jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When my wife was an editor at a linux-related magazine, she used to complain about how some article authors would send in drafts that described in detail how to 'configure; make; make install' and left out all of the substantive issues. If the subject software had a concept of priority, these articles would explain how to set priority using 'configure' but not whether priority=2 was higher or lower than priority=1.

This article reminds me of that — "we need x" and then a big void instead of discussion about why we don't have x or what we might do to get x.

We don't know why only one of the big providers started interoperating with XMPP. But we do know why that one stopped again: A terrible wave of spammy contact requests. They were able to fight intra-gtalk spam much more effectively than spam that originated via XMPP.

Someone who wants app authors (and IM providers) to support an XMPP-like protocol could investigate and write about how an XMPP-like protocol could be made unfriendly to spam. That would be interesting and IMO useful, completely unlike this article.
Shouldn't it be?
I have only observed this problem in a few extreme cases. Once I unrolled 24x24 matrix*vector multiplication, with 72 AVX instructions. Other time I implemented JIT to generate large volume of AVX2 code in runtime.

In the other 99% of cases, inlining did better despite producing more code.
App distribution can be totally different from API access to my device. No matter where i get the app from, when accessing certain APIs i would get notified about that, or would have to explicitly enable that functionality in OS settings.
Let’s ask China, they have a government runned by a unique party for decades.
“A curse upon humanity”? Aren’t you getting a bit carried away? You may not like the contents of the show but fact is he presents a lot of really complex issues in an easily digestible, shareable format, for people who only follow the 24/7 (shallow) news cycle and get their understanding from sound bites. Not to mention the hyperbole of “all of humanity” - his audience is not even all of America :)
Kind of stupid to compare against Imessage. It says Imessage can link to your device id. And once apple knows the device id, they basically know everything about you since they own the device (remember: you don't own your Iphone). It is admirable that signal is not using any identifiable data, though.
What I got from LSD upon reflection was that my mental pre-processor (what assigns learned categorical and pattern information to incoming data) limits my perception, leading me to overlook important details about the new data, and causing me to lazily follow the same old thought patterns as if on rails. It's often necessary to ignore everything we think we know and look at our current situation with fresh eyes in order to progress.
LSD seems to disproportionately affect the mind's capacity to visualize complex systems and relationships, so even if you aren't being all that novel or insightful in your thinking, the ability to really see what you're pondering in a larger and more detailed way than you've ever experienced can feel like an incredible aha moment, even if you haven't actually figured anything out. The glamor of the vision can be seductive.

Another issue is that it can be very difficult to stay focused long enough to transcribe what you're experiencing mentally in any sort of comprehensible way. Just as you're a few words into your description of a vast and intricate concept, 5 completely new ones come rolling in.

Not that I'm any sort of expert, but the solution seems to be various forms of mental discipline. Meditation and trying to remain a dispassionate observer (versus an impassioned epiphany seeker) can help to slow things down and make the experience less chaotic.
Maybe I don't get it, but that seems completely unsecure, isn't it? In fact I wasn't sure if this was some kind of parody, especially XORing strings and calling that "almost perfect encryption".
I actually tried LSD a couple of times because of this article, back when it was written. It was a pretty enjoyable experience, and I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in trying it, with a few caveats.

First, you need to have an experienced sitter with you. You're in for the full 8-10 hours, and on the off chance you start having a bad trip (things getting really dark and scary), you need someone to ground you to reality (and change the music or location, which can often instantly snap you out of a mood).

Second, if you're generally comfortable with your own thoughts and have a positive outlook you're much less likely to have a bad trip. This is why I think it's better to do it when you're older and more mature, rather than in your late teens/early twenties. I think you have more of an ability to process what's going on. Many people have the thought at some point during the trip, "What if I get stuck like this?" which can probably lead to a slight panic if you're not good at thinking about your own thoughts and realizing the feeling for what it is.

Third, go out into nature if you can. Preferably with just your friends and not a lot of people around. It's pretty cool.

Finally, the day after you'll feel somewhat drained and probably just want to stay inside and read. The day after, you're totally fine. I think the real long-term effects are kind of just a "tweaking of the dials". I don't feel like it was some super transformative experience, but it was really interesting in a way that's hard to describe, and you learn a lot about your own mind and how it works. I also feel like it kind of cleaned the windows on the way I see the world, in that I feel more positive and open to ideas, and in some ways I feel like I might be more creative now. It might sound hard to believe, but I understand now why they're researching using hallucinogens to treat depression, PTSD, etc.

Anyway, I'm not encouraging anyone to do it, but I will say that emotionally mature people should not be afraid to do it. Also, I never got any kind of signs that it was addictive. I pretty much just did it once, did it a few months later, and that was it for me.
I think considering swift as merely an evolution of obj-c is a drastic underestimation. Swift is a very nice language in its own right. Having spent time with most of the languages you've mentioned, while the learning curve might be a bit steeper, I think Swift is much easier to manage a medium or large project with than any of those options with the exception of maybe Kotlin, and personally I find some of the design choices a bit better in Swift than in Kotlin.
> I agree with the idea that large discrepancies require investigation, but I don't see how you could expect extremely large, different groups (defining those groups being a massive challenge alone) of people to have the exact same outcomes.

Putting 2M people in prison is not an acceptable outcome to me. Hence my argument to proactively try to support groups that are currently most at risk.
The Uber engineering disaster story from 2 months ago seems to suggest that Apple lacks dogfooding Swift internally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25373462
Your employer is very possibly doing it to you and other employees as well, and it's perfectly legal for them to do it. I keep any work-issued equipment I have at home powered off if I'm not actually working.
Its in the DDMMYYYY format

It doesn't work as expected in all countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
14 years ago, when the iPod Video was popular and it had an unlocked bootloader that allowed installing third-party software, lots of tech-inclined people replaced the Apple OS with Rockbox, which had support for FLAC. Unfortunately, with the next generation of iPods, Apple locked the device down, and the only lossless format supported was Apple's own.
Perhaps they mean "I don't want to get into the specific politics, I'd prefer to discuss the generic position from big tech that they help governments suppress news of human rights violations".

In other words, "should big tech do things like this"

Rather than "{thing X} is wrong and big tech is suppressing news of that exact thing. Let's talk about whether thing X is really wrong, or whether it's really newsworthy"
The other countries haven't become provinces of other less Democratic countries thanks to America's protection.
I'm simply replying to their comments.

Are you seriously going to side with the person claiming my 100% CCP related comments aren't related to the CCP? Please don't give into the gaslighting dang.

Edit to add: actually, please point out where there's any anger in anything I said, or the other person said, flamewar - "angry or abusive messages." If you read the messages as perhaps intense, maybe you could define them as intense - as they are important topics. I'd really like clarification on how this qualifies as flamewars. Really curious who flagged this as well? Was the person involved in trying to suppress the conversation on the CCP one of them who flagged it?
When people think vaccine they think, ‘only effective if taken beforehand’. Is that the case for mRNA vaccines?
Aren’t bink videos can be rendered as textures? A lot of games use such effects on in-game objects (e.g. tv playing real videos).
Maybe that model doesn't work, but I wish there was some government oversight preventing huge companies from buying out small competitors just to shut them down entirely. Like Apple did with Dark Sky, Microsoft did with Wunderlist, and Twitter did with Vine. It's really unfortunate that we can't have much small tech.
I'm not following your logic. React+ReactDom only has 3 dependencies, so I don't understand how that follows. How is React bloated because `create-react-app` gives you functionality to setup a PWA? If I don't care about PWAs, I don't need to use it, but `create-react-app` downloads it anyways.

The majority of the dependencies pulled in on create-react-app is from the `react-scripts` which helps entirely with scaffolding. Saying that React is bloated because the scaffolding generation tool downloads too much code sounds crazy.
what? inflation has nothing to do with an online cult that requires people to transfer their wealth to the top 1% of the bitcoin hoarders/miners
I was a Simple customer for years, and have tried many banks, including banks in multiple countries. Simple was hands down the best banking app I've ever used. You should be proud.
OP is a EU citizen though.

I have no idea about the legal intricacies involved for US citizens, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no corporate tax for the HK setup I described.
There are worse things than PHP out there :)

Many of the so-called 4th generation languages (i.e. business shits derived from Cobol with DB support bolted in) are totally crazy in this sense. Not only are identifiers often case insensitive, they can also be abbreviated!

Yet people make massive amounts of money with them.
I've seen this exact same thing too. The "extenuating" (if you could call it that) factor was that the monitoring software was written in house and it was just shit. It might have been a pet project initially, but it didn't end up that way. It was just continued out of some combination of habit, risk aversion and not invented here syndrome.

When dumped and replaced by one of the better OSS versions in a few days by a developer who got fed up, things "magically" got much better, very quickly.

No praise or career boost at all for the developer in question, though. I think a large number of people (from management down) were embarrassed by the whole affair and wanted to forget about it. It seems that praise can only be dished out if you didn't embarrass somebody important.
I would feel guilty using a button like this. I mean, do I seriously lack the time and/or willpower to go to the store and pick up my own groceries? Thanks Amazon, but I got this.
WEC is endurance based - this would be a much shorter race.

Also, WEC imposes lots of other limits (numbers of tires allowed, etc, etc.)

Imagine something more along the lines of Group C.
I have one with MX Clears, got it as a Christmas gift, love it.
Why, because the entire point of react native is so you can use javascript to handle your logic in your app. This lets you bring in a ton more developers for your projects than just the few people who know Objective-C/Swift.

So using a project and disagreeing with it's entire purpose for existing is silly without further explanation of why javascript is bad for this type of thing.

In his argument he says they should be using Objective-C over Swift, which is just wrong. Apple says to use Swift, it's faster and easier to use.

Beyond not liking javascript as a language it's super fast and easy to learn why not make it so more people can start developing apps using that language. It will create better apps that phonegap apps.
The greatest minds of my generation, indeed.
Every child must expend enormous energy to learn their mother language, but the human mind is not a cup that can hold but one language. Bilingualism and diglossia are the human norm, not monolingualism. Language is a human right, and parents have a right to teach their children their heritage.

Languages are only ever "dying" because of state coercion aimed at robbing children of their cultural heritage.
Why not a remote setup? I have a high performance workstation that lives in my office- dual 12-core Xeons, 256GB RAM, Tesla etc.

I have a dirt cheap Lenovo laptop (~$300 + an SSD) running OpenBSD that I use to connect over OpenVPN + SSH for doing any serious computation. You'd probably want something with a higher-res display and Windows-based, but if it's possible that sort of setup might be easier.

I long ago gave up on "workstation class" laptops. You just don't get enough bang for the buck IMO.

Incidentally, if you're buying small-scale HPC hardware I highly recommend ThinkMate. Their prices are far far better than Dell/IBM/etc. and their support has always been superb.
The pinging effect is due to it being improperly lubricated, not a defect of the keyboard itself. Just in case you were wondering.
Sure - but "effective" here is essentially a random variable, and the central limit theorem does the rest.

"Wealth transfer" isn't transfer to/from particular individuals. As a group, the wealthiest will tend to accumulate wealth faster than everyone else. Furthermore, it may be possible for individuals to enter/leave this class, but it gets less likely the further you are from the dividing line.
It's unclear that the mechanism you describe behaves as you claim.

Supposing that it's true that a college degree confers (typically, on average, whatever) an extra million over a lifetime career, what would happen if everyone did attend college?

Would that effect remain? If college educations become more common, they also become less scarce and valuable.

You talk about how affordable it was in the 1960s, but this is also a period when a relatively small portion did attend college. If we're willing to return to that rate of college education, the budget likely will make it possible to afford this...

Of course, the screams of institutional racism, sexism, and elitism will be deafening.
Once you pay the $79, you get free 2-day shipping for a year for any products that shipped by Amazon.

Yeah, saying it's 'free' is confusing, since you're already paid for it. 'Unlimited' would probably be better.
On a related note, today I have found the answer to the weight loss problem. There is a certain type of pine nut from China that kills your taste buds if you eat it raw, making everything that you eat taste very bitter (taste buds normally die and regrow every week or so, so it's not permanent).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_nut#Risks_of_eating_pine_n...
There should be a rule that every server can only have one ip address at most.
Then introduce a new version of ssl which also works with a non dedicated ip.
This would release millions of ip addreses.
isn't bgp limited to send messages for at least /24?
This is completely nuts. I'm surprised that this company gets away (and actually be pretty successful) with it's predatorial behavior towards it's customers.
I searched for DecorMyEyes, and while the first result is the company itself, the rest of the page is filled with "My bad experience with DecorMyEyes" and "Consumer complaints against DecorMyEyes". Now I get that people are usually searching for the name of the company that makes the glasses (like Ciba Vision) and not DecorMyEyes, but doesn't one usually buy things online from fairly reputed sources (and you'd look up the company if you didn't know them)?
Look at Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg; you think they care what others think of themselves as a person?

You mean like the zuck arranging to announce a $100M donation live on oprah a week before the social network hit theaters?
It could also mean that, knowing that engraved products are harder to sell, and knowing that an iPod is likely to be engraved a criminal will be less likely to steal any iPod, as opposed to say a GPS that could be more easily sold.
I bought my new car exactly a week before being laid off.
Censorship. Free speech. No american again should use these words for other countries.
Thanks for the specifics. Your post history and that generic wikipedia article help show your actual views
You cannot say definitively “this is not true”. The advice to wear a mask after vaccination is still the best advice with the data we have, but you made a statement of fact that is currently unknown.
Did their political views change over the last day or so? Did the President's? No? Then perhaps you should consider that there may be other possible reasons that they have banned these accounts.
The "base" is basically "people who don't consume as much Democrat-aligned media". It doesn't matter if Republicans try to appeal people outside the "base", because those people won't get the message. They will only get the message they get from the media, which in almost 100% of cases that I've looked into is completely different from what the Republicans actually said. They have no real choice.
> They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.

Isn't there a whole argument that if they are allowed to censor / ban, they should not enjoy the freedom of being labelled "publishers"? I don't understand that argument legally speaking, but that is an argument in opposition to this.
> Lol, watch him get banned due to some kind of "no second accounts allowed" rule...

From the article: “The tweets were deleted within minutes by Twitter which does not allow banned individuals to circumvent a full ban by tweeting under alternate accounts.”
No, of course it isn't; think, for instance, of applying that same logic to other circumstances. You can't knowingly or recklessly endanger people simply because your long-term intentions are benign.
The feds have no problem seizing and liquidating property. They do it all the time. They even recruit local law enforcement to do it for them. See "equitable sharing"
Tail call elimination works fine in OCaml, same as in Erlang.
This example actually does not have a tail-recursive call, so if you mean that a non-tail recursive call is not stack safe in a strict language, that is correct, yes.
Wikipedia said iAd have been discontinued.
Did I miss something?
In that analogy, it would be buying apples, but they only taste like apples. Underneath they’re oranges and always have been, and the little sticker on them says “Apple-seeming oranges”, so the consumer should have known.
Wow, really interesting, thanks for posting that.
No, Arrow is much more than parsing/formatting.

Each Arrow object has a `shift` method, which is how you can add or subtract units of time. Greater/less/equal comparisons work exactly as you'd expect them to.
“So here are the facts. Logos are personal. “

Feels condescending because it’s obvious.

Tempest in a teapot if you ask me.
They aren't new rules or new regulations.
(Some) new codecs use the increase in available bandwidth (the increase simply by virtue of the audio itself using less bandwidth) to improve redundancy and better handle burst loss.
What independently testable, reproducible effects can you ascribe to "hyperstring theory" or any other postulations of modern theoretical physics? Is even "big bang theory" (although imminently logical), actually testable?

It all becomes philosophy and metaphysics after a certain threshold.
Define it rigorously. We have, in terms of the amount of computation in m time steps.
Consider a very fast classical computer is simulating a universe with newtonian physics. There's no concept of quantum mechanics in this universe. You create a black box where people in this simulation can ask you questions. You also have a quantum computer. Now you can answer questions that require quantum computing which they cannot answer in their universe

Next step: we're a simulation in a universe which has ways to violate complexity bounds we hit with quantum computers
What does "actually scientific" and "real research" (mentioned by jki275) mean? I'm pretty sure most people doing research in the cryptocurrency space are trying to use the scientific method as much as they can.
Could you describe what you mean by “leaky” in your experience?
> But you chose to only select a portion of the text. The second sentence is useful, too:

Then what's the point of quoting the the first portion?

We had things from the second part too, we were also forced to pray and sing the national anthem (otherwise we'd be disciplined and punished), but the first quoted part was exactly like that.
Supposedly YouTube Premium viewers are much more profitable for video creators than regular ad-watching users.
Paris' emblematic Place de la Nation was just rethought, with several car lanes removed, larger green and pedestrian areas, and relevant to this article, no lights.

As far as I know, it's now one of the darkest places of Paris, I hope it's on purpose.
Yep. I live in the Sacramento area. Half the salary. Half the price for a house. Half the commute.

Seems an even trade.
Heh, that is partially true. Once a person is in his situation, I agree, there isn't much to be done. On the other hand, there are ways to guard against getting into hot water and lack of effort counts against him.

There are unmentioned albeit publicly verified limits or thresholds that a publisher should abide by. It's in the publishers best interest to learn these, consult on what to do before ad-sense is enabled and what to do afterwards.
To honor the environment that lets them thrive.
A kid at my college was a Sinhalese from Sri Lanka. He was seriously Buddhist; defending it as the state religion(/philosophy?) and being critical of the Tamils.

On one hand I'd like to see a separate state of Tamils so they can live as they choose, but on the other hand I'd like them to be forced to work out some compromise with the Sinhalese. There are always going to be diverse factions, and we need to learn how to live together.
In all the research I've done, potty training begins when the parents decide they are sick of changing diapers and ends when the child is physiologically prepared. Happier parents and kids occur when those two dates are as close as possible.

Four kids, potty trained between two and four and a half (hence the research).
I was 17 and wondering how different this is from a type writer.
While Linode's billing is monthly by default, it's also prorated. This means that when you remove a Linode from your account, the account is issued a prorated service credit for the unused time in the billing period. Service credit is always used for further services before charging the card on file.

In other words, you can spin up multiple Linodes, remove them the next day, and all you're really paying for is the day you had them deployed. There's a document on Linode billing located here: http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/billing/
"If you are a boy you should not love your boyfriend because you should not have one. If you are a girl then you should love him."

Hm I think CleverBot is a bit homophobic..