jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh my [deity], what are they creating?!

I first read those thinking "cool, I'll have to let nerdy me have a play with all that". I actually often use Excel for various bits & bobs, and must (as a database guy and ex-Jack-of-all dev) shamefully admit to finding it useful and sometimes really liking it. But...

Then my mind moved on to "oh hell, what holes are our clients going to dig for themselves if they catch wind of some of this?".

Even when talking about existing functionality that you might want to use along with these new tools they say "It took us some time to understand the precise rules that drive this behavior". It took Microsoft's research people some time to understand the ins and outs of features in Microsoft Excel and they talk about this with apparent pride in a paper published by Microsoft.

I look forward to being witness to the minting of brand new expletives, when the reporting team are handed a gargantuan KPI calculations workbook that uses these tools, and asked to reproduce it in our environment (but make it work properly as "there are a few bits that occasionally give odd results and have to be adjusted manually sometimes" - not that they'll mention those oddities until we've banged or head against them a couple of times or in UAT they ask "but how do we tweak the financial sprocket count result for dept X only, when Y happens?"), which they assume we can do that in practically zero time...
Excel ate my data four times in the past week. I prefer LibreOffice; I think it is much easier to control. Also I can tell LibreOffice not to eat my data and it listens to me.
> The NYT, as the "paper of record" for America, has always been mired in politics and power. One of my favorite pieces from NYT is their blistering condemnation of MLK after his famous anti-Vietnam speech.

https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/the-rising-clamor-hadley/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

"The Agency’s relationship with the [New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers" v(._. )v
Ah, forgot that the trust model is only based on having a valid certificate for the domain, not on the specific certificate. Which is only a problem if someone manages to hijack the domain long enough to get a valid cert. Google is probably less likely to loose control of its main domains than other groups that sometimes just forget to keep track of them.
Don't take this the wrong way, but perhaps you should rethink your career choice. If tools changing and be supplanted by other tools causes you too much stress then I have unpleasant news for you - it will never stop. The good news is, it doesn't have to be stressful. If a tool you like works, use it! Don't worry about the shiny new stuff coming out, worry about being productive today, and you will find that your stress level will decrease dramatically. But above all, become comfortable with the fact that you will always be learning new things until the day you retire. You aren't flipping burgers.
Nice! I grew up near him and my dad used to act in his plays. He was such a great artist and interesting person. I like this line "A hissing swarm of hair bugs has got the baby and its rugs" from the evil garden.
Everything non-linear is linear to a first-order Taylor expansion. Hence why you can evolve small perturbations, the same thing is used for explicit numerical integration of non-linear equations.
Did you just merge "Connect" and "Marketplaces" so that there is no "Marketplaces" anymore? I saw that stripe.com/marketplaces is a redirect to stripe.com/connect
I like to read international news sources (news.google.com can be a good jumping off point) and, yes, I agree with you that our news in the USA is engineered to tell a story that keeps people in line.
That seems like a problem of envy then, which is fine since the onus is now on the person to solve that himself.
As much as I appreciate the agile manifesto, your suggestion seems a little like teaching the fundamental axioms of mathematics and leaving it at that. Yes, those principles are useful, but it's a lot easier to reach practical conclusions with more specific guidance.
> The situation of nginx in OpenBSD frustrated me

What situation?
Every link on this site is only here because others have submitted and upvoted them, so everyone here is being influenced. That's the whole point of the site - having a community choose what's worth reading.
In retrospect, the global P2P marketplace that we've launched in 2010 on top of PayPal's API may have been 5 years too soon. Requiring all our buyers and sellers to have a PayPal account was detrimental to our brand. But, we concluded that we "didn't want to be in the nasty business of dealing with fraud, ID verification and international payments" so it made sense back then to leave that up to PayPal. But I would have given anything for a white label solution such as Stripe Connect. Also makes me wonder why PayPal wasn't able to come up with this in 5 freaking years. The technology, the platform and ecosystem was clearly there, just not the insight.
> You see, if someone were to really study the subject, they'd not only need to understand metallurgy, but also crystallography, 3D math, patterns, etc., etc., a variety of interlapping areas and disciplines...

You just described metallurgy. Of course, no material scientist knows everything, even the field as a whole has many knowledge gaps. We are working to fill those gaps, usually with the result of finding more new gaps. And for this we use crystallography, 3D (and 4D) math, chemistry, physics, mechanics, computer science... Metallurgy (old and new, that distinction you make is pure fiction) already is multidisciplinary.

> if someone really was interested in this, they'd experiment with it, that is, "do it for the sake of doing it"

Testing equipment and electron microscopes are not cheap, so at some point you usually need some kind of return. But we constantly do research "for the sake of doing it", specially at universities, but also in some companies. It looks to me like you have many misconceptions about the field and how scientific research works in general.
Moving the goal post from violence to property damage?
It's worth noting that this was after the U.S. killed their top general illegally and they expected a strike on Iran after hitting some Iraqi bases in response to the U.S. assassination.
Where is the profit on a 0% loan? Who would pay more than face value for a stream of payments going into the future?
It’s 100% on the mark that video.
> If a goal is for a myriad companies and entities of all shapes and sizes and with wildly differing priorities, timelines and focus, to all do exactly the same thing at exactly the same time

Liiiiike making everybody move over to DST before making the time permanent?

I mean, sure, we're pretty used to doing it, but that's a sunk cost fallacy, isn't it? Better to freeze the time zones before forcing everyone going through it?
So how much is the effective rate, typically?
I have been using Windows since 2.x (It actually ran on my IBM PS/2 model 25) and I have this to say to Microsoft about their GUIs:

You are boring and have developed no imagination in 30 years.
I have used Python on OSX for years and it is and always will be a horrorshow. Using the system Python installation is a nonstarter for many reasons, chief among them is that I don't have any interest in using py2. So then you're using pyenv or homebrew, but your vim install still thinks that it should be using the system python. And whoops, you fixed that and now virtualenv is not finding your interpreter. And etc., etc.

OSX and its tooling are just ridiculous. I have no idea to this day how macs became the premier development environment.

As always xkcd has a comic for it: https://xkcd.com/1987/
J&J is testing both a single and two dose regime so its possible.
Relevant XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/1987/
Is there cross comparability yet?
The word "vulgar" originally meant, "in the common language people understand", instead of "the elite formal language of the elites". That's precisely the point here, to meet people where they are and communicate in a way that feels natural, not arcane and ritualized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
I actually think Kubernetes is a better foundation for a 2-level scheduler system than Mesos is. (In k8s land, they call this the operator pattern[1]). Each operator creates Pod objects in k8s with constraints/affinity/anti-affinity, and the K8s scheduler decides on your operator's behalf where each pod will go.

Pending pods (pods that aren't assigned to boxes yet) are also a really useful signal for cluster autoscaling that is annoying to calculate in Mesos. (The Mesos master has no idea how many pods each framework _wants_ to launch, so we ended up writing code that knows how to deduce the resource demand from each framework's API or UI.)

On the other side of the same coin, the framework in Mesos has no idea the total resources available to the cluster - it has to wait to be offered each box's resources in turn. This usually means frameworks either:

a) accept the first offer which matches the basic requirements for a task, even if there are better places to run that task, or
b) accept every single offer, under the assumption that they're the only framework on the cluster, and then implement their own scheduler on top of this pool of resources. (I call this the "monoframework" approach.)

The former approach is how Mesos is supposed to work, but can lead to all sorts of bad outcomes, e.g. all the copies of a Marathon service running on the same box, or Spark having to use timeouts to know when it should give up waiting for offers if it doesn't get enough right away.

The latter approach can lead to better placements, but defeats the purpose of the two-level scheduler, as no other frameworks can use the resources that aren't being used by the monoframework.

Under Kubernetes, any operator can query the state of the cluster and make informed decisions about what to request.

1. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operat...
330M people is 330k 1k samples. So there will be some in there with different clusters of race.

So it is a “lifetime” of rolling dice.

Given distribution of race in the US it’s like 1-4 is white, 5 is black, 6 is hispanic. And so there will be quite a few samples of a thousand that are higher than 66% 1-4.

The problem is assuming that founders would have the same distribution of the population.
I’ll never forget the time I kicked the door down of a brothel to see if anyone was inside while it was on fire. Police came to my house, asked me to help them in an arson investigation, I invited them in, and told them what happened... it was only when they started taking photos of my jacket I was wearing that day that I realised I was the main arson suspect. That’s when the adrenaline hit... and when it does, your brain gets muddled and so it’s damn easy to get caught out with not be accurate when recalling facts... but yeah, it’s easier not to lie when you tell them to go through a lawyer.
Please tell me "keeb" isn't "keyboard".

Clicks link

Yes, it's keyboard, but occurs only in the title. Bad, but could be worse.
INAL but an airdrop may run afowl of securities laws. As for the seccond point I think the choice is actually pretty apt - most other cryptocurrencies aren't private and those that are aren't especially user friendly (they cite block times).

Since Signal's sever is centralised, uses SGX and they have no intention of federation it makes sense that the cryptocurrency they chose has similar tradeoffs.
I’ve not taken the plunge on any special keyboards. I am afraid of committing to something super custom and losing some of my already low typing speed when switching to use the laptops built in keyboard.
Yes, I've read that. I find it a stretch to draw that conclusion though, as if it's some back door deal for funding.

For all the criticisms of cryptocurrency (and I have many...), I don't particularly see anything on MobileCoin's work that indicates the usual shady cryptocurrency stuff. I'm not sure it belongs in Signal, but I do think this stuff can be evaluated without people starting conspiracy theories.
None of the individual users would need to worry because they did not have more than $150 billion in cash reserves in 2020.
Why do you expect many people at Reuters to know who Yoshia Bengio is?

And even if they did, why would expect a non trivial portion of readers to know?
There has been a bunch of content on Coyote shared before as well but the quality of animations and how they explain how it works under the hood in this introduction was excellent.
> I suppose if you are the type of person who thinks that it makes sense to be CEO of BlackBerry

Chen is known in the corporate world as somewhat of a turnaround artist. Blackberry needed a turnaround. That could have been why it "made sense" for him, or perhaps the 80ish million a year there paying him.
> Despite so many set backs in 2020, the US is still the most inclusive country at least in science and research.

What makes you say that and what other countries are you comparing it with/do you have information for?
Even bigger problem than distrust is incompetence. The only think czech prime minister is good at is PR. He does not care about anything else . Also the most import quality for his colleagues or advisors is loyalty. So czechia is ruled by marketing experts and people which agree with anything prime minister says.

This new lockdown will not help at all. PM will see popularity loss in april so he will open the country too much and it will lead to another outbreak.
You replied to several of these at the time, but perhaps a refresher will be helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011040

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447722

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335152

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16814032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788897

The problem isn't "calling out bad products", though I wouldn't use the phrase "calling out", since the online callout/shaming culture is something we try to avoid here. Thoughtful critique is obviously welcome.

The problem is that you have a long history of breaking the site guidelines by posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments. If you can't or won't stop this, we will ban you, so please stop.
It seems you and everyone else seem to forget about the early live streaming app Qik. http://mashable.com/2011/01/06/skype-acquires-qik-rumor/

it was an incredibly popular live streaming app that died after the skype purchase. Sadly we all seem to have short memories. It offered everything you state. Again nothing new is new.
Ha, fair point, I guess I take that part back! (And sorry, Rasmus, I still think you're awesome)
This is just what we know of, because I'm involved. As far as I know, none of the other 4 accounts have talked publicly about the subpoena, so that suggests most people keep quiet about such things.
"but I am worried that the government has such an easy avenue to get this information"

This is a public forum. Hell, one of the users even VOLUNTEERED himself to be interviewed by the users of one of the most popular websites in the world under the topic of what amounts to "I run or help run a drug smuggling/selling marketplace".

What reasonable expectation should this user have to privacy? You can't do all these things in public and then say "well, the government shouldn't be able to look at me for it" - I'd think what he did met the very definition of probable cause.
I found Wlaschin work well balanced between accessible and complex.

https://vimeo.com/97344498Vimeo
https://speakerdeck.com/swlaschin
http://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin

And wip book https://leanpub.com/understandingfunctionalprogramming
Time to use steganography(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography) to store data in the photos :)?
I see Mother Jones has fully bought into clickbait headlines.
Nothing will change until people stop complying with government demands.
The older I get, the more I realize this fantastic trope is true.
I'm not an economist either, but applying textbook theory from school, it could help. A lot depends on the size, and making sure it isn't too big to discourage employment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income would be a demand side stimulus, with money going to the folks most likely to spend by taxing the folks most likely to save (you wouldn't want to do it by "printing money"). That particular effect would point in the direction of increased GDP (assuming we start from a deflationary trap with inadequate demand and large private debt overhang). However the risk would be too much employment lost, which points in the direction of decreased GDP.

A safer way to do the same thing would be to just spend government money on things like building infrastructure. In current conditions, that translates into increased GDP without the reduced employment risk. Similarly reduced taxes on lower incomes would be less risky but work through the same means.

(This isn't addressing whether basic income would be morally good or bad. Just the macro effects.)
With instafall you can follow any user, hashtag or media flows in a specific location. In addition you can catch medias which are shared near by you in a circle of 1-5km.
Agree. Here in Japan you even have restaurants and cafes where pets are actually welcome and encouraged. This is a good place to go spend time if you like animals.
>Most people there learn to try EIRE or 00000.

I think this is the key point. Sure, you can come up with some clever and unique system to accommodate the one percent of your user base who isnt well served by standard forms, but that 1% is already used to adapting their unique information into a standard format.

Web forms for things like name and address are a sort of ad-hoc standardization of a nonstandard data type.
MLK Jr. for extra clarity?
Summary: Germany is opening up A9 Autobahn for testing self driving cars. Previously, German companies couldn't test on the public roads due to regulations. German car companies don't want to depend on Google for autonomous driving technology.
I don't know whether the 29$ price tag (even when compared to other similar Nokias already in the market) is all that revolutionary but they certainly have pitched their product perfectly:

"or as a secondary phone for just about anyone... has the same durable build quality you’ve learned to rely on over the years... stand-by time of up to 29 days"

After Microsoft claimed to have banished the 'Nokia' name forever, they now evoking imaging from Nokia's days of glory. Of course, the question now on every Indian's mind is - Can the Nokia 215 hold a candle to the legendary 1100?
Well it only takes one, doesn't it?

The real issue I think is whether the creator will actually be able to "set goals" in a meaningful manner. How will you prevent this self-modifying super-intelligence from modifying itself?
Yes. There have been attempts in the past to insert critical vulnerabilities into open source libraries that would make programs compiled against them vulnerable.

What your suggesting is far less complex than the Stuxnet virus. You need to get binaries from reliable source and verify checksums whenever possible. You can't protect yourself a 100%, but that doesn't mean you should leave or your doors unlocked.
Incredible that they are congratulating themselves over this.
It's not an if; they're already viable and already used enough to matter.
> So why is every text editor I have ever seen embedded in a website an abomination?

Because most websites use contenteditable for their rich text editors, which is horrible to deal with. It's not standardized, it gives developers very little control, and its output and capabilities vary a lot from browser to browser.

Web rich text editors that don't suck - e.g. Google Docs - bypass the browser's support for rich text editing entirely. This makes them usable, but it also means everything has to be implemented from scratch, so the code is complex. AFAIK there are no general purpose rich text editors built like this that are open source or even licensable.

There are some pretty good non-contenteditable code editors, though. Presumably Atom will be built in this style.
Fair enough, can't blame you for that. If you ever start wanting to administer your own servers, being handy with vim is nice as you can quickly make changes on an ssh server.
Fuck, I read all that and still no news of a Tesla Convertible. Bring back the Roaster! Any executive that opts to discontinue a 2-seater needs to be shot.
All money is imaginary.
I agree with you. Many sites out there are not to be trusted. However, not everyone is like us. If they visit a site, and there's a required registration, with the form already pre-filled, they'll simply click the 'Register' button. It's easy, slick and fast.
I kinda agree with you on the first part, but if they should be allowed to read books, which are presumably fun or at least interesting to read, why not let them do "fun" exercises? It seems terribly inconsistent.
Everyone isn't educated the same way, sorry. That invalidates your entire argument, doesn't it?

"One day I asked him, 'Roger [Hui], do you do math in English or Cantonese?' He smiled at me and said, 'I do it in Cantonese because it's faster and it's completely regular.'" - "A Conversation with Arthur Whitney"
This is one app that I prefer doesn't auto-update.

For most people it already works great, why rock the boat?

For others, let them control the updates... These are our files, after all!
I will pay you $500 for this when it can read Chinese and Japanese.
I. Am. Totally. Floored. Just wow. The last time I checked in on assisted reality apps for the iPhone there where cheesy laser tag apps and stuff to hang tag clouds in random locations. Interesting I guess but nothing to produce a visceral response. If I where you your shoes I'd see about buying a wheelbarrow for the money that's coming your way.
Wow, so Douglas Adams' babelfish is real, only it's an app for iOS. Fantastic. You've got an exciting venture on your hands!
too late for this audience. maybe the mass market that has never heard of them will be kinder. but I doubt it.

too little, too late.

they didn't have the right people to execute on this, and from what I can tell, they still don't.
Blind vias and components between layers are too expensive for consumer boards.
I don't understand how air purification systems work. I live in a relatively warm climate so windows are at least partly open most of the year. How would an air purifier help me if air keeps flowing in and out the windows?
inflation is defined as expansion or contraction in the money supply
The concept of tracking as per the GDPR goes beyond cookies though. It includes any kind of personal data collection, and personal data refers to anything that can uniquely identify a person with reasonable certainty.

So cookies aren't the only thing that requires consent - things like browser fingerprinting and even collecting IP addresses for non-essential purposes (aka you can probably claim legitimate interest if you collect them for technical or fraud prevention reasons, but using that data for analytics or marketing would require consent).

This is also why I think clicking "accept all" on the cookie prompts with cookies disabled at the browser level isn't a good idea. You're still giving them permission to stalk you using other means than cookies, and they very well know that. At least use an ad-blocker which blocks the consent prompts completely - technically you never provided permission, so while they might still stalk you at least they don't have a legal basis for doing so.

The GDPR is less about the technical aspect of data collection and more about the intent behind said collection and the planned use for the collected data, something the browser can't really tell.