jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Last time I used an actual usenet group must have been around 2000 or so.

I have no idea how I'd set up NNTP and get to a group now. Not that it wouldn't take me long to work it out, but I'd have to start from first principles.
yes, that is half of how utf8 works as an encoding: the first byte of a unit is either 0xxxxxxx or 11xxxxxx, in the first it is a single ascii byte and in the second case all the following bytes that start with 10xxxxxx are part of the same unit.

for this purpose it would be enough to revert the order of the stream.
> Or am I wrong with this?

Some percentage of studies will produce random (erroneous) results, so if one cherry-picks favorable outcomes and buries the rest an impression can be created to suit any narrative. Are they cherry-picked? I don't know. What I do know is that there is a strong demand for positive studies both the dealers to sell more stuff and from the addicts to justify their addiction.
Thank you. I channel this particular strip often during my times working from home with kids.
You can get 2.5% today with good credit. Rates just dropped again yesterday to a new all time low.
I think the stripped down hardware is quite an important part of the offering.
I think if you want favorable margin rates I'd still use Schwab for banking and M1 finance or IB for the stocks. M1 lets you use borrowed funds for whatever, at like 2% interest.
> Is it possible to curate all of Facebook’s content?

Here's perhaps a better question:

If it's not feasible for a social space to be maintained in some semblance of good order because of its size, should that space even exist?

Do extremely horizontal social networks provide value to society proportional to the harms they seem to cause, and that the people who build them seem either unwilling or unable to stop?

I'd also pose this question about narrowly targeted advertising, which of course goes hand in hand with enabling these platforms to exist.

Things don't necessarily have to exist just because they can.
> or for the benefit of mankind.

Unfortunately, I don't know that I can trust any of the organizations that would have the budget to control enough of these robots to make a difference in any direction.

Which is sad to me, as I love this from a technological perspective and looking at a best case scenario.
... and "deliverability problem" is caused by spam. Because if it were easy to get mail delivered, spammers would do this.
Chornobyl alone put more radioactive isotopes into air than all coal plants combined. Don't know about ground and water.
Using the term, insurrection, to describe what happened yesterday is belligerently misrepresenting what happened. If the protests over the last year were mostly peaceful, then Jan 6 really was the most peaceful of them all. I was there, we had more then enough people to mount a serious insurrection. From what I could see, the members of the protest were used by some anarchist group to commit a BNE. Most, IE, 99.9% of the protestors were not involved in the BNE, and a significant portion of the protestors were fighting back against the anarchists.

The media is not telling the truth about what happened.
International SMS is quite expensive and sometimes unreliable.

iMessage is only for Apple devices.
Culture fit is code for specific gender/race/socioeconomic level. When a job tells you that you’re not a good culture fit for the company, it means they just don’t like you enough to want to hire you, even though your qualifications could be exceeding what they need.
The headline (and article) are confusing. As far as I can tell, what is actually happening is that Kubernetes is dropping support for using Docker with Kubernetes. Docker itself is not produced by the same group as Kubernetes and Docker will continue to be developed. The headline makes it sound like Docker itself is being discontinued and that it is Kubernetes who made that decision. The article is a bit more clear but only somewhat.
> Are you nervous about a language that is designed and supported by the largest and most successful company in the world?

Yes, I am. The concentration of power between facebook and google for ML frameworks is worrying enough, but to their credit, they have so far been very open and collaborative and are giving a lot back to the ML community in terms of research

Apple on the other hand is the dictionary definition of walled garden. Their controlling and insular nature has been the reason for their success, and power to them, but for something as fast moving and community driven as machine learning, I would be very wary if relying on them for any part of it.
The cookie law was intended to get website to stop using tracking cookies. Instead the pain was offloaded to users and the tracking continues. In a way, the proposal in TFA would be the "cleaning up" that you ask for.
It seems like the monoid-thinking just obscures. Positive integers under addition are not a monoid (no identity) but you can still map-reduce their sum of squares. All that you really need is associativity, and associative operations are associative.
Apple is one of the most successful organizations on the planet, and yes they have plenty of developers in tow. I am just trying to give an example of how it could help their bottom line to push open source swift more aggressively.

If I had to guess, they don't do it because:

1. they don't think the resources it would take would represent a good ROI,

2. and/or they think it's good for them that developers who invest in their ecosystem have skills which are not transferrable to other domains
Precisely my point. The officers are required to sit there and take verbal abuse. I can't begrudge them for taking out their phone and playing a song. It doesn't hinder your ability to record the police and it gets annoying people to leave.
First saw this Using Python to Code by Voice almost 8 years ago.

https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

I’m disappointed that we’ve gone nowhere in that time.

Anyone with early symptoms could use voice as an option, or partial option.
IME wrist braces don’t help, they just lead to muscle atrophy.

I picked up rock climbing and my RSI hasn’t come back since.
Was looking for a light weight laptop with very a very long battery life and an add for one showed up on my Facebook feed. I wouldn't buy it just from that ad, but I definitely looked that model up and considered it - ultimately I went for the new Mac, but if not that would have been a good candidate too.

To the contrary I got an add for the local bus service, which I checked out and found to be targeted to everybody living in Denmark and being 18+. It was extremely not relevant to me because I am a happy driver (happy in particular that I don't have to use the bus service).
Once upon a time I volunteered on an Eagle Scout project, scanning boxes of old photos to digitize the whole collection.

We thought "Google is a big tech company, this should stick around." Got about 10 years out of it, which strikes me as pretty average for a tech product, but not great for a photo archive. Hell of a lot shorter than "4x6s in a shoebox."

At least that was a desktop app and they still have their data. Hopefully they were able to find a new way to organize them.

But I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only good way to store data is in an organized tree of folders, with any management software being a veiwer UI into that structure. App inevitably goes away? Replace it with the next one. Some things just need to have longer lifespans than software projects.
The flip side of this: third party platforms enter into a contract to deliver. It doesnt matter if their supplier, the restaurant, cant do it - as a consumer, you entered into an agreement and expected it kept.

Pursuing a small amount through Australia's regulators is very tough. The ACCC doesnt care about the eatnow/menulog acquisition for example, despite the fact the former had great practices; the latter has tanked those rating; indicating consumers have, en masse, lost out. State regulators cant scale up. So these platforms shift their liability onto the public and small business; despite being the ones who made the offer and agreement first up.

Small businesses and consumers need stronger automated agents to represent their rights.
If the sale of land on Facebook is not legal, then the government shouldn't record the transfer of title.
Sure... because the consequence for being 1 month behind on regular maintenance should be complete destruction of the engine with no warning.

I mean. I accept that there was negligence on my part there. But it wasn't a huge lapse and that is the crappiest of crappy failure modes. Never had another car as finicky and high maintenance.
They were the only company who'd call me at work. Unfortunately every time they'd try they'd have some kind of sex scandal or employee harassment story the next day so I never called back.
> I'm an introvert who can easily converse with strangers

The 10 Aspects scale [1] has an easy answer to this. You might be the kind of introvert that is high in Enthusiasm and low in Assertiveness.

I've got a lot of people being puzzled when I told them I'm an introvert. They only knew my activated, event mode where I was just enthusiastic about sharing my ideas.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5863998_Between_Fac...
Yes, I mentioned in the next line that it doesn't sort evenly, and INTJ is particularly a minority.
Really off-topic, but I have recently started learning Go and also just looked into V. The simple hello world compiled binary of Go is 2088KB while that of V is 415KB. I'm on Windows. So is the large size solely due to GC?
I've been using dear imgui for some toy projects. And here is cinder with it already integrated. Nice.
API first.
Mobile or Web second (depends on where your market is).
Whatever you still need to do third.
If you've finished work in your responsibility areas, you have no new ideas for investigation or proposals for change, you have gotten no new ideas for what needs done from other coworkers (complaints, buggy processes/tools, upgrades, refactors, etc.), then it's on you to ask your boss if there's something new to do for you. Bosses LOVE adding to your plate, but only if you ask for it and can take it. Otherwise, it could be detrimental for both.

Anyhow, modern leadership just doesn't care and is restricted to not interfere by boss' boss and guidelines. So they're basically useless for other than the strictly mundane. Connect with other bosses, owners and even techies, in order to get proper work.

It can be different from place to place, but you're mainly describing modern work culture as it is.
At what point does adblocking need to start taking IP address reputation and/or originating AS number into account?
Then we'll just get more pointless legislation that led to the cookie banner and ads/trackers will be trivially cloaked/proxied to the point where any publisher has full deniability.

We'll look back at the good old days when ads were mostly just banner ads.

Idea: Start paying for content and support the sites that offer this option. The entire concept of adblocking lives on borrowed time: hoping your content creators are making enough money off the suckers that don't use adblockers.

It's hard for me to envision legislation that wouldn't just be a clusterfuck as the government encroaches further onto our internet.
That would still require you to scan something. You don't scan anything here - you just take what you want off the shelf and leave.
I completely agree that one of the core problems we need to fix is the unbalanced influence of wealthy individuals and corporations on policy and lawmaking.

However, potentially UBI does more than you imagine. There are measurable differences in both behavior and development when meeting basic needs is a struggle. Rutger Bregman did a great job touching on some of the basics in this TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lac...

By giving low income people extra cushion (even a small one) you can improve their cognition and decision making, giving them a platform from which to improve their lives, pursue education, even innovate. All without complicated, difficult to implement and expensive social programs designed to achieve the same goals. Poverty squanders potential.

And then, of course, there is the oft talked about, and in my opinion self evidently valid, concern about an increasing number of white collar jobs being replaced by automation. At some point we'll have no choice but to come up with a solution for a shrinking pool of unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.

Conveniently the same process that will remove those jobs, will also make the production of the goods and services they relate to dramatically cheaper. UBI gives some of that surplus to the lower and middle classes, which is important given the danger that it would otherwise be absorbed by the rich.
I thought it was relatively well known that heroin was named after the 'heroic' discovery of an opiate that wasn't addictive (or so they thought).
There are so many things to do with computers that have nothing to do with the web, where native code is incredibly important. There's probably even more of those jobs than there are web dev jobs, it's just that hacker news is a bit of an echo chamber.
Years ago I heard about one of the main rules in improv which is that you can never say 'no' because it shuts down the creative potential in the performance. I took that to heart and applied it to work, whenever I wanted to scream NO at someone I offered instead to try it out and see what we could accomplish. Ninety percent of the time after further discussion it turned out they were asking for something entirely reasonable, the other 10% of the time there was either a compromise available or big money on the table.

Worth noting that as I stopped saying no I also stopped feeling treated like an assembly line worker.
So they prefer cost to security. That's fine, most people do. If being quantum resistant was a priority they would figure out a way to do it and it may be similar to what I described, or not; but it could happen without hardware implementation if it was truly desired.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130218
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I interviewed at signal a while back, and none of their recent mishaps surprise me. At first, they had me talk to Brian Acton on the phone for about an hour, who seemed to think I was already getting an offer, and he was there to sell me on it. He was cool to talk to, so I didn't mind, but I was surprised at this level of confusion for a company that small.

Next, I was given a lengthy take home project (which I was warned not to do in a language other than Java, because Moxie would reject candidates if they didn't pick a language he liked). After I finished it, they disappeared for a month.

Apparently I passed. They said I was basically the only one out of 200 people they sent it to that did pass. I assumed this meant I would be getting an offer, but they then wanted me to do a full onsite. The "onsite" weirdly consisted of another take home, but shorter, and a live interview. After not hearing back again for a while, I got an email titled: "Hello from Signal!". Great! I opened it, excited: it was a rejection.

I tried to get feedback on why I was rejected but never heard back. The best thing I can come up with: in the system design interview, as a solution to a postgres node being overloaded, I didn't come up with the solution of having a SPOF redis node with a full key scan every 10 minutes acting as an intermediate data store before transferring to postgres. I was told this is how they actually do things.

Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm obviously still irked by the experience, but it's all true.
HTTP2 is yet another in a long series of developments that feel like the corporate takeover of the commons. Sure there are plenty of excellent features in it but they are primarily of benefit to systems doing huge (on lots of dimensions) stuff.

Is this the inevitable path of any technology which has initial promise for enabling individual public expression?
Because gravity is a pseudo-force: Free fall is inertial motion, tracing out a straight path through a curved spacetime.

In a way, it's more like

m·(a - a_grav) = F_nongrav
> There are many places where there is no light

Less light might be more accurate. Even out in the middle of nowhere the horizon can be quite noticeably illuminated by far-off settlements. And the countryside itself can be just as bad for light pollution. It's kind of funny, I was just having a conversation about the local grain elevator's excessive use of lights. It is in the countryside, but appears as bright as a small city.

Speaking of grain elevators, agricultural cropping is often blamed for insect decline. I see several comments stating that even within this discussion. Yet only 10% of the earth is arable. 90% of the earth is untouched in that way. I'm not entirely sure that "the insects can thrive somewhere else" is a tenable argument.
I went to a job interview recently where the interviewer was trying to phrase the question properly: "I'm trying to figure out how to ask this next one, so if you have a lot of Customers, and... umm..."

And I interjected during a long pause and said "It sounds like you're trying to ask a question which could be answered by using a HAVING clause. So something like, only those Customers who have two or more orders, which would be 'GROUP BY Customers HAVING count(Orders) > 2'."

I was right, he was looking for that. Still didn't get the job.
Created a JSFiddle from your current source:
http://jsfiddle.net/Wh7d2/
I actually considered building a web ring service just for tumblr when it was beginning to get popular. What's old is new again tends to repeat over and over again.
> It compiles Teal into Lua using

We need better and more rigorous terms in computing science. This use of the compiler word blurs the meaning of interpreted vs compiled languages.

I was under the assumption that it would generate executable machine code, not Lua source code.
Sure. But on the actual trail, you can see the edges. In parenting, you can't, and it takes you years to realize that you fell off it.
Subject to antitrust law is not an inherent property of a corporation. Antitrust law is a statutory construct, as are the tax benefits of incorporation.

What you’re failing to understand is that while there are different types if corporations as legal constructs, with differing advantages and disadvantages mostly related to their overall tax liability, a corporation in the general sense is just a group of people come together for a common goal. Usually that goal is profits. You join up with 5 people putting in 20% of the money, you are entitled to 20% of the future proceeds.

So if you take a distribution of $1000, all other shareholders holding equal shares, they must also take a distribution of $1000, or equal to their share of equity in the company.

A union has a different structure, different legal privileges and burdens, and different goals, but fundamentally it is a group of people with a common goal. I think where they tend to fall down is that unions can grow so large that the power is so diffused amongst individual members that even people in unions may come to resent the union more than their employer, particularly if they are always in the minority on union issues. In which case they might find they are actually more in alignment with their employers rather than their union leaders.
Which looks even worse than Victorian England and the factory workers (or the women at textile works)... So unbelievably immoral.
It would work just fine unless there's a run on it. So long as HODLers HODL, nobody would ever notice. That's the premise of the whole proof of keys business. (https://www.proofofkeys.com/)
You are looking at this through the eyes of someone who is already comfortable with their understanding of computers and software. To a kid with no prior knowledge, the entry barriers might appear impossibly high.
> So no, if anything, it's going the opposite direction, more code, more software.

That's the paradox, the more we automate, the more work we have to do. All because of scope creep.
Jewelry is just an extension of speculating on the metal. You can make a necklace out of many materials and it will function the same.

Cobalt is used more in electronics than gold. The MC is not close to the same. Almost 100% of golds value is from speculation.
I'm sure their own documentation is good, but certainly early on the tutorials always seemed to be a mess. Lots of similar articles written by different people with different structures and advice, without referencing other related tutorials. There seemed to be very little in the way of editorial control, but maybe that's better now. It was a good, cheap content strategy for SEO, but not a genuinely good resource.
These models will be a commodity with major cloud providers providing near similar performance in the next few years. Will getting early access provide an advantage to startups ? Probably but might fall into the SISP category.
Last I saw something like 5% of users accessed twitter using SMS. Basing your limits on a very very very niche use case seems bizarre.
Actually, I'd really argue that if you're obsessed with EFFECTIVE action (which is necessary to make money), you are much more likely to realize that what you're doing may be fun but will never be a product people will pay for.
>Even if such a fuel tank existed, would it be unreasonable for BP to charge by the litre of fuel removed?

But effectively no fuel was removed. Look in the tank, it's full right? What you would charge for is accessing the tank at all because unless it is sitting at 0 constantly (complete continuous usage) there is effectively no difference between someone who took 1 gallon
and someone who took 1,000 gallons.

EDIT:
Your point "but there is still a limit which the company does not wish to reach" is certainly valid, but properly dealing with this is complex. Simply capping to e.g. 5 gig is just going to leave you with empty lines for the last part of every month. Since your problem is utilization, not capacity this doesn't even address it. You had room for twice as much access but instead you look slow and expensive.

If you had a company large enough to run its own networks how would you deal with growing capacity? By putting some kind of bizarre transfer cap? No, that would just get you fired. Instead, you would shape traffic to even out the utilization and add infra as soon as you passed some utilization threshold.
I doubt there is a way to detect is someone uses this mode or not. Safari loads the full page, and then you have an option to trigger reader mode, which does not even replace the page: it's like lightbox for images: original page is dimmed and you get nicely formatted text in front of it.
Perhaps not in the bank line, but on the bus, waiting for your lunch, in line at the grocery store... these are times to interact with your fellow human beings.

I went a whole month a short while back where I refused to put on earphones while commuting. Had many an interesting conversation that month, and met a number of interesting people. In our field of work it tends to be culturally somewhat homogenous, I personally really enjoy these opportunities to branch out.

I've been slipping back into the habit of earbuds everywhere I go - it's easier to shut the world out, but knowing what I'm missing I'm still kicking myself.
This solution will be vastly inferior for catching potential cheaters than having them take a test in the classroom. Requiring an invigilator to inspect individual camera feeds isn't feasible. Furthermore, as the student has full control of the environment, he'll be able to easily work around the controls. For instance, although there is a 360 degree webcam, I suppose it is not monitoring the vertical plane and someone could put answers below or above the camera.