jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The author uses coffeemakers and alarm clocks as examples of how household appliances are difficult to use. On the other hand, she lauds Dieter Rams for his designs.

Apparently, the author doesn't know that Dieter Rams designed coffee makers and alarm clocks for Braun, and they're still being sold. They're very easy to use and they last forever. (My Braun alarm clock and coffeemaker are 20 years old, and I wouldn't replace them for anything else. They still work perfectly.)

Coffeemaker: http://www.kitchen-apex.com/Braun-KF400-BLK-Aromaster-10-Cup...

Alarm clock: http://www.connox.com/categories/accessories/alarm-table-clo...
I think it's pretty likely that the next round of MBPs will come with SSDs standard.
Well, minus reserve requirements. :-)
Linux has been on the mass-market for a long time. It has been used well and it has been used badly, but it indeed has never been used on the mass-market desktop.
Maybe you can educate me here. Once you've crossed the relativist bridge, doesn't the study of morality just become anthropology, not philosophy?
Automotive infotainment underwent a major shift to Linux from WinCE. There is even GENIVI alliance (http://www.genivi.org/) to speed up the adoption.
> The statement is absolutely correct referring to the government and the Conservative party in general.

It really isn't, and reeks of egocentric entitlement. It should be obvious that at-risk groups are a priority. Complaining that the people that likely die from covid are being prioritized over a group that has a negligible risk for no reason other than wanting to jump the line is something that's both baffling and dumbfounding.
The creator of the linked electron microscope project was a PhD student at McGill (in Montreal) when he built it and (according to his LinkedIn) is currently a startup co-founder in Montreal. So... not sure where US geek culture fits in to this.
yep. although Igalia is running some efforts to get it added again.
Bash, at least, is more helpful these days.

$help
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.

That last sentence in particular.
I think you just need to answer two questions:

Why do I want to use it?

How do I use it?
Property rights are the name of the game though right? The extent to which you are allowed to own property is the fundamental design mechanism for an economy system. Simple versions being taxation, more extensive being things like collectivist anarchism.
I call BS until a paper & repo is released.
This still seems to be "house style" for a certain brand of "old school" open source mailing list.
And someone else could make a competing youtube channel showing how 90% of them could be done just using a browser/bookmark, and 90% of the remaining ones could be done with stock phone apps like Shortcuts.

(And the only last one would be something like "I want an app that'll let me tether my phone so I can use data over my neighbour's Covid vaccine 5G connection.")
Ah, don't worry about it, we all make mistakes.
If a team with extensive experience in CVS is already dragging it's feets to move to SVN, trying to get it to git is a fool's errand.

And SVN isn't the plague either, if they could be happy with, it should be good enough for a number of years. At least the migration path from CVS seems a lot more realistic.

Moving legacy systems is always a pain, and more often than not it's a matter of having enough people fluent in the target technology. I guess the point of the rant here is to urge people to get new hammers when their current one is getting old.
The author certainly hammered away at it, but I don't think he hit the nail on the head.
Hi. First: thank you for the kind words. Second: I'm going to fix that, I know, it already annoyed me today and I just implemented the collapsed sources last week for better readability.

The backend is Solr in combination with a custom scraper in java and a lamp stack. The REST interface is wrapped around a php for better auth handling - and mainly because I'm a big fan of the Zend Framework and Pimcore [1] - one of the best CMS I've come across in my life (I'm not working for them).

Although I cannot give you access to the full source of the scraper/backend (at the moment), why not get in touch and/or follow on twitter/mailinglist. I'm going to send out updates what problems I was struggling on and how I solved it from time to time.

[1] https://www.pimcore.org/
> With REPL you have an invisible global state, can't reproduce what you have done, changes earlier in code path don't propagate to results, you don't have documentation of what you did.

Mhm, that's fair. I think Pluto.jl has a really neat approach to this, using reactivity (and technically even more state) to actually eliminate that experienced state.

If I could use it from emacs it might even be my goto way to interact with julia, but I also don't mind the statefulnes and find it manageable.

For me, the most important thing is that when I'm writing serious code, I create a local package. Then, in the REPL I load that package and have Revise.jl active so that it can watch the the package source ode and constantly do hot code reloading for me so that I'm never stuck with old versions of code running.

Then I do all my interactive analysis in the REPL, and plumbing in the package module. This eliminates a lot of statefulness, but keeps restarts to a minimum.
It became normal practice in East Asia after bad flu pandemics.

To be quite honest, masks are very helpful, given that they are infinitely more effective than covering the mouth with hands or elbow (it doesn't block everything, and people often do not sanitize their hands or elbows afterwards).

Masks are also used in Japan to protect the wearer from allergens during their allergy season. After I read about it, I also started doing this, and I noticed my symptoms were a lot less terrible than previous years. They are also used in China when smog is bad.

Given how cheap masks are, and how we will have a lot of manufacturing left after all this that will drive prices down, to me it is a no-brainer, and I'd definitely prefer it if Americans resume their practice of coming into work sick once we are at least partially back in office. (Now, they do this because we have terrible sick leave, but masks are at least not super-expensive at solving the problem absent some state or federal push for mandated paid sick leave.)
Today I had to answer a "If this isn't fixed in 3 days, I will use <another software>" github issue in an open source software. The answer boils down "yes, on that timeline it's best i you use another software".
While I generally agree to some extent:
roBERTa, XLNET, ELECTRA, etc. They're all somewhat trivial variations on Google's BERT, which is more creative
Researchers take inspirations from existing models of course and some BERT derivatives are trivial.
However, XLnet is in it's own league, while the author (a genius chinese student) was inspired by BERT it is one of the few SOTA pré trained models to be not based on BERT and is actually an auto regressive one! Such difference allow it to be better at many things as it doesn't has to corrupt the tokens (from my shallow understanding).
This model is two years old but is still sadly the one that ranks the most SOTA in key tasks e.g dependency parsing. And after all those time nobody cared enough to even test it on other foundational tasks (which is extremely sad and pathetic) like e.g coreference resolution.
Sadly because of conformism effects almost zero researcher has created XLnet derivatives. Almost all researchers continue to search in the local minima that is BERT, which I find, immensely ironic.

While ad hoc empirical fine tuning is a big part of improving sota, mathematical genius can still enable revolutions e.g this recent alternative to classical backpropagation that is 300X faster with low accuracy loss
https://paperswithcode.com/paper/zorb-a-derivative-free-back...
This is less clear-cut than it seems because nearly everyone that's highest risk is retired and doesn't really need to leave the house. Is it better to tell a dozen pensioners that leave the house once a week for grocies to stay home so younger people can get vaccinated and go back to work? Possibly, depending on who you're asking.

Younger people are far more mobile and so contribute greatly to the spread of the virus. The old and sick don't go out much so aren't the ones spreading the virus.

Is it more important to stop the spread as quickly as possible or directly vaccine the more vulnerable? It's hard to know, and it probably depends on how much vaccine you have. Countries like the US with lots of vaccine may be better off vaccinating the most mobile members of society first to drop total infections ASAP. Countries with less are better off focusing on the vulnerable because they're a long way from herd immunity.

If you have enough vaccine supply you will minimize deaths by eliminating transmission quickest which implies vaccinating the most exposed, not the most vulnerable.
Intentional political anxiety - a tactic of the Cultural Revolution that was discussed on the excellent In Our Time podcast from the BBC this last week. Never knowing exactly where the next offense may come from, intentionally keeping the population on edge about committing a politically incorrect infraction that will result in consequences to you or your family. Really resonates with the trajectory of institutional rhetoric in the US these days.
This reads like someone who doesn't understand how evolution works. Even with a badly behaved utility function, gains can be made with a random process because less fit offspring die off, and more fit offspring survive and reproduce. Convexity is not required.
This may come off as snarky, but as long as I've been following Rust and Amethyst the latter seems to always be in some kind of "not quite there yet but it will be after the next rewrite/rearchitecture". Same goes for Conrod, its GUI library.

It seemed like an inevitability that some other library would come along that would move forward a bit quicker.
That is how the US military accounts for them, yes. The engine is not included in the price paid to Lockheed Martin.
Honestly, we're a damned resilient species. This is micro-optimization. Your kids are going to be awesome almost certainly, just like every generation so far has been more capable than the ones before.

The science on this stuff is half-baked. The real evidence is very low. If you took the same standards people hold to something they don't want to happen (let's say legalization of LSD use) and then applied it to most of the papers, they'd fail the test.
> This is our ‘high end’ [fighter], we want to make sure we don’t use it all for the low-end fight.

What exactly is a "low-end fight" when it comes to the USAF?

Seems to me like the real problem is the F-35 was built to be a do-it-all plane when it would make far more sense to have a more varied fleet of more cost-effective, purpose-built aircraft.
Why don't they make the upgrade seamless? If it's truly an export/import process, then it should be dead simple for them to do that on their end. Especially after they've snatched your db from serving requests
>*Like distributed computing and autonomous technologies.*

Can you expound on this? Why is distributed computing neeeded - is it simply such that "if hit in this location, there are backups that can handle the load?"

For autonomous, what relief does this bring to the pilot? Targeting? Nav? Trim?
> Did you read the origins of their zoning code? "Protecting" the city by attempting to limit Black people to certain areas. Not a great look.

I've seen this claim in this discussion but without hard evidence that this was the sole or even primary motivation at the time (who would you even measure/prove that?). Regardless, it isn't the motivation today behind zoning so I am not sure why it matters what the motivation was 100 years ago. I feel like that's a weak attempt by urban activists to associate a negative label (like "racist") with zoning to trivialize the legitimate reasons people like zoning restrictions.

People want zoning so that they can retain the kind of city or neighborhood character they want to live in. There's nothing wrong with incumbents resisting change that accommodates others at their own expense. The point of local government is to serve the incumbent residents first and foremost and I don't see why the desires of newcomers to live wherever they want at whatever price point they want supersedes the quality of life that existing residents have sought out and cultivated for themselves previously. Those newcomers are certainly free to move to a part of the country with less demand than the Bay Area and make a life there.

> It's economic segregation, plain and simple.

Not really. It's segregation by people who are invested in their community versus people who may move on because they haven't put down deep roots. And even if it was economic segregation in effect or directly, so what? I, and certainly most other parents, want a safe neighborhood for our families, and higher income neighborhoods typically experience less crime. I also want better educated and more successful people in my neighborhood, because their children form the environment and society my children are exposed to and influenced by. Leaving all that aside, an influx of renters changes a city's politics, culture, and other characteristics. I've seen this first-hand in Seattle where the dramatic changes of the last 10 years have really hurt the quality of life in this city and crowded out 'old Seattle' culturally. So I see many understandable and legitimate reasons for people to want to avoid renters.
Hey Oliver, I'm building Captable.io at LTSE. No, pre-money safes do not convert at a fixed ownership. It depends on how many other convertible securities are converting at the round. The complex math is one of the reasons YC came up with the post-money safe. If you can share all your inputs here or email me at ray at ltse dot com, I'm happy to help.
Exactly. This attack on the law itself demonstrates their intent.
I discussed this with the guys at Vercel a few weeks ago, this is definitely something we'll look into when we improve our React support. We'll also enable a one click deployment to Vercel so you can do a Next SSR + deployment on Vercel in one click. This should be possible by the end of Q3 this year.
Nice! It's simple indeed.
You really should find product-market fit before you raise any money at all. However, it seems Uber has found it.
People have been saying that for 12 years now though. On a long enough timescale anything fails so would you care to give some numbers and the probability you assign to those numbers?
It could be that you're engaged in "the grass is always greener" thinking. "Scam artists, MBA's, ego-tripping managers" and people who exhibit similarly off-putting behavior are found in every area of human endeavor. But so are smart and kind people if you find the right environment. That being said, some fields do seem to select for the more unpleasant personality types because they are optimizing for other qualities.
On campus, university administration is a government. Also,

> "You may NOT leave your room for solo outdoor exercise, which is a change from previous self-sequestering guidelines,” UC Berkeley’s campus housing webpage reads. “We are working with the City of Berkeley to determine whether outdoor exercise may be permitted, and we will provide more information on this in the near future."

"City of Berkeley" is a government.

This is definitely about overreach: By people who love any excuse to control other people. There is absolutely no requirement for them to even demonstrate the effectiveness of subjecting young, healthy people to prison-like conditions.

The big, federal government does not have to do it arbitrary exercise of power by unaccountable officials to be offensive.

> Students are only allowed to leave their rooms to seek medical care or coronavirus testing, use the bathroom and pick up meals from a dining kiosk.

That is prison.
> So what? So long as the USD exists, there will always be liquidity in the BTCUSD orderbooks.

There is only liquidity in the order book if more people wish to obtain BTC in return for USD at the price you wish to sell at than wish to sell at that price. There is no particular property of Bitcoin that ensures this will be the case (the "it will hold its value because people will want it as a store of value" reasoning is entirely circular).

On the other hand, the USD has the property of being legally guaranteed to be able to settle 1USD worth of debt (and the design of the financial system ensures there will always be people who need dollars to discharge their debts). So it's "backed" by mountains of debt.

46k USD has the unique property of being sure to be able to pay a $46k bill on a future date. $46k worth of anything else relies on your ability to swap it for at least $46k actual dollars closer to that date. Some of those non-dollar things have other useful properties like being able to live in them that compensate for the downside risk of losing money in a future exchange, others directly pay you coupons and/or have collateral associated with them. A BTC has no consumption benefit, legal claims on anything or coupon payment to compensate you for the risk you might not be able to exchange it for $46k when that bill is due - it's as pure an example of "fiat" creation of assets not backed by anything at all as you're ever likely to see. The only thing it's really got going for it is being more durable than, say, $46k of fruit, but that applies to a lot of other physical and financial products.
Use an APL keyboard and you'll have more options.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=95872.0

I do think we need a modern hacking keyboard though.
THATS NOT WHAT TUCKER SAID!1!!
We have all deps in gits. A build tool takes care of everything. I get all necessary source gits checked out, configured (e.g. change prefix) and built. If I change something (which is my job), rebuilding is just a 'make' away; and rebuilds only the changed parts. Pretty frictionless and painless.

We use some external stuff like sqlite, qt,... but that's all versioned in our gits as well (-> easily reproducible builds). Since we sell a commercial product we can't just add random deps anyway. Plus, I think there is very little code that would benefit from being replaced by an external libs.

Relevant tools are on a global package list. We can get stuff added there on a short notice, and with little questions asked. Eg when I needed some lib for a FPGA dev kit that was a matter of minutes.

Uaaah, Firefox on Android is messing up the input again (can only append, not edit). I guess I should just hit that "reply" button then).
Here's a better guide: stay far away from this ponzi pseudo asset because it's just a giant game of "I can get out before you" and a few insiders control the exits/have more information than you so you can't win.

Edit: Another sure tell of a scam is when proponents get really triggered by negative chat. If you really believe you're holding something great, you don't care about other opinions. In fact, you want to keep buying more and leave less for the rest.
I should have used a throwaway account to make the point and not make it look for karma.
Brilliantly well done trolling.
Mind running a memory latency benchmark on your Razer Book? Does it run linux by chance?
Neither. You wrote:

>I failed to comprehend from the title how could a doctor have the authority to forgive half a million dollars alone when most of the costs go to the hospital for services and infrastructure. But in this case, the doctor decided to close his entire treatment centre.

I presumed you were not aware that the doctor himself (or his personal business) was capable of being owed $650k. So I was pointing out that doctors (or the businesses they own) do earn enough to be able to be owed $650k that they can forgive.

Now that I re-read your comment, I'm actually not sure what you meant or where hospitals came into play. This doctor closed his business because he retired, it had nothing to do with the debt he was owed. And since he (or his business) was the entity that was owed $650k, it seems well within his rights to choose not to pursue payment for the debt.
Prior to around ~1990s Fox News (and ABC/CBS) were the mainstream. CNN was a tiny backwater news station that didn't grow to popularity until the 1991 gulf war in which they had by far the best reporting and everyone else was re-broadcasting CNN. CNN is what grew out of the repeal of the fairness doctrine.
If safety is the concern, why not ban both automobiles and bicycles. And if that is not adequate, people as well.
This puzzle is "flipping" awesome
Wow, sounds like enterprise Gentoo, in a good way.
"You can run your Docker containers across entire data centers without ever creating a "cluster" as other IaaS providers would have you do."

This is a little unclear. I get that you don't have to create a "cluster" because you're going to use the API to launch containers on existing dedicated hardware, but how is that a WIN for your finance team? I guess I'm missing something.. but wouldn't you have to already have systems online that you're paying for that these containers can be launched on?

From: https://www.joyent.com/blog/docker-bake-off-aws-vs-joyent
Why don't you write your own extension to sync your bookmark to AWS? (encrypted of course)
Thanks for elaborating, I'm vaguely familiar with what's known as "breathwork" but had no idea there were specific electronic devices/development like this. Do you find the electronic device a necessity to achieve results? It sounds like it's worth it to you, but >$1k is a bit steep of an initial ask.
Anyone know what technologies / frameworks they used for the mobile apps (or have any guesses or recommendations)? I was under the impression webview apps tended to be slow and had some limitations.

I'm definitely curious how they were able to create a 'blazing fast experience on phones' writing their mobile app in just JavaScript.
I would recommend reading David Ricardo between Smith and Marx. A lot of ideas get attributed to Smith that are really Ricardo's, or were substantially fleshed out by Ricardo. A lot of Marx's response to free-market capitalism relies on his reading of Ricardo. Ricardo does a lot of steelmanning of Smith's work.

A lot of popular accounts of Smith oversimplify his work past the point of usefulness (in addition to mashing up Ricardo and Smith). There's a lot in Smith's original account that contradicts naive laissez-faire capitalism, but you rarely hear that from people who cite "Wealth of Nations".
> For now it's listed for sale on just one cryptocurrency exchange

I think the article might be inaccurate. According to this, there's at least four exchanges currently:

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/mobilecoin#markets
There is an interesting example of two similar malfunnctions with wildly different pilot responses and eventual outcomes at 28:20.
> if it were true, one would in fact be able to just bang out hits by developing such mastery.

Isn't this exactly what Max Martin has been doing for last 20 years?
You know there are non-white Jews, right?
In the current market, going public via a SPAC does not prove you have a viable business. Plenty of zombie startups are doing it.
I think it's kind of awesome. Art prices are so made up and abstract that if someone can game the system then good for them. And this article feeds into that plan perfectly. If he gets someone's $500,000 hospital bill taken care of in exchange for two large paintings well I'd call that a hell of a deal for the artist.
What percentage of Uber's revenue comes from surge pricing?
Developers have the ability to avoid these problems, so I wouldn't call it a critique of Node.