jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My initial reaction was the same, but on second thought I think it may not be that bad. I agree that it would initially prevent the subject from concentrating, but he might get used to it in such a way that he can acknowledge the question with a 'yes' without breaking concentration.

Some people can work with the radio on, others only when it doesn't contain commercials, others can't work with any music. I can sleep virtually anywhere, while others, in the same room, can't stand a certain buzz, regularly recurring electromechanical noises or other sounds. However, with prolonged exposure, I think anyone would start to be able to work and sleep in environments with intruding noises.
I don't think killing public wireless is practical. Instead, owners could add a text note, warning new users against accessing their private data while connected to the public network.
Certainly in the UK (based on my experience in the 90s) completion of a PhD meant getting a thesis written up, getting it approved by your supervisor and then sitting an an oral examination with your supervisor, an internal academic from the same department and an external examiner who is an expert in that field. The usual rule of thumb was that you probably should have published 3 decent papers in that time.

The "3 years" came from the length of time the standard PhD student was funded for - there was no guarantee that you would finish within the three years. Quite a lot of people did PhDs while working as Research Associates - where you were typically on a 3 year fixed contract, paid a decent salary but your focus then was the research project paying your wages - not strictly your own research. Most people I knew doing it this way took between 4 or 5 years - some as long as 7 or 8 years.
Direct link to AZ's site: http://www.azspcs.net/
I can't imagine why the regular route of learning would not work with every language: wet your appetite with tutorials and then do a small project with it to grasp it better.
An awful lot of that does sound like psychological torture dressed up to just about make it possible to present some kind of legal argument that it's for other purposes, and the damaging effects on the detainee are an unfortunate by-product.
"What good are they if they are causing him psychological damage?"

Their goal isn't to just cause psychological damage, it's to cause physical brain damage through controlled sensory deprivation.
The perverts will win. Simply because there is too big of a market for this to be ignored.
Is the author confusing "fumbles" and "fumbles lost" or am I?
If anyone is interested in a start-up[1] that works with beer, shoot me an email[2]! My company builds flavor profiling and quality control tools for craft beverage producers using machine learning, sensory science, and analytical chemistry.

[1] www.gastrograph.com

[2] JasonCEC [at] gastrograph [dot] com

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I believe that the growth in artisan firms is part of the trend towards affordable luxury goods, where individuals who find products that better match their preferences at nearly the same cost (not price^), become brand or product loyalists - they'll continue purchasing and consuming that product until it fails them (quality control) or their preferences change (which happens quite often, usually as a result of experience - we build flavor profiling tools to track and re-target these individuals).

^ example: the average craft beer may cost ~2x as much as Bud or Natural Light, but contains >2x alcohol by volume.
This is just what I do. I don't use Alembic, but I've got a really simple tool that handles migrations. The tool, along with its sequence of migrations is deployed along with the app. The systemd service for Postgres runs the tool after the database is up.

Because the service definition has my migration tool as a dependency, it gets rebuilt when the tool is updated. That causes Postgres to get restarted and the tool to get run IFF there are new migrations. The nix configuration is parameterized, so that in dev or staging environments, the database is completely rebuilt and loaded with test data on each deploy, but in production, we just apply migrations.

With Nixops, this works even on a multi-system deployment. The full deployment typically takes several minutes, but most of that time is in installing the updated packages, which doesn't interrupt the running system. Once everything is installed, the cut-over only takes a second or two. Eventually, I'll have enough traffic to warrant more careful orchestration of the cut-over, but for now it's fine.
While this is true, in the context of alpine climbing where I first heard this statement, the bold alpinists who die young are very much not beginner-intermediates. I've interpreted this differently than just the "Bathtub Curve"[1] applied to dangerous pursuits.

Rather, there is a certain amount of objective risk in alpine environments, and the more time you put yourself in that environment, especially in locations you aren't familiar with, the greater the chance that something will eventually go wrong.

I'm always surprised by the number of famous alpinists who weren't killed on their progressive, headline-capturing attempts but rather on training attempts and lesser objectives.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
I'm with you. SSC posts are high on rhetoric and low on actual conceptual knowledge/insights. The examples are ridiculously long and somewhat contrived. s.
FYI, SWIM means "somebody who isn't me", often used on drugs forums.
Why does guessing a series of words change whether it's bad to have one solution?
Or just be transparent about that trade-off. It's a fair one to make. Putting batteries at mission-critical sites may be the better play than winterizing the entire grid, from hospitals to merry-go-rounds.
Even if that’s true, btrfs would be entirely impractical for them because btrfs-raid6 is broken. Their petabyte server would become a 1/3 petabyte server without raidz2.
I was told by an SRE on Drive that the unlimited offer was legit because the at the rate you could upload data to drive the costs were still far bellow the bill.

Of course that seemed wrong because if you are uploading for years $5 a month isn't going to keep covering all of that storage. I imagine that part of this assumption that storage costs would keep dropping and presumably this isn't happening as quickly as originally predicted.
To split hairs, I'd say that's not piracy. To me, piracy would be sharing that software (or receiving that software) to others who haven't paid for it. The security circumvention may be a necessary part of the piracy process, but I don't see that as the issue. Consider the scores of games in the past that have had draconian DRM schemes, which unnecessarily require always-on Internet connections or regular dialing home to some server -- maybe a server that no longer exists as the developers do not support the game. In these cases, modifying these impediments to the functionality without sharing the software wouldn't be piracy in my eyes.
This kind of data would be tremendous treasure trove for future historians :-)
Imagine if we had this kind of data on previous periods, we'd be able to infer a lot of how people behaved, what their pastime was, better understand the fashion sense (or lack of it for certain photos apparently)...

More seriously, in a way, I think it's good that this happened because I hope that it will be a wake up call to the public opinion so that we might avoid living in a future with no rights to privacy. I'm really grateful that Snowden made the sacrifices he did to give us those information.

It's amazing to think of the potential of blackmail over politicians these kind of scheme would give...
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> Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK

Blackmail. Polticial, economic, and spying-related informant-turning blackmail.

The CIA's primary business is getting informants and agents all over the world. Usually via some threat. This is perfect fodder for it.

Using cheating and sex (ie homosexuality in the 50s) against people is one of the most classic examples of recruiting strategies for intelligence agencies.
I'd rather the browser show the error then trying an educated guess at rendering the HTML soup that people/editors create.
I host there since jan/09 and never had problems in Atlanta.
>>Russia in particular, a backwards agrarian empire, was about the last place he thought would be ready for it. And turned out he was right.

Hmmmm, communist regime turned the agrarian empire into world's 2nd industrial power, that won the biggest battles in human history and was the 1st to send robots and humans to space.
I would really like a way to move my linode out of the Freemont data center. My linode in Newark, New Jersey has been perfect for three years.
I'm not saying the author is too young to have an opinion. I'm saying the 47% of under 18's in the graph can't all be superstars who are just subject to ageist attitudes. Some of them are just unaware of how much they have to learn

I'm saying that some (note: some not all) young people don't understand the value of experience (myself included in that when I was young), and that I would be interested in the viewpoint of a older person who at 18 had felt they were subject to ageism, and if after 10+ years of experience they still hold that viewpoint, or if it has changed with time - Interested from an experimental point of view, not because I don't value their opinion now.

(BTW, It's not me doing the down voting)
I signed up in September after a year of horrible problems at vps.net and I've had no issues so far, my personal rule (assuming this isn't mission critical servers) is to wait 1 month before I make a judgement, having a problem on the first day doesn't necessarily define the ongoing experience.
Incidentally, in some ways it seems kind of odd to run data centers in places like Fremont, where both land and people are expensive. Google and Facebook, for instance, have demonstrated that it's quite possible to build datacenters in rural Oregon, where land is a lot cheaper, and presumably labor costs are as well, even though my guess is that in someplace like Prineville, most of their people are imports...
Yikes, makes me happy I chose atlanta for my project. I kind of figured it would be a good idea to have my server a long way away from California, for many reasons.
If you wouldn't do it for free, you aren't the right person for this project. Don't bash the guy for being upfront. His road is tough enough.
I agree.. Why did they keep saying "it was a Monday" or whatever? Seemed pretty random/uncalled for. Makes me think of they way things are organized in their brains.

I also wonder how they're not very high-performing and successful individuals. It seems to me an "endless" memory could be hugely beneficial, beyond the many (unethical) scheme they can exploit.
If you want to experience a weird town, while filling up on pastries, visit Solvang. Los Olivos is next door, which is where the movie Sideways was filmed (and I was born), and has some fantastic wine tasting (try Longoria).
I'll boil it down to one sentence: It's really hard to apply YAGNI and actually build an MVP.

I never quite understood YAGNI, because it seems illogical to always take that stance. Sometimes, you're gunna need it. Say YAGNI to everything, and you'll never create meaningful reusable abstractions. Other times, sure, you might be jumping into creating abstractions that don't turn out as useful as one would have hoped, but that's a decision which has to be made on a case-by-case basis.
no, the "greyed out" ones are simply items you have already viewed!

I can see at least 7 more of yours recently on the 'live' page
It is much buggier, frequent crashes of Safari, iTunes and Mail for instance
I wouldn't use the word "creator" to describe the implementors of FarmVille, since it was a near exact clone of Farm Town.
That's not quite true.

Intel started out with memory. They never left and are on by far the cutting edge with memory tech. In particular Optane NVM DIMMs are so fast they basically define a new layer in the performance/cache hierarchy. Intel might see a shift in their focus over time away from CPUs to chalcogenide based persistent memory, where it seems they have held the lead for some time now.
What does this offer that the thousands of other shitcoins don't offer?
I actually spent a decent amount of time preventing people from promoting their videos on the homepage. The traffic dropped a bit afterwards but I like to have a real data there, just for the curiosity.
It's TracFone/Walmart, on whichever big 4 US network:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TracFone_Wireless#Straight_Talk
It's a highly successful show. Advertisers be damned, if they won't take a little heat, they won't enter the kitchen.
Fair enough; I went off track just about running (executing) F# code.
You're not replying to my point. I didn't say that Android and Chrome wouldn't end up being critical products that add to Google's bottom line. I said that right at the moment, that's not the case, and until it does become the case, you can't claim that they're a success.

It's important to read what is written, not what you think is written ;) (yeah, I find the winky smiley annoying when it's placed after a condescending remark)
I mean, if you're going to allow "use a subset of the language that doesn't avoid these complaints", then Rust also fits the bill. You can easily avoid using the magic characters, and not use any dependencies.
i'd buy that
iirc, providing fallback servers in the config, even an empty set, disables the built in ones. The hardcoded ones are essentially just the "default value" if not changed in the config file.
I've started using the mobile sites for companies like Facebook that I kind of need to use occasionally but really don't want their horrifying app on my phone.

It's kind of fascinating how hard they (not just Facebook) push you to use their "so much better" app even when their HTML version seems just as good if not better. It's just so much better for them. If you try the app and it's not better then you know what it's really about.
If by "drag" you mean "pay a shitload of money for a single afternoon's work" then ... sure.
You should provide some data to support a bold claim like Facebook and Google is sharing their revenue with Apple.
Eh? Revenue is affected by this, no doubt (otherwise thefacebook.com wouldn't go to war), but of course this is also about privacy and user data. How can you deny that?
Agree that the 15% Uber discount makes up for it. That and the AT&T discount are about the only discounts I notice, what other FC discounts do people use?
I just have to disagree here. I learned to code in a Starbucks in New York City, totally immersed in my computer for hours on end every day for a summer, years ago. Today I work from them whenever I possibly can, even if this means Zipcar'ing it. I like the atmosphere of Starbucks, and in general I like being surrounded by activity. Coffee shop + headphones = my most productive; yes, doing good work.

Like melling said, this looks like it goes down under "there's no one right answer." You experience was obviously different. But it's definitely the place where I get in the zone the quickest, do the best work the fastest, and in general are the most happy.
Hey, thanks so much! We had a personal need for a product like this, and we thought others would too. I'm glad you're finding it to be useful. :)
In my comment, I said that asymmetric connections are not a network neutrality issue - by which I mean that proposed network neutrality laws don't / shouldn't cover them, so the article is bringing up a strawman issue.

Options 4 and 5 are network neutrality issues. If they are allowed, it is likely that they could be more cost effective for ISPs, and become the only options. Competition doesn't work for things like this, because most consumers don't understand the benefits of network neutrality.

However, deviations from network neutrality are bad for everyone in the long run, because it means that ISPs become gatekeepers, and slow innovation on the Internet.

If I were to use Skype, I would pay my ISP for traffic between my computer and Skype's supernode, and the owner of the Skype supernode pays their ISP for the traffic as well. The only time traffic isn't paid for is generally when it gets to the tier 1 networks, who don't charge each other because the exchange of traffic is mutually beneficial.

Given a fixed level of network hardware, bandwidth is a scarce resource, and economics provides a very good way to manage scarce resources - charge for them. This is exactly what happens at present. There is no need for any kind of ISP control over what sites are accessed or what protocols are used - and if too many people are using the bandwidth, ISPs can simply put up the price.

ISPs undoubtedly oversell bandwidth - but that is not an insurmountable problem for ISPs if there are network neutrality laws - they can either oversell bandwidth by less, or just stop overselling.
Rust does use runtime checks for overflows and will panic if an overflow happens. In cases where you don't care or where it's intentional you can use `overflowing_add()` and its variants.
That's why Vitess is so awesome - you can scale writes infinitely. There's not a truly comparable option for Postgres
> Students who have not already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are discouraged from taking the test, in order to protect their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community. We will not make any negative presumptions regarding academic preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make the best, most informed decision we can by rigorously assessing other academic aspects of their application (such as grades, coursework, and other examinations).

This is getting ridiculous.

Imagine if your kid puts in the hours and hours of studying and pulls off a 35 on their ACT -- at a school like MIT, that's not enough (considered alone) to get in.

How are you and your kid going to feel when they give her spot to someone who didn't even submit a standardized test score?
It comes from the unreasonable effectiveness of quantum electrodynamics. That we predicted a metallic state of hydrogen (a sort of molecular, not atomic, structure) under an extreme corner case (extreme pressure) over 80 years ago (well before it could be experimentally verified) just highlights what I mean.

And I don’t mean to say that neuroscientists are doing shoddy work. Far from it! The brain is a far more complex entity than RNA or a hydrogen atom. The task is MUCH harder! But I am showing that high level of specific, concrete knowledge IS possible in the physical sciences. Memory in the Brain is a physical process as well, but we have only a relatively vague understanding of the specifics of it. We can sequence DNA or RNA accurately with relative ease. We cannot do the same with memories in the brain.
Is it doing worse than before Corona? Or maybe it's just that media is now focusing on how bad the medical situation is?
My US number also came up when entered as 12345678901 (1-prefixed but with no extra formatting or chars)
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Hmm, and not a mention of the US reaching peak conventional oil production around 1970, which pushed trade balance in the red, and was the main reason behind the stagflation and the end of the gold standard...
Yeah, you basically just order it online and there's no problem. There are a couple of showrooms in Austin and from what I've heard, although you can't actually purchase it from the Tesla showroom, you are welcome to use their kiosks to order one via the internet.
You raise an interesting question. I wonder if Wikipedia had steady advertising revenue, then would it have both resources and incentive to drive off many of the point-of-view pushers who now skew so many Wikipedia articles to fringe points of view? From the point of view of many onlookers, that could be either a feature or a bug. The Wikipedia projects worldwide have had a static number of active editors for the last few years

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

and I have to think that one thing that turns off conscientious editors who refer to reliable sources is drive-by POV-pushers who can edit more article text per day, because they don't bother looking up sources to verify their opinions.

But reasonable minds can differ both about this description of the problem, and about any proposed solution. So far Wikimedia Foundation still prefers the approach of seeking donations.
Why even bother having someone to switch DVDs if you can get the players so cheaply? Just assign a disk to a player and treat it as a unit, and don't touch it unless it breaks. You could even wire up the unit to be controlled by software and powered off when no one wants to watch that movie. I suppose it would increase space usage, but it would greatly simplify operations if you don't have to depend on a person to load and unload devices.
Facebook dominating the web is a horror scenario.What good could you see about it? Do you want to pay a Facebook tax for every online innovation you can come up with? Do you want to be at their mercy for the survival of your business?

My only hope is that in the long run freedom of innovation will always be stronger than a walled garden like Facebook.

I thought Berners-Lee invented the web - how can he get too much credit for that? Hypertext as an idea existed before that, I think, but he did it.
Indeed, and I've never claimed otherwise. (Obviously I personally disagree with such a policy, but that is immaterial to this debate.)

Please remember that the question here is whether some sort of generic laws or regulations might implicitly require an employer to have the power to compromise their employees' personal phones and wipe their personal data, given that none of the people arguing on legal/regulatory grounds has ever come up with any citation that makes this requirement explicit.

In his post, jodrellblank mentioned "industry standard practices" as an example of such generic legal wording. The fact that many large businesses accept the policy of using employees' personal devices does not make it an industry standard. The fact that many more do not does mean that it is not an industry standard.
I generally focus on powerful images and one to three word phrases and use slides largely as an "emotion force multiplier."

Even so, I don't believe any slide holds a candle to an exceptionally structured, well-told story. People remember those a lot longer than a pretty deck.
Just to clarify: i know Arch does some customization, but certainly not as much as Ubuntu. Arch also heavily relies on configuration files while I rarely edited a config file in Ubuntu. Presumably, it takes a longer time to adapt the GUI config tools in Ubuntu when new options are introduced.
Agreed - please flag it as such.

(it is, at the very least, not hn material)