jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The greatest damage done by 9/11 was not the actual destruction of the towers and the deaths of all those people, but the (sadly predictable) reaction of our government, particularly the Patriot Act, the creation of the TSA and the Dept. of Homeland Security, and the emboldening of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and the NYPD.
Also Chainlink isn't in the smart contract space, its in the decentralised oracle space. Polkadot is more of a "blockchain of blockchains" rather than an Ethereum competitor.

Cardano is a smart contract platform like Ethereum but it is a dead project. Ethereum sees tons of usage while Cardano is just a ghost chain.
In honor of this news: developers, developers, developers, developers...in techno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA
Or Readability; http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
(make-frame-on-display ":0")
The paper linked to in this post is math-light and fun (or, if you prefer, math-light but fun), esp. the discussion of the golden ratio in human anatomy (ratio of height to height of navel): "we're not told why this is important. The navel is a scar of no great importance in an adult"; and, having tested the hypothesis on his family: "there is some ambiguity about the precise location of the navel since it has a nontrivial length."
Author of the paper here - can you be more specific about which citations are factually incorrect?
I flew to Hartfort, CT (BDL, actually in the rather distant suburb of Windsor Locks CT) last year, and my flight was delayed to about 10:30pm; I almost didn't get an Uber because the market simply doesn't for the drivers to stick around that late. There were other delayed flights coming in after mine, closer to midnight; my driver said quite plainly that those folks would have to figure something else out, because all the rideshare drivers in the parking lot were heading home for the night.

All this to say, I should have prepared better and I don't know what I expected. We take the "always on" nature of these services for granted, but that's not how the world works outside of the major metros.
Here's a tool for creating your own interlinear texts

https://interlinearbooks.com/tools/interlinearizer/
>wise adults understand that there's no self at all

Except, of course, for Carl Jung. And Polonius in Hamlet. But that's all.
Or just buy a smart TV and just never connect it to the internet.
This doesn't work at scale. The IO performance with LVM is terrible. I lost a lot of money trying to implement this. Percona wrote Xtrabackup as a replacement for LVM.

Documentation:

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/05/disaster-lvm-...

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/24/xtrabackup-op...
"with rival teen site 4chan" - wow, I would not describe 4chan as a teen site. Tumblr is described as a "whimsical micro-blogging site". Journalism at its finest.
I love it.

"Can anybody share an invite for today's AA510 to DFW? KTHXBYE!"
You don't need to flee the country yet.
Yeah, I meant it as an understatement (same for "somewhat big earthquakes").
No. Not really. But we kind of miss it anyway.
Here's a translated page: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

In short, the provider is going to block services like WhatsApp, Skype and video services like YouTube. If you still want those services, you'll have to pay extra. This is next to the bandwidth limit which they already have in place.

The OPTA (Dutch FCC) is happy with this trend, because it would give the consumer more choice.
I resent that you sent the female to fetch drinks. Mix it up once in a while and send the queer.
His point about the declining value of business school in particular is nominally sound, but he pinpoints the wrong source of the problem.

The problem with business school is that it's started seeing itself in competition with law school, and accordingly, it's started focusing on younger and younger candidates. Average ages of first-year MBA students have been getting younger, especially at the top-tier programs like HBS and Stanford.

This is, quite frankly, defeating the original purpose of business school: to be a finishing school, and not a preparatory school. Back in the day, you got an MBA because you had learned a thing or two in your work experience, and would like to reflect on it through the prism of various frameworks, theories, and leaders. But it was critical that you had an empirical knowledge base to work with, or else the lessons were vague and meaningless. The topics demanded practical knowledge of the general subject.

Today, b-school is trying to position itself as an entry vehicle into the working world. You graduate, you go to b-school, you learn some mumbo-jumbo about how this whole working world -- which you've never experienced -- is supposed to work. And then you get sent off into that world, ready to be an entitled prick and piss off everyone around you who has actually experienced the real thing. People who will laugh at your frameworks and your theories, because they've heard them from the last 20,000 MBAs who came before you.

B-school can still be relevant in today's business world, and in the business world of the future. But it needs to decide what it wants to be. And, whatever that is, it should be something more than simply an alternative to law school for 22-to-25-year-olds.
The first paragraph seems to imply that, to understand recursive algorithms, you need to be young. And rightly so, the software industry is not for old people. Did I get the argument right?
If it were written in a satirical novel the critics would call the reality of fox and friends an unrealistically drawn hyperbole

I've yet to read a more apt description of the network than thus.
You can do your part to fix this by not watching TV news and not reacting to clickbait in any medium

Funny, I don't do any of those things, yet this stuff seem to continue unabated. How many people need to (not) do it for a critical mass?
Libraries can only take you so far.

A python developer with limited experience is likely to use too many 3rd party libraries in simple cases where they are really not needed. As the application grows this turns into a maintenance and/or performance nightmare.

Not to mention the fact that it takes experience to understand/troubleshoot/fix third party code. When things go wrong the dev with 10 years experience is going to be vastly more productive than one with less experience.

I am a python dev with >10 years experience and I manage numerous junior devs with limited experience, so I see this kind of thing all the time.
Sorry but I'm not willing to make a public enemy out of any of these projects just to prove a point.
Sorry about this! Best to check in with our support team: support@thalmic.com.
I've been doing some ruby and php stuff at home and I mostly use vim. But when I go back into work it's back to java and eclipse.

I would love to use vim on my java work but I'd really miss eclipses background compilation and server integration.
There are three problems with that statement.

1) Short trips tend to fly at much lower altitudes than transatlantic flights, e.g. 10,000 feet vs 40,000 feet, which is about 1/35th the exposure. It takes time (and fuel) to climb to high altitudes with a full complement of passengers.

2) The superficial nature of backscatter scans means the dose is absorbed by the outermost tissues, instead of distributed throughout the volume of the body. Thus the effective dose is higher.

3) The dose is received over a period of seconds instead of minutes or hours. From higher-dose research, we know that a high dose in a short period of time is more damaging than the same total dose spread out over a longer time period. There is a lack of data for low-dose exposure, which causes a rift between safety agencies and industry spokespeople.

Additionally, we should be using independent testing and dosimeters instead of relying on manufacturer's figures. AFAIK nobody has walked through one of these with a dosimeter yet.

"David Brenner, the head of Columbia University’s Centre for Radiological Research, says the concentration on the skin – one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the body – means the radiation dose is actually 20 times higher than the official estimate."

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/naked-scanners-may-increa...

Check my comment history for a more thorough review of these issues.
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I could be wrong here, but I believe hfinney was referring to the footnote about how people claim "X causes cancer" because they're against X, not because of evidence. Opponents of cell phones/power lines have frequently claimed they cause cancer, thus making it another valid example for the footnote, because their claims are untrue.
I'm not sure if Amazon's policy of 70% royalties for 2.99+ books will make any difference. Expectations are dramatically lowered (and reviews are inversely related) for 99 cent books compared to 3-dollar books.

I was amazed to read the overflowing positive reviews of a 99 cent book that was so poorly edited and written that I had to stop reading it. The reviews lauded the author's ability to entertain at such a low price. I'm not sure how many authors can give up such positive reviews (fueled by low expectations).
Isn't this an obvious marketing angle designed to get people to come to the site more often? Somehow I doubt they are really giving people less matches based on this. Anyway, assuming an even distribution of matches, matching "ugly" top "ugly" and "attractive" to "attractive" will result in an even match distribution.
At first I was like, "wow, that's offensive."

But then I was like, "damn, how come I didn't get that email too?"
Sadly x86/arm/mips/sparc/power processors aren't Perl machines and Perl6 thusly can't be used to make a kernel for a Unix derivative.
> This is only exacerbated by the uselessness of the available debugging tools

Really? I think the debugging tools are pretty strong. Have you tried using VS08 to debug?
1 arcmin for the human eye's resolving power was the value I always used. I was surprised to learn about this whole "50 cycles" thing.
continuing my foolish musings I would have thought originally that getting the mean of the sample and multiplying by 2 would have been a good estimate. But one problem with that is that there is no possibility of the maximum being lower than anything in the sample so there has to be an allowance for uncertainty upwards. Is that the reason for adding 1 to s?
Many corporate meetings are like that when meeting people outside one's own organization. Each side is cautious.
Note that "Tape C Securities" are stocks listed "on the NASDAQ Exchange"; NASDAQ shut the whole thing down.
I couldn't even finish reading it - The fact that someone is being questioned about what their religion is, is not something I would expect in the land of the free. I'm not religious at all, but if someone in authority asked me my religion just to make sure that I'm not one of 'those people', it would piss me off to no end.
The only question I have unanswered is what the name of the game was that Elon Musk sold when he was 12. I had to include Blastar, Blast Star, and Blaster. I tried to ask that question on Twitter, but it got lost in the spam...

@alanctgardner2 I meant questions that will improve the material I have. You can always ask more questions, but I didn't want the book to be too long either. Well, I wrote it because he's an engineer and it's hard to find engineers that are role models, and I wrote it because he cares about peak oil and not so many others do.
> This all depends on how you define "dream". If it's a picket fence, yard, pool, 2,5 kids, etc, that's not gonna fly in the Bay

It might fly if you fly. :-) I don't know if this is still true, but when I lived in Silicon Valley a little over 20 years ago, I did some price comparisons, and it worked out that for the cost of a nice SV house, you could buy a much bigger house and pool in the Merced area in the Central Valley, and a Mooney M20 (private plane with a cruise speed of over 250 mph), hanger space for the plane in Merced and Palo Alto, and a car to keep in Palo Alto. You could even get the house on enough land with room from a runway, to save having to drive to the Merced airport every day. Get a couple other people to move to Merced and share the commute to split operating costs of the Mooney, and it looked like this would actually be quite viable.
In case you had any doubt that the TSA wasn't staffed by incompetent racist idiots.
The distressing thing is that we've been putting so much machinery into place, and gotten the noose so well fitted, that when the bottom drops out we'll only have the briefest of short, sharp shocks before we find ourselves in a terrifyingly efficient machine of oppression.

Or you can take the train.
Aditya - amazing writing, horrible story. I'm so sorry you had to go through that
> this legal precedent could easily get misused

It's actually pretty narrow. If you have received sufficient notice that you are no longer allowed to access a resource (in this case, the cease and desist letter), then you can't use technical measures to mask who you are and try to access the resource.
With the language server protocol, this works reasonably well in Python code bases for me in Emacs.
Well, that's a surprise for sure. I wrote this article a few months ago and it gained no traction. Today I woke up and boom, front page.
They also outed a Chinese Twitter maker a few years ago. Or maybe that was vice and the reporter now works at nyt. I don't remember except that nyt these days is lame.
Height is important for some things and IQ is important for others. You probably don't want a four foot center on your basketball team, or a 75 IQ surgeon operating on you.
I just wish everyone deals with this whole situation with absolute objectivity instead of hyperbole. Speculation and trust is important but please don't input your own subjective perspective into assumptions.
HN is about hacker news, there are various viewpoints. Not everyone has to believe in the long-disproven invisible hand.

I think crypto is a dangerous destabilising factor. If not reigned in, it will come crashing down on all of us when it begins to destroy the public finances of (first) smaller countries and enables he usual suspects to evade all taxes, store value in non-localisable assets, etc.
Ah, right, I forgot about the FT/Nikkei connection. I subscribe to the latter and not the former.

Economist is very opinionated, sure, but when I do read them I find the reporting on world business issues pretty informative and the tone a good test of how I feel about globalization that week. At least I know who's talking to me... well not literally "who" of course.
Promoting something that you own isn't illegal. Jack Dorsey and thousands of others are promoting BTC while simultaneously owning it on social media. Musk also promotes TSLA and SpaceX to his benefit (since he holds equity).

It may be a bit of a grey area ethically since he didn't disclose his ownership until later, but if he was doing it because he really believes in crypto and it's not just a cynical attempt to pump something he's holding and then close the position into the buying frenzy a day later, then I have no problem with it. Of course, though, it's not possible to read this intention from a distance.

One interpretation is that this is in the same ethical category as Instagram influencers who get paid to flash products in front of their users without disclosing that they're being paid.
Older RoaringKitty YT spreadsheet videos (before he became all about GME and before much of anyone watched his streams) are interesting to watch for a person casually interested in finance. They are very nerdy in discussing his approach to investing, tools etc. and don't present any clear recipes. He had/probably still has a biggish public portfolio of stocks and seemed to base it on financial analysis applying the value investing style. I thought this style is pretty much dead, because market efficiency has increased compared to the times when Benjamin Graham analysed securities by hand. (Unless you have the name recognition and capital of Buffett.)

I don't know if all this was completely sincere on RoaringKitty's part. Personally I believe that he mostly was at that time. Possibly he got carried away by money and fame later. But I 1) don't have to decide it for any official body 2) was never long GME, it was already too expensive (risky) compared to fundamentals when I learned of the story. What I'm trying to say is: fraudsters tend to want to sell you something, and at least it seemed that you weren't sold anything by RK.

I can get recommendations on in-depth (practical), interesting, non-pushy financial content for casual viewer. Please don't say Matt Levine, he's a (great) commentator not a practitioner.

Also, I think everyone interested is aware that no one should expect money from active investing, you should use something like index funds first while already having a comfortable amount of money in safer assets etc. That's why I say casually.
Dang et al would never let it happen.
This, a million times.

I had to fight more than once against management in order not to use HTTP for everything. HTTP isn't even that simple to deal with. Good thing is that the numbers were always with me, and with code examples, it was always doable, but it's incredible how HTTP got its way in people's minds!
somewhate relevent: https://xkcd.com/927/
That depends on where you invest, all markets are not equally competitive.
Damn! I'm hours late and I was coming here to be pedantic as well.
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Yeah, I think you probably dodged a bullet. If people come to me with a ridiculous counter, all it tells me is they don't know what the market is like, and I'd have a conversation about that, and make another offer. If people come to me with a high counter but one that might be plausible, I'd ask them to justify it, explain why we can't/won't go that high, and counter.

If someone takes it as some perceived slight that you've asked for a higher amount, then consider they'd probably be equally offended if you asked for a raise down the road, and then you'd be in a bad spot...

Of course being able to not worry about being turned down is a luxury we can't always afford.

(Also, I have at times thought I massively overshot, and kicked myself because they immediately accepted; you'd be surprised how much of an increase you can ask for sometimes)
These types of tools on Google play are an oxymoron.

I would only use it if it is kicked off the Google play store because is against Google's revenue model.
As someone who wants to maximize their time/money for impact: How should we value the impact of BLM's 'improvement' efforts, compared to the 'improvement' of black lives that stems from Malaria prevention?

Then how should we balance improvement and saving lives?
The deregulation frenzy that started with Reagan/Thatcher and all over the world is responsible for the insane inequalities we have today. The billionaire owned media has a neoliberal agenda against regulation.

Of course they don't have to call journalists to tell them what to say, they recruit heads of HR who recruit neoliberal journalists/editorialists.

90% of people haven't seen their wages progressing that much in 20 years, yet they keep voting for the Biden/Trump/Macron/Bolsonaro of the world whom appeal is 100% created by the media.

Deregulation is also responsible for leaders doing nothing about global warming and so many other things that make the world a particularly shitty place right now.
Closed by default/final by default is a bad bad decision that reeks of premature optimization. No I don’t want to litter my code with “open” just to allow it to be extensible. Makes Kotlin a non-starters for me.
There is no universal answer, I usually take one of these routes:

* If time permits and this position is not on my 'do whatever it takes list' then I go bold and ask for more. If they accept - good, if not - not a problem. It worked for me quite well, and I managed to go above even the upper level of the official salary range.

* If I'm interested in the company then I don't ask myself and try to make them move first. A big advantage if there are other companies who are interested in you at the same time. Then just tell the upper figure in the job advert or try to find out how much the company is paying for similar positions. Hope they offer you the most they can, and then just accept.
Highly unlikely, that’s just a lie marketeers tell themselves so they can sleep at night.
The MRZ text is just a key, and then you have to tap your phone. What is important is the chip in your passport. Otherwise it will just fail because the text and the chip do not match up.
Everything else (marriage, kids) are luxury items.
You can say that about almost anything.
I definitely hate China's oppression of its minorities. I think we are seeing the true color of a nation that knows nobody will challenge them. When people try to color it by claiming "different cultural norms!" I just think, well if you just want a culture of evil, this is a good way to do so.

Also I have a smaller hate for the scrollamated site, it's so distracting.
I am god.
Thanks for the explanative answer! I've felt similarly to you before, until I dug deeper into the subject and realized that for white privilege to "disappear", it requires the privileged to do more than just "stop seeing color".

I wish I didn't have to treat anyone differently, but I feel like I should give minorities some benefit, as they have less access to opportunities.

Do you have an idea of how I could convey that without using the "white male" term or language?
The automatic characterization of examining human biodiversity as "Nazi race science" is a little concerning to me. While I understand that 95% of the people intrigued by HBD probably aren't in it for the sake of biology as much as they are for the sake of bigotry, I feel that Scott's treatment of it in that email was fairly reasonable. I certainly don't know enough about genetics, nature vs nurture, impacts of socioeconomics and culture, etc. to have an opinion on HBD, but I'm tentatively willing to acknowledge that there are probably at least two people groups in the world whose brains have adapted differently to different problem domains (though I'm strongly opposed to the idea that those two groups are "black people in the USA" and "white people in the USA"). If this wasn't true, it would be surprising enough to me that I'd need reasonable evidence to the contrary. If it is true, then it's likely significant, and needs to be talked about with the appropriate level of discourse. From his other writing, I feel like Scott understands this, and him limiting his statement on HBD to an email is due to the fact that it's incredibly hard to do so responsibly, and incredibly scary - e.g. my green account and the fact I fired up Tor to write this.
It's not about accepting the evidence. It's about making sure we interpret it correctly.

The main question to ask is this: why exactly do mandatory helmet laws reduce bicycle usage, and what needs to be done to address it?

Is it that helmets are too expensive? (They aren't.)

Is it that they are too difficult to put on and take off? (They aren't.)

Is it that they are too uncomfortable? (Maybe, but not any more so than seat belts, and yet most people aren't arguing against seat belt laws.)

Essentially, I'm not against accepting the validity of the evidence from these studies. I'm simply against the mentality of "mandatory helmet laws reduce bicycle usage, therefore we must not have mandatory helmet laws." That conclusion is too simplistic. The topic requires further study.
Have a read through the PDF linked in my comment. It summarizes the Estonian corporate tax regime.