jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The blog post contains a contradiction.

The author says many questions are simple and could be answered by a simple web search.

The author then complains that easy questions get very many upvotes.

But those upvotes come from people doing a simple web search.

That's one of the aims of StackExchange - to create a website that has good quality answers for questions, and to have those answers show high in search engine results.

EDIT: " This is not the way a community of mature users acts." Well, it is, because it clearly happens on any site that has mature users and voting. It happens on SE; it happens on HN; it happens on Reddit (event the sub-reddits that have older readers). It's probably not useful to think about what an ideal adult will do with vote buttons.
I came here to post the exact same quote and say "Half-Life 3 Confirmed!".
£50 !=$50
£50 ~=$75 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=50gbp+to+usd
It's not meant as an insult. I'm just riffing off of your own comment that

>On average they'll be very intelligent and working harder than their counterparts in industry for less money.
Here is the real deal if you didn't like the blogspam: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
We should talk. I think you might of encouraged me to finally document my own similar story of homeless to married / awesome software career.

If it can be used to encourage others it is a net win, yeah?
It is likely this was used to form the training set of 200,000 observations that was used to train the network.
If what you say is true, you should report it to the authorities , especially immigration enforcement. They cannot legally pay lower salaries than prevailing market wages.
Ah that's the busiest day of the year for them and things in a similar vein I can believe
The 20 y.o. people I live with at Uni are utterly useless at everything.

They had no idea what to do when the sink was blocked, and when I undid the trap I discovered one of them had shoved plastic straws down the plughole, as though they would just wash away.

They have no idea how to cook anything, it's all frozen food in the oven.

Their parents have showed them no survival skills whatsoever (or they willfully refused to learn them).
It isn't too difficult to add basic middleware support. We actually wrote a tiny framework[0] around httprouter for that to use on our API servers. It works pretty well.

[0] https://github.com/VividCortex/siesta
Not at all because these are tablet computers. I own a few of them and I can honestly say that I only use the keyboard when I'm sitting at a desk with it...and the keyboard I use there is an MS Natural keyboard.

If I travel, I take my Typecover with me, but I mostly work at home.
This waste of carbon isn't worthy of scrubbing Knuth's toilet, and I'm all for drumming him out of tech for life. But our neglect of security in prisons isn't funny.
I'm thankful for family, friends and loved ones. I'm also thankful for having a computer, as a good portion of the world's population can't afford one because it's too expensive. I'm thankful for the freedoms that we as "netizens" have, freedoms some don't have.

I'm thankful for having a roof over my head. I'm thankful for a world-wide community of people who share the common idea of freedom. And finally, I'm thankful for another year of these things, and pray (no matter religion or nationality) for those who are in want for food, clean drinking water and free thought that they will get the very things we often take for granted.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Racket is a great place to start with functional programming. We just spent one-third of the school
year in AP Comp. Sci. playing around with it before starting JAVA. I'd definitely be interested in learning more.
"SAP had admitted liability for TomorrowNow's actions. The unit, which provided software maintenance and support to Oracle customers, downloaded Oracle software and documents, infringing on 120 copyrights."

Oracle US, SAP German and a US jury. No wonder they lost. This is just ridiculous and the fine completely imaginary.
Have a link describing the REST API?
A welfare state is not incompatible with capitalism. Actually, it is a natural consequence of capitalism, a thing bolted on to try and work around some of its more severe issues.
So you would rather that whistleblowers would only be given attention by media outlets if they are publicly outed alongside the revelations that they usually bring?

Tell me, how well did that go for Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning?
I pay a lot more than you, but I'm ok with it cause it's a % of my wage and it means people much poorer than me get free/cheap healthcare. I'm not familiar with what is covered in the Netherland but here the normal public insurance really does cover a lot.
Thank you for making this available for download from the website too, and not making it app store exclusive. Do you have any plans to support macOS Mojave? What is needed to add GPU support in the future?
In absence of large scale testing, how do you know that?
This might be a problematic question, but how do you know there are 5 skills specifically and how do they relate to the 90 day deadline?

I hate to sound like a programmer here, but having a project really helps out. If you can throw yourself in the deep end, then you learn by necessity, and each problem that comes up as you're going will hopefully tell you which part to focus on next, because that's your immediate issue. You'll also learn the parts you need, because the parts you need are the ones that come up with most frequency in your real world problem.

If its an artificial constraint or situation (and 5 skills in 90 days all decoupled from one another sounds like one, by which i mean a test or an interview), then perhaps its time to think about some strategy. If you can pick up the skills in several days each, they can't be that hard. If you know you're not going to be able to do it, perhaps its time to prioritize. Weight them relative to importance and focus on them each in proportion. Sometimes when you've got 5 tasks, you can get by passing on 3 or 4 and accepting absolute failure on the last one by skimming or ignoring it completely. This depends on your situation.

Personally, I find i can't learn anything unless I focus on a topic for a long period of time, then coming back and repeating it in shorter increments. Sort of informally imitating spaced repetition: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

Personally though, it sounds like you're screwed. 5 topics with no cognitive overlap is a nightmare. Your task is likely going to be to come up with a strategy to make you proportionally less screwed rather than succeed at all 5.

But you are screwed :P
I’m a night owl and prefer day mode due to the wakeful effects you described, but I keep Night Shift on 24/7 to reduce blues.
I just switched back and forth from vi in my terminal to that image a couple of times. I see the blurring on that image immediately, every time. I don't see anything like that on the terminal.
I'm aware.

It should be noted that "DCA" is often used as a colloquial synonym for "continuous, automatic investing":

> But most individual investors, especially in the context of retirement investing, never face a choice between lump sum investing and DCA investing with a significant amount of money. The disservice arises when these investors take the criticisms of DCA to mean that timing the market is better than continuously and automatically investing a portion of their income as they earn it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging#Confusio...
Came here to say a variation of this.

Dark mode is "cool" right now because it's still a relatively new thing. In five years when everything is dark mode by default this same poll would yield a totally different, maybe even inverse, result.
He has stepped down as president of YC. It's really past tense and that sentence of mine perhaps went weird places because of talking about a mix of past events and current events.

Wikipedia indicates he isn't severing his connection to YC, just scaling it back. Beyond a sentence or two found on Wikipedia, I have no idea what Sam Altman is up to.
Because their strategy is massive investment into original content to maintain market positioning now that the market is splintering into IP-driven streaming services.

Investors signal they approve of this strategy by continuing to invest in Netflix, despite not getting juicy dividends.

Netflix could massive reduce spend on OC and payout dividends, but that would be ultimately damaging to the long-term success of the company.
I guess it is the reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial

Although in our times it won't even be that surprising if remote shells started phoning home...
Just drop the calculator portion.
Well that's going on my wall.
I don't know if that's true. The bitrate of a low-end Blu Ray movie is about 15 Mbps. I bought Glee in "HD" on iTunes, and that has a bitrate of about 150 kbps. So we're talking a 100x jump in bitrate.

Bandwidth would be a big problem. But storage is an even bigger problem. And if you trade away storage requirements for higher bandwidth consumption, you have even more bandwidth problems and people are going to be pissed they can't watch their movie on the plane.

Now, you could argue that there's no perceptual difference between X kbps and Y Mbps, but I have seen articles that differ with you on that if that's the position you choose to take. Is there possibly some happy middle ground in there somewhere? For sure. I don't think removable media is going away soon though.
"I can't access some VHosts" != "Server is down"
interesting that Tesla suddenly announces IPO a few days after the big news splash about the big lithium deposit find in Afghanistan. I'd expect a big lithium find to push down battery prices in the future and a Tesla car is battery intensive. Even if Tesla ends up not using lithium not every investor will know that.
https://grist.org/series/skeptics/
https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposi...
Model release forms are only necessary to use their likeness for advertising. If it is just art, no form needed. At least that’s my understanding.
Are qRNNs still used much?
The problem is the false religion of climate worship. Even prominent democrats are letting the cat out of the bag and admitting it. Climate for these folks is the vehicle that will let them bring their greater vision of socialist change to America. Take a look at the green new deal - much of its focus was on reshaping the economy in a socialist direction.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/12/democratic-sen-mazie-hi...
"I'm passionate about climate change." -- every person who is not a conspiracy theorist but wants to kick the can down the road.
I live in a city in the midwest US. I like it here, but when it comes to electronics my only local shopping option is Best Buy. We used to have a Comp USA and RadioShack, but those are long gone now.

Whenever we travel to a city with a Fry's or a Micro Center, I always have to stop in just to browse. There's something exciting to me about having immediate access to so many computer and circuit components. On one trip we even needed a PC in a pinch and I was able to just grab everything I needed from Micro Center and have it together working in a few hours. That was a crazy experience for someone used to waiting weeks for everything to ship.

I get it. Electronics stores are a dying breed. When it comes to most of their products, people often prefer to wait for shipping to save a few bucks. Online retail has forced them to subsist on razor thin margins. Plus a lot of their inventory depreciates in value extremely quickly. And then there's the pandemic. In light of all that, they're also probably not great to work for.

I get why they're all disappearing. But I'm still disappointed. RIP brick-and-mortar electronics retail.
Hello,

I am web dev, and I work with PHP and RoR (for 2 months). My first impression is that Ruby allows better productivity and fun than PHP. In my case, PHP seemed easier to learn.
"According to him, we have allowed efficiency thinking to optimize our world to such an extent that we have lost the flexibility and slack that is necessary for dealing with failure. This is why we can no longer handle any form of risk."

This rings true to me in many ways, particularly in the way we treat our children. I may have to read Anti-fragile.
> all the bad guys in LOTR are basically dark and ugly.

It's like saying Star Wars is racist because the Siths represent the dark side.

In the western culture , the color black has a certain meaning.We could debate whether it's a source of racism or not,but you could make the exact same case for the bible,or other myths.

> It's tricky in fantasy, because of how race-based a lot of the plot is.

Well,obviously in fantasy, even dwarfs are not humans. I'm all for social criticism but I don't think one can read Tolkien and just say there is something blatantly racist in his books. Tolkien didn't invent orcs,trolls,elves or dwarfs,or dragons. He invented little, he mostly tried to aggregate different myths into a single one.

I think sometimes people are trying to hard seeing racism where the is none.

However studying dark/light black/white symbolism and how it affects choices in life(in advertising for instance) in western cultures is definitely a great subject.
> I can guarantee you that having that password won't allow you in any way, to deploy persistent malware on developers's machines

I don't think I'll believe such guarantees about a company whose update dissemination server password for a write-privileged account is CompanyName123.

I mean, you could be correct, but still.
Death usually comes 2 to 4 weeks after hospitalization which comes 1 to 2 weeks after infection. So the drop in death rates should be visible 2 to 4 weeks after the drop in hospitalizations, and should be less steep initially.
> They must agree or both computers are automatically locked out

As a marine saying goes, never take two chronometers with you to the sea. Take either one or three.
This is gold. Thanks for sharing.
> If a few companies weren't bringing in stupid high revenues, the entire HCOL compensation for the industry would collapse. It'd return to something closer to what we saw in 2005 before the rise of the megagiants with more money than God.

The companies I worked for in the 90s, well before goog or fb existed, had location-based salary tables.

There's nothing post-2005 about this.
As I understand it this is a result of big tax software companies and accounting firms lobbying to keep tax filing as complex as possible so there is still a market for them. If taxes were as easy to file as in countries like Norway and Sweden the market for accountants and tax filing software for private citizens would plummet.
That sounds like a good way to have your reports ignored by the system.
Butane works well too, as long as you don't spray too much and cause condensation.
> Silicon Valley seems to be short of them (good developers)

There seems to be debate on this point : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#No_labor_shortages
I didn't say you did. Sorry if that's what I seemed to be implying. I'll edit.

Also, in my travels, Koreans were about 1000x less welcoming to me than Japanese were. Koreans literally laughed in my face when I spoke anything in Korean to them. Japanese people would get a huge smile on their face when I spoke Japanese to them. Anecdotes and whatnot. :)
I used Jerry at work and it's really one fine HTML parser.
I like it better than JSoup, although it works a little bit weirder. :D
That wasn't Sussman's point. The problem is that the same notational forms -- the same orthographies, if you will -- can mean different things in different contexts. It doesn't help at all that one must, on occasion, slip from context to context in the same argument, producing adjacent or near-adjacent statements that have similar general forms but wildly different meanings. His solution to the problem was to use a notation that also happens to be valid statements in a computer language he had a large hand in designing. That part isn't necessary, but disambiguating mathematical notation by some means is.
Interesting. Do you have any more details about the used algorithms?
From the article:

"When I again pointed out that John Paul accepted evolution—and he certainly wasn’t an atheist—the student countered that Catholics aren’t Christians. Several simply let me know they will be praying for me and praying hard. One student explained that as a devout Catholic he had no choice but to reject evolution. He accused me of fabricating the pope’s statements. When I explained that he could go to the Vatican website for verification or call the Vatican to talk to a scientist, he insisted that there was no such information available from the Vatican. He then pointed his finger at me and said the only way he would believe me is if Pope John Paul II came to my class to confirm these quotes face-to-face. The student then stomped out, again slamming the auditorium door behind him."

From the Pope's mouth (2007):

http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2007/j...

"Currently, I see in Germany, but also in the United States, a somewhat fierce debate raging between so-called "creationism" and evolutionism, presented as though they were mutually exclusive alternatives: those who believe in the Creator would not be able to conceive of evolution, and those who instead support evolution would have to exclude God. This antithesis is absurd because (...) there are so many scientific proofs in favour of evolution which appears to be a reality we can see and which enriches our knowledge of life and being as such."
One thing that we have begun using, to simplify some quantum computational analysis are Graphical tensor networks as presented in this http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6950 paper. Hasn't caught much traction yet, but it and similar ideas could be the way forward.
I have worked as a web developer without a degree for a few years. Since I felt same as you, I embarked on a Physics BSc, due to graduate in 3 months. My plan is to go to grad school, HEP theory if I can get in. Already taking a hit on my income due to time spent studying but it is worth it.
It's almost as if there are official channels to communicate information. Ones that aren't private companies.
There is no hosting monopoly, there is no payment processing monopoly, there is no domain registration monopoly, there is no SSL CA monopoly.
Thanks. Sometimes people don’t appreciate real world experience. It’s ok, I’ve gotten used to it. I appreciate when others speak up for me.
Public outrage is what these companies are responding to. If they didn't think the majority of their users wanted this, they wouldn't do it. For example, you don't see Parler banning the domestic terrorists organizing on the platform, do you?
> Is the suggestion that all platforms have to cater to the most vocal minority?

I think this is what they're doing right now. I'd imagine the average voter doesn't care whether Trump is on Twitter or Parler is on the App Store.
It doesn't take any spin to get that message from the graffiti all around Portland; it's pretty explicit about what to do to cops.
if it were trump who won by the same narrow margin i would not have been surprised if the exact same thing happened only with the sides reversed. I don't see any difference between the two sides, only that one is on top and one is not and from time to time it rolls over. This is why the "deplatforming" is eyeroll inducing, eventually the pendulum swings back the other way and it will be the other side getting deplatformed. and so on
Right. Because they already did it once, and most haven't gotten punished for it yet.
Many have felt the dagger stab in the back throughout his entire life.
You’re a factor of 10 off. (1000/0.1)*365=27.4
I'm very worried about this, to be honest. There doesn't appear to be anything even remotely close to a proper replacement for uMatrix. The thought of going back to the relentless spyware that is the web today (without uMatrix) is literally scary.

Someone here (long-ago thread) suggested uBlock Origin but it doesn't come anywhere near the functionality of uMatrix.

I'll continue using uMatrix and it continues to work perfectly but if Mozilla ever breaks it with incompatible changes, I'm at a loss what to do. Keeping fingers crossed it works for a long time.

I'd be happy to pay substantial money for something like uMatrix.
I did SERE school near Spokane during the early spring and it was already pretty miserable out in the woods. I literally can't imagine camping/living off-grid there during the winter lol. I think it would be hard mode personally, compared to a winter in like Arizona or something ;P
How do you plan on getting food?
I mean, some people are legitimately impressed by those brands, so they serve their purpose no?
>except WiFi

What type of internet do you think would be best? Cell? Traditional satellite? Low orbit satellite? Long range wireless? Cable? DSL? Fiber? Actual wifi from a very nearby neighbor?
This subject does seems to attract bikeshedding.
The off grid part is almost orthogonal to the house part. There's plenty of companies making prefab or modular homes. An off grid home is just a conventional home with a different electricity supply. If you build a small, well insulated conventional building it's a perfect off grid candidate.
Neither of my gm electric cars have ever been serviced in any way
The article doesn't say that the TV crew surreptitiously discovered the hole.

It's just as likely that archeologists unaffiliated with BBC came up with this theory months or even years earlier, wanted funding and a bit of publicity for their pet project, got hooked up with BBC, and scheduled the most important part of the excavation to coincide with the arrival of the TV crew as per the funding agreement. The whole point is to maximize the likelihood that an interesting discovery will take place during filming. NatGeo does this all the time, and I'm sure BBC does, too.
They can, and are, holding stablecoins [1]

1. https://businessday.ng/sponsored/article/how-nigerians-are-u...
Countdown to "War of the Blue Stones" initiated...
Seems strange that "Wrapped 2020" was the straw for you. Ever since launch, the top reasons for starting to use Spotify has been availability (across devices) and the provided radio/discover playlists that automatically finds music based on your previous history, this has always been a core proposition of Spotify, and not something that happened now.

Then it's not always good, right or even close sometimes, but it's not like it's a hidden feature.
As an owner there are times when you just shake your head at some of their decisions. I like my TM3, I won the quality raffle and have no issues, but I do worry when Tesla takes a stance about a part like they did here.

Plus combined with the fact Musk was forced to acknowledge that Tesla did not offer anything for FSD on trade ins and "will look into it" makes me wonder just how much they expect customers to put up with.

Still it beats out my previous Ford and even my Infiniti in both reliability and oddly interior quality. Paint wise the Infiniti was far better and paint on my Ford was far worse. Both my Ford and Infiniti also had more than one real recall and a few visits to fix stupid things.
What makes you think so?

From a quick ddg search, it looks it does: https://docs.rs/futures/0.3.8/futures/macro.join.html