jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This feature of strings is cool! It sounds like the end of the Unicode encoding mess that most languages drag the programmer into:

"One of the truly clever design choices for Swift's String is the internal use of encoding-independent Unicode characters, with exposed "views" to specific encodings:

A collection of UTF-8 code units (accessed with the string’s utf8 property)

A collection of UTF-16 code units (accessed with the string’s utf16 property)

A collection of 21-bit Unicode scalar values, equivalent to the string’s UTF-32 encoding form (accessed with the string's unicodeScalars property)"
Hmm.. never seen it done that way. The typical way[1] is to view the difference of phase rather than frequency.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goniometer_%28audio%29
> They're not really "selling you tickets" on specific flights.

They really are.

Coca-cola are marketing a refreshing tasty sparkling beverage, but what they're actually selling is carbonated water with sugar and acid. If I use it to clean my driveway, that's my prerogative, and Coca-cola don't get to retroactively charge me more because driveway cleaning chemicals are a more profitable market.
Very interesting. Mark that as one point for my lack of imagination.

It might be tough to establish that the consumer entered into that contract knowledgeably, but there are a lot of more important terms in that same document -- so the airlines might have some powerful supporters with a vested interest in the validity of those contracts.

Still, tortious interference presumes an existing contract, from my expert legal reading of Wikipedia. If a customer enters the contract with a preexisting intention to breach, I am not sure you can accuse the site operator of interference before the fact.
I did not run any big c/c++ projects but, I ran, big php/python web projects. Dependencies in these kinds of web projects are messier than desktop/system applications. And it is not unmaintable as you are implying. So reimplementing instead of depending on maintained projects with its own teams is getting that burden to yourself. Also you can put hard dependencies with version requirements.

We may look into big c/c++ projects like Firefox, blender, chrome and many others and we can see that dependencies are really managable and maintable.

But yet again you may argue that using reimplementation of a json parser in a code base is simpler. It's personal choice and I belive it is not a good engineering practice.

Still there is no good case for imlementation of any subsytem of linux in systemd.
Yeah, the sample was quite clearly handpicked for increased impact (and faster habituation, probably). But the argument is (I believe) about the fact that you can easily handpick such samples from perfectly normal spoken phrases.
Nope. Each leg can be oversold, hence their complain is only about the lost money. And control.
I think the investment in FB should be considered successful.

IIRC the deal in 2007 was at one fifth of the current facebook value, plus they got to sneak bing in the platform, and cut out google.
I think the question is wrong. It assumes that the problem is to find a "replacement" for oil, in other words, that all we need to do is replace the oil and everything else will work "the same."

For whatever reason, Americans are locked in to thinking that cities should be designed for cars and that every errand should involve driving somewhere (with the expectation that your destination should furnish your car with a free place to park).

It doesn't have to be that way, although I can understand why a country that burns up 20% of global output of petroleum commuting to work everyday might feel that we need to "replace" oil and that will "solve" the looming
crisis.

There are OTHER ways of thinking about a solution that does not involve simply replacing oil. These would include:

* Go back to human-scale cities by increasing density and diversity of housing, businesses and facilities.

* Invest in public transit infrastructure, alternative transportation modes. Mandate walkable metro-centers.

Of course, people won't change unless there's a reason to do so. What I am saying is that "market forces" will push us towards those kinds of solutions INSTEAD of towards an oil replacement. People will be better off if they can adapt to this reality rather than hang on until the bitter end to the idea that the future will involve "happy motoring" forever.
I'd love a service that would fix such mistakes in my blog posts to make them look more native; something like an online mum that would fix the turn of phrase I use. I'm french, and this is typically the kind of mistakes I do all the time as well.
Yes. Unwanted opinions like "we should overthrow the will of the people using force".
my bad, I thought khomeini was the one being referenced. I guess it should be more specific, given how many have the title ?
It's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is.

SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hub

Real organization, coincidentally a very similar domain and area of work.
which part is a conspiracy?
I've tried chicken hearts on a skewer at Japanese restaurants a few times, and of all the organs I think it's the least organ-y. It's a working muscle and pretty much tastes like it.
This likely isn't what the op had in mind, but if you're open to it, the best alternative to both reading and authoring on Twitter is to get up from your desk and exercise outside for 10 or 15 minutes. If you see other people, start a friendly, civil conversation. The skills you develop once you get the hang of doing this, and the information you'll stumble upon outclass Twitter, which is merely an interaction between human and keyboard.
From my experience, the right is terrible at judging who to trust (i mean most people are really). They mistrust the government for instance, and rightly so, for you should have a healthy distrust of the government. However, they then go and trust absolute quacks like anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, Trump, etc. ???

I've seen some of the links shared in right wing forums (I used to frequent one a few years ago), and the sources they link scream "bullshit" to me, and not because I disagree with what they say. It's just that life experience of identifying what is BS and what is not necessarily BS. Some people just will not believe authority, but will believe the first thing they see that goes against mainstream.
That's not how Mitch McConnell sees it. He says the election wasn't even close.
I've used it and unfortunately nobody is on it. Not even for boring discussions. Imo your best bet nowadays is to find obscure discord servers. it has wide adoption and doesn't have mass appeal since each server casts its net only as wide as it's admins can reach.
In my opinion, those homicide rates shouldn't be compared directly and quantitatively.

I'm not aware of the other countries but, in Brazil, homicides are mainly caused by imbalances of power between different criminal organizations.

Regions under a consolidated faction have very low rates, comparable to some developed countries and lower than US' rates.
> not everything is about race.

Sure, but we're not talking about "everything", we're talking about housing trends in American cities.
I agree with everything you said. Especially with acknowledging that breastfeeding, in particular, has costs associated with it. Something that isn't discussed much is that formula/bottle feeding gives the opportunity for dad to bond with the baby over feeding as well as allowing to divide the sleep deprivation more equitably between both parents.
I cannot believe that one of USPS requirements for next delivery vehicle is to NOT to be a full EV platform!
I'm curious to know where your line will have moved to once your baby is a toddler and you've been sleep deprived for an extended period of time. Please follow up in two years!

Recently, a bunch of coworkers with young children ended up together in a social video call, and most of the conversation was about how blurry that line becomes over time. One guy with elementary school aged daughters was calling from his back porch, in the cold and dark, with the lights off, just to have some peace.
The Japanese did the same thing, toward the end of the Pacific War. It wasn't by preference in either case, but because they were so low on pilots that it became a question of whether to use instructors as combat pilots or just not have anyone to fly those missions at all.
Maybe getting booted outta Paypal kick starts the old follicle machine.
I don't like Samsung's UI compared to LG, but in terms of hardware quality I've had bad luck with LG, with two phones (LG Nexus 4, LG G3) bootlooping before they reached two years. Never had that issue with Samsung (S5, S7).

I switched to Motorola since, the UI is quite close to the Pixel and the price range is reasonable.
I fell like the terminology here is too vague... Opinionated vs configurable seems clearer than prescriptive vs descriptive.
It also saved open source software which reimplements proprietary API:s
I used to think this was a good idea but it ends up really, really favoring big corporations.

Startup A wants to get into a market and it buys Zoom licenses, GSuite, AWS servers, etc and pays a hefty tax bill.

Microsoft wants to get into that market? They don't have to buy any of that stuff, they already own everything. No tax dollars, lower cost to the incumbent.
That would be true if income was proportional to your added value to blowback wellbeing. I would welcome a citation on that but to me it does not seem like that would hold at all. The greatest minds of the past centuries and the ones who contributed to the progress you are talking about were not billionaires, and for some of them were even quite poor. Your wealth depends on what you can extract from the market and what you can extract from the past wealth of your family.

If I inherit 1 billion dollar and place it in the SP 500 I will increase my wealth progressively compared to basically everybody, but my productivity is 0. The state could have taxed my inheritance 100% and done a similar investment with the same effect to the economy except inequality would be lower instead of higher.
I led the development of a large GUI app using J++ in the late 90s. This fear you describe is unwarranted.

It's worth pointing out that the list of examples of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" on the wikipedia page of that name [1] contains zero actual successful examples of it working. Perhaps you have noticed that you aren't reading this page in an ActiveX control.

This is a boogeyman. Don't be afraid of it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
R seems like a great idea, with building shiny apps...
I found this to be a great survey post on a question I've been wondering more and more as I hear about all of the machine learning going on. I'm no academic nor mathematician, and I fear that diving into actual papers would quickly blow out the few remaining neurons I have left, but this article was mostly understandable and brought up a lot of points that have been floating around in my head. Kudos to the author.

The one substantive comment I want to make is that I really wonder about the difficult to reproduce findings. What's going on when attempts to reproduce them fail? It's a general question, but I do wonder how much of that is because other effects are swamping the signal, and how much is that the finding only applies to limited situations. (Not that those are entirely different.) If I don't see the double-u curve, is it because my problem space has an atypical shape, or because the researchers' did?
I've come across this problem. Have you considered becoming permanently disabled, or otherwise homebound?
No. Unsurprisingly, essential goods like food and housing follow the market.

If the poor get richer and housing gets more expensive slightly faster, the poor will be homeless in 30 years.
Yes as a driver you should anxiously check for cyclists - just like you should check for kids and other people that can be killed by your driving.

I teach my kids that their number one job when driving is to not kill anyone.
They only do this to the extent that your local mirror is a physical copy of the latest version of the datastore in the cloud. So if someone deletes something in the cloud, it is removed from your local datastore. Additionally, if someone deletes something in their local copy, that local copy is mirrored to the cloud, which subsequently deletes that data from your local copy.

They are not mirroring your data, you are mirroring their data.
I thought the response was needlessly combatative, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-dev/2014-Dec...
No mention of biker gangs like the Hells Angels, I wonder if their popularity ebbs and flows on the same cycle (no pun intended).
We're also hiring for electrical and embedded engineering positions: Design and build boards from the ground up, hack on firmware (from bare metal to embedded Linux), and solve tricky problems for real world products.

I've been there for over a year doing both software and EE; feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Personally I find taking notes to aid in my retention of the material. I might never look at the notes again, but just the act of taking notes (hand written or typed) stimulates memory. This is much different than just reading over prepared notes.
It would be good for Python to have more rigor in its definition. But the situation here doesn't have an analog in the Python world: there is no "PythonSpec" third-party test suite that is a) more complete than the official suite, b) exposing segfaults in previously working code, and c) going unused by the core developers.
Fred Wilson also has the $$ to show for stating and investing in the obvious...
Of course. But wealth as defined in that sentence is not a difficult thing to understand. It's what everyone thinks about when they say someone is wealthy: they have a lot of stuff and a lot of money in the bank.

I also disagree with pg's assessment; I find it hard to imagine peoples minds defaulting to thinking of percentage of income earned (what does that even mean?) over percentages of money and stuff owned.
Not many people have caught onto the fact, but Android has already exploded massively. It's a moving target, but during the same time that RIM, Apple and MS shipped their flagship products (iPhone4, BB Torch, WP7), Android outsold them all combined. With Nokia mired in Symbian-MeeGo nowhereland, there doesn't seem to be anything on the horizon to slow down that momentum.

Despite all the hand wringing over "fragmentation", the fact is that Android scales and adapts wonderfully and this will be the basis for its dominance. Consider the new wave of cheap Android smartphones coming - with what other OS could a middle-aged Indian man upgrading from an old crummy nokia be just as satisfied as me - a geeky dev who loves the latest and greatest and has gone through a dozen smartphones?
Now somebody just needs to build a pure-functional, MPI-like OS
I remember seeing something like this on the news as a child...though they pitched it as a way to fool your guests into thinking you cooked when you really ordered out.
For sure, this was a rough prototype. code can be cleaned up / CDN, etc.
Like they say it works for "many major websites". It only works if the servers of the site support https, but don't advertise it.
I don't think Java lends itself very well to doing anything light or micro by design. However, it's perfectly possible to have lightweight stuff on the JVM, Luminus http://www.luminusweb.net/ is a good example for Clojure.
So, you probably have hardware acceleration turned off in the settings, or else chrome doesn't like your graphics card driver and has disabled webgl. Check chrome://gpu
Fixed it.

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/5491bc3f389a
My uncle is the owner of the first authentically-restored Cappadocian houses in the region[1]. It is now a cave hotel: literally a hotel built into a rocky mountainside.

I used to visit him every summer when I was a kid and traverse those underground cities, usually by myself. The experience is exactly as you describe: a feeling of awe ("people used to live here!") combined with claustrophobia and a fear of what would happen if there was suddenly a cave in. Not to mention the risk of getting lost in the endless tunnels.

There are also a couple of other noteworthy places: Uchisar Castle and Ihlara Valley, to name a few.

Like you say, the region isn't as popular as the more well-known spots in Turkey, but any time spent there is guaranteed to be a unique experience.

[1]http://www.esbellievi.com
My key argument when I've convinced past employers to implement it: you already outsource all of the hard parts of your security. Antivirus, firewall, AD permissions, server config, all of it. They either bought a product to fit the need or hired a consultant to do the advanced stuff. $12/year is pretty cheap to hire a dedicated team of security wonks to safeguard your passwords, IMO.
Yep, sometimes it feels like a lost decade in terms of mobile technology.

I seem to have misplaced the url, but there used to be a video on Youtube from a mobile tech trade show where Nokia was showing off using one of their phones as a mobile office.

We are talking Symbian, bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and video out to a TV. And this was when Android barely had bluetooth keyboard support (and you needed to use special OSKs to get anything but an American layout), and they had been doing it for years already.
I can't believe I have to argue about this. Ok, citations...

The pope believes in evolution:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/28...

A lot of the Christians in the world are catholic, you know. I guess if you want to be American-centric though, so lets go to Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution

There is a nice chart there, but...

> Molleen Matsumura of the National Center for Science Education found, of Americans in the twelve largest Christian denominations, at least 77% belong to churches that support evolution education (and that at one point, this figure was as high as 89.6%).

Really, I'm probably an Atheist also (though I don't identify as one, I just don't believe in God), and the only time I have to deal with creationists is in small town America (evangelicals), but they are not the overwhelming majority of Christians (I guess...I don't really ask).

And if they say they believe in evolution, why doubt them? Why accuse them of making twisted rationalizations? It just doesn't make for intelligent debate on either side.
https://nix.dev/tutorials/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.ht... showcases how you can use terraform to provision things and Nix to describe the machine.

There's also https://terranix.org/ to configure Terraform using Nix.
The biggest impact is that all TV and radio shows are cancelled for the forseeable.

Will be interesting how it's dealt with due to covid. Will be especially interesting in Northern Ireland, which is currently inflames because of the fallout from a funeral for a republican figure which had many people attending it in breach of lockdown rules, but with no police action (which, combined with Boris's Border, has led to a narrative of "the other side {republicans} are winning")
I'm not disagreeing with that. What I'm saying, because my city has tried this, is that removing parking pushes people into residential neighborhoods and illegal parking.

Despite spending a lot of money of adding bike lanes to a few roads the number of bikers in my city remains flat. To change this we'd need to massively expand public transportation and convert all non-residential roads into dual use vehicle and bike divided roads. It sucks but people don't change easily.
> Maybe they do and nobody is listening?

Exactly why we need something like seaspiracy.

Overfishing, coral reef deaths, and all the others problems are real and if not for George Monbiot, David Attenborough and similar figures, they would all remain hidden to the large public.
I know it doesn’t solve your problem, but while my new M1 Air can only support one monitor, it doesn’t even have a fan. It’s super nice.
The Royal Family do a lot more than live a chill life. If it was a social media star I would agree. A monarchy is soo much more than that, don’t let recent press/media to dominate your opinions.
Bitcoin halved on May 11, 2020 which incentives mining because of a lower inflation, lower supply and higher demand. On top of this, you have speculators timing their investment around this halving cycle to get these crazy spikes. This is built into the protocol and will continue to occur until 2140.

Since fewer people sell coins than buy them over time, you end up with a more and more stable asset class which derives value from being a decentralized currency that can be sent across the world without being hindered by banks and governments.

While Bitcoin shouldn't be viewed as an 'investment' (no more than gold is), it would be a mistake to simply dismiss the idea of holding any. A lot of smart people buy gold etf's to hedge against inflation. Bitcoin is a way to hedge against central banks, sanctions, and global money transfer restrictions.
Because they keep printing more and more unbacked money to the point that they are the 3d largest crypto currency right now and almost all crypto trading happens in tether, not actual dollars, so it's unclear how much actual money there is in that market and how much of it is fake dollars.
We're working on it! Keep tabs on Monal and Siskin. Both are making frequent releases and fixing issues. Please provide feedback about any issues you encounter.

> So I think XMPP is the right solution to the problem (being federated and an IETF standard), but the eco system is in need of developers who are willing to bring quality to the clients for all platforms.

See https://snikket.org/about/goals/ :)
Whole Central and South America is like this actually. I have travelled to many countries. Often this is the only way to get a hospital appointment, and I prioritize my health over privacy from Facebook.
Matrix does not offer the same UX at all. I say this as someone who uses both. Telegram is just better as a frontend in every way.
It's not that surprising. If you live in the US and don't need to text people in other countries, you probably can avoid WhatsApp pretty easily, but it's pretty much the defacto option for texting non-US family and friends, and in many countries it's the predominant form of mass communication.
In Brazil, even telehealth appointments are often done via Whatsapp these days. It really is everywhere.
This seems to be a recurrent theme in humanity
There's also the frequent problem of split attention when you're accelerating like that. Often you may be trying to change lanes, and checking a mirror for an opening. Even without that kind of better communication, computers are just better at tracking multiple data points at once.
Also, wouldn't it be possible to recover the files on most filesystems, assuming the disk is too not full?

The program has to encrypt them, unlink the files, and save the encrypted files / archive. If the filesystem needs more space later, it writes over those (discarded) files, right? Everything else would increase disk wear and decrease performance.

Edit: of course excluding SSDs with TRIM/discard enabled.
The data points in the graphs should have error bars. If you take multiple samples then average them, the random error will tend to cancel out. Having error bars would make it clearer how significant the time of posting really is.
Of course you are correct. This is why I shouldn't post shortly after waking up.
> Signal seems to support all media I threw at it, and has an awesome MacOS desktop client.

Which one are you referring to? Signal Desktop is just an Electron application AFAICT.