jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Sure, they are terrorizing the local population, but lots of governments do that without being labeled terrorists.

...including the US government, let's not forget.

Drone strikes aren't "local" to the US, but they are conducted against US citizens in countries that the US is not at war with[0]. Moreover, if any middle eastern country did to the US what the US does in Pakistan, you'd bet the US would call it "terrorism"!

The word "terrorism" is inherently subjective; there is no way to define it consistently in a way that doesn't hinge either on race or on political affiliation[1].

I won't defend ISIS, but calling them "terrorists" doesn't mean anything. The word "terrorist" has basically become the government equivalent of playground name-calling. It's a way of saying "we don't agree with the way that that group is using violence, so we're going to use a different word to de-legitimize it"[2]

To borrow an example from another thread, look at the way the label "communist" was used during the McCarthy era. Oftentimes it was just used as a general term for "subversive actor", and in fact the targets were actually being accused of completely different ideologies altogether, many of them completely incompatible with Communism! But the literal meaning of the word itself doesn't matter; what it really represented was a rhetorical way to other a group of people considered dangerous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

[1] Notice that many media outlets were hesitant to label the Boston bombings "terrorism" until after the culprits had been identified (with some even going so far as to say things like, "It's unknown if this was an act of terrorism or not"!)

[2] Whether or not they are correct to delegitimize it is a separate issue; the point is simply that the word "terrorist" is itself a political statement.
That's just being consistent with the reality of the Bitcoin market. BTC-e, whatever its structure, is one of the main Bitcoin exchanges, and as such it is necessary that it is represented in the index, else the index would present a distorted picture of the real market.
Wouldn't it be entirely useful for biologists to know more advanced statistical methods?
How many people die in hospital a non-covid year? That difference is the significant figure here.
Also, published prices in a standard format available on the web would go a long ways. Current state of system: How much does something cost? You will find out after the fact.
Can I interest you in the original source code of all the snippets of code seen in Terminator?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U
Why is that? Children are not permitted to use WhatsApp?
WordPress remains the best platform for blogging. You should always self-host the blog because you can control it. There isn't any traffic advantage of hosting it on Medium - you need to build your own traffic.
WordPress is easy to install, configure and manage. WP developers are affordable
WhatsApp provides a seamless transition between phone numbers, it's not obvious it does that unless you do it.
My one experience of private health care in the UK was bad enough: the medical care was great, it was relatively minor elective surgery, I verified everything as carefullly as I could, but I accidentally used an out-of-network aneasthetist and ended up having to pay £300 out of my own pocket because the insurance wouldn't cover it.

Scaling that up to something like cancer care, where the patient is by definition not in a good way and the care is vastly more complex and I find it kind of incomprehensible.
I sometime wonder why they even still bother with opensource
Maybe we should add to this that this is a unforceable ban (as the TikTok and WeChat bans demonstrate) probably mostly designed to annoy incoming Biden administration.
I'd guess the percentage of approaches considered "quacky" which are later proven to work, is fairly constant over the ages. I'd also guess 80/20.
Try me too.... I will take the billions.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were 617,977,711 passengers on domestic flights in 2009 [1].

At the (incredibly optimistic) risk rate of 1 in 30 million, that's about 20 people given cancer, each year, if this policy goes forward and these devices become standard procedure.

[1] http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=1
Get your resume spruced up. If you don't have actual work experience, create a list of personal projects and describe how you made them.

Put as much information on major job sites like Monster, SimplyHired, Indeed, Dice,etc.. It's boring and if you don't have much to list, disheartening, but likely you'll get some recruiters calling you to try to fit you into whatever job de jour they have cooking that day. At least having someone calling though with minor interest helps boost confidence.

Apply to small local companies, don't bother with huge organizations(e.g. power companies, healthcare). If there is a long drawn out application process on their website, avoid it. Ensure you include a cover letter and customize it to include something about the company, and why you'd be excited to work for them(e.g. you like their product, and can see how it could make a difference in the world).

Get your GED. I think you're giving a poor excuse for why you don't have it. There are tons of places to take the GED test. Get it at least scheduled and go.

Even if you don't want to go through the typical education process, jobs won't just land in your lap. You're likely going to have to work just as hard(or harder) driving yourself towards personal improvement, as you would going through college. It's also extremely easy to become apathetic and let your life slip away when your goals are ambiguous. You need to become a specialist. A ton of people in my area are looking for AngularJS programmers. This is probably one of the top requested things recruiters were asking for. To really become a specialist though, you'd probably need at least a few months dedicated to making serious applications with AngularJS. The market could also fall out from under you as well, and suddenly your specialist skill isn't what people need anymore.

If you really need money, look for extremely low end jobs that have nothing to do with programming/tech and try to expand your role as the "tech guy" once you get there. Even putting something on your resume like "assisted co-workers with technical problems" and a few stories involving your problem solving skills in the work environment may get you noticed.

Go to user groups or tech meets in the area. Try to find out what people are working on, and make them aware you're available. Maybe you can pick up odd jobs.

Ultimately, if you really cannot find work and you are passionate about programming, swallow your pride, get loans and go to school(community college, then university). Even if you end up with 50 - 60K debt, you WILL be able to pay it off with a professional software developer salary. It's probably one of the most worthwhile investments you could make in yourself. Just make sure you network while in school, look for internships, apply for campus tech jobs, and develop a hearty list of personal and school projects.
Especially from (USA) National Public Radio. A nation that bestowed only hugs and cuddles upon the Japanese.
The poor design of these parking signs is actually "a feature, not a bug."

Parking tickets in the cities which have these sorts of sign issues (DC, NYC, Chicago, ATL, etc) make up a significant amount of income for the city. Paid parking certainly adds up but if a single space nets the city $10-$20 per day, a single parking ticket could cover a weeks worth of revenue for that single spot while still allowing the space to earn $10-$20 a day for the rest of the week.

I agree it sucks, and I was burned by this exact problem when I traveled to DC with my family last winter. However it's unlikely to change, because not only would the change actually cost money to implement, it would (significantly) reduce the income to the city from parking tickets.
Oh damn, I don't know how I missed that section of the docs. Indeed, though I haven't really profiled this, an SP-GiST index does seem quite a bit faster for me.

Thanks for the tip!

Still can't plot from Sol to Colonia with a range of 100 Ly (near the very dense center of the galaxy) in under 10 seconds though. But I'm aware of some larger issues in the search algorithm itself that are probably my next task on this journey. The performance of this index feels closer to what I think I was expecting to see on it's own.
That puts a double burden on infrastructure. Every car trip becomes 2 trips - one to your house, then one to your destination. It's hard to imagine that winning over car ownership, without some other powerful force involved.
Richard Stallman is a treasure.
Although I don't use it, hearing that Yahoo Answers is shutting down, I am upset. It feels like the internet became an utterly different place.
First time learning that weekend days vary by country. I looked up [1] some of the more curious ones.

Brunei weekends are Friday and Sunday. Those poor folks work Mon-Thurs, and then go back to work Saturday!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend
From the dissent:

"Instead of creating its
own declaring code—as Apple and Microsoft chose to do—
Google copied verbatim 11,500 lines of Oracle’s declaring
code and arranged that code exactly as Oracle had done."

I didn't read the whole opinion, but what is Google's excuse for this? If there's one way to do it, I don't think copyright should apply. But when there's more than one way, why should copyright not provide some protection? I guess just because it's tiny and contains little expression?

Regardless, it seems like very poor judgement to not do a cleanroom implementation here.
I'm pretty sure you're talking about Marc Rebillet.

Assuming I'm right, I would argue that the music he produces isn't his really his "art" but rather it's the experience and the spectacle of the creation of the music.

The songs are ephemeral and I imagine after a show, most people don't remember much of the actual songs, but they do remember how they felt when they were at the show. I think that's where his art lies and it does take a lot of time and thought to perfect giving a crowd of people that feeling.
I only know 2 vegans, and they are vegan for solely health reasons (AFAIK)
There are vegans and then there are non-vegans. Being a vegan and eating something non-vegan make you a non-vegan. Cows milk is not vegan.
People don't eat organic eggs just for more vitamins. To the main reason is less antibiotics, and growth hormones given to chickens, which the article ignores

There is also the probable better chicken conditions, and being more local.
This has always struck me as well: given so much inefficiency, waste and corruption, how do they still survive? On a macro level, given human irrationality, such as our well-documented cognitive biases, how does the world continue to 'work'?
I have 25gb pics without video, storing in folders by year-place or year-event, and having all that stream to picasa + google online storage (cheap, 5$ per year for 21GB).

This way you have all pictures online to annoy friends from any computer + picasa does the face detection, so you only have to add non-human tags for later searches (I'm usually lazy).

Anyway, picasa makes it easy to find a particular photo even if you don't have it tagged, works both on mac and pc, and also flawlessly works with online storage.
I completely disagree. A person who is really passionate about IT security will know about cryptography because they are interested in how security works, not because it's a requirement for the job interview. In fact, I am surprised at the number of highly paid security 'professionals' who are little more than auditors with a pen and a form to tick.

Asking about crypto is a great way to weed out the auditors from the pros. There is also a difference between cryptographic algorithms and cryptographic implementations. I wouldn't expect you to write algorithms, but I definitely would like you to explain real-life implementations. A good set of crypto questions to ask, that are quite basic and yet will trip up lots of security pros:

* What's the difference between a Verisign certificate and a self-signed certificate?

* In which environment would I use the Verisign cert and in which one would I use a self-signed?

* In what cases would I expect the Verisign cert to generate warnings in my browser? What about the self-signed? How do I fix these errors?
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Correct. It’s weird how goofy race science stuff gets a platform and taken serious because it’s secular but tons of stuff from religious societies is beneath discussion
That, and the fact that the bulk of Usenet traffic is encoded binaries of copyrighted media and porn of varying levels of legality. The amount of traffic in the "big 7" hierarchy (like comp.*) is tiny compared to that.
Which part are you saying isn't true? That Electron advocates sometimes claim that, or that applications should conform to the OS they're on?
I think it means toast is "basically burnt seed mush"

I'd be curious about the coffee studies compared to how people consume coffee. So many people seem to drink theirs with a lot of cream and sugar.
Cool that's wht I'm using too!:)
What is the crime rate in Chicago?

Has the crime rate increased or decreased in Chicago?

Does people feel safer living in Chicago ?

The role of police is to reduce crime in Chicago. Is it working?
Thanks. I didn't know about Valter Longo. Will sure check his content. I was mainly referring to folks like Peter Attia, Rhonda Patrick, etc.

For longevity, check out SENS foundation (and Aubrey de Grey).
I'm sure this happens to some people with the right combination of luck, perseverance, and recommendations. It's probably far more likely at your current institution as you already have relationships with professors who sit on the admissions committee. Particularly if you are already productive in a lab and the principal researcher goes to bat for you.

That doesn't change the OPs point that this is an uphill battle. If they didn't have the above, or they could only get into the right program then it still leaves them with better alternatives elsewhere. Harvard almost certainly filters all candidates with a GPA less than 3.0. Unfortunately academic grades have a poor correlation with future career or research performance.
The main problem is we can't blame any kind of conspiracy theorist anymore when there is so much BS science in the things we eat and nobody in power seems to care.
I think this is a great idea; it's what we do at Instagram and we use Huxley[0] to generate these screenshots. Keeping a set of "golden" screen shots and being able to view their history over time is awesome.

[0] http://github.com/facebook/huxley
Pretty sure almonds are nearly the same amount of protein per ounce as tuna..
It was a very small company and self-financing, so its stock hadn't already been gobbled up by venture capitalists.
Precisely. No property rights, no desire to preserve property.
> we should've created some tools to automate things, progress is too slow

Most developer software is abstractions and tools to automate things. Tasks that were hard in 1995 are trivial today; most web developers have probably never had to think about the vast majority of things that web developers in 1995 concerned themselves with, because our libraries and frameworks and tools take care of them.

The complexity of the trade is ever-increasing, though, and so we need new tools and new libraries and new frameworks to deal with that increasing complexity. This is the biggest place where visual programming falls apart - it's fine at dealing with programming as it existed when it was released, but programming is not a static discipline, and evolves wildly and rapidly. Non-sentient tools just simply can't keep up.
The objection is basically this: the desirable fish to farm are mostly meat-eaters. To feed these fish, large quantities of random fish are driftnetted and fed to the fish farms. That is, fish farms are converting 10 or 100 pounds of bait fish into one pound of marketable fish. This method of farming fish WORSENS the ocean depletion problem, it doesn't improve it. It would actually be better to simply fish for tuna directly.
I pay ~$350/mo for a low-deductible, high-quality HMO ACA plan

That's the total amount the provider gets, or just your out of pocket before ACA subsidy?
The figure comes from research conducted by Facebook:

> Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it.

> Facebook has also acknowledged that pages and groups associated with QAnon extremism had at least 3 million members, meaning Facebook helped radicalize 2 million people.
Both a successful and failed coup are attempts to seize power. It seems to me that failed coups are more obvious because successful ones can rewrite themselves to avoid being mistaken as riots.

If you can't tell this is a coup, then it might be your first -- the punchline from:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-far...

Riots are sudden, violent and illegal. This was a riot organized to specifically stop the transfer of power. Only the characteristic "sudden" is doubtful; this coup was organized in the open, without the usual element of surprise.
I think anyone who calls Tim Ferriss vapid will have to revisit their opinion from the 4 hour workweek book days. His podcast is one of the most insightful I've found, the questions are incredibly penetrating and detailed. He asks questions in a way that I have not really heard of before from other interviewers, ie "Given circumstances A, and B, and that we could consider or discount C here as well, how would you do X?"

I will also note that in 4HWW that he does tell you to delegate and automate only when you've fully understood what to do. And what's wrong with such automation? That's what we programmers do on a daily basis.
So the fine is about the cost of twenty-five 737 Max planes.

>Boeing had around 450 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft built and awaiting delivery.

>Boeing has unfilled orders for over 4,000 737 MAX jets.

https://simpleflying.com/737-max-deliveries-december/
The article states that the number comes from a study that Facebook themselves undertook.
Thanks. It was not clear to me since you were talking about students specifically in your post.
It's been Real Soon Now for at least 10 years...
The problem with cars is spare parts. If apple handles bumper replacements like they handle their laptop part replacements where they mostly only recommend replacing the whole logic board, I don't see people buying apple cars for very long.
The article includes the phone call. Listen to the full one hour. You're making excuses for him that he doesn't deserve.
The site's GDPR pop-up doesn't allow opt-out of tracking. What a great example to set for the web.
Think about conspicuous energy waste with Tesla coils. Rolling coils.
> It's not like it can live forever crippled and unable to reproduce.

(Disclaimer: I am a layman when it comes to biology.)

Why not? Viruses don't have a metabolism or anything, shouldn't they live forever unless destroyed?
Cool. It sounds like we draw that line in different places. I think your comments about aligning motivations is universal, and applies regardless of whether or not a services is sourced. My position is the illusion of "control" by assigning tasks to full time employees is almost never worthwhile in light of the enormous costs and risks of putting someone on your payroll. When a disaster strikes and you're caught empty-handed, you'll either be firing an employee, or firing a vendor. It's a lot easier and is less risky and it costs less to fire and replace a vendor.
> Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast.

What about black text on white pages in an actual hardback book? But since you referred to nature, what about zebras?
I mean IPO’d with one employee - the founder
Thank you, this is honestly the only clear and valid argument I've seen from anyone around the feature.

Everyone else is trying to pass off false information, doctored white papers, and all sort of conspiracy theories to support their dislike for the feature.
Probably also depends on whether they are getting the Orthodox population to vaccinate and social distance.
Kudos to Popular Mechanics for tackling this! It's a different magazine than it was when I was a kid.
This is the problem with modern jazz. Treating it as some kind of canon is the antithesis of what it was in the first place. It's tantamount to writing down a conversation between two ancient philosophers and repeating it ad nauseum, expecting some new insight. Keith Jarett wasn't concerned with the stuff Art Tatum had done. Miles Davis wasn't trying to build on Louis Armstrong's rendition of Wonderful World. They were both exploring new spaces and trying desperately to break from the past to discover new forms. The mindless repetition and riffing on standards is why jazz has died as a relevant genre of music, and is seen as something that corny old men in suits listen to while sipping whiskey and feeling refined. Jazz used to be the cool sound because it was the avant garde, not some pretentious collection of standards written by dead people.
Thanks for putting it online. I have a similar project not involving the iPhone logs, but I'm looking to using your visualizations to make sense of the data that I've been collecting.
If you're willing to jump through hoops and js-compress your content, you can deal with this issue, unless your compressor uses something like crc. That way, you can grow the plaintext faster than the b64 - though you'd still need to do clever things with the url.
Well, it probably wasn't apparent to many (or any) thieves either, but it is now.

Anyway, of course I'd agree it's worth fixing on Apple's part. In the meantime... hold onto your phones, I guess?
Start a google group and advertise it here?
The thing is, remote work puts even more of a premium on communication and reading between the lines than office work. These are challenges for people who grow up with a different language and culture. So for now, native English speakers tend to have a big leg up and can charge more for projects in English-speaking areas, which tend to have the most good projects. Perhaps the tables will turn in the future.