jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Great question! I’m not currently sure :) I’ve been fairly deliberate about building CodeTour in a language agnostic way, in order to ensure it could be applied to any file type within a codebase. This is partly why I haven’t based the tour definition experience on code comments: https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour/issues/38.

That said, I’m trying to keep an open-mind when it comes to increasing tour resiliency, since it may require language/platform-specific solutions. I’m not sure. If you had any thoughts, I’d love to hear them!

Another potential solution is to have a CI task, that could check to see how far the code has deviated from the original commit that the tour was recorded on, and notify you when the deviation crosses some threshold. Maybe that’s a terrible idea, but something like that would have the benefit of being language-agnostic.

Lots of exploration to do here!
you know the cool thing about potatoes?
the parts [eyes, sprouts] that we dont eat can be used to grow more potatoes
https://godotengine.org/

I've heard good things about it, but never used it. When I get around to the project that needs it, I plan to.
In the interest of security you can't wait for every last site to upgrade. But yes, reverting this is the right priority for the moment.
I just spent a week at a remote Alaska village 120 miles from Nome to help with the Iditarod. The villages there rely on rural broadband, which is essentially a single satellite-fed community receiver which pushes signal out to access points at each house. Very expensive, slow, high latency, and nasty data caps. It will be interesting to see how these efforts change that monopoly and as a result those communities.
Where is that 6 months estimate from? I’ve seen as low as 2, all the way up to a cyclical 18 months from the Imperial College, so I’m just curious over the rationale behind 6.
Our representatives never voted on lockdowns. It's all done by executive decree.
If you're ok with throwing time pressure out of the equation, then I think the main thing is just an aspiration to find a beautiful solution to a problem, where "beautiful" is being concise, efficient, short (and, rarely, original) in some proportion that suits your fancy.

After that, it's just practice interspersed with data structure and algorithm research.
1. U.S. elections aren't decided by popular vote.
2. Biden won narrowly in swing states.
3. The dispute is whether or not the votes cast were legitimate.
> While alternative energy is rapidly advancing, Nigeria isn't going to wait decades to build a solar plant when they can build several coal power plants right now.

It is _faster_ and _cheaper_ for Nigeria to build a solar plant right now. [0] We've crossed over that line.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34372005/solar-che...
Well, there are some nuances you're skating over here.

Remember that GMAC Bank (the direct banking company) and GMAC ResCap (the mortgage/real-estate company) were two different entities owned by the industrial loan company GMAC. GMAC Bank was spun off as Ally Bank. Ally Bank (until 2014) was not even in the mortgage business.

I can tell you that as an actual customer of (the now former) GMAC Bank, I didn't feel like I got short changed in any way. They had good interest rates, and I'm glad they survived through hook, crook, and some TARP money (which was ultimately paid back with interest).

Just my perspective, it doesn't affect me in any way who you bank with.
They are not the only such resources. But they have been the cheapest, which means they have been the fastest track out of poverty.
Had you said this on Friday, I could have called someone.

If you talk to the developer relations people, they're really good at checking this stuff out, however they're weekday only folks.
I understand that Khan Academy isn’t a right fit for you. But to make personal comments on an individual because they aren’t a fit for you, is petty. I hope you find more people whom you believe in and write about them.
> No it hasn't https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imag...

We were talking about models trained on ImageNet, specifically about the trade-off between accuracy and FLOPs. But the higher-accuracy models listed in your link use extra data. So it's not quite the same benchmark we were talking about.
Ah, that clears things up. Thanks for the info.
They seem to push the DDoS from multiple fronts, for instance this repo has 100k random numbers commits: https://github.com/greatfire/z
Many very good points.

One thing to note is that in these real-life examples you've laid out, there's a non-trivial difference in effort and action between choosing to save people (e.g changing your entire career path to earn more money) versus not doing so.

In the Trolley Problem, the action can be made arbitrarily insignificant, trivial and ambiguous. For example, instead of pulling a lever, we could instead define the action as nodding one's head, or blinking twice. At a certain point of triviality, the action/inaction dichotomy and the do-something/do-nothing dichotomy loses coherency and we realize that ultimately this is a choice between two mutually exclusive options, and subjects are intentionally choosing to kill 5 to save 1.

Perhaps a more fitting real-life analogy to the Trolley Problem would be as follows. You currently donate $100/month to charity A, which saves 1 life per month. A more effective charity comes along called charity B, which for $100/month is capable of saving 5 lives per year. The process to switch from A to B is easy and trivial. Despite knowing all this, you purposely choose not to switch, thereby causing four extra deaths per month.

Does that make the person equivalent to a contract killer who's killing 4 people a month? Society has deemed not, probably for reasons pertaining to pragmatism (we want to disincentive real murderer) and evo psych (we didn't evolve to have disdain for opportunity cost deaths, irrespective of how important it is morally speaking).
Yes, this was absent from the analysis. Bitcoins security derives from computer power which is currently paid by combination of fees and inflation (mining). We have yet to see what happens to the prices and security when mining dries out.

It would also be interesting to see a large market event that causes many people to move bitcoin at once. (What happens to transaction costs? Does this affect perception of bitcoin as a safe store of value?)
Or even run it in a container anywhere. A while ago (when Matomo was named "Piwik") I had it running in a stateless containers (db was provided as a service).
USB-C Dock solved this problem for me.
From your link:

> Report abuse:

>

> - DMCA Takedown

> - Trademark Infringement

> - Spam

> - Phishing

> - Malware

> - Botnet

> - Intrusion/exploit attempts (Bruteforce, Scans etc)

> - Child Abuse

> - Violent Threats and Harassment

> - Other

That seems like a reasonable list of stuff I wouldn't want to have my platform be used for, either. Though, one might reasonably take issue with that "Other" category, but note that--at least in the US--web hosts cannot be forced to host any content they don't want to.
There's a site for that:
https://www.mail-tester.com/
So, it's only as slimy as every other organization that gives you ballot instructions. Not sure that's the message you were trying to send.
Wendell did a video with Linus Tech Tips a few years back, and they’ve collaborated a few times before and since, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgI1mkx6iw
This is not the same kind of analytics. You are talking about something like HotJar with heat maps to find out how customers use the product for example.
The claim "can surveil every transaction you make" does not seem justified.

The way I see the process, the flow of Talers is strictly asymmetric and one way, with a clear distinction between users(consumers) and merchants:

1. From exchange to user (deposits).

2. From user to merchant (payments for orders).

3. From merchant to exchange (withdrawals).

The monitorable steps are 1. and 3., which allow tracking the total amount that you can spend and the total amount that the merchant has received. The actual transactions (step #2) are not surveilable, the system does not track who paid what to whom.

The statement "every time you pay you both were previously a recipient" is not correct, since as a non-merchant user you can't be a recipient of payments, you can't have any income in Taler, you can only spend what you yourself deposited in the system through an exchange. And vice versa, as a merchant, you can't make any payments, you can only withdraw your Taler income for real money at the exchange - it's exactly just as with a merchant account for receiving credit card payments, which is strictly separate from any credit card payments that the company might want to make themselves.
You’re right, this is a massive issue and should be addressed as a public health emergency.

Fortunately isn’t not contagious and so the solutions to that issue can be different from the solutions we apply to Covid.
i've been with my wife for thirty years. i know that it takes hard work to make a relationship last. and i value long relationships.

but i am telling you that many times, this stuff happens. and it can't be fixed no matter how hard the people involved try
I finally created an account just to respond to this.

I would love to hear more about your work (and yummyfajitas). I work for a company that manages 401(k) plans and haven't had much intellectual stimulation recently. Modeling isn't something we do to a large extent.

What programs/language do you do your modeling in? Where does your data come from for back testing?

Any more info about the frameworks, day to day, etc. would be very interesting.

I'm currently reading a book titled "Algorithmic Trading & DMA" which will hopefully give me a basis of how market systems actually function and I'm hoping to build up from there.
In a case like this, it's pretty hard to differentiate between the official propaganda and what people really think. Even when they confess utter sincerity, you should always ask yourself just how big of a percentage of official doublespeak is automatically infused into their discourse (hint: the bigger the distance between you and them on the social graph, the bigger the percentage).

Trust me, I know, I've been "there" (in a general sense, not the geographical location).
Anyone else think naming the thing Ikaros is tempting fate much?
I used to struggle with insomnia a lot, but for now I (knock on wood) have it under control. The trick is to have a routine. Simply having a routine is more important than the specifics, I think. Mine is:

- No caffeine after 3pm.

- Lower the lights as much as possible half an hour before bed.

- I have a playlist of Chopin nocturnes on my iPod I've been using for about 6 years now. I never listen to it except in bed. At this point my brain associates that music w/ sleep. Until I started doing this, I had a big problem with fast music getting stuck in my head and keeping me awake.

- Read in bed until I feel sleep coming on.

Again, routine is key. It especially helps when on the road, since your routine can help counteract the unfamiliarity of the surroundings.
Are you saying that no taxpayer is free?
These days, whenever I hear the word "socialism", I automatically stop listening and move across the room to start a different discussion. It's on the same list with "flat earth", "autism-causing vaccines" and so forth.

EDIT: I'm sorry to say, but it seems like the majority of people in the US use this word a lot without having any idea what it really means. It's become empty, a visceral cry, bypassing rational thought entirely. This too shall pass, I guess, but for now it's pretty sad.
Of course there are some low-quality apps on the App Store, but what do people seriously expect Apple to do? Start rejecting Apps because some reviewer doesn't like it? That is the mother of all 'uncertainty' scenarios that undermine developer confidence (much more serious than the smaller risk that your App is blocked for breaching some obscure/vague part of the licence).

The only thing Apple can realistically do to affect the general quality levels is make broad decisions like no porn, no Flash, no technology X, Y, or Z.
Its not lacking. it is easily possible for users to get refunds from apple.

I have no idea why the developer isn't just asking them to go to apple for a refund.
Car makers like Toyota, Mazda and the like all make diesel versions of the same cars-- they sell them in the UK and Australia. They cannot import them to the USA because of the "anti-smog" rules. IT's not chicken and egg-- the cars are there, and produced for other markets.

It's pure regulation.
> An estimated 137,000 people are in prison today on a basic drug-possession charge. Approximately 65% of them sit in local jails, and most of them have yet to actually be accused of a crime. These unfortunate individuals may have to wait months to get their day in court because of their inability to post bail.
https://www.marijuanabreak.com/going-to-prison-for-marijuana...
Have you considered that Google might be lying?

Many larger firms with technical employees are worried about their lack of diversity, and the relevant legal risks. They may have to bend their effective practices to mitigate this risk.

Beyond making this claim as an ulterior rationalization, mendaciously spreading it might help trip up competitors.
Do you have an email address? No contact info on your site.
I think it is hard to get your head around the totality of it. I suspect that if I were to lose all my children to an accident I would have a hard time finding the will to live. Losing all of humanity would include them. If you managed to survive that despair long enough, you might come out the other end in some fashion but as you say the context and meaning of everything would be altered.

This has been touched upon in speculative fiction, i.e. the library of knowledge remaining from a civilization that no longer exists. More than once. Not even including Kal El :-)
>> It's their choice, but I'm the one who's losing the most because of it.

Surely this is a case of "it's their loss"? If your employer does not choose to see the benefits of flexible working arrangements then they are the ones that lose, both in lost productivity and being unable to keep top staff.
Note this wasn't unique to this version - it's been going on for, err, years.
See the thing is, I think I have a decent sense of what looks good and what doesn't, but I just have no idea about common design patterns and how to create the designs I envision. I also am reluctant to believe that this can't be learned.
I'd shoot for at least one a month if you can manage it. You're missing out for certain.
I doubt that good commands get more upvoted than before. Visible, high points serve as a signal that the comment is worth a read. Also, I believe that other things being equal people tend to upvote high-point comments more. In other words, if you did an A/B test that would (resp.) add/subtract 20 points to the displayed points of an already well upvoted comment, people seeing the high-point version would upvote it more.
It takes good effort to organize
a significant body of knowledge into
a tree with a few big, short branches.
Just so you know, you click the name in the top center of the Word/PowerPoint/Excel document to rename it.
Really?

I live in Glasgow. Our sysadmin moved to Australia (Sydney) - close to tripled his salary but dropped his standard of living because of higher costs out there. I hear that a lot from people moving out there - great salaries, costs a fortune to live.
Actually, the Snowden files show that is happening for non-US Citizens/US-persons.

The NSA only has the legal obligation to obtain warrents for US Citizens not for anyone else. The NSA is unlikely to get involved in civil legal disputes but yes, it can go in and ask for Kafka's data from Google if he is living in, say, Germany.
> It is hard to use, but if you keep up with it, it is better than Mixpanel in many ways.

This basically sums up this entire discussion. GA is powerful, and for that you pay the price of a slight learning curve (or paying someone like me to set it up quickly). Oh, and it's free.
Side note: The West by Ken Burns is heartbreaking and super informative about the United States's expansion into the west. The Mormons and the Indians were treated very poorly by Americans during that expansion.
I've noticed two interesting things about Emacs over the years. One is that it's an order of magnitude easier to write tools in Emacs than in other environments. It's also more satisfying, because Emacs lacks the arbitrary hoops you typically have to jump through when writing plug-ins—hoops that come from internal limitations of the host system and give you that annoying "why can't I do it this way" feeling. Emacs, despite its high learning curve, has little such systemic friction. Because making tools is an order of magnitude easier and more satisfying, people do it more, which is why Emacs has so many tools, as well as sophisticated things (e.g. Slime) that show up more rarely elsewhere.

The other thing is that the core of Emacs is a masterful piece of domain-driven design, where the domain is "text editing and windowing". Its conceptual model is clear, simple, and consistent. (Some of the later additions don't have this quality, but fortunately they mostly stay out of the picture.) It has a rich language for its concepts—'buffers', 'text properties', and so on—and uses that language everywhere through documentation and code. This tremendously eases the burden of writing programs that interoperate, because everything is based on the same conceptual model and thus makes sense in the same way. Not all Emacs programs follow identical conventions—far from it—yet it's amazing how close they get, given how many there are. It's Emacs' exemplary domain model, as much as its Lisp character, that creates this conceptual unity.

So while Emacs rightly gets a lot of credit for the technical aspects of its extensibility, we should hear more about the design aspects. Its core design is a masterpiece and ought to be studied as an example of the power of software design itself—something we're mostly still pretty bad at. It might be hard to get that taken seriously, though, since on the surface Emacs is obtuse, clunky, and old. Only when you dive underneath does it become orderly and beautiful.
I believe the general idea is to allow choice in others. You don't have to agree with them, as that is your choice, but you should at least entertain their choice: hear them. Many things in our history were considered negative at first and were later adopted as the norm. I agree that venting is necessary, but understanding why you are venting is more important. Fears, interest, boredom, love. Those emotions drive us all, but few understand how they make us think.

There is no downside to your behavior in forming an opinion of another being. If someone is depressed, they have unresolved issues. If they choose this for themselves, well, that's their choice. If you perceive you can help them, it makes more sense you work on getting to the unresolved issues instead of telling them to do something they already know they shouldn't do - sleep 23 hours a day. Whether you want to dig into someone's nasty problems is up to you and your level of interest in the subject.

Yes, confusion frequently leads to blaming. I wasn't trying to indicate I was being blamed, and only used it as an example to prove a larger point: slowing or stopping your thinking opens you up to observation. Listening is a powerful thing.
Yes, the mobile operators all do 2G except as you say Three. There are no definite plans to phase out 2G in UK because of rural coverage.
I'm not familiar with Marathon, but I will read up on it. Thanks.

I find it interesting how everyone is sprinting toward PaaSes from their own positions. For example, Docker is racing up the stack, Hashicorp and Mesosphere are growing sideways, Cloud Foundry is growing in about 5 directions at once. Red Hat is trying to reboot OpenShift with Docker and Kubernetes, but I am not sure how well that will turn out for them.

There's also a thriving cottage industry of people reinventing central controllers that won't scale in the face of the network fallacies, something that Mesos and Diego have accepted and moved on from.
Kudos to joesfresco for originating this idea[0], but after observing Tesla for the last couple of months, they're really developing car hardware, as though it was software, and it's continually winning me over as a better automobile "development" cycle.

No car company has ever existed quite like Tesla, and I think this is almost the automobile 'iPhone' in the making. They've done three incredibly important things in this press release, that has taken me a bit to fully appreciate.

First, they're the first car company that I know of that has offered serious vehicle improvements as a service, ever. Tesla is offering 40%-50% improvement on range. Imagine Ford coming out tomorrow and saying anyone can bring their cars in and we'll improve your MPG by 40%-50% for a few thousand. That's unreal.

Second, to do this, they HAD to have looked at the possibility of just releasing a new and improved Roadster, with no upgrade kit. However, they not only actively made the decision to not do that, but to offer it as an "update" simply because they saw it as a bigger benefit to their users. This is a move on par with Tesla shipping the new hardware with cars coming off the assembly line, and then activating that hardware once it was announced [1].

Third, by doing this, Tesla, is training it's customers to recognize that Tesla's are a long-term investment. It's literally a punch right in the face of modern car manufacturers, letting them know that a new car every year is not the way we do business. They're saying that this car is not a product of a year of development, but a product of years of innovation and development.

Suddenly, $70,000 for a car is a lot more justifiable if I know the manufacturer will be updating and improving my vehicle in 4 years still.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556449
[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/en_EU/forum/forums/autopilot-info...
What exactly was expected by it? The article consists of anecdotes and fictional numbers to argue and support an agenda which has historically been highly politicized by big tech companies. Perhaps PG doesn't have the same intention as others supporters of immigration but the article sure didn't show it or really bring anything new to the table. Truthfully, Im not sure that the comments are any lower quality than the essay itself.
The new-for-old replacement cost of an iPhone 1 is peanuts compared to an SUV. Pinot makes a legitimate point that some car components could be made upgradeable by their manufacturer -- like entertainment units -- but they don't, and they're missing out on those aftermarket dollars as a result.

I've owned a number of cars for which I would have spent thousands of dollars with the brand upgrading them if options were available.
I interviewed with one of them, and they picked a fight with me about advertising because I felt my previous employer had taken the absolute lowest possible road. I continually tried to acquiesce, even noting that they had a paid option, and they basically said that they hate their paid customers, who they lose money on (why not charge us more?!?), and that they only ever did a paid option because they were forced to.

Pretty sure I had been using their fucking service longer than anyone I interviewed with there, but whatever. ;)