jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
in my family there has been a simple question being raised for as many years i can remember but there has never been a satisfactory answer yet.
"if early muslims had all the science, mathematics, geography, philosophy and all fields of science including hundreds of scientists who laid down the foundations of modern science with their works, what happened 800 years ago that all that science just vanished?"

Then years ago i read "origin" by "Dan brown" where an interesting line caught my attention

“By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali—now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history—wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be ‘the philosophy of the devil.’ This began a confluence of events that undermined scientific thinking. The study of theology was made compulsory, and eventually the entire Islamic scientific movement collapsed.”

Since reading this, i've been trying to understand 2 things. 1, is this just fiction on the part of author and in that case, isnt it slander, spreading false information about a scholar who many hold to high regards and 2, if this is true, then this fucking asshole is responsible for causing immeasurable harm to "science" as a human idea on the whole.

While i think just one person "might not" be responsible for single-handedly causing such a travesty on his own, there is no doubt "something" happened that caused this change. This author says it was this ghazali guy, maybe there were others also. I don't know but i surely would want to know
Disagreement is a fine reason to downvote according to ‘pg
Calling it tracking is more honest. Maybe personalized ads is a derivative of tracking data. It since it requires tracking to produce personalized ads, asking if you want to be tracked is the honest approach. Apple is trying to avoid dark patterns that Facebook was essentially built upon.
Huh... Bots are making it difficult to purchase a gpu, so the solution is for everyone to bot. But presumably a retailer would block you if you constantly pinged their site, so the solution is to pay someone else $99/month to bot for you.

All of this seems so strange.
Cool idea and good on ya for your work with DeliverFund.

How is this better/different than the face identification built into the major platform providers accessible via WebAuthN? My understanding was that WebAuthN was supported by the latest version of major browsers: https://caniuse.com/webauthn
> NVidia (Intel) treats its customers like consumers.

nVidia's customers are literally consumers.
> Without Prop 13, home owners tax rates rise just because nearby businesses are successful, which is absurdly regressive.

No, they don't.

The tax bill rises, the tax rate does not.

> Prop 13 appeals to and benefits people who don’t own real-estate yet, because it means that when they can do so, they know that their costs will be predictable

It doesn't, though. First of all, because it makes it less likely that they will be able to (not just because of what it does to buy v. rent pricing, but also because it pushes needs that would be paid out of real estate taxes into other taxes, which means people who don't own property are less likely to be able to say to buy property, since they are paying extra other taxes to subsidized ultralow property taxes for property owners (Prop. 13, in addition to it's restrictions on assessed value increases, also limits California’s nominal maximum property tax rate to well below the national average property tax rate.)

But even if they manage to get to own real estate, it doesn't do anything to guarantee greater predictability overall, just greater predictability of the taxes associated with ownership. The financing gap it creates is closed through factors which change over time and to which homeowners are exposed.
Right, if MS is serious about Windows on ARM, they should support the Mac as a show case and also to allow all future Mac buyers the chance to run Windows. Of course, Apple can't announce much until Microsoft makes an announcement about Windows on AS Macs.
Those diagrams look really good. How were they made?
In this case you'd simply do the tunnel for 3306:3306.

Your frontend and backend code would run locally and connect to MySQL through the proxy. You wouldn't have to change any backend configuration.
It seems so amazing to me that Microsoft saw the ARM opportunity with Windows RT, released 8 years back but somehow managed to not succeed with a stellar ARM laptop story.

Maybe Qualcomm is more to blame here for never progressing as well as Apple has done on chips but maybe the software experience was just not there.

We would probably already have good ARM laptops running linux distros if Windows on ARM had taken off.
> Is that bad?

More people literally died this year than most years. So I am going to say an emphatic: yes, it is bad.
Nuclear power was killed off by
the World Secretary of Energy at Large
Jane Fonda.

Admiral Rickover was over ruled.
True but technology is becoming increasingly restrictive as time goes on. A kid today can't write software on a phone like you could with old computers. And just like hardware, software is growing in complexity and buried from the user.
Unashamed sophistry.

There's a huge difference between ownership not changing when property itself is stolen, and the preposterous idea that ownership ceases to exist because an item was peacefully obtained using "proceeds of an illegal activity". (I'm not saying that you aren't parroting "logic" espoused by some court somewhere, I'm just pointing out that said court itself is essentially corrupt)

As for the original topic, call me when the perps are in jail. Until then, the "justice system" amounts to nothing more than another gang to be avoided.
>"Observational data will be continuously incorporated into the digital twin in order to make the digital Earth model more accurate for monitoring the evolution and predict possible future trajectories. But in addition to the observation data conventionally used for weather and climate simulations, the researchers also want to integrate new data on relevant human activities into the model. The new "Earth system model" will represent virtually all processes on the Earth's surface as realistically as possible, including the influence of humans on water, food and energy management, and the processes in the physical Earth system."

I think I've seen something like it on the latest season of Westworld. Jokes aside this reminds me a little bit of the brain project. I'm really not sure if attempting to build full fidelity models of hugely complex systems is the way forward to understand this systems. It seems increasingly that scientists are trying to replace theoretical models of the say, the mind or the city with purely data driven approaches that don't necessarily produce any insight, or even accurate forecasts. Sometimes it feels like with increasing computing power we've gone back to the problems of empiricism of the mid 20th century.
Is it "just" an internal USB-C connection to the expansion card? Or is there something else going on that could be more difficult to work with?
I'd assume Canada since up here we've got a weird mix of americanisms and britishisms. Also, the state/province gives a bit away.
This is fake insight.

Most people I know who are any good at programming had started learning about it by modifying something either on their own computers (pre-2000) or on the web (post 2000). They took things they found interesting or useful and somehow introspected and changed them. Good chunks of skills gained by that were transferable to professional environment.

Today, this is not how people get into tech. There is an ever increasing gap between technologies used for professional computing and things that are observable and modifiable by a normal person out there.

Curiosity and experimentation have been replaced by (appropriately named) coding bootcamps.
Bitcoin mining power is concentrated in China with about eight times the hash rate of number two United States, which in turn has a similar hash rate to Russia and Kazakhstan. Rounding out the top six, composing more than 90% of the total world hash rate, is Malaysia and Iran. Do you think these countries share the ideological goals of Satoshi Nakamoto's dream?

I have no doubt that a persistent 51% attack by a cartel of miners would make Bitcoin liquidity an indefinite hard zero for selected "owners" of BTC.
I'm with you. I just got a new Precision and the track pad is 6 inches by 3.5 inches (no exaggeration). I think the idea was to accomodate left and right handers, but it has gone way overkill. It is large enough to be a Wacom-style drawing tablet.
Separate directories do not imply conflicting versions colliding (which I guess it what you refer to?). In fact, I'd say is it less likely. Can you eloborate?
"The code is right but something is coming out wrong" was one of the favorite things I would hear from my intro to programming students.

I would call them out on it, too. The attitude they had was part of why they couldn't debug their program. They needed to adopt a question-and-test-assumptions approach, which can be intellectually uncomfortable. I hoped that by explaining to them why that comment was obviously wrong that they could start to learn the debugging process without me walking them through it, constantly asking pointed questions.
> I think the piece I'm missing is the behavior of the scheduler. Does it now make its decisions based on task group cpu consumption instead of process? I saw options to that effect back around 2.6.25.

Yes, and yes. Previously you could set things like this up explicitly, this makes it (optionally) automatic.

> Why is this an improvement over just nicing the "make -j64" into the basement

That gives you... I think 10% less CPU weight per level, so you can get down to 13% of base. So your 64 processes will still weigh about 8x one base process.

This lets you consider everything spawned from your terminal as one group, and everything from your X session as another, so your compile processes collectively (no matter how many you have) weigh as much as your GUI processes collectively weigh.
These are from a far less revealing scanner than the new backscatter machines at airports. The larger issue is that the government and the vendors said falsely that there would be no way to save the images for later use.
... in accordance with the prophecy (cue evil laugh). ;)
I understand the need for localization and all, but 46 THOUSAND characters? Jeez.

There are that many Han characters alone, so I’m not sure what the surprise is. It’s not like you have to hard-code them in your grammar.

If anything, I’d hope that new languages in 2010 allow any of the roughly 100,000 non-control non-whitespace [edit: non-punctuation] Unicode characters. For a lot of the code I see, ASCII is at least as constraining as, say, fixnums would be.
It may have been uncomfortable and inconvenient for you, but that doesn't mean it wasn't effective. For a few (perhaps inaccurate) reasons, you were flagged as a greater-than-average risk. You were searched thoroughly and found to be safe, and you were then allowed to fly. That sounds pretty sensible to me and makes a lot more sense than the US policy.
If you have fun doing it and it allows you to work on your ideas, then do it. Just be sure to read the agreement carefully, specially the IP ownership and non-compete parts.

I work in an angel investor network in a similar way (in Chile) and I'm starting a company as well.
Are you sure about that? I would think the exact opposite, that there are more good QT/KDElibs programs then GTK ones. And more recently more and more apps switch to QT (like wireshark for example).

And I heard somewhere that Gnome is very popular in the US, but everywhere else KDE is slightly more favored (apart from all the small DEs and WMs).
I get up at 345am, seven days a week and haven't missed a day for months. Productivity gain has been huge for me. No one bothers me for about six hours after I get up, which is a long time....
Here's a photo of my credit card with the number blurred out: http://imgur.com/Q4hqZ

I eagerly await your impending purchases.
Very interesting. It may need to be backed with some more data but it's promising.
Thanks. Re: Caltech - if I recall correctly, there wasn't enough data for it to produce results when I ran the algorithm last year. I suspect we'll have enough this year (I'll probably re-run the algorithm in a few weeks).

Basically the entire site is dedicated to gathering information from students, and then transforming that data into something useful for them. So I gather the info directly (over 250,000 college apps from 50,000 different people are in the system by now).

I honestly have no idea why I thought I could get away with adding together the 25th and 75th percentiles for SAT subscores on that page; it's not something I do elsewhere on the site. (I'm using "I" here since I'm sure this is my fault alone.) Thanks for pointing that out!

Edit: I forgot about Princeton. The Elo points can be a bit hard to decipher on the fly; for example, Yale should only beat Princeton in 59:41 fashion - not exactly a drubbing. Here's an Ivy+Stanford+MIT cross-admit comparison based on this data - http://college.mychances.net/tools/college-choice-matrix.php...
Why are people upset at the article?

I look at it and I see a boy who had a medical disorder, but managed to grow up, is finishing college at 19, has developed useful skills, and has developed good decision making skills. Along the way there were some emotional problems and unfortunate incidents. But guess what, nobody learns to make good decisions without making some bad ones along the way.

Furthermore everything I know about parenting says that the people who would have tried laying down the law from day one would have been extremely likely to end up with lots more conflict and a worse outcome. Admittedly I'm far from an expert, but as a parent I consider it my duty to read and think enough to have a reasonably well informed opinion.

(I'm curious how many of the people who are offering blanket advice are parents. As one friend told me, "It is amazing how much more I knew about being a parent before I had kids.")
So is there a way to compute the probability of one team beating another, given their Elo scores?
This is very true.

Namebase is a marketplace atop of the Handshake protocol. Puma Browser supports it natively, as well as NextDNS. If you really want your own TLD (or even to have your own name as a TLD), Namebase is the way to go (for now).

Maybe I should've added this information to my initial comment, I seem to have angered some folks.
I was in Little League around 10 years ago and my parents are certain it was them who sold our info (SSN included) to advertisers since we got all sorts of junk mail and email all the time right after I joined. I'm surprised they're still doing it nowadays.
I suppose you mean it's not possible without some sense of the value in relation to existing value networks? And this is the bootstrapping that fiat exchanges provide?
>There's a 0% chance that Nvidia would allow them resell graphics cards.

There is a difference between unilateral refusal to sell, and selling on condition of non resale. As far as I am aware, the practice of conditional sale like that isn't actually backed by any legal teeth outside the realm of a contract. Once you buy the thing, it is yours. Now the contract could cover the primacy of sourcing, but not the item itself, which would have the same badic effect I suppose.

Believe it or not, "we just won't sell to them" is a surefire way to stir up trouble, because then people start asking pesky questions like "why?", and if the answer given isn't satisfactory, leads to going about and collecting data; turning it into a public interest sort of thing. There is no way that blacklisting sales without a darn good reason is ever a good thing.
I think you're talking about ASICBOOST, more importantly the "Covert ASICBOOST" drama, which was almost entirely fabricated as a political ploy to turn the /r/bitcoin community against the mining community. It was used to justify the soft fork inclusion of SegWit (Segregated Witness) but in reality had zero impact on the actual ASICBOOST capability, which was an overly complicated and incredibly mild hashing optimization which no one really actually used. The risk of orphaning blocks was likely higher than and potential profits from the extra advantage.
Reuters, Associated Press, Guardian, NYT
I think? Don't take my word for it. Go check.
All sorts of things like this. Rogue waves essentially weren't believed to be possible until 1995.

Conflating failure of imagination (lack of proposed mechanism) and impossibility is a rather common failure mode. Heck, it took a decade for biologists to just agree on the Hardy-Weinberg theorem!
> generally full of additives for body, color, 'legs', and other attributes

Is this true? Here in New Zealand a NZ$10 (US$7) bottle will be just wine unless it is sparkling. The difference between cheap and expensive is that cheap wine is usually a blend of different wines to achieve some specific flavour profile which theoretically means a more generic flavour since it will average out the specific regional and micro-regional flavours.
It's frustrating how little progress robot manipulation has made in the last half century. Most robotics is still positional programming, maybe with some visual fine tuning for final alignment. Brooks tried to move things into force space, which seemed promising. But his Rethink Robotics robots were not successful. Most of the things you could teach them to do could be done cheaper by other means. Mostly picking up stuff and putting it down somewhere else, in approximately the right place.

Amazon had a competition for bin-picking robots, but never got anything that could replace a few hundred thousand pickers in their fulfillment centers. There's a demand for this, but still few usable products.

SAIL at the D.C. Power Lab (D. C. Power was a Stanford donor) was impressive in its day. They were way ahead in the 1960s and way behind by the end in the 1980s. They had their own custom everything - their own operating system for DEC 36-bit machines, their own compilers, their own networks, their own displays and keyboards, their own video distribution system - and were stuck in their own niche too long.

I used to keep a horse at the barn next to the lab, but by then most of the activity had moved back to the main campus.
No, the region that employs and directs a police officer who ends up violating civil rights must absolutely be responsible for civil remedy (money), the issue is simply that police largely will never be charged for their criminal liability.

If someone is wrongly imprisoned, injured or killed the financial remedy must not stop at the individual officer’s net worth / insurance coverage maximum or be subject to potential coverage gaps.

Additionally, everyone will still pay the cost through taxes, but now an insurance company will try to turn a profit on it and those living in regions with “good cops” will be subject to the tax as well.
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There's a saying: idle hands do the devil's work. Nobody here puts any stock in traditional experience and understandings, but I don't think the idea was conjured out of thin air.

Also, while I'm burning karma: the point at which 50% of men are awake is 39 minutes later than for women, and the point at which 50% of each sex are asleep is only 13 minutes earlier for women. I.e. men are sleeping substantially longer, in addition to watching a lot more TV and doing a lot less housework, shopping, and child/elder-care. Says a lot about how our culture coddles men.
It's not clear but the documents do specifically mention the ability to send people to login / signup pages. I'm pretty sure that's not being ignored so much as being buried in marketing/carrier-speak.
Just because Clojure has the DO form (or that Common Lisp has the PROG form) doesn't mean that the language is imperative. It means that it allows imperative programming.

This is like saying that a language with casts doesn't have a type system. No, it has a type system, it just also has an escape hatch that lets you break out from the type system when you need to. Lisps' functional-ness is generally the same sort of thing: They are designed primarily around function-oriented programming, but provide straightforward escape hatches into imperative programming. Common Lisp tends more towards being multi-paradigm than Clojure (i.e. provides more imperative accommodations), but both have strict evaluation, which the author seems to equate with imperative-ness.

The author spends more time talking about a small core and non-leaky abstractions than about imperative-ness. On these points, I totally agree and think it's a well-written article. I don't exactly see the connection with being imperative, and I think it's a shame that the title will draw attention away from those points. The thing that I really like about working in Clojure is how the abstractions are built with care: I feel like whenever I just use the base building blocks, they fit together seamlessly and edge cases usually don't come up.
This is welcome news. Qi (the predecessor of Shen) gets mentioned every now and then in programming language discussions (eg. it has a Turing Complete type system), but I've refused to try it so far due to its non-Free license.
That's orthogonal and compression won't help much if you're copying things that are already well compressed like archives, videos, photos... And compression only helps if you're I/O bound.

If using a stronger cypher is enough to slow you down chances are that you're CPU bound anyway and adding compression on top is actually going to make your transfer slower.
We’ve got a 20 year Delphi code base for a robotic product that we need to update the functionality and simplify the UI. If I could have 2 Delphi devs to take on this project I’d be delighted. We’ll probably just use a .net cover though.
>What if startups with high switching costs (DBMS, OS, pretty much anything else infrastructural) added a guarantee to their sales contracts? For example, it could be that, if they get acquired, they'll open-source the technology, sell it to another for-profit entity that will maintain it, or provide a migration tool.

That would be like them putting a huge paper hat on their head, saying "I'm not a good target for acquisition".

Companies buy them so they (also) get their product/IP etc. If those startups have promised to give it away in such a case, then they are not that good of a buy.
I think they're making it much easier for every other database start up: just pick up on the technical grounds left by FoundationDB (see their Architecture PDF) and knock yourself out. You have no competitors right now.