jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can rule it out.

If Facebook did that, or even if advertisers did that and Facebook didn't kick them off, it will put the brand in serious trouble, they'll get fined, etc.

This is the sort of thing small scummy businesses do where the owner can hide behind it, go bankrupt and start again. It's not something a top company would do.

I am not saying big companies won't do evil things. This isn't going to be one of them.

And also you don't need to confuse people into paying for nothing. You can do it with their eyes wide open. In-game purchases, for example.
Got a source on the face-recognition-after-departure? That's a really interesting idea and I'd like to read more.
If I remember correctly, Awodey[0] has exercises like that.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Category-Theory-Oxford-Logic-Guides/dp...
Appreciate the kind words and the great feedback...thanks so much for taking the time.

> Food for thought...

Stay tuned :) https://kyn.me/coinvest/y_combinator_all_time
zizee, not for a glossary only. But, one of the top reasons we chose Slab (over Paper and Notion) because it lets us pull in content into Slack.
I am working on webby, an app for neatly organising your social media into collections.

Instead of only relying on algorithms, you can group and keep tabs on exactly what you want. [1]

Currently supports reddit/YouTube.
I hope to release an MVP soon.

1: https://streamable.com/hlrye
I'm working on

https://readthistwice.com

A book recommendation website (side project) where I compile verified book recommendations from the leaders in their fields. The product was #1 on Product Hunt a few days ago. Focusing on this really helps me stay sane with this quarantine thing.
I’d be fine with having an eGPU at the office actually. That’s where the noise gets most out of hand and annoys my coworkers. It’s just a bummer to sink even more money into this machine.
Exactly right now, I am working on Newspipe, a web news reader[1].

It is written in Python. A documentation is available[2].

I uses it since 2010. And I am quite happy with it. I started recently to work again on this old side project since I have some ideas in mind.

If you want to test it, there is an official instance[2].
Also there is a Dockerfile.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

[2] https://man.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

[3] https://www.newspipe.org

[4] https://github.com/sponsors/cedricbonhomme/ (optionally, if you decide to use it ;-)
A knowledge sharing and discussion tool — a cross between StackOverflow and Slack: https://www.talkyard.io
They are not. If you use an alternative shortener visitors will redirect to t.co then to your shortener then to the site.
this article is great. He gives a specific example based on real-world performance, showing that you can't always rely on theory assuming a general case. For many intensive applications, memory is so precious, you CAN'T effectively ignore VM. Some thought about the relative latency of memory is useful in more than just parallel applications on NUMA hardware.

(Git and Mercurial are designed with an eye towards optimizations based on disk latencies. Python is optimized with regard to CPU cache. We're back to "Abstractions Leak.")
> As it happens, I do think it is evil that MS limits who can develop what for XBox.

Although they restrict who can develop games destined for brick and mortar stores, Microsoft has provided XNA as a way of developing for their platform that is not altogether unreasonable in terms or expense.
This article is not you're thing, and thats OK. :)
I agree. The future that seems likely to me is one in which most things exist both locally and in the cloud. Syncing and redundancy. Web apps that are also native. It's not "cloud xor desktop". We can have both.
YC was originally going to be just the three of us (Robert, Trevor, and I) doing occasional angel investments in the usual way. We stumbled on most of the distinctive features of YC after we decided to begin with a summer program for college students.
> Hate to sound boring

When you feel you are being boring, start with an executive summary for the less patient.
i don't know how to run a business at all. i've never done it and have no desire to do it. i think what allows me to build healthy and constructive relationships with entrepreneurs is that i know that i can't run a business and don't pretend that i can
That depends whether, when you're talking about 'most applications', you mean most by sheer number, or most by processing time used. Because yes, there are a zillion tiny applications that don't care about VM space. But the ones that do are used far more often (running nonstop on servers, etc) than that random iBoobs app on your iPhone.
Great job of getting to MVP on the cheap! But it seems like a budget of $10K or so would only work for relatively simple apps. Doing something like Dropbox, 280Atlas, or FlightCaster (probably) would take significantly more money.

Any suggestions for how you'd proceed if you knew up front that you were facing a much longer development cycle?
Alas people who visit Mahalo for no other reason than Jason's linkfarm directed their search their may not hate the site, although the person running the site with real content does.
Pretty neat stuff. The method used for decimating representations is pretty awesome. Seeing the aligned routines makes me think that quite a few of the bioinformatics algorithms could be useful for such an analysis.

The two that spring to mind would are the MCL clustering algorithm that could be applied quite easily to the similarity matrix. As a more academic endeavor, it'd also be interesting to see what kinds of differences in similarity you'd get by applying Needleman-Wunsch.

http://www.micans.org/mcl/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algori...
> I dunno, the idea of open-source software and good interpreted languages would get you pretty far.

Hey -- go back to 1975 and out-Stallman Stallman. Then when a crafty dork fresh dropped out of Harvard comes along with a cranky letter -- you do realize that you are stealing software, don't you? -- he would have gotten what he deserves: a fuck you and the mother of all wedgies.
Yes! Thank you for sharing. This legal page is something quite new on SO and finally addresses my concern.
This can happen in the opposite extreme in the software engineering world. Only few best hackers see things through, and the remaining %99 argue with them missing the point that is very subtle.
What's wrong with the Nexus One launch?
Write a description of what your target customer wants and needs, (Note - may be different.) How does your service help that customer do what they really want to do?

How much will it cost you to deliver?

How much will it cost you to acquire said customer?

How much is that customer willing to pay? How much do they pay now? Why will they pay you instead?

If there's a mismatch, change what you can and go through the exercise again.

I suspect that there's a huge market one level up from hosting, but I'm not in the biz, so YMMV. (No one says "we want hosting" - they want something else that they get via hosting.)
And you don't think that Apple has sent the clear message that they don't see the iPad or iPhone as a general purpose computing device?

I think they've done a pretty great job of indicating that these are appliances and are not to be considered as a smaller Mac. I don't think this is necessarily the right thing to do, but sometimes you need a dictatorship before a democracy. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
I think it is worth the time to figure out how to do generic code better than it is currently done with parametric polymorphism and templates. And yes, I think going simple on the type system is a valid direction (vs. Scala which focuses on power and expressiveness).

But I don't buy the argument that we don't need them, and that we will necessarily write worse code with them.
Its true that a cool attraction with a capacity of 300 (lucky) people exists in a city with a population of 885K.

The problem is its an anecdote in a discussion about public policy and lifestyle for 100% of the population, when only 0.03% of the city population can actually visit.
> eventually (may be awhile) augmentation implants

My sci-fi holy grail for this type of thing is a brain-machine interface in the form of a simple hat.

Early versions may look like this: http://i.imgur.com/y3v6hxB.jpg
If it's like every single web browser for it, an insanely long amalgam of the user agent strings of every competing browser, every browser that came before it, and the word Spartan.
Worse, it's mutating! It's just like most zombie movie plots.

None of those predicted the hoarding of toilet paper though.
> Why is the control group eating more?

Because they aren't taking an appetite suppressing drug. It's easier to not eat when you aren't hungry, so it's easier to lose weight with the same amount of willpower compared to people that aren't taking an appetite suppressing drug. Willpower has no part in the study, it doesn't "suggest the opposite".
>reducing toxic content in foods

can you elaborate on this? The terms toxic/toxins have been so overused when it comes to diet and alternative medicine that it's basically meaningless.
We use medication to deal with a desire to smoke. There are tons of drugs for managing this.
VSCode is by far the lightest Electron app I've ever used. I currently have a decent sized repo open, with a good number of plugins, and it's using 0% CPU and 12MB ram on Windows (and I haven't restarted the app in probably 2 days).

Teams on the other hand... that's a hog.
It isn't. But change like that is exactly what you need to do. If it's good or bad to change it via a drug instead of mental discipline is another question.

But you could change your food and eat tons of it. I am a pretty slim person and i eat a lot compared to my friends. I also don't do much sport and as a developer is sit a huge part of the day.
So for me it comes down to WHAT i eat and it's serving me pretty well. You don't need to fight your appetite, you can serve it and still loose weight.
I implore you to Google what the full-size Apple keyboard looks like and then look at what your average mechanical keyboard looks like. If nothing else helps, count the keys.
We'll miss Chick. A masterful performer, composer, and collaborator.

There are so many relatively unknown artists that are also exploring like Chick did. For example, I highly recommend checking out a composer named Maria Schneider. Like Chick, she has a way of interweaving composed classical style piano with improvisational jazz. I'm going to see if I can find examples of Chick playing any of her tunes.
>> It's highly unlikely. It is required by CCP law to record user activities up to 90 (or 30? vague memories) days.

> Actually sounds pretty good. In Australia it is 730 days.

No, it doesn't. China requires the content of user activities to be saved, so your chat history is literally being sent to the local police in real time for scanning. The result is stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiMLVYK4hEc (Chinese police casually asserting their dominance by locking some poor guy in a tiger chair for badmouthing them on a private WeChat chat). A few years back someone found an analyzed an unsecured Mongo DB that was storing these messages: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/open-mongodb-...

IIRC, Australia only has metadata retention requirements.
I met a few people last month who still use it for larger projects. My reaction was along the lines of, "Really? No, wait, really? REALLY? Nuh-uh."

Unsurprisingly, I suppose, I was told that, since I gave it up as a too much trouble, conventions and patterns have emerged that, when followed, make Perl more scalable (in the sense of being usable in the context of large programs) and maintainable.
Huh? They have a list of email addresses for which passwords were disclosed. If your email address was on the list and you held a LinkedIn account, they zeroed out your password and made you reset it. They didn't reset everyone's account, did they?
Here are the usage instructions...sure sounds like brute force to me. Perhaps you could explain why it isn't?

Usage: ./whitepixel [OPTION]... [<hash>]

Main arguments:

-c <charset> Generate candidate passwords using the specified charset
which can be:
lower Lowercase
upper Uppercase
digit Digits
print Printable ASCII characters and space [0x20-0x7e]
all All bytes [0x00-0xff]
(default: lower)
-l <length> Attack passwords of this length (default 5)
<hash> MD5 hash to attack (default 00...00)
Nice :) We are part DC-based and part CA-based and I will definetely get more involved...

thanks,
> written in the key of "outrage".

I've never seen that turn of phrase before, but I quite like it!
Conversations is great. But as someone who recently switched from Android to iOS, I can attest that XMPP apps on iOS are hot garbage. They probably have to be this way because iOS only allows you to do push notifications through their own gateways, and most (all?) XMPP servers don't have support for such push gateways.

I'm now actively trying to get contacts off XMPP because XMPP is too unreliable for me.

And that's before we talk about the sad state of XMPP apps on the desktop. You cannot win the messaging market when you have only one good app on a single OS.
>Honestly, it's not hard to call people what they want to be called.

How does one express what gender neutral pronoun they want to be called without expressing their preferred gendered pronoun?
I think they're fundamentally opposed in their philosophy.

Gradle: Just slap any kind of code into our build files and we'll run it. Everything is code, everything is customizable and you can muck around with everything.

Bazel: Here are a few of build rules. All compilation needs to be deterministic, all tasks need clear deterministic outputs and all task generate clear deterministic outputs. It's very rigid and it uses that to get significant performance wins, especially when using a build farm.
Given that literacy tests before voting are illegal and people fought against them, they are.
Fully agree on the UI.

Every platform has regressed significantly compared to just 10 years ago. Modern UIs are slow, laggy, visually poorly designed (both in layout and in control design - they're just "flashy"), they're completely inconsistent with each other.

They seem to completely have lost 20 years to refinement in user interaction.

During the amiga times you would be yelled at for placing the "cancel" button of a dialog in the unexpected position. And I would say: rightly so. Following system guidelines to have consistency gave you great productivity as a side-effect.

Today you're lucky if you can guess that the dialog is modal at all, let alone figure out which one is the ack button and which one is a link that redirects to generic online help page.

The system design guidelines are ignored by system and app developers alike. It's a free-for-all.
He suggests shopify
You see totally different demographics between software design/development and the politics of software.

In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet they feel entitled to correct one of the forefathers of software development.
It's not poor reading comprehension. It's poor writing at best.

"Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone" is factually wrong.
Please elaborate and support your characterization.
>> Repave servers and applications every few hours.

> Yes, but keep in mind that the same attacker will be able to run the same attack successfully again

Exactly. Detecting that deployed files were tampered with can be tricky (one has to take updates into account, and some attacking code may be able to detect this analysis and nurture it with the original version of the files).
I was curious on the math for all this.

Surface area of earth = 510,064,472 km2

70 percent water = 357,045,130 km2

2.2mm = 0.0000022 km

volume = 785.499 km3

GIS area 1,710,000 km2

div vol by area = 459.3 mm

melting 1kg of ice from 0C = 333.55kJ

density of ice = 919kg/m3

785,499,000,000 m3 x 333.55 =
262,003,191,450,000 kJ

1J/s = 1w

2 months = 5,184,000s

= 50,540,739 kJ/s

= 50.540 GJ/s

= 181,944 GWh

making it the 24th largest electricity producer in the world (if it were all electricity).

That's pretty incredible!
I've checked the chat logs with my Italian friends, and the discussion about people still carelessly gathering in social places (and in fact, photos were being posted on forums) was referring to March 9th.

Therefore, the reference "around a week" that I've made is wrong, considering that March 9th was the lockdown date.

My experience with another country with lockdown is still different - people started to be wary of social gatherings/interactions earlier, however, at this point, the anarchy argument is weaker :-)
> Because this is an emergency we want reliable information.

So much for that given the president was recommending chloroquine to be used off the cuff.
I am missing Fujifilm's Avigan/Favipiravir here - Chinese reported success using it:

"On 17 March 2020, Chinese officials suggested that Favipiravir seemed to be effective in treating COVID-19 in Wuhan and Shenzhen.[31][32][33]

A study on 80 patients comparing it to lopinavir/ritonavir found that it significantly reduced viral clearance time to 4 days, compared to 11 for the control group, and that 91.43% of patients had improved CT scans with few side effects."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir
Can we please start adding sources to our statements? I guess you're going by this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

Both Spain and Sweden seems to be about equal if you average the rankings in that list. So surely if Spain has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, Sweden is pretty equal, then Sweden is nowhere near being the "2nd worst in the EU" when it comes to healthcare.
Nothing quite like a site titled "Better Science" with the disclaimer:

"While I understand the basics of a clinical trial, I’d like to point out that I am no medical scientists. Most of the issues here were spotted by other people and I have linked to the sources."

You cannot make this s@#t up!

Put on your critical thinking caps folks -- there's a lot of bad info out there.
Regarding randomization, the HCQ + Azithromycin study showed good results despite the control group being 14 years younger. Sex was about equal so no male/female imbalance. It’s clear that older patients have worse outcomes, but this study measures viral load which also can change depending on the stage of the disease.
Anyone knows why serum is not sufficient to completely solve all our issues? I applaud this trial but this confuses me. It seems like we already have the capacity to do this on large scale, it's considered very safe and as far as I understand is highly effective. There was an article about it here a few days back, but besides that I don't hear much about it in the general discussion, why?
set() is a great way to deduplicate small lists, but it's important to note that it requires O(n) extra space (in-place sorting can avoid this overhead, but is more complex).
As long as you provide a choice on what to run as PID1, and that init system immediately/automatically runs the ENTRYPOINT / CMD / run command I think it is fine to change the behaviour to the correct one.
Please don't make the mistake to hardcode PID1, and worst of all not to systemd ... as systemd causes enough trouble in docker containers already (try debian host, fedora:20 docker and upgrade if you can).
A hypervisor has a ~150-250MB memory overhead over linux containers + namespaces because it boots a full kernel.

There are other differences but if all you want from your system is reproducibility then VM images work fine of course.
TPB mirrors used to do something similar and I swear I had adBlock filter that efficiently blocked them.
When are these ads being forced on you? When you willingly and knowingly visit content providers who make no secret of being supported by advertisements?
I don't know if MyHDL(http://www.myhdl.org/) really stuck but I've used it a few times for some smaller things. What I really liked about it was how fast I could simulate while iterating on a design, and the fact that I could use Python unittest for testing.

I will definitely be taking Cx for a spin. Not wasting time with clock/reset/fsm boilerplate will make development faster. If I can get my hands on a trial of their cycle accurate simulator and can automate my test suites I'd be thrilled.
Another example to throw in the pot is TS Eliot. He enjoyed his day job at a bank so much he rejected friends' attempts to get him to leave it for a more "creative" post.
Have you tried using haste or fay? (I haven't, just curious)
It'd be nice though if MS would provide the F# team with more resources, or actually do pro-F# marketing, instead of pushing the inferior-but-with-far-better-tooling C#. For instance, it's embarrassing that MS doesn't have a comprehensive web toolkit for F#, and instead just pushes a mashup of TypeScript and ASP.NET. No doubt the community is great, but the effort that goes into first class VS support seems to require a much larger team doing rather unfun work. To date, it seems only MS has pulled this off.
Can you post a link to a skeleton of a JS project using make? I'd like to look into this
Company: "What salary are you looking for?"

You: "As much as possible. How much have you got?" :-)

In my experience, places will pre-qualify candidates through the recruiter (the recruiter won't send them someone they can't afford) or HR will ask you for a range before you start interviewing (so they don't waste everyone's time).

The last time I was asked by a hiring manager what sort of range I was looking for, it went like this:

Company: "What sort of salary range are you looking for."

Me: "125-135K"

Company" "Our salary for a Senior Dev tops out at 122K"

Me: "That's not my problem." :-)

Company: (Smiling) "You're right."
Exactly. "Conservatives" may want to go back in time 50 years, but their opponents want to go back 100.
I want to like this, but storage space is just so damn cheap/free, I can't imagine ever using something like this.
The sites are blocked only at the DNS level. If you switch your DNS from your ISP to either OPenDNS or Google DNS, then all these sites should work.
I just finished reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahneman. He goes into great detail about our various cognitive biases, and how they constantly lead us astray. The most fascinating insight is how they still lead experienced statisticians astray in the same way, and even when these biases are pointed out to them! The mistakes keep coming.

We're not half as intelligent and rational as we believe we are.
The original title of the research article is "Measurement of Coherent Production of π± in Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Beams on Carbon from Eν of 1.5 to 20 GeV". I think the "glancing blows" is a linkbait from the PR department.

I'm not sure, I'm mostly guessing, but this experiment is probably important to analyze low energy collisions, and see if the model derived from the high energy collisions is correct.
Money is a social construct, and therefore not materially real. If all human beings disappeared tomorrow dollars/merits/etc. would cease to have real-world efficacy.

I thought the deeper point was, perhaps, that everyone has their price. That nothing, not even the very things people think are "radical" or "revolutionary", escapes the logic of money. That everything can be commodified and turned to serve the very system they try to escape.
Like that "what is iPad" commercial that says "all the world's websites". They made the best tablet going, so why do they still feel the need to cross the line between touting and lying?
If the FFI is good, why do you care?

The PLT VM is very very good, and their FFI is very flexible. If you want a lispy dialect on the Java VM, you have one. But otherwise, why does it matter?
> Ideally nobody should be in a job that is completely comfortable.

Because that means you've hired too many people?
Kind of like everything else they do.