jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sales of Macs are slowing…

No they're not; Apple's selling more Macs than ever before and pretty consistently more each quarter than the previous (YOY).

(Completely unrelated: Lyons looks like John Hodgman in that picture.)
Lambdas are also supported in MSVC++ 2010.
This is great. It'll come in particularly handy when I'm driving to work every morning, as the commute is quite long.
Sorry, the futuristic rail system will arrive a little later. Two steps forward, one step back. Right-sizing the boxes goes a long way towards using extra capacity. If you don't need them the next day, is shipping them in tractor trailers that much better?
In Japan there is a similar phenomenon for couples about to get married; it's called "Rent a White Minister." Japanese couples who want a fancy wedding often rent a white guy to perform the ceremony. Very often, probably most of the time, said white guy isn't even an ordained minister in any Church.
This article really pisses me off.

Who cares how smart your enemy is? You don't need to be intelligent to be dangerous.

The author clearly doesn't understand the point of asymmetric warfare. Even if people want to laugh at the fact that 50% of Afghani suicide bombers don't kill people, 50% DO kill people. Suicide bombers aren't doing a cost benefit analysis of their efficacy and then deliberating on whether they're going to blow themselves up or not. Their job is to sow terror, and pierce the idea of safety.

In spite of any of the points mentioned in the article, it's still possible to recruit suicide bombers to go blow themselves up for an ideology that's insane.

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I do honestly believe that we should point out the absurdity of suicide bombing. But the absurdity is not a question of their efficacy, which is undeniably a winning strategy if you've got the man power to throw at it. The absurdity of suicide bombing lay in the ideology, and the goals one seeks to achieve by blowing oneself up.

This article is at best naïve, and at worse, dangerously ignorant and besides the point. Fight ideas.
Which is nothing but yet another unsupported claim.

Rationality is also not good just as irrationality is both good and bad.

Context determines not ideology.

It's not rational to claim that the individual should exist for his own sake anymore than to claim that the individual should exist to pro-create or to secure the continuation of it's genes.
One idea me and my brother messed about with was "Merkel DAGs". The place we worked at had, what amounted to, a really fancy workflow/flowchart designer and the question was always how to make it collaborative (because that would sell like hotcakes on a slide deck, irrespective of whether people used it). Another concern was versioning, and Git is a Merkel DAG; great problems think alike.

We never finished it because of some truly difficult questions, and decided that failure was the most reasonable result. There were some truly awesome things though. For example, if two users independently connected the same two flowchart steps with the same two lines, those two changes would be understood as identical by the system (by nature/emergence). It was also very granular snapshot consistency, which is incredibly simple to reason about.

The other cool thing was that CAS (again, a Git concept) is absurdly cache friendly, and all forms of fancy stuff can be done there.

We ultimately failed it because we had messed up somewhere and wound up with tons of borderline cases (and the hope was that we wouldn't need them). I still think, given the absence of our mistakes, it could work and would be really elegant code.
The fact that the lab was experimenting with gain of function research on corona viruses and has had viruses escape in the past is not definitive proof, but is evidence.
Because ulterior motives are the best motives!

There's a huge incentive to blame China for our fuckups. Really, it should be assumed unless proven otherwise.

After all, aside from the whole "no evidence" thing, what does it matter if it's a lab accident or a bat bite or whatever? We had months of warning and fucked it up badly. They were blindsided and recovered nicely. Clearly this must be their fault.
I think this can become more difficult when you consider-- where else would they gain enough money to feed themselves, their dependents, and otherwise remain employed? Their industry is already dying, the NYT is one of the few still stable bets that they can remain in their specialty. Otherwise they may be risking poverty while they re-train into a new specialty and a permanent decrease of lifetime earnings during their re-training period, which will then go on to impact any children they have.

I don't mean to say that this is a good or morally correct choice by society's notion, merely that the choice may be more difficult individually.
Unity is still around, it was forked by the community and renamed to Lomiri:

https://ubports.com/
I'm pretty sure that nothing they printed is technically libel. They should at least know by now how to write a good hit piece without technically committing libel.

I'm afraid there's not going to be a solution for what the American Media has become in the legal system.
That's for ice at 0°C too. I make it a 34km drop for 1kg of ice to gain that much energy. Are we missing something?
So what parameter did you introduce?
Of course it is reductive, but I do think some businesses pursue mostly non-zero sum games. Their gain does not come at my expense.

There are yet others which have "mined out" all the non-zero sum games in their industry (or choose not to pursue them), and so instead play zero-sum games. In these games, their gains come at the expense of their customers, the public or the environment. These tend to be monopolies because there is no recourse.

In categorizing some of these businesses as hostile actors, I am suggesting that they are predominantly playing zero-sum games. To cite some examples of businesses not playing zero-sum games, I need not look further than the small businesses in my local town.

Hopefully this provides a more nuanced answer you were rightfully asking about.
Thats like saying bananas are bad for you because if you eat them exclusively, you will get diabetes
Well, I don't like the way of the world.

And I believe that a bad country that doesn't fuck with your country is better than a bad country that fucks with mine and most countries.
You never have "just a random citizen" in any jury trial. The process of jury selection is intended, among other things, to screen out people that are not likely to be biased in one way or another. The fact is the silk road was a market for illegal drugs (at a minimum). The technology should be in the background. Jurors don't need to fully understand every aspect of encryption and its use in illicit transactions to be able to make a judgement, in the same way that they don't need to understand everything about accounting to make judgements about financial fraud.
The GPL principle of "all your code belongs to everyone" is infuriating to say the least, and the efforts of those to force this on people is even more damaging to the open-source community.

Free, open-source software has helped considerably in the last twenty years. That's why I think licenses like MIT or BSD help keep software free and truly open: Use it for what you see fit without any obligation on your part.

That's free.
The fear is not that proprietary code will become better than FOSS code. The fear is that proprietary code will become better than previously-existing proprietary code. RMS considers closed-source code to be so immoral, that open-sourcing code in a way that proprietary code may potentially derive some benefit from it is immoral.
Done by @paulbg, here are the sources: https://github.com/paulgb/birthmap
We can have nukes. You can't.
We can violate human rights. You can't.
We can kill your people. You can't kill ours.
It's an accepted pattern.
I think your suggestion works well at a smaller company (<50 employees), but as the company starts moving to multiple floors/buildings and departments become a bit more isolated then the organic lunches tend to be intra-department vs inter-department. We have lunch brought in once a week. On the days we don't have lunch it is very much as you describe within each department, but on the day the company provides lunch it is very common to see engineers eating with the account management team and that is when the useful conversations happen.
"but he's been considered a fool in the past when he was more of a Cassandra."

But he's also now considered a fool in the past when he indeed turned out to be a fool. GNU has 3-4 marque projects, GCC etc., Gnu Emacs, userland, and HURD, and he has total control over at least the first two (and he personally has used the third only for ill, "GNU/Linux").

His stewardship of them has been all but catastrophic, he could have earned a lawsuit that he would have lost from how he started GNU Emacs (fortunately the rightsholders were menches). Both have had painful forks and are facing that again.
Here’s my theory that I haven’t seen anyone else mention. Here in California and specifically where I live (Palos Verdes look it up) we have had video sighting of the “jet pack man”. If you don’t know who it is look it up. That thing flies fast. You may be thinking what does this have to do with something that looks like a missile? Keep reading. Jet pack man was first seen flying by LAX and reported by an AA plane. Later, people in my neighborhood have taken videos of him flying past our cliffs (over the water) Going extremely fast.

We have all seen videos of the coast guard finding submarines with people smuggling drugs into the US. In my years of growing up in Palos Verdes, we have had multiple submarine like vessels, skiffs, and other odd marine vehicles wash up on our shores due to tough sea conditions with tons of drugs and even some manned by smugglers which were later arrested.

The cartel obviously has tons of money, and to me it would make sense that they are going Ariel with smuggling. It gets harder and harder to smuggle on land across our border and same with sea, due to coast guard being more present than ever on coast lines.

I guarantee they have some military grade equipment and are attempting to fly under radar to smuggle goods into the US. Maybe this missile like object drops the packages out of the sky with parachutes attached to certain drop points, who knows. I think this is a more realistic scenario than aliens. This incident did happen over New Mexico which is a place in which a lot of cartel activity happens. Let me know what you think.
I think you meant to say “tungsten rods”, rather than titanium. the composition of the drop weapons doesn’t change the gist though.

Titanium is used in airframes for its strength to weight ratio (it’s not very dense). Tungsten is used in weapons for its high hardness and density.
I was suggesting using cryptocurrency (such as Ethereum or PolkaDOT) to implement the centrally-controlled functions of the Federal Reserve currently being handled by simplistic queues or whatever it is.

So this is a different discussion than the one your previous comment argues against.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" is a nice-sounding catchphrase but in many contexts does not hold water. For example, systems without redundancy are objectively simpler but not more reliable.

But more fundamentally, currency and money IS a technology. It's use is as you say to distribute power and express trust. But fundamentally it is a technology used for that purpose.

Cryptocurrency is ultimately about putting power in the hands of the people and trust in mathematics rather than central authorities.

Eventually the central banks and banking institutions as they exist now will be phased out and replaced with different paradigms that have some similar functions but more sophisticated technology.
I tried looking through the docs, and couldn't find any mention of which algorithm you are using. It seems like some LR, grammar, but which kind? LALR? GLR? It seems like a very important bit of information, that's suspiciously missing.
The ST was a good machine. GEM worked well though the API was poor.

Source: Mac Plus C/68K developer.
> ... after all you also need something to run tests locally.

You'd think so but for many projects contributors rely entirely on the CI system.
It's an inference. The author is saying that because the Air Force is pursuing a new plane with the same fundamental goals that launched the F-35 program, then the F-35 evidently failed to deliver. He's saying they're really just asking for a do-over.

> Instead of ordering fresh F-16s, he said, the Air Force should initiate a “clean-sheet design” for a new low-end fighter. Brown’s comments are a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed.

(Emphasis mine. Tacit means "implied without being stated".)
C compilers weren't always free. When I started my career on the original Mac, there were multiple commercial Pascal and C compilers but nothing free for either. For some years after that I worked on multiple UNIX machines and variants that each shipped with their own C compiler (often developed by one of several companies that specialized in this stuff) because gcc was no easier to port and produced lower-quality code. So it was free for users, but for the people who actually bought the systems it was bundled which is not the same.
coming from another country i can see clear difference in how child are raised in usa.

There as long as baby is with mom, fed on time, and kept clean. baby just grows up fine. few months are hectic but then their night time matches everyone else. Given there is afternoon nap.

eventually they are like 5 and start playing with neighborhood kids and then it's just automatic.
Hahaha, it would be absolutely hilarious if Github became the new programmers' eHarmony.

("all you need is a readme!")
I am extremely anti-lockdown, however it's worth noting that a mild case of COVID does not have mild symptoms in absolute terms. It's not like a mild cold for example. It's mild relative to moderate or severe cases, which involve breathing problems and hospitalization.
I submitted this post but I am not the author. Author is https://github.com/emnh

The original submission title was "How I built..." which HN changed to "I built...", and then (mods?) changed to "Show HN: I built..."

Still, I love the demo and the write-up. I am completely biased, because it uses Pinecone.
What a load of drivel.
Readability design is apparently not a human right.
Yeah, that's pretty close to the same here, but substitute Atheism for Agnosticism.

I also believe very strongly in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-ownership and adhere to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
I did the same with a first generation MBP (bought in the summer 2006). I replaced the main HD with a Corsair V64, and replaced the optical drive with the old HDD with this kit[1]. The HDD now works in plain old ATA, but it doesn't matter. I use it for mass storage, not for speed.

The results are amazing. It takes:

- 21 seconds from cold boot to login prompt (and 5 more to get a responsive finder),

- 13 seconds to shut down, and

- 22 seconds to wake from deep sleep (2GB of RAM).

As you said, the apps launch almost instantly, including Office 2011 which was incredibly slow from the hard disk.

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[1]http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ ($99). They also provide an external USB case for the DVD drive.

Ifixit offers a similar adapter, cheaper ($60), but without the case. http://www.ifixit.com/Apple-Parts/9-5-mm-Optical-Bay-SATA-Ha...
Philosophies, like universe or infinite, depends on the context. There is no simple single theory yet (that would be god concept? and then we question where did he come from etc)

i would approach philosophy no different than physics. There are "spiritual laws" (philosophical?) that govern human mental state, and help understand it better. Buddhism tries to conceptualize this as much as possible.

personally i believe we should only depend on the "truths" or "laws of nature" either physical or meta, that we humans were able to figure out so far...like physics laws, spirutual laws "karma" etc.

cause and effect, scientific discovery etc.
I wonder what's stronger - google OCR or google captcha?
I don't know if there are names for my "philosophical" views.

I'm a practicing muslim, so that excludes materialism, although it doesn't say much else.

I believe in free will, in the sense that at the core, we have the freedom to choose, even if we can't act on our choices or carry them out due to external (or even internal) factors.

Following some wikipedia links, this might have a name: "dualism". But I won't claim that I'm a "dualist" or anything like that.

I essentially believe that awareness and feelings are not reducible to materialistic phenomenon. That computers will never have human-like awareness; they will never experience pain or joy the way humans do. And that awareness has nothing to do with computational capacity, and it's ultimately meta-physical.

EDIT: Reading the wikipedia article on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind), I like what I'm reading and find that it agrees to my beliefs in a lot of ways.

To quote a quote:

if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. —J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds, page 209
Does anyone know if 23andMe will be able to patent parts of my gene sequence? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_patent)

Edit: It's genotyping, not sequencing, so the answer is no. Leaving the question here in case someone else wondered.
>"I’ve looked up the performance figures for lots of electric vehicles – they’re listed in this chapter’s end-notes – and they seem to be consistent with this summary: electric vehicles can deliver transport at an energy cost of roughly 15 kWh per 100 km. That’s five times better than our baseline fossil-car, and significantly better than any hybrid cars. Hurray!"

I'm surprised MacKay said this, as it's misleading to compare heat energy (the heat content of a liquid fuel) with electric. That "five times better" figure basically comes from shifting the combustion of fossil fuel (and its thermodynamic losses) from the car to the power plant -- it's an artifact of the definition.

In fact, based on the EPA's Chevy Volt numbers (which may or may not be representative), it could be more efficient to burn gas in the Volt, than fossil fuel in a power plant for its electric engine. How I figure:

37 mpg on gas means 2.70 gallons/100 miles = 348 megajoules/100 miles (energy density of gasoline is 34 MJ/L [1])

On the electric side, it uses 36 kWh (130 MJ) electricity/100 miles. According to EIA figures, average US power plant efficiencies are [2]:

* for oil, 31% efficiency --> Volt uses 418 MJ power plant oil/100 miles

* for coal, 33% efficiency --> Volt uses 394 MJ power plant coal/100 miles

* for natural gas, 41% efficiency --> Volt uses 315 MJ power plant NG/100 miles

The CO2 emissions on electric are lower in the Volt, not because of an efficiency advantage, but because some of the electricity sources (hydro, nuclear) aren't fossil fuels. Likewise, the cost/mile is usually lower because the per-Joule cost of coal and natural gas are far lower than that of oil and gasoline.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[2] http://www.eia.doe.gov/aer/txt/ptb1306.html
I am a former Los Angeles bike commuter, and a current walking-commuter (can't think of an elegant word for that). I very much appreciate knowing when a car is coming, but the constant roar on the every street means that conversations have to stop when a truck drives by, you can't hear people talking even when they're only 6 or 7 feet from you, and any sound quieter than an internal combustion engine is diminished. It has left our city streets' as sad, desolate landscapes in many places. If we want to add noise to cars, let them have a bell, like bicycles.

I could walk around screaming at the top of my lungs to warn people when I'm walking by, but maybe I should just try not to hit them instead (and face prison time if I kill someone by doing so.)
Storing your IM data & meta-data on their servers. i.e. Pending, delivered, read. If they allowed phone to be offline, that data would need to be synced when it comes online.
"Mosh is a replacement for SSH". "The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH..." Huh? I'm confused. So is it a replacement or is it an abstraction?
On what platform are you? Is there no Messenger for it? (Maybe I'm missing the point)
One of the heavily trafficked sites in India (Railway Booking) has been showing Google adsense ads. Someone is making a Million dollars a month in Government :)

https://www.irctc.co.in/eticketing/loginHome.jsf

536 Global Rank (50 in India):
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.irctc.co.in
The latter. The project was not close to completion.
When I think of Godel, the first thing I think of (based on accounts) is compulsion. He was really driven to explore the edges of reality using logic as a probe.

Here's an account of his discovery of a logical flaw in the US Constitution: http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/
How about breaking up Google? Seems like that'd solve a lot more problems than it'd create.
Here's the usual reminder that DDG results are basically Bing's with minor tweaks. You're not supporting an independent index if you use DDG.
Why dont they promote the use of user-curated playlists? Kids should be limited to a standard youtube curriculum; they re not for experiments.
Emphasis on `if usable`

I don't think the general crowd will adapt itself to go on to Apple's stack unless it is radically better.

Till Apple gets its developers to use what it makes, by enforcing it on its App Store, like the way it pushed people for Webkit - Otherwise it won't have takers.
You can simulate using SPICE in KiCad now (ngspice).

KiCad already has an auto-router?

But yeah, parts management is a mess...
I don't think this is an important distinction.

In both cases there mere existence of the technology helps both good and bad parties to achieve their aims, that is all that matters.
It's almost like mainstream media is what people click on and is <gasp> mainstream. Of course you are doing to have them higher up in the search rankings
Whether you disagree or not, sometimes the best solution is analog, or paper.

Everything scales too easily and massively when you digitize things. Especially money and voting.
It might be because I’ve already used DuckDuckGo on my browser and have turned off those things in the settings, but duck.com just redirects me to a clean DDG homepage.
And the missing introductory question is : "why should linux aims on world domination ?".
I want to warn readers, and people not aware of high school physics.

Capturing CO2 is one thing, but doing anything with it later completely different.

Just capturing CO2 does not involve returning the energy debt of carbon-oxygen bond, but doing anything with it later does, and usually many times the electric energy gained from combustion.

In other words, making anything useful out of it will require you to expend many, many times more hydrocarbon energy than if you didn't, or just synthesized directly.

Anybody claiming the opposite have either never finished a high school, or is an utter fraud, and, unfortunately,the number of such has been skyrocketing recently, pampered by windfall of environmental grants, and investments signed off by equally ignorant, or corrupt people.
Which car and what did you drive before? And can you quantify how much benefit you see over adaptive cruise / lane assist / etc that is standard on many cars these days?

I agree with your sentiment, just unsure what your point of reference is and how much impact the fancy AI actually has. My car (2017 model) has the features I mentioned from the factory and is great on long trips too.
Doesn't Tesla check to make sure your hands are on the wheel (as does Honda and I'm sure the rest of the OEM lane-assist products)