jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't remember where I read it, but someone famous once said "for most people the best way to do good is to make a lot of money and then give it away" (or something to that effect). I couldn't agree more.
Anyone else use to get a design and put it through the Fireworks chopper? You'd draw where you wanted your table rows and cells to be and it would chop up the image and give you a lovely HTML table to display it all.

Was awful!
If I understand you correctly: the Earth is way way way way way way way way to big for something like an orbital tether too have any real effect on its movement. Besides the fact that due to the counterweight there's minimal tension on the ground.

I almost wrote "nothing man made", which is true for anything we can do now. But if you think scifi enough there's little that can't be done. Turning the Earth inside out is quite possible for certain levels of civilization.
pipes looked like the future ... but it was too early, I guess
Says who? Number of just bitcoin users is more than order of magnitude higher than number of users of tinder.
Although I agree that there is a privacy problem with some of these things. The fact that geotagged photographs is lumped in with this is nonsense. This is not "acting behind your back to betray privacy", this is good archival practice. It is also a desirable marketed feature of such cameras.

If you take a photo of the stone under which your 90-year-old mother keeps her spare key in her front garden. Then publish it on the web, that's your own fault; not the fault of the camera.
> There is nothing unique about apple except the sheer amount of effort they put into refining their products.

And even that is not so unique: Every manufacturer of high-end products does the same (e.g. Miele, which is famous for the quality of their household appliances - and for their price).
I like winmerge. Even kdiff3 is not as useful as winmerge, IMHO.

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
The Meisner transition is the transition to a state where the Meisner effect is observed.

The author also reports a "resistive transition", 1°C lower than the Meisner transition. He claims that this signs the superconductivity of the material and confirms the origin of the magnetic transition.

> Is (Tl4Pb)Ba2MgCu8O13+ a ceramic compound?

Most probably, yes. See http://www.superconductors.org/type2.htm.
I really liked this post.
I know it has to be taken with a grain of salt, but I found it a great reality check.

I also have a procastination and web-surfing ( hackernews :) ) problem with a job that doesn't motivate me.

A guy who got a PhD, a tenure and then a job at Google had the same problem.
I feel a bit better.
> "Build it and they will come" doesn't work anymore.

Did it ever? I feel like this omits the mechanism for people to get to know there is something to come to and reasons for them to come. Not sure why this saying really exists.

If someone builds a pile of garbage, I won't come, even if I knew about it, and I definitely won't be telling other people about it either.

EDIT: so the phrase is a variation on some phrase from a film from the 1980s where some guy was having auditory hallucinations ... https://samuelmullen.com/articles/startup-fallacies-if-you-b...
This is a great question. It never ever comes up during the sales process, I don't go out of the way to show them my (lack of) org chart.

If you do customization for larger customers (and you should), like boiling a frog, one day you become mission critical to their business. Once they recognize that, then they will start asking questions. Now they're kinda stuck with you. You did charge enough money, right?

At that point you must appease them with a plan. Have their code and database on a dedicated server instance. Have them pay for it and own the account (you just saved money). Make sure you're using their domain they control. Give them access to the source code. It's on the server, so that's easy. Write up a doc with how to access everything and all the frameworks and tools you use. After this, they will never bring it up again.

Worst case scenario, sell them the software outright. Price it much higher than you think they will pay. Then double that. Trust me, I've done this a few times.
Find is about as user-unfriendly as a shell command could be. I never get it to do what I want on the first try. And its error messages are always cryptic and unhelpful.
Weirdly, this kind of syntactic idiosyncrasy is something that got me interested in Erlang. Finally a language that uses full stops when a routine full stops. I find most of the rest of its syntax uncomfortable (I didn’t spend much time with the language, I’m sure it’s fine when you’re used to it), but I always found it weird to end a completed statement with a statement-list-joining punctuation mark.
Windows powershell: ii dir (eg. ii ./)
You might want to share your setup then.

My HP Pavillon with windows hibernates reliable today,
my very old netbook acer with Ubuntu/LXDE did so, too (but that was years ago).

Nowdays I gave up with linux laptops to even enable it, as it is quite complicated to set it up when you dual boot and use encryption. And after I did set it up, it failed over 50% of times on various devices so I did not bother anymore.
This is the initial SLIDE paper, this is supposed to be an improvement on top of SLIDE. Having looked at and run the original implementation I'm a lot less skeptical than the average post here. It was quite fast already and should be considered a toy implemenation.
> Maybe the opposite happens and we need even tighter coupling leading to a genetic engineering solution

You first.

As it happens, neuroscientists have become quite proficient in reading out the activity of large numbers of neurons in recent times. We do whole-brain activity imaging (of fruit flies) routinely in the lab that I work in (albeit not at single-cell resolution). The problem is that these techniques are incredibly invasive. They involve genetically encoded fluorescent protein sensors, surgery and lasers so bright that imaging time is quite limited (because the organism gets cooked).

That approach is never going to work in humans. The genetic engineering alone is enough of a problem, let alone the optical bench (not exactly portable) and the hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment you need.

And the whole reason that approach became so popular in the first place is because of how limiting electrophysiology is. You can get at best a couple of thousands of neurons with ephys. Certainly not the routine whole-brain imaging that is happening right now in neuro labs around the world.

So there's pretty good reason to be skeptical of neuralink. I don't think you'll ever meet a working neuroscientist who thinks this has any chance of working. What GP is expressing is entirely baseless. Of course neuralink would disagree, they have a profit motive and snake-oil to sell. Ask someone who actually works in the field and you're going to hear a different story.

If what neuralink was doing was actually worth pursuing, HHMI Janelia would be investing in it. They were doing ephys on dragonflies in flight way back on 2014 for gods sake [0]. They've got the chops, and that they're not doing it speaks volumes.

[0] https://www.janelia.org/news/anthony-leonardo-tracking-drago...
It's possible I am viewing the situation too harshly, but so far non-conformism been disappointing. I do agree with you that it's nice that there at least are some people doing something else. I am bringing criticism without proposing solutions, but I find it fun to discuss those topics to begin with.

Essentially it falls into a few categories.

- The free-speech crowd: while I appreciate that they go against the mainstream media and the neoliberal consensus, they tend to default to invoking values and symbolic victories without much in way of an actual plan or policy proposals. Essentially a new form of the aestheticization of politics in a different context. From Trump to Parler, it all feels very postmodern in a way and keeps changing randomly.

- The intellectual dark web: these spend most of their time hinting at controversy and reiterating their stance as free thinkers, but it rarely goes beyond questioning SJW ideology and arguing for just a more optimistic version of the current form of capitalism. (Pinker, for example) It's frustrating because it really seems like they could band together to produce some great things.

- Various self-help authors or commentators whose career is based on debates, media production, and who essentially promote the same ideas as the dark web, but in a more packageable format and with a focus on personal improvement and subscription or ad based revenue generation. (Shapiro, JBP)

- Rationalists: spend most of their time discussing lifestyle differences and AI. The latter is obviously very important, but they don't really address current problems and prefer to talk about Bayesian statistics in their own zone, or provide thrill-seeking to tech workers. It's unclear what they even achieve with all that rationality other than discussing it. HPMOR is great, though.

- The modern day far-left: those who aren't aligned with the mainstream and who don't pursue idpol are mostly in a state of disarray, in small numbers, a mirror version of the commentators described above, or subject to tankism

All in all, many of them are doing better than me on the front of ideas but it's not very motivating.
I'm still not sure what your point is.

I am not saying that the demographics in free schools are the same as in public schools, or that there is no correlation between where the students in a given free school live.

I'm sure they tend to skew locally, if that is your point, but in any case they skew much less locally than the local public school. So the reason a given free school has better grades than the public school down the street is not its location.
Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make. I am not aware of APIs on iOS that let VPN apps track and block per app connections flows.

Digging a bit deeper in the developer docs, it looks like it may be possible? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/a...

Given that the core firewall is implemented in Go, we should be able to port it to iOS without much worry. But first, must arrange funds to purchase a Mac and an iPhone :)
I use R and the Tidyverse extensively. Exploratory data analysis is definitely clunkier in Julia - you need the `@pipe` macro to patch up some limitations in native pipes, there's no `dbplyr` equivalent that I know of, and despite Julia's better metaprogramming in general, the lack of built-in equivalents to scoped `select`/`mutate`/`summarize` is a real drag. But Julia's type system, substantially better date/time system and utilities, explicit vectorization with `.`, and the use of functions instead of scoped expressions in functions like filter are all real benefits over R.

If you write a lot of Rcpp, Julia's performance without dropping down into a lower-level language is also a significant advantage. It's easy, bordering on trivial, to performantly implement a generic join (i.e. `join(f, df1, df2)`) in Julia; `dplyr` still doesn't have those at all, `data.table` only sort of does, and I believe the canonical R implementation (AFAIK) in the `fuzzyjoin` package requires holding the Cartesian product of the dataframes in memory, which is obviously not great.
I see you've never lived in an African country. Remittances of any kind, even between neighbouring countries, is slow, painful and depending on which country on the continent you're in may not arrive at all. I haven't lived in Asia, South America or even certain parts of Europe but I imagine you may find similar conditions there as well.
Just the sheer size of JFT (latest versions I heard approach 1B images), so it's probably impractical to train on it till overfitting.
No doubt lockdowns have caused hardships for various groups of people, but the following statement seems beyond the pale. No matter which policy you pick, there will be differential effects; this is true of the vast majority of public policy decisions. Do you have any evidence that COVID policies were designed with the goal to hurt people?

> Lockdowns were designed to cause ... the most acute spread to occur in the most marginalized populations
When you can publish it?

Without publishing it rather becomes tomb raiding even after thousands of years
Of course with a highly transmissible virus the opportunity cost between vaccinating an isolated 70+ person and a young person who comes in contact with many 70+ people is tricky to ascertain. That said, I don’t think here in CA the tiering system is attempting to minimize deaths by accounting for expected transmissions.
Does it violate the TOS that _both_ parties agreed on and signed? If so, then yes, I don't see why one needs special protection and the other doesn't.

At the same time, anyone is allowed to not participate on twitter or whatever and roll their own social network.
!g leads to Google, who also blocks yt-dl and other similar tools.

Edit: I was wrong.
I'm still of the opinion that the transporter works by murdering the user at the source and creating a copy at the destination. You would never get me to use one of those things :)
>The reason scifi writing so often sucks is that many scifi writers think this way. I also think part of the reason so silicon valley, techbro culture can be so toxic and short sighted is because these people grew up reading scifi writers that think this way.

This assumes that the major emotional and social development of the people who you deride is through fiction as opposed to interaction with your family school and community and somehow they manage to both avoid most meaningful interaction with people but also all good fiction.

It's a reductionist fanciful just so story told to justify a judgement call after the fact. Like someone discovered ice cream and decided that this and this alone is responsible for all the fat out of shape people in America.
The real tragedy of this whole crypto frenzy is how many people have apparently made it their life's mission to shill random coins on social media.

Isn't it absurd that so many people's primary hope to acquire wealth is by putting their money into something that was recommended to them on Twitter and that they don't even understand?

This is a zero-sum game, where the money you make, someone else loses. Crypto could be incredibly useful if it was simply a fully decentralised, cross-border, (anonymous) payment solution that is pegged to a basket of existing currencies. Wait, we already got that. It's called stable coins. But yeah, no 'get rich quick' in that one, so apparently a lot less interesting.

Who knows what amazing businesses could be created if the crypto preachers focused their energy and attention on actual value-producing entrepreneurship instead of FOMOing others into buying the random coin of the day.
>the idea of "banning" guns... preposterous...

As a Brit, our gun controls work quite well. It basically means the idiot down the pub is not allowed to have a rifle/pistol. It's not like they cease to exist - we're still the world's #2 arms exporter.
OK, I've mis-understood what people are saying. I often find these colloquial re-phrasings more difficult and convoluted than the precise and exact statements, but perhaps my confusion will serve others in thinking through things.
I see that as an advantage. What you're really doing is defining the interface for that function, and once the function is in use, you can't just change it willy nilly. Having to alter the type is in some way a "are you sure you want to do that?" layer.
The frustrating thing about modern browsers is that none of them try to be good desktop citizens, for the lack of a better term. If you have 8 or 16 or 32 or 64 GB of memory, and you open enough tabs, your browser will eventually consume all of it, even though most browsers are perfectly capable of suspending unused tabs when they're under memory pressure. They simply don't register a problem until your memory is nearly gone.

If you have swap space, it's even worse, because there's not noticeable memory pressure until you've always consumed a good bit of your swap. So I frequently find myself in a situation where I start compiling something or launch a game, and have my computer immediately slow to a crawl. Check htop, and it's always the browser I have open, taking ~13 GB of memory and another 4 GB of swap. It's certainly true that "unused RAM is wasted RAM", but that only holds when you can reclaim low priority RAM when you need to launch something new. Browsers are really bad at doing that, so they sit rather uncomfortably next to the other programs on your desktop.
Have you considered the logical endpoint of your line of reasoning?

Basically, loans should only be given to those who are 99% likely to pay them back. Anyone who is at risk of default, say because they lost their job should be denied, making a permanent descent into poverty and misery even more likely.

Health insurance should only be given to those who are already healthy. Anyone who is sick enough to significantly benefit from insurance should be rejected. Even if they have an easily treatable condition that costs $50 in medicine a month, they should be rejected, guaranteeing their health gets worse.

In a world that worked so hard over centuries to create modern healthcare, we should only use it for people who barely need it. We may have literally figured out how to transplant organs and save lives, but nah its too expensive so why bother?

In your world, the slightest shock in someone's life would mean all safety nets get pulled, guaranteeing they will never recover. Then that data gets fed back to an ML model, confirming that yes indeed, people who need money or healthcare never do well anyways, so why bother with a lost cause?

Anyways, your worldview is fucked. Hope you think much more deeply about it. Or just grow old in the world you wish for, maybe one day you will need surgery, insurance will reject you, banks will not loan you the $200k it costs, and you will die for the sake of the algorithms and profit maximization.
> I'm shocked that anything works at all, and increasingly I suspect that it does so only because of the unsung heroic efforts of silent minority...

I also have the sentiment that many organizations/processes are deeply rotten and dysfunctional.

The only explanation I can find for it is that the society/people are extremely resilient and adaptive - much more than it seems. One of the other days I was watching a WW1 documentary, seeing all those scenes with men fighting in the trenches for months and many who were lucky enough not to be killed came back.

Meanwhile I was thinking to myself - Fuck, if I don't have coffee and some food by noon I'm completely useless. The reality however is that under those circumstances people change and adapt. And it works the same in modern society - there are people living on the streets for many many years, under very harsh conditions. Good or bad, working or not things just move on.
Because they are lesbian women so they are the "good ones", it is simple as that. The NY Times is not different to Fox or CNN or any other media outlet in the US. They all have some agenda which they try to push, that's all.
Ha, back in 2008 I did this with the Dow, but by hand, in Line Rider. I think I've got it recorded somewhere.
yea, that's much clearer about intent. the other form is rather accident-prone.

do you know if it allows different row values for a and b though? (tbh I'm not sure if the old version did or did not, but I've never seen it return data blended from multiple rows...)
I hope all these raises, unemployment resources, remote work and collectivization measures stick around after. Flexibility is great.

What has all this coronavirus action made me feel?

The virus effects everybody equally (generally there are age things in there)

We're all about austerity of social benefits, "I get mine". How did the wonders of the free market help when we were in trouble?

We don't share nearly enough. We criticize each other too much. We miss opportunities to improve the social system democratically because we fall for the intoxicating allure of being sidetracked by narrow groups pushing to get more, just for them. Enough to break up the vote to give us multi-pronged, layered, comprehensive, and fair social security. The nod to only help one group to spite everyone else draws ire, to keep the cycle repeating as an emotional back and forth. Every time. We don't fix the statutes.

I hope anything that doles out benefits universally sticks around and becomes normal in life, after this.

I hope after this labor and health policies get more generous. Way more generous. And value people for being human beings, without preferential treatment based on who is most this or that. Raise the bar for all natural persons.
After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling.

I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut (https://www.jargonaut.net). It helps you build a nice, crosslinked list of terms/definitions, and provides simple slack integrations to allow you to pull in a definition into slack.

I have lots of ideas to add more value, but I want to get a feeling from others on whether you would use such a specialized tool instead of your bog standard wiki. Would you consider parting with money for it for your team?
Is there a medical reason why we need the complicated ventilators that can harm your lungs vs something like an old school "iron lung"?

An "iron lung" seems like something a lot easier to design in such a way that it won't harm people.
Thank you, I stand corrected! Please everyone disregard my previous comment and find a more reliable source of facts.
> The Incal may be a little hard to find these days

It may take a Bit, but its Torrent of insight is worth it.
How is it that they need to know the password in that instance? If the problem is that the computer doesn't boot, they just have to get it to boot, not log in to your profile and start monkeying around.
Thank you for the comment. The fact that it can run independently as soon as it's forked was exactly the point I was making.

Also, the cat | grep pipeline is illustrative. I remove it at the end.
Wait, they gave OM "Trial" status and React just "Asses"? How does that work?
Yes this is historical fact. People(fathers AND mothers) will put their nation, religion, ethnicity, etc... before their own family. This preconception that motherhood transcends all these identities is why I felt compelled to respond to the title. Look at war mongering politicians in your country and see what the gender breakdown in support is. It's mostly even if it's like mine(US).
The writing was on the wall when the board decided they weren't getting what they wanted from the at-large constituency & direct elections and shut them down, in doing so completely blowing off the Memorandum of Understanding. It's a bit surprising that it's taken so long to hit .org directly, it's a really obvious target if you want to find ways to turn an ICANN position into cash.

Full disclosure, I was one of those at-large members and they made it very clear that we weren't being good little peons.
These days the effort required to get a well-paying programming job is more or less equivalent to the effort required to start your own business. If you can start a business. It's worth a shot. Worst-case scenario, the business fails and you are back on the job market but you can use your startup as a demonstration of your capability to deliver on projects that require time and dedication. You will also grow and learn a lot and be in a much better position than your competition.