jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow, this sounds like me. I generally hit the hay around 3am-5a and sleep for 5 or 6 hours.

However, when I do go to bed, I fall immediately asleep for 5 or 6 hours and I'm pretty awake and alert in the mornings generally.

Great article, and gives me some ideas for if I ever have to adjust to 'normal' hours.
> I crave the challenge ... Are there schools out there that will let undergrads touch research and tackle the problems that current computer scientists face today?

If you're actually as interested as it sounds you are, then go. Lots of people have found university to be a waste of time, but I can't help but think that it's mostly been the people who waste their time there.

I think it's a shame that so many uninterested people get 'duped' into going; they likely won't get much out of it, and it's horrible that their guidance counselors (or whomever) are misleading them into thinking it's a necessary step. But there's so much cool stuff that goes on there, and profs will let you participate in it if you actually show an interest.
In all seriousness, when the average Joe has to take wheelbarrows of cash into a store to buy groceries.

(Granted, its unlikely our inflation will rival that of Zimbabwe)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
One could always just use a Twilio equivalence in your country. Twilio might look easy, but it's just as easy rolling your own with something like Adhearsion. Just sign up for some cheap origination/termination services and you're ready to roll your own twilio service. I use iCall for origination & VoipJet for termination here in the US; my asterisk & adhearsion stack runs on a small cloud server at rackspacecloud.
These are actually pretty interesting problems. Hobbyists (myself included) might want to consider solving them for fun.
Not entirely. Greece and Italy cannot issue the currency in which their debt is denominated. The Germans (and French to a lesser extent) control the ECB. The U.S. can issue the currency its debt is denominated in. That puts us in a different situation than Greece. Not necessarily better, but not as imminently bad either.
Maybe you live on the equator, but your technique would be impossible during the winter in most of Europe and much of North America. For example, in December in London, sunrise is around 8:30 and sets before 4pm.
Intelligent design can not be falsified, creationism [as it is normally presented] can. They are quite different.
Probably because they determined that most of it was VPN or other encrypted traffic, and that blocking it was easier than trying to inspect it.
Certainly a number of common interactions are not currently possible (or at least not optimal) without being able to use JS. Maybe some day we can get to a place with web components where many of those common patterns can be implemented with plain old HTML again.
That doesn't really work when the are already more graduates than jobs in many fields.
I am always conflicted about these. I was fortunate enough to get a full ride (all grants, no loans) to a top University, even as an international student. My parents couldn't afford to pay for my flight here, which the University did. In a way that has allowed me to take a riskier career trajectory by quitting a 6 figure starting salary at a top tech company after graduation within 3 months and starting a startup. So I am ever so grateful for policies like this.

But I wonder if universities should offer some sort of deferred payment (5 years after graduation for instance) to students instead (not a 3rd party loan). If you go to Stanford you are pretty much guaranteed a stable income when you graduate. Yes ,granted, a lot of alumni do donate without feeling the necessity to do so, but having such an option will help universities, perhaps more for those with smaller endowments "recover" some of the cost.

Universities could always make exceptions some time down the line on a case by case basis, depending on student's current income which will vary violently even for top universities, with some students deciding to work for a non-profit while others choosing a more lucrative job, just like income tax works.

Again, I am really not sure, just throwing it out there.
I agree. I value what javascript enables for those experience as well. I just wish more sites could implement those useful pieces and still get all the basic interactions correct. Too often, those are broken, I assume due to ignorance.
I presume it used a lot of its energy escaping Earth's gravity.
I see your point, and it's valid. I'm just really grateful to have had an interest in computers at a time where proficient use has required a deeper understanding. I take my car for granted, it's a machine that just works, I need not understand the complexities of an automatic transmission to enjoy it's maximum benefit, and I have no desire to. I appreciate the complexities of the computer, and the knowledge has been a huge benefit to me. I would want my kids to have the same appreciation, but the conditions that have fostered it have changed. I think it's cool that the author is giving his kids a ground up introduction to computers, and I think it will help them.
I've never used Uber, but this seems easily solvable with code.

Why not have you put the destination address into the app while you're waiting, and as soon as you get in the car, the driver can just say "go", and the GPS will start?

I'm kind of surprised it doesn't already work that way.
Geez, even the Wikipedia article on the term states that is Marxist. I think you are substituting "Marxist" with "as written by Marx."
I think the fallthrough keyword also belongs in this category. It's a surprisingly ugly feature of the Go language, and I recall an interview where two of the three language designers said its their least favorite part of the language.
Emojis look different on different operating systems (and sometimes don't even render)...
Congrats, awesome post!
It's an intentional design decision as far as I know (there was a phase where it did support them, and people didn't like it, and I think the block isn't perfect, so some emoji are still possible)
Somehow I think the mass and speed is far more significant than a pointy bumper.
Do they have any sort of chart showing zeroes are able to learn more games/state spaces with less domain specific information and less compute and space requirements? For instance, if we are getting into an exponential tradeoff curve (seems possible due to enormous number of GPUs), then it is hard to see how this will scale to human level type intelligence.

These one off experiments make it hard to know if AI is truly progressing or not. Naively I'd assume due to the decision tree leaves growing exponentially with depth, then we are facing an inherently unscalable problem, and we only are getting current gains due to advances in hardware, but the gains are only linear with exponential hardware improvements, especially if Moore's law is giving out and even with parallel computation we might end up turning the earth into a giant GPU array before we can reach parity with human intelligence.
Packages have to be used for access control as long as there’s no other way to do it. You’re committing to support uses of anything you make public.
Not offset enough. a hummer does 21x the wear/tear that an average car does.

a 9ton big-rig does 410x the damage

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...
I've seen Parler moderate content, perhaps not very quickly due to it being a small company.

It's Gab that has no moderation (with all the pros and cons of a pure "free speech" network).
I actually agree, and I upvoted you because I think this is worth discussion.

My question here though is: does blocking Trump from Twitter really equate to blocking the public from hearing what he's saying? As someone who doesn't use and never really 'got' Twitter it's really hard for me to take Twitter that seriously. Aren't there myriad other and better ways for the president to reach more people? (Note that only a small-ish minority of U.S. adults even use Twitter at all)
Sadly, with how bad faith most things from Trump have been, I have to say I don't believe you on this one.

Should it be weak, on just what you are looking at? I mean, yeah. You don't have to look hard to find that this is more than "merely" plausible. Odds are ridiculously high that the tweets were more fanning of flames.
Agree. It would have looked better to just pick any of the top 100 worse recent tweets (which these aren’t). Or simply none at all.

It’s a correct (late) call, but using these quotes will read to those who disagree as “we have nothing we just want to shut him down” which is unfortunate.
He can make statements from the White House. The White House, the house of Government of the United States, global hegemonic power still massively powerful even in an increasingly multipolar world.

If he has something important to say as the President of the United States, he can make an official statement as a head of state.

Nothing to be sorry about him losing a social media account.
No.

I was definitely in the camp that "yes you need to be here" - at least for a stint but all of that has been effectively killed because of the response to covid. All the big companies new date for coming back is end of this year - minimum, however those goalposts keep getting changed every quarter or so. I think it's going to be a solid 2-3 years minimum before we see anything back here and that's assuming nothing gets crazier this year.

I'm selling the house and leaving. I'd be interested in hearing about places where people are going.
Interstate something-or-other.
Thanks, we may change the logo later.

What we're concentrating on now is improving the core features of FolderBoy: the ability to store, organize and find your data from one central location.
Yes, but that's a fault of the mailserver on that domain. It shouldn't allow spoofed email to be sent from its own domain.
Migrating python2 -> python3 is hard because it requires rewriting code and because you can't really run python3 code if you depend upon python2.

If poetry create consume non-poetry packages and create packages which other package management systems can consume? If so, then:

1. Projects can move more effectively independently.

2. Projects can re-package as a single task rather than a massive rewrite effort.
I just built and run it to see the pretty logo in my terminal. It looks just as the pictures on github, and somehow it was still worth it. Good one dr-noob
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736123
“The internet is a government op to spy on the populace” does appear to be the synopsis of the authors book, linked at the end of the post.

So I suspect this post is really just an elaborate bit of spam.
At the end of the page, after some unsubstantial conspiracy hints, all that's left is:

> I’ve written at length about the deeper history of Signal’s government backers and the way in which crypto fits into America’s imperial machine. In fact, I dedicated two whole chapters of my book to the subject. I won’t reprint it here. But if you want to know the whole story, you can pick up Surveillance Valley at your local bookstore. Or you can check out some of the articles I’ve…

> …This is a preview of a full letter that is only available to subscribers. To support my work and read the rest, sign up and read it here.
Parler was shut down by Amazon for hosting hate speech in violation of Amazon's terms of service -- despite repeated attempts by Amazon to address the issue in more amicable fashion.
I’ve tried Signal multiple times but after Telegram it’s like moving from Facebook to MySpace from 2004. No, thank you. I’m kinda surprised people are not annoyed by Signal or WhatsApp and keep using them, to me they’re simply unbearable.
I doubt it was the size of the truck that impressed, but rather how you handled it. ;)

There are a few perks to being country in the city.
warning: the article fools around but doesn't give an answer...
As a veteran (20+ years) programmer I've yet to witness a project where tests are written before the code for the entire duration of the implementation. I personally feel TDD is the snake oil you need to sell to get your team to do write unit tests for max coverage.
"Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter"

True. But capitalism is the only reason any of these actually work.
Imho, it's more impressive that it's basically a non-story outside of it security news.
Curious, shouldn't you have moved over to IPv6 at this point?
That's funny. I learned French from a Belgian woman and I called 80 "octante" until I was formally taught French and switched to quatre-vingt to avoid sounding like a hick.

Did I somehow come up with "octante"? Is it not used in Belgium, or anywhere else? It's true that it sounds a lot more Greek (my native language) than "huitante".
How about rolling down the windows? Or what about when you have to turn the wheel a lot and reposition your hands? Or turn on the air conditioning?
Your proposal against what? I don't see how your proposal solves any problems relevant to the article, unless extorting money from domain holders is exactly what you want. The most obvious solution to the discussed problem would be to not raise prices and hold those at ICANN, ISOC, PIR, etc. to account.
Doing so also blocks the brands from showing up as ads, in addition to blocking them from organically appearing in your timeline. It's a strategy that works well, imo.
As someone who makes a living writing scientific software it is not that the market is small, but that scientists find it very hard to pay for software. They are happy to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on some piece of hardware, but in most scientist's mind software should be free.
Well, broadly speaking, there are two options: a) continue to jump through all the hoops, and show patience, or b) lawyer up.

The second will definitely cost you more, but you may see the money sooner.

Only you can do the cost/benefit analysis.
>The arrogance of the medical profession to just 'throw drugs at the problem' astounds me.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this very arrogance (in the medical industry and outside of it) are what caused the issue in the first place.
Just so you know (competitor analysis?) there already exists something like this: http://www.mathway.com/ is one. I think there are others too (search for 'math solver').

I think it's an interesting idea but I don't know about how good a market it would be. The price would be low, and it is a commodity product, so you would have a hard time separating yourself from your competition.

Also:
"I don't understand why or how educators could oppose the idea, since it would be something that students would use at home to do homework."
This is exactly why educators might oppose the idea, since students could simply load their homework into your site and be given the full solution to copy out.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great thing to do. I just don't know if you can make a business out of it. It might be better to just give the thing away - it would be a great demonstration of your skills as a programmer. You could, for example, create it as a python module (or whatever language you're working with), release it open source, and make a 'homework helper' site as a demonstration of what it can do (while also helping students, and not just the ones with money to spend).
Past 6 months I was learning Go, but I started looking into Rust yesterday and am tempted to give it some attention.
We know the side effects for a healthy individual or those with malaria, but how do we know for certain this won't cause new problems in those with COVID-19?
We can’t even get Mickey Mouse out of copyright...
Keep in mind they're only able to buy US treasuries and mortgage backed securities. If Congress changes the rules to allow the Fed to purchase stocks, we'll be in for some very interesting times. It could be that we get an economy of zombie companies, or valuations soar beyond what we've come to expect as normal. In any case, this is unprecedented and in my opinion not the right move. They're sacrificing our future in order to inflate stock prices now so that the current president can get re-elected.
Chloroquine has shown promising results but the number of cases was small and the study was flawed. Lopinavir-ritonavir has shown disappointing results but the number of cases was small and the study was flawed. If you show faith in one you've got to show faith in the other for the sake of methodological consistency.
I guess the idea is to keep companies solvent so they'll still be there when the quarantine restrictions are lifted.
If humans continue to raise and eat massive amounts of land animals, nothing will change. The emission won't change in the slightest. Maybe a blip from less cars on the road but overall, nothing big. As someone pointed out, planes are a fraction of the source of emissions, animal agriculture is far more devastating than anything else.
Modeling the spread of a virus is insanely complex and all existing models are certainly flawed one way or the other but doing nothing and just see what happens doesn't seem very rational to me. As more data comes in, models improves and we can adjust the response.
I’m pretty sure people who go to pubs and beaches aren’t people who are “struggling with drugs or mental issues or poverty and need to go out”.
Your idea sounds great. I don’t think anyone in the thread knows what’s being proposed.

I’d suggest we need to get it to people before they end up in the hospital to try to keep the resources available.
Note that this is true for the Catholic church and others who use their calendar. The Eastern Orthodox church has Easter Sunday next week.

Also note that the Eastern Orthodox church is not the church of Russia, there are quite a few Orthodox churches who recognize each other as having the same creed, but who don't otherwise share leadership (with 14 Patriarchs - Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Georgia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Albania, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and a few others).
A friend of mine lives in Argentina. He pays his living expenses in Bitcoin to other Argentinians. They are very happy to take it, even without legal tender laws because it doesn't rapidly regularly devalue like the Argentinian currency.
Sure there is. On your theme, say Woody Allen.
Plenty of traits are inadvertantly selected for, due to being linked to the traits that actually affect fitness under selected.
The project is testing for 9 rules. https://gitlab.com/zapier/team-integrations/zapier-platform-... Will you add more with plugins in cargo? DSL? Python? It's not much comparable to anything right now
What would you call someone who distributes and prints “Get out the vote” flyers with polling locations to certain communities and demographics but not others? Or, let’s say a social network like Facebook sends one group of voters reminders to vote but not others? Selectively spreading correct information can still be malicious.
"Misinformation" and "disinformation" are in the vocabulary of propagandists. Whenever I hear someone use either, I know to ignore them.
True, but we also have word wrap to deal with this automatically!
> Among other things, the NFT will be able to store maintenance records and ownership information that can be used by future owners or dealers when dealing with a pre-owned Tonale

The current mania to rush half baked ideas to market is exactly what happened in the last crypto bull market except now the buzzword is NFT instead of Blockchain
Grifters go grift to grift
That's true. I was just thinking it would be an easy product to integrate into the health offering and it would be a pretty significant amount of people. Also if it was re-branded as Apple it would attract an even greater amount of people.

That said I would imagine apple would need to repackage and improve the product offering so it is up to snuff.
Isn't it interesting that it's seemingly only self-made millionaires/billionaires who are pledging the bulk of their self-made fortunes away? That despite them doing this, we're not seeing "old" money following suit?
All optimizely, VWO and other such services provide is WYSIWYG editor and a redirect script. Some pretty (but meaningless) graphs and lots of bullshitting.

More importantly, I'm sure they have people who know that their "A/B tests" most definitely do not work as advertised, so they are misleading their customers on purpose.
I think Google+ was ahead if its time.

I, for myself can see a gradual move from Facebook to Whatsapp. That's because everybody uses Whatsapp (at least in Germany), thus making it available just as Facebook was/is. However, by creating groups in Whatsapp you have something like a private Facebook where you can share data with the people you choose. Very simple. I can't remember the last time I posted something on Facebook, but while I wrote this post I shared something in two Whatsapp groups.

G+ is in my opinion the a very good solution (circles are like whatsapp groups for your friends), but it didn't make. I think that's mainly because of the way you gained access to the product. For G+ you need the large, and untransparent Google account, whereas whatsapp needs just a phone number.
Imagine this: Thousands of us have a large portion of our networth in Bitcoins even after selling 80% of them off to non-early adopters.
Too late to edit the parent, but you are right to call me out on this, thanks!. Clearly without some ergodicity constraint you cannot have uniform distribution.

I was sloppy with terminology, sorry. The original approach to this require weak and strong ergodicity conditions on an inhomogeneous Markov chain (but not stationarity of the chain, i.e. you don't have to run it forever). This was worked out in the mid 80s by Gidas and Mitra if I recall correctly, and several interesting updates since then. There are other probabilistic arguments made as well, after that.

I can dig out references if anyone asks.
What it needs is the explanation why.

Preface with I'm not a front end guy, but I get the impression this was a major discussion topic around a decade ago. So this specific question is a resume tester, you claim 15 yrs experience on the resume, lets talk about a major gossip or controversial topic from 10 yrs ago that is pretty much irrelevant or uncontroversial today so someone with only 5 "real" years experience would have no opinion about the topic.

Also give the candidate a little BS, and evaluate the response. In programmer land if you ask a candidate what the first line '#!/usr/bin/perl' means in a CGI script and if the candidate keeps cool then thats good, but if the candidate responds like the intro scene of the movie Bladerunner then its probably not so great of a candidate regardless of anything else.
I don't have any quantitative data, agreed. The Internet certainly provides a lot more visibility for such contemplation, and I can't recall seeing a lot of it.
>Credit cards are simply better for the consumer

This suggests you haven't tried paying with bitcoin. Sure, you lose all those things you get with creditcards, but for me some advantages that bitcoin offers over credit cards (and yes I'm a consumer too) are more important, such us:

- I'm not afraid that any of the providers where I have bought things gets hacked, because my identity and payment details is not kept by them.

- Paying with bitcoin is so much easier, I don't need to copy stupid numbers from a card with my keyboard ever again.

- I don't need to check my bank account from time to time to see if I had charges that don't correspond to things I didn't buy.

- I'm not afraid of bank commissions that especially take place when I pay for things abroad.

These are the little things that will make a universal-worldwide-digital-coin succeed. Could be that this coin is bitcoin, or other one.