jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I sort of buy the lead theory, up to a point. It's unhelpful (from a statistical point of view) that the elimination of lead from gasoline occurred around the same time as the crack epidemic started to wane.
I'd be happy to talk. What's your email?
Higher speed limits??

(German, confused)
The main point of the vehicle is to make it easier to trade BTC by removing the need to acquire BTC directly and by allowing trading to occur on conventional financial markets.

It is difficult, for example, for investors to trade physical gold because it is difficult to acquire and store, difficult to trade in smaller amounts, and does not trade on conventional markets. Gold ETFs solve these problems.
If you're well aware of the true costs of those choices, and choose them rationally, there's no problem with that.

Lots of people don't know that, though. The prof who taught me accounting used to work as a car salesman, and he told me that the money is made not by selling cars, but by selling financing to people who refused to understand what the financing cost them. (I say refused because he was a nice guy and would try to explain to them what it would really cost them, and they refused to even hear the explanation.)

I've been around long enough to realize the benefits of self-insuring as much as possible, buying cash instead of financing, and the benefits of long term investing and not worrying about the daily (or even yearly) gyrations in the market.

It's not a joke that dead people statistically have far better investment returns than live ones, because they just let their investments ride instead of trying to time them.
Could you please mail me at spankthespam {at} gmail {dot} com? I've few small projects where I think we could cooperate.
I haven't read LDC's license on Penn Treebank recently,

Just checked the license and my memory seems to be correct:

https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/ldc-non-members-agreem...

:(
I suspect the change would bring in enough profit over the course of a year to justify the 10 minutes it would take a bad web developer to put in a redirect from the landing page to the main site.
If this was a modern job posting, I'd find it overly pompous. The phd is one thing, but "you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible" would put me right off (and obviously, in this case, it'd be my loss - not that I'd have the skills...)
Ad Hominems are a-ok now are they? Well here's Zed's thought process:

a) Read Greenwald Salon article accusing Wired of having shady connections.

b) Roll that basic premise into a set of wild accusations and things we already know about Tor.

c) Sit back and enjoy the whole chaos of the troll. When someone attacks bring out the usual sockpuppets and sycophants to say "but Zed does all this great coding", "Zed is not like that in real life/conferences".

d) Profit/save on therapist fees by feeding own teenager-like angst and need for attention.
I think working late at night is not very good for you and your productivity. It's better to work 8 hours at 100% capability then 16 hours at 50%. Try to go to sleep early and do all the important stuff in the morning after sleep when your head is fresh.
Hurd was a research project as much as a working kernel.

I Think the project restarted 3 times in 10 years...

Linux may have been crude etc, but it was here, it was working, and it was free (in both senses of the word).

Frankly i see the lack of Linux on the desktop less about the quality of Linux, and more about MS abusing its market position and a massive failure to regulate.
The good thing about sports is you can generally go to a bar or something and watch 'the game', on the plus side they have beer and food and other people to watch it with.

You can't go to the bar (at least around here) for the sole purpose of watching the latest episode of 'Breaking Bad'.
If it's in fact an original design, then the word you are looking for is "rip", not "recreate".

(edit) Ethics, not everyone's cup o'tea. Got it.
Word. If you give webdevs a feature that can be abused to destroy usability, they will destroy usability.
As the one who will be hiring our first employees (and as a non-technical founder) I am curious what people think about and expect from a brand new start up with low level ($600k +/-) funding for year one. We cannot offer huge salaries but will offer milestone increases over the first few years to arrive at higher levels. We're talking around $70k to start, increasing up to $90k at the end of the first year and continuing to increase as we grow. Options are naturally part of the deal as well.

Also, we're considering using a location that would offer our team a live/work option in a new complex close to the beach (in So. Cal) rather than just traditional commercial space. Would having free housing in a pretty sweet new pad be an incentive to take a bit less cash? It saves the company a bit of money that first year and saves the team in cost of living expenses at the same time. Anyone care to share their opinions/advice/experiences?
Why?

Pollution has a cost and production has a benefit. If $BENEFIT - $COST > 0, we want more pollution.

The problem is that since pollution is an external cost, the producer/consumer has no incentive to accurately make this calculation. As long as $BENEFIT > 0, the producer/consumer will pollute, and society will pay $COST.

The point of the Pigouvian tax is to give the producer/consumer an incentive to make this calculation correctly, and to compensate the rest of society for the costs they impose.
It is not useful to argue that the Fed is private, nor is it useful to argue that it is public. It is both and neither depending on which stance will serve its interests at the time.
Alex, I'm actually a back-end developer, there is no inferiority complex.
Yes I do, if you're using strict this won't work.
Why are stronger passwords not allowed? Stronger, meaning not only letters and numbers, but also punctuations? like &é"'(§è!çà)-+
Thanks! this actually answers many of my questions.
The launch of the first Space Shuttle happened April 12, 1981.

Top Gun, the movie, came out about five years later, on May 16, 1986.

Maybe the Space Shuttle launch did cause an increase in interest in aerospace programs, and maybe it didn't. I don't know. What I do know is that Top Gun did cause an increased interest in aerospace courses and programs.
Also, to teach all this stuff I'd have to write a whole book, this is why I've suggested two good ones that will do just that.
Is a $20 bill something of value? No, it's merely somewhat hard to forge, and accepted as currency by lots of people.

Or how about an entry in a ledger on some bank's computer?

The only reasons the $20 bill or the entry in the computer retain value are because there's a central entity that limits the creation of too many of them, and people accept it as currency in exchange for good, because they expect that other people in the future will accept it in exchange for goods.

Well, Bitcoin just gets rid of that central entity. It makes it hard to produce new units (and impossible after 21M have been produced). And it relies on the fact that people are willing to trade it for goods, services, and other currencies to give it value.

Look, if I have 100 bitcoins right now, I could get $100 for it, or I could buy web hosting services, or I can buy specialty coffees, or a variety of other things. That seems like real value to me. Now, the total size of the bitcoin economy is pretty small at the moment, but it is growing.

I don't see why people feel like other fiat currencies somehow have value but something like bitcoin cannot. They are both artificially scarce things that can be easily transferred with no intrinsic value.
As a language, ActionScript 3 was actually pretty good.
It's fascinating reading about giants of academia, that I've personally never thought to link together, interacting and disagreeing with one another in such a relatable way.

I wonder if anyone's written about a younger Dirac and any interactions he got into with his heros, and so on and so forth back as far as possible? I'm sure there's an amazing story to be told through following this "thread of knowledge" through time...
I don't think comparing exit taxes for billionaires to slavery is very reasonable
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I don't know if you're old enough to have played (or heard of) "Adventure" on the Atari 2600. In 8th grade (this would have been around 1980 for me?) one kid (Tom Koester, yes Tom I'm calling you out) told me about some purple dragon that could be unlocked if moved the sword to one specific pixel location on the screen. I burned many weekends trying to unlock that before I decided he'd taken me for a ride. He wasn't known for that kind of prank so I bought it fully.
Not sure about round tripping but perhaps the longer words might stress test webpage layouts.
Do you mean BBC TV? HHGTTG was originally a radio play made by the BBC (Radio 4), later adapted as books.
That's called badge engineering and the brands Lexus, Acura, and Infinity were created for the purpose of selling previously cheaper Japanese cars up market. If consumers were more astute they wouldn't even exist.

This is why economic models based on high-information, rational consumers fall short. You and I may put more thought into purchasing a vehicle, but cars have been sold because it was featured in a movie or a myriad of other reasons we might consider superficial.
I've been waiting for Linux terminal emulators to have inline images, video and particularly GUI for certain programs. I've been thinking of writing this for years now.
http://www.ijcat.com/archives/volume3/issue7/ijcatr03071006....
I can almost guarantee that most of those outlets have more stringent policies regarding fact-checking and quotation than the "average" internet source.
As April 1 pranks go, this is a great one. Totally deadpan, plausible language, no obvious giveaways except for the overall absurdity.
I'm not well-versed in the technical details of defending from DDOS, but unless it's a mathematical NP-complete problem, they have a chance.
Hi, working for a company that has 2.x and am working on 3.x.

Can't say too much but it's a big shift. The rewrites are significant; under the hood I know less about.

It's certainly a big focus for RH. I think it's great that they've embraced Kubernetes and Docker, but I can imagine it's going to frustrate early adopters who have already got used to one set of terminologies.
Too bad. Github.io is kind of unreliable. Is down now.
I used email before there were infrastructure-based spam filters. It was very usable with client-based spam filters. You can't do encrypted email without either a whitelisting system or client-based spam filters.
Here are a few tips that have worked for me to achieve the desired kind of big picture awareness and mental state suitable both for flow and for strategic thinking:

- keep a simple per-project todo list (I use a text file that I edit with emacs in text mode, one item per line. Delete when finished).

- realize that if you are procrastinating it might be because part of your brain disagrees with a decision you have made. Reflect on the decisions and uncertainties you feel, and let any objection come to the surface of your consciousness. Often the remedy is pretty quick and the procrastination disappears.

- escape the echo chamber. Maybe some people in your life are reinforcing stupid decisions or criticizing good ones. Be brutally honest with yourself and believe in yourself. Seeking social validation is in many ways a crutch.

- environment matters (people, architecture, city, flat, office, etc.). Be picky and find one that gives you the right mix of ingredients for productivity, inspiration, and happiness and doesn't make you feel bad about yourself, discouraged, etc. It may be very different than what works for other people or what is trendy.
A broad general education helps foster critical thinking and creativity.

Indeed. But critical thinking and creativity are the things second least prized in US classrooms, right after outright disobedience. So it's no real wonder that broad, general education has fallen out of favor.
Does this built on existing Internet standards like ActivityPub or XMPP?
Accenture positioning themselves as a support monopoly for deprecated but widely adopted--and therefore highly lucrative--technology?
That paper only looks at the energy/cost balance of the plant, not the chemical feedstock. Production of that feedstock is energy intensive, the recycling is not 100% efficient per the paper (i.e. it will constantly have to be replenished), and the industrial infrastructure to produce those chemicals at the necessary scale to materially reduce atmospheric carbon simply doesn't exist.

Any cost model for large-scale DAC must include the capital and operational costs of new feedstock factories to keep the DAC supplied at scale. It won't be cheap. The pilots can ignore this because they rely on the excess capacity of existing industrial infrastructure.
> when English speakers say things like "twelve hundreds" for numbers between 1000 and 2000

We do that in every other range too. It would be completely normal to read 3700 as "thirty-seven hundred".

In what I assume is a related phenomenon, long numbers can be read out in digit pairs rather than single digits (say a PIN code 3742 - "thirty-seven forty-two", as opposed to "three seven four two"), though the digit pairs idea breaks down when a 0 is present.
Remember: This is a 50 line Python script that is a wrapper for nmap + vulners NSE script.

It's not a product, but some simple automation around existing tooling. Better than paying $$$ for a full fledged scanner? Maybe, but depends on your use case.
I'm sorry, if you want to count NULL-rows in b.* , how will it ever be different from just COUNT( * )?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're after?
I suggest taking this article with a grain of salt. The assumption seems to be that it's totally fine that Linux can have filenames that are arbitrary byte strings and that don't convert to valid Unicode text. First, Python 3 has a good way to deal with those. See PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces.

Second, having filenames that are not valid Unicode text (even if Python 3 has a way of handling them and round-tripping them) is going to cause you a lot of pain. No one who has thought through all the issues thinks its a good idea. The modern computing world uses Unicode text all over the place. Filenames are manipulated by humans and we deal with them as text.

The idea that 8-bit byte strings are the ideal way to deal with text is a dead end. I expect we are going to see more of these kinds of articles now that Python 2's EOL is coming. In retrospect, you could argue that Python 3 should store Unicode text in memory has UTF-8. However, at the times decisions were made, UTF-8 was not dominate as it is now.
Python 3 is a disaster for many other reasons, UTF-8 bugs is just one of them.
So far I'm sticking with Tauthon[1] which seems to be the best of both worlds.

1.: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
That's only the case if making the fakes becomes a very easy and common thing to do. I think more likely the case will be that certain already-powerful groups will have more ability to make these fakes and thus actually make the balance of information influence even worse.
Go look at the Ghibli, it has the exact same body lines, windows, lights
It would still be helpful even if they just modified the warnings to bleed into the non-page portion of the window somehow. It doesn't have to compromise minimalism. They just need to be creative about it.

But I think the best place for it would be between the tab bar and the location bar.
I doubt it's any more load than the bridge sees during a rainstorm.
I dont want to pollute this thread, but want to briefly describe my time (mid 2000s) as an undergrad with half a double-major in US anthropology.

I was on several occasions warned-off from doing projects that pertained to this very subject and a couple others [examples: h. neanderthalensis relation to modern humans (at the time in the face of mtDNA), some other N. American immigration hypotheses (eg, that pleistocene peoples could make boats)].

Being told repeatedly that authoring research on a subject would ruin a future career eventually drove me out of academia, despite excelling in all other ways. Grad school was worse. It was not a great experience. I could go on at length to describe my perception of why this was/probably still is, but a short take is: the architecture of American social science legitimacy is so delicate that even counter thoughts from undergrads need to be put down.

Somewhat relieving to have all those subjects slowly come into light. Not bitter, but do have a longwinded eyeroll after all this time.

But yes, Pacific cultures visited the Americas pre-Euro contact. It is funny claim otherwise given even a pop-culture understanding of east Asian and Islander seafaring methods of the pre-European era.

Rrrff. End rant.
There’s data on how many people are drug addicted.

There’s also data (to my other point) on how many more people go to universities now VS then and wouldn’t consider value collar work today.

There’s probably data on how baby more men live at home today than 50 years ago.

Regardless, there’s plenty of opportunity for blue collar when. Why do you think almost nobody that does it votes for leftists anymore? Why Amazon will fail to unionize? Those that do, know there is an abundance of good laying work if you’re willing to be responsible and work hard.
Indeed, I also tell people that we're not paid for the notes that we play, but for the notes that we don't play.
It's idempotent except it calls a RNG.
Just about everything in that list I do from a terminal. But I practically live in the thing. I’ve literally had trouble finding my home directory in the Mac Finder UI. Never had that issue in the terminal ~
You could set a alias if it too hard to remember or use tree
It is so expensive. Hope amazon will release a cheaper usb kindle monitor.
Information is nonsense. In our models perfect information and perfect noise are indistinguishable. Usually this is just hand-waved away, but we all know where you go when you start with an incoherent definition –anywhere your imagination can carry you.

One of the major philosophical errors technically educated but philosophically ignorant intelligent persons make is not being aware of the role of the interpretant. Computing "neural networks" have biological neural networks as a necessary precondition. CS Peirce's understanding of semiotic really should be required reading.

Charitably I'd call the tendency to say we are computers (that is to say, we've built machines in our own image) the pathetic fallacy. Less charitably I'd call it idolatry. The dream of building gods is ancient and persistent.

To answer your question, what's going on in the human mind remains a mystery to all honest inquirers.
How would you write unit tests to test against services not responding and routing issues between your different instances ?
Ah. Good to know.
Expect to get 1% of the existing options if you're lucky.
You can also tweak the behavior of readline (for Bash and other applications) and custom make your own key combinations by editing your ~/.inputrc file. A random example from mine:

# Insert double quotes & set cursor between them
"\C-x\"": "\"\"\eb"
#
# Insert single quotes & set cursor between them
"\C-x'": "''\eb"

See also the Bash manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command...
Reading both this entry and the one that explained why they went with AWS, I'm left confused about why they ever went to AWS in the first place.
Vitalik linked to our help article on Handshake's airdrop as an example of a proof of excellence alternative. It's ssl configuration was broken before but it's fixed now: https://help.namebase.io/article/4vchu01mec-handshake-airdro...
This is a great idea to put our spending in perspective, but one thing this sorely lacks is any way to incorporate "tax expenditures," because otherwise this assumes everyone is homogeneous in terms of deductions, etc. For example, the subsidies given to oil companies and agriculture don't show up in the receipt because they're technically just deductions, but it would be wildly flawed to believe that they didn't exist.

So what I would recommend is:

1. start at the top with what you would have paid based on your total income, before your deductions

2. show how much taxes you save for each deduction (maybe group them)

3. show the net

4. in the "programs and services", have an additional section called "Tax Expenditures" that shows your proportion of all tax deductions; suppose $200b were "saved" annually due to mortgage interest deduction, then it would show something like $2000 for mortgage interest. Same with oil and agricultural subsidies.

Then we might get a better view of how our money's really being spent.
You're aware that most lobbyists ARE lawyers, right? I mean, it's what the sharpest of the lot aspire to.
Sounds like you don't work in a large organization with lots of standing meetings and extremely non-technical users. That must be nice.

Many large companies have lots of extremely valuable non-technical users who can just barely figure out how to follow step-by-step instructions to setup calls with even the most point-and-click interface. The switching cost there is extremely high.
I don’t know about Canonical but certainly a few years ago I was seeing Windows created documents out of Red Hat.
Universities often have standardised thesis typesetting requirements, so the author may not have a choice in how it looks.

And - anyway - don't judge a book by the cover.
H1N1 in 2009-10 is best estimated to have killed somewhere from 200k to over half a million people - without the widespread global mitigation measures we are witnessing today. So, hard to say now if it will be a death toll that hasn't been seen in a lifetime.
Oh ffs were not dealing with the andromeda strain here.

If you need to go outside and you’ll be in occasional contact with other people gloves and a face shield will do.

If you’ll be in constant contact with other people or in situations where air circulation will be limited e.g. public transport or small offices then a respirator / face conforming mask needs to be added.
If that were the case, and amazon was sufficiently interested, they'd do the trivial/intelligent thing and simply prioritize essentials for shipping over other things. For example, by disabling 1-2 day shipping for anything not considered an essential.

Rather than blaming people for using amazon for precisely its intended usecase, ,despite individuals having next to zero information on what was actually up with amazon's backend causing the slowdown (are there simply no essentials left to deliver, and the backlog is due to other issues..? I dunno, I'm not amazon, and probably you aren't either.)

Hell, it might already be the case.. which would mean you're attacking people for buying normal goods for no particular reason.