jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that in the UK until fairly recently bread could only legally be sold in either 400g or 800g loaves.
I disagree. The UK could be viewed as more "socialist" than Ghana, but it is consistently ranked as more economically free: https://www.heritage.org/index/visualize?cnts=unitedkingdom|...

Also, with the tactics Uber has historically used - in a "proper" free market, would they not become a monopoly? And then they could charge what they please, ending up in the same position that previous taxi companies have been in.
They've had no license for two years, they should be able to go for another two years for sure without a hitch.

I bet they could go on like this forever.
That still sounds horrifyingly abusable which is the exact opposite of "good enough".

Criminalizing "lies" sounds like the exact sort of thing that would be useful to cover up abuses of power. We already saw how "Espionage" was used for undeclared Wars with the Pentagon Papers. Now imagine Cointelpro also being covered or police brutality.
Do not forget Bolt (a.k.a Taxify)
Outside of southern states, a lot of us are well past the hiking/camping season this time of year, except for folks well experienced and equipped for winter recreation or just heading to local city parks.
someone please tell me, how many beta and RC versions are more before final release?
Agreed. Besides with the amount of publicity Assange has been getting, wouldn't case files being leaked make it incredibly easy to file for a mistrial?

I mean you could bring a case against them citing purposeful release and sue them under defamation laws. It might go nowhere, but throwing these kinds of suits against the prosecutor will only serve to discredit the prosecution.

Trail by media would be a far more effective win for Assange than a full out court battle, because all he has to do is convince a British judge that there's no merit for his extradition, and convincing the judge that there's political advantages to slandering him could be all it takes to put the nail in the prosecutions appallingly flimsy case.
Forgive me if my sarcasm detector is broken here, but...really? It's a page title. It's not a harbinger of horrible UX.
It leaves a bad taste honestly. They've done it once, offered no explanation inspite of people asking all the time. What they have done has eroded trust, whose to say what they have published is the latest ? What more could they be hiding ??
Until you realize it is a political tool, not a binary fly / not fly list.

It's not logical, it's political theater. Like the whole TSA, basically.
Yes I was. Thanks, I had them mixed up.
Signal was a random 'messenger' at one point too. They needed a fast (in seconds) private way to send money. There wasn't one. Until now.
It's not a terrific workaround, but I suppose you could fly into Canada or Mexico and then ground transport across the border.
>> Your trade assumes that none of your employees will want to live in a high cost of living area if given the opportunity to WFH. If their age / hobbies / etc. make city living attractive you will need to compensate them appropriately or be unable to attract them.

This is a fair point. Not sure if you're from the US, but I'll note that the weighted majority of all US technology job opportunities are in cities and major metro areas. If someone wants to live in a high-cost-of-living area, thats a great problem to have, because probably half the tech jobs are already there in the Bay Area especially. There is also no shortage of compensation in such high-cost-of-living areas.
But my wish is that the really creative, motivated people don't lose their motivation. F*ck You money is a great idea, but after a couple of years of coasting, spend some energy and funds to make something really cool happen.

Unfortunately, some people go through such a traumatic experience which happens to result in FU money that they burn out and stop creating. That's a great shame for us all.
That's helpful, thanks!

For anyone else who's hesitant to use the link, these are the three choices presented when you opt out: https://i.imgur.com/4lB2bSq.png

If you pick the first one, you can still use the notification service (https://haveibeenpwned.com/NotifyMe) to email yourself a private link to check what breaches include the address (past and current).
I discovered Regus on this very thread.

WeWork managed to get itself in the media. That's the only difference I can see.

As an aside, iOS and Nevermind are both horrible for getting any visibility on a search engine...
I experienced an episode of transient global amnesia [1] a couple of years ago. It lasted for 6-7 hours, during which I was transported to the hospital, but every 2-3 minutes I would ask anew "Why am I in the hospital?" — having no memory at all of being there. I still have no clue what might have caused it. I mean, scientists don't have a clue what causes it, only a wide range of speculated causes, none of which really applied to me.

Since there's no known way to prevent TGA, no treatment, and apparently no lasting damage, it has never (AFAIK) been researched, certainly not researched much, but it strikes me as the kind of thing that should be studied. If scientists could figure out how memory formation is completely blocked in episodes of TGA, it seems like that would provide useful data about how memory formation normally works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_global_amnesia
Github should ban this guy... from linking to OPs github repositories? How should that work?
The seasteading institute hopes for an exploration of possibilities. Not implementing one particular agenda. And exploring the solution space could lead to unforeseen rewards.

For eg. the open source movement hacked the legal system to come up with an awesome solution. It was different from capitalism, which assumes that innovation happens only if people see financial reward. In a communist system, you are "expected" to innovate by an order from the top. But these systems never thought that people could do stuff like writing things like Operating systems, Compilers, browsers, databases... medicine... electronics, architecture, movies, novels and even ads "just for the sake of doing it."

Our current systems are tied to labor as a critical cog for the economics to work out. In the future automation will significantly reduce the need for labor in manufacturing and services. This will be a disruptive change. Right now the labor that gets outsourced to cheaper countries will finally be outsourced to machines. A lot of services like mechanical turk will even take up skilled jobs like even that of doctors.

Right now though machines do most of our manufacturing, we have invented absurdly complex services to keep 6 billion people busy. But at some point we can stop and ask... is this the best way to let 6 billion people have what they want/need.

Right now we technically have driverless cars. It is not inconceivable we will automate most of humanity's grunt work. The rest is FUN to do "just for the sake of it". So it will be a time to ask whether capitalism+voter elected oligarchy is the best way to live in such a world.

Watching this video from the venusproject was a real eyeopener: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261#

http://www.thevenusproject.com/

Another interesting take on the effect of automation on the way we live is this short story at http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Carl Marx codified communism, The French revolution gave us the modern democratic framework, Stallman and others gave us the skeleton for open source. It just shows radical changes are possible. Maybe we will invent something totally different from what we currently have. Maybe not. But why ridicule a guy like Thiel who wants to sail west to reach the east. Maybe he will end up doing something very different from what he set out to do.
> Some of them legalize prostitution more than the US does, but everything else (violent crimes, property crimes, drug crimes) that's illegal in the US is illegal in the countries we're comparing the US with. So that rules out (a) for the purpose of this discussion.

I'm not so sure about that. You'll not go to jail for possession of small quantities of drugs in Denmark, but you might in the US?
In my case, I'm learning Emacs after ~15 years avoiding it. I use a combination of Vim, Eclipse and Netbeans for enterprisey Java, but after that many years of a fixed mindset, I'm trying to reinvent myself and I'm trying both Clojure, JRuby and Git; Emacs has great modules to integrate them with ease.

Currently I don't have the fluency I had with Vim but I think the effort will pay itself on the long run. The key is to practice and use Emacs as much as you can everyday.
None.

I put my code out there so that people can use it. If they want to do so, they can. I don't see any reason to complicate things beyond that.
OK - that puts a totally different perspective on your post.
I don't know that it's anything to worry about. When you throw a bunch of analytical people into a rating system, it's only natural that they'll be searching out its weak points. A lot of us have probably noticed various weaknesses in the karma system, but I don't think it's because we're all scrambling to game that system. HN is just full of the types of people who can't help but notice.
Because at some point you will pass the point of diminishing returns. Suppose 3% of the time is spent in the server, and 97% in the web app. Do you really want to spend 200 hours trying to reduce that 3% to 2.5% instead of spending 10 hours on making your app twice as fast? You've made the server 20% faster, but what have you really gained in practice when you look at the overall picture?

Even assuming unlimited developer resources, will you really notice a 0.5% difference in production, especially when taking things like network latency into account?

My point is that hyping over raw performance is misleading at best. If performance is the only thing that matters then we wouldn't have operating systems with abstractions - everybody would program against the bare metal in assembly. One should weight the pros and cons carefully and reach a balanced trade-off.
Bjoern is a WSGI server, so in theory you just have to run Django using WSGI

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modwsg...

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsg...
MIT, however sometimes I'll release under the GPL if I feel I could make a profit off of it in the future by selling commercial licenses.
If they developed an alternative version of OpenSSH with backdoor how can they distribute it so that people will actually use it?
My dad after quitting the Oakland PD said (after they killed a bunch of Black Power):

"When you spend your whole life looking for bad, thats all you can see"
> instead duplicating the code-paths (leaving incr/decr untouched and instead making mult_ versions of everything)

If there already are two arithmetic opcodes, shouldn't both of them already be handled by the same code, only with an operation parameter? In that case all that should be necessary is the handling of that parameter in the place where the operation is actually performed, and you only add one more value of that parameter.

Having said that, I haven't looked and memcached yet how it actually implements these operations. I'll have to do that.
> I compare it do "how garbage would desktops be if Linux wasn't around to provide useful pressure?"

In what world does Linux on the desktop provide "useful pressure" to anyone? The only Linux "desktop" that has provided any pressure on the desktop to Microsoft and Apple is ChromeOS. ChromeOS is decidedly not a "Linux desktop". If Google flipped ChromeOS to Fuchsia tomorrow it would provide the same pressure with zero Linux.
Isn't that generally the case income-wise? Immigrants are a self-selecting bunch. Picking up and moving to a different country is hard and you need to be fairly dedicated to cross that gulf and put up with all the differences in order to make it work. South Asian Indian-Americans are one of the highest earning ethnic groups in the US, earning about twice the median national household income. But the median income in India is awful.
So RL is true AI. Alpha GO did make moves inconceivable to the best human mind on the subject.

There was no curve to fit into.
Racing car market is much bigger than WRC.

Look at any semi-successfull touring car series: its prettu much guaranteed that a third of grid will be race cars from VW group.
"casual inference in a general setting" is just your brain running an input through it's existing thought and decision processes with a low threshold for a passing answer.

So an ML model running an input through a collection of other models to see if it gets a reasonable answer.
> ...pursuing a hobby with passion is perfectly rational.

To a point, yes. Though we may disagree on the threshold where it crosses over from rational to unhealthy obsession. And there is certainly luck involved when there are tens who found fortune out of millions participating.
ML is about function approximation where function can be anything and mostly something that is practically intractable by usual analytical or numerical methods, such as observing real-time processes with millions of variables.

In math, via a reduction, human life is just a function of time with many inputs and many outputs. I.e. you can do curve fitting there as well...
Difficult terrain. Perhaps all these obsessions are fundamentally antisocial (hence some people call them autistic etc.) and women are raised to be more concerned about not being antisocial.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ampere-computing

Private equity vs VC is a distinction without a difference as far as the investors motivations.
I'm a father of a three year old so you know what, sometimes sitting on Reddit is good for my brain. Need to rest it!
I wasn't gifted but I was quite bright, having the third highest IQ out of the fifty or so pupils in the two fifth grade classes. I was doing very well at school but my teacher didn't like me for some reason so he kept accusing me of cheating. He told the entire class on many occasions not to have anything to do with me. From that, I learned to dumb myself down and not do so well at school.
Have you been anywhere else recently? Can you give an example of a community, of comparable magnitude, that is more open minded?

No community is perfect, but I'd say that Metafilter is considerably more tolerant and open to a wide range of opinions on a subject. You can't downvote others if you disagree with them, and baseless attacks are simply deleted by moderators; it forces you to build a well-reasoned argument if you want to debate.
I think it's more that making racist/sexist jokes is acceptable, as long as people aren't offended. Telling racist/sexist jokes is not the same as being racist/sexist.
My wife, who has a grand total of four degrees (two undergrad, two postgrad) as well as a number of difficult to get professional qualifications jokes about it as "collecting the badges" - she is serious about learning but has no illusions about how these things are viewed by others.
This one in particular is hilarious: http://notepad.cc/hello
Wow, so recording people's names is an absolutely miserable affair with no likelihood of success.

Okay, from now on, all humans will not have names, they will be numbered in ascending order, starting from 1.

Boosh. If you want a 'handle' or 'username', you've gotta type it in whatever the encoding system supports.

Glad that problem has been solved.
A contemporary example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg
Also, FYI, place names contain all sorts of archaic spellings and characters, for the same reason: they are identifiers, and identifiers cannot and should not be normalized.
There are many comments to my post... I thank you all so much for taking the time to read it all and provide advice I'll be thinking about for a very long time. I really appreciate it. :) bows

I won't reply to everyone but here are the main points I've taken from all the comments.

Don't worry so much about money and long term goals because they change easily, working on oneself is important, e.g relationships, skills, confidence and principles.

When building a product, don't fret about internals and things on the list of "programmer's best practices"; users only care about what they want.

Keep learning and be confident; I'm making progress. Contribute to open source, participate in programming contests and keep meeting new people. Also, keep finding a job, one of these days I'll get one.

To answer a couple of people, I study at the University of Sydney and live in the same city.

Again, thank you very much. :)
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"Time to stop butting into other peoples business," edster tells the super-rich
You are number six.
My point is that gamma/beta radiation is not "in the form of iodine". Iodine releases radiation; this radiation is the same, wherever it came from.

Gamma and beta radiations can in fact be meaningfully compared on their effect on the body. The nature of the rays is taken into account when calculating the rem dose. See the radiation quality factors: http://www.nuclear.utah.edu/class_notes/5700/sup_9.doc
Perfect example of ProductHunt traffic..
This doesn't even make it hard anymore - voluntary or not everything's a bit of an open API when you can use headless browsing to automate interacting with websites and generate legitimately constructed requests.

CAPTCHA-ish 'human authentication' for API requests would make things hard.
I bet this dude plays a mean lute!
A lot of it makes a ton of sense. But draw weight of the bow and weight of the arrows make a huge difference. Would be really interesting to see him do this even half as effectively using and 80-100lb warbow with heavy war arrows. Weaker stuff will not punch through even the worst armour at any kind of decent range. Also I wonder if this works with light flight arrows used to harass enemy at range and kill horses.

His technique does show how bad it was for the horses and why Mongols needed to bring as many remounts as they did. Battle between two horse archer armies must have been a real horse slaughter.

Also that mail shot, I bet cash that is a crap butted mail. Try same with riveted mail covered with gambeson and see what happens(nothing, this arrows will bounce like it was a wall)
This is why I firmly believe that while the future of education will be digitally mediated, the profession of teaching will grow towards "very high-touch instructor" rather than "supplemental tutor".

The digital tools will allow for significantly richer personalization - both with respect to the content being learned, as well as the facilitation of that learning via a skilled instructor. And, while we have the beginnings of these (digital/conceptual/pedagogical)tools, we don't a public conception yet of what this will actually look like.
Or Common Lisp, 30 years ago.
Has anyone successfully gained access to their records? And has anyone posted them publicly? I'm interested in insights from this.
Apple was also one of the original founders of ARM…
ActivityPub exists, it's just niche.

Maybe Elon will let mastodon instances interact with twitter or something. It'd be unlikely, but very cool
I bet you have already done so many times before.
This paper has a mind-blowing idea, that topological defects like magnetic monopoles, cosmic strings, domain walls actually breed

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402115

and far far away more of them are being created and inflating, once you far enough way you are in something that looks like our universe, somewhere out there inflation is stopping and the big bang is happening there.

It's easy in my mind looking at the classical black hole picture and wondering what happens around the singularity to wonder if inflation gets re-started inside a black hole and maybe in that old picture where you can go into a rotating black hole and come out in the "asymptotically flat spacetime" it is a universe made by that mechanism.

Of course I think the classical black hole picture might be "not even wrong" and you might run into more than one firewall (such as the inflation zone) on the way there.
Not to mention the exorbitant costs placed on inmate's families as well. That's the one part of the TC headline that nerves me a bit. This isn't just meant to serve the prison population -- It's the entire family unit thats grossly effected, which certainly contributes to recidivism. Change is needed.
itertools I know and love, functools is a mystery I should look into.
Go is middle-level, lower than scripting languages, higher than C++. You have control over memory layout, which lets you use less memory than a language that boxes everything (like Java or Python). You can use linear structs, or references to data, whatever fits your problem best. But, to do that, you need pointers.

However, Go pointers can't be casted to another type and you can't do pointer arithmetic. In this way, they are very close to Java or Python references, except they're made explicit. How can these kinds of pointers be any worse than references ?
I am great at job interviews and I’m sure that online dating has influenced that: once you’re proficient at having an hour-long conversation with a stranger over a beer it’s not a far leap to do it with one over a desk. I mostly like this app flirtymature https://seniordatingsitesfree.com/flirtymature-review/ . Pretty decent one
I use it for essentially every programming task, with the exception of using matplotlib to generate figures. I've personally used Rust in all of these areas to some extent: APIs, data processing, blackjack engine, operating systems, bioinformatics, etc.

My current pet project in Rust is writing a functional language compiler that compiles down to System F/F omega and eventually I'm going to build some kind of virtual machine
> She was climbing through a hole in a door

Source for this? I have looked at the videos and read multiple articles and can’t find anything saying or showing what happened prior to her being shot, or even showing who shot her.
Seriously? Because Trump is communicating with the insurgence using their platform. They are a key player in this whole episode.
I think it would be naive to take anything Facebook says at face value, given their history (one example of many is their claiming that they could not match whatsapp accounts with Fb accounts and then later requiring it).

I just see a company shifting its PR policy now that Democrats have taken control in Washington.
I'd like to see some evidence for that assertion.
Using VPNs are becoming increasingly difficult too. All the large VPN services are blocked here; OpenVPN doesn't work; the only option left is to use unknown services which are not guaranteed to be genuine.
I think the #1 reason blockchain doesn't work is very simple - the technology is broken beyond fixability. This article is two years old, but the same variations of these excuses always come up when the crypto ideologues are grilled on why their utopiaic vision hasn't come about, for all of blockchain's existence. Blockchain is awful for most things compared to a centralized or distributed database: it is inefficient, untrustworthy due to decentralization, a huge resource hog, and morbidly complex to implement.

The only good use cases that come to mind is if there is some particular reason for you to evade the conventional and easier systems of communication and storage. The lesson is: you should evaluate technology on its merits, not its politics. Three classic sources on the blockchain question immediately come to mind:

http://doyouneedablockchain.com/

https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed

My personal favorite:

https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1019987651301081089