jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is your choice to trust whatever you want to trust. But if you have intellectual curiosity, you'll eventually arrive to a similar conclusion.

Have you ever asked yourself "how was paper adopted in europe?", "where do universities come from?", "what was needed in order to be a scientist in the middle ages?", if you haven't, try to find an answer to those questions.

There's a eurocentric answer to those questions, and a non-eurocentric answer. The eurocentric answer either ignores or downplays the importance of all the influence coming from the Islamic civilization through the Iberian peninsula and Italic peninsula.
The Dickey Amendment didn't ban any studies or doing research, it banned the CDC from advocating gun control policies at a time when the administration was pushing it to use its authority/reputation to do so. It would be like me saying you can do all the research you want on teenage pregnancy and the like, but we're not funding your department to do political advocacy campaigns for abstinence. Stick to the science.
Sure, now train all people to use that. And then tell them how to edit their hosts file(or to install a firewall) to also block tracking embedded in apps or in the OS. And when the OS vendor goes around the firewall and the DNS by using other technology then tell the users to buy and setup some fancy router and when they invent some other tech then what ?

Much simpler, make tracking without permission illegal so everyone can benefit not only the tech people and the ones that can afford extra routers, VPNs or other tech solutions. Also not sure if private mode is 100% safe.
Glicko2 is a better system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
I've never read Han (hadn't even heard of him), but what this immediately reminded me of, in particular the notion of the achievement subject being reduced to basically some sort of stimulation machine, made me recall something from Baudrillard's America

"This ‘into’ is the key to everything. The point is not to be nor even to have a body, but to be into your own body. Into your sexuality, into your own desire. Into your own functions, as if they were energy differentials or video screens. The hedonism of the ‘into’: the body is a scenario and the curious hygienist threnody devoted to it runs through the innumerable fitness centres, body building gyms, stimulation and simulation studios that stretch from Venice to Tupanga Canyon, bearing witness to a collective asexual obsession. This is echoed by the other obsession: that of being ‘into’, hooked in to your own brain. What people are contemplating on their word-processor screens is the operation of their own brains. It is not entrails that we try to interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions; it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its billions of connections and watch itoperating like a video-game. All this cerebral, electronic snobbery is hugely affected - far from being the sign of a superior knowledge of humanity, it is merely the mark of a simplified theory, since the human being is here reduced to the terminal excrescence of his or her spinal chord."

There's also a great Nick Land piece called Meltdown from his saner CCRU days that captures the 'Burnout' notion very well: http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm
A salt is random bits added to a password. Hashpass prefers to be stateless, so it just asks the user to pick a strong password (possibly by adding random bits like a salt). It puts more trust in the user, which obviously comes at a price.

Re key strengthening: Agreed, but only salt-less schemes will work in this stateless model. Unfortunately they are few.

> Finally. What happens when the password requires to have upper case, symbols, x number of digits, min or max number of characters... If you think about it, some websites have conflicting requirements.

Addressed this in the article: "Some websites have certain requirements on passwords, e.g., at least one number and one capital letter. A simple way to meet such requirements is to append something like A9! to the generated password (and remember you did that)."
Ah, well thanks for sharing here anyway and good luck in May.
No, Canadian homes are not built to resist the cold. They have the same silly 3cm cardboard walls that American houses have. This was very stunning for me coming from a country where the temperature rarely drops below 0 degrees Celsius. I have learnt that the Canadians only feel like they are being eco-friendly because the only place they are comparing themselves with is the US. I mean: a remote control for your car's motor so you can have it pre-heat, half of the people driving around in pick up trucks or the toilets having about a million litres of water in them.
Also keep in mind that Indians also largely only wore leather. Leather is renowned for its great insulative properties.

The other factor is wind exposure. It's easier to stay tolerant of cold when there's no wind. When that wind picks up and starts stripping you of your heat layer, you'll feel it much more even at slightly warmer temps.

I grew up in a part of the country that almost never gets cold and moved to chicago. First two years were rough. Got a (black dyed motorcycle style) leather jacket and learned to dress in less, but tighter layers. Haven't had a problem since. Too many poofy layers is more air that needs to be heated and kept heated by your body. Only times I have an issue is when skin is directly exposed. Even a thin cotton shawl is enough to keep the bodyheat layer more protected.

As I got more used to the winters, I also found it more comfortable to keep the temperatures lower indoors. I get nauseous when I'm outside and it's freezing and I step into a store or building that is heated above mid 70's. That constant warm up, cool down, warm up cycle of walking in and out of buildings in the city is more taxing than simply dealing with the cold.

With that in mind, I found it more comfortable to walk into my apartment as long as it was mostly just warmer than outside rather than the usual indoor temps people are used to. 62 degree (Fahrenheit) indoor average temp is quite easily adjusted to as long as skin isn't exposed elsewhere on the body.

Now I find I don't sleep as well if my pillow gets too warm. I have a pillow on my bed that I swap out with the other and when I do, I make sure it touches the wall so it's as cold as it can get when I swap them out again.

I did this in my late 20s, early 30s... so I don't think it would be a case of not being able to do this if you were older, training yourself to acclimate to colder temperatures.
Also consider the constructions of the buildings. Perth, Western Australia can be a very hot place, but during nights and winters I hear from people visiting here that it feels far colder than their homelands which reach lower temperatures. All our houses are built with concrete flooring due to being built on sand - the concrete acts like chunk of ice under the house.
Burn it, burn all of it.
I'd be astonished if they use FPGAs in production kit. Once they get the circuit design right, even a modest quantity of (static) ASICs would be cheaper than FPGAs, and probably faster.

That said, if this really takes off, I'm sure some enterprising spirit will write some software to re-purpose these things as-is (I'm thinking something like a VMWare driver to turn them into NVRAM-SANs for disposable "worker" VMs)
How old are you now? How old will you be when you die? How many weeks are there between now and then? What is $7m / that number?

That's how much you can spend per week. You probably need to lock up an amount in safe savings for old age.

It'd be really easy to burn through $7m in a couple of years and you probably don't want to do that.
>"Apple doesn't know it's me -- because the data is encrypted"

Actually it is because the data is made anonymous not because it is encrypted. If they do this correctly they really don't know it is you.
Non-linkjacked version:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=467321
I recommend their intro videos.
I love how a mentally ill European kills loads of people because the EU didn't mandate proper cockpit control and the top comment is about how bad the US is. As Europe unravels they hold on to their smugness ever tighter, but the thing is, aside from being a drag on the world economy, no one really cares what happens in Europe as long as they keep electing leaders who do the US's bidding.
Keep in mind that nuclear fuel came out of the environment to begin with. Take a radiation detector to a large/old building sometime that has large granite blocks.

For similar reasons note that coal burning power plants add WAY more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants.

So humans don't create radiation, they just mine it, concentrate it, extract energy from it, and then dispose of it. So we are just moving it around, not creating additional radiation.

Imagine we extract uranium from ocean water, the radiation levels in the ocean would go from low, to even lower. If we take the nuclear waste and distribute it across the ocean the radiation levels would (at worst) raise to the levels we started with.

Based on what I've read all the scientists that are experts in relevant fields say that dealing with nuclear waste is a political problem, not a scientific one. There are multiple reasonable solutions. My favorite it making giant spikes out of a mix of radioactive material and glass. Covering the spike with steel and dropping it where the ocean is deep, near a subduction zone, and the sedimentation rate is higher than the leakage rate. By the time the spike hits the ocean floor it's going fast enough to bury itself deeply, the sediment fills in behind and will keep getting deeper, and the spikes will get sucked beneath the continental plate and not bother anyone ever again.
Just some ideas for fun:

• Cook during the work hours, and see if you can tag team the cooking. Hilarious "failures" are the norm here.

• Plan and make a gift for someone meaningful to you both (if you're into arts and crafts, etsy-style, or any other kind of maker type activity)

• Take an online course together.

• Adopt a pet (unless you already have one, allergies, etc.)
Did you read the article? Because of aerodynamics constraining range the average trip speed was 64mph.
Yup, my presentation was back in March 2020 and the M1 came out later in the year — sooner than I was expecting, TBH; I thought that it was a couple of years out when I said it :-)
IMO Telegram is more similar to Facebook Messenger than WhatsApp from a security and privacy standpoint. Both do not use end-to-end encryption by default (but both have a separate end-to-end encrypted private chat mode).
It's one thing to say there will be an orderly transition of power, but the events of yesterday already made that statement false, and those events were incited by him. So saying something calming out of one side of his mouth doesn't excuse what he's saying out the other side.
preact (https://preactjs.com/) is 3kB...

And React is only about 5kB unless I'm mistaken?
So how far will you go to screw up your users' experience? Where's the limit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691631
Funny how those people always come up in conversation, but we never seem to catch them in the act.
We're paying around $1.30-$1.35 a liter here in Toronto, which is the equivalent of about $5 a gallon, and that's in CAD.

Glad we aren't anywhere near your prices... yet. Even sadder: we produce much of our own oil!
Think of your interview as a conversation, rather than an inquisition.

I think there's a danger that a candidate might appear confrontational if they bombard the interviewer / interviewers with a list of questions that they're unprepared for.

The goal of the interview is to find out if the candidate is a good fit. Focus on that (common) goal - ask questions to that help you assess the problem in a way that's as pragmatic as possible. After all, it's in both of your interests to find out whether an appointment is likely to realistically work.
Exactly, but I think it's rational. Software is hard, damn hard to get right -- even if you get the math side correct, there's always UX to damn your product. It's only reasonable that a company that gets so many things _right_ is both so loved by some, and expectant to fail by others.
Hey, they never said how they uncovered it.

;)
>Calling it "tracking data" is wrong, even.

I wish people would stop saying this. Of course it's tracking data. There's nothing wrong with that. One of the phone's features is tracking your location so you don't get lost.

Personally I think Apple has overreacted. They just need to provide a configuration setting for the size of the cache, and more importantly not include it in backups. A cache is not important enough to back up. But as far as the size of the cache, the defaults sound sane enough.
It could also be taken as a statement that the powerful features in Haskell and Python are not easily reproduceable in other languages.
"This is easy to do: simply call ActiveRecord::Base.attr_accessible(nil) in an initializer, and all Rails models will automatically have mass assignment disabled until they have it explicitly enabled by attr_accessible."

I may be way wrong here, but: didn't this particular suggestion come from an HN comment? I seem to remember when there was a flurry of Diaspora articles, that a comment mentioned this as a good example of Ruby monkey patching, and one of my "heroes" (so, patio11, or maybe tpatacek?) acknowledged it as a simple and beautiful solution.

Hmm... off to see if I can find what I'm thinking of.

edit: oh, ha! Found the link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1718422 . I was sort of right, sort of wrong. It was an HN comment, but it was actually patio11's own comment to tpatacek, who thought it was a great idea!
Is your project JigDev? I actually had a need for something like that awhile back. I needed quick visualizations for data from my database. I used Google Sheets as a solution by calling API calls inside the cells and having a chart rendered from that data.
Yes and you can say that a helicopter would offer you even more freedom, but does that mean we should build our cities so that everyone has there own helipad?

Ironically it probably would take up less space than the infrastructure build for cars.

But this is the point made by the OP, essentially for the convenience to jump into your car a couple of times a year and drive to the wilderness without having to walk or take a means of public transport, you require cities to be build around those cars. The issue is you don't directly see the cost associated with it, because you're used to it. The thing is, if you actually had to pay for that convenience (because if we would not have to build the car infrastructure cities could be much cheaper) directly there clearly would be a point where you would say it is not worth it.
Where are you reading that? I just checked and there’s no link in that sentence or the rest of the paragraph.
I didn't think so. The second sentence explains the petition is a call to "abandon this patent".

I don't think the author knows what a patent is, because I also don't get the impression that the point of this is make the idea public domain instead of owned by one company.
Do kids still text or is that a generation or two removed from the current iMessages/WhatsApp/Signal/WhateverComesAfterSignalBecauseImOldAndDontKnow?
Clearly they technically can. It's that the GDPR doesn't allow it.

Think about it... If you asked a company to delete your data, are you giving them permission to go refind that data on the dark web, cross reference it with records they should have deleted, and use it to send you email? Clearly not.
http://enwp.org/Z-variant
Field studies and usability testing are some techniques that can be used when you want to discover novel needs and not just minmax existing implementations. Shit is hard because it takes tons of work and you have to have the organizational maturity to accept difficult changes.
> All cohorts included patients older than 10 years who had an index event on or after Jan 20, 2020

I thought lockdown measures basically eliminated influenza diagnoses. Lockdown measures also occurred well after Jan 20, 2020.

What’s the temporal distribution of control cases vs. COVID cases? Were the vast majority of control cases diagnosed before lockdown measures?
For possession.
for python-specific, there is also http://www.nongnu.org/pyreb/ . It supports named capture groups, etc.
Google latitude also supports this feature (on Android at least). My inner nerd craves the statistics :)
Hello Derrida,

The algorithm to check whether the prediction occurred is based on each single vote. It weights more people with a great expertise score and weights more votes close to the deadline or votes that passed the deadline.

If the prediction comes to an end before the deadline, then the algorithm will wait to reach the deadline to validate it. But we will soon let the community close a prediction if they decide it's over.

Guillaume
The name of A doesn't matter.

Look at how e.g. Python solves this:

class A:
pass
class B:
pass
a = A()
b = B()

# only known at run-time:
c = random.choice([a,b])
print c.__class__

No mucking around with names needed. The same applies to functions---like PHP's array_map function which takes the name of the callback as an argument, instead of the function itself.

I also don't understand why PHP's syntax treats variables whose type is a function different than variables which have a more mundane type. I.e. nearly all variables need prefixing with a $, but variables which hold a function need no such thing. And you can not assign to those function-variables.
Everything that you've described actually helps to track users better, because it contains a unique set of information. The simple technique is to be like everybody.
This is only partially related, but does anyone know why Google didn't buy Sun instead of Oracle? It had (still has) deep pockets and should have been very interested by Java, OpenOffice and MySql...? What happened?
http://kodos.sourceforge.net/
API is definitely on our roadmap. May I know what are the API methods you're having in mind?
My opinion is to wait for the next iteration which is expected to be released in a few months. Those will have additional ports (almost confirmed) and hopefully a webcam that doesn’t suck and isn’t stuck in the distant past (not yet known if this will be handled, but it’s the biggest blot on the current lineup of M1 Mac laptops).
What you are doing here is a pretty good real world demonstration of Russell conjugations. Also very non-productive, so I don't think there is any reason to try continuing the discussion. Have a great day!
The fact that Fizzi was able to get implement rollback netcode for a game by just directly editing the assembly code without any access to a the game's source code is insane. The delay based netcode for the newest smash game, Smash Ultimate(2018), is so bad that it went from being the biggest fighting game of all time in terms competitive playerbase to basically having no scene at all due to covid killing lan tournaments. No one wants to play ultimate online. I wonder if this comparison is what caused nintendo to cease and desisted an online melee tournament that intended to use rollback.
> If the actual collector's item is freely available and all you get is your name listed as having paid for it

I think this really hits the nail on the head. Even if you 'own' an NFT, you have no control over who gets to see it, who doesn't get to see it, who can casually claim to own it and show it on their phone (since it is after all identical to the real deal and no one's going to sit there in the bar and verify it - at least not without the existence of some kind of designated authority). This means that you did quite literally pay to have your name listed as the owner in some obscure place people may or may not care to check unless you're doing a buy/sell transaction.
When you are bitching about EVs and start talking power to weight ratios... it's clear you haven't done your homework. My Model Y is easily the best car I've ever driven in terms of performance, and I didn't even pony up for the fast one.

It takes me 10 seconds to charge on my way into the house so no stop at the gas station.

Range is better than the VW I used to drive, not as good as my Subaru so I'd call it a push. I haven't done any long trips where I really try to nurse the gas so it's hard to say exactly where it lands though.

At a supercharger station, it costs $20 to "Fill the tank", at home, it's half that. But I guess cheap as hell to run isn't in your metrics.
They could do bake ads in JS too, but websites aren’t really incentivized to do so as it would increase latency and complexity.
The comparison is natural because Python is a general purpose language which happens to be used for data science, the same can be said about Julia. The others languages mentioned are not really that great for general purpose programming.

But I agree with you that in the short term it is a replacement for Fortran, Matlab and R. But a new language has to start somewhere. Attacking the niche filled by these language is natural as these are old, dated and ripe for disruption. The key is to gain some critical momentum and user base. That will carry the language to other domains.
Gotta laugh at the HN definition of "failure". Plenty of "short and fat" jobs provide a good career. Not everyone wants or needs anything else.
The etc. also covers all the lower clergy, very different fromnthe higher one. Also a part of the poorer nobility.
I'm still curious how the key is tamper resistent when filling it with transparent epoxy. I asked when the article was published on lobste.rs but never got an answer. It seems to me it should be fairly easy to remove the epoxy and refill after tampering.

I should probably email them about this at this point, but I think it's weird they haven't explained the "tampering resistent" part in their marketing material in any detail.
Usually, the camera simply has no IR filter so it picks up IR all the time. You can test your own cameras out by pointing a TV remote at them and pressing a button. The blinking should show up in the video.
I know you're joking, but this is a horrible condition. While researching I've seen some anecdotal stories about the condition just... clearing up after a while for some people, so hence my question.
"Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
I'm participating in the Black Friday online deals. I think it's a great time to shop for deals on beneficial terms. I saw some good offers on http://www.templatemonster.com/blog/black-friday-2016-deals-... . This source is well worth checking.
I’m looking at the data portal and at least the last 300 waste complaints have no details (details field just says “Human/Animal waste” or is empty) - how did you figure out if they’re dog poop or misclassified?

Edit: E.g this one https://sf311.org/track-case?ref=11716075&email=
I didn't like the looks of this thing when I saw it, probably because it looks so different.

But after appreciating all the awesome engineering that went into it, I find myself loving the scifi look. Finally a vehicle designed for geeks like me. I had always thought it sad that stainless steel vehicles never caught on. Here's my chance, and built from the same material as a space ship, that's icing on the cake. This is for sure my next vehicle.
Have you never been up a mountain? You can go up one very steep portion at 45 degree incline and then come out the other side going on a very long down hill at like 5 degree decline, basically flat.