and were replaced by solid colors.
I believe the UK has also banned gatherings of more than two people.

There’s probably a good reason for limiting people being outside - maybe to limit congestion on public transport which isn’t technically a gathering but was a major problem over the past few days?
And this is the basis of any other lock-free algorithm also (it'll make it easier to hand-off, delegate tasks, let others finish what you started, ...)
I think it's related to the mouse because the mouse is often used with some type of GUI, and a GUI doesn't allow you to automate the stuff you shouldn't care about very well. Especially when you deal with text all the time.

There are solution for that though, but I find them less convincing than the tools we have using our keyboard. So it's linked, but I agree that maybe this question of mouse / keyboard is not the central one.
The intention was 'about', because we read about stuff like this all the time in places like North Korea; it's hardly weird at all.
On the other side of the spectrum, you have large Java libraries where you need to somehow figure out which 20 classes collaborate to do a task, and the "documentation" link just drops you into one of those iframe-sidebar javadoc browsers.

https://www.bouncycastle.org/docs/docs1.5on/index.html

I really don't think the Node ecosystem got this one wrong.
If I could convince the expenses people in my company of that, it would get them off my back until after Christmas.