jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I really like the VM ones - particularly how the space invader turns into a StarTrek badge and the Bombermans(men?).
so this is Brackets aka Bones on steroids ?
1) The rocket scientist case was a) entirely ridiculous in itself, and b) is a textbook example of the "tu quoque fallacy"[1]; the fact that some putatively similar thing happens in the west is irrelevant to the question of whether it is bad that it happens in Burma.

2) Do you realize that the postmodernist cultural relativism you are blithely spreading around the world was formulated by fascists to justify their wars of conquest and genocides? [2][3]

3) The mere fact that different cultures have differences in standards, and that what's normal in one place is weird in another, does not imply that one ought to be non-judgemental towards and non-critical of anything another culture does. This does not follow from the premise.

Relativism additionally requires one to adopt an attitude of invarying quietism towards all manner of atrocities, no matter how severe (presuming that hypocrisy is undesirable, which does not seem to actually be a problem for many postmodernists.) The cultural relativist, faced with the Holocaust or the genocide in Sudan, can only passively say, "Well, that's their way, we shouldn't impose our own standards on them."

This very cultural relativism argument is indeed routinely employed today by the most brutal dictatorships in the world[4] to justify all manner of atrocities, by brushing off any criticisms as mere "western imperialists trying to impose western standards upon us and our culture."

That's the company you choose for yourself when you advocate for cultural relativism. In the western world, it's typically adopted as some kind of enlightened and fair worldview by kindhearted intellectuals in a liberal arts college somewhere. Outside the western world, it's something very different: an ideological tool for dictators to sidestep criticism of atrocity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger

[3] "Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth … then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity... From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable." - Benito Mussolini, "Diuturna"

[4] President Bashir of Sudan, North Korea, the Burmese military junta itself, the PRC, and many others.
amazing. its like states are a different snapshots of America during different time periods.
>Like, does anyone feel really good about saying there's good test coverage of a class with 50% code coverage? 60%?

Depends. 20% might be enough too. You can just test the 20% harder and more failure dependent paths in your app, not the 80% trivial BS code.

Remember the 80/20 rule?
To be fair, Andrew lives in DC and has for a while afaik. Not sure why this is being posed as Silicon Valley fixing government IT. It seems like a few smart people trying to make government better. Nothing is going to be perfect, but it's at least a step in the right direction. I respect Andrew taking this step, there's a lot of civic hacking in DC, this is just a step further and making it a full time gig from the look of it. At least he's doing something instead of simply whining.
Buggy drivers and device firmware do indeed cause a ton of trouble. This looks to me like it's reducing the attack surface in a very reasonable way. A driver written to this API is likely to be much more robust than one that deals with raw memory itself.

But yes: it's not hardware isolation.
Really dissapointed in HN nowadays. Downvoted to hell and people telling me im wrong without doing any of their own research.

Maybe you could edit your comment now that multiple other commenters have shown that you're wrong? There are multiple companies offering 2-3% rn.
The 40% relates essentially to cash-like assets, which is a tiny part of the total USD money supply. The total has not grown drastically.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
It could be that, too. But I'm at a loss trying to think of how that much load could be added so suddenly.
Nokia's Bell Labs is only focused on 5G and 6G technologies. I mean judging by the papers they release they are now a far cry from the wide research spectrum that they had before.
They're a little unclear about exactly what morality they are advocating for. The nature of weapon technology transforms the way society works.

In the era of sword and shield, for example, combat effectiveness is hugely dependent on raw upper body strength. That means that strong healthy men rule all domains, while women, children, any men not in top physical shape are helpless before them.

In the modern era of mechanized weapons, personal size and physical ability are much less relevant. There's a much greater ability for small groups to make their opinions felt. Victory in large battles tends to go to whoever has the best tech and greatest quantity of it. It's probably a better world overall.

The real question is, exactly how will any "killbots" work, and what effect will they have on society? Maybe they'll be super-expensive and centrally controlled, and nobody better dare to move against whoever ends up in charge of them. Maybe they'll be cheap and plentiful, so anyone with a grudge will be even more able to cause chaos. Maybe something else we can't imagine yet. I have a feeling we'll find out eventually, one way or another.
> I’ve mentioned on here before about a conversation i had on what’s app and was presented with ads for the topic in Facebook right after

I have heard something similar to this but just assumed it was a coincidence. Has this every been proven with verified results ?
The gov passed a bill forbidding restrictions or closures by local ordinances.
The graphs show the frequency falling off a cliff, which is more consistent with a sudden loss.
> Google's search share might be shrinking, but they have too many strong businesses.

90% of their revenue[1] comes from advertising (and 75% of that from ads displayed on their own properties) - I'd consider that one strong business (selling ads), not "many" (selling ads on search, selling ads in gmail, etc.)

[1] https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
True. But it also doesn't mean you actually know they are.
You don't need to create a Task[] because WhenAll is set up for varargs. This is fine:

await Task.WhenAll(p_t, c_t, m_t);

Or you can just await the threads before you need them. They're already started and running at this point.

You also probably want to avoid using Result and just await the completed task for the nicer unwrap syntax. Plus, you don't want to get into the habit of using Result as its a blocking call. Same with WaitAll and WaitAny. Ideally you would never use those. ContinueWith is also not very needed if your style is to use the more plain await syntax. Those methods are more to bridge blocking and async code so an async from the start app might use async extensively and never those methods.

Perhaps search for WhenAny and WhenAll?
"both sides"?
> I mean, the evidence is pretty clear by now isn't it?

I think the evidence is clear that it's endemic to the world (like Tuberculosis still is, with most ppl carrying a latent infection). Things are deadly in the world. As far as pandemics go, this one is about as bad as the modern world can handle...ok, some govts can handle. If economies/governments fall apart, it will run it's course as well. The bet that the entire world will lock down their borders and get vaccines every 6 mo for the rest of our lifetimes, is silly. Will corona basically be gone this year? Next year? The year after that?

It's all hand wringing theater at this point. I think there's plenty of evidence that govts are taking advantage of the situation, but that's not the same as it being a grand conspiracy to release a virus for transhumanistic purposes (to get ppl used to getting govt injection). That's also nonsense.
I said fragile but I would've mentioned efficacy - it's past midnight. The NHS isn't even that good, but it's hard to bring it up because it's the sacred cow.

I think Denmark apparently has the most comparable system in Europe, but I've not read much about it (just heard it in passing).
What’s reasonable? Is it an ordinal or cardinal measure?
You have a very "Mission Impossible" view of what vote fraud would have to look like. The biggest flaw is that you are assuming it would be an organized centrally planned act by some act/actors instead of just lots of people all over the place nudging things in whatever direction they want at any of a number of steps in the process.

Two simple examples: If I were a ballot harvester I could fill in any blanks that someone left on their ballot. If I were a postal worker I could just lose some mail if someone had the wrong sign in their yard.
This would be the most dangerous time to do it, funnel all his followers on to a hyper radicalized platform like Gab or Parler right after insurrectionists have literally stormed the Capitol and couldn't be stopped even after police shot one of them.

The smart move is to bide their time slowly backing him down without angering him until January 20th when he no longer has any power to use any lever of power.

A furious Trump issuing a blanket pardon to anyone on Parler after being kicked off twitter could be a real result.
Did his tweets incite violence? I am trying to find out where he did this, maybe it was in those deleted tweets
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news is based around your closing statement. I make no claim about how well they do it, I just know they exist.
"You find that people cooperate, you say, ‘Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.’ You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's. In fact, just about anything you find, you can make up some story for it."
Awesome work! It does the calculations based on what is currently in the shoe, correct? So it should be possible to give it a custom shoe with cards removed to find the best probability for a card counter.
I'm a pretty fast writer and I never had any problem with LightTable's vim mode. Maybe it's just me though, I don't know.
How much of a browser's time is spent in JS vs. rendering? How much overhead is spent of parsing/rendering? JS isn't even 25% of overhead in most sites, or even dynamic applications. Rendering of reflows, and other UI elements is. Understanding this in the scope of JS is important, as this is where it gets triggered. Hell, having something like AngularJS out of the box in the browser earlier on would have helped a lot.

Just the same, it started with well-formedness being loose, and continued from there.
Question. Is the number of urls such a huge burden?

At Theneeds.com we manage about 4k websites (planning to grow to 10k) so the prices of all these services are totally out of our budget, and we ended up with an in-house solution to take screenshots.

I would see myself paying more depending on the total number of screenshots and/or the size of the screenshots, but I really don't get the difference between 1 or 1k urls.
Only if the video is being decrypted by the kernel rather than userspace, which may be true from what little I know about the inner workings of DRM. Otherwise, it's the GNU part that's important, not the 'Linux' shorthand.
Also Shannon's work on entropy.

Bell Labs' saying "no bucks no Buck Rogers" sounds great, but how did they implement that idea?

Jobs' statements about scarring, animals, and macrocosms do not convince me he's right about focusing on customer's problems, even if his approach at the time worked out well.

EDIT: Jobs disappointed at least two actual NeXT users I knew who really liked the NeXT.
MtGox was not a normal exchange. The MtGox Bitcoin was essentially a separate entity from a regular Bitcoin. The MtGox Bitcoin was offering higher than normal rates of return. This encouraged investors to pump in new capital, which was used to cover previous expenses MtGox had accrued. They then would pick and choose who they would allow to cashout at a high rate of return to keep the ruse going for an extended period of time, while making excuses to others. This worked until the Ponzi scheme imploded. I know you don't like that word for MtGox, but the fact that it may have been a legitimate exchange at one point does not prevent it from turning into a Ponzi scheme at a later date.

Perfect example of the mentality of a new investor at MtGox can be found on this reddit comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yw9vj/how_i_nearly...

I'll admit that not all the facts are known, and my conclusion above is essentially hypothetical based on the information known at this time. Perhaps when if we ever get access to internal communications within MtGox, we'll know the truth. Even pleading incompetence does not mean that the operators weren't unknowingly running a Ponzi scheme.
There's nothing in node.js that you can't get with .NET/Mono except for JavaScript, and even if you must run JS for some reason there are some solutions (like IronJS).
So you are saying you would go to a restaurant that barbecues dogs, provided the dogs were barbecued on a different grill?

Surely anyone who thinks meat is that bad would never step foot in a restaurant that cooks meat in the first place, regardless of grills?
Have you asked your admin if it's possible to keep your Office settings through updates? I'm assuming you have, but you'd (possibly) be amazed at the stuff people don't mention to their IT guy...

Literally one client just "lived with" one of their screens being yellow. Never thought to mention it.
The problem is that the "something" that is "wrong" is wrongthing.
Agreed. I live and work in the second biggest city in the UK and our transport system is 10000% less reliable and more expensive than London. Yet it's still quite adequate.
Trains come every 10 minutes, rather than every 2 minutes.
It will be a long time until AI is making those decisions. In this case they'll just be a remote camera and maybe a taser?
75% of all SF housing units are over 50 years old. Source: http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/general_plan/Housing_Element_... So the technlogical improvements in earthquake safety since the 1960s are simply irrelevant for most residents. They're living an ancient, unsafe homes.

What ought to happen is proposition 13 ought to be repealed, along with the restrictive zoning laws. Then people who are sitting on lots of undeveloped property would have to sell it to developers, because the taxes would be unaffordable otherwise. And developers would put up new properties. Prices would then come back to earth and poor people would be able to live in houses again.

But the prevailing mentality in the US is that houses are investments, not places to live, so don't expect this to happen any time soon. Instead, you can expect politicians to intervene if housing starts to become affordable again, like they did in 2007. ("Oh no! Housing prices DECLINED!") It's basically a giant transfer of wealth from the young to the old. But people are too ignorant of economics to understand how and why it's happening, so you can expect it to continue.
You are incorrect with respect to your explanation of "the 12th football being used for kicking". An entire separate group of footballs are used for kicking, outside control of either team. The kicking balls are brand new and are not allowed to be broken-in. They still have the waxy coating a new ball has. This was done some years ago to try to reduce the effectiveness of kickers.
Relative to what lol. What other applied field has more advanced math?
Welcome to the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3GzYcb1g8

Tech companies are an oligopoly with a few actors. Competitions do not offer enough pressure to make them change. Regulation is the only way forward if we do not want to end in a dystopia.
One place where I think most people don't mind a little plagiarism is in joke telling. I can't tell you how many Dad Jokes I've found on the Internet and passed off as my own, and I think there's sort of an understanding that if you read a joke off a Laffy Taffy wrapper, you now get to tell that joke to others without attribution.

That said, in the professional comedy world, there's the idea of joke theft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke_theft and I think most people recognize that as more clearly an example of cheating.
Nice write-up. What is your opinion on the following: Ads make people buy stuff they don't need.

So if we would stop with ads everywhere, we can save the planet.
Ultracapacitors are HIGHLY unlikely to ever be used as a main power source for any vehicle.

1: The performance is just not there, has no indication that it will improve revolutionarily, and is growing slower than batteries.

Formula E uses a 250 kg, 54 kWh, 250 kW battery that does about 30 laps. Nawa is apparently[1] at 15 Wh/kg and 100 kW/kg, which would be 15x heavier for the same weight. The car would have to stop every two laps (three minutes!) to recharge- and more likely every single lap, since the actual thing will require lots of other components besides the capacitors. I'm not sure you can even call it racing when you can only complete two laps at a time.

The extreme power of supercapacitors (25x more than the best li-ion) is unfortunately unusable. They need to store several times more energy to be useful. Even as assistance, they're still usually much too heavy to be worthwhile. In fact it can be argued that li-ion is already starting to surpass the power density that can be used in vehicles- VTC4 cells (an older, but notoriously powerful chemistry) can push 3.5 kW/kg when fully charged, or 1.2 megawatts for a 54 kWh battery. That's 300 horsepower from a 64 kg battery.

Batteries are pushing the power higher and higher very quickly, since fast charging is so desirable. Capacitors are not improving very much at all; you can turn to nanotechnology to increase surface area or to hybrid types. "Hybrid" just means mixed with battery-like chemistry, so it's strictly worse. Nanotechnology is mostly outside near term manufacturability, but even the theoretical stuff is very limited. Increasing the surface area leads to linear gains but gets harder with n^3 since you're cramming features on top of features... and returns are already pretty bad.

2: Capacitors are very inconvenient power sources.

Capacitor voltage drops with e^-t, all the way down to zero. Battery voltage drops by 40% when fully depleted, but 70% of the battery energy is in a region with <10% drop. That means it's very easy to optimize for a certain voltage, while a ton of the capacitor voltage is unrecoverable. When the voltage has dropped by 40%, as in a battery, there's still 35% of the full energy left. In practice that means those Nawa capacitors will not even reach 10 Wh/kg.

Now consider accelerating a 1 tonne car to 160 kph (100 mph). The kinetic energy at 90% efficiency (neglecting friction, and drag) is 315 watt-hours, requiring a 32 kg capacitor. If you used VTC4 cells instead you could have another 5 kWh energy with 115 kW peak power output- enough for 2.8 more laps. MJ1 cells would give you 8 kWh at 40 kW peak- 4 extra laps. There's a reason f1 goes 90 minutes to two hours while formula E is only 45 minutes.

Ultra- and supercapacitors (supercapacitors is more technically correct) may see use in racing or high-efficiency vehicles as boost assistance, but only if the cost comes down very significantly. They are not taken very seriously for use in EVs commercially.

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/338275/ultra-capacitor-tech-again...
It turns out that cars in general have serious downsides (at least in large quantities). I predict that the first bans of ICE cars will actually be bans of all cars in certain parts of cities.
They knew game theory and wanted to prevent another war.
> "I think it is time (if not a bit too late) to try to challenge Google Search with something new, a new perspective on how the information on the Internet can be indexed and searched. I bet a lot of people are constantly thinking about this, but the window of opportunity may be now while Google is putting a lot of their time and effort on ML/AI. I doubt you can compete with them by building a ML-based search, so it must be something else both in terms of technology and possibly even the UI."

There was a social search engine, Aardvark (circa 2008). Google acquired it in 2010, then discontinued it off in 2011. The design is discussed in their paper below. There was also ChaCha -- another social search engine.

> Aardbark wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)

> "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale, Social, Search Engine": https://web.archive.org/web/20110216155450/http://vark.com/a...

_

=== Update ===

I've found some HN posts about Aardvark and the acquisition:

> Aardvark: Now All Your Friends Are in the Answer Business: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677178

> Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980607

> Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118132
Based on what information would you draw such a conclusion?
You underestimate the amount of interstate traffic here, especially on the east coast. The real reason we squelched transmission was the highly unpopular but rigorously enforced state border closures. That is a political and economic choice not a reflection of geography. And it was done so, by state governments of both political persuasions, despite the barrage of constant criticism from the Murdoch press.
Lua script execution is atomic in Redis.

https://redis.io/commands/eval#atomicity-of-scripts

> Redis guarantees that a script is executed in an atomic way: no other script or Redis command will be executed while a script is being executed.
If you consider the Drake Equation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation), there are probably millions of alien civilizations in our galaxy alone that could send craft to our planet. If that is true, they would certainly observe and study us, much like we observe and study lesser animals. And to avoid harm to their subjects, the aliens would likely avoid detection. So, even though I think 90% of UFO evidence is terrestrial phenomena, the odds are in favor of alien race(s) visiting us, so it's possible some UFO evidence is of alien craft.
Functional languages, along with Rust's linear type-system, can ensure this for single-ownership structures (trees, singly-linked lists), but not for structures with more complex ownership, like doubly-linked lists. The unpopular languages I was talking about were Agda and friends.
Sure I can! You're quibbling over my choice of a single, admittedly inexact but contextually plain, word, rather than engage at all with the actual point I made. I'm just trying to meet you where you are.