jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> since the hashes, etc. of those files will now be changing.

I'm having a hard time seeing hashes[1] being very valuable for much of anything regarding music library management. Hashes won't be any good for comparisons of music files containing the same song across different recording sessions, bit rates, or file formats.

I would rather all of my music playing programs respect standard metadata formats (like ID3) - which is usually included in most digital downloads and which is supported across all the popular audio file formats - and leverage that metadata for organization. Off-hand, I can't think of a music organization system that relies on hashes that is not brittle.

1: I'm talking about "dumb" hashes like SHA-1. Fingerprinting can work well for this, but is more complicated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint
This particular discovery doesn't back that assertion up very much, as it's an ocean floor biome that is dependent on nutrients from the surface, but there are deep ocean environments which are not. We know that it's possible for food chains supporting even complex multi-cellular life to be founded on chemosynthetic organisms subsisting on hydrothermal sulfide emissions or serpentinization reactions. Those sorts of conditions are likely to be fairly common throughout the Universe on a wide variety of bodies. Whether or not life can be bootstrapped and evolve into complex varieties within the constraints of such environments remains to be seen, but it's a tantalizing possibility.
The beauty of Inferno is that one of the incarnations happens to be an operating system that runs on bare metal. But the very same code can be run as a command line program in Windows / OpenBSD / OSX / Linux. Or as a multi-windowed program like an MDI or a single window, or a full screen window in kiosk mode, or as a network service on IBM's Blue Gene.

Inferno is used by IBM, NASA, Alcatel-Lucent, the US DoD.
I'd love to see what those exact same students would say if the prevailing attitude changed and a massive wave of right-wing ideology took over campus politics. I'm sure that they'd be crying about how their self-evident right to self-expression was being horribly violated. Poor things.

I mean, this is simple enough to check, right?

Look at how historically right-wing or conservative universities (say, Baylor, Brigham Young, or Texas A&M) handle such things with their student groups.
This is an inflammatory headline that does justice neither to the NGOs nor to the people commenting about the NGOs.

A better headline would be "Health experts believe Bill and Melinda Gates could save more lives by modifying resource allocation" or something like that.

I'm not a writer so it could probably be stated better but you get the idea. The guy isn't saying what they are doing is bad, which the headline implies, but rather that resource spending could be further optimized.
I've come to strive for what I call the minimum overhead principle. If I have a project going on I make it as easy as possible to continue (editor open, pad and paper at hand etc) and try to do at least a few minutes per day. Sometimes it's only those few minutes and sometimes I can get a few hours in. And those add up.

For personal software projects I've discarded all engineering principles and do what I would call structured hacking. Everything is neat and tidy but only up to a point that it lets me progress swiftly.
Then it sounds like we agree. Freedom of hearing refers to people being able to decide for themselves what they should hear.

I would behave like you in your examples. To go with your university case, the line is crossed if one tries to get the disliked speaker uninvited from the university. Or if one attends the lecture to disrupt it. This has happened many times with prominent speakers, and it's a shame that some people consider it acceptable behavior.
You mean getting used to other programmers' idiosyncrasies and deciphering them?

You will dissuade them from ever taking up this profession with that attitude.

I was attracted to this because of the opportunity to create things, not because other people wrote stuff and now I have to read it.
Because a civilian and a partner couldn't park a car in front of and behind the drunk driver's car?
> HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident.

The complexity benefit of having stateless HTTP transactions is vastly offset by the statefulness of TCP, TLS states, HTTP "sessions", cookies, browser storage & so on.

HTTP is hardly "designed" and plenty of its aspects were accidental.
Mail.app is fine with gmail imap but you'll have some fun setting it up if you have 2FA.

The only issues became how much disk mail.app takes and search became slow after 6+ years.
> The browser automatically highlights them

What do you do when the browser doesn't highlight something interactive?

What do you do for, as one person on the web calls it, "fancy javascript shit"? What if you want to draw an iceberg to see how it would float?
This is also known as the Lucas critique, dating from 1976

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

and also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Edit: I think this is not the first time the good people from lesswrong dug up some well known idea and gave it a new name.
Good thing, too, giving this important concept more attention. Too often we forget how many people have dealt with the problem of modeling complex systems in the past. And while we can not read everything, it's often a good idea to have at least a glance at where they failed!

Too often I read/review some new "revolutionary" paper based on the idea that hey, we can model this process (involving people) like XYZ from physics, where this stuff works great! Surely, this is better than the plebian approaches in the literature!
And then, to the shock of all involved, it doesn't work great....

Also:
https://xkcd.com/793/
It's even worse in Europe, where a "mandatory tip" is already included in your bill by the time you get it. The service in Europe tends to be of a much lower quality than in the US as well.

In general, the US is a consumer paradise compared to Europe. In the US, it's better to be a consumer than an employee. In Europe it's the opposite.
Boots and runs ok in Chrome on my Android 10 phone, but I guess I need an external keyboard. Android doesn't see any need text input, so no on-screen keyboard.

Does anyone happen to know if there is a general workaround for this situation? I often hit this obstacle in other browser-based emulators.
Thanks for defending your points.

I don’t understand why some here take your reports on GH personally. The fact that your reports aren’t taken seriously by the Atom team worries me.
Your battle is right and presented in the right tones.
I think it's the distinction between intrinsic beliefs and beliefs based on knowledge of the world. Maybe I didn't make the distinction clear enough. The former, though we may want to change them, can't usefully be called "wrong" but the latter can. False consciousness is then wrong beliefs deliberately propagated to achieve some end.

What is missing from your caricature is whether the beliefs expressed make internal sense and fit with what we know about reality. Are you entitled to a belief that we shouldn't fund space programs because they're too expensive? Of course. Are you entitled to a belief that we shouldn't fund space programs because the world is flat? No.

Another good UK example is government austerity over the last decade to reduce the deficit. The government gained popular support for it using analogies about household budgets that in fact aren't very applicable to government spending. This and other arguments got picked up and repeated by the media despite not being accepted by mainstream economists [1]. This led to a divergence between popular and academic understanding of the economy's strength and weaknesses. Given all of that, how much weight should be put on the economic beliefs of someone whose only macroeconomic knowledge is gleaned from the headlines? I would say that this a classic example of false consciousness.

Of course, in politics and economics neutral knowledge is a tricky concept. That's why this is inherently discursive. My economics knowledge is mostly from reading a few introductory textbooks and reading blogs. Some economics expert might come along here and say I'm totally wrong on austerity and here's why. That's fine. I don't have an inherent right to be wrong.

[1] https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2015/05/on-mediamacro.html
Reminds me of this post from 2017:

"Debugging an evil Go runtime bug" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845118

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427

https://bugs.gentoo.org/637152

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/10/188
I heard you like browsers, so I put a browser in your browser.

;)
To what end? You already assume Twitter has a shorter lifespan than the internet. Are you going to be upset when Twitter dies, removing not just all the accounts of live people, but dead people as well?

Also, Twitter may disagree with you on its lifespan. I wouldn't, but I do believe that unless they do start archiving, it will reduce its lifespan, perhaps considerably.
How about another register? (XMM, FPU, etc.)
If you enjoy this format, the same author also wrote "SAT/SMT By Example" which I learned a lot from: https://yurichev.com/SAT_SMT.html
>Our bodies are generally shit by middle age, so you're probably already experiencing joint degeneration

I did ~no lifting for many nears and dove back in way too fast at 45 y/o. Got a little too ambitious in the squat rack and my knee has been sort of fucked up for about 6 months (slow recovery is also a fun part of middle age). Take it slow.
There is no such a thing as "Cloud Agnostic". Be it K8S on AWS or Azure or GCP, each one has its own quirks that will make K8S run better or worse or even terrible.

Abstraction of some things on orchestration level does not mean there is no and will be no cloud specific code injected there. Actually there is a ton of this cloud specific code in there and when something stops working the way you want it to -> the solution often times is to write even more vendor locking code.

Instead of looking for "Cloud Agnostic" solution, find a solution that fits your use case the best. Using managed services if researched correctly can give many adventages. But like with everything that requires A LOT of knowledge about them and your domain.
Irritating color scheme.
That's limited to 18 and older, and it basically flags the video as mature content and removes it from recommendations and disables ads.
Of course we can do better than neoliberalism (and this does not lead to communism or socialism automatically).

In Europe they have some interesting models in between that provide social security, health care and a lot of other great things for their citizens so even the people who don't have enough money to buy / invest in such services can enjoy a good life.

In the US there is people who do 3 jobs and don't have enough money to live a life I personally would consider a "good enough" one. Yes I know this also stems from my perspective and the standards I would label "poor" could be very high for an Asian child sewing clothes for us.

Now neoliberalism is trending there as well and we can observe how it "drags them down". Look at Germany for example - I don't think it's easy living there when you knew the 70ies and still be optimistic about the future if you don't happen to be a millionaire.

They had a good employment rate (now it's being faked as a friend told me) low poverty and a middle class with a high status of living and they were leaders in several disciplines. Now look how they lose all of that while some private companies take the money out of their public hand without even paying taxes. That's what neoliberalism brought them and I bet some of these Germans are very angry about it. I can understand them because who want's to lose the prospects of a good life?

In '94 for example they sold out their train infrastructure and now look at the development: ~16% of tracks where given up because it was not profitable for them.
Now they would love to have it back because of the climate change etc.

There is a lot of examples and I could go on like this all day but I just wanted to contribute some facts about the EU to this discussion because I always thought they have some different but very interesting ideas.
Maybe to toss in a counter point here: I occasionally use Python Tutor for my lectures and highly appreciate the fact that this researcher takes time out of his day to a) keep it running and b) has opened the source to the world. While I have not forked it because it runs well enough I looked at the code several times over the years when I wondered about how he implemented some aspects of the system.

This is online since 2010 if I remember correctly, it runs longer than a bunch of FAANG services that came and went. If people want to be snarky, please try a little harder to find a target that deserves it. Not every open source repository out there needs a fancy set of badges and hyper-responsive end-user support forum and the author is pretty clear about his intentions (heck, you're discussing a blog post stating exactly why and how this worked so well for 10 years).
That's entirely dependent on the regulations. What exactly is being accomplished here with these changes?

This isn't a problem with creators, it's Youtube violating regulations with data collection practices and then continuing to do so by pushing the compliance burden onto the community.
>> Hyperinflation
Human competence the main cause.
>> Instant low-fee international transfers
We have it already
>>financial censorship
Depends firstly on political system. If you have undemocratic government crypto won't help you anyway, because it will be banned or controlled.

Practice is the criterion of truth. Can provide cases, when crypto solves problem better than existing instruments?
> It keeps the code loosely coupled and the APIs clean.

Having seen some of the interesting designs of less-experienced devs, I disagree that this is a benefit of TDD. TDD may help straighten out some of your thoughts if you already have loose coupling in mind, but it won't work if the dev doesn't already have some experience there.
People who sell television equipment have to, by law, ask you for your name and address and pass it on to TVLA. You don't have to provide them with an accurate address. I'm not sure if ICO has looked at this dual or perhaps misleading use of data holding by shops.

I agree that they probably use their database. I wonder how they get a warrant though? Surely a databse entry isn't enough?
Even if a given online poll is never actually fixed in practice, they're still seriously bad quantitative measurement if they use a self-selected sample of people.

You're not even able to say that n% of Engadget readers felt some way, because the population of people who happen to show up while the survey is open is still not randomly selected within that demographic: what day of the week did you post it? Did someone with an axe to grind promote the blog post for you on another site, on facebook, or some IRC channel...on Colbert?

Respondents have to be randomly selected, and this is widely known. But since polls generate traffic and engage the readership everybody looks the other way. Even on esteemed sites like HN where everybody should know better - although I have faith that it's not done here for the purpose of generating traffic.

I'm an old fart, and "journalism" is an accolade that I would never bestow upon a techno-lust blog. Still, this event is dubious.

But it's not like the poll was actual quantitative measurement, so the world didn't lose anything of value beyond whatever dubious value it had to fanbois and rabid detractors alike.
Perhaps I am old-fashioned but next to my bed are a small battery powered alarm clock and pile of books.
Maybe this will save someone some time: Adblock Plus blocks playing of the Schell vid. Turn it off for the page.
For me, personally, I want a slimmed down duckduckgo. I just want results. That is all. Listed in a table.

I don't want zero click info, don't want oddly formatted extra stuff. Don't want an infinite scroll bar wizard.

Just want results. In a list. Formatted exactly the same every time.

When I do a search on duckduckgo, I get SIX results on the first page. Which isn't good use of screen real-estate (IMHO). I want to see 20 or so results.
Check your frothing-at-the-mouth fan boy-ism at the door. If they did what you're accusing them off why not just rig the poll so that apple wins no matter what?

They probably quickly realized how stupid this kind of poll is. The online tech community will all run out and vote one way and the actual market will probably do the opposite, so what's the point?
Not everyone who has a blog should be treated like a journalist.
Having read the article with the editor's comments in mind, it looks quite clear to me that they're guilty as charged: There was perfectly adequate disclaiming of the fact that the iPhone details were preliminary and that neither was a clear winner.

My internal merit rating for Engadget has been reset to zero.
We should take a poll to find out for sure.
Perhaps you are you referring to me. I posted 19 links within the span of a couple hours (around the time you posted this).

My submissions -- which spanned aerospace, commercial spaceflight, natural language processing, embedded computing, error-correction codes, etc. (three of which frontpaged) -- are far more on-topic for this community than the usual frontpage garbage. 15+ iPhone articles a day, "Stephen Colbert makes Bing donate money", or Steve Jobs this and that do not belong on the frontpage day in and day out. At least not on a site called Hacker News.

If you look in the New queue right now you'll see several Apple articles, mostly about whatever is already on the frontpage (getting upvotes no less). This isn't a personal crusade against clashing ideologies (I use Apple as an example several times because this site overflows with Apple news), just an attempt to bring a little more hacker back to this site and a little less Engadget.

I apologize to anyone whose non-Reddit quality submissions were bumped to page 2 over the course of those two hours. To be clear, I believe your claim of so many similar submissions 'getting in the way' is well, ridiculous.
The point is not for the phone itself to use 3G/4G, but to enable it when the phone is used as an access point (or a tethered cellular modem) for a more powerful device.

On its own, the phone would use 2G/2.5G.
I don't understand - what's the problem with insurers colluding to reduce costs? If they successfully create a downward price pressure, isn't that a good thing?
Excellent. Maybe they'll be able to hire someone to get rid of all that inline Javascript.
I did at one point (metaphorically) sign the bank transfers. At that point the company only had 3 people in it and we all knew everything so I don't think that counts.

Anyway, how does it matter whether or not I'm in charge? The question is, I think it's a good idea, why don't you?
I think much of the guilty / not guilty verdict would come from the intent of the person who first obtained a copy.

If they gained unauthorized entry into a computer system to grab the test bank, and then advertised their intent to get a copy of the exam over emails on the UCF network, then they're sunk and should just take the amnesty deal. If they got a copy from a TA friend at another school, with the intent to use it as a study aid, then they're on the whiter side of the fuzzy grey line.
1. Many people don't say it's wrong, most people think the system is there for very good reasons

2. He's not only saying it's bad, he's attempting to dissect and analyze why it's bad

I actually like it when someone offers criticism without offering an alternative. If he offered an alternative, then people might be tempted to reject the whole criticism if they don't like the alternative. For example, if he proposed 4 hours work day (just for example), then someone could think "oh, he's just saying this because he's a lazy ass".
I have similar question as well.
I am building hosted telephony app, and the question is whether to charge base fee + telephony charges or bundle minutes into the plan.
eg.
$9 for basic plan + 5 cents a minute
$15 for advanced plan + 3 cents a minute

OR

$15 with 500 Minutes
$30 With 2000 Minutes
etc.

what are general assumptions? What factors should I consider before making final decision?
The glibertarians' favorite experiment -- which is (btw) 30 years old and unreplicated despite attempts, and has methodological flaws. To name just one: a number of people dropped out of the study. The authors have dismissed this as a concern, but you don't have to think to hard to figure out why it is a real problem. Second, as the author admits: "For most people enrolled in the RAND experiment, who were typical of Americans covered by employment-based insurance, the variation in use across the plans appeared to have minimal to no effects on health status. By contrast, for those who were both poor and sick -- people who might be found among those covered by Medicaid or lacking insurance -- the reduction in use was harmful, on average"

Good system.
I'm a coder/writer at Forbes. If I had to guess, that's exactly what an editor might say. Also, we're always crammed for word space so shorter (even if perhaps less nuanced) always wins.
Front running is illegal.

Its payment for order flow which is earning off the spread while also keep it tight and liquidity in the market.
What to do depends upon your preexisting relationship, what they may need help with, and what you are able to provide. Usually a close friend of theirs is coordinating care: find that friend and offer to help.
I watched the video and sadly I still don't understand what I'm looking at. Right now it feels like more effort was put into making the video fun than into actually conveying information. Okay, so this is about release notes — what does this give me over say making a blog post on the product's webpage?
A lot of people manage it. It’s honestly not that bad but you can’t be shy of doing the work. The pipe dream is people thinking it’ll be a turn key solution. “All I need to do is buy solar, drill a well, put in septic and build a house, how hard could that be?” It’s amazing how much you don’t know until you try it. My recommendation to anyone living in a city and looking to escape is to just buy a regular house in a rural area, no cabins, no farms, for sure not a yurt. Just buy a bungalow on a half acre and try it out, there’s going to be enough stuff to keep you busy. If you can take all of that in stride while improving the property and not be sick of it or bankrupt yourself then consider selling in a year or two and buying something a bit more daring.
Awhile back I wrote a short series describing my own system. It is radically simpler than the system described here and might actually be useful to some people.

https://www.petekeen.net/automatic-finances
Classes made it easier to wrap things implicitly and "do the right thing", even if the developer doesn't know or care what you did.

With hooks, you need to do all these optimizations and best practices explicitly, which bloats up the code and defeats the purpose of getting rid of class structure boilerplate in the first place.
Isn’t there a copyright on that image?