jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If a grad student writes a software prototype and no one uses it, does it make a sound?

The fact that "99.9999% of the time" is spent doing other things is the problem. If you're doing applied math like type theory and make an advancement, that's research. If you're doing anything else, that's the Development part of R&D.

Computer science doesn't exist in a vacuum. Unlike math, you can't come up with some new algorithm without first having a problem that that algorithm is intended to solve (again, this doesn't apply to complexity-related research because that is applied math).

So we can't claim CS arises a priori (unless it's just applied math like type theory), so then you have to claim that what your CS research is doing is empirical. Good luck with that. Because, you know, Java is a naturally occurring system.

Let's take two concrete examples of projects I hack on:

http://common-lisp.net/project/eager-future/

http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

Both of these topics (using futures for parallelism, and language X to JavaScript compilation) have had and continue to have a lot of academic research devoted to them.

These two systems I contribute to happen to have interesting and original properties that I've arrived at in a process that can only be described as hacking.

I'm convinced that I never would have been able to have these hacking breakthroughs without the freedom and time to reflect that I have outside of grad school.

It doesn't matter how supportive your advisor is, there is still the question of grants and publishing deadlines. And I know a thing or two about working the university system to create a supportive environment for myself - as a math undergrad, I had my own cubicle in and run of the AI lab, had support from a number of CS professors, one of whom had a spot reserved in the CS MSc program for me (I obviously didn't go). I spent a lot of time around grad students at the AI and other CS labs, so I got to know what grad student life looked like.

But aside from all that, the best thing about working on these systems on my own has been the fact that people actually use them. The feedback has been invaluable for giving me new ideas and inspiring the innovative hacks.
I realize that using words like "vector" and "combinatorics" are poor choices. This is part of the problem. It is difficult to come up with a good metaphor that is simultaneously interesting and meaningful. I think the Rubik's cube is a great example. Thanks, I'll be using that in the future.
Could you expand on what you mean by it being spoiled by Haskell?
I suspect most countries expect to be at a disadvantage on the international stage if they ban corporations. But certainly decreasing the power of corporations and increasing their liability might be a good first step.
2. I don't get how that invalidates Reeder in any way? Seems like a minor niggle ("buttons should be larger").
Wait, doesn't that blow up this whole line of reasoning?

If language isn't the thing that matters for national harmony, then this is at best a red herring and at worst a fig leaf.
> An additional advantage of a system like this is the OTP can be encrypted so if it is captured it can't be used to decrypt old messages without further getting key material from the end user (possibly with a pipe wrench).

That problem has already been solved and the websites you visit today (should!) be working the same way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy

> the key distribution problem

That is the hardest problem, especially in a system where you've got military units in unfriendly areas.
Having to click it? Although most messenger apps already automatically show the image if you post an image URL.
Here's another video of cops letting people in.

https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/134759627858319769...
There is a cost to society either way.

Reviving a corrupted entity to allow it to continue must have a cost that needs to be weight against the perceived loss of its benefits.
I'm pretty sure, almost every US Embassy, not just in Amsterdam, is better protected.
I might be convinced to be skeptical if judges say, woah this is damaging EVEN if those judges are Trump appointed, by the same token though, if a Trump appointed judge laughs Trump's team out of the court with a frivolous law suit, I'm doubly sure that there's absolutely no chance of fraud.

The RIGHT, people who supported/enabled Trump have said, nope - nothing to see, all's legit, got any better proof? Kemp for instance was a HUGE Trump supporter, Pence has no reason not to support Trump, yet now he's a "traitor" for doing his job. Seriously. I'd hate to play any board game with these people, you could never win, they'd throw a fit if they lost until you admit they won...
> Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear.

Why do people jump to the most extreme side of things in discussions now a days?

There are many many many ways to disperse of a crowd that doesn't involve firing live rounds at a crowd. In fact: they were able to do it later!

Tear gas, flash bangs, barricades, rubber bullets. None of these were used until well after they made it inside.
s/monkeys/children
Nick's Non Fiction
Clodflade is protecting quite a lot of shady and terrorist websites/forums.

I bet they are violating multiple (inter)national laws since years.
I've looked at these to replace my 5 year old AMD desktop but the 16gb of ram is a dealbreaker for me. I'd like the option of 32 gb of ram do to running multiple virtual machines, does anyone know of a small form factor desktop that will support this?
for those who haven't seen these two relevant veritasium videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g
Finding direct clients/projects/work is the harder work, and as such, you'll make more when people come to you directly, but you'll need to spend time actually making connections and selling (vs being sold).

What are you doing to find work directly?
He's not censored, he's not silenced and there are dozens of ways for him to send out messages, including:

- Press releases

- Holding a news conference

- For emergencies, IPAWS

Twitter not carrying his messages is akin to CNN choosing not to broadcast his rallies. It's not censorship.
I would also be interested in seeing scans. LSD has been a wonderful experience for me, undertaken roughly once a year, but with beneficial and creative effects that last much longer.

I think the OP missed the point-- LSD isn't Aderall, it isn't something that makes you push out more. Rather, it can unlock doors that were perhaps holding you back.
"one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".

source: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-17/tech/steve.jobs.life_1_ap...
Funny.

I had (and still have) a Nokia 1100, made in 2003, and even that phone had vibrating alert.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100
I was confused because the apparent content is entirely overlaid with a full-page ad for Chrome, whose close button was off the window to the left. I nearly flagged this post as mislabelled content. :(
look at research firm NPD Group's latest first-quarter mobile OS numbers for the U.S. market:

[...]

Apple's iOS, 28% (up from 19% [in Q4 2010])

Wait, what? I had to clip that quote together a bit, but it certainly seems to be what they're trying to say. Even given we're not too clear on what "mobile OS numbers" actually means, it's hard to believe that any meaningful metric has Apple's mobile platform growing from 19% to 28% between 4Q10 and 1Q11. That's essentially a 50% increase quarter over quarter?

I can't tell if they just have a massive typo somewhere in there, but if they actually think that's accurate it seriously calls into question their numbers and conclusions about RIM.
"Anyone who puts a lot of time or effort into Node at this point and later gets burned has no one to blame but themselves."

Exactly. I was getting into it, but I am going to ditch it until this is all sorted out.
I don't disagree. I just haven't seen any evidence from Nokia, based on their own UIs, that they can make the WP7 UI more desirable, rather than less or the same.
Interesting observation, because in cities I've observed (Ottawa and Toronto) the type of people using BBs are the opposite of the ones you've seen.

Among young people I see around town, on the bus/train, etc., almost all of them have BBs. This is particularly true for young women. I'm not sure exactly why this is the case, but it seems that most of them prefer BBM over SMS.
Let me chime in here with some personal experience. I am pretty much addicted to marijuana in terms of working and enjoying it.

That is, I don't really enjoy programming nearly as much compared to when I am a bit baked. Mind you, I can work.. but it feels like such a chore (not always but I'm talking typically). There are a lot of us like this.

As for LSD.. I have had many revelations while tripping, some I've had to later reject (which is a difficult process) and probably some that I should but have not yet. However, have learned a tremendous amount from whatever it is that is happening while tripping.

I really think most people should trip their face off at least once. What it feels like is that you are tapping into something truer and deeper (when you are tripping, the hallucinating reality is the 'real' reality, that is how you experience it). I don't know what is actually happening, but it can be just absolutely amazing, or absolutely devestating.

Take for instance, having an intellectual idea of the universe; like what it actually is. Some people are fascinated by thinking about these things anyway, others can't be bothered.

Now imagine, instead of having some mathematical and intuitive understanding of the 'building blocks' of the universe.. you were thrown into hyperspace and pulled of your body and shown what the universe is, and what your place in it is. And it's a truly beautiful, elegant thing. And many many people have seen the same thing (it's the universal 'mystical experience').

It's like you were pulled out of the matrix, if just for a bit, and you can actually talk to other people about it, because it happens to lots of people who trip.

Whether it is actually giving insight or not (it could definitely be some idiosyncratic interaction that lsd is having with your brain to make you see things in a certain way); it's at the very least fun, and can have a drastic effect on the way you oritent yourself toward reality.

It can also affect your mental processes--LSD has the effect (at least in me) of continually changing the level of abstraction I am thinking in. You see a situation, then you see the bigger picture of that situation, and on and on until your mind can't even fathom any thing anymore.

You set out to write a bash script to move some files, you suddenly realize an amazingly better way to do bash scripting, which makes you realize some basic change in the OS that would make UI 1000% friendlier, then you realize we shouldn't be using computers at all, then you realize you are here on earth for a purpose and you are wasting your life then your buddy is like--YO you're spacing off and the chain of thinking starts over.
Toilet paper. May contain excrements of the previous user,
source of bacteria and diseases.
Cars. May have been dropped, neglected, may have bacteria and mites inside. Besides it usually has used tires and used car seats.
I may look too arrogant to say this, but I think this guy has a reality check problem.

He still says in 20 years people won't be having cars in cities. I don't see myself going out of the house for daily shopping with something like a segway. A car is comfortable, it has a moving chair, it has a roof, gives you the feeling of a house. I think there would be more car parks than more segways.

You fail a few times with your high-tech ideas and that's OK. After a few times you start to get it, and only look for building something you can sell, or simply make something people want. I think he is still off course with sustainability projects that come with difficult infrastructure problems.

Finally about comparing robotics olympics and real sports: doing sports is cool. You look cool when you play sports and sweat. Also there are the sports heroes that are real people. Do you think majority of people will find it so cool to see fighting robots? Not so sure.

my 2 cents.
Can it be viewed by MiniTube (native YouTube client) or an another native client?
Thanks. I take your point about the license: it's a pretty generic one. I will look into that.
All it would require is a society that honors, with full force, contracts with the dead. The problem is that this also creates inertia in our system of law: for example, what if someone signed their descendants into slavery 400 years ago? If we honored that contract, it would mean making an exception to laws against slavery.

Similarly, whatever mechanisms or means the company is currently depending on to preserve its data might be made illegal in the future (because the information will have to be copied or updated to newer formats to maintain readability, no matter what it is, so there will necessarily be an intelligent component doing the translation.) If it just hires normal people to upgrade the data, capitalism might be abolished in the future. If it depends on religious devotion, religion might be disallowed from preserving private knowledge. If it creates an AI, that AI might later be found to be a slave, and set free...
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5711
FWIW, MaxMind is pretty much the defacto standard for geoip lookup tables.
That makes it sound like all outcomes are similar, whether through apathy of doing nothing or through violent revolution, no? We’re not quite at rock bottom but it appears in sight, regarding climate change. The economy is a bit in a wreck already as well.
I don’t find these suggestions off topic at all. As a bonus, any rendering breakdowns by Adrian are great. This graphics study [1] on GTA V’s rendering pipeline is a good read.

1 -> http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphic...
I don’t remember it it was specified at the time but supposedly businesses in Berlin that didn’t follow the first set of safety precautions (retail stores closed, restaurants closed for indoor seating at 6pm, tables 1.5 meters apart, takeaway only after 6) got 5k fines if caught by the Ordnungsamt. So there is some effort at enforcement.
I really don't think they are doing enough. The virus is still growing at an exponential rate, and when you look at the other countries that managed to get things under control vs. the ones that didn't, the actions that NYC and the rest of America are taking fall squarely into "this looks like the ones that didn't get things under control."

Public transport needs to be disabled. People need to be required to wear a mask when they go out. Police need to enforce people staying inside.

Italy got the growth rate down to 15% per day. That's still enough to hit the whole population by early May.
I don't think it's possible today for a subculture to exist without immediately becoming the target of marketing departments everywhere. If more than two people share a common interest, somebody will try to sell them stuff.
> An alternative explanation is that they _are_ the normies who have bought into the techno-grift in exchange for social status in a small community of believers.

I don’t think it’s just a small community. And I say this as a heavy skeptic of cryptocurrency and NFTs.

I think the article’s author has a point. With or without NFTs, conspicuous consumption of digital goods is already a normalized thing of minor social consequence in the form of video game cosmetics. It started out as a freemium monetization model, but games like Fortnite, Destiny, etc. have solidly cemented the link between spending real money and digital self expression, including the implied social status that comes with specific rarer cosmetics vs. more accessible ones. And to some extent the social status part follows you back into the real world if you all know each other in person.

I don’t think it’s a large leap to a scenario where people pay for designer avatars to bring into digital spaces if online, immersive socialization in some grand unified space becomes a thing. I don’t like that idea, but I think it’s not that much of a stretch.
Yes. And in any case: even a hypocrite could give good advice some times.
The article is a year old.
The 101st fountain of youth in a line is not producing any significant public good. I just said this. If it was destroyed, we would be no worse off.
What I meant was if I am Go developer and I write

for /* whatever */ {
fp = os.open(x) // imagine file open
defer fp.close()
fp.read()
}

This is wrong. Go linter might tell you it is wrong, but

a) the defers are pilling up and you might run into too-many-files open
b) I can never remember if `fp` is saved in defer closure by reference or value. That is, at the end, even if inefficient, are all pending defers closing the same pointer?

Now in a language where "it ends in scope", the scope hasn't ended until the loop exists. Now in the RAII world, the `fp` being overwritten would have saved the day by automatically closing it, but we are not talking about RAII world.

With finally, things are clear, I think.
Resolution is marginal. It would be a step down from my 2013 Google Chrome pixel (240 dpi), which you can get refurbished for about $200.
Looks like there’s some good progress for touchpad support on Linux:

https://bill.harding.blog/2021/02/11/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102894

Many millions of people will benefit, but the project only has 129 supporters, if anyone wants to chip in!
Thanks, good idea
The sad part is that it's not just a hardware problem. While most PC laptops have really terrible trackpad hardware, some do have pretty decent hardware. It's just that the software is still absolutely terrible. You can run Linux on a relatively modern Macbook, and the trackpad becomes terrible.
Should've added /s instead of relying on sarcasm detection.
Amazon is strong-arming workers into voting no with propaganda posters, unions typically hurt amazon (else why would they fight so hard against it), and typically help the workers. Do you not see the problem here? I don't mean to say unions are always right. I see anti-union sentiment from the very company that would be hurt by it to be very much allowed. But since I believe in worker's rights and can see firsthand how poorly they are treated, I see it as scummy.
Will your specs include metric or just imperial measurements like you just used here?
Direct listing
I'm not sure I would do any of this, but it's certainly an interesting writeup. I particularly enjoyed the part about watching Michael Phelps, and realizing he was burning extra calories because he was spending time in cool water every day.
I don't deny the existence of it, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of drugging children because they won't sit still while being lectured to for 5+ hours a day.
Buying the individual components to make this at consumer retail price from "reputable" local suppliers still comes to less than half the $199 RRP, so the value clearly comes from the software, which looks nice. But it's a bit disappointing to see that there is no support commitment on that front for such an expensive product.

> While we hope that our company will be around for a long time, we are committed to keeping Tidbyts useful and out of the landfill, long into the future. [...] So even if we're not around, you can upgrade your Tidbyt to keep it from being reliant on Tidbyt, Inc. or our servers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tidbyt/retro-display?re...

> I could see a future in which we have a standalone version of the Tidbyt backend that you can run on your server or premises, but that’s not on the current roadmap.

https://discuss.tidbyt.com/t/self-hosted-tidbyt-server/330

Allowing customers to create their own firmware is better than nothing, but it's not great to rely on this as a fallback from launch. Wasn't there a very early Philips device like this that never found a market and relied on community firmware after the manufacturer lost interest?
Low tax places are not "hellholes" despite your insults. They might have slightly less services, but in return you pay a lot less for them. The trade off is easy to make, particularly if most of the missing services are ones you don't personally use much.
Yes indeed it is and also comes with High availability and horizontal scaling. It’s is an object store but is ACID compliant.
I've not tried isolated CBD oil for Anxiety but I reach for both:

copaiba oil and frankincense oil

As needed under tongue and they seem to help almost immediately.

Worth checking out.

Also magnesium pills help too but affects me the same way as benedryl and makes me very sleepy so I try to take that only if I have time for a nap or bed.
> I have minted a few very active video game scenes with a good culture,

Sure. Nice of you to assume I haven't made any games, and put words in my mouth.

So to repay the kindness, I'm going to assume your games weren't on scale of Paradox games. Because those games shave man decades. That means collaborative effort on a longer timescale. That means people sacrificed their time to make this. And people need to eat.

> It arguably is...

Arguably you could open a beer bottle with your eye. That doesn't make your eye a bottle opener.

In same vein, just because you can reverse engineer something doesn't make it open source.

I'm not bitter, just realistic.
Poking a sleeping lion isn't guaranteed to kill you, it's just a stupid thing to do. Especially when you are way weaker than a lion and within his claw's reach.
All I need for that are bootable usb drives. Someone would have to lock down the boot order in bios and forget the password for that to go wrong.
Facebook did this as well.
> This is the suburban status item of 2022.

Yeah I don’t think so. Trucks are not suburban status items. This is more like the El Camino of 2022.
Should be, those Toyota Hilux trucks found plenty of use in real situations, e.g. war in Syria [0].

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[0]: https://www.globalresearch.ca/dutch-government-provided-terr...
20 years late but finally it started to feel like we are living in 21st century.
> I think it would be hard to somewhat regularly buy books or go to a (typical English language) bookstore without seeing anything about Margaret Atwood.

The past month you cannot have entered any decently sized bookshop carrying new titles without encountering her name with The Testaments out. In my local bookshop I find the hardcover original English edition, its Dutch translation, The Handmaid's Tale in English and Dutch in editions ranging from paperback to luxury hardcover, and a bunch of her other works.

Before that, The Handmaid's Tale has been prominently displayed ever since the TV series came out.
If you like this, you may also enjoy "AI Safety Gridworlds" from DeepMind: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09883
Firefox is far more than 20% slower than Chrome today but is not strictly a direct cause of using rust.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox-...
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It has always been like this. We just have more access to the truth.
Apple stops supporting older iOS devices, too. But I agree, Chrome quality kinda goes up and down.
This looks very similar to attic, anyone able and willing to compare them for pros and cons?
Url changed from http://iotevent.eu/platform/kaa-open-source-platform-interne..., which points to this.
1990s were a long time ago as well.