jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It will take months, years, decades to scan each cask. They are basically doing a cat scan of a large object using natural muons, cosmic rays.

There aren't very many rays at the earth's surface. A cat scan will use millions, billions of particles to form an image. The flux of cosmic rays for this scanning method will be on the order of one or two rays per liter of object per second. Building up any image will, at that rate, take a loooong time.

These nuclear casks are probably the only targets willing stand still long enough. Scanning something small, like a lead safe, might take literally centuries.
Apparently it is a thing in DC, known as "slug lines":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging

The idea is that by picking up people, you can drive in the HOV lanes.
wow really, I know of ikea, but do you mind linking me to some references ?
Don't waste your time with lisp. Learn lambda calculus and then see how these ideas are applied in actually useful imperative programming languages.
I don't even want to talk to my friends in the car. Get from point A to point B, listen to the radio, be quiet. Rest of my day is noise.
The problem of words having different magnitudes of potency depending on context is different from words being used to mean the exact opposite of their meaning in a non-ironic way.
Yes, and the license could easily be construed to imply that your license is immediately revoked if you tweet "Facebook infringes on patents".
Is 'millenials are killing x' the same then? I haven't seen much outrage over that trend.
Unfortunately BBC iPlayer is also not unblocked with WifiMask since a few weeks. It looks like they bought some anti-VPN algorithms from Netflix.
>You could argue that I'm using the wrong tool for the job.

For ad hoc filtering, calculations, merging, analyzing tabular datasets a dedicated tool such as our EasyMorph (https://easymorph.com) would do a better job than Excel in the vast majority of cases. It can handle millions of rows, keeps data in memory, has a wide range of available transforms and built-in charting. We target heavy Excel users and it works quite well. Disclaimer: I work for EasyMorph.
That's a good point, how have I never heard of it? When I search in this entire thread your comment is the only reference I see to it.

I just took a second to look it up, and it doesn't seem to be competing with Google Docs or Office Online, since it's self-hosted and there are warnings all over that page to not use this software for production and it should only be used for development or personal use.

So it's good to know they're working on it. By their own admission it's not ready to be used, but it's good to know it's in-progress.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
It seems shockingly unethical for Norah Vincent to deceive those other women just to gather material for her book. If a real sociologist proposed to do such an experiment with human subjects I can't imagine that an Institutional Review Board would ever allow it.
Registration fees fund highway maintenance, the CHP, and other services that are necessary to be able to drive your car. They’re not just paying for the DMV itself.

Given that the fees don't cover things like offsetting the impact of a car’s CO2 emissions, you might even ask why are your fees so damn low?
Oh good. Though it's a shame that the test suite is a `test.py` file instead of `cargo test`; it would have been extremely satisfying to know that the Rust project would run the test suite for an INTERCAL compiler on a regular basis as part of Crater.
I switched to disconnect.me a while back because I have a cynical view of a tracker blocker tracking people, even if there is the option to disable it.

And for similar reasons I dropped AdBlock when they decided to let companies pay to be unblocked.
FWIW, Gambit C compiles to C, not to Objective C. I'm not sure that makes a difference, though.
I've posted the link. I've have no affiliation with the guys from that site. Just wanted to share an interesting story.
fuck fuck

its still down 2 days later
I also done that on a friends' 386SX 25MHz machine that had only 2MB of ram. Doom required at least 4MB (sounds ridiculous as I am typing) and although it used the DOS4GW dos extender that was capable of swapping, it never worked.

On the other side, Win 3.1 was also capable of swapping and ran Doom. It was absolutely unplayable though :)
HTTPS shouldn't be much of a performance issue to an all-text site such as HN.
I run a HN-like site in Hebrew, and I recently made the switch myself (https://bitorama.com). Traffic there is a lot lower than in HN, but so far I haven't noticed any latency issues.

The change went smoothly with nginx, though I'm not certain this data point is relevant to HN.
> and it's replaced both a gym and a trainer for me

In that case, the gym and trainer were not actually necessary in the first place. Below a specific level of fitness, it doesn't matter what exercise you do. There are safer and more efficient forms, but all that really matters is that you do it and you don't hurt yourself in the process. Those trainers, and gyms, were serving an artificial market that didn't actually need them (like some restaurant waiters, bank tellers, travel agents, etc).

Perhaps a better analysis of the whole situation is a collapse of existing artificial markets that businesses have used to expand beyond their current market.
You want to search for "web worker" or "background task" in NPM.

One example: https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads
"Think about accessing any wikipedia article you might need during a power outage, a remote expedition, a natural disaster, or during a visit to an internet-restricted country! Thanks to Gozim, any classroom in the world could potentially access and work on Wikipedia, free of any internet connexion." - http://akhenakh.github.io/gozim/

Sounds like a lot of people would use/need it. Any plans to put it in their hands?
No, he's pointing out that bonded slavery is not the same as wage slavery, as the element of free choice/freedom from harm doesn't exist in bonded slavedy.

I see the equivocation of suffering between bonded and 'wage' slavery to be incredibly disingenuous. Working at McDonald's doesn't make you a slave in the same sense as a person who has their limbs cut off for trying to escape, and to insist that 'wage slavery' is comparable is disturbingly detached from reality.
You make an excellent point. Thank you for pointing this out, it seems like a very simple difference in point of view, but I had never though of it quite like this before.

I do think there is an additional factor at work, though, and that is the fact that efforts to open up the world market have tended to be guided by the capitalist class. It is easy to import from, or export to, another country, but very difficult to relocate abroad as a worker (and I am saying this as an American currently living abroad). So goods and capital have been allowed to move, quite easily, between countries through "free trade" agreements, but labor is still "stuck".

So, from an American standpoint, I can see why people are grumpy about the H1B issue, because, once again, the primary group that will benefit from this "liberalization" of trade is the capitalist class.

So whether you regard immigration restrictions as an interference in the market, or a natural state of the world, their loosening has been done in a way that primarily benefits a single, small group of people, so of course everyone else is up-in-arms.
Confirmed for me on Mac OS X 10.9.5, Chrome 39.0.2171.95
One obvious problem with that comparison - it is a toy example.

It is really not about anthropomorphizing objects, it is about where the state is kept and who can modify it how. And the right or at least the best choice heavily depends on the problem you are modeling. If you are primarily tracking the whereabouts of students it is probably a good choice that students keep track of that information and provide an interface to update it. If you are primarily interested in rooms and who is inside, it may be better to make the rooms responsible and provide an interface like classroom.enter(student).
I think New York actually has worse problems with crime and homelessness than SF. Except there, the police beat (quite literally) the destitute into the poorer neighborhoods where the Twitterati don’t live. Sadly, it works.

P.S. I left NYC because I was assaulted in the subway (2018). Also, same year, there was a nodded-off man in nice clothes who probably took a bit too much after work, passed out on 14th St & 3rd Ave. I watched as over a hundred people walked past and sometimes over him. Finally I tried to wake him and, when he didn’t rouse, called an ambulance. Never seen such a cold populace.
> The big challenge is that people chose to live in a certain place because it had certain features

In Germany, the most sought-after features are quality mobile ans landline internet, as well as decent public transit.

The problem is that our Conservative politicians outright sabotaged (Kohl with fibre vs cable TV, Schröder with the UMTS frequency auction) or, at best, simply sat doing nothing (Merkel) any efforts to improve this situation.

The result? Everyone who can flees for the cities, while the rural areas generally only house those "left behind".

And then politicians complain about exploding rents in cities or people leaving rural areas... well, d'oh, who would have thought young people and modern jobs require Internet.
but your older relative also expects:

a) the bank app to install

b) the whatsapp or whatever "everyone my age uses that" they are using to install

c) candycrush or whatever is the trendy game of the moment to install

d) Netflix/Disney+/... app to install

I really doubt these will ever be ported to PinePhone.
And then, if they were, I am sure malware would also be ported, so back to square one.
Ok, and what is the list of those countries and the quantities that they're getting?

Because from your second sentence it read like an awfully short list if nobody's expecting on receiving vaccine.
My favorite Python WTF "feature" is that integers can have have the same reference, but only sometimes:

>>> a = 256
>>> b = 256
>>> a is b
True
>>> a = 257
>>> b = 257
>>> a is b
False
>>> a = 257; b = 257
>>> a is b
True

Sometimes I think of Python as the Nash Equilibrium[a] of programming languages:

It's never the absolute best language for anything, but it's hard to improve it on any front (e.g., execution speed) without hindering it on other fronts (e.g., ad-hoc interactivity), and it's never the absolute worst language for anything. Often enough, it's good enough.

Python might well be "the least-worst language for everything."

--

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
I do not know why you are down voted... I have seen Huawei from the inside and the number of devs and first grade researchers is staggering.

The researchers get payed very well, but what (to those I met) was even more important: they get all the assistance they want, plus 1. As one of them told me "I hate doing things twice. I now do not have to. I think of something, try to get it to work and I am done. The grinding is done for me." A truly very nice environment to do research in, with a boatload of resources at their fingertips.

Just check the number of patents Huawei [0] holds.

[0] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1194023.shtml
I entered the industry with no degree, having taught myself to code. After approx 15 years as a developer, I decided to get a degree, because it was becoming a problem (Australia is very sensitive to qualifications). I decided to get an MBA because all the hard problems I'd met were people and/or business problems.

The tech is generally easy in commercial coding. There is usually a definitive answer, and if not then the trade-offs are generally well-known. It's rare to run into a problem that requires complex technical knowledge, and in those cases it's fine to hire a consultant to help.

But the people problems are hard. Getting clued-up on these is important.
This stopped being supported half a decade ago
Here's an interview with him from about 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=58fccuRMBqk
You are doing a whataboutism just like many others. Among FAANG, Facebook is distinctly more problematic. If you don't see that, you are just unaware of the scandals upon scandals from the last 5 years.
Nicely aggregated.
Normally I think rules like Betteridge's Law of Headlines are lazy, but it is strong with this one.
As I entered my second career, as programmer, I made a very conscious attempt to use a very personal handle for services that were even remotely professional. For most, that meant something like 'jnovinger', which is my first initial and full last name.

The reason was that I wanted build a professional reputation. I wanted to say smart things and have them associated with me as opposed to some handle I used long ago. I said some really stupid things when I was younger and much, much more naive. Plus, seeing my real name at the top of the page reminded me that what I was saying was public, permanent, and subject to making me look like an idiot.

Having said that, I chose 'nantes' for HN, because, well, you all intimidated me when I registered. It took a while reading HN before I really felt like I had something useful and relevant to add to the discussion. Even then, my experience was dwarfed by HN and I worried that I might post something poorly thought out or downright dim-witted.

I've started to get over that. A little bit.
If you enjoyed this, you should definitely visit the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mi... They take apart and reassemble a model T everyday in the museum.

My favorite part of the museum is the Rouge factory tour. Completely integrated manufacturing, the type that I don't think exists anywhere in the world. Essentially you had coal and iron ore come in one side of the factory and Model A's being pumped out 48 hours later on the other side. An incredible site (now it's just a Ford Truck Assembly, but you can see amazing videos of the past)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_River_Rouge_Complex

Another must visit factory is Boeing in Everett, Wa
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/tours/index.html
Hehe well obviously not hers. What I meant was that it wasn't clear how he built the fake fingerprint he tested, whether he used the exact same method he used to construct the defense minister's fingerprint, or whether he "cheated" to make it easier on himself.
I find better information in Spanish about Spanish-speaking places and creative works and also about indigenous American cultures. Similarly with Japanese.

But most of Wikipedia is best in English, sure. That might be just because English is the most widely spoken language in the world. Other languages could match English if they had as many speakers. There isn't any special value inherent to the way Wikipedia works in English or a bias in the code toward English articles.
Or a pretty serious opportunity, if you get to build/run prisons for a living. Given how corrupt US politics is, I'm sure the two are connected.
A job exists so that surplus value can be extracted from labor.

If an owner will not pay a worker a fair wage, some might find profiting from their undervalued labor as morally abhorrent.

I hope that people would choose to support businesses that fell in line with their values.
Why did the guy break their site again after he almost fixed it?
https://medium.com/@statvfs/keeping-up-with-using-aws-proper...
I agree this is a better way to look at pull requests, but I'm surprised it's as much of a problem as the post implies. For us, whenever we do a pull request, we always rebase against the latest master first. That can be a cat and mouse game, but it usually isn't. Our repos don't change that rapidly.
I would agree most strongly with number 6. Having spent time in the biotech arena, there are so many fractured data format structures. A good example of this would be small variations in .fastq files. There are different formats generated from different equipment, and different software expects format A when you have format B, and I've seen people trying to shove the wrong formats into pipelines that blow up or create a tone of work as a result.

Honestly though, the biggest problem with people using python for bid data though is just the opposite of number 2, sometimes you need to use that framework, but when you rely too heavily on various frameworks, that's how you end up in dependency hell, largely due to the aforementioned format issues. eg. Framework 1 update fixes bug X but creats bug y in framework 2's parsing.
> Obviously, less lending is bad for the banks, but I fail to see how it would be bad for the consumer

Its not generally bad for consumers qua consumers (though there are ways that it can be, because it prevents large purchases that save in the long term), but its bad for the same people that are consumers as laborers because less borrowing by business and less investment in business (both effects of deflation) mean less paid work available, and less utility produced regardless of the distribution.

> So, can you explain, in a way that doesn't involve trickle-down economics, how borrowing money is a net gain for consumers?

It enables you to do things like buy a car to go to work at a job that pays well before you have amassed sufficient retained income from that job to pay for the car. Without the ability to borrow money, you may not be able to take (or, if you take it, keep) the job because you can't get to it.
For all the ink he spends on the "crossing over" concept, I still have no idea what he's referring to. That would have been a great place to embed an illustrative clip.
This in 2014, the same year the Duke Lacrosse team finally cleared their names after having them dragged trough the mud for nearly a decade.
It seems that having most of the cardio guys away at the conferences means there are less invasive procedures.

I would guess that what is scewing the result though is that the invasive procedures carry short term risk for a long term health benefit. The study only sees the decrease in short term risk (less invasive procedures) but is blind to the long term consequences of not doing the procedure.
I am almost certain that it's related to this:

http://charon.persephoneslair.org/~andrea/pandorasts/jeremy_...

It really has nothing to do with gamergate, except I suppose insofar as being subjected to your own harassment might give you solidarity with other people who have been harassed.
In the case of wifi and such this seems like a sensible approach, too bad its being applied end to end.
I think we need to distinguish between "faking", "demonstrating" and "supplying". Faking should be reserved for literally providing false data with the intention that it's believed to be true, eg. the dating site example.

Most of those examples were not faking anything. Rentoid actually supplied a serivce, though it wasnt "user-generated". Reddit supplied links their potential users would be interested in.

This is a mixture of demonstrating how the service works, and supplying actual content to potential users.

By way of contrast, what the dating site admins should have actually done, is ask all their single friends to sign up (and any other single people they could get their hands on directly).

It seems a perfectly good and moral business strategy to generate your own content which is representative and useful. I think "faking it" is a bit more questionable.
Another way of looking at what reddit did, is to think of them as hacking a way to provide value to the initial users. Faking doesn't necessarily have to be about lying, it can be used to provide value, even though the system is designed to work well only when there is a significant userbase.
> In 1997, people moved from perl to PHP in the same way that in 2004+ people moved from PHP to Ruby.

Ah yes, 2013 PHP:Ruby is the same situation as 2008 Perl:PHP.
You and all the research seems to agree. Of course, the anecdotal evidence outliers will disagree, but I don't see how there's a debate anymore when you look at productivity.
Can you actually see the difference between DVD and Blu-Ray?

It may just be me, but it appears that they are not much sharper than the DVDs (unlike the DVD vs VHS change) and most of it is marketing.
The point is not that they allow the viewing of the NYT RSS feed, but that they ship with it by default, and use it as a selling point for their application. I don't agree with NYT's viewpoint here, but I can see where they are coming from. I think the Wired article went a bit over the top in saying that any piece of commercial software is disallowed from displaying NYT content.
I actually found the comparative metrics more interesting than the article. Anybody know of similar metrics for boost, perl and qt's re performance?
Interesting idea! I'm curious to see what exactly this service provides (considering PHP deployment isn't exactly hard, as others mentioned). I would certainly love to see such a setup for Python frameworks...
I have tons of ideas about what you could do, but who knows, maybe you've done those things already :) I'd also love an invite, sheldon dot els at gmail dot com
A lot of people are willing to pay for 'possibilities.'

In other words, they derive intangible value by keeping that possibility around, regardless of how often they may actually exercise the option it gives them, if ever.

Many people have vacation homes or own boats that they rarely use, and could probably rent (on an as-needed basis) more cheaply, but the value to them is not simply in their actual use of the house/boat/whatever, but in the ownership itself. They derive value and enjoyment simply from the knowledge that they could go use the house, or take out the boat, whenever they wanted, even if they don't actually exercise that option very often.

It may not be a wholly rational choice when viewed from a purely economic perspective, but that's because humans aren't anywhere close to rational economic actors if you fail to take into account intangibles.
Many Americans each waste many dollars every day on products laced with addictive narcotics.

I don't think that word means what he thinks it means. Caffeine is a psychoactive drug (so is your antihistamine), but it ain't a narcotic.
They are not selling file storage, they are selling enterprise content management.
"Do no evil" hasn't been followed for quite a while, but this is downright vile.
$ units "6 l/100 km" mpg

reciprocal conversion

* 39.202431

/ 0.025508622
Last month I built MIT Scheme on my 13 year old Toshiba Satellite (and it was the cheap one in 2001) under Wary Puppy 5.5. No problems. Because of its richer feature set, Guile was another matter and I gave up.