jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of gems in here, and in older 7DRL entries as well.

The nature of the format means that games (the ones that are actually finished) are focused, often highlighting one or two novel gameplay mechanics and/or mood/design elements. Anything more than that and the designer can't finish in 7 days. This also means that entries from 10 years ago is just as playable (IF you can get them to run) as the entries from this year.

Cogmind (mentioned elsewhere on this thread) started as a 7drl.

Each year they have judges grade each entry, so you can look at archives like http://www.roguetemple.com/7drl/2010/ to find the highest-rated ones and focus your search there, if you like.

Roguelike Radio usually has a show about the 7drl results, e.g. http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2018/05/episode-145-7drls-2018... .
I'd love a technical PowerPoint course. I find writing to be pretty straightforward. But when manager is like "can you create a couple slides about...." total deer in the headlights.
If SpaceX had a conformal antenna, it would open a new market of bizjets and commercial aircraft for them.
That’s a very good point.

There must be multiple social and environmental factors that have contributed to Italy being hit so hard (age of population, high rates of smoking and high levels of air pollution have also been suggested), but that could well be one of them.
Didn't we all?

It's an obvious idea like all the others. We're 2 years from a viable implementation.
This is one of the most unnerving things I saw on the internet today.
> If you are sick, masks are great. Even homemade ones. This is about healthy people wearing masks.

First, masks work better when both sides use them. In Japan, healthy people wear masks as well during flu seasons because it makes it offers better protection than wearing nothing.

Second, in the specific context of COVID-19, how do you know they're healthy? That's the key, because asymptomatic cases are estimated to be the main driver of this pandemic by far. And it's only worsened by the fact that only few tests are available.
The answer is obvious and not fairly deniable.

But, one isn't permitted to voice it.
IANAL.

What grounds did the landlord use to evict you? How long between you guys leaving and the Airbnb business starting.

Did you receive any and all relocation payments required by law, and has the landlord continued to file the required annual paperwork with SFRB?

If the eviction reason was either 'owner move-in' or 'relative move-in' then, if the landlord subsequently decided to rent out the unit again with the next few years, they are required by law to first offer the unit to you at the original rent. If you decline, they can rent to someone else, but again only at the original rent (plus the city-mandated max annual increase %). (And, no, the landlord can't get around this by airbnb'ing the other unit, and moving in to your unit.)

I'm less familiar with Ellis Act evictions, but my understanding is that these also prevent the landlord from re-renting the property for a significant period of time.
Pleading with people shouldn’t be part of the solution. Everyone responds to incentives. The government can and should fine people for hoarding, fine them for reselling, and fine companies for allowing it all by not having sensible limits. This would eliminate the profit incentive (for both suppliers and consumers) of bad behavior.
Same here: X is annoying for reasons hard for me to articulate, and the analogous part of OS X is significantly less annoying.

If Canonical completes their plan to replace X with Wayland in Ubuntu, I will give Ubuntu another try.

ADDED. I ran Linux for 13 years.
Yes, but note that there are laws and policies around it rather than people saying the question should be unasked.
Now for the prize question:

Provided many candidates fall on one side or the other, what does one prefer?
None of this comes to validate the opinion that
"USA unilaterally committed itself to ending the entire planet if they didn't get what they wanted." and that "The USSR were the adults in that conflict".

The first link is about a near miss. There were a dozen of these on both sides during the Cold war.

The second link is about the equivalence USSR saw between missiles in Turkey and missiles in Cuba. This is not about being adults in the room. This is about Russia failing to being stealthy enough in Cuba. Seriously. They would have done it if they could have gotten away with.

And US would have simply bombed Cuba with conventional weapons. Something neither country wanted.
Obvious possibility: it's out of their jurisdiction.
Oh god yes. I hate seeing that an article was « updated ». Well what the heck changed since I read it yesterday?!?!?

And this is a well-regarded national newspaper in Canada.
I meant that you don't need to know what a Turing machine is to understand what P and NP are or prove that a problem is NP-hard. I've seen a lot of people try to explain these concepts to lay audiences and Turing machines are almost never mentioned.
They do, just type !g within your query. There are many !bangs that you can use
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
It does. Could probably make it a little more clear by having the tail of the q a bit more curved, but it's clear enough now I think.

I'm not sure I like the contrast between the fat outline on the Q and the outline-less rest. The shadow looks a bit too pronounced to me.

Overall I like the top one best, though I'd try a few in-betweens, because I like the idea of the bottom one, I just think that one obscures the b too much.
I love how in the middle few panels, just 2 little dots for eyes are able to convey the frustration about "why am I wasting my life on paperwork when my real life is waiting for me?"
That might be a good default, but where would the seed come from? You also need to make sure that the order in which random bits are read is deterministic, which is a lot harder than it sounds.
Completely agree. I'm not up on the specific examples you mention but I think we need to take a big hard look at putting our society at the control of a handful of tech companies.

I think this is a good opportunity to mention new federated platforms that are gaining momentum like mastodon, matrix, and peertube that are inherently resistant to the profit motives of one company.
BTW I refactored/edited this wiki page as part of this update of the FAQ, which compares Oil to other shells:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#co...
Of course is an assumption (should have used the word 'probably', my mistake). My point was that once the bidding price enters the equation it no longer can be considered a recommendation system, even if it's only one factor of multiple (as I suppose).
Who has the encrypted key?

The statement is meaningless if you have the key.
There are lot of blind spots in this single author paper:

- Author does PCA to build a model however there is no data on fitness of the model. Specifically, what is the variance? Without this information it is irresponsible to make prediction to the year.

- According to Wikipedia, it is highly controversial to associate Maunder Minimum to "little ice age". Author provides no details/limitations on this.

Overall, it looks like more investogation needed. It would be hard to take this paper at its face value.
You should diversify your time, I blog, do consulting, tech coaching, side projects, podcasts. I have been lucky to have employers who allow me do side gigs, the trick is to have in negotiated before joining/signing.

You can learn more at
https://anchor.fm/learncsintamil/episodes/9-Layoffs-Everywhe...

also

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I agree. However people new to a language might be interested in how something like that is implemented.
The "solution" is to make it "not a list" by escaping every first "." in your first example with a backslash.

Yeah, this one _is_ annoying. I'm not one to post chess games, but I've run into this one a bunch in other situations.

The _only_ case where this particular behavior is helpful is where one starts _every_ entry in a numbered list with (the same literal) "1. ", and lets Markdown sort it out - and that can be handy, because you can rearrange the list items and they still number properly, but in every other case it fails - it's a feature that produces more astonishment than happiness.
> The last time I tried emacs, a bug in the golang major mode that hung emacs in an infinite loop ruined a few days before I moved (back) to another editor.

This can happen just as easily by installing a buggy plugin in any other IDE. I love IntelliJ, but have definitely lost time trying to figure out how to make something work or configure it to my liking.
Don't think so.

I think they put somebody in charge of it, had a conference, I don't know if they ever opened an office.

I think they got pushback from the very beginning, tried to withdraw quietly, then got pushed into taking a stand finally.
You have to pick your battles. But I'll say that the Language Server Protocol is a game changer. Now at least the battle is communicating with a single well documented high level editor protocol that works everywhere. Prior you'd have to first choose an editor to integrate with, chug through far lower level details of how to color code, make dropdowns, etc, and do it in the editor's plugin language rather than your compiler's. My guess is you'll see more editor integration for new languages in the future if LSP stays relevant.

In my own little toy languages, integration with LSP is one of the first things I do after I have the basis for a hello world. So, before if statements or loops. It makes a nice feeling to be able to see your language get to look like a professional thing so rapidly. Also I think it helps in developing the compiler, that you know in advance what functionality it needs to have in order to provide good editor support. Also helps guide what unit tests should look like, and helps find bugs because they are apparent as you type.

So we could see an explosion of domain languages, since they are usually more about tooling, and with tooling a nice editor integration is very helpful.
Yes they need to be used in conjunction with therapy... but kind of like a surgeon's tools need to be used in conjunction with a surgeon.

There's absolutely nothing placebo-like whatsoever about psilocybin, any more than a surgeon's tools are placebos. It's an extremely powerful tool that can be applied in a therapeutic context.
The person who runs the model won’t be able to infer anything. The result of the model is itself encrypted, and would need to be decrypted using the original encryption key.
Can anyone here comment on what kinds of proofs coq is a good tool for, and what kinds of proofs are impractically hard for it to handle? I'm aware that most proofs aren't formalized, and now and again we hear that mathematicians spend a long time trying to assess whether a proof has errors. From that, I infer that there are proof approaches that are challenging to capture in tools like this (or else any proof not obviously correct could be formalised to resolve the issue). What are those hard-to-capture techniques?
Best in class!
This entire thread will be taken down shortly. I've noticed the interesting pattern of comments being downvoted or flagged if they mention the lab.
I think the pandemic is really pulling the mask off in that it neatly sorts out the kind of people who worry about vulnerable people, the elderly and not overwhelming the healthcare system so that more could live on one hand, and the kind of people who worry first and foremost about "the economy", and whatever imaginary deaths a recession could entail based on some abstract sleight-of-hand reasoning.
http://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020
These computational chemistry problems make it easy-ish to eliminate candidate drugs that would be impossible in practice. Think of it as narrowing the search space, or reducing the size of the haystack rather than trying to find the cure/needle.
There's a much much simpler explanation for the stagnation of real GDP. You have to look at energy consumption (joules / year). The correlations are uncanny and seem to explain just about everything.

https://youtu.be/wGt4XwBbCvA

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-02-06/charts-showing...

http://illusionofprosperity.blogspot.com/2012/04/total-energ...

It's so simple and accurate that I have no idea why doesn't everybody know about this. It better than discovering central banking.
> Were you tested for regular bacterial pneumonia?

IIRC, that's not incompatible with having a COVID-19 infection.

https://www.consumerreports.org/coronavirus/understanding-pn... (first google link I found):

https://www.consumerreports.org/coronavirus/understanding-pn...

> For instance, viruses can cause pneumonia directly. But in some cases, if a viral respiratory infection is severe enough, it can damage the lungs and leave them vulnerable to a secondary infection: bacterial pneumonia. This is common with flu, though scientists aren’t exactly sure how often it occurs.
That is also known as rounding error in f35 cost overruns
I'm pretty sure you can add e-mail aliases even after using the certificate from Fastmail.

(Disclaimer: this is undoubtedly true on macOS; I haven't done this sort of thing on iOS in ages.)
That’s a bad assumption because it presumes the only point of weapons at this point is to escalate MAD.
All lies. The only country that interferes with elections and democracies is USA and everybody knows that.
Wework business model didn't make any sense. Why wouldn't market favors competing landlords for rental spaces since that will ultimately brings the best value for customers?
Also, we definitely don't have a protection for employees working in a startup like companies. Since our political system currently favors the job creators, it's best to take them to court and so you can get your side of the story out.
To reconnect a powered island to the main grid, one needs to match frequency and phase with it.

There is currently no way to control the frequency or phase of the island.
Would you please stop using HN for political battle? We've had to ask you about this already, and you started and perpetuated a tedious political flamewar here. We don't want that on HN, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of their politics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The writer of that article and the pseudo-science "doctor" can go eat a dick.

Please don't do this here.
First thing I thought of when I read this
"We apologize for the incident and any inconvenience it may have caused. Rest assured, you can continue to use your AT&T 3G service on your iPad with confidence."

is this from 37 Signals:

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“We apologize”

You say “I apologize” to someone when you bump into them on the subway, not if you spill your coffee all over them. Then you’re “really, really sorry!”. If your service is important to your users, it’s a lot more like spilling coffee all over them than it is like bumping into them when you go down.

Also, you should find someone willing to take personal responsibility. Even if it’s not directly their fault. There’s always someone who’s in charge, someone who stops the buck. Hiding behind a faceless “we” is weak.

“Any inconvenience”

First of all, if I depend on a service and can’t get to it, it’s not an inconvenience. It might bloody very well be a full-on crisis. An inconvenience is when I can’t get my flavor of milkshake at Potbelly’s or if there’s line at the grocery store. This ain’t that.

Using the word “any” makes it even worse. It’s implying that you don’t really care what bucket my frustrations fit in. Every feeling I have about this will apparently fit the “inconvenience” header. Wrong.

“This may have caused”

Again, this is slighting the very real experience that I am actually having right now. If this didn’t affect me, you don’t really need to say you’re sorry. If it did affect me, it didn’t “may have caused”. It caused! Stop wavering.

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http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1528-the-bullshit-of-outage-l...
You are incorrect.

Review the precedent. The argument that economic linkage would prevent warfare was first raised prior to World War I. Global and Continental trade failed to prevent proxy conflict in Africa, the Baltics, and all out conflict across all of Europe. Britain and Germany had a level of trade and codependent exchange far greater that of modern day China and the United States.

Not to mention that the United States and China have fought and are continuing to fight proxy conflict today in the Sudan, northern India, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, and North Korea.

Your theory has been tested. It is false.

To assume that the United States and China simply cannot engage in warfare is a dangerous delusion. And I assure you, it is not a delusion shared by the Chinese government.
Interesting stuff. I think M.A. Foster used this as a plot device in "Gameplayers of Zan".
Most people were illiterate in the past because they didn't go to school. I don't think it makes sense to assume that some magical force will make people useful for non-automatable tasks in the future. Unless we achieve major breakthroughs in education, a large portion of society will be less capable than cheaper robots, and will therefore be unemployable.
Yikes, I stand correct. Thank you.
In Chinese at a carpet convention? ;)
It's a good idea. I've been doing it for several years and have about 3500 screenshots now. Not just homepages, though, but often blog post layouts, sign up boxes and similar interface elements. It's a huge asset to me and I can narrow in on ideas very quickly for future use.

I've been asked to share it many times but I fear there might be some 'personal info' in it and I'd have to trawl through to clean it up. Since I probably couldn't legally sell 1000s of screenshots of other people's sites, it hasn't been a priority, though I guess I could take donations or something.
One explanation of the possible higher education crisis could be that we simply have higher expectations. The world is moving faster and our education system hasn't caught up. Our grandparents typically stayed with the same company for decades, but we change jobs every couple years. Not only are we changing companies, we're changing skill sets. New competencies emerge and vanish in the course of years, not centuries. This is a very new development.

Were universities always a mediocre way to get an education? By today's standards - yes. The thing is, "mediocre" is a relative term.
From the article "In particular, Apple cites patents issued in 2009 and 2010 that cover the physical design of the iPhone along with various trademarks for its app icons."

It looks like this is more around form factor which is on Samsung, and only slightly related to screen UI.
I'm sad it doesn't have an API or I'd sync that up with my other TDL apps.
> they only look like a bubble because we’ve learned to treat education as a market-driven commodity rather than a social good

how can you not treat it as a market-driven commodity when a 4 year college degree can cost $120K ?
That's useful to know, I assumed it was a done deal. CrunchBase stills shows that article as the most recent info.
Could i use Lispy to add a CLOS style object system on top of ruby

What features of CLOS are you interested in? I just whipped up some CLOS-style parameter-matching method invocation in Ruby: https://gist.github.com/926156

I'm not sure how you'd do that with Lispy. But it's definitely possible in Ruby.

If you Google "prototype-based object model in Ruby" you get at least one solution: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=prototype-based+obj...
Fascinating. And furthermore, smart people may be at a major disadvantage with this game; as Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with this world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Put another way, overconfidence and bravado come readily to those with the least real skill and insight; people who know enough to realize they don't know may often stay quiet and deferential.

But at the other extreme, people who have reached mastery in something often exhibit a subtle authority which shows up in body language alone.
Hyperbole = $$ (tuition/living expenses/opportunity costs) + 4-8 years of youth. Valuable stuff that inspires hand waving.

Overgeneralization = The source of this ire seems to me to come from the idea of "hey, it wasn't long ago that a degree could guarantee me a job. Now not so much. Let's posit why." Although, I seem to remember that was the tone of the movie Reality Bites some two decades ago. So clearly, this isn't the first education bubble.
These days, equity is for founders (if you're serious) and prospective employees who didn't get the memo about the .com bust (if you're both fools).

Of course it's an outlier, but do you really believe Facebook isn't going to make a lot of its early employees rich at some point?
I think it's more like publishing. They lease a bunch of space (apartment space, ad space), and they have a bunch of clients who want to use the space (people, ads), and they match them together.
At one of my round 2 interviews (for an internship, so entry-level stuff), a large part of the interview was them showing some of their code and quizzing me on what it did and so forth.
the hard part would be making this palletable to the landlords.

Nearly all residential leases prohibit subletting (and essentially make the renter liable for the rent for the entire lease period, regardless of actual use.)

If you could find a way to solve that problem, that would have a great deal of value. However, like I said, the big stumbling block (and why this problem has yet to be solved) is that nearly all leases prohibit subletting.
Wow. Someone besides me has fantasized about bringing modern tech to the past.

Has anyone else thought what, say a nexus one (with my handy hp-48 emulator, plus shell scripting) would do to say, ww2? I'm pretty sure whichever side got their hands on it would just win.

Instant artillery calculations, speeding up the nuclear program by about a factor of 1000, and some serious encryption capabilities. All in the palm of my hand. I'm not even talking about bringing the cell phone network or the internet with me. Just perhaps a few cached wikipedia articles.
Because Google is heavily employee-driven and trusts individual employees to determine what's relevant to solving the problems at hand.

My teammates calendar topics are visible to me so that I can notice if they're getting pulled into meetings on topics that I should be meeting with them also. My boss's calendar topics are visible to me so that I'm empowered to ballpark the relevance of my project in context of other things my boss is managing (and so I can notice if my boss is working on something that should be relevant to my project that nobody has noticed is relevant yet).
I take it you are a fan of the Laundry Files then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
Someone says below that rollover may work OK but not negative times, for whatever reasons.
...and likely some of the data recovery companies already know about and are prepared for this.
In America the middle class defines almost everybody. Nobody want to be "upper class" because then you'll be the target of envy, and nobody wants to be "lower class" because of insecurity. For Americans, the phrase "upper middle class" means "Upper class but not multi million house"
Is it really? Class-based single dispatch OO with strictly explicit static typing—no gradual or optional or even Hindley-Milner type inference—is about as 90s a language design as there is. It’s like the “Friends” of PL designs. Which is to say, very popular and not bad, but certainly not modern or cutting edge.