jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
|"It has recently come to my attention that the chef de cabinet to the prosecutor, Sam Shoamanesh, and the head of jurisdiction, complementarity, and cooperation division, Phakiso Mochochoko, are helping drive ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's effort to use this court to investigate Americans," the secretary of state said. "I'm examining this information now and considering what the United States' next steps ought to be with respect to these individuals and all those who are putting Americans at risk."

|"We want to identify those responsible for this partisan investigation and their family members who may want to travel to the United States or engage in activity that's inconsistent with making sure we protect Americans," he continued.

That whole administration is being run like it binged watch a bunch of Mafia themed movies and decided it was a good way to run a country...
Certain slurs against a person's race or sexuality. They came to be called "gamer words" as a meme after PewDiePie dropped one while playing a game of PUBG live on stream.
Love it. This is such a good idea.

The only limitation is that it's VS Code only. But, the JSON output means I could easily write a script to produce HTML that could be hosted for other devs to view.
Two quick unrelated thoughts on this.

- I noticed one day that I was absent mindedly staring into the refrigerator. This has happened before of course, many times actually, but at the time I was trying to learn a bit about mindfulness and I thought this was an opportunity to try to decompose how I got there. Working my way backwards, I realized that I had experienced this little pang of a sensation that I 'chunked' as 'hunger'. But then, instead of responding to the sensation and all its subtlety, I responded to the word and went to the refrigerator. It then occurred to me that I probably do that a lot and don't even realize it. The subjective experience is full of these incredibly rich and nuanced sensations, and yet I compartmentalize them with my relatively coarse and dull vocabulary, and then act on that chunk.

I'd be curious if people that have a native tongue that is more expressive in a specific domain tends to cause them to operate differently within it.

- Second thought is that language, or specifically the ability for one mind to inject an idea into another without the second having to experience it AND the ability for the second mind to retain that information almost as if they have experienced it, is an evolutionary shortcut that our biological evolution has enabled. Essentially an evolution of evolution. (I then see technology as the third type of evolution, in which our language allows us to develop capabilities that exceed our biology, and ultimately AI will likely be the fourth, in which technology enables a mind that exceeds our own).
with the institutionalized, periodic prophylactic quarantine -- I was thinking, we could break/slowdown the pathogen re-transmission network (at least temporary).

I was thinking that the above realization, could come as outcome of 'what could be done better' analysis, at the end of this pandemic.
never happen. latency would make it extraordinarily difficult even on isdn lines, and jitter on anything else ... just no. sorry.

Adopt a barn as practice space and spread out and shout.
Interesting. One of the themes of the classic Japanese film Ponyo is how separating elders from the rest of society is bad for both.

And Japan has strong laws requiring filial care for elders.

Anyway, sequestering elders isn't uniquely Japanese. USA is famous for that.
When I was homeless, I sometimes stayed in cheap hotels. I never stayed in an Airbnb. I've seen discussions online where other homeless people also concluded Airbnb was useless and cheap hotels were more accessible for the poorest of the poor Americans.

I've also seen articles about how tourism is destroying cities, destroying the environment, etc.

Meanwhile, an upside to the current pandemic is a massive drop in pollution so extreme it's visible on satellite imagery.

I am reluctant to agree that optimizing for the right of "ordinary people" to pursue jet set lifestyles is really in the best interest of humanity.

I'm happy to let people travel. But "Let's ruin the planet for touristy shit and claim it to be some egalitarian ideal to open that path to less rich people so they can join in on that" is not really a value that strikes me as belonging in the wise and idealistic column.

Mayhap we can find something better if we put a little effort into it.
True true, hmm, what if I tried something like "a(myVariable).is.text()"?

Check out my gist I posted, should be on a comment-branch nearby.
Thanks. As I wrote above, as far as I
know, I'm not using WebForms and am
just using basic IIS and ASP.NET.

From what I understand, what I'm using
is lighter weight than MVC or anything
else being discussed here. So far,
I see no problems with what I'm doing.

E.g., for the MVC architecture,
I have a server farm and software
architecture, and it's simple
and more than enough.
The thing you are suggesting leads to a frighting conclusion. Are you saying that you are against people like elon musk from doing what he does ? He wasn't born into wealth and was middle class just like you and me but was just too damn smart. The free market rewarded him for his smartness and we are all better off because of

"Hey I've invented a self-driving electric car, which you can't buy because I've halved your salary, lol" isn't a deal that works for me.
I don't want that!
I want to remain anonymous to help improve the content of youtube without exposing myself to risk. For example I might want to post something bad about a competitor's youtube video, which will contribute to the discussion but I don't want my affiliation or name to distract from this conversation.

The real problem is that the elimination of privacy that Google has so meticulously pursued has left their communities dull and idol, producing poor quality and non-stimulating content.

Now I am going to think twice about upvoting that crazy youtube video, and something more mild will take its place in the rank hierarchy?

What happened to the cool internet?
I did a bunch of work for XVim a while back. The owner is really friendly and very welcoming of contributions, so if anyone wants to pitch in you'll find it worthwhile. When I first looked at XVim the code was a little disorganised. It was possible to fix it up with some fairly massive refactorings, and they were all warmly welcomed.

Once I switched to AppCode I thought I'd do the same for IdeaVim, but the code base is such an unholy affront to the gods that I gave that idea up.

Unfortunately, much like the author, my conclusion was to empty out my vimrc and start using a minimal subset that is definitely supported on all platforms. It's a real bummer, but it's definitely better than not using killer vim + IDE combinations.
If you interpret your addresses as signed values, then the entire address space can be contiguous.

I'm not suggesting that this is a good idea, but is certainly an idea.
For real how is “community support” a bullet point here...?
Expo is all these things though?
I do love flameshot. I am still searching for a good Gif recorder for Linux which works with i3.
On OSX a good gif recorder was licecap
Most people regret that Google did not invest in Julia but, to my mind, it misses the point.
Swift for TensorFlow's unique selling point was bringing a strong type system and ML+autodiferentiation together. That, for me, would be a huge boost to push ML code to production quality.
Great, looking forward to migrating to Go once Python 4 is finally shutdown in 2023 ;)

But, yeah, ultimately I'm glad any company is contributing to upkeep the language, but the whole "Visionary Sponsors", "Sustainability Sponsors", "Maintaining Sponsors", "Contributing Sponsors", etc distinction between them seems very unnecessary.
Well, the is still C and other languages if you do not like complicated high level features.
A code walkthrough with one of their engineer can be a preferred route.
If you enjoy engineering marbles like that, I recommend checking out this boat lift:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederfinow_Boat_Lift
It _may_ be possible, and the inaccuracies in such a simulation _might_ be useful to meet some goal, if a valuable use could be determined that would justify the costs involved, but there's nothing inevitably true about any of those propositions. It's a bit like the Drake equation, reasonable people can assign different probability values to the various factors and come to radically different conclusions.

For example if I think there's a very low chance a valuable enough use for such a simulation could be found, and there's a low chance such a simulation would meet the criteria to be useful, and that there's a low chance such a simulation would need to be so accurate as to have actually conscious simulated inhabitants to meet those goals, then the chance that we are in a simulation comes to be vanishingly small.
In this 1988-video Teuvo Kohonen tells us that future AIs will be "separate units you can attach to your regular computer". This sounds true, methinks real AIs will be treated like human personalities with certain skillz and experience. "This AI has 3 years of experience of driving on congested roads in India, 300€".
They will be separate units, because the hardware will be more brain-like, and architecture is constructed or grown as it gains knowledge and skills. https://youtu.be/Qy3h7kT3P5I?t=2479
Since drivers can't set their own rates, I've always felt the government should regulate the split. Uber's portion should be capped at something like 5%. The marginal cost for them to connect a driver to a rider is close to 0 so even 5% feels very generous.
that's a great way to end up dead by the countries who do not wish said country to have an ICBM.
Additionally, who in their right mind wants to go to Chicago for literally any reason?

Source: I am an American who has visited Chicago 3 times and hated it more and more each time due to prices, crime, horrible weather, and extreme lack of anything to do
Well, off the top of my head I know two independent developers who are making a go of it and have since basically the App Store started. Marco Arment (Instapaper and now Overcast) and David Smith (at least a dozen apps).

Software has zero marginal cost. You either have to a product that incentivizes people to pay more or enough paying customers to be sustainable. Independent developers can do the same scammy techniques that the big boys use - go after whales or advertising.

Or the less scammy free with ads with an in app payment to get rid of ads and optional in app purchases that aren’t pay to win (like Crossy Roads).
I hate to ask this but is this satire?
Especially since we know that most office workers are phoning it in for 3-4 hours a day.
watch for these traffic graphs to grow

http://micelg.usinternet.com/export/

The 511 building is going to be moving some serious bits soon
Actually, the root cause of the financial crisis was the Federal Reserve's interest rate manipulation. This distortion creates moral hazard, encourages malinvestment, and causes companies to make bad decisions.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=650
I wish we could do it that easily, but the way the banking system works, if one of those big banks fails, a lot more will go down with it, and that damage would probably dwarf the cost of making cheap loans to banks (but the important part is to plug as many holes in the system after that).

You'd actually be punishing the rest of the US (and the world) more than GS (or any of the other giant banks) if you let them fail. That needs to be fixed, but the time to make a point about that probably wasn't in the middle of a global financial panic.
ffmpeg has presets for ipod ( which btw also work just as well for Blackberry ) and dvds. Go tweak and select a preset that works for you and go with you. My advise is to use existing ffpresets presets.

I think you will find preset in the ffmpeg source/ffpresets

Very important : once you get ffmpeg to work just the way you want, back up the source that you used to build your binary and backup all sources of libs . This is important as sometimes refreshing code from repositories breaks the features you depend on . And if you are extremely paranoid like me and your business had a critical dependency on video transcoding, create a Virtual box guest OS, build ffmpeg and tweek till it works and then save that image for emergencies. Its about a Days work in all.

I have a shell script that scans my "input folder"(an ftp dir) once it finds a file , it invokes ffmpeg process. On a quad core box, I max my cpu utilization at 8 ~10 concurrent instances of ffmpeg. Your mileage would depend on factors like bitrate etc.
I take it there's some kind of story here?
Do you know much about Warren Buffett? He is one of the three richest men in the world. He has created an immense amount of value for himself, but also for other people, due to his value based investment strategies. He's not a Carl Icahn corporate raider -- he's a businessman who looks for value and ways to increase value. That's a tremendously valuable individual to society. As a fellow entrepreneur, I have read and found inspiration in his philosophies and accomplishments. And that was before he went and promised 85% of his net worth to charities (Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, I believe) upon his death. Near as I can tell, that's over $30 billion dollars of wealth that he has created that he is now giving away.

I agree that you cannot expect unbiased information from anybody these days. But it's not fair to single out Mr. Buffett, as he certainly isn't the type of rich man you want to paint with that brush.
All Hayao Miyazaki movies are pretty epic :)
For me, Google Voice's features allow me more granular control over my availability, and reduce the total time my telephone takes by letting me skim textual versions of voicemails, direct calls hither and thither, etc.
Config is ultra-sensitive information. It's like not having the right .gitignore if you're backing up /etc in git or not having enough password log filters.

The issue is that ultimately, one has to trust some infrastructure as being of an ultimately trusted network (whether it's Puppet/Chef/cfe2+ or offline authoritative CA's)
I can relate to this. Given a choice between tech I know works, and tech which is "trendy", I find it hard to take a punt on the new stuff.

I do feel it's OK to require new tech to prove itself though and I am quite happy to keep it at arms length until it's earned its stripes - while recognising it can take years for the hype cycle to play out.
"Breaking" Netscape? A stand-alone application? Really?

Anticompetitive maybe, but Microsoft embedding IE into Windows didn't break Netscape or other browsers in any functional way from my recollection (and I was using NN 2/3/4, Opera, IE 3/4/5/6 on 28.8 and 56k modems at the time).
I got bit by env vars a few years back, but due to performance issues in getenv() and ended up writing a whole bunch of PHP magic to ship config files safely and fast.

With pecl/hidef, I can hook a bunch of text .ini files into the PHP engine and defines constants as each requests comes in.

Originally, it was written for a nearly static website, which was spending a ridiculous amount of time defining constants, which rolled over every 30 minutes.

Plus those .ini files were only readable to root, which reads it and then forks off the unprivileged processes.

But with the hidef.per_request_ini, I could hook that into the Apache2 vhost settings, so that the exact same code would operate with different constants across vhosts without changing any code between them.

Used two different RPMs to push those two bits so that I could push code & critical config changes as a two-step process.

And with a bit of yum trickery (the yum-multiverse plugin), I could install two versions of code and one version of config, and other madness like that with the help of update-alternatives.

That served as an awesome A/B testing setup, to innoculate a new release with a fraction of users hitting a different vhost for the micro-service.

I'm rambling now, but the whole point is that you need per-request/per-user config overlay layers, for which env vars are horrible, slow and possibly printed everytime someone throws some diagnostics up.
You lost me at "positive, truthful ways". :)
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I don't believe that was true for the BASIC through beginning MS-DOS era. Putting a BASIC interpreter on the Altair 8800 and other early microcomputers was an "obvious" thing to do at the time given the language's popularity in minicomputers, and MS-DOS and its wild success essentially fell into their lap, with their critically being willing to bet the company on it (DRI, the CP/M company wasn't willing to do business on IBM's terms, hardly surprising at the time) and successful execution.

After that, yeah, a lot of following, then again for the GUI introduction era everyone was following Douglas Engelbart, and Xerox PARC for the graphical part.
I read that as "lots of people in the media and in Internet discussions disagree with what we're doing and they need to be exposed to at least some content that supports us."

Purely authoritarian would be "everyone needs to just talk about our point of view." That wouldn't fly too well on the Internet, so this seems like the next best thing. "No one is saying anything good about what we're doing and we need to change that. Not by changing what we do, but by coercing them to be exposed to things that support us."
Pasteurisation, if done correctly, will destroy the toxin but may not get rid of the bacterium - this is because the spores are resistant to heat.

The risk is that infants in the first few months of life have not fully developed their gut defences, so the spores can colonise within the intestine and release the toxin.

In older children and adults, any spores will be annihilated during passage through the digestive system, so it is safe for them to consume honey.
The thesis here is that some men who are confident but not competent become leaders. But, while there are incompetent people who are confident, isn't confidence always a requirement for good leadership?
I remember reading this somewhere a few years ago as well. RSIC-V was the "this is an educational ISA, but we're gonna see how far we can take it"
Point #1 - you are going to find the same bureaucracy, aversion to change and outdated technology at any large for-profit company.

----

Point #2 - I do not understand how anyone could have a sense of purpose working in the public sector. Around me, every level of government is filled with low levels of corruption. Our municipal workers do things like "buy 15 years of service" for $3,600 to jack up their retirement benefits by $40,000 per year. Or they work 120 hours per week overtime in the last year before retirement. All legal because it's approved by the managers. One manager of a municipality near me embezzled $3.6 million over about a decade. She's in jail now. Failed project after failed project, no accountability for money spent. I once worked for a company who had a local municipality as a customer. One municipal employee called me saying their printer wasn't working. I figured I'd walk her through some basic troubleshooting tasks but before I got the first one out she said, "Can you just come out?" Her printer power cord was unplugged. The entire office was sitting around talking like they had nothing to do while I plugged the printer in and it worked right away.
Shameless plug: At PixLab, we offer similar model available as a REST API endpoint: https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=nsfw. The NSFW API endpoint which let you detect bloody & adult content. This can help the developer automate things such as filtering users' image uploads. A tutorial on using such API is available on https://dev.to/unqlite_db/filter-image-uploads-according-to-....

The solution can also be deployed on-promises for real-time, local video analysis without leaving the deployment environment: https://pixlab.io/on-premises.
Pretty sure that's the one
Yes how
Thank you. No, the forms and the form builder are custom made. :)
Depth of field, bokeh and perspective are things that aren't photographic, it's just physics and our eyes do it too. You can easily notice it in real life.

Focal length being variable has nothing to do with photography either. It has to do with screens that vary in size and distance. To be able to match the angle of view of our eyes, the camera in a video game needs to vary it's focal length. And of course, our eyes have a focal length too.

Our eyes feel motion blur too. It's just cut out when you saccade your eyes by the brain. Track a car with your eyes and notice the motion blur over the whole street. Now, for video games, it doesn't make much sense until you realize that we use 30/60fps screens. Motion blur is a crutch to minimize the obviousness of low frame rates. In a perfect world of course, you would want your screen to have 144+Hz of refresh rate and let your own eyes do the motion blur, but that's too expensive for now.

So you see, these things aren't actually there because of photography. They are things that our eyes do just as much as any camera. In fact, the only real difference between our eyes and cameras is that eyes operate continuously while cameras operate semi-discretely, though at 200fps+ this converges almost completely.
Not true. The companies consider it a cost saving over in-housing the recruitment capability. Finders fees are paid on top of the offer.
I kinda like the Bruce Scheiner books but they're mostly examples of security failures.
This SMBC was written in 2013, and I still think it's the most accurate simplified explanation of how social media on the internet tends to work I've come across:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939

I don't have a solution. But it's a real problem.
Sounds really cool. I hope this project continues after bitcoin crashes. My fear is that the bitcoin crash will make people irrationally skeptical of any new electronic money/payment system that isn't coming from the establishment.
Why are you using ios?
Wake me up when/if they do AMD version with verified ECC support.
who else here had napkin design of just this ?

now let's have a pocket variant that revives the old google modular project
It’s not college though is it?
This is super interesting.

Reminds me of how a lot of centralized crypto exchanges work off-chain. Buy / sell is still taxable though.

That being said, tax implications are really important so we're thinking through what's best for our users with every feature we build.
Is there something similar for german sites?
I think it's the term "wrong" is what I object to - Newtonian mechanics is still perfectly "correct" for a large number of circumstances. Just because a more refined, and rather more complex theory, comes along a few centuries later doesn't invalidate the fact that if you stay within the boundaries of the where it is known to be perfectly valid it is the best thing to use.

When you model some physical system you do it with and end in mind and a lot of assumptions have to be made (e.g. that gas flow is non-turbulent, heat flow is uniform) which are all wrong in some sense because reality isn't like that but if you didn't make these simplifying assumptions then you'd never get anything done.

Mathematical models aren't reality - they are an attempt to create structures that allow us to explain and predict and the assumptions underlying the mappings between these structures and reality are just as important as the contents of the theories themselves. It's possible to model the same system in umpteen different ways - indeed as there is no all encompassing theory-of-absolutely-everything you have to make some important decisions when you model something as to what is relevant. Trying to model plate tectonics in terms of string theory is unlikely to get you very far - that doesn't make string theory "wrong".