jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I couldnt even get past trying to set the cookie preferences, spent several minutes then gave up on viewing the page on mobile
The person posted a PoC that works. Surely they have context now?
I think there may be some truth to that, I think some gifted programs pay the teachers a bit extra.

But, often, it may just be the appearance of extra things; if the gifted class does more 'enrichment' activities, it's often because they've got more time left after doing the required curriculum. Or, in my district, the gifted program had busing (which costs money) to get enough kids together to run one class per grade.

If the issue is money though; maybe it could be addressed through demonstrably worse conditions in the gifted program. Maybe a cap of 35 students per class in gifted, and 25 in mainstream. Then there's a tradeoff. My district had bussing as a negative characteristic for the gifted program as well (although my neighborhood school was the bus destination for four out of six years, so it wasn't bad for me)
Wow, many people argue how optimized GTA was and then this. I wonder how much money they lost because of this. I often stopped playing because it just took too long to load.
Wow. I always assumed that profiling would be part of the pre-release test processes for AAA games...
Exactly. Not only should we "Give the parents choice of schools" we should make every school a good choice.
With something like Kairos, how do you segment the time series data? Like if I wanted to use it to keep track of stats for 2 different customers, how would that work?
I am a professional and I totally second his position. It makes perfect sense to me and illustrates a large chunk of the frustration I feel every time I see the same old stuff in a new package trotted out like it is the greatest thing since sliced bread (only usually a lot less efficient).
"There is no excuse for driving faster than you can react to the car in front of you coming to a full stop. None at all."

Not offering this up as an excuse but rather sort of a pattern of behavior.

When I leave lots of room between me and the car in front of me, it invites crazy behavior for people cutting into that big open space. Especially with people that don't know how to merge onto a freeway.

It's sometimes hard to tell if following technically too close is actually safer for that reason.

Note that I've never rear-ended anybody, but I've certainly had some exciting panic stops.
Honest question: How often does the SEC do something like this? More specifically: How often does volatility caused by hedge funds result in suspended trading of certain stocks?
One of the biggest problems I have with these touchscreens is that, as they're generally included to reduce unit cost for the car manufacturer, they also usually have woefully underpowered hardware backing them.

When I glance at my display after an audio cue and there's a one-button option to change to a faster route thanks to real time traffic data, there's an enormous difference between quickly tapping that button and having it work as expected, vs me forcefully jabbing the screen repeatedly (while staring at it) because the processor is so overwhelmed running the maps app that the display polling isn't registering my finger. You can argue that the touchscreen is a danger either way, but one of these two scenarios is much worse than the other.
> Just don’t use ”infotainment” when driving.

This isn't good blanket advice - listening to the radio for example is a good way to stay awake and alert on long drives, good mapping can mean you can plan things like exits more early and safely than if you have to wait for signs, and reversing cameras can show you blind spots where dangers can lie.
That’s what I was thinking. If I get picked up for jaywalking, then I’m in the clink for a few weeks and can’t commit other crimes, etc etc
Oh good to know. I have only used FreeCAD to make simple gears to 3d print and found it an relatively easy experience (compared to Blender). Can't relate to power user frustration yet if I ever do, it's good to know there are people I can reach out to. Thanks in advance.
Give the streaming of location data for cars in the area, I don't think they care much about those extra MBs. If they did, you'd get a "N cars within X km of you", not a live-ish map.

A quick summary like "extra fee for airport pickup: X, pickup location restricted to: Y, etc." should be pretty comparable.
I'd hazard a guess that the industry is Power Law distributed, as opposed to Gaussian distributed. Power Laws take a few names depending on your field, but some common ones are Pareto distributions, winner-take-all, or fat-headed/long-tailed. The underlying math is the same though. These distributions are also quite wide ranging, everything from tax bills to the size of asteroids is Power Law distributed.

If anyone knows the 'mechanism' as to why so many disparate measures end up as Power Laws, I'd love to read more on it, as I;m sure other HNers would too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
He said that Tesla was unprofitable on a per car basis. The whole company including R&D, SG&A etc was profitable, so unless the solar part of the company was subsidizing the car business, that's a flat out falsehood. We can reasonably argue whether GM or Tesla are more profitable per car, but that wasn't the original claim.
Follow-up post: Dasung Paperlike HD-FT Teardown

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26270995#26271790
I use Firefox on Android all the time. When I occasionally open Chrome, I see the UI there changes quite often. Now it has tab groups. Maybe a month ago it changed the url bar.
The reason that the UK is poor is because it a) lacks the natural resources of the US (including land). 66M people live in the UK, but 60M of them live in England, meaning that England has 428 people kM^2 - California is 250 or so, the USA overall is 92.

but also b) which is that after the second world war there was a long period of under-capitalization for all elements of the economy apart from defence (arguably). Like the rest of Europe the UK was broke and devastated after WW2 - both in terms of fiscal and human capital. Unlike the rest of Western Europe the UK used its (very generous, TY USA!) Marshall payments to maintain it's navy during the collapse of the British Empire. You could pretend that this was something that kept order during the imperial fall... but the reality was that it was largely a vanity project by a British state that hadn't come to terms with the world as it was or would be.

This meant that the UK's infrastructure and industry were much weaker than the rest of Europe's for the period from 1955->1985 or so, and the UK's poor fiscal position was compounded by its lack of competitiveness. This was changed by North Sea oil which created a substantial recapitalization and brought the UK back into something approaching competitiveness.
The reason why Signal is not an open protocol like email has been argumented by Signal creator Moxie before (can't find the article please help). It has pros (evolution is faster and thus it's easier to compete with proprietary solutions) and cons (single point of failure) and Signal devs are well aware of that. We should stop acting like Matrix and Signal are competing with each other. I happily use Matrix but my grandma will not, ever, not in this world. And my mother has a hard time figuring out what a browser is. If we want everyone to be somewhat protected, adoption cost must be lowest.
It would be really nice if there was an "ssh update" feature similar to ssh-copy-id but built into the ssh command itself. So I could somehow indicate to SSH on my machine that key_2 is a replacement for key_1 - and any host that I ssh into that has key_1 in authorized_keys should be replaced with key_2 (and leave everything else the same).

That way I could rotate keys and painlessly update them (and still have the old key for rarely accessed machines).

Sure it's not perfect, but it's a sight better than never rotating.

I wonder if there's something similar for the ssh_host_key - somehow to say "old key is deprecated but still here so ssh doesn't scream bloody murder, but use the new key from now on".
Containers solve the dependency problem by simply pretending it doesn't exist.

I used to do UNIX integration work in the late 1990's early 2000's and containers weren't really a thing. So you had to make sure libs from one program didn't crap on another program. And developers had to be conscious of what dependencies they included in their code. Nowadays they don't have to care as much because of containers. Every program can have its own dependencies. Thereby solving the integration problem.

A better solution would be to actually integrate programs and their dependencies into working systems, but no one has time for that. Software bloat is fine. Computers are cheap and fast. And actually understanding what we're doing would be too expensive. So just wrap all your have finished crapware up in a giant black box and dump it on a server.
Raise her on hexadecimal too. She will thrive.
It's coming in 14.04. Mark your calendar for April 17th.
so what's your explanation?
You should burn an effigy of a man as an informal protest against "the man"...you could call him the "burning guy" or something like that..
The same thing that was "up" when they bought Siri, Inc (from SRI International).

They acquired a technology that they're going to use to differentiate their products. And apparently they feel it's a more strategic technology than, say, WebKit or LLVM.
Quadrupling the dot, that's what I think namespaces are.
Yeah, but what sucks is when you object for the reasons you describe, but your objections are interpreted as you being out-of-touch, afraid of new things, etc. When really it's just a distaste for complexity and magic.
I ordered one not just to stick it to BCBS, but also because it's great knowing all of this is going directly to the patients at Watsi. Well played.
When you can't point to something quantifiable, I guess you point to something like "water cooler chat!"

My feeling is the same: while random interactions are important, they aren't exclusive to an office setting. Weird logic. It's been surprising to me how much ink has been spilled about this, and how few solutions have been offered.
Java's the primary language here at Meetup, as well as at the previous company I worked at (Webs.com). To be honest it hasn't been that bad.
I'm 18 and I don't necessarily agree with this. From what I can tell tech is more accepting of young people than almost any other industry.
I didn't say "someone needs to be fired" -- that's a paraphrase of what I typed, not a quote.

My point is a broader one: When you have committees and subcommittees and working groups and HHS IT people and CMS IT people and task forces and contractors and subcontractors and new replacement contractors (Accenture) and undersecretaries and sub-sub contractors and assistant secretaries and White House aides and political consultants and PR firms and deputy chiefs of staff and deputy undersecretaries all participating to some extent in the $1B+ process that is the supremely functional Healthcare.gov site we all know and love, the buck can be passed endlessly.

But in all that morass of a process, someone was or should have been responsible for ensuring that standard privacy practices were followed. To her credit, Kathleen Sebelius resigned last year (though not immediately) as a result of what the NYT called the "disastrous rollout" of Helathcare.gov. It is worth looking at whether there is any accountability in the form of dismissals or resignations with this privacy snafu.

If there is not, we should draw our own conclusions.
>There won't be equivalent investment in services, recreation, leisure facilities to cope, so they'll degrade.

That's what happens in suburbia. You build a lot of infrastructure for very few people. That infrastructure was partly funded by private companies or federal government incentives. Once you have to collect property taxes and maintain the infrastructure you've overburdened yourself and can no longer meet your obligations precisely because there are not enough people living in that area.
The community version of pfsense doesnt support ARM.
Green energy and small scale nuclear coming online will make the transition to self sustained mining easier after rewards run out.
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/why-a-laundromat-might-be-cons...
DeepMind, Hinton, et al are still convinced that the brain must be doing something like backprop.

See Lillicrap address all common objections to backprop in the brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvl0k-aUiE&ab_channel=ELSCV...

Also from their paper Backpropagation in the brain:

"It is not clear in detail what role feedback
connections play in cortical computations,
so we cannot say that the cortex employs
backprop-like learning. However, if feedback
connections modulate spiking, and spiking
determines the adaptation of synapse
strengths, the information carried by the
feedback connections must clearly influence
learning!"
Is the device running Android or something else?

I understand this is marketed as a "dev kit". And I understand the cost benefit for shipping a COTS OnePlus phone to provide the camera and UI. But I wouldn't buy one of these due to how much windshield visibility is blocked by the device and the wire dangling from the headliner.

It would be better to have the camera and wiring hidden away next to the rear view mirror similar to how other driver assist cameras are packaged, with a CAN connected processing box in the glovebox (so audible chimes can be made), and infotainment screen integration for the UI (perhaps as an Android or CarPlay app).
Couldn't agree with you more - the less we emit, the less critical the need for carbon removal technologies becomes.

We have two levers for reversing climate change: the first is reducing emissions, and the second is remove carbon from the atmosphere. Most of the pathways in the most recent UN climate report incorporate some amount of carbon removal to maintain global temperature rise below 1.5°C [1].

Humans have been hard at work for a while on our first lever, and we need many shots on goal with the second lever to give ourselves a chance at success.

[1]: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-4/
Banks are companies and their service is to create new money.
Did you read my initial comment? Bitcoin uses 7% of the energy the global financial system uses and its energy usage does not scale with adoption. Transactions are meant to be run on the Lightning Network which consumes next to nothing compared to Visa, and long term savings are meant to be stored on the blockchain. This argument that Bitcoin uses too much energy has been around since its whitepaper and has been countered multiple times.

*edit, not debunked but countered with practical solutions
Ooo. I so wanted to downvote this comment for the “censorship” angle… but, for the rest of it, I think you’re right and I’d just be shooting the messenger.
And this feature can be disabled in the extension:

Tools->AddOns->AdblocPlus Options->Filter Preferences->Allow some non-intrusive advertising

You can untick it, and right next to it are two links. One is to a link describing the non-intrusive ads and the other is to the actual white-list:

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

I didn't realize this was on for me. But to tell you the truth, I have never seen any of these advertisements. So either they were so unnoticeable/rare or they really were completely non-intrusive.

I personally have no problem with this. As long as they keep the ads non-intrusive as it appears they have up until now, I will continue to allow it as it has made my web browsing completely annoyance-free from ads.
How would one train a dog to do something like the Hands Up routine? I've never had a dog, so I'm not sure how I'd get the whole motion across to the dog.
Paleo mostly helps because it eliminates refined sugar. It may eliminate some very mild symptoms of depression because sugar causes mild depression after the initial sugar high. Other than eliminating refined sugar, paleo is not very useful and there are much healthier sugar free diets out there.

And the scientific justification for paleo is just false. Ancient humans did not eat that much meat.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but you put in a mostly off-topic plug for paleo, so a response was justified.
Um, can you give us a bit more context? Why did you do what you did? What is it supposed to achieve? Why should anybody do it? Why do you feel it's broken?
The data set is far too small to draw serious conclusions from yet.... especially the 'increase' in stores that weren't participating (although a 50% drop 'feels' like it should be significant...).

Still, hopefully the effect is real and less people suffer as result. :)
Sleep is neither a problem nor a disease, and I really don't think you should see it as an obstacle to your productivity. Trying to fix the "sleep problem" is about on par with trying to fix the "going to the bathroom" problem or the "having to eat" problem. Lose the balance of sleep and you'll burn out faster than you can possibly imagine.
600 million years (total solar eclipse impossible) has a typo in the last line of the description text. It should say ..."too far away from Earth for total solar eclipses to be /possible/"
If a company isn't willing to sell a thing, but they are willing to sell the company, then they sell the thing. Just not yet.
RFID is probably used for crowd control / helping agents determine who's allowed access to assets.
They don’t. But if you see someone else with a gun before they see you, it might give some idea as to who they are.
Facebook logs all metadata that is available from WhatsApp as well. I'd rather have my metadata on matrix servers than on FB servers - at least it's not connected to my phone number, which is tied to my real identity. Also, matrix doesn't upload my entire contact list to Facebook. If it's secure enough for the german military and the entire french government, it's certainly secure enough for me.
The government is the one depriving us of privacy at a scale unknown in human history. Turn-about is fair play.
It is so you can flash the side of your gun at someone else in a dark/smoky/obscured room and they can see the signal, but you don't need to completely surrender situational initiative. The tape is reflective to help in this case. The person flashing the sign knows it is not 100% certain to work, but it better than metallic crickets or pass phrases.
In the humanities, authors often upload to Academia.EDU. It doesn't seem to have as much use among scientists.
Yeah it’s definitiv a different desk than the ohne in the picture with the guy who broke into pelosis office.
How was every person leaving the building not searched by police as a condition of exit?

The kettling and taking of details of (even peaceful) protesters in the UK is pretty standard now (I don't like it, but it is what seems to happen) - so why did they just let these people leave unchecked?
For what it's worth, they recently changed the 15" MBP to have the option of a 1680 by 1050 screen. I don't know if it is an IPS screen but I don't think that it is a cheap TN panel.
Looks like its time for "I'll fix your website for $15"
This device is an intriguing idea. I wonder what other cool things can be done around the house with a single purpose wireless button connecting to the internet.
Plaid | Software Engineer | SF, SLC, or REMOTE | equity + benefits | REMOTE, Full-time, https://plaid.com/

Hi HN! I'm James Nichols, an engineering manager at Plaid. We're hiring, and I believe that for the right people, a position at Plaid could be truly transformational. I was a member of Microsoft's Bing team back when it was MSN Search (2006!) and was at Airbnb before it was a household name, but I've never been more excited than I am now in my new role at Plaid. I joined Plaid because of the Plaids I met and because of the feeling I had that I had discovered a secret: a really amazing company, well-positioned in an exciting space, that wasn't well known among my friends.

Interestingly, only my friends in fintech had familiarity. "Plaid? Oh they're great!" was a common refrain. As I learned more, I realized that Plaid was actually a major part of some of my favorite apps (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/meet-the-startup-that-powers...). Venmo, Robinhood, Lending Club, Coinbase, Acorns, and Plastic all use Plaid's APIs to improve the user experience of connecting to the banking system. 2018 has been a big year for Plaid (and the fintech space in general), and the company has huge plans in 2019 to deliver even more consumer value, to expand dramatically, and to do it all while cultivating a company culture (and hiring bar) to be proud of.

The vast majority of the company is based in San Francisco, but the newly opened Salt Lake City office has a small, tight team that’s growing fast, led by Kira Booth (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kira-booth-11aab289/). The SLC office (in the growing tech scene of “Silicon Slopes”) is a short drive from world-class skiing and national parks. Plaid also has a team of distributed, location-independent, highly successful engineers. The company is doubling down on this, as evidenced by hiring me as their first remote engineering manager. I'll be remote myself, and focused on building a world-class work environment for remote engineers who want to be part of a hypergrowth Silicon Valley company but also want to have flexibility in where they work.

Does any of this sound good? Learn more at https://plaid.com/company/ and reach out to me by email (my first name at plaid.com) with a little bit about yourself. Let me know which one of these statements resonates the most:

-You're excited about the fintech space but would prefer to empower hundreds of consumer applications rather than just a single one.

-You want to join a hypergrowth company, especially before everyone else finds out about it.

-You care a lot about company culture and the people you work with, but impact is your primary motivation to do great work.

-You’re based in Salt Lake City and excited at the prospect of a growing SLC office of a Silicon Valley company.

-You've considered becoming a remote engineer, but are worried that you'll have to sacrifice career growth, technical challenge, culture, or other important parts of your work environment.

-You're already a very effective remote engineer and interested in collaborating with a team invested in remote work.
Check out mindmeld.com (built by Expect Labs). It is a platform for building voice-driven interfaces with context-limited vocabularies.
Had to look around for their DC location as well - it's hidden in the footer. Seems they're available on AWS, DigitalOcean and SoftLayer, although Postgres is only available on AWS (us-east + eu-west) if I'm reading it correctly.
I think that sort of claim has been made for decades already, repeated by each generation of programming language, 4GL tools, AI and graphical tools.
thewire.in is not neutral and biased towards the left (Communism) according to here: https://www.quora.com/Is-Thewire-in-biased

Just to give you some more context on why I am wary of trusting leftist sources: Communists & BJP (and sometimes Congress) party members have been killing each other a lot (over 200 since 2000), often really brutally in the south Indian state Kerala. I don't know why BJP & Communists have this enmity towards each other. But one thing I find amusing is that Communists don't like religion because "religion kills". During the last 10-20 years, I haven't seen any religious killings in Kerala, but see a lot of brutal Mexican mafia style killings (except may be complete dismemberment), always with machetes & similar weapons and country bombs, in the name of politics.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/030920/never...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36299827

https://www.mansworldindia.com/more/news/politics/rss-vs-cpm...