jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Time.

People get bored. People grow up. People move on.
I guarantee you other animals are first-class conscious. I can't prove it to you, but that's a problem with epistemology, not a problem with the other animals.
The 30% of black and Hispanic students who were already in Boston's gifted program by virtue of their intelligence are now also going to be discriminated against in order to pack the advanced classes with their less intelligent peers. This will push the black and Hispanic students already qualified for the program out.
"you pretending that racism doesn't exist"

They didn't say that racism doesn't exist, those are words you've put into their mouth.

They said that you're buying into the same identity politics narrative that you're decrying, where groups of people are put into a basket based on their ethnicity and assigned the label "oppressor" without regard for individual variation.
Why should placement in gifted programs have /anything/ to do with the parents? Aren't they supposed to be about the kid's talent?
"Past performance is not indicative of future results"

EDIT: it might be a lawyerspeak, but it is still a good advice: there's a reason why Bitcoin has been down $14k this week and that reason is the settlement with NYAG in the Tether lawsuit. Situation has changed, there's one fewer scam company there to artificially inflate Bitcoin price, so expect downward trend for at least the next few months.
Actually, what matters isn't FLOPs, but rather the memory bandwidth.

GPU mining is just 10% slower than the theoretical memory-bound maximum (if compute was infinitely fast) - https://www.vijaypradeep.com/blog/2017-04-28-ethereums-memor...

A more interesting thing for mining would be to hook up a (relatively) cheap ASIC, with cheaper voltage regulation, to the same high-bandwidth GDDR6X memory.
Human driven climate change is going to do significant damage. It's not going to be halted in a mere decade or two. But it's always possible to make the consequences a little more severe by burning more fossils, or to make them a little less severe by burning less.

The people who claim "only X years left to save the world from severe climate change" are stretching the truth for effect or don't understand the primary research well enough. There are certain milestones that we'll pass if we don't make deep emissions cuts in those X years, but there's not a bright dividing line between "ok" and "doomed." Telling people that there is a bright line coming up in just a few years is likely to induce cynicism/apathy when we start living on the far side of that line.
Yeah, there are definitely a few, I've implemented an experimental thing that removes titlebars for windows, but that's totally dependant on the application it works on, so browers that do fancy things don't work as well, but something like notepad/cmd/etc... work pretty well.

Also the focus bar is a little overlay line that could be improved, but it's very difficult to make it like in i3wm without covering a significant portion of a windows content since you can't really control a windows rendering, etc....
How likely is it that Mac users are in that bandwidth-constrained population either, though?
Multi Undergraduate Destroyers was the acronym I heard attributed to it

Back on topic, I learned a little while back that Diku's source code appeared online, and while digging up some relevant supporting links, I just learned today that they have created Diku III which uses HTML and websockets: https://dikumud.com/

The journey of that source code into my modern eyes is meaningful to me because at the time I was playing MUDs, I didn't have enough programming chops to understand the C source, but now I can have enjoyment from the nostalgia and from the source
I suspect that the very first thing you will do when trying to get performance is to ditch the functional paradigm and start writing code in an assembly-level monad.

Of course not every problem is going to fit well into an imperative model either. E.g. a problem with a large variety of pointer-y data structures and interit-y objects, like say, a compiler.
Any more videos/slides from the conference? I missed out and trying to catch up.

I'll just leave this here
http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=jquery+conference
This is a great service. Haven't used it on a large scale but for a few small projects worked very well.
Didn't he have savant syndrome - ie. his brain was wired differently than ours? I am not a neurologist, and I can't explain how his mind worked (I doubt if anyone can) - but I think that question 'how to gain mental abilities of Kim Peek' is similar to 'what can I do to get autism'. I know it sound harsh, I just want to say that you probably can't gain this kind of abilities from any amount of hard work.
Because dry, warm climates preserve many things well, including airplanes, evidently. Next...
Thanks for the insight. And I agree with you. HN is a stream of consciousness. I read a post describing a project 'Coders who Care' and said to myself -'I almost missed this and its pretty awesome'...I figured there were others who were doing similar things or felt the same way and wanted to test the waters - thanks for the feedback.
Small business health insurance that doesn't cost a small fortune would be fantastic. I know this was a goal of the health care bill passed earlier, but I haven't seen anything to indicate something has actually changed.
Would love to see the DPIA for this.
They did have peer review just not on every module. This is very common even amongst companies who say they do peer review.

And curious about the lack of a bug tracking software. Many companies including the one I work for "technically" don't use them. I wouldn't call Rally or Trello a bug tracker but that do work just fine for that purpose.

I also did find it amusing that they called out lack of formal specifications as an issue given that Agile encourages you not to create them.
This looked really exciting before I used it, but has taken me one hour so far, and been fairly frustrating.

First getting my eyes inside the area took a bucketload of image cropping and editing. You don't even have guidelines to help me so it was trial and error.

Then, tagging from 5 to 1 still isn't reproducing the images in order. I've tried multiple times.
> I'm not completely convinced that the author is the huge virginal dork you made him out to be ...

I don't think he's such a dork, just joking, ... FTW ? All of this sounds so young, and that's OK. I attained some "achievements" myself at times but it feels so vain in the end, 10 or 15 years later. I even remember that funny hormonal boost called pride, but now I'm looking down at my former self, I can't even long for this anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old.
If anyone has any hesitation about switching to Linode, I've been using them for the past 2 years and have had an exceptional experience. This is after using both Slicehost and Media Temple - Linode has been the most reliable for me so far, in terms of both performance and speed/latency. Their control panel is also pretty sweet, I'm not sure if you can see a demo from the main site but if anyone wants, I can post a couple of screenshots.
You're only making the conspiracy bigger. :)

You'll have a hard time gathering a small circle of people willing to state, for the record, "We reviewed the code and the invisible bug doesn't exist." Personally, I would want no part in an audit like that.

For a concrete threat, yeah, you fix it first. But the thing about scandals is that delay only incubates a bigger scandal.
Meta reply 2: Works for me on Firefox 3.6.12, Mac OS 10.6.5.
BetaBuilder is an essential tool we've been using.

https://github.com/HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder
As soon as we all find out what will kill Facebook, we can figure out what will kill WoW!
What's always bothered me about these kinds of animations is that there is a grid of straight lines, but none of the objects actually follow these grid lines. Instead, the geodesics they follow are determined by the topology of the deformed surface, invoking the viewer's intuitive understanding of gravity...in order to understand the unintuitive formulation of it.

But, as you say, I haven't seen better.
I’m not sure, I think I would maybe break classes into multiple labels, but that becomes even more finicky to train. At the end of the day, there are many more things that are not hotdogs, than things that are hotdogs, so you do have to provide more examples of the not hotdogs to train something from scratch properly — I don’t see a way around it.

Honestly I think the biggest gains would be to go back to a beefier, pre-trained architecture like Inception, and see if I can quantize it to a size that’s manageable, especially if paired with CoreML on device. You’d get the accuracy that comes from big models, but in a package that runs well on mobile.
You think evidence that Ulbricht bribed someone to get intelligence on another DEA investigation is going to help him?

I mean: they'll probably appeal no matter what, because what do they have to lose at this point.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Overgeneralization
I think that your redevelopment of API documentation would be an interesting series of blog articles in and of themselves. Giving examples of bad documentation decisions, giving examples of how they were corrected in the new documentation, etc. There are lots of examples of refactoring code, but entirely too few that deal with refactoring the manual.
great progress... they are starving but at least they are entertained.
Wow. How could Ulbricht's attorney not appeal after this is made public?
That all seems clear and reasonable to me. I double checked the size of 'No thanks' and 'Choose what to sync' in the chrome dev tools: they are 13px, which is exactly the same size as 'Sign in' and 'Need help'. Signing in without making a specific selection gives you what the third line on the screen said it would do.

What, if anything, is wrong with this?
I understand how someone might believe in "innovation tokens," but it's really just a confused way to look at ROI. There's no inherent cost in some innovation, though. If our programmers already know an "innovative" programming method, there's no cost in doing things that way.

The author seems to be conflating the cost of innovation with the cost of doing something you're less familiar with, which are not necessarily the same things. The risk of chasing shiny new objects is real, but sometimes those shiny objects can actually reduce costs and time spent to accomplish a goal (like a MVP or new version).

Sometimes it's worth innovating if you already have experience in the area. Sometimes it's worth innovating even if you have to learn and try new things. Sometimes the time/monetary cost of innovation is 0, and sometimes it's so high that you shouldn't innovate even if it improves your product.

This idea of limited innovation resulting in cumulative costs is overly simplistic. The smart founder will recognize the difference between innovations that will yield net returns and those that won't.
Somewhere along the way it seems people are forgetting everything that has to happen before that stuff is quad-coptered to your doorstep a few minutes after you (via clever marketing) determine you need something as quickly as possible.

The relentless march of consumerism will completely disrupt how things are consumed, but I am not sure making "getting stuff" so painlessly easy is great for humanity.
Nice work, very informative. This is an issue that I feel has the potential to kill HN in the long run. It is steadily growing closer and closer to being impossible to hit the front page without gaming the system.

The thing is that these submissions are coming in because there are more people, so in theory there should be a way to balance the increased submission rate with an increased voting rate as well.

But how?
Yes.

1) The US has good hydro resources (in the northwest where it rains all the time and there are lots of mountains so you have both lots of water and altitude change) as well as nuclear (especially in the long-industrialized northeast) that (mostly) has long been paid for and that we just keep running for cheap. Nuclear is about 19% of our electricity, and it's cheap once it has been built for decades.

2) Lots of cheap wind, especially in the middle of the continent where all the maize and stuff grows.

3) Way better solar resource especially in the south and southwest where it's about twice as much sun as in Germany and with much, MUCH less seasonal impact. See: http://www.sunisthefuture.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sun...

4) Like Germany (but even more so), LOTS of coal. Over a quarter of the world's recoverable coal reserves. However, we don't even use that much of it anymore. Just the cheapest kind (usually not the crappy lignite stuff that Germany often uses for power) is still used for power. We use much less than half the coal for electricity than we did even 10 years ago. Because...

5) We have a ridiculous. A RIDICULOUS amount of cheap gas right now. Fracking has opened up the spigot. Texas, Pennsylvania, Lousiana, Oklahoma, Ohio, etc, etc. (And Canada produces a bunch that we end up using because they don't have anyone else to sell it to and it's produced a long way from Canada's cities.) We make so much natural gas we export it to Mexico, and are even starting to liquefy it and export it to Europe.

So yeah. While Germany has long relied heavily on imported fossil fuels, the shutdown of nuclear plants hasn't helped. Think of how expensive it is to send natural gas all the way from wherever Russia makes it (Siberia) all the way to Germany and the markup Putin asks for. (and that's roughly a third of Germany's natural gas, IIRC)

And I think the way wind/solar subsidies work in Germany and different than in the US. In Germany, the solar subsidy is paid for by all the ratepayers. That alone is like 4.6 US cents per kWh on top of your electricity. In the US, the solar subsidy is funded as a tax credit which means the cost isn't directly borne by consumers but ends up being paid for or borrowed by the federal government. (Also, having twice as much sun means the same solar panel makes roughly twice as much electricity...) This has the effect of solar actually reducing the cost of electricity in the US while it increases the cost of electricity in Germany for the consumer... which probably is why German companies have been more reluctant to switch to electric cars than you think they would have been.

So yeah. The US has a huge amount of land, so really good solar/wind resources (and decent geothermal while we're at it), a pretty solid hydro and nuclear power situation, and massive amounts of fossil fuel. The US is now actually a net energy exporter. That's why electricity is so cheap.

You can check out good statistics for US energy production and consumption here: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Cool I will definitely try this. Thank you
I have found in my career that being too good at on-call/L3 escalations only makes them come to you more. Teams that have slopey shoulders and phones that seem to always go to voicemail.. don’t get reprimanded, and your team gets to keep playing hero.
Author here. You would like this project: https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-syscall-support/ Thank you for reminding me of the joy I felt when I discovered this. I feel like you should publish this and post it on Hacker News. Because too many people who post here hold the viewpoint that SYSCALL is evil and you must link the platform libc dynamic shared object or else you're a very horrible person who deserves to have their binaries broken like Apple did to Go. But they wouldn't feel that way, if they could just see the beauty you described.
I believe you're describing creating a branch with one commit that only contains a selection of the changes in the index. What are the commands to do that?
When Python's symbolic computation abilities are even at a tenth of Mathematica's (especially for discrete functions like we love in computer science), I'd be more than happy to switch over. Perhaps someone could integrate Python with Sage or Octave.
The advice against trying to beat the market is based on the fact that there are tens of thousands of highly intelligent people paid to analyze securities, and they're all feeding off each other's behavior. To beat the market, you have to beat a conventional wisdom based on the accumulated expertise of a lot of people. For instance, if you want to buy stock in a Malaysian steel company, you have to decide that you understand the current value of this stock better than a crowd-sourced price generated by the research of a horde of steel industry specialists, people with intimate knowledge of the Malaysian economy, business environment, and political environment, people who can afford to spend all day reading forecasts of economic conditions in the countries where this company's steel is consumed, and people who have a drink with a VP from the company and get gossip about the CEO's health and the competence of his likely successor.

If no one was trying to beat the market, it would be easy to beat the market. But since so many people are busy trying, it's silly to try to compete unless you want to take it as seriously as the professionals do and get plugged in the way they are.

The "random walk" hypothesis says you can beat the professionals. About half the time. By flipping a coin. But the professionals are insiders, and as well-regulated as the stock market is, I would assume that an outsider playing against insiders in a 50/50 game will not quite win his full 50% share.

The hope that a person can price stocks better than the market as a whole rests on a couple of possibilities:

1. Beating full-time professional analysts at analysis in your spare time, because you're just so bad-ass.

2. Identifying a price that is heavily influenced by ignorant people and beating them by just being reasonably well-informed -- but this is not an original idea and hence is a special case of #1.

3. Finding a niche that you know intimately for some reason, and in which you have no professional competition. Oh, wait, this is just #2 again. Or maybe you found a niche small enough that it doesn't get a lot of attention from professional analysts, and you can make a little bit of money at it. That might work!

4. Being the first one to take into account a new idea or source of information. This one will make you wildly rich, and it's fun to dream, but while you're looking for that brilliant idea, there's no reason to risk real money on your ideas-in-progress.
Is this an ethical or pragmatic dilemma? If it's the latter, going open source could be a great or not-so-great business decision, depending on your business model. So you should tell us more about your project.

If it's the former, you can find plenty of debates on the ethics of free software online.
I think so-called German "miracle" is mostly a journalist and politics invention. What happened in the last few years is basically forced deflation through salary stagnation (even reduction), since you cannot play with you money anymore in the eurozone. This is very good for the companies which export a lot, but is pretty bad for everyone else (including its neighbours).

Economic improvemnts are mainly coming from productivity gains - artificially lowering your costs instead of trying to build more with less is not a sustainable past. But this kind of story is gold for newspapers: export (good !) vs import (bad !), family capitalism (good !) vs shareholders (bad !). All the usual cliches are there.

This story has been told for years in Europe, especially in France, where it is said we should follow the German way. It is very ingrained in the news reporting and the general level of discussions. One striking example is the French left and right discussing about Germany: both will assume that German growth has been better than France, and the left will claim that it shows growths is not well shared, and the right will use it as the proof that salaries are too high in France. Even though until 2008, Germany per year gdp growth has always been lower than France since the reunification.(http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+growth+france+germa...). The OP article basically tells the same story from an Americain POV, even though the data do not back it up at all.
Are you fully willing to accept the consequences of this policy? Please keep in mind that, had the Allied governments followed your principle during the Second World War, the Axis powers would have easily won.

Edit: Hell, let's just take this at the lowest levels, too: this kind of policy means everyone's medical and tax records become public, there would be no Witness Protection Program, and routine criminal justice might end up being impossible.

Let's not even go into the fact that this would prevent the government from using RSA, even for benign purposes such as authentication or something.
Why not just pass *.c to gcc ? Same thing isn't it?
There are theoretical attacks against simply adding secret bits to a single hash. You're probably better off with HMAC, which is essentially md5($key . md5($key . $message)) with a few padding details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
Mesa, like the airline American and United use as a regional carrier?
Yes, I remember that day when MH17 was downed, with my friends we collected photos from different sources and they all showed the same "Buk" around the that time (ground-air missile) in the Torez city which was under control of "army of novorossiya". "Buk" came from Russia, there are also few videos and photos, and with very high probability crew was also from Russia.
Germans came to the same conclusion
How do you get the physical address from the email address? Or you need them to have provided that somewhere else in the sales funnel?
I see podcasts moving to a space where a person can consume in more than one way. Video, audio, and text.

Depending on what you're doing at the time, you'd be able to 1) watch the hosts talk along with guests, relevant images and all that, basically a youtube show, 2) Just listen to the audio like "normal", or 3) read a transcription of the audio just as you would a blog post.

Allowing a person to choose how they get the podcast's information depending on what they're doing seems very logical to me.

And I don't think there's anything special about podcasts. You can get the same information through blogs currently. What's different is the passiveness of listening. It allows me to listen to something interesting when I'm working out rather than just music. But sometimes I would want to watch, and other times I would want to read the text. That's why having the content that's currently on podcasts move multiple formats makes the most sense for the future.
> minus the whole WoT part

CLMM is not even close to being as featureful as GnuPG. But it does a lot for being <1500 LOC (compare to >200 kLOC for GnuPG). If you want to look under the hood to see how things word, CLMM is a lot more accessible, which was its primary goal.