jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You can query by key … and that’s about it. The only piece of good news here is that you can structure your data in folders in such a way that you can easily get content by prefix, but that’s about it. Any other query is off limits, unless you want to do a full recursive search. The only option here is to build indices specifically for querying. You can do this on a scheduled basis if staleness is of no concern or you can use git hooks to update indices as soon as a commit happens.

Isn't the point of a database the ability to query? Why else would you want "Git as a NoSql database?" If this is really what you're after, maybe you should be using Fossil, for which the repo is an sqlite database that you can query like any sqlite database.
Russian LARPers built a steam tank:

http://nyc.qadviser.com/articles/steamtank-featuring-warhamm...

Do not taunt Russian LARPers.
Versus paying $0 on the whole.

Fine, I'll take it.
The second article celebrates the COVID civil rights violations among others. Many of those are popular with partisans of a particular persuasion.

Maybe you can see the parallel in something like the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping? Agents entrapped rubes into participating, pressuring them when they expressed reservations.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/who-is-a-domest...

>Last week, federal and state officials charged thirteen men with plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and accused them of surveilling her vacation home, conducting tactical training, and discussing an attack on the state capitol.

https://reason.com/2022/09/04/its-almost-always-the-feds/

>It's (Almost) Always the Feds: How the FBI Fabricates Schemes To Entrap Would-Be Radicals
The FBI's long history of using informants and manufactured plots to prosecute extremists

>...the collapse of the prosecution of the Whitmer defendants is one of the biggest public embarrassments for the FBI's counterterrorism and informant programs since 9/11.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gretchen+whitmer+kidnapping+...

Where is The New Yorker's coverage of these abuses of power? They were front and center when the shoe was on the other foot.

The author claims to be concerned about civil rights, but celebrates COVID policies and restrictions on personal energy consumption. Perhaps The New Yorker doesn't care at all about individual freedom. Perhaps they are only concerned with abuses of institutional authority when it suits their narrow partisan goals.

>institutional authority (what would that even mean?)

The observation in my concise comment above was very simple. Centralized power tends to corrupt. Not sure why this should be controversial for a good faith discussion.

The state has granted itself wide sweeping new powers since Hoover's time. Consider the Patriot Act if that is politically palatable for you. Try to recognize that the other measures such as COVID emergencies, disinformation emergencies or climate emergencies may exist along the same spectrum of an ever increasing institutional authority over the individual's natural rights.
Not all bad: It's be cool if someone would report to me when my tail lights are out. Or that I forgot to turn my headlights on. Or if my gas cap is hanging out.
Awesome news for both CloudKick and Rackspace. For what it's worth, I hadn't really tried out CloudKick before, but tried it after today's news...I'm quite impressed. I really hope Rackspace rolls this functionality into their own offerings.
Has anybody heard of this before? I almost have to believe it's a joke article based on the graphic and accompanying text about the pressure needed to keep the fountain erect.
It's not totally impractical. Paillier, for example, has nice applications in electronic voting (since you can sum votes without reading who those votes were for).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paillier_cryptosystem

But yeah, anything more than that is currently not all that practical.
If NYC wants to attract the next Google, they should start by repealing the outmoded regulations and firing the bureaucrats (like Kathleen Willey) that ban 23andMe (from the wife of Google) from doing business in the state.
I tend to agree with you. There is just too much information on Twitter to effectively and quickly process to make investing decisions.

I also wonder how many funds they would need to keep up with to make this worth their while.
We are becoming the borg. Teenagers don't blog because they don't have the time, and are becoming incapable of thinking independently of their collective. Information streams into their brain at a rate they are unable to comprehend, and so their world is this ultra-fast blur of data, just basic I/O, without any processing.

Oh, and stay off my lawn.
Circular logic. You're saying someone would act this way in order to appear innocent. But, this is the way someone who is actually innocent, and angry at the accusation, would act. There is no one true way a human being, with actual emotions, responds to being accused, falsely or truthfully, of deceit.

Honestly, your explanation of why he sounds guilty to you reminds me of the paranoid ramblings of, well, paranoid people. Again, it's entirely possible the FBI (though this isn't their jurisdiction really) could be trying to subtly shape free software to their bidding, but this is a baseless, and pretty shaky, claim by someone that allegedly has a commercial incentive in stirring up this shitstorm. I think the accused has every right to be mad as hell about the accusation, especially if he did no such thing.
Doesn’t account for political problems, time management problems or the ever-present issue of people turning your estimate into a commitment, but sure.
It doesn't handicap them today. I think it would have handicapped them 4000 years ago.

There is actual evidence for my theory BTW. Aboriginal folks in Australia had a tradition of using songs to describe itineraries.

Antique poetry and the bits of oral traditions that survived until today were using heavily structured verses (like the dactylic hexameter). A notable exception is the old testament, whose first parts were transmitted orally before being written down, and which is structured in verses of unknown structure (or unstructured, except for the psalms).

Modern poetry has gradually lost that strong structure. The prevalence of musical anhedonia and amusia may very well have risen in recent times as a result of the loss of utility of music.

————

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia
> It's awesome that you're able to maintain your cars well enough to keep them going that long,

I actually do very little. I'm pretty easy on my cars. A mechanic once told me he couldn't believe how little wear there was on the clutch for the miles. (I habitually approximate the right engine speed before letting the clutch out.)

Also, most car mechanical failures come from neglecting lubricating things.
When you serve from the filesystem, your content is usually in the filesystem cache in practice, and then it's being served from memory.

Adding a memory cache on top of the filesystem cache is probably a waste of time for no gain (unless your workload has really specific pattern maybe…).
In fact I replied on Reddit to the one and only good faith question posed there, and in the end gained a Brave user. You can find that on Reddit if you look past all the loaded “have you stopped being a hateful bigot” non-questions, which I did not answer.

That’s right, I don’t respond to baiting — especially from handles with obvious twitter accounts who were planning to drag me in front of a mob. I’ve written elsewhere on Reddit and even more often on HN too, so take your imputation of cowardice back to the shop and do read more of what I have written.
They both sell server hardware, now that Oracle owns Sun.
The most educated have learned quite a bit, but once you start talking about average populations you find a higher percentage of people in the US belied in evolution 100 years ago than do today.

And when you start taking about actual numbers you find that there are over a billion people that can't read living in the world today. Heck, due to the population increase there are probably more people in the world today that believe the world is flat than did in the 300 BC and there pictures of the thing.
just create a ruleset and run a GA or simulated annealing on them for awhile
I read a study that said that adding milk negates essentially all of the antioxidant benefits of tea...

(I'm not sure if it's true, and I don't add milk to my tea anyway...)
I can probably find rankings that put Harvard at wildly different rankings in all of those categories too. The fact of the matter is, outside of Law and Business (okay okay, Math too), Harvard does not exactly float to the top of anybody's personal list as a source of any kind of great engineering. That's okay, that's not what the school focuses on.

We actually had this exact discussion recently at a client site and brainstormed top schools we could look to recruit from for C.S. and Mechanical Engineering types and Harvard was not on anybody's list for either of those. Not top-10 and not in the discussion at all.

Most people are wildly surprised to find out that folks like Bill Gates and Zuckerberg studied at Harvard, almost verbatim the response is "Harvard has a C.S. department?" Most people assume Stanford or MIT.
Android seems to have the same problem with Skype

The oddity of Skype is entirely Skype's making -- they saw a revenue model negotiating with carriers (the idea being "Get a Verizon Android phone because then you can get Skype"), so that's what they did. They control their own product, so there it is.
>>I'm no naturopath, but something about this attitude really bugs me.

compare profit margin of magic pill versus telling someone to make a concious effort for few days
Our president is 79 and many members of our congress are over 80 years old
I have had some decent success hitting it with flux remover (specifically one with active ingredients of Vertrel XF plus trans-1,2-dichloroethylene).

But that might have just gone after the substrate.
> You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph.

In the context of legislation like GDPR and CCPA is this even legal in some jurisdictions any more? Genuinely not sure so any insight gratefully received.
The link to follow 404s for me… perhaps because I put a plus sign in my email?
"My original "plan" (ie grand scheme) was to have everything figured out and perfected and then publish it all at once, fireworks and all. Needless to say I no longer think that's a good idea..."

I am struggeling with that, too, since years.

I have given up on the "perfect" long ago and am happy with "good enough". But still, there is no way to update a first impression.

If the first impression is bad, they might walk away and never come back. Even if the reason was some stupid technical glitch, that could have been easily fixed. So I would argue in some cases it is indeed better to wait some more time and fix the showstoppers.

Which is why I probably also won't publish today, even though I figured, easter might be a good time strategically.

But I will show it some more people in person today and judge by their reaction what of the issues are really critical.
Yet understood very little!
Sounds like a cool project, were there any libraries that you used that are worth mentioning?
Later in the article the author points to an article which does systematically illustrate that the D-K effect is probably not real. They achieve this by using college education level as an independent proxy for test skill with the Y variable being an unrelated assessment of skill - self-assessment. So we can be pretty confident that the D-K effect is at least very small.
neurotransmitter precursor
I often wondered if it's linked in any way with the phenomenon of a person who speaks with a stutter, but who can sing without the stutter.
Gotta keep a straight face :)
> I’m an external examiner
> sometimes I need to read some of these god awful books to see what students are expected to know.

LoL

Here in India every kid de-facto refers to few content farm websites and while they are not outright wrong, there will always be subtle errors, as the content is contributed by other students only. And books - the textbooks are so unpopular and not even available on libgen.

Day by day, academia seems more like a drug cartel.
Move to France http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/france-decrees-...
I am all about the hacker cred here, but you need only take a look at the most directly comparable project, Nouveau to get an idea of how ridiculous the thought is that greenfield reverse engineering of apple's custom GPU will result in something that is desktop-class usable and reliable. Please remember that Nouveau can't even do better than a framebuffer on anything newer than a geforce 10 series card. GPU development is just too eratic and fast paced to even try to keep up the effort. Anyone willing to devote that kind of time and expense into the project would be better off engineering a GPU from scratch.
The point is that crowdsupply vets projects that they are at a stage where a lot of it is actually just finishing design and manufacturing, or at least have a clear path there, instead of letting people imagine "we will have a PCB and software running on it, how hard can that be" and kickstart that. (because most electronics products are "straightforward to get manufactured" at some level, getting there and not overcomplicating it so it isn't anymore is the problem)
I don't really have issues with the performance of Visual Studio Code even though it's electron, but with Julia I mostly use it for the syntax highlighting, linting and autocompletion (plus version control and other external tools). I find it much easier to have a Julia instance running on a drop down terminal or in the second monitor for easy access, Revise so every file I save is automatically loaded in the REPL session and some extras like Rebugger, Infiltrator and OhMyREPL for debugging and some niceties.

This way I can just immediately query and test things using the language itself without having to deal with any sort of constraints or quirks within the editors. And the Julia REPL allows for quickly switching to shell (just pressing ;) when needed. I would hope they keep improving the REPL (and the editor support features like linters) over focusing on a completely new IDE (there is even more potential when considering Lisp languages REPL, plus general usability improvements like first call latency), but I'm biased and that's not the workflow most developers use.
Likely never.

OneWeb is about to go bankrupt. Launching is a way for SoftBank to still claim spectrum rights.
I never [bought] a Mac, always looked like a control freak's dream, a step down from even Windows, let alone Linux.
I have long argued that the marketing of various GNU/Linux distros as something you can install on any PC if you get tired of Windows for whatever reason was a huge mistake on the part of the community.

This attitude created the insane expectation that Ubuntu (or whatever) should run on any machine that previously ran Windows. That is a (hopelessly) tall order to fill, especially considering that new versions of Windows itself won't always run on machines that previously ran an older version of Windows.

We, as a community, mistakenly emphasized the sheer number of installs over the quality of those installs and the happiness of their users. The best way to market GNU/Linux, in my opinion, is to show someone a fully compatible, fully working machine that "Just Work[ed]" out of the box and explain, honestly, how it was achieved (by buying the right machine and using a distro known to work with that machine).

I believe that the "we can make any machine work, sort of..." attitude created a lot of crazy expectations, which hurt "switchers" and thus actually hurt the sale of fully compatible machines. Very sad.

I'm with you though. I bought a Mac solely for the battery life and the screen. If I could get a well-built machine, with a screen that didn't look washed out and a battery that consistently lasted more than four hours without weird tricks I would gladly pay Mac prices for it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bridgewater-bets-big-on-market-...
Hugo.

I do mine on https://viggy28.dev hosted on Firebase. Source https://gitlab.com/viggy28-websites/viggy28.dev
If you run your own XMPP server (can be done dirt cheap now), you don't really need e2ee and all the problems that come bundled with it.
> People are not animals

By every scientific definition, yes, we are.
For the record, since it has been changed, L52 used to read:

fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Specify a command, asshole.\n\n")

Rather than the current:

fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Please specify a command.\n\n")

Not realizing this at first caused me a fair amount of confusion about what everyone was talking about.
*96 humanoid robots
That's pretty close to what Netlify is doing behind the scenes, isn't it? Why would configuring it yourself be better? Netlify has way more experience at that than most people.
When I use my phone camera to copy documents or especially photographs (i.e. old school printed-on-paper paper photos), I've found the most useful thing is to light it with the sun. You can do it next to a window if the sun is shining in (best the window is clean), or I just do it on my porch if it isn't windy. They come out with excellent quality...I have found it does better than even scanning them (which takes much longer)

Obviously, the sun should be at enough of an angle so it won't cause glare. You can try to position it so the sky isn't reflecting in the photo, but honestly the effect of that is going to be miniscule because the sun is so much brighter.

And of course, if you have to do it when the sun isn't out, you can make do with whatever lighting you have, but the quality won't be as good from my experience. I've done this for family photos from ages ago, and it wasn't a problem to wait for some sunshine.
Not for shift workers in healthcare / transport / retail who were using fast-food outlets when normal shops were closed.
Houston has high humidity, and will make it into the 90’s this week. If this is true, it should slow down here before someplace colder, right?

I would presume that if it doesn’t, then this summer assumption is not relevant.
Nobody would do just a dime's worth of work and quit. Why not just pay out after a certain amount is reached, such as Adsense does?
The title of the HN post is a little bit confusing, at least for me. It's a company that was bootstrapped by an 18-year-old in 1997, which is now (13 years later) worth $300m according to its founder. The title here made me think it had been recently bootstrapped by somebody who is still a teenager and that it is now showing $300m in either revenue or profit.
Haha! I'm on Dvorak too and didn't understand at all why JohnnyCache thought hitting "-" was so much harder than Space! I guess I've been completely converted for too long.
This is wrong. They're not checking for 150 words.

They need to check that, once typeset on the printable form, the text fits in a box of a certain size.

Still, whatever they are using to typeset the form should be able to easily give them that info. Even if, god forbid, they are doing it with HTML they can get that info.

Much simpler would be to design the form with a monospaced font for the essay. This is a big reason why manuscripts are still submitted in Courier even though few people use typewriters anymore.
I will agree with this on some level. Teenagers are a known community cancer. Left unchecked, they will turn any board into 4chan.

I don't think there is an uncontrollable flow of noobs on Forrst though. For the most part its follow-based anyhow, you don't like someone you unfollow them.

However I have noticed posts where highschool kids are specifically encouraged to participate, and while a really noble gesture to foster education amongst a new generation (and cheap labor pool), its a dangerous move. More kids = lower quality and more moderation.
It's a bit misleading to flatly cite the 100km Karman line as if there was no room to debate "where does space begin?" The boundary could be lower: NASA gives out astronaut wings at 50 miles (264000 feet). Or maybe it should be higher: Orbits decay pretty quickly under atmospheric drag at that altitude, and drag is a factor even at ISS altitude, requiring a bit of fuel now and again to replace energy lost to drag. The point at which reasonable flying speed equals orbital speed (~100 km) is just one demarcation, chosen by convention from many possibilities.
I've always looked at it this way: Dabblers are never really dabblers. I, for example, dabble in Rails, but I'm a real expert in math based marketing and database stuff ("Market Intelligence", "Business Intelligence", "Analytics"). When I play with Rails, everyone around me just assumes that all I do is dabble, but I don't. I'm building up valuable knowledge that I can apply at an opportune time during my expert level focus elsewhere. Knowing that I can, say, split test with either JavaScript or server side rails code does impact my decisions and suggestions.

Generalists, on the other hand, have reached a beyond-novice level of skill in multiple, seemingly disjointed skills, but they are able to pull it together to create new things. These are the type of guys that invent injections of ionic compounds into the blood stream to map out cancerous tumors. They have enough points of knowledge to come up with an idea that a world class tumor surgeon would never be able to suggest, even if they couldn't actually preform as well as the surgeon.
Which is much the same of what could be said for WinForms, MFC, and soon even Silverlight will be thrown under the bus or at least bolted on top of HTML5 to keep it alive.
The internet is turning out to be more like TV and less like books/newspapers on that front.

Signed,
Someone who used to be an idealist about that.
Let me just drop a note here that I happen to have two "unlimited" SMS subscriptions (i.e. could at least notify a few thousand people) in different European countries and that contact info is in my profile in case anyone has... ideas... :-)
Leak can mean different things. None of those types in the link are stack allocated, I think.
> If kids don't get sick, then they don't get sick.

There's no data about prevalence of long-term symptoms after an infection yet, regardless of whether people show immediate symptoms.
Good talk about debugging i/o in rustup:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8
Either hiragana or katakana is used on most official documents for convenience. On the family registers (戸籍 koseki), which are perhaps the most important, though, the readings of names are not listed. For people whose names are written only in kanji, those kanji, and not the readings, are the legal versions of their names.
Like bubble etc?
Don't let the word "failure" bring you down. Most highly successful entrepreneurs fail before they make a fortune. Those failure stories are just usually not being broadcasted so people are unknown and thought they were successful from their first venture. They are not.

Examples: http://mixergy.com/kissmetrics-hiten-shah-interview/

Hiten Shah and Neil Patel wasted half millions dollars into a hosting company that went nowhere. They learned and started KissMetrics.
I don't run around looking for ideas.

I try to solve real problems.
Just for curiosity's sake, how many comments do you currently get per article (rough guess/average)? I wonder if there is a threshold where a better commenting system increases comments (e.g. TechCrunch has 89 on this article as of now - maybe 3-6% wouldn't have commented if it wasn't Disqus).
The homepage of boutiques.com explicitly forbids web crawlers to index the site:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">