jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
By ‘eck, when I were a lad we drew cumulative frequency curves and histograms by hand, and looked up statistical values in the back of a common formulae book.

When those tasks would have slowed class down — the teacher might not have wanted us to spend time drawing a curve when the real lesson was interpreting it — our teachers did it for us and put it on the class TV. Calculating statistical values was also done quickly with a $17 Casio engineering calculator.

TI-83s existed, but there was a culture in my school (ironically, a private one) that graphing calculators were a status-signaling more-money-than-sense thing. Too bad that such a culture isn’t ubiquitous.

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At that point in history APIs that returned a JSON object wrapped in a callback were few and far between (and Yahoo! had almost all of them). Pipes would give you anything you wanted in a callback, allowing for nothing-but-front-end mashups of anything that would hold still while being scraped.

Craigslist banned Pipes and un-banned it after YDN employee Jeremy Zawodny went to work there:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/craigslist-yahoo-pipes-fli...
https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/16/craigslist-yahoo-pipes/
I think the yearly release schedule is the big issue. SwiftUI was pushed out a bit too early IMO, but it wasn't a year early so I totally get why they released it this year.
Classroom morality: the behaviors that make the teacher's day easier and get good grades.

Playground morality: the behaviors that make a kid popular and respected by the other children.

...

This Nietzsche is interesting and it hit me like a slap in the face when I first encountered it, but the most fleshed out and vivid form of this type of thinking is Ribbonfarm Gervaise Principle articles.
Thanks for posting. I posted the Wikipedia page mainly as a basis for discussion. I am going to have a read. I didn't find such a prescriptive or constructive element in the Wikipedia page, though. See final paragraph in the "Society" section.
In theory, civil law can still be technical or principled. It's a set of instructions used to make a decision. The interpreter then decides, maybe based on law maybe based on precedent, or a mix.
In other words:

Justice depends on poorly written, easily hacked code with almost no amount of security team or patching, and also the security team is paid off.
You must live in a different world than the real one, where restrictions on land use and ownership are quite common.

Land is a finite natural resource, coastline even more so. Restrictions that even the playing field such that the rich aren't able to privatize all the beachfront seems like a great idea to me.
What did you find meaningful or interesting?
I never measured indoor CO2 level, but yours approaching 1400 ppm seems to be alarmingly high. I thought any level above 1000 ppm requires some intervention.
People without a purpose in life are highly susceptible to depression and self destructive behaviors. I don't like forcing people into bullshit jobs, but at least it gets them out of the house and interacting with other people.
Most systemd components are optional to use and not hard-coded.
Unfortunately military concerns are not the same as civilian ones.
I'd still end up having to disable it because there are plenty of trackers that are not bound by US laws (or any laws) and providing DNT is a stronger identification signal than not giving it.
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incognito mode is not made to hide you from the internet. it's made to hide your activities from being logged into your browser.
For the key-value storage, would it make sense to use it as a "large" KV database?

Eg, for sake of simplicity, imagine you're storing Git in Matrix (similar to what i'm doing, if i use Matrix). I've got two primary concepts:

1. A mutable set of pointers.

2. A series of key values, where the keys are content addresses, and the values are a byte array.

My initial assumption would be to use the messages to post all newly created blocks and changes of pointers. Eg, Send a message with a new content address and the bytes. Send a message with a new address for a pointer.

For a Git-like to work in that model, it just needs to slurp up any messages in the datastream. Making sure to also slurp in old messages properly that maybe are out of order (ie, reconnecting after being offline for a while). But being a Git-like, it's a fairly simple model.

With that said, perhaps the metadata storage in Matrix would better suite some of this? I just imagine Matrix isn't intended to host TiBs of `/state` metadata.

Thoughts?
I once thought about the simple idea of a place where people could go to improve their writing for comment boxes like this one. Something like a peer to peer writer's workshop where "I am thinking about posting this, what do you think?" would be the basic question. "Here are some changes you might consider", would be the basic answer.

Monetization would have to come from the exhaust fumes...something better than adwords let us hope, but the same general mechanic of not charging for the service directly.

Anyway, mechanical turk editing is another approach. I just think its a depressing race toward the bottom of the income ladder for staff and a slimy race toward upselling for the management. Better to gamify the process.

Good luck.
I’m very happy to lambast vaccine truthers, and it’s good for the discourse to point out that individuals making incorrect vaccine skeptic comments were also making incorrect vaccine skeptic comments in the past.
It's definitely not working in any Lineage 17.1 or 18.1 builds I've tried. Or is it in the gapps layer? I always go with the minimal gapps, so that would make sense.
I've worked in this space for ~10 years at this point, and happened to have a hand in picking UiPath as the RPA solution for a major US company.

At the time of the shootout, I'd never heard of it.

After testing it (and soliciting test user feedback), their genius is simple -- don't suck in a category of products where everything else sucks.

To use an example more might be familiar with, they're the Salesforce, JetBrains, or HashiCorp of RPA.

They don't do anything amazing, but they're executing like a modern software company. And all of their competitors (Automation Anywhere, OpenSpan/Pega, etc.) are still in the upjumped-inhouse-ugly-consultant-software mindset.

AMA if you're curious.

Edit: As to why they're valued at $35B, consider that their customer base is "Every company with IT too screwed up / incompetent to deliver new features in a timely manner."
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626837
You should totally rewrite this and open it under a license you like and post back here. Make sure it has a 1-click deploy to multi-cloud though - needs to be easy for anyone to launch it wherever they might be working.
If the medicine is easily available, then you shouldn't have any issues with your kids mating with people afflicted. Your grandkids can just take the medicine and it will become a non-issue in the same way that a cleft lip is today.
Google did this to themselves when they invited and fostered this culture. It had its naive merits.

But like many such attempts, what happens is these groups with good intentions get coöpted and controlled by others with bigger agendas-agendas which often are not in alignment with leadership.

When the PLA got too strong Mao devised the Red Guards. He didn’t want another Menshevik - Bolshevik-like episode.

Nor do companies.

It’s one thing to let people “have a say” in constructing their workplace atmosphere; to make it coöperative, inclusive etc., things which align with productivity— it’s another to interfere with the economics of the company.
DDG's results are very bad still, and they will likely always be terrible. It's not hard to find a query that is objectively much worse than what Google has. DuckDuckGo will never be able to catch up to Google's search quality results. It doesn't have Google's data, Google relies on the search behavior of most of the people of the internet to guide its results along with its vast human and hardware resources to create results that even Microsoft can't match.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-...
> what do engineers even do these days?

Solve problems with computers.
This tool isn't open sourced by Google, it's a guest post by a Google Summer of Code mentor, so Android/Google apps aren't relevant here.

From the article: "By Steve Hoover, Redwood EDA, Google Summer of Code mentor".
Seems like the typical heist movie at first, but the main action arc is just to steal the hardware key. Steeling the actual (digital) coins is then the most boring part of the film.
I believe it’s actually implied to be Mr. Brooke, Dorothea’s uncle — the passage is being read to him by another character.
IANAL: my comment is worthless, but

Pro: it's cheaper.

Con: investors dont like LLC's so they will make you convert to a C type, so in the long it will be more time, hassle, and money than you would have saved.
Well, all they have done is just DNS blocking. Change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and you can continue to access these sites.
This is one:

Music video: Sitar - Vilayat khan - Rarely Heard Ragas:
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya...
PureScript isn't just for business logic at all - it has its own UI libraries, React bindings, DOM API bindings, and so on. It is more often used for front-ends than anything else that I've seen.

You only need to use one of spago or bower (spago being the recommended choice now), and that's because npm style dependencies are not suitable for PS.

As for why you'd choose it over TypeScript... well, you'd do so if you want to use a functional language that doesn't allow arbitrary effects and has a sound type system.
Not a fan of this. People buying electricity at wholesale prices is on them.
Dogecoin had the best memes. It was really fun mining those and sharing dog memes everywhere :)
Gundam has some really amazing animation though. So many beautifully animated battles! I do spot some reuse here and there when I rewatch but still. It never struck me as a mere advertisement for merchandise.
I was sticking with the analogy established in the post I was replying to. To me they are variables in the pseudo-code, for the purpose of understanding the algorithm, not the actual underlying reality being discussed.
I work on machine learning on remote sensing imagery, and the Shuttle derived Shuttle Radar Topography maps remain an important freely available Digital Elevation Map (DEM) source.
Tom7’s sigbovik submissions are true works of art. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf
On an unrelated note, I'd like to point out that the divider between the blue/white sections of the page does not move when you scroll horizontally, meaning half the article text is covered when I scroll horizontally to try to get all the text in view (the page is too wide for my screen).
There's ways to make anything look hideous, as for your points.
* end vs {} is one more character, I can't believe I even typed this as it's so stupidly pedantic.
* Keywords.
no discredit to your developer friend, but the level of visual complexity that the OP refers to is far in advance the game you linked.

Here's a video of the Aves engine in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo

As someone building an HTML/javascript-based animated game myself[1], I'm somewhat aware of the challenges involved and am frankly amazed that the OP has this level of performance coming from HTML/js on so many different game objects.

[1] http://littlecosm.com - a massively multiplayer twitter client!
So, before talking about whys and why-nots, what is there that has leaked? Obviously someone has to feel morally equipped to analyze the data before any sane discussion can take place of whether it should have been leaked or not.

Now, if I had to form an opinion about something related to this (but that I don't exactly know anything about), I might consider my baseline the fact that any nation that continuously exerts offensive military activity outside its own borders should not in the first place have the slightest expectation of any "rights" to remain private.

It's indeed the U.S. whose "secrets" on the stake here; however, I'm not pointing particularly to the U.S.
That graph is unusual considering the title. I expected to see a graph of the traffic loss or the sales loss, but actually that graph just shows the cams available (in a diffcultto parse format).

What your story seems to show is this: you're a porn site that does not know it's a porn site. People are paying because they want the dirty stuff, same as they pay for the other real porn cam sites. Perhaps yours is more palatable to them because there are no weird pop ups and other in-your-face stuff. But it's the same stuff they look for on other sites that they look for on yours.

If it's about the money, should you not be aggressively exploring more in this area? Are you offering too little? Too much?

Now that you are turning the titanic, what do you want out of it? You want more money? You want more geek credibility? You want to sell it off someday?
My guess is Maps. Every desktop gMaps and mobile gps app request would contain money-saving coupons targeted for any generic POI search (like "coffee" or "hair salon") in its results.
In the darkest days of the model 3 production, do you think there’s much of a difference between him and the single mom with 3 kids and 2 jobs?

Sure, I can accept that the work a single mom is doing is much nobler, much more humane and much more deserving of our collective conscious assistance.

But there’s something to be said of our hypocrisy if we (via govt) tax Elon’s wealth _today_ when those same people are unlikely to have to assisted Tesla during _production hell_ (there was talk of Apple doing some Tesla acquisitions; but can’t remember if the US govt was in talks to help Tesla out there)

Elon’s wealth didn’t come out of nowhere. Many many people consciously invested. The US govt _already_ has access to every single one of those people’s wealth via existing taxes. Despite that, we have a society with non-zero single moms who can’t pay rent & healthcare.

There’s something wrong in our society here, sure. A wealth tax doesn’t seem to address that problem though. Heck, if the US govt could’ve put taxpayer money to ease off on Model 3 production hell then yes taxing Elon’s gains today would be fair. Otherwise, it’s just unfair, inefficient.
I don't particularly care about the topic, so no.
Its a gamble at every price point. You're seeing the price go up because of what you're suggesting until it reaches a point where someone is happy to part with their coins.
I bought a home last year. It had been pretty well maintained, but even so it had layers of forgotten technology I had to remove. Doorbell chimes that no longer worked. The panel to a long-disconnected alarm system. Phone jacks that hadn’t been used in a decade, at least. Layers of unrelated coax runs from various satellite and cable companies.

It’s remarkable how much of a difference you can make just by skimming off the layers of antiquated crud in a room.

It’s kind of wild to me how often these things are left in place even as they’re retired.
Same as in any other country, in particular USA - is there any western country without lawful interception laws?

The difference is, China doesn't seem to be spying on the rest of the world, while NSA is documented to be doing so.
"Fight like hell" does not mean violence. Political groups "fight" for this or that all the time. And yeah, go to the capitol to protest, like the vast majority of people did. Only a tiny percent had anything to do with breaching the building.
Trump is a leader of a populist movement. The call was to march and protest outside.

He gave no direction for them to go inside. And soon after they went in, he made a video statements on Twitter for them to go home.

I also thought its the "Peoples House" after all. Not really sure what laws were broken other than maybe trespassing. BTW, democrats have occupied legislators too during protests.
It's easy to start this with Trump because he's outrageous, makes a lot of people uncomfortable and makes spurious claims. But soon it will be every conservative politician (except of course the ones who want regime change in the right places), and then all "leftist extremists" who defy the whims of megacorporations. Those cheering this on are simply demanding a world run by technocratic oligarchs and homicidal communist dictatorships.
> If you exceed the capacity of a single node, sharding your data can allow you to scale horizontally to multiple nodes.

It's so simple, just don't have a lot of data that doesn't need to interact with other data and your problem is solved!

/s
I used to do the same until I broke my smartphone and found that I wasn't missing it at all. Now I use a clamshell phone someone gave me. It's very lightweight, compact, robust and it can last about ten days without being recharged. Sometimes, having an internet-connected device with me would be nice, but I don't find this occasional need worth the hassle of maintaining a smartphone.
Any Alfred users in SF yet? Thoughts? Seems interesting.
HN censors at work. I've had my titles changed also, with no notice or even an indication that the title is different from what I submitted even though it is still attributed to me.

I consider it bullshit.
Or risk never releasing a finished version.

I've spent 8 of the last 9 months having great fun writing an app. A month ago, I realised if I kept having so much fun, I'd never release!
Another possible 'canonical' solution is Technomancy (of leiningen fame)'s http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit. Removed a lot of the futz of installing emacs for me. I still haven't worried about slime or swank yet, and i had to use elpa's installer to install a simple clojure-mode (M-x packages-install [enter] clojure-mode [enter] i think) but its got a basic solid seeming emacs with paredit and clojure stuff going for me.

caveat: github was being weird and i couldnt clone the repo so i had to visit the downloads page and get it to package up a snapshot for me.

anyways, its the least painful experience setting up emacs ive had. ymmv?
But you can already get paid market rates. That's why they are called market rates. (Though maybe not at a scale of single-digit number of barrels.)
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything.

Still, they seem intent on pushing the limits.
This is a way of sticking it to Google that I can really get behind. Does it also block the Analytics tracking bug?
His point is that he doesn't know you need SBCL to program SBCL. At this point, the problem is not that it's too hard to install, it's that he's too dumb.
It is American. In the UK, we'd write 11th March 2021. But I don't mind too much when it's non-ambiguous like this.
Dirichlet used the ~4000 B.c. date for the creation of the Earth in one of his examples of statistical inference. Not sure whether that counts as believing it, though.
I frequently have a page sitting there, blank, with "waiting for analytics.google.com"* - and I assume if they weren't using it then the page would have displayed by then. Which baffles me - you'd think there'd be a way to have it finish loading the analystics after the page was available for reading.

*Or whatever the domain is.
I don't think you can 'accidentally' install a toolbar in Firefox.
Hi Elon,

I study nonprofits and the effective altruism community. I'm not super familiar with your philanthropic efforts, but now that you are the richest person in the world, what is your plan for the money?

The Gates Foundation could use your resources and do a huge amount of good. Alternatively, Open Philanthropy would have a lot of insight into ways to do a lot of good with your resources.

I hope you are thinking carefully about the impact you want to have.
Typical PE ratio for any stock is on average around 17. Just before the financial crisis the market average was around 25. Before the dotcom bust it was 25-30.

TSLA is at 1,671 LOL!!!

The market right now is around 40. Obviously technically we are in a recession but the stock market is going up. So where's the crash?

What are your typical measures that we have a massive market crash coming? If people believe this they will move their money to something that shouldnt crash or at least are isolated. Amazon is sky high as well.

Bitcoin is at $40,000. Ethereum is way up as well.

Gold is way up.

Bond market is way down(implying people are buying bonds in droves) Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland are all negative interest rates.

The thing about the summer and covid lockdowns. People got out to spend money in the summer due to lockdown being over. We are now back to lockdown. Which means earnings calls are going to be bad.

Late spring we will be seeing the crash. People are moving their money now to safer places. Tesla, Amazon, Gold, Bitcoin, Bonds is how they are doing it.

When the crash comes, it will likely not be Tesla.
Disneyworld didn’t really help. It had some cool stuff but it’s mostly waiting in line and being uncomfortable wearing a mask constantly.

The ocean and sun did. We drove out to the coast and spent a few days at the beach. I saw the ocean for the first time in 15 years, the second time in my life I’ve been there. The sound of the waves against the shore filled with me a sense of awe and overwhelming calm that I didn’t know was possible. My daughter couldn’t stop yelling “this is amazing!”, it was her first time. We went to the beach at midnight and she wished on a shooting star. We both got a nice tan. If I could do it again I’d have just spent the whole week on the beach.
> You can tell by how the project descriptions are written which ones to avoid.

What makes you avoid a project?
>> "the system consists of a set of complex collision avoidance and autonomous decision making algorithms..."

> It's 50 nested ifs, isn't it.

If that's the case, I don't see an issue if they're spread out among a reasonable number of functions.

I wouldn't want some sexy ML system that will sometime go off the rails because the clouds are in the wrong place to be within 100 feet of an aircraft control system.
Energy prices have outpaced inflation in that time frame despite productivity gains.
NBA Top Shot is major sports' entry into NFTs and is already dominating by market cap while it's still in beta. I've only been following it for a few weeks, but collectors are going nuts, but not quite to the point of some other NFTs yet. It still seems to be a fairly small crowd doing most of the buying and selling compared to the NBA's broad reach.
> Won says her tenant owes her more than $80,000 in back rent.
Also be wary with any company which "also does Cassandra" amongst a suite of products and isn't FAANG scale.

Chances are they absolutely don't have the headcount to properly manage it and were just filling out the portfolio they wanted to offer.