jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Physicists here. I'm having a hard time believing that you read it carefully, because that's the Childs preprint, which is only mentioned "in passing", and the true focus of this new article is the Palmer (MIT) preprint, which is about mapping nonlinear differential equations to nonlinear Bose-Einstein condensates. BECs are modeled by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which contains a potential term that is proportional to particle density (basically a potential that depends on the wavefunction), causing nonlinearity.

From the news article:

> The MIT-led paper took a different approach. It modeled any nonlinear problem as a Bose-Einstein condensate. This is a state of matter where interactions within an ultracold group of particles cause each individual particle to behave identically. Since the particles are all interconnected, each particle’s behavior influences the rest, feeding back to that particle in a loop characteristic of nonlinearity.
The detail page has a "Rotate" button, down next to "Next" and "Previous".
do you mean https://github.com/tarao/evil-plugins?
Don't confuse the term lenient to mean "pedantic but with very silent failures". The failures caused by forgetting to close tags in html5 are often catastrophic, which is why it isn't "lenient".

If html5 fails on some seemingly valid input (e.g. makes a strange layout when you self-close a div-tag) then it isn't lenient, it's still pedantic. It's just as pedantic as an xml standard is about closing tags, only that the specification for closing tags is dozens of pages instead of three words.

In fact, I think most developers agree that an error message would be preferable to a corrupt layout in the case of the self-cosed div.
Have you seen the more technical slides with some of the hacks they use? They are very technilogically capable. Actually, they are much more capable than most people used to think.
I grew up in Norway. As a grid customer I could shop around for the best power company that fit my situation (e.g. solar? Apartment?). Norway is covered in snow 8-9 months of the year. I think what you're describing is a problem with money not reaching infrastructure investment locally for whatever reason: not public owned infrastructure issues in general.
Plugging this here if anyone is annoyed at the miscrosoft sculpt not being recognised on macos:

https://github.com/alexduf/microsoft-scuplt-ergonomic-macos
You don't need violence to reach this goal.
Yes, "but", capitalism! How dare the State/Gov get in the way of private corporations? Why would the State/Govoffer something for free (or reasonably priced?).

What makes it more "fun" (nothing funny about the ordeal and the deaths in Texas)(btw I've been in Texas many many times - wonderful place, great people!) is that Texans are very conservative on one hand, and very pro-super-aggressive-capitalism on the other hand. Which makes no sense.

Seth Meyers said something on his show a couple nights ago: if you tell the antilopes that they are free to wander around in the zoo, it is only fair to tell them that the lions will ALSO be free to wander around in the same zoo.

Seeing this from Europe, I find it brutally ironic when people lose "free" to a corporation (weather reports, software to do your taxes, etc.) You (citizens of the USA) can do 10 things wrong to get yourselves to this predicament, and you take these 10 steps with acrobatic accuracy.
Yes. Most of the US has privately operated with close regional oversight usually called a public utility commission for gas, electric, water, landline, and sort of for cable. It approves rate changes, assessments for big projects etc.

The system works very well overall, avoiding both extremes of full government and full private. My rates are reasonable and I've very rarely had outages of anything over decades.

Edit. Cable is the exception. They are a PUC approved monopoly or duopoly with intensely abusive customer experience, in most places.
One of my weirdest development experiences was in what must have been about 2005, on a call with the team at another company who were to provide us with a web service API (I think given the era it was probably an ad hoc XMLRPC implementation of some sort). I asked them to send me over a sample of the request xml.

They faxed it.
The best part about projects like these is that they’re 95% useless in the real world but they give a person the chance to connect the dots through so many different layers of hardware and software. I feel like every programmer should be grounded at the hardware/software interface so they truly understand how their code will execute as they move up through higher layers of abstraction. This is a cool project!
I already live a minimalist lifestyle, not because of the climate, but because I simply prefer it that way. If this is not enough, then the climate will be the least of concerns for our grandchildren.

> Wars are the most likely outcome.

Yes, that should go without saying. Not cooperation, but endless wars between nations over scarce resources. Or being subjegated by the world elites and basically soviet style communism. Millions starved to death, because one commissar decided that one particular country eats too much and it's bad for the climate. Assuming any of this is true, which I'm told it is.
The most basic and trivial way that you're going to get burned by cassandra is that you have to divide your primary key into two parts: partition key columns, and clustering key columns. Partition keys must be in every "where" clause; only clustering keys are optional.

Okay, I'll just not bother with partition keys, right? Except partition keys determine which "partition" your data goes in. So if your only partition key column is "day_of_week", then you have 7 partitions. New problem: Your partitions need to be < 300 MB or cassandra falls over dead.

In fact you'll soon realize that over the lifetime of your table, keeping those partitions under control may end up forcing you to use various date tricks like putting year/month/day in as "artificial" partition keys.

Of course if you put everything in the partition keys instead of clustering keys, let me note again that you have to put each partition key column in every where clause, in which case you may have trouble querying for batches of data.

Furthermore, when you do put clustering columns in your where clause, they have to be in order declared; so if your CC's are a, b, and c, then your where clause can use (a), (a,b), or (a,b,c); but if it has b, it has to have a, and if it has c, it has to have a&b. This is because storage is hierarchical. (Same rules for "order by", btw) (and no there's no "group by")

This is when you start realizing: Oh, you mean it's really not like "SQL without joins". No, not even close.
I wonder how much is caused by having both parents working. Kids were raised differently 50-70 years ago when one salary was enough for a family.
I like this explanation, because it focuses in it's latter portion on the one thing that actually made Y click for me: expanding it.

I think it's why it's so short: the Y-combinator makes perfect sense if you explain it in the context of expansion rather than recursion. The best demonstrator of how it combinators work isn't a bunch of algebraic derivations and explanations relative to tail-recursion, it's seeing how they expand to resolve the function given. For me, it was stepping through a factorial function in Racket.

In the end I wound up including it in the Heresy standard library.
Your rebuttal is neither informative nor helpful.
Thanks! Actually it's completely open source, you can download the files for the PCBs, 3D files for the case, and all the software. Check under the Downloads tab on the product page.
Denying these cases for lack of standing was due process. The fact Team Trump didn't like that outcome is irrelevant.

This is him demanding to see voting's manager, in legal filling form.

> No one can stop what's coming

Looks like a couple people got stopped permanently on Jan 6.

If more want to fuck around, I'm sure they can also find out. The Secret Service has a very focused mission and does not play games.
A regulator contends that Facebook allowed a fake news item to spread. Facebook contends that it does not meet the criteria for fake news. What happens next?

Where else could the drumbeat to regulate Big Tech’s fake news problem wind up taking us?
I'm not sure what is so special about using css custom properties (aka css variables) as well, variables. That is their intended purpose after all, what else would you use them for?

In fairness the author talks about using them very dynamically (rip cache), which is a bit different, but still its just an extension of the basic idea of setting a variable.
I don't really spend any time on CNN, and NY Times requires me to jump through hoops sometimes to read articles, as I do not have a subscription. I'll take Reuters and AP News at face value unless there's something spectacular that needs investigating (which would not be the norm.) So unless there's a claim such as that all across the nation, poll workers, election officials, appointed judges, etc. are all coordinating a well-concealed attack on the integrity of an election... well conspiracy theories need considerable evidence. That is, I mean, they need evidence that is clear, falsifiable, verifiable. Then I have to dig deeper.

I also trust peers with a similar threshold. If none of my intelligent friends and family members with a history of digging deeply into fantastic claims believe the current fantastic claim, I don't tend to feel the need to do such digging myself. If one of them was suddenly making a grandiose claim, I would sit up and notice and have to investigate further.
Aside from the place mentioned in numerous sibling comments, Article I Sec. 9. Cl. 1 (it's not phrased in racial terms, but it's literally Constitutional protection of the slave trade.)
The funny thing is despite your mockery of my reply, literally all the things I've mentioned have already happened to people in real life. It's just a matter of time until it's well known and happening to very milquetoast people. Eventually it will be happening to people you agree with, and when it does, remember this comment.
I can't agree, this is the peak of the trump era, a last hoorah for him and his followers. They will now be pushed to the fringe and Trump will go to jail for a significant amount of time in New York for serious tax fraud and bank fraud no doubt.
You say it’s a powder keg. Let me bring my perspective here. My background is not dissimilar to yours but my family came to the US in the 1920s before Partition and married both blacks and whites. In India modern Hinduness is defined by bhakti movement and opposition to Muslims whereas before caste was prevalent. With the official removal of caste by Indian constitution yet implementation of reservations the use of Muslims as an enemy to coalesce against has increased. Even Ambedkar conceded this might be an issue which is why he wanted to give Pakistan 10 years trial period. What you are denying is the obvious parallel with the construction of legal whiteness in America from several European ethnic groups (like castes in India but not occupational based) as opposed to free and chattel slave blacks.
Thanks for that book suggestion I'll look for it. I don't have his death on here, that's true. The list is more about overcoming adversity than chronicling all his failures - though you may be right that he would be seen more negatively if he had lived. Perhaps the circumstances of his death helped create the legend around him - a lemons out of lemonade sort of thing (admittedly those are some damn sour lemons however).
> You own assets worth of 50 billion dollars. Assuming there is no capital gain or loss and that your return on investment is 5%, you should be making 2.5 billion USD annually. Half of that would normally need to be paid as income tax to government. That's around 1 billion dollars every year.

You're assuming that gain in wealth translates to taxable income. It doesn't (necessarily).

Suppose that you buy $100 worth of microsoft stock and the price rises so it's worth $150 a year later. You don't owe anything on that $50 increase in value. (You don't owe anything until you sell.)

However, if you put that same $100 into a bank account and received $10 in interest over the same year. You owe taxes on that $10.

I'd guess that a large fraction of BillG's investments are of the form that he doesn't pay taxes until he cashes out, either for consumption or to make different investments.

If so, BillG's taxable income can <$100M/year while his wealth is growing by $2.5B/year.

I suspect that BillG taxable income was under $5m/year during most of the years while his wealth was exploding (due to the increase in the value of his microsoft stock).
One interesting thing you could do is along the lines of http://iwearyourshirt.com/ ... That is, you can have people sponsor you to wear their companies t-shirt for one event during the conference. Not only might startups be interested, so might your country as well as larger corporations.
From the random generator's website: "Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again."

Interesting guarantee for a random number generator to provide...
I think then the next step will be

Group centered...
My understanding is that net-neutrality is only enforceable via government regulation. Meaning, that without the government mandating neutrality, the corporations would be free to break neutrality.

As is usual, to provide freedom to one group, one must limit the freedoms of another, and we usually use government to do that.
Based on my morals I stand by the word choice. I agree that not everybody will agree that it is stealing, and it is certainly not against the lost but yes I believe that it is stealing from the company.

Here's why, the way I see it when a company hires an employee they are, as much as anything else, buying that person's time. When you think of it like this while the employee is on the clock the company owns their time. Stealing is to take something without the owners consent. The store owner consent to you using the employee's time, that is effectively the employer's time, with understanding that you are wanting to buy something at the risk of you changing your mind. This is the unspoken agreement. When you use the employee's time without any intention of buying something you are doing so outside of this unspoken agreement and that requires a different consent. If you walk in and say that you do not intend to buy something then the owner can decide whether to consent to your taking the employee's time, or then can decline.

tl;dr Stealing is taking without consent. When you talk to an employee you are taking them away from the company. Consent under false pretenses ins't consent.
Many people are finished--or at least a good way through--Christmas shopping. Thanksgiving time would probably have been better; hopefully these folks will be able to return some of the gifts they've purchased, if that's something they need to do.
Here's what I've done with it: http://moultano.blogspot.com/2010/12/history-through-google-...

This tool is absolutely amazing.
I could see myself switching to a Mac because they have very nice laptops. a macbook pro or a air is a fine machine.
on the downside: the keyboards suck and it would require me to setup a dual-boot system.
Unless I'm missing something, like a few extra pages of content, this article doesn't say anything about how it feels to be canned before Christmas, other than to suggest that "Degraded and bestial" as 'perhaps an appropriate description'.

What a pointless article.
Accurately copying Bargue perhaps qualifies Picasso as a serviceable mediocre realist. It doesn't mean he was "great," which was the assertion here. His early realist works were bland and uninspired, if technically proficient.

In other words, doing well in the technical aspects of a student drawing course is not even close to demonstrating that one is "great" on the same level as, say, Caravaggio or Rembrandt.
>Is Zoom here to stay or is video conferencing here to stay?

I think Zoom is here to stay at the enterprise level. Video conferencing was always a niche product until the pandemic. It was a big business, but never quite large enough to experience network effects. Now that it's a mainstream part of most people's lives, that has all changed. Zoom was in the right place at the right time to capture that, and it's going to be very hard moving forward for someone to unseat them at this point.
Cool. Mine is only for remote jobs and has worldwide listings. Sounds good.
It looks like HN gets about 1-2 submissions per minute and ~10s of comments per minute, although I imagine the daily Joe Rogan argument attracts more than the average. Then there’s the votes. I would ballpark the average mutation rate at ~1/s. Who would doubt it is possible to host this on one box?
Palm Pilots didn't have folders :-)
Glad you enjoyed! Unicode and how it interacts with other aspects of computers (IDNA, NFKC, grapheme clusters, etc) is some of the spaces I want to explore more.
I vote Wednesday the 29th but am open to alternate suggestions.
This reminds me of mandatory minimum sentencing that takes the jail time given away from the discretion of the judge. It seems that Microsoft doesn't trust it's managers to make objective reviews, especially to call out poor performers who are otherwise liked by their coworkers. There must be a middle way.
> I can do it myself sitting at home, I’ve done a couple projects, but it was not fun.

No you can't, obviously. You just said it. For one, you don't enjoy it.

What you need to learn is that straight programming isn't a valuable skill by itself. You already know this because you wrote an article about it. You need to be able to tie your programming skills with other skills such as selling yourself as the person to get the job done. Once you get the job, you need to be able to ship it.

There are programming skills that are valuable in isolation. If you are a world expert on a certain domain which lacks talent, then that's valuable. But that's not really isolation, that's tying your programming skills with a certain specialty.

Take a look at the model you are working under. There is a whole spectrum of jobs from good to crap. On Odesk, there are a sprinkling of good and a lot of crap. I imagine the company employing you is saying yes to every job that comes their way. They probably don't get good jobs, so it's all crap. They get crap jobs which pay crap and of course you are going to get a small slice of a crap pie.

Why take a job just because it's there? Okay, you laid out a bunch of reasons but you still hate it. I would probably hate working on crap jobs also. People worked for Steve Jobs because the guy was... well... Steve Jobs. Why are you working for people who are trying to compete on the worst model in web development, the race to the bottom in pricing?

If you know good developers, then maybe you could start your own development shop and get those developers to work for you. If you hate the work but you can get jobs, then maybe do the selling and have the other developers do the work.

Or maybe you could come up with your own projects and monetize them.

You just have to hustle, just like everyone else does. You can't just write code and expect the world to come to you. Get out there and make things happen.

Edit: In other words, quit whining. ;)

Edit: Edit: I could write a book on this subject. The above is just an attempt at an off the cuff capture. There are a ton of threads on HN which are hugely valuable on bringing the bacon as a developer. Just look around, it's more productive than ranting about your situation.

Clearly the person you are working for is trying to take a "this is how everything is done here" approach to running a dev shop and hiring developers. It's the same in the Philippines. Everyone works 10 hour days, 6 days a week and within a certain band of salary. I suppose the U.S. is like that to some degree. We have the 9 to 5 and 40 hour weeks.

Disruption in your case would be pretty easy. If the company has decent employees, then you could scoop them all up.
> THE PROBLEM WITH LITTLE WHITE GIRLS

After a year in East Africa, that was one of the things I noticed here: they always come in pairs of 20-year-old white girls. Except for South East Asia, many more young men there.

> $3000 bought us a week at an orphanage

That can actually cause children being obducted or "borrowed" to staff orphanages for white Voluntourists.

> Our mission while at the orphanage was to build a library.

And another 10 African carpenters who lost a job to those white Santa-Clauses.

> have a camp run and executed by Dominicans

Good luck. I have never seen any organization actually run locally. Sure, it often looks like it is, but if you digg a little deeper, you always find at least one Westener (or local who lived half their life in the West) making sure that people actually do things and not just spend the money and idle. But there maybe one such organization, somewhere, I just haven't found it yet.
Absolutely. It's like a very out of the money call option. Doesn't cost much to play, but huge upside.

The strange thing is this goes against some traditional thinking, which says that larger firms are more able to bear risk than smaller ones since they can diversify away the costs of failed projects. To your point, it's actually the VCs that do this diversification rather than the large companies.
Never. It's never stealing. It may be infringing, douchey, objectively wrong, illegal, despicable, plagiarism but, unless it deprives you of your copy, it's not stealing.

While I understand the rhetorical usefulness of calling copyright infringement stealing, it's simply not accurate and nitpickers will be right. Again, they may also be annoying, myopic, or outright stupid, but they will be correct.

However, the article is much better than the title would imply so if you were just irked by the headline, don't skip it.
I've seen a few of these stories that assert Hiroshima lost his account. That misrepresents things a little. What actually happened is he was blackmailed into changing his username; his Twitter account, including his tweet history, followers and everything besides the single-character username, seems to have remained intact and under his control throughout the ordeal.
Or at least just increasing CGT rates to somewhere between the current rates and income tax rates. But if we got rid of lower CGT rates it could destabilize the stock market.

My gripe with income taxes is how each year is taxed in isolation. You could be making minimum wage your whole life except for 1 year where you get a big windfall, and that year you'll be taxed as if you're wealthy and lose most of it to taxes despite needing the money more than most people who paid less tax that year. Perhaps income taxes should be taxed based on a rolling average or something.

I can't see how wealth / asset taxes would play out in practice. Elon Musk is the wealthiest man in the world but most of that is unvested TSLA options that he can't sell. The world's wealthiest person could end up owing more tax than he has liquidity for. I think we need to stop all taxation on unrealized gains. Already, things like AMT on ISO exercises penalize the middle class the most, as plenty of people realize each year trying to participate in their employer stock plans.

Increasing capital gains tax (only when cash out or transferring) would increase tax on the wealthy, and make life simpler and less stressful for all.
Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html