jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For one of the world's largest web sties, Reddit is down A LOT. It feels almost as bad as Twitter from the fail whale days. Frequently the site will be up, but you'll just get served a public homepage as if you weren't logged in. I feel embarrassed for their engineers. They have to start making site reliability priority #1.
I meant based on reported actual figures, rather than predicted ones. It was just a random thought though - the way our financial markets work is so entrenched that I'd be very surprised if anything like it did actually exist anywhere.
> You’re missing the part where you substantiate your opinion that “poverty, depressions, wars, etc.” are the result of a stable currency.

It's not a fringe view:

Economists, such as Barry Eichengreen, Peter Temin and Ben Bernanke, blame the gold standard of the 1920s for prolonging the economic depression which started in 1929 and lasted for about a decade.[35][36][37][38][39] It has been described as the consensus view among economists.[40][41] In the United States, adherence to the gold standard prevented the Federal Reserve from expanding the money supply to stimulate the economy, fund insolvent banks and fund government deficits that could "prime the pump" for an expansion. Once off the gold standard, it became free to engage in such money creation. The gold standard limited the flexibility of the central banks' monetary policy by limiting their ability to expand the money supply. In the US, the central bank was required by the Federal Reserve Act (1913) to have gold backing 40% of its demand notes.[42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Depression_and_W...

> I’m not sure “again” is warranted given that the invention of government fiat has done nothing to mitigate “poverty, depressions, wars, etc.”

I don't agree, from a US perspective, based on comparing the depressions, poverty, and wars we had before and after the end of the gold standard in 1971 (say, in the 50 years before and after).
"Unfortunately I feel our society and current pop culture somehow feeds this problem, but I can't pinpoint how."

Maybe the problem is that government began focusing on this with the War on Poverty?
Maybe this focus is how our society is "feeding this problem"?
Maybe by subsidizing single parent homes, we inadvertently create more single parent homes?
Maybe we consider data:
- How many black homes in the 1940s single parent vs 1970s?
- What were the black unemployment rates in the 1920s vs 1990s? Or 2010 vs 2019?
- See https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...

Instead of renaming schools why don't we free students. For example, rather than throwing money at unions, help the students in Baltimore schools go to schools of their parent's choice such as religious or charter schools. Thirteen of 39 high schools in Baltimore have ZERO students proficient in math.

We doom these children at $15k/head/yr.

Read some of Dr. Thomas Sowell's work. The data is there. It is data that changed him from a marxist as a young man to a believer in freedom and markets.
> I agree that it is not a good thing that proof-of-work systems are wasteful, but perhaps it's the only way of solving the problem.

Obviously not, the other solution is by fiat, which has been working for milennia, and it's not about to stop.
I think people tend to seek these types of things out after they're already suffering from adverse effects that they want to try to fix.
I use RES so always had that.
:) thank you for sharing!! certainly there isn't a one size fits all solution for really anything in our world - but we are so glad that Chorus is helpful for you!!
Is it necessary to go so far as making a diagnosis at all? Wouldn't it suffice to detect -and alert the user- that some of her moles have changed shape and she might need to have them looked at more carefully by an expert? This is a task that is very difficult to perform with the naked eye, especially for people with skin types that have lots of moles and an automated decision that could be relied on to detect otherwise imperceptible changes, could perhaps even save some lives.
> First, it took me a very long time to really, fully get that AI is not fundamentally different from a simple linear regression (infering a rule from data).

I'm quite surprised by this. Doesn't each AI tutorial start by stating that very thing?
> Active profiling is needed so that tobacco ads do not show up in your kids' newsfeed.

Apart from the targeted ads there exist context-based ads (just like in the newspapers from your example). Show me a scientific proof that the former work better.
this is the first time I have ever dyslexified SciPy into Spicy and I fear I will never read it correctly again.
Do one thing well is not the only valid model. For instance why would you want apps on your phone? It should facilitate phone calls and messaging.
I want to encourage people to think of sympy not just as a competitor to Mathematica but additionally as an incredibly valuable library that can be used _inside_ of other projects. Sometimes, you just want to compute an antiderivative, or you want user-supplied functions that you can manipulate easily, or you want to do some actual algebra.

Think of it less as a Mathematica replacement (like "Linux on the Desktop") and more as a crucial library enabling a lot of fun new creative things (like "embedded linux running on your toaster").

For example, in some of my computational chemistry work we use it to allow users to specify certain functionals, which we can then manipulate symbolically, do expression reduction and elimination on, and prove certain properties about. It's great!
Some of their feedback is valid which we have already improved on. We're working hard to build the best business bank ever.

I'm happy to connect. I'm the founder of Novo and have tens of thousands of happy clients.
The scheme R5RS [1] (essentially, an edition of the language standard) defines in section 3.5 what it means for an implementation to be “Properly tail recursive”: it must support an unbounded number of active (yet-to-return) tail calls. I think “proper tail call” is a good terminology for a tail call that replaces the callers stack frame (or some equivalent, depending on implementation).

It doesn’t necessarily change the semantics, but it does change what kind of programs are sure to crash your machine, and what kind are going to run fast, which is also an important property of programming languages.

[1]: https://schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/
So on the one hand we have a technology that works, on the other we have a pipe dream.

I sure know which one I want to bet the future of the planet on.
Wait what’s the January 15th date?
In my opinion, medical cannabis was just an excuse to decriminalise cannabis.

I know doctors and medical researchers who would definitely disagree with you on that. There are some very common things like long term chronic pain management, where all of the major drugs have serious downsides, so it is good to have marijuana there as an available option.
There’s an even faster strategy than this and it’s easier to setup.

You’re going to deploy 4 CI pipelines (so make sure you’re not manually putting together ci pipelines configs, use automation):

Pipeline 1: A conveyor belt of environments. All this pipeline does is spin up fresh environments then run a short automated smoke test. Hydrate the env with the most recent mask from prod. The trigger condition is there’s less than <Threshold> environments available. I did 8 on a whim and never saw a need to change it.

Pipeline 2: Normal garden variety CI pipeline triggered on merges to main. Output of this will be two artifacts persisted: a built package and your unit test evidence

Pipeline 3: Test your automated deployment by deploying the package build from #2 into the first of the queue of free envs from #1 trigger your end to end and integration and contract tests. Don’t run your security or operability tests here.

Pipeline 4: Async pipeline triggered on a 6hr schedule, do your long running stuff like fuzz testing here, your security tests etc. do these outside of the dev cycle.

Release candidates can only be signed after a successful run through 2, 3 & 4. That means prod deploys are on a predictable cadence which users and ops are usually appreciative of rather than we drop it in when it’s ready.

The DevEx is pretty sweet - you don’t see pipeline 1 or 4 in your build loop. Only the runtime of 3 would be comparable to the article - slightly faster than the article because no firecracker bringup overhead, no matter how small that is.
These sort of things often seem like they're massively over engineered.

Until you're the edge case who gets pissed off because they didn't make it flexible enough, or the boilerplate is arcane and doesn't really make sense with much of the normal use.
Just build it. Google is all you need.
That would be OK by me: I'd prefer to keep myself and my parents at the XP SP3 level quasi-forever as long as the OS was supported (I myself an still using Windows Eudora as my email client).

Well, I suppose eventually Firefox el. al. will drop XP support, but that day will hopefully be far in the future.
No.

Get yourself to build stuff and enjoy!
Very nice. I'm looking forward to a non-Flash streetview client.
I think that this has to do with flaws in the UIs themselves though. Having one sellable point is a great plan, but not if the rest of the user experience is poor. People should never have to open up the command line, yet you have to do it all the time in order to get any use out of a distro even like Ubuntu.
I think you're being deliberately obtuse here. If you give people a numerical rating most will feel compelled to improve their standing. Losing karma is negative feedback (hence punishment).

It doesn't matter that your HN karma score isn't going to get you laid[1], people generally care about anything they're scored on.

[1] If it did edw519 would probably be dead from exhaustion or at least severely chafed.
It's not too late.

A new free online school for learning Ruby is just getting started, Ruby Mendicant University: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/quick-rmu-status-update

Get your entrance exam in by Sunday and you've got a shot at being a part of the first round of sessions.
And what is stopping shopify from implementing the same stuff? How will it matter then?

That's a very good question. If Shopify has a significantly larger presence than you in the market, and has the resources to copy any innovations you put in place, you're going to continually be in the position of trying to differentiate yourself. They've got the "first-mover advantage", and if you are going to survive (much less thrive), you're going to need something significant to offset it.

Which brings us back to the advice you got in the last go-round: you might want to find a niche (like e-book publishing) that you can focus on, where you can give a more specialized, more effective solution than Shopify's general purpose one. In other words, you give up the breadth of the market in order to make your offering more compelling to one particular segment. Shopify would have trouble following you down that path, as that would mean forking their codebase and attention.

In general, it's easier to compete in a market where nobody is, than a market where somebody already resides. By choosing to go into a space that is already dominated by someone means having to play the game on their terms-- you're always going to be having to define yourself in relation to them.
Have you discussed this with Bill Gosper?
If anyone (regardless of race) went into a class that was too difficult for them they would do worse in school. This will result in them not getting into as good of a university (or not getting into any university) and would result in them doing worse in life.
...and there we have it. If you want to selectively censor lawful content, you should be treated as a publisher.
> Justine Tunney, was also chained to her "FANGs master" Google

And now she's free, which creates an even more compelling narrative: true creativity can only shine in freedom, not in chains
You'd also be hard-pressed to find a widely used operating system that still allows .com files to be executed.
> I downvoted you for the lack of details.

Have you heard of... asking?
Bar price for beer in Portugal (over $8)is nonsense also supermarket price for local beer is way cheaper Overall at least half the quoted $5
lol... ok.. then it is agreed.. we should bring back comment score because the top comment is ----- "bring back comment score"... =)
His opinion is that such a bad comment would never reach +100 upvotes since, the post being devoid of additional information, people like him might downvote if they saw the numbers getting "too high".
My initial reaction was also "just bring em back".

With reflection, I think a good idea might be to show the score after you vote.

This way you get the feeling of making some difference i.e. immediate feedback, but also the knowledge that your vote wasn't subconsciously affected by a visible score beforehand.

The main downside of this would be people voting out of curiosity to see what a comments current score is. Perhaps displaying the score of a comment once it reaches a certain age (maybe three or four days old) would mitigate against this.
They send data every 12 hours, not "the iphone location database", there is a difference.
Research into what?
I'm in the US and I was seeing it every 2-3 times I loaded the page.

I assumed you thought it looked okay from how it was on your blog, as personally, I would have said "hmm, it doesn't fit". At this point in the story, I would go to the Etsy App Gallery and see if a helpful third party developer had one in a smaller size. On the other hand, if I was on the Board of Etsy, I'd probably get on Etsy IRC instead and tell one of the 70+ engineers there to make me one that fits.

If only every browser supported the 'zoom' CSS property, we could just apply zoom:80%. Then this one would fit fine... alas. Next we ponder what happened to the 'Super Etsy Mini', which died in creation with only the epitaph: "It was trying to do too much".

It's cool you're showing your Etsy stuff on your blog. There's still a huge mass of people who don't know about what is found on Etsy.
Thanks for posting these videos.
Do not confuse highlight quality comments with displaying scores. And while numbers shouldn't be the ultimate arbitrator, knowing that 20 people found X's arguments to be better then Y's arguments lends some weight to someone's arguments. Having been on both sides of this, I feel it's fair. It's important to understand when your view runs contrary to the community wisdom of HN. It doesn't mean you have to give in, but it's still good to know where your ideas stand.
I have been quite surprised at how my enthusiasm for contributing to Hacker News has diminished at the removal of comment scores. Not necessarily a bad thing for anyone.
Yes, you are. There is zero benefit in using XHTML with text/html.
You can have lowercase tags and quoted attributes in HTML4 if you want so. You don't pollute your markup with meaningless "/" which browsers treated as the invalid attribute anyway. Ok, it's not actually meaningless but <br /> in HTML(SGML) means completely different thing than in XML, only browsers did not
implement that part properly.
Is short: if you were using XHTML markup with text/html MIME, you were using marketing XHTML, which was parsed by browsers' engines as HTML not XML anyway.
If you were using application/xhtml+xml MIME type you'd know the difference.
It would be interesting to see how XHTML was "easier to manage across browsers" given that IE does not even understand XHTML.

I used XHTML for a short while before I learned what it actually meant. Then I switched to HTML4.01, now HTML5.
The nice thing about HTML5 is that it let's you have any syntax you want and it is not based neither on SGML nor XML.
Well, this is true. But again, if I can't make a decision for myself then I'm not completely free. Even if that decision limits my freedom henceforth, I've made that decision excercising my free will.

Probably your definition of freedom is something along the line of "the right to exercise free will and take responsibility for my decisions, and the ability to do so now and forever". With this definition, restricting your own rights is against this concept of freedom. My definition doesn't have that restriction.
It's called the Birthday Paradox

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Birthday_para...

the rule of thumb to remember is that there is a 50% chance of a collision when the sample size reaches half the bits of the total available.
maybe you could help me.

I don't want ASP.NET. All I want is a resident .NET program that gets called when an URL is visited, getting all the parms passed like CGI. I can handle the rest.

I really don't want or need the ASP.NET stack.

Is there some way to do this? So far all I have is a stand-alone program that gets loaded each time using Apache and CGI. Can't seem to figure out how to make it resident and re-entryable without using the HttpHandler objects off the ASP.NET stack, which I don't want to do. Lord knows it was tough enough getting an environment working. Going through the motions of overriding a part of the ASP.NET pipeline in a foreign environment is probably just a bridge too far for me for this project.

Any help would be very much appreciated.
This story:

http://www.wbir.com/news/article/147608/2/Diverging-diamond-...

Prompted me to do further research. As a motorcyclist, avoiding left turns across traffic is particularly interesting.
This reminds me of a locksmith featured on BBC's Rogue Traders who is now sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was found guilty of defrauding customers since 2002.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/consumer_advice/rogue_traders_...
Why do we have radios in all our cars? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why do we have TV's in all our homes? So we can pipe advertising to a captive audience. Why do we have our computers plugged into the internet? Hm.

Why is it that when you buy a phone now it comes with Facebook (and twitter and google)? And, on many plans it's "free" to use Facebook and twitter, and you can't remove it.
It's all about the channel. Facebook/Google/Twitter + ISP/Phone Provider = secure advertising channel. Can you turn off your radio? Can you turn off your TV? Can you use a plain old cellphone that just dials a number? The only way to kill Facebook is to turn off the advertising channel.
No, the incentive would be for them to undercount as the money still ends up in the machine. $10 in the machine counted as $10 nets $1 in profit. $10 in the machine counted as $9 nets $1.90 in profit.
They'd also price it "above equilibrium" leading to a loss of potential profits.
Here are just a few of the many results for an easy Google search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=infinity+is+not+a+number

http://nrich.maths.org/2756

(I particularly like this one, as the author is a top mathematician, here seen writing in her younger days.)

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/62486.html

(Ask Dr. Math pages are generally good for answering elementary questions from students.)

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/10/infinity_is_not_a_n...

(Of course the Good Math, Bad Math blog has a page on this issue.)

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-65355.html

(A discussion on Physics Forum illustrating how some of the confusions about infinity arise.)

http://www.jimloy.com/algebra/two.htm

(Jim Loy's page on this is interesting too.)
I clicked "Allow" and it's been saying I'm about to go live for a few minutes without actually doing anything. Meanwhile there's no battle going on right now so why haven't I gone live yet?

Good concept but very buggy and a lot of confusion. I would suggest you delete this now and repost when things work again.
> every other major browser fixed years ago

Chrome and IE are multi-process (though IE provides less protection as more tabs are included in the same process). I don't think that Webkit2, the multi-process Webkit that Safari will use, has been released yet. I believe it's intended to be released with Safari 6, whenever that happens. I don't believe that Opera is multi-process. So, out of the 5 major browsers, two are multi-process, one is in the process of being made multi-process, and two are not.
Obscure stocks can't have much impact on the stock market as a whole by definition.
What is your point? The books in question were also obscure.
Agree, I'm tired of all the minor release announcements on HN. There've been posts for every minor release of KeePass, for instance.
I got a review copy today, too. I will post a real review once I get further along, but briefly: I like how this book makes Haskell seem un-intimidating.

What jerf says matches my impressions, though I'm only 7 chapters in so far. (blame Kona. :) ) I think his "why Haskell is interesting" post has much more to it, though.

Also: Whoever binds No Starch's books does a great job! The lay-flat binding is appreciated, especially for books read at a REPL. (Same with _Land of Lisp_, for example.)
Feynman's I.Q. was reputedly 125. He was a genius.
On Android you could use Shelter [1]. Might no be as good as as second phone but it heavily limits the data you expose. You can also freeze the app if you don't use it actively.

The biggest annoyance is that Android only allows having exactly one of those "Work Profiles".

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
What does Powercord do? This is the first time I've been made aware of third-party mods for Discord, so maybe there's something obvious that I'm missing, but even looking at their website (https://powercord.dev/) there seems to be absolutely no information about what it actually does.