jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're talking about a society with HIGHER wealth inequality than right before the French Revolution, and you're defining "upper class" as anything above 60-odd K - an amount that would not allow you to rent a two bedroom apartment...almost anywhere in the USA.

It... Doesn't support your point at all?

Here's the Wall Street Journal saying the quiet part out loud:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/student-debt-relief-payment-pau...

"If young Americans can access free college without having to earn the GI Bill or sign up for follow-on military service, will they volunteer for the armed forces in adequate numbers?"

It's really hard to say "rich people are overrepresented" and then "who will sign up if we make college free" in the same breath.
Well, both the mere citizen and government are users who like to have as much control on their digital tools. The difference seems to be more on who this power is expected to be exerted on. Individual themselves in the former, the national population for the later.
>The major advantage of DIY is that you end up being able to repair your own stuff, to know how it works, to know where it is.

I have this mentality with my normal on grid tract house. My saying is "at least I know what corners I cut"
Eh, how many hours is your build? Is a daily build possible, given a normal day on planet Earth?

When I worked at a place that normally had 8-hour builds and sometimes had 30-hour builds, it wasn't bad. Building the software could be done a few times per week. That was fine. Start a build when you head home, then expect it done the next morning or the morning after that. You don't need a build for every little change you make. Complete a few dozen bug fixes or features, start a build, and then keep working on more bug fixes and features while the build runs.

It is suggested to not make mistakes. You get to be good at that.

Be thankful you aren't doing hardware, where a build might take weeks and cost millions of dollars.
The biggest difference between time-rs and Chrono to me is the inlined time zone type parameter. Chrono's `DateTime<FixedOffset>` is called `OffsetDateTime` in time-rs. The intention was to be able to specialize `DateTime` to the permanent UTC time zone and avoid any offset calculation, but this idea has never caught on. Also time-rs has a luxury of procedural macros which didn't exist when Chrono was first designed.
Privatizing profits, socializing costs.
Looking at the examples shared here I thought "that's pretty cool, and would be amazing to try, doesn't look creepy at all".

I loaded a portrait of my grandmother taken 60 years ago and it's weird, uncanny valley and very very creepy to see.

It's odd to see a photo you've seen many times of a person you knew so we'll come to life. It's the things that are missing, the small expressions, the details in the way they move the facial muscles, the "life in the eyes".
I'm sure if it's of some long forgotten relative it would be interesting to bring a photo to life but not for someone you know.
Can you imagine being that hopeful about the future, I know a lot of people are opting not to have children due to the environmental nightmare those children would have to survive.
on Reddit a well-reasoned "unions suck" comment will get downvoted.

I'd imagine that would depend on what subreddit the thread was in. Frontpage? Yeah, probably. Then again, if it is well reasoned, there will also be people pointing out that the downvotes are frivolous, and agreeing with points and debating.
This is more of a long term strategy, but I have found it effective.

1. Make a habit of reading books, often. Fiction or non-fiction, it's all fine. The more you read, the better your "baseline" writing skills will tend to become.

2. Now read papers in your academic field. Look closely at the way each author uses language. Try to emulate your favorites.
I question his (somewhat oblique) assertion that people in their 30's are too old to train effectively in new skillsets.
More like you're allowed to make informed design decisions that have known trade offs. But you have to actually own the issue and promote it to being a purposeful design decision.
I’m sorry to say, but your first paragraph is blatantly false. The jailbreaking community has been active since the iPhone product line existed, up to this day. Feel free to look it up. They provide instructions that a high school script kiddie is able to follow. I know because I was one of them.

If you were not motivated enough to research the options available to you, you cannot in good faith argue that Apple did anything wrong here.
This article is so chock full of speculation and all around horrible advice it's hard to pick just one thing to criticize. If this guy's crap has worked in the past, its probably worked because he actually facts of the case in his favor, not because of these shenanigans.

I feel sorry for those who take legal advice from people who are not lawyers.
I can count on one hand the number of papers I've read in the past month or two describing an implementation of a technique where the implementation described was available publicly.

so... less than 32 papers have the implementation available publicly?

Joking aside, how many papers have you read in the past month or two? I assume the number is at least in the double digits.
A sample of one is not a cure.

There is a controlled Clincal Trial in the recruiting stage for participants surrounding CCR5 and its ability to block HIV.

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00842634?term=806383&#...

Sad not to see that citation in every single one of the attached articles pounding the drum.
I think the distribution issue is more about metadata than the code itself: issues, wiki pages, and comments are still centralized on GitHub. With Fossil, I gather, they're distributed among each clone.
I think what's brewing on the Korean Peninsula is a great example of a potential low-probability, high-impact event. Things are heating up further and further, and the potential outcome could be devastating.
How about a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault in southern California? We've had a couple little shakes this week. There isn't much we can do to prevent it from occurring -- we can only reduce the impact. Build strong and keep emergency supplies on hand.
Can't believe this post made it to the front page of HN ;)
Instead of a per-project-trac you could setup redmine which supports multiple projects (tickets, wiki, forum, repo). Fossil looks interesting but I wouldn't want to pass on git.
An airliner crashing into a building that houses a major intercontinental cable landing, an e911 datacenter, and a dns root node. Beleive it or not there are several such in the world.
Yes, I totally agree. The reasons why I left that out are numerous, but two are: (1) the extra time required to programming something like that (2) our concept of "mentoring" is more like a workout buddy and less about experience and skill (although I left those metrics in mainly for end-user filtering purposes).
Agreed. But flashy title aside, it’s probably a nice page to send to someone looking to get started in the terminal.
> My practical advice: If you use git every day and you don't know how to rebase, reset, cherrypick, and stash from the command line, make it a goal.

I couldn't agree more. It's not only enabling more sensible interactions with the people that collaborate on repositories with you, it's also a comfort that allows to experiment and take benefit of the tool without fear of getting stuck.

I would add checking the reflog and how to use it to complete the list, even if it's clearly less important.

A source that I recommend wholeheartedly for those that want to go further down the git rabbit hole:
https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Gold mining uses more energy than bitcoin.
> ... again ...

I didn't know that it ever stopped.
Musk has made massive strides in sectors that benefit humanity like clean energy, space travel, public transportation, etc. Musk has flaws; so does everyone else. Oh but he has deep flaws, says Robinson. Well it turns out that those with deep passions also house deep flaws. Even still Robinson should be grateful visionaries like Musk spent their time and money helping develop civilization to such a comfortable level. Only then after real problems like food, sanitation, housing, transportation, etc. have been solved can Robinson afford an occupation that allows him to criticize contributors unabated while contributing nothing substantial himself.

Now we need people to write and criticize and highlight the issues in our societies and ourselves. But 2021 has so many bigger fish worthy to be fried than Musk. Robinson himself doesn't even have an answer to a "problem" like Musk. That's because he isn't paid to solve real problems; he's paid to talk about imaginary ones. In the early twentieth century, Current Affairs would be publishing headlines like "Surely We Can Do Better Than Thomas Edison". But personally I prefer "Surely we can do better than Nathan J. Robinson."
I think the source of wonder here is that neural networks are very un-CPU like, in the level of correlation between the units. I'm not sure you could probe a CPU in a similar manner and be able to recover meaningful information. A binary 101X10 are entirely different numbers depending on what X is, for example, and you woulnd't necessarily expect X to correlate with the place values elsehwere (e.g. 1st and 5th bit). Similar arguments, apply, to probing different components, such as registers or instruction memory.
It's kind of impressive that they can just lose 5 million like that and go on doing business. Actually I don't know if impressive is the word I was looking for...
Instead of a kill switch Intel could have went with a Lo-Jack type system.

Nearly all laptops these days come with the LoJack bios agent pre-installed: http://www.absolute.com/en/products/bios-compatibility.aspx

Notable exceptions include Apple, Sony, and the Lemote Yeeloong (of Richard Stallman fame).

Interestingly, Absolute Software has no formal connection with the LoJack corporation other than licensing their name for the software.
try http://www.radio79.com/relax.php
or http://www.chilloutradio.gr/
or http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/
or http://musicovery.com/
or http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs (try Anne Litt)
or http://www.aleph-zero.info/
Try Shulman
Big Bang is currently accepted to the extent that it is because it has managed to fit the facts best. Isolated suggestions here and there will explain this bit better or explain that bit better and it makes for a great New Scientist article every last freaking time somebody somewhere puts a pre-pre-print up on arxiv, but nobody has actually put together a theory that explains the totality better than the current standard theory. Everybody already knows that it's broken, that's not news. And it takes more than "one paper" to determine the matter either way, I can pretty much find "one paper" that'll say just about anything.

We know we don't know. That's not news. Nobody has anything better yet. But that's hardly an excuse to just throw our hands up and "abandon" what is currently the best we've got.

In other news, everybody knows the Standard Model of particle physics has to be broken; it is accepted not because it is right but because nobody has actually come up with anything uniformly better.
Having to make some design decisions doesn't mean it's impossible to design.
Yeah, it is likely that he was just checking up on the competition. I wouldn't be surprised if turned the narrative on this by saying something like the following:

"I was curious to check it out.. it wasn't very good, so I reverted back to Messenger/Whatsapp."

IIRC, he made similar comments when he was spotted using G+.

Disclaimer: My views are my own (and not necessarily shared by my employers).
The biggest catalyst on the horizon for TSLA is actually the mainstream buy-in of major automakers into EVs. There are two reasons why this is actually bad for TSLA:

1. Tesla Motors makes money on regulatory credits that conventional automakers must purchase in order to offset their ICE vehicle production. That's actually Tesla's only source of profit. Unfortunately for Tesla Motors, those regulatory credits aren't going to be in such high demand in a world where major automakers each produce hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles.

2. Tesla Motors doesn't currently compete on things like build quality and fit/finish, because the major factor determining whether you want to buy a Tesla is whether you want to buy an electric car. However, the time will come when you can get a mainstream electric car with the interior of an Audi, or the reliability of a Toyota, or the utility of a Ford truck. That competitive environment would be a wind shift for Tesla's business, not to mention the amount of pressure that other automakers will put on Tesla's autonomous driving features in court and with regulators.
>> Every. One. Over. Subscribes.

The post you're referring to is getting it. As per their reply:

"So they have to actually provide what they advertise"
Related to Cap police taking selfies with pre-rioters and opening the barriers for them and waving them in?
CPU companies don't want to pay the very high costs of designing complex extensions.
I agree. The logo seems kind of "old" too. Or maybe i'm being too much of a perfectionist here. I doubt the average user will notice it.
I think it will be interesting to see whether the answer quality can stay the same as the userbase expands. Right now it works well because they have a good set of smart users who contribute answers as well as asking questions. If the site gets flooded by people who only ask questions, the number of answers per question will decrease.

Quora actually reminds me a lot of Yahoo Answers back when it first came out. The community there was smart and quality of answers was high. But they used a game mechanic to ensure that people answered questions, and so the site became flooded with bad answers to the point that it is now useless. I really hope Quora can avoid going this route, as it's a really useful resource as Jason says.
Ah, the ability to switch is a good thing. I had issues with Pidgin, for one.
...or rational.
Love it. I'll keep an eye on this thread for updates.
I really appreciate the recommendation for Flux. My sleep schedule has been bouncing all over the place since quitting my job, and the last three days have been unbearably bad. (Awake until 6/7/8 AM.) I'd really like to sync myself such that I can be awake and productive by mid-morning.
The fact that there are people writing brilliant satires like this might give some hope for humanity; that, and the fact that there are companies creating jobs that people want, even if hiring policies can be foul, discriminatory, and stupid.
I am running (4) at http://NearbyGamers.com now. I lovingly call it an 'anti-social network' because the entire goal of the site is to get visitors off the site and gaming with each other in person. There are a couple dozen other sites in this niche but NG is (AFAIK) the largest and most active.

I've seen (1) but didn't bother keeping a link because, well, I don't see that gamers actually have a lot in common and care to socialize based on games. Video games are so common that I don't see them as more than a granfalloon. Could easily be wrong here. (2) Dunno if you can do it without geography in your favor like Groupon, but good luck. (3) I think all of the stories of the business of video games in the last year or two (Zynga, EA charging used gamers, DLC, unlock codes, virtual goods) have been about businesses finding new ways to charge more based on playing habits, not less. That's why all the fuss about virtual currencies, you can get near-perfect segmentation.
I worked at McDonalds long ago, and I am a huge fan. If you are interested in understanding why they are so incredible, make sure to read "Grinding It Out" which is the story of McDonalds told by Ray Croc, who turned a small local store into one of the greatest franchises the world has ever known. He was in his mid-50s when he stated, and the whole thing is just inspiring for entrepreneurs no matter how many time you might have failed before. But I digress...

The thing about working at McDonalds is that you learn exactly what everything tastes like - and you notice all the little changes. For example, the difference in quality between a quarter pound patty used in the quarter pounder and double quarter pounder, and a "10" (1/10 pound) patty used in the regular cheeseburger and double-cheeseburger. I have eaten everything on the McDonalds menu, and can tell you what the most disgustingly unhealthy thing by caloric density is (not the fries!).

So, the most important factor we noticed about the french fries was how old the fry grease was. Each night 1 of three things happen to the fry grease:'

1) it is skimmed for any remnants of fries and left to simmer at a low warm temperature for the next day

2) it is run through a cleaning machine (2-3 times per week)

3) it is completely replaced by a technician (every 1 or 2 weeks depending on time of year)

New grease is very clear, like fresh motor oil you put into your car. As the grease gets older turns more and more golden brown as it gets more carbon in it from little bits of fries that break off and burn in the hot oil and disintegrate. Eventually, right before it is replaced, the grease is very brown and the fries will actually come out with tiny brownish bits on them. Some people really liked the "dirty grease fries" but the majority of staff knew when the best french fries were made - when the grease was about 4 days old, right after the first cleaning. I can't tell you exactly why, but these fries were the yummiest to the point where I would only eat them at this point (gotta stay thin somehow working there!) and crew members would bring in their kids on that day to eat.

Its also important to know that fries are never ever cooked in the same grease used for chicken nuggets, fish filets, etc. I'd be curious to know what that tastes like if anyone has every broken the rules and tried it, but that was a religious issue at the McDonalds locations I worked at so we never did.

Anyway, if you're curious and have a regular McDonalds you can always ask them when the last time the grease was cleaned or changed.
Here is an article which lists at least some of the Steve Jobs patents:

http://technologizer.com/2009/05/28/the-patents-of-steve-job...
Or you can just use the SSH filesystem:

# apt-get install sshfs

# sshfs server:/remote_dir /local_dir
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome??
That's called being in college...
I ask this earnestly: Did you read past the first sentence in my previous post?

I wasn't suggesting that there would be backlash with a female protagonist. I was suggesting there could have been backlash to the way that protagonist was treated, due to her gender.
I think it would be very difficult/expensive to build a system that wouldn't be called censorship. (I'm not even sure that would ever be successful, even assuming unlimited talent and budget)
The incandescent light bulb ban is one of those things that can still get me fired up a decade later.

The idea that LEDs are now cheap, or cheaper seems like a tough argument. 4 packs of Phillips 40 or 60 watts used to be sold at the dollar store. $.25 cents per bulb. Or any hardware store had them for $1.19. Home depot currently has LED bulbs for 1.25 per bulb, 5x the price, IF you buy in bulk. 1.75 (7x the price) per bulb if you don't buy in bulk. If you aren't middle class or above $10 is a decent chunk of money. $10 is deciding between dinner or light, not both. The ban was indirectly a regressive tax that hurts the poor. Maybe if you spend money to buy in bulk then 2 years down the road you will be financially better off than if you bought incandescent bulbs. The poor don't have that option and the rich won't notice the pennies in savings.

The inefficiencies by heat loss doesn't make sense either unless you live in a very hot climate. Even in the PNW which is fairly mild, 9 months out of the year you the heat is on anyway. If the other 3 months are bright and sunny you probably don't have that many lights on.

I used to keep a light on in my well house to keep it just above freezing during winter. Had I not bought hundreds of incandescent light bulbs and stockpiled them I would have had to run a heater. The point here- a nation wide ban is overkill.

Conspiracy theory- I bet light bulb manufactures loved this ban, they probably even lobbied in support of it. Consumers have to pay 7x the price, sweet!

At least the ban solved the climate crisis.
Great point! It doesn't at the moment, but it would be too hard to add at all. I'll look into adding the manifest file.

Unless you'd like to make a PR ;)
So, what would be the best way to lower the cost of a property in a city with a building on it, right?
> Might as well call the PC a broken platform since you can install your own OS.

More like calling a PC broken if you can install your own OS even after you've enabled Secure Boot and a TPM (in which case, the security features are objectively broken)
> human brightness perception

In how many uses cases is anything other than perceived brightness relevant?

Increased costs to provide something the consumer doesn't want is exactly the kind of thing competition is likely to reduce.

The market doesn't always work but it's also very hard to determine what is wrong and how to fix it. If market equilibrium leads to destroying the ozone, it's easy. But if the market means fewer lumens per dollar (or even per joule), that is less obviously bad.
Sure but I’m highlighting the cost of that cause it’s not free. If you’re playing at 4K (which you couldn’t on 10mbit) you’ll be downloading 15Gb of data per hour. I also predict this is going to go up rather than down as we see more data packed in to help reduce felt latency.
Imagine someone responding I am 200 and last thing I learned is the secret to immortality.
Nice, i really like it
Cognitive dissonance hacks?
That list is dominated by sites that produce a lot of content.

This one is much more interesting to me: http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_median_points
Agreed, so now a whole bunch of script kiddies have access to the root accounts on services from the ESA servers ? And they don't know it yet (given that it's sunday).. ?
Here's at least one Kinect hacker, who also wants to buy quality clothing. It'd be pretty cool to have an app that automatically takes your measurements. Of course, you'd have to be wearing tight clothing for it to be accurate.

Edit: it might also be possible to get a rough personal preview of a shirt using skeleton tracking.

As for camera owners overlapping with shirt owners, there are millions of Kinect cameras out there hooked up to Xboxes, and as people start buying them for PCs, that number will grow.

If it ends up making sense, I think you should do it.
I generally wonder whether they mean a 24 hour period, or ~24 hours spread over several evenings and weekends.

The second option wouldn't include the extra dozens of hours mentally solving any problems in the shower or on the way to work...
You've mentioned Windows 7 twice in this thread. By what measure do you consider it a failure? If anything, Windows 7 is the best thing released under Ballmer.
Does that matter? There are many American products that are initially set in USD that I can buy with EUR, doesn't that mean that EUR is competing with USD when I have a choice to use both?
Jack Thompson ran his crusade during that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
Sorry to be blunt but what do you expect to happen when you breach ana partner agreement you've read and signed?

It's the walled path you and other merchants paved, but nothing is stopping you right now from making your own store on a personal site I think? If you need one let me know how I can help you.
They do in the US as well with a few exceptions.
Not at all. Most of them will do what everybody does when there are free (as in beer) alternatives: use the free one.