jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The preferences of individuals are more idiosyncratic, but certainly a wealthy man like Mr. McCartney would have had many more experiences where the police or security protected him vs. commoners that are treated with suspicion.
Exactly. Just think about how bad OCR is when it gets 90% of the words right! With a 90% word accuracy rate, you have roughly between 0.5 and 1 error per sentence in a typical text. That's not great. The only reason we can interpret a text that's been OCR'ed at 90% accuracy is that humans are good at filling in what the right word should be in the face of a spelling mistake. If it put in random, nonsense words, we'd just struggle and say the OCR software was garbage.

The previous paragraph is 91 words. Imagine reading it with 9 random nonsense words in place of real English words.
The last time I was employed, almost a year ago, my answer would have been one of the following.

1) I can't concentrate with the sound of this dickhead next to me eating 5 times a day.

2) You keep asking me why my ticket isn't done yet

3) I'm troubleshooting this other problem for a customer that I'm for some reason supposed to do concurrently with my assigned tasks.

4) I'm not interested enough in creating what is ultimately a html/css page, but that has devolved into a complex state management, component architecture, strict typing, and build system monster.

5) Meetings, though the last place was reasonable about them for the most part.

If I were to try and answer why I would be coding, the answer would be that the problem is sufficiently complex or new to me, and I have the mental and physical space to tackle it. Every one of the above 5 are constants in most workplaces, and it burns me out to the point where I don't know what compels me to keep seeking jobs.
https://rufus.ie

Load a Windows 10 ISO and click Windows to Go, wait a couple minutes. Full Windows on a USB and it’ll automatically rediscover hardware if you move it to a new PC.
Hackernews definitely has a political angle to it as well. It's hard to nail it down but the idea that HN is a totally free of groupthink is really dumb.
A few years ago I started having RSI issues. At a certain point I couldn't even comfortably hold a phone or glass with my right arm. There was no position I could hold my arm where I didn't feel pain.

I went to a physiotherapist / mensendieck for therapy, which kind of worked. The real 'cure' for me was a small Wacom Bamboo pen tablet and screens at eye-level. Not having to look up or down. Coding with a pen tablet is a bit weird at first, but you get used to it. And I love the fact that I can work again. I spent a few weeks at home on sick leave back then. Take precautions! Slow down if you feel something weird. You really don't want to get it.

One good practical tip I remember clearly is that your lower back may do some work to sit straight, it's the upper back / shoulders that must be able to relax completely. This is the opposite of bending over your laptop.

And as the author mentions, the body needs time to heal. My arm was literally very cold compared to my other arm, I had cramped muscles which reduced blood flow. Stretching (guided by a therapist / professional) helps a lot as well. I could feel my arm warming up after each session.

To this day I'm suffering from RSI, but it's manageable as long as I work with my pen tablet. If I sit on the couch for 30mins with my laptop, my arm starts acting up immediately.
Sorry to be pedantic, but PascalCase is different from camelCase.
This seems like a good thread to ask - are there any split keyboards that have the "shared" keys (5/t/g/b and 6/y/h/n) on both sides? I have never found home-row typing comfortable and often move my hands around while typing, which means the hand I use to hit a letter can change from word to word. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone else, but it works for me and it's made enjoying split keyboards difficult.
If a device is powered off, can it still be damaged ? ie would spare servers and routers be hurt as well, or just things that were powered up at the time of an extreme powerful solar flare
The flesh vs the Spirit. I've always loved the writings of Paul, even though I'm now an atheist.
I like the idea, but my first thought was that Apple's iMessage social graph may not be interconnected enough to work. I think that a rating service needs some level of critical mass to succeed. Many restaurants on Yelp only have dozens of reviews globally; if we are going to restrict the pool of raters to first-hop contacts, I wonder if the average user will have enough contacts to get a significant sample size.
What exactly would be the point? No two people would agree on the measure of benevolence.
Care to elaborate? Did it cover lithium / anything discovered, and not just theorized? Does anyone have a copy lying around they can check?
The 80s Tercel weighed something like 900 kg, while an RAV4 weighs 1150 kg. This also has an impact.

And the RAV4 has many more goodies that eat electricity - and did the Tercel even have aircon? Yes, the catalyser burns some fuel, but it is not the only thing there.

The biggest thing probably is that the RAV4 is much more powerful, and in the measurement cycle, the more power there is in the engine, the more of it is used, so the nominal consumption goes up. And to some extent this happens in real life as well. Modern cars are quite overpowered for the actual purposes of transport. Power is nice, because you can feel it when you kick the gas pedal. But that does eat fuel.
I've done some experiments in this area, by transplanting my existing vim-in-console-in-browser environment to VR. It's not good enough for me to live in or invest dev work into yet.

Steam has a VR browser, which I used for my tests. You have to get keystrokes in through a side channel, though, since it steals some vital key bindings including the spacebar, and it has its own screensaver which I didn't find a way to disable (and it can't sense keystrokes through a side-channel). A purpose-built browser wouldn't have that issue. Also, there's no way to control the positions of shells within 3D space or fill the whole 180deg yet.

The main issue right now is resolution. You get a lot more visual area to work with, but at the expense of a much larger minimum font size. I compared the smallest barely tolerable font size on a DK2 to the actual font size I was using on my main monitor, and it was about 3x the angular dimension; that is, the same visual area would either be a 300-column terminal on my monitor, or a 100-column terminal in VR. The DK2 is 1920x1080, so ignoring optics and subpixel issues, a 2560x1440 Gear or CV1 would make that ~2.25x, and a 4k HMD would make that 1.5x.
The "Personal Homepage Program" certainly grew organically. Many experienced developers prefer a much more structured approach to defining a language and environment, one with more consistent naming schemes. PHP cannot escape its roots -- it was doomed from the start in this regard.
I dunno... The first thought that ran through my head was "Jeez, I hope they don't screw it up."

By which I mean that I hope that SpaceX's mission to lift the human race out of Earth's gravity well, colonise Mars and explore the galaxy doesn't end up playing second fiddle to some elaborate ploy designed to sell more online adverts.
Or, get an eReader and strip the DRM from the books you do buy. Depending on where you live, this may or may not be legal, but it's absolutely an option.
Why hold these polls if you are going to discredit it yourself and put such snide remarks?

But anyway does anyone even read Time here in US?
"Conspiracy is pervasive in life."

I think a definition of terms would be useful. Cooperation is necessary for much of what one does. At what point does cooperation become conspiracy?
OK, webpagetest confirms the observation in this test (which loads this particular page):
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/101215_3AQ4/1/details/
Not quite. The article says the algorithm for each language is quite different. I'd be interested in seeing what the performance of the F# algorithm implemented in C# is. The F# compiler does many more transforms than the C# compiler. (For instance, tail recursive calls in C# just get emitted as normal calls; F# will often convert them into a loop.)
Here's a thought: Could it be a form of weak lock-in? If you fill your tank on Monday, then you're less likely to fill up at that cheaper gas station on Thursday. When the next Monday comes around, you're probably going to need to fill up again, and well, there they are :)
Um... I don't see $/tab specified anywhere. Perhaps the distribution of "tabs" will just decide how they allocate their $1,000,000?
> Poor house insulation

And you know what emits more CO_2 than poor insulation? Transport! And what emits more CO_2 than transport? China!

With that logic, we'll never cut emissions anywhere.
Jews did suffer hardship in the Soviet Union, that is true. But it the Soviet Union liberated people from extermination camps, and created an Oblast that was dedicated to Jews.
Here's a more detailed analysis of what the original Dunning-Kruger article supports and what it fails to support: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...

Key quote:

"I suspect we find this sort of explanation compelling because it appeals to our implicit just-world theories: we’d like to believe that people who obnoxiously proclaim their excellence at X, Y, and Z must really not be so very good at X, Y, and Z at all, and must be (over)compensating for some actual deficiency; it’s much less pleasant to imagine that people who go around shoving their (alleged) superiority in our faces might really be better than us at what they do.

Unfortunately, Kruger and Dunning never actually provided any support for this type of just-world view; their studies categorically didn’t show that incompetent people are more confident or arrogant than competent people."
Quoting from Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/14/path-photo-sharing/)

"Path is a private photo sharing network - think Instagram, but without the filters and with a privacy model that takes away any anxiety associated with sharing photos with people you don’t know. It’s based around email addresses and phone numbers, rather than a public database of users. And compared to other popular social applications, Path is going against the grain: there’s no follow system and the friend system is also quite different from what you’re used to on Facebook."
If it were 15, I would have to put the kind of thought into picking friends that I put into picking words on Twitter. 50 seems merely inconvenient.

I doubt more than 50 people care about my personal photos anyway. It doesn’t sound limiting enough to make it a new kind of thing. I could easily be wrong.
>It's not being developed but it's not dead.

The bigger problem is that the pi is a solution waiting for a problem, and until it sees more purchase outside everyones desk drawer there is very little impetus to clean up the ARM/Microsoft dumpster fire that virtualizes a guest OS on the device. The only people pedaling it are FAANG, war-drumming furiously for kids to learn to code for the love of god so they can stop paying programmers a reasonable wage.

everything the pi is touted to do, you can either accomplish with existing general computing or something like an arduino (and as a benefit, learn some electrical theory as well.)
You should read "Goliath" by Matt Stoller. In it he reviews the history of monopoly and how the US definition of it changed from the 1930s to the 1980s. Interesting historical read and it reinforced to me that both monopolies and competitive markets are societal constructs, not facts of nature.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/...
Interestingly, we don't have any of these problems with MySQL. We have several read-replicas on our DBs and things have been stable.

I will guess that you are much higher scale than us.
Have you looked at/into https://genode.org ? Seems more likely
to get something widely usable out of it.
> lowers the amount of energy spent on mining

I don’t see how that part follows from the rest. It makes sense that electricity consumed per time overall converges on the block reward plus tx fees per time. Since the reward is so much larger, energy consumption per time scales with price. Checks out.

But doesn’t the same apply to BCH? If the tx fees are even lower isn’t the block reward even more dominant, and so energy consumption should track price even more closely for that chain?

Also, showing my lack of knowledge about the specifics of the protocol - is the amount of work done to compute each hash really constant in the number of transactions in the block? Or just negligibly different at current tx volumes?
Of course he has that power. Voting party lines is much more of a thing in parliamentary systems. Typically it’s always party line unless they otherwise allow it.

And you can be booted from the party for not voting party lines.
Probably, Facebook pays zero tax in Australia, and I'm sure the government will be taxing this tithe...
This seems like a great way to get fools to trade something valuable (the electricity they pay for to run arbitrary computation) for something worthless (a new crypto currency).

If you think of electricity as fuel for computers, similar to fuel for a semi, then this scheme seems analogous to an attempt to get truck drivers to drive your stuff to it's destination at their upfront cost in exchange for an IOU that has no backing.
I'd recommend Investopedia to learn more about those terms. As someone with a robotics background, I used Investopedia extensively when I was taking Machine Learning for Trading (would highly recommend the course as well: https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-for-trading-...) if that's something you're interested in.
I'm really getting tired of the what-about-ism here. They should ALL be prosecuted. Any violent protestors. Anyone that does property damage.
Anyone protesting in a non-violent way should be allowed to do so.
What we are seeing instead is peaceful, non-violent BLM protesters and journalists are shot and teargassed. Violent protestors are allowed to get away without prosecution. And Trump insurrectionists are allowed to walk into the most important federal building in the country, and then walk out.
This is insane. As a country, we no longer know wrong from right, or up from down, or true from false. That is the definition of a major mental pathology.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Rush Limbaugh wasn't the beginning though. For example, listening to Coast to Coast AM where they talk about alien stories and conspiracy theories which start off as a way to pass the time when you've got a 12 hour haul across the middle of nowhere and very few other options. Keep in mind, most of this started well before podcasts and Bluetooth so your options were extremely limited across vast sections of the country. I can see how a show like that could appeal to someone intellectually curious about things who initially just dismisses some of the wackier stuff. But that's just the beginning of the radicalization pipeline. No reasonable person just starts on Rush. They work their way up through softer, easier to swallow drugs first.

This is similar to how I view 4chan. I almost went down that path because I started viewing it as an edgy teen and thought it's just fun and memes, no one takes this stuff seriously. But over time it becomes normalized and they do start taking it seriously. Looking at it now and I assume as a "normal" person seeing it for the first time, it's crazy.
You can probably believe that if it makes it easier for you. I do not want things to be hard for you.
I am not sure what’s the point of this snarky comment. Are you implying that antifa and similar so-called far-left movements are incapable of organizing?

This seems evidently false. Some examples of such organizations are By Any Means Necessary and Refuse Fascism. Both are formed by various anarchists, Trotskyists and other radical (in the sense of wanting to radically change the current organization of society) leftists. Both fight against Trump administration and for LBTGQA+ rights and various forms of socialism.
Back then, I'm assuming the contest was late 80's/early 90's the tech wasn't around for that.
Sure, there are pathologies at both ends of the spectrum. I do think it's worthwhile (particularly here), that software engineers/technical people are subject to their own set of development pathologies.
Totally missed opportunity for RCS IMHO. If RCS was available worldwide (I believe it is mostly still US only) along with encryption, it would have been the obvious choice for most people by now since it would allow users to use their favorite (RCS supported) app
This scheme was such a profound misunderstanding of probability. You have 100,000 of the billions of dollar bills in circulation, so what? And of course his faulty risk assessment bit him in the end from the liability of having $100,000 in cash lying around.

If he had invested the $110k in the stock market in 1984 he would have been a millionaire at the time of his death in 1999, but crazies and normal people never see that.

https://www.noelwhittaker.com.au/resources/calculators/stock...
I like the way your comment was written.
Of course Apple did not "hijack" anything: full screen support has always been strictly opt-in. But apps would feel pressure to adopt the system implementation.

This doesn't make much sense, does it? Obviously apps adopt the system implementation. The problem the OP is talking about is that the system implementation became pretty weird, broke some apps that used to work just fine (especially lots of xquartz ones), and thought that the best use for your extra monitors was to just display a dark gray pattern.

Personally, I learned to live with it (sigh, uncheck "displays have separate spaces"), but it does seem like a good example of Apple shoving a half-baked idea out the door.
Damn! Wonder why Ubuntu Edge didn't get the funding. It was quite similar but much better, why carry a separate stick when your smartphone itself is capable.
> Of course promoting drugs that work are a great outcome. Like what are we even talking about?

If it works, there's no need to promote it, your doctor will know about it from better sources than TV ads. The purpose of TV ads for prescription medicine is to induce nagging behavior - trying to convince patients to nag their doctors and so increase the sales of these things.

Like all advertising, it is a practice meant to distort our behavior in a way that makes us better consumers.
> What would be needed to make physicists search for such an explanation?

I'd say confirmation of a failed prediction by QM is what's needed.
Yes targeted downvoting for not following groupthink happens. Just like everywhere else on the internet that lets anonymous users vote.

But no, having your tally of meaningless internet points decrease isn’t really getting “cancelled”. If downvotes here make you sad, stop looking at them or go do something fun instead. You aren’t going to be uninvited to speak at conferences or lose you job because your HN score goes down.
Depends if Sony is hosting them or not (this is only partially a joke)
You're not going to time the bottom, but you can put a floor on your profits if you assume things will get back to where they were two months ago, and start buying little by little now. Because currently you can find many companies that are at 50% discount already.
For $DAYJOB work, I have a Dell Latitude 7490. It's nothing fancy, but it does the job. The only real downside is that we're a Windows or Mac only shop from a desktop standpoint. No Linux.

For my own stuff, I use a Dell $SOMETHING_OR_OTHER that I bought used a couple of years ago. It's a beefier machine with 32GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, yadda yadda. On that (and all my personal devices) I run Linux. Usually Fedora or CentOS.

I don't really run servers at home much anymore, but there are a couple of older laptops that are still up and running that serve a few miscellaneous purposes. One sits at my electronics bench, and is mainly for quickly looking up data-sheets, or circuit diagrams, etc. The other is in my bedroom, connected to a 32" display and powered external speakers, and is basically where I watch movies and stuff. And then I do have one little Lenovo tower PC that hosts one specific application that I'm experimenting with and wanted to keep local.

All of my other computing resources are cloud based, using a combination of Linode, Hetzner and AWS.

Do you prefer building your own desktop for the value per dollar or buying a laptop for the flexibility?

I used to, but these days I mostly value my time more. The one thing I may do at some point, is build a dedicated machine learning box with one or more beefy GPU's and what-not.
They very much are. Amazon's advertising business made $14 billion last year

https://marketingland.com/amazons-booming-ad-business-grew-b...
Note: The two paragraphs in the link you replied with, are not evidence at all. For example the author also neglects the variance in the mortality rate each year. If they were evidence, then the author would deserve a nobel price in epidemiology.

On the other hand, here's a nobel price winner saying:
"While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don’t support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place."

This article concludes with “The real situation is not as nearly as terrible as they make it out to be,”.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-22/coronavirus...
This looks cool. There is an important question that won't be answered for a while yet:

How long will the battery continue to give you a 21 hour charge?

Things might have changed since the last non-mac laptop I used regularly, but right now I have a 2013 Macbook Pro on the original battery that I still find usable for several hours at a time. I've never known a laptop other than a Macbook that comes close to that. Like I said, my knowledge of the subject is limited and I would love illumination on widely available battery quality in the 2020s.

In other news, as it became apparent that my 2013 MBP was not really fit for primary use anymore I went back to a desktop for everyday and I actually love it. I still carry the MBP for remote work and just-in-case, but the HEDC is really, really nice (12 cores, of course), since most of my time is spent in the office anyway.
> Do you still own personal laptops/computers even when their employer provides them a specced out model

Yes.

Reasons:

I control the personal ones (yes, plural), so they run what I want (Linux) and do not spy upon me.

Work machine is a w10 laptop, with all the usual corporate "spy on you" stuff, and the long policy document of "don't use work equipment for ...".

So work machine is used only for work purposes. No personal usage of the work laptop occurs, ever. Then, there is nothing on the work machine that "work" might get all upset about. In fact, the work laptop and VPN hardware box have their own, isolated, ethernet card just for them in my firewall, with strict firewall rules such that the subnet run over that ethernet card has no visibility of anything going on on the rest of my home network.

> Do you prefer building your own desktop for the value per dollar

Yes. In fact, all but one computer is a desktop model. The last one is a laptop, it also runs Linux, just like the rest. The firewall I mentioned above is another desktop model running Linux, which is how I could simply add another ethernet card and configure the firewall rules to make a hardware and software isolated subnet for the work laptop.