jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nobody can quantify these risks and that's a big problem. Assuming the risk conforms to what happened before is a dangerous fallacy. For example so far nobody purposefully sabotaged a plant, stole radioactive material for dirty bombs and no semi-rogue country used a nuclear weapon. None of that risk is quantifiable.

But what happened in Fukushima or Tschernobyl is bad enough. The damage caused by the Fukushima incident might well run into the trillion US Dollar range. No, it's not cleaned up yet, they still don't really know what to do with all the soil and how to demolish the plant. You really don't want anything like that happening in your country, even at the low probabilities the nuclear lobby claims.
Many of those things are the Wikipedia equivalent of legal fictions. They may not be true in any meaningful sense. News reports have very little accountability outside of cases where someone can sue the newspaper, and the "analysis" that people are assumed to be incompetent at and the "finding secondary sources" they are assumed to be competent actually require fairly similar levels of competency.
Changing systems means having to do massive amounts of retraining of staff, the potentials of lost productivity during the migration if/when the system goes down, etc. Plus you're going to have to find someone who can convert the old records to the new format, have a path of converting new to old if something goes wrong, etc. So, governments, like any entity, continue to use the old systems because the projects to convert them are inevitably multi-year and multi-million dollar projects that may not even completely work. While many users would like to move off the systems, the replacements may indeed be much more expensive than they can budget for.
Awesome! I just downloaded the vm disk and the system is up and running inside VirtualBox. It was good to see the CL-USER> prompt.
Thanks for posting!

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??? I dont follow.

Parents have right for due process, right to raise their own children and so on. Children also have some rights, those might colide wiuth rights of parents in some cases.

Problem is that in Norway parents have ZERO rights. Norway have not signed relevant EU treaties for Child Protection. Once children is taken by social servies, there is were little chance for return. SS than bullies parents, forces them to divorce, not even allowed to seek help.

To put it in US context: Imagine Alabama would start abducting children of people who just moved in, because their parenting is not religous enough. All perfectly legal with zero chance to get children back (or sometimes even see them ever again).
Too bad they couldn't get someone who can write a more interesting headline without vulgarities.
I think "break" and "continue" have their place.
The code he used is a bit of a straw man IMO:

while (someCondition) {

if (someOtherCondition) {

doSomeLogic();

continue; //jump to the top of the loop
}

doSomeOtherLogic();

break; //exit the loop

}

Compare this to how I use "break" and "continue"

for (int j = 0; j < nSomethings; j++)
{

int nDroidsLeftInQ = GetNDroidsInQueue();
if (nDroidsLeftInQ == 0)
break; // blow this clambake, we're done

Droid droid = GetDroidFromQueue();

// Skip droids that aren't even close
bool theseArentTheDroidsWereLookingFor = (DroidFitnessTest(droid) == -1);
if (theseArentTheDroidsWereLookingFor )
continue;

// 30 more lines code where the work actually gets done

doSomeLogic1();
doSomeLogic2();
...

}
My future perfect programming language will have explicit native types for strings: ansi, utf8, utf16, and unicode.

The nth of any array works as expected for that type. Convert to bytes as needed.

ansi "abcd"[1] -> byte
utf8 "abcd"[1] -> char
utf16 "abcd"[1] -> char
utf8 "abcd".toBytes()[1] -> byte
unicode "abcd"[1] -> word

Were it still the 90s, I'd probably care about locales, so somehow imbue ansi arrays with that metadata.
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Why so aggressive?

All of the above can be easily seen by looking at the provided link for about five seconds.
> Taken

That's not how this works. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game.
I figure more margin is better than less, and it decreased from 2019 to 2020. Is that not a valid way to look at gross profit margin?
The small business assistance was a pittance compared to what was sent to big business. It was mostly administered by large banks that have "economies of scale" yet were unable to get the money out to small companies. There were also lots of hoops and requirements for the PPP loans, while large corporations got free money without strings.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/899305677457416193
The Dorset culture was spread all across Northern Canada and parts of Greenland. It was found in widely divergent latitudes, with different climates.

It's simply not plausible that such a widely dispersed culture would disappear in such a short time due to climate change.

Disease transmitted from Norse settlers/traders being the cause is also not plausible, as the Dorset disappeared first in the Western stretch of Northern N. America, where the Thule were expanding from, rather than the East, where they would
have first had contact with the Norse. Competition from an invasive culture, the Thule, is the likely cause.
We talked about this 3 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791812 . The project is also old enough that it was mentioned on HN at least twice before then.
Just keep in mind that Steve Pavlina is a crank.
At the core of PG's post are two related errors (1) that US companies, without immigration barriers, would choose to recruit these top 5% programmers, and (2) that these 5% would want to move to the US.

Whether companies even can select out this 1-in-20 person is implausible, especially from overseas. The top 25% maybe. I can only ascribe (1) to an unreasoning faith in American capitalism and (2) to a lack of travel and living overseas.

In my experience the 5% programmers are already taken. America does need to reduce the immigration admin burden to encourage innovation, but its only a part of the problem. And maybe American companies should try harder to innovate in other countries.
To the degree they have committed a felony, either admitted or proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the personality has in most circumstances already been forged. While one can argue about rehabilitation and its efficacy, there are many urgent problems in society, and improving the conditions of prisoners in the hope of marginally improving rehabilitation efforts does not strike me as terribly pressing.
This is awesome! bookmarked!
Triple whoosh recursion?
Still no luck, and since it is you who is claiming that Arrington is referring to the carried interest tax hike proposal "screw[ing] up the delicate system of venture funding" (something not evident in his comment on Fred Wilson's blog noted by gojomo), it is incumbent upon you to specifically support it rather than sending us on a wild goose chase.
"And you can use the rear camera, so they can see what you're seeing"
A site which was a real celebration of Dunning-Kruger would have user-moderated debates with Karma. The scores would be fictionalized so that every user thinks they are a standard deviation above average.
Crap, sorry.
I've seen many articles about forecasting over the years. Yet none of the ones I've read actually provide any detail as to how to perform the actual forecasting.
>Apple's all about the user experience

If this was true, you'd see a lot fewer articles about them on HN, TC, etc.
Not to mention: Are you really going to do video chat while you're walking down the street? Driving in your car (god I hope not)?

The 'mobile' in 'mobile phone' seems directly at odds with the whole concept.
http://blog.skylight.io/bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-...
Please don't troll. That's clearly not what was being suggested.
What's the point of blocking Pastebin? There are dozens of websites just like it.
Thanks for your help.

Although I would like to say that everyone I have spoken to about this, throughout my career, has assumed that I'm just going through a period of burn out. I've been unhappy with my career for 10 years and the resentment and discontent has only grown.

In fact it was people telling me that I just needed to regroup and watch for burnout that kept me in the job. I listened to people when they assumed the problem was manageable and would go away.

But you see, when there is a fundamental disconnect between you and your career, you cant just wish it away. It grows and grows and eats away at you.

For me coding is an irritating, depressing, meaningless activity. The only thing that makes it worthwhile is the thing that is being created. But when you are employed as a coder making something worthwhile is not an everyday occurrence. And tbh even if I was building the most meaningful product I could imagine, it's not enough to keep me engaged. Writing code it just too unpleasant.

I would have been much better to quit when I first realised that this wasn't for me, rather than wasting a decade of my life trying to convince myself that I could make it work.
The economy isn’t doing that well. It’s pretty stagnant. It’s the stock market that is doing well. But stock market != economy.
People forget that had Google been acquired it's not like we would still have the same site today.

The main reason it was successful back in the day was because it was fast, clean and had no ads. Any company that acquired them would sort those out pretty quick.
In April of 2011 I made a twitter account to post wherever I had updates to post on a certain subject. I haven't had updates to post in a few years on that subject (I last posted in 2017) but I don't think I should have my account culled.

EDIT: And it doesn't even make any sense. It's a publishing platform. The author already agreed to anything necessary.
I have to give some props to facebook. Even though I didn't get the job the recruiters there kept me in the loop the entire way.
Gave away my Beeb decades ago. It was awesome. I wrote a timekeeping system for my Dad's firm on it that got me through my Computer Studies A-level :)

Also played a shit-ton of Elite on it. I suspect Elite was the driver behind 90% of the floppy drive sales for the Beeb.

Still got my Acorn Atom, though 12Kb of memory (including the expansion pack), and that includes roughly 1Kb of system memory, a BASIC interpreter and Assembler. Now all I need is to find some way of connecting it to a PAL-compatible TV again, and finding a cassette recorder to act as the storage device... I suspect I'll be giving this one away soon too.
So support and join the people who are pushing for that shift. There are very powerful actors working hard to keep dissenters silent and impotent. Lots of people in this forum regularly disparage social justice efforts.
Probably the same founders who are on Quora, asking why their programmers won't work 80 hour weeks.
Yes there are a ton. Actually it was a bit of a pain setting it up that way. I'm using Cloudflare to dynamically route to S3 or an ALB based on the path. If Cloudflare didn't have that option I would have had to roll my own solution to defeat CORS which could have added in another point of failure

Edit: I meant Cloudfront. I do that a lot
That's absolutely true. Though with one small exception - most mainframes I hear about don't seem to be hosted in the cloud yet. I imagine cloud hosting of mainframe workloads is possible if and when moving to virtualization becomes an easy, supported service (if it isn't already, of course) and is perhaps just as cost effective but with different security features and deployment models available due to operating in the cloud? For example, it might make on-site maintenance a thing of the past or lead to new managed services? I'm absolutely not going to say that the cloud alone leads to cost savings, it probably doesn't. For true cost savings in the cloud you often need to re-architect the app and change business and IT processes to match what the cloud can offer, I'd think. Besides possible security benefits, if a workload takes hours to run, the cloud could allow you to parallelize the workload and run jobs as test cases, maybe?
Relax, it's marketing. It isn't "Shady" to take aim at competitors (or other solutions) when trying to get attention.
> I'm surprised at all of the anti-cycling sentiment here.

Given how profoundly anti-bicycle North America in general is, I'm actually surprised it's not a lot worse.
I've used plenty of dynamic languages before, but I don't see how that would help in this case.

The point is that I wanted statically typed records, which a dynamic language won't give me. Java has added syntax for defining records now, which is great, but I'm not (yet) able to use the latest version.

> makes your object’s serialization capabilities a dice roll

Not sure how? The effect of @Value is documented.
There's no concern about metadata leakage?
We got tired of using external tools that were not well-aligned with our build/deployment use cases - non-public network environments. GitHub Actions, et. al. cannot touch the target environments that we deploy our software to. Our customers are also extremely wary of anything cloud-based, so we had to find an approach that would work for everyone.

As a result, we have incorporated build & deployment logic into our software as a first-class feature. Our applications know how to go out to source control, grab a specified commit hash, rebuild themselves in a temporary path, and then copy these artifacts back to the working directory. After all of this is completed, our application restarts itself. Effectively, once our application is installed to some customer environment, it is like a self-replicating organism that never needs to be reinstalled from external binary artifacts. This has very important security consequences - we build on the same machine the code will execute on, so there are far fewer middle men who can inject malicious code. Our clients can record all network traffic flowing to the server our software runs on and definitively know 100% of the information which constitutes the latest build of their application.

Our entire solution operates as a single binary executable, so we can get away with some really crazy bullshit that most developers cannot these days. Putting your entire app into a single self-contained binary distribution that runs as a single process on a single machine has extremely understated upsides these days.
> Laffer and this guy that died are a total joke

Laffer curves are empirically corroborated [1][2]. For most taxes, there is a point past which raising the tax rate starts decreasing revenue.

The problem was politicians defining a made-up number as that point and voters going along with it.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.47...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
Also: cross pollination is still happening as libraries like Recoil implement some of the ideas sitting in Reframe for vanilla React.

On the ClojureScript side, I would like to see more projects integrating with platforms like Nextjs and Gatsby.
How does Missive compare to Front?
is the training code opensource ?
Post author here, someone on Twitter asked to expand a bit on where our users came from, given some of you might have the same question.

Early on we were featured by Apple couple of times + podcasts, but now, mainly a mix of word of mouth content/SEO and honestly a lot of mystery.

Today HN :)
We saw some folks running Minecraft Java Edition on Windows on ARM with our JDK 16 EA builds. So... technically, it is possible. It will mostly depend on JetBrains' IDEA
Every dollar is ultimately backed by something. An increase in money supply is not by itself a bad thing, but if those new dollars don't result in the creation of new assets on the other side of the balance sheet, the new money will just shuffle around to eventually map onto the same existing assets. In the worst case, the momentum this creates will cause people to follow suit and throw their savings into the asset market creating a bubble.
It's Kafka-esque
It depends which levels Deceive Unrecognize and Illusionary Identity are learned at. If they can be learned by the same level, it's all the same.
When I have a hard time getting myself to do anything, I try to think about why I should do something from different points of view at different levels.

What I mean by this is that you need to rationalize why doing something is important to you in terms of its meaningfulness and impactfulness.

For example, let's say I'm a web developer with zero knowledge of building a mobile app. And I want to build a mobile game in ios that doesn't exist in the world yet. When it comes to pushing myself to work on such an app, I remind myself that I want to become a programmer with versatile skill sets desired by many employers.
That will be your high level goal.

However, this goal might be too general and isn't convincing enough for you to keep working on the project. So, let's make your goal more specific. So, in this case, it can be that you are super interested in learning about technical details behind implementing the game whether it is about designing the db relations, software architecture and etc.
That will be your middle level goal.

Finally, if none of them made you want to work on the project, let's dig deeper and make a goal really personal to you. It can be something like you want to build it because you want to play this game but you cannot find anything like it from anywhere else. That will be your low level goal.
>Sure, but when investigating events of a certain magnitude, you would more likely have a bigger group of individuals who have witnessed said event.

The Torah claims a million witnesses for the revelation at Sinai. I don't see anyone rushing off to become Jewish.

It occurs to me that "number of purported eye-witnesses" may not be a good evidentiary standard.
I guess it depends on where you draw the line on fundamentalism. I live in the Bible Belt and I'd argue that, at least, the Southern Baptists should be seen as a Fundamentalist organization. That locks down the majority of the people in the SE-quadrant of the continental US.

Also depending on how you draw your lines, the Catholics aren't even remotely close to #1 status. About 24% of Americans are Catholic while about 51% are Protestants. I'll agree that it's a little iffy, but I'm willing to count the Protestants as a singular group.

Perhaps I'm just jaded because I live in the land of "lets turn the US into a Christian theocracy".
If you find that you lose motivation or get bored with a side project then I think you really need to ask yourself why you are doing it.

We find the time and energy for those things that we place importance on. If the project isn't important to you then maybe it is time to move on. If it is important and this is just a temporary state - perhaps due to hitting a difficult part or a bit you don't enjoy dealing with - you need a strategy.

Break it down into manageable chunks. Put a date on them. Make sure however that the dates are achievable, there is no better way to become demotivated than to constantly feel you are falling behind.

If your thing hasn't shipped yet, can you get it to a release version sooner? Can you cut stuff out? Getting your project in front of other people can be a real help.

Treat the project as a first class citizen alongside your other work. Meaning that even if you can only devote 4 hours a week to it, those 4 hours are scheduled and used. Don't push them out for other work. Plan what you will do in that time, ahead of time, so you don't start to procrastinate when you sit down.

We turned our side project into our main source of revenue, you can read some of that in the first chapter of the book I wrote based on that story here http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/03/21/chapter-1-the-...
Does that mean you use the service?
You are right for the distance, it uses bluetooth signal strength for the distance estimation with an optimization algorithm and it can not provide the exact value, only an estimation. The app should NOT forget your computer at all. We have experienced that before but managed to fix it in the last release. Please send an email to support@nearlock.me with your exact configuration (iPhone, software, Mac, software) and we'll try to reproduce the bug.
That's an expression in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia too.
Here we go again. What was once a conspiracy is now mass media designed to feed the frenzy. Perhaps menstral cycles are 100% psychological for the 20% who opted to rely on their own immune systems to fight the disease. What do you think?
> Pretending that the current system is as good as it can get the for the vast majority of individuals is disingenuous

Pretending the IRS "knows exactly what you owe and could just tell you" is just as disingenuous. In both cases, it's more complicated than that.
I don't think $1 billion dollars is actually enough in this kind of space.

Probably the most important factor in Intel's success is its (relatively) new CEO's ability to fix cultural problems and internal dysfunction that inhibit any technical improvement.

At least this is a sign that Intel recognizes this and is reaching out to startups - only time can tell if it works.
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What's contested is if its the porn itself that causes the addiction or the feedback loop and easy access is what leads to compulsive consumption. No mainstream psychological organization is saying that there are no addictive or compulsive behaviors associated with excess porn consuption, just that it doesnt meet the critia as a medically diagnosed addiction and is closer to a compulsion.

For laymen however, referring to it as an addiction is what most accurately encompasses its impact on those who become compulsive consumers of it.