jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
However, viruses and corals are vastly different things, and comparing them does not necessarily make sense.

Viruses like the common cold seem particularly predisposed to rapid mutation as a survival tactic, and this works particularly well because of the sheer scale at which microbes work: There are billions of billions of virus particles around. There are billions of billions of virus particles constantly replicating and often doing it badly.

Have we looked at how quickly corals, anemone, nudibranches etc. mutate in the face of extinction? There are vast areas of the oceans (eg., along the Mexican coastline) where the deoxygenation of the water has killed off virtually all life during the last half-century; where is the mutated flora and fauna that learned to adapt to the lower oxygen levels?

Sure, I agree that science doesn't necessarily understand all about how stuff evolves or adapts. Nature might find a way to survive. But the way you threw out that (I paraphrase) "I'm not worried, they'll just mutate" is too cavalier a response to this problem.
But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need!
That's awesome :) UI is pretty sweet!
Actually, if it's a software patent, there's a really good chance that it is ridiculous on the face of it.
It shouldn't matter much.

The test was just a javascript-engine test, this test does not do any rendering by itself.
Heh, this has an 80 MB hard drive and it is killing me with how small it is. I’m constantly transferring stuff back and forth.
Who makes 10k a year?
I use a python window manager, it's great. http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/
Most of it is, but not all of it. My own conclusion (which is not the one I wanted to reach, believe me) was that when you throw out all the bad research, the evidence, while not conclusive, does clearly point more in one direction than the other.
This conundrum can be resolved by generating synthetic datasets resembling true data. The definition of differential privacy doesn't distinguish between algorithm output types, which can be a single number as well as a whole dataset. The algorithms get a lot more complicated, of course, and quantifying data utility isn't simple either.
They must have A/B tested the title to see what gets the most smug confirmation bias clicks (title is clearly not intended to optimize for outrage clicks so what else could it be).

The whole article is about the history of the program, why it costs so much and what the options are going forward. If you squint you can make it seem like failure but the article does not make that claim.
Rust compiler isn't going to tell you that your mortgage amortization logic is incorrect. You're still going to need to write tests to validate that the business logic is correct. However, the way that the calculations are implemented can be done in a way with Rust that offers higher levels of confidence about how systems will behave in production.
Congratulations!

I'm curious: do people from Gaza primarily identify as "Gazan" versus "Palestinian"? I was confused for a moment by the title before I clicked, as I'd not seen that adjective used in that way before.
> The whole public conversation is at the “Expert Youtuber” phase of subtly and sophistication.

Ha, well said.

> This kind of discourse has decades of academic background, but has only been culturally prominent in recent years. I am more inclined to believe that most folks are just repeated poorly understood half knowledge than engaging in subtle logical gamesmanship like Motte/Bailey.

I don't disagree. Most of what we see is people regurgitating arguments they only tenuously grasp. I do believe the people initially generating those arguments are doing exactly as I described though. In fact, the first time I read about this concept it was from Nicholas Shackel (first described Motte and Bailey) showing Foucault using the tactic.
Oh whoops I've been wrong this whole time, my bad!
This was a heartwarming story to read. Congratulations on your journey so far, wishing you much success in the future.
Loans, savings, investments from friends and relatives, etc.
Right, but there's nothing wrong with being a good programmer who needs to refer to the library docs more often. What's "oh please" is the notion that you can never be good at programming unless you've been using Perl nonstop since 1995. A Python programmer can pick up and become reasonably proficient in Go in a few days, for example.
Or they just want to sell DPI gear.
As a German watching some English podcasts I am now used to it, but at first I pictured the trailing zeros in my head to understand it fast enough in spoken language.
First start by recognizing that there can never be an alternative system to having to earn your way in this world. One way or another, someone's productive effort has to pay for things that get created, whether by currency or direct barter. The only alternative is slavery: someone else being forced to work to fulfill your needs, for no compensation or trade.

And then understand that money is nothing but frozen time and productivity. It's among the most glorious of inventions. I can work my ass off when I'm young and able to stand it, freeze that effort via money, and then expend that value when I'm 73 and no longer able to work. Absolutely brilliant.

There is no escape from having to possess something to trade (skill, time, money, objects of value, etc) in order to feed yourself or have shelter, or have clothing. Stop torturing yourself by wishing there was.

The only choice you have, is how you burn your time. You can be a 9 to 5 low wage worker; you can be a 9 to 5 high wage worker. You can be an entrepreneur. You can try to lead a basic life as a farmer. You can get rich, and then spend your remaining time doing whatever you want with that vast sum of frozen productivity.
I guess not earlier profitability but earlier "riches" because there is only one person taking from the pie.

Of course the reason people add confounders/employees and take VC funding is because it makes the total pie easier to grow in many cases.
Why be surprised? What’s been happening in Portland and Seattle for the last six months?
the Constitution is silent on whether a president can face criminal prosecution in court, and the U.S. Supreme Court has not directly addressed the question.
When was that, 1880? You can do some pretty funky stuff in the darkroom when you are making your prints.
Why can’t they close off the telescope (“LSST”) for the brief moment a bright satellite is in the field of view, during otherwise long and static exposures?

While the LSST is intended to image the entire sky each night, I don’t think it does so in one exposure. The article says 1000 exposures per night for ~8 hours of “night” is about 30s per exposure, and an LEO satellite might take a minute or two to cross the sky, and this telescope looks at a field of view of 40 moons or about 20° of view.

That’s a big field of view, but if space based solar telescopes are able to use a coronograph — a physical mask to block direct sunlight — in order to image dimmer parts of the sky, couldn’t a telescope like LSST in the article use a similar dynamic masking system?
It is interesting to see that someone arrived at a similar conclusion as me. However, I went a totally different way of arriving there. By now, programmers kind of feel like pioneers and/or drainers.

Think about this for a second. Did Ruby On Rails enable you to venture into new lands, because you are able to program your web application more efficiently? I think so. Does RoR make your daily programmer life easier overall? I think so, too. Thus, someone ventured into a place and built roads and paths for people to come there and to live comfortably.

However, did anyone really remember the pioneers in germans marshes, in america? Does anyone see the drainers maintaining the life support systems in the cities? No. Does anyone remember the first person to write a web framework, to write a next generation language, or maintaining libraries which easen your daily life? No.

I think this is a striking similarity.
Agreed. I had this arguement with a friend on Facebook as well. Furthermore, the fact that they're willingly tying a search phrase like "oil spill" to their name shows a bit of ownership to the catastrophe, which I think is a good thing.
Ken is, in fact, married, as you'll find out if you just read further down the article.
In short, ritual justifies lameness?
They used other OS X features that weren't meant for browser extensions. That means they tend to break when Safari is updated, and Apple killed a whole class of them in Snow Leopard. And they didn't work on Windows Safari, of course.
> +1 for lighttpd. nginx is nice too but its configuration system is much more primitive by comparison.

http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-co... disagrees with your assessment of the nginx configuration system.
I had a teacher like that. He had a closet full of the same shirt and pants. Saved him time in the morning.
I think competition is great. I'm sure we'll soon see an Android phone that does iPhone 4g plus more in 6 months, then we'll see an iPhone 4gs or something, repeat ad nauseum.

The real winners in this kind of arms race are the consumers. Every phone upgrade is really a major upgrade, and the phones don't really cost you anything different.
...the real deal now is get your 4 year degree then take a job on a big yacht as a mate. You will start at $60K/year (tax-free take-home) with room, board and uniforms included.

I love reading Ken's articles. He talks about the weirdest things.
From https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/Alternative-names

> others getting harassed when they said they were working on Coq

It's hard for me to imagine anyone getting harassed over this, who are these people who haven't moved past puberty but are in a professional environment? Is there any examples of this happening in the wild online?

Looking through the examples, if the problem is that people cannot hear something that sounds like "cock" without harassing people, you probably need to chose a name that sounds nothing like it, rather than just a slight modification. Coquito, PeaCoq, Coqpit, Côq, Coq au vin, Le Coq, Coqorico, Coqueluche, Coque, Coqroach etc all sound too familiar and if the purpose is to stop harassment, none of those would be real options.

Edit: on second thought, I wonder if the people who harassed others over using Coq also harass people who are using Git. Why/why not?
Now it makes more sense. Going a bit further you could perform it within the already existing framework: apply criminal penalties where sufficient threshold of harm have been reached. Perhaps even judicial doctrine a bit to better handle cases of large number of small, or statistical, harms - there are parallels to how we already tackle health hazards and other stochastic, broad harms.

The key consideration is avoiding perverse incentives. A stellar example is how the GDPR disaster is unfolding: the smaller websites are still plastered with "cookie warnings" making them less usable, while the larger platforms - Youtube, Google - already pivoted the warning dialog into nagging for logging in, making anonymous browsing incrementally less practical. The difference in power lets the larger players use as a moat the regulation that's prima facie about privacy.
The same way you change any other service provider. You find another vendor or renegotiate. The people will vote to instruct their officials to do so. Pretty straightforward.
> Le Coq Formel

I'm surprised this is a serious proposal. I can see everyone having fun with this at the project's expense.

The concern around women, NBs, and others being harassed for mentioning their work on the project is good feedback which I doubt many straight white men would've noticed or envisioned organically, so kudos to Wolf putting that concern front and center. It's a good reminder for why we should include diverse voices with us on a level decisioning/playing field.
> That is not true. Police can detain you for some period of time without placing you under arrest.

That is a 4th amendment violation. You are free to leave police presence at any time up until they place you under arrest. If you are detained without arrest the remedy is to ask to be arrested. At that point police must arrest you or release you, because any evidence or detention after that point is invalid and invalidate such in the future for the related matter.

Of course an even better answer is to just ask for an attorney, but either way the result is the same.
I had this happen in one of my classes, when I was in school. The whole class was in shock and fear, as the professor asked what we thought she should do. I was the only one that spoke up and said, well if you truly have evidence you should not be presenting it to us you should be presenting it to the authorities and that the whole thing felt like a shake down. It was the only class I got a C in, but I kept my dignity I know confronting a professor like that was grade suicide but man we as people get bullied enough, I was not about to get shook down for a couple students stupidity if it took place at all. If I where in that course at UCF, I would be raising hell about having to retake the test.

If they are so 100% sure about the offenders, then why does everyone have to retake the exam, why is everyone being punished. Maybe he does not have the data he claims he does. Until they could prove that they do, I would be standing my ground on not retaking the test because I am innocent until proven guilty and if they did prove it they would prove why I as a non-cheater need not retake the test.
Sadly it appears as though the only legislation which unifies both sides of the political aisle (be it in favor of or against a given piece of legislation) is that which is completely asinine and backward. The seemingly basic bills are inevitably deadlocked in recent years.

Then again, that's not entirely unexpected.
Not working for private repos?
Jacob also seems to think this was about Wikileaks. Perhaps Moxie and Jacob know more about the particulars than we do, Bruce.
Plus, he misidentifies his 'eggbrain computers' example as newegg when it clearly is a reference to Egghead Software who did go for a pure virtual storefront/auction site and failed anyway.
I actually get ideas like this: do something -be it work, browse the internerd, learn music, etc- and if the little developer voice in my head says "oh man, this sucks, we can do it better" or "oh, this could be automated!" or "oh man, THIS. IS. RAD. I wanna do it too!" then there I have my idea. I think everybody, at least people that are accustomed to creative work, like coding, get tons of those moments everyday; listen to them, write them down, your own everyday life is the inspiration :)
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=game+mechanic+explorer#!/story/for...
They all do this, this is the big problem in why we're stuck with crappy text areas and content editable. The JavaScript keyboard API was designed for Americans. It does not know about combining accent keys, IMEs, etc.
It's been 11 years since the widespread introduction of 64-bit processors in consumer hardware. I think it's a pretty safe assumption to make that a vast majority of people are using 64-bit-capable machines.

There are advantages to the "hardware upgrade" treadmill if you're on a laptop (not many laptops got 9 hours of battery life in 2003), and if you open an IDE from time to time, or do heavy consumer-facing web development, having a computer from the last decade is useful. Also easier to run a high-res multi-monitor setup if you have some good speed behind that.

It's possible to be good and capable on the machines you're citing, but the overwhelming majority of software developers (even the ones using vim/emacs) are not of the linux + xmonad type.
I'm talking about the side effects of eating 2000 kcals of it a day. The quantities you were doing (150 kcals?) probably don't have those issues.
It certainly is reasonable to look for an archetype for what we consider transcendent acts and qualities. Even the most ardent atheist generally is moved by acts of mercy, heroics, sacrifice, and unmerited love.

His chosen framework cannot properly and consistently account for these things, perhaps the best he can do is proffer a narrative about bio-chemical impulses and evolutionary advantage -- but the transcendent "feel" at the end of the day seems no more than an illusion of nature.
I've been playing around with arc90 styles. Resolution/device? I started making it so it would read well on the iPad.
You're certainly jumping to a lot of conclusions here, perhaps the boards of CPUs are quite cheap?
Does anyone understand if this is a bunch of CPUs that are 'virtualized' to look like separate systems, or is it a 512 way SMT machine?
To extend on the idea of starting a blog, you might actually try a minimum viable product type approach to this. Don't just build a blog, build a product page for it, put a price on it, and have a buy button. The buy button just says "This product is still in beta, but if you'd like to be on our beta list click here."
Growing up, I spent far too many mental cycles on the subject of money. By the time I graduated college and got a job, though, the obsession started to fade. I didn't (and still don't) make a particularly high salary, but through careful budgeting and cost-controlling over a few years, it's become something I barely concern myself with.

My main goal at present has simply become the following:

I want to enjoy my work. Extremely so, even.

To me, this is the real challenge, much more so than getting more money.
I suppose I buy that money is a kind of gateway.

But what does it open into? What freedom? What possibilities? If you begin with the end in mind, you'll have a reason to suffer for the money to buy the freedom you want. Without it you'll just dream about dreaming.
unfortunately, I have not made any money so I have no monetisation secrets to share .I believe if people are enlightened and exposed, they can make better choices. That is the main goal.
Wow, the similarity to my situation is striking!

I'm struggling with this as well. It's even putting a strain on my relationship with the gf.

For example, I tell her no, I can't go out this weekend. There's a ton of shit to be done (and there really is) but I end up not doing any of them. When I tell her about it, she brings me back to reality and gives me good advice. But I can tell there's only so much a person will put up with.

Then I get excited about what I need to do to get there. I lookup productivity methods (currently trying the pomodoro technique) and do some case study readings about successful people. Exciting stuff. The world is all mine.

Then I sleep, wake up the next morning and I'm totally blanked out. The motivation is lost. The fire is gone. nothing gets done again.

I have sort of figured out why though, but I haven't done anything about it yet. I think it's my work environment. I hate being where I work and it makes me day-dream of all the other possibility of doing something different. But the dream is never realized until I do something about it. and thats the state I am at right now, figuring out what to do about it and where to start from.

My biggest issue is that I'm fully aware of my options and potential, but i'm still not concerned enough to make a change. :S
The next time you replace a card (a shiny nickel says it'll happen before the card naturally expires), keep a list of every place you had to update it online. Takes the sting out of replacing it again in the future.

I'm holding off only because Mint loses its mind when I replace an American Express card. God, I hate Mint. Time to dump them, too.
More than that, it is very easy for only one programmer or researcher doing a bad job to create technical debt that will take disproportional time to pay off.
It's important to remember that + is a little different from a C union in that it's automatically tagged, which C unions are not. If you have int+int in a functional language, you always know which arm was chosen. If you have a union of two ints in C you have to add a third boolean field yourself to keep track of which one is active.
> Like wearing gloves has killed several people.

This is interesting. How/when are gloves dangerous? I've been TIG welding for about a year now, I self-studied my way through a welding textbook[1] and have friends who are professional welders (union pipe-fitters, etc) and have never heard anything about gloves being dangerous. In fact according to the pipe-fitters, gloves are in the category of eye and head protection of "must be worn on a union jobsite."

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Welding-William-Bowditch/dp/156...
Wow, they're really going to argue that this is about costs? :|

I think the real problem is that there's still a state government. The people who know how to balance the budget best and know what needs/wants they need to fulfill are the people in local communities and counties. Give them more power to deal with the budget and make the state government a council of delegates from each of those counties and you won't have much of a problem anymore.

Indeed, in their guise of “Publius” in the “Federalist Papers”, Madison and Hamilton warn against the dangerous “passions” of the mob and the threat of “minority factions” (ie, special interests) seizing the democratic process.

They wanted a republic where representatives were accountable to their constitutients. That doesn't happen anymore. Too often do representatives ignore the ideas and opinions of their constituents. A representative should be asking his constiuents wtf to do instead of being completely autonomous (except on election day). The minority factions are the representatives themselves which is why it's very important to keep any and all direct democracy actions.

Initiatives should be far harder to introduce. They should be shorter and simpler, so that voters can actually understand them. They should state what they cost, and where that money is to come from. And, if successful, initiatives must be subject to amendment by the legislature.

So give less voice to the people who actually make up the state. Shorter and simpler because people are dumb? Why not make them longer with more arguments to support them, or have them written in 2-3 different ways as a counter to any biased/emotionally-heavy language?

The initiatives are voted on on a state-level. It's difficult to estimate costs on something like that and it's difficult to say where the money will come from. I guess it's a good idea though because then the marijuana legalization initiative could say "this will cost $0, and will earn us $X".

They shouldn't be subject to amendment by the legislature. They should be subject to amendment by the citizens. That might curb any special interest group bullshit.
"+" isn't set union. If it was, int+int would just be int. The extra tag distinguishes it. Raw unions in C are like set union though.
>I've certainly dealt with the pushback that comes with suggesting new ideas in Japan. I've heard "efficiency" derided as a foreigner idea, specifically "you Americans always want to change things to make them more efficient" in regards to no longer grading 1000s of multiple choice entrance exams by hand.

Wait, what? Isn't this the county famous for Kaizen and the Toyota method?
I made good money for my region, but it wasn't extrodinary given the hours I worked. By the end of the my two years I had enough to live (without any income) for at least 2 years as a single guy - so a good little nut. :-)

But I really didn't need that much to start my business - time to work was what was most important. I started my business (drop shipping eCommerce) with $1,500 and did sweat equity for the rest. I wanted to save that money to live on so I had maximum time to invest in bootstrapping.
Google runs all their own advertising. They have no need for third party verification.
No wonder it's made in Portland!
Anybody got a good summary of HTTP2 features (which I know could be described as "everythign plus the kitchen sink")?