jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem with most economic models is they all work great. In the moment. Right up until it is 10 seconds later and something changed. Then they don't.

However, over time they have hidden variables that no one knows how to measure. Say to day you are in a bad mood. You go to a store pick up an item and go 'nah not going to buy that'. Then tomorrow you are in a good mood. You go to the same store and buy that item. Your neighbor does the same thing but does not buy it at all. Economics is very bad at figuring out what that even meant. But to know if handing people cash, or taxing more/less, or changing policies you kind of need to know what it did mean. Experimenting is a good idea which we have been doing for a long time. But the models still do not match.

The other issue is many of these things are huge systems (macro economics). You can change one little thing and it has an effect on 3 other things that you did not want. To use the classic micro economic model. The pizza joint. I raise my price because (MR=MC). I sell less pizzas but my profit is up. Profit does not come from nowhere. My customers paid more. So they can buy less of something else. I bought less items from my wholesalers so their profit is down. The gov gets more money because of taxes. One little change touched dozens of other stores/governments/people not even related to me. Getting that model right is tricky with thousands of hidden variables that more like functions.
Completely different cases. The peace prize existed since the beginning. The economic "Nobel prize" though was added after the fact by a Bank and should not be considered legitimate.
"It is straightforward to show that..." means that you could probably do it with your current knowledge, but it will take 6 dense pages, four false starts and about a week of focused work.
For the satellites all data is publicly available as required by NASA.

Unfortunately all ground based telescopes until now keep their data private but nothing is thrown away ;)
We have several Million air showers recorded.

This is going to change with the next gen observatory, which will operate as an open observatory.
My guess is you want to start by looking at three.js --I've been on teams using it for a robotics debugging tool with a web interface, and it's definitely a nice library to work with!
Yes true, but I was really referring more to SUVs. Worldwide there is a real problem with this trend, and it is nearly all marketing. Certainly the average school run in the UK does not benefit form the extensive use of SUVs.
Yeah. The assumption of smug superiority on the part of the Lisp folks can be really annoying, but responding in this way just makes you also a jerk. Been there, done that. Just yesterday, in fact. After thinking about it, I decided that I didn't like the way I'd gone about it. It wasn't that the other person was being wonderful - he/she was being a pompous, self-important jerk. But I let that turn me into a jerk, and that's not progress...
I think we just disagree on taste for documentation pages. For example, I find the Vagrant docs somewhat garish and hard to read.

The current look of the Racket documentation was designed by Matthew Butterick. You can see his excellent book on typography and design here: http://practicaltypography.com/ -- and it was made with Scribble, the same system that generates Racket's documentation.
Just seems like a bad product. Most people trail the market because they trade too often. If you want your investments to make money, you don't want a product like this in your pocket all the time.
- unfortunately the iMac has two mics for noise reduction...
As soon as their coverage increases, I'll happily drop AT&T. Kind of crazy but here in Seattle none of the carriers besides AT&T have great coverage. You'd think in a pretty decently sized city the signal problem wouldn't be so prevalent.
> If your documentation is a directory full of files on GitHub, I close the tab. With GitHub Pages, Read the Docs, and other places to host generated documentation for free, not making an effort is unforgivable.

He's not arguing against GitHub pages - he's arguing against just linking to a file/folder in your GitHub repository and thinking you're done (e.g. https://github.com/<org>/<project>/docs).
Like part -
"No longer will infrastructure be a “feature” to be weighed and prioritized against others in our backlog. It’s the foundation of everything we have, everything we do, and it will be treated as such."
I thought HN stood for Hacker News, not Hokum News? What's up with meditation crapola today? Moar space rocket stories, plz.
This is a lot more like Android, where the code itself is open but the core services which make it useful are hosted and not open.
Teens are currently making their own porn and texting it to themselves. How is censoring the internet supposed to change this? So now they can't get access to porn on the internet, but they can get access to nude photos of the girl in the next classroom. What have we really 'won' here?
It's really nothing to worry about as long as you don't leave the oven unattended, have a small fire extinguisher handy (as any decent kitchen should), and keep small children out of the kitchen.
This is not normal. If you give a damn, you will retain good books; it's not magic. Think carefully about the ideas you read, write notes (if you like), and fit them into your mind.
First, you're the one posting as a female. What do you expect? You post an ad asking for somebody to take you out and then get responses trying to do so. Oh my gosh!
They would be stupid to make a distinction.

Users of Google's free services may not pay Google directly, but the currency is different and Google relies on both types of customers to stay in business.

As for responsibilities, they are the same as for any other company: provide better and better value while staying in business. Companies are not supposed to be socially-responsible, and shouldn't be treated as such.
Yes, that is true about Philly water-- until recently I worked there, and I'm about 20 min. S of you over the DE State line.
Slightly confused by #4, he seems to mention repeatedly that the flour doesn't matter near as much as the technique.
The grind aspect is a trap. WoW is incredibly fun when they bring out new content and you are in a close-knit group that can - with dozens of attempts, strategy re-adjustment, and luck - just barely take down a new boss. Add skype and a drinking game and few things compare.
The author makes a very good point, yet I fail to see practical advices about how to tackle the "business" side of things.

In the Milo.com example, it seems they succeeded because they were able to establish relationships with the big retailers. Yet I doubt that, had the author picked up the phone and called these retailers, he would have had any luck. It's possible, but business deals seem to be a lot about "relationships". Would the solution be to partner with a business person? Maybe, but how would you go about finding that person? They should be someone with knowledge and relationships in the particular business area (here, retailers), and yet it seems most of the successful business partnerships seem to have been between people who knew each other for a while (e.g. college friends, etc), probably because trust is essential. And yet in that case, it seems very difficult to find a matching relationship between the people involved and the "business idea" / "epiphany".

It would be interesting to learn about how an engineer can learn more about the business-side of things, and how to successfully partner with business people.
It's certainly dead in my world, having just broken up with a girl who wanted chivalry to the point of willfully not doing anything for herself, and waiting on me to do it.

Is it dead for everyone? No.

My opinion? It damn well should be. Do it because you want to, not because your SO demands/expects it.
Re: privacy - I don't like the idea either.

Re: the social accountability mechanism - good idea.

I don't see much of a market for this either. Definately use it if it works for you and your friend/collegue.
There are so many complexities to this debate. For example, if you oppose foreigners coming to America, do you also oppose America exporting stuff to these foreigners wherever they currently are? Presumably no. If not, how are they able to afford your exports, which in turn keep you, an American, in your job? Their ability to create value, and trade this value for somebody else's value. What if, then, their ability to produce this value is magnified by their coming to America? You know, like that example given by a commentor, of a fashion designer from Oklahoma moving to Paris or Milan? Or my friend from Thika, Kenya? He has done design work for Daimler Trucks, but was denied a visa by the American embassy in Nairobi, having been seconded to the American branch of Daimler's trucks business by their German business. The embassy simply didn't see how this Kenyan kid landed this gig, despite all the supporting documentation and opportunity to verify, so they alluded his paperwork was fake and denied him the visa. Would he have made more money over there? You bet. At any rate I bet. Would he be able to buy more American stuff, keep more Americans in their jobs? Yes. But now he can't, coz your govt won't let him come over. Who is the loser here? Remember, the reason he caught Daimler's attention in the first place, despite his lack of formal design training, was his work. In fact, they wanted him to come to America to formally study design at Daimler's cost, since that formal education was part of Daimler's hiring policy. So it wasn't merely that he'd have taken an American job, or that Daimler can train plenty of the available Americans. He was a "great programmer", and I'd say America is worse off for not hiring him.
Ditto except I've recently begun opening a new tab and googling the product (once found) to price compare.

I prefer amazon for ease of use (prime, trust & not having to key my personal info) and security (less footprint giving my credit card out)
The Bitcoin crash is similar to crashes in other financial markets and is a signature of self organized criticality:

https://charlesmartin14.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/the-bitcoin...
Great project, and fascinating to see them:
http://www.rescuedfilm.com/#!rescuedwwii/c1d05

What I like about them is they are obviously taken by an amateur (I don't profess to be any good myself!). Things like wonky horizon lines stand out to me and help bring a bit more or a human connection to these photos and events depicted I otherwise feel quite disconnected from.

They remind me of photos for example my family and friends take on holiday, and make me realise it's just pure luck that it wasn't me, my family or friends who found ourselves in those difficult years.
When they broke Shopping is when I switched.
This implies you don't do any research for products other than amazon reviews and official marketing material. I think this is typical for some kinds of products, but not necessarily typical overall.
%% division can be used to do exactly what BEGIN and END do, and that is how I use it. Moreover, as I recalled correctly, the Lesk and Schmidt paper specifially mentions such usage.

My comment is not referring to the internal behavior of the two programs (as yours is). And the Lesk and Schmidt paper is not setting down hard and fast rules; it is only making suggestions. My commment was about how the two programs can be used to do similar work, i.e., text processing.

If you do a lot of text processing work, at some point AWK is not fast enough. I have other programs I use and flex is one of them. Specifically, scanners (filters) produced with flex.
Thus I've learned today. It makes sense now that I think about it, along with ls, rm, cp etc.

I just never put two and two together, but at least now I know :)
Crispr, while awesome, has not yet turned into real concrete technology that is making our lives better. I think the best example of serious technological advances recently is the mRNA vaccines.
Having some form of insurance would be great for bitcoin holders, and for bitcoin in general. You're right that having a bitcoin wallet is like having a pile of cash: it's an all-around terrible financial plan. I can't think of any advantages to it unless you're operating a criminal enterprise.
“Solve your child’s sleep problems” by Richard Ferber, M.D. is the book which includes this. It also includes a lot more, including an overview of sleep physiology including phases, as well as lots more like details about night terrors and other “partial arousals”.

The big thing he says for going to sleep is to set up the desired sleep associations (eg, alone in the crib in a dark quiet room if that’s what you choose) and then ensure the child falls asleep in that situation and it doesn’t change while they sleep. So for instance, don’t let them fall asleep on your lap then move them to the crib, because when the next normal sleep cycle ends and they partially wake up, they will discover something is different and get upset.
Google's (standardised![1]) destruction of the URL in action.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20574210

Personally, my preferred way of displaying a URL and interacting with it is a full, unmolested URL, in a regular UI edit control.
This is a very (bad) political strategy, well played by Murdoch. To get some insight, read Bob Iger's (Disney ex-CEO) book. He explains how Murdoch was worried about the rising tech-giants, how news is losing edge and his decision to sell to Disney.

The sale to Disney happened as a direct result of Murdoch seeing the threat (i.e people moving away from news).

Unfortunately for Australia, they cover over 50% of media, and can get the Government to do what they want.

To know more about the logical side, see the ex-Prime Minister's Senate hearing. This had the most amount of signatures in the history of Australia, yet, unfortunately, it'll not reach anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_LuSQ5NSc
There were one million passwords released, and only about 3,000 use '123456'. That's only a 0.003% chance.

Actually, 3000/1000000 = .003, so a .3% chance.
If Jason didn't put in the backdoors, then who did? :-)
Doesn't the simple act of accepting a (free or otherwise) license from someone imply that that you accept their right to grant said license?

Both parties I'm sure are aware of this; it's simply posturing on FlightPrep's part with the hope that RunwayFinder will be dumb enough to accept it and thereby lose in the long run.
Well, pure mathematic models also don't have any real-world meaning, and no predictive power with regard to the real world events. Still, nobody thinks that the analytical proof of the Pythagorean theorem is somehow inferior to the empirical one (involving multiple reproducible experiments that measure sides of the actual triangles drawn on a piece of paper with a ruler). We are content with mathematics being consistent within itself.

However, if we (1) add certain assumptions about, say, physical laws, the structure of the reality, the way we can observe it, (2) propose a reasonable way to map some aspects of the world to our mathematical models, (3) calibrate the result according to the future experiments/observations -- we might get a quite useful natural science like physics or astronomy. The pure math will serve only as a low-level tool. That's how the Austrian economists see the place of the pure economics theory: just an analytical tool to be used along with the other disciplines/sciences for solving real-world problems.

For example: Austrian economists believe that it can be deduced from the first principles/axioms that enforcing minimal wage above existing market wages results in involuntary unemployment (most of the non-Austrian economists also believe this is the case, although their methodological basis is different). Assume there was a policy act that included, among other things, raising the minimal wage. A year passed, and it so happened that there have been changes in the economy indicators, including lower unemployment rate. The act was not the only thing that happened in that time; lots of factors may have contributed to the outcome. An Austrian researcher will definitely not count raise-the-minimal-wage factor as contributing in favor of the lower unemployment rate; the factor will be counted against the lower-unemployment-rate outcome, and will require further explanations, what other factors have outweighed its effect.

Using math (well, formal systems/notations) does not guarantee your whole research about the real world is correct, but it establishes a baseline for consistency and rigorous reasoning. It's the same with basic economics.

(My formal education was in mathematics / CS. I study economics, epistemology etc. only as a hobby.)
You're forgetting that they wrote the entire backend as a part of this.
Bitcon is up 1% on the newz!

Bitcoin and all crypto is only the medium for the fraud on the exchanges. Without the exchanges there is no use for Bitcoin or crypto.

You see, they were pumping coins not for the coins, but for the exchanges.

Bitcoin's intrinsic value is exchange fraud. Now that the fraud is finally being exposed? Bitcoin to the center of the earth!
Likely more for trademark and brand protection than Google (although it doesn't hurt there either).
And really, slowing your connections down to rates that are measured in baud would be the most fun.
This, maybe: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1118434...
I was annoyed by all the previous Kinect games that would make me get up or do things. This on the other hand is a physical activity that I wouldnt mind performing.
As stated on their blog, they charge you initially and then your account is credited. The $30.18 is the prorated amount for December + January.
Where TF is last.tv.

Lastfm for tv would be the best thing since er... lastfm.
Well, great for you. It does not invalidate the article conclusion, and I quote: "The Nexus S feels half-baked. It's not an iPhone-killer, and in my opinion it's not a must-have phone..."
I don't think we should be moderating the parent comment down, just because we disagree with what he or she says. If nothing else, it makes the subsequent conversation difficult to follow.
The movie that is associated with that clip looks very interesting (Indie Game The Movie). Nice find!

Can't wait for 2011 :).
I would also point out that API Blueprint allows you to describe your API responses with json schema. They sit at different levels - blueprint for specifying urls resources are accessed with, and json schema for validating the payload.
My guess is the intern who saved the photos wanted to make them the same dimensions copy and pasted all subsequent photos onto/from the first photo exporting from that; that's why the captions are the same for the rest of the photos.

Edit: and also notice the file names as in-article-eggyolks#.jpg which confirms my theory somebody saving over the original photo.
Get rid of paywalls for publicly funded research and get rid of media hype.
> we know that ISA have relatively little impact implementation speeds

But this is not true, decoders cannot make up for everything. ISAs can also do a lot to improve software security, not to mention ease of use. RISC-V is just not well designed. Though it might be good enough…

https://gist.github.com/erincandescent/8a10eeeea1918ee4f9d99...
They are already convinced that they're removing him forcefully from the office.
Buy them out.
Don't look at the food, I advise.
Is something false merely because it can't be proven?

I've gone through other forks on this thread. Here's my conclusion. No religion that I'm aware of can be proven or disproved based on scientific fact or observation. Yet that does not mean they are all false or true. One could very well be true. Or they could be false. But simply because we can't prove it doesn't mean it must be false. You cannot claim "misinformation" without proving its false. I cannot (and am not) claiming it "information" without proven it true. Its neither.

There is a different question to ask, which is how and why people choose to believe in religion provided that they cannot be proven. I have my reasons, my personal evidences, that have led me to believe my religion is true. I also believe that you can learn for yourself whether or not my religion is true. If you wish to learn more about my experience and what has led me to believe, I'll share it in a venue that encourages respect and understanding. Unfortunately online forums rarely provide that.
> being reflective is one of the best skills a person can possess

As they say, pain + reflection = progress. If you don't wanna reflect, good luck enjoying that pain without progress.
I'm begging for someone to squeeze this "quantum secure call" app and measure the amount of snake oil in it. I'm guessing about a quart.

At first I thought they were claiming PQC algorithms, but no, it's QKD.
I see. I guess I should have just stated that no actual evidence has stood up in the court of law by Trump’s legal team that has the most incentive to show such damning evidence. What’s crazy to me is that this community is more welcoming to wild conspiracy and misinformation stated politely than a less than kind refutation.
The previous gen i9 launched at $989, intel had to cut their prices by half to be competitive. Intel isn't dead for sure, but they're no longer able to set whatever prices they want.
This is one of my biggest frustrations.

Specifically building something half way that everyone is sure is important but when I talk to the customer the use case really is more expansive / only useful if this is a much larger thing.

The whole thing is leading up to “Why can we do X here too?”

Like yeah I agree but unifying all that is 5x more work and not what anyone asked … they said no when I asked.

Result is nobody uses it, the question endlessly comes up.
Agreed, deleveraging fast is dangerous. That said if any large company gave themselves less than six months to refinance that’s on them. Everyone knows markets can become dislocated and closed for periods.
> Boats, especially the larger ones you see being used for fishing/shipping generate a lot of noise due to powerful engines and underwater cavitation caused by their propeller spinning.

A couple of things. First, that video shows you how relatively quiet the ships are unless you are right underneath the back. You can’t even hear the engine noise towards the front of the ship (which is likely why a ship the size of a city block snuck up on a scuba diver).

Second, propellers on those ships don’t cavitate unless they are misconfigured. Cavitation is inefficient and causes vibration the shipping companies are absolutely incentivized to eliminate.

There are many problems with commercial shipping (the pollution, etc), but the noise is not realistically one of them.

The much bigger noise problem is sonar.
I know we're not supposed to complain about website behaviour. But why, in this community, that seems to be sensitive about privacy, do we allow posts from a site that simply forces users to accept their cookie policy that has no opt out to view their content.

And to be honest their content is a blender full of re-regurgitated chum drawn from wikipedia and other sources rather than original material.