jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I learned so many words reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid. Just off the top of my head:

- "The pernicious poem place."

- "Demonstrates defenestration."

- The "salubrious" beats.

- "Mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?"
"Reversible USB-A" now there's a feature I wish we'd see more often!
It is already in motion, cryptocurrency will accept you no matter what your credit score or browsing history is.

“The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.”

-Hal Finney
> M1 Mac is three different computers; Intel is taking a swipe at Apple Silicon in general.

You are exactly correct: Apple silicon. Intel is calling out a singular competitor. Apple called out all PCs.

> They want Apple to use Intel chips for refreshes on the bigger devices (MBP16 still ships with 9th-gen Intel, iMac with 7th-gen).

If there are generation-bump Intel refreshes for those machines coming, they have either been planned all along or will be a result of unexpected problems getting the M1X (or whatever would be in the those machines) ready or available. Intel isn't going to convince Apple to delay their architecture transition, especially now that they have released ads attacking their products.

> Anything they can do to delay Apple Silicon market takeup will dampen the attractiveness of post-M1 models running Apple Silicon, because nobody wants a machine with sparse software availability and that's a problem that won't get resolved until the user base is much bigger.

Oh, I agree this is their intent. But trying "Anything they can do" means they aren't coming from a position of strength.
Thanks for posting the link. I got all worked up and forgot to go back and edit it in.
The code uses `puts`. I'm not sure how much more ironic it could be.
I picked up a 40” Sceptre “dumb tv” for $150 on Black Friday and added a Google TV Chromecast. The TV itself just does the bare minimum: turn on/off, sound higher/lower. Everything else is controlled by Google TV. By far my best purchase of the year.
Lets say I buy an NFT. Now what do I do with it? I can't hang it up, or print it (if its a gif for example). The only thing I've heard is that people store them on IPFS [1] but I don't really know what that is or how it works.

Every art collector I know displays it somewhere, or has it in storage such that it will be displayed somewhere eventually.

This feels like a way for people to support digital artists directly, which is great. Not sure there's much more here than that though.

[1]https://ipfs.io/
It's objective fact that it will take a lot of improvement before an electric car is equivalent or better in every way. But that's not a very fair standard for "catching up".
For the last decade or so, since I first became acquainted with databases, the HN crowd has said “Use PostgreSQL.” And every few weeks there’s a company blog post mentioning that they use MySQL. Why is this?
I’m currently going through the same issue as their end users.

Bought something based on an Instagram ad. It never arrived after 3 months. I contact PayPal for a dispute after finding the sellers Shopify site offline. The seller gave PayPal a tracking number of a package that arrived at my house in early January. Oddly, that was the first time I was provided a tracking number. I did in fact get a package with a cheat plastic wallet around the same time, which I figured was some sort of brushing scam. So seller currently has $35 of mine, and they sent me <$1 item instead of what I ordered.

I guess we shall see how PayPal decides. If all else fails, I’ll call MasterCard. I kinda thought PayPal and Shopify were trustworthy and keeping the trash off their systems.
That's a fun video. Notably, I think every one of the cars it's pitted against cost much more than the Tesla. So this idea that Teslas are expensive compared to their peers doesn't hold water. The Mercedes that beat it in the 1/2 mile cost a whopping $160k and none of the other cars were even close in the quarter mile.
Wait so the only reason it’s bad for Facebook to show ads selling humans is that slavery is illegal in every country? So I guess if one country made slavery legal then it would be fine for Facebook to show ads selling humans everywhere in the world?
The problem with these results is not that they're inaccurate, it's that people think they measure a permanent aspect of themselves. In truth, people's personalities are malleable - if you spend all your time working on a computer, you become more introverted - or at least, you start to express your introverted tendencies more strongly. If you switch jobs and have to spend all your days talking to people, you'll become more extroverted. From this perspective, of course a of a group of engineers personalities show high introversion. But are they introverted because they are engineers or engineers because they are introverted? Or is it a little from column A and a little from column B with a different ratio for each person measured?

In the end, Myers Briggs is harmful because it gives a simplistic view of something complicated, and makes people believe they are stuck with a particular personality. In reality all it does is give an estimate of your outlook on the day you took the test. Personality is emergent as a response to your needs to interact with the world given your current career, relationship, peer group, social standing, and so on. It's not fixed. Or at least, it's far less fixed and far more fluid than Myers Briggs would have you believe.
Hopefully this is spelling the end of all this ridiculous "digital economy". I'd love to just go and buy stuff in a physical store - that i find not by googling but because friends recommended me. Buying airline tickets in a physical booking office (ideally still with a debit card, not cash). Reading paid news sites with no ads and no bullshit.

Many people outside of the industry don't know it, but so-called "copywriters" are people who are paid around 1-1.5x minimum wage with the expectation of being able to write texts on ANY topic. I know a girl who does this. Almost all of texts are bs and she is a top performer in her company. She does it because it makes bit more than being a waitress with bit less effort (and given covid, she'd lose a job if she was a waitress, and "copywriter" job is quite secure).

Shall we get surprised with the results?

By the way, a question - bullshit answers on Quora from paid posters - who's paying them and why? Or you mean those Putin trolls and wumaos? Their content tends to be very biased, but of decent quality...
Yes, but it must be instrumental (as in no vocals).

Type in "jazz cafe" on youtube and you will find 5-6hr versions of easy listening music as background noise. The trick is to have the volume really really low.
That's not cool, it's not psychopathic to hold a different principle.

IMO, this is similar to things like unreasonable search and seizure, where there is a robust set of laws, regulation and court judgements to guide government activity.

Until relatively recently, the notion of having a well regulated environment in this area was broadly accepted. But... many of the pro-gun-sales crowd peddles in doom in the name of selling stuff.
The problem is that the GMT time for a future event is unknowable. Timezones change based on the whims of governments. They change rarely, but they do change.

Your calendar can store the GMT time for lookups but it will need to recalculate this if the timezone data changes.

Furthermore it isn't as simple as "storing GMT" for repeating events. As the offset will be different for different occurrences. So you need to store the original timezone for the recurrence rule. (And see the above problem about the absolute time of a current local time being unknowable)
I recently set up a website, and did consider AWS to host it. I decided not to, based on the problems Reddit had been having with AWS. I eventually got a VPS; looks like I made the right decision.
Extremely familiar - see my articles at

http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=173

and http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/?p=190

for some tutorials I wrote on the subject.

You're correct that failure detection and consensus are very deeply related, in that a strong failure detector is 'sufficient' for consensus.

But my point is about client failure detection, not failure detection between servers (which must have some kind of timeout system; that's ok - you just sacrifice liveness in a few pathological cases rather than sacrificing correctness). If I am to implement leader election with Doozer, does Doozer provide any tools to help us with deciding when to elect a new leader? There's no reason it should, but ZooKeeper, for example, does have that in its arsenal.

Doozer doesn't, AFAIK, expose consensus as a primitive; that's not its model. So the fact that it uses Paxos, or ZAB, or 2PC or whatever doesn't make a difference to its clients.
Also tell me why.. and don't have your administrative assistant make the call. YOU (the person who interviewed me) call me. Tell me what you liked and what you didn't. I took a few hours out of my day to come talk to you, give me some honest feedback here.
jedberg said yesterday he will add a day to the self-serve ads.
I like the "build a toaster starting with raw materials" angle. But if the real goal is "toast" and the real starting point is "nature", I would grab a bunch of sticks, start a fire, and hold a piece of bread over the fire like a marshmallow. That reduces the problem to that of making dough and baking bread, of which the most difficult problems I see would be (a) grinding the wheat and (b) leavening the bread.
If they have to let users back in slowly (which they do), why shouldn't it be ones that contributed financially to the site?
Most Mastodon instances are also collecting donations to cover server costs…
it's important to understand that evolutionary processes are not random. People experimenting with proto-bread would tend to prefer the best results, even if some steps are discovered by accident.
One project I was thinking of doing was creating a database of microcontrollers from all the vendors in one place. This was actually something that crossed my mind - would I even be allowed to host datasheets? It would be impossible to get all the vendors to agree to anything and it seems like TI at least does NOT want anyone hosting their information.

I suppose a simple URL would be OK though!
Don't forget BTTF is complete with generic middle eastern terrorists, something still relevant today but absolutely unheard of in 1955.

I would say the cultural and technological shifts between 55 and 85 were far bigger.

In 55 space travel was in its infancy, segregation still existed, jet planes were in their infancy, computers were in their infancy. The impact of consumer technology was really the family TV and the car.

In a lot of ways today is just a evolutionary version of 1985, whereas 1985 was mich more of a revolution from 1955.

I think the time is right for another sequel - jumping forward to 2045.
This blog post reminds me of the "Machine Learning Systems are Stuck in a Rut" paper [1], where they mentioned:

> It is hard to experiment with front end features like named dimensions, because it is painful to match them to back ends that expect calls to monolithic kernels with fixed layout. On the other hand, there is little incentive to build high quality back ends that support other features, because all the front ends currently work in terms of monolithic operators. An end-to-end tool chain for machine learning requires solutions from many specialist disciplines.

This is a fantastic example of getting around this problem using Flux.jl's interaction with the full Julia language. Here the author does some exceedingly cool stuff (doing machine learning on encrypted data!), and in order to get there he needed to write what many would think of as lower-level kernels that should be "provided by the library" (encrypted matrix multiplication, encrypted convolutions). To make the interface useful, he needed to use a mature interface that people are already using and make it something that can automatically switch over to encrypted implementations. And, because of the nature of fully homeomorphic encryption, the implementation has to be fast, otherwise it's dead in the water since FHE is expensive!

To me, this example showcases one way how Flux.jl's is helping machine learning get out of that "rut". The author adds dispatches to standard kernels which allow for his encrypted data types, which then allows standard Julia Flux.jl machine learning models to act on encrpyted data, and it uses type-inference + JIT compilation to make it fast enough to work. Not only that, but it's also not tied to some "sub-language" defined by a machine learning framework. That means the FHE framework not only works nicely with machine learning, it can be used by any other package in the Julia language (differential equation solvers, nonlinear optimization, macroeconomics models?). This allows composibility of tools and community: all tools from all fields can now use this same FHE implementation, so authors collaborate and mature this to a very good one. These knock-on effects give people doing research in Julia a lot of competitive advantages over other researchers, and it will be interesting to see how this effects not just the ML research community, but also everyone else!

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3321441

(Repost from the previous thread on this!)
> If they find a way to stop aging when I'm already 75, I'm gonna be pissed. (And if they then cure death, I'm gonna be pissed forever.)

You'd then have all the time in the world for them to find improvements.
I agree with the main thrust of what you're saying but feel compelled to point out that suburbs are much older than streetcars. See http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=su... for instance.
Well the username "~hkopy-vnhyt" would be invalid because they only allow case insensitive a-z, digits and _ underscores.

I can see some reasoning, but there's technically nothing stopping them from allowing more universal ASCII characters at the very least.
I'd suggest having a look at the self screening tool on adhduk, which gives you an indication of whether you have adhd symptoms. If so, it might make sense to pursue a formal evaluation and diagnosis.

The tool's been put together with the WHO:

https://adhduk.co.uk/adult-adhd-screening-survey/
Yes, it does (Haskell Weekly uses Mailchimp):

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The main reason why the modern Web GUI frameworks does not always feel good is because they need to support wider ranges of screen sizes, ratios, resolutions, accessibility tools, touch inputs, etc.

And web browser/css if pretty good when supporting different devices/platforms.
Most people don't want private electronic payments. In stable countries like the UK - where this is being launched - it's basically only useful for buying drugs and tax evasion.
What's in it? Is there anything in there that's likely to be generally useful, or is it all Lyra-specific?
It is entirely possible that taking our current society and rearranging it will produce more total output than simply adding more people.
I’ve been using the iOS app for 6 years without any problems. (Similar for my acquaintances) It’s odd that it varies so much
There are many good arguments in this thread, but ultimately he’s part of the new game of centralisation of power globally, which involves international political institutions and giant corporations. “You rub my back, I rub yours and we both win.”
I wonder if he can have the same "redemption arc" that Gates have had. But I doubt it.
"in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working [...]. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal."

That's not true. Communistic system existed only because it was maintained using brutal force and terror. Alternative vision was known very well, even in Soviet Union people knew how life can look, they knew that people in Germany, France or Denmark are living in much better conditions. Propaganda works only to some extent, if it is totally disconnected with reality, it stops working.

I have witnessed the fall of communism. As soon as people were no longer afraid of Soviet tanks, they knew what to do. Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, etc. switched to democracy and capitalism over the night as soon as they could. This was not an easy process, but there was no doubt what the the vision was and what was the goal.
Same experience here. I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the Signal devs decided to implement something like stickers (which, btw, are a pale imitation of what Telegram offers in terms of ease of use and discovery) before they implemented full message sync between devices.

I have a smartphone that I control. I have a desktop computer that I control. I use an application on both computers that lets me send secure messages between device. The application somehow can sync new messages but refuses to let me import old ones. How insane is that? But apparently integrating with cryptocurrencies was above that in the todolist.

Signal is clearly a great protocol, but man is it seriously in need of a great implementation...

>But Marlinspike and Goldbard counter that Signal's new features won't give it any control of MobileCoin or turn it into a MobileCoin exchange, which might lead to more regulatory scrutiny. Instead, it will merely add support for spending and receiving it.

Oh, that's going to be a recipe for a great user experience again. You can send MobileCoin super easily... after you've gone on some crypto exchange platform to trade a highly speculative asset into one of your wallets. It's basically like Venmo indeed.
Voilà! Amazon Legal Services LLC (no connection to Amazon.com Inc. ;), now provides all legal services to Amazon.com Inc.
Customizing resumes or websites for the audience is the logical next step after A/B testing.
Um, no, there are very few people that will appreciate you telling them that the work they did is crap. If you really think the database us crap, you have to prove that your opinion is worth listening to on the subject. To prove that you're worth listening to, you are probably going to have to actually create your own version of the database, and demonstrate that it is better

The other path to getting the database improved is to propose specific changes, explaining the benefit of those changes. It's the same idea though, you have to show that you can do better before antone will listen to you.
It's amazing how reflexive that question is, and I also get it a lot even though I will only, say, use 5 slides for an hour-long talk.

Hell, I have been asked for my slides after a talk where I was obviously just showing live screens in a firefox window. Like, dudes, that's not slides, that's the software.
I haven't screened too many resumes but I prefer to see everything. I'm in IT, not HR so it's not like I have 5,000 other resumes to go through per day. The person working for me will be someone I work with all the time and I don't mind spending 35 minutes instead of 15 to go through the resumes.

Show me everything you got. Show me the weird but cool techy projects you've been involved in. Show me the platforms/technologies you've worked on and show me the clever stuff you did. Tell me about the role you played in the team and your personal contribution to the project. As far as I'm concerned saying "added mDNS support to project" beats "lowered TCO by $1.5m."

I don't care about action words or acronyms. I care about what you actually did. "Actuated exemplary leadership skills" or "Decentralized payroll processing system" doesn't tell me anything. Tell me you wrote a C-module to interface with backend-DB or scripted rsync to remotely backup 75 Windows desktops. Basically, tell me you know what you're talking about by giving me an insight into your career not a mish-mash of big words, acronyms, and jargons.

Also, customize your cover letter. I actually do read it because I want to work with you for a long time.
Yes really; yes it does not work that way on an iPhone. I have no sure knowledge about the reason behind the change and could only guess why they would support it on one but not the other.

It is that you don't believe me, otherwise you would ... believe me; that's OK though I grok "trust, but verify" so I quickly made a demo video:

http://www.vimeo.com/17180004
Ummm, no. I'm really happy that bridges are built using more rigor than is found in self-help books.
It seems that this presentation was made just for distribution on the internet (i.e. no actual presenter). The presentation itself even makes reference to the fact that it would be less wordy if it were being given to a live audience.
Not exactly the same, but the PS2 Linux Kit shipped with GNUstep by default. So at least some people at Sony have always had a soft spot for the platform.
I'd hardly consider the V8 JavaScript engine a second-class citizen in Chrome at this point.
From September, 1996.

Can the momentum of sprawl be halted?

It's already started. That McMansion 40 miles from town has already lost half its value since 2006. What will it be worth when gas hits $10/gallon?

Cheap energy built the sprawl; expensive energy will kill it.

But things still may not play out like OP would like. In my hometown, mom and pop businesses are still being replaced by big box chains, even in town. I never thought I'd see Home Depot, Target, & Costco 3 miles from downtown. If it's too expensive to drive to the sprawl, we'll just bring the sprawl to them.
Yeah, perhaps we do agree, but you do phrase things in a way that pushes people's buttons more. ;)

I'm not as pessimistic about Latin American integration as you are. Their values are pretty much identical to mainstream America. I don't expect they will ever vote in blocs; they don't even do that today. The worst thing about that situation is the hypocrisy about so-called "illegals", especially in California.

BTW, the French in Quebec were never excluded from government, higher education, or the professions, although they were excluded from the business and managerial classes for centuries. So it wasn't quite oppression, like say Cuba, but the French did feel like second-class citizens in their own country. It's not comparable to any other situation I know of.
We can only dream. It'd be nice if everyone, corporations, politicians, and individuals, were held to account equally and were treated equally under the law. Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in.
A few thoughts here about getting an MBA: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/10/entrepreneurial-finishing-s...

"Or do I work for a $big_company?" You may have already answered your question. A startup is not a job choice.