jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But such a stylish dystopia! Its kind of like how preppers talk excitedly about the breakdown of civilization. Some part of them wants that to happen because they envision it as a world they are more suited to survive in, an in some cases that might even be true for people whose primary skills are combat and wilderness survival. A world where the benefits of social intelligence or physical strength are dwarfed by those of technical prowess makes the worlds of snowcrash or neuromancer alluring to people that have or think they have that technical prowess.
In the UK, I've happily used SecureTrading. They provide great customer service. I wrote an ActiveMerchant plugin for them too: https://github.com/swombat/active_merchant
The Fed is set to announce small business loans very soon. This is just part of a larger plan.
I think you’re misunderstanding why people like soda and McDonald’s. You’re hardwired to love sugar, fat, and salt which soda and fast food provide in abundance. Advertising these products is about capturing dollars that might otherwise flow to competitors products.

This isn’t to say that ads can’t help drive overall consumption, but the lift isn’t huge and the demand has to already be there.
I needed another monitor for my wife's work from home setup and ended up purchasing from Best Buy last week. Amazon had everything at least a week out, but I ordered Wednesday and got it Friday via Best Buy. I didn't get the exact model I would have ordered normally (from Philips), but I got a nice 4k Samsung screen.
Yes, you are correct; I forgot about how brutal that conflict was.
You'll typically see it in computer algebra systems whose syntax is intended to be typeset as traditional mathematical notation. Mathematica, for example, wants an array to look like what's being typeset, and it would be confusing (moreso than the potential off-by-one errors) to display `x[3]` while the actual code said `x[2]`.

I think other languages aimed at mathematicians, like Julia[1], do this for similar reasons but, honestly, unless you're writing a CAS, I think it's a bad idea.

Having lived with Dijkstra's ideas for a while, I will say that people find closed-open sequences highly counter-intuitive.

I work on a financial simulator, so we use dates quite a bit. Representing a year as 1-Jan-X up to but not including 1-Jan-(X + 1) is perfectly natural, and really works well with date-time libraries. It still works if you're using dates and decide to extend it to handle datetimes, and even months 1-M-X to nextmonth(1-M-X) do what you'd expect. So he's right, the math works beautifully. You also avoid writing a successor function when you split closed-open ranges; easy with integers, but gets tricky with almost anything else.

But I've had to nag people many times to not use Dec 31. I think the intuition for a closed-closed ranage is deeply ingrained and that extra "Jan 1" seems to stick out and bother people.

From that discussion, here's an interesting argument in favor of 1-based indexing:

> Let me try to briefly convey how I learned to stop worrying and love 1-based indexing. Basically it comes down to the fact that there are three significant numbers you have to think about when it comes to an array: it's initial index, final index, and length. In 0-based indexing, these are all different: 0, n-1, and n. In 1-based indexing, the final index and length are the same: 0, n, n. That's one less thing to think about and keep track of when coding. It seems trivial, but when you're doing something tricky and juggling a lot of complicated things in your head, even the tiniest alleviation of cognitive load helps, I find.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/julia-dev/tNN7...
Amazon is trying to source masks for its employees, but is having trouble sourcing them[1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/22/21189881/apple-donating-m...
This is a well thought out insightful comment.

The current downvotes and comments against it say a lot about HN and why we really can't tackle this virus.

We can't even take on another species attacking human kind logically.
A few years ago I created an online business for serious cyclists and runners. Targeted Facebook ads enabled me to find customers for a few pennies each - I don't think I could have found customers any other way (apart from the trying to get 'free' ads via blogs/news/viral tweets etc).

Targeted ads are the only way that small, new, local, or just poor companies can do advertising.

It's a bit scary seeing what sites show facebook you've been to:
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
But if this is the price to pay to see quality ads within FB then so be it.

What I think is wrong, is then for facebook (or other apps) to sell, or leak that data in enough detail to match to our identity where it can be used for other purposes.
The concept of a 'historical baseline' is nonsensical. As you extend your timeline, inequality is going to decrease because most human societies have not had the kinds of disparity we measure today. Moreover, we're not beholden to historical norms of any sort. Collective action can change things. It's happened quite a lot historically.

If you insist on a specific citation, check out Ten Thousand Years of Inequality. The editors (whose detailed reasoning I ultimately disagree with) have spent years doing papers on this subject.
What if the last person needs to respond to what the first person said in a way it'd change what other people said? I mean, I'm not sure if this is a serious idea or tongue-in-cheek...

A: Let's do X

B: To do X, we need to Y.

C: To do Y, we need to Z.

D: We cannot do X because of ... Let's do T instead.

(entire 24 hour wasted?)
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-longest-a-human-has-ever-gon...
Sadly, part of the cause of this is due to the small government mantra preached by "conservatives". This results in many tasks being offloaded onto contractors who end up bloating the cost and using various other backchannels.

If a lot of these things were done in-house in the government itself, things would be a lot more efficient.
For me it was either your theory above or they slapped the prototype together in a very short period of time and just grabbed the first F-150 an employee volunteered.

It does setup a perfect situation where they slowly ramp up the stakes ending with it dragging an F350 backwards or something.
There are simpler ways: nieces and nephews for example
lol and the system goes live in 2012, close to the doomsday prediction !
I went to a presentation at my school about this computer. There are two main goals to the project. One is to be a usable supercomputer meaning that it will be much more userfriendly to actually use to write software for. Another is the goal of actually getting 1 petaflop of sustained performance. Whats interesting is they were able to get the building under budget and ahead of schedule due to the housing crisis. They also want to make the computer much more energy efficient and they aim to be more efficient than modern datacenters.
If all of the engineers on the team are quasi-literate, then sure, the policy is defensible to use copywriters to vet messages.

Everyone makes mistakes, though. A much better policy, just in general, would have been to require all commits be reviewed by someone else (by an engineer, or by an editor, if the commit has new messaging). I've heard Google uses this "looks good to me" sign-off process.
skynet'ing
so weird that hackety continues without _why, considering it is such an obvious outpouring of _why's brain.
Documents are semi-structured data, that is they are a mix of text and structured data elements put into a structured hierarchy.
This is the first time I saw it. I like the idea of resuscitating old HN articles. I think there are classics we can all learn something from, again and again.

It's the same reason I've pulled SICP off the shelf once a year for the past 12 years: it always has something new to teach me.
Accounts just seem to accrue. My password manager has over 500 items. I tend to uninstall phone apps I don't use after a few months and reinstall them as needed. I also hop between a computer and phone and iPad or between app and website, each requiring me to login again.

I also appreciate being able to log into an account on an untrusted computer without having to log into my email.
A flight simulator with a good instructor is a great way to build familiarity with systems and processes without the Hobbs meter running.

A flight simulator without a good instructor is a great way to learn dangerous fundamental habits you'll spend many dollars in an airplane to correct. (Ask me how I know.) Some people can never fully correct those habits.
I still have a breadmachine left over from when they were a fad. I need to find the manual for it :-)
I would not necessary say they were all toxic as a persons. More that the whole culture pushes them to be that way and select people like that as leaders.
Because you want your item faster than 4 weeks from now?
This where I would like people to consider the Psychological concepts of Focussed Mind and Diffused mode of thinking. Barbara Oakley's course on Coursera named, "Learning how to learn" talks a lot about it. It is an interesting read and would totally recommend it.

So a parallel to the Top Idea in your mind would be a diffused mode of thinking stuck on a single problem. The course touches a lot on this.
Well it's probably in their interest to make the pathway to complaining difficult. Their return and refund policies are very generous, in my experience. With little to no effort I was able to get full refund on three separate missing/stolen packages no questions asked, in the past 6 months.

All I did to find this:
- web-search the term "Amazon chat support"
- apply intuition
Anyone have a theory why they're running OS X on it?
So you could call it a "second system done right" :-)

(Update: I should note that I've been toying with Mojolicious for a private project in the last few weeks, and quite enjoyed the experience. Hence "done right").
A $150 million investment in a company that had around $5 billion cash is not a bail out.
I do not really understand flag manifolds, but are they computationally difficult to project to 2D?

Not for the purposes of this article. It might be computationally difficult to predict the progress of a dance as t -> infinity (to answer this question, I'd need to know more about flag manifolds), but it's unlikely that bees solve that problem.
Am I the only one who finds that diving in and exploring-through-doing is the best way to avoid thought-paralysis?
I think the point he was trying to make is that he rejects your definition of the term. As do I; notwithstanding what some foundation or some famous hacker thinks, you need a fairly broad consensus to really define a term.

I don't think that your definition of "open source" (or even "Open Source") meets that test. I think most people probably still think of it meaning that all of the source code is available to you to read/modify/compile.

What set of legal restrictions govern that is another can of worms. The software might be illegal, patented, or otherwise restricted, but those issues are independent of whether the source code is available or not.
I suppose one never does know oneself.
I'd really like to download these and watch them on the go. What's the best way to get these from Yahoo Video?
... the zx-81 and basic was my first weapon .. 1982 or 1983
Old but still relevant:
http://amjith.blogspot.com/2007/07/visual-diff-tools-in-linu...
You don't work on your internet connected computer. I call shenanigans. ;)
It would be awesome to remove the "Waiting for data... (interrupt to abort)" message.
The link doesn't support that you are saying, it illustrates there must overlap between ancestry else the growth is exponential. But doesn't prove that there aren't groups or clusters of gene pools
The people around you need to apply critical thinking skills and stop believing anything on Facebook is real. We used to treat newspapers with the same suspicion, what changed?

Facebook cannot be blamed, only society at large.
I also love your "profile" picture on https://www.makeworld.gq/about/ , which is actually https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/image :D
There seem to be three main hypotheses in this article, and all seem wrong to me.

The first, raised in the context of development of the transistor and how it was stalled by WW2, is some notion of “future improvement motivation”. The author suggests that the transistor came about because the people involved wanted to improve the future.

I’d assert that the people involved wanted to improve switching speeds and reduce power requirements, and were driven by curiosity. That they changed the world was a side effect. A big one, but unintentional.

The second notion is bound into the idea of people being optimistic about the future and taking as its evidence that people are “investing” for future growth.

My take? A lot of people are afraid and uncertain and are looking desperately for a short term windfall, and some people fear they won’t have a job in X years so they might as well plow their money into whatever is rising.

The author’s position requires rational investors. We know the rational agent model is bunk.

The third questionable idea is that somehow the plague gave us usable time and that people are using this to their advantage. Sure, some may be, but most of us got anxiety, longer hours because work was more accessible (just down the hall) AND a refuge from plague fear and future fear and bad news, et al, etc.

What the author writes may be true for a small fraction of us. But not for most/all.

The term bubble may best describe where the author lives: in an optimistic, future-looking, rational place. Many of us may hope to live there, few of us do.
> but "charity" was a tough sell internally

Do not try to sell charity. Sell it as the investment is is.
I see now it is no longer about the postscript.

It's like a high priority, non-maskable interrupt -- when such conditions are met (China signal pulled up to 3.3v), it is immediately no longer about the matter at hand, but the thought experiments, hypothetical stuff.

This is not good in a few ways, but I don't think you care about most of them.

But at least, I think, this will matter:
If this is necessary and inevitable, then you, as a whole community, will have more difficulty, less efficiency in thinking about, or discussing anything about China.
Please. Escape. LA.

LA has 66,433 [1] homeless people and there is not the resource system to help. LA has a huge drug culture which creates an aggressive gang culture. Homeless are taken advantage of by gangs. The camps that are allowed are not worth it! It is so bad - Typhoid Fever, Typhus & Tuberculosis are spreading among the homeless encampments [2]. Your best bet is to find a small town in the middle of no where America and pan handle. By the end of the day you will be cleaning someones garage for cash sleeping in a mechanics guest house. No one cares in LA.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/06/04/typhoid-...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875888864/homelessness-in-los...
Bitcoin is a monetary system. A financial system is different thing, although I have noticed Bitcoin enthusiasts often conflate the two.
Later citation. Iirc that line is originally from the radio drama. The books came later.
My least and most favorite topic rears it's head again. The open floor plan. Here's what I've come to think is about perfect:

The open floor plan, with +-3 hour start/end time to your 8 hour work day (from say, 8:30-5), with optional hour lunch (paid or unpaid depending on policy/culture).

Think about it.. there are definitely collaboration benefits to be had with the open floorplan. The contrast to that is always the "engineer needs alone time" bit. I get it, I work well both ways, but as others have said, you can't do all of either all of the time. That's where true flexibility in working schedule comes in.

Like your quiet time? Come in at 6 and leave at 3. Or come in at 11, and leave at 7. The bulk of the office will tend to come in near the societal norm of 9-5, especially those who like the collaborative bit the most, and that leaves you the ends to pick from. Entire office likes to get together for group hour long lunches? Skip it and work. The idea is, if you honestly can't fit the work you need to do into blocks of time at the ends or middle of the day when the office naturally quiets down, you've got a bigger problem than the distractions of the office. The idea that you must have 8 hours of quiet or near quiet to do your job means you're not that good at doing your job, or your job role is too demanding for a reasonable person to do. If it's truly the case, you're likely SO good at what you do someone's noticed and you're getting what you want already.
You are seriously underestimating hoe awesome it is to code in bed under blankets on a cold winter day with a cup of hot chocolate beside you.
Almost all of the poetry I know well came from a single audio collection that I was happily exposed to many years ago; it's called Exact Change and each track is still available on the U.Penn web site [0]. All of the poets are well-known in their fields, some well-known enough to be known to the public, and I have wound up taking many to heart. Among my favorites are the ones by Jack Spicer, John Godfrey, and Kamau Brathwaite. Take a moment to listen, it's very revealing to hear a poem read by its author.

[0] http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Exact-Change.html
Just an FYI, I was recently able to get my kids' Chromebook to print to my local Brother (network) printer using these instructions: https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/7n3jc1/setting_up...

It uses IPP so no extra software or intermediary needed - the print jobs are sent directly to the printer.
So is there any REAL alternative out there? Yeah yeah, ChromeOS supports CUPS now, which is great if your printer connects to the network, but what about those of us who have an older printer that's USB-only?

Moreover, how do you print from Android now? Go ahead and search for instructions how to do that which don't involve either A) Google Cloud Print or B) a vendor-specific app (which probably only works with network-connected printers).
Yup. Let's prevent anonymous video recording and dissemination...

I think that for any instinctive reaction like that you should ask - will authoritarian governments want this effect. If the answer is yes you should think this trough.
I assume from the title that this is either written by Gary Marcus or quotes him extensively. (I just checked and was correct.) It would be nice to hear this sort of critique from more than one person.
The solution is not crying to facebook/google/etc. to censor any talk of flat-earthers or remove the accounts of holocaust deniers.

The solution is to educate others how to understand and process the sources of information they're getting/receiving; what's being said and not said. This applies to everything, not just "social media".
Does anybody else take a project a _lot_ less seriously when all of their documentation and commit messages are plastered with emojis? I feel like I can't create a cohesive narrative in my mind when every sentence ends with a unicorn or a rainbow or a volcano.
Hmm. Wikipedia says he had a BSEE at 21. No info on his early years, but I suspect he's one of the people we'd say started young.

I didn't "program" either before 18, since I grew up in a household (and part of the country) without any access to computers. But I was indeed drawn to it young, and "learned to program" by reading magazines and sending off for free vendor literature (which did indeed have lots of nuggets of knowledge about all things tech).
Having customer data is a liability. If someone hacks this service and gets the ability to read every customer's printout, it would be a disaster for Google's reputation. If it doesn't make enough money directly or indirectly to compensate for the liability it presents, it is actually a VERY expensive service to continue operating.
I just moved out of the DC area, but it is probably one of the fastest growing areas for startups in the country.

There is a whole bunch of technical talent there working for the government and military, but a lot are getting bored with the work. However, I didn't know the community was this organized, and it's good to see them trying to collectively make their names heard.
Not everyone can actually back that up with a shipped product that is making real money from real users though.
Perhaps, if by "most religious organizations" you mean "a great number of fundamentalist-leaning Christian sects." But that is very different from "most religious people" or even "most Christians."

For example, approximately 50% of Christians are Catholics, which definitely doesn't teach that. The same holds true for Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans and other mainstream Christian groups.

See Catholic Charities: http://www.caritas.org/activities/hiv_aids/sinethemba_a_cari...

See this official Vatican statement on AIDS: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/2003/doc...
Huh, I had no idea people still cared about Gopher, but this thread is showing me otherwise.

I have fond memories of spelunking around gopher servers back in 1993. :)
Great idea! I'll always wanted to write a video game and also learn canvas.
I've lived in the District for years and was oblivious to half of this activity. I really love the new site and hope this will encourage others--like myself--to step out of the garage and into the community.
As an American born and raised in the south, that was provoking the worst of the worst of the worst.
I don't know if that comparison is completely apt. Chrome OS is very different from most "desktop" OSes. I can actually do more with Android instead of less. I agree that the UI and interactions would be odd running off of stock Android, especially if the device (laptop/tablet/hybrid) isn't specifically designed for it, but I don't think it's as insane of an idea as you seem to be implying.

In all the other instances, a phone OS loses functionality and flexibility from the desktop, while it would gain it in this case.
Why not just use a password manager like 1password or lastpass and have truly unique passwords? Saves you the time generating and remembering them, too.
Even if the theory that "smart webmasters use Google tools" is true, this indicates that Google is creating products that make it easier to gamble the system. This doesn't sound like it is helping web users, just the opposite.
(Yes, still working for Douban)

> if you decided to fight one of those laws, you could do it openly and publicly and in principle it would be a fair fight.

Yes, but here you may have assumed that "openly and publicly" is a precondition for fairness. I do not think openness and publicity of fights is the only way to get fairness. Or at least this can be discussed and we should allow that, on one side openness is often faked, on the other that private and closed tractations may to some extent result in a decision or in a law that is efficient and corresponds to the long term better good of the concerned people (i.e. what they would really choose if given all the elements, and not disturbed by red herrings)

For instance, if the governing elite is composed of ("extracted from") people from all parts of society, attracting the best of them with some good rewards (e.g. not money, but something like "good fame") and they collegially discuss important issues using the powers of associations, it could very well be a sane way to distillate the will of the people. Maybe even a saner way than ours (where representatives are elected from their good-looking face, this has been proven).