jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As long as the network protocols stay in the mainstream, the implementation tech stacks of remote services will become “ancient” and “icky” without callers really noticing. I suspect they will stay around much longer as people program around them without comprehending what horrors lay inside.
Does anyone under 50 pick up the phone if they don't know the number that's calling?
If only people had actually listened to what Mundell actually said / wrote:

> The four often cited criteria for a successful currency union are:[6]

> * Labor mobility across the region. […]

> * Openness with capital mobility and price and wage flexibility across the region. […]

> * A risk sharing system such as an automatic fiscal transfer mechanism to redistribute money to areas/sectors which have been adversely affected by the first two characteristics. […]

> * Participant countries have similar business cycles. When one country experiences a boom or recession, other countries in the union are likely to follow. This allows the shared central bank to promote growth in downturns and to contain inflation in booms. […]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area

* https://www.jstor.org/stable/1812792?seq=1

In 2012 Krugman laid out three things that needed to be done to make the Euro work better:

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/669188#_i...
"no u" isn't a very good comeback.

Systemic _anything_ is that thing perpetuated through systemic effects. In the case of racism it's a structural effect that lasts long after the prolonged and intentional oppression of certain minority groups. Things like a lack of generational wealth, de facto segregation, racial profiling in policing and so on.

The thing with systemic effects in general is that they're not perpetuated intentionally, but are emergent properties of relationships within a complex system. There are ways to unpick and understand why these problems are occurring and prevent their continuation, but I'm sorry to say that I'm just not seeing that coming from the progressive movement at the moment. I care deeply about systems theory and its applicability in solving some of our pressing social problems, but I'm not seeing its use in social activism. Instead the tactics of corporate D&I seem actively designed to look good while not really doing anything. Same with microaggression and unconscious bias training; all they're going to do is put well meaning people on the defensive when interacting with marginalised people for fear of saying something offensive, and that's not going to help anybody.
I think this might also incentivize better policy and behavior from casinos, requiring income checks and fraud checkpoints as the gambler spends money
Could anyone explain what is "dead code analysis"?

Update: I still don't get why "the SunSpider math-cordic benchmark is very fast, presumably due to some sort of dead code analysis.". Didn't the author prove exactly the opposite by showing SunSpider is slower when adding dead code to the benchmark? Sorry for the noob question.
"If someone can tell me how to put a disclaimer in the footer"

The right way is to change the name. If I start a site called Google India, or even Digg India, it isn't enough (legally or ethically) to have a disclaimer in the footer, even if I am running a non profit. You keep repeating the "this is not for profit" sentence. That isn't a valid defense against brand name abuse.

At the very least get permission from the owners on the original site before starting a new site by adding an "India" to its name.

The last thing "Indian hackers" need is a reputation for ripping off other peoples work/brands (As if the outsourcing horror stories aren't enough). Use the open source code, by all means. But don't copy the name.

I am an Indian developer and I think such unabashed copying of a popular brand is shameful. YMMV.
Is it only me who finds "Ask Prateek" tad conceited ? I am none too comfortable with the idea of helping oneself to someone else's work/brand unless it was expressly opened for that purpose. But then imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery.

It doesnt help much that the Indian software scene has a stronger reputation for copying than for innovating. And I am Indian. I have similar minor peeves about OSQA helping themselves to SO. But I take back my comments if the news.ycombinator src as well as the brand were indeed opened up for that purpose.

Edit: "Ask Prateek" is "Ask HNI" now, so I take back that part of my criticism.
There's no 'box below' on your demo page that I can see.
I always wonder, in cases like this, about the role that the underlying technology plays. Wordpress's choice of PHP meant that installation was easy, theming/modification was easy, and it would work on your crappy shared host with FTP access. In fact, that's why I used Wordpress, back in '04 or '05. Because I couldn't get MT working properly on Powweb. For a platform that needs to be ubiquitous to succeed, I guess you really need a ubiquitous programming language.

I can't even guess how many tools I never investigated because they required language or library support that I didn't have installed. One failed "port install" in the whole dependency and I will probably have to give up.

Maybe MT's failure to catch on had nothing to do with Six Apart's failure to catch on. Still fun to think about.
That's the number from some small test. You can view daily numbers for this campaign (and prior ones) here:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatis...

They're currently pulling in over $400K per day. If they keep it up, and/or the pattern from prior years holds, they should have no problem raising their $16 million target by January 15th.
I think the title is pretty true based on the diffs though. In one example, the only difference was adding "true;" in the middle of the code somewhere -- essentially adding a no-op instruction causes vastly different benchmarks? definitely fraud.

I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft added code like "if (isSunspiderTest) {loadHandOptimizedAssembly()}"
You can always get someone to help you out.
Or you could hire someone.

BUT you NEED to have your own skin in the game. Otherwise, it won't work. Ideas don't matter. Execution does.

Ship something? You are an English major - build a history of shipping and credibility by blogging?
I am glad you posted this. Most of the site should be required reading for you if you give any thought to self defense. Particularly "How NOT to get shot" and "What is Self-Defense."

Possibly the most important point it makes is how easy it is to go too far and become the aggressor once you are in a violent conflict. Or to inflame that conflict to begin with.

"The real problem is that -- once the emotions have died down -- you may have to face the fact that your actions and words were part of the creation and escalation of the situation. And they might have been an overreaction on your part."
I always contact people with the same line, from a email address I make up on the spot (so they cant google me and end up asking for pie in the sky prices)

"Hi, I have a idea for a website I want to make with some friends and your domain looks to fit the part- How much would you want for it?"

Really defuses the high price thing and usually ends up with them asking for something under 500 bucks

ymmv
My speculation for the next 100 years, that Wilczek does not propose, is that a notation revolution will happen.

The standard way of representing mathematics today is tedious to write and extremely non-intuitive in many ways. Unfortunately alternative representation systems of physical processes (e.g. block diagrams, Feynmann diagrams, etc.) don't yet provide a way for the user to operate on higher-level objects while staying on an abstracted level. One has to tear open all the black boxes, rewrite them as integral/sigma/matrix/bra/ket soup before they can be operated upon.

Most of the time when I read a physics paper, even in my own field of research, I spend abount 95% of my time and brain power parsing and 5% of the time understanding. This should be reversed.

In addition, a startling problem is that it now takes about 25-30 years of education from birth to the time before any individual can be productive to society in physics research. They are subsequently only productive for another 30-40 at most. As fundamental science continues to become more advanced, the increasing number of required education years to catch up with all of human history, even for a highly narrow, specialized field, is not a sustainable trend. Either modifying the brain or adopting a new framework of thought will be necessary to sustain progress; a notation revolution may facilitate the latter.
This is akin to saying we shouldn't need mosquito nets for the poor because mosquitoes should not exist. Yes, they should not exist, but that is tangential to the issue of the nets.
Makes me think of the Hexayurt project.

http://hexayurt.com/
I accidentally signed into another organization's channels on Slack. Had to delete and re-make an account to get into my organization's channels. Apparently there were already concerns about Slack not taking security seriously, so it wasn't really all that shocking to me. Currently not using Slack, obviously.

Sorry other organization – I hope you guys move off some time soon.
Was he the same colour as you?
I think a flat-packed boat with the autopilot set for Italy or Australia would be far more popular.
So a new privacy app called The Social App (Social) entered the domain for privacy apps and they actually allow you to directly import your WhatsApp chat into their military grade encryption backed by Virgil Security (www.thesocialapp.net). Would this help @satysin
People who work in sweat shops would usually have much worse conditions to live in if they didn't work in a sweat shop. They'd be probably trying to pick things out of garbage dumps.
> "Like what? A different way of shrinking the screen, or are you thinking there's a way to enable one-handed use without shrinking?"

This is a hard problem - one that I would've preferred avoiding altogether by keeping screen sizes sane ;) But alas, that ship has sailed.

I wasn't aware of the Samsung or LG way of doing it - IMO both of them are pretty shitty also and an admission of defeat. This is the vendor saying "totally unusable one-handed without throwing away half the pixels". Apple's way seems marginally slicker, but still sucks.

Unfortunately the best idea I have is probably not particularly tenable - we have to abandon the top of the screen for interactive elements. Google has already in some ways done this with material design - back, home, and switcher are all lined up along the bottom, and all primary actions confined to the Floating Button, also at the bottom.

But getting third party apps to buy into abandoning the top third of the screen is probably not going to happen.

Alternatively this is a chance for more gestures to come and play. On iOS the top of the screen is predominantly taken up by the Back and Confirm actions (top left and right, respectively). We already have the edge swipe for back, which works so well that I practically never use the actual back button anymore. Perhaps what we need is an equivalent gesture for "Confirm". That way the two most common uses of the top corners won't require touching the button at all.
I'm skeptical online education will have any significant impact at an elementary school level, especially when you consider the cost effectiveness of such a strategy. If were talking about video lectures (especially live) you need to figure out how to hook up reliable internet into these schools. Most of the internet access projects are just enough to get wikipedia loaded. And not to mention the cost of the hardware itself, a tablet per student isn't even feasible in western public schools.
Wow, really? I mean, I got an A- in linear algebra with some normal old textbook I don't even remember, and certainly learned it all in terms of linear transformations over vector spaces... but then again, I didn't have it as a doubled class with differential equations in the first place. Is Axler that good?
I didn't know Google Glass combined a 3D Camera with full augmented reality vision.
> The main issue is that you kind of have to dumb yourself down to answer the questions - if you start actually thinking critically, you'll run into trouble.

This has always been true on the SAT--especially the math section.

In the math section, it is almost always faster to eliminate answers using backward reasoning than getting the correct answer using forward calculation. For the sample question, answers C&D relate to intercept--answers A&B relate to slope. The question asks about slope so you immediately discard C&D. Now, even a guess is a plus for you.

By the way, that sample question would get removed after statistical norming. It's sufficiently confusing that it won't pass the standard--poor students always miss--mediocre students sometimes hit--good students always get it right--that is required for the SAT to work statistically. The confusion is that choice of slope is arbitrary--there is no particular reason for why which length is on which axis and which is cause and effect.

This was actually one of the unique things about the SAT for me. While "sample" questions always had lots of confusing answers, the SAT questions were absolutely crystal clear. Any SAT section with more than one confusing question was obviously the experimental section.
Using patents to extort money is hardly what I would describe as "embracing Open Source".
I'm English and my first exposure to John Oliver was the segment he did on Civil Forfeiture which I found both interesting and entertaining. What struck me was how more like a British satire the show was. Do others think it matters that John is British and thus gets a little extra leeway (we do like our swearing) and can play the outsider role somewhat?
Viability of ~= 1g thrust? Perhaps keeping the same engine some downwards thrust can be redirect sidewards with some obstructing shape moved into the exhaust plume
As an alternative to storage working with large industrial users to adjust their electricity demand in real time can help mitigate some supply/demand imbalances.
Read the article, but also: sortability.
I don’t buy it for a second. Facebook updated, and one of them, (I think it was Messenger), they just went through and checked every single box, because they know as well as Google that most people just don’t care.
The highlights include a game of tic-tac-toe solely in several calls to printf(fmt, arg), where fmt and arg are carefully chosen.

This made me reflect on whether good language design should limit expressiveness of code?
No, and they're not going to release that data while the investigation is ongoing.
Just because you don't see any usage in your area (rural/suburbs?) doesn't mean it's unused.

This is absolutely true. Some devices only transmit occasionally. Not everyone is blasting their frequency 24/7.

It reminds me of when I worked for a company that had a bunch of super-cool switch 56 linking various radio stations in our network. We'd use them for moving audio around, doing interviews, sports remotes, etc...

But we also had a problem with them constantly failing. I was told by our engineer that this was because whenever another company called up Bell Atlantic to get one installed, some tech would listen in to the pairs (presumably with a scope), and when he found one that was silent, that was the one he used for the new company. Often, it was one of ours, so when we would try to use the link the next morning, it wouldn't work.

It still "belonged" to us, but because we weren't using it 24/7, someone thought it should be reallocated. Not cool.
What do hospitalizations have to do with immunity?
> tens of mega-joule range

do you mean tera-joules?

A hundred megajoules is about three bucks at 10 cents per kwh.

I routinely do giga-joule level computations using just a rack of computers in my garage, they're no big deal.
I tried a working demo of a system like this in Kristian Hammond’s lab at Northwestern University 20 years ago. Actually his system was generating MTV style videos from web images and music with just some keywords as input. He had some other amazing (at the time) stuff. The GPT 3 part of this gives it a lot more potential of course, so I don’t want to take away from that. Just saying though, since they didn’t reference Hammond’s work, that this party has been going on for a while.

https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/dire...
Because you will likely be glad you did. Then go look at PicoLisp, which has Prolog baked into it. https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
The actual study seems to be about increasing the accuracy of ultrasound-guided tissue biopsies, by adding CT-scan information to the visualization. Reading the paper I don't see any mention of replacing or avoiding biopsies, as implied by the title of the press release. Nevertheless, very interesting research!
They are armed. You can't use tear gas against weapons but guns. Using guns will lead to deaths either way, so I think they are taking the correct stance.
So it's acceptable to police people protesting police violence but not those who are preventing the operation of our government? Really? What the fuck are "...enemies foreign and domestic." If not people disruption our democratic processes?
> I agree that it doesn't need to be about security

This.

You're litterally using a personal computer with at least personal data on it, passwords in a password manager, passwords in your browsers, website account sessions (!) all on your drives and folders. Everything accessible by ALL programs you execute.

The more info Javascript has and therefore the server, the more attack vectors open up to just inject code into your browser and leverage code execution on host (recent CVE on firefox and Chrome !).

Or into your slack electron's chrome. Or any spyware app.

All your keystrokes accessible also !

Consider using a virtual machine or container to isolate the apps from your data so that they can't access it. If needed, mount a folder between host and guest for purpose-only sharing.

Or at least think about it or other measures.
You must mean, watt hours or amp hours.
I live in Finland, I don't think we are a priority country when it comes to Google's datacenters. We have geniunely unlimited data caps though which helps for sure.

I've been playing on wifi with a 100/10 Mbps connection. There's sometimes these lagspikes if I play in browser, but the general input latency has never been something I've noticed.

I'm a casual gamer at most, and maybe I'm not noticing it as much as some CSGO-pro would.
I would find the entire situation even more comical if the 16k guy turned out to be a cryptominer
I popped on at the height of the turn to see multiple posts about a "short ladder attack", a concept that exists nowhere except in the echo chamber of WSB.

The groupthink levels are enormous and frankly terrifying
Yes! In fact that's one of the goals of the transition.
Most of those things are easily analysed in-house or with much less invasive solutions than GA.

> general demographic of their audience

This is not useful to improve a product unless combined with proper research into the demo, which most people don't do. They just apply their own biases and make their product _worse_.

So many people are making all their decisions based on shallow data like this and never do a simple usability test that yields massively more impact.

Put differently, people use this data to try to focus in on specific traits of their audience before even testing that their software works for "humans".
In Javascript, this is a typical rookie mistake. Every newcomer would do it once, get lectured about `Promise.all` in code review, and move on.

Honestly, I'd be really surprised if this was a common practice in C#.
Still got that 8D drum-box? ;P

I have sort of a thing for the synth used, its also in the Oric-1/Atmos line of machines.
> To this day, Belgian schools do not in any way teach that Belgium is solely responsible for the Rwandan genocide in the early 90s. It was the sick Belgians who separated fake ethnic groups in Rwanda in the first place, depending on how ethnically white the shape of your skull appeared.

Not only is this factually untrue - perhaps Belgians highlighted ethnic divisions between the two Bantu peoples, but they did not create them - how about you leave the peoples of Rwanda some agency? Nobody made them commit genocide. They are their own people, with their own culture, attitudes, beliefs, and minds. Sometimes they do good things and sometimes they do bad things. In the 1990s they committed a genocide, as many if not most other peoples in history have.

They did this for their own reasons, not because genius Belgians manipulated them into it. They did it because they're people just like you or me. Pretending that Belgians are uniquely awful and responsible for the actions of other people is just a different kind of paternal superiority.
Yes. Police is regulated and has a lot of conventions (laws) and resources that enforce those conventions. Ultimately, it goes back to a fairly well-resourced court of law, which is willing to take a fairly high cost to make a decision, as a shared cost paid through taxes.

With individuals making those decisions, the decisions will be made at much lower cost, and this will result in lower quality of decisions.
Is it the Mac keys you want? I just replaced my manually silenced cherry MX brown keyboard with a rubber some from BTC. They are probably the snappiest rubber domes you can find, and they are MX mount so you can order a Mac keycap set.

Total cost for that is bound to be something like 50 bucks, mostly keycaps. A BTC 5100-series board is easy to find for under 20 bucks.
As a developer, you can already use https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/

https://caniuse.com/referrer-policy

Hoping the defaults for sending such metadata will change eventually
Yet, I, as a user still cannot see my playcounts via app or API.
Probably has to do with Windows market share being far bigger in the 90’s.
IMO the most interesting thing -- I was just daydreaming on the way to work of a mapping app that basically tracked your route, and compared timestamps of movement against expected times to generate an accurate realtime traffic map when shared with a central server.

The problem with traffic info right now is that it's always either laughably late (see sirius/xm traffic info) or it's based on eyes-in-the-sky style updates from radio, which you can only get every period of time.
I think there's some good information in this article, but the elephant in the room is "why didn't he just use an adjustable standing/sitting desk?" You can't make a transition to standing all day cold turkey, I'm shocked anyone thinks they could.

When I stand at my desk, I'll do it until I feel uncomfortable/fatigued. When I sit at my desk, I stand when my back and legs get tight. It's that simple.
I've got an older Roomba that uses the IR towers for no go zones. Its also only 3 years old. Spending $500 every few years to get a new feature doesn't seem cost effective.
Is there a way to see the (other users) comments I upvoted?
ID.me does have the ability to appeal the decision by hopping on a video call to complete the registration. They also do have the ability to close your account and through that delete all your data.
Urk - what browser/version please?
The navy plans to do much less pilot training on carrier landings, preferring
to rely more on automatic systems. Seems like something to be filed under "what could go wrong?"

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38268/why-the-navy-is-...
Does anybody remember the software that wouldn't let you install until you gave it the name of an endangered animal in a given part of the world? I ran into this on Unix in 1988. It would ask, for instance, for the name of an endangered marsupial in Argentina, and you had to go look that up. I always thought the O'Reilly covers came from this, but apparently not.