jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why do you think that would improve outcomes?

From my observation, if someone is smart, they can teach themselves out of a book, with a bit of guidance to keep them on the right track. If someone simply lacks the cognitive power, there is nothing a teacher can do to make them smart. The student can improve somewhat with practice and drilling, but they still plateau at a lower point than the smart student. So we need to spend enough money that their is a guide to help students get through roadblocks, but I see no evidence that we are spending too little to provide appropriate guidance. I think one hour of personal guidance for every 10 to 20 hours of self-practice is a perfectly normal ratio. That is what we do when training new engineers, or learning a musical instrument, and there really isn't much of a way to gain more benefit by increasing the quantity of guidance.

I think that teaching could be improved somewhat, at the high-end. But it could be done by reallocating existing spending, not spending more. I do think that mentorship helps a lot, but mentorship needs to come from an experienced practitioner. So what we need is a system where a programmer can work a job for a few years, then take a mentoring job for a year, then work for a few years, etc. This would require eliminating the need for education degrees, and optimizing teacher's time for personal mentorship rather than grading tests, building lesson plans, and performing classroom management. It really would be an entirely different job than what is now considered a teacher. A "teacher" now is really just a glorified day-care worker, paying them more won't help much.
The issue is that by the time you have found enough proper sources, especially with the scammers actively making it harder, the scam will have been done with and paid out to the scammers. So the only logical approach I feel is to assume it's a scam unless those involved put the effort into proving otherwise.
Eventually her boyfriend will get fed up with her bizarre habit and dump her. Probably sooner than later.

Who puts up with that for long?

She needs to get help before this wrecks her life.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25674964.
Probably preemptive, after YouTube removed a video of his and Facebook / Twitter deplatformed him entirely twitch is the next biggest somewhat-mainstream platform he could use to share that video or others.
Don’t spend much time on parler do you?
Really hoping epic takes the opportunity to give Bink a more open license, to be honest. Much as I appreciate how advanced Bink was at the time, i don't know any dev that still use it given that av1 and such are just Good Enough.
A hundred years ago, no one could own their own press, today I can print a thousand flyers in a few minutes. Technology evolves.
It doesn't appear to be mentioned on the site, but they also collaborated with Sony to develop the hardware decompression unit in the Playstation 5
All media content damn well is sucked by FB. Read the TOS.
My original comment was tongue-in-cheek about how CPI is irrelevant to day to day life for many people and the disconnect people feel from what CPI versus what they experience (or they believe they experience).

I assume it's all wrapped up in the widening income/wealth divides, rewards of automation and outsourcing going to capital owners, and reduced opportunities or perceived opportunities for many resulting in lower quality of life than they expected. That's not going to be captured by any numbers, especially not in a single number nationwide for a place as big as the US.

CPI measures something, and perhaps it's useful for economists or policymakers, but it has been useless as a predictor for how much income I will need to keep up with expenses in day to day life.
contact microsoft
> it’s insane how much of the bot efforts were dedicated to getting camping spots.

is there? whats the source.
They're a blight on the already tight, difficult, and crowded streets of Boston. If you're traveling down Tremont St in the South End, for example, just give up on trying to use the right lane for travel. There'll be multiple ubers/lyfts suddenly stopping for long periods of time on every block.

Cities need to designate pick-up/drop-off spots away from heavily-trafficked streets for these pseudo-taxi services, UX be damned.
They are strategic investments. They'd probably get better returns if they invested in a balanced portfolio like most SWFs, but making money is probably lower down in terms of priorities than having economic leverage.

Let's say if a dissident with US residency were to disappear on foreign soil. Diplomats have started asking some awkward questions. The way to make them go away is to point to major investments you've made in high-profile US companies, that could be impacted should such questions persist.
I doubt many donkey and cart owners encountered the no right turn onto Piccadilly! All of the things I mentioned are very much 20th century additions.
It was recorded/edited/posted by Datastax, gotta ask them. Though, I should probably download this and repost as myself on youtizzoob.
Gett gets you an actual taxi (regulated fare and all) in most of the UK, not certain about London.
> As someone said, accused parents in such cases have less rights than Breivik.

Hang on a minute. Here in the US, my tax dollars support your children. WIC and Food Stamps and school lunch programs which come from my tax dollars ensure your infants and children do not starve in case something happens to you or your income. As a parent, you get to claim tax deductions which means more money out of my pocket to cover for the loss of tax revenue. As I see it, your children are not your property. The children belong to the community at large. They are my investment. If you are damaging our collective investment, I very much expect you to be relieved of your duties to take care of my investment.
I would rather buy a Bollinger Motors truck, this is just too ugly
> And no hope of running it at 4K on most laptops.

Most laptops also don't have 4K screens, so it's a moot point.
Peak dissipation is not particularly interesting in this context.
Currently I am facing an issue where I am unmarshalling json into a protobuf struct. Unfortunately the json tag names are a bit different than the protobuf struct field names. I would love to be able to use struct tags here, but to my knowledge protobuf definitions don't allow this, and I don't think I can put them in after the fact. So I am stuck loading the data into an interface{} and manually pulling out the fields.
This reminds me of a saying we had in high school:

Freshmen know not, and know not that they know not.

Sophomores know not, and know that they know not.

Juniors know, and know not that they know.

Seniors know, and know that they know.
I thought GitHub enterprise is $250/yr/user. Which is only around $21/month. My info is prob really old though. Guessing they changed.
We're not talking about prices here, we're talking about whether the devices have competitive specs and functionality.

Not really, the majority of Android phones are slower than iPhones. In fact, it wasn’t until 2018 that high end Samsung phones were faster in single core performance than the 2015 6S.

Android definitely doesn’t “dominate” on the top end by any definition - sales or profits.

Isn’t it a Pyrrhic victory to sell millions of devices and make no money from them? Of course we have no way of knowing how the Chinese brands are doing.

Yes, long before. We're going way back here.

There is an existence proof that this wasn’t true. It wasn’t until the 3GS/iOS 3 that Apple allowed any app to have real time turn by turn directions. There were plenty of third party Maps apps that had turn by turn directions by iOS 4 in 2010. So Apple explicitly banned Google but allowed other Maps apps?
Hey I rented one of these and actually was great, drove well, very practical, loads of space and lots of light.
Whenever someone I know moves, everyone with a truck comes along to haul stuff.
I think the term stealing is a bit normative in this context. Copying is more descriptive.
i came here hoping to read about how they made their game little-s satisfactory. that was a story i'm interested in, but this is not that story. :/
A missing one - “ridiculously hidden downgrade/cancel option for subscription service.”

Just encountered this in a major way trying to cancel my Audible subscription - searched for 10-15 mins on both the app and mobile web, there’s an option to temporarily pause, but could not for the life of me figure out how to actually cancel my subscription. Maybe there’s a way on desktop web?

Regardless, pure sleaze tactic, and whenever I encounter it, I definitely never come back, and am sure to give terrible word of mouth. I’m going to cancel anyways, why ruin my perception of your product on the way out?

On that note, if you dislike sleazy dark patterns, stay away from Audible.
Transport Tycoon is probably more of a copy of Railroad Tycoon.
Artificial scents contain all sorts of carcinogens.
Have you seen probuilder for unity? Here's a old video: https://youtu.be/a8JOk8nuK0k

Unity basically bought this third party tool and is now a free package.
iirc it only works for malloc
Always been a fan of long term strategy over short term benefits. Completely agree with your views.
I wonder if it just means that Cchess is a very approachable game that can be played at wide range of skill level? It is not a hard game to teach and anyone can start playing immediately. Basically it is a game a 6 year old can play and a game for world championships as well.
Casting out nines has a couple of advantages over simply redoing the calculation:

• as the other commenter mentioned, it's much less likely that you'll repeat the same error, because you'd have to do it in a totally different way;

• if the numbers are more than two digits, it's much less work to do casting out nines than to redo the calculation. Multiplying 38020562 by 95942, using the standard algorithm, you have to do 40 digit multiplications, 32 carries, and then sum five six-digit partial products (about another 25 additions) to get your final sum of 14 or so digits; that's a total of 97 operations. Checking it by casting out nines involves only about 26 operations, which can be simplified further by casting out some nines ahead of time — 95942, for example, is obviously 2 mod 9 because the other digits are 9, 9, and 5+4 = 9.

(Side note: is it worthwhile to use Karatsuba multiplication to multiply 38020562 by 95942 by hand?)
It's the same aversion we recall our childhood selves and react to anything our parents "force" us to do. Force isn't so effective -- it would be best if parents found creative ways to entice their kids with chess and chess-like activities (why not Backgammon, which I prefer, or Go?). They make us eat vegetables, play instruments, do our homework, etc. In the end, years down the line, I'll thank them for it.

Personally, I'm disappointed that my parents never made me play an instrument or an intellectually stimulating game like chess. It wasn't until relatively (<4) years that I picked up Backgammon and classical guitar, and I cringe when I think about how I would have benefited from years more experience.
In the late 80s-early 90s, 3D sound with stereo speakers was all the rage : Q-Sound, Roland RSS... there were several competing processing systems. Sting's "The Soul Cages" did use Q-Sound quite heavily, for anyone interested (edit: correct Sting album reference).
A similar question would be, "Should every child be entered into a mathematics contest?" Mathematics contests, like chess games, have a win-and-lose aspect to show who has really learned the skills, a progression of skill development through practice, and a mixture of knowing technical tools through deliberate practice and creative insight developed by broad experience with competitions. A good discussion of the pros-and-cons of widespread schoolchild participation in mathematics contests (which has been going on in some countries

http://www.komal.hu/lap/archivum.e.shtml

for a century) can be found on the website of the Australian Mathematics Trust.

http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/mc20011.html
Monolithic corporate communication app (email/doc viewer/calendar/etc)

Virtualization - phone as thinclient

Wipe everything when you leave/lose your phone/terminated (including personal stuff like photos/movies/contacts/appts)
I think the searching and categorizing could be public, but perhaps pro users could get eclipse/textmate/whatever plugin + api access to do some automatic stuff. You could have it do a search on the current empty method name and return any similar-sounding snippets in the current language, ready for embedding and sourcing, complete with comments.

You could even have a special kind of in-source comment that links the snippet to the web URL so you can track changes and automatically show the differences and "accept" the changes to your source code. New way to collaborate :)
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to combat exactly this issue. It's a single link every day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] https://thinking-about-things.com
Having a vision doesn’t prevent the rank and file from contributing quite the opposite. Look at Microsoft. Nadella has a strong vision for the company and great things are constantly created from every level that aligns with that vision. The new surface neo, xbox adaptive controller, gamebar,razor components, the whole .net team. All of it is about empowerment, that is what vision can do.
Who is deciding which content is promoted now on social media? An unaccountable algorithm. Isn't this just the flip side of the censorship coin? Except now the truth is being censored and lies are being promoted because it's financially better for the publisher.

Wouldn't the most appropriate legal response to this be not allow social media companies to have any sort of recommendation algorithm and force them to have feeds that are linear in time of people who you follow?
My wife uses your product all the time! She's a copywriter for a cosmetics company, and uses it to research what they've sent out in the past, and also what other brands have been sending.

She finds it super useful, so thanks for building it :)
I mean, it's Sacha Baron Cohen so over the top rhetoric feels kind of appropriate.
The version of this I first heard in school was:

He knows not and knows not that he knows not is fool. Shun him.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student. Teach him.

He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him.

He who knows and knows that he knows is wise. Follow him.
Amit Singh’s excellent book MacOS Internals: A Systems Approach [1] is a bit outdated now but still recommended if you’re interested in the workings of a non-Linux commercial OS.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Internals-Approach-paperback/d...
Like many others posters, also using Hugo + Netlify here. I've never had issues, highly recommended.
> most of your examples would not be considered expressions in the given language.

So that's a piece of cognitive load that you have to carry to know when the parentheses are on an expression, and do not change the meaning if compounded, versus when they are around something else where they may not be removed or compounded.

In Lisp, everything is an expression, and no there is no willy-nilly removal of nesting or compounding of nesting. That's less to remember.

Even fragments of forms are expressions, according to ANSI CL glossary terminology. If we have (let ((a b)) ...) then a, b, (a b), ((a b)) and let are all expressions. With the exception of b, what they are not is forms: expressions presented for evaluation.

> Ultimately this argument is anti-productive nitpicking.

Who started it?
Following the discussion on ET, here is my current work on a tmux fork to focus on accurate rendering of graphics (ANSI and sixels)

My main goal is to be able to use sixel-gnuplot (a simple recompilation of gnuplot with the sixel backend enabled: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot ) on both remote and local hosts, in split windows.

A few issues remain to do that, but it already works in horizontal split windows after 2 days: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/master/sixel-tmux....

You can recompile the source within msys2 on Windows 10; I also provide a binary on https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/raw/master/sixel-tmux.e...
The tagline in the top left, though:

> Try.

> Suffer.

> Quit.
You make an interesting point that I found easy to overlook. “Radical” is thrown around a lot but when you ground it in its definition a lot of “radical” things aren’t radical by virtue of being a mainstream political topic.

Another definition of “radical” that might be helpful here is “the root of something” so when you propose a radical idea you’re proposing to fundamentally change basic policy.
Almost any other network request puts you at more risk than this. If that is your concern, then you are better off turning off your Internet.

If they were really trying to track you, there would also be an unique ID with the request as that makes it much easier to identify you. IP addresses alone are not as useful for those purposes.
I think the main question I have about these smaller, "lottery ticket" networks is that they are being trained over and over on the same problem as the bigger network, and are being evaluated on the same dataset as the big network, which leads me to believe that the model will fail to generalize to different but still related problems. Like if the model was trained on Imagenet an the winning ticket was found that had ridiculous accuracy for a relatively small network, I would think it would be heavily overfitted
Mobile is actually highly demanded today

And it's a mistake, IMHO. Eases the erasure between work/private life by enabling the phone/tablet as another work tool. And divests resources from a better desktop experience.
I wonder what will happen to the twitter accounts of folks who have passed away? Eg. Aaron Swartz: https://twitter.com/aaronsw https://twitter.com/aaronsw_hv

> The cull will include users who stopped posting to the site because they died - unless someone with that person's account details is able to log-in.

Yeah, this is bad.

EDIT

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Archive Team is making an effort to archive twitter accounts of dead users. Please see these links:

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1199459588594176000

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbCbDZEPfxPCqOLRvo...

https://www.archiveteam.org/
The compiler adds a tag in debug modes, but not in release modes.
To me the effect occurs - to some extent - with regard to which language I speak.
Witch trials are overtly situation where someone is convicted of something they didn't do.

In all discussions of "cancel culture" there is no debate or disagreement that the person actually did the things they did - the only debate is whether the crime fits the consequences.
This can also be used for social engineering, for masquerading as Telegram interface or system popups to get user's trust. And, of course, for disclosing the identity of users.
> woo-peddlers

Please don't do this here. "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> we have better fonts, and screen proportions have changed.

I have two 24" 1920x1200 monitors which I develop with. Just three or four years ago I and most of my coworkers didn't even have that.

When I open VS Code in full screen using the default font size and two editors split vertically on my 24" monitor, I can fit 90 characters per line before I have to start scrolling horizontally. If I hide the side bar, I can fit 110 characters per line. If I reduce the font size to one which is barely tolerable, I can fit 114 characters per line with the side bar. I can finally fit a full 135 characters per line if I hide the side bar with the tiny font size.

If I snap VS Code to one half of my monitor with the default font and one editor and the side bar open, I can barely fit 80 characters per line. If I close the side bar, I can fit 110 characters per line.

If I open a JetBrains IDE using the default font size, no side bar, and two editors split vertically, I can fit 107 characters per line before I have to scroll. If I do a full screen side-by-side diff with the IDE, I can fit 108 characters per line on each side.

If I open a side-by-side diff in Bitbucket in a full screen browser at the default zoom level, I can fit about 85 characters per line on each side with the side bar open. If I collapse the side bar, I can fit about 108 characters per line on each side.

Of the environments I work in every day, the only ones which support 120 characters per line with comfortable font sizes and without consuming more than half the screen are Beyond Compare and Vim. Most of them don't even support 100 characters per line without making compromises and none of them support 160 characters per line.
Do Bezos and Musk have significant investments outside of Amazon/Muskinc?

If Amazon suddenly was nationalised with no compensation for shareholders, what would Bezos' assets be? I'm sure he wouldn't be destitute, but it's not like someone who's become wealthy by shuffling money around (like wall street billionaires).
And this is how we get a permanent underclass. I don't disagree with the overall thought that we should spend effort on people who appreciate and care for that effort to be spent. I just think that in practice, the effects would be disastrous.
I think that maybe be true for some of their products, but when it comes to cordless stick vacuums Dyson is still king.
Tesla's response is of course self serving. It should be expected from their legal department as a cost control measure. You cannot expect corporations to act benevolently or morally, hence the need for legislation (right to repair, warranty periods set by statute as is done in the EU) and regulation (NHTSA forced Tesla's hand to issue a recall, which they were strongly attempting to avoid).

Usual disclosures: We own Teslas and TSLA.
Scala 3 has type-classes as a core feature.
If you are a design thinker with an idea for your business, no-code gives you the opportunity for advanced development that most startups haven’t explored.
> If it’s in your best interest to buy and never sell, why would anyone want to use it for exchange?

It's not in your best interest to buy and never sell. Current investors are just incredibly short sighted. If bitcoin isn't usable by (and useful to) the majority of the world, it will never get enough investment to serve as a buffer against the drastic price swings caused by speculators.

Smart investors know that simply holding coins isn't enough in the long run. Finding new use cases and encouraging adoption and use is the only way crypto stands a chance.