jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I really like this idea, though I've done a lesser version of it and I did get the feeling that she thought I was overcomplicating things.

I'm also starting to realize that the focus required to work through problems like this is pretty extreme. It feels normal to us because we do it all the time, but for many people it's almost impossible. They just kind of bounce off the problem. They solve one or two parts, then as it gets harder they either gloss over the rest, or they come up with a completely different idea so that they can go back into high-level brainstorming mode.
We bought a 20x20 spot (JobDig, if you can find it on the page you have too much free time). All we got out of it was a bunch of spam from all the 50k homepages and things like that...

The reward from it was we bought the person who made the $400 purchase a t-shirt with the page printed on it, in honor of the "great" idea:)
For one, you own it - so you can sell it when it’s no longer amusing.
That seems like a really bad idea. It means that searching for an identifier requires you to allow for the possibility that there might be any number of underscores inserted anywhere. I suppose in practice you'll rely on the fact that no one will be inserting them other than at word boundaries, but it still seems horrible.

(I'd worry about ambiguities of the experts exchange / expert sex change type, too, but my guess is that they're extremely rare and usually either harmless or instantly caught by the compiler. Still, the mere possibility makes me twitchy.)
With statistics I can definitely prove that something holds with a confidence, of, say 0,95, under the model assumptions [...].
In my experience mathematicians are definitely concerned whether, say, the assumption of exponential distribution is really justified. But what they are interested in is typically a quite general class of (in this case) distributions, where they typically begin with the "simple" cases (which are often normal or exponential distributions).
The Docker model (containerization) won't die off even if Docker (the implementation) is wrong. And if containerization is better, faster, lighter than full-blown VM then we would return to VMware only because they did containerization better than Docker. If I were to predict, I'd say this is the Year of Containers. (And it'd be seen in how programming languages, fault-tolerant systems implement error handling.)
* IPV6 still won't be at 50%+ of internet

* Privacy still will be a target to crush for governments, and so any activity/communication media/etc that could affect that main objective.

* More hacking incidents used as excuse for more rights limitations, or for punishing countries

* Cheap health/activity tracking devices will become more popular (xiaomi mi band price/capabilities range could be a baseline)

* Inequality will keep growing. The singularity in that direction should not happen this year anyway.

* More climate related big incidents, but still no worldwide meaningful actions regarding it.
Hmm, no surprise - its missing any form of signage beyond stop signs. Despite being so much more common, you still get clear signifiers in the UK. e.g. you get "to the left please sir" blue and white direction signs on approach for all round-a-bouts:

https://goo.gl/maps/nRtNC

And for more major intersections, you get massive "go left you muppet" black and white chevron signs as well:

https://goo.gl/maps/0KXoM

There is obvious ambiguity between curvacious T-junctions and roundabouts so you really need some "go right you dude" and "I said right jerk" signage especially given how less common they are.
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No, they don't clean anything. For me, this is just enterprise in action. They send a clear message that any free work that you did for them will be used as they see fit. That includes sending it to the trash.

So much for 'community'. When it's a company involved, the sense of participation is dissipated by the monetary interests of the shareholders (which you are not one of).

On their defence, who do you think will check any pending fixes for those bugs? Do you take ownership on that? They sure don't. And they are busy with the next release anyway. Why bother with your two year old phone?
Being called a troll for questioning a false premise amuses me no end.

Have you ever read any of the other side's information, or do you solely read Reuters and other "CO2 is the demon!" mainstream media sources?
If your food makes you sick, maybe you should grow your own. If your job doesn't value you, maybe you should search for what it takes to be somewhere that does value you.

You are in control of these situations. Feeling sorry for yourself and wasting energy being frustrated that a particular group of people don't value you is just wallowing in your own self pity instead of confronting your problems.
it must be even worse if their fans go to see them.
Imagine the employees with options worth millions a few months ago. Waiting for ipo and the wait period to cash out. Imagine the retirements, homes, vacations, goals, etc that people were dreaming of. Now all gone. It's must be like buying the winning lottery ticket only to lose it. Lots of hopes and dreams died for sure.
Run anything anywhere, as long as you don't any feature of the platform, except for compute.

You're still tied in to the platform, or you're likely not doing too much.
The most interesting thing about your comment is you consider Netflix a streaming-only service. Kudos to Netflix for being ahead of the curve here, despite the fact that streaming is much harder to implement and probably less profitable than their core DVD rental business.
What I found in this article: unrealistic suggestion that Google should decide which page on the internet contains or doesn't contain copyrighted material.

What I didn't find:

1. A single piece of data, even of the anecdotal variety, that piracy is responsible for his declining royalties. By his own admission: he doesn't know and there are other trends that might explain decline in print sales.

2. A description of how he tried to find new ways of making money in the world of declining dead-trees sales.

I've bought several technical, self-published books as PDFs. I believe some people (e.g. HN regular Amy Hoy) make decent money doing that. Has the author tried that? No.

I bough 30+ books on my kindle. Did the author try to self-publish on kindle in order to get higher royalties (70% vs., say, 15% from print) hence more revenue (even with lower price)? No.

His books would be perfect for such an experiment because he already has an audience thanks to 4 popular books he wrote in the past.
The cable companies' competitive response to Netflix has been laughable although no worse than any other established industry's response to disruption. The service Netflix provided from the beginning is a wide selection of content with little applied time on the customer's part. Going to the video store, picking out titles, and remembering to return them was a huge timesink. Netflix fixed that albeit at the expense of elapsed time. Then, Netflix drastically cut the elapsed time with streaming content. That the cable companies did next to nothing to combat this disruption is astounding given that they already owned and controlled a pipe into the customer's house!

Imagine if, in 2002, the cable companies had come offered a little, Roku-esque box which could hold two almost DVD-quality movies. A consumer would have attached a Y-splitter in front of his existing cable box and then added this new box in parallel. The box then would have connected to the TV's analog inputs. One would have loaded up his box by going to the cable company's website and picking movies from a large catalog -- one movie for slot "A" and another for slot "B". Each slot would have taken 8 hours to download over the cable line and then could have been watched using a minimalist remote to pause, rewind, etc. -- just like a VCR. Consumers could have gone to their local cable company office and picked up this box along with unlimited movie service for, say, $20/month.

I've purposefully suggested the crappiest, most minimalist implementation I could imagine as a thought experiment. Would this have been sufficient to combat Netflix? Presuming identical catalogs, why would I fiddle with snail mail, scratched-up DVDs, etc.? Such an offering certainly would have created an uphill battle for Netflix.

It is not as if video-on-demand services had not been discussed since at least the early 90s. What I have proposed is worse than what was suggested even back then, right? So, why didn't the cable operators do anything? I'm bet it had to do with fear of cannibalizing existing revenue streams. Why pay for HBO (sans original content of course) if you could pick ANY movie? How many industries have hurt themselves by not cannibalizing their existing revenue streams with sufficient aggressiveness?
The EU is a single market, and economic policies are governed to some degree by Brussels. I guess it's open to interpretation, but most sources I've seen describe the EU as a single economy, including the CIA world factbook.
You can. I share an account with other family members, we all stream and we all live at different addresses.
That's the first time I see a regular expression implementation with intersection, apart from my own from many, many moons ago. A pleasant surprise. I also had added a negation operator, which adds another level of unintuitive behavior. E.g., you might think that !a would block aa from matching, but it doesn't.

The anagram operator is a new one for me. Nice.
> That doesn't really speak to the quality of the archive that it's there in the first place.

The quality of the archive? Not archiving something because of copyright is what negatively affects the quality of an archive.
Isnt what they say: 10 years of experience or 10 times 1 year of experience.
Health care? In Spain at least healthcare is awesome. Similarly the roads are excellent. Bureaucracy on the other hand...
If it is in the browser it is probably just displaying using you local date time format
Long time ago I worked on HA setups for telecom (Wimax/LTE) equipment. Kubernetes is complicated but has nothing on those systems. Just to give you some idea - https://www.metaswitch.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/3gpp-ts-23-228-... (doesn’t even cover everything)
The article is missing one of the best features of iso 8601: it‘s string form is naturally sortable. You don‘t need any specific logic for sorting, so e.g. your filesystem will automatically sort files correctly if you prefix them with a iso 8601 date.
There's some proposal that this year 2021 is actually 12021, to make the year neutral of some specific religious event.
No, you're not. Plus I thought we left animated gifs back in 2013 where they belong (or was it 2012?).

On a more interesting note, someone should revisit Giambattista Vico's theory about language. The closest that I could find on the English internet after a 30-second search was this (http://www.philosophypathways.com/fellows/fahey.pdf - PDF link):

> Vico borrows the three ages of human history from the Egyptians. As shown above, the
languages which corresponds to each are, first, the mute language of signs and physical objects;
second, the language of symbols, comparisons, images and metaphors. The third is vernacular
or epistolary language.

It seems like we're about to fall from the third stage ("epistolary language", which you mention) to the second stage, that of "symbols, images and metaphors". Now, what that means exactly I don't know.
I am the same but my view on it is the complete opposite - I love my life! Staying home programming and surfing the web is the most stimulating, fun and rewarding thing I know so why would I bother doing anything else?
Yeah and once you multiplex, your text based protocol is gonna suck to read anyways. So in practice you'll use Wireshark, and then you no longer care if it's text based.
Despite what you might think, I am a scientist with a PhD (oh the horror).

As I said elsewhere in this thread, the only quality argument seems to be Gödel's proof of God's existence which has been machine verified by Zalta's group at Stanford.

But on the other side, all I see are ad hominems and complete ignorance of arguments like Gödel's while attacking the easy targets like the 2000-year creationists and anti-vaccine groups.

Whatever :)
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Social scientists and historians engage in data collection and processing like the one you described almost all the time.

There is a ton of data out there.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=christianity+and+science...
I think it's because "safest and easiest" is quite a definite claim - they would be saying that no other payment method is safer than them, which could lead to claims of false advertising from their competitors. "Safer and easier" doesn't really mean anything at all without knowing what it is being compared to.

But I also agree with your assessment - safer and easier might have psychological advantages
I submitted this a little while ago, but it's scrolled off the new submissions page while this story seems to be hanging on, so reposting here. Sorry for the submission pimping.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010606

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=129245633605693&w=...
I've worked for:

- a large military contractor
- consulted for many clients who were just starting their own startup
- a 150 person internet company
- a small 10 person website

I just turned 30 and feel like I've experienced most of the different work environments out there. I agree with the original article, I think most people would benefit from spending a few years, maybe right out of college, at a large company.

At the larger companies, I could spend a month really getting to learn a language. I wouldn't be able to do that at a startup.
Hm, not sure that I would use this personally, but I can't deny that it is a creative use of the new layout. Thanks for the link, it's interesting to see what others are doing with this!
Didn't YC precede HN?
Yep. There are actually a few cases in which our cropping algorithm will fail, but few people have complained about those cases so far. When we have more time we plan to make the algorithm more robust.
> nobody was directly threatened

next sentence:

> one women who came a little too close to breaking into where some VIPs were was shot in the neck and died

the shot heard round the trailer park!
It's far too early to compare this with any commercial NN accelerators. From the article:

Although the performance of ONNs is not yet competitive with leading-edge electronic processors at >200 TOPS (for example, Google TPU and other chips), there are straightforward approaches towards increasing our performance both in scale and speed. Further, with a single processor speed of 11.3 TOPS, our VCA is approaching this range. The CA is fundamentally limited in data size only by the electrical digital-to-analogue converter memory, and processing 4K-resolution (4,096×2,160 pixels) images at >7,000 frames per second is possible. The 720 synapses of the CNN (72 wavelengths per synapses per neuron, 10 neurons), a substantial increase for optical networks, enabled us to classify the MNIST dataset. Nonetheless, further scaling is needed to increase the theoretical prediction accuracy from 90% to that of state-of-the-art electronics, typically substantially greater than 95%.
> It's not tolerant to tolerate intolerance.

If I find your views intolerable, what happens now?
This 100% the situation we have with our almost 4 year old daughter. My wife has a soft spot,so any cries would make her surrender in a second,so it's very easy for our daughter to just walk away from a really nice meal because it's not ' what she likes' and then keep coming back for all sorts of snacks or the food she really likes.
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Better link if we're talking privacy here:

https://teddit.net/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_priva...
This is what I found about Green Dot's cash deposit: "The most you can deposit to your account in cash is $2,999 in the aggregate in any day. You also may not deposit cash to your account at any time your account balance exceeds $2,999. We may, in our sole discretion, let you deposit more money to your account if you deposit by direct deposit or other methods."

Moneypak is even worse - $5.95 per $500 (max).
Yes, it is understandable that security works that way in a building occupied by people whose job it is to keep secrets... but that is not the way security should work at a building of democratic representatives where their job is to be publicly accountable.
I think we are interpreting the term "Commanders" differently then. (Speaking about the Army NG) we have Commanders (who exercise command authority) at every level all the way from Company (60 to 300 soldiers) up to Division (10K to 15K soldiers).

The difference is the Governor of New Jersey directly controls the NJ National Guard. I have no doubt there was confusion about activating the DC Guard, as your sibling reply points out, the President is the Commander in Chief of the DC Guard. However, I doubt the Adjutant General of the DC Guard reports directly to the President, so for sure there was confusion in whatever layers of bureaucracy there are, and of course, the President wasn't exactly helpful in responding to the situation quickly or at all.

It's worth also pointing out that a big issue with National Guard mobilizations is funding. Since service members aren't on salary like the active component, then there has to be money set aside to pay SMs for their activation, someone has to decide which pot of money it's going to come from, authorize its use, etc, etc. It takes time.

In the case of DC (since Posse Comitatus doesn't apply), the capital would be better off having troops from the active component to draw on for emergencies.
Dutch Parliament has a visitors entrance and is (in non-covid times) easily accessible to the public. But for obvious security reasons their private offices are behind these kinds of locked doors. Since a few years I think you have to go through a metal detector to be allowed into the public areas.

It makes no sense at all that the US Capitol doesn't have stronger barriers between the public areas and the private offices. Every bank or other large company has such a setup for information security reasons.
Their gains are extraordinarily easy still.

2020: $41b operating income. 2021: $78b operating income (+$37b in one year).

2018: $31b operating income. 2019: $36b operating income.

So they just added an entire 2018 or 2019 size profit to their outcome in the past year.

That didn't come from squeezing pennies on little storage products and the like. That's from one of the world's largest snowballs continuing to roll down hill, piling up tens of billions in trivially easy profit addition as they go. When it comes to expanding margins, for an organization the size of Google that is still expanding relatively quickly in sales, it's far more important to hold down cost expansion as the profit soars (don't add those entirely unnecessary 20,000 heads) than it is to cut rounding error costs. Microsoft has similarly been masterful about doing that lately (unlike during the Ballmer era).
I find it hard to imagine how anyone who groks Laravel well enough to get a product shipped could be deficient in understanding PHP. Surely such cases are outliers?
> I'm not sure Rittenhouse would have been charged at all and, based on how the trial went and how weak the evidence was, he should have, at best, been charged with something much more minor. But that's just one example

...of a case the US DoJ wasn't involved in prosecuting, because it was prosecuted by a completely separate sovereignty.

Not sure how that's an example of DoJ prosecutorial decision-making.

(And that's even before considering if comparison of actual events in one case to the speakers own stated opinion of how a counterfactual hypothetical would turn out, rather than contrasting real events, is really good evidence of a comparative behavior difference.)
This is the right answer.

The biggest thing they're bringing to the table is the (supposed and impending) funding. The idea itself is nearly worthless until executed.

Good Tech Founders ARE the hardest founding team members to find.

If you accept notably less, you're always a lesser member of the team. The best founding team keeps equity and salary equal. That's the least chance for friction and resentment.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the M1 performs and looks better on paper when doing synthetic benchmarks because they’re heavily optimized for specific tasks with ASICs on the SoC. While commendable to the general public, once a new video codec that’s NOT H264/H265 comes out, it’ll probably rely on general purpose cores and may fall behind dedicated GPUs which have slightly more capability than ASICs for general use. Fortunately, H264/H265 isn’t going anywhere so that MacBook will continue to efficiently process 4K60 videos on little power.