jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> In my remote experience, I definitely don't talk to my colleagues that much.

Maybe you should, then. I speak to my colleagues at the very least 30 minutes to 1h a day, and work full remote.

> But when you're trying to build a small company, one approach is to make it feel like a family.

An approach I immensely dislike. IMHO it's a huge waste of time to pretend like most employees aren't just there to make a living. I'm not looking for a second family or to make friends, I'm here to provide my skills in exchange for money.

> But there's something special about one unit working toward a single goal.

I don't need to like you or my coworkers to do it, they all just have to be remotely competent and do a decent job at it, and I'll do the same. Let's have fun at work when at work, then let's close our computers and have our own lives, please. If friendships evolve from there, cool, but I'm not actively looking to make friends at my workplace.

> My design is for a startup with young people. This would not work nearly as well for older people and people with their own families!

I'm 30, I'm still quite young, AFAIK.
I really hate this headline. From the article:

> very rare blood clots ... possible causes are still unknown

> Cavaleri provided no evidence to support his comment

> the benefits of the AstraZeneca shot outweigh the risks

> studies have found no higher risk of clots because of its vaccine

> A causal link with the vaccine is not proven

> many scientists say there is no definitive evidence

The EMA is investigating and has not announced any conclusions, but the headline seems to imply that they have.
Article does a pretty terrible job at explaining how memory's are formed, some bits even misleading.

If you're interested in the biological basis of memory, I suggest reading 'In search of memory' by Eric Kandel. It's a biographic tale of Eric Kandel winning his nobel and along the way you learn a ton about how the brain works.
"I always wondered how the video output was controlled without video memory."

There's masses of information explaining how it works on the Internet.

I think this is the interesting video that I found out about from a HN post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyebnxV9R8
> What's your point?

My inference is the reference to deference
I don't really understand why you would build an app for this. Apps are great when you need to do something while you're on the move. Booking a helicopter 48 hours in advance doesn't really fall into that category.
There's an interesting anecdote from Finland. A company called Copterline flew between Finland's Helsinki and Estonia's Tallinn for many years with two Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. The trip was over the ocean and took 18 minutes.

Sadly one of their copters crashed into the ocean in 2005, killing all 14 aboard. The reason was purely technical. The hydraulic steering system got stuck due to debris that had came loose from an inner coating. The copter was impossible to steer and started spinning around its axis, and spun 13 times until hitting the ocean.

It was the beginning of the end for the company. Later in 2008 they started again with two AgustaWestland AW139 copters. I was aboard once, and it was a fantastic experience. However, it boggled my mind how much even a modern helicopter vibrates. It's a wonder to me how copters can withstand the constant violent vibration. Apparently they can, except in rare cases.

In 2004 Copterline transported 75 000 passengers. If all flights were full (12 passengers and 2 pilots) it means about 17 flights a day, every single day.

Copterline went out of business in December 2008 because it was unprofitable. It's sad, because flying on a helicopter is a cool experience mortals like me usually can't experience without commercial flights.
I’m not on either side of the k8s debate, but I suspect it will be a lot less than 20 years as the ecosystem is moving faster now.
I'm not an expert but I completed a bachelor's in Neuroscience. There's definitely research, but it's not an easy setup to test. Currently what I've seen as the most popular theory is that our synapses and their arrangement, not neuronal logic, is what creates our ever-changing concept of self (consciousness)

Your synapses are constantly rearranging to process information differently (even if overall circuits remain similar) which can explain different behavior, but it's another jump entirely to say it explains selfhood
I thought the same thing. Is there another explanation for what this might mean?

Scraping to me is what google does, exploring links, saving and parsing data.

The contact importer presumably sourced data from iOS, google, outlook or similar address books.

You shouldn’t normally get data out that way, was it returning unexpected results from partial matches?

Maybe you could view a profile page by uploading an address book with partial, stubbed data. This page that then normally wouldn’t have been accessible to the user then was and those and any connected profiles were then crawled and scraped?

It seems to me you used to be able to view an otherwise private profile if the person had extended a friend request.
English has wedlock.
I’ve always believed that it was GitHub that allowed git to win out.

In addition to that, I suspect it was the very fact that Mercurial had more features, specifically an in built web server that allowed you to easily share your repo, led to GitHub being created with git and not mercurial.

The way I look at it, Mercurial made it extremely easy to self host a repo. So there was no need for a 3rd party centralized service to share your mercurial repo. That wasn’t the case for git, so something like GitHub was needed.

But the centralization in GitHub also allowed them to add more social features, which allowed git to spread more widely.
> A hard fork in a decentralized cryptocurrency is democratic, users chose which of the 2 new chains assets' they want to keep.

Show us the votes, then. Did a majority of miners and/or coinholders vote to hard-fork?
You can mark your post as public and then anyone can see it.
You'd only need one at a time (maybe a few), and you'd get your starting capital back in the end.

Also, an armed grab-and-run at a casino has an incredibly high chance of failure; it's a dumb first step to a supervillainous plan.
Never thought I would be receiving photography advice on a thread about pizzas. Bravo for the pleasant surprise.
And what makes you think that Android would be better? Everyone's already doing Android and the models are becoming very similar to each other.
I guess the articles impact is that it's surprising that a company with a track record of producing high quality games would have so many alleged issues on the inside.

Of course, whether or not you find it surprising is down to experience.
> In many cases making a neural network explainable is literally impossible.

Then it should be illegal to use on consumer websites. It's that simple.

> If you want explainability it's going to require giving up a lot of innovation that could help people.

Four people died in the US Capitol because of this "innovation". It's time to stop pretending technology doesn't cause more harm than good in these cases.
Do you have a link to AP story? Genuinely curious to read it
I think probably not: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WithdrawingFromHackerNews.htm...
In practice, everything that doesn't have a punishment is legal
I never said it was. And I'm not condoning what happened in the slightest (even if I do agree that the government no longer represents the people). But destroying and looting small businesses is not a constitutional right either, but that behavior wasn't denounced en mass like the behavior at the Capitol; rather, the former was encouraged by politicians, the media, celebrities, and even the public. It's a double standard. We should hold all people to the same standard regardless of their political affiliation. I personally think it's a bad precedent to ban POTUS, but alas.
I'm not sure why this is bugging me, but p and puts are not the same thing in Ruby. In most non-debugging contexts, p 'hello world' would be odd since it would print the string for inspection (i.e. with the string literal quotes around it), no?
On the Wikileaks Twitter feed:

"Now is a good time to download some "history insurance" https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance 1:04 AM Nov 26th via web"

Yes, you're right, even if the servers are down, they can leak the key via twitter etc. to this file.
The US Government, and the US armed forces are looking for a way to better control their information and how it is accessed and by who. There are plenty of people working on the problems, the thing is that the whole system is currently inherently insecure and that securing such a system takes time.
I'm sorry if you can't access the site, it's getting slammed right now. I'm getting more memory soon, if you can't access it today you should check it out tomorrow.

The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRBozGoa69s
Your comment seems to assume that this is a permanent state and won't be rectified by Apple. That's a bit like saying "what's the point of writing any unit tests if some bugs are going to exist anyhow?"

I see no loss of reliance on the guidelines here, but rather a simple one-off mistake to be corrected by Apple. We are of course in agreement that something this obvious should really be caught beforehand though.
Original Quora threads:

https://www.quora.com/Ramit-Sethi/A-B-Testing/answers
The guy who owns the salon where I get my hair cut probably wouldn't do a Groupon deal because of adverse selection effects -- he would be worried about attracting a bunch of cheap people who wouldn't pay full price for his premium-ish services and, by virtue of buying into a Groupon, don't have loyalty to their stylists. However, he is willing to discount services to customers who are likely shopping for a new salon. A few years ago, he signed-up for a service which would send an elaborate snail mail invitation for a set of heavily discounted salon services to people who recently bought homes in certain high income zip codes around his business. He owns some pretty sophisticated salon management software which can track conversion rates (and therefore lifetime customer value). I think he wasn't getting enough conversions to justify the price (a few dollars/invite), but he'd be interested in other such services with the proper selection biases.

Could someone compete with Groupon by offering very selective discount offers? How much would it be worth for Grocery Store A to target those who shop primarily at Grocery Stores B? Could Visa use its credit card data to build-up such a list? Could it legally use that list to drive such marketing endeavors? Would consumers opt into having their purchasing data used in that way if it meant being offered amazing deals from time to time? How else could one offer up to businesses highly selective campaigns? The problem with Groupon is that it attracts customers who aren't especially valuable, and businesses have to hope to pick up the minority of those who represent profitable new business.
Yeah, those banks were slow getting on the bandwagon (for whatever reason).

I was working at a bank in 1977 (in the systems/apps group) when they installed the first ATMs in Tampa. It was an interesting time. The original development unit had to be moved across the street, from the data center to the main branch. So one Saturday, 6 guys got out there and pushed it down the sidewalk and across the crosswalk. Good thing no one from IBM was around, they would have freaked out. (it was an IBM 3614 ATM)
I always liked MenTaLguY's explanation:

http://bit.ly/fh1F2l
It might have been easier to link to the original thread on quora, no? https://www.quora.com/A-B-Testing/What-are-the-most-unexpect...
YMMV. I've seen people all over the map on this.

I have noticed that among people I respect, there is a strong correlation between using git-bisect and wanting a clean history.
Except the article is talking about how clever-but-poor kids don't succeed in the same way. A clever kid from a poor family with only shitty education available is going to be far more likely to remain poor.

> The link between parental income and a child’s academic success has grown stronger, as clever people become richer and splash out on their daughter’s Mandarin tutor, and education matters more than it used to, because the demand for brainpower has soared.

> The solution is not to discourage rich people from investing in their children, but to do a lot more to help clever kids who failed to pick posh parents.

> Improving early child care in the poorest American neighbourhoods yields returns of ten to one or more; few other government investments pay off so handsomely.
I don't see how that's a rebuttal to his actual point:

> What's needed is better management and allocation of the existing money, not throwing more money at the problem to be mismanaged.

His point: the top 10% earn 45% of the income and pay 68% of federal income taxes. That's a lot of money that could be used to improve the lives of the 90%, but it's being mismanaged by the government. He's saying, instead of increasing the amount of money that is going to be mismanaged by the government at the expense of the 10%, why not do more with what we already have?
It should be remembered that movie productions are subject to an impressive array of subsidies and movie companies the beneficiary of a great deal of government policy and enforcement.

That aside, there will always be a better cause to which all resources should be devoted. And usually problems which would result from a solution. Would a more rapidly growing world in which everyone has food but in which nobody has a job be a better one?
The moderation is ridiculous. Useful questions get closed all the time for nebulous "fit" reasons. My opinion is if the community thinks it's a valuable question by voting it up, it should stay.
Banks don't transfer money to each other through Visa, they use SWIFT. Transactions usually take 4 business days.

The block size limit is in the process of being changed, but there isn't a rush since blocks are not being filled. If they do get filled, transaction costs will go up and tiny (0.01 USD) micro-transactions won't be viable until the block limit is increased. So the only thing that might happen is transactions of a few cents are temporarily not viable (the transaction cost is larger than the amount sent).
This is super useful feature for debugging. Happens sometimes that something goes wrong and an ad is regenerated after being blocked. So the ad blocker would block it again, thus generating an infinite loop that can take up all the memory (if the ad blocker saves any information about the blocked ads on the current page in memory) and crash your machine in less than a minute in the worst case. In the best case it would just lock up your browser window and you wouldn't know why. Knowing the number of ads blocked would quickly help debug such situations.
The US government subsidizes houses in suburbs by guaranteeing mortgages and building toll free highways. Apartments are literally illegal to build in many areas (restrictive zoning). Property developers are mandated to include ample free parking. So in many places you are not allowed to have a different lifestyle than drive everywhere.
Yeah where I live anything I order from Amazon comes via a third-party courier. Never seen an Amazon van in my neighborhood.
Never said it wasn't deprecated. It still works much better than using keydown with keycode. For most apps and layouts, it's a sufficient solution.
I know I'm going to be wrong, but I really hope this is peak rent seeking.
Yeah, I guess. I assumed black means completely invisible and unpredictable (do not know what will happen and when), white means we know it can happen but just don't know when exactly will it happen.
Part of the problem is some climate change deniers openly accept that having more CO2 will heat the earth but also say that having more CO2 in the air will "green" the Earth. This is true in a sense - plants need CO2 - but it doesn't account for the horrible side effects of rapidly shifting the planets atmosphere.
I have one glorious:

ffmpeg -hwaccel cuvid -c:v h264_cuvid -i input.mp4 -vf "hwdownload,format=nv12,scale=(iw*sar)*max(1280/(iw*sar)\,720/ih):ih*max(1280/(iw*sar)\,720/ih), crop=1280:720, subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontName='TiresiasScreenfont',Fontsize=32,Outline=2,MarginL=50,MarginV=30,Alignment=1',minterpolate=fps=60:mi_mode=blend" -c:v h264_nvenc -preset slow -b:v 8M -f matroska - | vlc -

What it does: Allows streaming content to Chrome Cast with my idea of subtitles through VLC.

For me I want subtitles with Tiresias screen font used in Finnish YLE 90s. (Aligned always to left second row, so that starting point is always the same. Center alignment is bad because you need to always re-adjust eyes to the position where the subtitles start, left alignment makes the first character always in same place.)

* `hwaccel cuvid -c:v h264_cuvid` * makes the hardware accelerated decoding (h264 only)

* `-vf` * video filter

* `hwdownload,format=nv12` * downloads the hardware accelerated frame to memory for the video filter (required by cuvid)

* `scale=(iwsar)max(1280/(iwsar)\,720/ih):ihmax(1280/(iw*sar)\,720/ih), crop=1280:720` * crops the video to 1280x720, (exteremely high impact on performance!) Use crop and resize cuvid below for better performance.

* `subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontName='TiresiasScreenfont',Fontsize=32,Outline=2,MarginL=50,MarginV=30,Alignment=1'` * subtitles

* `-c:v h264_nvenc -preset slow -b:v 8M` * hardware accelerated encoding 8000 kb/s for 720p/60 (for 1080p use `16M`)

* `-f matroska * | vlc -` * output as matroska, pipe to VLC

* `minterpolate=fps=60:mi_mode=blend` * output 60 fps interpolate blending (this can cause problems, avoid sometimes)

Crop and resize with cuvid example:

* `-hwaccel cuvid -crop 0x0x200x200` - faster way to crop top x bottom x left x right

* `-hwaccel cuvid -resize 1200x300` - resize (forces the size)

Seek example:

Seek to 30 minutes (60*30 = 1800)

ffmpeg -ss 1800 ... vf "hwdownload,format=nv12,setpts=PTS+1800/TB,subtitles='...',setpts=PTS-STARTPTS"`
Interestingly enough i have no idea how to see free space with an UI on my desktop. Once df is momorized there is no reason to ever use an UI
I wonder if in 10-20 years we will be writing "Remember Vaccine Industry?"
Plus all the news articles along the lines of "In a speech today, so-and-so will announce some thing" published long before the speech is made.
I recommend you read the first four chapters of The Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. In those chapters, they talk about the importance of understanding your users, not “build it and they will come.” I think if you understood people’s response to what you’ve made very well, you would know a few things to tweak to fix a lot of concerns.
Others tried them, but the US spent decades overthrowing governments and supporting authoritarian dictators to ensure alternatives wouldn’t have a chance to be successful.
I suppose what you like about the effect most, is that it fills the gaps that are intrinsic to ASCII art. But our brains are already wired to do that: http://bit.ly/1xeEci5. The shadow blur eats away at the details that are in fact a quality of ASCII art (like which characters were chosen to emulate a shape). The demonstrated CSS drop-shadow effect is really easily toggled by squinting your eyes instead: http://bit.ly/1DNrkXK.

Guess you're right in stating that it looks "cooler" though. Try making the shadows dark grey instead of black: http://cl.ly/image/073a412z0f34.
Hydro-Quebec is also doing at least one 1500km hvdc to the US and multiple 1000+km lines to the dams in the north.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro-Qu%C3%A9bec%27s_electr...
This is excellent. I love how simple the API is.
Sure.

You can wear a helmet, and you can cycle safely, but given enough years, you'll eventually end up falling off.

That doesn't make helmets or cycling proficiency pointless, but it does mean not making wild claims that you're "immune" to accidents.
> As journalists, we all view this as a horrifying assault on the public’s right to know, and on our own status as brave defenders of the public good. And that is all true, for what it’s worth.

The author really should have left this perspective out of the essay; it's vain and distracts from the valid larger point.

If powerful people can "no comment" the Washington Post and other significant outlets because the media can no longer extract a penalty for doing so, then they only really have to worry about crossing each other. The public interest is likely to suffer as this trend continues.

(edited for clarity)
saying that masks work, is a tad simplistic. there are many types of masks, and while they have their benefits there is plenty of evidence that mask wearing has not inhibited the virus from spreading in the population. there is little evidence that the casual masks that are being worn have significantly reduce the risk of exposure.

fauci was well justified when he said before that mask wearing isn't the solution to this pandemic, but now any nuanced discussion is not tolerated, which, perhaps, is the reason people aren't trusting the science. another reason is that politicians are making arbitrary decisions claiming it is what science (facts and data) told them to do.
What does the word “suggesting” mean to you (in the sentence as I used it)? I’m guessing “some leading the reader to believe that it is the same as a cold” would have been more clear.
The whole weak password thing was simply a funnily timed thing some guy found. It had absolutely nothing to do with the malicious update, which was the source of this supply chain attack. For some reason a bunch of people online decided that two things happening around the same time means they are related. They are not
Hopefully that means by 2024, that trilogy has gained the worldwide recognition it deserves. Such a good series.
I run Ubuntu on my MacBook as well, but the camera fails sometimes, the brightness control is wonky, the sleep is hit and miss, etc. Still, what am I going to run? OS X?
Don't harsh on this. Analogical reasoning is where scientific theories come from. Well, perhaps from there and from elegant math.

I thought it was a very interesting metaphor, and you can start thinking of diseases of the national infrastructure, or the infrastructure of the body.

Science shouldn't stop at metaphor, sure. But it often starts there! Think about concepts from fluid dynamics that leaked into electromagnetism.
There are precious few Laws like that. Gravity, Constant Proportions, Thermodynamics, etc. While they're taught as a separate, somehow more powerful thing than theory, really they cannot exist without a theoretical framework. Entropy and enthalpy don't exist outside of theory, gravity "always follows the inverse square law" under current beliefs about gravity and theoretical assumptions (when are there ever truly only two interacting bodies?)

I prefer to think of laws as statistical correlations that are so repeatable that their variance has gone to zero. These are words that only have meaning in context of a model though. They're embedded in theory, necessarily wrong theory.
The PhD hits the workforce ~6 years later than the undergrad. It is entirely feasible, in fact most probable, for a 80k undergrad to hit ~115k in 6 years.
You guys fired people based on daily figures? Must be excellent for morale
So can we assume that the most highly-voted are actual the least controversial? This is kind of interesting.
MacBook Air 11".

I used to run around with an iPad. But now I have the 11" MBA in my little Crumpler bag. And I can do so much more than on the iPad .. Love it.
I have known for a while (since I read Quicksilver) that gold becomes visibly transparent if you hammer it thin enough, and transmits greenish light, but I have never been able to find a picture of this or a video of someone demonstrating it. How is this possible?