jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So I may have come at this backwards- I read Scott's rebuttal and then read the NYT peice. No offence to Scott but I think he's got this all wrong. The NYT piece isn't about Scott, it's just a writing gimmick. The article is about the self-styled rationalists, Scott is just an entry point to open the discussion around these group of people. It's not trying to tie Scott to Thiel, it's describing the pantheon of people who move in this world, and it is a world, these people don't all agree on one thing, although they do fall into a sort of groupthink on some topics.

For example, almost every group likes to find a reason to think of itself as somehow better and more evolved than the outsiders, which is essentially exactly what you see with the people who frequent these groups. The rationalists think they're better than the NYT, largely because they look down on examining the world as it is, rather than inventing the world from first principles (in my view a key to the IQ debate between Harris & Klein).

There are genuine critiques to be made of the "rationalists" (let's just accept the label as a term for the group of people having discussions in and around Scott's blog). I don't think the NYT is particularly making any. It is quite clear to me however, that the group has a massively over-sensitive to criticism and is entirely unwilling to actually debate the value of their approach with people who aren't already bought in to the appraoch. I don't think it's unreasonable for someone either from the Red tribe or the Blue tribe to say to the Grey tribe - "Sorry, but you can't be indifferent on the topics that you claim to be indifferent on". And the argument that the liberal end of the spectrum uses mob tactics seems rather... bizarre when made by an author who quite literally brags about the mob he stirred up against the NYT.

I think there's a debate to be had about the approach of the "Rationalists" and I think the Rationalists are unwilling to have it - especially with anyone they've decided who isn't part of their Tribe.
It is just a timeout. Golang uses contexts which can have timeout set. Then you can do a request (HTTP/GRPC) under that context and if it times out before getting a response, this error is returned. To find the real reason you are supposed to know the architecture and monitor metrics. It can be network problem or kernel problem (resource exhaustion).
>>Garage/attic bankruptcy (don’t try to go through it, pay someone to haul it all away)

I wish I could do this. Life would be so much simpler. Mentally I can't do it. I would always wonder what important stuff I threw out.
Then The WHO should be saying "we can't eliminate the possibility of a lab origin because China is engaging in a massive coverup and won't let us investigate anything" rather than "Laboratory contamination can be excluded because...".
Interesting coincidence - I'm working on a parser that parses the AST produced by JSqlParser[0] for a create view statement to generate mapping between the columns of a view and the columns of its underlying table. It is an interesting example of having to use the visitor pattern[1].

[0]: https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern
This region has Christian monasteries [1] all around it dating as far back as the 4th century. Unless Muslims started building churches at some point in their existence, I would really have to disagree that Armenia held this land hostage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Artsakh
Banks are not just managing money. They are distributors of newly minted money via loans. They are not distributors of crypto and the Fed are not involved (or at least necessary) for the creation of new crypto.
I have a British 1920's car and I can verify that this is all on point. It's an amazing machine to drive but you do first really have to get to understand how that machine works.
Modern cars are very good at doing a lot of the hard work for you to the point that by comparison you're not actually really driving the car :p
That was a very interesting read - thanks for sharing.
Patent claims usually begin with the broadest claim possible, then narrow it in following claims. If the first is found invalid, the other claims may still succeed. Thus, it makes no sense for the first claim to be certain to stand on its own; strategically, it should be over-broad.

From a computer science/mathematics point of view, this is also a convenient way to factor out commonalities of several claims, instead of duplicating them ad nauseam. For example, in the PageRank patent, claim 1 is immediately followed by six dependent claims giving further detail on it (as do ten other claims scattered through the rest):
https://www.google.com/patents/US6285999

Thus, it is inaccurate to treat the first claim as "what they patented".
They could detain him (and eventually charge) under different law (PACE or whatever). 9 hours is practically rounding error.

http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/the-rights-of-suspec...

Guantanamo _is_ under US jurisdiction. Raul Castro is certainly not boss there.

Other cases are illegal immigrants, various `thought criminals`, people accused of crime where court is delayed...
Sometime ago I had an idea of making a non-commercial search engine that would only search the non-commercial web. All pages that accept payments or show ads would be out.
That's an odd.

Have you eliminated all other variables E.G. Common utility/setting, cabling, switch/router etc..? I've had paths open for much longer than that without access issues.
Morality applies between humans. Dogs, bears, sharks have no problem tearing you into pieces if their instincts tell them they have to. Other hunting animals have no problem eating their pray alive if they don't have to kill them first. Animals don't play by our rules.

Empathy towards animals really is a side-effect of empathy mechanisms between humans, that we probably need in order to live in society. These side effects shouldn't influence too much your attitude toward animals.
The hub knows when the device is ready; just query it. A constant timeout is not needed. A give-up timeout might be employed, but there's no reason that can't be 100's of ms, nobody is waiting on that and it doesn't usually happen anyway.
> Do you know what level of suspicion or proof for the court to apply jail time?

I genuinely do not know anymore.

I knew that anti-terror laws were being broken every day in this country.

I never imagined it was going to be as flagrant as detaining the husband of a journalist as he changed airplanes in the UK.
Love the new features. I still find myself using Firebug over the built in dev tools in either Chrome or Firefox. The Firebug team has done a really tremendous job over the years. Keep up the good work!
Is there work going on to build Firebug on top of the built-in Firefox debugging tools?

The two don't seem to work well together at the moment.
There is a very simple way to deal with the agent. Just don't answer any questions. Open the conversation, and then respond with "I want to cancel my subscription", no matter what they ask. If they ask if you want some other service instead, don't say "no", say that you want to cancel your subscription.
Check the percent of the population involved in agriculture over time, or involved in fishing. From a quick Google search something like 90% in 1800 vs 2% now.

We definitely have machines, not saying there’s no labor involved but it’s certainly less than it has been historically. It really is similar to the village where one person operates a fish catching machine.
I found out a bit about this when a good friend of mine had two daughters that were born with a rare genetic disease (Morquio).

The US government, since 1983, provides grants and streamlines drug development processes for development of drugs for rare diseases. The government calls them “Orphan Drugs” and defines them as drugs that treat diseases that affect less thank 200k people annually, and are not expected to be profitable within 7 years.

I believe that my friend said that pharmaceutical companies are actually required or strongly incentivized to research some number per year but I can’t find a reference right now.

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/files/fda%20orphan%20drugs...
> A low intake of selenium is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality.
And in addition hotkeys to go to a specific desktop/app!
>Are you really going to request that deletion after every single sensitive conversation?

Just delete them manually then.
They always felt more like a laptop to me even as they got thinner and lighter. The touch interface always felt bolted on (probably because it was).
They provide value to the company providing the content. Many great sites are only possible thanks to advertising revenues. The world would be objectively worse-off if everyone used adblock.
The rape of nanking was absolutely horrific.
I don't think its too different from remembering pearl harbor.
This reminded me of the future that Black Mirror's Fifteen Million Merits envisions for us: "Everyday activities are constantly interrupted by advertisements that cannot be skipped or ignored without financial penalty." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
"No" ;)
> It is a Python in which you can do minor tweaks to your existing, non-multithreaded programs and get them to use multiple cores. You identify medium- or large-sized, likely-independent parts of the code and to ask PyPy-STM to run these parts in parallel. An example would be every iteration of some outermost loop over all items of a dictionary.

This is very neat! Obviously it's not a magic drop-in, but still.

Relevant bit from the docs: http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stm.html#transaction-t...
And that contributed to their stupid issues like skipping conformal coating and cars getting runaway power steering from it
Not sure about two people going for a walk out of town though, is that really a big issue? It’s not breaking any of the legislation and they were fined as what they did “wasn’t in the spirit of the lockdown”... what?!
I can't find that paper using this site's search feature, and I'd be very surprised if it didn't have a questionable definition of "reliable" or considered only a limited set of possible reforms.

There may be some clever game-theoretic argument that could be made about spherical voters in a vacuum, but I think that "political science" results are likely to depend too much on data with too small a sample size (for example, the set of countries that use Approval Voting for national elections).
Certainly not legally (until they become citizens), but their children can when they turn 18, and said immigration has been happening for many decades.
how will Coinbase "adapt"? it's a walled garden.
It ends where we decide that it ends. There is no slippery slope here. The protections for political speech and the cultural values around speech are incredibly high friction surfaces! If anything the slope is towards free space and historically, any curtainments of it have been temporarily.
Ha, reminds me of the three body types (vata,pitha,kaba) reported to be used in siddha of old times.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddha_medicine

wonder if there might have been a correlation noticed in those times too...
In 1999 I was living in Orlando, Fl, of all places. I was a warm-body "consultant" for a "software company" whose business was really selling my time to customize their crappy website software at $275/hr (out of which I was paid $30/hr... not bad for a 19-year-old dropout, which is the point I guess). My stock options were priced at $280/share if I recall.

This time around sure does feel bubbly in San Francisco, but as you say it's only like that in a few areas which happen to overlap with concentrations of journalists.
The two assertions, taken alone, are not contradictory. If Joe makes $250,000 a year, he may think that he pays too much in taxes, but that the entire portion of society that makes over $200,000 pays too little. It could be that he thinks that only the top 0.1% pays too little, and everyone else pays slightly too much.

Also, what is "upper-income"? Is that the top 50% of earners? The top 1%?
That's exactly what we think the case was before the Big Bang, I think, since points are zero-dimensional.

It's truly weird to imagine the Universe exploding from a point into a line, then into a planar region, and then into a three-dimensional domain.
It's a long time since I worked on mobile phones but in GSM the phone has to keep an internal of the tower it's connected to and the nearest neighbours in order to manage handover smoothly (ie. With dropping calls). I suspect 3G is similar.

In GSM the phone also had to know the distances to each tower +/-500m in order to adjust the timings for communication with the tower.

(It's 8 years since I did is stuff so memory might be off on the numbers a bit :-)
It'd be messy, presumably you'd structure it as a loan with a special repayment scheme. Having such a weird financing structure would (1) put off other investors from investing (2) create an incentive for companies to mimimize the profits shown on their books (ala the movie industry).
standing desks:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Standing+desks
The FAQ has nothing to do with it. Nobody is contesting that cell tower location information is being used. The differing claim is this: the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-ordinates logged are those of the device itself and these co-ordinates are possibly calculated using cell tower triangulation, while this blog post claims that the co-ordinates logged are those of the cell towers themselves rather than the device.
Is anyone making sites where this would work, for money?
Fixed the title. The sad thing is that not much has been invented since then to aid with global load balancing.
It's worth pointing out that this article is a bit long in the tooth. Although perhaps biased responses, it's worth looking at some other thoughts on the subject:

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/03/2...

http://dev.robertmao.com/2007/06/30/global-dns-load-balancin... (towards the end, and yes, the grammar is bad)

http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/thoughts_on_global_server_l...
That's an entirely fair point, but frustrating that the connection limits are not clearer in the docs.
I was on Linode for a while and moved to DigitalOcean. At the time it was a very simple calculus.

DigitalOcean was less established, less mature, offered fewer CPUs and less RAM per dollar and had only two (or was it three?) locations.

But they had SSDs and Linode did not.

The difference in Wordpress performance was night and day. So I switched and I'm still there. Linode dragged its feet on SSDs. I don't care why or how. I cared that I could get what I needed elsewhere.
Holy shit, I managed to find it (I read it many years ago). Having good Google fu feels like magic at times; "sci fi novel humans missed technology breakthrough".

Harry Turtledove; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...
Your story is awe-inspiring!

> We will meet for the first time in Europe this summer! The other 3 classmates (Muath, Mohammed, and Hamza) live in the West Bank. I live in Gaza. It’s not far away but I can’t go to the West Bank and they can’t come here. I can’t wait to take a selfie in front of the Google office together and share it with everyone at Manara. :-)

This is so surreal to me that it sounds like something from a book or an odd dream. Super happy for you!
Unfortunately "the rules for their region" can be incredibly complex: selling online means you don't necessarily know (or care!) what your customers' region is.

It's complex; good luck if you decide to tackle it!!
> an unstable society or one facing high inflation

What are the chances that in an environment where the USD is not usable, there is an available network and electricity that makes bitcoin usable?
The core Bitcoin holders don’t want more coins, so it won’t happen. Simple as that.

The real elephant in the room is that new crypto currencies are being printed left and right. We may have a finite number of Bitcoin (in a couple decades) but one look at the list of crypto currencies will show that the number of crypto coins in general continues to explode at a phenomenal rate.
The way I see it, at the end of the day we still live in the real world with real, imperfect business/social/etc processes. Unless the entire world is 100% standardized and run by robots, any technological no-code solution would still need to be Turing Complete. At that point, basic computer science principles need to be learned to use it, so all you've done is create another programming language, which again...we already have plenty of those.
Wait but didn't Vitalik announce he split it on his blog or Twitter?
NZ'er here - haven't used cash for years, except when you sell something online or buy drugs.

Spend is kinda hilarious - in supermarket checkout "can I pay $150 in cash and remaining using card?" just so you don't have to deal with coins.
The examples shouldn't sound strange, as they all happened during the past two years. What is "misinformation" one day (complete with banning and shaming) is "fact" or "science" the next, and vice-versa.
How are you arriving to this conclusion? Paying taxes on illicit income does not make the income non-illicit. It just makes you easier to catch.
I successfully freelanced for years. I think one key for me was living in Austin, where there is no state income tax and the rent and food costs are low. It doesn't take many hours of consulting work to be able to live comfortably there.
Yes, I agree. Most "minus" people from my experience have been non-programmers, or at least non-everyday-unix-users that I've either had to train or walk through procedures, etc. And almost universally young.
"[...] whose revenue literally and linearly dependent on the number of hours we work."

I know nothing about your company of course; but you can take a 'step back' and see if there is a way to get paid without having to be available so often?

Are you spending too much money, not charging enough, or need to think up some more revenue streams / ways of making money?
There's a lot of redundancy in those results

Helps so devs can't reply, "Well, that guy was just stupid".
There is no causative link, you're right. But if you look at any of the major welfare states in Europe - Germany, France, Sweden, for example - then you will find that they are also highly bureacratic. That it is a mere correlation doesn't make it any less true!
Why not start with Viper? (Emacs' vi emulation.)

I'm an Emacs user, but I've always been curious about trying that. It seems to me the big advantage of Emacs is its customizability, not its particular default keybindings. Maybe the vim ones are better. Viper could get you the best of both worlds.
I played with it for several minutes and it seemed to work fine for me. I've got a 2010 MBP 17" and i'm running Chrome 11 to access the site.

This is really cool and quite exciting. This is the first WebGL demo that didn't totally max out my CPUs, and still had good interactive performance. I'm really quite impressed.
You drink expensive coffee.
This gets more difficult the older you get - corporate job, kids, mortgage, etc...

I dropped out of college during my last year because I couldn't handle the thought of not putting 100% of my chips down on my idea. After all, the university will always be there to collect tuition.

It has taken me over 3 years of blood, sweat, tears, missed payroll, busted relationships and credit card debt to get to the awesome place I am now: great salary, 13 employees, two awesome VCs backing me and the team.

It's been one hell of an experience, but i encourage anyone able to take the risk to do it. I've learned 10x what any MBA student would in just a few years.
Little do you know about some of these "disorganized" folks. All in due time.

Seems your doubts are what helps the NSA.
They were probably using their root credentials instead of creating a narrowly focused IAM profile.
I've said this before, but AWS billing support is usually quite sympathetic to your situation if you've made a mistake. They've dropped $120 in spot instance charges I had which went way over what I expected.
I'm curious why a general purpose mail system is bothering to define fields for resume, political party, supervisor, gender, etc.
I thought only emails from friends and their friends was actually displayed in your inbox. How would spammer abuse this?
You can tell a lot about the culture of an organization by comparing the official and unofficial duties of the CTO vs. the COO. One of the better things I've seen written about what a CTO is came from this Rands quote

"There are two classes of Free Electrons. Sr. Electrons and Jr. Electrons. Both have similarly productivity yields, but the Senior versions have become politically aware. In technology savvy organizations, most CTOs fall into this category."

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electr...
Or rather, a shift back to industry funded research a-la Xerox Parc and Bell Labs, among others.
I think you should do it, because there is a lot you can learn from it. But once you're doing it, you should evaluate periodically whether you are still learning. If at some point you think you aren't, don't broadcast a public flamewar lambasting the VC, but leave amicably for "personal reasons" and move on.
The way I put together this whole issue is this:

1. ASF wants the java license to be a grant of patent license.

2. ASF needs this for the Apache Harmony project.

3. Google Android uses Apache Harmory.

4. Oracle sues Google because of copyright infringement in the apache harmory related codes.

5. Oracle couldn't sue Google, if Harmory had a proper TCK license with patent grant in it.

Am I seeing this through correctly?
They've just brought near-government grade crypto-breaking capabilities to the mass market.

No, they really haven't. Near-government grade KDF-cracking capabilities will be when Amazon announces FPGA Compute instances.
Every few years I think of a technical question that clearly has a solution, but no one has worked it out yet. Then that problem lodges itself in my mind. I'll dream of equations, and mull it over for months on end. The longest of these "interesting problems" was my PhD thesis, but I have had several others. Then my brain is happy because it always has something to play with.
However, the new icon is still a prominent music note. I would imagine they would require another icon change to signify that any iTunes name change isn't centered around music and audio.
As favored by Ernest Hemmingway:

<quote>When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there.</quote>

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/the-art-of-fic...