jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Can you see the story that you submitted yourself? When I look at your list of submitted stories, the last entry there is from 3 months ago. I also see some of your submissions, including those with only 1 point.

Now, I only ever submitted a couple of stories myself, but as far as I recall they start at 1 point by default, and can only be upvoted, so this is the lowest possible value. I can also see other "[flagged]", "[dupe]" and "[dead]" stories from the past couple of hours in the "newest" feed. When I click on another account's story that was "[flagged]" and is "[dead]," I can still see it listed under that account's submissions.

For the record, I doubt any such story would be buried here intentionally. Perhaps there is some other automated mechanism to remove duplicates if the linked URL matches exactly.
Not sarcasm. Thank you for answering!
The textures remind me of the beginning of once in a lifetime by talking heads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
Raspberry Pi can be frustrating that way. Their product lines vary so wildly in performance that it can be confusing and misleading for new or inexperienced users.

Often I’ll see people praise the Pi for being “a $5 computer”, then go on to discuss their projects which would definitely not work on the Pi Zero.
Although a bit preachy, I partially agree with Your comet. If semaglutide mimics a hormone produced in our gut, what microbes produce the hormone and what can be done to encourage them?

That being said, as a person who struggles with weight I can attest to how much better my life was before gaining the weight and being obese compounds the problem in a sort of vicious circle. I'm ashamed of my body so don't participate in fun healthy activities like swimming and dancing, my weight makes it risky to run or skate due to my ankles and knees being strained.

I used to be thin and thought along the same lines of your comment but when I gained the weight I also gained empathy and perspective.
"A 32-bit hash prefix like "ba7816bf" would represent the first eight characters of a 256-bit, 64-character SHA256 digest of a full URL."

Is this done for 'privacy'?

Pretty thinly veiled attempt, because they could easily create hashes for every url their crawlers come across, and do some statistical wizardry to try to find out which of the 1000 urls with that prefix you visited. Right?
Why were you embarrassed?
I love Beyond Compare: http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Even though it's commercial I gladly payed for it. It's really fast, does a great job on aligning automatically, easily lets me isolate blocks or do manual align, has rules for comparing files, and I could go on.
They've probably switched to homegrown motor drives now, but other weaknesses are probably waiting to be exploited.
We don't have time clocks here, so no.
I think I see a big false assumption in a lot of comments on this thread. That being, that good wifi only exists in cities.

That's probably true in the US, and to a lesser extent Europe, but in places like Southeast Asia, Central & South America, etc., the internet is everywhere. As in, pick the most remote beach you can find, and so long as there is a little grass hut to sell you beer, there will also be an internet cafe.

The cool part is that the more off the beaten track you go, the cheaper things get. Look in the jungle behind that beer-selling, wifi-having, hammock-laden beach bar and you'l find rows of little bungalows that you can rent for $200 per month.

Bootstrap your startup on a beach like that and suddenly "ramen profitable" becomes "paradise profitable", and you'll discover that you can live there indefinitely on just a few dozen new paid accounts per month. Or, if you prefer, do one day's worth of billable work per month to keep you living like a king.

Don't forget to send us a postcard.
1) It was the speed controllers for the motors which were targeted.
2) They did use home grown speed controllers (apparently). Stuxnet targeted two types of speed controller, one made in Finland (IIRC) and one in Tehran.
3) Undoubtedly, however the exposure of their delivery mechanism makes this much harder.
Java's not too bad for educational purposes; at least it has a rigid type system and checked exceptions, both of which makes it harder to ignorantly slam some code together and nugde it until it works.
Didn't really read it all the way through, but for some reason, it is only me that finds it weird that the publish date is November 29, 2010? Is this an error or intentional?
Yes and if you have a disagreement with said external friends it is highly unlikely to affect your professional life.
>Again, as I said, stupid question.

People will come up with all sorts of justifications for what is really an emotional purchase.

If you don't believe this take a look at the marketing for cars, the further upmarket you go the more it is laden with emotional triggers. Buy this car and your wife will become slim and attractive, your kids will love you, roads will become empty and smooth before you, that new speed boat will suddenly be within reach and trailerable.

Never mind the reality of endless car payments, clogged up streets, increasing pedestrian deaths, kids not being able to play outside, particulate pollution and climate change.
have been using a goruck-gr0 for a while now. slightly pricey, but quite good imho.
I've never been that bullish on Bitcoin because I don't see why the mainstream, developed world would have much demand for it. It certainly has it's uses, but they are limited. I suspect the number of people transacting in Bitcoin are far out-numbered by the people who are mostly hoarding Bitcoin, which illustrates it's lack of valid use-cases.
> if subsequent publications came from the same entity

The way you do that is by having signed packages. Gov IDs don't help with that, unless the registry verified the ID every time you published an update, which is impractical (unless you have a smart ID card, but most governments don't issue those).
Sure, but the consulting firms need employees right away. With specific skills.
I listen to a lot of music on my stereo, including many female singers with lovely voices, and do not notice any bias or shrillness in them, nor with any of the higher pitched instruments.
Nope, Maker contracts are not upgradable.

Although the main achilles heel with Maker is the governance and the oracle. The new version of maker has minimised the governance, and the new oracle design has better protection against an oracle attack. Ideally, you want as little governance as possible.
I agree that Wozniak should get more credit for both his combined and separate hardware and software results.

Two programmers that are still not fully-appreciated are:

1) Monty Widenius (MySQL, the foundation of both Web 1.0 and 2.0)

2) Antirez (Redis, also the foundation of Web 2.0)
This is quite interesting. I used to work in more devopsy kind of roles but at the current gig it has been almost entirely removed from my purview. It's impressive to step away for a few years and return to see so many changes, but the article laid out the concepts in an easy to understand manner.
Bingo. But it is still brilliant.
But the purpose of your school was education in standard subjects, not ideological transformation. Your teachers did not assume the students were all followers of a dangerous radical ideology.
Having picked up python as my first programming language earlier this year I am always really surprised to hear how so many programmers hate the indentation.

I don't ever have indentation errors - or if I do, they aren't ever of a sort that pyscripter can't spot them.

Must be a what-you're-used-to thing...
Not sure why the downvotes - perhaps the "wat" sounded too trollish - but yes, this strikes me as a very ignorant statement... even good old Java is another example. So are many compiled Lisps, Haskell, Lua...
Lots of Twitter users already have push notifications set up for mentions and DMs from texts, emails, Boxcar, Notifo, etc.
It may be that this scanner setup has a way to save the images, because they're so blobby and indistinct, but which was removed from the newer model because of the higher fidelity images.

The older tech... who cares if they save images, because you can't see anything. It probably wouldn't occur to me that it would be a privacy violation for someone to see pictures that make everyone look like a Star Wars Stormtrooper.
From the FAQ: " Although Go has types and methods and allows an object-oriented style of programming, there is no type hierarchy. The concept of “interface” in Go provides a different approach that we believe is easy to use and in some ways more general. There are also ways to embed types in other types to provide something analogous—but not identical—to subclassing. Moreover, methods in Go are more general than in C++ or Java: they can be defined for any sort of data, not just structs."
http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Is_Go_an_object-oriented_l...

The lack of type hierarchy makes code easier to understand.
Homeopathy as it's commonly known describes the practice of giving very small doses of chemicals known to cause a problem in an attempt to cure it.

I think you should clarify what you mean by homeopathy before arguing that it is superior. I suppose it's possible that someone administering homeopathic remedies may have a belief about the body as a whole, but I think it's a stretch to consider homeopathy an improvement on western medicine in any way.
I’m pretty sure that there exist at least some people who care about the OS or hardware the person they want to date is using.

That said, anyone can start a dating website and there not necessarily exists a causal link between group properties and website features (i.e. the website which limits your choices to other Mac users was started because of knowledge about group properties).

I don’t think the developers of the website did any formal research. They might have some anecdotal evidence for this supposed group property, but that’s at best very weak evidence. If the website turns out to be successful you might make a point that we then have stronger evidence.

(Whew, that sounded needlessly complex. I hope you understand what I’m trying to say :)
A silly (& interesting) question, but good science journalism. What a difference it makes when the author actually knows and cares!

Is it just me, or are a lot of the animations and diagrams on Discovery channel just brain-dead? Very often, the geometry is wrong, or there are lots of places where the animator reveals subtle cluelessness. Contrast this to the diagrams in this article. The pictures themselves can spur "ah ha!" moments because they are based on real dynamics.

(Horses and dogs seem to exert effort to keep their heads above water. Here's why!)
This site is great for the hackers out there that enjoy wood working, which I am finally getting into now that I have the space for a shop. He really approaches everything like an engineer and the quality shows.

Another great read is how he built his own bandsaw (out of wood):
http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/build.html
A shorter way would be for one player to buy a property then have another player trade all his money for it. Then that player would have to mortgage the property. Then they would get a community chest that makes them lose more money than the mortgage value. This would take only 2 turns.
Yes, certain types do. Game programmers come to mind. Not sure everyone else needs them though, but there are likely others who do.

Additionally, less onerous IP terms for employment, standard non-competes and a reduction of the idea of absurd overtime being the norm are all good things.

California can thank their non-compete/IP laws for part of Silicon Valley's success.
Yeah, absolutely. They seem quite serious about preventing Battle.net emulation legally, and I'm sure that's a big reason why they eliminated LAN -- but if there's enough motivation, I doubt they can really succeed; nobody ever does. My opinion is that the best prophylaxis against private servers would be a really great built-in server.
We use openresty and, yes, agentzh, the project's creator, is on our team.
I've often heard XMLHttpRequest described as an "own goal" instead of a "win".
Author of blog post here: Thanks! I'll add that to the blog post.
Yes. I once thought about cheating my way to "the fastest Ruby implementation ever" by simply compiling Ruby to Lua and handing the result to LuaJIT.

Many people "compile to C" if they just want to write some personal toy language or an experimental language. I think "compile to Lua" would be a superior alternative in many cases.

One should point out that this way you get an incremental garbage collector for free, one whose behavior can easily be controlled at runtime i.e. good for soft real-time applications (e.g. games).

Also both Lua and LuaJIT are very lightweight which means you can simply bundle the complete language implementation when creating standalone binaries. On Windows x86 Lua5.1 is ~308kb compiled, LuaJIT2 ~340kb.
I wish car engines were modular, where it was enclosed within a frame and only had 1-2 connection points for power/fuel. That way, you could swap the engine in 1-2 hours just by hoisting the old engine out and dropping the new engine in with a lift.
That's not true with Linode, you can add additional disk, memory and transfer under the extra's menu once you've purchased a slot. They'll migrate you as required.
'burger' is generic. But I agree not to call it the name of meat from a specific animal.
Yes, parts of this conversation reflect poor judgement on my part. I wasn't thinking too hard about it at the time.
Nope, not when property taxes are tied to property values.

If you intend to stay where you are for the long term, you want your property value to stay exactly where it is. If your valuation rises, you might be forced to move by taxes. If it drops, you lose services and the place starts to get grubby.
Typing any additional number into the "number needed" field with keyboard on Chrome immediately shows "An unexpected error has occurred."
I'll bullshit for $249/hr, no minimum and will say you're good looking. USD Only.
The article says it might be the same one.
Does anyone have some recommendations for good binoculars to get started with, and/or a tripod to pair it with?

If the binoculars can also be used for wildlife I'd be willing to spend a bit more for them.
Learning how to setup tracking with a meh telescope and a sturdy mount is in my opinion more fun and more rewarding than just tracing with a DSLR tele lens. Unless you have a system with big enough magnification to start bumping into the real issues with stabilization and tracking, on a DSLR with an APS sensor that will start happening around 300/400 mm focal length and lenses that are good enough to start doing stacking with are more expensive than a meh telescope.

Also it's better to start playing with a telescope sooner so that you get used to the particular problems of telescopes regarding IQ, like the ugly "bokeh" from the spider and the (lack of) chromatic aberration.

A good telescope you can look through is a smoother gateway into this than a DSLR for some people.
"directed energy stream of sufficient quantity" sounds like a jet engine, which exists.

if you're proposing something more powerful than that... that sounds like a fantastic weapon. Someone get the Pentagon on the horn, let's get this shit funded!

With apologies to Larry Niven: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
What an incredibly gracious and thoughtful reply. Bravo to you for suggesting other folks.

I hope the parent poster contacts your friends.

I wish you much success this summer!
This is about porting a distribution to hardware. Nixos is really great at bootstrapping/rebuilding a system against your own clone of nixpkgs.

The complaints of the article ends with any Linux distribution and docker. I'm not sure which distributions would use docker in their own porting process. Most distributions have a huge distinction between users and maintainers and probably no one who is a target of that article is aware of the pains of maintaining a Linux distribution when they agree traditional distributions are fun.
Thanks! This might be a new avenue to explore from a horsemanship study perspective. There is a lot missing from the narrative arc that essentially goes from Xenophon to a 'dark age' where practices were brutal, and then de Pluvinel brought both kindness and geometry to the discipline in France after learning, but defecting, from the harsher methods he learned in Italy from Pignatelli. This arc also ignores Duarte and probably a bunch of others. I"m interested as a practitioner, but also from a philosophical perspective, as I suspect equestrianism underpins the foundations of what became ethics.

Can't say how much is accurate or true, but that's history for you.
Guns aren't supposed to be a response to day-to-day crime, legally speaking. They're only supposed to be used as a last resort when death or serious injury is likely to be imminent.
Yeap. :) I remember that. I also used to hangout with the Saberkittens because of a coworker's fiancé. The Sabercats occasionally used the Fry's 747ER.
rent control is not the problem, the lack of new housing caused by rich people not wanting to devalue their property values is the problem
GNUnet & RINA seem like two far more likely candidates for something that'd actually deserve eventually becoming IPv8. As others have said, naming this project that when it ain't even an IETF draft seems pretty daft.
The correct haircut for any man is muscles.
The ALGOL family marks reserved words specially. How to mark them is implementation specific. Some require `all `keywords `be `marked `with `a `symbol. Others Require Keywords Be Capitalized. Some use a different font. (Yes, italics or bold can be semantically important in programming, it turns out.)

If all your keywords are specially marked, everything between them can be vacuumed up by the parser as-is. It's actually easier to parse than modern languages with space delimiters. But arguably worse to write.
> The two main drawbacks of Python from my point of view are (1) there is very little compile-time error analysis and type declaration, even less than Lisp, and (2) execution time is much slower than Lisp, often by a factor of 10 (sometimes by 100 and sometimes by 1).

Both have been improved on - in particular (1), with `typing` module, type annotations, mypy and so on. With (2), Python's speed has increased somewhat since, but then again, you won't be doing large-scale math without numpy, and for non-vectorizeable numeric computations you'd probably use something like jit-compiled numba or the like.
I think the point here is that depending on Boost (Or similar libraries) should not be a problem.

Consider python's pip. Bootstrapping a python codebase is simple, just run pip install -r requirements_file.txt. The bootstrapping itself may take some time, but it's automatic and simple to do.

We need exactly the same for C and C++. Bootstrapping huge C/C++ libs will never be done in a couple of minutes, compiling those take time. But the process of triggering that bootstrap can (and should) be simple and natural (I think we achieved that with boost on biicode. Of course everything can be improved).
That's what a C/C++ dependency manager means. Forget to elide large compile times, that's a matter of how the language works. But let's try to make gluing C/C++ libraries together an easy to "call" task.
Good boy google, good boy! ...now sit... lol.

Besides, I think people will really come to like ECMA 6, or whatever it's called this week? I've been using it and love it.
I'm not going to run-on and on here, but I'm on 1.4 right now (first time Soylent user) and I'm pleasantly surprised.

I was very skeptical about it at first and got it just to convince myself I didn't need it. Immediately I felt pretty good and didn't crave the burrito I wanted for lunch.

I'm also very excited that it's vegan because that's been my diet for over 8 years.
I’m kind of lost on this subject but how does someone else control another adults estate?
Those things are not equivalent.

The circle has unordered properties.

The path has ordered commands. I suppose those commands could be separated and numbered, but isn't that a lot more verbose and less readable?
You're not the only one dreaming; I had to use >200GB of swap on my home system last year.
Decentralization is probably the (old) new geek frontier, the way the internet used to be. I doubt it'll ever be mainstream, because the network effects, business incentives, and markets just aren't there--there'll never be a successful decentralized Spotify. But that's a feature; I don't want that stuff to go mainstream because that's how you get Slack instead of IRC (etc. etc.)
(Funny that you mentioned "a working mathematician.")

Anyway, wouldn't it be nice to really understand, on some (higher, admittedly) level, what it is that you are actually doing? Functors and all...
Considering it's open-sourced, I presume nothing is stopping a no-ads community fork. Unless the license is fake open-source.
Huang Hao. Chinese family name姓 first
It really is a damning indictment of how badly Colt has been mismanaged over the past few decades, what with firearms sales in the US at all-time highs starting with the Obama administration. They have unbelievable brand value, probably #1 in the world, but they failed so spectacularly to capitalize on it that they went bankrupt 5 years ago.

There's a lesson here that's universally applicable well beyond gun manufacturers: You can't rest on your laurels and attempt to coast on brand value, even #1 brand value. You still always have to be competing.
Provenance tracking is impractical with a site like this.

Provenance tracking is a necessity for non-toy projects.

So a site like this has limited utility.
This is probably not the site you are looking for!
You attempted to reach www.rebump.cc, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.ohmspa.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of www.rebump.cc.
You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.
I don't write my equations by-hand the same way I do on the computer. For example:

( (1 + 2)/(3 + 4) )**2

vs.

, . 2
/ 1 + 2 \
| ------------- |
\ 3 + 4 /

The difference may seem subtle, but it's shockingly important. A better example may be

,-, b
\
\ x + 1 dx
\
'--' a

instead of something like

trapz(a, b, @(x) x+1);

The truly human way of writing down math requires much more flexibility than a typical text editor can really afford. This isn't to say that some sort of pseudo-visual programming is Teh Futar though.

(I do think a LaTeX --> solved expression tool would be awexome though.)
The species distinction is often made when two populations of otherwise compatible creatures do not reproduce due to time, location, or physiological factors. In this case, geography has historically kept Grizzlies and Polar Bears separate, so their physical features have diverged a great deal despite remaining sexually compatible.

In other cases, different mating seasons or physiological incompatibility might prevent breeding, even though the gametes are compatible. Coyotes and wolves and dogs can breed, for instance, but they usually don't and so they're considered separate species.

The mathematician in me hates this abuse of what should be an absolute and well-defined term, and the cynic wonders about eugenicists making a species distinction between the various human lineages.
It's the teeth, I think... I can't trust anything that's showing so many teeth at once... :p
I wouldn't mind if they sold it to Google. Google wants to be more "social" and their own Google Bookmarks kind of sucks and has been neglected worse than Delicious.