jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I did this, or close enough. I fastidiously added lots of small tasks, and any time I had a few minutes, or a half hour, I would scan through and find something doable and check it off. I got a LOT of stuff done. I also added the larger things, so I could keep track.

The only downside is that there were larger things that I couldn't break up into smaller things without getting deeper into it. It was too easy for me to put those off (because I didn't have a solid block of time) and just complete several smaller items. The large items started to pile up, to my detriment.

I'm not trying to say there aren't ways to deal with this. There are. I was still exploring such ways when I recently took a job where I once again have decent blocks of uninterrupted time in a quiet environment.
If there's some people interested in french law, I did the French constitution in JSON https://github.com/Felixaverlant/French-Constitution
I read the clickbait title and thought "Good for you, Toady, Dwarf Fortress really does rock" and divided the $77e6 by the $50 I sent him to get 1.5M players which seemed a bit high but semi-believable?
What will they do for water?
A generation of bacteria is way shorter lived than a generation of garlic. It would depend on how much the garlic was used though I'm pretty sure, though you might need to talk to an actual biologist for details.

Also, unless garlic defended itself from MRSA by killing it human guided selection would be better, what if the garlic is sneaky and figures out another way to survive that doesn't help humans.
Yeah, that makes sense - the problem was the resulting lock-out.
Unless ya walk in on one.
The reason farts are loud is because the noise is an early warning device.
Haha good thing we are hackers so...

document.querySelector('.sqs-lightbox-overlay.sqs-lightbox-overlay-default').style.display='none';document.body.classList.remove('sqs-lightbox-open');

in the console <3 :p
One more:
Most Dutch don't feel the need to dress in bright colored lycra uniforms and ride $6,000 racing bicycles simply to commute to work. I'm American and an amateur racer, but I wear normal clothing when commuting to work. I'm not sure why so many Americans feel the need to "kit up" for the daily commute. I think it actually turns a lot of would-be commuters off.
They may have taken a cue from xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/591/
> The position is restricted by the Clare Boothe Luce bequest to the Henry Luce Foundation to women who are U.S. citizens.

Sounds to me like their options are a) use this money to hire a woman or b) don't get the money and don't hire anyone. Is "don't hire anyone" the better option?

EDIT: More information on the Clare Boothe Luce Program here: http://www.hluce.org/cblprogram.aspx
I've actually switched from reading HN to mostly reading Reddit.

The level of discourse increases quite a bit in subreddits, and you can usually find good discussions on even obscure interests. On the other hand, its pretty rare for the level of discourse to get to the level of HN. But level of discourse isn't the only quality of Reddit.

I think the main reason for me switching to mostly reading Reddit was because I found it very comforting to read r/atheism (my family is very Christian, mostly fundamentalist and I was a closeted Atheist). I suspect that emotional support is what a lot of people go to reddit for.
"Never look at another Twitter thread" is pretty great advice no matter what the question is.
Weird, I had tested it. I’ve updated to a de-referrer site instead.
Tested this a couple of years ago and Chrome prevented WebRTC connections from ever establishing if you're not connected to internet proper (it was doing some lookup to a Google domain before trying to actually create the WebRTC connection, even if I had nothing to do with Google, and stopped the attempt if it couldn't connect). Might have changed by now.
Same here. Actually, I didn't think of it as a "proof" service, I was thinking that bits of positive human interaction ("invisible friend") provide a lot of emotional value, and you could crowd-source a text conversation with a fake friend, modulo quality control, and people would pay for it.
Counter mode always seemed like an argument against 64-bit blocks, since it implies a 32-bit counter and a 32-bit nonce.
it seems presistent connections wernt affected..
looks like we're crossing paths on another internet community :)
Muppets. Current major app being worked on is called "Statler". There's probably a "Waldorf" coming up as well in the future.
I'm not and what does it have to do with what I said? :)
Do you know that nginx must be running as root, right?
Sure I understand that. I hope you do find something that works. Depression is the world's oldest con and it's not fun to suffer. I've found my CPAP helps too. I also have to eat well and balanced as well as not drink too much. The latter was a big thing for me.. drinking made me feel better in the moment and reduced my anxiety considerably in that moment but the next day and the day after would be awful. It took a long time for me to piece together that my lack of sleep, the relatively consistent hangover and the lack of eating properly really had a major impact on my mental mood. I just kind of though this was how it was and nothing could fix it. But the CPAP and the Feeling Good podcast as well as some medication have really helped. Now I just have to get to the exercise part that everyone keeps talking about...
Except in this case the answer is indeed "yes."
Gold is a leveraged bet on negative yielding bonds these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYNCpWo7Ucg

It is "manipulated" to the same extent as anything else.
> But that being said, the function call only happens in the error path, when returning an error from a function, right?

std::ops::Try looks like:
- fn into_result(self) -> Result<Self::Ok, Self::Error>; // called on `x` whenever you use the `x?` syntax.
- fn from_error(v: Self::Error) -> Self;
- fn from_ok(v: Self::Ok) -> Self;

It's been a while since I explored this. I was thinking you'd `#[inline(always)]` the `into_result` method, but now that I look at the trait again, I think you would only force inline the `from_error` method and it should still work but without impacting the non-error path much.
I don't fancy myself as judge of the generations. Civilization is better when it is civilized.
Success (by which most people mean financial success, fame, or winning in some competition) is certainly worshipped.

However, just being "a hard worker" in itself is considered a virtue by many people.

I hesitate to call it the Protestant Work Ethic or the Puritan Work Ethic, as it's far from limited to Protestants or Puritans, but that's really what it is. The harder you work, the more virtuous you are considered to be, and working less is considered sinful or lazy (in other words, unvirtuous and blame-worthy).
is 13% an unusual rate for a topic? are the bulk of sports / cooking / science / art tweets also each from a 13% slice?
The resource curse mostly affects poor African countries with terrible governance. The revenue from the valuable resource usually goes straight into the pockets of whoever holds the most power, triggering a fierce competition for who can get away with the most corruption. I don't think any of these countries have tried the Alaskan model of just paying everyone an equal dividend, so that's a huge confounding variable.
I don't get why the article is treating this as an exciting new business. It's as old as automobiles are -- every town has a junkyard or two that buys junked cars for a pittance. If you've had the displeasure of trying to keep a 15 year old junker running on a limited budget you may have even gone to one of these yards to source some parts.

What's the innovation here? He has an online platform? He may be really good at running his junkyards but the article does a terrible job accounting for his success.
Cool, good luck, also consider reading http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch05_It_Just_Doesnt_Matter.php

I recommend reading the whole book “Getting Real” (free from 37signals) especially chapter 5 on feature selection.
> the Xinjiang situation was mostly a response to the non-stopping terror attacks in the region for the last couple of decades.

How does CCP define terrorists? Do they show you how do they investigate then decide they are terrorists?

CCP can define any attacks as terrorist. In case it's a revolt against inhumane treatment, can they say they are under terroristic attack from CCP?
WiMAX delivered a pleasant, modern experience without an AP in each room when that was operating at 2.5Ghz in the US, one tower would provide the coverage you describe for 2/3rds of a mile in any direction.

Sadly, this 250+Mhz chunk of spectrum is now held by T-Mobile who uses only 40% to 60% of this spectrum for LTE and 5G coverage. There is plenty of spectrum left over to double the size of the 2.4Ghz ISM band used for WiFi, but the FCC has let Sprint/T-Mobile mispurpose this 2.5Ghz/2.6Ghz spectrum that was licensed for educational use only (explicitly for educational institutions to use for educational purposes like inter-building wireless links for campus TV stations).
Note that you now have to pay for a commercial anaconda license if you're using it for anything that isn't education or hobbyist stuff.

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-commercial-edition-fa...
A better argument against Type 4 GUID keys is that random distribution of your primary key doesn't preserve temporal locality in indexes. If you have a big enough keyspace to worry even in the slightest about collisions in 122 bits, you have a bigger index than will comfortably fit in memory. Under those circumstances, random key lookups will thrash your cache. If you access multiple rows at a time which were allocated close together in time - not unusual with normalized schema - you'll want them adjacent in the index too.
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I know what you're getting at in this context, but in reality when you start digging into how the immune system works it's shocking how little is understood about it.
And their system is entirely designed to create echo chambers amongst users. Those groups are easier to manipulate with ads, and naturally there are corps and PACs with motives and money ready to pay to manipulate.
Autotune for stories: https://random-character-generator.com

The tool in itself is okay. I spend a lot of time on research, very little on development (i.e. finding out what makes a good story).

The website has about 1k users/month, at 1.5 years old, with little marketing except for posts like this and topping Bing searches. It's something I intend to make money from eventually. I'm looking for a tech co-founder who's good at prototyping crazy ideas, or a writer co-founder who understands the field deeply. Ideally 50% share, with someone who cares about the problem as much as I do. We'll probably go slow/part time until we figure it out.

Longer story at https://random-character-generator.com/whatisthis
Wow. This is amazing. Although I wish they documented how much compute and data was used to get these results.

I absolutely believe we'll crack the fundamental principles of intelligence in our lifetimes. We now have capability to process all public data available on internet (of wikipedia is a huge chunk). We have so many cameras and microphones (one in each pocket).

It's also scary to think if it goes wrong (the great filter for fermi paradox). However I'm optimistic.

The brain only uses 20 watts of power to do all its magic. The entire human body is built from 700MB of data in the DNA. The fundamental principles of intelligence is within reach if we look from that perspective.

Right now GPT3 and DALL-E seem to be using an insane amount of computation to achieve what they are doing. My prediction is that in 2050, we'll have pretty good intelligence in our phones that has deep understanding (language and visual) of the world around us.
In fact, range (power) is a sales feature with more power being better.
When you politicize truth in discourse bad things tend to happen.
The alternative to heating that much is wearing outside clothes inside, while heating only enough to prevent frost damage (and ideally not requiring gloves).
There is some backstory regarding the piano that Jarrett was given for the Köln Concert being broken [0]. That may have forced him to improvise a lot more as whatever pre-composed melodies he could use as a crutch may have not been workable with the piano he had.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C3%B6ln_Concert
People like them in the right situations, like your enemies in strategy games. You don't interact with their populations, civic choices etc, nor have you any insight into how the AI makes these choices, but it is still all there running in the game.

It isn't easy to create a hard rule of when low interaction simulations adds to the game, but it is clearly wrong to say that they are always bad.
IMO it depends:

Usually I teach the OpenGL pipeline in one session, but students have a lot of things to understand: Vertex shader has its own things to learn and without the fragment shader you do not see what you are doing.
In the following lessons I dig into the details of each part independently. This approach works, but it requires a lot of abstraction from the beginnings and a lot of code to have trivial applications. Furthermore, it introduce latency in understanding the whole pipeline, they do not really 'get' why we have this pipeline and what each bloc does inside of it. Only after a few lessons, when they have all the pieces, everything clicks.

This year I tried another approach: I used at the first lesson exclusively ShaderToys with progressive exercices, the students were very happy to be able to create content directly and eagerly digged into the details by themselves.
Naturally, as wanted, they felt the issue of not being able to create simple objects like a 3D cube and move in 3D.

The second lesson was then the perfect time to show the whole pipeline and the vertex shader was an almost obvious need!

Another change I made this year was switching from C++ to Javascript, I'm not yet sure which solution is the best. They both have advantages and drawbacks to learn OpenGL/WebGL.
> the session didn’t seem like it was intended to be a back and forth

Precisely the problem with giving valuable interviewing time to people like this.

They're so happy to show up that they "don't remember a lot of the interview," let alone press for it to be a real one. (Hank Green's words on MSNBC after the interview.)

The President has stock answers for every single one of those questions, btw.
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Nowadays programmers like to think about themselves as special, but in reality the ability to write simple programs to process input and give output will be just as a normal skill in the future as writing a report is now.

Where input and output respectively can have inordinate amounts of meanings and manifestations.

Now, sure, someone writing a quick 4-line script using a hugely abstracted Python library to obtain a value from some document format will probably be a normal skill.

Writing just about anything substantial requires large amounts of domain-specific knowledge, specialized skillsets and lots of patience.

It's something that actually requires an individual to have legitimate interest in their field - the same way a writer would probably be far more invested in linguistics than a layman, and make it an aspect of their expertise and life skills.

In contrast, the average person would use code as a means to an end, likely under the confines of a system that makes the act of writing code be as separated from the workings of the machine as much as possible. Someone parsing CSV doesn't mean they can now write a distributed file system, for instance.

The fact of the matter is that we simply do not have the tooling to make programming as easy as 1-2-3. Comparing it to writing isn't even adequate. The analogy would only make sense if the average person needed to know dozens of grammars (protocols) to express themselves in language, among other constraints. They don't. There's a world of difference between practical computing and some sugary ideal of everyone coding like it's their second nature.

There's nothing wrong with people picking up programming if they need it. I'm far more content with letting people discover it themselves rather than diluting it by making it a compulsory school subject.

Programmers will only be as special as book writers are nowadays - just a little better in putting words-code together so their work has bigger impact.

I'd wager this devaluing mindset of computation as an end goal where you simply piece together this magical substance known as "code" (or rockstar/ninja it, whatever) is a major reason why our software is so entangled, brittle and unable to communicate as it is today. An end result being that it makes programming more and more esoteric and inaccessible - something the "learn to code" evangelists should be concerned about.
The insurance situation confuses me. The linked page seems to indicate that only their online coins (i.e. 2% of the total) are insured. If I then click "Read More" I get: "Coinbase is insured against employee theft and hacking in an amount that exceeds the average value of online bitcoin it holds at any given time." I think this means that the 2% is not insured, but that the 98% in offline storage is. What's going on?
Really interesting to see these numbers. I've been reading DF for years and years, and its is the only advertising model I've encountered that doesn't grate. His advertising is considerate, audience appropriate, and vetted. I feel good supporting his advertisers, because I feel good supporting him, and because they're just consistently things I'm happy to hear about.

I would really love to see more independent journalists follow his model, although obviously his market is more suited to this model than some others are. Still, I think there's a lot to learn, here.
> make cancer treatments more affordable

Cute that this article believes the price of biologics for cancer treatment is in any way related to the price of manufacture.
Regarding speed and mobility, you may be surprised.

The Met has a fantastic lecture, How to Mount a Horse in Armor and Other Chivalric Problems, where a this question is explicitly addressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqC_squo6X4#t=1427

The short of it being that armor wasn't particularly heavy, especially when compared to the modern combat load, and that it affords quite a bit of mobility.

If this interests you, the entire lecture is worth your time.
More of a joke but:

npm install virus.exe

Perfect for the #scalenpm tshirts

https://github.com/peny/virus.exe
First, change your password to hunter2.
> If there were something to take the place of ANY queries, I think it wouldn't be so bad.

But there are. Make the individual record type calls you need, and failing that, use a "axfr" transfers if you're permitted to based on IP security rules.
>Any idea why it is just C?

I'm not exactly sure, but I believe it's mostly due to the author's[1] background.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell
Yeah, I don't use vim, but Emacs, so that generalization is totally off.
He wasn't denied because of "Hacker School." He was likely denied because the odds where (in the opinion of the consular officer,) that the no-job, fresh graduate would have attempted to get a job in the United States. Especially since Hacker School themselves say that they are funded from job placements.
Im looking forward to tabletop micro-foundries that can create ICs. Its a ways off and I'm sure people will say it is impossible, but it will happen eventually and then it will be very obvious how similar software and hardware are.

I think you have to anticipate a gradual movement towards total programabiltiy of reality.
I think your original comment mentioned that you'd want console access. While I was grabbing a screenshot, it looks like you edited your comment and removed that, but I think that was a valid concern.

There's a web based console that's sadly not that well known. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Lrw7lL1.png

Here's a video showing more of the features (it's from 2013, it looks better and more has been added since then, but it shows the idea): http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/azure-friday/exploring-the-su...
Very interesting article, especially for a technology enthusiast with a formal background in urban development. I think there is tremendous opportunity in this market, as cities start sharing data and aim to build "smart cities".

As for your idea, I'm not sure I understand / or see the need. Hardware sounds less scalable, but couldn't you crowdsource that data in real-time, like Waze does? Data in cities can be used in so many ways, it's unbelievable.. example: in university we look at correlation with graffiti and vacancy.. other students did studies on linkages between health issues arising from school yard proximity to traffic... the point being is geo-locational data is has high value.

In relation to your idea, I definitely see opportunity for tracking and collecting data... especially if it can be sold to Urban Planning Departments for research (rather than just another advertising budget). Here is a Montreal based project: http://www.datamobileapp.ca... challenge is finding an engaging way to get people to use it (obviously ).

Any idea on a better way engaging people? There has to be a better way to vote on local issues than attending public meetings.. Right?
Comparing Babel.js to dart2js is fair. I'd be interested in hearing more about about how well it works in practice from people who use Babel.js for large apps. (Also, how does it compare to Typescript?)
This is the standard antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis. While there are some examples of specific proteins and pathways that work this way (beneficial in early life, detrimental in late life), it is far from certain that this is the key driver of aging in evolution (for animals in general, as well as for humans specifically).

For one thing, even in primitive human societies, the life expectancy is well into the 30s or higher (after you discount infant and early-life mortality). Yet aging starts rapidly deteriorating physical capabilities in the mid 20s.

Secondly, one of the key definitions of aging is decreasing resilience with increasing age: so in reality, you cannot treat average lifespan as if it is a constant and the rate of aging is evolutionarily determined from that. Even in primitive man, which died of predation and infectious disease primarily, aging makes older humans much more susceptible to these things (physically weaker and weaker immune system).

Finally, antagonistic pleiotropy does not explain why different organisms have very different maximum lifespans (in protected conditions), and some do not seem to appreciably age at all.

Some more detailed criticisms: http://www.programmed-aging.org/theories/antagonistic_pleiot...

Antagonstic pleiotropy probably plays some role, but it is a needlessly complex explanation when a simpler one exists: the body is a system, and over time, systems degrade and components are damaged. Its ability to repair this damage is considerable, but finite, since the repair mechanisms themselves can become damaged.