jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Aaron Reed and Emily Short are also both worth checking out also, two of my favorites. Blue Lacuna and Sand-dancer are my favorites from Reed (http://aaronareed.net/), and honestly everything from Short (https://emshort.wordpress.com/my-work/) is good, but Alabaster and Galatea are both particularly striking.
So how does this work? Does the helicopter pick you up from your office building? Or do you have to go to their central terminal?
Toss your keys.

But then the LEO agent sees this, and not only does he pick up the keys, he will then proceed to charge you with something for resisting arrest, or obstruction of justice or any of the myriad of ways they have to make your life a living hell.

I think this would be similar to smoking pot in a moving car, then getting a police car to tell you to stop and then you throw the drugs out the window. I believe that's enough of a reason to charge you with all sorts of nasty stuff.
No, but it's MIT-licensed so if you want to tweet it by all means go for it.
> Putting any filter between 2 people are going to reduce particle exchange. Even bad filter would do.

That's really not true though.

Early speculation included aerosol transmission, which is not effectively stopped by cloth.

Anyone strongly endorsing cloth for aerosol containment would have been wrong, and blamed for misleading the public, and lost their job, probably.

Current estimates put cloth masks at a ~15% reduction in transmission by droplet. This is significant and important and makes them worth wearing! But if it had been aerosols, they would be <1% effective. And if people believed them to be effective, more people would have been infected.

We will disagree on whether Fauci lied. I believe that he did not lie, although I do believe he was duty-bound to speak when no one had perfect information, and that some of the things he said were misinterpreted.

I never read anything from him that communicated "masks do not work". I did read "masks are not perfect, most people don't know how to use them correctly (N95), they are awkward and uncomfortable to use properly, they are essential for health care workers, they are in short supply, and having a false sense of security is dangerous". This is the message I took from him last spring. Although I was definitely aware of the dishonest noise in the air, it was not coming from Fauci.

I wish he had been in possession of perfect information, and had been able to communicate it with perfect clarity, and without interference from batshit-crazy alternaquacks. No one else was better though. Many were far worse.
It's probably difficult to tell spam from reasoned posts since Musk likes to promote and profit from his promotion of cryptocurrencies.

It's not illegal but that doesn't mean it makes you a good person.
It’s like podcasting vs YouTube. Audio-only can be better under certain contexts
Several physical and technological factors make Energy Vault completely impractical. Dr Philip Mason explains them here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
An example of what they used the data for is this investigation into feed changes in Georgia ahead of the runoff:
https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/01/05/in-georgia-...

Raw data available here: https://github.com/the-markup/citizen-browser-georgia
You just sort of assume that this is correct? The person[1] running this comes across as a severely unstable character, that number is probably hyperbole.

[1] https://twitter.com/fifteenai
I wanted to deviate from live coding, and make a language that targets songwriting/composition. I think the end goal of live coding is slightly different, and seems to target performance (though live coding DSLs and applications can be used to do the former)
Book recommendation:

https://man7.org/tlpi/

It is available on O'Reilly/Safari
I see it's missing array programming (APL, J, K... etc) and concatenative (Forth, Factor, 8th) programming.
Nobody suggested Germans fired her.

It has everything to do with attitudes of IBM management, which eagerly participated in the Holocaust, and manifestly continued sympathy beyond two decades after the war ended.
Can't agree more... 5G adoption hasn't been as fast as anticipated, and an easy fix to that problem is to give customers no choice but to upgrade to 5G by using regulatory mechanisms to prevent the roll out of potentially competitive upgrades.

Even if function wise they are different radios, consumers don't really know the difference - phone providers just need something new to pitch the next generation of handsets and wifi 6 could compete with 5G for being the 'it' upgrade on a generation of handsets.

"As long as a number goes up, it must be better...right?"
The author of this program also wrote a paper about the technique it uses

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

describing it as a way of circumventing security measures that try to ensure that a particular control flow is followed in a compiled binary. In that case the security goal could be seen as forcing the compiled program to behave in a way close to what a human writer (or reader) would expect, while this method gets around that. So in that way, it could still be a problem, because the programmer appeared to write specialized program X but it can potentially be induced to behave like unrelated program Y at run time.
I like those silicone lids, I think I picked up a set on Amazon, until the most used size tore.
Be aware that this (currently) doesn't work for Canadians (at least the one I checked). You'll have to download the dump yourself and grep.
Is there a point in linking to this particular textbook?

It's not an open source textbook and there's no linked discussion.
> The self-marriage part was pretty hilarious. "Do I take myself? I do!"

People are doing that in real life: https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/why-women-marry-themselves/1...

Of course, it isn't legally recognised anywhere. And I doubt it will be – marriage as a legal relationship between two distinct people has various legal consequences on property law, taxation law, etc – a self-married person is legally indistinguishable from an unmarried person. But no law against holding a party called a "self-marriage ceremony", if your guests are happy to attend it.
http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user39_fju5wBozso4CqOw.py
I was blown away that the computer is able to play with just 10 trials. Monte Carlo methods are a very powerful concept for sure.
Densities would probably be a decent measure in this case. Denser area == more jobs
That's true, although it doesn't really change the problem. That working can literally cause you to lose money is particularly outrageous (and can still happen by just accounting for more income-dependent taxes and benefits disqualifications), but even if you were "only" losing 80% of your salary, it's still totally unreasonable. Why is your marginal tax rate effectively 80% but someone making twice as much or more is paying less than half that percentage?

The right way to fund things like this is to give the same dollar amount to everyone but collect the same percentage from everyone. The rich still pay their share because a percentage of $20K/year is naturally much less money than the same percentage of $20M/year, but you discontinue the wanton destruction of the middle class, and as a happy consequence you also eliminate a lot of waste and frustration because if you give everyone the same benefits unconditionally then you don't need an invasive means testing bureaucracy.
"most likely"
Haha, makes me feel sorry for people who drink alcohol. It's basically the same as smoking - "how many cigarettes a day keeps me away from lung cancer?". Instead of asking that question, why not just stop?

The fact that alcohol is such a norm is something I don't get. Let's not even mention its other helpful side-effects.

Edit: Keep the downvotes coming. <3 hivemind
i feel like this alert should be in chinese for greatest effect
To be fair, all previous presidents were effectively banned from social media because they had the sense not to use it.

Nothing prevented this president or any other president from just opening a 24x7 conference call line where he can just blather whatever he feels like at any time to anyone listening.

But, none of them did.
alternative map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=428818970#map=16/...
It's a bit close to home since I did a PhD in a "useless" area (philosophy) but my area of philosophy happens to be very popular at the moment in industry as well as university so it's more likely that I'd get a job (I do technology ethics). However, I have a friend who did a PhD in gender studies and is having a bit of trouble finding a permanent position (she tutors at university level). Mind you, unlike me, she wasn't willing to travel to where the jobs might be - you definitely have to keep this in mind when you decide whether to pursue your degree! For me it was a no-brainer, there's only one really big centre in AU that does what I do, and in academia it's usually good to get a postdoc from a different university, so I moved to Europe.

I think in academia you have to be willing to travel. I'm starting to realise what a pain in the arse that is though! :) It's nice to feel "settled" in a place, and I suspect I won't get that feeling for a while yet (until I'm in a long-term position anyway).

I think that the big problem is that kids who go into university do what they enjoy doing (which isn't wrong, they should absolutely be encouraged to do what they enjoy doing!) but when they realise they can't be at university for the rest of their lives, unless they're willing to fight for academic positions, find themselves up shit creek, so to speak. I honestly don't think they realise that they're going to have trouble getting a job until they're well into the degree, and by then it's far too late.

I personally think it sucks that people should be discouraged from doing the "less useful" degrees just because there are a buttload of fees that get dumped on them that they need to repay later and they may not get a job that will cover that. Noone is EVER going to make a billion dollars working in gender studies or religious studies, but it's important to have those who do it (for the love!) for research and teaching purposes. But then you have a problem -- how are those people, who are highly educated but not ever going to make $$$, and yet are going to teach the next generation of students, going to pay back the debts they amass? Yeah, I don't like the American system very much :)
My University, considered going the other way last year and had a number of discussions about charging more for Engineering and Law courses than Arts courses due to future earning potentials.
Au contraire, I think if everyone with a demonstrable ability to learn and the demonstrated desire to do so was allowed to do so free of expense, society as a whole would be way better off.
Yes, it's a travesty that some private equity/LBO guy can have their debts removed, but not this poor girl. The law needs to be changed, especially when you consider how young she and others like her are when they make this decision. She's not considered old enough to drink, but it's okay to make her sign a document that says she is liable for a six-figure debt, for an asset that the lenders know is severely overvalued?
Does your solution make money? Lots of it? Right now? If so you'll get a good audience. If not, as pedalpete suggests, implement Steve Blank's Customer Development Process.

Rather than going direct to the airlines, how about sussing out angel investors who have contacts in that area?
As a Latin major, I wholeheartedly agree. You can learn a lot from any major, and you can create something valuable from any major, and it's irresponsible to try to just give up because there's nothing immediately valuable to create.

Can't she try to educate kids about the job prospects of women's studies majors? Can't she make a job board for her unemployed peers? Can't she turn her photographic abilities into an art hobby too and sell prints of religious symbolism in urban or rural settings? There's so much she could do, but it sounds like she just wants to push Reset.
The counter (counter) argument is that maybe college shouldn't cost so damn much in the first place (and for a large part aid structures at top schools (that can afford it) have been changing in line with this argument).

She probably got the short end of the stick because her mom owned a business that had a lot of revenue which precluded her from aid. Yet this business also had a lot of overhead, so their actual income wasn't actually that big.

This problem effects a lot of people that I know.
I agree that the personal attacks are unfair. But when you look at his role of CEO of a company that wields as much power as Facebook it is unsurprising that a lot of people are going to be interested in his foibles. The more power they have they more the discussion becomes political in nature and an unconventional 26 year old guy like Zuck is always going to have image problems in this domain. To me it seems inevitable that some 'adult supervision' will be required, even if only for the sake of image and to relate to the older power structures. Something similar seems to be working for Google.
>Is it ethical to make a little person taller?

No [there is no ethical problem], why would something which has no negative effect on anyone else present an ethical challenge? It doesn’t say make everyone into a 6’7” basketball athlete, it says make small people taller which translates into a more normal height range.

If everyone potentially affected by dwarfism in the future were diverted into normal growth via treatment, in a few generations there would be no one left who is affected by it physically.
Rendora is true FOSS, free and self-hosted with very lightweight usage of resources.

https://github.com/rendora/rendora
Tech talent shortage is real. We can't find anyone worth interviewing right now, as a 5 person startup. (And no, we aren't age discriminating)
Montana has a population of more than 1 million.

And two senators per state regardless of population is a feature not a bug.
Pay more
I’m not a physical therapist, so keep that in mind. The way I started was by doing hand strengthening with a grip trainer, coupled with some tendon stretches. My hands hurt the first few times, but you’ll find them getting stronger.
The PKK was formed in reaction to intense oppression of the Kurdish people by the Turkish State. The Kurdish language and traditional garb were banned, and Kurdish history was not allowed to be taught. The Turkish State also burned Kurdish villages and slaughtered many Kurds.

None of this is to say that the PKK has not committed acts which would surely offend western sensibilities, but simply slapping the "terrorist" label on them and calling it a day is not a nuanced way to approach the discussion.
The reported SSD swap file wear and tear potentially writing off a whole laptop due to soldered drives is concerning to say the least
> You can choose an high endurance MicroSD card to maximize its life.

You can also use whatever cheap card just for bootup, then immediately change root to a `/` mounted from an SSD.
I wonder what FB is using now, having abandoned Cassandra in 2010.
> Both Element/Matrix and Signal don't come close to WhatsApp, sadly.

That is the unfortunate reality-hitting hard truth right there. Element and Signal are just not ready yet for serious widespread general use to compete with WhatsApp.

Signal is still immature and lacks tons of functionality compared to WhatsApp. Element suffers from usability and onboarding issues which frustrate the user. The fact we have to keep mentioning the protocol 'Matrix' next to the client name 'Element' creates further confusion to the user; leaving them to ignore it altogether. That's before they get confused and lost in the settings page.

Telegram on the other hand has a better chance to compete against WhatsApp.
It seems to me like proponents of censorship want to enforce their world view in some way or another. It doesn't matter which pole they're on, if they think censorship is a good policy, then they're arguing from a perspective where their views aren't the ones that are censored.
This is a good counter-argument to my simplistic view. Thanks for bringing it up!
Another reason is that it requires fairly thorough knowledge of 7 different programming environments. Most people don't understand 1.
The best for me obviously. I was the one who made the comment and declaring an object "the best" of any category is always a subjective statement.

My own solution has the pros:

- I control precisely what I need and what not, both in terms of features and in terms of usability

- I control when it gets changed/updated

- I control which data flows in and out of the system

- Your device is not a brick when the manufacturer decides to end the support or shuts down the wrong server

The obvious downside is that it means work and requires a certain set of skills. Whether it is worth it or not depends on how important that thing is for you and how much all the TVs suck at doing what you want in the way you want it done.
[Citation needed]

I have been linking the numbers behind my arguments. If you wish to show the numbers behind yours, I would be more than happy to discuss them.
For a moment I thought it would support 8 thousand displays simultaneously... Could probably change wording to "displays up to 8K"
I don't know what actually goes through their heads but it is a mistake I have seen from French speakers before.
Take a look at ADS-B.
You can get up to 6.77Gbps with an 8 antenna 802.11ac system
I think the article addresses the first concern: the radio connection is encrypted with the AES key in the QR code that is scanned optically. As for the second, if they are in the device, you're already screwed: they might as well intercept the keyboard/camera/mic instead of hacking the app. Same for hardware access.
1. $100k is a lot of money for most of the folks here. Simply put, I can't afford to lose $100k on a bet but Sam can.

2. Even if I won the bet (impossible because I'm not a VC), I would not gain anything financially. So what's in it for me?

3. If he changes the terms to $100 a pop and winner gets to keep loser's $100 then I'm game.
Extension of this:

Can someone please respond to these points with actual numbers to back their points?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29
We also used Zotero during our university studies for keeping track of citations. It's a great tool!
Love the multibillion dollar remark by Morrill. That's confidence.

Now, when I say that what I am building will be in multibillion territory, people just look at me funny, although I even got my PhD just to be able to build this thing :-)
I run into A LOT of problems trying to make my own charts, but it also serves to show in many cases that you can't abstract charting to account for all the use cases, because there are so many distinct characteristics in every graphic and dataset.

If you want a higher level of abstraction for d3, try Chartbuilder, which I find doesn't cover anywhere near my use cases: https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder.

Another tool is Bret Victor's proof-of-content editor: http://worrydream.com/#!/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalk.
In this case, the pertinent detail is the fact the man set of explosive detectors.

I'd argue that the pertinent detail is that he wasn't actually carrying any explosives.

The other details, far from suggesting oppressive state apparatus, suggested an assortment of rent-a-cops and airline staff that really weren't particularly well-prepared for the guy that couldn't account for the explosives and flagged other profiling alarms without actually giving any indication of being an actual threat.

A State doesn't have to be a finely-tuned, well-oiled, smoothly functioning machine to be oppressive. It just has to institutionalize (or just tolerate) the kind of treatment we saw here. If some of the individuals involved are simply bungling incompetents who more or less mean well, does that make the overall process less oppressive? I argue that it doesn't.
A black hole can actually cause an additional singularity due to the blueshifting of infalling light. IIRC, one researcher studied this phenomenon and called it a "blue sheet."
Cool game, nicely done!

It wasn't that clear to me that I could play more than one game at a time though, might want to make it clearer. It's been a while since I played letterpress, but I recall I had dozens of games going at once there.
what does this have to do with Ramadan? The title should more be around bug sprays, insecticides and wanting a pat down.

Only because he was asked if he was fasting and wanted special prayer arrangement doesn't justify the use of Ramadan here.

I wish it would have not happened to him, but I feel certain things gave rise to the situation which could happen to anyone during any time.
Add sunscreen to that list as well. I was briefly detained for that when I was coming back from Hawaii. I'd gone to the beach the day before, and used the same jeans, leaving trace amounts of residue.

Really, there are a ton of false-positive substances that we use every day. We need to realize that a false positive can happen to anyone, regardless of their background or morals, and we should treat suspects (for lack of a better word) with respect.
Let's be a little honest, though - this is a spectacular rebrand for 8.2, along with large user-visible changes (not forcing Metro) and some cool backend stuff. A lot of this stuff was originally going to be in the second service pack for 8.1, if I remember correctly (most distinctively, the start menu returning).

They've said themselves that they needed to get away from the stigma that is associated with 8.* - and that's great. Charging for it would be a bit harsh.
Though in some countries, hitting a pedestrian gets the driver an automatic jail term. Collisions with pedestrians don't happen all that often in such countries.
Their original client works very well and was certainly the best im client at the time.

Now all that's keeping people there is network effect. Telegram is just better at this point, and it works on almost every platform with no weird restrictions
Android and iOS have more than 95% market share.

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

I suppose the benefits of supporting the remaining 5% against the costs of having to develop and mantain another client(s) have been discussed internally in Whatsapp.

"It would be nice" and "it would be commercially sound" are very different propostions.
Operas browser user agent is basically the same as Chromes. Firefox also works if you spoof it, which makes the point of OPs article even more prominent.
Maybe they shouldn't expect that then. Lots of cities have trolleybuses, trams, and other electric transport without carnage on the roads.
"It also includes a unique and slick keyboard that slides out from below for easy typing.”

one of the things that apple has done consistently well is know what _not_ to include on their hardware.
Yes, if the Klingons don't destroy them... ;o). Just kidding.
I still remember the launch. A remarkable instrument indeed. Like Pioneer. Two of the most impressive space missions.
Initial reaction: Now that's reliable hardware! Somebody forgot about the warranty expiring ...

More serious thoughts: This is really amazing, I would never have imagined it would even be possible to keep contact with a probe for this long.

Makes you wonder, way back then we could launch a probe that runs for several decades and reaches the absolute edge of the solar system ... nowadays we can ... make missions into space on several decades old hardware ...

Something isn't right here guys, I thought rocket science was supposed to be bleeding edge?
The most exciting thing about types is that they can completely prevent you from typing that program.

If you cannot figure proper types, you won't write proper program. You "fail early".
great, looking forward!
Sounds like you want to use https://ssl.scroogle.org/