jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One tiny qualm! The dragging on the "Text | Map | Embed" is too sensitive. Usually when most people click, their mouse goes up a few pixels from the the pressure of them pushing down on the mouse button. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't click on the buttons, until I realized it was dragging the entire box because my mouse moved slightly when I clicked!
I don't know of such a succinct manual with practical advise (as opposed to they air "you can do it"). I wish someone wrote one actually.
So basically, we are a hosting association that wanted to put their servers at home _and_ sleep at night.
This demanded inter-home redundancy of our data. But none of the existing solutions (MinIO, Ceph...) are designed for high inter-node latency.
Hence Garage! Your cheap and proficient object store: designed to run on a toaster, through carrier-pigeon-grade networks, while still supporting a tons of workloads (static websites, backups, Nextcloud... you name it)
That’s abstraction breaking. The code calling add should generally not need to be aware of the implementation details of add. The users of the add API should generally not need to be aware of the implementation details of add.
And since Computer Geeks are the ones making all the tools, of course there's 100 times more of these "superior" geeky tools than there are tools for the common man.

The fact that I have to struggle to find just a simple WYSIWYG GUI to edit a website for static site generation is nuts. It's not like these are particularly advanced tools that are technically incompatible with static site generation. It's just that computer people would rather hand-craft a website with Markdown and CSS code than compose visually appealing content using a mouse without code.

It seems nobody is creating technology that is both simple and easy to use, it's always one or the other.
Russia has it's own CPU, Elbrus, which is slow, features x86 emulation and VLIW architecture (i think).

It's meant to be used in areas of critical infra and national security, every major nation that is not joint with US at the hip is thinking or planning chip independance.

Otherwise your economy could be rouined because Donald Trimp 2 had too much cocaine in the morning and tweeted something.
It's funny how reactionaries have gone from "it's not really happening", "it's not man made" to "it's too late anyways" in no time. The same goal remains; to keep doing nothing.
I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?
Yup. Critical stuff I always look for is (1) can I self-host it? (2) what’s my off-ramp if they 10x the price or go out of business?
It still doesn't protect from possible future tainting of those tokens and thus suspicion of your participation. It may be even more suspicious as you would be the one who bought clean coins supposedly in order to minimize attention to whatever future crime the tokens may be involved.
I prefer to open with: 2*3+8=14 or 84/7-5=7.

I find it tremendous important to find which place the equals sign is in while eliminating operators and digits.
Ha! I played the exact same first game!

https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg
DMOZ doesn't really have user voting, though. But it's definitely a reasonable comparison.
I would pay 10x that for a site in every way like google except punctuation didn't get ignored.

I would easily pay a couple hundred bucks a year for something significantly better than google in anyway.
> I've really heard is "lobbying is free speech, corporations need free speech".

Is it bad if I write a letter or talk with my congress critter? How about if I put up a sign?

How about if you and I get together to do so?

Corporations are voluntary aggregations of people.
I know this will be a strange demand, but I would like to hear about board or card games which one can play alone and are freely available. By freely available I mean I can download it and just print the boards and cards to play.
I moved my repos off GitHub to my EC2 server a month or two back since they're private and I was only using GitHub for keeping a copy of my code offsite. It's faster for simple push/pull and considering the sunk cost of my EC2 server, also free. I was trying to browse some repos on GitHub yesterday during the downtime and was thankful that my own were still available.
On a slightly unrelated note, how much will you pay for a service which takes your search query and then gives customized analysis of top five sites ranked by relevance and the quality of content.
Socialism is a system where the government directly owns and manages businesses. Corporatism is a system where businesses are nominally in private hands, but are in fact controlled by the government. In a corporatist state, government officials often act in collusion with their favored business interests to design polices that give those interests a monopoly position, to the detriment of both competitors and consumers.

Source: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=806
Great. I thought my statistics may be interesting* but I didn't really see a signup area for college students vs prospective college students.

* For Northwestern, my GPA was very low while my test scores were probably abnormally high.
I disagree. taxes don't need to be complex. here in singapore they are much simpler. for years it was done on a post card.

your programmer analogy is interesting. the problem with democracy is you are always mending a legacy system. you can never start over because of existing special interests who are benefitting. this feature provides stability. but it also means no chance for real innovation. all democracies have this problem of spaghetti code laws. places with less democracy can innovate -- places like singapore. obviously there are some draw backs to less democracy. but there can be benefits too
Can't marry legally? Being gay is illegal, although obviously tolerated to a large extent, so that issue is far behind western countries.

You have to realize as a Singaporean you have been exposed to an enormous amount of propaganda (not that other countries aren't, but you are very close to the situation).

Among other things the democracy and elections are a sham as you must know. Opposing candidates can't have any media exposure until a couple of weeks before an election. If a neighborhood votes in an opposition candidate, they lose funding for public transportation etc in their area.

Also there is a lot of crime that goes unreported and unsolved, and you probably know this too. Chinese gangs/mafia violence, loan sharking, and the police spend half their year looking after brothels since they don't work full time throughout the year.

The healthcare system basic cost and access is hugely better than many western countries with clinics scattered into every neighborhood, but the quality is also not nearly on the same level. There are definitely some aspects of it I thought were very refreshing. The medicines prescribed can be ridiculous though.

The list could go on and on. Laws stack up against tenants and are made so landlords can take advantage of them. Agents are unnecessary middle men that could be replaced with simple phone apps but grift large amounts of money from the overall economy.

Basically Singapore is a double edged sword. The financials are managed well in general compared to many other countries. It is not the wonderland people make it out to be, and Singaporeans don't realize the propaganda they've been fed and all the freedoms they don't have. Singapore is so far above all the surrounding south east asian countries though it is easy to see why people get caught up in thinking they are the best at everything since locally the neighboring countries' governments are a joke.
It's fine to point out that the colors are troublesome. It's bad to complain about how you can't read it and your eyes still hurt, as if there's no way to avoid it.
The offset approach is what most people do. I've used it too. It makes the storage simpler for rectangle shaped maps but the algorithms more complicated (and slower). I wrote this page to present the alternative coordinate systems. The symmetry of the cube system greatly simplifies many of the algorithms, so it's often easier to convert offset or axial to cube, run the algorithm, and then convert the answer back to offset or axial. The main downside of axial is that map storage in an array is a little more complicated; http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/#map-storage
The truth is that millions of people a year travel, and don't have any problems. So you're most likely to be OK.

The worrying part is that you don't know what will be "alerted" on. Flash cards? Pictures of your kids in the bath? You have no idea.
> I would argue there are other causes, more worthy money and effort.

Serious question: How many hours does a person have to be detained illegally in the United States for it to warrant money and effort from the ACLU? You appear to have a specific metric for when injustice warrants response and I'm afraid I'm going to have to take you to task about it.
Gotta nip it in the bud before it's too late.
The boys in the boat

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the...
I'm sure they realize it, but what's the alternative for them?

"Yes, come right in, here's our primary source data collected, it concludes that Chernobyl (or WIV lab leak) did happen..."
I’m also interested in trying this out
The other ISPs such as Comcast rely on their own wiring, which presumably isn't available. Any other ISP would still use DSL which means he'll have the exact same speed he has now because the rotten wiring is the bottleneck.
I suppose that it depends on who you're talking to. For example, I've talked to many radical religious folks who believe that I am "suppressive", "apostate", "blasphemous", etc. and that talking to me is automatically harmful to their spiritual health. In effect, they would find it to be extremely bad manners to discuss anything which questions their religion.

When I was a child, I was afraid that there were monsters in my closet. My parents were understanding at first, but when I requested that we leave on my bedroom light, they gently refused. I wanted all of the lights left on all night throughout the house, and they not only told me no, but stayed in my room with the lights turned off and explored all of the corners and showed me that there were no monsters.
Ok, this helped, the preview for each frame must actually change for you to get an effect when you hit play.

Thanks!
I hope so. I would love to use Ruby embedded one day
A good reason to wait a few years is precisely so that we have a clearer picture of what strengths and deficiencies a piece of tech brings to the table, especially out in the real world.

We have a good picture of how Angular and React works in production now. We cannot say the same for something like Svelte.
A little misleading since most of the non-article content (e.g. javascript, CSS) is cached locally by your browser. You can also utilize AJAX to have responsive user interactions as needed.
Thanks for finding that link. That is a very attractive pricing model. I am currently running about 10 VPS running about 25 containers. The costs of the VPS hosting is affordable, but managing those VPS hosts, deployment, balancing, discovery, and scaling are the hard parts. I'm looking forward to learning more about Triton.
This is a pretty amazing resource if you are a webservices speed freak and need to find the lowest latency possible for users in a particular geographic location. I haven't seen so many services rated in a single place before and never seen one that actually updates the ratings so frequently.
I’ve read the article before and it’s entirely unclear how it is supposed to be helpful. As the author acknowledges, things like cherry-pick show that one can think of commits as diffs whereas in the git implementation the object known as a commit is a snapshot of the state of a directory tree. Fine, but so what? Both times I’ve read this article my impression has been that the author is relatively new to git and processing some new information they’ve learned.
> as an increasing prevalence of rhinovirus

Why? Isn‘t that prevalence at an all time low due to masks and distancing?
F#ckernetes maybe?
So your bike was stolen. Will that really affect your life? You need to spend 500 DKK on a new one.

Someone threatens you with force: That will affect you. Even if nothing happened physically. You wish you can get rid of that experience for 50.000 DKK for the rest of your life.
Or if someone who had been designing airplanes for 40 years, shifted to writing software?
People are regularly encouraged to use their democratic power to vote against their own self-interest (this is a strategy used time and time again, typically by right wing parties). Amazon has a strong interest in preventing unionisation to protect profits and has been documented using many methods, including underhand ones, to achieve this. Unionisation offers more potential for driving positive change than doing nothing. These are facts.

Is it possible that an individual has ignored all outside influences and made a personal evaluation based purely on their own analysis and research? Of course. Is this how politics works in the real world? Clearly not.
You're right in one sense, in that if #2 is true, then #1 is true in at least some sense.

That is, if the universe is not ineffable - that is, unless there are unknowable components to the universe - then a "worst case" unified theory can be defined as itself. That is, the universe itself is an expression of itself.

That we can express it in mathematics is a given in that case because mathematics is malleable; all you need to do - though it wouldn't be very useful - is to invent a symbol that represents the universe-as-is that by definition acts how the universe would act in a given context.

Obviously that is not very interesting, but the point it makes is that if the universe is not ineffable, then the question is not if a unified theory is possible, because in that case the universe itself is proof that it is, but how much we can compress such a theory, and whether we can reduce it to something simple.

As such whether or not a theory is possible may seem like it doesn't matter, but it's an important point to make, because it means that anyone making the argument that a unified theory is not possible rather than arguing that a simple unified theory is not possible is in effect arguing the universe is ineffable.
I guess because it calls itself a systems language and GC works fine for most systems programming.
My 2018 15” and 2019 16” could both handle two 4K monitors without turning on fans. And the 2018 model did have thermal issues in the summer, but not related to the basics like browsing. So far the 2019 model is much better. I don’t think yours is a common experience, though it sucks that it’s happening.
Just look at Project Fugu. Google is putting the implementation first, the spec to "standards wash" their implementation comes later. And if WHAT WG doesn't want to play along (and why wouldn't they? most browser vendors are now downstream from Chromium so they get the implementation by default) they can just leave it in as "experimental" with a "draft" spec. W3C doesn't really get a say in this.
See my reply upthread.
In the perfectly spherical earth hypothesis, being the center of mass in the black hole, wouldn't there be a resulting force towards the center, although very small?

[EDIT] Hmm I think I see the point. The resulting force would be proportional to the ratio (black hole mass / earth's mass). Very small indeed.
I can see his point, and the underlying goal (to protect critical Internet-connected systems from cyber criminals) is noble.

But I do have a question: Would "shutting off parts of the Internet" really work to deter cyber criminals? I honestly don't know the answer, but would love to hear it.
Why not use web base email, connecting via https eg gmail or hushmail?
You forgot the sex tape.
Wow, taking a look and it seems pretty comprehensive. Thanks, this is probably going to make for good reading material.
I really like the idea of Qubes OS. I just wish a "lighter weight" method existed to sandbox apps or groups of apps just as well, and adopted by more mainstream operating systems, too.
To be fair, I'm sure the airlines and your fellow travelers would also prefer for you to not waste a seat.

I know I would be pissed if I needed to take a flight but it was fully booked, and then found out that a dozen people already planned to not show up.

I see this trick as not very respectful to other people.
> after all its important in an emergency to know who is really on the plane, and people who get off early are putting first responders in harms way as they will go looking for people who aren't actually on the plane

They generally do a new itinerary for each new flight, so they should know that person X isn't on the flight. Now, I can understand that they'd be annoyed if they were holding the plane knowing that person X had arrived at that airport and should be nearby. But, anybody could simply tell the check in desk they won't be flying on that flight (as a courtesy).
Paying for a flight and not boarding is way more ethical than the Airline selling you a seat that doesn't exist (overselling is super common... ever hear them ask for volunteers to take a later flight in exchange for a voucher? That means they sold seats that didn't exist).

Of course, the airline thinks it's fine when it is pulling the switcheroo but they get pissed when you do it back to them. As long as the FAA allows them to oversell flights, they should allow passengers to use hidden city fare discounts... it's only fare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLS_VPN
Many people in western countries eat their Lord and Savior every Sunday... And Redhat is definitely more stable than any sort of BSD (including OSX)
Is there anything stopping a standby passenger from being given a seat on the second leg?
But a 325,000 burger, on the other hand, is fair game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/science/a-lab-grown-burger...
This is very like what happens in the book World War Z, which was probably inspired by government responses to SARS and other epidemics. A mysterious disease arises in China, and the government strongly censors reporting of outbreaks. This and other factors (people smuggling, illegal organ trade) contribute to its spread worldwide, and it is only when it cannot be contained that the world is aware and can start to understand and fight it.
Turtle/logo, squeak/smalltalk. This minecraft mod is learntomod/JavaScript. There's pippy for Python.
The whole web? It's all broken now? Better get a broom...
I'd go with C#.
I think that's a really great idea, too. The worrisome bit around constraint solvers is that they're really easy to get into strange "spooky action at a distance" states of constraint interaction which are incredibly tough to escape from. Building good constraints thus feels like something of a black art.
I'm currently using the same setup (arch + nix). It's nice.

However, some practical aspects of nix are quite ugly. It lacks decoupling between packages and optional runtime dependencies. You can disable optional dependencies, but this would lead to a different package hash negating the use of prebuilt binaries.

Therefore, the culture seems to have all default package builds with all optional dependencies on. This leads to situations such as installing mutt and getting python too! (mutt -> gpgme -> glib -> python)

Last time I checked, if you installed git, you'd also get subversion, etc. Quite sad, given that nix is full of so many fantastic ideas.
I don't think they're late, I think they choose to stop sending updates to devices. The obvious reason is they want people to buy new devices (i.e. renew 2 year contracts).
If you're interested in the topic of peasants of Europe a great book comes to mind: 'The Peasants' by nobel laureate Władysław Reymont.

It describes the life and customs of peasants during the four seasons. We're talking 19th century but the life and customs of peasants in that era haven't changed much except for extra rights they acquired in that century.

About the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peasants
Interesting product, thanks!
hfst (open source rewrite of the Xerox finite state toolkit) includes negation:

$ echo 'a b
c b
c d*' | hfst-regexp2fst > ab.fst
$ echo 'c ?+' | hfst-regexp2fst >cdotplus.fst
$ hfst-intersect ab.fst cdotplus.fst | hfst-expand -c3
cb
cd
cdd
cddd
cdddd
$ hfst-expand -c3 ab.fst
ab
cb
c
cd
cdd
cddd

The regex syntax is a bit quirky due to backwards compatibility with lexicons written in XFST, see https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki/Regular-Expression-Operato...
Local bureaucracy is simpler to overcome than global bureaucracy which is needed to reduce global greenhouse emissions
Unfortunately, the real problem here is a broken API. A statically typed language whose standard library includes APIs that require downcasting is pretty embarrassing.

In general though, if the situation is truly exceptional (wrong type being passed) then counting the ticks used throwing the exception should be compared against the ongoing cost of the increased complexity to the codebase to handle the exception in another fashion (e.g. an if/else block).

Also, if you're just comparing the ticks of as+is VS invalid cast wouldn't you want to multiply each by the # of times they'll be executed? The as/is would be executed EVERY time the function in question was called. The invalid cast would, in this case, likely be executed once or twice ever and then the bug that is causing an InvalidCastException would be fixed.
I'm always pleased when I see people finding interesting uses for old hardware instead of throwing it away.
IBM has done a great job of building an organization that protects itself from bad employees -- which, at that scale, you're BOUND to have. The problem that I noticed in my time there is that this is done at the cost of not letting the smart people be smart.
There are really great pictures in this thread.
I'd like to add this one: http://www.probell.com/photo_exhibit/Muhammad%20Ali%20vs%20S...
InvalidCastException include the class name, doesn't it? That makes it order of magnitude easier to track down where it came from. The NullRef just tells you that it MAY have been that the 'as' failed, or it could have been a bona-fide NullRef.
does HN do meetups? there seem to be a few people here from santiago - we could meet for a meal or drink some time? posting to here because you don't have any contact info in your profile :o)
Now steve jobs can die a happy man.
You've (both) opened my eyes to a new and terrifying world. I don't know if I should thank you or just weep silently.
That is precisely the position we communists have today: production for profit mediated by markets is highly irrational and wasteful, even if you were to ignore the inevitable exploitation of the workers.

Planned economies can instead more efficiently allocate resources, even when done within a capitalist economy and for profit. The book “People’s Republic of Walmart” goes into a lot of detail on this topic. A democratically planned economy with society’s overall welfare as a goal could be even more efficient.
I always use "congrats" instead of "congralutions" because i always misspell it and the other side always get it even though "congrats" could mean other things