jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cool article!

> The researchers saw little to no response to code in the language regions of the brain. Instead, they found that the coding task mainly activated the so-called multiple demand network. This network, whose activity is spread throughout the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain, is typically recruited for tasks that require holding many pieces of information in mind at once, and is responsible for our ability to perform a wide variety of mental tasks.

Well, that makes a lot of sense to me since in most cases the major part of programming is holding the system in your head and understanding how the changes you’re working on will interact with everything else. Specifically holding permutations in your head and thinking about whether you’ve covered all the use cases and paths through the code.

> Previous studies have shown that math and logic problems seem to rely mainly on the multiple demand regions in the left hemisphere, while tasks that involve spatial navigation activate the right hemisphere more than the left. The MIT team found that reading computer code appears to activate both the left and right sides of the multiple demand network, and ScratchJr activated the right side slightly more than the left. This finding goes against the hypothesis that math and coding rely on the same brain mechanisms.

I feel like I could have told you that. I hate to admit this but I really, really struggle with math, while programming always came easily to me and is very enjoyable. I’ve had dozens of conversations with people interested in learning programming wherein they’ve said “but I’m not great at Math,” and I’ve said “that’s fine, programming is more like poetry than math.”

Thanks for sharing!
Same thing is happening with other products - for example Magic: The Gathering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEOB5sltnC8

And companies build their products around this:

https://secretlair.wizards.com
Why does that make paying for a natural language bot better? Small business owners don't know how to implement natural language AIs any more than they know how to make a web site.

People hire others to do things they don't understand all the time. That's the point of hiring people. You ask your peers for a recommendation and judge based on the result.
The problem is that federated protocols and platforms don't really evolve that well with a few exceptions. We had XMPP and it died. Then WhatsApp and Telegram showed us what truly modern messengers could be. When you can't make a change at the client level you won't be able to advance.

So, even if you believe Matrix is the future and Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram have a drastic flaw, we couldn't get here without them.
I read most of this article and this person is young and single. Even given that, there is some astoundingly bad advice in here (eg, the “I recommend 30% in crypto + individual stocks”).

I think a better analysis would be to compare their personal strategy against a baseline one: ie, if they had invested everything from the beginning (including their NBA cards!!) in a total market index fund.

I think it is fine to engage in lots of strategies, including investing in individual stocks, but that should not be included in a portfolio recommended to others.
Bet sizing in poker is not determined by the Kelly criterion, it's determined by maximum expected value with at most a tiny penalty for high risk.

Where you could in theory apply the Kelly criterion is in selecting which stakes to play at. But in practice it seems more chosen through rules of thumb / common sense / feeling than an actual application of the Kelly criterion.
There's some risk there indeed, but there would be also big anti-monopoly scrutiny risk from Google's side doing that if they indirectly kill alternative browsers.

Right now there's some kind of equilibrium by having alternative browsers/engines, on Windows especially, plus Google still gets traffic from millions of Firefox users by being default search engine, which makes them $$$.
The idea behind having a privatized healthcare system is that, yes you are massively overcharging for life saving procedures, but that money will then be spent on training more surgeons to lower the price in the future. The end result is an expensive system with superior outcomes.

>It's that there are literally X number of slots

This is fundamentally incompatible with the idea of a privatized healthcare system. It simply cannot be functional this way. I hope Americans will wake up and realize that this sort of welfare should not exist.

It's always sad when I see Americans brag about their highly efficient free market systems when they fail the basic requirements needed for a free market to actually work.

Yes it can work and yes you'd be allowed to brag but as it is you haven't figured out how to make it work yet.
Any user who deals with a set of files that need to be coherent, such as a source tree, I'd argue is already most likely technical. Non-technical users are used to having the time dimension, but for individual documents. They understand the notion of revision A and revision B of a document. Most people also most likely understand that if two people edit revision A, they would create separate, conflicting revisions B.

but: most people also accept wihtout fuss, that it's OK that you make a phone call or email and just agree who throws their version out. Or that one user should simply lock the document for editing to prevent this from happening.

"Git for non technical users" (of single documents, not trees) seems pretty easy to build as a layer on top of git. 1) you use LFS and file locking. 2) You "check out" a file for editing which locks it exclusively 3) You completely hide the notion of "local repository" because zero nontechnical users, ever want to be bothered with distributed version control. Basically - you make a dumber but more robust verison of SVN on top of git-lfs.
>“This was used in an attack” is a bullshit excuse to banish something.

Remember when the Christchurch shooter streamed his rampage on Facebook? Why hasn't Facebook been banned yet?
> this is an app that was literally used to plan a violent attack

This is exactly the rhetoric used to ban Twitter in other countries. Funny how things are turning.
Wait until Google starts blocking URLs in Chrome and Android to protect you from "harmful" content.

Maybe Facebook can join and block in WhatsApp too.

Hey it's free market, private company product yay!
The "garbage velocity" is not the most important parameter. Remember that garbage is all the space which remains after we identify what is reachable. The traversal of the graph of what is reachable is mainly where the performance pitfalls lie. When garbage is generated at a high rate, it just means that collection has to be more frequent. However, real-time techniques avoid scanning the entire graph of everything that is reachable.

Under ephemeral garbage collection, if the software generates a lot of garbage fast, it means that it's rapidly making large numbers of "baby" objects (objects in the "nursery" or "generation 0") and immediately losing them. Whenever a generation pass comes along, there are hardly any nursery objects to visit (they almost all been lost due to the "garbage velocity"), and the tenured objects aren't traversed either, so ... it's quick. Quick isn't "free", but it's not "beyond the ability to cope".
This video shows how people fought in full body plate armour using some 15-th century techniques, it's really surprising how flexible it is, you can even jump and do body rolls in it. It's definitely not as stiff as I always thought it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q&feature=youtu.be
Author here. We would love feedback from the HN community!

I didn't mention in the post, but I also checked the scores of all the (public) Gopher Gala entries. Here are the top-rated Gopher Gala projects of the past weekend by quality rating:

1. color 100% https://github.com/gophergala/color
2. gorgonzola 100% https://github.com/gophergala/gorgonzola
3. jsonup 99% https://github.com/gophergala/jsonup
4. goloso 99% https://github.com/gophergala/goloso
5. json-ipsum 99% https://github.com/gophergala/json-ipsum
6. catarang 99% https://github.com/gophergala/catarang
7. xtend-poc 99% https://github.com/gophergala/xtend-poc
8. TypingGeeks 99% https://github.com/gophergala/TypingGeeks
9. HitGoPher 98% https://github.com/gophergala/HitGoPher
10. blinky_light_display 98% https://github.com/gophergala/blinky_light_display
11. lirix 98% https://github.com/gophergala/lirix
12. wisdom 97% https://github.com/gophergala/wisdom
13. rehook 97% https://github.com/gophergala/rehook
14. yps 97% https://github.com/gophergala/yps
15. application-framework 96% https://github.com/gophergala/application-framework
16. fsntor 96% https://github.com/gophergala/fsntor
17. dnsp 90% https://github.com/gophergala/dnsp
18. scpm 87% https://github.com/gophergala/scpm
19. sqldump 87% https://github.com/gophergala/sqldump
20. watchtower 86% https://github.com/gophergala/watchtower

Yes, Go Report Card failed to make the list - we'll have to fix that later :)
> If you pick a topic because it is something you like (i.e. "programming", "blogging", "japanese aninmation", etc.) you join a group of other unfortunate people that are likely to be getting $0.10-0.20 per page view

$0.10-0.20 per page view is a number that one can only dream of. You probably rather mean $0.10-0.20 per 1000 page views.
According to https://discuss.atom.io/t/why-coffeescript/131/46?u=nightwin... Atom Development started 6 years ago, but Both Ace (from cloud9) and CodeMirror became really good only in last 1-2 years.

For api docs see https://atom.io/docs/api/v0.175.0/TextEditor
node.js is a way to get people to click on an article. If it said "new editor" no one would care. But the buzzword fashionable 'node.js' means people will assume it's earth changingly awesome.
Ah. My mistake; turns out I'm the one that didn't "get it."
I can see now what I did there, I'm not a native speaker so formulating complex ideas is still pretty hard for me in english.

It was wrong of me to say that Pits are less dangerous than your average mutt - because that is clearly not the case, since your average mutt is NOT 100 LBS of muscle and determination.

I should of said that pits are (inherently) less likely to attack humans than your average mutt - meaning they take "encouragement" (read training) towards human agression.
I hate this type of robin hood mentality. Come on dude, everything the bank does is legal, even if they fuck you, they first make you sign an agreement saying they are entitled to do so.
You say bicycles are not dangerous? Not of itself - but riding a bicycle certainly is. I know I know - you want statistics or it didn't happen: http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac-safety.html

There - it says that more than 20 times more people got killed (750 in 2005!!!) from performing an in your opinion safe activities than from aggressive dogs.

I really apologize if I'm bashing you too much - but this is a perfect case of primal fear overcoming rational reason and I expect people here to be open towards other people pointing out their different POV.
We can destroy anonymity on the internet and punish people who spread malicious provable lies, calls for violence, or hate especially people who do so in an organized fashion.

An idiot who shares something untrue that he ought to have known was false is materially different from someone who fabricates something and ultimately directly and by proxy misinforms 10 million people.

The choice isn't between tyranny or absolute freedom. It's about our actions shaping the bones of society. The current framework isn't mere ground truth we must accept we can reshape it if we desire and perhaps we should.
>You end up needing a mix of both

If you study political philosophy (e.g. Plato, Hobbes, Locke etc..) and read stuff like Orwell's Animal Farm, I think it becomes pretty evident that it ultimately won't matter how you structure society, whether that's a mix (of communism/capitalism), or having all of one or the other. Just using a simple thought experiment, you can show that the sheer existence of two or more people, can potentially give rise to situations where inequality becomes inevitable. In which case, leads to Hobbes's arguments about the state of nature.
I'm split here between saying "Doesn't mean you need to make it easy for them." and "How 'interesting' must a completely anonymous account look inside FB?"...

(The only way to win is to not play the game...)
Yes. And a large chunk of population simply aligns based on emotion and do not have the desire to learn. This applies to all categories of people, including myself.
Its not true please don’t parrot nonsense. The cops were relatively gentle compared with the summer protests, but they didn’t just let people inside.

Here is a livestream of the initial run on the steps: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dGyEhnhGdw&feature=youtu.be
Not for much of the country, including London.

Source: living in (what was at the time) a tier 4 area

The issue is the new strain, clearly. Cases were growing even during the November lockdown.
Honest question: does anyone think this would have happened if Twitter and Facebook did not exist?
Hey dang, if you ever see this I just want to say I meant no offense to you or your efforts. Some people on hn frustrate me on occasion—I doubt you flagged it :)
Just wait for results of year's end parties. While during Christmas the virus is shared within families, the year end is an occasion to do this with a bunch of strangers!

And it is also ideal delay from Christmas to Dec 31st for most of the people that got infected over Christmas to start spreading the virus but not yet show symptoms.
There are many more eyes on the custody of that ballot between it being cast, and it being counted.
An important point to mention in segmenting your features is that the main thing to consider is the value a feature delivers to your users. If if delivers considerable value, consider making it premium.

Contrast this to "hard vs easy" thinking. Sometimes you may feel like you should charge only for things that were hard to develop. Discard this feeling right away. Users don't care how hard you worked, only what value it delivers.
Oddly enough, the IP65 rating this phone has does not make it waterproof. IP_5 means it can survive being sprayed with a hose but not necessarily taken for a dive. The Garmin'x IPX7 means that it is rated for immersion up to one meter (the 7 in the second place). The X is not a valid part of the code so I'm not sure what it means. The first digit refers to physical ingress protection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code
I think I remember seeing an affiliate program for printable grocery store coupons. Since you'll know what is on my event's grocery list, you can target those coupons.
I have had the same experience. I have only had to contact them twice, but they were pretty responsive.
Poverty can probably actually lower birth rates by forcing women into the workforce. If a parent is at home, the marginal cost is a lot lower for another child than it is if people are paying for childcare.
>They don’t want to hold their coins or be their own bank.

If the UX is better around this, I think they would. It's only in the last 15 years that people really stopped carrying large amounts of cash around. And from what I understand, people still use a lot of cash in places outside of the US.

But for example, there are bitcoin wallets (ZenGo) and nodes (Umbrel) that provide protections around footguns now and make for a much more straightforward user experience.

If Bitcoin sluggishness and fees got sorted out, I think people would like this. But I suspect that the powers that be do not want these issues fixed. Bitcoin is not a threat when it is "just another commodity".
Heard any good ideas about what caused the latest pump? It wasn’t Elon/Tesla since that came later. It’s really interesting that it came right after the election, but I can’t see a causal connection unless a bunch of Q nuts are shoveling money into Bitcoin to avoid the “great reset.”

I was surprised by the pump, but didn’t buy in because by the time you see such a thing it is always too late.
Interesinting that some of the tools he installed to "improve" default windows are open-source and also available on linux.

Anecdata: about a decade ago I asked a few colleagues if a mac user would feel more at home using windows or Ubuntu. Answer were almost unanimous: Ubuntu. It is a shame that market needs (hardware, services and software) still makes people need windows.
just wanted to say I love the idea! Would definitely use it if it was available in Croatia :)

Btw, how are you solving routing right now, any cool algorithms? :)
I worked at Monster.com (job posting service) ten years ago and this was essentially their business model: HR departments would be locked into a long term contract of 2-5 years, which was (anecdotally) a longer period than typical HR manager role who would approve a contract like this, so they would often not even be around for a renewal and whoever replaced them would be sucked into signing another long term contract.
Ooh, that sounds like fun! How about returning some kind of randomized set of interests, or one of various curated sets, or even adversarial ones. You could even select from several personas.
I think this is the best way to address the issue of Bitcoin being a ponzi-scheme that some people raise. Explain that it's a software product that allows instant low-fee transactions without a centralized server, and those transactions can include complicated logic to serve various types of contracts, enforced without lawyers or authority, thus lowering the costs of business. And it's startup that you can invest into without going through the pain of hiring lawyers too.
There is no contradiction. The thing you quoted is what happens in normal circumstances (i.e. linear motion) - you instantly start falling with no delay. Which is correct. It's the change in the linear motion that gets propagated at speed of light. But in any case you still react properly because things cancel. Woo!
But then you have to live in Texas; even Austin still has some of that icky Texas non planning left in it, as well as dumpster divers everywhere, something I never saw in the Bay Area.
I wonder...

http://www.yoav.ws/2012/05/Responsive-image-format

Yup I'm not the only person to come-up with this. I think heuristically guessing how much to request from the content-length with two range requests would work just fine.
On a related note, is there a reason why mobile Chrome doesn't have view source?
I don't understand how this is supposed to work. When I installed the standard Qt client for the first time, it took a couple of days before it had downloaded the blockchain and was ready for use. What moron thought this was going to scale?

The article even points out that Litecoin clients need several hours to catch up with that currency's version of a blockchain.

Is someone ever going to build a true P2P cryptocurrency, or are all of the current contenders doomed to collapse under their own mathematical weight?
Here is a video of his presentation at Ignite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWH_mjrscs
While it's possible, the output reminds me of code/application generators of the past. That (hopefully) means that as technology progresses, we'll get better abstractions. And then the cycle will repeat itself. :)
The argument could similarly be made for watching feature films on a TV set with surround sound versus a theater. Ebooks aren't as beautiful (yet) as their hardback cousins, but they are instant, portable, and greener to boot!
If it's replacement cost you are worried about, I think an SSD will last on average about as long as your system, assuming a max 3 year upgrade cycle.

If it's data preservation you are worried about (ie, if I wear it out and lose everything) then remember than flash memory, unlike spinning disks, is fail on write. That means that even if the drive dies, it can still be read. Compare to an ever so slightly misaligned platter getting a big scratch from a drives head.
That's illegal, can't claim ownership
I am deeply ambivalent about my tenure at Amazon overall, but I unconditionally applaud the level of psychological safety in their dev culture: there is a shared understanding that any system failure caused by a single person is necessarily a failure of the process that governs changes to that system.

If there were any singular behavior I wish every tech company would adopt, it is that level of perspective on what makes a system reliable.
What's the advantage of Coq over Z3? I've spent a fair amount of time working on logic solvers with the Python Z3 bindings, so I have some bias, but the Z3 syntax here is far more readable to me. Are there actual advantages to the Coq solver or syntax?
I've never had the chance to see it, and I really would like to. I suppose when things return to "normal"...
This is exactly what I'll be doing with these articles for the next few weeks. Learning a few cmomands at a time gives them time to sink in and become habit.
Another element for your list: the rest of the car
I bought a Sony smart TV about a year ago. I don't get ads per say, but there is a prominent area in the main menu where Sony wants to shill their services and that can't be turned off. Also, TV has to be restarted every week or two (it's android).

On the other hand, I love that I can easily cast screen from my laptop or photos from phone using built in chromecast.

Smart TVs are a mixed bag.
Is this the same guy who's now on the FBI's wanted list?
Power to weight ratio is pretty great, no? The acceleration times in the usable speed ranges seems to imply that, at least. I agree that the cost is on the high side, but in terms of utility, it seems pretty great - excellent cargo space, optional 7 seats in a small car for when you really need to carry a couple more, panoramic glass roof. And in terms of charging time, for anyone with the ability to charge at hom, I expect that the lifetime sum of total time spent waiting for a charge will be a good bit lower than time spent navigating to and sitting at gas stations, since you’re not waiting for it while it’s charging overnight.
Once again, reporter engages in static analysis to ignore a good solution. Article confidently states that they get so many inventions that a thorough review would cost too many billions for fees to support. But why isn't charging whatever a proper review actually costs a good option? Raise fees a bit, raise standards a lot, and this half a million each year volume problem goes away too.

I can't stand the idea that the patent office is so bad that we should only consider courtroom based solutions. Courtrooms are terrible too - way too much expense, too much uncertainty, and too large $s getting risked on what a jury decides or when a judge last had a snack break. They should have their place, but it shouldn't be the first line of defense or general solution for the problem.
Needing to use your own merchant account means 3.5-4% in costs that you don't pay at all when you use SaaSy. SaaSy includes this cost in the pricing.
People say drink something before you go to bed so next morning the urge to pee will motivate you straight out of bed. I hate having to pee really bad when I wake up. But don't shit right before bed for a similar impetus. YMMV.
For me:

Hardcover: 13.98, Kindle: 14.58

The price is the same during the past few days, I just wonder if Amazon display different price to different users based on their location.