jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't have experience with PyTorch myself, but I know that Andrej Karpathy was famously happy switching to it[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/868178954032513024?lang=...
Restore Privacy's NordVPN review doesn't mention its 2018 security breach, which was widely covered in the news:

https://restoreprivacy.com/nordvpn

https://www.cnet.com/news/after-the-breach-nord-is-asking-us...

Their "Best VPN List" doesn't mention it, either. That's extremely damning to Restore Privacy's credibility as a review site, and highlights how financial conflicts of interest can degrade the quality of a site's content.
My immediate thought went to benchmarks. Some of them get stale pretty fast. Nice to have a name to put on that concept.
forget the math, just enjoy
We changed the submitted title to that of the page. The submitted title was Hacker Laws: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”, which of course is Goodhart's Law. Some of the comments in this thread are referencing that one.
So taxi drivers are going back to their native countries at the end of every shift?

Unions, especially service unions revolving around local physical transportation, depend entirely on nationalism. Without a sympathetic federal entity that can supersede local definitions of what work is, you're just a ragtag pack of misfits.

And owning a cellphone in general is an invasion of privacy. To single out Uber and ignore the NSA entirely is the hallmark of a hit piece's attempt at deflection.

You can't force anyone to treat anyone fairly. All negotiations between two people are exactly that: Between two people. Adding an arbiter only centralizes corruption and makes it easier for the already powerful to get even cheaper labor. Cubans get paid $30 a week while the arbiter mechanism takes the rest.

I think the problem is HackerNews is full of people who grew up in free market capitalism and are now fantasizing about what life would be like under mythical unicorn unionism. It's like some kind of forbidden fruit around here.
NB: however there's also Inheritance Tax, which does upset some hereditary landowners; that's completely different to property tax, but including for completeness.

https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax/overview
Impressive day for YC.

Very impressed with how deep their vision is in seeing companies with exit potential.
Competence does have a moral dimension as far as the relevance of ethics, specifically the importance of work ethic and a modicum of self-awareness. There is a point where repeat negligence and the opportunity cost of its resource drain becomes a moral failure.
You might enjoy this article about "positive" and "negative" definitions of liberty (and discussion about whether a a clear division like that really exists) from Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative...
I like cvtalize a lot more. I don't want to pick from a dozen options. I want to be able to able to organize the contents of my resume quickly and elegantly.

My only issue is with the name. Hard to spell & say; easy to misspell.
I really don't care for the snide tone of the article.

I didn't read it that way. At least it wasn't more skeptical than my Dad, who thought the idea was a little impractical, perhaps irrational.
"Ver, who was himself sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for illegally shipping explosive across state lines, believes that Savaged is not only the same person who swatted Hal Finney, but also the person who gained access to Satoshi Nakamoto’s email account earlier this year." --quote from OA...

Why does anyone ship explosives across state lines (or anywhere) unless they run a demolition company? Just wondering (I'm in the UK).
Spot on! Seems the "shortage" isn't in labor but in deference to employees as people. Wouldn't you want a horde of folks willing to work 80+ hours for Ramen? </cynic>
Ah, thanks. I spoke too soon. I remembered it started earlier this year and thought this was a repeat of the story. This is a colossal increase.
http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/the-weather-wreaking...

May not be the correct answer for you, but it's true for me. In the winter when the temperature has dropped suddenly I often need to take a decongestant for a few days and then I'm fine for the rest of it. Crud in your sinuses (for me at least) caused by allergies (grasses in my case) or weather can trigger a low-grade fever and other cold-like symptoms. It's worse since I work in a heated (too hot, IMO) office and then have to go back out into the cold. This was less of a problem when I worked in a more "frugal" office where the temperature (while still warmer inside) wasn't so extremely different from outside.
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Bitcoin is deflationary, isn’t it? How could it ever replace fiat if just by merely holding it you are guaranteed in the long run to increase value? You need mild inflation to get people to actually spend and not hoard. Bitcoin’s supply is fix so there is no point in ever spending it unless you want to cash out.
There was a casual distinction between removing spam/trolling and actual censorship, and since "platforms" weren't as much of a thing anyone could go set up their own mailing list or web site or IRC server and still be part of the action. The word "censorship" back then implied that (and it seems juvenile now) the gubbermint was comin' ta get all us freethinkers. The belief was that the Free Flow of Information would allow the truth to win out, and that as more people came online they would cast aside their illusions and embrace whatever vaguely anarcho-whatever utopian vision permeated the Internet back then.

At least, me and my fellow kids had that naive belief. Maybe the older folks online already knew better.
I have a theory that Hacker News is sufficiently influenced by the investor class that anything disrupting their business model gets special treatment quite outside the site's usual techno-optimist repertoire.
That sounds like a very plausible scenario in this case. Thanks for the info.
Sourcetrail does allow you to select some code block in the graph and have it open up in InteliJ (I don't know about the other way around tho).
Thanks for the link to your essay from eight months ago; I hadn't seen that before.

I think this issue could use more widespread awareness!
>This could be mitigated by removing race and clear proxies such as zip code from training data

It isn't this simple. Not all these proxies are clear. Also what are we even left with once all these proxies are removed? The zip code is hugely important when trying to establish the value of a home. Does removing all data that is potentially racially biased leave us with a model that is nearly worthless?

>But it's left "ethics" far behind and become "politics" at that point IMO.

It depends entirely on what branch of moral philosophy to which you subscribe. For a lot of people their personal politics is just applied ethics meaning not acting would be ethically wrong in their opinion.
Heh heh, perhaps they might read it as such. I'm sure that, like the article this thread is about, the author intended to make a point about a group of people by describing them in terms of the popular notion of the disorder, and didn't intend to seriously talk about people who really have the disorder. (In this case, I imagine the "teenagers" part of the description, which is directed at people who are most likely professional developers in their 20s, is meant at least as pejoratively as the "attention deficit" part.)
The point is that the data should be available to the public under a license such as Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (used for other government data). Governments aren't about making a profit and I doubt Google will pay a cent for this data anyway when other governments are giving it to them for free.
right, but they'll lose their resistance to our current antibiotics, so we can just go back and forth between those :)
Another wow. Could you give your arguments, your point of views, etc. instead of resorting to personal attack?
It's a good practice for sure, but your sysadmin was probably a little over-hash.

I'm generally in the habit of using `view` to do read-only vim. `less` works as well.
I don't know his exact reasoning, but the biggest thing I can think of you already touched upon: there's more of a danger that you can write to a file accidentally with vi vs with less.

Beyond that, I would probably correct a junior employee as well. Even if there's nothing wrong with it, it's not the right tool for the job. When I first started I got 'yelled' at for checking to see if a machine was on the network using tracert instead of ping. It works, but it's not the right tool for the job.
Do you mean creating a new window every time you attach to an existing session? Or do you mean that each of those actions ("attach" and "create new window") should be atomic?
I assumed it was an intentional tip of the hat to the "I just put my laptop in the oven" hack.
They just need to build up.
That looks very nice! Thanks for the info. 8)
yes, GPT-3 is basically a context aware semi-random sentence generator
I don't understand the hate for this trick. It still breaks cross-site user tracking. It's just sort of a hack around installing a hypothetical Google Analytics app on-prem or pumping in data via a server-to-server integration.

Google Analytics can't cross-reference data from other sites on the browser, b/c it's not a third party cookie now... what's the problem?
I am fully aware.

I also don't believe that when everything was adopted, that people realized how big a deal it would become for software, and systems driven by software.

Every leap second, factories shut down. Just in case. Every leap second we face the possibility of a large chunk of the Internet going dark like happened in 2012. Computer programmers spend millions of dollars per year in aggregate dealing with the possibility of leap seconds.

All for something that, over thousands of years, won't lead to as big a discrepancy between the Sun and the clock as what we voluntarily do 2x per year for daylight savings time.

Does it make any sense to continue this insanity? Why?
Good minimalistic design is really hard. You must get typography right among other things, and that's tricky.
So many useful links in this discussion, I consolidated them (and a few extras) here http://post.b3k.us/modern-parsing-bibliography
well, there was MP3 (invented, at least partially, at the Fraunhofer Society).
And Ireland, which has been recently bailed out to the tune of a significant fraction of its GDP.
On the YouTube front, I'd argue that things are not really a "steal" unless we they were purchased for well below market value at the time. I don't know that we have much evidence that Google underpaid by a lot given circumstances at YouTube (they were burning through cash pretty fast).
It should be possible to make a point in a blog post without such ridiculous linkbait titles.
Arrays will be supported using one of these forms:

'(1 2 3) => [1, 2, 3]
([] 1 2 3)
[1 2 3]

Objects with one of these:

({} a 1 b 2) => {a: 1, b: 2}
{a 1 b 2}

There's also the possibility of bringing ideas from David A. Wheeler's sweet-expressions (http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/). If curly braces are used for object literals, then the curly infix notation could not be borrowed, but there would still be an opportunity to borrow prefixed grouping symbols, e.g. f(x), and significant indentation:

$("#something").click(function()
alert("I was clicked!"))

=> $("#something").click(function() {
alert("I was clicked!");
});
Which would mean that their unemployment rate is even lower than 6.7%, wouldn't it?

I've also read that they do more accurate accounting of unemployment than the US. Some say the real unemployment rate in the U.S. is around 17%.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudPK1uJii8
I get a lot of value out of being reachable by people I do not yet know.
Why do so many HN'ers like lisp?

It's just... archaic.
This is impressive!! People might call it luck but it isn't. If you are brute forcing, maybe it is luck but brute forcing won't take you anywhere unless the application is pretty amature. Using the right stuff at the right places and strategically chaining bugs just makes things much more interesting.
I've been using fossil for personal projects, for the last 3 months. The all-in-one aspect is great, and it's literally 2 commands to start a server. When I need a new remote repository, I just have to copy the .fossil file on my VPS. The only thing I don't like is the issues management, which isn't user-friendly at all.

I didn't know that mercurial had a web interface, I'll certainly take a look this week.
Django is so refreshing when you come from JS world. Combined with Python is such a pleasure to do stuff with it.
My favourite model is Django backend and React frontend though (I try to keep it as lean as possible).
Congrats!
Looking forward to update my projects.
Apple marketing combined with submarine advertising like the linked article here.
My first foray into the world of programming was as a kid, trying to learn how to make games in C. My first debugging experience though, was a few years later using a GameShark for the N64. That was a lot of fun!
Getting to the point where we’re going to need phone, email, and SMS to be deny all by default. Can’t reach me unless you’re information is already in my contacts.
I am using a bash script with a cron to use the cloudflare API and create a dynamic DNS. Interesting to see this in nim.

Btw, really happy to see how much the language is growing, every month there is a lot of new awesome libs here :)
It's not that cost effective. Sure, better than SF. And of course there are cheaper areas, but those aren't necessarily the places you want to be. If you look at the suburbs, it's generally expensive.

Even with non-start-up jobs or non-tech companies, it just doesn't seem like there's much in the area. I get that the salary will be a bit lower than NYC or DC, but there aren't even many jobs to compare.
I think this is one of a great solution regarding to the GermanWing case or even MH370.
Mojombo[0] commented[1] that it won't be either closed or open source, but "somewhere inbetween" to make it easy for them to charge for it.

[0] https://github.com/mojombo

[1] http://discuss.atom.io/t/why-is-atom-closed-source/82/9
I'd love for this to be true, but I doubt that would've happened. The public has a short memory for egregious political idiocy
You're right - but given the situation, I think you could outline user expectations and see what happens. Services that charge money close down all the time.

I was envisioning something like reddit gold. They have more users/subscribers, and seemed to have a lot of success with their monetization.
Completely agree. Always the same excuse - bring up the past to defend the present. More than 125 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011[1], including three in the past week [2] (37-yr-old monk, 20-yr-old woman, and a 34-yr-old man) to protest against this repressive Chinese occupation. As a Tibetan, the past protests and these self-immolations are heart-wrenching and at the Toronto vigil this past weekend, there were people in tears. It's just hard.

We live in this amazing world and yet we have all these geopolitical issues (Eastern Europe, Middle East, Tibet, Kashmir, etc.) caused by various factors we vehemently believe/oppose (we humans have an brilliant capacity to rationalize any of our actions/beliefs). This past summer, I traveled across Kashmir with my two high school friends to visit the areas where the Indo-Pakistani[3] and Sino-Indian[4] wars took place. The landscape was beautiful, especially in the Ladakh regions. But overall, these regions are occupied by villages and small towns dwarfed by the huge military bases. Why can't these local people live by themselves without the fear of another war? Most of you already know, it's the same textbook example: a new ruler comes in town, finds the need to distract/rally his or her country - what better than a war (this "war" could be extended to politics/tech/biz, not just the old Roman wars)? History is littered with the similar plots and it works every single time.

Sometimes, I wonder if an ET contact would be good for our world so we could put down our differences and realize we are all in this together so we could take care of each other, our neighbors, and our amazing planet! Also, solving Fermi's paradox [5] would be icing on the cake!

[1]http://freetibet.org/news-media/na/full-list-self-immolation...
[2]http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/26/uk-china-tibet-idUK...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_confli...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
[5]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796270
It's amazing how people can comment without reading the article. It's obvious this happens to some degree, but I was amazed that the first few posts in this thread have exclusively been about a completely different thing.
From strftime(3):

%G is replaced by a year as a decimal number
with century. This year is the one that
contains the greater part of the week (
Monday as the first day of the week).
His article "Am I a genius" is also interesting: http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/a-genius.html

> the main reason for this is that I’ve made no attempt to sell the idea. I simply wrote it up and put it on my website. I suppose that, were I to jump through the appropriate hoops, I could garner more interest for the idea. But that is beneath my pride; I am a thinker, not a salesman. I refuse to promote myself. I put the idea before the world and the world can take it or leave it. The world mostly leaves it.

I've heard some other people blaming a lack of "sales" for their ideas not spreading. As if you can not sell. Any sort of presentation is sales, if your product or idea is out there, it is selling itself.

Maybe the focusing on sales would, ironically, bring the understanding of what people find impressive in ideas, in games or products, and it might be completely different from what we thought before.
What worries me the most is when people use the phrase "a majority of experts agree that..." and imply that is the absolute truth. It's not.

A majority of experts, in their day, agreed that the sun is rotating around the earth. A majority of experts agreed that time and space are absolute. And since it's trendy these days to declare absolute medical truths, a majority of experts agreed that disease is caused by imbalances of bodily fluids and that bloodletting is the cure to any disease.
mirrors all my experiences with chrome. "we decided to change things and there is no going back."

i use 5 different more capable browsers every day. chromium for videochat and google services.
> full personnummer, which is similar to a social security number in the US

It's similar in the sense that it's a unique number assigned to each person, but the fact that it's publicly available means that it cannot be used as authentication.
There's a very old Turkish website (late 90s AFAIK) called http://eksisozluk.com - it's like a mix between wiki, reddit and urbandictionary.

It has an important place in Turkish youth subculture and I believe it originated as a 'forum' for the tech community in Turkey.
Their online sales went from 5% to 10% of revenue during the pandemic, so they are still mainly a offline business.
The problem is that letting the virus continue to circulate unchecked in the developing world just gives it more opportunities to mutate into new, possibly vaccine-resistant variants. Variants can then spread back to infect the first world, and as we've already seen, this can happen quite quickly.

A global vaccination strategy is needed if we really want to get on top of Covid for the long term.
> Companies are already hiring nation-wide. How many SFBay employees were born there, and how many relocated from all other parts of the country for a job?

Yes, but employees had to relocate to the Bay Area so companies had to pay that level of salaries. But if people can work from whatever cheap location then why would any company keep paying that much?

> As for global: global competition has been upon us for decades now. Most big tech companies have foreign offices in countries like India.

Sure, and they get paid on Indian levels. I am also not from the US, I work and live in Europe but both my current and previous employers are big American tech companies with HQs in the Bay Area, and guess what they pay here? Standard European salaries that any other local company does. Maybe a couple of percent more, but nothing outstanding, definitely not close to Bay Area level salaries. And that is exactly the point I'm trying to make here: companies adjust the salaries considering the cost of living of the area their employees live in. If you move to a cheaper place, that will definitely have an impact on your salary.

> Finally, you are mistaken if you believe pay will drop so much.

Well, time will tell. I hope you'll be right there.
Is that his scanner glass that's scratched, or the chip?
I was confused for a second to see a "Page Not Found" error from Facebook. So note for others who get this and decide to ignore this post: "Page Not Found" apparently means "Please Log in"
You mean monoclonal antibodies[0]? Vaccines are far too slow for a fast-moving virus like this if you are already exposed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody
Before the printing press, you constructed your own media by hiring people to proclaim your message. "Criers" of various sorts predate democracy.
You just described Optus netstats from 20 years ago. It was fun trying to get a score as close to 10 without getting in trouble.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/94kqpq53#r5005448
I wouldn’t characterize AT&T as a near monopoly (at least in ISPs). There are multiple DSL providers plus Comcast for cable). This is just pure marketing waste.
Noticed in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-Janua...

> the DOI resolver site went down today because they apparently forgot to renew the domain, and the author of this blog post from CrossRef (who runs it) suggests relying
on us for persistent identifier stability [...] He notes "the “persistence” [of persistent identifiers] is the result
of a social contract" -- indeed.
Ship on the big project that originally drove me into programming.
Heh, heh, good article. In addition to the humorous value it actually does explain why traders do not (usually! ;-) ) need warehouses.
I'm kind of surprised that anyone is actually surprised or offended by this kind of stuff. The US would be a backwater farming colony if it hadn't wholesale stolen the technologies that allowed New England to compete in the textile industry. That is only the most obvious example.
No worries :-). And glad to hear you're working on it! Let me know if I can be of any help.
Could you share where you get these prices?
Why invent a new bit of jargon then? Where does this get explained to people (bearing in mind users don't read!

The solution is to call it the Windows key as 95%+ of Ubuntu users will know it as that and have a Windows keyboard.
Another thing, is that speculators add stability to the market. They predict future demand, so they buy today - driving up the price, reducing use, and then sell tomorrow. If it weren't for speculators you'd see drastic rises in prices as increases in future demand would not be offset by previous savings.
Its not a 'political shit fight'. There are some consequences to being a startup incubator, and partnering with a company that has a record of using outside innovations for its own benefit.