jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that one should attempt to copy the Erlang model in a typed language (and this is one reason I don't particularly like Akka). There are many facilities, some noted in other comments, that make statically typing Erlang difficult but I don't believe most of these are necessary.

Can send any message to any actor? Probably a bug.

Hot code swapping? Never had a need for this. Restarts are fine. Any distributed system is supposed to be crash resistant. A restart is just another crash.

I much prefer the CSP model to the Actor model in any case (with asynchronous channels available), and it is much easier to type CSP.

Interested in others thoughts.
In my case, I didn't expect to enjoy learning Paraguayan traditional dancing, but it sure was fun and I'm glad I tried it. Like another poster pointed out, it's the hard work that comes first (overcoming the fear, or plugging away at the books), then comes the satisfaction. I think it must feel lonely being a great mathematician for example, knowing that everyone else has settled for less, and that only you and a few others have even a slight understanding of the universe.
So perhaps we can say (to a layman) that the properties of Dark Matter are:

- It interacts via Gravity

- It interacts via the Weak Nuclear Force

But has any experiment ever observed something that fits this description? The galaxy rotation and gravitational lensing stuff must only indicate a gravity interaction, and as far as I can tell the attempts to observe WIMPs in isolation have not yet succeeded[0].

It looks like there might be some information gained from this PICASSO experiment mentioned in the wiki, but I would be grateful for some help decoding this one:

> The obtained limits restrict recent interpretations of the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation effect in terms of spin dependent interactions.

Anyway, it seems like PR nonsense when folks ignore Popper and list "confirmations" that tend to support the SUSY model. I was careful not to use the phrase "fudge factor" because that's unfair, but there is a wide gulf between a fudge factor and a well-defined observable thing.

[0] http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-discovery-maims-supersym...
I'm curious to understand the use cases. From the screenshots, it looks like a note taking app?
Heh, I giggled when I read this. I'm working on that now. I was too eager to get responses before I went to sleep, I guess. Appreciate the response.
If new services will suggest open TOS with clear promise to keep them as is, they have good chance. Developers.
These videos are notorious for being flagged by conservative types. It will be overridden and reenabled soon enough.
I'd say: "Drink a glass of hot water just before bed time". Hot like a cup of tea. Sip it slowly but steadily. This is relaxing your throat and your brain. They all do that in China, call it "white tea". Helps also if you have headache.

I don't agree with the "don't read in bed" advice. It's good to read in bed. Read something interesting enough to wipe your mind away from work or project-related thoughts, but avoid a book that will keep you awake for too long, prefer non-fiction or short stories.
Take a look at this list.

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/f094j/list_of_js...
Lots of discussion yesterday:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Spurious+correlations#!/story/past...
Google will eventually screw Youtube up as they try to extract more money out of it, guaranteed. Young people don't know this but CNN had a good 15 year run where they were the young upstart and "authentic" and trusted. It always happens, no matter the idealism and vision, eventually the relentless Wall Street pressure for more profits wins out.
Another great resource for learning about vim is the Vim Tips Wiki [1]. The have a LOT of content on there, most of which will be useful at some point.

The best tips page [2] has a good set to get started.

[1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki
[2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips
I'd disagree about Flippa, but agree about Ebay. I speak to a lot of 'serious' buyers and whilst most of them will point out Flippa's flaws, they will still keep a regular check for relevant purchases.

I've seen mid - high end (+ $10,000) sites in evergreen niches selling for an average rev multiple of 10.2x (current average is 7.6x) with web apps that have good proprietary software and some proof of concept (revenue) selling for much more.
I'be heard this from a few sources, including Matt Cutts' optimization sessions at Google I/O. If anything, dashes are more average-human-appropriate than underscores and you should always be designing for humans.
The wikipedia page didn't really shed much light on what ASP is doing under the hood. How does it differ from constraint solvers like http://www.gecode.org/ ? I know that gecode can handle problems like your canvas example well by representing integer variables as sets of intervals. What kind of problems would ASP have the advantage on?
Thank you. I'll look you up once I've settled in a bit. Right now I'm still in Atlanta getting my life loaded onto a truck :)
You can talk to one of them here: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/esjzd/the_chinese_gfw_j...
It doesn't. And doesn't even have the permission to access your browsing history, but for some reason Google thinks it does. From the manifest file: https://github.com/antimatter15/drag2up/blob/master/manifest...

"permissions": ["* ://* /","tabs","contextMenus", "unlimitedStorage","notifications"]

The first one is permission to communicate with arbitrary servers in order to download URLs and upload files. Tabs is used to interact with OAuth-powered hosts better. The rest just leaves room for future additions (reuploading images from a context menu, storing a cache of uploaded files, notifications for completed uploads, etc.). It doesn't request for permission to access history, and I have no idea why the Chrome web store says that that's a required permission.
Really? So I can reach my cousin via Signal, even though he is on WhatsApp?
I'm not really sure why "you can get rid of your systems and ops guys because developers can now deploy to the cloud" is elitism

I think you answer your own question:

you don't wire up your own phone service or plumbing

Although linemen and plumbers aren't seen to be in jobs that are menial, you'd have trouble classifying them as elite, compared to their customers[1].

Regardless, the analogy strikes me as tenuous, since plumbing and telephones aren't fundamental to most businesses. On the other hand, computer systems, for a software company, are very much the fundament of what it does.

Perhaps a better analogy would be the likes of FedEx or UPS outsourcing the maintenance (and perhaps all operation) of its trucks and planes. I'm pretty confident they keep that in-house.

[1] Presumably, this is, predominantly, homeowners and landlords.
element-web? element-android? element-ios? all of them?

Have you tried fluffychat on android? Or any of the other clients https://matrix.org/clients-matrix
But can you accept the criticism that you just might be trying to silence criticism yourself?

(Especially when you level charges with no proof, or use tiny examples as a counterweight to actually big problems. One of your points is valid, most are not a real thing.)
Will it ever support making 3D games?
In reality, the smart engineering choice is to know exactly what you are expecting from a specific system, and test it. Bugs, mistakes and even cosmic rays happen, so you must specifically test that it works. If you have a backup power system, test it.
People are a product of their environment as much as the other way around.
Yes, just as cooking has failed.
With so many recipe books how can you have bad cooks?!

Just as architecture has failed. Just look at those buildings!

Art has failed! What happened?! Where are the Michelangelos? The Leonardos? The Picassos?

There are many more people writing code now. History will only remember the greats, and forget the rest.

There were always websites that loaded poorly. Even "back then". And there were good ones too. Same as today.
My first thought was that 7% of the population are disenfranchised from News and services. But second thought makes me wonder how much of the 93% are just reading celebrity gossip and poor quality news on Twitter and Facebook or TikTok/Instagram reels of cute pets.

If over 65 year olds count for half of the 7% (25% of 50Million), does poor rural internet and poverty count for a lot of the rest.
Which is really good. Recommend.
Well designed microservices drastically reduce complexity and mental overhead of working with a system.

The problem is companies with poorly designed monoliths hit complexity problems more quickly and often. If software architecture is not a core competency, solutions architecture is probably not either, and poorly designed microservices are a completely different beast. A distributed monolith is inherently more difficult to maintain and operate.
My understanding what Amazon was offered what any other country would be eligible for if they undertook that size of a relocation.

And anti-competitive? Having more jobs in NYC? That’s actually good for workers, not bad. More competition.
"One of the common criticisms of Deep Learning is it's training algorithms, back-propagation of error (back-prop), has no biologically plausible implementation, despite evidence of something like it occurring in the brain. The default implementation is considered biologically implausible due to it's reliance on bi-directional synapses. However, there's been a lot of publications published showing implementations that should be plausible."
Seems like begging the question, they assume it is a CCP honeypot and then push the false dichotomy with the voice back end?
*edit s/video/voice/
Alpine.js is one of those ideas that filled a massive void many people didn't even know existed (I certainly didn't, though was subconsciously annoyed with the options). Data-centric, declarative template rendering was married to SPA frameworks, which are very good at what they do but are often overkill. Alpine cut development time in half for one of my projects and I'm looking forward to reaching for it again.
More like a shit stack
This isn't the problem you think it is.

The most common use case is via seed document. People grab the seed doc, modify for their specific case, input data, get results, stuff into Powerpoint, done, next.
You need to plug it to a power source because the AI algorithms run on-device require energy.
> Common advice is to avoid seed oils - the cheap stuff used in restaurants such as canola oil.

I'd say common advice is to avoid cheap (refined) oils rather than seed oils. Point in case linseed oil is arguably even healthier than olive oil. Sunflower oil (cold pressed) is a great source of Vitamin E (in moderation because of omega 6:3 ratio). Cold pressed rapeseed oil (canola) is great, too. So is pumpkin seed oil ...
called witnesses?
Your "bid data" typo seems like a nice little Freudian slip!

As far as your second point though: although it's not ideal, don't virtualenvs do the trick? If you really needed to, you could even set up a workflow of different sandboxes to pass data through. If the alternative to relying on frameworks is rolling your own, frankly I would probably choose the former, but that's just me.
The ML, AI, and Data stacks are all in early days compared to the broader software stack. We were curious about how the small but growing number of public companies in these stacks have performed compared to the broader market, so we created a new public index. Introducing the MAD Public Company Index...
Programming becomes easy after you have read Knuth's first three volumes.
Generally that's meant to be a user setting not a content setting. E.g. if the user likes 1.5x content for their eyesite they either set the OS to 150% scaling as a whole (or the browser default to 150% scaling should that not be available for some reason). Now everything they use is exactly the right size for them the instant they view it.

If the content tries to do this on behalf of certain users then site X ends up being 1.5*1.5=2.25x zoomed while site Y ends up being 1.5*.66 = 1x zoomed effectively turning a single setting that solved the accessibility and preference problem for everyone into a per content-piece nightmare again. Font size/weight/settings in a design is meant to change relative proportions of a design (e.g. headers, emphasized words, side notes) not to act as the overall scaler for the user - that's already available out of the box.

If this post weren't how browsers lay out web pages I wouldn't be such a stickler but to ignore this is to throw out the main advantage of the sizing model browsers use.
> Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

It uses some. It develops some. The net effect is unclear, but even if there was more available to use without it, the people indulging in it probably wouldn’t be using it in ways the author approves of more even if it wasn’t available, just as is the case with the author’s use of intellectual potential on this question instead of something less futile and more useful to humanity.
Just to add some more numbers as someone who's done freelancing in Germany for 15 or so years.

200-210 days of billable work (30 days holidays, sick days, conferences, downtime, pre-sales etc.) also a 100% utilization is often unrealistic but in this case might work.

~40% taxes
~9.000€ health insurance / year
~1.500€ liability insurance / year
~15-20% pension savings (personal preference)
- various other business related expenses

Very rough estimates:
With 70€/h that'll be around 120k€ - 40k€ taxes - ~10k€ insurances - 15k€ pension = 55k€
That's not bad but also not an extraordinary amount and that's without any accounting for the extra risk, own hardware etc.
The real innovation is when you can find a method to control the physical hand and the virtual hand independently.

I suspect it would be possible if you can do some kind of real-time feedback/tuning of the ML model. Reinforcement learning stuff.

By slowly adjusting the model to reward hitting the ball back in pong, but also to penalize moving the real physical hand, you might achieve it.
Yes and all of his CA's are at least 3 conditional statements, but if you're inclined to count that as one formula with split definitions then anything can be bashed into "a single formula"
It’s a lot like how Linux supports the N64, right? If someone wants to write and maintain the code, it can get upstreamed.
Or a man with children to support and a terrible disease ?
Yes, I agree with you, I'll definitely need to push these features. The problem is that it's hard to define where to stop..
Thanks, I wasn't aware that they're slaughtering not only the bird but also the pronunciation! Is it one of those things where not being exposed to French at all makes one unable to produce both a hard k-sound as in "ck" and a softer k-sound that is somewhere between g and k, but definitely closer to "cog" than to "cock"?
What model cycling computer does that?
Not if you are doing UWP, where F# support is an hack and it won't be ever supported officially (there is a github issue about it).

However given the whole Project Reunion and uncertainity how both worlds are supposed to be merged, maybe it isn't such a big deal.

Ah and don't expect Code Generators to ever support F#.
+1000 My thoughts exactly. It's not the same a leader than a manager (or a boss)...
Even today there is no genetic model that can explain the emergence of human altruism--non-kin eusociality. Eusociality among kin, such as naked mole rat sisters and bee clones, is trivially modeled using selfish gene theory. But no one has yet proposed a stable model for its emergence and persistence outside close kin groups. And in fact humans are the only species that exhibit this phenomenon. All other forms of cooperation in nature can be explained by selfish gene theory (that is, individualized sexual selection benefit directly commensurate with the individualized risk), or as non-stable outliers (e.g. a cat befriending a bird).

Apparently Darwin believed in a group selection-type model, as still many do, even though its been disproven (at least refutations have never been overcome). And if you believe in group selection I suppose one would find it easy to rationalize racial models, Victorian or otherwise, especially if you were born on an island or otherwise believed substantially physically segregated human groups--and therefore segregated sexual selection dynamics--was typical. Indeed, even today anthropologists are severely allergic to the possibility of rapid gene flow, especially back flow, of specific genes. The notion that there could have been back flow of genes into Africa is anathema, which makes it easier even for scientists to conceptualize humanity as groups of islands, rationalize group selection theories, and be more credulous of narratives whereby some groups "advance" faster than others--because good genes wouldn't individually leak out, and bad genes wouldn't individually leak in.

But that's only a partial defense of Darwin. The very fact that humans are the only species to exhibit inexplicable non-kin eusociality, while all these proposed models would apply equally well to any other species (suggesting they're incomplete, because mass selfless cooperation is quite obviously a powerful group advantage if attainable), hints at a massive gap in our understanding of our own evolution, counseling against strong positivist claims about how human evolution worked and continues to work. IOW, Darwin could have been more humble.
Sure. I have a lot of problems with Python’s design and find it grating, and I don’t think its biggest problems are about tradeoffs, they’re just mistakes.
For most services, this is how the AWS escalation path works:

1.) Support engineer receives the case. In most cases, for most services, the run-of-the-mill support engineer has gotten enough training on the service that they'd considered a SME at any AWS partner/enterprise.

2.) If front-line support engineer can't solve the case, they talk to their more tenured friends.

3.) If they still can't solve the case, they escalate to Premium Support SMEs in the service. These are support engineers that have proven they have solved complex enterprise-level cases and get specialized training from the service teams on the internals of the service.

4.) If the SME can't figure it out, it's escalated to the service team (i.e. the actual software engineers that write the code).

Steps 1-3 deflect a lot of the annoying, unnecessary escalations. But sometimes escalation to the teams is unavoidable. For example, some service limits are hardcoded into the service and updates require a code push. Or (somewhat rarely) there's a service bug.

That being said, Premium Support engineer have access to the backend service code for most everything. While not every PS engineer knows how to code, on more than one occasion, I've dug through a code repo to figure out why something was behaving oddly.
I think the stats for COVID site are very misleading, particularly when you compare them to defense spending. The majority of "COVID bailout" according to that website is "Federal Reserve Actions"-- just the vagueness of that statement should give you pause.

I am not saying Federal Reserve actions don't have a cost, but comparing that to defense spending is apples to oranges. The federal reserve buys securities and created SPVs. You could say that is a cost but by some measures the money the Federal Reserve "spent" made money in the 2009 crises. If that were true this time your cost per tax payer is way, way off.

Or to put it in more plain language, you are comparing the cost to tax payers if the US government bought $60,000 of Lockheed martin stock as opposed to paying Lockheed Martin $15,000 for a fighter that doesn't seem to work well. It's more complicated than that even, but still it is a terrible and biased comparison that you are making.
Because right now price is about the only criteria really considered today. You can stifle innovation and competition as long as the prices stay low.
On risk tolerance, in WW2, the accident rate for a single seat fighter, the P-51, was 274 per 100,000 flight hours[1], for the last 10 years, that rate for f-16's is below 10, and for fatal accidents it's 0.76[2]. Although I'm not sure it's fair to make a 1-1 comparison as the modern accident rating system includes a few scenarios, the orders of magnitude difference is a great illustration of your point!

[1] http://pippaettore.com/Horrific_WWII_Statistics.html
[2] https://www.safety.af.mil/Portals/71/documents/Aviation/Airc...
An acqui-hire is typically considered a failure for VC-backed startups. (Not that one should necessarily be embarrassed for “failing” in this way, but that’s just the reality).
There are 190,000 mail trucks delivering mail every day. I’ll bet NOAA would find 190,000 mobile sensors collecting data eight hours a day, most within a very small radius, quite a compelling dataset. There aren’t that many airstrips. Not even close.

And who cares if it’s not on mission? We can change the mission.
Careful there, your constructivism is showing.
If you use unique e-mail addresses like the GP (jrockway), you could funnel all potentially-obnoxious mail into a separate folder that doesn't trigger notifications. At least, that works with gmail on my Android phone. It's unreasonable for everyone who wants to e-mail you to predict that you have an aggressive notification system.
> You can also use this technique with plain https to see if a user that visits a certain website is downloading certain files from it, or accessing certain pages inside the website.

How do you do this when all the HTTP headers (the Server: and actual GET/POST) are part of the encrypted stream of data? You can't even see the specific domain they're trying to access, only the host/ip of the server.

Am I missing something?
Exactly. If you have good growth at the beginning (not hyper), you can afford to bootstrap without any VC at all.

To me, VC money pays for marketing spend, most of which is ineffectual. Be hyper-focused on putting out the best possible product and let it sell itself.
Agreed on the key travel, I know most keyboard enthusiasts refuse to use anything other than mechanical, but I've been through that and come out the other side preferring chiclet - it's just more gentle on the fingers, and imo more aesthetically pleasing.

For what it's worth, I've been through the DIY ergo board phase as well - I made a Corne (or Helidox as it was known then). It was a fun project, but the build quality just wasn't there which ruined it for me. The sculpt is still the closest I've got to my ideal board - good build quality (minus the F keys), relatively good ergonomics, and wireless. I was hoping the Microsoft surface ergonomic would solve the F key and dongle issue, but may have to rethink my plan.