jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I left in 2013.

Because of offices, but later I figured that working 8h and starting before 12 wasn't in my interest either.

Now, that I work as a freelancer for 7 years, I don't think I can go back anymore.

Employment feels like serfdom to me.
I didn't take your comments as being in favor of feudalism, I took it as being a bit too cynical of modern states. The clarifications in your new comment make it clearer that you are more talking about a direction, not saying we already live in neo-feudalism, and I agree with you completely that it is something we're inching towards.
I would love to be able to read sqlite from s3 without loading the whole file.
Because the US monetary policy and inflation, and USD not being backed by anything, and because people don't want this power in corruptable governments.

This is not even some dispited facts (that this is one of major reasons for why some people want a new currency), this thing has been discussed over and over into oblivion, since the beginning of cryptocurrencies. It is a question that has been answered millions of times at this point. You just haven't researched any of it.
Do you have a guarantee that random() will give you the same sequence on different endians, on different libcs, on different 32/64bit arches, on different OSes or even dists?

The expectation of reproducability is probably lost if you switch any of the above "details", so the problem with bad-random-generation is that it's not only the people who thinks the entropy is good in it that are wrong, the ones that think rand() didn't change in the last 40(?) years are equally wrong.
Norway was also poor in the 70s and they're rich now. They refused to join the EU twice.

The richest, most advanced union of countries in the entire world, consisting of 300-400mil people couldn't help Italy with an earthquake aftermath so it had to turn a blind eye when the Russians sent help. What a shambles. This very same union couldn't deal the migrant crisis and it can't deal with the corona virus now. What a complete disaster. This is where it shows that there's no union in European Union. It only exists on paper, it doesn't act like an union and never will.

New members only serve as a free market of cheap labour and infrastructure and its eastern members have started making their own political decisions lately, some of them clashing with the EU directives. What union, you must be having a laugh!
That is exactly the sort of middle ground I had in mind. You aren't entirely prohibiting sharing data that might involve other people, but it is only shared for a specific purpose requested by the person providing the data and never used for anything else.
I call these "aspirational features".

The tech aspires to provide that feature, and _technically_ can, but in practice you're always chasing the goose. (or spending so much on ops time/people that it becomes an invalid option, of course this becomes clear after you've fully invested in it)
When you start eating because you are sad, then, given enough time in this state, you will gain weight -> bacon from grief
Why classify Europe, Africa and Asia as separate continents?
The point is that stocks are not a priori worth money just because they represent a share of a company. Value has to come from them somehow.
Before people work themselves into self-righteous fury (too late) about how authoritarian Apple is censoring homosexuality and promoting a culture of homophobia, you need to understand that this is about no-nudity, a policy the article's writer knows full well about already, seeing as how he wrote a previous article about it and linked to it.

As davidedicillo pointed out, he attempts to work this into an anti-gay angle by pointing out how a comic book not directly reviewed by Apple (it is downloadable through a comic store app) containing more explicit heterosex was not similarly censored, which is about as airtight an analysis as you might expect from Fox News. He literally has nothing else to base his anti-homosexual conclusions on.

I do think Apple is fundamentally misguided in its attempts to regulate content, and they're only going to dig themselves into a deeper hole by doing anything beyond adopting ratings and age blockers. But unfortunately this article is a yet another example of anti-Apple hysteria fueled sensationalism.
This headline is really misleading. It's not just a gay kiss, it's gay nude fondling of genitals. Seems pretty reasonable to think that the homosexual element is incidental to the pornographic element in Apple's decision.
The views counter is not unique.
Fun!
Fair enough. I concede that my statement was rather facetious. I assert that the naming of the same business model with the same type of content in the same market through the same distribution method is possibly brand deluding, definitely confusing in some cases, and possibly an intentional coat-tailing. However, it is unlikely that those persons who chose to open their wallets did so under the impression that they were contributing to another network since they would, by definition, not merely be casual fans.
Why is your site so pretty? I feel lucky when I style a <ul> enough to not make me gag.
My question is what do you mean by 2TB? At my current client, we have 5 TBs of data sitting (that's relatively recent). Before we had 2-ish. However, we had over 30 applications doing complex fraud calculations on that. "Moving data" (data being read and then worked) is about 40 TB daily. Even with SSD and 256 GB of RAM, a single machine would get overwhelmed on this.

If you're only working one app on less than 1 TB, maybe you don't need something as complex as Hadoop. But given that a cluster is easy to setup (I made a really simple NameNode + Two Data nodes in 45 minutes, going cold), it might not be a bad idea.

I'll take this further and say that some tools for Hadoop that are not from Apache are really nice to work with even in a for non-Hadoop work. For example, I've got to join several 1 GB files together to go from a relational, CSV model into a Document store model. Can I do this with command line tools? Maybe. Cascading makes this really easy. Each file family is a tap. I get tuple joins naturally. I wrote an ArangoDB tap to auto load into ArangoDB. It was fun, testable and easy. All of this runs sans-hadoop on my little MBP.

Fun fact about the Cascading tool set is that I can take my little app from my desktop and plop it onto a Hadoop cluster with little change (taps from local to hadoop). Will I do that in my present example? No. Can I think of places where that's really useful? Yes, daily 35 fraud models' regression tests executed with each build. That's somewhere around 500 full model executions over limited, but meaningful data. All easily done courtesy of a framework that targets Hadoop.
Jami has it's own tradeoff as you'll be revealing your IP in a DHT.
I would agree with the assessment, but isn't your typical kids TV channel just as vapid? Are US lawmakers worried about the ads and commercialism we bombard our children with on conventional television?
In the US we'd be better off refactoring cities with a goal of 'Caves of Steel' (Asimov), which would put far more within biking and walking distance as the core of the city expanded outwards.

This seems likely to work better in areas that aren't as geographically constrained. Seattle, for example, has far too much water around it and industrial areas near that. It'd be a good one-shot conversion though.
> This post is FUD

Or, this post is interesting for those of us curious about it and doesn’t yet have (2005) in the edited title.
Plus Amazon is a large business with many divisions. If you compete with Amazon Instant Video, the AWS folks aren't going to like having their profit centre sacrificed for the sake of the video division.
The Nobel Prize are prizes donated by Alfred Nobel. The Riksbank prize wasn't so it's not a Nobel and calling it so is a lie.
I am so sorry but it is exactly black and white:

Society sets up rules, most people follow most of them. One of the policies society has agreed on is that if your life is totally fucked financially you can get some table scraps from the government so that you don’t die as a direct result.

Some people are bad actors, which society will tolerate up to a certain level, so long as it means that the worst off people in the country can eat if they jump through some hoops.

That said if you see someone you suspect is scamming EBT etc please report them. Same goes for when your friend gives you a stock tip that’s a little too hot or your folks tell you they didn’t report some income.
A story pretty central to the start of the Yugoslav war involved a Serbian man being raped by a glass bottle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%8...
I think the issue behind this design decision and the look is that this is meant to be SpaceX’s future Mars Rover as Musk revealed in a tweet. I’m thinking that Musk just wants to mass produce it to work out some of the “bugs” before they create the pressurized version for Mars
BTW:

>>> the obvious thing is to do in a nominally typed language like Java or C++ is the "extract interface" refactoring, where you create an interface [...]

well, first of all, I still think that a library (even an internal one) should expose only interfaces by definition.
It's not only for the sake of the tests, it's also because it forces to keep boundaries "clean".

and by second... what I normally use is to trow in mockito[0] and let it do the subclassing, instantiation and definition of custom methods in 2-3 lines...

[0] https://site.mockito.org/

I'm not sure that "make it easier to define interface <a posteriori>" it's a good selling point to structural typing
I don't see it as any more conspicuous than a Model 3 at $35k. You're getting a truck and more functionality, so $5k seems like extreme value, not conspicuous. It's also an EV, so the equivalent ICE car should cost around ~$30k, which is a nicely trimmed sedan, but certainly not a luxury truck.
It looks fucking awesome. Like a futuristic yacht. People that think this is ugly have no taste.

I’m not gonna buy one but can’t wait to see it on the road.
In Newton's day a single person could probably learn all the math and science there was to be learned in the entire world.

Now things are much more specialized and require years of formal study just to get a base level of knowledge in one tiny aspect.
I haven’t seen much discussion around the “exoskeleton”, Musk compared it to the techniques that enabled development of monoplanes, by having the body absorb stress rather than just being baggage on top of the skeleton.

Is this a big deal or not?
This is one anecdote I found: http://crasar.org/2011/03/17/word-from-japan-on-robots-and-f...
I guess that's the joke but it isn't mine. I don't think understanding the joke makes me a bigot.

Fact is, seppuku is a part of relatively recent Japanese culture whereas it's not a part of European culture. In Europe suicide has been socially unacceptable since the fall of the Roman Empire.
A worthwhile discussion perhaps, I posted an alternate viewpoint above, here is the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6257400
Oh look another great free tool and another senseless comment that tries to knock it for no reason. You're just writing over-generalized nonsense for the sake of it, most of which doesn't even make sense...

> Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST?

What?
So: would an instant feedback environment that is "more native" be of interest?
Hmm, good point. However, I imagine one of the header's features could be enabling/disabling those notifications based on user preferences.

Also, many people (including me) would probably set their browsers to equivalent of answering "no" to current tracking questions so the notifications wouldn't be required if I understand the law correctly.
and in how many recent applications has this "old" symbolic "AI" surpassed ML? I agree with the parent commenter.

>"hit something of a brick wall decades ago"

Is true. Why do you disagree? What improvements did "old-school, mostly symbolic AI" bring to the current field of research?

Sure, ML has failures - but those failures are in applications and fields where old school symbolic AI can't even reasonably be applied to. We have to start somewhere and just using symbolic AI is far behind in terms of the requirements we have currently.

>"How many layers do you need and why? How many training cases do you need and why? What has the network learned and how do you know that? What important things has the network not learned? When will it fail?"

A lot of these issues have been addressed in many recent papers. A lot of these papers have been solely focused on understandable/explainable machine learning which is an overarching topic that covers all your questions.

>"Until you can answer these questions, you're not doing science."

So, you are essentially saying a large part of CS academia is not doing "science". I'm not sure what kind of "science" you have done to make such comments. But I'm pretty sure there are plenty of researchers out there who are far more of an expert than you are in this field would wholly disagree with you.
It may be true that many the Chinese names for those lands are the same, or at least very similar, to those used in Ricci's maps; but, suppose you could remove all existing knowledge about what those lands are called in the Chinese language and ask well-educated Chinese speakers to name them base on their Italian (or whatever more appropriate) names, I think people will still come up with very similar names.

The reason is because many foreign words are translated according to how they sound, so phonetic (?) requirements already substantially limit the possible choice of characters.

Since most (every?) character in Chinese has a meaning, I think people generally prefer choosing characters that have neutral to positive meanings, characters that can be put together to form a word or phrase, and/or those that have meanings associated with the actual word being translated.

I think historically there are also "preferred characters" (maybe there is even an unofficial guideline for writers/translators?) when it comes to translating foreign words into Chinese, for example 巴 (bā) is often used for sounds like "ba" or "pa". Some examples of this are the one you have given for Europe (although I think it was likely the "pa" in Europa instead of Europe); Paris (巴黎); and bus (巴士). The same, I think, can be said for most of the characters in the examples you have given.

Perhaps a somewhat related observation is the "divergence" between dialects, where things just don't sound quite right or completely different had they been translated with the same characters. Examples for this would be chocolate (朱古力 in Cantonese and 巧克力 in Mandarin); salad (沙律 in Cantonese and 沙拉 in Mandarin); and very often names for places and people.
Yes, I'm in favour of using Secure Cookies for authentication.

But, the TDD (Trend Driven Development) people won't agree with them. They want to work with those shiny trends for a shiny resume. JWT is horrible for the web, it need JavaScript, some needs Local Storage, which is worse than Cookies itself, and the revocation is complex.
But sharing salary information is still heresy, it's attempted in secret across opaque unverifiable websites that companies themselves like to game.
> I do believe it does far more harm than good.

How exactly does it do harm?

> If your idea is that there as so many people writing code that can't possibly understand Goldberg

No, my idea is that there are many people writing code who have concrete problems and questions to which the Goldberg paper is not a good answer because it is far from clear how it addresses those problems and questions, and would take a larger time investment to understand than seems warranted. Thus it is useful to have a less formal explanation that addresses them directly and refers to the paper as a more in-depth resource.

> AND also it "would be an idiotic waste of time" to summarize a real paper because it was "too long and complex"

No. What I called a waste of time was the suggestion of "introducing the goldberg paper gently - augmenting and highlighting the references", because then I would be writing about the paper instead of about the problems and questions of the audience.

> And they should NEVER EVER write numeric code.

We may have found a big misunderstanding. I completely agree that my website does not provide sufficient information for people writing iterative numeric algorithms (Though please note that the "error propagation" makes this very clear and explicitly directs people at the Goldberg paper). It is aimed at people who write some of the other 99% of code, which does very simple calculations (if any) but still has people put quantities (often representing money) into floating point typed variables and then be surprised at the behaviour.
Ok I know the Darwin stuff, but the Galileo stuff goes against the traditional story by quite a bit - given that going through google to find the truth nowadays is a chore, do you have some authoritative links?
What you said was correct a year ago but Kapten and Bolt exist now, they’re often the same fare or cheaper than Uber.
We have a solution for which companies should operate: it's called the free market.
Thank you for posting. This made me really happy.
Read the offer. Only 30% target bonus.
Changes in tax rates require Congress to act. Too slow moving to be a money supply control.
"You'd have a comfortable retirement" implies stock returns are knowable, which they are not. And the people assuming forward returns will be like past returns seem to be the least knowledgeable on evaluating assets.

12,000 a year is a lot less per year if you are saving for your child's college education.
Bitcoin is fantastically slow. It can handle about 120 million transactions per year. That is absolutely 100% unusable for anything at scale. If 30 million people used Bitcoin, they could each do about one transaction every three months and the fees would be sky-high. That is not good enough, not even for savings.

Other cryptocurrencies are faster by smallish constant factors. None of them, at this time, are scalable. None of them are fast enough to be usable by millions of people.
True, however. Test suits tests things that a type system never is able to test.

In general, if you reach a non trivial size of code you have to have unit tests in order to stay productive and speedy at a high quality level.

A type-system only speeds you up in the beginning.
In essence you are saying “low information” votes are harmful and should be discounted. Would you agree the vast majority of potential voters targeted with “get out the vote” campaigns are “low information”?
Switzerland doesn’t have direct democracy. They have representatives combined with a referendum system.

Just like California. And that system has arguably caused many problems in California. The budget is a mess because of the referendum system. And California has a population four times that of Switzerland.
Node-RED?
No, this is not at all what I mean.
They are also going to integrate a cryptocurrency: https://getsession.org/crypto-craze/
What are these ratios and the letter sequences?
The only evidence i have is many cities around where i live tried to make driving to the city centers horrible, made parking expensive and not a long time afterwards the shops were almost regularly switching owners and contents. There are a lot of places empty now. Amazon likes the effort though.
Ah, thanks! I don't know why I didn't think to grep for "payments". That makes it pretty clear that they were hiding the integration.
What other protocols do you know that offer low latency almost real time video and all that in the browser?

There is RTSP but that does not work in browsers.
"writers with a specific agenda denying trans people rights"

Interesting phrasing. They would probably define their 'agenda' as:

"kids can't decide to get sex changes"

or

"people who are in the midst of, or recovering from, gender reassignment are perhaps not the best choice for soldiers"

or

"hey whatever but I'm not paying for it"

And aren't the haters you and Tankus portray them to be. Substack may disagree and ban them, as is the trend in big tech, but their positions are way more in line with US (and world) opinion than Tankus and company.
Can somebody confirm that this is reasonable and state of the art? Or is it just a "look what I can do" type blog post?
As your criminal, I can assure you that this will keep you perfectly safe from me.
Actually, building rpm/deb is quite easy, setuptools handles bdist_rpm by itself, for bdist_deb there is a plugin. For windows folks, bdist_msi is by default part of setuptools[1]. As a backup plan, you can still build eggs with bdist_egg and let pip handle the package manager duties for you.

The real complexity comes elsewhere - both in java and python world, setting up the java application server or wsgi server for python is more involved than just dropping an app there. And then there comes the debugging the exceptions... there I would pretty much prefer the python world.

Also, be careful with zipping python projects. While .zip is a valid member of pythonpath, packages can have problems with finding their assets (if they have any). For example, you cannot zip django this way.

[1] It even handles setting up vcvars when building native extensions. I was impressed, it was easiest building of windows binaries for free software I've ever seen.
But that salary included health insurance, pension and holiday allowance, no? How much are you paying/budgeting for those now that you're self-employed?

Be fair - this is a huge pay increase, and by the average standards of pay in Poland is truly gigantic leap. Just for the sake of argument though:

health insurance

I've seen quotes in the region of 2,500 PLN/year for individuals, and that's for pretty damned decent insurance. That's just under $900 USD at current rates.

holiday allowance

Call that 20 days/year, essentially a month off. He's earned that this month if he was on his former wage at least ;)

pension

Default pension payments are close to nothing - maybe a few hundred zł/month, so let's call that $100.

I think kreci should be congratulated, by my eyes he's on the path to well exceeding normal paid employment. Keep up the good work!
Getting the students at the low end of the spectrum to "get math" is certainly a noble goal, but in order to have such a low variance in math ability at the end of the year, there's another required component - you have to keep the high end students below their potential. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who claims otherwise has a high burden of proof. Go take a remedial math class and turn it into a winning USAMO team and then get back to me. High end math education (at least in the US) is just as poor as the low end, but because the scores are acceptable not as many people care. Talk of "evening things out" is misguided.
Take away the mirror.