jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And I really shouldn't put this in the past tense. All of this stuff is still there. We all seem to have just decided to collectively pretend that MAD went away when the USSR dissolved, even though there are still thousands of missiles and nuclear warheads ready to wreck civilization at a moment's notice.

Fully agreed. There seems to be this weird mode of thinking for most people 'I choose to ignore the bad stuff so that I am happier'. But the end result here might be exactly the opposite, the worst case.

For example, it is scary how lightheartedly people talk about 'war with Russia' in context of the current Ukraine crisis. Regardless on what political side one is, avoiding direct confrontation of nuclear powers should be the main concern.

Rather than all the talk and fuss and whatnot about more-or-less meaningful social justice causes, I would rather like to see a movement to put nuclear weapons into 'cold storage' and a verified international protocol to continuously check that they are there.

Seeing that it is unrealistic to have full disarmament, this would at least greatly reduce the risk.
> In ye' olde times, induced background blur would have been a gaussian blur in software

In any case, gaussian blur is definitely the wrong kernel to do it. There could be definite improvements before jumping to deep learning.
Moxie highly discourages using the APK because it means turning on untrusted sources which is highly unsafe and bypasses signature verification

That's nice, but why should Moxie decide whether the Google Play Store is a trusted source for me?
Right. The best thing you can do is say the numbers are an element of the set of tuples {(x, 6-x) : x \in R}. And that's only if you restrict to reals. Consider the fact that the "average" of i and 6-i is also 3. In general, you replace R by k, where k is your field (or even any unital ring where 2 = 1+1 is invertible). Thus, in the finite field F_5, the possible numbers are (0,1), (1,0), (2,4), (4,2), (3,3). More cleanly, you can take the k-points on the variety x + y - 6 = 0.
this would be "years and years of testing on thousands of machines," no?
I have also used libsvm a lot and can heartily recommend it - but only for non-linear kernels. If you wish to use a linear SVM (which if you aren't familiar with machine learning you should probably try first) then for your own sake try libocas:

http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~xfrancv/ocas/html/

It uses SVM light format and also has a mex wrapper (MATLAB). More importantly I found that for linear SVMs it was around 100-1000 times faster than libsvm (I shit ye not).
Am I mistaken in thinking that in this case, it might also be a cultural/communication problem?

When Yinghai answers:

We did do the analyzing, and only difference seems to be:
good one is using 0x80000000
and bad one is using 0xa0000000.

he clearly didn't understand what Linus meant by "think and analyze".

I don't know the Chinese culture well enough (assuming Yinghai is from China), but I am under the impression that they would emphasize more on results (fix the problem) than on processes (understand why the fix works, in order to be sure we are not breaking something else).

Am I wrong?
To be fair it was written by the co-founder of the company that does MATLAB. That's kinda the point of the article.
This is really good, it would be good if there was a way to use these kind of things as screen savers. There are so many good browser visualizations!
You don't need to connect to the network for it to be recorded.

The Skyhook-alike ( Apple rolled its own: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/30/skyhook-loses-a-big-f... ) tech works because your device is able to poll available wireless AP MACs, even if you don't sign into them or know the password. 802.11 headers have a MAC frame that's always broadcast in the clear.
I'm paying $22/month (medium plan) and have no private repos left. The next plan would be business gold for $100/month with 50 private repos. Which is a little over the top for me.

I guess I'll have to opensource more stuff to make room for TOP SECRET projects ;)

my acc: https://github.com/jsz
I think Gates needs to find the next Norman Borlaug, whether it be at a university or in industry and fund him or her to set up a research facility in an African country.
Blocks are indisputably useful, but beautiful? There's no shortage of rants on the bizzare inconsistencies between blocks and proc and lambda (do I use call or yield? can I use return? why does arity checking rarely work?)
No, they were criminal enterprises because they violated multiple decades-old statutes in the US code. Moreover, speech (or links to speech) weren't restricted; only assets belonging to enterprises accused of copyright violations.

And, again, the sites weren't simply "blacklisted", but rather had their assets sued for and seized in an actual civil action.
"Why is it surprising? America can't go against every one who doesn't agree with them. It needs to weigh its options carefully and intelligently. The mere reason that Hugo Chavez is still in power testifies to this fact."

In this post-cold war world, he might be less important, so I would expect there would be less of an effort to oust him. The US does have, shall we say, a bit of a track record of unseating governments they don't like.

(Look at this list [http://www.zompist.com/latam.html] for Latin America alone...)
This is bad advice.

Having a connection or contact may help you get an interview, but from then on you are on your own.

And I have never seen a technical interview which was conducted by someone who was not technical and who did not know the "answers". Screening interviews may be done by someone without deep technical skills, but if you are going to be responsible for something, you have to be vetted carefully. Hiring an employee represents a substantial commitment of money and other resources. Poor performance is very expensive.
leaks happened before and people got killed, i.e when Valerie Plame was outed something like 70 of her informants were killed

and in that case most people behind the leak got away scott free
Hmm, I didn't know that about handwritten digits, thanks. I agree that you have to carry around the SVMs, but I've gotten better results with an SVM. That said, it might have just been a suitable problem.
Trying to remove weapons-grade uranium that you're afraid can be used in nuclear weapons doesn't have anything to do with disarmament? C'mon dude. Seriously.

Anyway, I'm done here. I'm getting my morning started in Malaysia, and I need a little extra time to make sure there aren't any dispatches likely to cause a storm this morning in Kuala Lumpur.
Hey also a Computer Science student here. I know it is no fun hacking alone and sometimes you feel like having your own badass hacker crew crunching code and saving the day. As they say "Charity Begins at Home" Your first step could to show the fruits of your own passion and motivation to your friends on something cool you hacked during the weekend. I am motivated by Python Celeb programmers like Kenneth Retiz and how he made a badass Python library called "requests". It is the innate ability to take charge and do it. If you think you can solve a problem, by the philosophy of open source you are under an obligation to solve that problem and make it available to everyone else. On the other hand it's their freewill. They can choose to hack on side projects or not depending on their priorities. They might have more higher priority obligations to do and pursuing a side project is really not on their list right now.
It depends on the goal, but the whole family of NeRF techniques have been achieving some really interesting results.
Hey, everyone! This guy thinks bird are real! LOL
This can quite backfire if you like everything else about the company. They could quite easily just say "well then go." Also it might make it clear that you have a certain flight risk.

I personally would never go the counteroffer route, regardless. If you want more money and you have a better offer just take that one.
SciPy, matplotlib, pandas et al have existed and seen heavy use in the mathematical/scientific programming field for many years.

SciRuby is a great project started last year to bring the same functionality to Ruby.
Not sure what I think about React Native as a whole but I wholeheartedly approve of using flexbox for layout. It's much more declarative and easier to understand. Autolayout is a fundamentally flawed approach to layout. Building layouts in AL is very tricky and debugging them is twice as tricky as writing them. And lord help you if you have to programmatically add or remove views from a layout at runtime.
This is an early stage project. I would love to hear some feedback about it.
> Wikipedia at this point is one of the primary sources for everything on the internet.

That is explicitly what it isn't, anything but that.

> I can't comment exactly on the editor situation of the wiki, but it's to be expected a shift to more specialized and aggressive "curation" of articles, specially of more solidified topics. Wikipedia's fantastic performance contradicts this argument.

Wikipedia would still be a fantastic resource if nobody contributed to it from today forward. But that does not mean it couldn't be a whole lot better without the army of lawyer wannabes that are in a tug of war over who gets to have the most power over others by citing policies until the cows come home.

Lots of long time contributors have left because of this and the exodus is far from over. I agree that there is an expected shift to curation but the fantastic performance of wikipedia is not in any way evidence for there not being a significant negative undercurrent at work.

That's just evidence of how good the concept originally was and how much momentum it has built up.

Any kind of success will attract two kinds of people: those that wish to contribute and those that see it as a means to their personal ends, to get a piece of that success. Since wikipedia is not big on credit for contributions the only place where people craving for recognition get to achieve their fix is in becoming 'editors', and unfortunately the motivations of those editors are not always pure.

See elsewhere in this thread for some of the more bizarre displays of such behavior.
yeah, "pull request" is terrible terminology. It confused me for years.
The article didn't say the reason for Fortran's renewed popularity. Anyone know why? Only thing I can think of is either due to AI/ML or robotic-y needs.
Reg T is very loosely applied, and there are all sorts of work-arounds (TRR swaps, etc) and the regulators just don't seem to care that Reg T is being violated in spirit if not in letter.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulationt.asp

I interviewed for am equity swaps trading position many years ago, in full disclosure to me the prospective employer let me know that applying Reg T to derivatives transactions would be very bad for their business.
Passphrase still implies using actual words, passcode on the other hand does not.

That said, for the most part people who chose weak passwords do so for ease of memory, not because they're so stupid that they think they are only allowed words.
Bad Idea. I am Indian and I plan to stay away from this.

"Hacker News" is a name used by PG for his webapp and you shouldn't use it (or variants) for yourself without getting explicit permission from him (You didn't did you?).

Imagine setting up a "Google India" or "Stanford India" site and claiming "if they want to operate these sites they can, we are not making any money off this". If those are shady, so is this.

If you just want an HN like forum, why not use the open source arc code but make your own name?

While I am not convinced there are issues that are exclusive enough to "Indian hackers" (shudder) that need a separate forum, others may have such a need. Good for them.

But please don't steal the name of a successful site without explicit permission from the owner.

Overall an amateurish move, if not illegal. (All purely imo - my fellow "Indian hackers" can downvote)

My response = flip bit. Move On.
That was my point. Google had the opportunity, but in their race to get into the social game blew it with Buzz, Wave, Friend Connect, (the list goes on...) Google wanted social, they didn't think about what the average user might want or use. And now, with all their functionality are still behind.

And I agree with you. The idea of a unified inbox is not revolutionary. You didn't see people jumping up and down with their laptops over their heads like you did at the Wave press conference, and I think that is what will make it more successful.

It may not be revolutionary to you and me; but trust me, my mom's head is going to explode when she gets a text from me in her inbox, can respond via email and then touch a picture of me on her phone to call me from the same thread.
whiled I'm sure something nice will come out of it you may wish to temporarily disable the NER feature because, it seems to amount to "select capitalized words" at least on the few pages I tried (wikipedia, bitcoin, nytimes).

It is blazing fast though :)
This could well apply to recruitment of people: lines not dots.
Adding a few cracks and glue doesn't make it a different plate...
I am glad to read that the teachers' unions' claims have been more or less blown to bits by this article. Randi Weingarten & co. would have us believe that the more they are paid and the less they contribute to their own retirement (maybe zero), the better-performing the kids will be.
> Engineering is about starting from physical principles and building a product that fits the understanding of those fundamental principles at work. The engineer generally stays with a set of fundamental domain principles their entire career (e.g. sticks with bridges as opposed to transmission lines) while programmers tend to stay at the top layers while the technologies below the surface change radically.

That's not how engineering works at all. The vast majority of engineering is working at a high level to take systems other people have long since perfected and slapping them together to solve new problems. If you need a solenoid valve, you don't design one, you buy one. And engineers do not stick to narrow domains - I've personally designed a seismic rated tv mount and a machine for testing helicopter flexbeams in the same day. How many bridges would need to be built for people to do nothing but bridges for 40 years?

No, "I did not care enough to read the documentation and understand what I was working with" is not a valid excuse for making something that fails catastrophically. Of course there are going to be little idiosyncrasies that you would never expect if you weren't down in the weeds, but that's true of every field, and the solution is to assume that such issues will inevitably exist and design with appropriate factors of safety and redundancy.
Word. I volunteered regularly in my son's classroom, K thru 6. Whatever ninja skills the gifted teachers have, I don't have it. The ability to command and direct the attention of dozens of young minds is a fusion of symphony conductor, improv comedy, and jedi mind control.

Rant: Any one thinking it's easy to teach should try it sometime. I get especially fluffed up by would be reformers who've never taught. eg Gates Foundation. While I appreciate the interest, deploy all y'all whackadoodle ideas against your own kids before torturing the rest of us.

Source: Mom was a special ed teacher for 20 years. Incredible how many people knew so much more about how to do her job than herself.
I don't understand the hype, I gotta be honest.

I enjoy podcasts and audiobooks, too. I listen to technical and political podcasts regularly, and sometimes I try other genres when I don't feel like learning or getting disappointed by politics.

I heard people talking about Clubhouse, they were all like "wow, amazing, revolutionary". They told me I would need to watch my screen time, because they are 10 hours a day on Clubhouse. I asked them to explain to me why they enjoy it, I didn't get it but wanted to try anyway.

I got an invite, and tried the app. What a disappointment that was, I tried to follow interesting people and content, checked out what my friends were following, listened in on multiple rooms, stayed long and hoped something worthwhile would happen, but no, nothing really happened.

Boring content, from people who are mostly neither funny, nor insightful (which is fine, most people are not extraordinary, it's not a personal attack or something, it's just that the top "talkers" already rose to the top via TV shows and podcasts).

The constant reminders on LinkedIn about past discussions on the platform that I would be interested in is even more annoying, as I can't just open the talks later.

I'm sure there are good conversations there but the noise to signal (value) ratio at clubhouse is just very very low.
Masks that don't seal tightly against skin vent (backwards as well as up and down). You feel "quite safe from aerosols" but the empirical studies don't back this up across real world large-N groups. So mandating an insufficient mask is worse than mandating one that might make a measurable difference, but in any event: mandates are not justified in my view, on also not advised by long-term WHO and CDC guidance, and they are in a legal "gray area" in the US.

Germany and USA: https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1359677558829191169
If anyone is curious about this HVDC line and the Quebec grid in general I gave a small talk about it ;)

https://github.com/pirate/quebec-power-grid-talk

It's one of the only multi-terminal HVDC lines in the world, most of the others are just point-to-point.

They also literally short out the power lines with DC to warm them up and melt the ice off during ice storms, pretty crazy stuff.
Maybe. The Volt was a good car. Positive reviews. People just didn’t want it. You could chalk that up to a failure by GM.

But I think it’s a market indicator. An in between product with too much drivetrain complexity, too high of a price, and the downsides of a combustion engine.

The RAV4 Prime has got to be the most appealing current model, and it starts at $38k. The normal RAV4 is $26k.
I hate to be the “it could be worse guy” but it’s possible for it to evolve to a strain that has a higher death rate. Perhaps one that kills younger people as well as older people. Things could always be worse.

Sorry for being a Debbie downer.
We have trade-offs but they are not all equal. It is both legitimate and encouraged to argue about which are the correct trade-offs IMO.
> If you question the idea that this place is anything but some kind of algonquin round table for the techno-elite then you’ll get a stern rebuke from the moderators.

I note the absence of any such stern rebuke in reply to your comment, yet you did exactly what you said.

The issue isn't questioning HN. The issue is the tone. People who question HN, on HN, often do so very hostilely, veering into personal or group attacks and various other behavior that is against guidelines. That gets you a stern rebuke from the moderators.

> But the most interesting thing to me is the cognitive dissonance, ego, obstinacy, and single-mindedness of the discussions.

Sigh. Yeah. People who can't change their minds, and who will argue to the ends of the earth. I find it annoying and frustrating rather than interesting, though...
Financial institutions (such as hedge funds) borrow money for leverage but the rentier class as a whole are creditors. Raising rates pulls money out of the system but it also gives money to rentiers.
It's the hedonic treadmill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
So Rebecca Black is a "genius" (http://goo.gl/TSDTv), but this song is apparently not worth releasing?
I did find out in the end on the HN blog. Thanks for the info though. I will try that method next time.
The best plausible explanation I've seen for the presence of this data came in the comments section of a Register story.

The commenter says that, in order to calculate your position via cell-mast triangulation, the iPhone has to retrieve the location of the mast from an Apple-hosted database. Instead of repeatedly retrieving the same information, it is cached locally, and that cache is what iPhone Tracker is tapping into.
I feel that localtunnel was also executed quite well, is free and open source, and has been around for a while now:
https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

Where are my buckets of money? Oh yeah, I don't care.
The website looks really great, and I've had great success using localtunnel and I'm very happy with it. Kudos to the folks over at Twilio for opensourcing localtunnel.

Not to take anything away from Showoff, the execution looks near perfect.
If you look at apps like BitPim, you'll see there's a standard protocol that many phones use for syncing. That protocol gives access to far more data than you might expect. If you have USB Debugging enabled in Android, the level of access is probably similar, and even if not, they can read your entire micro SD card via USB mass storage. I don't know enough about Android syncing to say whether it's possible to access contact data via USB when the phone is not in debugging mode, or whether there's a way to activate mass storage mode or Bluetooth transfers without unlocking the phone.
This is fantastic advice. Thanks a lot! :)

I will definitely look into literotica.com, and absolutewrite.com. I have noticed romance novels seem to be quite popular on writing sites.

As for posting around 10 pages, we certainly will be looking to find the optimum number of pages to post. I agree posting even fewer pages may suffice. However, some contribution levels will be $5, $10, or higher. We feel people donating higher amounts will want to see a little more of the story's direction. We do allow authors to release and edit writing as they see fit. Ultimately, the amount posted and read is determined by authors and readers, not us.

Again, this is all excellent advice. Thanks!
I imagine that mechanical turkers don't future customers. You want to find people that would pay to use your product, not the other way around.
Test suites can make you less careful because you start relying on the tests flagging any bugs. And then when the test suite does find a bug, you just hack the code until the test suite passes instead of fixing the underlying problem. This is the same problem as using microbenchmarks for performance work: you end up tuning to the benchmark instead of to the real world.
Yes, the photos are indeed stored on the server for some amount of time. If you dig into the obfuscated messages.db file from WhatsApp (I don't know about now, but it used to be encrypted with a known key, and there are tools for decryption available), you'll see that it stores a tiny JPEG thumbnail and an HTTPS URL on their servers where the photo can be retrieved. Though if you try to get to older pics you are just presented an error message that it's no longer available.
That greatly depends on overall economic conditions. In many places unemployment approaches 50% at which point wages become far more elastic.

PS: Talking about economics goes beyond software developers or illigal day labiors in the US. It includes peasants in the middle ages, factory workers in ‘Soviet Russia’ and even gally slaves on a Roman warship.
I understand your reasoning, I was just wondering if you had like an actual list you attach to your resume.
What qualifies as "really need," and how much of the modern economy is involved in producing that stuff?

If people only buy the stuff they actually need, we on HN would all be out of jobs tomorrow. Computers, smartphones, nice cars, high-end food, good booze, entertaining movies, all of this goes away. I don't want to live in that world, personally.
The wage issue isn’t that people are choosing unemployment over pay cuts. It’s that companies will generally opt for a hiring freeze over a pay cut. Most places aren’t going to cut the salary of every team member by $10k so they can hire a new person, they’re going to put off hiring a new person and try to make do with what they have.