jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Something that you might want to check out is this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiftsmarttrainer/shift...

Its a device that you set on the Peloton that does the automatic resistance changes to match the hills in Zwift by using a motor to turn the big red knob. Basically it converts your Peloton into a smart trainer that you can use with Zwift without having to mod your Peloton at all.

Note: I am not affiliated with the project but I have backed it.
deaths by 100K (from link provided by AareyBaba@):

FL 104.7

CA 72

PA 134.1

NY 201.1

highest:

ND 176

Lowest:

OH 80.9
I thought the backups were unencrypted (or encrypted with a key that was specific to backups) for that exact purpose.
> There should be a club for those who play by the rules - and those who don't shouldn't get invited
What are the rules and who writes them? Is supporting hardliner religious fighters in Syria against a dictator but also against every minority is "playing by the rules" or not?
Where does Apple say they're not going to do this?
When our daughter was born with a rare life threatening condition my wife used SciHub to read articles about her condition. While the doctors had merely skimmed the pages, my wife pored over them and found a suggestion of using a particular drug. After asking five different doctors about it, one finally agreed to prescribe it. It was strange how reticent doctors were to prescribe something and instead just told us she was going to die. If she’s believed to be terminal anyway, why not prescribe a relatively well known drug and see if it helps?

I’m happy to say our daughters prognosis has improved greatly since she started this treatment. Without SciHub she might not still be with us.
> For most code, you don't know how fast it "ought to" be, so you don't even know there is a problem.

Notable exceptions being realtime audio and video games, as both have a rigid time budget. If I try to run 1000 sinewave oscillators, I can literally hear if my code is too slow (for the given machine).
Capitalism doesn't "win"; just like anarchism, it has downsides. In anarchism, as you said, nothing has market value, so priorities are nebulous. Well, the downfall of capitalism (from an ethical standpoint) is that everything has a price, including human life, labor, and injury.

Ethically, I prefer the side of the fence that grimaces at such valuation, even if things are less efficient for that side. Why? Well, because on the other side, the greatest efficiencies are only accessible to the wealthiest people: There is an "efficiency" (quality of life) gradient that is directly tied to personal wealth, and it's disgusting. We've known for a long time now that wealth does not necessarily follow virtue or hard work.

Is there something particular about sewers that prohibits them from being public works? Further, no moral society allows sewage to be solved by pure capitalism, because the obvious consequence would be to let the poor rot in their own filth. Sadly, in many parts of the world, this is the case.

A glance at the world's countless poor and downtrodden shows that global capitalism is a miserable failure, so I think it's unfair to point out theoretic deficiencies of anarchism or other systems as reason to persist with the status quo. "Don't point out the splinter in another's eye when there is a log in your own."
Well, in all fairness, consumer computing is increasingly moving towards entertainment, which would make Office rather awkward as the center of their whole corporate strategy.

Betting on Windows was, I still think, the correct strategic decision.
The next philosophical question would be: Is it meaningfully there if we don't notice its presence? :)
Historically, one adversary was someone now honoured with a US public holiday, right?
> How are we supposed to prevent them from doing these bad things?

Well, we might not be able to. Such is the price of liberty. Personally, I think the thousands that died in the trade centers do not justify the massive loss of civil liberties, and it's STILL not clear we would have been able to do anything about it.

Bad guys are going to use encryption no matter what. Citizens should not be restricted from using it themselves just because it makes it easier on the federal government.
i remember wikipedia had complete information about this, ill see if i can find a link
In the interest of facilitating a open and fair discussion on the larger issue of state surveillance, I highly recommend checking out the 2014 Munk debates: http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/state-surveillance

General Hayden and Glenn Greenwald are given fair time to discuss the issue and to give rebuttals to each other.

Its much more informative then trying to parse HN comments to form an opinion about state surveillance. It also forces you to consider the views of people who don't agree with you.
Where do you get 150 000 kW? Even assuming all the miners are the best I could find (Achilles lab series) [1] that comes to 190000kW based on current hashrate [2].

Your transactions/second is also bit off. Right now based on blockchain.info the highest transaction day had 115787 transactions [3]. And that day the backlog of unconfirmed transactions got as high as almost 6000 unconfirmed transactions [4]. It doesn't matter at all if the network can "theoretically" support 7tps if it chokes at 1.3tps

That brings the actual kWh cost into 40kWh/transaction and up to the same ballback as what GP had.

Based on the arguments on forums right now it looks that increasing the block size is impossible. Because that would hard fork the blockchain.

When new coins are no longer being awarded to miners then people will have to start to pay the transaction fees themselves. Right now the mining is subsidized by what basically amounts to printing money and thus effectively is a small inflationary tax to everyone using bitcoin.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

[2] https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate

[3] https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

[4] https://imgur.com/GAklIdZ The most delicious moment was not screencapped, but this is quite close. Even as this was happening the miners happily issued small blocks (500kB and less).
Irony: Site called "petapixel.com" posts images in glorious 1989-era VGA resolution.

As someone else mentioned, these images were basically stolen from http://www.rescuedfilm.com/ , where they can be viewed at higher quality.
I get so excited when it's supposed to rain, especially in the summer.

That ozone smell before, and that earthy smell (which I now now is geosmin) after. It's so awesome.

I wish I could bottle it and do bumps to my noses content.
Any reason why this isn't automatic?

Perhaps it's a co-promotion for CloudWatch. I would guess quite a few of their users had never heard of or seen a use for CloudWatch. Some of them might now enable "detailed monitoring" for $3.50/mo per instance while they're at it.
There's a link to a table of benchmarks in the description (http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html). LZ4 still looks a little more compelling than LZHAM in terms of compress/decompress time. It doesn't mention the specific application though (CPU/Disk/etc...).
Remember that while HR might use teams for interviews, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's used internally. I'd recommend to ask about their internal communication software before making a decision.
We as people can for sure. But there is no ruleset anyone could come up with that would be accurate or fair.
I don't think the evidence is clear. There are countries that were unsuccessful with their lockdowns, and countries were numbers were decreasing (because of lockdown or other reasons is unclear).

Then there is China, whose numbers can't be trusted. And some remote island states seem to have done well. Most interesting case perhaps Taiwan (which incidentally also belongs to China).
Both sides are correct.
Outdoors, especially in a humid night, is not a magical place where the virus is inactivated right at the mouth of the shedding individual. People being so close, people walking into air that someone recently exhaled—these are big opportunities for infection.
This is a bit like an opioid company saying they are appalled by overdoses. This entire episode has been fueled and made possible by social media.
Mongo to cover document databases. Postgres to cover relational databases. That should do the trick.
I'll have to check again because if that's the case it's still a walled garden, just with free admission.
If your test loop depends on waiting for what sounds like an end to end test, the core problem is that you’re missing lower level functional/unit tests. Nobody should have to regularly wait for a server to install visual studio and oracle crap just to get feedback on a code change.

Now this isn’t the sys admins fault at all. The sys admin definitely helped here but the devs still have a broken workflow.
>it is, of course, absolute bullshit

I'm sorry that I briefly lowered the tone by linking to data, thanks for your help.
The vast majority of Jews in Germany back then were dirt poor though. The issue is while most Germans weren’t particularly anti-Semitic, they didn’t care enough about it to object.
Suggesting that they pull the majority of soldiers with IQ over 90 into officer/NCO training is absurd.
I think quite a lot of the PHP routers are based on regexes, for better or for worse. One of the most famous is FastRoute by nikic that (from memory) merges all your routes into one big regex and then tells you which route to dispatch based on some index that comes back in the match. I don't know how widely that specific library is still being used though or if it's since been replaced by something better.

https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute
So that’s not about relative quality of poetry over time. It is about signal vs noise. Fundamentally this is a strategy of waiting for history to filter out the noise. With 1% you are taking a pretty low pass filter, though. In my experience, I enjoy about 20% of poems I read, the remaining 80% I will quickly skim so signal to noise in terms of my time is more like 90/10.
If I choose to run an image maintained by IgorPartola, sure!

If I download packages and Ubuntu, and assemble my own image, or use one assembled by another org, probably not.

I think the disconnect is that for me, image packaging and updating is work, and that work has an author, and the author is deserving of certain rights others are not.

If Azure is auto-pulling Ubuntu images, building containers, and publishing themselves, then that's a different story.
Very cool. I think advising others helps clarify one's own thinking.
sounds like a good time to trade out your vehicle for something else, a rental maybe.
Yes, a country should tax imported goods based on exporter co2 emissions.
I personally think China won't be the problem for carbon production in the future at a national level as they are heavily investing in solar, batteries and electric transportation at the same time they have started to look for gdp growth in the services industry instead of production and construction. I feel the major carbon growth is going to come from Africa and poorer parts of Asia as more people get out of poverty and start to consume more power.
The connotative meaning of “poor” isn’t really anything that isn’t the absolute best. Words have meaning beyond the dictionary definition. “Poor” in this case means you think the researchers did a bad job, not that their work was a step on the path to something better. “Earlier”, or even “dated”, would have been a much more charitable depiction. And plenty of people are deriving joy from the application of that technology.
by providing these solutions we're making the crimes less grave, more acceptable

How often do first-worlders seriously consider these problems? How often do you seriously consider these problems? How do you get more invisible than invisible?

a technical matter rather than a moral one
It's a false dichotomy to suggest that it should be one or the other (or even a mixture of only these two). Human interaction is incredibly complex, and it doesn't boil down to being operable on only one philosophical space
Thanks for the thoughts, I'll have to think pretty heavily on the pay-only service. There are many companies out there that have done well with a try before you buy model.

You make a valid point with the fact that we have already open sourced our product so a free tier is giving away even more.

> Companies pay ridiculous amounts for things as trivial as chatrooms, so if you're automating away DevOps/System-Administration, you can charge a decent chunk of change that will come cheaper than say $4,000 per month for a senior system administrator.

So very true. I guess when you put it that way $1 per monitor is a pretty low price and I think you're right we may just be going too cheap and labeling ourselves wrong.

> To me it seems like an automatic server-monitoring service that detects and tries to fix errors.

Yup, that is exactly what it is.
Then the sole shareholder of the company dies. I'm sure there's plenty of case law regarding this situation.
I'll play devil's advocate and argue his position (even though it's not my own):

People hang out all day around Khosla's house. In order to access the beach, they have to cross his property. It feels like trespassing, although it's legal in this case. Sometimes they park where they shouldn't. Sometimes they are loud and disrespectful. Sometimes someone litters. Quite often people trespass on his portion of the beach, as there is no clear markings delineating public and private property. The gate that leads to the beach is clearly his, so he has decided not to open it and facilitate access anymore. Leaving the gate open at night is perhaps seen by his security staff to be inviting problems.

Now, here's my actual position: don't like surfers? Don't buy beach property in California.
Well seeing as I don't have time in my life as is to run a government, to protect us from ourselves, and to make sure our system continues to run - I see no other alternative.
I think maybe GoPro is angling to become somewhat of a de facto standard in this space. If for example through this partnership they solve a lot problems in the action camera application to pro sports, then when/if another league wants to implement something similar then they will see that hardware/solutions already exist... with GoPro cameras in mind.
How many conferences would you have seen ten years ago with a prominent lisp showing? IIRC even the primary (at the time) ILC conference was only held every other year.

These days with more regional conferences starting it's nearly in the twenties, and attendance at Strange Loop (which has had lots of keynotes by lispers) is several thousand and growing.
I don't see any reason to doubt anything or for that matter give anyone "the benefit".

Firefox is still open source, unlike IE, Safari and Chrome, so just look.
By that same logic - Did you ever leave your house feb 2020 to now? If you did, you could’ve done more.
I think its correct
I have never read the blog, or have any positive or negative association with it, but after all the attention this story has garnered, I just read both the NYT article and Mr. Siskind's response.

The main takeaway from the NYT article is that there is a group of people in whose writings/blog comment sections/etc racists/sexists have found a home, and his is one of them. He does not address this assertion, or what the root cause may be if it is true, or if it is not true, why not. This is the whole point of 1, 3 and 4 in his statement but he does not address it.

As to the only concrete point he addresses (point 2), he does something that is dishonest. He wrote (pre-edit):

> "blurring the already rather thin line between “feminism” and “literally Voldemort“"

and then claimed it's taken out of context. I read the whole article, especially the surroundings carefully to see if there was any context as to which could change the meaning of what he wrote here, but there is none. This simply states that there is a thin line between feminism and evil. If you believe that, then don't delete it. But if you don't, don't tell the reader it's taken out of context, just admit you made a mistake in writing this, or you have changed your mind despite this was what you believed when you wrote the article.

So there are 4 points in the rebuttal, 3 of them not addressing the point at hand, and 1 point dishonest at best. I am not impressed.
Important distinction for the author: backtracking is the search mechanism that you're able to use when your logic comprise only predicates.

"Avoiding a configuration like 1,1,1" isn't enabled by backtracking. Rather, it's a constraint placed on the search space (domain), for which, the generator wont need generating solutions that needlessly gets tested.

Your son would probably really enjoy Prolog (and Logic Programming in general) where these concepts are much more developed.

Check out the channel "The Power of Prolog" on YouTube to get your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFeNyzCEQDS4KCecugmotg/vid...
This is gold. Honestly it's even hard to tell if it's satire.

> we see white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom can show up when:

• The focus is on getting the “right” answer.

• Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration.

• “Real-world math” is valued over math in the real world.

• Students are tracked (into courses/pathways and within the classroom).

• Participation structures reinforce dominant ways of being.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
Problem with social media it's like the junk food of writing. It takes far more thought just to piece together an essay than it does to piece together a tweet. A lot of social media is reactive and off-the-cuff. Writing an essay requires sitting down for an hour or two or four and getting out what you want to say with far more careful wording and expressiveness.
Yeah, I trust WHO technicians much more than their "upper management" who wasn't light on appeasement and delaying of important actions
The NYT protects the anonymity of authors "whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure" when it suits their agenda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...
I intend to do a PhD for the intrinsic value of the research and learning itself, not just to earn. There is more to life than money.
True on the best hack being to actually DO referencing.

That said, I thought the non-intuitive hack here was the trick about contacting the references and asking them to call you back as a sign of their view on the quality of the potential hire.
In this context: no. It's just the astronomical description (by convention) for the 180 degrees of longitude "left" of Greenwich. But sometimes I have problems with "western" designating a cultural/political unity where Australia makes part of whereas Brazil might not (depending on context).

And indeed: when, actually, is Summer 2011 in Australia?
That is trolling. All you're doing is reciting your standard "Israel is evil occupier" routine typical of someone of a certain political bias. No sources or added incite. It is however a fact, that since a high percentage of suicide bombers came out of Palestinian territories when compared to other countries, it is accurate to imply that a different economic course could diminish the terrorist aspect of the Palestinian economy. endtime's comment may seem inflammatory to you, but it is only objective recognition of economic factors. Your's is analysis of far more complex issues and simplifying of the moral choices in the conflict.
Yes, a quick look at the actual search hits shows that most of these books are in fact about birds, and a couple hits are citations and refer to a last name.
Hum, isn't a PhD about, you know, _learning_ something? The economist eyeglass always wants to filter out everything that isn't money.
Superb post.
A small weekend project. I love playing blackjack and have basic strategy memorized, but I've always been curious to see what the actual probabilities were for hitting, standing and doubling down. If you'd like to see the code it's available on github: https://github.com/ChrisZieba/blackjack.
All of those properties are binary things -- it's either reliable or not reliable, ordered or not ordered, etc. The notion of mostly ordered or mostly reliable we sort of get "for free" with UDP. So then your question becomes: what about some properties and not others? There are ways around the fixedness of endpoints so I'll just look at reliability and ordered-ness.

Unreliable but ordered: use UDP, enumerate your packets, and if you get a packet out of order, discard it. No cheaper than UDP, and I can't really see a potential benefit over it.

Reliable but unordered: for this to make sense you have to impose a timeout (i.e. if you're willing to wait forever, UDP is reliable in that you can never be sure you won't ever receive that packet). So now you have ACKs and NACKs and you essentially have TCP minus congestion control and where you don't bother to re-order packets based on seq #. I can't really see the benefit of this either.

That said, there are many non-tcp-non-udp protocols out there. I just wouldn't say that the protocol-space is a spectrum with TCP on one side and UDP on the other -- there are many, many dimensions to look at.
Can you build a fully functional version of Atom just from those repos?

To compare, Apple releases source code for some components, but they definitely don't distribute "/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext".
ah , mais tout le monde peut se tromper,surtout avec le français, ou il est difficile de savoir comment un mot s'écrit tant qu'on ne l'a pas lu...
Any relation to the Node.jar project?
How shit is Twitter, that most knowledgeable people agree this is a reasonable purpose for a new firm? This work should have been done a decade ago. It's not as if Twitter were busy working on profitability...
How is whalesong coming along? Anyone using it for production apps.
Several big rockets already were built - and all struggled, more or less, with lack of payloads. First was Saturn-5 - and N-1 arguably was closed because there wasn't enough interest in it, in terms of payloads, for anybody involved. Then it was Energia - again, may be, should USSR survive, it'd still flew, but it was closed, while Proton and Zenit survived. Last was Space Shuttle - which was particularly expensive lately with not enough missions to justify its annual cost.

So, with big rockets, it's doubtful that "build them, and they will be used" approach works. On the other hand, we really don't need big rockets that much anymore - we can do anything with existing rockets. It would be interesting to see how often Falcon 9 Heavy will be employed.
Facebook is one of the worst, but to be fair, lots of software companies seem to have difficulty grasping the concept of consent. How many times have you been asked to install or turn on something you didn’t want, where the options are “Yes” and “Ask me later”? What happened to “No”? Why can’t software companies accept a no from the user and treat it respectfully? No means no, right?
This is one of the neat things about Android: the keyboard is just another application. All you need is the apk file to try this keyboard or any other one - there are even some in the Market like ShapeWriter.
You forget Hanlon's razor:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

This kind of reporting does not take place because the reporter is malicious. It takes place because the reporter thinks his public will consider it interesting and because he thinks his public should be informed about it. Which can be considered stupid, because it is really not that interesting, because it may have adverse effects by strenghtening or causing prejudices through overly broad generalizations and because it may simply be spreading falsehoods.

(In which I do not intend to take a stance on the veracity of the claim.)