jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
moving the goal posts? poor tactical decision, sam. you've just undermined your whole position.

before, with the open definition of VC, it expressed a high confidence in your bet.

now, by limiting the pool of potential bet takers, you are weakening your overall goal of maintaining public perception that there is no bubble.

the analogy is boxing. before, you were putting a huge bet that you were the best boxer in the world and you challenged any other boxer to challenge you so you could prove it. now that someone has, it's like saying that you are the best boxer in the world, and anyone can challenge you to prove it, except this challenger because reasons. it sounds like an excuse not to fight and makes you look scared.

lol.

it sounds like your confidence in your position concerning bubbles has been weakened, but you are trying to convince yourself it is as strong as ever by saying no REAL venture capitalist has taken your bet, so you must still be right.

it's cool though, I'm sure nobody will notice.
The most beginner friendly book I've seen:
http://www.asmarterwaytolearn.com/.

At the end of each short chapter, you'll work through repetitive exercises a la Zed Shaw's LPTHW.
I check the comments first for this reason also. I want to know if what I'll be reading is quality or not. Also, not as much on here but I don't like giving click bait sites my traffic if I know they churn out fluff pieces or bad journalism.
You're correct, the relation between time zones and locations isn't fixed. Unfortunately the time zone databases don't have enough granularity, you're forced to choose the nearest location that shares your current time zone.
It amaze me how the app ecosystem drove down) (maybe too much) the price of those effects. We used to pay (back in 2005) big bucks for the same quality AND less practical controls (mouse vs touch screen).
There are plenty of other options. My personal favorite is the google method - recognize that "spying" is inevitable and embrace it in order to improve your own life.
It wasn't my benchmark, but that's my guess too.
> ineffable

Reminds me of Shpongle's album Tales of the inexpressible--for me, I feel like they managed to capture the experience in music with an accuracy that verges on brilliance. Especially the text "people laugh, and cry at the same time, they get horny and holy at the same time, have you seen it?" hits right home to me (the crying bit reminds me of a particular strain of shrooms that just makes your eyes and nose very leaky at some point during the start of the trip, about the same time you also tend to giggle a lot--though I'm not sure if that's what Shpongle are referring to intentionally).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBQRkl7_K4M (btw just want to note that TwistedUK has all the tracks published on their own channel as well, but this link's the whole album)

But if you've never experienced a trip, I doubt this album will help you much in that regard :) But it's also absolutely beautiful music on its own.

Before my first trip I read loads of trip reports and stories, didn't tell me much about the real thing. But afterwards, I agree those stories were about as accurate as one can get with words. It's nothing paranormal, but it is really inexpressible :)
Not really following OpenBSD, I didn't realize they considered Apache 2 license unacceptable til reading the above. For anyone else curious about the initial discussion of this, it took me some browsing to find http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107714762916291&w=2 (2004)
ps_mem.py - Determine how much RAM is currently being used per program, is useful when top command failed to report actual memory shared due to copy-on-write among multiple processes.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TopSharedMemoryBug
"They're going to find out any second now!"

That's really it, isn't it? The whole thing just boils down to an odd, amorphous they capable of seeing straight through you if you happen to give them half a chance.

I wish I could understand the source of this better.
Here's what will kill this:

When a social network starts, its membership is sparse. Not everyone uses it, and the odds that your best friends will all pick up and use it off the bat are improbable. Therefore, in the lonely wasteland of a newly colonized social network, people tend to make friends with acquaintances. Of course, you're not super good friends with these people, but it would be rude to deny their requests as well.

What do you do when your real friends finally show up? Frump your acquaintances? Sure, you weren't really good friends with these people, but you don't want to isolate yourself from them either. Frumping/defriending/depathing actively demonstrates to them that the budding friendship you could have had is not there. People in real life move on, but they also get back in touch too. Having to squeeze back into someone's "path" is unnatural. Sure, it happens in real life, but to have to actively mimic that on a website--what if you are overestimating the value another person sees in you? That could have disastrous consequences. I don't maintain 500+ friendships at once, but I wouldn't want to tell 500 people "sorry, we're not friendly enough to be pathed."

Path really seems to have a flawed premise. Considering the hype, they've probably got quite a big chunk of funding too. I see it degenerating into a popularity contest--social groups have an ebb and flow, but they rarely have official declarations. What happens when people wander apart? Do you declare, "our friendship is not important enough to be in my path anymore?" I could never imagine doing that to anyone. What if you have forty relatives you'd like to keep in touch with? Can you only have ten friends?
No, it would not be "sexual assault". It would again be unpleasant or unwanted touching. I'm not endorsing that, but I don't think technicalities about the term are appropriate. Sexual assault is a serious thing, pat downs are definitely unpleasant and bad, but they are not like serious assaults.
Perhaps something to do with FB's attempt to TM "book"? Very subtle, if so.
That's a good point. However, as you mention this data already exists on services like Twitter and Facebook, so I guess it just needs to be mined and analyzed.
The brutal truth is that you are either studying for a career or you are pursuing a hobby full time for 3 years.

I double majored in math and philosophy. I wouldn't say my studies were either career prep or a hobby. "Learning to learn" seems like a reasonable way to put it.

It has actually worked out great, career-wise. I am qualified for nothing, so I can seek employment doing whatever seems interesting.
I think you're confusing two very different concepts - the fact the browser is sandboxed is orthogonal to its "openness." Sandboxes need not be open, and open platforms need not be sandboxed.

Fundamentally, sandboxes restrict the possible functionality of executable code to prevent it from violating some preconditions within the context a user invokes it. Rarely do developers desire that behavior (it makes it harder for your app to work!), and users complain about it too (when MacOS began requiring explicit permissions for many entitlements, many users complained about the constant nag screens). Browsers have historically needed to reinvent every wheel provided by operating systems to provide features developers require that can't work within the sandbox (cookies, websockets, etc) which prevented entire classes of application from existing.

Browsers have enormous business incentives behind them, I'm not sure why you think that ruins the idea. Google spends gobs of money to prevent anyone from developing a competing non-Google browser, for example. Apple bans any non-Apple browser from existence on iOS and iPadOS.
I imagine that in a few years, the search engines will be inferring that an article written by a "Mary Doe" that refers to "my son John" should rank highly in searches for "John Doe".
Your question erroneously assumes a unity of purpose among computer scientists. Some may oppose religion and work to undermine it; others may not, or may not consider the effect as devastating as you suggest it is.

The internet seems to me to weaken religious institutions, but also to increase religiosity.
If that's the case, then the feature set would be focused toward a younger crowd, rather than the privacy features and such that people discussing a "Facebook killer" usually mention. I wonder if it could possibly be a step backwards in some areas.
Harris is a good writer and a great popularizer of certain reductionist ideas, but far from a great philosopher. Statements like this from him are to be taken with a grain of salt the size of the Western Philosophical Tradition.
I suppose this shows that the CIL generator for C# and F# are roughly equivalent. After the CIL it's the same JIT and runtime, so the difference would have to come from the CIL generators.
You have considerable faith in your own assumptions.
Asian immigrants and especially Asian-americans have higher IQs and incomes than American whites. They can afford to go anywhere they want, while generally poorer black or Hispanic people get the neighborhoods no one wants.
I noticed that the migrants he was tracking were all "foreign faculty who had their first US faculty appointment after 1993". I would think that receiving a faculty appointment would be a relatively powerful reason to stay.

I do realize that those who get faculty appointments can be considered the "most successful" PhD graduates, and thus their return home would be more beneficial to their home country. However, I'd be interested if they numbers were significantly different for students that either received their PhD and went into industry, or immediately returned home.
TL;DR: Hysterical parents and doctors freak out over son who is perfectly fine and even abnormally intelligent, publicizing lots of incredibly personal information in the process.
So it is user-hostile because of data collection, and that the opt-out is not preserved :-)
"So Rob Pike is basically saying that the developers at Google aren’t very good so they’ve developed a dumbed down language so they can get things done."

I read the Pike quote very differently. When Pike says: "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers." I thought he meant programmers today use google to assist them in programming.
I think Manning/NoStarch/Pragmatic generally have good quality books, but O'Reilly is not too far behind. They just publish a lot many books, so some are bound to be mediocre and some of them absolute gems.
Right! Surely people will trust us more if we ban them for saying that Covid-19 might have come from the Wuhan Virus research center, or that vaccinated people can get and spread covid, or that cloth masks are ineffective. Once we ban misinformation then trust in media will return.
I guess, this has taken "minimum viable" to the next level.
This is actually a great point--why not provide a free web version and a paid iPhone version of any product?

Flash game developers do this (see Canabalt, World of Goo), so extending the model to iPhone apps isn't a bad idea.
Really I think it translates to any company the size of Google or Facebook. It would be impossible for them to have the same level of face to face service that a ma and pa shop with a userbase of 100 people provides. You might not like it, but if 500 million people had an easy way to lodge complaints for whatever they wished, their helpdesk/support staff would probably be larger than their engineering team .
I'm not trying to imply that it's a socially/morally correct reaction. I just wanted to write candidly in case it's helpful to the folks who made the site.
Sorry for posting this. I'll keep that in mind next time. Thanks a lot for your suggestion.
I am curious as to why the "hiring/freelancing" problem has not been cracked yet. Given the issues with global sites such as oDesk and elance perhaps the problem really does not scale without sacrificing either reliability or quality and an inherently local solution either in terms of geography for a specific city or more widely for a specific skillset is the most realistic approach so that referrals and personal recommendations still carry some weight.
So should scientific and technological progress in general be like Battlestar? I would much rather it not have a known ending. If I wanted that, I'd choose religious dogma.
Great idea and I think the pricing is very compelling. Of course, I don't work for a newspaper, so take that with a grain of salt. :)
Instapaper fan here. Used the web app like crazy, wanted to support Marco so I bought the $5 app. No regrets.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear.

The web client knows how to display the images, but it blocks them if it doesn't trust the sender.

Basically, they work exactly the same as regular old external images.
Sure, but Google, one of the highlighted companies in the featured article, owns an estimated 100B+ of commercial real estate.
Especially when you consider those decisions in light of this move: they create platform lock in and lockdown.

Want to run signal with no payments integration or with a Bitcoin wallet instead? Too bad.
Sure. But after 10-20 years of office I’ll take this change. Working from home doesn’t mean that i have to stay home either. Last week I worked from hotel room and from a swimming pool in Orlando. It was wonderful to change the settings and weather (I live in NY) and got to enjoy the the evenings as if I was on vacation. It was a part time vacation to me while not wasting my time off.
The system is set up under the assumption that the institutions themselves cannot have systemic issues and all problems are really the work of individual employees acting outside of what they're supposed to do, and so you're supposed to sue them in their personal capacity. Then the Supreme Court basically slammed that door effectively making remedies impossible to obtain. Deetz: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/civ...
The fact it's so difficult to differentiate between the mission statement of an informal group and their actual behavior only adds to the problem. Maybe a group behaves well in your locality but badly in someone else's. How are we to tally up thousands of incidents and say "Oh ok this group has a 90% positivity rate so you should feel friendly towards them."? It's impossible.
Interesting information, thanks for sharing. Definitely doable by adding also the monitoring module, which would show you associated clients in a chart.
But it's not as easy to set up as Ubiquiti though. I hope in the future it will be.
I looked around, but couldn't find one. If you're running Linux, you can do it manually yourself (blacklist all, whitelist the ones you need) in about fifteen minutes. I posted the steps for Arch Linux somewhere further down.
Whether or not this theory is true, can be measured. A few important numbers come to mind.

- do you get more operations tickets right after a production deployment?

- do your call centers get an increased calls/hour rate after a production deployment?

- are there often noticeable anomalies in system resource usage that seem to be directly related to your deployment cycle?

- do your monitoring tools show a higher rate of warnings/criticals right after a production deployment?

Whether or not production deployments introduce more risk is probably largely subjective. How well do you test, what number of changes are inside a deployment, how collaborative are your operations/development teams, are your technical teams understaffed, and so on.

The advantages of a freeze (defined as "no production deployments during a certain time window") that I see, are at least the following.

- from my own experience while working in operations, I remember very well the many sleepless nights that somehow always seemed to be the immediate consequence of new (byte)code running in production

- it gives operations a break; they often work at ungodly hours the whole year, and getting some rest is very much needed

- it gives a moment to stand still and reflect; work on internal tooling, putting some structure into ad hoc things that sneaked in, etcetera.

Furthermore, I don't agree with the philosophy that "everything is always broken". Sure: disks and power supplies break all the time, even load balancers break, security patches need to be applied, and so on. But these are things that are part of day to day operations, and most operations engineers know how to do them. It's usually controllable. Unlike a bug in some newly introduced code by one developer that causes a stack overflow every time one certain application flow is being hit. That requires a different kind of discipline to solve.

I think it's a little dangerous to generalize these things without having actual numbers to back them up; before you know it, your operations team won't have any excuse to just sit and play Quake for a week. In most cases, that's a joke.
Voting is not a fair analogy at all, because if you think both the main candidates are bad, you can always vote for a minor party! Sure, they almost certainly won't win, but you're sure as heck not making the situation any worse! Or in other words, there is absolutely no obligation for you to support "the system".

I see your point about taxes. However, as the old saying goes, two wrongs do not make a right. Whilst a file sharing system like Darkleaks may have some great potential, I think it is morally wrong to actively promote its use for such things as leaking celebrity sex tapes, and compromising national security.
I'm not sure you understand the concept of "order of magnitude". Taken literally, you're saying you think Github handles 10 000 requests per day, which is about a factor of 10 000 to 100 000 (4-5 orders of magnitude) too low.
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If it's more than one 'A' I'd use visual mode. I'm always impressed people can accurately count up to like three ;)
DOTS is not ECS. "Unity Classic" is ECS. DOTS is a more cache-efficient architecture designed to support larger numbers of entities.
Thanks for the correction on PPM not PPB.

Let me address the H20 issue with the runaway global warming theory.

There is literally an ocean of H20, therefore the total load of H2O is elastic (unlike CO2). Hotter temperature -> more H2O in the atmosphere -> hotter temperature -> repeat.

Yet this hasn’t happened. The point about water condensing is besides the point, because water is also vaporizing and the equilibrium point is determined by temperature, which the runaway theory says is a divergent phenomenon.

Let’s rewrite the original assertion:

Higher Temperature -> Higher water vapor equilibrium —> higher temperature. This cycle can repeat endlessly because of the ocean.

As far as independent scientist doing global warming research on their own dime, this just isn’t true. There is public and private money set aside to study this.

Highly credentialed global warming skeptics like Judith Curry have generated around ~150 papers which conclude that global alarmism over human caused global warming is a “hoax”. Her actual words.

Astoundingly, there is a complete media blackout on this scientist and others like her. Infact a huge case the msm won’t cover anymore is
the case of Tim Ball who decried global warming alarmism as pseudo science (Corruption of Climate Science Has Created 30 Lost Years," Jan 10, 2011).

He was sued for defamation by Michael Mann, the same person who was caught up in email scandal or manipulating climate data.

Tim Ball went to court and got discovery of Michael Mann’s climate date. 10 years later, the judge finally dismissed the case because Michael Mann failed to produce the data by the judges orders.

This is not “science” this is a religion run by a corrupt cartel.
I didn’t hear about this change in electric pricing until after the blackouts were over and electricity was restored, mostly because I didn’t have hardly any internet access during the storm. Was my demand supposed to decrease? Because every time the power came on my heat was on max and I would charge as much stuff as possible, boil water, etc. because I had no idea when I’d have power again.
Technology connections covers quite a bit of ground on various types of humidifiers and their up/downsides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFAiCMLJ14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2horH-IeurA
Please stop posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments to HN. We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Last few times were "solved" by revolution. I'm expecting something similar.
I've been using my company's docker compose script transparently with podman-compose for three months now and I have basically forgotten that I've switched. I actually didn't use docker before this, so I can't comment on what the difference is.

I feel like the podman experience is binary, either it works perfectly or it sucks balls. My suggestion is to give it a try, if it fails, then maybe file a bug report, fail fast and fall back on docker.
It seems that tax law would be something that lends itself well to open source. After all, what is the law but a system of logical rules not unlike software?

It would be great to get an open-source tax library, split into two parts. One can be the library which does the calculations, the other can be any graphical interface for users to use.
At least users on other operating systems suffer as much as we do.
Mastercard just tries to be relevant in an environment where they will not be relevant anymore.

Just look at the Nano cryptocurrency for example: 0 fees and <1 second transactions. You can send 0.00001 dollar or 9 billion to anyone in the world at any time. All you need is a phone.

Crypto is going to disrupt a lot of things. If it's not clear by now, you will be in for a surprise.
How does that compare to other years, both in total amount of fraud and in what percent of total paid out was for fraudulent claims?

If the system is fine except in situations like a once a century global pandemic that throws way more people out of work than normally happens even in most recessions and throws them out of work for longer than is normal where it jumps to a fraud rate of 30% or so (and presumably returns to normal when the pandemic is over), I'm OK with that.
In my experience, the performance of Electron Apps is even worse than WINE.
Like this dude said [1]

Electron app memory usage: 150 MB

Native app memory usage: 0 MB (because you never ship it)

1: https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren/status/1105876480930734086
No tenkey sadly. I know a lot of keyboard enthusiasts don't like tenkeys, but I would have a hard time giving that up. Although, it would be nice to have the tenkey on the left so I don't have to move my hand over it to get to the mouse.
Actually, for me Vyvanse wasn't even in the first three medications suggested to me to try first.
Yeah ... well the update that includes MOB will be the uninstall event trigger for me.

I remember skimming that article from 2018 before I'd switched myself and all my friends (the shame!) to Signal and counted it as a negative for that platforms reputation. I guess my honeymoon is over. On to the next chat platform!
Not everyone agrees that protecting a brand and controlling who connects to and uses a service you run and pay for is "being an asshole".

Lots of people pretty readily made the choice to move from WhatsApp to Signal when the benefits became clear. There's nothing stopping anyone from forking the client/server and running their own network - if there are meaningful benefits to end users of the fork, there should be no problem picking up traction.
Couldn't we do a service where delicious users can export all their bookmarks (bar private ones if they want) and then send them onto a aggregator so a new service can pick up where delicious left. I am assuming here that technically delicious is not (very) challenging, its the data that is precious.
Notice how they say - "primary content delivery network", primary not sole.

netflix actually uses many cdns, including akamai and l3.