jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anyone out there tried anything with tDCS and programming - either personally or as a part of a scientific study?
If there will be one long green bar (as it should be) then Python/Ruby hipsters might get nervous. We don't want that, right?
Exactly, and the fact they've continued publishing despite the DA-notice [1][2] is sign enough that they are in no way interested in rolling over.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m...
[2] http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/guardian-g8-spying-rev...
I disagree with that statement. It's possible that he hasn't lost someone close in any kind of traumatic event that makes him so optimistic about it. Human nature compels people to want revenge or hatred towards say the same (religious) groups that the "terrorists" were from. This is very evident post 9/11. People hated muslims, destroyed their properties and discriminated them.

I think it's not time to be so care free. We don't even understand the universe yet.
Of course I don't want survellience, but there has to be a requirement for saftey, and yes if that means putting bad people behind bars and make society advance faster so that we can colonize other planets, and understand how everything works better. There needs to be more scientists and engineers not more thieves.
The liberal arts are invaluable as a means of cultivating the potential within oneself.

That said, you need food to feed a garden while it is being cultivated, and nothing puts bread on the table quite as robustly as engineering degrees.
How do young developers fail to learn this nowadays?

Back in the 8 bit days, at the age of 12 I was already aware of compilers and interpreters implementations for several languages.

Just as one possible example, there were BASIC interpreters and compilers for CP/M.
Your objection is a matter of degree, not definition. The author's point is that we are better than this in the OSS community... and it's a valid point. Peole shouldn't get things they didn't want when they use OSS. I join the author in calling shenanigans on this.
Well, make sure that's actually wanted before jumping into assumptions.

I had the misfortune of assuming people want to communicate more in order to avoid miscommunication but it turned out that the team (~5 developers in a ~15 person company) actually wanted more walls around them, minimize communication and focus on silo'd development (one frontend, one backend, one ios, one android and one infrastructure with 0 sharing of tasks even if one was behind/in front) with as little communication between devs and others in the company as possible. Only the person dedicated for communication should do the communication.

I didn't agree with this so I no longer work there, but there was a few months of pain because I assumed everyone wanted to communicate but didn't have the experience/tools/processes to do so. I was wrong, which took time to discover as I assumed everyone wanted agile collaboration.
> Any attempt to subvert Python will be publicized and have a disproportionate response from the user community.

Google is subverting the web, and the only disproportionate response from the user community is "Chrome is good, Safari is bad, FF needs to keep up with Chrome"
Hey, would you please expand your thesis? So everyone here can benefit from your opinion!

Thanks in advance.
Its a forum. The entire point is to post and discuss things, not to fix the world. If we wanted to do that we would be fixing the world instead of reading hacker news.
Yeah, if you do it uncontrolled and with the prime motivation of a few people getting rich in the process.

My university in Europe literally costs me a hundred bucks a year, and child care is a similar story (although my country has some problems with providing enough capacity).
You really think that 40% of people are being controlled by an internet troll?
Some people are like that, sure. But please don't make the mistake of idolizing academia because it's different than industry. There are plenty of scam artists doing P-hacking, MBAs leading universities and ego-tripping professors in academia as well. There's a reason the article describes a chapter titled "How to Survive Grad School With Your Soul Intact"; that'd be unnecessary if grad school was a very healthy place in the first place.

This is probably not what you want to hear, but in any place where lots of people work together (whether industry, academia, government or charity organisations) the social aspects of the work and the competition for status and resources will eventually overtake the actual work.

Your question "if not grad school, then what?" may well not have an answer at all.
I think the best bet to remain independent and be provocative is to retired. I'm preparing to join the FIRE movement, but I'll do my own thing on my own dime because I spent the last decade bending the knee to corporate overlords. I have learned much.
>Go west, young Han. One day, if everything happens according to plan (and according to the dreams of China’s leaders), all this will be yours — via high-speed rail, no less.

Comparing the opening of a new global trade route to the Manifest Destiny conquest and colonization of the American west is propagandistic and inflammatory. If anything, this will only serve to encourage investment in the rail transport infrastructure we desperately need here in North America.
I'm not saying it's a bad business goal. Obviously, a lot of companies have succeeded doing this. My point is that such a policy is not very attractive if you're an engineer who "wants to build cool stuff".
Like Reddit, most here will submit or up vote anything that furthers their anti-Apple narrative regardless of whether it's foundation is based on facts or not.

Oh, and when it's an anti-Google article, stand back because otherwise you'll get run over by the mob that floods the thread white knighting for Google.

I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that most supposed geeks who support Google/Android are no better than the mainstream masses who shop at Walmart and watch NASCAR races, because like those people, they too have no taste.
No, we have more efficient mechanisms for that now.
Now all we need is a gratuitous regular expression to get rid of the extra bits of syntax...
I don't see ailerons, but I do see wing sweep, so are they expecting this to be a steer left/right only type aircraft?

What about pitch control? There's going to be quite a pitch down moment with that high mounted engine.

And with the small wing giving a high wing loading, this aircraft looks like quite a little handful to fly.

That's worrying enough, without even thinking about stall / spin behavior.
I guess it is a bug we did a prototype. I things it is not removed. I will check it an fix it soon. Thanks for reporting it
"A weaker currency 'makes them more competitive and reduces the burden of debt," - makes them more competitive? It makes the pricing lower but not more competitive. China and any other country that is racing to the bottom is playing a losing game in the long term. In short term, there may be some benefit but as with anything that becomes commoditized manufacturing is only as good as your last price.

As far as relief of debt that theory has been shown wrong for a good number of years. Lowering the value of a currency may look good to someone who is in debt but it makes those hold the debt less likely to lend which freezes capital and we all go into recession.

Should the US currency not be tied to world gas/oil and other commodity markets we could be seeing what's happening in Japan (pre-quake) where they were a a neg interest rate and are the most highly in debt country. They tried lowering their debt by devaluing but it hasn't and won't work.
Bill Cosby has earned a doctorate in education along with his honorary doctorates.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation, anyone?
Once again with the shitty Wired paging that doesn't take into account its cute little header! Fix it people - it's not that hard.
1. Neptune's Brood is more heavily based on David Graeber's work on Debt (notably Debt: The First 5000 years).

1a. If you feel inclined to read Neptune's Brood, I've got one big regret: I wrote it circa 2010-11, before BitCoin really took off in the public eye, and used the term "bitcoin" for a not-like-our-BtC-honest cryptocurrency. (If I'd known BtC was going to take off that way the year the book came out, I'd have come up with a different name.)

2. Paul Krugman is a cool person to go drinking with in a pub :)
That sounds just like the Dallas Makerspace. There is no bias towards certain types of projects there, and in fact there has been some cross-pollination between seemingly unrelated groups that would not have occurred had those groups been siloed.
Maybe I missed something, but how does the suitcase communicate with your services? Isn't it limited by bluetooth range?
I went to Northwester but fled to DC for a job. I'm all too aware unfortunately.
It's still a lot of cash left on the table. Why aren't dutch auctions more common in IPOs?
Here's the open specification for Docker's standard format: https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/image/spec/v1.m...
It "sort of" works. A Pozidriv screwdriver will have better grip and if you apply too much force the PH screwdriver will possibly destroy your PZ screw head. (And vice versa).
I don't think anyone is claiming that makers are superior. Aside from founders and early hires in startups, makers are often making something in a medium or large company for a manager, a sales team, or an investor. That's not the top of the chain.
Usually, 802.11 devices don't turn off between transmissions, so this has no effect. In fact, it's actually the opposite; using a narrower channel requires a slower clock rate, which also significantly reduces power consumption of the wireless device.
I just meant for teachers unions, not all unions.

I am a government employee, btw, and I would happily vote against teachers unions (if I could vote issue-by-issue, not representative-by-representative)
37 Hour weeks plus time spend prepping for classes, and time spend correcting homework, and time spend helping students after school, plus time spent giving makeup exams ... I was a teacher. I worked way more than the 7-4 that class was in session. That's like saying professional football players only work for 3 hours a week.
opportunities!
To quote an oft-repeated request from PG: Don't put 'YC reject' in your submission titles. You might have been not accepted, but that's quite different from being rejected -- it's a non-judgement rather than a judgement -- and it adds unnecessary noise.
Agree 100%.

And if for whatever reason Resharper isn't available to you, then check out the Productivity Power Tools. They'll take you in the Eclipse direction. Not all the way, mind you, and they're buggy, but it's helpful nonetheless.
This is an amazing read I can't believe how quickly science is advancing. A concept I can't grasp is what space should be advancing into. We're saying dark energy is forcing space to expand quicker than any gravitational force could pull it back. But does this mean we're only gaining 3-d space, or are we also seeing time moving at faster speeds?

I'm actually not entirely sure dark energy has any effect on spacetime itself, this is merely speculation which hopefully somebody could answer in better detail.
That's like saying cancer can't be a threat to people because it can only exist because of people.
Just to chime in here: The work the FreeBSD Foundation does is really really important. A lot of what they do is behind the scenes, but things like providing legal advice or ensuring that FreeBSD developers can attend conferences makes the project run much more smoothly than it would otherwise.

And if you compare the budgets (~300k vs. ~20M), well, the FreeBSD Foundation needs the money far more than Wikipedia does.
I'm grateful for the free open source software that's essential to keeping projects on budget.
I always have a feeling that facebook is limiting entrepreneurs. You can't launch a social product today without making it facebook compliant and this means abiding by facebook's rules, and working within their structural limitations. These limitations they've imposed ensure that they keep their market share and prevent anyone else from really growing in the same space as them. But I don't think they can stay at the top forever. Demand for an open alternative is too high, and I'm really hoping (along with many others) that Diaspora can make some headway with this.
If it takes off, I imagine they'll start building some clever custom hardware. It's not going to be an enormous rack of Sony DVD players with big black cables coming out the back of each.
The (non political) conservatism is the major issue. They select for conservative non alarmist studies leaving more alarmist ones as outliers, the studies themselves do the same thing.

The compounding effect of this along with the time lag is just so damn disturbing.
Honestly, between the magic Kotlin adds on top of Java and Rust, I prefer Rust. At least it’s not doing stuff behind my back.
Criminally slow startup (10 seconds on my system). Incredibly ponderous tab complete too. How is this even possible!? Non-starter as a shell for me.
Do people have attorneys in general? I suppose people the FBI are prone to harass should have the ACLU's number on their phone (or have the awareness that it's an organisation that can help them, just google the number on said phone..).
Thank you, this is not what I was looking for though. Even though they're equivalent TSMC was there way before Intel.
What?

Marlinspike's been an advisor to MobileCoin from like... the beginning. The article also notes that neither he nor Signal own any actual MobileCoins.
I meet Luis at my coworking space in Quebec city. He first started to work on Conference Badge as the sole employee (we were transitioning to Missive ourselves). When the pandemic began, as Conference Badge revenues collapsed, we slowly transitioned him to Missive. Now he works full-time with us on Missive. 100% salary.
I worked on a version of this long, long ago. Broke it while porting it from Chicken Scheme to Common Lisp and never doubled back to fix it. Almost makes me want to dust off my first post-college side project.
One of them is closed-source, with a paid dev team. CAD for mining I believe :)

The other is aevyrie's[0] pet project, with an eye towards eventual open-source commercialization. Right now, he's been working on building out the fundamentals needed, with a fantastic set of plugins for frustum culling, picking, bounding boxes and so on that will be needed.

He's @aevyrie on the Discord[1] if you'd like to ask him more questions.

0: https://github.com/aevyrie
1: https://discord.gg/bevy
To be fair, it started out more like paid couch surfing and then pivoted. The original idea was sharing your home part-time, not dedicating a private residence to short term rental use, which is what it has mostly become.

This is probably not where the founders really meant for it to go.
I’ll be very direct because of the dire situation at hand.

If you die of Covid-19 you were already dying. This illness was simply the straw that broke the camel’s back.

99% of fatalities in Italy are among people with a prior illness. About 50% of the deaths were people suffering from at least three other illnesses.

The average age of fatalities in Italy is over the median life expectancy of an Italian man.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

We may have a wave of elders die this year if we don’t quarantine them immediately. (And the next year or two we’ll have fewer elders die than ever.) But there is no need to quarantine the whole world. The young and healthy need to start building up antibodies.
The last thing hospitals want to do right now is to fire doctors.
It could simply be that the test will not work until several days have passed. To get a test with such a fast result, trade-offs elsewhere probably need to be made.

Even South Kora required symptoms for free testing. Else it cost about $140 as I recall. That would certainly motivate me to wait a bit to watch symptoms. A fever should mean staying at home, no matter what the cause turns out to be.
There's a basic comparison here: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding#comparison-to-...
https://github.com/adnanh/webhook - an incoming webhook server that can run your shell scripts
This. I used to carry Fjällräven backpacks. That brand is/was basically Sweden’s Patagonia. If you bought a Kånken model backpack in the eighties, it would last forever. Then sometime in the 00s they moved production to Asia. Guess what happened to the quality …
I see the data. There is a surge, obviously.

However, this assumes the current surge deaths are 100% SARS-Cov2 confirmed infections.

They aren’t. At least not 100%

Assumption can be made “atypical, bad flu season” but safer bet is on “newly discovered virus out of China that did x and y and z damage over there.”

While both theories are just that, theories. There is no empirical data which PROVES x-cases and y-surge is directly related to a confirmed SARS-Cov2 pathogen confirmed by RT-PCR and antibody test.

The Italian data is wrong period. Why or how is another debate.
There's a lot of bad information articles going around, a lot of newsjacking in the guise of a helpful article. The kind of malicious people who do this now SEO well. For a long time, a search for "Is lemon acidic?" would come up that's lemons are an alkaline. And you have people gaming FB's fact check by making a true statement and then attaching a background that trigger's FB's false news image AI, which will post something like "this is fact checked as false" yet still post it fully so it doesn't look like censorship.

So the short of it is that with all the fake and dangerous information going around, the media has been aggressive in filtering content.

So
And which of these products do you have actual experience with? My guess is "none of them".
Posting on HN, of course.
Is there a way to actually play chiptunes within the shell, or can you only download them? Seems like it's sort of missing its core competency if there's no WebAudio implementation of a tracker.
No technological innovation can change basic physics. There will always be propagation delay in satellite networks.
Sounds good in theory, but nowadays what happens is companies go public when they are fully valued, making them ripe for collapse when insiders take advantage of the liquidity to exit positions. When companies go public early, opportunities are created for retail investors to make huge money (AOL, Dell, Amazon, Walmart to name a few examples). Now it's like, you get to buy at the very top and it's for your own good. horaaaaay
They want to set your old salary as the reference point for your new salary. If you're moving laterally, this isn't awful, but it is if you're looking to move up.

A better anchor (both closer to market and better for you) is to research the median salaries for that type of position in the area. Many job sites (I most recently used Glassdoor for this) give these numbers. It's not perfect, but it's a better starting point.

The actual words I would use are "Well, the median salary for [position] in [City] is $[dollars]. I'm looking for something that pays somewhere in that ballpark." If there are reasons you think you should be paid more than the median (you're very well qualified, the company tends to pay above median, etc), I would wait until after the offer is made, when you're in a stronger position.
I don't think that's true at all. Sure many classics are great, but what is and isn't considered a "classic" is dictated to a large extent by what literature teachers choose to teach, and it is heavily biased towards what literature teachers find enjoyable.

Classics definitely aren't picked because millions of people over dozens of generations have enjoyed them more than other books. If that were the case, high school students would spend a year just reading Agatha Christie.

And I can count on one hand the number of science fiction and fantasy books we read in high school and college literature classes (1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451).
I just wish they made a regular, non-virgin olive oil. (I understand why they only produce extra virgin olive oil, but refining it neutralizes the strong taste and acid content and makes it more suitable for cooking.)
The "ring theory" model seems useful! Thanks for that; I'll keep it in mind.

In that model, the advice I'm giving is directed to people in the outermost ring and maybe also the next-outermost. I'd expect anyone closer to the bereaved to have a more concrete sense of how they actually can help, and to be already doing that or at least trying to figure out how to.

That advice is also directed to people who basically don't have any idea what the hell to do, and feel some internal pressure to do something anyway. I'd assume that someone with a materially similar experience of grief, who has reflected enough on that to have some understanding, wouldn't need telling by me or anyone.
I don't know. It seems there can be quite an effect by shifting usage even slightly as power generation has to be real-time and handling the peaks costs up all more.

Free-market pricing seems wrong, as would per-minute pricing, but something like a 3-window (on-peak, off-peak, standard) time-of-day rate seems more acceptable.
A Forex trade is still taking place so there must be a counterparty. The USD don't just disappear and reappear as EUR. Someone is buying them on the other side. Getting a better rate implies the counterparty getting a worse rate.
Ooh, sounds like PHP 5!
> I do think I would have been worse off without the social aspects of my university years

What aspect of face to face interaction makes it worth seeking?
I've got a Surface Pro 1 and I don't notice that.

I do notice that the Surface Pro's performance can suck if you don't have the right settings in Windows Power Options, but that's not unique to the Surface. I had the same experience with my quad-core i7 laptop out of the box, and it was fixed by increasing the minimum CPU speed in the Power Options control panel.
Who said anything about a mouse? The three interfaces I was thinking about were (a) a piano (that is, the keys and pedals), (b) a brush, a canvas, and some tubes of paint, and (c) a joystick and a few walls of dials and switches and buttons.

If you want to put things directly in a computer, you probably want a digital piano keyboard, a graphics tablet, and a joystick + keyboard.

Scripting it is an alternative way to interact with, e.g., Photoshop, but you wouldn’t want to “paint” a digital picture by typing in some JavaScript to direct it.
In reality we don't have to have to paint ourselves on canvases so that others might see us.
We're not actually certain whether Mastercard will include volatile cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Reading this article (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/mastercard-will-...), their requirements suggest supporting stablecoins (i.e. USDC). These cryptocurrencies are pegged to the dollar and should be backed by a reserve. In that case, your argument about price movements doesn't apply here.
While 4chan continues to flirt the border line between nsfw reddit and deepweb, what is its moderation policy ?
I'd disagree on that. That would create 2 unrelated types when in fact one of the classes here semantically really is more like a subclass of the other one. Additionally, that creates additional work for the compiler both for this class (makes it hard to put the definition in an implementation file) and for its users (containers will now get instantiated and codegened for each type separately).
Getting dentures is making progress since you are aiding existing organisms live longer to propagate their experiences to the younger generation accelerating evolution. Fun and discovery in the direction of evolution. As in let’s evolve to solving pain and suffering for all and enlighten ourselves and others to the highest extent possible.