jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> There's nothing private industry can't do better than the government...........right after the government bears the burden of years of basic research.

I read this kind of stuff all the time and it always rubs me the wrong way, because it is as wrong as can be.

Ever heard the phrase "Practice makes perfect"?

Well, it's bullshit.

Practicing correctly makes perfect. Just practicing random crap or practicing in the wrong manner make a mess and nothing even close to "perfect".

So, applying that simple principle: What do you think would have happened if Elon Musk did not start SpaceX and decide scrapping every rocket was a dumb idea?

I can tell you exactly what would have happened. Our government would have continued to invest in "basic research" for years and buying billion dollar rockets that got scrapped every flight.

NOBODY told Musk to make reusable rockets. Nobody from government came over and said "Do this for us because we want to save money".

One has to wonder where some areas of industry would be if government funding had not caused the typical level of stagnation we see time and time again. I remember visiting a company years ago that made hydraulic valves used in navy ships. The valves were as unremarkable as could be. This company has survived decades without innovating one millimeter of these valves. The place was so depressing I would have to take out my eyeballs with a spoon if I had to work there. It is remarkable to see just how much of that is common to government programs across a range of industries.

Compare that to the dynamic world of consumer and industrial products that elevated China to the second largest economy in the world. We, in the US, can't even make iPhones. Heck, we can't even make N95 masks. We don't have the supply chain. We don't have the materials. We don't have the educated workforce. We don't even make the equipment needed to make such products here.

But we make great government-funded valves that cost 10x to 100x what they should cost.
One of the underated aspects is the inbuilt Google closure library https://developers.google.com/closure/library

So nice to have a good standard library when using JavaScript

My favourite "type checker" is clj-kondo
From my understanding the 40ms is just the feature extraction part. The encoding also does quantization, which surely adds to this number.
> ... but you sometimes have to search or look at more than one man page to find what you are looking for.

Well, yes, that's one of the problems. I am saying the docs are unintuitive, and now you are confirming that.

For 'git init --bare', I look into 'git-init' and search for '--bare'. That's what I do, that's intuitive to me. And that's not where the info is. Is all I am saying.
> Iso8601 sorts just as well.

No, it doesn’t, since all of the following are valid ISO 8601 representations of a date:

20210408
2021-04-07
2021-W14-1
2021W143
2021-097
2021098

(Now, consistently using any one of the ISO 8601 formats is sortable...)
Damn, I knew I sucked at probabilities, but I apparently I didn't know how much.
The team behind matrix.org had one prior to Matrix very similar to this too (albeit longpolling) called Glow. It was basically simple & stupid pubsub on top of HTTP: you could GET an arbitrary url, and whenever anyone PUT stuff within that url tree your GET would return. It worked well enough to build a pretty massive instant messaging platform on top of it, but the lack of schema and lack of intelligent query language got a bit frustrating. Some of the ideas made it into Matrix though.

Braid looks cool; we've hoped someone would layer OT or CRDT semantics on top of Matrix but it hasn't really happened yet (unless you count Matrix itself as a set of add-only monotonic DAG CRDTs, which I guess it is). Eitherway, perhaps going in at a lower level like Braid has legs; time will tell :)
So stuff like PouchDB, Gunjs will now be trivial?
If you're innocent and the prosecution has still decided to go to court you ought to be really scared.
Our representation system is pretty messed up. Montana has 2 senators with a population of 577,000. But New York state has 2 senators with a population of 19.5 million. And the entire midwest is like that, with tons of representation for very sparely populated areas.
Holding ALT while highlighting in the browser will often allow you to select text that is otherwise overly JavaScript-ed.
They were "unkind" in large part due to the exaggerated impact of less populated (typical Republican leaning) states described in this article, and the very effective job Republican state legislatures have done gerrymandering their states. The difference between the popular vote and the resulting representation in Congress was pretty substantial.
This is specifically designed for React and uses the native APIs for best performance and usability. Being framework-agnostic isn't a goal and there are other components like AG-Grid you can look at if you need that.

Hooks is basically a declarative way to keep things in sync instead of writing a bunch of imperative code yourself. You describe the functionality that should run when some data changes (or all the time) and React handles the rest. The code inside hooks is just javascript, and by being functions it's much simpler than class-based structures. Vue is also working on a similar composition API.

This is a good walkthrough that explains hooks: https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-hooks
It should. I've known a few people that inhaled Nitrous recreationally (which is known for depleting B12 very rapidly); it was a common side effect (other than it being an anxiolytic) that you would lose sensation in your outer extremities. People that do too much can do serious damage to the body, similar to the symptoms listed by the OP and the root commenter.
No mention of canvas. Doesn't the IE team realize that developers are reading these blog posts?
They probably wouldn't change much if the commenter had a long history to be averaged in. You'd want to look at the delta of the delta (2nd order stats) to see if any noticeable effect was occurring.
"Hypercard was as big as Flash? Come on!"

I assumed he meant in terms of importance or developer fondness rather than in terms of market share. HyperCard was shelved because Objective-C does objects better and because HTML does hyperlinks better.
What, does ACTA have an oil leak they need to plug?
Um, why shouldn't it be iPad sized? I've spent two years looking at memory algorithms, and a similar amount of time implementing and dogfooding learning systems... call it my hobby.

Cro-Mag Rally is way more computationally intensive than anything I've worked with or seen. Perhaps more importantly, the more intricate scheduling systems don't perform any better than the simpler systems.

The real key to making any sort of repetitive study system work isn't really in the scheduling algorithm -- it's in making the system easy to use and always available.

If it's a lot of work to get information into or out of a spaced repetition system, then you won't use it. If you can't study whenever you've got a spare five minutes, then you won't use it. If you can't hit it from your desktop, iPad, Motorola Droid, iPhone, laptop, and computer in the library, then you won't use it. Because it's inconvenient.

So please, bring on the iPad learning systems. It's portable, lightweight, and can speak WiFi and 3G. Anything that makes studying more convenient is good.
If you're having trouble sleeping, definitely stop consuming caffeine and similar drugs. Daily coffee consumption causes a mental fog for me.
Why would you believe that is their active number?

Back when I was active on Facebook, there was no shortage of fake accounts that survived multiple attempts by Facebook to purge them.
Really glad this ended well for the OP and not with a prosecution for violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse act (something I was deathly scared of last year when testing Virgin Mobile's ability to brute force logins).
As its now been pointed out more than once, 'not at all' is not true. I did not claim it could use everything available on CPAN, but was pointing out that you were making a false statement based on, well, i'm not sure what you based your statement on but it was made in such a matter-of-factly way that it needed to be corrected.
Whoa, it does look like a real heist. I don't know any korean, but ok dol bi bim bap is delicious.
Probably sticking to what he knows rather than turning into another Internet know it all is what keeps his comments at a high level of quality.
That doesn't address the question. To most people, peanuts aren't harmful, but a small number of people can die due to exposure. A laundry detergent with no effect on most people may cause some to break out in hives. What do you call these substances, whether natural or man-made?
"I believe the main reason haters gonna hate Perl forever is because their language of choice will never achieve its dominant adoption."

You keep believing that. It's not true, but keep believing it.
It's at least conceivable that chronic exposure to a chemical that isn't being properly removed could cause eventual sensitization. With the "bath salts" phenomenon, there were stories posted to HN of certain compounds acting similarly to known stimulants, but that certain people never came down from due to the molecules getting stuck in whatever receptor they targeted.
This link [1] claims Komodo 8 on an android phone from 2013 should be around 3000 strength, far stronger than Deep Blue.

[1] http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-desk...
> The central thesis of value investing is: if a company is going to close shop, the scrap value of that company will be higher than the market cap of that company. There's a lot more to it, but that's the gist of it.

There's enough "more to it", to make this statement incorrect.

You're describing Graham's style of value investing, Buffet's style is significantly different.

In fact the term "value investing" has now a very loose definition, since so many different styles are grouped under this term.

I'd say this is the most appropriate definition: "Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike" (straight from the Intelligent Investor).

In other terms, any type of investing that's not based on speculation is value investing.
> The problem is that many investors apply metrics, like P/E or book value, blindly without understanding the assumptions that must be true for the metric to be a meaningful measure of value. It is even more complicated inasmuch as some companies fall into an ambiguous gray area when it comes to appropriate valuation metrics (I'd argue Apple is one such company).

This is obviously the core of the issue. But you'd be surprised at how often it is that these concepts surrounding P/E are parrotted constantly at many leading financial firms and schools.
I believe you meant eletromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
Slap an SSD in an external USB enclosure, connect it to a Pi 4 configured to boot from USB, and you're all set.
One of the defunct TLDs is .piaget; I suppose needing a TLD was just a developmental stage that they eventually outgrew.
For many, many years we could not explain why gravity exists and how it works. We could only experience it.

We knew of gravity much before we knew of electricity. Try explain electricity to somebody in year 1300 and you'd be burned as a witch.

And yet we understood electricity much earlier than gravity. How electricity works is much simpler to explain than gravity.
Just because an executable is cross-platform doesn't mean it can exploit issues on other platforms. Those issues have to actually exist there, and most vulnerabilities don't look like that.
There is no simple solution here, and we also really shouldn't just throw our arms when faced with moral questions - this is probably what these decades will be known for in the future.
This case, and the idea that being American has a lot more to do with ideas than with your ethnic origin, are important to my family history.

My grandmother was born in the US. Her mother died when she was young, so she and some of her siblings were sent back to the old country to live with relatives for a while. Eventually my grandmother and her siblings returned to the US, and she married my grandfather, leading to me, a proud American.

The reason this law was important was because my great-grandparents weren't US citizens. In fact, they were prohibited from becoming naturalized US citizens even if they wanted to be ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790 ). Without the 14th amendment, I might not be a US citizen.

Nor would my great-uncle, who served in the US military. It turns out that in 1940 the US military suspected they had a need for Japanese translators. What better way to learn Japanese than to have gone to school in Japan?

My last thought on this topic is a joke:

Q: Who was the greatest German general of World War II?

A: Eisenhower.
>Why not try adding eggs, milk, cheese and full-cream yoghurt to your diet first? Or even add shellfish or chicken once or twice a week? ... A productive approach would be to find a meat-veggie balance that works for your nutritional needs

Did you even read her article? That's pretty much exactly what she did... it's not like she's engaging in an all-meat diet now or something.
>We weren't built for anything

Swap out built with adapted and I think you'll have a hard time finding a dentist that agrees with that.
When we started hiring about 6 months ago at our startup (groopic.com), here's what my thought process was:
We need great people that we want to work with - Incubators and Accelerators invest in people - They know how to judge them - World's best accelerator (YC) asks the founders a few questions and short lists companies on the basis of the answers - There must be something in those questions - Adapt them for you hiring to screen the pool of applicants. In our case, it has worked like magic. We are able to filter about 65% of the applicants. For the rest, we call them for first interview, only 10% left after that. They are the ones we spend a lot of time on, and we hired 5% of the applicants in the last 6 months.
I agree it's great to have multiple tools; and obviously at the low level there has to be something universal that everything else is implemented with, whether that's TAGBODY/GO, DO, or tail recursion.

But I still think LOOP tries to be the solution to too many problems. Worse, it attempts to replace compositionality -- the rules of the language by which more complex expressions are built up from simpler ones -- with vocabulary.

Oh well. I've made my case -- I'll shut up now :-)
I don't know what are you talking about, but if selling out to predatory foreign companies with openly questionable moral compasses and null respect for the local legislation is "the 21st century", I'd like my dear Europe to stay in the 20th, thank you very much.
The point is not (merely) the technology behind it, it's the agencies' model of selling the customers "rich internet sites" whose main point is to show off to other people that you have pockets full of money.

A good intro can help to sell your site project to a customer (and help them selling it to their superiors), but no longtime user would protest if you took it away.

Single page apps are a way to fit in an interaction model that doesn't fit the idea of "one address, one page, one text" that was the idea behind the Web in the first place. So, yes, you give up some of the benefits of the Web (navigation with bookmarks, back button) or have to fight hard to get them back, while keeping others (mostly, platform independence and a built-in client-server architecture)
We've asked you before not to do this. It's against the site guidelines. We eventually ban accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines after we've repeatedly asked them to stop. Please stop.

I've looked at this data extensively. The truth, based on all the data I've looked at, is simply that users disagree. If you want to advocate for some other interpretation, but you need at least a scrap of actual evidence—something objective to go on. Otherwise this is just fantasy, and the site guidelines explicitly ask people to omit their sinister fantasies about other commenters because they poison discussion badly.

Users posting differing views does not count as evidence, and neither does imagination based on things like time zones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
How do you reverse it when it becomes a problem? If we’re taking the long view here, our future generations may be facing a world where there aren’t enough people. Or is that a problem that we’ll leave to them to figure out?
Or maybe you could consider a company which has a good privacy stance and at the same time does not create walled garden and allows repairs: https://puri.sm/products. (happy user)
Thank you so much for sharing that. I even have the T470s & T460s to make this dream come true. 2021 goal set.
I have contact tracing enabled on my iPhone. Charge it nightly, usually sits around 70%-80% when i plug it in again the following evening.

Then again, i've been spending most of last year in my home, and i live in a rural area, so not much activity besides my wife and kids. I can only assume that the busier your surroundings, the more power is being drawn for contact tracing.
"Trust in God, but keep your powder dry" - Oliver Cromwell (attributed) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_in_God_and_keep_your_pow...
> a search for N95s yields a welter of vendors hawking KN95 masks, a Chinese-made equivalent that researchers say is less effective

Any source for that?

From what I've seen, N95, KN95, FFP2 and others are pretty much equivalent. There are some small differences but none that significantly affect the level of protection. There are certainly differences between manufacturers, and maybe there are more fake KN95 than there are fake N95, but that's not an issue with the certification.
Not totally true. There's a whole suite of social problems stemming from having a large elderly population in poor health. Insufficient pensions, how to pay for healthcare, staffing in caring professions. If 'studying the science of ageing' translates into 'keep older people healthier for longer', then those problems may be mitigated somewhat.

Also, scientific advances can make treaments cheaper. E.g. modifying bacteria to produce insulin is cheaper than extracting it from pigs.
The software would just need to add a generic label text like "soda" on top of the blur effect - when it detects the brand, it knows the type already, and it can just do an n-to-1 mapping so that you can buy, say, an orange-flavored soda without seeing which brand you took.
Statistically it would be very surprising if Meyers-Briggs score would not have correlations with some other samplings - but that does not make it any more relevant. The fact that you can bin answers does not make your questionnaire in any way relevant unless you have some theory how the binned statistic can be used outside of the scoring process. Meyers-Briggs is all about the scoring, and has no usable theory how that scoring could be used.

A correlation alone does not mean it "means anything". Accidental correlations are quite common. We also notice them really well and tend to give them more meaning beyond them being random events.

Picking only positive correlations from an arbitrary data set is also known as p-hacking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
"lots of people would like to remain anonymous. would you like to live in a world where the New York times lets powerful people who are doing awful, unethical things remain anonymous as they would like to?"

That's a false dichotomy. You can respect a wish for anonymity in cases like Scott's without giving up the possibility of making the names of other people public, when there's a good reason for it.
Huh, well that's cool that they took my source code and modified it! Glad to see it's being used!
« in the end the landlord will have to come out ahead when you are paying rent » is way too simplistic I’m afraid. He doesn’t have to « come ahead », or at least not in the way you think he has to.

You don’t know how your landlord got the property you’re renting. He may purely and simply never bought it. Or he bought it when it was costing nothing for him, or on the reverse a lot which prevents him to sell. Or selling it would generate massive tax for him. Or it is a diversification strategy. Etc.

And to say « renting is roughly as expensive as my mortgage payment » to justify to buy is a very common and very bad argument that is built on a misconception of what is at stake.

When you buy a property, being a flat or a house, you have costs associated with it. A lot of them. Costs associated with the purchase and costs associated with the property.

First of all, you’ll have to pay some sort of one-off real estate tax when you buy. Then you will pay all the interests of your bank credit (which are higher the longer is your credit). Then you will pay all on the on-going real estate taxes. Then you will pay all the costs of the property itself (all the on-going things a renter do not have to pay, all the big 5-10 years maintenance tasks like frontage restauration).

So renting is bad only if it is costing more than all those costs during the period, minus the real estate price increase during the period.

I don’t know where you live but in a lot of big cities, it is actually way way cheaper to rent than to buy.

The truth is most people do not really look at the proper numbers when they want to justify to buy a property because there is a lot more involved in being the owner of the place than what people want to admit.
It's not easy to find an English poll result but : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Turkish_general_election

Here, HDP is (in purple) PKK affiliated legal party in Turkey. You can see their support among people in Turkey. All other parties call PKK as terrorist and they are strongly against it.
I enjoyed the ideas and clarity of icon, but I've never had a colleague who would invest the time in learning it. The bus factor is larger when the language barrier is high. The small community is reflected in icon's sparse ecosystem.
I believe things wave, advanced business maximize efficiency as much as possible, the mainstream variant following relaxes that constraint that's why we have better tools but underutilized.
> many of us refrain from heavy criticism

If the people who can speak up don't speak up then how is change ever to be expected? This is btw not what usually happens in such situations (immigrants fleeing authoritarianism are generally vocal against it)
I am glad you like my project. The search space is not continuous. But you can make the steps as small as you want. Like: np.arange(0, 10, 0.00001)

I am not sure i understand your second question. The entire search space is always a N-dimensional cube. So you just define a start and end point and the step size in each dimension.
That's true regarding infringement, but trademark dilution can apply to uses that aren't in competition with or relevant to the trademark holder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trademark_Dilution_Act
I have images of tty-DOM, is it bad ?