jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution did exclude many people, but the disenfranchised groups appealed to those documents to demand their own rights. It's not as if the rights of those groups were respected before the Magna Carta or the Constitution, so it's strange to say the Magna Carta "messed up the world". In general Chomsky is an example of someone who makes big contributions to specific field but has terrible judgement. Quoting the article:

'To be sure, the reach of the charter was limited. Nevertheless, as Eric Kasper observes in a scholarly review, “What began as a relatively small check on the arbitrary power of King John eventually led to succeeding generations finding ever more rights in Magna Carta and Article 39. In this sense, Magna Carta is a key point in a long development of the protection of rights against arbitrary executive power.”

Crossing the Atlantic, the Great Charter was enshrined in the US Constitution as the promise that “no person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” and that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.”

The wording seems expansive, but that is misleading. Excluded were “unpeople” (to borrow Orwell’s useful concept), among them Native Americans, slaves and women, who under the British common law adopted by the founders were the property of their fathers, handed over to husbands. Indeed, it wasn’t until 1975 that women gained the right to serve on juries in all fifty states.'
No, that is not a lot of StarCraft players. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (a game I have not interest in, personally) sold 4.7 million units in it's first day. That's 3 times as many units in 24 hours as the entire year of StarCraft sales you quoted. Over 5 million sales in it's first month in the US alone, compared to 9.5 million over 10 years worldwide for StarCraft. Was StarCraft a big deal in it's heyday? Sure, no one is trying to deny that. But compared to the modern gaming industry, it's a drop in the bucket. Modern Warfare 2 apparently has approx. 25 million unique players as of March 2010. We live in a world now where a video game release can outdo a major motion picture in openning weekend profits. StarCraft may have a venerable history and loud crowd of fervent fans, but they have a frighteningly small portion of today's gaming crowd, especially in the US and UK.

Note: Sales data from Wikipedia, which has links to the original articles with the results.
>A lot of them choose that environment just people involved in movies and television work crazy hours.

And almost everyone in the movie industry is union as well. For the same reason (highly desired jobs allowing for crazy abuse of the workers). Actually movie industry programming (Special effects, etc), are actually very tame compared to many other forms of programming as far as hours go, especially compared to video games, which is another place some of those skills they have could be applied.

The point would be to require sane amounts of hours, feature cuts rather than overtime, etc.
It is not a rhetorical trick: copyright is only constitutional BECAUSE it promotes knowledge and learning. The fact that there are ways to learn and develop knowledge without infringing on an absurdly over-broad copyright are irrelevant.

And to be honest, I'm not sure it is physically possible to learn such things without committing any infringement. You might be able to do so without committing any infringement that a powerful copyright holder cares about, but how many stories can you think of right now that don't bear substantial similarity to some story that some author wrote in the last century? Jessica Littman wrote in her book on copyright that you infringe upon copyright whenever you watch a movie and then imagine the same film with a different actor playing the lead. Obviously, that's not a practical problem, but if so much basic intellectual activity qualifies as infringement, even the transient creations needed to learn new skills might be difficult.
As to those who are wondering why they have to pay extra for tethering, are you really surprised that a company would charge more for a service that you value, which will result in heavier usage of their resources?

If it results in heavier use, they should just charge for the use directly, not micromanage how I use the service. In the freemium scenario, it would be like charging extra to be able to access the website from more than one computer. Both are stupid because both require nothing to "support"; they inherently work as part of the existing infrastructure. On the other hand it does take resources to try to block that functionality, because you have to actively look for "cheaters".
Here is his full opinion on SaaS http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
Does it help that I haven't talked to a single teacher who has been bullish on the Common Core? Many of them feel that it breaks the K-8 curriculum up in such a way that it front-loads the wrong things. Almost all of them have been derisive of what they have seen as a "cash grab" for Common Core textbooks that are riddled with errors and also somewhat awful. Many also lament that it restricts their ability to expand on aspects of the curriculum, effectively lowering their autonomy.

As a programmer, I have never seen a "one size fits all" system that can both bring up bad programmers and also provide good programmers with the autonomy they need to continue to be good programmers. Common Core is a "one size fits all" system to a much more complex problem.
I get the impression that the answer is no, but is there much use of templates in C++ to make generic classes like in Java/C#?
Coercion is not a form of polymorphism. In all the other forms, dispatch depends on the type of a value. When there's coercion going on, be it explicit or implicit, the same code is being executed regardless of the value being coerced. The only code that one might say "changes" is any code that's executed to perform the cast. But that change in casting is basically ad-hoc polymorphism.
Compiler issues shouldn't hold you back. Release it anyway. If someone is interested enough, they will more than likely be willing to work with what they can get. Let the burden of correcting the code fall on them.
I do not think so, since Bada is already shipping on devices and does not (to my knowledge) use Enlightenment or DBUS.
Something similar which I did over the weekend a couple of months back: lifeinafolder.com/batman
School conditions us to care about numbers assigned to our work so it's an easy trap to believe numbers on comments represent correctness or truth. When things are graded incorrectly it's only natural to want to object. I feel the number more as readings of my ability to communicate effectively in the medium with the audience. I wouldn't take low scores personally as a reflection of your skill or domain mastery.
The -4 limit was discontinued months ago. Other than that, I agree.
My observation on my own comments has been that most of them level out at a lower number, say 2-4 when they might have hit 8-10 eariler.

But there are some outliers that are getting voted much higher than they honestly deserve. I'm talking 50-70 range for something that would have been 8-10 before.

I think people might be seeing comments that contribute to the conversation in some useful way and are now upvoting them when they would have let them cap out at a medium score, if they could see the score.

They have no way to know the comment is already considerably over-upvoted.

I mean, thanks for the karma and all, but I don't know that it's really helping.
that just shows wide-spread mismanagement of public money. At all the private companies i've worked, i signed the document that all my patents done on the company's dime, are to belong to the company

But private companies are very different than governments. Private companies generally want to make sure that no one else has this IP, but themselves.

A government, at least a capitalist one, is generally happy that you're incentivized to invent and create patents. Although they may want to also have use for themself, but it needn't be exclusive (like your employers desire).

In US we have the Bayh-Dole Act which gives you ownership of your invention, but of course, the US has a "non-exclusive, non-transferable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice or have practiced on its behalf throughout the world".

I don't understand how you can consider that mismanagement of public funds. It seems to satisfy both the capitalist angle and the greater good.

And to be clear this only applies if you take direct funding from the government, typically in the form of a grant, where you sign a specific agreement. Using public goods, such as the roads, street lights, food inspection, don't impose any obligation on your part -- except taxation.
Does that video cover blowing the glass?
Plot twist: it's all a corporate hoax by the makers of the Hansel and Gretel movie.
The "Advanced Operating Systems" looks fantastic! Do you or perhaps anyone else know if there are any video lectures for this similar to Onur's "Computer Architecture" class?
I have been running my mail server on a digitalocean vps without any spam-block issues for about 2 years now.
Being far ahead does not necessarily mean going in the right direction. Considering the implications of some of the web standards I think having a considered and thoughtful approach is probably not wrong.
I have the same scrolling issues on large, complex Excel spreadsheets. Every environment is going to hit a wall at some point when the UI is forced to display a certain amount of data.
Hyperbole Much? Left behind from where? Seriously, a couple of parlor tricks are not gonna leave anybody behind. Use a computer and devote your higher cognitive skills for more productive endeavors.

Once you know the basics of how to do something you do not need to continue to get better at it if your computer can do it better for you. Learn something else with the saved time.

Edit: Quick example: Is like marveling that you can do arithmetic in your head with 100 digit long numbers. Impressive? Yes. Useful? Nope. Is actually less than useful because all that time wasted you could have used it to learn something else.
> The landlord has to make the same repairs you would, and still turn a profit, at a margin likely higher than a mortgage’s interest rate

That's unlikely, if the rented space is part of a complex. The complex repairs are amortized across all the units. The issue is about cost per square footage. Given you don't have to pay for the same square footage (not the full lot, only the space your unit and parking occupies) it's almost always lower.
That does look correct, great find.

Unless things have changed it would be unusual to refer to the University of Massachusetts as UM. I grew up in MA and have only ever heard it called UMass. It's possible it used to be called UM before they expanded it beyond Amherst and Boston.
This was my attempt to answer the question: was it ok to 'out' Scott Alexander? I don't mind that someone disagrees - I expect disagreement - but please explain the downvotes. Was it because SSC was somehow exceptionally controversial? Are there some special circumstances that would prevent the usual sort of anonymity extended to, say, any book author that talked about personal mental health problems?

I think that what I'm trying to say is that there have been many reasons given, some better some worse, but I personally find this one the most compelling. Anonymity is commonly extended to authors of books, and the fact checking doesn't necessarily need to break that anonymity. So why is this case so different?
Given the rise of multi-core machines, parallel optimization seems pretty important. Which of these support parallel execution ?

For this reason, I chose Mango for a recent project:
https://github.com/ARM-software/mango
(bayesian optimizer with built-in support for both parallel optimization (via multiprocessing) and distributed (via celery))
No, I think it was a random dude on Internet without any way to prove who did it.
Very true! I still prefer my 2013 to my 2016 for this reason.
The first isn't good either. MBTI literature stresses it measures preferences not abilities.
Which algorithm would you recommend when the objective function is noisy (and nondeterministic)?

For example the objective function is the "score" of a particular stochastic simulation, which can be started with varied initial random seed, or the result of a real physical experiment, which is naturally stochastic (and expensive to evaluate).

There is a tradeoff between getting a very accurate estimation of the objective function + variance of a single point vs exploring other points. Is there a search algorithm that somehow manages this tradeoff automatically?

Note: In the past I've used Tree of Parzen Estimators (Kernel density estimators), wasting 3-4 evaluations per point, but I have a feeling it is sub-optimal. Is there an "optimal" algorithm, like the optimal algorithm for the multi-armed bandit problem[1] (which is similar)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
I have noticed that speed test seems to run fast when everything else is slow. I haven't seen anything else speed up though. I guess they prioritise traffic to speed test, but unfortunately that doesn't get me a speed up in general.
Absolutely agree, which is why, for example, I don't do my own car repairs any more. But you can still have a less fancy car and keep it longer. And I don't want to focus on increasing my earnings. I'd much rather be fixing something around the house.
For someone from outside the US this is an insane read. Private companies paying for government employee saleries? The government agencies even looking for private funding for employees? How can that not raise all sorts of crazy ethical alarm bells?!

To me it also illustrates why people should never be able to become this wealthy. If they really are interested in the government having adequate funding to pursue what is important they would pay adequate taxes (and push for tax reform so this affects everyone) and not use their wealth to push very specific agendas that that mix personal, financial interest with social agendas (which they probably say is their only interest). It destroys the whole notion of democracy. So even if they are only interested in the "good for the country" it is specifically not the good as determined by the democratic process. Instead their circumvent the democratic process (using the immense wealth) to push their own notion.

As a side note, why is the Biden administration deputy CTO a former lawyer?
My first result is https://thepiratebay.org and the rest of the page is proxies.
I disagree. One can argue your ethnic background will have an affect on your skin color , but one’s skin color is the prominent factor not the background itself when we’re talking about privilege in the United States.
It mentions a paper that isn't linked. Can this be linked somewhere?
I posted the original source from the creator, the Twitter account which made the Imgur album. I have swapped the .jpg with the text quote ... I just find it odd HN is so primary-source averse.
The rich have no moral right to real estate at all. Real estate was created by God or whatever you believe, not the sweat of ones brow. Property is a social construct; society sets the rules. Property tax is one way of smoothly implementing a lease concept (every century, the property must be repurchased from the government. This works out in both 99 year lease societies and in the common 1% annual tax rate societies).

Furthermore, there is no moral right to ineritance.
"little knowledge of politics and history" is what keeps you unfree, no mater how much money and 'success' you have.
Maybe I'm just not getting it, but why is this better than going with straight LaTeX? Pandoc can be used to convert LaTeX to HTML. So why the need for an extra layer of complexity? Other than a reason to use a Lisp.
thanks for the feedback.
I'll try to improve the site based on that.

I tried to reply to your comments but I was getting the "you're submitting too fast" message...
Interesting. Although IMHO deciding on an Europellet dispenser caused it to be fatally flawed from inception. (IMHO it ought to also be single action, but realistically a smooth DAO would be the best that would also be acceptable to our ridiculously risk adverse officer corps).

I should also mention that the M60 was the worst General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) ever adopted by a major military. Details as reported by a M60 operator in Vietnam on request, but it was vastly inferior to the FNH, German and Soviet designs, witness our almost complete later adoption of the FNH design.
> Most software came from computer programming.

Why 'most'?
In the US a good chuck of federal & state taxes go to government employee health care, active soldier & veteran health care. This added to medicare tax and health care premiums and medical expenditures gets me fairly close to the 18% of US GDP spent in the medical sector.
KDE is fantastic. But there are two things that irks me:

- how can I see that a screen/dialog is active? It is with the default theme extremely hard to see

- why is drag handle area impossibly small? When I need to manually resize a window (or column) I need to have the mouse pointer on the specific pixel of the window border, or else I wouldn't get the resize pointer
What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. You even try to bring COVID into the discussion? What are you doing, and why?
When someone says, “emphasis on <word A>“ what response do you expect when you ask them why word B has anything to do with it?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Perhaps for laziness. Spores indeed do not contain psilocybin.
That results in undefined behavior, which is by definition, not reproducible.
However if you think about it, a lot of this type of code has errors and yet still ends up not being able to run at all.
Wow, thanks for this!! It’s really amazing and I had now idea how to get started.
Interesting. The author of that piece isn't exactly know for producing what's commonly understood as kind communication himself.
Any blog with Robertson Davies deserves promotion. My favourite Canadian author. And I certainly hope he finds haskell work, burrito or not.
One of my favorite side projects was building a bezier sprite pather for Impact.js game engine (was working on a moth-balled top-down shooter).

https://github.com/dclowd9901/impactjsBezier

This is one of the sites that contributed to that work. So strange to see it appear out of context here.
Actually, that seems like it was generated by some
half-ass SQL generator written by a summer intern.
Wait, are you running my code from 12 years ago?

If it is a SQL generator, they sure do a good job of randomly formatting and adding interesting comments.

I would prefer the software to require little to no training. Given what is gathered then typed in, it seems like they took the forms that are required and ran them through a blender then an input wizard. This is par for the course. They are already getting training on data gathering so having the program match the damn forms might be a bonus.

I am in awe of what can be shipped these days.
This is my issue with it as well. With perfect knowledge it sounds wonderful, but we all know how political situations can cloud people's judgment in an organizational context.

I mean think of it, have they literally never made a mistake here? Well, what if you're that mistake? Tough shit, here's 50 grand (made up number), go be unemployed now.
Benedict Evans has made strong points about how mobile and the open address book has changed Facebook's position significantly. Well worth reading or listening to some of the a16z podcasts about the topic.

I think it is a very positive thing for the current ecosystem that there are many mobile apps with which we can communicate and share content. Contrast this with Google's dominance of search for the past decade.

The bigger question to me isn't if Facebook wins or loses but what control Google and Apple are able to exert on communications platforms in the future. (Possibly none)
They can be good cars. For years I drove a 25 year old Mercedes 300D. It was cheap to buy, nice to drive and extremely reliable. Unfortunately rust finally got it.
It sucks. I live right in between Provo and Salt Lake City, and I can't get it. sigh
Your aside is an extraordinarily large aside and yet you casually toss it in there.

Humans have a nearly unlimited desire for luxury goods and always will, quite predictably. They lust after jewelry accordingly and have for many thousands of years. Nothing about that will change. The aesthetic demand for gold will remain so long as people continue to desire luxury goods.

If you drop the price of gold low enough, people will start rampantly decorating their walls and consumer goods with it. It has potent intrinsic support under the price, as much as anything can. It will remain scarce and desirable.
Password expiries are not really considered good practise anymore.
It does, by about six months.
In the video I take the excel sheet and BAM! It's full GraphQL API and Admin Dashboard ready to hack.
I'm also using Cinder to build PlanMixPlay, an audio / video performance tool. Recent Teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0

Working on aligning lyrics from audio with on-screen words next. Some big strides have been made in auto-lyric alignment in the past years.
Also, if your account is un-suspended, do you get back the accounts you were following and your likes? Everything has been wiped out—over a decade's worth of likes (which I used to remember tweets to projects and people I was interested in) are all gone.
No. BitLocker when it uses the TPM uses verified boot.

PCRs are filled during the boot process, recording the boot state. If the boot state does not match, the TPM will not release the key.
Cinder is fantastic. I spent the start of last year fixing an old iPad app that was built with it called Planetary. It’s free on the App Store if anyone is interested.

By pure chance I ended up getting in touch with the original developers and a couple of museum curators from Cooper Hewitt who helped acquire the original code as digital art work.
https://sebchan.substack.com/p/48-on-planetary-in-2020-curat...

It’s been a lot of fun!
A SSL certificate that doesn't help people get used to ignoring certificate errors can be had for free from StartSSL or for less than ten euros from a company that has a UI that won't make you want to cry.
Out of curiosity: what does shadowsocks do that regular SSH tunneling doesn't do?

Why is an entire program needed just to run a simple ssh command? I couldn't find any info on the matter.
Tangentially related, political science is not science.
Qiita https://qiita.com/

its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese
I am bound by paperwork to not comment on any actual first hand knowledge, and can not find external sources to point you at. But before it was deprecated, getting Google desktop on every desktop was a priority. Some of those goals are still being pursued.
About 6 months after that, progressives will start agitating for "common sense UAV control" while conservatives will demand their constitutional rights to arm theirs with hellfire missiles.

Whatever happens, sanity will be the first thing to leave the building.
"I got an email from Paul Graham saying basically that being a single founder put me at a disadvantage, because two founders can talk each other out of bad ideas, but I appeared too stubborn."

Fortune 500's biggest company is a single-founder company. Most Fortune 500 companies were founded by a single person. Don't let detractors tell you single-founder companies don't work.
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