jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Again, some people can be in good shape and eat grains. But if you want to be as healthy as possible they need to be avoided.

Find me a professional athlete on a grain-free diet.

Maybe they're out there somewhere, but I'm pretty sure if you find me one I'll find you a better professional athlete who eats grains.

With so much effort put into finding optimal diets for athletes nowadays, if cutting out grains would improve fitness in any meaningful way then we'd know about it by now. If Lance Armstrong or Usain Bolt could go faster with a grain-free diet they'd be doing it.

edit: I found a link about Usain Bolt's diet. Turns out he eats quite a lot of rice:

http://dailyrunningtips.com/training/usain-bolt-diet-food/

Now I can't prove he wouldn't be even faster if he cut out the rice, but I am pretty sure it can't be doing him too much harm.
I recall reading that the way the images are stored (for efficiency's sake) makes their deletion difficult. This analogy may not be all that correct, but I think of them as part of an archive in a fashion where their removal means rewriting part if not all of the much larger archive.

This is probably too simplistic, but the information caused me to wonder whether it would be practical to overwrite them in-place with equivalently sized data that represent a pure white or black image containing no metadata (EXIF, etc.). Data traces might be left, e.g. file name, perhaps some indexing (are metadata indexed?), but the image itself would essentially be gone.
Yep. I've used many of the operating systems throughout computing history, and BeOS still remains my favorite, in terms of its design and usability. It's a damn shame it died such an early death.

I keep hoping that someday modern operating systems will catch up to it. ;-)
Interesting assortment, but quite a few items are out of date, and there's nothing to indicate quality.

For example, I took a look at the online "Ruby Essentials". Horrible. The section n variables is just wrong, and will leave people extremely puzzled about program behavior.
I point and laugh at those guys :)
I don't see how picking a small part of what I said and nitpicking on the wording helps here. But if you insist I will reword it for you:

> If you view a human as a population of cells, then GENES THAT ARE LIKELY TO RESULT IN cancer cells will tend to be group selected out.

And as I said it is also entirely possible that being good at music/rituals improves an individual's chances of survival, as well as the chances of survival of the tribe. In this case the arguments against group selection don't apply.

Group selection is definitely an effect, but is a small effect compared to individual selection. So if traits that are good for the group are at odds with traits that are good for the individual then the traits that are good for the individual are likely to "win".
As someone who spends a lot of time working with future high-school math teachers, I'd be really interested in reading some more by this author; but I can't find any contact information, and the blog moved to an 'invitation-only' Blogspot account in 2007. Does anyone know how to get in touch with the author to request an invitation?
Think clipboard versus Olivetti.

Netbooks have half the screen and a fraction of the navigation and presentation usability for this particular scenario.

As owner of both types of devices, I'd venture that the on screen keyboard on the iPad is at least as touch-type-able as the miniature netbook keyboards.

Also, Penultimate with its wrist rest detection suggests what domain specific charting software could be like.
> He has no background, and therefore, what he says is purely within the context of the discussion.

Which is precisely the intended effect: it makes you judge the writer by the writing.

> Anything he says is questionable, because their is no accountability.

So you need to know who someone is to asses the reliability of what is said? That means you know little about the subject matter, and don't intend to learn more. It's okay most of the time. We can't know everything. But if you are looking at a thread here, that's probably because you're interested in the subject. In that case, not being able to judge a comment by itself would be unacceptable.
"If you view a human as a population of cells, then cancer cells will tend to be group selected out."

Organism selection isn't a counterexample to the non-existence of group selection, because organism selection doesn't exist either. Selection pressure doesn't operate on species, populations, organisms, or even cells. It operates on genes. What appears to be organism selection is actually gene selection operating in the special circumstance that all of your cells were created by the same genome. This is also why bees, which will gladly commit suicide to sting you and protect the hive, aren't an example of group selection. The bees that sting you are sterile. The reproductive potential of their genes lies entirely outside of their bodies, so they're disposable. Their gonads are quite literally somewhere else.

So, I'll add the caveat that music could be adaptive in the sense originally described, conditional on a demonstration that people who enjoy similar music are sterile identical clones produced in bulk by the same mother.
Urgh no. Few things frustrate me more than reading interesting literature by people like Dawkins and Chomsky, then going online and finding that 90% of the interviews with them are conducted by ignorant mass-media shrills. Who obviously haven't read any of their works, and echo the same stupid questions that have been asked in every other interview with them.

I'd rather watch two experts in a field conversing. That's thought provocative, and it gives me good pointers on subjects that I should follow up on.
“I think likely, if the regime collapsed in the North, they'd move to keep the two countries in place, but with very close economic ties, (perhaps like the U.S. and Canada, with a lax border) for at least a couple generations …”

That’s exactly what some people in West Germany and also East Germany proposed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It ultimately didn’t happen but that was a real debate.
And of course, there is the small probability that his computer could have picked the number 10 as many as 347 times in a row. Something tells me he would have run the computer simulation again in that case.
Supposedly HN likes only really highly
relevant comments and viciously down votes
anything else, especially jokes, and
everything else, no matter how serious or
relevant, by the user they are down voting.

Here I've been viciously, bitterly, attacked
by some people apparently totally pissed off
at me for next to nothing, a
simple contribution follow up,
a famous quote from the movie Casablanca,
as a follow up
to a post
with the earlier part of that famous
quote from Casablanca.

So, my post on Lagrangian relaxation, that took
much of an afternoon to write, and with careful
theorems and proofs, with some material not
so easy to find, especially in such a succinct,
careful, and complete
form, and that stands to be of high interest
to anyone interested in simulated annealing,
gets downvoted -- a joke about my post does not,
and my response to the joke post does.

HN is getting to be a very nasty place,
not nearly as nice as, say, Reddit. Sorry
HN.

Sam,
PG, you've got a problem. You need to look
at your log files and find who has decided
to hate me and down vote anything I post,
no matter what I write.

My post on Lagrangian relaxation is right up
there in quality with some of the best
expository writing in optimization, and I
know enough to know. That I get down voted
is the problem of HN, not my post. In the
past few days, the bitter, hostile, personal
attacks on me have cost me 70+ points,
no doubt to the great pleasure of
my attackers. I'm being bitterly attacked
personally, for no good reason, and now
independent of what I post.
This is definitely an interesting announcement. I'm happy that they are offering free upgrades to all users 7.1 and up. I believe this is a really smart move.
Free update to Windows 10 for anyone running Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows Phone 8.1. Awesome.
> So, why the hell would anyone leave that much money on the table? If you're asking me to do something crazy, you better be willing to pay for it.

At most early-stage startups, there is no money on the table. If you want to maximize your earnings, focusing your job search on pre-Series A startups is a horrible waste of time.

The OP seems to be asking for startup excitement, reasonable hours, high salary and meaningful equity. At a pre-Series A startup, you might be able to find two of the four.

> .5% equity, especially when it will end up being diluted, is a fool's game.

Rhetorical exercise:

1. What's .5% of $0?

2. What's 2% of $0?

3. What's 10% of $0?

Equity at early-stage startups is a fool's game.
It appears to at least have been built: http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-14_aero.asp

The craft hasn't yet had it's maiden flight. It's an interesting concept. I've always liked the joined-wing concept from a structural standpoint but, if the wing nuts in my graduating class were to be believed, stability and control of that layout isn't trivial.
Sarah is a very thoughtful and serious journalists, she wouldn't write this story if there wasn't something here. She is pretty open about the fact that she obviously doesn't have all the details - that is good reporting.
There is certainly a dynamic with social sites that the 'next generation' want to use something new - just like with music genres - you can't be cool indefinitely.

The next generation may reject social altogether - and not want to be tracked and recorded 24/7.
Don't know about the LLC/S-Corp end of things, but on the 'how should I split it?' stuff I think Joel Spolsky's response here makes a lot of sense:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
I agree that it minimizes moving parts. HOWEVER. Takeoff and landing on water is more difficult than land, because the water actually sucks the hull downwards, thus takeoff is more challenging than with wheels. Wheels would add some manufacturing complexity, but inexpensive and lightweight landing gear is a solved problem for ultra-light aircraft. I'd certainly like to hear their rationale for this. If they are real, I'd guess that they are going after a market--such as people who own cottages--where access to water is plentiful but access to prepared runways surfaces is not.
The quoted stall speed is 70 kmh (~43 mph), water feels a lot like concrete if you hit it at that speed
Depending on where you are, this plane may possibly fit in the Ultralight category ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation ) - i.e. none or very little paperwork required. Not sure about max/stall speed requirements - seems like it doesn't fit in US definition of ultralight, it's LSA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sport_aircraft ) in US probably.
I guess more testing would be required to know for sure. Its good news that both services are free so it wouldn't be difficult to test out your circumstances.

I use Dropbox more like a thumbdrive for temporary transfers and I like to have the warm and fuzzies that my data at rest is protected with strong encryption.
If one of the conceptual problems with a jury over-ruling a patent's validity is their lack of expertise, what if the jury in patent cases were composed of practitioners or experts in the field at question?
Welp, out comes Truth #2: No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can't increase the speed of light.

What is the round-trip latency of your GPU, versus the round-trip latency to the cloudy GPU? I am very interested to see how this holds up in comparison to other remote protocols...
Its all low effort, butthurt people who missed out and are bitter about it.

Gold is as much useless as btc or piece of paper when we hit an iceberg.

Btc was dead and busted at least 10 times already.

It has no 'function' and is using all the electricity in the world. It is solely responsible for global warming and gulags.

I am all seriousness why are those kind of articles showing up amass and are not getting flagged?

It is same low quality repetitive content. Can we stop it already?
So many words about the keyboard but nothing about the microcontroller. I wonder what they will use?
taking this a bit further, the original authors could probably employ this as a strategy: Since it's an anonymous auction, the original author could win the auction and then refuse to pay repeatedly until all the real potential buyers have given up.
Well that’s when he can Stop buying a new Mx Mac. Until then M1 is more power efficient than x86 so more battery life etc.
Pessimism/optimism are mostly to signal social support for things. If you act with irrational optimism towards someone's ideas you are showing that you support the person. Similarly if you don't act with irrational optimism many will take it as evidence that you don't support them, which can cause them to become hostile against you.

This means that acting with irrational optimism is often the rational choice when you consider social factors, and that is what managers are looking for when the job ad says it wants an optimistic person.

However that kind of irrational social based optimism isn't what entrepreneurs means when they talk about optimism. Their kind of optimism is that you need to see yourself as better than others so you wont conclude that since most others fail you too will fail, which is kind of the opposite kind of optimism managers are looking for in their reports.
Yes, we deal with those sorts of trade-offs every day.

I can't discuss our internal metrics, sorry.
He's the HTML5 spec editor, known for his strong opinions on many topics.

I am being polite here, but there is a reason certain languages were ignored.
> I doubt they'll be writing a Linux AD server any time soon

They don't need to. Samba exists; nothing stopping Microsoft from sending in patches.
That’s the underlying primitive, yes.
I don't mind the const vs static. I mind just about everything else.
You're off by a year. Vive was released in 2016.
Some captured CO2 might be used with cheap electricity to make carbon neutral fuel - which is of course a form of stored energy itself. A pilot project in Germany is doing this[1]:

> The green hydrogen will be combined with carbon dioxide captured from the cement plant to produce synthetic methanol, which would then be refined into carbon-neutral synthetic kerosene (ie, aviation fuel), for use at the nearby Hamburg airport. The airport is hoping that 5% of all fuel used there will be carbon-neutral by 2025.

[1] https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/offshore-wind-to-pow...
lets just say its convenient timing for a "strategy changed back"
I (half) surprised to see there are more than one Google product cemetery sites

https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://gcemetery.co/
Ahem: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/28/facebook-two-factor-phon...
> I know instantly that it's using systemd.

Except you don't know really know that. It is objectively true that such usage was around for a long time before systemd in some major distros. I was seeing it at least 10 years ago, and I still see it on my systems that don't use systemd.
A thirty-year-old article which reads like it could have been written today.
True, that could very well explain its horrid state in mid-1995. But that was 18 years ago, and things really haven't gotten any better since then.

The Harmony work is somewhat of a step in the right direction, but its impact will still be quite limited, assuming it ever does become a standard.

C++, on the other hand, has seen significant improvement over the past two decades. Much of its complexity can now be avoided when using a "Modern C++" approach, all without losing access to its powerful functionality in those cases when it truly is needed.

C++ has evolved in a way that makes it more usable. JavaScript has merely stagnated, without the community showing any real interest in cleaning up what's a very unjustifiably bad situation.
Not only isn't deribit physically settled but the "cash" is Bitcoin-- my understanding is that there is no actual USD on the platform (like how bitmex works).

While this is a convenience for those of us that like Bitcoin exposure, it's probably a major downside for people who expect Bitcoin to lose lots of value, be outlawed, or even fail completely. :)

(plus, I would be uneasy about any cash settled product not just becoming irrecoverably insolvent in the event of the kind of black swan that a contract buyer would be hoping for...)

I'd say it would be worth asking LedgerX for 5 year contracts but I doubt anyone would be willing to sell them for prices people would be willing to buy them at-- and that assumption is supported by the fairly low volumes on the Dec2022 so far.
Got some suggestions for your sibling comment by
sumedh?
The Lightning network is an overloy network on Bitcoin that allows faster transactions and higher transactions-per-second. Due to the economics of mining, it won't decrease the overall electricity usage of the network, but will make it more "efficient" per-transaction.

Ethereum is more programmable, to the point of being quite easy to shoot oneself in the foot. (Bitcoin is intentionally not Turing-complete to avoid abuse.)

Anything with proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work is going to be less wasteful in terms of electricity. Ethereum is trying to get there but it has been delayed a lot.

The slow pace of block creation has been a problem with Bitcoin for a long time and lots of blockchains have higher transaction-per-second capacities and quicker verification times. Ripple was promising but had some serious scandals and I don't know if it has a future. Anyway, Bitcoin is one of the slowest ones out there now.

Several have improved on the privacy/anonymity aspects. The most famous of those I think is Monero.
Yeah those are the reasons I went with the smart TV kept offline. It’s a bummer that TVs now come with terms and conditions designed to monetize you and even though you own the thing you can’t control it.
In related news, the US seems fine with bombing Iran-backed militias in Syria, but when news about MBS OK-ing the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi came out, crickets.
One takeway from the Pfizer & Moderna trials was that a single dose of those vaccines were also fairly protective for most people. With those vaccines, if you could avoid being infected within two weeks of the first dose, it looks like the protection is ~ 90% against COVID. The second dose acts as a booster, and with J&J, a second dose does indeed increase the antibody titre about three fold. That said, a single dose of any of these vaccines is probably "good enough".

Couple of caveats: With Pfizer & Moderna, the major difference in outcome for single dose participants was a reduced protection from 'severe COVID', down to about 50%. It's also a very small group (~1000 people), so there's the risk of over interpreting the results.

The other thing to consider is that a second dose might be required for older adults, who have a reduced immune response from a single dose.
They actually have different enough use cases and abilities that it is rare to consider them as competitors.

The logic of Coq is vastly more expressive and it's proof process is vastly more controllable.

All of this comes at the cost of level of expertise required and ease and scale of automation.

I'm a big fan of Z3 clearly, but there are entire realms of human thought that can be clearly encoded into Coq that basically cannot in Z3.

You can in principle be fairly expressive in Z3Py if you use quantifiers freely and python as kind of a macro system but it is clunky and Z3 won't actually be able to solve convoluted quantifier usage, at which point you're sunk. You may at that point start to try to split up your theorem into pieces, but then you are building an ad hoc theorem prover that isn't quite just Z3.

In Coq, there is always the ability to appeal to the effort and ingenuity of the programmer/prover.

Coq has a much better ability to deal with the infinite, induction, and symbolic manipulation. It is also an entire programming language in its own right that you can run or extract to OCaml.

Another difference is the de Bruijn criterion. Proofs from a prover are only as trusted as the code of the prover itself. The "trusted core" of Coq is small, a few thousand lines of code. Whereas Z3 is not designed with this in mind, and there is no trusted core of Z3. You have to trust basically all of it. This point does not personally bother me that much, but other people find it important
I am intending to use it to refer to people, without any kind of racial connotations though. Maybe "idiots" would be a better word.
"Original" doesn't really exist in the digital native world. Data is literally copied when it gets distributed.

Maybe think of NFT as a pointer to the head of a link list, the start of the data distribution chain. And we assign some arbitrary monetary value to that pointer, because, well, there's only 1 head of a link list.
Just use Mailgun[1] and you get incoming mail POSTed to your server for free.

I think Sendgrid[2] offers the same too?

[1] http://www.mailgun.com/

[2] https://sendgrid.com/
Apparently you didn't read that article or you would see what they are doing...every load of laundry gets a cookie or healthy treat delivered with it. Clearly a game-changer.
Part of my favorite passage from the Aeneid :); the literal translation is a little different from the English phrase that's become popular, but I've always thought it amazing that people from that time period had the same insights we get from very modern situations. (see: quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Catullan love poetry, etc - it's a shame more Roman literature doesn't survive).
The difference however is Abu Ghraib didn't put intelligence sources at risk

The hell it didn't. (I stopped reading there, so maybe you made some good points later on.)

By discarding any pretense of adherence to the Geneva Convention, Abu Ghraib put every US soldier at risk.
I'm late to the party, but you can (theoretically) receive the death penalty in the US from the federal government for operating as a drug kingpin.

There's some unsettled aspects that may allow you to appeal that sentence, but it's technically on the books.
very cool! Impressed that you could get that working like that. Quite fun too.

On a side note. I wonder if you would like to somehow port http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ to javascript.

Since many technical diagrams are done in ascii. It might actually be handy to auto convert to a Canvas image.

Not sure how one would deal with ascii-art to canvas however. But technical drawings is important.
As somebody from the industry; I can only imagine that it's being done in China or something. Even then there'd be super slim margins.
That is until you get a weird error or try to do something more complicated.
I guess I have Backblaze to thank for that. It was a valid URL when I posted it. sigh