jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That makes no sense.

Can I get my taxes back since I don't have children, and I've never been a child in this country?

And I've never driven on that road, can I have taxes back for the maintenance of that road?
> Others posted similar things, but imagine that you're a female PhD candidate and your male advisor asks you: "How familiar are you with Coq?" or "Are you good with Coq?"

Yeah, a bit awkward for about 5 seconds until both parties know what you're talking about, because of context.

Is that what the authors are referring to as "harassment" or where does the whole harassment come from? That's my biggest question here. I have nothing against people wanting it to change, I just want to understand the reasoning behind it, and how even people manage to harass others via a project name.
This is a fascinating set of shop-knowledge from someone who's clearly spent many years in a set of trenches that I hope I never have to. Great stuff.
Oh man, if this were happening like two weeks later... I'll be spending a whole week in Tokyo.

If anyone wants to get together then, send me an email.
#8:

Python.
I find the color scheme of his blog somewhat ironic. It looks fine in grayscale but it is absolutely painful to read that red on that yellow. Textbook case for built-in readability if I ever saw one.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
You're burned out. Take a break.
"Technologies emerge from the coming together of existing technologies into wholes that are greater than the sum of their parts."
I know they've started deploying a Cassandra cluster alongside their existing MySQL cluster for at least a couple months. I don't know how close they are to switching over completely, but maybe that has something to do with it...
It has been for a long time. Only the very earliest versions of CUDA had an nvcc based on Open64.
Did you try looking past page three in the search results?

And did you verify that at least a few of those pages contained the search terms?

Because in my experience that is not given:

- Google used to brag about crazy number of results but if I tried to go to page 5 it would admit there weren't any. I guess it was a naive bloom filter or something out of my league that caused it - and those that knew didn't care because it looked good for 99,999% of the users.

- Google has happily ignored double quotes for well over a decade now. Lately I've had some success by using the plus operator immediately in front of the doublequotes. Side note: I feel hesitant to write that. An UX-er from Google might notice it and fix that bug to make it consistent (consistently useless, that would be) :-/

These days I use DDG as default though and after being fooled a lot of times and one too many I don't even bother to look behind page 2 on Google since years ago.
I can't remember how early on I tried it, but on my Mac it was incredibly unstable.
I'm sure Apple uses currency derivatives to hedge against currency fluctuations.
Cute, but it can easily be taken too far, as with that MS Office paper clip thing.
I have this exact setup. I bought a cable to connect my previous generation mini to the DVI input of my T. I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for the times when I need to do something a little more complicated than use FrontRow. iTunes has all my music and I have a 2GB TimeMachine with all of my video content. It's fast enough to play even 1080p movies over the network.

The new model would be even better for this application.
A lot of entrepreneurs envy the Google founders, since they were regular engineers and, partially by accident, built a company that turned out to become billions of dollars. Some blog posts make use of this envy by giving tips on how to become the next Google, while in fact, it's just a cheap trick to get people's interest instead of actually giving tips on how to become the next Google: it's completely unrealistic.

This cartoon makes fun of those blog posts.
I can't wait to see a tear-down on how they did that. The power supply from before was really huge. It's been the same size since the G4 and always weighed a ton presumably due to the iron in the transformer coil.
You can if they have been arrested. We are very close to entering an era where everyone will be able to know who they are related to and who they are not.
They are harder to practice... or they fall apart.
Yeah but why do the corners get cooler?
Neat!!
Not useful since so many Chinese are bilingual already; in China if you know English that might just get you a few more RMB per hour, in the USA you might get a couple of more dollars per hour. Besides, I have a feeling that China is going to get the coming recession much worse than the USA, making interactions (eg via tourism) a bit more turbulent for the next few years.
I am mostly worried about "crying wolves" too many time that people won't take it seriously.
And yet... https://youtu.be/52ogQS6QKxc

There's no fundamental physical limit that forces AR/VR headsets to be big and heavy.
The current tools that are used in clinical environments have been tested and proven to be safe for many years and are also compliant with healthcare regulations to ensure that they are safe to use because it involves human life.

You mention Machine Learning or Deep Learning based solutions are not used more to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak. The problem with using them is that the explainability in its decision-making is very poor and is as transparent as a blackbox at best. Thus it isn't useful for a clinician to give an explanation why this 'AI' came to that decision, which is very unsafe in a medical environment.

Explainable tools like decision support systems are what medical professional favour over the hype of DNNs, neural nets, or other AI buzzwords these days.
Harshness is not the problem, credibility is. I don't mean that you sound like you're lying, but that it's impossible for anyone to evaluate your assertion or how it applies to their use case. Anyone who reads your comment (including me) just files it away in their head as "somebody on HN made an unsubstantiated comment that Julia sucks in production in some vague way".

If I were in the position of making or advising someone making the decision of whether or not to use Julia, an unsubstantiated, untestable assertion like that makes virtually no difference in my decision or advice. I hope it's clear this is not an insult, it's just that if I have no way to evaluate your assertion or its applicability, there's no way for me to incorporate it into my decision or advice.

By contrast, if you could point to even one concrete example, I could file it away in my head as "someone on HN pointed out that Julia has X, Y, and Z problem". If I were in a position of making or advising a decision on Julia, I would be able to evaluate whether it applies the use case in question, whether it points to some deeper design problems with Julia, or whether I even think it's a problem at all.
Strongly advise against making any parts of equipment for healthcare or even more - device that sustains life. If it breaks, it will be very simple for government to find you liable. That's also - sadly - reason why these ventilators are so darn expensive, so that they go thru lots of scrutiny and testing.
One example for me:

A recent OS update broke XAMPP/mysql. It took me a couple of hours to figure out what setting I had to change to make it work again.
Portland's mixed-use zoning regulations have been a great solution to the dead spots you note around garages.

Off the top of my head, they require wider sidewalks and some kind of storefront on the first floor, both of which make the streets more welcoming. Apartment buildings are even subject to this, I believe, as well as offices and garages.

I would certainly not mind if many of Portland's zoning laws made their way to other cities, but I fear the (relatively) heavy-handed regulations would be denounced as un-American.
Um, I would say it's mostly cause of mod_php support in apache, not cgi mode. Also, the fact that 5 minutes gets you AMP installed on just about any OS.

On the topic of this site though, 3 exclamation marks on the title? Really???
Well knowing a few Chicago police officers I can say that a lot of places still offer police discounts.
Red State recently featured an article calling for prison reform, which I thought was an encouraging development[0]. Conservatives, historically, have taken a hard line against criminal justice reform in any way that might appear soft on crime[1]. For a prominent conservative site to come out in favor of reform is a step in the right direction.

Reading the Red State article, I get a sense that the author is walking a tightrope to frame the argument in terms that conservatives would favor:

>I have relatively little sympathy for violent criminal offenders in terms of the punishments they receive.

>However, all these efforts are opposed by powerful interest groups that give almost invariably to Democrats – including police and jailer unions who want to protect the jobs of their members.

>I am not advocating for free HBO for all prisoners and for government sponsored gender reassignment surgery or anything of the like

And so forth. He pretty much covers all the bases. I think that shows a high level of awareness. I also think that going to such lengths suggests a strong desire for reform to actually occur (disclaimer: I had never heard of the author before reading the article).

I feel like I should add, conservatives are in no way unique in demanding that scary ideas come with a popsicle. I personally prefer cherry.

[0] http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/18/americas-desperate-need-p...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio#Pink_underwear
My monitors are Thunderbolt 3 and daisy-chained. :)
> Altium probably has the best UX of the EDAs on the market right now

It may be best, but I'm not sure I would call it good.

Right now I have been splitting my PCB designs between KiCAD and Altium. Once KiCAD 6 releases, I'll probably go all in on KiCAD.

I simply am tired of the fact that my EDA tooling always sucks in so many ways. And now EDA vendors are all incentivized to "monetize" me instead of fixing their damn bugs.

At least with KiCAD, I can fix the suckage or pay someone to fix the suckage.
Back in the old days while in conferences they would track you down on your interests and what kind of sessions you been.

Experienced uploading contacts list with Viber and then Wazzup had this after signup, so it’s entry a house rule, nobody forcing you to join the club.

Pretty scary when they will normalize data in between platforms based your phone number or emails.

Also in radio or mobile companies they will keep temporary a history audio recording.. so makes sense, but not for the private rooms man.
As a kid in school we read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain

Gives you a little taste of surviving outdoors.
Very cool. I've worked with underwater robots and radio comms are very difficult due to water's propensity to absorb so much of the RF energy. I'd be curious to know the technical details of the radio system.
> We can flag the ad on Facebook, but they’re not technically violating any Facebook rules – there’s nothing in Facebook that says you can’t advertise something that’s not yours.

Surprise surprise, when something nefarious happens online, Zuckerberg is never too far away.

Facebook seems to be yet again profiting off fraud & scams in total impunity.
1. When you ssh you get to continue with the benefits and syntax of your current shell. The closest I know to this is eshell which gets some access to remote hosts through tramp rather than ssh.

2. There’s a small family of commands that take commands as arguments, eg env, xargs, parallel, find, ssh. Maybe they should get special support and the shell should allow you to write subshells to be passed to these commands in some first-class way, similar to the way bash magically converts <(...) into a special file name arg with a process running redirected to that file
I remember having a set of boot floppies with different memory configurations. Depending if you were going to doing gaming or not you'd use a different boot floppy.
> if I recall correctly, while it had standard 3.5" diskettes, it couldn't read/write DOS disks.

The Amiga floppy drives took standard 3.5" media, and they could read MS-DOS disks, but the software for this wasn't included with the OS until 1992.

Section 9.7 in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/amiga/introduction/part4/ says you could do this with Workbench 2.1, which was released at the end of 1992 (http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_21.html).
Bro I had computer courses in elementary school and middle school.

Younger sibling did not, so we end up teaching them. You don't learn how to use computers by osmosis and I'm glad people are pointing it out.

EDIT: I had typing classes too. It's astounding how many younger people I see who do not know how to type properly. I'm not even 30 and I'm already going "back in my day..."
Great short story / biographical narrative! Was a fun and v real read
You can still be extradited, it's just not automatic.
I'm not as familiar with Zoom, but WebEx and Cisco video conferencing hardware use ultrasonic sounds to let you start and transfer meetings from the mobile and desktop app to video conferencing devices.

With WebEx you can turn this off in the preferences. I'd assume Zoom has a similar config setting.
Even I encrypt my keys before uploading them to the cloud, and I don't give them a descriptive name, and I have less than $2000 worth of cryptocurrencies, and it wasn't stolen.
This is correct.

Zoom is malware from what is effectively a CCP controlled company.
This is raising red flags for me, not only due to the stake some within Signal have within this obscure coin but due to them trying to turn a messaging platform into a payment platform. If they feel like they want to contribute a payment solution, they should do so in a separate product offering.
I should've been more explicit.

My post was on the Ask HN page, near the top; then it suddenly disappeared, from one moment to the next. My guess is that would only happen if either too many people clicked "hide", or because of some other moderation-type decision.

Thank you, though, for taking the time to try and help. If I may ask, how did you find my previous post?
not great, not terrible
What about the other 7 bytes?
> Maven is simple, the same in every project (this is huuuuuge), just works and gets out the way.

Recently tried to find the correct and canonical way to set up a new, small spring boot project for a customer. No one could tell me how: "we just use spring initializr and copy the relevant files" From where? Uh, oh. So I tried to find a canonical solution. Did some research. At least 14 variants..! No clear winner.

Nobody really understands it it sees but at least they don't have to use the dreaded Maven.

(For those who don't know, Mavens main disadvantage is that it is written in xml. Since Maven files frequently gets over 30 lines long - especially if people don't know what they are doing - and (parent projects) needs to be updated twice a month on average because of updates to dependencies this is a living nightmare to some people ;-)

Might contain traces of both sarcasm, irony, exaggerations and other literary tools. Those who get it, feel free to laugh. Those who don't: After ~15 years in the field I've not seen anything working as well as Maven on the kind of projects and teams I work on and I also don't think I've seen any other project getting as much undeserved flak.
Anyone wants to try this out, install the Beta version of Signal and send some mobilecoin to me at

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Kbo6jyRpo2zcr5ZucssuBVENGUS4fTK7qZZY8qMXHd9B1MNbA2MgBBzb5fBjberr6v4NKBVo3oFNCS1J3ryX13ZszByxjEU

The UI seems fairly unobtrusive, but I don't know if that's just because I have no contacts that can receive it so I'm not being shown some of it.

I also have no idea how to actually get Mobilecoin to play with. There's no built in way to buy it. They just give you an address you can send to from an exchange.
It's sometimes interesting to see how many people repeat things like "computers only see 1s and 0s" and at some point after working through all kinds of topics between CPU pipelines, data compression etc. one can (re)discover this truth from the other side, realising how amazing it is that all this knowledge and structure can be encoded in just 1s and 0s.

And I'm sure other fields have this too, where to the outside it's "just atoms and molecules" and then the scientist chuckles and says "indeed".
Define the determinant to live in the ring quotiented by the annihilator of the module. Then the determinant of the 0 by 0 matrix is both 0 and 1.
Continuing on both the comment in which you were responding too, and your on comments, I think it is be even more simply stated as:

You don't have to understand how intelligence works to create a machine with intelligence if you can create a machine with the same or similar evolutionary forces that worked to create intelligence in humanity and want to wait long enough for it to happen. This is a totally viable approach to creating an intelligent machine, as you can certainly create a machine that can mutate extremely rapidly.

The problem is, that doesn't help us figure out what intelligence is, unless the process of watching this happen somehow gives us insight in the matter, or we manage to create a cooperative machine intelligence superior to our own that's more up to the task.
Love the Gifs. Perfect sentiment captured in each one.
SysInternals procmon.exe and procexp.exe are the only things I really miss when on Linux (either developing or just troubleshooting Firefox being slow again.)

A few procmon features you probably weren't aware of:

- It can log your boot process (by loading a driver very early in the boot process)

- It stores a lot of details about every line of output, including a stack trace (!), accessible by doubleclicking
> In physics now there are plenty of people with world-class math talent, but no one with Einstein's intuition, insight, and creativity.

I think because physics is now an industry in which deep creative insight is pretty worthless. For example, someone who could convince the gov't to award a $10 million grant to seek physical evidence of dark energy is likely going to have more success than a theorist who can show that dark energy is superfluous.

In Einstein's time physics was more like a hobby. An Einstein today, if they started as a patent clerk they'd more likely progress to IT than physics. At least in IT their creativity can be employed.
Yev from Backblaze here -> we saw that and couldn't track it down or figure out where it came from, the post itself didn't change since we published it this morning. Sorry Notacoward :(
X-axis should be labelled.
I have griped to AT&T several times about how their 2wire 3800hgv-b router (used for their UVerse service) is broken when you set up pass-through to an internal box. They call this "DMZplus".

What happens is that when icmp packets relating to connections from the DMZplus host arrive at the 2wire router, the 2wire drops them. This breaks path MTU discovery, unix-style traceroutes, etc. It is not a general limitation of the 2wire box, since hosts that are not using DMZplus can receive related icmp just fine. It's caused by the pathologically stupid way that the 2wire router implements "DMZplus". It basically assigns itself AND the internal host the same external IP address, and uses its best guess which traffic to forward and which not to. They missed some corner case relating to ICMP in the state tracker, and AT&T's response is that since it's a "feature" that few people complain about, if I want it fixed I shouldn't be using UVerse. Even after I've pointed out that this behavior violates the tcp/ip standard.
No offense taken.

I will be the first one to admit that I don't know everything. It never occurred to me, in part, because I had misconceptions about the barriers to entry. Those misconceptions have been corrected because of this post.

Simply put, I thought it would be more expensive to publish on Amazon. :)
It costs $1M+ for a basic obviously-no-safety-risks safety approval. A large market blockbuster drug can easily cost $100M to approve.

So no IP = drug vanishes without a trace. Unless you can get charitable funding for approval, like the Gates Foundation is doing for things like malaria.
Come on... I made a point in my first comment, you either miss or ignore it, I cite an example to maybe get it across in case it's more vivid with a obvious example, and instead of at least acknowledging the point and maybe disagreeing with it, you ignore it and say it's "incendiary" and "silly" to post such a vivid example? The counterexample isn't some weird exception; it's quite typical, and especially pertinent for this particular case.

The point I've been making is: std::thread is an absolutely terrible candidate for something that you can expect to only have "two behaviors" moving forward. This isn't even a prediction; you just have to look at current platform APIs to see this. I'd cite Windows's CREATE_SUSPENDED as one example of another flag you might want, but someone would inevitably complain and tell me that's just the Windows API being unnecessarily overcomplicated. So, instead, go ahead and check out the sheer behemoth that is POSIX's "simple" interface: the pthread_attr API used to specify different behaviors for pthread_create. It's not just a flag, it's not just a struct... it's a list of structs where each one contains flags as well as other things. And Linux's clone() is the other extreme, where they pack a gazillion flags (read: behaviors) into one integer parameter for thread creation where you'd think it'd leave a little more room for extensibility. Thread creation isn't just something that might need "more than two behavior", it's pretty much the diametric opposite of "two behaviors" if I've ever seen one!
Yes, but there are many great film makers, whose work isn't generally considered 'boring', like much of David Lean, or Milos Forman's Amadeus.
I just use JSON for all hashi config, you don't get comments but it is less mental overhead for me to keep track of.
> He however is not able to use his genius to create value in any way.

Well, he did create (at least) two video games that were well received -- in fact, I remember that "Balance of Power" got amazing reviews when it came out.

So not entirely barren in production.

I'm guessing that he's unhappy that people, when taught his ideas, don't follow them closely enough?
I feel like you can replace "quantum computing" in this rant with almost any other major gov science initiative and it would still have relevance. Lunar colonization. Nuclear fusion. Genome therapy. All 5 years away since 2000. All require major materials breakthroughs. All hyped in the glossy popular media ;)
> even cans of food they had frozen for extra damage.

This is where you should turn off

> In the melee, a rioter was captured on video hurling a fire extinguisher at the Capitol police. It struck an officer in the head, giving him a concussion, according to his colleagues. That officer was one of at least two to be assaulted with such a device that day; another, Brian Sicknick, died from his injuries the following day.

This is a lie the NYT told. We've know it's a lie for over a week. CNN retracted it a while back. Since this 'media' is so biased I'll link a biased 'media' on the other side about this - https://thepostmillennial.com/nyt-issues-correction-of-story...

Lets also not forget how the media hounded the Capitol Police for being on the protesters side, driving one to suicide.
I'm sure the (outsourced) dev team will have a bad day tomorrow. This is just unacceptable. According to the blog post he first made contact in 2013! Bugs happen, but this is just bad design.