jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Journalism was rarely feigning objectiveness

Granted. The extent to which journalism is valuable is the extent to which it is neutral and objective. When it abandons even the pursuit of truth, it becomes a social ill.

> Everything is naturally biased, the only distinction is whether an entity is open about their bias.

I don't think this is true on any level of analysis (though it is one of the most popular and obvious of mistruths). At the individual level, one can choose to counterbalance his biases or commit himself to them. He can choose to lean on rhetoric or reason. He can debate against his most competent opponents or he can choose stooges. He can choose between straw men and steel men. He can choose to be honest (if fallible) or dishonest.

At an organizational level, we can choose between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. We can have an ideological monoculture or a diverse culture. We can build a culture that calls out rhetoric and favors reason. The net result of a heterodox organization isn't the absolute lack of bias, but the bias is severely attenuated compared to the modern newsroom.
The problem is that cancer treatments are extremely expensive and not usually very effective. Believe me; the hospital is not pulling these charges from thin air.

The right course to take is avoid contracting cancer for as long as possible, and if you do get cancer, to find and treat it ASAP. If you do get late-stage cancer, you can pay for a drug and treatment regimen that may provide you with a few more months of life at great expense to your wallet and your body. This is an American phenomenon; nowhere else in the world do people spend so much money on caring for terminally ill patients.
From a purely logistical standpoint, if the first people you send to Mars had no hope of returning - how would they quickly enough create a bubble within which lies a life-sustaining environment to survive? Unless of course you're thinking of crash loading the entire contents of a remote manned space station. Psychologically, it might drive men and women to madness - being forever marooned.

Just saw this. More on Mars from Buzz Aldrin in a NOVA PBS special:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/aldrin-mars-au.html
I just did this setup a few days ago, only problem is rvm did not work with root, still uses default ruby, however i suspect i need to configure the PATH

In addition I used Passenger as well
This quote apparently came from this satire:

http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html
Oops! Will fix as soon as I'm in front of my computer (on my iPhone now). I hate it when people misspell my name... But to be fair, I did try to find your full name and couldn't find it on your blog or on twitter, so I had to make a guess :-)
> I'd be surprised if that's an issue in Python, Ruby, or Lisp.

I'd be very surprised if there weren't similar issues in these languages, since these are all duck-typed and the topic at hand is "bugs prevented by rigorous up-front type checking." I don't have extensive experience in any of the above, so I couldn't include any examples of errors they are prone to.
This is the best list of JavaScript tools I have ever seen.
Beutiful article. For what its worth, i think society is coming around to mental illness. At least so in law enforcement. There are a whole brand new range of policies and proceedures for recognizing and addressing the signs,where as historacly they were much more abrasove and counter productive. However, i believe most of mankinds 21 st century mental illness issues area result of the industrial age where people are spending increasinly longer amounts of there waking hours in the abscence of sunlight. A study conducted by vanderbuilt university revealed that vitamin d3 was able to enhance the uv saturation produced synthetically by uv box lights on a populous of patients suffering from seasonal effectiveness disorder which is depression from lack of exposer to sunlight. I have stated taking vit d3 and have noticed a significant change in the dark montjs alone. You might want to ask your psyc about it to see if he would let you take it alongside rhe lexapro
I dunno, some people are just slobs/lazy
Yer mother's a landlubber and yer father smells faintly of laundry detergent. (Am I doing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640415 right?)

But no, actually, you smashing huge holes into my logic was exactly what I was hoping for, because that's how ignorance is transcended. I dislike both the peanut gallery and peanuts, so I think I came across wrong. Starting the conversation by vaguely disparaging your merry band of engineers probably wasn't great, but my mind's malleability is play-dough, definitely not steel.

Finding someone who agrees with my viewpoint is the most useless thing, both to me and to anyone that might be reading the conversation. Someone with an ability to point out why I'm wrong and to actually debate with me is both rare and valuable.

Please try to understand that some people find the basics interesting, so even though you're saying you don't, it's important to kindle that spark. (I still don't see how this is basic, since the entire SpaceX engineering team somehow missed your segmentation approach, or considered it and chose not to pursue it for some reason, but you're probably right. And I have other qualms about the approach, but I don't really trust re-opening this debate without some kind of mutual understanding that we'll focus on the ideas in the debate, not on the people involved.)
People are now advertising their iphone apps here? The poster's handle had 3 karma points before this post, and was created 42 days ago.
A wanted truth is always stronger than an evidenced truth

Ouch. That one hit me hard. What I would give to switch that around in myself.
You can also use something like Shorty (http://get-shorty.com) to store your bookmarks on your own server.

That being said, I also really like Pinboard :)
This sounds interesting, and I'm starting my winter break at school here.
I just use Instapaper bookmarklet and search. Don't have the time or patience for tagging.
Perhaps you only read the first half of the article? He lists quite a few specific things you can do to help in three major categories.

Also, as a high school CS teacher who does teach an intro video game programming course, people do need encouragement. Getting started is hard, and someone to just encourage folks to keep working a worth quite a lot.
I just signed up to pinboard. Importing all my delicious bookmarks now.
Natural visible light, yes; even somewhat concentrated reflected sunlight will take more than a blink to harm you. Visible light in general, hell no it's not safe. For goodness' sake, be careful with your lasers. And beat the everloving crap out of anyone being casual with those damned bright green lasers, which are most emphatically not toys.

I'm not saying that this theater flashing stunt was dangerous, I doubt it was anywhere near dangerous, I'm saying the idea that all visible light is safe can get you blind.
Well there goes months' (nights & weekends) worth of iOS side project work down the drain. I have a very large delicious bookmark collection that I was still posting to as of this week.

Does anyone know if delicious' demise affects pinboard's API service in any way? Since pinboard's API documentation just links to delicious, now would be a good time to archive the delicious API documentation.
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

If I want to open into a new tab, then I will open it that way myself.
Do you usually dress the same, and go through the full body scanners? My wife was upset that she got patted down every time at logan, and then she looked at the display and found out that the TSA didn't like the buttons on the hoodie she liked to fly in. Now she just wears the grey one instead of the red one and flies through every time.
How do the numbers for this compare to Walmart's and other's curbside pickup ?
It does, however, hardcode /bin/sh as a init of last resort: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dcc0b49040c70ad827a7f...
So, as as a serious answer, yes.

The problem isn't deployments, it's that k8s doesn't only do deployments. It does a ton of stuff, and deployments are a small part of it. If you only wanted to use k8s for deploying your code, well, you can't.

That's what's was great with the UNIX programs philosophy, and what is lost in kubernetes. You can't pick the feature you need, and the feature you want may well break because of a problem in another part of the system you don't even know existed (hello persistent volumes flagged for deletions, resource allocation failing, ...)

No single Kubernetes feature may be overcomplicated, but k8s as a whole is for sure extremely complex.
Actually, most parts of medieval society were astoundingly mobile. Not everyone was tenant or serf, many, as in the trades and crafts, workers of all kind and everyone involved in moving goods, were often travelling and surprisingly mobile, as were the ruling class. Mind that this was before settled living became the standard model. (Which happened in continental Europe only in the 18th century.)
Yes! you can, this is exactly what I am saying. Think about it: 0.56% of electricity _globally_ is consumed by Bitcoin... there are a _max_ of 178 ways to divide up the remaining energy. If you want to designate global housing to be one of the things to compare to, you can do that, now there are <177 things left to compare too (probably quite a bit less).

No matter how you go about categorizing things, it's a very short list for the entire planet. Most of them will bring real material value to everyone's lives (electricity in the home), vs Bitcoin which caters to a tiny minority for the purpose of speculating on intrinsic value - most of the world would not notice or care if it disappeared, I'm willing to bet everything above it on the list would be quite noticeable around the world no matter how you go about categorizing things without overlap.

Most people in this giant thread are either throwing out rhetorical comparisons like icecream, proposing that bitcoin be treated like one of the many unnecessary pleasures in the world, yet in absolute terms it dwarfs every single one of them in energy use while serving orders of magnitude less people making it's relative value for pleasure or otherwise extremely expensive; Or, they (and other articles) are comparing it to the likes of Visa - in very convincing and well thought out ways, yet missing one critical detail: bitcoin does not actually serve the entire planets transactions, no where even near, that's not even it's purpose any more.

I'm essentially saying put it in comparative context without needing to actually compare individual arbitrary things: it's global use of electricity, what is it being used for and by how many, it's not hard to see it being at the extreme end of disproportionate and useless.
Sure, but it’s got a considerably better privacy model than Google’s ads: https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/ . For a start, you can see what information they used to target you by pressing on the “Ad” button (which is my case is nothing because I’d previously flipped a single toggle switch in settings telling Apple not to use personal data to target ads to me).
This is a good video explaining just that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc
As if Automattic doesn't disrespect their own clients (in similar or other ways). Matt should get off his high-horse.
>Worse, because of the contrarian dynamic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), it got upvoted to the top of the thread, choking out all good discussion.

You don't it has something to do with people being fed up with almost every other programming language thread getting spammed by low quality "meta" post about a certain language superiority which are irrelevant to the discussion?
Weirdly recipes aren’t copyrightable..

But personal stories are, And descriptive text is too. Probably why they’re added.

I’ll agree about the ads. Thus we signed up for platejoy (YC 2017?)
Wow, maybe my understanding of colocation costs is outdated...but $27/month sounds crazy inexpensive! May i ask @dervjd where/from which colo provider you are getting such costs???
There's been a load of these on HN over the last few months.

While I applaud the efforts (truly!), I hope the community can get behind one.

Where I sit, I don't want to sit and type out my wife's recipes on a site that'll be gone in a year. So I'll wait.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes...

TLDR: you can have a mathematics that always gives true answers (but that cannot answer everything). Or you can have a mathematics that can answer every possible question (but some answers are wrong, you do not know which). Choose.

This dispaired mathematicians of the early 20th century, who had hoped to create 'one mathematics to rule them all'. Of course you can have several disjunct mathematics, each one for the problem you like.
This comment right here %100
And there's still that ugly port number in the URL. Vast majority of clients would neither like nor understand this -- most of them don't even know what a port number is.

EDIT: Also, Showoff isn't suggesting it's doing something you couldn't do before. It just does it in a simpler & pain-free way.
I personally think we should distribute the whole federal government. A side effect of the size of the federal government is that a ton of money flows into the Washington Metro area, which I don't think is fair.

Much of the infrastructure is already in place. The federal courts and the DOJ are already distributed. The SEC, EPA, etc, already have field offices in major cities across the country. Work could be pushed down from HQ into those field offices, giving them greater autonomy and moving jobs from DC to other parts of the country.
Or can every startup fake their way to traction _nowadays_?
It may just be that Intel has abandoned this use case to the GPU. Which obviously is bad news for those of us who still rely on CPU SIMD.

But wtallis' argument to the contrary is quite compelling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801808
omg! i closed the parens and it turned out to be a monkey mouth >:-(
by learning foreign language
My C's a little rusty, but isn't the exact integer returned by the comparison undefined? Isn't is just defined as just zero or non-zero?

Therefore i would argue this is just as risky as the original solution, and that it's better to use the ternary operator
"Or someone in South Africa made millions selling vuvuzelas?"

If I ever find that guy, he's in for a world of pain.
As it's been 2 years or so, I'm not sure I remember. It may have been YouTube->5x5->Squat Form-> Alan Thrall on YT->Barbell Medicine.

As an academic, I like the way the doctors approach terminology of lifting and describe evidence-based reasoning for recommendations.
This sounds like it has immediate practical applications at any incubator / VC firm.
What are the possibilities that this AI camera app is not faking the image.

Here is why I ask
- It has gyro - so knows whether we are pointing at sky or not.
- AI checks whether its a clear sky - if yes - post fake image. If no - Dont risk getting caught.
- Time + geo spacing - Gives the angle, position of camera relative to the space above us.
Just as general advice, try to count your blessings and quit complaining so mcuh. If this is your attempt at humblebragging, then quit doing that as well.
Hi. I'm the person who described Tesla as making the benchmark EV. You're all completely missing the point talking about sales—the benchmark product in any given category/market is rarely the one with the highest global sales volume anyway. Most people don't want the best in a category, they want the nearest, cheapest or most convenient.

The benchmark product in any given category isn't even necessarily the best product (leaving aside the spurious nature of "best") although that's more often true.

Tesla's EV products have been the benchmark product which other EVs inevitably get compared. And we know this because every time anyone announces or releases a new EV, most commentators will benchmark it against the nearest Tesla competitor.
I almost got burned by this. The COO of the company basically asked my why I wasn't getting anything done. I had to be direct and say that I'm happy to spend 100% of my time coding new features, but he is going to have to answer the phone when a customer says the site is down, because I will be too busy coding.
While there might be other mechanisms at play, plasticity is a form of memory: If each synapse can store weights, read them, and change them, it could be seen as a memory.

For me, an analogy that is quite adequate in computer science would be LUTs in an FPGA: they are memory+compute units, and can be used as both.

To go a bit further, any memory could indeed be considered a computation unit, or vice-versa: consider a results cache, for instance. The difference I see between memory and computation is that memory accesses are, if not instantaneous, at least constant-time. If you want more precision, this can be computed: the necessary memory footprint is extended trough time as well as space (if you only use a results LUT, you'd have to make it bigger to gain precision).
That's fair. Your comment would also be better if you quoted me fairly and didn't cut off the second half of my question.

"Everything" and "Everything that would benefit you immediately" are not the same thing. But I don't think there's much to gain from more bickering here, let me just retract my comment.
Yeah, but you're an individual. It doesn't have to scale. It only has to be economically comparatively advantageous to you doing it yourself. At some point the lack of scale will cause the price to rise to the point where your labour does not provide a comparative advantage.

Prices are currently not there and I predict I'll probably be carbon negative for the next ten years and still come out ahead working in something else and just buying.
The article covers that. It boils down to “there’s a lot of bombs but the world is really, really big.”
This is interesting.

Modern NN implementations (Pytorch/TF) are optimised for training deep neural networks on GPUs.

This is instead designed for shallow neural networks on CPUs. That's similar to the original Word2Vec implementation, and there are lots of similar use cases where this could be useful
In my experience, a small minority knew about GPUs, but I suppose computers and GPUs have become more prevalent than that now.
Back in college - a while ago - I made a project that played blackjack. I punched holes in a real deck and optosensors would detect light shining through the holes. 4 bits. This solution is significantly more elegant!
That's not what I said. I said it's the content of the speech that is the distinction, not the behaviour around how it is presented.

People are self-censoring because of the fear of an out of proportion response to their speech's content, which is rife currently.
How do you take money from employees? Are they owed a yearly salary increase? If your company doesn't give you a yearly raise, find a better job. Also, giving the money used to buy back stocks to employees instead won't help employees if the company goes bankrupt, something stock buybacks may help avoid.
Sorry, DDG showed a definition. The link under it was from Webster's.
It's still a long time! You try being two years later to a major market than Microsoft and still beating them. How often has that happened?
Absolutely. I get the sense that we're approaching a cultural "oh, shit" moment when we realize we've just been building massive global mimetic conflict machines. Oops!
I'd be interested to see historical examples of any other kind. Human nature hasn't significantly changed over the past several millennia, as far as I can tell.
I was going to do so, if only to prove that I don't give a shit, but after glancing at the instructions, I'm not going to do it unless someone provides me with a shell script. It's too much of a pain in the ass.

But if any of you are pathetic and creepy enough to want to know where I was on any particular day, feel free to send me e-mail at edw@poseur.com and I'll let you know.
`show` is just the command that sets up the ssh tunnel. Doesn't forward data or anything like that.

EDIT: It's not a bash script. It's a Ruby wrapper.
I've been using OS X too long, since I instinctually thought the website was grey out / not active.
So essentially, what you're saying is that this determination is based on your opinion of "anti-racism" and not any objective observations, direct measurements, or first-hand experience dealing with the impacts of racism? And, perhaps conveniently, this determination preserves your existing worldview that claims of racism are false or exaggerated.

Most people would call that ignorance.
I'm going to setup a new fileserver using it. I think it will perform quite nicely.
I like their layout. Seems like a pretty small community.
This looks awesome. I would not use something like this because I have lots of ways to make it happen without paying extra (as in I already have a bunch of servers I can use for ssh tunneling). However, I can see how you would get a bunch of dedicated users. Good luck.

My only question is: won't this service be completely obsoleted by IPv6? I already use IPv6 instead of having to VPN into a NAT'ed office from my NAT'ed home. Just giving someone who has IPv6 connectivity a URL that uses one of my IPv6 addresses will accomplish something similar, will it not?
I think this is all correct.
> you can be too disabled and lacking in support to get through the system to get disability support

This 1000 times. I’d be on the street if not for the wherewithal to complete a grueling application, and an address to stay at where they could send the rejection and appeal letters 18 months later. Because of that, I am comfortable, while the homeless are homeless even though they may equally qualify. Safety net has too large holes.
I'd love to work for dropbox, if it weren't for the fact that I'd have to move. Great work, though, I'm a big fan.
Looks like this only applies, for now, to new accounts. I clicked on 'change plan' for my account and received the following message.

"You are currently on the 2 DVDs out at-a-time (Unlimited) for $13.99 plan which is no longer offered. If you select a new plan, you will no longer be able to return to this plan."
I would agree with you if those on Amazon have DRM-free ebook version.
It's hard, not because it is hard to think up questions, but because it is hard to anticipate their level of difficulty. This usually requires some data to measure. Teachers would rather spend effort measuring the students than the questions.
Rust is kinda like F# with curly braces and no garbage collection. =)
There are many more differences than that, but definitely if you know F#, Rust feels very familiar, and vice versa.
I wonder if someone already modified this so it also runs on Windows & Mac.

Hmm....
How much money was AECL making selling these things? You'd think a second pair of eyes on the code would not cost too much. Do I blame the one person? Not really, who in this world hasn't written a race condition at some point? RCs are also one of those things where someone else might spot it a lot sooner than the original writer.

I agree with the sentiment that they took the software for granted. I get the feeling that happens in a lot of settings, most of them less life-threatening than this one. I've come across it myself too, in finance. Somehow someone decides they have invented a brilliant money-making strategy, if they could only get the coders to implement it properly. Of course the coders come back to ask questions, and then depending on the environment it plays out to a resolution. I get the feeling the same thing happened here. Some scientist said "hey all it needs is to send this beam into the patient" and assumed their description was the only level of abstraction that needed to be understood.
The carbon storage of grasslands should not be underestimated however. Most of it is sequestered underground, where it is less vulnerable to wildfire too.