jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm with you, which actually surprises me. Now that I own a very nice ebook reader in the iPad, I've bought a couple of ebooks, but it feels oddly like pulling teeth. I'm not excited about ebooks, unlike movies or music.

I have four reasons why I want to buy media rather than rent it:

I want to be able to consume it as I like. I don't want it to be tied to a device that I might sell or that might break. If I get a new device, I want to be able to move my media to it.

Convenience. I want to be sure that, when I need book X, I can get to it quickly.

Future proofing. I want confidence that the media I like won't get taken off the market and disappear into a black hole where it will never be seen again. This happens depressingly often in commercial publishing. Consider the dreadful fate of the version of Star Wars I saw as a kid.

Price. I don't want to have to pay hardcover price for everything. I'm kind of resigned to the fact that ebooks won't be much cheaper than normal books, but I do want them not to be significantly more expensive.

Music and movies have effectively solved most of these problems, basically because they either have no DRM or are easily rippable. Because it is easy to rip music, via the so-called "analog hole" if nothing else, I can always move it to another medium in an emergency. I can back up my music and video onto hard drives or web services. If I encounter a video or song on YouTube that I really like and am afraid is going to go away, I can back that up too. And it turns out that it's hard to stop video from circulating on the internet, so the risk of stuff going out of print and becoming completely unavailable has gotten much lower. Indeed, the ease of online distribution is flooding YouTube with more old video material than I ever knew existed.

In such a world, I'm increasingly happy to move to an all-rental model for most movies and music.

Books are different. They are really hard to rip from physical media: Scanning is a total pain in the ass. The rental ones have DRM. There is no lending of ebooks, and they can't be moved from reader to reader unless the vendors support it. And so, famously, there is no guarantee that the thing I paid money for won't just evaporate.

Which brings up another important criterion: It is hard to compete with the durability of the printed book, which is more archival than any digital data I own. Even my crappiest pulp paperbacks are likely to outlive every piece of digital media in my house. Contrast this with DVDs: They're not just physically frail, but the whole format isn't guaranteed to outlive me: What good are the disks if the players go the way of the Victrola, or even the eight-track player? That kind of makes it easier to sell me on rented DVDs: The alternative to a cheap rental is a dubiously durable personal copy. But alternative to ebooks is the codex book, a medium that routinely lasts hundreds of years, which I can read so long as I still have vision, and which is probably cheaper to buy. (Though not, alas, cheaper to store or move.)
I can't remember the last time i paid a cable tv bill.
Incorrect. The 140 characters includes the length of the t.co link (19 characters), not whatever the original link was.
More comments regarding same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414235
They're not capping bandwidth at all, just setting a precedent for charging you more for it.
> The authority of the citation matters when your edit is disputed

It'd be nice if there were some empirical rule for determining link authority—it would probably stop a lot of pointless debating if there were some evidence on the table either way. For example, what if every Internet-attribution only "proved" notability to the weight of its calculated PageRank at the time of inclusion? Then you could automatically discard attributions that user X gave for a link to user X's blog, but if Schneier decided to pull some Wiki content onto his blog and quote it, that would be notable, both under PageRank and the spirit of the rule.
This shouldn't affect the ranking; updated data will just get to the ranking algorithm faster, is all.
Nope, you don't have to touch C at all. The syscall package has all you need. But it's still a lot of lowlevel coding. Ncurses is probably easier.
In your opinion.

Most users probably don't want to spend their life panning around a page to see what's going on.
There's actually a proposal with a decent amount of support to add utf-8 strings to C#. Probably won't be added to the language for another 3 or 4 years (if ever) but it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Edit: The proposal for anyone interested https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/933
Yes, I'm afraid the world is going on a direction where there will be two kinds of people: those serving coffee at Starbucks and those going there to order coffee and work off their laptops.

(Or maybe it's even worse and they'll stay at home and order their cups online)

It's a dystopian analogy, but one that's sounding more real every day.
If anyone is expecting anybody to change their behavior based on warnings about the future, this is relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Perhaps meditation is what you need, so you can enjoy the un-ending present AND grow as a person! http://dhamma.org
The inclined plane has shown very little improvement in recent years, too.

What exactly would you like changed? I mean, the termlib stuff could be cleaned up, but that's a universal problem more than anything else.
Shameless plug: I made one that uses bash & pandoc because it was fun :) https://blog.frabert.me/posts/2018/11/11/blash.html
Vision system replaces cashier and loss prevention. Plus I imagine just grabbing stuff lowers the barrier to sale, versus having to scan each item and acknowledge the cost.
They are saying now it is not a Lipoma. Nothing is showing up on am MRI. My genitofemeroral nerve has been blocked and it is a culprit. The illingual nerve is also an issue along with my right side si notch. They say if they can not find the exact place of the entrapment they will not operate. I have adrenal insufficiency so getting this fix can mean life or death for me. I know it is trapped up along my iliac crest going to try and have another shot there to see if that is the source of my pain.
Were these people paying customers? If not what did they expect would happen.
They would only need a 2.7 gallon (USG) bucket to bring up 4 tons per day.

But please check my estimate: A cubic yard of sand can weigh approx 3000 lbs, so that's 2/3 of a cubic yard per ton. 27 cubic feet per cubic yard, so 18 per ton, which is 135 USG. 4 tons (from your question) is then 540 gallons, and at 200 dives per day that is 2.7 gallons per dive.

I'd bet they do more like 8 tons per day per diver.
Solution is simple - stop answering.
> So why did the author throw out LLVM byte code again? It's BSD, it has bytecode compilers for most platforms browsers exist on (100% vs. 50% speed), and doesn't rely on a subset of another language. It also doesn't have the requirement to fall back to vanilla Javascript. As an added bonus, Javascript could easily compile down to LLVM bytecode.

LLVM has a single implementation, is very complex, isn't even remotely portable, and is primarily suited to C and C++, or similar languages.

We also already have a very performant transformation format for LLVM IR into JS: asm.js. And asm.js fixes most of LLVM IR's problems:

* It's very simple

* It's portable across architectures

* It doesn't have undefined behaviour

* It has multiple implementations

* It has forwards-compatibility (existing browsers, regardless of explicit support, can run asm.js code)

* It is standardised
Yeah, I feel that Haskell might also have this ability to energise a bored mind. The purity, the cleanliness, the power.
Definitely on my list.
This year, though, I feel will be the year of the 'great lisp project' for me.
I will forever be subscribed to the Bowery Presents newsletter because Ticketmaster's unsubscribe form doesn't allow +s in email addresses.
My university was apparently grandfathered into that category (for their off-property students) when the local ISP company was bought by Comcast; the original provider had put the uni into their "Other" billing category as it was a special off-rate annually-negotiated contract, and when they unified the IT systems they got moved into that "billed 0" category in Comcast's backend.

Yep, sure enough, an automatic cleaning script came along and killed all those cost-0 connections, cutting many student residents off from the network for a few days. My understanding is that the meeting between the Comcast rep and the head of campus IT was an instance of legendary restraint on the part of our IT head (in that everyone left the room with all their limbs still attached).

(I'm sure it helped the uni's bargaining position a lot that we were in a metropolitan area; Verizon was champing at the bit to get those accounts).
I don't know... maybe on the side like my Latitude. I thought Apple users knew how to "think outside the box" LOL!
> No, theft is theft, regardless of whether or not you return the item later.

Theft generally (specific statutes may vary!) requires intent to permanently deprive; if you don’t have that, its not theft.

It may be another crime, and its almost certainly the tort of trespass to chattels, so its not “allowed”.
I think you'd be seeing some improvements as we are seeing some upward adjustments in production capacity projections on a 3-6 month timeframe now that everyone is spending so much to get additional doses because of political pressure, but it wouldn't be nearly enough to change the situation drastically as some have been claiming.
Devices can offer functionality to take the decisionmaking burden from the user.

For example a dishwasher could have a setting where you tell it what time the washing must be done by, and it schedules the wash cycle to be when it thinks electricity will be cheapest.
I'm not sure about this.

They did have vaccine variants that failed: We abandoned those in trials. We just don't give them to the general public without this. Some failure is expected when developing drugs, actually - some simply fail and this is part of r&d costs. If someone fabricates data to say it works, well, that is another matter entirely.

And yes, government gets reprimanded as well. Civil servants can lose their jobs, politicians get voted out. Unfortunately, the average person isn't always the best person to say that something was handled poorly and react badly when folks change their minds due to changed information.
Are you paying same in all locations
I see it as a multi part process.

1) Generate a rough plot structure. Let's say even just do three acts: motivation -> conflict -> resolution. Now you have a logical throughline and your text generation algorithm doesn't need human level intelligence. This could be randomly generated or some kind of a search from a plot structures database with madlibs inserted into it. Generate 10 characters for the story and insert them into the variables in the plot structure.

2) Use the acts generated above as GPT-3 prompts to fill in the details.

If you start iterating on something like that for a while I bet you could get a decent novel out of it that would fool most people. Maybe you need to define each chapter in the first step, maybe it needs more details in the writing prompts, etc.
Eleven months, you mean?

Well, I've certainly learned a lot about society in these eleven months, that's for sure.
In general, less people using the infrastructure around cities means that traveling is more safer, is generally better for the environment, and also supports small business growth in local communities instead of in a few blocks in the big city.

Even people that don't get to work from home still benefit from work from home. At the very least there's one less person to get annoyed with on the commute.
A lot of the consumer stuff people buy is pretty silly or of minute importance, and i'm sure it was also considered silly in the past. And yet, it forms a pretty large industry.
Isn't this essentially Knuth's take?

I don't disagree, but I suspect the critical path had moved dramatically. In large, the time to decide to use python takes far longer than using python. (And I dislike python...)
Peter Thiel may be libertarian, but Palatir is certainly totalitarian.
They're building a CRM for the mid market. Think salesforce but for small/midsized businesses.

A few years back they were only focused on marketing automation and driving organic search traffic to your blog plays a big role in that (Inbound Marketing). As such they've produced a lot of content to drive traffic to their blog.
Theory: mutations create variants, including less deadly versions. In fact, variants less likely to cause symptoms will spread more, because carriers don't get tested, isolate or take any precautions. But their immune system still generates the antibodies. In effect: a natural spontaneous viral vaccine.

It's similar to how viruses become less deadly over time (because they spread more if they don't kill their host), but I'm talking about the range of variants out in the community right now, not a platonic form that is representative of "the" disease.
Sure, mine's done it occasionally (rarely enough to be a surprise when it does happen), but do they do it every single time you put them to sleep? I doubt it. My Dell does this every single time it goes to sleep. It's really aggravating.
This is a very plausible explanation.
I couldn't agree more. I have been very reluctant to upgrade my 5S to a 6. Admittedly, I tried once soon after the release, but the Apple store was out of AT&T phones. Since then, I've decided I might as well wait and see what happens. I've even caught myself wondering if there are any decent ~4 inch Android phones out there.

Then again, I'm the guy who was disappointed in the switch from the 4S screen to the 5. Even that screen increase was pointless for my purposes. I would still much rather have the internals, thinness, and lightness of the 5S with the screen size of the 4S. I anxiously await the day the industry returns to small phones. It's bound to happen some time.
Well, one of the reasons to blog is to get other people who can submit more data. Further, I feel that if there was a specific demand for white that people would switch.

... It definitely would be great to get more apps to release their data. I reached out to IntelliJ about IDEA data but I didn't hear anything back.
I have using VI for years now and I prefer black background with green text, and I'm sure most people do. When I transitioned over to a modern IDE Atom/Code/Sublime, the first thing I wanted was to have a decent dark theme. I did try few of them but it was hard on my eyes(maybe because my eyes have adjusted to what I have been looking at for years)
I finally settled on Code editor and its been ok so far.
Concrete is porus to water. If water can seep thru, when it’s not cracked, air can as well.
The concept of prescriptive right-of-way depends on whether access was "taken" vs "licensed".

It's like squatters rights, but for a public right-of-way.

You can't claim squatters rights if you've been paying rent to the property owner the whole time.

In the same way, if the previous owner "licensed" access across his property, by charging fees for parking and/or entry, then no prescriptive right-of-way is/was ever established. It would be permissive right-of-way.

Since aquisition by prescription typically requires some element of abandonment, charging fees serves a double purpose: 1) proving the property is "in-use" / not abandoned, and 2) that the paying public recognized the private property rights of the owner. (Ie, that there was no public understanding or "expectation" that access across the private property should be free and/or unrestricted.)

Since legal consideration is required for a lawfully recognized contract, charging a fee makes this implied recognition of the property rights legally valid.
In a properly functioning HE scheme, the party doing the evaluation cannot obtain information about the encrypted data, even if they do the operation incorrectly. Without further measures, they can of course compute an incorrect value, which depending on the larger protocol can sometimes be an issue (e.g. consider the scenario where after decryption the client shares the prediction with the server for some reason - in that case, if the server sends the original image ciphertexts, instead of predictions, they can trick the client into decrypting the original image). There is also always the risk that whoever is choosing the instantiation of the cryptoscheme knows something you don't and picks weak parameters, but that's just all the usual attack modes on cryptographic schemes.
Whew, dodged that bullet, looks like I'm not using any of the affected drives. Lucky me, for now.
People like novelty. Dark mode is something new in UX design. I'm not sure I'd read into it any more than that until a few more years pass.
Climate change is kind of a wildcard. You look at something like beachfront property in Miami and you can basically expect investors there to lose their money. On the other hand, we all know that already, so shouldn't it already be priced in?

The key factor is that if people are pricing in the expectation that we'll do the work to solve the problem before that happens, that expectation is only valid if we actually do.
This feature currently isn't present in either the web or pwa version of Instagram.

That aside, my personal experience would be vastly improved by having a "hide all images with text in it" option.
I once reverse-engineered a C program by compiling it and disassembling it, as I found it easier to read M68000 assembler.
Quite the contrary - we seem to have made a sport of hating our own culture. Even the good bits.
A fan asked Neil Gaiman about it and here's the exchange:

A fan: "You're either paying homage to Gibson, which is weird because the two books are in different genres and he isn't mentioned in the acknowledgements, or perhaps there's some manner of Jungian collective unconscious phenomenon at work here, in which you have unwittingly mimicked Gibson, or..?"

Neil Gaiman: "Or it was a very small joke, essentially pointing out that since what is arguably the most famous opening sentence in SF was published in 1984, the nature of what a "dead channel" looked like had completely changed, from grey static fuzz to a pure dead blue. Well, I thought it was funny, anyway."

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/12/some-days-bears-on-top...
Yea, if one was signed for www.google.com it would be a serious problem. If it is targeting specific obscure domain names where the customer is willing to accept the risk, that is a different matter.
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What do you think about these observations?
It was just an idea - the only advantage might be that you could easily see the whole frequency spectrum at the same time instead of having to infer it from the lissajous pattern. It probably isn't that useful most of the time. Baudline can show you magnitude with phase as different colors (or real+imaginary), but that can blur together sometimes.

A goniometer is super-useful during synthesis. The recent(-ish) versions of sunvox[1] lets you put a goniometer on any module in the synthesis chain; I love being able to see stuff like the phase of a delay effect.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dRTLqabGmo
Yeah, there are quite a few applications that actively discourage the use of anything other than their CLI, which I find profoundly bizarre. Istio had a big warning in their docs that their Helm charts were deprecated, even though istioctl uses them under the hood. Funny that Kubeflow has its own Istio deployment, and they make you use kfctl to deploy it, haha.

It's not strictly required, but might be for you, since A/B deployment actually is a thing Istio does. We only use Kubeflow Pipelines currently; looking into Katib.

My feeling about Kubeflow is that it's a package of a lot of things that exist, with nice things on top, and an easy way to deploy those things. Only, it ends up not being that easy, and not easy at all to configure, and various features of the underlying tools are hard to get to or completely unavailable.

If you deployed your own Istio, you'd understand it end-to-end and could solve problems with it when it goes south, and you'd even understand what exactly you're using it for and why. The biggest problem I have with kfctl is that it basically asks for system:masters privilege to install everything and then you get to figure out what it did on your own. I don't want Istio, Cert-Manager, Knative, Argo, etc. deployments that I don't understand and can't easily configure because they're buried 5 levels deep in Kustomize overlays. These are all things I can install from elsewhere and with more documentation.

Kubeflow Pipelines is still a little mysterious, but the footprint is much smaller and not as invasive.

Never used Polyaxon. Gonna be Googling that!
Wow, switching from Python to Lisp produced a shocking speedup. I liked Lisp in college but I probably never would have considered it nowadays... If I wanted a quick runtime, I probably would have fallen for Go or Julia or, after some maturing, Rust.

Lisp! Gonna keep that one in mind.
Unfortunately DO doesn't pool bandwidth.
Telegram is a bad counter-example for various reasons. LINE has a desktop client that works well though
Roughly 40,000 employees and customers. But apparently hacker news doesn't approve so I guess we're the minority.
I hope that this tech can be scaled up. Every time I see the ad for the Off-world Colonies I get more tempted to pack it in and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNzz4SaTYk . The device would have to see through smoke/mist in this case, and I could imagine that being a challenge. And then there's the audio...
I think I understand the arguments for and I disagree.

There may be benefits to some users and those users can mitigate them easily (eg, vpn) without having to impact all users.

I don’t like it being proposed as a solved, no brainer when there should be considerations.

The site you linked to has straw man arguments for many of the items like whether someone can impersonate a site. While possible, it’s unlikely and not reasonable for many sites to worry about.

Take my example of the Feynman article. Perhaps someone MITM the site and changes content. That could happen, but is it likely? Do I care?

The privacy impact is moot because there are large orgs (Google, facebook, etc) monitoring all traffic so I’m not sure why I care that ISPs and wifi hotspots can monitor traffic as well.

I wish sites would present serious arguments rather than assuming simple, weak versions.
Here is transcript of a talk about that same idea: http://boringtechnology.club/
Does this work even with YT's new full page nagware? That page only mentions pop-ups.
And OpenJDK is GPLv2 with a classpath exception. So why is Google unable to use Java's API here while Oracle able to use Amazon's API?
So what does this mean for the future of Java, now that Oracle won't be able to milk Google with licensing fees?
Pedantic. That not literally everyone lives at a given baseline doesn’t disqualify fact that we’ve raised 90% of everyone from under to over that baseline in a few decades.