jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am from Brazil, here Adderall got banned because medics were abusing it.

Long story short: Adderall has a side effect of making people lose weight. Didn't took long for Endocrinologists to start to "diagnose" ADHD and give Adderall like candy... Government couldn't find a way to fix that behaviour and decided to just ban it outright.

To be honest, despite the fact I have hypothyroidism alongside ADHD, I hate endocrionologists, I NEVER (really) met one that is 100% honest, they are always doing shady shit, never saw a medical branch so riddled with corruption and shenanigans.
> The i5/i7 class is outmatched in every metric ($/FLOP, W/$, and W/FLOP) by the Ryzen series.

This isn't really true though. Alder lake performance is better than Ryzen 5x at pretty much all price points. Alder lake's electricity usage is rough, but desktop users don't care. Now ryzen is a year behind intel, and who knows how their next offering will fare, but saying they've outmatched intel in every metric just isn't true.
isn't facial recognition easily defeated with a picture of the person's face?

that said i concur, the proliferation of built-in cameras should spur us to adopt biometrics such as facial recognition, but it's gotta be better than picking out a few points and doing a simple match like most CV facial recognition systems do. some sort of challenge-response maybe, like "wink your left eye" or "blow a kiss", anything that a simple, static picture couldn't defeat.

but i concur on the larger paradigm - the hardware is common enough to force us to consider biometrics as commonplace.
It's JavaScript, everything is a global! (so long as you don't declare it with var)
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Gazillion +1 times.
He clearly has never heard of mallopt (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html) so he doesn't know that instead of wrapping every single malloc with an if statement you can just tell malloc to abrt if it ever fails to allocate memory.

In his defense most programs don't test the return of malloc and don't set the abort on failure so most programmers would just assume that if your not checking your return values that you made a mistake.
would adding dithering support to the encoder help with gradient smoothness? i know it helps a lot with non-compressed formats in addition to shrinking filesize (though it may not be the case with jpeg compression). you can toy with the params [1] and see that even dropping target palette color count by >50%, still gets good results with a dithering kernel selected. repo here [2], btw.

[1] http://o-0.me/RgbQuant/

[2] https://github.com/leeoniya/RgbQuant.js
I'm not against advertising. I just think most of it is done badly and in poor taste. If you want to sell me something in an entertaining or classy way I am more receptive than I would be from you just shouting at me. I think "shouting" is much more effective however, so companies that advertise generally DGAF.
Really? you really want to argue that Trump wondering if disinfectant can be injected to destroy the virus is anything other than dangerously ignorant?

We have things that can be injected to destroy the virus. They are called "vaccines".

Trumps dumb suggestion is like watching someone use a weed whacker in their yard, then asking if microscopic weed whackers can be injected to fight the virus. I expect it off a young child, not a President.
Nixon bombed more people to death in Laos and Cambodia than the U.S. Army lost in all of World War II.

Nixon connived to have Kent State students attacked and slain by the National Guard.

These are both facts that can easily be reported and are more than damning enough on their own without editorializing.

The editorializing actually makes the case weaker. It does a good job of riling up people who already agree with you, but to everyone else it just looks like you're biased and attacking someone because of a personal grudge.
I obviously don't know what company you are at or what 110% means in that context. However unless you're Ar a FAANG type company I would venture that 110% is waaaay more than your regular coworkers put in. Probably at 50% levels if you are lucky. Personally I am lucky to work with lots of bright people that put in their 100%. But even there we have 50%ers.

So my advice: put in your 110% for 90% of the time (or something like that :)) I do this periodically. When required I'm there 110%. Done with something at 2pm Friday? Yeah well today I'll just call it a day instead of fixing yet another bug from the backlog that wasn't even in the sprint.
Griddy is basically a variable price for power? I checked their website, but it wasn't completely clear on that point (maybe because I don't understand Texas electrical billing).
That’s true until it isn’t, right? The pound sterling once held a similar role...
The launch abort was automated, so heads didn't need to be cool. I'm not sure if that makes it more reassuring or less.
Yes, but only on the first visit. In comparison, TLS could be MITM'ed in each individual visit by a localized adversary as long as their location includes a CA you trust - which appears to be the case for every intelligence agency out there.

Which threat model you prefer to deal with is up to you.
They ask people to empty their liquids into a bin so they don't need to be screened at all. They want to only screen liquids deemed so valuable to a passenger that they would attempt to sneak it through security. That's a higher signal of interesting liquids now.
> But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time.

Agree and not to mention we don't have any data on people who loved and were obsessive and that did not lead to anything. I am actually surprised in how simplistic PG is when he writes some of what he does. For example he states that Darwin was obsessed (as he was) but ignores that just like the bus ticket collector he most likely did that simply because he was interested or curious for some reason. A hobby or a like is no better than anyone else's. Who is to say watching football matters (it doesn't) or collecting stamps matters (it doesn't) or by the same token if you obsess over mathematics (and it matters and leads to something) that that is why you even did it in the first place?

I would even say that often people are obsessive about what they do not even thinking it will lead to anything. I was an obsessive commenter on a site and most would say I was wasting my time. But that activity has led to over 7 figures of income. But I did it because I enjoyed it (and did it every day). Likewise the same happens here on HN. In one sense you might be wasting your time but if you enjoy it and it leads to something is not genuine to say you did it for another reason.
Interesting, though the thing in the article is still a targeted attack. You will not remember the fingerprint of the guy unlocking his phone next to you.

But I agree that ML scale attacks can definitely change what I wrote in the future. They could also be used for CCTV evaluations of people entering passcodes.
I'd wanted this type of calculator for a while and used it as a project to try MithrilJS. Over the past couple of months I've found it pretty handy so I cleaned it up a bit to share. Maybe you'll also find it useful, especially as we enter the holiday travel season...
Boot camp would be another example, when they want to rebuild recruits as soldiers. There is actually a fine line between acceptable and unacceptable brain washing techniques, I’m not sure what it is.
I think the point is that it is easier to formally verify a non-Turing-complete PL
Answers.com is frequently humorous, which is more than can be said of Quora. Answers.com therefore has much more value to me.
Hard to believe if you know about their Windows deals, especially super funny ignoring blocked Microsoft telemetry hosts by default firewall.
with a default wp install - you are right,
however it's trivial to add a couple of security plugins and turn on auto-update.

adding the "ipgeoblock plugin" wipes out most attacks straight away.

with some of my wp sites that got attacked a lot on a regular basis, I use a 'static html generator' plugin - and delete all the wp php files -

no way to login, add comments or hack the wp core or plugins or themes, since they are not in use when you convert it all the static html.

On wp sites where I actually add content with regularity, I don't delete the wp files, and just use shield, sucuri, ipgeoblock, plugin things like that depending on threat.
Yeah, App Store guidelines can be ambiguous, and JavaScriptCore becoming a public framework could be seen as an endorsement of this type of functionality, but we don't have any information that you wouldn't.
> malleability and adaptability are English's strengths

My understanding of this point was that he sees this as both a strength and a weakness. It's a feature for expressiveness, and a bug for interoperability.
This is why it is very important for web developers to make sure their apps give a great mobile experience. Can't just test on your Mac and call it good.
If you're the dumbest person in the room... STAY. It's good to surround yourself with smarter people.
Known issue. Have to look in to that...
My point isn't really to take anything away from those companies. They're all very impressive. It's more that I am surprised that people don't seem to think that $200B is an incredibly large amount of money. It's more than three Ford Motor Company's. Or $80 billion more valuable than Cisco Systems, in many ways the backbone of the entire internet. It's just an incredibly large valuation to achieve for any company let alone in a five-year time frame.
If something is difficult and not that useful that's even more of a reason to attempt it. I want to do this because it is difficult.

There's different ways of doing it, and lots of research to piggy back off of, and I think it can be done. Wouldn't you like to be part of the first group outside of industry and academia to factor the number 15 on a quantum computer?
>until I see something that I consider better, there is no reason to quit.

You are right, but this article is geared to those who have too much perseverance, and consequently wind up with a pile of mediocre time sinks which are unrewarding even to them.
Does that include personal debt, or just the portion of income people put in a savings account? I checked the site, but don't didn't see anything obvious, and don't have time to dig much further.
I'd say on the contrary. Right-wing pundits have gotten very good at hacking the social system, of which this is an example. It's an unfortunate truth that humans tend to believe things they hear repeated, regardless of the context. This makes countering a lie very difficult, since every time you state that the lie is not true, you're just subconsciously reinforcing its truth in the minds of many people.

The best way to counter a lie is by stating the facts and avoiding mentioning the lie altogether, but in this case the White House refused to divulge a concrete number. The $200 million figure was allowed to propagate unchecked.
Direct Link (because the video did not work for me on the website):

http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/Video/Mitochondria_480p.mo...
My beliefs and meditation-prayer practices are according to the Christian Faith, but "sitting quietly, doing something" is an apt description whether it's Buddhist meditation or Christian mental prayer (a Western form of meditation).

I am happy to share with readers here the most excellent compendium of the Ignatian method of Christian mental prayer that I have ever encountered:

- Fifth Treatise: On the Excellency of Prayer

http://www.holynamesoftware.org/OnPrayer.pdf

The following essay is a real treasure too:

- The Practice of Lectio Divina

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdgpYJu8XEUoZGRxc2Z6cWtfM...
"Because I don't get a cut of Facebook's income."
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the head line.
A manpage might be just the right marketing channel for people who are really into piping commands.
"...could be implemented and managed..."

That they could. Anything could. The question I don't have a convincing answer to is why would they use the Blockchain?
Sorry, this is me: http://twitter.com/x5315. I'll update my bio, how's that?

The 'bug' didn't last for over a year and a half. The product has existed for that long.

The bug was in the advertiser selection process. There was an issue with the job/dataset we use to select which advertisers to choose. It should only have been people in the follow lists.

As for "a change in sort order does not normally change the contents of the lists". Due to the size of some of the lists, we don't load the entire list when we show you the first 20 or so. Therefore, we would require an insertion process.
Especially with the Community Edition of VS making it really easy for pretty much anyone to get access to VS.

I like GCC and everything but I will be happy to leave it behind if I am honest. The politics are just too damn much for me these days. GCC should be about building a great compiler collection for the world but politics plays too big a part in it as seen with the whole AST debate going on again because of RMS. I just want a good compiler and standard library implementation. Between Clang/LLVM and VS Community I don't know if GCC will really have a huge place in the future for me.
Or smashed up coconuts. Reportedly, 200 coconuts = 1 liter of fuel. Apparently this and micro-hydro helped to win their war for independence ... see films at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island#Popular_cu...
Fantastic, I decided to install this extension and give it a whirl and it works as expected with zero configuration. Loving it!

I appreciate the fact that this is blocking everything about my usage to spying companies/individuals.
Tubes do in fact do something particular when they are used as signal processing elements to create distortion. This is the "tube sound" and is so important in guitar that it's faithfully simulated in guitar-oriented digital equipment.

Also, when the combination of a tube power amplifier, output transistor and speaker is subject to overload, it produces artifacts that cannot be obtained in any other way in an equally compact form factor. Simulating the actual live sound of a little 50W tube combo cranked to the point that it is crapping out is theoretically possible with some non-tube equipment. In addition to the digital processing to model the total physical system (crapping-out tube output stage, saturated output transformer, and clipping speaker), a powerful back end is required to deliver the results of the calculation to reproduce the actual moving air molecules: a hi-fi system rated well into the thousands of watts.
They're not using it on their product name, it's merely a search keyword, why'd they get sued?
Don't confuse market value with intrinsic value. Money is not the arbiter of all things.
The homeless consitently reject services offered to them. One way to solve this problem is to force them to have treatmemt and lodging but this seems rather harsh.
> You can't make them listen

Daryl Davis has certainly proven otherwise, but I freely admit that no one should have to have the sort of patience or dedication to the cause that he's demonstrated in doing so.

> What I have come to find to be the greatest and most effective and successful weapon that we can use, known to man, to combat such adversaries as ignorance, racism, hatred, violence, is also the least expensive weapon, and the one that is the least used by Americans. That weapon is called communication. [0] [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0vS0qvYo0&t=34s
And that was a small fraction of the people who were there to protest, so they were mostly peaceful as well.

Certainly most of the large BLM protests ended in destruction and violence, at least in my state of Minnesota. There’s a reason the national guard had to be deployed. People find strength in numbers.
> The usual benefit -- no queues at the borders -- is pretty limited, when it doesn't border any other EU state, and anyone from the EU must arrive by air or sea anyway.

Well, that's never stopped Metropolitan France from creating queues at air-mode borders anyway.

Source: Flew from Brussels&Frankfurt and still got border controlled at Toulouse multiple times. Some bullshit about it being "temporary for 1 year" with endless renewals and no
Twitter doesn't have too much power. I think that will become clear over the next couple years.
In that case, the President will hold a press conference and ger coverage from every TV and YouTubel Channel and Facebook page, not to mention tens of thousands of Twitter users.
Instead of a small amount of broadcast companies? As long as mass communication is mediated by corporations, we give them this control - and the alternative is systems without any control whatsoever (for better and very much also for worse).

Ultimately, Twitter gave dt a platform, and so it’s theirs to take away.
You should link to the repo so we can sideload it.
>he broke it

how did he break the contract with Twitter? the tweets twitter references hardly seem to encourage mob violence.

twitter subjectively interprets their own set of rules and it's clear there's a double standard.

when politicians on the left encourage protests and riots that result in the destruction and burning of private property, there are no repercussions.

and i'm not attempting to say that two wrongs make a right; encouraging violence or mobs is wrong, but Twitter's enforcement of their own rules is clearly influenced by political ideology.
It looks like he also tried to requisition a staffers personal account, getting them suspended too

https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1347741119434649603
It is a gradual difference: 'Commonly used' is when you are no longer surprised to see someone use a new technology, 'ubiquitous' (literally: everywhere-ish) is when you would be surprised seeing someone still using an older technology it replaced.
So you say it's Hacker News here... Okay, have you ever heard of steganography? And are you sure your camera isn't covertly embedding something into image data (not metadata), like printers do with yellow dots?

And there are a lot of different watermarking algorithms, some of which are capable of surviving basic image operations, like resizing or color balance adjustment.
It states that some problems will never have a perfect solution. It would be possible, I guess, for a strong AI to pump out stronger and stronger AI, so that humans will be unlikely to solve any problem before the stronger and stronger AI solve it.

Until that happens, it will always be possible to write a better space-optimizing compiler. Afterwards, it will still be possible, but the strong AI will beat you to the punch.
# Fix things CS goofs.
# Add things CS lacks.
> 3. Solar panels break down less than hand-turned generators.

I live in an African country and solar panels have one huge disadvantage. Solar panels are often used now to power boreholes (usually fully submersible pumps which have become fairly cheap and easy to install, compared to so called "mono-pumps" of the old days) and pumps near rivers that are far from grid electricity. It is also used to power electric "energizers" for electric fences.

The problem is that solar panels keep getting stolen. It is something that is fairly valuable that should be outside. I can just imagine the amount of theft that will go on when people have solar panels on the roofs of their homes/shacks.

Also, the article failed to mention the real problem with using candles and fire for lighting - frequent fires.
<Fry Meme> Not sure if this reference is for Idiocracy or Demolition Man...
There's nothing functional about that. The sharp edges and flat front will be horrific for aerodynamics.
I am a biologist, and not a virologist. I would suspect we are never getting rid of COVID. But vaccination could turn it into something not much worse than a cold or at least the flu. The virus will mutate and change in ways that make it more infectious, but probably not more virulent.
Chicken and the egg if the EU would’ve handed out 50 billion € a year ago to setup production and stockpiles it would’ve made a difference...
You unmute when it's your turn. The other person mutes.
Past discussion:
2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335856

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Tiny C Compiler is also a great project:

https://bellard.org/tcc/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617461
Why are you comparing figures like that? Is the land itself using the energy generated from those turbines?
Freedom to speak and think for yourself is a fundamental element of any democratic system. If you like, you can make a long post about why you think those values aren’t a good idea, but you can’t undermine them without also undermining the entire basis of democracy.
Without specifically criticizing this vaccine process, I would add that if you start digging into medical research, you will find this is the rule rather than the exception. I've had my own semi-obscure issues I've gone trolling through the literature for assistance with, and one of the things I've found is that you'll find something that is tested; for a specific example, I found some examination of taurine supplementation for heart arrhythmia issues. There were multiple papers that all studied the exact same dosing schedule. This strongly suggests to me that the initial schedule was basically someone thinking for a moment and giving an informed guess about what might work.

This is just an observation, not a criticism, because I don't have a better suggestion for what they can do, nor do I particularly believe there is a much better suggestion necessarily. You have to start somewhere. My point is just that you shouldn't overestimate the exact numbers and how much effort was put into exploring all the details. Obviously some things are deeply studied, but most things won't be.

This implies that, statistically speaking, there very likely are drugs that were formulated, created, and put into a testing regime that they failed that actually work great, but were just dosed out to the study participants such that the good effects didn't emerge yet, or were dosed on a poor schedule, etc. (Or would have worked great if paired with a hit of grapefruit. [1]) I also wonder how that compares to the number of drugs that were never tested on humans because they failed animal testing, but it turns out that in reality they would have been fine in humans. Just idle musings on life.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705855
aahh, thanks, will do
Because with a bank, you are never going to lose $240 million because you forgot the password to your hardware walllet.

In fact, you house can burn down and all your documents might get destroyed, and you'd still have access to your money, eventually.
Regular binding in Angular is straight forward: you can pass params to child component and you can bind to events. Child does not know about parent by design. So it is a good practice baked in Angular.

If it comes to the question. I think you have answered yourself by writing React won't stop you from making bad design decisions.