jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Who gives a crap? Even if there are measurable statistical differences in competence at various activities between the sexes (which is far from proven), the average variation between two individuals is far, far more than the average variation between the sexes at large.

In other words, treat people like the individuals and stop ANY form of discrimination based on irrelevant categories, sex-based or otherwise.

Also, the article makes much of the fact that women are getting more education. But this is probably because it is both harder and less necessary for them to jump into the workforce straight out of high school, not because they're any better or more prone to academia. I have no hard data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that your average woman in her 20s is FAR more likely to be at least partially dependent on a husband or parents than a man of the same age.
It depends on how your computer works. If pointers are magic O(1) values, then sure. But if you need as many bits in a pointer as necessary to distinguish the total number of pointers, then you don't get an asymptotic size advantage.

Also, using n as the sum of the sizes of all the elements is not normal.
Don't index funds and completely random selections ALSO outperform most professional stock pickers?
Question: How exactly will carriers charge for tethering? I have Nexus One running 2.2 - turning on tethering is just one touch.

Are they going to content sniff and just hope that catches most people? Or are the non-unlocked Android phones restricted to carrier approved apps?
Or maybe you'll get downvoted for saying "I'm sure I'll get downvoted."
The discussion about CNNIC's inclusion in Firefox is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095121
I have 4 cores with hyperthreading enabled (so 8 "threads"), and find that -j10 is the fastest.
# sudo make xconfig

should give you a point-and-click interface to the same menu. I haven't used it in years, but it was pretty clunky back then. It's just nicer to poke around in than the text-mode menu.
That's exactly my experience with linux/unix tutorials also. They tend to give an exact, step-by-step account of what to type in to the shell, with no explanation whatsoever of what any of the commands actually do. Then you find that something has slightly changed with the latest version of package xyz, and you're lost.
The Wikipedia page for muon topography describes an experiment from 2011 where a reactor mockup was scanned in three weeks. That's a long time but seemingly reasonable for this application.
> The reason to use a macro lens would be the field of view (since they don't offer much magnification, the field of view will be maximized).

Doesn't sound right to me. Is the field of view of 100mm "regular" (non-macro) and 100mm macro objective really different for distant objects? Can someone explain how that works out?
The MendelMax 1.5 kit you list is not a complete 3D printer - it would be a steal at $105 otherwise :)
I guess lawyers like run-on sentences. That second paragraph is one sentence, and is one of the longest I have seen. I guess the more complicated a sentence is composed, the more opportunity for legal interpretation.
Archimedes would not agree with this solution.
1. Dropbox: NPV is less than 10B. Will probably get brought for 3-4B by bigco if bigco can transcend internal politics. Not sure who will buy them - most probably Microsoft under Ndella.

2. Palantir: I have some experience with working with Palantir FDEs who were marketed to BigCo as 'gift from god to solve all problems'. They were pretty useless.

I think Palantir is basically shit. Wait and watch.
> Perhaps with the exception of Microsoft, who seem to want to sell Office with OneDrive.

I think this may be the most prescient comment here. I wonder if Dropbox and Microsoft may start looking more and more alike. MSFT with a OS as a side business and Dropbox with an office suite as a side business.
I worked for a company that had hundreds of boxes held hostage after a colo attempted to dramatically raise prices mid contract. The company eventually sent a bunch of employees with vans over a weekend to the city the colo was in to physically move the machines and reconstitute ~20 racks in a different colo.
There is preliminary data on a condition being termed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C and MIS-A for adult and children versions), where there immune response to SARS-cov-2 causes any number of organs to become inflamed.

However, very little is known about why it manifests or how extensive it is. Brain autoimmunity or even just cardiovascular restriction due to inflammation can cause neurological effects.

* I am not a doctor, but had covid and have many of these symptoms
Javascript VS Code devs: Ugh, who likes writing date/time formats? What if you could write a date/time string just by giving an example of how you want it to look!

Get this and other new AI-assisted #intellicode goodies as we build them.

https://aka.ms/intellicode-insiders
If you only mmap the file, how do you handle the case of inserting or deleting bytes in the middle of a large file?

Answering that might also help imagining why and how B+Trees are used (the "+" for iteration actually being at least extremely useful, if not important).
Sure, because what has been going on forever is the thing that just happened in the last month and not the age old scam.

Hey, saying that out loud, it sounds like maybe you’d be interested in a random penny stock I heard good things about!
You're absolutely right. Though the problem is the conflict of interest, not the idea that these things should be browser features.

The truth is everyone trusta these particular extensions and so they should have more privileges and deeper integration. For example, Google's new extension APIs actually make a lot of sense: they allow extensions to do useful things without actually looking at user data. This is a big improvement and it should be imposed on all extensions on their store. It's just that uBlock Origin is so important that it shouldn't be subjected to these limitations. That's why I say it might as well become a browser feature.
The whole point is the seamless transition. Would you want to sit there twiddling your thumbs in a potentially unfamiliar area, while the region's version of the app loads? Or would you rather just have it work?
I wonder if signal ever really came under serious attack whether Moxie has a plan he's sitting on to decentralise it with its existing userbase?

Of course people want to use these things with their phone. That's kind of 99.999% of the point. Apple and Goog have shown they control what the general population runs on their phone. Any doubt about their ability and willingness to unilaterally enforce that without due process and without even a full and thorough justification at a moment's notice has been removed along with parler from the app/play store. The sudden change in censorship stand in line with the democrats views happened exactly when it became clear the democrats were going to have control.

They're coming for signal and will use domestic terrorism as the wrapping paper. There might be also some "think of the children" and "Isis terrorism" involved so be sure to be ready to be accused of being a sympathiser white supremacist, islamic terrorist, pedo is if you like your messaging private /because/ you /must/ have something to hide! (From people who work at a building that celebrates J. Edgar Hoover - how could you want to hide anything from them?)
I mean the OpenAI team would never approve this application for production. It's very clearly stated (in both the article and use case guidelines) that medical diagnosis would be a "high stakes domain" and is unsupported. Frankly, I'm not sure why this result is even notable.
As a user? The first option.

As an engineer? The first option too.
r/bitcoin was taken over by Blockstream corporation and it's heavily moderated.

Open discussion of Bitcoin is at r/btc. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_aske...
I was recently shopping for a car with loads of space - it's actually surprising how little storage space there is in most SUVs, especially compared to larger saloons, estates and hatchbacks!

An Audi Q5, for example, is big vehicle, yet I've more space in my 3 Series GT. Very similar story with the BMW X3 and the Merc equivalent.

At some the very biggest SUVs, such as the Q7 and X5, yes, you have a decent amount of space - but it's absolutely less than you'd think for what are basically tanks.
I too hold the view that artificial intelligence is not reliant on computers. Sufficiently complex business logic is impossible for a single person -- even the CEO -- to have an end-to-end view (much less have a significant influence on). The emergent behavior of large companies fits a definition of an AI today; human "decision makers" are increasingly just reviewing and approving the output of algorithms.

I think the end state for large corporations will be to automate away so much of the human input that they end up looking like what we think of as "AI" in a broader cultural context. But we already live in a world controlled by AI, and we have for 3+ decades.
It's tolerated but advised against as far as I know.
"The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose" -Woody Allen, Match Point (2005)

I had one of those rare moments recently where I actually had an encounter with someone I considered to be an honest-to-God Genius. I won't go into the specifics. But it was at a public lecture. Elite research university. Auditorium packed with scientists of "Breakthrough" and "Nobel" calibre. And we were all "wow'ed"!

Afterwards I got to chat a bit with the relatively young researcher who gave the lecture. And I asked her point blank how she knew to follow path X when everyone else was following Y?

And she admitted it was sheer dumb luck! They had run out of the exotic material in the lab, and so she had to use its more common predecessor. Furthermore, all the elements had aligned to produce that infinitesimally improbable atomistic level perturbation at that very moment that led to her insights. Luck compounded upon luck.

And at that moment, it was much like PG described. Obsession, coupled with absolute conviction. She could not let go of The Idea. What's most interesting is that this finding occurred mid-200s. And it was only now a decade and a half later, that the world was beginning to realize its fruits ;)
I don't have a problem with having authorities as long as we can choose which ones to trust (and have limitations on the scope of their authority), and form our own as necessary.

For example, I'll be happy to add and pin my government's authority for the services that they control. I'll be happy to add a group of FLOSS hobbyists issuing certs for open source projects, as long as they are transparent and can demonstrate that they have a handle on security. In both cases, there must be some way to limit the scope of their authority, and ideally do things like pinning the authority so that one can't sneakily take over the other in an attack that results from e.g. misconfigured scope.

I think establishing identity is something that we should learn to do. When John Smith gives me his phone number, I'm probably looking at his face and I know which John it is that is giving me their number. I should also be able to go to my bank and get their cert when I sign up for an account & credit card. I'd like to have additional confirmation of their identity (-> reputation) e.g. from my government, but I don't know if I want them to be automatically trusted just because there happens to be a chain that checks out.

If I'm looking at some entity that I cannot meet in person, I should be able to see who have vouched for their cert and make a judgement based on that.

Kinda like PGP I guess, at a larger scale and with better infrastructure (geek signing parties and wide open keyservers are not good enough). The system does not need to be centralized.

It should be possible to have certs signed by multiple parties, to help establish trust without having everyone agree on a single source of trust. (At this point, I'd like to use a term that sounds smaller and less powerful than authority)

I'm not particularly happy with the model where the chain of trust in every case is established starting at some international megacorps that do who know what, and countless issuers are directly or indirectly "trusted" from the get-go until someone points out their abuse and removes their certs.
The learning from game itself was curve fitting, the Deep in Deep Reinforcement Learning usually means some difficult function is replaced by a deep neural network, approximating optimal values (for moves) trained on gameplay samples, usually in sense of rewards/punishments for reaching certain states; in games they could rank e.g. good/bad moves, winning states, losing states etc.
I believe it's the opposite (only marry in r-months).

But unlike English, in Polish r-months are randomishly distributed over the year:

• March (marzec)

• June (czerwiec)

• August (sierpień)

• September (wrzesień)

• October (październik)

• December (grudzień)

… so it's not like either rule would make any sense.
In my experience pair programming works wonderfully for short, intense and complex problem solving scenarios. The extra pair of eyes and a second brain gnawing at a nasty problem is a good way to augment each other's capabilities.

In fact, I dare say that pair debugging is where the practice really shines. Doing it all the time, for all tasks? That won't fly.
You're joking right? Do you have any idea how much money AOL makes from running their own online advertising network on these content sites? It is not chump change.
A better summary is "compression ratios within 10% of LZMA, decompression faster than gzip".
Neat article. BUT:

Please, for the love of all that is holy, read up on `Shellwords.escape`. NOW.

Or at least do the rest of us a solid and post where you're setting up these gigantic security holes-waiting-to-happen in production, so we know where NOT to put personal data...
I found the secret.
You guys that try to lure clueless young people into your small town career death traps are the worst kind of manipulators. Disgusting.
> to include the Newspaper Association of America, which said the legislation was needed because online piracy "undermines the investments that newspapers make in journalism."

Can anyone fill us in on how online piracy, specifically, affects newspapers? Enormous torrents of USA Today, perhaps?

My impression is that the internet at large obviates newspapers altogether, so I'm mystified. Grasping at anything to turn back the hands of time on their dinosaur business model?
Thanks for the explanation. I meant someone who's obsessed with guns.
Ah, I didn't say they're set on destroying marriage.

For all I could tell, they couldn't care less.

But from what I understand, they have this notion of the "patriarchal society" where the males control everything, including language, and gender roles, and everything else. It's obvious that marriage is a byproduct of this patriarchal structure.

I've heard a certain feminist (who happens to be married) say on TV that marriage is an old and failed system that we should get rid of. I think this is not too inconsistent with what the western culture(s) subconsciously believe.

The point of marriage is the creation of families in a social structure where pre-martial sex is strongly frowned upon, and where the social network is built mostly on top the "family" unit.

In the west, pre-martial sex is rather encouraged, and the social structure is not built on top of the "family" unit.
By imposing every possible constraint, not being able to do anything, you can, ironically, achieve unlimited potential.
And I haven't seen any Iraq War-sized protest marches over Iraq or Afghanistan since January 2009.
In what sense is marriage "archaic"?

The bond of family is unlike any other bond.

You don't need a marriage to have a family; if you disagree with this, I worry you are getting concepts and titles knotted to tightly with one another.

Family as a concept has a clear, practical value; this much I will totally agree with. I don't think it is as important the shape that family makes, though, and thus far marriage has only lent legitimacy to certain forms of family -- one man, one woman, largely responsible for the welfare of the offspring they produce. I can think of a lot of ways in which this is suboptimal.

But marriage having clear, practical value? It seems the practical value you call out in marriage is that it acts as a sort of moralistic glue to hold a marriage together when other means of adhesion -- trust of one another, emotional support, physical attraction, etc -- have fallen by the wayside. If this need to not fail against some societal title bestowed upon a couple is all that is left holding them together, why is this good? How does "'till death do us part" help when it is more of a constraint and/or threat than a promise? And if the couple already has a sufficient number of these things gluing them together, why do we need this additional social glue?

So I'd like to see what marriage is meant to represent separated from the actual institution, and considered separately. If a couple has what a marriage represents, but lacks the title, I don't see how this is worth distinguishing -- or a union in general for that matter; I think single man/woman couples are more of a historical accident than anything. If a couple has the title of marriage, but has a substantive lack of what a marriage represents, I don't see how the title is going to make either of their lives better. It only makes them feel guilty for not living up to what they labeled themselves as, and I've never seen the benefit in that.

I am married, and there are few things that mean less to my and my wife's relationship than that title. It isn't the glue that bonds us, and it would not be the glue that would keep us together if everything else fell apart. But enough other people think it is that we found not being married a huge inconvenience; society in general, and the government in particular, are heavily tilted toward engineering couples into marriage. We'd have been happy remaining unmarried the rest of our lives if everything weren't so constructed to engineer us into wedlock, but we also didn't want to be so financially penalized for not behaving.

So we're married, but there are few things that mean less to us; we were married in all practical purposes before we had the title. Getting the title was strictly pragmatic. If this is part of what is tearing marriage apart, so be it; perhaps it would be better if the institutions that stood so much on ceremony faded into insignificance, and we started focusing more on the things those ceremonies are meant to cement.
That only holds if being sexually molested and having naked pictures of yourself taken is weighted at zero.

Furthermore, this statistic in no way indicates that these screenings reduce the risk of dying in a terrorist attack. 1 plus 1 does not equal 0. You've allegedly doubled your risk of dying, not reduced it.
I like what MySpace has done recently. They have made a major change in direction, and this is agreement is simply another acknowledgement of it. "Surrender" implies that MySpace is at war with Facebook, and that is not longer the case - MySpace is now positioning itself as a separate destination that you go to in addition to Facebook, one with a much heavier media focus. I think it's the best thing they could be doing now - playing to their strengths.
Alright! I can't wait until I, as a passenger, can't use my phone! Or I can't use it while walking near running cars (as in, every city street)!

Or my new car comes with a free cell phone blocker I bring in to the theater (some disassembly required)!

Honestly, wouldn't it be more effective, and less invasive, to install breathalyzers in every car?
What, then, is your stance - do you think there is a difference of degree or agenda that matters? Or are they all the same, and should all be thrown out together.
Consumer-facing ISPs have generally arranged their business around a highly-asymmetric, consumer-pays model. Right? If I want more download, I have to pay more. I don't get free, unlimited "as much as I want" downloads, and only pay for the uploads, right? So for a consumer ISP, the principle is "receiver pays"

For a commercial, content producers, the model is "sender pays" which makes sense. That's why hosting companies buy transit from Level3, Cogent, etc. They're paying to send.

What's happened is that Netflix has already paid to send, and ISP customers have already paid to receive, and ISPs have said "yeah that's fine, but if you REALLY want to send, you're going to have to pay AGAIN"

That's the sticking point.

Nobody's arguing that anyone should get a free ability to send, or a free ability to receive. All traffic is generally double billed, once for the sender's connection and once for the receiver's connection.

The "innovation" here is that some ISPs have decided that SOME traffic should be TRIPLE billed. Once at the sender, once at the receiver, and a third time when it crosses from the sender's network to the receiver's network.

Why, if triple billing is OK, should only the consumer ISPs be allowed to do it? Why doesn't Cogent or Level3 charge consumer ISPs extra for receiving more than they're sending? Under the consumer ISPs model of "receiver pays" it would be entirely reasonable for Cogent or Level3 to charge extra, wouldn't it?

You're basically arguing that the way consumer ISPs handle this is acceptable. OK. Why isn't the exact opposite also acceptable? It's not as though most consumer ISPs have a global transit network! They're the ones that desperately need more download than upload to satisfy their highly asymmetrically provisioned customer connections, right?

Ultimately the problem here is that there are several analytical frameworks that one can use to decide who is the asshole here and who is the saint.

Given that I'm held captive by my consumer ISP and have a fair amount of choice over what content I subscribe to, I'm more inclined to believe that the consumer ISPs are abusing their power over the content providers. I don't have pleasant interactions with them basically ever so I can't see why I would extend them the benefit of the doubt.
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I think there's a lot of honesty and practicality in your response but not the transparency or clarity needed for this to scale. These networks require buy-in / critical mass to function as intended, and not knowing if I (or my friends) will agree to the pricing terms after I get my network on board is a hard stop for me.

I do like the idea. Well designed limitations can add a lot of appeal, and in social spaces especially they can be fun to play within.
There is a gentleman's agreement between many manufacturers of street legal cars to produce vehicles that will not accelerate to faster than 120-130mph unless some special conditions or limits are met.

Been that way for at least a decade.
Wouldn't load. Title checks out. :)
If a police uses Waze to find me and catch me he can go ahead and just throw me in jail.
The answer to your question is "don't expect anything at all". If you want to start thinking about building something people really want, then the audience comes before the product -- I recommend reading The Mom Test to get started on this journey.