jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Actually, there is an inverse relationship between prosperity and child-bearing.
Hey, you can have preferences, even if they are wrong. ;)

Colored pencils are usually very difficult to erase. I've found whiteboards are great for sharing. Get a set of small tip dry erase pens, much better than the standard ones, and helps both writing small and gorilla arm (though I've never really had issues with the latter).
> I don't get it. Either they want the immune response or not.

When mRNA is used in typical drug platforms-- you don't want the immune response.

mRNA vaccine platforms-- you do want the vaccine response.

So, e.g. Moderna has an "N1GL" formulation intended, in part, to tamp down reactogenicity that it is using for its drugs in development, and "V1GL" formulation intended for vaccines where they don't care so much. N1GL both more completely envelops the mRNA and consists of components that themselves are less "adjuvant".

(And N1GL is probably not quite good enough, yet...)

edit: Now it seems there's N2GL where they claim causes much less reactogenicity/toxicity on repeated administration and produces less anti-PEG IgM e.g. https://zerista.s3.amazonaws.com/item_files/f228/attachments... slides 19-20
There are very few, if any, clear cut, night-and-day subjects in ethics. Not wanting to engage with ethics because slippery slopes exist is simply turning from incredibly important work because it’s difficult and not work you want to do.

These technologies can incarcerate people. It’s really important to dive onto the slippery slope and find out where it’s stable.
> Alumni returning to their colleges after 20-50 years may notice the following phenomena: there are a lot more buildings (with donor names on them) but there is an incredible number of empty rooms at any one point in time... many more than when they went to school back in the day.

I will be 40 later this year, and I continue to live next to the University I started attending over 20 years ago: the University of California, Santa Barbara. I mean, right now, campus is empty due to COVID-19; but, right before the world switched to "everything from home", I am pretty sure that we had almost no free capacity... campus keeps buying and renting building as they need more classroom space, study space, and living space. Yes: there are a lot lot lot more buildings, and the footprint of the campus is much larger; but the entire campus is packed with people... the #1 thing that feels weird about it is not that the campus feels empty, but that the campus feels completely and utterly full despite all the new construction. The core areas of campus now have a ridiculous number of people swarming through them constantly, and people are now sometimes living four to a room in buildings where, when I was a student, there only had started to be rumors that someone might be in a triple somewhere (again: despite there having been a very large number of new housing projects built in the last couple decades). I just can't track anything about your point here with my lived experience.
I tried to sign up, but the confirmation email got automarked as spam by Gmail and didn’t contain any links.
> I think humans would probably be able to build back pretty quickly given the tech and manufacturing capability we have today.

I’m not trying to be rude, but I don’t think that you have any knowlegde of the logistics and the advanced electronics, biology, chemistry and processes that is necessary for the current manufacturing we have to work.
If you look into this and learn how complex even the production of the most simple objects and devices is, you may lose some sleep.
And this is only about infrastructure - not engineers/specialists who know how to build and operate it.
On top there are no easily available hydrocarbons left to bootstrap an industrial civilization a second time.

If we fuck up this time, or are fucked up by a major extinction event, we’ll be stuck in early middle ages until we die out.
Many people are not yet skilled at giving feedback.

Many will improve, with guidance.

Those that don’t will blunder along, wondering why they can’t make it in the world.
O'Reilly's Safari Books Online has had this for years.
>Fivethirtyeight had Clinton at 88% less than a month out from election day:

It is funny seeing this here because it is a great example of how it is hard to fight misinformation.

What you said is technically correct but it is extremely misleading. There is no reason to use 538's projection a month out from the election when you could be using the one from the day of the election which had Clinton at 71%. You seem to have chosen the moment in which Clinton's odds were the highest to suggest the projection was wrong. Your comment is just as factual as if I said "538 was one of the few outlets that had Trump favored a few months before the election". That would also be technically true but it glosses over the fact that they only had Trump favored on a single day out of the several months they did projections.

Is this "misinformation" meant to smear 538? Is this just run-of-the-mill bias? Is this an honest mistake? It this specific date chosen intentionally and your motive is just being misunderstood? There is no way for a third party to know the definitive answer to these questions, but if I was 538 I would certainly feel a little attacked by your comment and might jump to calling it misinformation.
How are you involved in this story?
This is what happens when we allow proxies for truth fill in for truth. Or another way to think of it when metrics become the goal.
It is incredibly doubtful they ever really intended to give away boundless amounts of storage forever. It is far more probable that they were trying to entice customers.
Agreed. The "good" feeling was so terrifying, so alienatingly remote from any sanely-achieved accomplishment/reward that I have had a hard time ever taking it again, unless to cancel the effects of psychedlics.
I don't know how you can make this claim objectively without knowing that individual's preferences.

If an individual decides their risk tolerance is that they will not accept a one in a million chance of injury from rock climbing, how is their analysis incorrect?
Interesting contrasting view. And you are right, we should be professionals.

But on the other hand, if you consider it as a project triangle approach, you're given "Well-designed UI, maintainable code, cheap: pick two"

And as professionals, we want to express our clients' vision as much as possible, so we have to make a balance between having good code and the budget that the client gave us. It's not really the fault of our tools and technologies, but we do try to continually improve those tools so that we can provide the best service.
Not even that. For instance, gvim comes with an "easy mode" (just start it as "evim").

In this mode, it acts very much like Notepad (you're automatically in insert mode, and you can just use the File menu to open files, save, and exit).

I'm not sure how much having this mode buys vim, however, as there's no gradual way to progress from "easy mode" to more advanced vim use. Except for the syntax hilighting it offers, its users might as well just be using Notepad, nano, pico, or what have you.
Parsing paths properly is certainly a good idea. But perhaps a more important issue is why you're not running your web application in a secure sandbox in the first place.

I think SELinux is now standard part of the Linux kernel[1], and if you're using Ubuntu there's AppArmor[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux

[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/apparmor.html
Congrats, Jeremy. Hope you have some well earned rest over the holidays.
This sounds as if he's in favour of the skull programmer's output. I've seen the skull methodology used in practice in businesses, and it invariably results in disaster (i.e. angry bosses/employees and disappointed or fleeing customers). If your code is unmaintainable it may be ok for a brief demo, but beyond that it only causes grief.
You can reduce the prison population by giving out smaller prison terms.
I agree. If nothing else, CoffeeScript will be a success if some of its ideas find their way into a future version of JavaScript. It's been very gratifying to see folks like Crockford and Eich giving it a serious look:

* http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/11/25/Hobgoblin-of-Little-...

* http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/

* http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs...
In the UK, if you can meet the evidential burden to raise the issue that your hard disk is in fact full of random data, then it must be proved beyond reasonable doubt that that is not the case. In other words, unless you aren't even permitted to use that as a defence, the prosecution does actually have to prove that you have a key. Now that we have some experience of successful RIPA prosecutions, the smart advice appears to be 1) don't claim to have created a key that you refuse on principle to turn over, or 2) to have created a key that you've since forgotten: you will be asked how long it is – if short, it won't be reasonable to have forgotten it, if long, unreasonable not to have recorded it elsewhere. Basically don't admit to use of encryption unless you're capable of producing a key.
I guess this is paraphrasing Friedrich Nietzsche. I remember quoting this on a discussion with my mother, about 5 years ago. She replied: "So you're saying that if a kid gets bullied every time he steps out the door, will turn up stronger or afraid?". At the beginning I thought she just didn't get it but after elaborating the phrase more and more I came to the conclusion that either it's awfully incomplete (there should be a second part missing somewhere) or it's just plain wrong.

Related to bitcoin, of course if Russia, EU, JP, China, US, AU, Brazil and Turkey decide that it's illegal and should be stopped for the greater good, bitcoin with it's current form will either die or lose a huge % of it's current value.

I understand that it's good (and to me a little bit suspicious) to come clean and totally intact out of DPR bust and SK downfall, survive MtGox's failure, but ultimately if beaten too hard it's going to die not become stronger.
Will it take every single voting age person in America having a first-hand experience like this to change health care?

How can any sane person prefer this over the alternative offered by Developed countries?
I still have to think about it when i'm piping debug statements to a log... Conditional breakpoints are a similar case.
By the way, Bing is a great website for doing Internet searches. I know that because I Googled it.

That's a great line.
"To nature we apply for truth in vain,
God should His will to human kind explain."
-- Voltaire
I don't think anyone's opposed to having a function for "repeat this thing 5 times". But if you did see a function that called itself, why would that be any more confusing than seeing a function that calls another function? That's all it is.
In this case he was caught and confessed, and even if he was truly sorry, his behavior shows really poor judgement for a CEO.
It's very hard to define closest...
> However, the compiler still generated code for factorial_accumulate in my object file.

This is because it is not declared static, and thus is visible outside that translation unit.
I immediately thought of Caesar II when you mentioned Smacker :). One of the impressive things in that game (besides being a great game) was the many very smooth video clips, enabled by that tech.
> would require so little from Boston Dynamics

We don’t know that. Perhaps it was important for them to not have credits in the video; e.g. to keep attention on the robots. Your sister is credited elsewhere in BD’s article, see other comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25682864
Was it found out how did two Beta-M type radioisotope thermoelectric generators got to a side of forest road?
Having a separate bank account for each logical account sounds like having a separate drive for each folder. Accounting already provides very high levels of organisation (e.g. Chart of Accounts) that don't map directly to bank accounts and a, greatly simplified, version of this would seem to be adequate for personal finances?

Edit: This almost makes me want to write a personal Hyperion Financial Management application...
I wouldn't worry about it. Jobs that require this are few and far between - so the necessity isn't there. HN have a wideon for this leetcode stuff. In reality, unless it's your hobby, you don't need to be able.
Recently, I also wrote (C#) a string evolver using a GA: https://github.com/dreasgrech/StringEvolver

I tried 3 different types of fitness functions: Per-Character error summation, Levenshtein Distance and Hamming Distance.

I found that Hamming Distance produced the quickest convergences.

The code for my project is "fully OOP" so you can switch implementations for crossover, mutation and selection operators and also for the fitness functions.

Go ahead, fork me ;-)
In our online store 'The safer, easier way to pay.' is a part of the page. The logo gif and the markup is part of the specs when you implement Paypal. The code looks like this, and came directly from the Paypal implementation guide:

<img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/logo/PayPal_mark_37x23.gif" align="absmiddle" style="margin-right: 7px;" /><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Verdana;">The safer, easier way to pay.</span>

Edit: formatting
Morals are in the realm of science insofar as they can be measured and examined as part of a person's decision making process.
I'm no longer keeping track of TMS research, but from what I know (up to date as of 1 year, minus the fog of not having slept last night):

The plasticity induced by rTMS is relatively short lived (10-60 minutes, usually), especially for high frequency stimulation (that potentiates the activity of the stimulated zone, which would perhaps be useful if we wanted to activate the TPJ of for psychopaths). To get maximal stability, you have keep people in a quiet room, because distractions / other activities tend to dissolve the effects of the stimulation.

You may get longer lasting results using a thêta burst paradigm.

All in all, TMS is mostly a research/diagnostic tool. TMS-based treatments are yet to be discovered (discounting irrelevant, anecdotal case reports).
Supposedly they're not deleting them from devices, just from the archives (thus preventing re-downloading the titles): http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related...
If anything, it's the Google Checkout graphic that seems to fit better with what he's saying. To my eyes, the Paypal text looks more a part of the graphic that the Google version does.

Of course I could be in a minority but I reckon you could place these logos on a number of modern websites and I bet Google's 'text' would fit the layout style best.,
One way I like to think about this is that when you rebase a branch, the diffs are the same (barring any conflicts) but the commits are different. Just another reason commits aren't the same as diffs.
I like the brightest parts of movies, games and images being 400 nits, yes.

And I don't like reconfiguring my display for every different kind of content.

What I don't like is websites using #ffffff
> Just look at the bugs and bloat that every package manager is suffering right now.

And your assumption that the lack of a package manager reduces bugs and bloat is based on what scientific proof? :-)
Attacking another user like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.

Hounding someone with quotes from a previous thread is particularly not ok. As the site guidelines say: Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Those sets are disjoint.

Please don't do the "shame on you" thing either—it's against both the letter and spirit of the guidelines. We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
cmd+"+" has always worked regardless of what unit is used, though?
No; it passed in 2020, I think. Maybe 2019.
No landlord would intentionally open their doors to a bunch of addicts so that they can destroy the property.
Just not gonna happen.
The end result is confused and more easily-manipulated masses who need to trust authorities to vet all information they receive, an abusive but codependent relationship.

On the one hand, yeah, it's definitely more how the press likes a human interest story mixed with whatever is flavor of the month (the techno wow of "deep fakes").

But on the hand, the tone you take in that last sentence is really off-kilter. The press just works in a kind of hysterical fashion, moral panics (even conspiracy theories) aren't conspiracies but natural. Attributing stuff to a malicious effort to make the public more manipulable (as if that was necessary) should be dropped in favor of the natural incompetence of the press in framing issues reasonably.

Edit: "Mocking Bird" above is a phrase referencing CIA manipulation of the media. This is a bit of over the top for just some rather screechy but pretty ordinary story.
> Wouldn’t it then be unethical to force people to vaccinate to protect those who have already been vaccinated?

You are not vaccinating to protect the vaccinated, but those who _cannot_ be vaccinated, or who are not responding to vaccination.

For example, people with inmmunodeficiencies and autoimmune conditions, who are immunocompromised. Not sure, what the status on pregnant women is, but I would guess neither.

AFAIK, cancer treatments are affected, and some cannot be treated as they conventionally would.

So, it is weighing the rights of people who could get vaccinated to put up with a minor nuisance, but don't want to for personal reasons, against the rights of people who cannot get vaccinated and face potential critical health problems because either not being able to get the right treatment of their underlying disease, or simply directly being more and longer exposed to a potential deadly disease for them.

Additionally, by being unvaccinated, you are part of the pool of potential virus-carriers, and the larger the pool the larger the chance of mutations. That combined with a vaccinated population + evolution means more likely a mutation resistant against the vaccination.
I strongly dislike this argument against modern tech companies that they are anticompetitive for not supporting other marketplaces. It feels to me like suing a Chinese restaurant and saying they don’t offer other menus. It’s tough because Google and others are huge, they buy out competitors, it’s not anything like the restaurant market. But this particular argument is so weak imo.
You can't teach passion
Keep in mind: The average tenure for big-tech employees is less than 3 years -- and usually more like 2 years [1].

We were all abruptly pushed into WFH due to the circumstances. It's perfectly logical to embrace this status quo, and then just gradually transition back to the office (in full or in part) as the dust settles.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/average-employee-tenure-rete...
I don't understand why USPS would contract out designing a new vehicle instead of buying American SUVs built for Europe - all the amenities of a modern SUV, plenty of parts and mechanics to repair them, and they'll have been built by a real car company, not some "Tactical Vehicle Manufacturer". Best of all, they'll have that right-hand-drive that Postal workers love so much.

We can't even do something as simple as upgrading the post office vehicles without bringing in defense contractors. Give me a break. Put that money towards a company of peace, or at least the company that will cost USPS the least.
Suspect they will destroy them much as they did the older style postal jeeps towards the end. They are not safe and there is a lot of potential liability in selling them. I think they also want to avoid the situation where people drive around in official looking vehicles that are identified as belonging to the post office.

Also, they are too small to make a decent food wagon.
We could also think this just as a marketing trick for the digital dollar. And as we know, they need the digital dollar to be able to track movement of money, obsoleting financial privacy completely.
I would focus upon the facts and not make large leaps without them to support such premise - otherwise it just reads like a conspiracy rabbit hole with the only tangible fact being he had a great grandfather who spent some time in prison for something he did. You start to see how it all scans when you take it from just the facts.

I hope that helps.
As a dev I receive all forms of dumps. Some anon, some to anon myself, sometimes I have to hook up to a remote server over VPN, sometimes my IP is waitlisted against a cloud instance... seems to vary vastly in my experience. It depends very much on the data contained in the db too.
I'm reminded of Schneier's Law: Any person can invent a security system so clever that he or she can't imagine a way of breaking it.

Does something similar apply here? Can it be formally proven that there's no way to de-anonymise the data?
I'm not sure I agree that that's pedantic, or understand what you're referring to. The only reference to "next" or "same" on that page is for offline instructions (i.e. talking to a human), which cannot be instantaneous for obvious reasons.

I'm not personally aware of the exact details of Fedwire SLAs, but I understand it to be near instantaneous, and that page doesn't suggest otherwise.
One mistake like putting in the entirely incorrect address? It's impossible to initiate a transfer with an invalid address, as they have checksums.
if you were in a position to stop a murder, what would you do? on the one hand, you could save a life. on the other, you would have to spend the rest of your life searching for similar situations so that you can prevent more.

errr...?
You got an upvote from me.

But, you seriously think my comment is inflammatory? You don't think that learning to deal with people is an essential part of the job??
OP probably means essays, not software (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30976497). But your answer still stands.

> it forces me to cross my t's, and dot my i's

In open source you are supposed to cross the i's and dot the t's. /s
I think another major problem with tv is that it has too much content which is hard to navigate in and it is not personalized. when I browse through channels there are so many things that I would never watch but today I have to be exposed to it and decide if its worth watching or should I move on. If my tv or the remote knew my watching preferences it would walk me among the channels showing things that I would prefer to watch at that moment.
I am working on a project that converts your phone (with internet) to a tv remote and enables a personalized tv experience.
I hope I can make it right.
Weirdly, there is great evidence for the author's point, he just didn't mention it! In short, the vacancy rate is incredibly low, ~3.5% [1]. Taking the other data the author mentioned, that means that ~1.5% is non-market vacancies, of which only a subset is the much-ballyhooed investment vacancies.

[1] https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/da...
Brain? I always assumed he had two. The title of the article doesnt match the brains described in the text.