jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the follow case involving British satirical magazine Private Eye (this quoted from Wikipedia):

"An unlikely piece of British legal history occurred in the case Arkell v. Pressdram.

The plaintiff was the subject of an article relating to illicit payments, and for a change the magazine Private Eye had ample evidence to back up the article.

Arkell’s lawyers wrote a letter in which, unusually, they said: “Our client’s attitude to damages will depend on the nature of your reply”.

The response consisted, in part, of the following: “We would be interested to know what your client’s attitude to damages would be if the nature of our reply were as follows : Fuck off”."

In UK legal circles a polite way of telling someone to fuck off is to refer them to Arkell v. Pressdram.
I guess for me, it would be to realize how all softwares are basically abstractions. and how even the most scariest/magical software is only the summation of many smaller (lesser scary) pieces.
... and can't see the mechanism that explains it

Expectations? If you put a big cup in front of me, I can expect you to fill half of it, fill it completely or anything in-between. If the glass is small, I expect you to fill it to the top, no uncertainty.
I cannot agree with you more. Sure things could be done easier in it (or in vi/vim) but programming is done in the head not in the editor.
"I faced off against a guy with this sort of attitude once. The case did end up in front of a judge. The judge laughed at the guy, and threatened to hold him in contempt of court."

There was no suggestion of keeping this attitude in court. And there was a huge disclaimer only to use it for fending off assholes with no real case.
So, everyone must be free? I can't consciously trade some of my civil liberties for something in return? My idea of freedom is the power of choice. Choice to be free, or NOT free.
Judging from things Steve Yegge has written about Amazon, and from friends of mine who have worked there, I don't get the impression that Amazon is a company dedicated to technical excellence.

In particular I seem to recall something about 40 million lines of C++ code in their core product, and about mediocre engineering talent and high levels of burnout due to the technical debt they're required to deal with...

In fact, ever-increasing engineering costs would be just as indicative of mounting technical debt as it would of an increasing commitment to R&D.
Is it just me, or does this guy have his definitions swapped. That, or I've been wrong this whole time: I've always thought of hackers as more freewheeling, possibly with less formal training (or possibly not) who like to play with new technologies and learn by getting their hand dirty.

And I've thought of coders as closer to the traditional definition of 'software engineer'. More formalized education (or possibly not), more formal approach to the process of writing code (planning meetings, standards and practices, etc).

I'm not saying either one is better (both have a lot they bring to the table, and few people are all one or the other, we're usually somewhere on a sliding scale between the two).
When I applied to AlphaLab, a Pittsburgh-based startup accelerator, they offered the same thing. I felt it was extremely helpful.

It's an incredible opportunity to meet the people you may be working with right at the start. It's also very helpful since you, the guest, can get a better feel for how they operate and even get some quick, low-risk feedback on a pitch or about your story.
Ironically, a lot of artists who made reputations as dissidents chafing against a totalitarian regime, ultimately repudiated those dissident political views or even came to feel nostalgic for the Soviet regime specifically. Solzhenitsyn himself is famous for becoming a reactionary in later life and wanting heavy-headed leadership over his country, only this time it would supposedly be OK because it would be rooted in ancient Christian Russian culture and not the "godless, foreign" regime that was Communism for him.
The natural gas plants are built to pick up the slack. The energy operators know that during the winter there will be several cold, windless weeks, so they don't count on wind power providing very much to the grid. When wind and solar are good, the gas plants can be shut down since the power from natural gas is more expensive than the renewables.
Wikipedia contributions are very much created. You are not supposed to copy paste from elsewhere. You are writing own text.
According to haveibeenpwned.com

> whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address
Yes, that's true. But title sponsorship is an increasingly hard sell for "real" companies. I think it's becoming more like yacht racing, where the sponsorships are kind of vanity projects for billionaires. For example you have UAE sponsoring a team, Israel/Ron Baron, Ineos, which is privately owned...

That said, the equipment sponsorships are a major part of the equation, very expensive, and very competitive. I think it forms a larger part of the budget for less successful teams, where title sponsorship is less lucrative. And in any case, it's its own form of "title" sponsorship.. I'm not sure how much benefit Pinarello would get from being on the jerseys - everyone knows Ineos rides Pinarello.

But anyway, I think my point that this lucrative competition prevents standardization is valid.

https://cyclingtips.com/2017/05/200-bikes-and-a-lot-of-cash-...
Damn. I really liked the argument like that Battacharya was following. I've been in a similar situation where I explain to people that constantly trying to avoid microaggressions is a waste of time, for the same reasons he raises. In general, the article makes a great point about how the current politically correct movement (and to be honest every PC movement I've seen so far) is unwilling to hear any questioning of its ideological bases.
Agreed. But the discussion here on Github is pretty good and tells us that it's happened to quite a lot of people. So the headline might be a bit sensational, but it's a real problem.
So a more grammatically correct term can be "physics based rendering"?
Have you tried Codecombat.com? I think this is a great way to get started, have fun and at the same time learn the basic concepts of computer programming.

Once he understands this, you should encourage to hack into Minecraft hacks.

Later you can ask him about start their own projects and help him when he got stuck.

Programming should be fun and using a language only a tool for their mind, so help him become passionate about build things for himself.
AWS actually does that already — they'll ping you by email if they find one of your keys on GitHub!
That is an awesome picture. The JWST should have "Galaxies in the Mirror are Closer than they Appear" somewhere on its primary mirror :-).

It is fortunate that the jets coming off the galactic black hole in the middle of Andromeda aren't pointed our way, that would have made short work of life on Earth.
If they swap it daily/weekly/randomly/per event a counterfeiter would have to have every known variation on hand at the drop of a hat in order to reliably counterfeit it.
Definitely! It's a dual core 240MHz processor. I've been running a bunch of tensorflow code on it for wake word detection.
> simultaneously reinforcing the belief that the liberal media is "out to get them".

These people are brainwashed. No concrete action normies take can convince them. They have to decide to get better and ask for help. And we must help them, without judgment or scolding, when that happens. But at some point, you have to stop a policy of appeasement because it doesn't work. They'll just keep pushing and taking more and more.
I believe the client was essentially a compatability layer, with massive performance overhead (same as FFXIV on Mac, which will prob also be discontinued soon)
Not sure where these numbers come from but they're entirely incongruous with my lived experience and that of my friends.

Edit: to be more concrete, you can today buy a spacious 2 bedroom condo in the South Loop right by the El for about $300k (I know because I used to own one). This would basically get you a broom closet if looking for something by the T in Boston (if you're lucky).
> Except he'll probably get a surprise $10k fine (civil lawsuit) a few months from now.

What do you base that on ?
There are three "levels of scrutiny" used to determine if a law is valid. The lowest level, the level which every law must meet is rational basis. Government may not enforce a law which makes absolutely no sense. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review.
> IMO it's dumb -- in real life you have access to Google.

If one is taking a class merely to learn how to Google for the answers, then one should not be in a university. One should be in a trade school which only teaches you enough of your fields of study to be able to figure out the right terms to Google for.

When you take university classes, the goal is to learn to be the people that provide the solutions that the trade schoolers will Google for.
Without the logins, how do you prevent people from posting things to each other's lists?

For instance: I have a list called "Good Bars in Phoenix" (http://thingist.com/t/list/65/), which is a list of bars that I like...without the logins, what is to prevent, say, user "Aaron" from posting to that?

One of the use cases is my friend Dave. When he retired from his corporate job, he got a new blackberry. Over the several years that he had had that blackberry (likely that account on exchange, actually) he had been keeping a list of wines that he had tried and liked. When he gave up his old blackberry, he lost his list of wines. How would Dave keep it as "Dave's" list of wines without having logins?

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're saying...sorry. I looked at instapaper to see if I could see an example of what you meant, but it seems to act just about the same. If I click on "Read Later", it prompts me to either login, or create an account.

>2. Instead have a field for name. Make it wordy, like: [name field with grayed out random name, like John] likes/hates [empty field with grayed out random thing, like football figurines].

If you've registered, this is what you would see: http://i.imgur.com/TwPwb.png (The title is picked randomly from your group of lists). I think this is actually even simpler and more specific than what you're saying.

I really really appreciate the criticism, honestly. I'm not trying to say "durr hurr, my way is best!", I hope what I just said doesn't come across as that.

>I could probably work on something real quick to show you what I mean.

If it's not any trouble, that would be hugely appreciated, thank you. :)

(Now I just wish I had a lot of users so that I could A/B test the two)

Again, thanks.

I think one thing I could improve right now (well, as soon as I get home, actually), is including both the registration form and the login form if you click "add" without being logged in...
Quickly looking at her CSAIL page, I note 2 things about her glyphosate research:

(1) Her talks generally are not at scientific conferences.

(2) Her published articles are in "predatory open access journals". Since she is not stupid, I assume she is publishing this work there because she cannot publish in more respected journals.

The WHO is respected, it is relying on well-performed studies. If they say glyphosate is probably carcinogenic, I'll pay attention. Seneff is publishing in Omics and MDPI journals, which are viewed as publication mills by the community. It appears the community has examined her claims and rejected her from being publishing them anywhere respectable.
I don't want my UA showing me the wrong protocol though.
Not the whole world needs to follow liberal ideology. It's pluralism. A good thing.

I'm surprised how often liberals turn out to be such a totalitarians. It makes me sad.
I just looked at older conversations on the mailing list, I think this provides a bit of explanation:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/HBBjtIxegFY/Wmv3Lh1IR...
The "sledge hammer" was a deadblow hammer containing sand or metal beads to distribute impact over a longer period of time.

They used this dead-blow feature on the Cybertruck, but twisted the hammer 90 degrees on the "competitor truck" door. You can even see the effect; in the three hits on the white door, only the two where the hammer was twisted left significant dents. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/paully_steaks/status/1197915960646107136
This was perpetually going on within the Shia-Sunni turf war that happened during the US occupation of Iraq. We as a species are capable of some pretty horrible things.
could someone explain something--

I have a faint understanding of the "Standard Model" of physics, which lays out a pattern of particles and forces that has so far held up to experimentation i.e. the Higgs boson fit neatly into the model, exactly where the model predicted it would go.

The standard model predicted the Higgs, and the Higgs was found exactly how the model predicted, right? But I've never heard of this X17 particle before. Is this something the standard model has predicted? Does it go against the standard model, strengthen it, or neither?
Check out Svelte/Sapper which is server side JS framework but can generate static site. Svelte is SPA framework like Angular, React, VueJS. Sapper is like NextJs/NuxtJS, with server side rendering features for Svelte.
What's being protected is the contents of his head and only tangentially his computer.

If the computer required a physical key he would be forced to provide it.
Admittedly, that list is an arbitrary poke into areas of debate in your fields of profession.

As a take on your interpretation of creativity: I would argue that the act of forming new and valuable propositions is not related to emotion or aesthetics per se.

Aesthetic theory is observing a very narrow subset of creative processes. And even there, our transition from modernism into the uncertainty of the post-modernist world defies any sound definition of the "aesthetic criteria". Yet we perceive aesthetic human-creativity all the time.

In similar vain is the application of generative machine learning that spurs debate about computational aesthetics today. Nothing proofs better the incapability of modern ML forming real creativity than the imitating nature of adversarial networks spitting out (quite beautiful) permutations of simplified data structures underlying the body of Bach's compositions.

Now we could start on the assumed role of complex neurotransmitters in the creative process of the brain and the trivial way reinforcement learning rewards artificial agents, but that would push the scope of this comment.
Thanks for offering to send a screenshot of what you see!

Sorry I don't have a random email, but here you go: cris@dosyago.com
Taking advantage of developer's creative side is one thing I know my company needs to do better. Luckily I'm in a position to fix this. Good reminder. :)
Caveat: I have experience with standard drum notation, so any other notation is almost certainly going to feel uncanny for me.

Here's my two cents with the full transcription on the final page. The song progress bar is very unintuitive. The first half of the song is an utter mess of Verse-1s and Intro-1s. While it would be nice to be able to sum up two whole minutes of a song with 2 sequences, this provides none of the intuition that in my experience is easiest for beginners to pick up on: the cues you get from listening to the instruments and vocal melodies. I get that this document could be annotated, but an ideal notation system should be both simple to learn and explicit enough to not require the user mark up the document while listening.
> Netflix is sending a lot more than it's receiving, in which case their ISP needs to pay for peering.

All Internet traffic has more download than upload (for the end-consumer). This is literally why ISPs offer faster download speeds in end-consumer packages than upload speeds - they know that consumers will need to download more than they upload.

In vector calculus, this is known as divergence. Traffic on the highway has divergence of 0, meaning that if you draw a closed loop of any shape, over the course of a day/week, the number of cars crossing that loop in both directions (in/out) will be the same.[0][1] Internet traffic does not have zero divergence, because bits are interchangeable and easy to create, destroy, and copy (whereas cars and humans are not).

Comcast isn't dumb. They know this is the way the Internet works. They just also know that it's more profitable to pretend they don't and extort money based on a false definition of "equality".

[0] https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/just-what-does-it-mean...

[1] It's not exactly the same, due to births, deaths, and migration, but you get the idea.
Thanks for the link! I always thought that we know how to cultivate every bacteria we've met. I learned something very interesting today :).
making your corporate slogan "don't be evil" invites a closer inspection
Yes, C works if you know how to avoid the gotchas. It'd be nicer if the gotchas weren't there. It's not as if they add value to the language. (C++ OTOH seems to have too many gotchas to learn them all...)
Well it's likely that Americans will experience such poverty again given the course things seem to be heading on.
I'm curious if the organizational changes at Google will have any change for product acquisitions and how they fare inside Google going forward.
From my limited observation it seems like that might be possible. Many of their workers seem to be Haitian or Chinese immigrants. I don't really go there for anything but the occasional strawberry shake so my sample size is pretty small.
I love the the whistle character! I also like applying game dynamics and competition to exercise and losing weight
From the page you linked:

> This regular expression will only validate addresses that have had any comments stripped and replaced with whitespace (this is done by the module).

There is filtering done before the regex is applied.
My favorite version comes from Douglas Adams, though he probably didn't coin the original:

> Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
You're right.

However, from the perspective of the programmer it is non-deterministic. It only becomes deterministic when it is coupled with a particular scheduler and dispatcher. Most programmers strive to write cross platform code.
The interface. It's too cluttered.
The methods Harry would employ would achieve Voldemort's aims as well, and if Voldemort's horcruxes work as advertised, he shouldn't care too much about the time frame.
Here's a handy guide I wrote for how to learn from your mistakes:

http://scottberkun.com/essays/44-how-to-learn-from-your-mist...
my marriage :(

I honestly don't know what more I could have done. You can give 1000% and keep pushing forward, but if the other person isn't giving anything and keeps putting you two steps back, there really isn't any hope in salvaging.
Nothing wrong with semicolons. IMO they make code look a little bit less readable - you need to look at semicolon while you could be just looking at the empty line. One of the reasons people like python.
My wife is a sewer commissioner for a tiny sewer district up in the mountains. It is a state of the art facility from a water treatment perspective since the treated water exits into a mountain stream. However, they recently needed to update their control systems because they all currently run on Windows98 and can no longer get spare parts from their vendors etc..

At her request I sat in on a meeting with their vendor to ask some stupid questions (but less stupid than what the commissioners would have asked) about their proposal for updating the control systems.

Some crazy things discovered:

* it's all windows, all the time. I don't know why but I find this disturbing, but apparently all the drivers for these systems only work on windows. I guess Linux is only just starting to penetrate this market.

* yes, remote access is a thing (even in the old system), especially in this case where the plant it under 20 feet of snow half the year. They claim the system can only monitor things, not control things, but I wonder how locked down that really is. Security is via a VPN.

* the vendor at play here seems to be a tiny shop of a few people that basically serve a few dozen sewer treatment plants in the area. They deal with replacing the hardware and programming these interfaces in.. kind of a crazy local cottage industry I just wasn't really aware of.

Having a background in web services / unix left me pretty unprepared to really do much more than ask some stupid questions around security / obsolescence, but the vendor had reasonable answers to my concerns. Just a very different world than what we think about every day.
This is a job for an investigative journalist... if there is some hidden motive, Google have had enough time to bury it under a pile of NDAs.
Was OMSCS worth it?
Do you think a technical test estimated at 10 hours is acceptable (remember that estimates are almost always under in this industry)?
Do you think giving such a test to 10 candidates is acceptable when there is one job going? 9 candidates have put in a few hundred hours dollars worth of work just to get the chance to interview for that job.
The inverse can be a trap equally. "Could it be that I don't get the market and the technology is better than I value it to be? Yes! The market is right! I am dumber!"

If both can be true then you're left analyzing the fundamentals and making a call based on that.

Just like GME, Bitcoin requires a "greater fool" to pay more and more. It's only worth what people are willing to pay. Eventually you'll pay 100k for a string of characters that a specific network can process. Similar to Confederate American currency. Never worthless, but a curiosity/collectable to speculate with.
Why is this better than just a salary?
The PR person who made the statement and the journalist are both "professional languagers" so to speak. He almost certainly chose the words on purpose for the double meaning and the journalist almost certainly chose to quote it directly because he saw the double meaning.
Neither of your examples are tradeoffs. Both my computer and my phone are excellent at their jobs with little in the way of downsides. Bitcoin is bad at it's job with lots of downsides.

It only looks better than the alternatives if you live in a place where the economy is heavily mismanaged. If you're currency is only better than the absolute worst economies in the world don't expect all the people in better economies to look favorably on it. Except perhaps as a way to further exploit those in terrible economies by speculating in that currency and driving high volatility in it's value.
I don't know about the constitutional or jurisdictional issues here. But I am curious why "critical race theory" would be in a math textbook. I've taught math myself, and I would only ever choose a textbook that was about math. Having random political stuff in a math text is a bit of a red flag. What purpose is it serving and who thinks it should be there. I don't know if a state can or should set limits on what's in textbooks, but conceptually, I don't see why anyone would want CRT in a math book.
I'm always more certain that we're going to see ad based web sites rendering with webassembly in a full page canvas. Some sites will implement ways to let us copy and paste text, others won't.
For all its merits, I would never use VIM as a development environment, and I would never fire up emacs just for the sake of quickly editing a file ...