jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. These heuristics don't almost always work. The security guard has a 0% chance of investigating. How is 0% almost always?

If you make a confusion matrix its precision and recall is 0. If it almost always worked then its precision and recall would be close to 1.
I bet there will be architectural improvements, but in the long run, those can only go so far in comparison to process improvements (or even brand new technology like optical or quantum computing, or who knows what else).
The largest and least stable bubbles are often driven by credit but there is a wide range of causes. For example, one of the largest and less talked about bubbles comes from the shift from defined benefit plains to 401k style investing. In the mid-1980s there were fewer than 8 million participants with less than $100 billion of assets in 401(k) plans.[3] By 2006 there were seventy million participants with more than $3 trillion of assets in 401(k) plans. Now, what happens to the US stock market as baby boomers retire and there is a significant shift between people buying and selling stocks?

PS: Many bubbles are simply money looking for somewhere to hide. Assume the US cut it's military budget by 80% and paid of the debt in 20 years, where do you think that money would end up?
I guess this makes sense if you're standardized on JSON (as opposed to say XML or HTML) responses.
Do you have any evidence that this is the case? Most of the people I know who work as barristas (Starbucks or otherwise) are college students or people obsessed with coffee. And in the suburbs the demographics change even more. (Seattle)
This compounds with other fallacies in computing. Like picking designs that behave very well on average but show very nasty behavior once in a while. In particular, beware of people talking about big O notation without mentioning worst case behavior.
A recurrent theme in Roman political thought inhereted from the Greeks, as almost everything of theirs was, was luxury and the possibility for luxury to corrupt. Specifically to corrupt a person's public spirit or the general aim of perfecting themselves (the Greek notion of arete). So Caesar was cautious of the potential contained in evidently ambitious men who were not letting themselves go in luxury as they were potential rival tyrants, or they could be those who wished to restore a more Athenian mode of governance... It turns out there were plenty of both types around.

A related notion from the ancient world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
Indeed. Although it is "just one experiment, and the outcome was influenced by [his] own abilities." this kind of "benchmark" is what gives me ammo against grumpy, entranched dev who goes "new_foo is useless anyway, I can do that with old_bar too", and to make a hesitant hierarchy finally make a leap forward instead of clinging into aging, "mastered" technology.
Nope. Even if it was, consider how much traffic the instances around yours are producing and how that is affecting you.
I have to say, this thought has come across my mind in jest as well. It does seem like a lot of billionaires are jokes.

However, what about $100 millionaires? If so Steve Woz would be my suggestion. I can't think of when he ever really was a jerk. Maybe when he would block the signal of TVs in the college lounge, but that was more of a harmless prank. Even when folks copied the Apple II down to the board layout, he was fairly nice about it.
Which means you WANT to learn design. Thats great, and there are enough inputs from the good folk of HN here to get you started. Best of luck!
Elon doesn’t own $1.5 bitcoin worth of bitcoin; Tesla does.

I seriously doubt Tesla is involved in a pump and dump.
The trickle-down theory is not a claim that rich peoples' money flows to less-rich people. (And claiming the opposite would be absurd; rich people do not permanently take money out of circulation.)

The trickle-down theory posits that the best way to get money to poor people is to flatter the rich with more money. It is a goofy excuse for tax cuts. About the only positive feature it has is that it is useful for detecting the economically gullible.
The picture changes again on even longer time frames. Stock growth rates have been remarkably consistent over the past couple hundred years. Even the Great Depression is barely visible when you look at the largest sample we have. (Although, obviously one must discount a little for Keynes' objection about the long run.)
> the money brought in by the government does go to benefit the average Saudi

Except the oppressed 33% of the population might not actually benefit:

https://aeon.co/essays/are-the-persian-gulf-city-states-slav...

> Thus attempts to deny Saudi government-led investment schemes ends up impacting normal people, not just the rulers.

This is a weak argument, as it could be extended to mean that any government should be supported as long as any fraction of the support benefits the average population.
What is the book if you don't mind sharing?
ASICs.
You buy a share, it goes up. You sell it to me. Share goes up more. We have both won. How? Because the company created more stuff and injected it into the equation. We can literally get more out than we put in.
I've been cancelled! Says the wealthy celebrity on a media tour.
It works fine if you're working solo, but companies have to pay for it.

> To have a low-level developer tool that’s required to be in my menubar and administered through a closed-source GUI is IMHO an insane departure from web software development norms.

Yeah, this is why I mentioned the mac/windows shop part. Desktop is only required on mac/windows. On linux, it's just the cli, which works just fine (it's also free).

Docker desktop works pretty well, and I'm not saying they don't deserve the money, but I'm not going to spend my own money to do enterprise work, so I have to investigate alternatives (minikube and podman worked the best, in my experience).
None of your BlueTruth goes into my ears.
The forward march of technology is now censorship of speech.

We’ve been here before with DND, comic books and music. It didn’t really change much.

How do they censor something like a Linux kernel with built in VPN and containers, and distributed source control? At this point what of those old layers really matter?

They’ll target the boogeyman they know but numerous replacement stacks already exist.

Social science research suggests Gen Z has not shed its progressiveness as it ages out of its 20s like previous generations.

The traditions have been washed out of the youth. A bunch of scared politicians and elites are welcome to push their luck and make predictions city-states will take over the role of the federal government more probable.
Until ISPs and the backbone connections start banning the IP addresses
It really is that simple, but I didn't think we were there yet!
No we just need to let natural selection take it's course as cyclers share the road with multi ton metal vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_do_need_to_cite_...
Publishing user scrolls is a "massive hill" and a legal/privacy nightmare?
Hunch (http://www.hunch.com) for tackling a very hard problem (recommendations) and being pretty good at it.
So the PhD students you know don't go to conferences and the like? Odd.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020427
Hmm, what would those markets be in your opinion? Perhaps it's worth targeting a niche narrower than startups.
Ironically, just few days ago I submitted the link to Links programming language here on HN -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003828
The branding behind Foursquare has been amazing (http://foursquare.com/)

Not to mention the power they have with mobile apps on all major OS'
I'm actually sorry. Apologies. I know the core of your message was "you can get a PhD, and things will work out okay." I might be being intentionally provocative up above, because I too am sick of the many articles about education sucking, and comments that equate happiness in life with the Golden Rule. (The guy who has the most gold wins.) Maybe I'm just mad that it's gotten to the point that people feel they need to post rebuttals to these silly articles.
The interesting thing about this to me is how it highlights that by setting up a process we introduce a set of possibilities that have different probabilities of happening. Given enough iterations some possibilities are virtually guaranteed. If we make planes and fly them, some will crash. If we build bridges and use them, some will fall down unexpectedly. Not to take anything away from these endeavors or imply that we should be Luddites. It just fascinates me to see how processes make consequences (most of which are nowhere near as easy to foresee as loaded weapons being carried, unwittingly or otherwise, on public airplanes).
I don't know why you specifically would use it, but some developers prefer to mix-n-match their toolchain rather than use everything from one project.
How is this blatant ignorance getting so many upvotes? The author obviously didn't take any time to actually verify his claims.
Expanding a map to a for loop is very simple. Yes it removes a shortcut available when writing code, but when reading code I can consume that simple chunk of logic in one mental bite just as easily as I can a call to map.
Maybe those particular plots, but just last night I was watching (more like passively observing) a show on NBC where something bad ended up happening because a character was distracted from answering her cell phone.

Indeed, now days you could still have dramatic tension by showing the character being distracted by some new attention seeking appliance.
This guy just comes off as very smug about a language he apparently has no idea what he's doing in.

Bascially all the WAT?s are because Perl's lists are very different from Python's. If he had spent five minutes reading the very first chapters of Programming Perl he would make much less fool of himself. He explicitly asks to flatten the lists, so there shouldn't be much surprise that Perl obliges.

That said, the security issues he pointed out are real ones. Be very careful in you are programming CGI (in any language)!
Yeah. We're looking for a fruit tree to grow in our back yard in St Paul (44 degrees North), and this article got me a bit excited for something unique. But according to some sources I found, this plant's limits are roughly 17 degrees either side of the equator.

On the other hand, I know of a very successful peach tree in Milwaukee, so maybe it'll do "well enough" even if it's not ideal conditions.
I am from Denmark. 10 years ago tipping was only something you saw in movies. Today some places are trying it and they ask upfront "Do you want to leave a tip?". It seems so forced and wrong. It just makes the whole experience end in on weird note.

Needless to say, I dislike tipping and I feel it should be a part of the salary. The servers need to be able to just focus on their jobs.
Your first link doesn't have any graph with 1750, your second, which is same as the third, also. The figure 1 in the pdf is specifically "Figure 1. U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Gas, 1990–2012" So I still don't see any graph since 1750. You probably wanted to paste something else?

Humans have burned so much of C that CO2 concentration is alarmingly high, all the "natural" events during the last 400000 years simply didn't produce that much as fast as we do now, so we also can't expect anything to magically save us now. The oceans do get something that doesn't end in the air, but that's it. It happened before, it won't get better easy, that's what happened some 50 million years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therma...

"Model simulations of peak carbon addition to the ocean–atmosphere system during the PETM give a probable range of 0.3–1.7 Pg C yr−1, which is much slower than the currently observed rate of carbon emissions.[60]"

"Recovery: The δ13C record records a duration of around 120,000[22] to 170,000[1][61] years, slightly faster than the residence time of carbon in the modern atmosphere (100,000 to 200,000 years). A feedback system[62] would explain this slightly more rapid recovery time."

There will be the way back, but in the scale of 100 thousand years. And now the increase happens much, much, faster than even that event 50 million years ago.

Edit: maybe you mean this? http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/lawdome.gif ("Historical CO2 Records from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS Ice Cores")

As you see, 1750 is not a relevant point at all (just as 1250 and 1500 aren't, it's just that the increments of 250 years are printed): the concentration values are something like 283 ppm around the year 1300, 286 around the year 1850. It's obvious that it really started (visibly more than what was around year 1300) with our higher use of coal in the 19th century (and oil in 20th). Before that it's effectively an oscillation (an order of a percent or two), after that it already reached the levels never seen during the last 600 thousand years - like 30% more since 1850 but also since at least 400000 years ago.
If he called on people to murder another group, I would want to know that. What if I'm in the group to be murdered?

I wanted to see what he said that was so bad it had to be removed. But I couldn't, and I didn't know where else to look. So I'm left in the dark. I had the know-how to go to Parlor, but not everyone does. It just seems unfair that tech companies get to decide if the average Joe gets to see a message from the President or not. Trump should have normalized posting his messages on whitehouse.gov or something to avoid this.
I mean ... they don't. Twitter is really not that big of a deal. Removing his ability to tweet means ... almost nothing. He can still talk to the press, post to other social media, hold press conferences from the white house press room, he has no shortage of ways of getting his message out there.
It’s not clear to me that the direction the protesters walk is towards the capitol. They could just as easily be letting people who didn’t want to be associated with the rioting leave the protest.
However, Trump's tweets have become more and more unhinged after he lost the election.
Yeah it's a sad development.
On the other hand it might mean less Facebook dominance which is a win in my book.
This subthread is in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661674 but I've detached it in a feeble effort to reduce the steam coming out of our server.
Trump tells protestors to go home, tweet is removed and he gets locked..? Wtf is going on here? Is twitter trying to further escalate the situation?

Tweet in question was: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469288825958850...

Not just me claiming this, many people in the hn megathread saw it too and mentioned it too. E.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25663164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662781
Why? The contrast is important and highlights how difficult it is to peacefully assemble for a noble cause if armed representatives of the state are determined to abuse and provoke a response out of you. It underscores the hypocrisy of people who said that they would support BLM in abstract if not for “all the violence.”

Turns out the violence had nothing to do with it, which was obvious all along of course. But it’s good to know for sure.
Here you go https://twitter.com/cevansavenger/status/1346920924310867968
This is a great article. I've thought for a while that the way we teach maths is broken - not because we use too much rote or muscle memory, but because we separate teaching from practicing. We spend an hour learning a concept, and only practice using it when we get home. We spend six weeks teaching the basics of differentiation, and then move on to integration. While we do integration, we totally forget how to differentiate.

The article mentioned that memory retention is an exponential curve. Science has also shown that the best time to practice a concept is right before we would forget it. Put together, these two principles allow us to devise revision plans that make learning efficient.

Why are we stuck in the 18th century? We know so much more about how memory works, but we still keep doing the things we've always done.
It may be possible but that approach usually fails. Most of the time disruptions grow organically.
> The deal isn’t done until the money is in the bank.

Is this not commonsense? No offense implied, but I, a just-another-software-developer, have said "Thanks, but No thanks" or "Lets get over with the formalities first" on few occasions myself, when due-diligence was not done yet or the other party was hesitant to do it.

Its upto each individual/entity to secure one's interests, isn't it?
Why are there none that start with v,w,x,y,z? Plenty of perfectly pronounceable strings should exist.
This is journalism at its absolute worst. When an article/story/incident/conflict essentially just shows one side of the story, it is ALWAYS, without exception biased.
I removed a lot of garbage. Some exist, but the relative proportion wasn't good enough. There had to be cuts otherwise it would just be 26^5 combos.
Possibly in the US too. But that's almost beside the point: being sued kinda sucks even if you prevail.
Then I call total BS, because no upper middle class black person that I know is "constantly looking over their shoulder", at least not in any way that upper middle class white people do already.

I'm going to be done discussing this now; I'm happy to read anything you write in response, but this is one of those super-unproductive discussions that is inevitably going to embarrass me in a year.
You're right, I want about 5m.

Not to retire on, but to remove the need to work to provide a roof and food. So I can risk working on all the things that interest me and them tanking big time.
This service is enormously convenient. I think I would be happy to pay one or two cents per minute of calling time. But I wonder what their long-term pricing idea for this would be.
The biggest challenge to me seems to be spinning up instances once you get a spike of realtime jobs in parallel. Keeping the 'realtime' promise is often hard once your systems go into production.
We can get most area codes in the US. If you don't see what you're looking for in the UI, send a message to support@tropo.com with a request -- we only manually provision numbers for production applications, so use one of the existing numbers for development and testing, then add a local number for production.

We can port existing numbers to Tropo for you if you want. Just let us know.
Can you post some sources? I'm extremely skeptical. If you have three kids in America, you're telling me that parents need to make $100k / yr just to cover the cost of the kids, not to mention their own costs? And triple that for an "upper middle class" upbringing?

Yeah, I'm really skeptical. The median household income in America is way, way less than that and I don't think most kids in America are living in the abject poverty these numbers would suggest.
Cool project, what inspired you to make this?
And you're intentionally giving a bad faith representation to the author.
While I won’t argue that your statement is wrong, I think it oversimplies the issue to the point of misdirection.

I find this similar to the expression “generals always fight the last war”. Freer societies have similar controls on outlier citizens, they just do it through different means. Piss off a mayor and you might see more rigorous building inspectors on your property. Piss off the president and you might find yourself defending against an IRS audit. America doesn’t fight it’s citizens with a gun or a sword, it does it with paper cuts.

The USA has 200k+ crimes defined in law just at the national level (according to the author of 3 Felonies a Day). Prosecutors and LEOs are given wide discretion to prosecute, so someone who violates a traffic law may get much more lenient treatment if they express solidarity with Blue Lives Matter (a political stance) than if they express sentiments like Black Lives Matter (generally; obviously lots of variables). I have police in my family; they complain more about people who threat them with a lack of respect than they do the worst criminals they encounter.

And the famous Free Speech case that gave us the “you can’t falsely yell fire in a crowded theater” opinion was about a man handing out flyers trying to convince young American men to avoid the WW1 draft. He was arrested and SCOTUS upheld his conviction about speech that did not directly incite any violence. The USA is not as virtuous on the subject of speech as the myth suggests.

I’m not arguing that China’s laws are good. I don’t want to live there and I suspect I’ve said enough to get arrested there, but I’ve also said enough to likely be arrested in the USA if USA prosecutors were not so overworked.
It would be useful to have a search results when names aren't unique. I share my name with a famous author (not a sci-fi author, but somehow he went back in time to steal my name before I was born), but I'm not going to click through all of them to see which one is me.

On the plus side, I'm liking my good choice of having a non-unique name right about now.
That might actually be a win overall...
No one ends up on the street because the rent got raised... they’d get a roommate or move

Actual research suggests otherwise.
Funnily enough, Mercurial itself is named after Larry, in the sense of "fickle".
@mrfusion, I do refrigerate the lunch portion while at the office and immediately rinse the bottle out after consuming.
Those edits are completely insubstantial. #1 is basically s/restrict/demand. #2 completely obscures the actual differences with a "don't worry about it" handwave.

The GPL is objectively a more restrictive license than BSD/MIT/Apache - just because you think the word "restricted" is ugly doesn't change this rather uncontroversial fact.
This is how I prepare mine at the end of each day before bed. If I know I'm going to be working late, I'll bring the pitcher in with me. Otherwise, I just fill a 28oz blender bottle for lunch and afternoon meals.
US cars are on average idle 23 hours a day. Sharing a car between two means roughly halving the fixed costs of ownership, and the more sharing the more reduction in fixed costs. Additionally running a fleet is cheaper because of economies of scale such as maintenance, insurance, charging/fueling. AAA has an infographic showing the biggest costs being depreciation and insurance: http://publicaffairsresources.aaa.biz/wp-content/uploads/201...

A pool also allows other things, such as pricing based on demand - ie being cheaper outside commute hours, spontaneous pooling (eg for a $5 discount can the car go 2 minutes out of its way to pick someone else up?) and being able to bring the right vehicle for each situation (eg a small efficient two seater for a commute, something larger for a family trip to Ikea etc).

Sure some people will continue to outright own their cars, but for most the pooled economics will be compelling, and companies will be able to instantly adjust pricing and convenience. Or to put this another way, how many thousands of dollars a year cheaper do you think it will take for the majority of car ownership to change to on demand usage?