jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SlateStarCodex had the antineoreactionary FAQ, the best such writing around.
Same here. Live in a beautiful city, cool friends, lovely girlfriend. Plenty of things exist here of which I can objectively say they're awesome, and in many things I'm genuinely interested, and so I avidly read and follow the news, whether it's social topics, economics, politics, tech etc. Yet I hold very little interest in experiencing anything personally.

If I had to describe it succinctly; I've become a dedicated spectator, but no longer wish to participate.

It's pretty ridiculous and something very strongly tells me it's the wrong way to live life, and I'd love for that to change. But the passion just isn't there to get involved anymore for even the simplest things like taking a walk outside. Again, as a spectator it's great. It's not as if I'm disinterested or don't like to hear from friends if they call me or want to visit. But calling them, or visiting them, somehow it's too big of a step.

As it's only been like this for a few years I can see how ridiculous all of this is. It's like I got the lazy syndrome: still care, but not enough to act on it. Yet it's not really laziness as I never watch TV or sit on the couch or sleep all day or get no work done... It's something else but I can't quite put my finger on it. I wish I could take some kind of hormone injection and rediscover my lost motivation for life.

Similarish postscript as you btw. Proper food, sleep, exercise, meditation, social, iteration etc, already covered stuff like that, but I'm open to new ideas.
The past 5 to 10 years at IBM have shown their aggressive strategy to buy software companies but fail to integrate them into their many different IBM suites properly. Institutional knowledge and strong business relations previously held with purchased companies dies out quickly and ultimately results in low profit.
s/2k/2b/g
Does that business employ that many people?
The features of Pyret make it the most advanced compile-to-JS language I know of.

ClojureScript is pretty sophisticated since it is considered production ready for commercial work and leverages much of Clojure's ongoing library development directly.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki

Not to take anything away from Pyret.
As Paul mentions in the video, you are expected to have object oriented programming knowledge. If you are new to programming, I think you'll get confused at some point on the reasoning behind why he is doing/teaching some of the things.

Perhaps start from a tutorial like [1] to learn the basics and also object oriented paradigms. Then, follow the Swift course.

[1] http://code.tutsplus.com/series/python-from-scratch--net-205...
My question to Signal is: there are a lot of cryptocurrencies that already have significant traction - why not integrate with them rather than a brand new one that has to start from scratch building an infrastructure?

MobileCoin uses a fork of the Stellar Consensus Protocol, which is a consensus protocol that by design, relies on a small set of trusted third parties to establish consensus.

This does not give it highly credible censorship resistance, yet MobileCoin was chosen as the sole cryptocurrency that Signal is integrated with. Why?
It staggers me that in an age of incredible innovation and technology- we still have no idea what biologically separates a man like this from the rest of us.

I'd like to take the idyllic position of (somewhat irresponsibly) hoping that some level of genius can be fostered and created in anyone from a young age.. But when I read articles like this I feel the compulsive need to sit back in my chair and ponder just how much more primitive my mind is in comparison to a man like John's.
I tried to start a tea shop/hacker space in SF which failed spectacularly a few months ago. Everyone, don't do retail!

Finding decent tea can be a challenge. Here are a few places to start looking for tea online, and in SF:

http://www.teaspring.com/ -- Chinese Tea.

http://www.redblossomtea.com/ -- Chinese Tea from SF. Fantastic oolong and Dragonwell. Check out their location next time you're in Chinatown.

http://www.runa.org/ -- Guayusa, related to Yerba Mate. The kids building this company are true hackers!

http://www.omshantea.com/ -- A cool tea house in SF (mission). Learn about Pu-erh and Jiaogulan here.

http://www.yunnansourcing.com -- A place to try your luck and buy Pu-erh.

http://www.itoen.com/estore/index.cfm -- Sencha, Gyokuru, Matcha. A solid selection of Japanese Greens.

These places have great herb selections, and will make you realize how much you're overpaying for mid-grade tea:
http://www.sfherb.com/
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/

I also love Korean tea, but don't have a good recommendation on where to get it.
The headline makes it seem like this is happening now - the article refers to an incident from approximately 20 years ago.
Don't Apple's lawsuits against Android almost completely revolve around general ideas of interfaces?
It depends on your definition of success. If it means IT buying the iPhone, you're right. It will be a while. But if it means employees buying their iPhone, and connecting it to company mail servers, the past two years show enterprise success happening at a fast pace.
One also can't discount the VIP rule. The VIP rule is that the company will buy VIPs whatever device they want. Some years it was a Nokia, now it's iPads + iPhones.
I went one step further and ditched RSpec for straight Test::Unit and sometimes Shoulda. I don't find the RSpec DSL an improvement over straight Ruby asserts at all.
Tragic irony, not verbal irony. "Paradox that arises from insoluble problems."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Tragic_irony

RIM kills Kik to save BBM but is probably killing themselves.
> HACLA isn’t solely funded by HUD so the actual figure is less.

Over 85% of HACLA's revenues in 2020 came directly from HUD[0]. Another 10% were from other government grants (which would also be cut). The numbers reported before were just for the Section 8 program, which AFAICT is administered by HACLA but fully funded by HUD.

> Spending 50% of household income is fairly cost burdened, but not unworkable.

That 50% is the part paid by Section 8. The part not paid by Section 8 is expected to be about 30% of income, which at the 2020 poverty level for a family of two would be about $5k (30% of $17.2k), so the total rent is more like $20k or 65% of their pooled UBIs. And again, this is just Section 8. If you qualify for Section 8 housing you probably qualify for some of the other programs which are also being eliminated.

> Living in a big city affords more opportunities to earn income.

Possibly, but then again we're talking about people who are already living in these places and still qualify for housing assistance. Telling them to get a (better) job or move somewhere cheaper isn't a viable solution. If these were reasonably solutions with UBI they would also be reasonable solutions without UBI.

> Grants could help.

I hope you're not suggesting federal grants since those, too, would be eliminated under this proposal. And really that just gets back to programs targeting specific needs.

[0] https://online.fliphtml5.com/ctqqu/gmgb/#p=42
How would you even disable that in github?
And WeWork was worth $47 billion at peak. So?
Atomoc clocks are nuts accurate nowadays. They’re so good you can measure the relativistic gravitational time dilation effect of a height difference of a few inches. It takes a while, like about a year I think, but you can do it.
Your argument amounts to “When we do it, it’s okay.”

It’s founded on the presumption of bad faith, which is bad faith in itself.

The fact is that the only people who died during the 1/6/21 event were part of the protestors.
That's a very good idea, we've added it high up on the suggestions list. Very handy for writing at night probably. Thank you!
Wow.

I have a feeling this could be a game changer.

I'm more than impressed... I'm stunned.
It doesn't seem helpful to equate small businesses and startups. Usually meme about "entrepreneurs being good for the economy" is referring to the latter, who fundamentally change how it works, finding numerous non-obvious efficiency improvements, rather than giving slightly cheaper picture framing.

On that metric, is Europe still ahead of the US?
I think the popular American image of the wartime Japanese doesn't have much to do with that, although they certainly did brutalize the places they took over.
Please don't spread fear and uncertainty based on incorrect understanding of licensing.

Suing Facebook does not void your license to use React. It voids your additional patent grant. That's different.
Needs more angellist API integration. Who do I know at the companies? Who are their current investors? Prominent advisors? etc. etc.
> What was that you were saying about "does not work"?

Things that do not work: the overuse of till farming, soil erosion, drought, loss of habitat of wildlife, water pollution, inefficient water usage, desertification, famine, uneven food distribution, the reduction of nutrients in food, the obesity epidemic of the consumers of monoculture petrol agriculture, methane pollution from concentrated livestock, to name a few...

Note that the graph you present is a myopic & reductionistic lens on the system's performance. It is also based on the evolution of the tradition of monoculture till farming, which can work (in an unoptimal way) in forgiving (even rainfall through the year) climates, but devastates the ecosystem in brittle (uneven rainfall through the year) climates.

> No, there is historical evidence that it does work. China hasn't had a major famine in close to fifty years, and India hasn't had one since the 1940s.

Yes, look at the "fertile crecent", that is Iraq, Iran, etc. It was once a lush paradise that has been till farmed to desert. Look at the farmers in India who are going back to natural methods because they are going into debt due to chemical agriculture's exploitative & inefficient practices.

In China, look at the Loess Plateau being transformormed from desert into green land with Natural & Permaculture methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A

And famines happen all over the world. Centralized food production results in unequal food distribution.

Re: traditional agriculture, we have been improving on a fundamentally broken tradition for thousands of years; We & Earth's ecosystems have suffered. It's time to go back to basics & work with, not against, nature.

Reductionistic policy creates many externalized consequences, because we optimize for the things that we measure. In a monoculture mindset, we optimize for one crop. In a systemic mindset, we optimize for the entire system. Polyculture farms grow food by acre than monoculture farms. The many plants interact with each other to form a symbiotic food web, having introduce chemicals.

Natural farming techniques, such as no till farming, have been shown to consistently out perform chemical monoculture agriculture.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk&feature=youtu.be and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka

One "challenge" is the diversity of the ecosystems on Earth call for a diversity in natural growing methods. There are many bioregions. The natural farmer needs to be in tune with the land & the ecosystem.

On a side note, we have an epidemic of overly reductionistic thinking, which tends to blind us from the bigger picture.

> Cool. You get to go first.

I am. I'm taking part in the solutions to humanity's biggest issues. You are invited to as well.
It would be nice if I could link to a filtered selection. Am I missing an obvious way to do this?
You can `npm install parse` and run it as usual within a React Native app
Some additional points from https://www.itnews.com.au/news/new-remote-code-execution-win...

* Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by embedding the Type 1 fonts into documents and convincing users to open them

* The vulnerabilities lies in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library ATMFD.DLL

* disabling the Windows WebClient service blocks what Microsoft says is the most likely remote attack vector, through the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) client service.

* local, authenticated users can run malicous programs that can exploit the vulnerability (I presume this is a privilege escalation).
I have an E495 (but with the 3500U) and the thing runs like a champ. I run Solus on it with no issues. It's build quality is excellent as well: consistent with my work-issued P50s, despite only being a (budget-focused) E-series.

I briefly considered getting a T-series, but the presence of soldered RAM is what killed it for me. Unless the RAM has to be soldered and there is some benefit for the consumer (which is what I've heard for LPDDR4 RAM) then soldering RAM just kills the ROI for me. I purchased my with only 8GB of RAM and will upgrade when I find the right deal.
^ Eng manager here at Khan, I can vouch for this!! We have a huge emphasis on work life balance on our team.
They have made the mistake of including a 720p camera, which, according to some of the comments on MacBook-related posts, makes a laptop nigh unusable and is totally unacceptable in this day and age.
I am working on implementing the raytracer in a weekend but in a month. Of course the timeline has been disrupted because of the Covid-19 and me being bummed out as I had to cancel my trip home.

The catch in this one is I am using it to learn Julia, and I keep reworking stuff as I learn more. I want to be able to look back on the logs and see how I evolved. Here is a link if anyone is interested

https://github.com/rick2047/Ray-tracer-in-a-month
Non-US projects already use Stripe. This moves means both US and non-US projects will use Stripe.
There's a cafe here in Toronto that adjoins a community centre that runs social programs, etc., and they have a tip jar next to the register. There's a sign that says something like "Our staff a paid a fair living wage. Any donations for the community centre are welcomed." or something.
Brilliant, thank you so much for this. I'm looking forward to having everything on my Yubikey!
It's stories like this why I keep coming back to Hacker News
You don't pick your own nickname.

You don't declare your own reputation.

You don't define your own company culture.

All of these things are object code, "compiled" by others based upon your behavior, which is the source.

What you do screams louder that what you say. Do good and you won't have to worry about what others say. That is "company culture".
linux support doesnt exist? i plugged in Arch USB key and and wiped Win7 first thing - GMA500 is the only problem, but that effects so many devices these days that its inevitable a working driver comes out some time
I fear HN would turn into reddit.
I can't help but think that the trends in this article are only medium-term cultural changes that'll be countered by demography in a century. Fertility rates for highly-educated women in first-world countries have fallen to too low a level for this to be a permanent societal change.
I can't say I know that much about the transgender community, but as I understand it:

Sex is the parts you're born with. Gender is your mental identity. People have operations to make their sex match their gender.

It may sound silly at first to some, but if you've ever talked to someone who has a different gender than sex, you'd understand it's a real thing.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1372958
Perhaps the political theorists behind it haven't thought it through, but emasculating men is policy.

The first part of this sentence contradicts the second. Emasculating men is not policy. Emasculating men is an unintended side-effect of policy. The creators of that policy, in turn, were shaped by their own education, and so-forth in a cycle of positive feedback. Even if you want to find some ruling class to single out and assign blame to, which I don't think is a worthwhile exercise, then the number of bad actors is too large and their individual crimes too slight for an "orchestrating hand" to be anywhere close to an appropriate metaphor.
Marco Arment on feature checklist dysfunction:

http://www.marco.org/380868888
...Who really cares? Don't you guys have better shit to do than complain about a background image?
With this logic, don't use any SaaS service then.
What questions did you have in mind?

P.S. Note that I'm not asserting that the current system is perfect. Just that we (again, as a society; not me and you specifically) decided long ago that the drawbacks of letting 12 schlubs decide a person's fate were exceeded by the drawbacks of letting only the well-educated do so.
I'm not too familiar with the field, but I'd also assess whether or not the data you're acquiring needs to be encrypted/handled in a certain way due to HIPAA-related compliance. That's potentially the most relevant worry you should have if your developer(s) are decent enough.
We have gender segregation in sports because men are stronger than women, hence better in most sports (at least the most viewed ones - football, rugby, american football, basketball (height matters here as well), hockey, ...). If there was no gender segregation, all the teams would still be all-male, and there would be no women's only teams.
two weeks ago I received the new Lenovo x1 carbon 3rd gen, I expected a high end machine. But I got: low brightness screen, bad colour range + build flaws: the screen cover was not glued well. These flaws also appeared with other customers (search the forums).

After three days I sent it back, and today got the new macbook 13", although I don't like the brand Apple, you can't deny its quality over all the other brands.
I just can't afford more computers space-wise.
Would have been awesome if it had an "up up down down left right left right b a" easter egg.
As a game developer, the treatment of perception vs. presumed authority about the state of a system resonated with me. Trying to infer a state of a system, given observations that are already in the past, is something networked game developers are especially familiar with.

Actually, Clojure would be a great host for a library that makes deriving a valid and consistent state from multiple observations in the past, something every networked game needs to do, more regular and predictable. That's often one of those "scary" parts of a game's code base. Things get pretty hairy, there is a lot of ad-hoc code, bugs are hard to track down and nobody wants to mess with it so it tends to get even cruftier and scarier.
I'd venture to guess most consumers really don't even know about the tight integration of Android and Google apps. They'd probably just want to make sure they can get to Facebook on it.
If you want to know more, I recommend the virology lectures from Vincent Racianello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0n8SeeC4II
How much do you value your online life ? Put all your eggs in one basket and you allow yourself to be locked away from it at the whim of some unknown algorithm, with practically no recourse. A strike on your account (maybe a Play Store upload or some vague TOS violation) and you may be locked out of your mail and the auth that you use for everything. You'll end up adapting your behavior, consciously or not, to avoid angering the giant. Spreading the risks, and taking back control, seems the level-headed thing to do.

And the concept that there is only a single company in the world that knows a thing about security seems deluded to me.
Seahorses are also interesting in this regard, not only do they also have internal pregnancy and a placenta-like structure, it's also the males that get pregnant.
Isn't the JVM too high level for compiled languages without garbage collection? E.g. can I efficiently compile C to the JVM without asm.js-style hacks which degrade performance?
Residential real estate for owner-occupiers is rarely a cash-based sector. The vast majority of owner-occupier buyers will get a mortgage.

That means that in this industry it makes more sense to look at the cost of the mortgage, than the cost of the home.

Particularly because a home is an asset, like a stock in a company. The fact it goes up in price isn't 'inflation' in the sense of the consumer price index (i.e. prices for consumption).

What is more relevant to measure as part of inflation in the sense of consumption, are the monthly costs around housing, regardless of the price of the underlying asset. For example, if interest rates went to 30%, and housing prices dropped sharply because of reduced financing capacity, we would not say that housing got cheaper or more affordable. We'd rightly look at monthly housing costs and saw that due to 30% interest rates, it got a lot more expensive.

So it makes little sense to say 'prices doubled, so inflation is 7.2%'. You'd have to look at monthly housing costs, which have not risen that much, due to interest rates dropping over time. For example, a 300k home in the US (interest rate 3.5%) costs as much (read: same monthly payments) over 30 years as a 485k home (60% more expensive) at 0% interest rates like in Denmark. So it makes sense that in a world where interest rates are dropping, you can see home prices go up much faster than housing costs / monthly payments / interest rates.

If you look at it from purely a cost-perspective (excluding principal paydown, as it's only a negative a cashflow, but not an expense), the difference in monthly costs between e.g. 0% and 3% becomes even bigger, allowing for even larger price differences that don't translate into monthly cost differences.
Seriously? People still do this?

ps -ef | grep foo | grep -v grep

This always works:

ps -ef | grep '[f]oo'

And, if you're running a modern operating system:

pgrep foo
> But Based on my readings genetic algorithms are more known to be susceptible to local minima, while simulated annealing in theory is a global method.

Both simulated annealing and genetic algorithms are global methods, and both can get caught in local minima. The same goes for pretty much every other global stochastic optimization method out there.

Simulated annealing got this "special" reputation among engineers back in the '80s because the Metropolis algorithm had a formal proof of global guarantees -- run it long enough and it's guaranteed to find the global optimum. But nowadays most every algorithm in this category has similar guarantees. It's relatively easy to make such a guarantee as it turns out.

I like differential evolution too, though it's pretty exploitative.
That's where I think we have to give credit to Rackspace for open sourcing all (or much) of their tech behind Rackspace Cloud
U-Haul and HomeDepot is where I’d go to rent one.
To save others the googling

> Veblen goods are types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases, an apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.
"In the novice's mind there are mang possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."
I know Microsoft gets a lot of flak for their historical support of legacy systems, but on the flip-side it means that as an enterprise you trust that they won't abruptly deprecate something you use.
HOTAS really adds to the immersion, as the game animates controller actions like throttle change - so even though you see your rendered avatar, the "hands" match your own.
Two valid use cases I've found for interface{}:

Handling large arbitrary JSON objects where I need to operate on their keys but don't need to work with their values by unmarshaling to map[string]interface{}. The alternative would likely be code generation of struct definitions with JSON bindings, which is likely preferable if you already have code generation in your project, but can be an overhead in smaller ones.

It can also be used to create your own syntactic wrappers around API's which consume interface{} such as encoding/json and database/sql:

Unmarshal(r *http.Response, dst interface{}) ([]byte, error)

and

BulkInsert(tableName string, columns []string, values [][]interface{}) (time.Duration, error)