jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ah, the 35s — that's what I keep at work on my desk.

my first HP, a 15c, stays home, safe & sound, with it's original spine-bound manual. I think I've replaced the batteries three times in some thirty-five years.

also have a 32sII that I bought off a friend who'd gotten it as a gift for his gf who was starting some math/sci class … but "she didn't like it" (which I read as, "wth is RPN". her loss!)
Quite a lot of humans care about this. Public pressure can have an influence.
Interesting. In Mathematics classes, you usually have what are called 'motivating examples'. For instance, you might take an object and then see that you can't tell something about it, but if you restrict it in a certain way then it starts having certain interesting properties. The difference between a good lecturer and a poor lecturer is often whether they can give you good motivating examples.

The textbooks though are frequently as you describe. They execute like a computer program. Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry is the classic example for me: it takes so much work just to go through each page. Even chapter 1 you have to skip forward to see that you can get the Nullstellensatz before you can come back to see why you're restricting your object in a certain way. This is no way to learn.
That answers it. I'm not a mobile developer and didn't know the camera worked in a way such that images didn't have to be stored.
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For physics specifically, I'd still take the HP-48 over a laptop, because there's no good PC software that provides a nice user interface for doing calculations with units. Undergrad physics (and to a lesser extent, chemistry) homework sets are much easier when your calculator is not only doing automatic unit conversions for you, but also type-checking those units throughout the whole process. The laptop only really becomes preferable when you're doing things like statistics or numerical integration where the sheer quantity of arithmetic becomes inconvenient for a handheld device.
I would be the last person you want vegetarian advice from. If it weren't for my wife, I'd stick to potatoes, broccoli, and grilled asparagus. However, as you noticed I drink a lot of milk, a lot. A pint has 300 calories and 16g of protein. Additionally, add butter to anything you want. Grits butter, eggs, cook in butter etc... It adds a lot of calories (good in my opinion) which is what you want when lifting heavy.
Thanks for the feedback! I originally had one there but had to take it out cause of printing problems. Will definitely increase the importance of the ticket.
I concede that one. Have an upvote.
What? I don't know what you're talking about. ::whistles innocently::

Getting it to a state, even the minimal one, where it's ready for launch has taken slightly longer than expected. :(

Right now I'm reworking the API a little bit. I realized that the means of specifying new vocabulary for it was not at all friendly for coders who don't have lots of type theory background. I have a new way of doing this that I think will work, and it'll be up hopefully within a few weeks.
https://duckduckgo.com/robots.txt
> Markets are inherently shady

> The only protection is good regulation. Markets on their own tend naturally to criminality and/or instability.

Regulation like how Argentina's government mismanages their peso to disastrous effect (people have to trade currency on the black market to get by)? Or how some governments have pulled the "print money" lever until the currency is hyperinflated to zero value?

Governments are inherently shady.
If you live in a "no knock" state you are not nuts at all. I am from the UK and think the whole no knock thing is insane when everyone has easy access to guns (both legally and illegally). It is just asking for people to die.
It can still fall with the inverse of the distance by smartly assembling several dipoles.

Anyway, the time issue remains.
"In such an instance I would likely kill one or more of them"

You may want to consider how to react differently in such a situation. That's definitely a fight you can't win, and indeed would probably lead to causing your loved ones more pain than it's worth. It's probably best to comply with order in the heat of the moment and later fight it in court. The outcome will be much, much better, I promise.
Hi, DotCloud'er here! Those timeout errors are pretty common, and we are working very hard to reduce them. Almost all operations should be idempotent - meaning that you can repeat them without any danger. Basically: if the 1st time didn't work, the 2nd time will do; if the 1st time did work, the 2nd time won't do anything.

We got a fairly massive growth, and a lot of internal components required to be upscaled much earlier than planned. As we rewrite, optimize, and weed out bugs out of thos components, the timeouts will disappear, and the platform will be faster as a whole.

Just so you know - we are using the "eat your own dog food" principle as much as possible. API, website, docs... are all using the DotCloud platform itself, and we generally don't need escalated privileges to debug stuff. I think we need to be more explanatory about the various ways to inspect logs and debug code, since there is a lot more than meets the eyes :-)

I'm curious about how you feel that we are "more restricted than the Heroku environment"; I would really feel compelled to fix it in any case!

All the best,
Interesting concept. Some major JS errors going on all over the site which doesn't give me much confidence on the accuracy of the experiments. Needs some major work but the concept overall is solid.
See, that's the kicker. You're able to see what the client needs, determine value and offer the best solution. As an independent business, you saw the benefit of that right away. You got PAID! That being said, does that really mean you're 10x better programmer than the next guy? The entrepreneurial & analytical mind may have made you just as valuable in the lumber business (yes, I know that's quite a stretch).
The shortcoming of many companies in evaluating programmer performance is that Engineering/Development Managers are often making value judgements based on factors besides what you potentially bring to the company. They're looking at how easy you make their job, how much they like you (seriously, I haven't even seen a manager completely detach their liking of someone and do an objective evaluation).
So, it boils down to, do you pay politics well, how smart do others "think" you are, and how well do you "sell" the value you bring to the company. In some of the larger corporations, most of that doesn't matter all that much anyways.
If you're entrepreneurial, nothing will highlight your value quite like your own business!
The rightmost side of the normal distribution can be 10x the mean.
Can you explain further the value you add that developers of equivalent skill don't add? Just curious. If the developers are equally skilled, they should be able to provide the same value in terms of code; perhaps you're including some business consulting that you throw in, or something like that?
Nah - I buy other stuff too, and go places.

For me, starting off with a brand new MBP with all the trimmings (incidentally, ~4-5K) translates directly into productivity.

Besides, if I was paying it'd probably be running Plan 9 and have an FPGA duct taped to the back...
That's definitely how it **ing worked, man. I came so close to missing so many damn flights before Uber came around, because I'd book a car the day before and it would just ghost me. I had to aim to get to the airport 4 hours early because half the time I had to reorder a fresh cab and hope for the best.

Cabs had a 45+ minute lead time in the evenings and at night too, when I could order them by phone at all. It was a joke. This was in Seattle/Bellevue, Washington, USA, FWIW
How much insurrection is acceptable before the tradeoff of a 'new beautiful society' is the better deal? Both sound like bad outcomes. Neither sounds obviously superior.
Half the country doesn't believe that. Source?
When Hollywood voluntarily removed certain movies and ideas during the black list it was justified for the same reason these bans are justified: these ideas are harmful to society. And it was deemed censorship. In fact it’s an archetypal example of censorship. Government action isn’t required unless you’re talking about the 1A.

And this is yet another escalation on the road that started with “we’re just going to censor tweets that literally say the sky is green.” Google has banned an entire social network.

It’s exactly what social conservatives did back when they controlled the levers of government and industry in the mid-20th century. They prevented liberals from spreading their ideas, because that could cause social unrest, violence, etc. (And there was violence, such as anarchist leftist bombings.)
You're not wrong. Fortunately, left-leaning circle jerks rarely kill people or incite violence so I think society tolerates them much more. It's not like the USA has a real violent left-wing like there would be in the communist revolutions of yore.
> It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash.

AMD/Apple/Nvidia gave up manufacturing took all the cash and left Intel a long way behind. Its manufacturing is causing their problems and losing leadership.
Until your domain is revoked, you get kicked off by your host, you get financially censored, etc, etc. When are people going to admit big tech has too much power?
I'm well aware of the situation, and no, 2018 was not the beginning of the problems.

> allowing Intel to use current state-of-the-art fab processes from whichever company at the time happens to be the best is a sure winner

That's the type of one-move-ahead thinking I expect investors will love right up until AMD and Intel give up all their margins bidding against each other for the kingmaking process. Intel would still be behind 50% of the time, when they lose the bidding war, with the difference being that the 50% of the time they are ahead they don't get to keep the margins.
Perhaps. The strongest supporting evidence seems to be the rejection of federal assistance:

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel...
Twitter got all the spotlights, others try to rush onto stage before the audience stops applauding. Corporate decisionmaking structures at Google are clearly slower than a Zuckerberg whim, but their lag is surprisingly low.

Personally, I think it's a bit sad that Twitter with the hard tweet removal is effectively protecting Trump from being judged for his statements by the general public. The radicals got the messages anyways, but superficial observers are supported by the remove in any "bad but harmless" perception of Trump they might have.
as a profession programmer, i think there are loads of reinvented wheels, churn, bullshit, etc. i think your initial comment that spawned this back and forth is spot on. its an argument about the degree i guess.
> We have a 6-3 Supreme Court. Do you think there's no conservative bias in their work?

Based on their rulings (their work), of course. But I would never presume to predict their work based on their ethnic background, their political contributions, the schools they went to, their religion, the kinds of websites they visit or music they listen to, etc.

> It's not about locking people out, but ensuring that the people who have power are ideologically representative of the people they have power over.

That's just a long-winded way of saying you're locking people out, based on their ideology. This is the kind of stuff that lets people argue that Catholics or Jews shouldn't be president.

> Saying you can have apolitical "fact checking" is like saying judges just "call balls and strikes based on what the law says."

I'm not saying this. I think the "balls and strikes" Roberts quote is 100% horseshit, whether it's applied to SCOTUS or grading student essays.

What I am saying is (within reason) we shouldn't let someone's ideology prejudice us against them. If you're a conservative I won't be prejudiced against you. If you're a flat-earther I will. This seems fair.

> There's a lot of subjectivity wrapped up in that sort of analysis.

I think there's a lot of middle ground between "number of carbon atoms in Butane" and epistemological free-for-all. I went to factcheck.org and opened up the 1st carousel article I saw [0]. It seems fine.

> Whenever you give someone power and discretion, their "work" will be influenced by their ideology.

Of course people are made up of their backgrounds and experiences (Justice Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment comes to mind). Why don't we want that? How could we ever not have that?

> And it drives people nuts when people who don't share their values exercise power over them.

I don't think the ideology matters more than the policies and actions. I don't care what Biden's ideology is, he hasn't canceled student debt yet, and I think that's real dumb. I don't care what Trump's ideology was, he sent billions of dollars in aid to Americans who need it, and I think that was great.

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Zooming out a little, maybe you would agree with me when I say that the rise of fact checking is a symptom of decaying discourse. I think people are so used to the other side acting in bad faith that they think they need refs, and then working the refs starts to be part of the game, then you start questioning the motives and ideologies of the refs, blah blah blah.

I think we can change this! I think we just need to be a little more earnest with each other and be more willing to acknowledge when we're wrong. Truth is huge and humans are small. The most we can hope for is to experience a little more of it by working together.

[0]: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-...
David has mentioned on Twitter and Reddit (when asked) that he estimates 90% to 95% of all people living in the U.S. would be dead within 18 months after either of his attack scenarios that involve countervalue due to complete breakdown of all infrastructure, production, supply chains, communications, etc.
Looking at the wikipedia page, I'd say "ego death" sounds like a very different concept.

What the parent posters are talking about is when you have two personalities: the original and the mask, but the mask stays on so long it becomes the new permanent personality. The original "ego" is gone and already replaced.

"ego death" sounds like a loss of the only personality. There's no alternate.
Automated trading is almost to an equilibrium, where the costs will begin outweighing the profits.
Is it just me, or is expecting pixel-perfect identical rendering between different browsers a guaranteed way to set yourself up for disappointment?

If you aren't prepared to put up with differences that slight, perhaps web development isn't the right field for you. (Though I recall back in the day not being able to reliably reproduce film proofs for printing without occasional expensive differences showing up between proofs produced with Quark vs PageMaker... The more things change … )
No Max/MSP?!

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I find a lot of this stuff hard to follow, but your post laid it out well in an easily understood format. Thank you.
I read this stuff in hard copy as a teen in the 1980's.

Ah, Creative Computing ...
Legitimate SCTs can be used in attacks just as well (this will probably be the common case), as explained here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9254713
Yeah, no doubt somewhere along the way someone made a negotiation mistake, and is now trying to remedy that, which does not paint them as a man of their word.

From strictly rational perspective, choosing between two messages - "you're costing the company too much, therefore we're reducing your package" and "you're costing the company too much, you're fired, Jonathan will walk you from the building" - is a no-brainer for employees.
Are you an insider? Curious to know how this was communicated internally.
I think http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2668154 is a pretty clear indication that Google will not implement blockchain-based solutions.
Interesting title given that Netflix has just released pricing for their upcoming New Zealand release undercutting the local offering from Spark (formerly Telecom).
(Not that I necessarily buy the entire article, but)

What he is saying is that the sea floor IMMEDIATELY below the BOP is soft and sandy. That may be the first 10 to 100 feet, which is basically supporting the weight of the BOP.

As another poster has pointed out, it's another 18,000 feet down from the seafloor to the top of the oil deposit.
Odd. What browser did you use? The other keybindings worked, I take it?

I just noticed that cryp.sr had made it to HN - I'll check here for bug reports, or you can just email me at aldo@corte.si.
Godin nodded in that direction with item 5 about energy, but as you're pointing out there is a social aspect to the work itself that goes beyond general energy. I've worked alone for about a year and found that I get enough social energy from lunch and evening interactions. That's great, but there's something about the best spontaneous whiteboard sessions that you can't recreate alone or with a scheduled meeting.
Actually : common misconception on the insurance for 'priceless' artworks.

Most museums of the type of the Louvre carry no insurance. The premiums are out of their budgets, which are usually state / ticket sales funded, and there are major valuation problems on irreplaceable artworks, as you have pointed out. Musuems probably spend more money on public liability insurance than they do on their artworks.

Instead they put the money they would have spent on premiums into fire and security systems, and 'self insure' to an extent.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if 'priceless' is actually originally a technical insurance term, like 'write off' that has entered the lexicon (probably not true, just using it to make a point)

disclosure : used to do some coding for one of the worlds 'great' museums, learned a lot of this stuff.
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This is almost as bad as the address question.

I go by my middle name (my parents thoughtfully gave me my father's first name and even middle initial, which has caused no end of confusion for many a credit bureau over the years). Unfortunately, the State of Indiana's birth certificate system assumes beyond any possibility of override that (1) everybody with children has a first name, (2) that first name has no spaces in it, and (3) the middle name is insignificant. So my kids' birth certificates have my dad's names on them as the father.

But hey, who am I, a mere parent, to say what my name is?

The real world is full of organic detail that is difficult or perhaps impossible to capture in full in a software system. A name should be just a string. If there are business requirements for sorting or name-of-address (e.g. "Dear Mr. Jones") they should be done with heuristics, with human intervention invoked in sticky situations if necessary. Sure, it's difficult, but you know, a hundred years ago that stuff was all done on an individual case-by-case basis by human beings; if your business assumption is that it can't be done cheaply enough without eliminating human intervention, perhaps you should rethink your assumptions.

Otherwise, let me assure you you're irritating every customer whose name doesn't meet your arbitrary rules - in exactly the same way that Google pisses off everybody who needs human support. Everybody thinks that sucks. So at least you should get people's names right, using human intervention if you have to. (And addresses, too, but we just had an extended thread about that, like last month.)
Even worse is when people are told they are smart when really they might just be about average or a little above and really need to put the hard yards in rather than coasting.
I could, but since the core engine is the same as that of pidgin, the memory usage is almost as high. If I'm gonna use that much RAM for the console app, I may as well keep the GUI version up and running.
"You should know what you want to do with your life by the time you start college." (Age 17 for me, US citizen.)
I really don't want to come across as a troll or mean, but I don't know how to word this in any way that probably will not. Did you even think about the logistics of your comment?

Apple is able to sell iTunes cards in retail stores because they operate the store that the cards are redeemed at. The monetary value of the card does not change from the price I pay for it at my local grocery store and the amount I am able to redeem from the online store. I can buy that card and buy any app with the value of that card.

If a third party was to create a similar system for Android it would be horribly broken. I don't even want to give any scenarios because there are thousands to describe how unmanageable and frustrating any system would end up being for end-users, from activation codes being incompatible between apps to apps not having redeeming capabilities built into them.

Google would have to start its own system to deal with store credits. I would rather they start fixing the problems developers have been complaining about for a while than try to implement additional features in an already un-polished (broken, dare I say?) system.
Please don't do this here. If someone is that wrong, or you feel they are, just let it go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not to the proud family whose surname is Parody.

Also those representing parity overheard you and may have a bit to talk with you about.
I find it strange that you have designed your own dome CAD software, toyed with 3D printing and other techniques, yet your final product is a ready-made kit that only comes in two distinct sizes.

I thought you are aiming for a solution allowing everyone to build the dome they want. You could be supplying the connectors (vertices), and users would add the wood planks for edges (btw, would aluminum tubes be much heavier or costly?). Maybe you could also provide ready-made planks of varying sizes; that still would allow for many variants. Have you considered this?
If the maintainers of the official alarm app don't like this feature, can't you just use a custom app? Or is it something fundamental to the notification system?