jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is this idea about dictatorships being more efficient, but it's been shown that is mostly a carryover from their propaganda. A good example was the saying about "the trains running on time" the truth was they didn't, but the propaganda really painted that picture.
The government can offer loans where they are superior to other borrowers. This is similar to what private equity does to strip assets out from under other bond/debt holders but less evil
Your individuality is someone else’s business and career uncertainty.
Low-pressure sodium lights are almost single-wavelength amber. They have a negative color rendering index, while incandescents and sunlight are 100, and most white LEDs are around 70. LEDs can be had in the high 90s at a cost to efficiency.

LED and CFL screw-in bulbs for household lighting come in a variety of color temperatures, but people usually go for 2700K-3000K. It does seem to me that people prefer warmer light for many applications.

My preference for always-on outdoor lighting is none, followed by dim, warm, and shrouded.
Wait, is acceleration change in velocity or momentum? Presumably these begin to diverge in a relativistic frame of reference?
If one were to implement a service mesh of microservices wouldn’t the services need to be versioned similar to how the packages used by a microservice are version-pinned?
The more stops you have the longer each trip takes. Makes more sense to use train to move people between areas and busses within areas.
Any names/links/etc to learn more about such models?
No daily scrum.

No social media.

No code of conduct.

He just sat there.

Programming.

Like a psychopath.
I'm sure it's some HN algo why I can't reply your reply asking for citations so replying to here instead.

None of the links in your reply support the statement "In most American states the customer is entitled, by law, to the lowest advertised or marked price. The store must honor that price."
> But a lot of it is like the version 11 protool (without all of the extensions they have added),

It’s hard to tease out, but it sounds like you’re advocating for the state of the art drawing model of 1980 in 2019. I don’t think this is going to fly except for a very niche audience.
WordPress used to be quite vulnerable a few years ago, but nowadays not so much, just avoid less popular plugins and you should be ok. Of course since it's the most widely used cms's out there, its a prime target for hackers. But the "WordPress is vulnerable" thing is much of a meme in the current day.
Not a 100% compatible substitution but Spark can be even more OO and easier to manage.
In the US, corruption is mostly wholesale, operated from the top; recently e.g. obscure operators granted contracts to build The Wall or to restore Puerto Rico's power grid. The only solution is to vote them out of control. It is unfortunate when there are only two parties, and both parties enable such corruption even if largely on behalf of different benificees. The new administration should be more motivated to minimize pandemic aid swindling.
The largest and most sophisticated attack is still out there, we just haven't detected it yet.
Ti is absolutely a vanity/ fashion statement at this point. Carbon out-performs it in almost every way. Particularly since you can lay up carbon in different ways to get different amounts of stiffness/ flexibility.
I have shared this before, this my IceCast stream ripper which lets you download radio as MP3 and it is open source:

https://stream-subscription-ui.herokuapp.com/

But this one is very cool. Thank you for sharing.
YouTube suffers from DCMA. Too often useful content is pulled off the platform. Better to use NewPipe and download the goods before they're gone forever.
Probably not worth the EROEI
I've spent the whole pandemic living in Taiwan (and I was here for SARS nearly two decades ago, too). So far it's been seven total Covid-19 deaths here, despite a population on par with that of Australia or Sri Lanka.

Some of Fauci's statements about masks and travel restrictions have looked absolutely mad from this vantage point. So have the WHO's statements and the US media coverage of the entire pandemic. It's been really disappointing to see decision after decision that lead people, rightfully, to lose trust in institutions. High trust in institutions is one of the main reasons it's gone so well here.

IMO, your comment is false, flamewar-inducing and completely off-topic. We didn't come to this thread wanting to talk about the pandemic and now it's a huge portion of the comments.
I suspect the person you're responding to is using the featured link (real-time conditions) and looking at the diff between system capacity and current demand, which doesn't match the current operating reserves on the ercot homepage.
This looks the US still cannot follow proper swabbing procedures. Such a lot of false negatives hints to simple oral swab tests, which have a huge miss rate. Swabs need to be deep nasal. There are no receptors in the mouth!

Surprising is the spit test, which should be made official really soon.
A lot of people in Canada don't pay anything for their health care and don't pay taxes either because they don't earn any income. I don't think it is reasonable to suggest these people think their health care is "worthless."

The mistake here is conflating price with value. The price people are willing to pay is relative to their means. The value, on the other hand, is relative to the utility they derive from it. Moreover, there is an additional external utility accrued to society from having a better educated, healthier population.
I would think that adding an abstraction layer like this would increase the number of bugs, not reduce them.
You should get it validated by Let's Encrypt so that the warning goes away.

The reality is that you either push the button (get the key certified), or bad things happen (users get warnings and - for the average user - simply can't use encryption). Pushing the button also doesn't have significant negative effects, and while you can lament alternative proposals at length, there is _some_ reason behind the status quo.

So you should push the button.
Wow this is fascinating. Are the books available in English?

Calvert journal seems to be a very interesting journal as well.
I'm having trouble coming up with this approach on my own. could you share it please?
> Today's machines impose a way of doing things. But in the future there will be a new type of machine. [...] working within the constraints created by today's register model of computing.

Which "way of doing things" would that be, and how exactly is this constraining us? Sure, most physical CPUs do use registers, but a lot of languages define their own machine model which are not register-based. We have stack-based machines, vector-based machines, matrix-based machines, the functional languagues with tree evaluation models, declarative programming, and lots more.

> No they're not. There is a proof out there somewhere from 2017 proving why they are not.

I searched for this proof, and all I could find is this FAQ entry: https://faq.treenotation.org/#how-is-this-different-from-s-e...

faq> How is this different from S-Expressions?

faq> It is largely accurate to say Tree Notation is S-Expressions without parenthesis. But this makes them very different! Tree Notation gives you fewer chances to make errors, easier program concatenation and ad hoc parser writing, easier program synthesis, easier visual programming, easier code analysis, and more.

This looks like a restricted subset of lisp's s-expressions. And the explanation only talks about incremental improvements over s-expr, not radically new capabilities.

Is there a better document I have missed?

> it's a very special way that has a 2-D geometric isomorphism ... that goes on to make a huge difference.

Are we talking about geometric isomporphism in the mathematical sense, as in graph embedding on a plane? If yes, I am very interested to see what kind of useful results one can get out of it. While graph embedding is useful for certain problems, it seems generally inapplicable for the common computing tasks.

Or even better, is there a sample code which demonstrates the advantages of isomorphism? The biggest sample code I found was "Grammar"[0] and it seems to be sadly one-dimensional...

[0] https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20grammar
Maybe you don't know Steve Jobs but it is exactly the thing he would do without even a shred of doubt.

He's using the design to make you use it wirelessly (the way he wants). You're not supposed to use it like a normal mouse. The fact people moan about this would even make him more sure about it..

Also it came out back when and he probably saw it and approved it
I think this actually perfectly shows how nebulous our definition of "free will" is. I sure can't define it, I can only observe what other people seem to think it means. The definition I tend to observe is one that fits in with a dualistic view, of some outside force making decisions for our body.
Love this! Please make landing screen a teeny bit prettier and you could definitely start recommending this to regular 'retail' folk. I'd consider putting the about text below the main 'create room' panel for example

It looks like a nerd app, just needs a tiny bit of swish to make it a mom and pop app too
No doubt it's a good laptop. However I would recommend anyone looking at laptops with machine learning in mind seriously consider a cheaper / less powerful laptop, and to do their training remotely on either on a workstation or in someones cloud.
> you are forced to pay attention all of the time and think about whether you need to take over

The same people who cram an orange in to their Tesla's steering wheel will just download a sketchy repack of the open source software that disables the attention checks.
Your original question was whether OP was scared of the Women’s March murdering them. The implication is that by some important metric, the sit in was indistinguishable from the terrorist attack on Wednesday. You haven’t provided any evidence for that, other than telling me that it’s bad faith to presume violent intent behind the armed people scaling walls and breaking down doors.

We haven’t even mentioned that many of the invaders came bearing Nazi symbols and/or were members of known violent groups like the Proud Boys. I suppose that it’s unfair to presume that someone wearing a 6MWE shirt isn’t coming to be peaceful?

Obviously it’s impossible to prove conclusively whether or not there would have been deaths without law enforcement. But there are multiple accounts of them assaulting journalists. What do you think they would have done had they made it to the floor of the Senate without police there?

What, exactly, do you think the zip ties were for?

I will concede that a medical examiner has not confirmed the officer’s cause of death. But signs point to him being killed by one of the terrorists, so I’ll continue to describe it as murder until evidence arises to the contrary.
Type-safe HTML templating in Haskell:

http://www.yesodweb.com/book/shakespearean-templates
Too often "parent involvement" is measured by how often you can drag them to school for useless activities. Really it comes down to parent pressure to make the kid do things that they don't really want to by convincing them it's important.
We had an app early in dev, and decided to make the leap from ObjC to Swift. Swift is here to stay, and as with most things the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be later. The integration between Swift & ObjC is good, so existing projects can be converted slowly.

Avoiding the conversion because Swift "isn't ready for primetime" or "the debugger is buggy" seem like excuses people make for "I don't want to expend the effort to change".
A theory that is falsifiable is more like a reformulation of the existing theories, and should be judged as such. Heaviside reformulated Maxwell's equations, and we use the new ones because they make things simpler to understand and use. Its not about finding "truth"; its more about finding useful information. However, if a physics theory fails this criteria as well, then it is certainly pointless.
also: great books on those topics have existed for decades
Bitcoin.

Then use something like https://localbitcoins.com to convert to fiat when you need cash.
Is there any evidence that they actually target terrorists?

Collectively, we all need to keep beating this drum. Fundamentally, there are very very few terrorists. Very very few, if any, are in America. What's the bulk collection failure rate? 99.999999% ? And at what cost? It's astronomically expensive and out of all the leaks, what evidence is there that we've stopped a terrorist in America or any of her close allies' teritory where they are effectively spying on innocent tax paying civilians?

It's just making some contractors wealthy
The magic stretch is the one where you lie, on your side, on the edge of a bed.

Then, you drape the affected leg (the leg that is on top, not the leg you're lying on) behind you, such that your foot ends up below the level of the bed.

You're basically stretching your hip farther than you could stretch it normally, since you can drape it backwards into empty space.

Play with it a bit, with different angles, etc. This is the stretch that can have you go from debilitating pain (I couldn't even walk properly) to completely asymptomatic.

This is a good stretch for everyone, since even if you don't have "IT band issues", most people have much tighter hip joints than they think, and it affects the health of your knees and back.
Don't confuse a bare encoding of words with language.

Gesture, timing, posture, expression can change everything.

Pedant: "A double negative can mean the positive. But a double positive never means the negative"

Smartass: "Yeah, right"
So, what's the proper way to deal with this then?

Ask a series of questions and adapt the follow up to the questions depending on the answer given.

Starting out with 'select your country' and then expand from there, the more you know the more you can narrow down the remainder of the input.

That would be a nice little widget to be able to throw onto a form 'world accurate address input fields'.

And for some localities it will indeed display a freeform text field, but for localities where there is more structure it could supply that structure and make certain bits mandatory.
I was going to post a tongue-in-cheek reference to nomarriage.com , but that site is being redesigned.

I think this is a cached copy of the original material on the original site... http://nomarriage.flippertv.com/
If they provide documents January 15th, I would expect at least a few weeks before we get some information. That will be interesting to follow.
What does a real world bunny suit do that a Fortnite bunny suit doesn't?
Depends.

I'm officially a Senior at my current job (cost center non-tech company). I used to put Senior on my resume. I no longer do - I just put SWE.

"Senior SWE" is evaluated differently at different companies. I reckon a typical Senior at a FAANG or other mid to high level tech company is better skilled than a typical Senior at a non-tech company (including myself).

So if I throw in my hat for a position at a tech company as a Senior, then I'm going to be competing at a higher level. So I'd much rather just apply to a plain ol' SWE position (or even junior, if possible). The compensation is likely higher than what I currently make anyways.
Bookmarking this thread as it's evolving into an encyclopedia of metaball algorithms. And this is just geometry. Realistic fluid physics and chemical reactions extends the scope ad infinitum ;)

One more from GPU Gems 3: Point-Based Visualization of Metaballs on a GPU

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-i-geometr...
Robots who could replace some manual labour work within a specified area (say: factories), don't need to rely on batteries. We could attach them with a huge wire and plug it into power supply.
That's really the scary part, most people wouldn't pay $2 per month for Facebook. Most wouldn't pay the $1 for WhatsApp. That shows you how little value these services actually provide to most people. The remaining users wouldn't pay for year two, because to many others would have left the platform.
CME Group still offers Bitcoin futures, along with options: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html
We have a hardware store within a five minute walk. Most small things we can get there.

Lowe’s is about 15 minutes away, and is the only place to get serious wood. For small things we’ll walk there and back. For medium things we’ll walk there and UberXL back ($15), for large things we’ll zipcar or rent a UHaul ($25).

We don’t have private outdoor space, but we live in a very quiet neighborhood. For woodworking we get very far with a dremel and a jigsaw. :)
> There seems to be a real conflict in interests between Google, effectively a surveillance company, setting new standards for user privacy.

Related to this: Google has a lot of influence regarding web standards.
Are you serious? Let me remind you that the Kim family's little regime has killed hundred of thousands of people and is under a complete economic embargo for its human rights violations. I can defame, republish, and make money off of anything that comes out of there if I choose, and there is nothing that they can do to stop me.

Sending a representative of the regime to a court in the US to pursue copyright is by itself an earth-shattering precedent, and if it happens the rep will probably be laughed out of that courtroom right into a jail cell if they don't try to defect. The point is, feed your citizens before trying to be taken seriously.
This is perfect nonsense -- it's false.
Next up: a social network for startups building new social networks.
I disagree. TFA is explaining the mental model Git uses to structure their codebase. If you're writing code for Git, this is obviously very useful to understand, but if you're just using it, this is only one of several mental models available to you. In this case, I think it's right to say that the distinction the author is attempting to draw is immaterial to those not working on the Git codebase.
When discussing enumerated rights, judicial “strict scrutiny” (to wit: bright line) applies. For this case, you must explain why FB gets treated differently just because there are more users. I appreciate the “well duh” but that doesn’t justify adjudicating a suppression of rights for FB.
Take Musk's talk about BCIs the way you take his talk about Mars colonies. But my guess is we'll have the latter before the former is common.

There will be some interesting BCI tech in the next few years but as the author notes, it's going to be very specific and limited, and probably quite expensive.
Which memory allocator did you end up using?
I didn’t say it would be hard, just that I haven’t seen one. But they contain a lot of information that can’t be displayed on a computer monitor and so it would be a lot of work to check all of it.
You are right, I got those two methods mixed up. It looks like gold sputter coating would be a good solution for the home made tungsten STM tips mentioned in the link.
What to expect from a whole industry that keeps pushing for C, when better alternatives have existed since 1961?
Heck, you can even move to a different country where the cost of living is lower :o)

[Posted from Lima, Peru....]
Agreed, same experience here. That's why (shameless plug) http://letslunch.com has saved my sanity: now I can meet peers (entrepreneurs, engineers, geeks like me) for lunch.
Are there any examples of amazing (Apple-quality) design coming out of Google?
My impression was that BeautifulSoup is actually getting very long in the tooth - I didn't use it much, but I have used a lot of Scrapy, a beautiful framework that completely supplants BeautifulSoup for scraping.
I have an iPhone and an iPad and I don't even bother to sync my music to my iPad - why would I when I always have the iPhone with me anyway, and I have Pandora on the iPad as a backup? It just eats up space I could be using for movies and other things more appropriate to the iPad.

Frankly, I also don't bother to sync my iTunes to my work laptop (which is where I spent the most time sitting around) and I notice that people at the office don't seem to any more either, they just use their phones. It's partially because it's not really any easier to listen to music on your computer any more than an iPhone or Android phone.

Feel like there's an assumption here that an iPad is a giant iPhone and I think that's as faulty as considering it a tiny laptop and evaluating it on that basis. Just not the same.
If you've done any looking around already, you've probably seen this advice: "Just start building something", and it's really the best advice.

Of course, check out http://developer.apple.com/ios. Their documentation is incredible. They have "Getting Started" guides, learning Objective-C, Cocoa touch, and building basic apps, all the way up to using specific classes. It's definitely a fantastic resource.

The Stanford classes are excellent as well.

But really, once you've gone through those resources (and really, while you're still going through them), you really need to just sit down and build something. You've hopefully got some kind of app in mind. Just start building it. If you find it's too complicated for your skillset, scale it back. Even if you just make your app present a UI and maybe a Settings screen, you'll have accomplished a ton, and taking that and making a full "regular app" is at mostly the same skill level (and confidence level).
I realized long ago that the rate of change in technology makes it impossible to have a significant knowledge of something as varied as computer science. There are so many avenues to explore from electrical engineering to manufacturing to compiler design, languages, HTML, UX, design and color theory and that's just the surface. It is sad that one person can not possibly have the time to experience all aspects of their craft but it means that specialists become unique and important players.
It might not be well-known in the US, but Badoo is huge in my country (Uruguay).

I've used it, though I didn't access it through its Facebook integration myself, rather through its webpage.

Losing that many users from Facebook integration must hurt, but it's not entirely dependant on FB as others (like Zynga).

The Wired article is enlightening: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/05/features/sex...
Thanks, glad you like.

My motivations were fairly pure, wanted to build a platform that gave citizens more power. Also thought there could be a way to monetize (ethically) with traction.

Got some press in the early days, and believe the problem is other than exposure. The site just isn't filling a need. Need to come up with something people really want.