jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You seem unaware of the history of US foreign intervention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

There's a very unfortunate reason only the strongmen last.
cool. I get that your stance and what you believe.

Now convince me why
It's true, of course, but the alternative seems to be the erasure of poetry from the poetry of Rumi. Here's a sample of the translation they recommend at the end:

I'm now compelled through uttering Shams' name
To tell you of his gifts and spread his fame
Hosamoddin has flung me by my skirt
So I can breathe in scent from Joseph's shirt

https://books.google.com/books?id=icAlT_hrlTUC&pg=PA12&lpg=P...

Now, it's not a fair comparison, but I think it makes the point. Barks' Rumi became such an unlikely best-seller because the poetry is breathtaking.
Half the population struggles with fluent conversation!
As an American who prefers rural living, I prefer not living in a city because my time is valuable. I like being able to go from A to B at 60 miles and hour and not worry about parking. I don't like waiting for busses or subways.

I think suburban living is generally going to be less time-consuming than urban living unless you're doing something dumb, like communting into Los Angles or Washington, D.C.
Many people can't/don't want to uproot their entire life and move to some overpriced suburb of SF.
eh, he does this once in a while. He did it for his own amusement of predicting things. He did a prediction about a Bitcoin scam or something at the end of last year. He maybe predicting something about COVID. or something else. Socially constrained maybe his way to say "I'm predicting something on my own grounds. If I say it in plain, people will argue and I don't have time for that. I just want to put as proof that I have formulated this prediction by this point in time.".
Hmm, this is not a very good name for anything. I don't know if a pun was intended or not, but anyway, it's bad naming.
I'm working on a "Maintenance Solution" (MainTech) for the mostly the fast-food & restaurant industry. Places running it already in some parts of the world includes KFC, Pizza-Hut, Paul Bakery etc.. This is helping them to manage, track, assign any maintenance issue they might have as well as well as a big push for "Preventative Maintenance (daily, weekly) for their shops and store assets". Think of it as JIRA for the restaurant industry.

You guys knows what is funny... The NUMBER ONE item on the list that is broken across multiple brands and over 90 stores.. is "LED LIGHTS". I find it funny since LED LIGHTS are always toted as having such a long life span.
But how do the damn three seashells work?
I get what you are saying but it is getting really boring explaining basic facts again and again and again. The whole 'my opinion is valuable and the world is a debate' is great in good times. These are bad times and lots of people really do need to stop talking and start listening.

EDIT I hope the downvoters and their families make it through the epidemic alive.
FWIW, the README.md says "the Phoenix server listens to PostgreSQL's replication functionality (streaming WAL)" - that makes it sound like you're actually parsing the WAL itself. But you seem to be looking at the already decoded data (using postgres' logical decoding). That's the right thing to do, please don't get me wrong. Just suggesting to clarify.
That's a good guess but why even do it? The idea of pointing out the government faults is to either help them correct their policies or rally up people. If it comes later it kinda defeats the purpose.
This article is a bit - or maybe a lot - callous, but it makes some good points. Shutting down the economy is not free of human costs. People will lose their livelihoods and some will lose their lives to the coming recession.

Where I disagree is the premise that we're "eating the young to save the unhealthy old". The implication here is that letting the virus run wild is an appropriate trade to make for saving the economy from a recession. That's pretty unconscionable in my opinion.

We should be angry, but it should not framed as a generational dispute. We should focus on the fact that countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan are able to deal with this with much less disruption. We should be angry that we do not have enough masks for everyone. We should be angry that testing was not available until this became a crisis. We should be angry that the healthcare system cannot coordinate a coherent response.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/01/16/9-incredible-examples...

here is a great example of how to make interesting and compelling art without drawing your females as hyper sexualized pieces of meat.

Sans the DBZ one, which is -okayish- but still debatable.
What it means is that the technique was so good that a couple of students in a lab made it work as well as the state-of-the-art commercial offerings of that time.

It's pretty much the definition of a breakthrough
I'm curious as to your background before moving to Lisp?

There's a huge gap in productivity - at least for small, exploratory, green-field projects - between C++/C#/Java and Lisp. There's a much smaller gap between Python/Ruby and Lisp, enough that a couple prominent Lispers [1][2] think that they are perfectly acceptable Lisps.

I like Lisp. I was pretty obsessed with it in college, and have gone so far as to implement a couple of them [3][4]. But my experience is that I'm perfectly fine with Python. Sure, I miss macros and conditions and CLOS. But that's all made up for by the awesome libraries available in Python, the ease with which I can express my algorithms, and the syntactic prettiness. I'm using it for my startup; I was just thinking this morning (while poking at a unit test in the REPL) that it's just as good or better than my Lisp experience ever was.

[1] http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

[2] http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...

[3] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

[4] https://github.com/nostrademons/arclite
>> I forgot what it was in the exam. So I just derived it from definitions.

Hah, I did the same :-) ... unfortunately I also forgot the conventional names, and just used 's' (for speed) instead of 'v', and 'd' (for distance) instead of 's'. My teacher did not object the derivation at all, but told me that the results are wrong, because of the letters used ...

Well, point taken - now, I try to pay extra attention and memorize idiosyncrasies like naming conventions ... it saves time when communicating with others.
I enjoyed the short length and poetry of this 'essay'; kind of different from PG.
I agree, but I did not make that conclusion nor did I assert that making good software wasn't "hard", and certainly not because it's a "game".
http://xkcd.com/386/

There is nothing wrong with someone continuing to be wrong on the Internet.
Or a multilevel story-within-a-story type where the browser tells the HTTP server a story about an OS who tells a story about keyboard interrupts and network packets and so on.
Have you tried gaffer tape?
I ran into the same problem, and the main cause is that the downward force is able to slowly peel off any tape that is solely on the bottom of the desk. If the tape is extended onto the sides or top, it becomes much sturdier, because the tape would need to be dragged across the surface, rather than slowly peeled off. However, that makes the tape be much more visible.

I'd recommend instead adding some screw hooks to the bottom of the desk. The mechanical fasteners can be entirely on the bottom of the desk, and are sturdier I'm general than the tape.
I completely agree, many people look at a language as the sum of its features, but it really isn't.

Also, I think Lispy syntax is key in REPL ergonomics. It means you can, more often than not, take a chunk of code and trivially insert it into the REPL.
I think I am lacking a but a bit if context. It seems that he refers to a particular paper. It would be important to know what he is responding to.
Ditch cloudflare and write the web server in assembly and see if it holds up to raw HN traffic. Bonus points if you have an L1 cache and can fit and serve your entire website from it.
This fork is handy for that. It’s fun to play with, but you need to do a decent amount yourself to get it set up.

https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos
You are doing nothing but generating noise if you try to treat this knowledge the same as hard scientific knowledge. You generate something very valuable if you treat it as a different kind of knowledge.

I like to give this example: the statement, "the moon is made of cheese" is false when treated as a scientific statement of fact. It can -- and, in fact, has -- been falsified. On the other hand, if taken as a literary statement, it can hold some truth -- or maybe many truths. Except that is a different kind of truth. It can teach us something about human imagination, human desire, human whimsy. Maybe even something deeper, once you analyze the significance of "moon" and that of "cheese".

History -- my favorite field of study alongside math -- is somewhere in the middle, a perfect spot between science and literature. It is as scientific as possible when it comes to the what and how stuff happened (which is most of what historians do); when it gets to the why (which doesn't happen as often) history is more literary (and doesn't make any claims of definitiveness). History tries to leave the definitive answers to religions.

Finally, I think you're putting too much faith in human ability to defy the math of complex systems. If anything, I predict a different sort of confabulation: that we have managed come up with a scientific theory to something that is provably impenetrable to hard scientific quantitative theory. I have every faith in our ability to convince ourselves that we can somehow use math (and data) to beat math.

Is there a data-driven religion being born? It would be one that believes that anything not quantifiable is not worth knowing, and would try to plug any missing holes in our knowledge with data and quantitative theory, even if that's mathematically impossible.

Hell, just the other day I had a discussion with some people on Reddit who believed we could somehow beat the Halting Theorem or, at least, make it irrelevant in practice. But just like we'll likely never write a computer program that can fully reason about other computer programs, we will probably never be able to explain human history enough to make definitive explanations/predictions on most things. I am perfectly OK with that. I am also well aware that not being OK with that, and trying to beat the odds is how (some -- not all) progress is made :)
Not necessarily. They could have all the Uber apps in all the app stores. It would be a huge pain for their engineers and their users which is probably why they don’t do it.
An ad business that doesn’t rely on accumulating user data for targeting.

Ads do not always mean user tracking.
> The question then becomes how slow is copying to/from the GPU versus doing the computation on the CPU when it comes to 100s/1000s of active bodies.

The amount of time spent inside a GPGPU kernel for updating 1000 rigid bodies wouldn't even be as much as the length of time to copy the data back and forth. You've also got to consider the acceleration structure used for the collision detection. If you have a hierarchical tree-like structure (BVH, BSP tree) then how do you update it in parallel. you need to spin off thousands of tasks for it to be worth running on the GPU. If you have that many dynamic bodies, you're probably going to be draw call limited in trying to render them, unless they're exceptionally simple objects (Particles for example, which are already GPU accelerated in modern Game Engines).

> I agree that normally (small examples) it wouldn't be worth it, but for any large simulations, and say, video games of the future, I have yet to see someone attempt to do this. Perhaps it truly isn't beneficial enough... but who knows.

In modern AAA video games, the active body count in a scene would be no greater than the hundreds. Think of a scene from Assassin's Creed, or Battlefield, and think about how many truly dynamic things there are in the level. Chances are, there's you(the player), a handful of other players, a handful of explosive barrels, maybe 5-10 vehicles, and a few extras for bodies. For something like Assasin's creed, the computation is most likely in the animation, where hundreds of physics raycasts from the players hands to the various "climbable" points are performed, and the updating of the very detailed skeletal mesh. Modern games utilise almost 100% of the GPU time already on rendering for lighting, AA, shadows, ambient occlusion, transparency, reflections. To add more stress to the GPU is unnecessary really, considering that the computations are so short for a few hundred bodies that the bottleneck will be copying the data over and back.

I wrote my masters thesis on GPGPU accelerated Bounding Volume Hierarchies (A common structure used in Raytracing and in Collision Detection). The overhead of a small copy stalling the GPU is quite severe. It's worth it if you can do all your work on the GPU without having to copy back, but that's currently not feasible for interactive simulations.
>Currently you see many conservatives repeating the meme that losing the Senate means a Republican will never win the White House again. The belief being that Democrats will change voting laws, open borders and amnesty to Dem-leaning immigrants, and possibly even pack the Supreme Court and add DC and Puerto Rico as new states.

It is an open secret that they will do all of these things given the opportunity. There's probably one or two D senators in the way of that right now.
Open Source Security https://opensourcesecurity.io/category/podcast/

Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/blog/podcast/

Talk Python to Me https://talkpython.fm/

Late Night Linux https://latenightlinux.com/
It doesn't even follow from what's written in the constitution. Religious freedom is not compatible with only certain religious folks being able to use it properly.
>Would you really rather live a pleasing fiction than face a sad or uncomfortable reality

This is never said or implied.
There is a comment not far away above from HN user who doesn't feel safe on a street without mask with other people closer than 25 feet. Imagine what those TV pictures of yours gonna make with people like that.
Because:

- There's no simple decision tree, but an ML model with countless knobs that are mostly implicit. Not worth the money to make an UI to tweak it.

- The puprose of these platforms is to maximize your exposure to ads. Nothing more. Anything that detracts from it is a no-go.
The deleted tweets could be considered "a lie" or whatever but srsly nothing in there justifies deleting it. He's actively calling for peace, law & order and to let the blue do their job.

The problem with censorship is that ###### and that you cant #####. There is also no way to argue why you agree/disagree with it because #######.
Never mind a chemical balance being caused by depression!
By the way, how would you write your whole comment in Esperanto?

I would struggle, because I'm not a fluent Esperantist; it would come out be omething like:

Alian ideon. la Esperanton estas la sola konstruitan lingvon kio havas multaj da parolistoj en multaj loĝoj. Ĝi ekzistas, dum ĉiu semajno aliajn malgrandajn lingvojn mortas, kaj ĝi havas pli vivo ol tiojn denaskajn lingvojn kio vivas de amatoristoj kun tro influo - ekzemple kimra lingvo.

La Esperanton neestas la plej uzata mondlingvon (nuntempe), sed ĝi ne mortas. Nenio ŝanĝis la fakto ke vi povas lerni ĝin, ĝis vi bonparolas, en malpli tempo ol iu denaska lingvo.

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[I dropped English idioms "on the other hand" - which hand?, "have got anywhere" - languages don't go anywhere, some of the metaphoric stuff about a language being alive and "on life support". If I've written it reasonably well it should carry the same general meaning. Transliterating this comment back to English:

Another idea. Esperanto is the only constructed language which has many speakers in many places. It exists while every week other small languages die, and it has more life than those native languages which live by amateurs with too much influence - for example Welsh.

Esperanto is not the most used world-language (currently), but it is not dead. Nothing changed the fact that you can learn it, until you speak well, in less time than any native language.
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Let's just allow that Graham is only saying that inventive people tend to cluster in one economic zone. It's an easy conclusion to anyone interested in the continued economic success of the United States that we should get as many of those people into the country as possible.

Now if what we really want is to maximize inventiveness as a species / civilization... We probably don't want a monoculture of thought. We want inventive people in a diverse number of environments, all getting slightly different experiences and fresh angles on local and global problems.

We could take a further leap and argue that we need to import diversity to solve the monoculture problem in the United States. But that's not what Graham's arguing.
Ah, well I wasn't trying to throw any stones at Denmark or Sweden. My point, probably phrased with too many words, was just that nobody would go to Denmark expecting chickens in the street or no civilization, but wifi just wasn't as available as I'm used to in the US there, either. (It was free at 7-11 in Denmark, too, although only for 10 minutes--that was still long enough to save me from spending a long afternoon at the train station in Aarhus.)
Empirically employees who get paid 1.5x or 2x for overtime seem to want to get as much overtime as possible regardless of the fact that it cuts into other activities in their lives. That's at least been my perspective. I'm not sure if there are any large scale studies done on this topic.

You might be correct that the best way to balance the competing incentives is to require overtime pay but not at a higher rate.
The assumption in the article, and in most of this discussion, and of our society if not our civilization in general, is that the only things that matter are money and jobs (a.k.a. money). What pinched, impoverished excuses for human beings we are.
Sure. So maybe instead of trying to pattern our lives according to blog after blog and article after article, we should all do what we believe to be best for our own lives, be it spending more time in formal education, or be it dropping out, or be it starting a startup, or be it working for a huge company.

I think that society today needs people to do all of those things, and more. We all need to find our own place, and excel there.
That almost no one really knows what they're doing.
I gave the talk. Died a little inside that day.
> Microsoft got lucky, once

To be fair, they got lucky a good many times. They wrote a BASIC interpreter (MITS even paid them to work on that) for the nascent personal computer industry that was mostly there when needed.

Microsoft's BASIC was the first language many of us learned to program in. The other day I solved Google's "are you a programmer" tests using both an Apple //e and a TRS-80 Model III (emulated with MESS). It was nostalgic.
As someone with family in Israel and strong views on the ME conflict, I think this is great news. Anything which supports/encourages the Palestinians making their own lives better and producing stuff which doesn't explode is a good thing for everyone in the region. This sort of thing is how a viable Palestinian state is going to come about, if ever.
Sure, unless you'd like to validate, parse, maintain, or change the codebase.

edit: oh, and proper markup is faster.
Looks pretty good. In short, (if I understand this well) it solves the problem of updating a value in an ajax app and then having to update lots of separate different parts on the screen in js, which can get messy. They seem to be inspired by Silverlight's approach.
Does anybody else have a problem with the phrase, 'The Western Hemisphere'?

And I'm from Australia so Summer 2011 is a difficult thing as well.
It doesn't really exist.

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hellish-road-junctions-roa...
I can highly recommend the books "Why do we get fat and what we can do about it" or "the case against sugar" by Gary Taubes which are related to this.
How do we know how many shorts and at what price?

Wouldn't you have to check every bitcoin exchange? There is no central trading authority like the Dow or Nasdaq.
> Truly massive projects that can be measured in large fractions of a human lifespan are exceptionally rare.

We still get massive projects, but they proceed like evolution: every step has to have a benefit. (Even if the part that step plays in the final product is not what gives it the immediate benefit.)
>Duesenberg built the chassis and engine at their Indiana plant, and coachbuilder Bender Body Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was tapped to customize the Model A.

Bender Body Company??! I'd kiss their shiny metal ass!
I'm definitely no expert but it seems to me that the sheer number of biological variables means that even if you know something could potentially get bad it wouldn't really give you much of a head start as any vaccine you might develop is not so likely to be viable. Testing the impact on living organisms would also have so many ethical issues as to be pretty much a non starter.

I'd genuinely like to know what we would get out of it that would warrant such risk taking?
>Why would people buy that?

Why would they have to?

With Facebook money I could write a new OS, put it in a smartwatch, and give them away free.

Plus start a new app _store_ to go with it.

>What would their killer app be?

Anything that was free.

Maybe I shouldn't be giving them any ideas . . .
I don't know enough about how whales perceive time, distance and the unnatural disturbances coming in with the speed of sound in water to know whether the playback speed is misleading in reflecting the whales feelings or not.

The "obvious impression" you are talking about might not be as obvious as you think it is. For me at least it helped in seeing two interesting patterns: whale roams around and seems to change direction when a ship drives into it's path. Sometimes though it seems to go specifically into the area where a ship "just" drove through.

What was clear to me is that that dot would move differently without ships around it.
It could be. But that I find extremely unlikely

A failed experiment? Maybe a bit more likely, but still I don't think so

Sars-Cov-2 looks like pretty much what it is: a zoonotic virus that "doesn't know what's going on"

Hence why only the recent mutations made its transmission more efficient.

Now, if it escaped unbeknownst from a research lab, that I would put on the plausible category. Would be more possible if it wouldn't have had a perfect virus breeding ground right next to it.
I'm sure a computer is routing the malicious telemarketers to me.

The person who says "card services, how are you doing today" to me, every day, is definitely a different human every time.
It doesn't happen on a per-team basis, at least the curve isn't strictly enforced at that level. That really would be insane. As you go up and up the org chart to bigger and bigger collection sizes, the curve is more strictly enforced.

(At least according to the 2 stack ranking reviews I took part in before I left.)
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