jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I truly believe nearly everyone realizes that it is impossible to experience all or nearly all of what is important to cultivate in one lifetime.

Beyond that, perception tends to be affected by one's age. When I was young (e.g., in my 20s), all the possibilities of the world seemed open to me and it was just going to be a question of what I would do first - I put everything else into the category "I'll get to that when I have time." I had done a lot to develop my talents and knowledge base, and in a range of areas to boot. But my reading of the "great works" trailed off following college. Time was too limited to get to most of them. But, some day, yes, I would do so. I had never learned to play an instrument. But, when I had time, I would learn piano. I had limited time to do non-business travel, but some day I would make it up.

Of course, "some day" one day comes and you quickly realize that many unrealized hopes and dreams would never in fact be realized. And that includes becoming cultivated in a range of areas. When this fact first strikes you, it truly is depressing. For me, it was the first time in my life that I started to feel "old" (feeling old is not so much chronological as it is a state of mind). You become overwhelmed with the fact that you will never keep up with all the new trends and you will never have the time to fill all the holes in your knowledge base or to do all the things you dreamed of doing.

In time, though, I came to make peace with this sense of restlessness. Life is too short to do everything but life is more than ample enough to do important things, things that count beyond the mundane routines of daily existence. This life is but a breath or, as my 100-year-old grandmother said shortly before she passed on, everything that she had experienced to that point was "but a blink." When you can get to that stage and say, "no regrets" for a life well-led, you can have peace with your finite capacities and your finite existence in this world. There is much that is beautiful to do in this life. You don't need to do it all. You just need to do it well.
Excellent article, although it seems to assume that the average quality of content has stayed constant over time. I don't think that's the case. Take music, for example. In the past, we were limited in the types of sounds we could make. Nowadays, with the help of computers, musicians can create any sound they can imagine. A similar thing has happened with television and movies. Technology has allowed a wider range of content to be created. It's also made it easier to create high-quality content.
The question is, how do I mount my RL02 pack with the software I saved?

(That's a 14" removable platter drive that stored 5 million bytes! Amazing. A couple decades and the media is essentially unreadable. I suppose someone with a STM could work it out.)
This is exactly what I've been thinking recently about computer science / programming. There's just so much to read / learn / practice / improve. Nice to have it put in perspective. Gotta learn to surrender more.
Somebody make such a game and I will buy it. I will pre-buy it.
Read http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/learning-iphone-.... It says exactly what I would say, only is written by someone else.
Off-topic: what is it with The Atlantic and articles that rotate between 3-5 different headlines in their first ~24hrs of publication? I think I've seen 4 different headlines for this piece - you can even see it in this submission (OP's submitted title is "Heat pumps are one of the easiest ways for homeowners to fight climate change", vs. what's actually shown on theatlantic.com right now, at least for me - "You're Thinking About Home Heating Wrong"). At one point I saw a slightly different variation on the one that explicitly mentioned heat pumps, and a fourth one that invoked Tesla.

Is it an A/B testing thing? Sometimes I'll even catch one headline rendered briefly before it's replaced with something else in the same page load.
> Building a quickcheck style tester in AS3 drove me nuts at one point before finding out that the conversions between strings and floating point numbers has a bunch of weird issues. There are some obvious ones, but then also things like certain numbers convert differently if you add a trailing zero (so 0.7362856270 is turned into a different number to 0.736285627 and 0.73628562700). So my little "decode(encode(x)) == x" test example broke!

I have in fact had to deal with exactly this problem in Hypothesis internals. The example saving code didn't work correctly with floats in the first edition, because it was serializing them as JSON, which loses some information encoded in the actual float. In the end I serialize floats (which are actually doubles) by converting them to a 64-bit integer with the same bitwise representation first.

The bug aryx is talking about though actually illustrates an amusing feature of Hypothesis, which is that the code in it is just weird enough that it tends to do unexpected things that trigger bugs which have nothing to do with the properties being tested. :-) In this case it was putting unicode objects onto sys.path, which is 100% allowed but causes problems for certain code running on python 2.7 on windows that previously appeared to work.
Looks like we're talking a study when N=1, I would wait a little bit more before drawing conclusions.
Stop using Twitter for blog posts, by all means use medium if it must.
PMs: Email.

Posts: Blog. [XML-RPC if you wanna email from your phone to your blog. Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post' (heck, invent any 'like' 'like' you like).]

Follow: RSS.

It's all there and decentralised for years, just not in a polished package of a 140 character comment, and likely requires more than 15 seconds of thinking. Actually really straightforward.

Only tricky thing would be SMS but that's... 'depreciated' as a popular feature today.
As your link says, it has been removed from the Google Play store but not the App Store.
Thanks.

So it's mirrored, and the monolithic mirror is broken into chunks, but we still don't have a fully decentralized way of searching for and obtaining one specific paper?
You may not want to share this but I’ll ask anyway because I’m quite interested:

1. What are important issues for you that republicans vote the right way on?

2. What are the top issues for you that republicans vote the wrong way on?
So you're saying they should self censor before someone censors them?
I wonder why it says:

> works against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and South Africa
While MIR could be an interesting alternative to CraneLift it doesn't really address the challenges faced by trying to improve performance via JIT compilation within CRuby.
Here is one of my attempts at a memorable passphrase generator, using Moby Dick as source material. It is interesting to see just how distinctive some works and authors are when you are doing this sort of thing:

https://github.com/exratione/four-word-phrase

clenched bakers detestable evincing

keenly eastern expertness presto

topsails existence self-created fittings

delusion brushed lockers discipline

seaman vintages cross-bones uncouth

furnished vanity copied invited

sea-captains cross-running engendered disastrous

freshet willingly lead-lined asserted

remarking repentance insert compendious

vice-bench equally imminent quadrupeds
>Don't underestimate the value in a multitude of skills.

I'm sure pretty much everybody who hires a cleaning service knows how to clean a toilet.
In FoundationDB you never had to think about splitting your dataset into something like your "actors". All transactions are independent and parallelizable, unless when they touch a common key - in which case one of the transactions is retried (optimistic concurrency).
If you like the article, vote it up. If you have something interesting to say about the article, write a comment.

Comments praising the article without adding anything interesting to the discussion are frequently downvoted.

Telling _why_ you liked the article will likely to get a better response than merely affirming your fascination.
Never done before (also i pick magic numbers from the air) but probably the idea is to look at Statistics of the data distribution and pick by Pareto the upper bound that cover more?

Is this data available? One simple one: How much long must be a name in a database field?
Don't get me wrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant guy, and he's doing more for science education than almost anyone else alive today, but Sagan had a real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level.
Site owners have to sign up for the service before participating. That barrier should be removed.

For example, you should be able to flattr any URL, not just web sites that have opted in. Here's how it would work: if you see a site that you wish to give money to, you would flattr the URL with a promise of money, but not real money. You would do this on flattr.com. The owner of the URL will go to flattr.com and see that they have $89.13 in "flattry" waiting for them if they sign up. At that point, the site owner has incentive to sign up and collect the money. Once the site owner has signed up, the users are notified that they need to pay (or payment is taken automatically).

This way, users don't have to wait for a site to add the flattr button and site owners will have much more incentive to sign up once they see the money waiting for them.
Thanks for the links! This is one of the reasons I love HN: even an article that I have a <meh> response to can generate lots of useful responses and great links. (He said, awaiting the inevitable Vim post that will once again provide a couple of idioms or links he hadn't run into before.)
Which can be more effectively done by referring people to the original sources rather than rehashing some folk lore.
every act of incompetence under the Sony name tarnishes that name, and in the marketplace, that's ultimately all that matters

As it should. When these companies merge, buy other companies out, or execute reverse takeovers, there's always talk of "brand synergies" and all of the business advantages of having one set of products associated with another. There's absolutely no reason why that particular sword shouldn't have two edges to it.
TipTheWeb ( http://tiptheweb.org/ ) is a new (non-profit!) service that just came out of private beta a few months ago- it has no fees for tippers or publishers, and passes 100% of claimed tips to web publishers via monthly awards. And TipTheWeb doesn’t require a subscription or any kind of ongoing commitment. Both flattr and Readability take big cuts of the money before it gets to publishers. In addition to working with popular publishing platforms and independent websites, TipTheWeb allows multi-contributor sites, like multi-author blogs, to add simple metadata to their pages so that tips can go directly to the authors of the content being tipped.
An argument that I'm surprised nobody has realized is the fact that "killer app" was in general parlance way before the iPhone was released (at least a decade). This is killer evidence that app was a generic term way back when Apple was struggling to sell plastic purses.
>>Music is beautiful, artificial engine noise is just that: noise.

That's just your opinion man. I frequently turn off the stereo in my car to listen to the engine sound instead. Not everyone has to like the same thing.
When I skimmed the list of answers, they also looked wrong to me, but this is because I saw the answers (which start at the top of the page) before the question (which is at the bottom). Because the answers started with capital letters, I initially read them expecting a full sentence, mentally replacing "increase" with "increases":

"The predicted height increases in centimeters for one centimeter increase in the first metacarpal bone." (True, although the height also increases in any other unit for any amount of increase in the bone.)

"The predicted first metacarpal bone increases in centimeters for every centimeter increase in height." (Ditto, but this looks more correct because it has it increasing for every/any centimeter increase in height, rather than specifically one.)

Judging by the parent comment, I think they may have done the same, but failed to notice the correct interpretation? In any case, while as a native speaker, I only saw it that way for a few seconds, I can certainly imagine that someone speaking English as a second language could be thrown off.

The answers also do have odd wording - they refer to the bone itself "increasing", rather than its length, and the first answer's "for one centimeter increase" could be interpreted as either "for (one centimeter) increase", which lacks an article, or "for one (centimeter increase)", which is not ambiguous but not proper terminology either.

I think the design could be improved - first by avoiding the weird inverted question/answer position if at all possible, second by avoiding capital letters, third by using easier to parse wording:

"the predicted increase in height, in centimeters, for every one centimeter increase in the length of the first metacarpal bone"
I trust the FDA and Cochrane Review here more than the CDC.

The small durational effect, high dependence on early-administration, and reliance on observational reports combine to add to my suspicion. Consider especially:

If patients are motivated to seek anything that might help, and they know that a prescription is only given in "first 48 hours", they might report their symptoms as having started later than they really did. Then, when their symptoms end at the usual time, it "observationally" looks like a shorter flu. Or maybe, other placebo/choice-supportive-bias effects cause them to rush to deem their symptoms 'over' – after all they went through the time and cost of acquiring the drug.

Thus a pronouncement like "works if rapidly administered" could become a self-fulfilling prophesy through social/psychological biases in reporting.

Similarly, the CDC is under political/social pressure to "do something", and have active modern recommendations, other than just generic 100-year-old patience/hygiene tips. This is especially the case when, as this year, their flu-strain guesses for the vaccine have been wrong.

Temperamentally and institutionally, the CDC needs to believe there's something else to do, that the stockpiles of antivirals they've bought at great cost are effective, and that these kinds of drugs (from specific companies they often rely upon) will help if something much worse than seasonal flu materializes. So they're going to err in the direction of faith-in-antivirals.
I expect there'll be a new set of businesses built up around custom engine noises. If the manufactures don't make it easy to load your own MP3, then you'll probably be able to take it to a car mod specialist.
> WinDbg, OllyDbg

As someone who seldom leaves higher-abstraction languages, I've had some fun using Cheat Engine against old single-player games. I remember being pretty proud of the first time I managed to replace a few instructions with a larger set sitting in a code-cave. (Nothing impressive for those who learned assembly in a structured way, of course.)
The distributist in me would say that Platforms Should Be Free, as it's the public's collective interest since more wealth is created that way.
While non-disclosed "native" advertising is dangerously close to "fraud" and is only going to hurt brands in the long run, properly disclosed "sponsors" or "affiliates" can be one of the best forms of advertising. It takes a skilled marketer and there is always risk, but the potential are also large.

If I already watch somebody like the professional chef, their opinions of various related brands (such as flour) may also be valuable. I don't have to like their opinion - they just have to have a consistent-enough history[1]. IN the case of the chef mentioning a particular brand of flour, the fact that the chef agreed to advertise for that brand (the risk goes both ways[2]) can act as a filter or heuristic.

I don't think this is the kind of relationship that can be easily automated. A "real time bidding platform" misses the benefits entirely - if there is filter-effect, you are left with only the annoying (and brand-damaging) parts.

[1] ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-3GJsr8Xw ) TotalBiscuit gave a great monologue on this subject somewhat recently. While he focuses on video game reviews (vs "demos", vs "personal opinions/editorials"), the ideas presented apply generally. (the video track in this link can be safely ignored)

[2] In addition to the business risking a bad delivery, the chef risks his own reputation (and audience) if that brand of flower ends up being hated. If the audience starts to see the chef a merely a shill for various brands, the audience can suddenly turn against everybody involved.

edit: fixed the URL - apparently TotalBiscuit now has more than one video about review/marketing/etc.
I was on my phone and couldn't swipe any further for some reason :(
I think its (probably) wrong to kill US citizens without trial. I won't use the word "assassinate" since it perhaps dignifies the action too much. Also I highly respect John McCain's position against torture, aka "enhanced interrogation".

However, the US isn't fighting against opponents who are playing by Marquess of Queensberry Rules. And the average American is willing to descend a little way down a "slippery slope". To quote a White House official:[1]

"If Anwar al-Awlaki is your poster boy
for why we shouldn't do drone strikes,
good fucking luck."

Yeah, sometimes right and wrong isn't completely black and white. There are shades of gray. There is a dark side that tries to seduce everyone.

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-rise-of-the-ki...
What happens if you claim that the product sent was damaged and call the bank saying you got a defective product but in reality you just lied.

Does the bank reverse the transaction based on your claim?
This guy is actually relatively safe, because he is in the "inside" of the turn. The most dangerous places are the "outsides" of turns, where cars out-of-control are more likely to go. I believe that it is a common security measure to place people on the insides rather than the outsides.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/... DNS RCE
The question of interest is not merely "is this an HOV lane" but "can I use it at this time" and "is there anything the sign says other than the usual stuff that I would need to know". You're supposed to read all road signs, and only after reading can you be sure that their information is redundant.
and were Java servers. Bedrock not included (runs on a different port over UDP only). Probably not including any Java or Bedrock Realms (official MSFT servers), who likely seat all access behind an authenticated gateway of some sort.

For extra fun, is a wiki.vg page trying to accumulate documentation on the Bedrock UDP interface.
https://wiki.vg/Bedrock_Protocol

This is still a neat sample of Java Minecraft servers.
RStudio, in my opinion one of the greatest companies in the world today, is a public benefit corp.
Looking for a job and pointing out competing offers is a good strategy.

My take was on something different - having an existing job and then using a competing job as leverage. I'm not sure how you'd frame it as not an ultimatum, because the employer almost certainly will regard it as an ultimatum.

Nor did I suggest "settling". I suggested if you get a better offer, take it.
Looks like you didn't get the nuance of the way I answered, I specifically stated creating a google.com equivalent is a big challenge. Either way, OPs statements were poorly phrased, too. A search engine consists of a lot of moving parts. Indexing is not a challenge too great for a solo dev, I've done it myself several times. Crawling is not too challenging for a solo dev, done that, too. A web frontend for the actual searching of the index? Trivial.

Doing any of this at google.com scale? Not happening.

I suggest, like you, OP look into niches. That's how you can break down every one of his 3 statements.

A search engine that specifically rules out every mainstream site? I'd be into that. A search engine built specifically for devs? Again, great. A search engine for blogs not built on Wordpress? Great. An academic search engine? I'd like that, too.

I agree, people are attached, but there are ways to mitigate, at least Duck is trying with their bangs.

A better way to mitigate is creating a niche, like you're suggesting, which is what I only hinted at. Even though I am attached to a particular engine, or website, I would use, IN ADDITION, niche engines.
First off, it's a hard coded area, not "route". They're not buses. A limited area is part of the definition of Level 4. What you're thinking of is Level 5, which is being able to handle any area and situation.

There are also reasons beyond capability for the cars being limited to an area. One is legislative, they literally are not allowed to offer service outside a given area. Another is maintenance, the cars need to be within range for their team in case of emergencies or accident. The cars have been tested in many cities outside those two cities, but offering a user-facing service has a lot more barriers.
I'm amazed at the number of people in this thread who consistently work overtime, but even more amazed by the people who seem to think that working 9-to-5 is a bad thing, and who wants to work more.

I work for an "extremely" progressive company in the valley, and I have three whole weeks of paid vacation per year, and I'm chafing at that, because I'm used to having six weeks of paid vacation per year.

I will never understand the american work ethic.
Saying that we are now controlling the evolution (in biological sense) is incorrect.
I have always wanted to own a company where we put the salaries on the wall of a employee-only conference room and paid profit sharing. I doubt it would work, but I would love to try it.
I very much doubt that the arrow will gain any velocity going down that it didn't have when shot upwards. Remember that the arrow needs initial vertical velocity to reach any height.
The way I see it, you just proved his point.

You say people should be allowed, but in the next sentence place conditions that what they say should agree with you.

Would it have been a completely different post if it only read:

> you should be allowed to express whatever viewpoint you have regarding gay marriage

I think it would.
This is less hipsterdom and more just postmodernism in general (of which hipsterdom is a manifestation)
Yeahh, red flag not to work for that company whilst under his leadership
How to do it on iCloud? Like a backup?
I think that there is no free lunch in the human brain. If you take something, your brain will adapt to an equilibrium, down-regulating whatever transmitters you are manipulating. Strategies like drug cycling, minimal use, etc can all be used to partially mitigate this. But in the long run, sleep, exercise, diet, sex, and social relationships are the contributors to a healthy brain.
> I think you're describing a work of fiction. It's practically a James Bond or Bruce Wayne-like character.

Diane Feinstein, the _Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee_, had a Chinese spy as her personal driver _for 20 years_. So yes, slipping engineers into tech companies is not that complicated and in fact happens all the time.
I guess that's one solution to piracy and competition...
I really do not understand Windows 10. It really seems like Windows 10 laptops and PCs are unable to sleep. They keep waking up, and then refuse to sleep. Frequently I find my work laptop in the morning turned on by itself, screen on, fan blowing enthusiastically. Power management in Windows 10 seems to be utterly broken. It certainly doesn't obey any of my settings.