jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't invest in BTC at this point - although it's a safe long term position, the capital injection required to move the price is pretty high as I think the market cap's around 600 billion. I HODL for now with Ethereum because of the utility factor as I also built a dapp although it's pretty much unusable these days due to gas fees - once those come down I'll starting spending ETH again minting strange ERC-721 tokens for my own amusement.

I've been watching the prices/news/volume recently on crypto generally - and it seems clear a lot of new people are entering right now with a poor understanding of the environment and that creates opportunity in the alt-coins. Look at something like Ripple which if people were informed about current news should be falling off a cliff but still seems to 3rd in market cap and sometimes having rallies that outperform coins that haven't been more or less labeled by the SEC as fraudulent. Although this seems irrational to me, I think understanding those newbie conceptions opens up opportunities for some bigger gains than on Bitcoin - yesterday I decided to buy something that was certainly the days winner on coinbase that went from 5 cents to around 15 cents overnight (tripled in less than 24 hours) and I wasn't totally surprised - it'll probably slow down a little - but still worth holding on.

The reason there was quick money to be made? Investing in something with a low-market cap relative to the others (also easily available on coinbase) - and maybe also a recognition that new buyers might like coins at certain price points. I looked at that coin and I saw the market cap was 30 million dollars (about $50 million behind the next closest on Coinbase), wasn't a total dud and also looked at the volumes of transactions happening on the market as a whole to see there was action happening anywhere and everywhere. I said to myself, if Bitcoin has a market cap of 600 billion, then to move the price 1% requires an additional 6 billion dollars injected there. If you take 1% of that 6 billion, 60 million and it went into that alt-coin (which is just about what happened) - it's a 200% gain overnight. For that to happen with bitcoin it would require 1.2 trillion dollars going in, not likely. Now will I sit on this alt-coin until retirement age versus a BTC? Nope - but in the short term if you're looking for moonshot consider what it really takes to move BTC price.
> only VLC player can make use of VAAPI

And mpv with "hwdec=vaapi" in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
Then you've effectively made it impossible for certain people to buy a domain name. And I wouldn't really trust that UN would be the best beneficiary of such money, it's bureaucratic hell.
When you see this line

auto values = new std::unordered_set<T>();

in their C++ benchmark code you already know it's gonna be a good article.
The Crime Survey for England & Wales isn't a government body.

A third way crime rates are independently checked in the UK, is hospital admissions statistics for shootings and stabbings.
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I'm happy there is some diversity in which companies are producing these. Watching too many netflix series, they can start to feel a bit too cookie-cutter in how the drama is laid out over an episode or series.
Just curious what size was your daily dose?
A big motivation for such token formats is to quickly and easily identity when they are shared somewhere they shouldn't be. JWTs aren't helpful in that regard, since they always present themselves as a base64 encoded blob.
On top of what others have said, we need advancement it batteries that can withstand low temperatures. Lithium ion batteries generally need to be kept above freezing temps. There have been some advances in capacitors that operate down to -100C, but their energy density makes them a non-ideal option for weight limited applications.

This video from Veritasium does a good job of covering the helicopter power system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM&t=613s
Absolutely. Good UX would be the subject receiving a notification that a photo of them has been uploaded, requesting whether they should be scrubbed/blurred from the photo or not before it’s made public. It’s about consent and agency.
That's what happens when elected representatives from Wyoming and Tennessee have a congressional majority over the control of a border 1,500 miles away from them.

Stoke fear of immigrants to get yourself elected, then make legal immigration impossible so that illegal immigration is the only option.
>Also on Monday, Biden said he is “not at all” concerned that a higher corporate tax rate would cause some U.S. companies to relocate overseas. “There’s no evidence to that ... that’s bizarre,” Biden said in response to a question from reporters.

It's not a question of relocating so much as a question of not repatriating profits earned overseas. Whether the question was asked poorly or Biden reframed the question with a BS answer is unknown to me. I think there's a lot of evidence that companies will not repatriate cash if it's going to be taxed more highly than in the country where the profit was made. It's the old question of whether it's better to tax more money at a lower rate or tax less money at a higher rate.

From the Federal Reserve:

"Balance of payments data show that U.S. firms repatriated $777 billion in 2018, roughly 78 percent of the estimated stock as of end-2017 of offshore cash holdings. Repatriation was strongest in the first half of 2018, when $510 billion was brought back, and continued throughout 2018, albeit at a slower pace (figure 1). Despite this slowing down, repatriation flows could remain above their pre-TCJA levels because the TCJA eliminated the tax incentives for keeping profits abroad."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/us-c...
> news reporting

Sure, but what that means is that I can do (say) movie reviews for profit and include clips from the film. It does not mean that I can re-broadcast the CBS Evening News with my own commercials.
The thwarter can be an opponent or an ally but more likely an opponent. The scupperer is the opposite - more likely to be on the same boat as the person who's boat is being scuppered.
> Identify what Arabia provides that’s so critical

Lots of oil. And money. Mostly oil.
As cool as they look when you write them, comprehensions this dense obfuscate your code. Splitting this into multiple lines helps, but it would be much easier to understand as a normal for loop.

If the goal is to just know the number of items in each slot, here is the first thing that came to my mind (and does not require any iteration):

groups = [n // g + n % g] + [n // g] * (g - 1)
PowerShell also runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. You pass objects instead of plaintext through the pipeline which provides a rich experience. The full .NET type and ecosystem are also available when you really need a full fledged class for a thing.

There are good choices in 2021.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/instal...
"America's funniest home pages" should totally be a thing.
The JTRIG is strong in this one.
In saying "that's the point, it could lead to a shortage of masks for people who really need it" he's giving away his awareness of the need for masks, and the reason for why he at all suggested to avoid masks in the first place. That's to say he never had a change of mind about the effectiveness of masks.

Here are two links I could find in which Kramer talks nicely about Fauci: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a32688094/anthon... < As recently as March of this year, Kramer said of Fauci, “We are friends again. I’m feeling sorry for how he’s being treated. I emailed him this, but his one line answer was, ‘Hunker down.’” > &
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/health/larry-kramer-antho...

There should be a quote of him saying something to the effect of "Fauci is LGBT community's best friend" dated around 2015 but I'm unable to find a source for this at the time, I'll continue my search though and link when I find it.

The downside risks to mask-wearing are marginal next to its benefits. I'm reviewing Danish RCT and other papers you linked now.

I'll say one other thing: I think it was poor form on my part to steer this thread off and bring to view here before everyone something you'd said that I perceived to be bad. Because I think that goes against the principle of giving everyone the benefit of doubt, it goes against the principle of charitable interpretation and really it's bad form to unnecessarily remind folks of past wrongs (because indeed when we just _expect_ better of people, they come through most of the times, so one really ought to just forget old wrongs and be more forward-looking). For your part in being one of the initial designers of Rust, you deserve some leeway anyway. Crucially though, I in a way made the error I accused you of committing in slandering Fauci. For this, I am sorry.
Same here, I've written toy projects and smaller apps in swift, but I'm running into lots of crashes when trying to debug. Not ready for production yet IMO.
The whole Algorithms section is theoretical CS.
Earlier this year at goto copenhagen I heard a good talk by Tim bray:

http://gotocon.com/cph-2014/presentation/Privacy%20and%20Sec...

Where he argues that even though we can not achieve complete security there is great value in raising the bar.
If we continuously make it increasingly harder for NSA, MOSAD, GCHQ and the rest of them to spy on us, we can achieve good enough privacy. Where most communication will be secure.
But he also argues that if one of these agencies really wants to target YOU specifically they will get to the information. By breaking into your house and installing cameras, if necessary.
Follow the link and you'll see Crichton is not talking about those sorts of models; from near the end:

To an outsider, the most significant innovation in the global warming controversy is the overt reliance that is being placed on models. Back in the days of nuclear winter, computer models were invoked to add weight to a conclusion: "These results are derived with the help of a computer model." But now large-scale computer models are seen as generating data in themselves. No longer are models judged by how well they reproduce data from the real world -- increasingly, models provide the data. As if they were themselves a reality. And indeed they are, when we are projecting forward. There can be no observational data about the year 2100. There are only model runs.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynman called it a disease....

I'd add that I read the TAPPS paper when it came out (back before I gave up on the AAAS) and followed the debate closely: one of the many reasons that paper was fatally flawed was that it used a one dimensional model of the atmosphere and planet, i.e. particles could go up and down, but there were no winds, no oceans, etc. People in the field said such models were notorious for being easily overbalanced by inappropriate inputs, which were of course another problem with the paper, one I could personally confirm (having been a nuclear war survivalist since 2nd grade in 1969).

When LLNL did 3D modelling, their results said, yeah, maybe a nuclear fall, but that's it. Which comports with the observed effects of volcanic eruptions, which we have a lot of data on. I.e. the bottom line in simplest terms is "earth big, humans small".

ADDED: just remembered that Feynman was there at the dawn of computerized scientific models, back when "computers" were the operators of calculators. Some of the necessary scientific inputs into creating the bomb could not be solved, only approximated, and they used a bunch of computers as they were called then and the current state of the art electro-mechanical calculator. He helped organize the operation so it would run well. This no doubt helps explain his much much later involvement in the development of the Connection Machine, and one can imagine his horror as cheaper and cheaper computing was abused. [Insert a Cargo Cult Science observation here.]
Fox news, bitcoin..the communities surrounding these two entities are cesspools of misinformation and do pose a risk that I don't believe should be abated by throwing away the idea of abridged trials during times like these.

Look, my brother is infected, and he's positive and under 40 without any underlying disease and weeks of respiratory symptoms. Doctors now think he might suffer permanent lung damage in the form of reduced lung capacity, so on a personal/emotional level, the risk of doing nothing is far greater than any side effects such a dose could bring.

On the other hand, we have people still going out for spring break and crowding the parks in Florida and NYC respectively...and a drug with this effect might close the gap between a proper lockdown and whatever it is we have going on now. With those two risk factors in mind, I think it's fair to let this half-assed study out into the wild. It's not like chloroquine is available without a prescription, and people will be vomiting their guts out from the sugar long before they get a clinical dose of it from tonic water.

But come to think of it...did the author of the original paper go on Tucker Carlson and say that it's 100% effective or was that the random eye doctor? If it's the former, then yea I'm furious, but I can't seem to find the clip. Otherwise, stuff like this is never going to stop from happening. It sounds to me like the real culprits here are the news agencies responsible for diluting down the information responsibly.
bacteria are able to survive outside a host body, and exploit a wide range of resource compared to virus.

virus is good for control in the case of accidents such as a biowar implement crashes somehow and spills virus, the environment will destroy it quickly, the cleanup is simple compared to a bacterial agent, eg anthrax in spore form lasts many years-->
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Yes that’s correct, I meant compared to more controlled guidance by wire, radiation, satellite, etc. I phrased that improperly.
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Except it's not that hard to accidentally fry a Raspberry Pi. I did that to two or three of them when I was experimenting. They would still boot up at first, but the CPU chip would immediately get burning hot to the touch, and the only way to get it to stay on was to blow on it continuously. I don't remember what I did to fry them.
That's very strange, out of all things being affected by the pandemic, the mobile subscriber base would be right at the bottom. If anything, I'd have expected it to increase as members from rural communities who would otherwise not bother with a mobile phone would decide to take the plunge in order to keep in touch with quarantined loved ones or to manage things they'd have done in person otherwise.

EDIT: It just occurred to me the decrease may be linked to mobile phone farms for clicks/engagement/app installs and how their profitability may have taken a dive.
I dumped facebook in 2012.
I quit twitter in 2017.
Stopped going to new websites and listening NPR in Fall of 2020.

Where is my prize?

Oh wait, mental health wins the day.
A wireless access point is just a more accurate accurate term for a wireless router.

If you're asking what the Unifi UAP‑AC‑HD is, it's a relatively inexpensive, prosumer, wireless access point from Ubiquiti. The main appeal is: the Unifi ecosystem (optional, but it does offer extra capabilities for your network) and PoE connectivity (ethernet cable is used for data and power). I have two Unifi AC Lites (a slightly less capable model than the HD) in my home they work quite well (and also look good).

On the professional end, Ubiquiti provides wifi hardware for commercial settings like stadiums and conference halls, so they're well versed in creating hardware/software that deals with hundreds or thousands of users/clients. They also offer long-distance communication equipment (think 'wifi' over hundreds of metres)
It is possible to do this profitably. However the app companies are more interested in spending marketing dollars on discounts with the end goal of becoming a monopoly over the market. The end goal is to restrict customer and restaurant choice so they can charge both parties and take their cut.

They will spend big over the next couple of years to see which markets they become dominant in. Once the land has settled they will do deals with competitors to exit certain markets so each can extract margin from that geography.
Paul Graham's Submarine [1] essay seems relevant. There's a few other articles about ID.me that have come out today according to a quick google search.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
No one knows how to make a perfectly safe car, yet there are some car safety problems for which car manufacturers are liable and others for which they are not. And those things can change over time, particularly as we learn about new manufacturing techniques and features which can improve safety!

I see no reason why the same can't be applied to software. It's probably true that we can't feasibly create software and computer systems that are completely free from security vulnerabilities, but we absolutely have discovered some vulnerabilities which can be protected against using certain software development techniques, and I see no reason why software vendors ought not be liable for damages caused by their failure to follow these established techniques.

Just like with cars, there is always going to be some tradeoffs between cost and security/safety, and exactly where to draw the line is something reasonable people can debate.
So that means the free Twitter will become more crappy if they will put all the valuable information behind paywall?
You'd think that the economies of scale would work in its favour though.

Or would literally just running a giant call centre that manually routes orders/drivers be more efficient, like in the old days.

I just can't figure out how Uber Eats and Deliveroo charge higher fees, underpay their drivers and have 10000x the scale, use technology to reduce costs - yet still can't make a profit in a proven market. It's mind boggling.
I find that the larger trackpads on newer macbooks help with this a lot because the upper right corner of the pad is easily accessible at exactly the same angle of inward rotation by just pulling your elbow back along the side of your body. The Apple magic, I guess, is being able to have that without constant phantom palm touches.

See https://imgur.com/a/qeRQIFD

An offset trackpad would also work, though obviously would be less friendly to lefties.
Winner of the first challenge here. Looks like the prizes are mostly the same (maybe identical?) as last month, so I'll probably be competing in the "Just for fun" category. Hope to see some creative solutions!
Nose's point is that signal strength does not necessarily imply good Internet connectivity. Kinda like you can have great WiFi signal because you're sitting next to the router but unless the router is connected to a good ISP its still going to suck. Ie you can have 4G connectivity and it can still crawl if the backhaul sucks.
Yes, I don't have any first-hand experience.

I apologize for spreading misinformed data. Please forgive me.

The last MSFT experience I have is circa VB6/ADO. I will chastise my .Net acquaintance for giving me the impression that WP7 was hard for .Net/C# devs - and, myself, for spreading misinformation.

Personally, when I looked at it (about 2 yrs ago), I didn't know where to start. How did you learn XAML, MVVM? Just brute force and practice? I'd love to be able to do a Zagat-like WP7 app. To be able to know what the custom part of that app development was.

http://wmpoweruser.com/zagat-for-wp7-first-look/
It serves as a reminder end-users are not Microsoft's clients. Their clients, the ones they gather requirements from, are the telephone manufacturers.
How is it embarrassing? WP7 was never claimed to support removable SD card storage. And it doesn't.
Okay, who else read that as "Wordperfect 7" and got really confused for a second or two.
But have you seen the outside?

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyTt797GKO90lXFYDON...
Most people were using third-party multibutton mice. They worked just fine.
So, all Nokia has to do is to ensure WP7's success and they will have a steady revenue from the N8 line...
I think I'm in love!

When I saw this video last week I started thinking if there was any data munging that I've been putting off. There is, but I need to do some scraping first.

In the meantime, I sent it to a friend who is working on an iPhone app that draws on a government database. He was thrilled to have something more interactive and productive (in his perception, at least) than python + excel.
And it's not "sticky silicone that's part Silly Putty, part duct tape". Robot f'n cars people! Ok, maybe it doesn't qualify for 2010, but in terms of quality of life impact, beats silly putty hands down.
Leaving aside the implication that I'm either in denial, or not a functioning member of society... And leaving aside that the link doesn't quite say either, from what I can see...

I agree that having no fear of oblivion is unusual.

It's hard to distinguish fear of death from fear of dying. I fear the latter.

It's hard to separate fear of death from cultural expectations of death. My reading is that most people fear oblivion partly because they haven't thought about it much, because they are focussed on worry about being wrong about their chosen afterlife scenario.

More anecdotes, but I've noticed that small children, while being afraid of a lot of things, don't seem to suffer existential death anxiety. I believe, as was pointed out in your link, that such anxiety is largely (but maybe not entirely) socially constructed through language.

And if something is socially constructed, it can be changed. With difficulty, but it is possible.
I'd love to begin writing my own extension (or two) at some point in the near future so I appreciate the tip.
Fair enough, somebody:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Party_(Hungary)
Thanks I'll definitely check them out.
I haven't had time to really dive in, so I'm a bit cloudy on what an "asynchronous response" is and what the use cases are. Is it simply a way to handle more concurrent requests with less resources?

Our apps do a lot of file uploads (images). Is that something that could benefit?
I learned the truth at seventeen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Seventeen)
I have no idea what you mean by 'spelling correction'. Your blog post was a bunch of mean spirited, derivative nonsense. I really enjoyed tearing it apart, though.