jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The hunt for the Higg's Boson, and the "failure" to find it after all these years just seems like a reminder that empirical evidence > theoretical models. Just because the math seems elegant doesn't mean it necessarily applies to the universe we are living in.

I presume you're using quotes around "failure" to remind us that, in fact, there has been no such thing.

We haven't explored the full energy range where our models suggest the Higgs boson(s) could live, and even where we have searched, we haven't accrued enough data for a statistically significant result--positive or negative.

Claiming we have failed to find the Higgs is like claiming tigers don't exist without leaving New York.
The open-ended declaration "I can't believe you made $50k!" seems inappropriate and may have annoyed the theme author.
Thanks for the quick responses, I had doubts that payment would lead to meeting real investors. Its disheartening to find places that advertise to help you, and then at the last page of the sign up mention enormous fees. I'll have to work other connections then.

Thank you very much.
The US doesn’t really have a class system though — it has a middle class and an underclass. The fact that some middle class Americans are very wealthy doesn’t change the fact that they’re essentially middle class in behaviour and outlook.

The British, on the other hand, have a very complex class system and a meaningful upper class. I wouldn’t recommend trying to transport your understanding of “class” across the Atlantic.
React doesn't avoid this. They describe sharing behavior through higher-order components in their documentation. https://reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html
I got them too. Plus a 3rd one that just says "Action Required On Your Account." Tried calling & chatting w/ Synchrony customer service but the calls just ring then end after 4 rings & chat service is down.
If you were a small business you should be spending your time lobbying for tariffs against exploitative international manufacturers or even local subsidies instead of lobbying to pay your employees less out of your bucket of gold every year.
> The only way you could get different phenomena is with a small, closed community that would therefore be able to have locally different properties.

I run a private discussion group about quantum mechanics. It consists of only a few dozen physicists, and the exact same dynamic happens there. I observed the same phenomenon in the 90s with an internal discussion group at JPL. It was anonymized in the hopes that this would encourage people to speak freely and honestly. The actual effect was that it turned into 4chan. It was quite shocking to me at the time. Being small and closed doesn't help.
Hahahaha, this is gold!
Hmmm this isn't srictly true. It's a React library after all, and React is the rendering "engine" here. Even their description says: "Hooks for building lightweight, fast and extendable datagrids for React". Therefore React is taking care of rendering. I think what they really mean by "It doesn't render it for you" is that you have to implement the rendering functions for the Table, which is more just like providing a UI plugin that has no "default" (but I'm even assuming React Table does have a simple default, so it's basically just an extensible UI plugin).
The working homeless already exist Los Angeles/California. There are more than a few employed people, with kids, living in their cars.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11690325/thousands-of-californians...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-economicall...
Rather than skipping it as you are currently considering doing I’d add them as soon as possible for at least some end-to-end coverage of important features and authentication. If you have two or more developers I believe regression can take place shockingly quickly and it’s kind of sad to be made aware of a major problem by a user, I know first hand.

One thing that has been touched upon is that you are setting the culture, if you say you’re hesitant to sacrifice velocity for tests already that will probably become the long term culture and one day there will be no tests and everyone will be afraid to make any changes. Tests do take up front investment but they run multiple times a day and thousands or even tens of thousands of times over the lifetime of a product and pay it back.

I think striking a balance where you’re not overly concerned about coverage but have key end-to-end flows covered can make things more efficient while saving your skin and help avoid unhappy situations. I say limited UI front-end tests (these are the greatest time sink) of key flows, but then as much coverage of apis as you can do.

Also I’m founder at Tesults (https://www.tesults.com). Check it out. There’s a free plan but I’ll go beyond that and give everyone who posted in this thread one full target free if you email me. So you can report your test results nicely too and keep track of failures without cost. Any direct feedback is appreciated.
I used Google Site Search (https://www.google.com/work/search/products/gss.html), which starts at $100 per year. Outsource all that infrastructure to a company who's good at it, park your static HTML on a CDN, and enjoy fast worldwide access with searchable content.

That's not the only option, but it's a boss-friendly company to name drop. Most organizations wouldn't blink at the price, especially if it means you can move off dynamic hosting to far cheaper static hosting.
I wonder how it would play out if you were an atheist. Would they assume that you are actually a Muslim denying his faith to get through?
https://youtu.be/15YgdrhrCM8
If you like podcasts check out Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History episode on slavery https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-h...

And Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (season 4) on the Haitian revolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id70388977...

Slavery is an ancient and extremely complex topic. While it is certainly a moral evil there are very few heroes we can point to as moral saviors by modern standards. African kingdoms themselves sold their rivals into slavery en masse. Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have it.
Yesterday I was thinking about the same topic.

I fear that an attempt to rebuild civilization will lead us to the same mistakes we had made until now.

History has shown that nobody learns from it.
A $50 million painting isn’t considered a “collectible”, is it? I wonder where that boundary is. A part of a collection isn’t necessarily a collectible.
Exporting poor people while importing homeless people.
It means rent the beach house.
Delegation is not about doing the stuff you don't want to do but reluctantly handing off stuff you want to do to others because that is a more effective use of your time

Or because having someone else do that will be more valuable for the product or the organization as a whole. I recently delegated something that I wanted to do that I could probably do fairly quickly, but realized that it was good to share that particular task with a team member so he could improve his skills that way.
Agreed. I'm building https://increment.me and we specifically avoid web analytics and 3rd party cookies entirely. We don't keep data that doesn't serve a purpose and don't sell our data to anyone. For feedback, we use Increment itself to gather feedback directly from customers.

Having customers directly give feedback is one great signal that really works, particularly when you demonstrate your commitment to action it. When you combine this with a 1st party view of how the product is used like from ephemeral log data, you can get a great pulse on how well you're helping your customers get the most value from you - and how you can adapt to help them more.

I wish every business I interacted with had the same philosophy in creating value for customers and building trust in every interaction.
Realize we are all big time nerds with smartphones. Everyone else doesn't have one (yet?).

And when Twitter started out, even fewer of us had them.
Dating sites aren't that far removed from porn sites.

Porn movies, musicals, and martial arts films have structural similarities as well. People have published academic papers on this. Modern effects-driven action movies should be in that list too.

I suspect most dating sites are really just a kind of targeted link-bait. Those that have real utility will be more like Facebook. (okcupid seems to be one of these)
My 6 year old daughter kept asking if giraffe can swim, which I could not really answer or find answers to it. Now I got a logic answer, thank you.
To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page) for a long time.

I first inquired about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response "from management" on 3/25/10 that they didn't want to sell it. Understandable.

Now http://www.on2.com/ points to a Google explanation page about the On2 acquisition, yet http://duck.com/ points directly to Google search.
Instead of Assange they could have done the 'anonymous' leakers since it's their information that is really on display.

Also, given the criteria where is Osama Bin Laden? His actions have done more to change the everyday world for people in the US than any other person in the last decade.
Sorry, but does this mean Google have purchased DDG?
He got the information from The Cloud Market and they outline their process here:

http://blog.thecloudmarket.com/post/208291539/where-do-we-ge...
Ouch, fixed it. Thanks for letting me know!
He was a runner-up. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...

I wonder if certain people and agencies had a hand in this?
Simple answer.

With magazines, television etc you are targeting everyone. So if you run an ad that said "Vote for me because I will build a border wall" then you will attract 30% of the population and alienate the other 70%.

With Facebook you can just target that 30% whilst guaranteeing the 70% won't be affected since they won't see the ads. That is the feature that is unique to Facebook that is causing all of the problems.
I would honestly love to link to a trusted MSM report, but these outlets have been burying Epstein stories[1]. It's awful.

1. https://www.newsweek.com/abc-jeffrey-epstein-story-amy-robac...
There are plenty of games with female protagonists though, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Mirror's Edge, Portal, Last of Us 2 (just to name a few).
If you could, you could order it hands free from your speaker.
I was trying out HN-style pedantry; it didn't work.
I don't know about Bazel, but Blaze doesn't "check in binaries". Build artifacts are cached, but not "checked in".

The problem with maven and gradle is that their build actions/plugins can have have unobservable side effects.

This approach is more 'pure functional'. You have rules which take inputs, run actions, produce outputs and memoize them. If inputs don't change, then you use memoized outputs and don't run the action.

As long as your actions produce observable side effects in the outputs (and don't produce side effects which are not part of the outputs, but product state which depended upon in some manner), then you can do a lot of optimizations on this graph.

In my experience with maven and gradle, they are way way slower, and that's on relatively small projects
The best year of my career was at DO in 2014/15. We were growing like a weed. It was hard to appreciate the magnitude of the growth until I compared it to everywhere I've worked since.

It was a heck of a lot of fun. Thanks for bringing me on board.
> more kind of "inoffensive"

Fair, it's certainly not going for the eyecatcher look

The 16 gb option refers only to the soldered ram, you can expand it with a 32gb stick to 48gb, I'm currently running it with 24gb (8 GB stick). I'd have liked two ram slots, but for my purposes even 16 GB is enough. (be aware, some online shops might do the update for you and sell one with two 8 gb sticks, but I'm not aware of Lenovo offering something like that)
"Social darwinism" is an ill-defined slur, usually coming from the left, to describe situations where people advocate for regressive tax cuts and other things that reward societies' "winners". The analogous right wing slur would be "social engineering", whenever people on the left adopt various utopian projects to transform society, such as the eugenics movement, or wealth transfers, etc.

Neither have much to do with long run evolutionary processes, they are all temporary short run things. To really be an evolutionary process you would need to control the success function, but you can't just create whatever success function you want, you need to feed that state back to the next generation in a stable way over many generations, but the exact same thing that makes a real success function stable is what prevents the ideologue from changing it. If every generation could make their own success function, then no evolutionary process would be at work.

So it's important to tease out what is meant, and when there really are pre-conditions for evolutionary processes, then these must be recognized as operating, but when these do not exist, using the name of Darwin isn't going to make them exist.
> a little bit of joy

is a good description of what I feel reading PDFs efficiently, near effortlessly (which to me is near the same thing), and comfortably (also similar in that it involves minimal reaching, but also includes automatic semi-smart dark theming, easy good zooming, etc.) with Zathura.
From first principles we should be able to form a generalist approach to solving sales tax. Should be an algorithm in the public domain as far as I'm concerned. : )

Reasoning from first principles only works if you're Elon Musk and you don't actually have to go beyond a superficial understanding of the problem domain. Unfortunately, there is no "generalist approach" to sales tax or VAT. Every jurisdiction has different rules and rates. The U.S. has more than 3000 different sales tax jurisdictions, of which more than 1000 levy sales tax on digital goods and services even on out-of-state sellers.

And that doesn't take into account the dozens of different definitions of what is a "digital good." Here's a surprise for the unwary: in more than a dozen states, downloaded software is treated as a physical good.

I'd take a solution that got me 80% there.

In this case, the last 20% will take 99% of the time and effort. And then you'll have to make sure to do that work all over again next year, and every year, when the sales tax/VAT laws are updated.
I generally think the whole dongle issue is over exaggerated, you can mostly just buy new cables (once) and be done with it. The SD reader is one of the big exceptions I think. If you always need a cable to do something, you can just replace the cable with a USB-C one and be done with it. Having an integrated reader is handy for a fair number of people and it’s something where you don’t otherwise need an adaptor.
You're right, they might just find us tasty.
It's because we constantly spend time/effort on finding better solutions to things, but most people don't.
I'm just gonna say it. The design looks like a hard copy of the Macbook Air.
If it were me I would be like: "here is proof I completed it and that it works, source code contingent on my being hired ;)"
The problem with client certificates is that they reside in just one of your browsers - what happens when you want to log in from your girlfriend's PC?

You need some method of authorising yourself at new locations, presumably rooted in a username/password somewhere, and you need the UI for that to be dead simple.
Yeah ... definitely did; wait a minute, is that you John?
i really, really don't like paypal because of two things:

1) ruining the user experience by forcing users to leave my site.

2) waiting to get my money from paypal.

If you have the paypal debit card, you can get your money immediately from an atm. but the problem there is waiting to actually get the paypal debit card. also, if you manage multiple sites, you can't realistically have one paypal account for multiple sites.
The anthropic principle is not an explanation.
There are sometimes when the closest route to the goal, given that you are building a Java web application, runs through very small voice a factory factory. They're a possibly degenerate consequence of the interaction of a few things which, separately, defensible ideas.

One of these things is that you want to be able to pass objects over the wire without having to reduplicate all the code on both sides. For example, if you have Student objects in the student management system and also have Student objects in the university SNS, and those systems need to periodically pass data between each other, somebody might say "It would be great if they could do that without us having to custom-write data massaging routines. After all, we already have student code on both systems." and another guy might say "True, true, but we don't want to keep the Student class in sync on both systems neessarily." and then a choice gets made and someone forgets that one of the Students contains a graduation date implemented by a long-forgotten contractor as a wrapper class with some utility functionality which contains a Locale which cannot be serialized and then all of a sudden you are in the sixth layer of XML Hell.

Not that I'm arguing with you -- God willing, I will never, ever have to work with Java architecture astronomy again.
Exercise! It does wonders and can protect you from a lot of the fallout from stress, obesity, aging and all kinds of other things.
http://bit.ly/12aKL6p

And salad. I don't have a link for it but I think salad is huge.

There are tons of other things to do but I don't generally do them. I eat about 4000kcal a day, often go out drinking with my friends, don't sleep enough, and I'm often a workaholic. But I exercise and I eat vegetables.
Thanks. I searched the FAQ for "adv", but somehow missed that.
re: "I wonder how many similar postings exist from people who did not end up changing the world."

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

There may be one or two change-the-world posts mixed in there as well.
Some recent works:

"Metro 2033" by Dmitry Glukhovsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_2033

"Night Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Lukyanenko_nove...
This is actually one of the fun problems because you have to be clear whose perspective and location is the important one.

"My 10 AM video conference from NYC with UK-based clients is on their schedule, so my meeting time changes to 11 AM in NYC"

The important location is the UK and the time on their schedule. You get floated to the proper local time.

"I schedule an in-person lunch meeting on Tuesday next week. I'm flying to London on Monday. The calender has to know my location has changed but that the lunch meeting is in-person, and to change the time appropriately."

The calendar has to know that the meeting is in London.

"The 'location' field could be set in the above cases to accommodate as a hack, but from a user experience perspective, the user's 'location' for a video conference is their conference room which is in their timezone, so 'location' isn't the best name."

Yeah, when talking to other programmers, location is fine, and location is fine for a lot of uses, but it does get murky on the communication aspect over the wire. Although the person scheduling it would probably be the location determinate for the appointment and the event notice would need to put that on the other participants calendar with the scheduler's location.

"All of the above can be handled with enough check-boxes and radio buttons in the user interface, but that makes your calender look ugly, complicated, and messy."

I don't think it actually would be that bad. It's more a rules engine thing. I think it might not be that bad. We just get mired in the complication when options aren't really that many from a user's point of view.
Do you mean compared to C++ compiled with LLVM (as opposed to GCC)?

I've found that LLVM is generally faster than GCC and in some cases significantly so.
Is Wave alright? I have Comcast and I'm actually pleased with the service (not the CS, but the actual product of bandwidth). Wave has bandwidth caps but I don't generally exceed 300 GB so it should be fine (and I can get 1 TB if I want), but the price is way lower.

If anyone could chime in that'd be great. The reviews of Wave on Yelp and other sites are awful, but then again, they are terrible for Comcast too.
Your impression is wrong: Delphi hasn't been "open sourced".
The renters do - but they often don’t vote. And realistically, would you want to be subject to the laws passed by someone who doesn’t live in your area? Even if they say they’d like to?

It’s bad enough with things like federal marijuana laws vs state ones, and those don’t control where you can live or what gets built next to where you already do.
The other side of this is how so many people starting or running companies still dont have a realistic view of what to pay engineers.

They're pricing a budget out to rationalize an equity raise and are completely inept at what is necessary to get their highly specialized engineers.

Sure there are a lot of engineers working at noncompetitive companies making 80-180k and lower outside of the bay area.

But if you expect to spend less time on recruiting and less time on attritition for your skillset that only exists in the bay area or HFT firms, wake tf up!
That's more or less accurate (but more related to free time than location, I think).
With all respect to the VideoLAN team, my impression is that VLC is fantastic on a technical point of view, but UI and UX wise it is a disaster, making discoverability of its features a nightmare.

I agree, I want a video player, the fact that they want to add even more features on a super complex and confusing UI does not bode well for the future, IMO.

Honestly, I just want IINA for Windows and Linux. That app sparks joy in me.
To your second point, I don't see it as being out of step with reality feeling like I am part of something at work. We all want to feel like we are part of something and that we're contributing to society, one way we achieve that is through togetherness and being with other people.

I can think of many things that become boring when other people aren't involved.
> than bitcoin which is _only_ a vehicle for speculating on intrinsic value being used by a tiny minority

That’s a bit simplistic and completely lacking in big picture perspective. You even underline “only” as if you’re very confident in what you’re saying. Please do some research.
How much staff was required to make the behind the scenes event run smoothly? (Support, operations, helping speakers, helping attendees?)
You've probably put your finger on exactly why Whatsapp is 2x SpaceX - 55 employees and zero capital equipment. Grow it by 10 and it all goes straight to the bottom line.
Like I said, I don't know much about it. You are probably correct; it shouldn't be with Vulkan. But I think there are some problems with Wayland, and many things in the X protocol is good (although there are also problems with it).

OK, I looked, and I think you are right; DRI is better. It would work with what my ideas are (and I think SCM_RIGHTS would be used for this purpose too). Handling resize though would just be you can continue to render a picture of the old size and it will be cropped (or if made larger, the X window background will be displayed in the part outside of the DRI picture), or else it may handle the resize event to close the DRI handle and open a new one with the new size if needed.

The protocol would still be independent of the implementation, though. But because DRI involves system-dependent features, this means that the use of DRI is not fully defined in the core protocol. However, that shouldn't be a problem.