jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Aliens? Why look? There's two options really.

Either they are there, or they aren't.

If they're there, either they're dumber than us, in which case I don't want to meet them, and otherwise--if they're smarter--they'll find us before we find them.
I have resigned myself to the idea that making contact with a technologically advanced alien civilization is unlikely to ever happen, and even less likely to happen during my lifetime and the lifetime of most of us.

It doesn't help that NASA teases a "ground-breaking discovery" once in a while, which always ends being up being something mundane. The Internet has caught up to it now. These announcements don't generate much excitement outside of niche scientific circles anymore.

I almost don't care if we're visited by an alien invasion bent on destroying us, as long as some form of contact is made. Lol.
Did it 4 years ago. Saved a backup of my data, deactivated, and then completely deleted. Yes there will always be a reason to have facebook around, but 4 years on, missing out on all those little reasons people use to defend facebook didn't end up materializing in any meaningful inconvenience or obstacle to living without it.
My own attempt at creating simple to use wrapper for WebRTC: https://github.com/wesz/Peer
The materials involved also matter. You need significantly more power to get through concrete than you would need to get through paper.
Insistence that "linear function" is defined one way is not supported by facts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_function

A "linear function" refers to a "linear map" only in certain contexts.

The word "affine" can be used for a mapping that fails to meet the definition of a linear map operator due to offsets. That is much better than "nonlinear".
Infantile is a compliment. It suggests creativity and pushing the boundaries. Normally old curmudgeons think young things are empty and stupid because they don’t understand.
Whatsapp is a facebook app, that's the point.
Here's me being European and thinking, how many of these could be applied to USA as well. At least Xi Jinping is a properly ruthless politician, his thinner-skinned equivalent in the USA is just a fucking idiot running around screaming.

Yeah, yeah, "whataboutism". BTW, Chinese values, or Chinese government values? I'm sure the average Chinese would speak up if they knew they wouldn't end up in reeducation camp. Yeah I'll give you one thing, at least in the West it's still possible to speak up.

Meanwhile, in Washington DC at the moment, there are violence-ready Americans openly demanding democracy be ignored and to install their preferred fuckwit as ruler. Seems like they're just as brainwashed as a Chinese who's been fed CCP propaganda.
this is off topic, but medical training (at least in the US) is unfortunately about as dysfunctional as you describe.

there's are years of inefficient labor from students, residents, fellows, and junior doctors on procedures they'll never do again (because they relatively cheap)
I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer.

Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms?
As someone that lives in a country that saw 2000% of inflation... Believe me, gold currency is awesome.
It would be another indicator for you to suggest change and them either accept it or deny it. You could see how they deal when a curve ball is thrown their way and it gives you some great insight into if you would like to work in the type of environment put forward.
Actually #2 is a false assumption: Keep in mind that California approved prop 8 and just recently the courts rejected it after a long and tough fight.

In addition, my wife was a teacher and advocate for at-risk minority kids in SF, and I can tell you this whole thing about SF being "minority friendly" is a bunch of BS. Affluent new residents (such as high-tech employees) are very passive-aggressive about "accepting" minorities, but behind closed-doors they are actually very conservative. And the city policies are there to prove my point.

I am not trying to discourage you. I'm just trying to alert you to take the whole "SF vibe" with a grain of salt, as my wife and I have witnessed that first hand.
My luggage once set off explosive alarms at JFK. But my experience was completely different, and only lasted 5 or 10 minutes. They also told me what the chemical was, when I asked.

In his case, there was some profiling going on.
So, I'm a little confused. Did the PLUS features exist in the nginx we all know and taken away? Or, are the PLUS features new?
Yep. You owe them the courtesy two weeks and really nothing more unless stipulated in a contract.

Also be prepared to be fired on the spot if you try the "I have got an offer, what will you counter with" gambit.
I guess you could say that it's just free advertising.
Little nitpick - the line linked to is /googleanalytics.js, which I believe in most situations will do absolutely nothing. It's the lines referring to "analytics.js" and "ga.js" that actually matter.

EDIT: For clarification, analytics.js and ga.js are in indeed listed, as are many other analytics services, bugsnag and kissmetrics to name a few.
The economy needs to grow as quickly as the population because otherwise there would be a reduction in wealth on the individual level.

Also, if inequality remains the same the lives of those on the bottom of society see their lives improve.

Less essential, but the people here should appreciate it, growing the economy means that young people have the opportunity to develop themselves professionally, e.g start start-ups.
You forgot to mention Amazon fire phone but that was a real product developed over 4+ years
Do a cost-benefit analysis then. Cost: several spectacularly costly (lives and dollars) wars. Benefit: some profitable industrial espionage? I'll let someone else fill in the blanks for the benefits, but I don't think anything really compares to the cost of getting us into countless wars and 'low intensity conflicts' around the world, all the way back to the invasion of Cuba and even earlier. So many wars, each time started by lying to the american public.
I have no idea...

That's how I'd solve this particular problem though. As I said in the parent I only have cursory experience in programming, and almost none in algorithms.
Aren't squatters already taking care of that by offering to sell these domains to bidders?
>So, yes. I do say that governments should have no secrets.

Missile launch codes?
It's a tradeoff. Obviously an ideal situation is one where privacy can be used as a diplomatic tool and in the many other situations where it is powerful but refrain from using it for no legitimate purposes. We can't and don't have that though, anywhere. Secrecy and the ability to withhold information are and will be abused in at least some cases.

Supporting or opposing wikileaks is tweaking the level of secrecy available. Secrecy is always doubtful. There is always a chance a secret will get out. Wikileaks increases those chances.

This will have negative effects. For example, diplomats will have a harder time using secrecy to do good things. This will also have positive effects. Diplomats will have a harder time using secrecy for things their constituents think are bad.

The primary effect of wikileaks and leaks in general is unseen. People must take into account a higher chance their secrets will come out. This affects their actions. The effect is not really measurable. It will affect the next war more than this one. Overall, I think it'll probably be for good. People behave better in public.
TC manages to sensationalize a NYT story and get it all wrong.

I really wish reporters would link to or provide citations to the relevant cables.
Can you explain further what you mean by "diplomacy skeptic"?
The "cargo apk" tool already exists to bundle Rust code into a NativeActivity that can be run without needing to write any additional Java code. The API surface so provided is more limited than the full toolkit, but could be useful in many domains. It's currently mostly used for games. I am using it for the Android port of piet-gpu, and it's working pretty well.
I'm happy for you that your interactions with police seem to have been positive. I can only speak with regard to police in the U.S., but I suspect that if your skin was a different color you may have a had a different experience during your U.S. traffic stop.
Except for the "Elegant" thing, which I would drop entirely, I think the pyramid either has it backwards or should be read from top to bottom for priority.

Usually nobody cares for unreliable code because the "correct" bit can't be figured in most cases. And people messing with the code base kind of just failed the fizzbuzz test.
Your experience as an international tourist in a part of the US where the economy depends on tourism, and your experience in France, may differ from the kind of experience that that lawyer was advising people not to get themselves into. US citizens (especially non-white ones) often have nasty experiences with the police. For example, the police in my own city are infamous for electrocuting people in order to extract false confessions.
In case you never end up going back to read it, I did read the beginning and there was a good bit of background on why the author wishes Goodreads was better.

TLDR: The author made istheshipstillsunk.com and was hoping to add affiliate links for purchasing related books to help with hosting costs, but found that Goodreads's integrations were severely lacking.
Most of the time, people just decide on the aggregates they want from those sensors in advance, and discard the raw data.

I worked at a company that had some IOT devices logging "still alive and working fine" every couple of minutes. There was no point to holding onto that data. You only needed to know when the status changed or it stopped reporting in, as that's all anyone cared about.
Interesting. Is there some concrete realization you had in mind?
You mention:

The solution is to build a "graph" of archetypes to cache these results... If ComponentIds are densely packed, you can use sparse sets to cheaply jump between archetypes.

I couldn't quite figure out from the description how the edges are actually stored and I was curious why having the ComponentIds densely packed helps. I'd love to hear more about how the graph is represented. :)
It has nothing to do with a fascination with doctors and everything to do with a fascination with death. Death today in first world countries is so far removed from what death ought to be, that it's almost unrecognizable. Dying in a sterile white room, in a building that houses thousands of sick people, with bad food, busy nurses, and often alone, is what I'd imagine a dystopian future from a Hollywood movie like Soylent Green would look like, but instead it's what Death looks like today. There is no need for this, and if most of us were asked in advance, few would choose it as the outcome. Yet very few people have living wills created, nor plans communicated with close family for these circumstances.

You can't avoid Death, it happens to everyone. So it's bizarre why so few people plan for the only truly predictable event in their entire life.
Can't speak for other people, but the fascination for me is
a combination of decisions that are difficult and universal and then watching to see how subject matter experts (who view this stuff on a day to day basis) choose for themselves.

I think this invariably results in deeply moving meditations on mortality and dignity from both sides of the table (care provider and patient). Or maybe I'm just suffering a recency bias from this: http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/03/stanford-neuro...
A few years ago, I heard an NPR interview with a doctor who's friend was
terminally ill. Rather than opt for treatment, the friend spent his remaining
time living with his doctor friend. He died a few months later. The doctor
said that this is how she wanted to die, too. I've tried a
number of times to find the story, but I haven't been able to. Does it ring a
bell for anyone? I'd love to listen to it again.

Thanks!
Calling this a "tech bubble" seems like an obfuscation of the issue. Biotech companies aren't being overinflated. Hardware companies like Tesla aren't being overinflated.

This is just the HTML5/ mobile app bubble, or in other words ".com bubble 2: the media companies disguised as technology firms strike back."
I really like the idea of using Google Spreadsheets as a quick and familiar GUI for entry or querying on data sets, as long as you understand the tradeoffs (write latency isn't great and they max out at 400,000 cells).

But this is especially nice when you build a layer on top of Google reduces lock-in, instead of adding another proprietary API. This is what I did with sheet-down[1], which turns a Google Spreadsheet into a LevelDB-compatible data store that can be swapped out with a file system or other compatible backend[2] once you outgrow Google.

[1] https://github.com/jed/sheet-down

[2] https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup/wiki/Modules#storage
More important than the current bubble, what happens when the self-driving car becomes a reality? Probably a dotcom-esque era. Even if the current bubble pops tomorrow, the self-driving car will bring so much focus to the tech industry that it will recover pretty quickly. If not the self-driving car, then personalized medicine or something.
As someone affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis (symptomatically similar to Lyme), I found this very interesting, especially after learning that (controversially of course), it has been found to improve RA symptoms as well.
Funny how everyone accepts this as fact despite techcrunch printing it. The only facts available are that the repos and downloads have been pulled.
Is it possible to prove most of the system so that the remaining unprovable parts are minimized?
Apple is the worst acquirer in the industry, at least for users of the acquired company's products. Nobody else would dare kill a _database_ with no warning, explanation, or migration plan - not even a goodbye blog post!

Whenever Apple acquires anything that runs on a competing company's platform, that version is immediately killed (see any of their mobile app acquisitions).

Thanks for making things that much harder for every other database startup.
Complaint: how come we haven't tried to grow ginormous spacefruits yet? Don't get me wrong, going to Mars is cool... but it wasn't until 2016 that we even tried to grow a flower! I want some watermelon-sized strawberries is all.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-first-fl...
She raised some good points, but I think she missed the points of the articles she critiqued. I especially still think Scott is more right than she is about the outgroup article. And I'm not convinced Scott writes in bad faith.
Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management.

Unless you'd suspect a conspiracy, there has to be a genetic or a cultural reason for that and the problem with that is that any such reason could plausibly apply to Black Americans.
I think a better idea would be to start a made in _____ site which lets customers choose to buy products made mostly within a certain country or set of countries. It can default to counties neighboring to the user, so as to promote locally made goods no matter what your locality is.
for the "products and services you want to buy", metric is maximum revenue for facebook. There is no chance these two initiatives can be aligned, as long as there is "bid" part in the equation. If you have 0.01% interest in my product but I have deep pockets, you will see my ad all the time.
The only thing I got from this article is now the cookies banner with slide from the right side of the screen and completely block the text on one side making it impossible to read through while ignoring cookie banner. So I just left the site
line 62: exp_imp[sigma == 0.0] = 0.0

I'm afraid it never samples points more than once, since it estimated already-sampled-points as points with variance zero, and no expected improvement.

IMHO that's wrong. Variance of a single sample should be infinite (classical statistics), or similar to the variance of nearby points (bayesian+model), or some pre-defined prior (not a great idea... I'd prefer some automatic method). But not zero.
I don't have a iota of trust in Apple, but it does seem that they would have little to gain and a lot to lose from just selling user data.
Same for me (chrome 39.0.2171.99, win 7)
But it seems to work using webgl renderer !
edit: I was wrong. Ignore what was here before, AWS did respond and I just didn't notice. Apologies to AWS for speaking out of turn.
I think the point of the Oculus Rifts and Water Jetpack and Martian Terrorist Proofing is that once you've said, "oh, we'll try to help out only those people who need it," you've invited a political process into the system. That's dangerous because the politicians who are making the decision are not, in fact, experts in the matter. (See also: NASA explosions. They happen when the people who make decisions are managers, not the engineers who know the most about the systems.)

Politicians will divert tons of your funds to programs which address "related problems" that are not actually current problems (Martian terrorists), monolithic solutions that are not known to work (jetpacks), and to other programs which get nerfed.

A good example of a program getting nerfed: there's a nice free-and-reduced-cost lunch program for kids in the US: poor kids should be able to get a good meal at school. Unfortunately, this program has completely lost its ability to provide poor kids with a high-calorie meal, because of Mrs. Obama's crusade against obesity. It's not that the First Lady's plan is unilaterally bad, but rather that it is bad if this meal is the only substantial meal that you're going to get, so that fighting malnutrition is the same as providing lots of calories.
IMO the biggest advantage of JSON on the web is a simple one: fewer bytes on the wire.

EDIT: also the concise yet all-encompassing nature of its home at http://www.json.org
Ok, but I suppose the word better is fairly similar to should the way you use it, no?
That's less true of "perishable" items like munitions.

Generally, the US Government has a set stockpile (which may increase or decrease based on policy changes, but is usually static).

This company made guided missiles (very expensive, medium to long range), and needed the existing stockpile to be depleted (which is a nice way of saying that they needed things to be blown up).

Other divisions of the company I'm sure were working on different kinds of projects, the contracts for which weren't as contingent on being in a skirmish.

There's a difference between having a contract to develop and design an F-22 (which thankfully occurs before they are needed in warfare) and to actually build replacement F-22's (such as when they are shot down).
It doesn't matter yet. Make something people want, then you can worry about scaling up.
Unfortunately you'll almost never get really honest feedback from a job interview that didn't work out. While IINAL, truly honest feedback can expose the company to certain liabilities, so they play it safe. In fact, this is also true for reference checks. If a company says bad stuff about you when called for a reference check, that also apparently opens them up to some sort of liability. In all cases, for every company I've done interviews for, I've always kept feedback for those we didn't hire to an absolute minimum.

Best bet for you: Do pseudo interviews with friends, and have them review your resume. It'll be much easier to get honest feedback from them.
When your field is "suicide bombing", it's hard to retain good talent.
Or perhaps why a loud fan (that doesn't click or make strange noises) is great for sleeping, in my very sound sensitive experience?
This would have been fine with a BOOST_FOREACH. I find it hard to believe that he knows his way around boost:bind, but not BOOST_FOREACH.
It's not the will to shoot illegals that's needed, simply the will to implement the law as it stands by putting in the necessary resources into border policing and deporting those illegals who are discovered. Almost all illegals into the UK entered as paying passengers, ie they needed a ticket. If commercial carriers can police their passageways why can't the government police the doorways to those routes?
Awesome name. The site is down though. Edit: back up now.
The most unpleasant fact about the education business is what to do with the not so bright kids and how to keep them from holding back the bright kids. (Yes I know, all children are above average and are fully capable of absolutely anything if they just try)
Threw an error when I tried to connect my Heroku account :(
Lovely graphics though.
I assumed this was going to be a way to pay for another users account. This is way better, though. Surprised there's no advertisement involved from the companies funding this.
Every OS I have ever used has a way to hide system tray icons. Windows has had this since 98, both Gnome and KDE have it, and OSX has it. What is the problem exactly?

And how are you so annoyed by a 16x16 pixel red O? Please never try to drive in NYC...
Yes, but that energy was also mostly masked by the "BMW" stencil and then also apparently filtered through the projection screen. The amount of light actually hitting the viewers' eyes was much much less than the actual output of the strobe units.
It isn't so much that parents aren't interested in the quality of the eduction, as much as the annoying fact that teenagers have wills of their own. You make it sound like the parents are the target customers for these schools, but based on how the schools target their advertising they realize that their target customers are very much the kids.

Now admittedly I don't have teenage kids, but from what I hear I imagine it is non-trivial to tell them that they can't go to the school they have their heart set on and instead must go to a school they don't want to go to at all. And even if the parent does win that particular battle of wills, I image that the kids motivation will have taken quite a beating. I suppose at the end of the day most parents reason that it's better to send their kids to a bad school they are enthusiastic about rather than a good school they don't want to go to.
It takes about eight minutes to get to orbit. Which is quick, but not super quick. Reasonable accelerations reach really high speeds when you just keep doing them for minutes at a time. For example, a fast race car might be able to pull off a similar acceleration, but only for a few seconds before it can't go any faster.
Pretty fascinating, I didn't realize there were any links between depression and inflammation. In addition to suffering from depression starting at a fairly young age, I also have allergic reactions that result in inflammatory responses to seemingly random environmental factors. This is something that appears to run in the family. I wonder if addressing the allergic symptom would suppress some of the depressive ones?
Yeah, that's pretty much what it does[0].

Most templates will typically live in separate files and be loaded and compiled when needed, of course - so not so much of a performance hit up front. But Angular still needs to know where to dump the stuff, so it needs to parse the DOM to find a node with the ng-app directive.

Also, I'm not aware of anything like handlebars's offline pre-compilation for Angular, although such a thing may well exist. There's a lot of stuff in there...

[0] https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/bootstrap
How does Machine Intelligence and Deep learning fit into programming? What type of background does a person need to get into that ballgame?
I think this is yet another reason why we should be more sensitive to others and allow for more diversity in our field.
I've been very fascinated by Mindops.com, Metamind.io, and others...