jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can't comment for anyone else, but for me at least the iffiness is not the concept but the execution.

Current patent durations may be fine for its original purpose, mechanical and chemical processes, as there is likely to have been significant expense involved.

But software is a massive gray area, even if one ignore the whole problem of it being pretty much lawyers into place (code as a form of applied math etc). 20 years is a damn long time in the computing world.

Never mind the whole issue of software being the only area where you can both patent the idea and copyright the specific implementation.

Heck, i think Bill Gates pretty much admitted that it would be virtually impossible to start Microsoft today because of the change in patent law.

Never mind patenting in medicine, where often the production process is downright cheap but the medicine is expensive because of patent licensing. Resulting in various nations pretty much giving pharmacorps the middle finger and allowing local companies to violate the patent to solve immediate national health issues.
Food :) (everyone loves that!) Beer (great way to meet people -- everyone wants to swap beer). Textiles, beadwork, crappy art. I really am thinking of woodworking -- I would like to make a really nice chair. Or a salad bowl.
Agreed. The web has always been healthiest where there are a handful of independent browsers in the mix. We're sliding down the path of a ChromeDesktop/SafariMobile duopoly which isn't good for the web.

I'd really like to see Servo start pressuring the big guys and possibly start winning some of the embedding battles.
Comparing battery technology with Moore's Law is just ridiculous.

Every year, there are big claims of revolutionary, new battery technology, but they never seem to reach the market. We're going to have to live with incremental improvements on Li-Ion (which companies like Tesla and Apple seem to be making some strides in) until alternative technologies mature, which I suspect will take years.
Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age.

Newer: Ancillary Justice. Really interesting ideas about the self. Over the years: Octavia Butler. Some very challenging ideas.

Honestly, though, I think 14-year-olds should read a lot of random crap from the library. Legal thrillers and historical romance and linguistics texts and home repair manuals and history of Thailand and books about sneakers, and the Tao Te Ching and that famous book about Buddha. Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. That blew me away in 9th grade.
The reaction to my posts is rather remarkable. I've lost 30 karma so far just for stating a bunch of facts and opinions that challenge the hegemonic narrative on "Hacker News".

Oh no, I'm being cancelled. I should go write about it on Quillette. /s
Scott Aaronson blogged about the article: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310

> Reading this article, some will say that they told me so, or even that I was played for a fool. And yet I confess that, even with hindsight, I have no idea what I should have done differently, how it would’ve improved the outcome, or what I will do differently the next time. Was there some better, savvier way for me to help out? For each of the 14 points listed above, were I ever tempted to bang my head and say, “dammit, I wish I’d told Cade X, so his story could’ve reflected that perspective”—well, the truth of the matter is that I did tell him X! It’s just that I don’t get to decide which X’s make the final cut, or which ideological filter they’re passed through first.
The point isn’t that people with assets should care. The point is that people who hold dollars should care because eventually they’ll need to convert those dollars into assets.
Very Serious People are Concerned With it...? Sam Altman and other tech power players are involved? I wouldn't call any of the Silly Valley people "serious" but they definitely have power and think they are serious.
Probably but a char is often 1 byte so it doesn't make a difference
I gave your post some thought, but there is not too much I can really say. You throw around some conclusion/assertion ("it's fragile"), but that's just plain wrong. And then you propose a perceived solution for that non-problem ("put people on sliced servers") even though our workloads are poorly suited for that AND that's mostly orthogonal to the stated "problem" to begin with.
I guess the reason is this: OP has asked a specific question to Paul with a specific answer. Why do we need predictions here?
Honestly, I'd say that google is...

I mean...they make smartphones now, how does that make sense beyond "well, we locked a bunch of geeks in a room, and they thought this would be cool...so we did it!".

Or howabout google books? Or all the dark fibre they purchased...or the google datacenter in a shipping container things? Perhaps my vision is skewed as an outsider looking in, but google seems to make a lot of really cool things.

They seem to adhere to the "innovate now, monetize later" model, which is really cool.
OK, I have to disagree, simply because I think it's that's a wonderful argument and HN bans empty ++ posts.

Companies that do basic research are a different kettle of fish. They make money on breakthroughs and innovation. Java schools make money on students, so the thinking is an entirely different kind - formalizing existing knowledge (so the students can study something more "academic"). Sure, you can formalize code as category theory, algebra, sets, and so on, but it's not exactly an out-of-box breakthrough. Also, the type of researchers you get are excellent students, not engineers who made innovations in the field and got kicked up to the lab.
A full-time traveler wrote a massive guest post on my site describing how she travels for $14,000/year: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/cheap-travel/
My distinction is purely between abductive, and inductive reasoning. Mythology is abductive—it looks at things that happen, and then ascribes causes. It cannot be used to predict what will happen.

Religion is inductive—you think things like "it appears that people who do X die mysteriously; therefore (through induction) God smites people who do X. Thus (deductively) God will smite me if I do X, so I should not do X." Aboriginals never develop this sort of logic.
Try J. Much better. :)
You should check out my up and coming startup, http://AppRabbit.com. It's still in beta, but it's coming along nicely and may provide the functionality that you're looking for. Shoot me a note if you have any questions or to chat about what you're needing to build; megamark16/gmail.
Also relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCHSGvNwRY
This post is pretty weak. Neither metmorphblog nor the lawblog explain what this rule means. They both declare it as bad. But why?

So what if 'accredited investor threshold' is raised? Will angels not get to make investments? Will they have to pay higher taxes? What is the intent behind raising this threshold? Will it stop someone from starting a ponzi scheme?
Or use Google Chrome/Chromium and get the Chattit extension so you can bicker in real-time!

But seriously most people are members of Reddit, Digg (well..), HN etc. it's not like each website only has the same guys and girls (yes girls!) whether people admit it or not some if not most people read many types of social news websites.
The reason of this (while I agree with you) is because Nim comes with a strong interop with C/C++ so the problem is that in C and C++ there is a SnakeCase debate still open. They did that so your program can invoke c (or even nim libs) without taking care of the upcase/underscore style and use your own.

While this seems problematic they added some neat features to avoid problems with `uniqueness` of the name and so on.

One thing I wish at this point is to force the compiler to stop if this pattern is not uniform within a codebase.
Can anecdotally confirm. I was once in a long-distance relationship crossing a few time zones, where we also had different work schedules. We basically lost contact because we could only sync when I got out of work and my partner would be about to go to bed.
Vancouverite here. Car2go and Modo member (the co-op equiv of Zipcar).

Car2go is great. The best part being the free parking, in designated spots. I can get downtown in 10 min and park for free for about $4. Bus downtown is $2.75 and takes 45 min.

It's also a cheaper way to avoid drinking and driving. Car2go to bar, taxi home.

Afaik, they are owned by Mercedes, which explains why they use Mercedes-owned Smart cars.

My card also works in Toronto, which is convenient. Not sure about the US though.

If there's no car nearby, the app can notify you when a car is available nearby.

Lost my card and they mailed me a new one, free :) Wish I could login to the car with my phone though.

Modo is great for longer terms errands, like a trip to Ikea, where you return where you started.

Curious as to what will happen when driverless taxis arrive.
I'll probably be looking for seed later this year, so this makes me sad and despondent. I can probably bootstrap to traction, but it's really hard.
that looks awesome! maybe i'll PR a way to separate them into separate require's :)
Start a software startup and sell it and use the funds to start this one. Simple!
Ergo, you should be doing a PhD for the love. The purpose of education is to make you a better human being, not to get you a job (that said, a PhD in an interesting subject can vastly increase your employment flexibility in ways you can't even imagine.)
Discussion for the previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948048
Youtube blocks most music videos here (Peru).
I completely agree with this take. 85% of police officers voted for Tump in 2016.

Just from personal experience, I've noticed a growing animosity from police pushing back on the reform movements happening across the country. I've heard officers refusing to be involved in psychiatric calls due to changes in use of force laws which could hold them personally accountable. Instead of working to find a legal solution, their attitude seems to be one of revenge and their actions a punitive measure on the electorate and government which chose to enact those laws.

There is a culture of us vs. them that is being focused towards politicians and reformists. I hope it's not a pervasive one.
Human history is filled with civil wars, violent revolutions, angry protests, etc much before internet & social media.

Social media is a catalyst and internet is the mega-phone/amplifier which makes lot of things precipitate quickly than before.
ah, is that matrix? https://matrix.org/
The 13 inch MBPs don't have a dedicated GPU and the Intel integrated graphics draws significantly less power. Does anyone know why the 16 inch MBPs power on the AMD GPU for external screens?
this post gets it.
> Because at scale, countries are also just a group of people pooling resources to achieve greater outcomes.

> The only difference between micro-socialized funding (GoFundMe) and macro-socialized funding (government healthcare) is that the government version results in massive cost savings for the entire system.

there is a key difference though. in one case, a group of elected representatives is deciding what to do with everyone's resources. in the other, individuals are deciding what to do with their own resources. at a high level, they look pretty similar: a group pooling resources to help someone. but the control over allocation is completely different. this is a really important distinction to understand. most people are a lot more willing to give their resources to friends/family than to random strangers. your (compelling to me!) argument about efficiency will not convince people if you don't acknowledge the allocation part.
The problem is that law enforcement is incompetent. They are provocative against the peaceful and ineffective against the violent. Pretty much the worst of both worlds.
> I wish you would detail what exactly you disagree with instead of replying with quips like these.

If I tried to detail everything, it would be pages and pages. I'm simply drawing attention to the fact that things which you take to be obvious facts, aren't. If you ask "which things", my short answer is, as far as I can tell, pretty much anything you believe that isn't based on something you saw with your own eyes or checked in detail yourself is questionable, because there are no reliable sources of information in our society. (That means none--on any side of any debate. That's what makes the current situation so difficult.)

> Did you also stop touching all surfaces/disinfecting your phone, groceries, etc.?

No. We did wear gloves (medical grade vinyl or nitrile) when doing things like grocery shopping, and washed our hands after handling those items.

> If not, you had no reason not to at the time

What drove our general actions was our own common sense and background knowledge about how viruses generally propagate. We were looking at whatever data was available, but we didn't give it a lot of weight because we knew the virus was new and anything said about it was tentative, and also because of the general unreliability of information sources that I mentioned above.

> Social distancing was highlighted very early on.

Not as early as we started doing it. It wasn't until we had been doing it for several weeks that we saw it being emphasized in the media, and it wasn't until a week or two after that that we saw it actually becoming common in our area. We also watched spring break happening in various places with no signs of precautions or social distancing, several weeks after we had started doing those things.
>Interactive face to face help, or an open IDE they can run code on uninterrupted.

I've tried both. I've tried leaving them to it entirely, I've tried leaving them to it then if they get stuck helping both from a lesser to a greater degree.

It really makes no difference - the bad coders struggle on that and other problems, they just lack the ability to think through the problem.

And again I've seen enough anxious candidates to see the difference. I'm pretty good at gauging things well as to how and when to help.

Overall I'm not hearing many specifics more 'I am great at interviewing'.

The empirical evidence is overwhelmingly that there are many bad programmers out there with long CVs. That's also my experience WITHIN companies, though a lesser proportion.
I didn't know that until just now.
I have thought about it. It's just a working title, we'll probably change it throughout the week to something more 'serious'. Any suggestions?
i am interested in creating an audio-only MUD. (like what an audio-book is to books). keep the text, but get a narrator with a dramatic voice. add sound effects, different NPC voices, voice input.
If you're not already getting that on a regular basis as a teacher (the type of fear you're talking about), then I have a great fear for the direction our civilization is going. Seeing as today's students are tomorrow's inheritors, and need to at least have good enough foundations to maintain and opeerate what we're getting put in place today.

My concern though is teachers are so distracted making fiscal ends meet that they can't bring their all to the classroom...
Every time people talk about the real problem of so-called "gifted" classes containing disproportionately large numbers of white students, this story gets trotted out as an ominous warning of "where this could go". This is the slippery slope fallacy; who is suggesting that we attach bags of lead weights to people who are stronger than average or play loud noises to disrupt the thinking of people smarter than average? No such measures, or anything like them, is proposed in the article. Actually, no measures are proposed at all because the school hasn't decided what to do yet (beyond temporarily suspending gifted classes).

So how is this story at all relevant or illuminating to the article, beyond as an exercise in fearmongering?
I had an app on my Palm Pilot for that, it was really reliable but it was annoying to light up if I was watching something in the dark. One nice thing was that the (rechargeable) battery was always charged up, unlike the physical remote which seemed to be dead more often than it should have been.
I hesitate to say "of course", because it sounds trite, and the underlying issue is serious. But this is precisely what we did in the UK during the IRA (Irish terrorist organisation) years. And we were encouraged to do that by the media and government. And as stiff upper lipped Brits, we did so with pride :)

I myself saw the outcomes of three of the bombs personally -- by which I mean still smoking -- and picnicked on the Regent's Park bandstand on the Sunday which was blown up on the Tuesday; the bomb would have been there at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_and_Regent%27s_Park_b...

None of this changed my behaviour at the time, nor did it appear to do so for anyone else, other than being vigilant for strange packages.

So yes, the correct response is not to be influenced by it. In other words, do not give up your way of life because of murdering cowards.
I suspect there are similarities to : Why aren't the smartest people the richest, why dont they get laid the most?

The lisp language 'microkernel' is clearly a fundamentally important construct - the essential core of all computer language.

But lisp needs to interact with the surrounding ecosystem - less than genius level programmers, ugly APIs, non-mathematically perfect OO abstractions, old fashioned data stores. Its actually a lot of work to wrap that... given the impedance mismatch. Perhaps this is the same reason microkernel operating systems have won in theory but not in practice - interfacing to 'the real world'.

Comparing Arc and Scheme [both of which I really enjoy] to the Javascript / node.js 'environment' ... it seems Node.js is more amenable to real work. Its a less expressive / powerful / elegant language - but via Node, Javascript melds beautifully with the async IO model of the OS and gives superb primitives for developing TCP/http services.

Maybe its not the breadth of the libraries available, but the smoothness of the bridge between the language and the real world.

Geeks who apply their smarts and learn something about social interaction do get laid [ to abuse my analogy ].
Came here to post the same thing. Żurek is phenomenal and Polish cuisine is among the best, and most underrated.

Recipes online say you need to make a fermented starter liquid called zakwas, which is allegedly sold pre-made in Polish grocery stores. But I could not find it for sale online. There are instant żurek mixes on Amazon, though, and a few packets are now on their way.
More importantly your employer won’t like it.
> Your understanding of average human behavior is very different than mine.

I promise you postal workers are well aware of the implications of losing mail, and especially losing ballots. Postal workers have been prosecuted for dumping mail and ballots in the past, and I'm sure the USPS reinforces the severity of such a crime in their trainings.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/postal-worker-arrested-...
I have quit and relapsed caffeine a few times in the past.

Now I quit about a year ago and did not relapse. This time I did so by reducing the quantity progressively over a week, and I did not experience any headache at all.

I don't feel especially better, but now I don't have to drink coffee everyday. Before, I got headaches every weekend because I only drank it at the office, unless I also forced myself to have coffee on the weekend.
I still get one sometimes, but I make sure to not do it everyday so I don't relapse.
Wow. Reading the bit about disabling the chip security makes me wonder what the point of a chip card is in the first place? All it takes is lifting the mag strip and altering it to declare that there’s no chip.
If you had written your entire comment without the "No" at the beginning I would be nodding my head in agreement with you. Instead I'll ask: do you think the "MBAs" operated/operate in a vacuum devoid of government oversight/regulation or do you think they were/are aided and abetted by said overseers/regulators?

Maybe they were storming the capitol because they thought the ghost of Jack Welch was in there.
You'll find 800+ beneficial plants and remedies in "The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies". It includes recipes of tinctures, teas, decoctions, essential oils, syrups, salves, poultices, infusions and many other natural remedies that our grandparents used for centuries. What's also special about this book is that it has between 2 and 4 high definition, color pictures for each plant and detailed identification guidelines to make sure you've got the right plant.
This is public; they submitted a "Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities" filing to the SEC today:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1315098/000131509821...

They even have a ticker: RBLX
authorize my account from another Matrix client that I've previously signed into or I won't be able to read encrypted messages people send me

That's how e2ee works. You have to send all the old messages to other new client on your other device.
Yeah, I don't have the numbers, but I would bet a that AmTrak gets far fewer government dollars per passenger-mile than any western european rail system.
Cool business model! A couple suggestions:

1. I'd like to be able to see pricing information before I sign up. This would be convenient because I don't want to sign up for something without knowing how much it will cost me.

2. An ad supported pricing option would be nice for those of us that don't want to pay anything. Bonus points if it doesn't insert audio ads, but instead uses Adwords in the listening interface or something similar.

3. The licensing agreement seems a little onerous. It sounds almost like I'm giving you complete royalty free ability to sell my music wherever you want. You should specify that I am only giving Mixlr.com the right to perform my music for the purpose of streaming to users of the Mixlr.com service, and for no other purposes. Serious musicians aren't going to use this service if it involves signing away in perpetuity their copyrights.

USER hereby grants Mixlr.com and its successors and assigns a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, distribute, stream, download and/or otherwise make USER’s Content available to other users of Mixlr.com’s Website and Services.
USER also grants each and every other registered user of Mixlr.com’s Website a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid up, license to use, copy, transmit or otherwise distribute, publicly perform, digitally perform, publicly display, distribute, stream, download USER's content and/or otherwise to make USER’s Content available to other users of Mixlr.com’s Website and Services as set forth herein.
Don't know if it helps but it only affected pages where the logged in user info appeared in the top right.

The submit page was working all through (even when logged in).
I would prefer a sophisticated metric (popularity, karma) over a timestamp. I don't actually want to see last updates from all the people in my social graph, just the ones that are in some way significant. There was talk on filtering out stuff like #lunch on Twitter, but it's hard to really make a CAPTCHA judgement on the semantics of an update.
you should fuck your boss over as hard as possible. seriously, people like him need to be taught an excruciating lesson.
59 points and (at the time of writing) top post would indicate some disagree