jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Two biggest understood uses of Incognito mode:

1) When you don't want your browser history to embarrassingly be discovered by others who share your computer or screen

2) read news articles when your free-reading quota (e.g. 5 articles per month) expires
From my experience, restarts are as important as mutation and recombination. The most efficient algorithm I've seen so far is a mixture of ES, hillclimbing and restarts. The whole field seems to be pretty stuck IMO, teaching the same inefficient approaches over and over again.
I have a semi-old blog post about how we do it here: http://blog.kristian.io/aws/2014/06/28/how-we-moved-from-her...
What is your opinion on this LZ scheme: http://zola.di.unipi.it/rossano/wp-content/papercite-data/pd... which seems to have very good compression effectiveness and decompression time.
You know, if we'd used a grown-up protocol like X.400 as the standard for Internet email instead of the hacked-up SMTP, there would be no spam now? Same for TCP/IP, HTTP, yadda yadda. We know how to do secure computing. Just everyone prefers convenience - users, and developers who want easy implementations.
I have a feeling either Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver had support for using both together in their WYSIWYG editor...
Thanks for the awesome link and agreed, distasteful. (could be worse.. at least it's not 'pimp my python!')

At least you won't forget.

pip install addict
> How did Java (as opposed to JVM)

Well that’s the point - they solved it in the JVM not as a kludge of bytecode.
>With the creation and proliferation of Modern Hebrew, there was a cost, though. Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic (the language Maimonides wrote a lot of literature in), and Ladino were victims of the centralization of Hebrew as the common language for Jews.

As if they would have survived in the 20th/21st century without the respective communities being isolated (as it was the case when they existed).

They'd be forgotten aside from token phrases and liturgical uses maybe, like Yiddish were in the US in a couple of generations...
It's possible, but it's misrepresentation to take what people may possibly be justified in believing and externalize it into an action Scott took, of "aligning" himself with Murray. That's dishonest.
Hard to believe now, but in 1933 the possession of gold by Americans was banned by Executive Order 6102. After the confiscation the price of gold jumped and people got duped.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
> One thing that will not change is the existence of small businesses; in particular, small merchants who do not have their own eTLD+1 registered. Registering an eTLD+1, and hosting a website specific to a your business is a pretty high bar to demand of all businesses.

Benjamin savage is with FB I assume...? Registering a domain name should be table stakes if you want to run a business and have ad tracking with increased entropy online.

Is it reasonable to deny access to individuals without a phone number but unreasonable to give less ad tracking entropy to businesses without their own domain? Something about mosquitoes and camels there, no?

If a business cares more than 10$/year, registering a domain is a nobrainer. “Small businesses” are just being pawns in the chess game here - I’m yet to see an legit “small business” owner who cares or thinks this is an actual issue
> People citing misbehavior by some cyclists need to get some perspective.

And some first aid for being run down by a cyclist, sure.
> We decided on compiler error instead of emulation

DMD does that, LDC (based on LLVM) does the sensible thing and vectorises with the widest available native SIMD. No idea what GDC (based on GCC) does.
Oh, come on.

They broke into the Capitol building, and in to the Senate chambers, while congress was in session.
Median housing costs are also less than 1/3 of median in King County, WA (Seattle's county).
1) Teachers unions protect everyone

Somehow people who talk about "child predators" always ignore the fact that a bunch of people who get falsely charged also get protected. That's REALLY important. My anecdata knows far more teachers who were falsely accused than actual child predators (ratio: 12 to 1).

A single teacher can't possibly corral the amount money required for a defense against a school board funded lawyer.

2) Almost all of the "incompetent" teachers left in place are there because the school adminstration won't file the paperwork.

School administrators are politicians. They are always looking for their next job. The one thing administrators hate is bad press because it will dog them when they jump jobs.

Actually firing a teacher is fraught with opportunities for bad press. No matter how distasteful the teacher's behavior--somebody in the community will likely be on their side. If those people are vocal, firing that teacher dooms your political career--probably forever thanks to Google.

Consequently, administrators prefer to simply shunt bad teachers aside rather than risk their career.

So, put the blame for incompetent/horrible teachers where it belongs--square on the shoulders of the school administrators who have made a political calculation and refuse to fire people properly.
It's not though. For example I used to be in hobby X, so I watched a lot of X based videos. As I fell out of the hobby I stopped watching X videos, so Youtube stopped recommending them to me unless it thinks there is a REALLY good X based video it thinks I would like.

YouTube also lets you easily add to your interests by directly searching for and watching videos about them. There is also the slow way where you have interest X and YouTube recommends you a video about Y since it noticed that it preformed well for other people interested in X.

I would never consider YouTube as trapping me as a frozen past as what kinds of videos it recommends are constantly changing as my interests in real life change.
I wonder how much a gateway router can do here.

Most of the data passing it are encrypted: https, SSH.

Cutting off the phone-home requests is best done on respective devices: you can run firewalls on most desktops and laptops, and even phones. Рhones often go online via GSM or LTE, without passing through the home router.

While a proxy like pihole can be helpful sometimes, cutting off tracking and ads is done best by browser extensions and by using open-source clients, where available.

The best the home router should do is to not be vulnerable to exploits, and otherwise up-to-date, and fully under the owner's control That's why my home router runs openwrt.
> The workloads present in an IDE cause lots of problems for JIT compilers

This would suggest the JIT is a problem. But that is not true, the "workload problem" really means "bloat".

Any software is written for the machine it runs on and Java programs are written for JVM. No machine is perfect and writing performant software requires that you understand peculiarities of the architecture you are working on. If you ignore it it is not the problem of the platform, the problem is you.

Now, the trouble with Java software is what I call "OOP bloat", which is basically overloading the runtime with overheads of abstractions.

What is acceptable level of overhead will depend on how much you value your time vs performance of application so it is not categorically declare it is bad. That assuming the overhead is accomplishing something else (like making the code simpler, easier to develop/maintain).
There's a difference between "leveled" and "nuked", especially before guided weapons existed.
It's an interesting reminder what a huge confluence of major cultural events was happening all at the same time in the Roman empire during the first century A.D.
It's something that is noticeable though. Rather than things just working and maybe a few bugs, it's buggy as hell and might just work. We have up to the second major update beta and the volume level overlay is still buggy (transparent corners are black) on a lot of Macs when the UI transparency is turned off. It feels like there's no quality control at all.
I like my dog more than I like other people's children. There's a comparison for you!
I didn't see this one mentioned: in addition to crossing city and county lines, ZIP codes also cross state lines.

http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_zipcodes_cross_state_lines
I have developed a one-liner toolset for Hadoop (when I have to use it). It's fresh to see a ZFS alternate of the concept. Don't like the JavaScript choice though.

GUN parallel should be a widely adopted choice. Lightweight. Fast. Low cost. Extendable.
The trick is finding a field that doesn't have legions of hungry coders waiting to fill your boots..

Good STEM programmers (i.e. science companies) are very hard to find. The jobs aren't as abundant as web dev, but they are there, pay reasonably and it's easy to show how valuable you are to the company.
Oh, my god. It's always one thing to intellectually appreciate these things, and another to begin to sort-of get a sense of the actual large numbers. All those stars. Wow.

I'm guessing now that even this doesn't actually communicate, say, even half as many stars as there actually are? Wow.
I agree and I remember the days of being a grad student and scouring the pages of High Tc Update looking for the next super-material. It seemed like every other quarter there was a hint of room T superconductivity and it was always dashed by the next quarter.
chjj said:

> Flattered to see it using marked for the markdown engine.

i am amused as well.

because i just did this the other day:

> http://gitdown.wordpress.com

"gitdown" -- so we can all get down...

*

i also wrote a piece called "markdown considered harmful".

> https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52

the world needs a new infrastructure for thoughtful documents,
including a new text-editor. but from the look of it thus far,
this github thing lacks _simplicity,_ by an order of magnitude.

-bowerbird
It is not clear what you refer to when you say ``buy".

By the way, you have drifted away from discussing the technological aspects of the Web. This line of argument doesn't help establish why HTML/JavaScript/CSS are better.
I think we're all susceptible to mood affecting taste, and like in medicine, where the placebo-effect may often be real -- if the goal is to enjoy the best taste, then being "fooled", doesn't have to be a bad thing (just like being "tricked" into getting better isn't a bad thing, but basing medical research on it, probably is). Ceremony can add to any experience; and it may be overdone and detract from it.

As for taste varying by how you make the coffee; I'd say that it does -- but assuming you're not doing anything "wrong" -- the differences would be subtle and dominated by the type and preparation of the beans.

Just like you can take a prime cut of meat and burn it to a crisp, you can ruin good coffee -- but the difference between getting it "just right" and "almost right" are much more subtle.
The statements by Facebook and others pushing moral justifications around Facebook's censorship fail to entertain the possibility that even morality is subjective and relative. Facebook makes its decisions based on its own goals and preferences and morals. Facebook has established itself unfairly as a moral arbiter on a platform that is so widely used that is treated like a public utility. The people who currently agree with Facebook may someday be on the opposite side of Facebook's moral righteousness and be censored. What then?
Stored on different servers in different jurisdictions, right? Sure it's not ideal if you want maximum security of your data, but it _is_ a huge difference from simply storing plain text.
“Despite being widely attributed as a Chinese curse, there is no known equivalent expression in Chinese.[2] The nearest related Chinese expression translates as "Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos." (寧為太平犬，不做亂世人)”
He didn’t single out any specific group: it was all-inclusive. As in, including those individuals. This isn’t debatable or ambiguous, and it’s disingenuous bordering on willful misunderstanding of how words and language work to suggest otherwise.
Try that in a big , enterprise project and come back and say.
>You have: 7 meters
>You want: ft;in
> 22 ft + 11.590551 in

Is there a way to get inches in ruler-based fractions instead of decimals? Imperial rulers don't give you tenths or hundredths of an inch, so I would find it much more useful if the output were "just under 22ft + 11 19/32in" or something similar.
The only issue I see with going pure HTML + CSS is that you lose those smooth client site transitions that tools like next.js/gatsby give you.

Is there a library that can give you HTML + CSS low kb site but those client site fast interactions (no page reloads)?
from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India

Denmark–Norway held colonial possessions in India for more than 200 years, including the town of Tharangambadi in present-day Tamil Nadu state, Serampore in present-day West Bengal, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
I guess that makes sense, but the cheap USB drives you find on Amazon are of recent manufacture, so for some reason it makes sense to keep making them.
Yes, everyone should get produce. We have the resources to make that happen.

Automation is inevitable, hence why UBI is necessary. UBI also doesn't mean that people can't get paid for work. It just means they don't die if they don't have a job.
I totally agree, the prevailing RSI advice about posture and exercise and fancy chairs and input devices and taking breaks is not one-size-fits-all. In my case, Sarno's book showed me how my neurotic fixation on RSI was making it worse.

I wrote this comment in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990976. My RSI continues to be totally gone (it's been gone 14+ years now, the RSI started a couple years before that), and I never even think about it anymore.

If you have RSI and you are reading this, please try to keep an open mind. Not all cases are the same, and fixating on/worrying about the RSI constantly is not necessarily the best path forward.
I'm way too tired.
Yeah, referred pain is weird. When people have hand RSI the root cause is much more likely to be a shoulder/neck/postural thing rather than a hand thing. Its unfortunate 'carpal tunnel syndrome' has become such a widespread diagnosis when IIRC something like 1% of issues are actually due to the carpal tunnel itself.

To use a web analogy, its like having a broken button on a webpage and thinking it's a problem with the HTML (the hand) rather than with the server (the neck area).
I haven't tried the escape codes for terminal window movement recently, but I used to use them for window tiling. Terminal.app used them just fine.
And for as long as we had human history we had to work to survive. Also I'm not saying there would be no art. I'm saying the quantity of people doing art would sharply decrease.

There is nothing wrong with playing video games all day. Except that in general it doesn't truly make people happy. I would say its a local maximum.

Attracting a mate is allready too hard for many people right now. Going jobless and ensuring a lot of people will never find a reason to belong will probably that issue only worse.
Well, the serving part of their index is in memory (or largely so) as has been publicly announced. But are you really suggesting they might do the same for indexing?

Let's suppose for a second that they can get 8GB sticks of RAM for 1/3 the retail price of around $600, and for the sake of the back of the envelope calculation, let's round it up to ten GB. So let's call it $20/GB of RAM. Four gigabyte sticks might seem cheaper until you consider they'd have to double the number of machines to hold them. Now they mentioned that the size of the index is 100,000,000 GB, which means that they would have spent $2 billion on this RAM alone, not to mention all the other components that are required to house it.

Especially considering how much their capital expenditure has fallen lately (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/01/22/googl...), it doesn't seem very likely that they could afford to spend even $2 billion on this. And the assumptions I made about the price of RAM are pretty generous, considering they'd have had to have been acquiring this for some time, and therefore that the RAM would have been more expensive previously.
See if maybe http://kutoken.com/ fits the bill.
BigTable is not a motherfucking key/value store. It's a sorted tuplestore with built-in multidimensionality. Hypertable is a direct clone, HBase and Cassandra use the same style of API but have slightly different storage backends.

Just because it isn't a SQL database doesn't mean it's non-relational or key/value.
Good luck on that particular domain. (I work for Mochi Media, and we weren't able to get it)
This is precisely what the "inversion of the telco model" talks about. And ATT ignored. Users want to pay for features, not access.

http://www.telco2.net/blog/2008/09/the_inversion_of_the_tele...
Up 60% in a decade? Thats maintaining, not growing for a tech company. Especially for MS, which could completely be attributed to more people being able to afford computers. The market clearly reflects that in their falling P/E over the decade.
URL shortners break the web in many ways.

Link rot, link hijack, it takes longer to reach the page, additional point of failure and domain based algorithms break. In other words, plague.
Ai ai ai.. bring lisp back.
It looks like the old Mini mated with an AppleTV; could this be a sign that Apple may be giving up on the AppleTV "hobby"?
No, it's not accurate at all.

"Protection money" means somebody is illegally forcing you to pay for something that you don't want or need, solely to enrich themselves. But it's not illegal if it's literally the foundation of the society.

Democracy is the most expensive system of government. It has to be paid for or it doesn't work. It's paid for with taxes. It's not protection money, it's fuel for a life support system that you and everyone else is hooked up to.
An Ubisoft badge is a warning label that says you should avoid buying this new game.

They may have made decent stuff 15 years ago, but now they make pretty garbage.
> Trump has been claiming election fraud prior to the election since he was elected.

Actually it is even more damning than that, Trump has been claiming election fraud since before he was elected in 2016. He was ramping up to make a claim the election was stolen until just after he beat Hilary legitimately.
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Space doesn't repeat, and will not fix.
Telegram has a broken business model from the start. It doesn't make money and it's not sustainable.

Somebody could take over telegram and start a pretty similar service to facebook since most of the chats are not encrypted. So if Durov were not to lead his vision of 100% free Telegram it might get really bad. A service ran on savings of the founder as philantropic as he is is not sustainable. They will either pivot to ads, to profiling or something paid subscription any of which will probably not be received well.

You can see more here: https://fourweekmba.com/telegram-business-model/
Congrats Roblox! Now start paying kids to make your games, set up a USD/RBX free exchange, and watch that valuation skyrocket even further ;)
But why?

It was a fine game when I last played it 10 years. What have they added that make it so good?
Since I am looking for a platform myself , and I asked on HN about Spree option , here is something:
http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/06/spree-vs-magento-feature-li...
I think the argument towards evolution being a fact is that we have watched bacteria evolve in real time. (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/02/evolution-in-r...)
So not only is it a good model, it happens to be elevated to the level of fact because we have directly observed it happening.
Only logical issue I see is his that in saying evolution is a theory and a fact this did not follow his pattern of things that are facts and theories. For instance, he said the existence of cells is a fact and cell theory is a reasonable way of explaining how cells function.

I guess I'm just confused because he uses the same word "evolution". It seems like this is the same thing as saying cells are a theory and a fact. But that doesn't even make sense as far as the word "cells" goes. Wouldn't it make more sense to say life is a fact and evolution is a reasonable way of explaining how life functions? Or something along those lines, I can't quite wrap my head around it. Perhaps someone can explain this more clearly?

He might just be using two definitions of the word "evolution" to make a point/sound more poetic. But this just comes off as more confusing to me.
> and GPT-3 responded “I am sorry to hear that. I can help you with that.”

Note that AI is lying here. It has no emotions and cannot be sorry but says that it is. I think that robots shouldn't pretend to be a human, they should behave as robots.
> You can make some very bad mistakes in python with dates because they silently coerce into each other in nonsensical ways

The Big Problem in Python's datetime library is the naive/tzaware thing. The same type is used for two very different concepts.
This post is a little insane, but I think the most important delusion to address is the iron claims. For one, in the interest of making this searchable, I'll point out that the oceanographer quoted was in fact John Martin. For the rest, you can look up EIFEX, and then read the May 30, 2008 Convention on Biological Diversity summary, which placed a moratorium on commercial iron-seeding efforts, leaving research on the matter completely unaffected. The concern was that companies were being founded to sell carbon credits based on this possible sequestration mechanism, and it isn't clear what effect this would actually have on ocean biodiversity. Reputable and recent papers in this vein can be found here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00022 and https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5847-2018

The rest of the post is better off speaking alone.
Someone should have told that to Chris McCandless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless
I don't mind blocking ads, but analytics? That seems like the taking the desire for privacy too far.

Why shouldn't site owner know you've visited their site? How will they do their job if they don't know where people come from, what content they enjoy, what devices they should optimized for, general demographic of their audience, etc.

These are all the things a restourant owner would know about their customers, for example. But no one seems to have a problem with that.
Someone did this in the aftermath of hurricane Rita I believe. They rented a uhaul and bought some generators, and drove halfway across the country to sell them to people the very next day. Then they got charged with price gouging.

Restricting them to a maximum 25 percent markup for all that effort (i.e. making them eat a loss) will obviously prevent people doing it. It's still just another example of the economic rule that price fixing creates shortages.
The self-delusion required to think that any form of regulation is somehow an affront to your personal freedom is the hallmark of our broken society.
This is amazing!
There are a lot of low level things that I don't really grasp and, while going through the APE description, I saw this: "The other tradeoff is the GCC Runtime Exception forbids code morphing, but I already took care of that for you, by rewriting the GNU runtimes".

Can somebody, please, explain if allowing code morphing will increase security risks?