jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"I have never been more impressed with a human being"

... in technology - I would add. Otherwise I agree. But let's not forget that technology is a niche, there area many other achievements of mankind, literature, arts, civil organizations etc.
I don't think you need all, I mean, there were space constraints. This is why a bar graph can be clearer than a line graph for discrete data though. They may be boring, but they are often effective at communication. :-) Oh and it's helpful to label both ends of the graph, from Q1 2005 to Q4 2014, then fill in what labels you can in the middle. If you'd picked random Qs or even just every year, perhaps to shade the backgrounds of each year, that might have made for a more understandable graph. Our fault for misunderstanding it in the first place, of course... This is also why some places link to tables of data used in the graph. You could click to view the table if you had any questions about what you're seeing in the graph. Stephen Few's an accessible read on this subject.
Oh, it was a meandering conversation. Really, it revolved around what the implications were if one neglected the core such that it was a valid premise. How would you torture a model of the earth to allow a person to compensate for not bothering to keep track of the core in a model? Gravity is the most obvious start, which you can get away with some perverse shell geometries (which has the added benefit of ruining the shape of the planet). And there's all manner of heat and magnetics (I think we largely assumed those were also neglectable, which in retrospect is poor planning due to solar wind).

It wandered like that. It was a direct result of our introduction to modeling in the early core engineering courses. Wherein we abuse the power of deciding what gets into the model. (It all started with one person noting that we frequently neglect gravity in electrical engineering.)
Next time there's a "How do I freelance?" Ask HN, please use this;

If you find a good client, you treat him or her like a combination of the Pope, the Queen, and the Dalai Lama, because a trustworthy client who pays you on time and doesn't argue over little details of the contract is better than gold.
I think the union type thing is cool. As someone who has never worked with something like that before I have to say that I'm not sure I like the conditional inside the function to check the type. I feel like it would be cool if there was some other construct to match on the argument type and then send the arguments to more specifically typed functions.
Sorry I may have missed the sarcasm.

Your day job project takes half an hour to compile and you don't see the point in speeding that up?
> I cAn't accEPt ThAt othERs HaVe uNflATtERINg OpINIonS On SoME SubjecTS, BUt as i HaVe No aCTual aRGUMeNts I'll juSt mIsREpResEnT aNd RIdiCule THeIR sTAteMeNtS iNstEad

Emotional and weak quip. The article and its allusions are of factually poor quality.
tl;dr Human intelligence is special. Computer accomplishments like being good at chess is not real intelligence. In fact anything computers ever do is not real intelligence, because they aren't like us and possibly never will be because there is some divine truth and wisdom that only humans posses.

How many times do we have to hear these arguments to realize they are just hot air? Either computers are capable of intelligence, or they are not. The answer to that question depends entirely on how you define intelligence. If you define it as the set of things humans are capable of and computers are not, then the answer will always be no. But just like humans, computers learn and are taught new things every day, and as time goes on the set of things human's are uniquely capable of grows smaller and smaller.
Going into a biography, most of us have a basic understanding of core life events. We read biographies because we are interested in unique insights that (hopefully) biographers can provide.

The only real way to do that is by interviewing people and drawing out interesting details that haven't been published yet (for a dead person, you might draw from a recently-discovered journal) In this case, the author did neither. Which is not to say this biography is bad, but the price should reflect that
Hmm. As an outsider, having spent a year learning about this space, I was able to skim the article and recognize all the "problems" and I suppose "understand" them in that I could stand at whiteboard and explain what the problem is about.
But these are mostly problems in the sense of Hilbert's problems: things that folk muse about for decades. They're not "engineering problems" as in something to be figured out and built in short order.

In general the blockchain space does have this syndrome where issues that boil down to "trans light speed travel?, discuss.." are conflated with things that are like "how to do trans sonic flight without breaking apart". This could be intentional as a way to get investors fired up.

For an analog in regular tech see: self driving cars.
Well in ten years I have never had a nuked server by pip or virtualenv. I am sure there are edge cases but that must be true for all the ways of deploying stuff. I guess the ones you know well appear simple to you !
This is the only place I'll ever get to post this... in undergrad, I took a teaching seminar in which we had 5 minutes to present on any topic. I chose to present on Battle Chess, and somehow framed it as a conspiracy theory involving Hiroshi Yamauchi (founder of Nintendo) and Bill Gates... now I'm tempted to go dig that up.

EDIT: Damn it, I found it! Enjoy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ACvnjrThPNVQAOteI0okg5kSoTG...

Any time the green square is on a slide, I am currently telling accurate history.
(base) jam@jam-XPS-8500:~/svn/src/music/mp3tomidi$ cc -c -Wall x.c
(base) jam@jam-XPS-8500:~/svn/src/music/mp3tomidi$ cat x.c

#define OUTPUTS 0
char outputs[OUTPUTS] = { };

Looks like you're wrong about that; at least for GNU C. It's not official C but if it works and generates no warnings it will be used too.

Long HN thread about this subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11674374

Zero length arrays are one of those things that C is renowned and notorious for: something that is useful at times but unpredictable because it is flirting with undefined behavior.

I usually compare C with a Formula 1 race car. It works well as long as you don't cut too many corners and when you do you end up plastered all over the road.
The web has never been particularly robust.
You know what? Fuck it. Ban me. If you really think the above comment is egregious, fuck you. Dumb motherfucker.
Are those releases shipped in stable channels or only to, eg, VS preview users?
OK. But most of that stuff is noncommercial, and not part of the neo-AOL/Prodigy thing that the Web has become.

In my alternate history, the Web would have all that. And so much more like that.
$2k/month is $24,000/year, at which income the IRS does not take nearly as much. According to the IRS calculator, he would be paying $1,628 in income tax. Add in payroll tax and that's $3308 total. So his after-tax income is not far off from $2k at $1724/month.

Assuming he has roommates, his rent and other fixed costs will be less than $1k, so he will be ok, if rather Bohemian.
This is brilliant not because it is funny (at times) but because it gets to a deeper link between programming, literacy and sprituality.

This stuff matters.
Yup. The new bus service in SF - http://rideleap.com - classifies the bus drivers as independents.
From their ToS (excuse the all caps) https://app.leaptransit.com/webterms -
LEAP DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND LEAP IS NOT A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER. IT IS UP TO THE DRIVER OR VEHICLE OPERATOR TO OFFER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WHICH MAY BE ARRANGED THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICES
> infected women tend to be extraverted, trusting and obedient.

In light of the stereotype of the spinster cat lady, I find this very difficult to believe. You'd think some man somewhere would pick up on that.
That was my thought too when I first saw this despicable behavior by both parties. It's just egos clashing and unfortunately happens everywhere.
Try searching for "Go" on some search engines ... therefore tag your posts/questions/tweets with "GoLang" to make it easier to find 8-)
I had a hand-assembled binary that was always crashing on out-of-bounds memory access. But whenever i loaded it in the debugger, it was always perfectly fine.

That was the day i learned about _NO_DEBUG_HEAP !
Wouldn't people prefer credentials that don't involve breaking the law?
You demonstrate a breathtaking lack of understanding of the topic. Yes, the front-end tech is easy. The hard part is the scheduling tech and the task management. And you seriously underestimate what it takes to get noticed and the value of such. Many/Most Magics result in a face-to-face meeting which cuts down dramatically on fraud. And card transaction is susceptible to being charged back.
There are several ways to achieve that:

1. Listen on UNIX socket only
2. Bind TCP socket to localhost only
3. Bind TCP socket and port, cut off connections at firewall level
At the same time, the SF Fire Department banned helmet cameras due to privacy concerns (among others): http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-fire-chief-bans-hel...

Does the utility of police headcams trump privacy?

EDIT: I am playing the devil's advocate.
I paid cash and didn't have to do anything.
Thank you for getting my point.
There's an interesting difference between the situations.

If you're a bank teller, your whole job is to manage the flow of money and information to and from customers of the bank, the ultimate goal being to make more money for the bank. If you take $3k out of the drawer, then you have failed at your immediate task (money has gone to the wrong place) and worked against the overall purpose of your job (the bank has less money, rather than more).

If you're a teacher, the heart of your job is (or should be) teaching your pupils: enabling them to know more and think better and so forth. A secondary purpose (the real purpose, according to some cynics) is to keep them out of their parents' hair and off the streets for a few hours every day. Another (subsidiary to the first, in an ideal world) is enabling them to do as well as possible in whatever external examinations they take, in the hope that it'll help them in later life. Arranging for your pupils' standardized test scores not to be too high comes very low down that list -- and if you get away with it, it benefits your pupils and your school. (While harming other pupils and other schools and other people generally, by making the test results less useful. Tragedy of the commons.)

That's not to say that it's not very bad for teachers to cheat to get better test results for their pupils. But it's bad in a different way from a bank teller's embezzlement: peripheral to their job rather than central, and immediately beneficial rather than harmful to the people you're supposed to be working for.

A better analogy (though perhaps an overdramatic one, given recent economic events) would be a mortgage salesperson, working for a mortgage broker, who sells people mortgages they are too likely to default on. When that happens, the salesperson gets more commission; his employer, the broker, gets more commission; the person who buys the mortgage gets a mortgage they want and otherwise couldn't have had (and, let's say, does manage to keep up the payments in 90% of cases, fails to do so but not so badly that they lose their home in 5% of cases, and crashes hard in 5% of cases -- which is probably kinda parallel to the outcomes for pupils whose test scores are inflated); other people, less directly connected with the broker, are the ones who get screwed.

Anyone expect mortgage salespeople who sell a bit too enthusiastically to get kicked out of their profession en masse? ... No, nor me.

> In the world we actually live in ... you'll probably not miss a day of class.

That doesn't appear to be what happened in the cases in the NYT article.
E.g. you could construct scenarios where Germany and the Soviet Union would not attack each other.

Easy, decisive German victory, because there would be no Eastern front. The Eastern Front was by far the largest, by whatever measure you care to choose: German casualties (more than half), total military casualties, total civilian casualties, materiel losses.

Historians are finally shedding the Hollywood propaganda and calling it "arguably the single most decisive component of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat." (Bellamy, Chris - Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War) Also see Wikipedia's page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
That simply isn't true in the world of banking. Why do you think the financial crisis occurred?
Bonuses are DISCRETIONARY and therefore even if trader A and B are in the same division, trader A may get a significantly higher bonus than B because he made more money or was simply more astute at the politics game.
Wasn't Nash's game theory formed whilst he was mentally ill and suffering from a persecution complex. Hasn't he renounced this as delusional thinking since?
Not working for me in Chrome 29.0 on OS X 10.7 - it seems to assume my setup does not support WebGL (which obviously does)
> Doing these sorts of events may be less and less practical in the future. I can think of a number of countries where people tend to build walled compounds to among other things keep the "authorities" out, or at least strongly discouraged from "visiting".

Those are fascinating places. Not in a pleasant way, most often there are drugs, own made up rules, human trafficking going on and so on, living condition are probably terrible (slums). But it is just the whole setup is interesting. Like a little fiefdom or small city state.

Authorities are either corrupt and are bought off and discouraged from going in there via positive reinforcement or they are just so outnumbered and the determination of the community to keep them out will make it very hard to get to a particular subject to arrest them.

I can think of Brazilian favelas or that one criminal in Jamaica that was walled off and protected by a large community who he was "taking care of". It is also interesting at how self sufficient those places are. Is there always rampant disease and crime or is there a support network, people helping each other in need and so on. I guess it all depends who you ask.

Sometimes I think Detroit and inner cities our there are almost there. I imagine and all out assault will bring the national guard out.
Downvoters: So is it better to send lots of Bitcoin including the high network fees all over the network then and also waste that money? There is a reason I said 'in regards to this'

While I am bullish on bitcoin and some cryptocurrencies in general, I've known that several HN folks here have been very bearish on cryptocurrencies since they always refer it to another ponzi scheme or a general scam. I guess on HN, one bad ICO spoils the bunch.

But at least give a response to this claim or a reason as to why this is 'wrong', rather than simply downvoting without a counter argument.
I've also been on reddit since before the major digg exodus. I did start out on digg, though. The thing which drove me to reddit in the first place was better conversations and a relative lack of memes.

By better conversations, it's somewhat hard to quantify but I think if you were to use a tool to analyse the reading level of an aggregate of posts on digg compared that to reddit, the reading level for reddit would have been higher.

By lack of memes, memes weren't really as we think of them today. Digg was however filled with people posting ascii art in the comments because that was oh so hilarious /s. A common one was this, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pedobear, which I think is enough said. That behavior used to be downvoted into oblivion on reddit.

Reddit isn't quite as bad as digg was, I'd say, but only because you can filter out a lot of the nonsense by curating what subreddits you're on.

I've been looking for alternatives but it's not promising. The pattern so far has been for reddit to ban toxic subreddits, which then causes a flood of people into these nascent sites. Because they're small communities the culture of the toxic refugees quickly overwhelms the sites, which have tended to be built on the principles of free speech and anti censorship.

Voat and Ruqqus are both good examples of this. I was an early member of both. They start out with a good group of people, and then devolved into far right extremist insanity. You can pick a random thread on either one of these sites and chances are good that someone will be complaining about black or jewish people in not so nice terms. It doesn't even matter what the topic is, that's what you're likely to find.

I used to think that anti moderation was a good stance to have, but I don't think you can get such a site off the ground today without using a heavy hand. If you don't, you're going to sink into a well of toxicity which is impossible to escape from. Smart people are attracted to smart people, toxic people are attracted to toxic people.

So I'm still on reddit. Like another commenter said though, if old.reddit.com stops working I think I'm done.
Probably those are from the locales package?

en-dk is the best one, it is Europe standard english which I think fits all your requirements for Saneland.
Not sure if you realise but this is not an "Ask HN" post, it's a link to an article, which of course mentions the reason:

> They couldn't use the *nix form of path separator of "/", because the "/" was being used for the switch character.
That's a great feat from Twitter that they implemented it so fast, are there any indications on how to get access? So far Clubhouse has been pretty fun (if you stick to the Technology / ML / Cybersec) spaces and I've e-met some nice people, so would love to compare it with Fleets especially with regards to the quality of the conversations. I hope Fleets will not be a mirror of most of the discussions on Twitter...
This truly is one of the engineering questions of all time, in my opinion.
I feel this entire thread has quite missed the point of the question
the way a neutrino passes through a solid object and interacts with
nothing but empty space.

People have talked about microeconomics, gig economies, labour
shifting, bad old days, safety, subsidies, licenses.... but we've
gotten no closer to understanding;

"Why Is a Company That Lost Billions Claimed to Be Successful?"

To answer this one must ask "What is financialisation?" The short
answer is; a system in which the success or failure of a company is of
no relevance to its "value". Under financialised logic it is
absolutely immaterial whether Twitter, Uber or whatever make a
penny. Ever. Or whether any of the stakeholders are served. The rules
of traditional business go out the window. All that matters is the
stock price of a tradable financial entity (a company) based on brand
confidence/perception.

Under that system, Uber is successful so long as the financial market
says it is. When it decides it's not successful, it's not. One has to
realise that a total detachment of political economics and power has
taken place.
I think people are missing something - the shape is part of why it can perform as well as it can, as well as have the excess of cabin space that it has. The boxy Land Rover design wouldn't get close to the 0-60 times (And likely reduce range significantly) because of the extreme drag the vertically flat body style creates.
I don't trust people with the kind of power filtering provides. I'd rather error on being open and free.
Boston and eastern MA are far from affordable. Homeownership in a decent area inside 128 is unattainable without a pretty sizable nest eg (equity or gift from parents).

The public transit system is insufficient. The Commuter Rail is infrequent, slow and often unreliable. The entire system needs to be electrified for RER service but that’s probably twenty years away if we are lucky.

And the homeless have just been concentrated into one shantytown at Mass and Cass.
Maintainers of popular, trusted projects can get compromised. Hackers steal their publishing tokens and then publish a new, malicious version.
I'm assuming "an" is a misspelling of "and". If they're using lots of bandwidth, that's one thing, but I sometimes see 480p YouTube videos laggy and wonder what's going on. Maybe I'm in the minority, but there are at least some customers who aren't using a lot of bandwidth and still check their speed regularly.

Dumping bandwidth hogs makes business sense, and bandwidth hogging is probably correlated with checking bandwidth, but the correlation isn't 1.0.
Agreed. Many of the people posting on HN have a very western view of mind and haven't experienced the difficulties of finance and banking in other countries.
I don't think there is a confusion around simplicity. It just seems like strawman blog filler and this article is no different.
It's funny that you choose the 1995 style because that style of F-150 is enduring enough to have its own short hand amongst truck people, the OBS (Old Body Style). The OBS generations of the F-150 are considered to this day to be beautiful trucks with lasting aesthetics by many truck folks and you'll see a lot of well preserved or rebuilt OBS bodies out there. Certainly far more than the body style that succeeded it (1997).

Tastes are subjective, I agree, but I want to point out on, at least this small matter, how much yours diverge from a lot of people that purchase trucks. I think history will judge mostly whether this appealed to people in a venn diagram of truck owners and not truck owners who are looking for very aggressive and unorthodox large status vehicles and are underserved by the truck SUV market.
Finally, someone has built a vehicle that makes a Porsche Cayenne look good!
"...have been a solved problem and commodity for a while"

So there's absolutely no room for improvement? Should we just move on from everything that we've deemed "a solved problem and commodity"?

Another possibility: they want to foster an image of a product designed to last, with very little maintenance cost. I'm not suggesting car windows are a maintenance cost, by the way - just that it adds to the overall image of reliability.

Additionally, I'm not sure where you draw the line at what are "non-problems" and what exactly is and is not "wasting tons of r&d dollars". Or, as others have suggested, what constitutes a "PR stunt". Is it wasting time and resource to select Tesla-specific paints, interior designs, wheel designs? After all, every other car has those. They are "solved problems" - just do whatever the other guys are doing!
> Aren't you doing exactly that right now? "speaking out" on Hacker News against people you disagree with?

>> If you want to improve the system you first understand how the system works, then work hard and do things that will improve the system.

>> Criticising is only useful when it actually influences something.

The trick is to achieve system understanding first. On Hacker News, the system is set up to reward intellectually stimulating arguments, e.g. taking a systemic view of social phenomena. Since there are at least some open-minded people here, that kind of criticism may actually influence something.

To effectively "speak out" on China, you need an entirely different skillset, including being able to reference a large corpus of shared knowledge that most people on HN are probably unaware of.

Since China does not yet allow criticism to be very influential, it is likely that the effort invested into criticism would be better spent, for now, on increasing the likelihood that future criticism will be influential. There are many possible ways to do that; it appears the person you're replying to has settled on a particular one I don't quite understand yet.