jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks. After reading this and also realizing it'd be better to use a meta-search engine rather than a normal one because of the aggregation of results from different search engines, I am shifting to MetaGer. I find it's results better than searx.

Also, would like to say if you have TS;DR extension installed, it has a search engine: TS;DR Search which is an instance of searx and can be set to default in firefox (which I personally use) coz firefox doesn't show option of searx to be set as default search engine.
They are and they aren't. What they did for New Orleans is stupid-incredible. Stupid because it's a river-gulf city below sea level that the rivers are trying to absorb with no plans to relocate. Incredible because wow, that's an accomplishment. A lot of that is subject to political whims, though, so it's not necessarily the Corps's decision.
Anecdotal account from an alleged Amazon delivery driver, (from Wall Street Bets) https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fn3irh/im_a...
They by as very suspicious ... I was originally asked to connect with them and they got weird once I asked I mentioned legality and that we were talking about a very serious and life threatening virus ..

Food for thought
> Is there anything else I'm missing?

I'm not familiar with Elixir (I've just barely played with it, and found it very neat), so please take this with a grain of salt, but access to the whole JVM (+ JS) ecosystem seems like a big thing you are missing.

Also regarding performance, from my limited understanding, BEAM languages are not well-suited for some types of applications (number crunching, for instance). While Clojure is not necessarily designed for those, you can get Java-levels performance (and in some cases better, I believe; cf. Neanderthal and other work by Dragan Djuric).

The responses on TFA seem quite poor in terms of actually comparing Elixir and Clojure for the most part (except those by Robert Virding and Scott Thompson). For example, someone says:

> Elixir-specific: macros. Basically code generators at compile time. Another vastly underrated productivity booster.

Pointing out macros in a comparison of anything vs a Lisp seems kinda weird...

Someone else talks about "jvm patterns" and butter and spinach...
A pure theory but how likely is it that Chinese govt knew that travelers would spread covid-19 but allowed it knowingly anyways.
Be that as it may, my message to the media would be: if you want to retain any remaining shred of credibility you still have, stick to reporting corroborated first hand accounts, not rumors or opinions, at least for a while. Get on the ground, figure out what's going on, report it, in full and with evidence, good and bad. Don't just sit there and suck clickbait out of your thumb like you've been doing for the last decade.
Is there a preference with BOINC vs Folding?
> I think a lot (over 50%) of JavaScript devs 5 years from now will still be using <= ES5, but only because they've so settled in their ways over the last 10 years.

5 years from now, there will still be people whose customers require IE6 support, too. We're still working on that.
> As long as they 'comply' with the FOIA act, they are doing everything they are legally required to do it.

Given that this is the government, it seems like the FOIA censoring process is still highly manual.

Therefore, I believe there have been a large number of cases where important information was gleaned like this:
- FOIA: "I would like all documents pertaining to wiretapping?"
- Agency: "That is not a specific program, so here's a heavily redacted summary document."
- FOIA: "I would like all documents pertaining to program BLUSTER, the name of which was not-redacted in the previous information you gave me."
- Agency: "Here is heavily redacted but still more specific information on the program you requested."

My understanding is that there's somewhat of a gray area for requests that do not accurately enough specify the information desired. The agency in question can basically say "We don't understand what you're requesting, so there is no information."

Whereas if you more tightly specify your request and such a program does exist, they are legally required to give you something, even if it's an entirely blacked out page.
Ah, you're right. Wasn't intentional. I say:

> Return the sum of the differences between the chromosome and the target string.

but I mean something more like:

> Return the sum of the character-wise differences between the chromosome and the target string.
Hell, someone should have put NSFW tag out there! :'(
This is great. We created a similar site earlier this year for Durham, NC startups at http://downtowndurhamstartups.com

I think it's helpful in these areas for startups to see who is around and create a community.
> Similarly, paul is not going to get any big bump in going from 6000 to 7000.

Actually, the bump from 6k to 7k would put you very close to /leaders.
yes, from interviews I get the feeling that Musk is not as smart as the people who are working for him. See for example, the interview with Sal Khan of Khan academy. Musk seems to be not as sharp as Sal, even given that he was tired. Not denying he is smart, just not as smart as those working for him, and to compound this misperception, people hardly get to see those working for him anyway.
Not really. Most engineers I know are at least smart enough to know that if you don't pay your taxes for eight years you're going to have a problem with the IRS.
In the mean time, landowners pissed off about Keystone XL's successful use of eminent domain need to know where to get a supply of these beetles.
This used the word "spin" prominently, which leads me to believe that it is using spintronics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics , which may involve the word "magnetic" but is not actually based on magnets in the way you meant it.
Tinnitus is one of many symptoms many long haul COVID-19 sufferers complain about. Just as an anecdote Dr. Drew Pinsky was ill with COVID-19 around Christmas and complained about severe tinnitus as a result of his infection. So I'd be a little careful trying to draw sweeping conclusions about tinnitus right now without trying to account for and control the pandemic over the last year.
Post-WWII R&D was vastly different from what R&D is like now. No one is funding research that isn't directly product-related or with an unclear or long-term ROI like that anymore. There never will be a Bell Labs or PARC every again. Incremental improvements are the future now.
Not all medical research works exactly as described in the article. Reading between the lines, Dr. Karikó had what's called a "research faculty" appointment, which basically means you don't need to teach but do need to pay your salary (and the salary of anyone employed in your lab) from grants. This is sometimes called a "soft money" position to reflect its precarious nature. This is in contrast to standing faculty, who are paid 9 months of their salary from the university operating budget, but must teach during those 9 months, leaving less time for research. The research faculty appointments exist because NIH grant money is plentiful, allowing more positions to exist than can be supported from the university operating budget alone. Essentially, researchers are permitted to bet their job on their ability to obtain grant money. Turn off the supply of grant money and the research faculty positions go away too. Most would not be replaced by standing faculty positions.

The depressing reality is that it is mostly impossible to predict which basic research projects will prove to be essential in 25 years. I think people try anyway because basing funding awards / rejections on a nominally objective evaluation of project importance lends some emotional distance to the process.

If hospitals were paid by patient outcome instead by procedure, it may create a financial incentive to use some of the organization's operating budget for applied research. But that wouldn't do much to help basic research with unclear future application such as the mRNA work.

https://catalog.upenn.edu/faculty-handbook/ii/ii-b/
This really is a thing. I mentioned it here 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805366

It’s the AirPods Pro specifically. I have not experienced this with the regular AirPods or the Max. Never had tinnitus, got it immediately when using Pro and went away immediately when I stopped using them.
That’s what I was wondering. ANC might just make tinnitus more obvious.
It will almost certainly cost more money to obtain 51% hashrate than you could gain from a short position, by the time mining rewards aren't enough of an incentive.

Even the NSA doesn't have enough computing power to achieve 51%.
Here's my hypothesis. Obama is thinking about the situation like a lawyer and as a result he can't understand why there would be such a vociferous objection now of all times.

As the recently declassified FISC opinion shows, most of the NSA program is broadly within well-established law. Third-party doctrine means it's not illegal to get data from third parties like Google or Facebook, and it's well-accepted that 4th amendment protections don't apply to foreigners. The U.S. has been surveilling foreigners for decades now, and has been gathering records from third parties like banks, etc, for decades as well. The legal nit to pick with the NSA's recent efforts seems to be that it's doing searches on purely domestic communications that indadvertedly get caught in the nets (though it also seems that the NSA isn't trying very hard to make the nets finer). But you can't object to the very foundations of the program purely on legal principles.

If you're looking at it from a legal point of view, it seems like a lot of uproar over something that's bad, but not something that's bad down to its foundations.

But to the digerati, it's a much bigger deal, and as someone who is not in that group I think Obama can't appreciate that point of view. The idea of getting e-mails from Google strikes a chord with many people in a way that the idea of getting bank records from banks doesn't. The digerati oppose electronic surveillance on principle, and don't care if analogous programs have existed in other areas for decades.

Incidentally, I don't expect Obama, or old line politicians like Feinstein or Pelosi to "get it" any time soon. This seems to be a "you either get it or you don't" issue. Either you have a visceral aversion to the idea of electronic surveillance or you don't. It's much more an emotional issue as anything else, and Obama's not an emotional guy. He's also a big government liberal, so he doesn't have any reason to oppose the NSA program on those grounds. He's got the most aggressive foreign policy and national security policy of any Democratic president since, well I don't even know who. He's the second-coming of Reagan on that front. He has no reason to view this as anything other than some NSA programs that stepped out of line and need to step back on the right side of the line.
Absolutely the same logic could be used to explain the actions he revealed, that is exactly the problem.

We are being forced to choose between realities.
Either his action is a noble one born of patriotism, or those that he revealed are.

Both sides are claiming to be right, noble and patriotic, and both sides see themselves as acting appropriately.

The question is which reality do we want to be true? which side do we want to be associated with and to support?

Pick your side, and see where that decision takes you.

There are no objective realities here. Just a personal decision regarding the reality we wish to support, encourage and stand with.
While I mostly agree with you - it's easier said than done. How exactly are you going to buy $150 million (or whatever the needed amount is) of ASICs without being noticed? The government could obviously do it - but at least in the near future that sounds far fetched.

Like wise as soon as your attack is noticed your IP addresses would be blocked by the other clients preventing you from adding to the chain.

Edit: after looking more into the 51% attack IP blocking wont really solve it since it only would take a handful of unique IPs to pull off.

Edit2: Couldn't we prevent the double spend part of the 51% attack (or at least make it more like 90%) by doing 2 things:

1) Merchants would only accept bit coins that have been in the block chain at least 6 blocks ago (this already is the recommended case)

2) Nodes reject any blocks received if they receive it over an hour (6 blocks worth) past receiving the 'sister' block in the competing (true) chain. This would prevent an attacker from 'reversing history.' What would be the drawbacks to this?

Edit3: like wise we could stop the "prevent other people from making transactions" part of it (the only other part) by doing this:

http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/05/neutralizing-51-attack...

I would love it if someone responded to this.
Freelancing/sell a product.

Sell services/freelancing for companies. Work on projects when you're not doing things for customers.

Control over your time is crucial. Try to charge according to value (if you're going to make this much off of me doing this project for you, me charging you 10% of that profit is nothing!) rather than per hour.

Once you can make enough to live comfortably, balance your time and income effectively.

If you can, try to turn some of those pursuits in to passive income. You'd be surprised the simple things people will pay for.
Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

Let them earn respect by demonstrating that they understand their wrongs and taking ongoing substantive action to change.
It is not just service culture, it is competition, high expectations from consumers, and the ability to invest in equipment that goes along with high prices.
Wow, I kind of like that. Thanks for posting.
The article cited in the post: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177113/
I did nearly the same but with FreeDOS, but it was a warehouse system with a IR Connection, so no emulation/cpu speed problems.
I think maybe we're talking about different things? Could you be more precise about the sort of interference effects you're talking about?

I generally wouldn't call entanglement an "interference effect". When I think about interference my mind goes to the patterns emerging from double slit experiments.

Consider a quantum teleportation experiment, I start with

N (a|0> + b|1>) ( |00> + |11> )

where N fixes the normalisation

I do a measurement on qubits 0 and 1 in the basis ( |00> + |11> ), ( |00> - |11> ), ( |10> + |01> ), ( |10> - |10> ) and observe the outcome associated with ( |00> + |11> ), so now my state is

N ( |00> + |11> ) (a|0> + b|1>)

Now we collect our grant money because we've teleported the state to the other end. I don't see where the interference effect(s) were, from my perspective everything looked local and nice except for the impact of measurement, which is nonlocal in the "standard" picture and unexplained in general.

I think my perspective on interference comes from the fact that water waves and sound waves (for example) exhibit interference in pretty much the same way that wavefunctions do, but we can't break Bell inequalities with them since we don't have the same weirdness around measurement.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328730
Digital security has emerged as one of the top mobile app development trends in 2020. Net Solutions' State of Digital Transformation 2020 report highlights the four major digital technology trends—Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Security.
This sounds very similar to the Shirky principle:

“Institutions will inevitably act in a way that preserves the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

(PS: thanks Doreen for introducing me to it!)
You would have a problem with a hospital (or CVS) using rideshare to come to your house and give you a vaccine that could potentially help you keep your elderly relatives alive? There's not much extra surveillance fruit in them knowing where you are when you get a vaccine that is going to be given to a third of the population anyway.

If you're a user of their apps, Uber and Lyft have already been trusted with your payment information, name, address, work address, home address, friends' addresses, weekend destinations, mobile phone location data, etc.

I guess this is what I mean: there's a huge additional burden that results from the gut reaction to treat all government-endorsed information sharing as a nonstarter. I could put some freezers in a van and spend the day driving nurses from house to house, vaccinating the citizenry, but all these perfect-world objections force the plan back into its hole instead of getting the job done.
The big turn off for me with Braintree was the ridiculous application requirements. You could imigrate into the US five times and provide less documentation.

I know why they ask for that info (to cover their asses), but it was enough for me to avoid them.

A really simple (and fast!) application process could be a very big selling point. People are impulsive, and when evaluating processors I'd probably go for the easiest/fastest all other things being roughly equal.

"Start processing credit cards today (really, seriously)!"
I know the feeling but I think the human race is under this collective illusion that 'the weekend' is a vast expanse of time where you can complete tasks at your leisure. It's not really much time at all once you factor in unwinding from work, catching up on sleep, having decent meals, running errands and preparing for Monday morning!

My weekend plan was to read a substantial chunk of GEB, watch a few World Cup games, visit my cousin, spend time with my family, complete my preliminary reading for my MSc, get a draft MSc specification typed up, and in a spare moment or two work through some programming tutorials.

Oh and I have to build a website for somebody. I'll fit that in 'at the weekend.'

Totally realistic.

Maybe a better strategy is never plan to do any work at the weekend, but when the Saturday/Sunday come you might have some interesting project from during the week that you've already started and can't tear yourself away from.
You rarely these stories within a company. Worked for Activision for five years and never heard about how Bobby Kotick got where he was. I always thought he was a VC financier because of the circumstances of the Activision deal.
These cars were crazy difficult to drive, they had a "locked" four wheel drive system that is similar to an agricultural tractor so you have to slide the car around slow corners or the engine stalls (spectacular and noisy, but not really fast).

They had an unsynchronized H-shifter gearbox that requires double declutching on downshifts and careful power application given the huge turbo boost. The driver has to be able to use the left and right foot for braking and be able to press all three pedals at once momentarily when downshifting under braking (left foot on the clutch, right foot toe on the brake and blipping the throttle with the outside of the foot, misleadingly called "heel'n'toe").

Here's a really good clip of Walter Röhrl putting an Audi Quattro through its paces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyVHj3sHVHQ
Using stuff like the pipeline stage is really bad imo, because it may prevent your game from running successfully if it is decided on a later stage to either upgrade the internal hardware (like it was done with the shitload of PS3 variants) or it is decided years later that the successor console should be able to play legacy platform games.
Not to mention the transfer cost to constantly upload a significant data flow to them.
I would like to defend Rust here. For example, the article complains "The build is often broken or has failing tests". Rust build is basically never broken nor has any failing tests. Being a new language really is no execuse.

This is not rocket science. You can do it too. Go read http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html written by Rust's original author.
As a google security engineer once said, "f-ck these guys"

According to an NSA document, the agency intended to crack 10 million intercepted https connections a day by late 2012.

By the end of 2012, the system was supposed to be able to "detect the presence of at least 100 password based encryption applications" in each instance some 20,000 times a month.
I wonder that as well.
My line of thought was that since comments would open on the site it would have an animation whereas outbound links would use the tried-and-true underlining.
Just ask a question and I am happy to take a look. I found this an interesting area because the approach 'under the hood' seems a bit 'hacky' but it does work. Java generics are even more strange... http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2011/04/java-type-erasure-...
I'm guessing they ran into trouble with the problems mentioned. It doesn't seem to Google's benefit to remove the feature unless it turned out to be a bigger headache than it was worth.
Does step three involve copy-pasting by design, or can that experience be improved?
And here's another handy link from the Singaporean hacker/startup scene: http://connections.sg/

All you need to know on one handy page =)

(I'm with HackerspaceSG too, so do ping me if anyone would like to pop by for a visit =)
I'm also a big fan of swift to-do list. Really well made and simple to use.

The lite version is a free-to-use download.
So that is how they work. What else can se find out by looking at the byte output of javac?
Sridhar, thanks for being an inspiration to those of us trying to follow in your footsteps.
I think people may be likely to think that "DNA evidence" is rock solid.
Brute-forcing a relatively long passphrase is actually a reasonable accomplishment, especially in secret, and with a limited budget. I will bet 99% that is what he did, and the 'moderately hard' part was in getting resources to run a covert distributed break.
It's either a hardware difference or Apple artificially restricting where it installs to increase hardware sales.

It would not be the first time - the first iMacs are capable of running up to MacOS X 10.4, provided they have enough memory. I have successfully ran 10.4 on a beige G3. The installer, however, checks the hardware against a list of "forbidden" (if I remember the term used in the .plist file) machine types.

Here is a similar story, regarding 10.5:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200710260837463...
The Arrington/Calcanis relationship is impossible to decipher. But I guess I shouldn't care.
Without looking at the source: it could either generate a decision tree made of nested ifs and case statements (or the CPS equivalent), or it could just do a naive linear search over each list element. That's probably good enough until you have long lists of alternatives or structural matching against whole trees.

I have a quick hack of a Lua library that does pattern matching with linear search. Whenever I get around to making it actually do analysis and compile search functions, I'll put it on github. (The patterns can have variable captures in them, too.)
It's rather interesting that every story I read advocating that any member of the eurozone should get out for one reason or other, was written by someone not in the eurozone.

I wonder if these people are trying to make the situation seem worse than it is in order to further drag down the value of the Euro. It certainly looks like that and I'm not one to believe conspiracies.

Yes, the situation is bad, but if the eurozone crumbles, every country involved will suffer. We would have trouble exporting goods and protectionist policies would be common.