jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Could not agree more! Hiring someone who has already done something similar and received a good review is as close to a guarantee that the project will work out as you can get. I have done some

That said, once you've used them, I find it is ok to branch out a little and stick with the same person.

Still, I generally stick to branching out only a little because I find giving a web app to the "Firefox Extension Guy" might mean you are out of their sweet spot--they may not enjoy web app development which slows them down, or they may not be very proficient at it.
That would be great if Google would forget them. Occasionally I'll search for something and see a Mahalo page that seems to have at least a pointer to what I need, when in reality I'm just inundated with AdSense and the content that seemed to be there either isn't anymore or never was (i.e., it was a crappily autogenerated page that has an intro paragraph seemingly from someone's blog or something with no link or other content).

The idea is great (curated knowledge could be a boon for consumers and producers), but I think the way they're doing it sucks.
I wasn't sure, coderdude, but after glancing at the guidelines, I don't see any particular way in which it is glaringly inappropriate.

The privilege-denying attitude is more prevalent in HN comment threads than programming-language jingoism. It is also far more distasteful. And just as it is more effective to elevate the latter by showing some beautiful code than by arguing at length that (say) Perl is more than write-only line-noise, so I think it is more effective to see our reflexive arguments distilled into a series of cliche slogans plastered over the image of a douche than it is to read a lengthy and well-reasoned rant by an exasperated feminist.

So yes, honestly.
>So that goes to show the amount of money needed. If they spent so much money and only got a few % of each bank, how much more money would be needed to purchase the entire banks altogether.

The banks were propped up by TARP and so their market value remained high. Without it they were probably all insolvent and so the cost of owning them would be basically zero. Otherwise the market would have been able to finance the banks.

TARP was designed to feed money into banks in a very cheap way, the size of the wealth transfer from the taxpayer to Wall Street is staggering. Buffet himself got much better conditions than the Federal Government.

>The notion that the banks are still technically insolvent - says who? I think the markets are the best indicator as to the health of the banks. As far as I can see, their bond spreads over Treasuries have fallen significantly in the last few months and their stocks have been rallying.

There is now a quite explicit assumption that the federal government won't let the banks fail. With that and the Fed helping there's plenty of reason to think banks will continue to make money. That doesn't mean the crap on (and off) their balance sheets has stopped being crap.

>So are you telling me that the markets (who are extremely sophisticated and thoroughly understand the banking industry) are being fooled by these banks?

I'm saying the markets are now useless to value the banks because the value being judged includes the federal government as a crutch. There is no market pricing for the value of the banks on their own.
At the end of the day, it is neither a matter of fairness or formula, it is a market, supply vs demand. If companies switch to remote working from any location, it will be easier to find a cheaper workforce, the equilibrium will go down. If you don’t like the new rate, find an employer that will pay more. If there isn’t one, then the new rate is a fair rate.

I am not sold on full remote working for most companies. I am not even convinced the little covid experiment demonstrated anything, as companies still benefit from employees knowing each others from before the lockdown. Long term the effects in term of productivity, employee morale or culture may be quite different. A compromise is having more local offices, but even then, everywhere I saw it before, it creates a “them” vs “us” between offices, people feel remote from the centres of decision, etc.
(Summarizing things I've picked up from reading Derek Lowe's blog [0])

Not all antibodies are neutralizing. Antibodies can only bind to a certain part of pathogens, but if an antibody binds to something it might not disrupt what that thing needs to do to infect the body. Relating this to SARS-CoV-2, it looks like if an antibody bind to something other than the spike protein, the virus can still infect cells. As another example, most people have been exposed to at least some other coronaviruses, and of that group, some of those people have developed antibodies that react to SARS-CoV-2. A recent paper [1] looked at if these "cross-reactive" antibodies were helpful in preventing COVID, but it looks like they're non-neutralizing as they couldn't see any effect.

0: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

1: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/10/do...
Someone doesn't want drunks or junkies or people selling themselves or ugly stuff on TV. They go away on their own to live for self-improvement. Turns out, their lives are very nice and everyone wants what they built. They use the law to take it, bring back the drunks and drugs and criminals who churn people, and now all that is gone. Good people move away, and fools are left wondering why the world is so bad to them.

I'm waiting to hear someone ask why those people at the Capitol were so mad. What? They're crazy? Or do they have a legitimate reason to be upset? Either way, it's your show. You're the one with the trillions, the army, the never ending great debate. Maybe you're not that good at your job.

Or maybe, you are very good at your job, the job of processing people and ruining lives for your hallow celebrity and unrestrained ambition that changes every day and will do anything for a dollar. Congrats. You're a tv star now.
Wow, the writing is super biased, which undermines the reporting which is decent.
Do you have any solid recommendations for a book on negotiating?
I think at this point, yeah. We have the tech.
I watched neither, not even American :-)

Though I have a deep knowledge of the relevant pop culture and players, mostly because it's forced down our throats anyway...
That fact that you were yak-shaving implies that you wanted to get certain details just right or you want it to function a specific way just for you. And that implies software with more functionality that you can tweak. So inevitably more complex software. If it really was '$script article.md > article.html', you could simply do that with your own domain -- just put up the html on your domain with a link to it (which is trivial to do)! Also, I think thinking about "small CSS/minimal JS" etc means also that you are mixing up concerns -- seems like you are too much concerned about the tools than about the writing...sorry, not trying to criticize, but got reminded of myself when I attempt to do something trivial and go off into the weeds thinking about the tools that get my job done instead of getting the job done. :-). The tools won't fix a writing problem and you should focus on the writing and see if they are worth the trouble finding the right tools for the job.

And to answer your question, wordpress.com, ghost.org, medium.com -- all of them provide simple publishing that meets your requirements (except perhaps for the 'minimal' part).
I'm not the parent, but I faced exactly the same issue when I tried to switch to Julia from scilab. As for why I'd like to switch: Julia is a better language, it is way easy to run your script on a cluster and I've been bitten more than once by the two language problem...
So Julia seems better for everything but for one of my most common use cases...
Managed Kubernetes exists because Kubernetes is so mind-bendingly complex.

Nomad, on the other hand, is pretty simple and easy to run, and a single binary. There's probably no benefit to having a managed offering.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if HashiCorp add Nomad to HashiCorp Cloud Platform, which currently lets you deploy Consul and Vault to cloud providers via their system.
There is no x nor y in 4.442. I have two guesses at what you might mean.

1. Maybe you're referring to the last sentence "(The number of places in the left-hand pair of brackets is determined by the number of terms in the right-hand pair.)" and saying: haha, if the number of terms in the right-hand pair is 3 then the number of places in the left-hand pair is 8, not 3. But Wittgenstein doesn't say "is equal to", he says "is determined by", and that's correct.

2. Maybe you're referring to the concrete truth-table, where if you label its rows and columns 1,2,3 etc., the slot with x=y=3 is left blank. That's a weird notational choice but I'm pretty sure it isn't a mistake. Look at 4.44: "The sign that results from correlating the mark 'T' with truth-possibilities is a propositional sign." Wittgenstein's being terse as usual, but I think what he means is that when reading one of these truth-tables what we need to know is where the Ts are. For a bit more explicitness, look further back at 4.43: "We can express agreement with truth-possibilities by correlating the mark 'T' (true) with them in the schema. The absence of this mark means disagreement." (Emphasis mine.) So the right-hand column of his truth tables uses T to mean that the corresponding proposition is true, and the absence of a T to mean that it's false. Which is exactly what he does in 4.442. He's clearly aware that there's a cost in clarity, which is why after writing it as "(TT-T)(p,q)" he says: "or more explicitly (TTFT)(p,q)".

Either way, I think you're wrong to characterize this as a mistake.
http://tmrc.mit.edu
I already did this dance a couple of times, so coming from C++, Java and C#, I am quite confident that Rust folks will overcome this issue.
The problem isn't the camera, it's the uplink to Perseverance and all the other parts required for a usable camera. They're using Zigbee [1] to communicate with the Rover at 200 kbps and the solar panel recharging the batteries also have to power heaters to keep the electronics alive - there's no hardware connection between the two for data or power exchange AFAICT. The drone is already so heavy that it can only stay aloft for 90 seconds to a few minutes between charges so between the extra battery, lens, better antenna and RF module, etc. it'd require a redesign of the entire mission.

[1] https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A... - page 15
I won't say much about the article as it's a topic that has been discussed plenty of times before (The merits and faults of Bitcoin) with often inflammatory results, but I will definitively say it's pretty easy and rather intellectually dishonest to attack it only whenever there's a dramatic price swing. Where were all these articles during all those price lull periods?

Also, if we're pointing fingers, the influence Coinbase has on Bitcoin is insignificant compared to the Chinese mining conglomerates. The US is not the rest of the world.
Most applications expect their data to be stored somewhere. To be able to give some guarantee of data consistency, correctness and persistence, that somewhere is usually a database, to alleviate the costs of needing to reinvent the wheel and inhousing the development-, education- and maintenance costs costs of such storage layer.
Copy-pasted from thread about libc:

I missed an opportunity to ask in the previous thread: what would it take to link an app in a different language (say, Rust) with this library? Is it enough to just build an object file, that has libc functions assuming LP64 ABI as unresolved exports?
In "bike advocacy" circles it's common to hear people claim that bike lanes have to be separated from vehicular traffic all the time.

This is pointing out that view is wrong.
There's no way its x86. This is a classic Nokia phone as from the pre-smartphone era, it must be running a small ARM chip or something. The OS is called "Series 30+"
>3.Our spacesuit design is finally coming together and will also be unveiled later this year. We are putting a lot of effort into design esthetics, not just utility. It needs to both look like a 21st century spacesuit and work well. Really difficult to achieve both.

I don't understand how looks are a legitimate criterion.
Granted, but if that's the concern, that's what the article ought to be explaining:

We are aware of the infrastructure to break 1024-bit discrete logs, and it's feasible; current projections put 2048 bit key safely out of reach for the time being, so we'll disable 1024 and leave 2048 enabled.

My concern there is with the talk of 'unknown attacks' and then providing suggestions based on that statement.
Exactly.

I'm not really sure what situations this built-in cache would be more effective than the likes of a well-tuned Varnish.
This notion of words as violence is not new and it is certainly not satire.

I have heard it stated as matter-of-fact many times over the past 10+ years by other people in the Bay Area.
do you mean the really chunky old ones for Gameboy??
I guess I don't do enough interesting queries to need a dedicated GUI client. I usually rely on httpie over plain curl or postman. I'd never even heard of insomnia.
Good analysis, and I agree with your conclusions.
Speaking of trademarks: Isn't 'iOS' owned by Cisco? Their Internet Operating System is running on their routers...
That would be a freaking awesome project. Have there been attempts to do visualizations of all the ins and outs of, say, allowing evidence from a traffic stop, or jurisdictional disputes?
I'd suggest to newcomers to get into the habit of reading source code. Pick some of the prominent projects written in the language you're studying, and spend some time figuring out how things work. You'll learn a lot.
JVM perhaps?
OK, but blogging isn't the only type of site you might manage like this. Documentation, for example, you want to update your links properly when you change the name of a function or whatever. Or perhaps you have a catalog naming files by SKU and those can change.

And, if you're just blogging, and you want to have the permanence you're talking about, you still need to ensure that all your links are properly linked, which requires some tooling.
Yes, we desperately need broad but appropriate regulatory standards. Especially, security standards and research should focus on securing infrastructure and infrastructure type resources. The hacked water supply article from just a few days ago was shocking even to cynical me.

Things like institutes that study this situation outside the government itself may be necessary to establish trust at this point.

And you can't make the standards primarily about software vendors.
Like many other discussions about objects / OO, some of the confusion comes from having several (often contradictory) definitions of what constitutes an object. Is it an agent that responds to a given set of messages? Is it an instance of a class? What about prototypes? Is inheritance fundamental? What about CLOS? Etc.
Her questions were "hard" in the same way that Crossfire's questions were hard. i.e. be offensive and try to get a rise out of people, rather than ask intelligent questions which bring about discussion and insight.

She sounded like an obnoxious tourist, not a reporter.
This is one of those articles which is so poorly written I wish that Hacker News had a downmod arrow.
I have no problem with non-American accents, but I find hers to be awful (incidentally, I also can't stand Charlie Boorman's). I don't care if you dislike my accent, either, as they're an acquired taste.
Right, you need a CarPainter.

Or, maybe a Painter<Car>?
"It is a problem of our minds, of philosophy, of language."

The first thing I thought of when he started asking why programming language objects are different from objects in the real world was:

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

A picture of a pipe is not a pipe. In the same way, an object in a programming language is not the same as the real world object that it represents (if there even is one). Of course we all know this, but it is also easy to get confused, if you're not careful.
Copy yahoo games (I hate java) using HTML5/canvas/svg

Start easy with tic-tac-toe, checkers, backgammon then chess.

Add card games, solitaire, spades, canasta, etc

Then, when the site matures, introduce games like farmville, mafia wars, etc.

Emphasis in visuals, stunning 3D views, etc.

Focus also in the social aspect, lobbies, chat rooms, rankings, tournaments.
It's funny, you read blog posts like this, and then you hear people like Richard Florida talk about how the future is concentration of knowledge, not distribution.

http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/the-future-of-the-...

So who's right?
There are certainly huge roadblocks to a market as liquid as gasoline (ahem) but the first step is getting the prices out in the open. "Unlimited" doesn't have a price tag because there's no way of knowing exactly when they'll cut you off, and they most assuredly will, but if they charge by the gigabyte then they don't have any grounds on which to terminate a contract when the customer is already obligated to pay for what they use. I'm embracing this change and hope to see more of it in the future.
You can download this app no matter how old you are. It will show a warning dialog but you can just dismiss that and download anyway.

This age limit only matters if parental controls are enabled. You can then pick which apps can be used, based on their age limit (all of them, only 17+, …). Some OS apps like Safari get extra switches – you can explicitly decide whether Safari and a few other things can be used or not.

Age limits are not always the best solution, though (what some parents deem appropriate, others do not). That’s why I think the parental controls are badly designed. Ideally you would get a switch for every app, so that you can override the age based defaults. Such a list would still be pretty horrible from a UI point of view – all your apps replicated in one unstructured list – that’s probably why Apple doesn’t do it. Or maybe they just had no time to implement that feature, yet. Either way, it’s no big deal.

How would you rate a browser, know that you know how the iPhone’s parental controls work? You can access content with it that a vast majority of parents would consider 17+.

(By the way, how do parental controls work on Android? I’m really curious!)
I believe parent is talking about what the Chicago PD was doing a few years ago[1]. If there are others, I'd really like to know about those as well.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...
Good clarification, amended my comment too. Although, the 23andme dataset is with live participants with genealogy data. That's a dimension HGP doesn't offer.

1000 Genomes looks great, but how is it funded? Also, how is the sequencing done? Presents a few more open variables, and 23andme is orders of magnitude larger.
Anyone concerned with this stuff should read: "Everything is Obvious (once you know the answer)" by Duncan Watts. http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Obvious-Common-Sense-Fails/...

It isn't a great book, but it does clearly identify the difference between explanatory and predictive accounts, and makes a strong case that explanatory, after-the-fact, accounts are simply noise. The exercise the author engages in here, of "making sense" of two contradictory datasets can be done with almost any phenomenon.

The more systematic and inclusive data gathering is, the more strongly any explanation is going to be tied to the phenomenon it is going to explain, and historians--like any science--should always be asking themselves, "How can I test this explanatory idea? If it is true, then what else ought to be true?"

Otherwise, when you "explain things a lot" you are doing nothing but generating noise. The financial press provides strong evidence for this: tens of thousands of words of "explanation" every single day, and not a single person made rich by any of the predictions the same people make. When you can explain everything and predict nothing, you had better be able to test your explanations by indirect means if you want to be taken more seriously than a fabulist.

The latter part is important: historians and others like them expect us to take their pontifications seriously. But we know the untested explanation is almost certainly nothing but a confabulation. So why should we take anything historians say seriously?

The history of science--which I define inclusively as "publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference"--is one of realizing we've been doing it wrong, that ideas we believed and took seriously were actually rather silly. Blood circulates. Geese don't come from barnacles. Bad air or moral turpitude don't cause plague. And so on.

If historians are starting to ask, "Are we doing this wrong?" that's a good thing, and based on my understanding of what science is and how it works I predict that over the next few decades the "digital humanities" will make a lot of traditional beliefs look untenably foolish, and there will be a general shift of the field toward Bayesian methods that will alienate and annoy a great many people whose freedom to confabulate will be greatly curtailed. It will change the face of the humanities to the extent that they will have as little to do with their historical roots as modern psychology has to do with the story-tellers of the early 20th century who gave it its start.
I thought this was more or less solved with the recent developments on the cubical sets models? There is even a toy interpreter with univalence and higher inductives:

https://github.com/simhu/cubical
In the blog post it says that CNNIC issued the CA=TRUE on the basis that MCS H only use it for domains that they have registered.. Wouldn't it be better to just issue a CA cert with name constrains extensions?

Why do we have that extension if nobody uses it :( ?
Right, so it only makes sense for very long distances where the cost & losses in the inverters are less than the losses from AC transmission.
Correct, and indeed having the same name on different sides of the same road. I just recalled another example from Edinburgh[0] where one side of the street is called "Lochrin Buildings" while the other side of the street is called "Gilmore Place" (then both sides of the street become Gilmore Place, which then invisibly changes its name to Granville Place before changing into Polwarth Gardens.

[0] = https://www.google.cz/maps/@55.941979,-3.203582,3a,75y,341.7... (I think the smaller lettered "Gilmore Place" underneath hints at a "yeh we know this is sorta Gilmore Place but not really)
Hopefully that turns out to be the case.

I have a feeling that modularizing (at least in Ara fashion) cutting-edge GPUs and x86 processors is no small feat. Never say never, but it seems unlikely that form factor could be maintained, let alone heat and interconnect requirements dealt with, when simply boxing up existing laptop or PC hardware.

It's likely that a lot of custom engineering and partnerships would be required beyond simply containerizing existing hardware. On the other hand, the trend toward things like on-die GPUs (and more) is promising, but at present you can't achieve truly top-end performance via this route.

The ideal then, I suppose, would be able to just easily snap together the equivalent of a few GTX 980Ms, sprinkle in a few i7s for good measure, and simply have it all work. Going on a trip and feel like packing light? Just take one of each, casually snap off the rest with little hassle.

Of course, if internet connectivity keeps improving at its current pace, application streaming may obviate the need for all of this, but who knows.