jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One thing that I have learned in the past is that large problems can often be completely absolved simply by growing beyond them. As an example, during the industrial revolution, cities were covered in soot. They were a mess. But we plowed ahead instead of saying "gee, we should stick with current technology and stop expanding until we fix the soot", and look where we are now. Today's power makes 1800's power look like a pigsty, purely as a side effect of our growth & development.

What I mean to say is, if past experiences are any indicator, supposing we push on into space, carbon footprints will probably become a concern of the past- most likely due to some development we couldn't possibly have foreseen from our current vantage point. (what 1800's coal plant worker could have foreseen nuclear reactors?)
We use it to block spam and malware, typically to block mentions of URLs that are, e.g, links to malware downloads.
i believe he likes it because it shows exec pay, etc
Good idea. I put "test" up there. When will it show in the list?

Edit: there it is. Title reverted now.
Is this data talking about a "cure" where people no longer would be labeled as having depression at all, or are we talking about clinically significant improvements/better than placebo results?
> The only very minor difference between first and third party script inclusion is access to HttpOnly cookies

That’s not a minor difference, http only is used for authentication.
Phew, I'm surprised to see such an emotionally-charged article on the subject. Everyone who is uncomfortable with anthropomorphism is biased and misguided in some way, but extremist proponents are merely overly enthusiastic.

I do wonder about the theoretical bird scientist trying to figure out the "fixed action patterns" of other animals. If anthropomorphism is the way to go, surely it goes in the other direction in some way.
The famous superliminal neutrino case is a great example of this process at work.
You get your lawyers to talk to their lawyers, I would presume.

It sounds like they’re focusing on cloud computing which isn’t something Apple is working on.
Of course, but that thing is getting more and more computerized and the software is getting more sophisticated. My point is just that if there is a phase change, we probably won't notice because we're part of it and don't perceive it.
Tighter controls over the media? Did they have no-fly zones and tightly restricted waters during the Exxon Valdez spill?
Basically you are free to submit your own stuff, and other people are free to not up-vote it if they don't like it. Of course, if you self-submit a bunch of your stuff and no one up-votes it then you will lower your karma average, which also lowers the worth of your vote when your up-vote or down-vote.

It is best to try to keep your karma average as high as possible.
This article gets huge "Hell yeas" from me just for linking to published medical papers when making medical claims.

I saw the jama link and almost clapped right then and there.
I also use Personal Capital.

Something annoying about finances is dealing with negative numbers. If my credit has changed by -$500, at a glance, does that mean I have paid off $500 or does that mean my debt has grown by $500?

Obviously this can be figured out from digging in deeper, but I like "at a glance" stats.

What I am saying is to add context clues. Rather than giving a plan number with negatives, maybe $500 but green means "paid off" and $500 but red means "grown".

I don't know of a person that would see a red $500 and think they paid off $500.

Negatives are hard, especially when credit is already backwards.
It sounds like a mis-diagnosis, which unfortunately with ADD has been far too common. Too often we mistake kids who simply don't want to do things as having ADD.

I've had fairly severe ADD my entire life. I wasn't diagnosed until my mid-20's. I haven't had much luck with medication (I can certainly concentrate 100% better, but the side effects have been pretty bad in general). I have learned to at least manage it better in my adult life. I work on a 10-on/10-off cycle. I still manage to be really productive, even if bosses that I've had in the past couldn't handle my distraction issues. It's precisely why I work for myself now.
heh, just got mine delivered today, and fired it up just to post this reply :-)

It's a Toshiba AC 100 with an ARM-based Nvidia Tegra processor and Android operating system in a standard netbook form factor. I don't believe it's available in the US though, if that's where you are.

First impressions: it's very light, to the point of wobbling around when I type with it on my lap. Many of the peripheral keys are very small for my Western fingers, although I feel I'm getting used to them already. It's fanless, and has only flash storage, so it's eerily silent and apparently gets up to 8 hours of battery life. The trackpad doesn't have enough vertical space to be comfortable, and there are neither function keys nor a delete key, although there are a whole row of special keys which presumably can be xmodmappped.

The online reviews mention that Android provides a less than elegant interface with the lack of a touchscreen, and I agree; I was planning to install a Linux or BSD OS on it all along. As I understand it, that's pretty tricky; should make for a nice weekend project :-)

As for why there aren't more of them around already, my best guess is that OEMs don't want to piss off Wintel by selling what is effectively a PC which doesn't use their platform, for fear of losing the discounts and rebates they get when they do. I hope I'm just cynical and there's a better reason; for casual use the system resources definitely seem adequate. Acutally, as soon as I get a proper OS and WM installed on this thing, I can easily see it taking up half of my computer time, and it will be brilliant for having a quick hack on the go...

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After the first half hour or so of usage, it's clear that the Android as currently installed is definitely not a good fit for a non-touchscreen, full-keyboard device: After 5 seconds of idleness, the screen dims, then blacks out completely, just like a phone would; navigating through screenfulls of icons using keyboard or mouse becomes tedious very quickly, and to top it off I've run into a few bugs as well..
This thing is begging for a linux/bsd makeover, hopefully I will uncover a real beauty...
This was done, by no less than Thomas Jefferson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

resulting in a 46 page bible.
Intel builds ARM processors. This article sucks.
Maybe I'm just a pragmatic rationalist.

Interesting that you chose the word pragmatic, since pragmatism says that an idea needs to be tested and found valid before considered true. I've done that to the best of my ability in my own life, while you're rejecting it out of hand, without testing or validation.

As for rationalism, are you really convinced that it's irrational or unreasonable to believe that reading the same thing over and over will help reinforce it in your mind? Perhaps you're the type of person who can hear something once and immediately apply it to all relevant areas of your life, but I'm not.

I know that I should just small steps towards a very challenging goal. I know that not giving up in the face of overwhelming adversity is important. I know that time is the most valuable resource I have. But those things are hard to remember in the thick of it, when my emotions are telling me to stop, give up, waste time.

At the end of the day, you are a slave to your habits and your defined ways of thinking about yourself and the world around you. Better to be a slave to good habits and positive ways of thinking. Greatness is rarely achieved without a healthy dose of hubris about one's own abilities, ignorance about what is realistic, or both.

Let's flip this around: what are you trying to accomplish with your life? And what's the biggest internal roadblock to you accomplishing it?
You can put your own books on the Kindle (even the one downloaded from Library Genesis...).
The pursuit of knowledge shouldn't be dampened by silly things like getting a job. It's computer science after all.

Aside from that, learning Haskell at university has eventually made me a better programmer. It gives you a whole other world outlook and that's useful once you finally start figuring out how to build reasonable software.
Twitter can remove his "platform", while still showing his messages to those who directly followed him. i.e. don't show his messages except to people who specifically followed him.

This is like the Post Office deciding not to deliver mail.

> And incitement of violence has never been protected speech.

I saw an incitement to protest, but I saw nothing encouraging violence. Do you have an links to anything like that?
Both you and the folks replying to you are painting with a broad brush.

Only some small portion of these protests are likely to be violent bad actors, and the proper protesters should not be disrupted by law enforcement
Trump can and has called in for long interviews on various cable news shows. He obviously has media outlets.
The videos that I saw were far from being like that... they were using tear gas and blocking them but it is plausible that they got in because they let them.
I think it's not just Britain. Having hospitals with lots of empty beds, i.e. capacity, is just too costly.
So when the capacity is needed as it is now, then you can't really do much.
What does it mean to “have faith”?
Wonderful! This might save me from the life long habit of writing down directions, only to leave them behind and needing to recall them from memory on the road.
Published:
Robert E. Hall & Susan E. Woodward, 2010. "The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(3), pages 1163-94, June.

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is risky. We study the risk facing a well-documented and important class of entrepreneurs, those backed by venture capital. Using a dynamic program, we calculate the certainty-equivalent of the differences between the cash rewards that entrepreneurs actually received over the past 20 years and the cash that entrepreneurs would have received from a risk-free salaried job. The payoff to a venture-backed entrepreneur comprises a below-market salary and a share of the equity value of the company when it goes public or is acquired. We fi nd that the typical venture-backed entrepreneur received an average of $5.8 million in exit cash. Almost three-quarters of entrepreneurs receive nothing at exit and a few receive over a billion dollars. Because of the extreme dispersion of payo ffs, an entrepreneur with a coe cient of relative risk aversion of two places a certainty-equivalent value only slightly greater than zero on the distribution of outcomes she faces at the time of her company's launch.
Or worse, none at all since a lot of guides, especially for CI, tell you to just use none.
By far the most common use I have for dates is filling out forms. In those cases the year is almost always essential.

Speaking from personal experience, even an American can make an effort to use YYYY-MM-DD in any situation asking for a numeric date, and almost always succeed. The biggest exceptions are forms asking for MM/DD, and online payment forms asking for credit card expiration as MM/YY.
It's circular but still a correct reason. The reason people value gold is because you can sell it for a high price. Why can you sell it for a high price? because whoever receives it can also sell it for a high price.

Note that this isn't true for most things. If I buy for instance a car I don't expect to be able to sell it again for the same price.

So I suppose another way to word it is "Gold doesn't depreciate"
Ship them off to where?

The usual networked logging systems that don't have ssh logins, e.g. syslog into ELK stack.
Took a quick look... can you try this diff?

--- pspax.c 2021-02-26 09:46:14.304092510 +0100
+++ pspax.c 2021-02-25 11:25:42.439550015 +0100
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@

/* this is a non-POSIX function */
caps = NULL;
- WRAP_SYSCAP(capgetp(pfd, cap_d));
+ WRAP_SYSCAP(cap_d = cap_get_pid(pid));
WRAP_SYSCAP(caps = cap_to_text(cap_d, &length));

if (pwd && strlen(pwd->pw_name) >= 8)
> How did the world get into this situation where you need all this complexity just to deploy and configure not even an application, but part of an application? Amazing!

Because everyone else is doing it.

Things have gotten so complex that we need complex solutions, but w're afraid to make and own the solution ourselves because of cost, focus on core business or recruitment/knowledge concerns. So we need to find the next best open source solution to leverage the collaborative effort to reduce time and cost and have a large community to fall back on for support. And because everyone jumps on board of the same train all use cases must/will be accounted for (else the solution will fade into a niche), meaning the solutions becomes a problem in and of itself.

Repeating the cycle once again.
I am also Portuguese, have lived in 3 other European countries (all of them economically richer) and am still living abroad. If I compare the housing quality of all these countries I disagree Portugal is worse. I can easily find much worse flats listed abroad than in Portugal. I remember seeing unimaginable things like 20 sq m studio with no bathroom (just a plastic separating the rooms) in central London for the rental price of a 1 bed in Porto.

Portuguese housing market, like potentially every other market, is smaller than the richer countries, but that doesn't mean house quality is "shit". I looked at idealista a few weeks ago and there are luxury houses being sold for 1M+ in the north (probably even more in the South), mostly obviously targeted to rich foreigners.
> In RAII aware languages (it is not only C++ that has it), you don't need to forget to call anything.

Uhm, how about delete? C++ only introduced working smart pointers a quarter century in with C++11.

In the case that the lifetime coincides with the lexical scope C++ is robust, but so is, IMO, the with-* macro approach even without static validation (because unlike Go-style defer the construct itself introduces the object you want, so there is nothing to forget; if you really only care about the lexically scoped case you can also make this the only public API, and rule out errors that way).

I think the most compelling argument that can be made for RAII is that GC is a bad abstraction, because it special cases memory deallocation whereas "true" RAII can deal with fairly arbitrary resources (with the big caveat that de-allocation must never fail), but to really make a strong form of this argument I think you need something like Rust's ownership model; even the weak form needs more than C++<11 had.

> It definitely was, hence why everyone was replacing C with C++ (Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Be) until the FOSS freedom fighters decided to push C as their main language.

Beauty had nothing to do with it. Would I write serious software in C over C++? No, just for less terrible strings and resource management alone. But would you have picked C++ in the early 90ies over Turbo Pascal because of its greater beauty, or even substantial technical reasons?

The case of the enlightened companies vs unwashed FOSS masses is also a bit more complicated, and it's not that obvious to me the FOSS people made the wrong choice.

Microsoft: their software at the time was of notoriously low quality; early linux was significantly more stable (and performant). Be: I think I recall an ex-employee claiming on HN that their OS (despite innovative ideas) also had major quality issues. Apple: they sure did a lot of work over the years to avoid having to commit to C++. IBM: what software did they even write during that time? OS/2?

There are also major interfacing issues to other languages. And massive conceptual complexity, and difficulty agreeing on some "sane subset" over a huge community. Finally modern C++ these days takes, what, 100x longer to compile than C? I think a big part of the success of open source is due to the development of new languages with vibrant eco-systems, I suspect a massive move to C++ would have made that much more difficult.
Red Hat has a community for neurodiversity. It's one of several groups for people with similar needs.

Generally, I think many people recommend Red Hat as an employer.
In the future, nanobots will accept an over-the-air hardware upgrade and reassemble your CPU to a new configuration.
We don't have to have direct knowledge of the impossibly specific situation you've constructed.

Instead we have people saying "I am white and I set one off in 2003 in Australia and they let me through, therefore that demonstrates that this is racism" (ignore every case where non-whites got a couple of quick questions and went through).

And how utterly provincial are so many people on here? What backwaters do they live in? Go to JFK or Newark and tell me that they pick on non-whites, and I'll tell you that they must have hundreds of thousands of employees working around the clock to manage that.

Further what an FBI agent purportedly said during the conversational stage is utterly irrelevant. We don't know what explosive material the sensor detected, but by the response it seems likely that it was rare.

Finally, this isn't just about racism

Indeed, it isn't, even though the overwhelming majority of comments, and the title itself, portends racism. In another comment someone criticizes me for apparently claiming that their treatment is reasonable. Yet never did I say their treatment was reasonable. Who would?

they wouldn't even tell him what they had found

Because they believe in the flawed concept of security through obscurity. They likely imagine that giving that information away shows their hand.
Can you cite sources for either of the two claims you made here? I'm genuinely curious.
Just a correction, OP wasn't detained for 18 hours. He hadn't eaten anything in 18 hours.
I sent this to jliat and he had this to say:

"Oops indeed! but not me! :-)

they have confused THREE! works. The 1 TB set of disks was not made using the Java code! but made from
samples of Harsh noise.... as MP3 files = 1 TB - Harsh Noise not HNW! Each MP3 being made of
random chunks of MP3s spliced together using a VBnet program. The other piece 510 disks is HNW but again not
made using the JAVA code he refers to, and this uses .WAV files.... not .AU !!! (it layers randomly
HNW noise to create a .WAV)

Now as to the JAVA code - I wrote this must be 6 - 7 years ago as an exercise- but i've just run the
program which creates the .AU file of HNW... max value in the file is +32729 minimum
-32720... were found in a small chunk of the .AU file.... so?

here is a sample of the .AU file actually produced by the code to which he refers...

-12248
-30299
5627
-12218
6453
6684
6991
6832
6059
-30395
-30301
-30188
-30270
-12141
-30911
-32020
-32664
32208

Now i'm ready to admit i'm no JAVA expert...!!! which is why i use .Net! But this was an exercise in seeing
how to make HNW using Java. It was never released as a piece. I used some code I found for making sine waves and
plugged in my random algorithm... nothing smart. But it did work! Why it seems IDK.

As a rule of thumb i tend to look at the output of any programs...

Feel free to post this response as i'm not a member of the group, but would think as the code
and program is there a simple test run would show its harsh. That my attempt to not use wimpy numbers
doesnt seem to work as it should is besides the point. From memory i probably just tweaked these numbers until the
results were harsh - that in the above data set (only a small number of samples above) gives a standard deviation of 29101.09796...

http://www.jliat.com/pics/graph.JPG

If you look at this you can see a plot for the output of the JAVA HNW.... its high!
I gave the source so anyone into JAVA could play with this... as i say its not a piece but a by-product
on seeing how HNW / Noise has large Standard Deviation and low SNR and as one might expect produces HNW.
The harshness being a product of sudden and large changes in values...

In fact i like the fact that in spite of the (MY) mistake it still works - can you fail in noise? :-)

best

James

P.S. The JAVA HNW is way too slow to make these big terrabyte files... it would take much longer to write them
than they sound when played!!!"
Presumably more than the number that skip tax filing entirely as a way to avoid higher taxes.
Kimble appeared on the NSA radar back in 1994. He was allegedly part of a global conspiracy trading in calling cards stolen from AT&T. They were stolen by an insider and cost AT&T an estimated $20 million if memory serves me right.

This was back in the day, just after many countries made the switch from analogue to digital telephony and blue boxing was no longer viable. BBS access (I.e. pre-Internet) was therefore harder to get for free. Hacking int. PBXes with 0800 numbers and calling cards were the next best thing at the time (allegedly :-] )

Due to the nature of the crimes the case fell under the jurisdiction of the US Secret Service. Kimble has been on their hit-list ever since. The guy is like a soap bar to the US security apparatus. They are dying to get their greasy mitts on him. Every time they get close he slips out of reach.
Looks like the two URLs are different.
Construction permission is different from state to state. At least in Bavaria, water and waste water can be independent from the grid. Electricity is funny, because off grid is allowed, you still seem to have to pay taxes and grid fees (I could be wrong here, never dug to deep here). Having a road, yeah, you want to get to your house, don't you?

Cabins and such need a permit, or have to grandfathered. There is even a way to treat them as a "non-permanent" building.
Interesting. So instead of having a full copy of the database in each schema you would only create the delta and then simulate the rest with views?

And then creating a bar with version 1 to 7 would use the views in each schema to insert it, but it would actually be inserted into the database in schema 1?
Those people would have benefited from UBI for sure. They are an example of people who’s jobs we’re lost to modernization.

There’s nothing more “destructive” then spending your life working to survive. It’s literally wasting the most valuable thing you have. Putting those guys back in a coal mine so we don’t have to see them is not a solution.
Unless Muslims believe in Jesus as deity (and salvation through Christ's atonement) as Mormons do, that seems an unlikely statement.

Mormons do get drawn outside of Christianity by some christians for a variety of reasons (non-trinitarian, open canon, cosmological background quasi-polytheism), and some people have suggested classifying the faith as another Abrahamic one as a means of sidestepping that discussion, which may be where one could get the idea that the comparison to Muslims is a good one. But if Mormons are outside mainstream Christianity, it's only marginally so.
Same. I also find it very strange that there's not DSL offering in either of the places I've lived. I'd rather have slow and steady DSL than erratic cable :(
As long as the Raspberry PI remains smaller than virtually everything else, I think it will remain of at least some interest. It might not be fascinating, but it's always at least somewhat interesting to see ye olde piece of computer hardware X, that at the time of its construction was, if not record-breaking in one form or another, at least competitive, reproduced in software by the Raspberry PI. Which costs £25. And is probably smaller than the original device's power supply.
RWMutex (or Mutex if every op is a write op) is faster since it's just a couple counters and atomic AddInt. Channels are more intuitive for some tasks, and less for others. Don't try to use channels anywhere, especially when you're just synchronizing access to something.

Source: Have written and benchmarked many, many Go programs.