jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The self-described rationalist community made their mind up about the article long before it was published, or even written.

I think you’re right that the rationalist communities feel like they need to defend themselves and fight back, while refusing to even consider anything that could be viewed as criticism of their community.

The modern self-described rationalist communities feel more like a place for people who have built their personal identities around the idea of being intellectual non-conformists than for people who genuinely want to discuss topics from different perspectives.
Fantastic. Thanks for doing this.

Esp. the compiler and FFI is super simple, much simpler than SBCL. I was one of the few people who worked with it those times.

I feel Roger's pain with the MSVC changes over time. But I don't think porting it to the newer compilers or mingw64-gcc would be that hard.
Court documents are public record. As in, everyone has a right to view court documents as long as they've not been legally suppressed.
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I submitted it before commenting here.

Did you receive it or was there some issue with the form on the site?

I'm not sure, but possibly manually entering "Elixir" as a category along with "Programming" could have caused it to break.
There was a Javascript split-test framework posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408637. So I'm wondering (because I don't know):

What are the advantages of using Rails vs Javascript to do a/b testing? And of course, advantages of either of these "custom" approaches over Google Website Optimizer?
It'd have been nice if they had at least announced it.
I realize that, but it would be false to call it a "language"; it's more appropriate to call it an "environment".
Then by that note, premature optimization doesn’t imply excess complexity nor effort. So we have gone in a complete circle and conveyed nothing.
I can't wait to see browser support for HTTPSSVC.

- CNAME in the apex domain
- Direct HTTP/3
It's good ergonomics and safety. Not needing to look at the screen and fingers is just better.

Overdoing touchscreens and blue lights in dashboards are ergonomic UI failures justified by fashion.
So my real life fb profile may end up on somebody's suggestions list because I happened to have contacted them on WhatsApp?

I guess it's time to say goodbye to my fb account.
Received my rewritten resume a while ago, would say it's definitely worth trying. It's a clean rewrite of my otherwise clumsy resume, and I regret not having found this earlier.
> Imagine telling the students to use vim

I can hardly imagine that. They would hate me for wasting their time they could use to learn something practical. To me Vim seems a crazy alien technology of particularly questionable usefulness (even for a keyboard-centric user), only suitable for fun and for looking cool. Unlike PyCharm or Visual Studio, Vim doesn't just have unintuitive features available to whoever chooses to invoke those, it is and can only be operated in a completely unintuitive way, impossible to learn without instruction. And I never needed any instruction on how to use, let alone exit PyCharm.
Nothing is risk free. The nice thing about nuclear power is that radiation is really easy to detect, with you know, a Geiger counter.

On the other hand, particulate matter emitted by oil and coal plants causes millions of deaths per year, right now. And CO2 emissions from oil, gas and natural gas are bringing us to the brink of an environmental catastrophe.
Would it be incorrect to say network science is the interdisciplinary study of an aspect from graph theory? Is there a complex network that isn't or can't be represented as a graph?
I think so but please don't take this as legal opinion and consult an attorney.
It is however easy to slip into multiple unproductive days and it takes conscious effort to get out a funk.
You have to take the quote in context:

> However, Germany ends up taking the prize for most Minecraft servers per capita, with a whopping four servers for every 10,000 people. This is probably thanks to cheap hosting offerings from companies like Hetzner.

Hetzner is a German company, OVH is not. And while OVH has a presence in Germany, if we run this query on Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3A%22Minecraft%22... OVH is #8 while Hetzner is #2. So I'm not sure why you'd think this is advertising, they're merely providing an example for Germany.

That being said, GPortal is also a German company and #3 overall, but they're a dedicated provider of game servers, rather than commodity servers. Conspicuously absent is Nitrado - also a German company - probably because they run most of their servers on non-default ports, whereas GPortal assigns each server its own IPv4 last I checked.
Speaking as an IC at AWS, I'm in the Support Engineer role and not SDE, but I can tell you that leetcode won't help you get hired in our org. Yes, the SDEs do some coding as part of the interview, but leetcode won't help with that part.

You can still do leetcode if you think that doing so helps you practice, and will help you do well in the face of "No plan survives contact with the enemy" type situations. But don't bet your career on leetcode.
At least with cable everyone gets the opportunity to see what everyone else is watching. Content on social media feeds is made specifically for the person viewing it, who knows what dark rabbit holes the people you interact with on a daily basis are being led down? It used to be that we could construct a theory of mind for these individuals, you could even argue that it was a defining feature of our society enhancing social cohesion. Not even the worst of the cable news channels can lay claim to destroying that.
Seems like it might be based on the quote from Reid Hoffman: "If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late".
The only problem is that Fitzgerald's work is very loosely inspired by ruba3yat not attributable to a single person
There were already user-friendly cloud storage services available long before, e.g. integrating as virtual drive on Windows. I believe the only thing Dropbox did differently was marketing.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll adjust my terminology to be more precise as it is the right thing to do. Doing things in the open is a great way to learn. I'm not shy of airing my laundry :-)
The video really doesn't do a good job of explaining how a quantum computer can work. They just hit the basic high points because this video is intended for a general rather than specific audience.

A qubit exists in multiple states until measured. When you entangle multiple qubits together, each one increases the power of the system exponentially. Quantum computers are only good for certain kinds of problems like factoring large prime numbers. Luckily quantum systems are good at things classic computers aren't, and vice versa. You have to state your "question" in such a way that it causes the overall state of the quantum system to resolve on your answer.

I know my answer isn't much better. I only have a high level understanding with none of the math behind it. There's good videos if you search and watch a few times to get the concepts.

I can't remember the exact scenario that was explained to me, but it was something like this. Imagine the Traveling Salesman problem. You want the best route. But with a regular computer, it might take thousands of years to calculate the best route. With a quantum computer, if you structure the measurement correctly (this is how you "program" a quantum computer) then only the best route is what the system decoheres to.

There was also something about light and how if you had the right filter, only the answer gets through. I really forgot the details of that one, but maybe it'll help.
I was curious too. This is all i could find in a 5 minute google search.

http://books.google.si/books?id=kN4-4FRNNfIC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA...

http://www.suburbanbeekeeper.com/2011/07/14/honey-used-as-a-...
Except that would not work if it were not inside an airtight container, as it would draw additional moisture from the air.
I'll give it a pass just because this webpage is clearly intended only for US consumption. In other news, that's the same "consent page" for all Oath* services, which makes my blood boil.

* Now Verizon Media, but I now see the utility of such seemingly-frivolous name.
Why?

The nix world never suffered from lack of decent languages, compilers, development tools, ecosystems and runtimes. The only benefit Mono gives nix users is to write software that's easy to run on Windows and that barely registers on most priority lists. It's been, IIRC, 6 years since I last wrote a "real" desktop app. I did it in C#, but Mono couldn't run it because it relied on Windows-only GUI components. Happily, it was never intended to be deployed on non-Windows environments and everyone was happy.

If I needed to write a desktop application (that's so 90's) that runs identically on both Windows and Linux, I'll just write it in Java.
I think this is too binary. By all means don't count on it, but we can and should expect better.
I think a lot of it is just people not wanting to admit they were wrong. It's far easier to double down. I remember almost being convinced by patio11 that bitcoin was stupid and dumping it at like $30, but thankfully didn't. Now I get a bit of a kick out seeing him come out of the woodworks when ever bitcoin or tether hits a hiccup gloating how they were right!
> Any kind of smoke hangs around in a room for many hours well past when you can smell it.

But once the sensors indicate that the PM2.5 is gone, everything is fine, right?
The feeling is mutual!
When my tax situation was very simple I was happy to do my taxes on paper, often using form 1040-EZ, which only took about 10 minutes. Now that they are complicated (lots of different 1099s and business income) I very much prefer to use software to guide me questions and answers style.
One of the major challenges with the US system is that the central authorities do not have much of the individual tax information all submitted and processed in advance of the individual taxes. The individual then has to to incorporate this information and file it. Sometimes individuals get amended taxTax information from their income sources and then have to re-file. The central authorities cross check on the backend (in theory).

It is incredibly arcane, and in some cases individuals holding publicly traded assets are legally required to file income tax in all 50 states.
I am an EU resident (Netherlands) and have wanted to make a DIY air filter for myself for several years. Unfortunately, I simply can’t find any flat box fans on the market. Would someone else in the EU be willing to point me in the right direction?
Scala compiles well enough under Gradle--got it in a roughly dozen-module multi-language project right now, and it's no trouble. I suppose Gradle might (or might not?) come up short if you want automatic deprecation/replacement updates applied to source.
What I meant by "understand how online networking works" is not that you - or anyone else - has struggled to grasp which button to click to connect with someone. Hundreds of millions of people use LinkedIn, and yet that's not quite the use case I'm talking about, so let me be clearer:

Most of the value lies in the messaging. You connect with someone. You read their stuff, or they read yours. You strike a conversation. You continue that conversation here and there. You hop on a call to get to know each other a little more. You continue chatting here and there. It could be a week, it could be two months, but do you see how easily now you're not "a vendor" or "a jobseeker", but, YOU?

So your CV doesn't need to compete with a gazillion other CVs, before people start asking you if this opportunity is of interest. And clients come to you because they trust you. That's the kind of networking I'm talking about.

Yeah, I like it. It gets me business. I get to engage with really nice people in my industry, who self-select because they find the stuff I write interesting. It's not dependent on my physical location or whether I got entry into some event.
My first thought was that I was happy to hear they were all relatively healthy. my second thought was.. huh, that's kinda like the Survivor diet..
>Of course, traditionally the solution has been to claim that blacks are just inferior to whites and nothing should be done

Isn't that the implication of such a move?

An elementary school is abdicating their responsibility to effectively educate black and hispanic students to advanced levels. Why would they do that unless they thought they were inferior and beyond educating?

These "educators" would do well to study the life works of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
Brazil does limit land purchase (officially land purchase) by citizens from other countries.

The country could be forced to comply or sanctioned - and that's URGENT.

It won't simply 'grow up' because the President himself was caught on tape saying things like "US and Europe destroyed their forests and became superpowers, now that it's our time (sic), they mingle in our sovereignty on deciding what to do with our own land!". He is vested on destroying it, on allowing deforestation, on putting incompetent people in key positions.
Copied from FAQ.

I'm a huge fan of CLIs. Especially REPLs. When I first encountered BPython (http://www.bpython-interpreter.org/), I fell in love with it. BPython is a Python REPL that has auto-completion, syntax-highlighting and displays the docstring of functions as you type. Once you get used to that level of pampering, all other REPLs start to look like Dumb Terminals.

When I started using psql for interacting with my Postgres database, I yearned for a BPython equivalent for psql.

One fine day I got a twitter DM from Jonathan Slenders asking me if I'd be interested in trying a new Python library that he's working on called Python-Prompt-Toolkit. This library provided a way to write CLIs without having to deal with curses and had the requisite tools for doing auto-completion and syntax-highlighting. So I jumped at the opportunity to try it out. After I got myself familiarized, I started writing pgcli to scratch my own itch.

So this app exists because Jonathan was kind enough to request my feedback.
I chose the singular example for its simplicity; invalid curve attacks are, of course, much more general (smooth-order curve + CRT). That said: how would you mount an invalid curve attack on a curve in Edwards form? It is obvious if the adversary is using Hisil's d-less formulas, but it does not seem obvious otherwise.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8775772
There are also some other (real) multi model databases, which have some great features & performance and are open source... ArangoDB and OrientDB to name to great ones. Anyone knows others?
If you were treated like how they are, you would be calling for violence too.
> And to the people complaining about censorship, this is an app that was literally used to plan a violent attack on the capitol. Some things should be censored.

Wait until you find out what the text messaging apps are used for.

“This was used in an attack” is a bullshit excuse to banish something. WhatsApp and signal have enabled countless terrorist actions and they are still up.
I think it has to do with Google Play Store and Apple App Store banning Parler.
Pack seeks to politicize an apolitical organization. That is different from propaganda which is pro-US. Do you not see the difference?
Yes, my first flippant thought was, well send Mark Watney by for a quick repair... (I recently finished the Martian too, good read!)
A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now.

Holy cherry picked statistics. In August of 2000, the near height of the tech bubble saw the NASDAQ at 4,234 and MSFT at about $35. Today, the NASDAQ is at 3,652 and MSFT is at about $35.

So the NASDAQ is down 14% while MSFT which is best benchmarked by NASDAQ is flat. From the most ridiculous tech bubble the world has ever seen.
If it was 1 rep per 30k then you've likely met him, went to school with him or his kids. Campaign money becomes less important, relationship to the community becomes more important.
TBH Python is a bit of an exception there. Most languages with first-class functions (specially more modern ones) will also come with anonymous functions that aren't intentionally crippled (like Python's lambda is) and will have more traditional lexical scoping instead of local-by-default.
It'll be high-alpine Colorado somewhere, so lots of hills in the way, lots of snow in the winter (snowmobile access only), well water and solar/generator power. I figured anything wired would be out, as we're looking at at least 10 miles from the nearest major road.

I already do pretty well with low bandwidth (thank-you DVCS and virtualization), but telemedicine might be out for the missus.
video is blocked in france.
Because if there is one thing we've learnt about programming languages, it is: throw enough features at a language and it gets transformed from bad to good.
To be fair to the car makers, diesel fuel in the US is allowed to have a much greater level of sulfur than in other countries, so the typical level of emissions for the same vehicle in the US is worse than in other countries.

If the EPA were to mandate lower sulfur levels (not likely in this century) then our diesel cars would be better.
Maybe Swift is a good example.
The proposal leads to madness. The idea is that there's a migration path so eventually there will be CREATE instead of CREAT.

Long experience shows that will never happen. There's a lot of code which is effectively unmaintained, because it works. Not enough people will go through the code to add an "if CREATE flag exists" path, and then - once all of the compilers support it - go again through the code and remove the dead code.

Instead, the world will effectively have two different ways to write exactly the same thing, forever.
It depends on the application though. Mapping apps (e.g google maps) without ajax are awful.

Even basic UIs like filtering can be bad if you want to change multiple filters, and you have to wait for a whole page load in between each change (page load times for pages with filters are often slow as they're performing complex queries).

It's a case of different things being appropriate for different use cases I think. There definitely are still times when plain HTML is best, but it's also not always faster.

I've built a React app that's under 300kb (cached with a service worker for subsequent page loads) that loads almost instantly and works offline. On the other hand, plenty of plain HTML sites include heavy CSS frameworks, or 5mb images, gifs, etc and load pretty slowly, especially on poor connections.
Scott has addressed this at least a few times. He didn't care so much that people could go from Scott Alexander the blogger to Scott Siskind the psychiatrist. That was trivial to do before the NYT got involved. He was more worried about people (ie his patients) googling Scott Siskind the psychiatrist and finding Scott Alexander the blogger, because of how that would impact his relationship with his patients. An article from the NYT plainly stating "Scott Alexander is Scott Siskind" would quickly become the top result for either search.
Micromorts per 1000km.
Well... it is "the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance". I'm not sure how much more description you need! :)
You are right, however if voting were mandatory nationwide the situation you're describing wouldn't happen.

If 1000 people live in California and 100 of those people live in Berkeley, even if all 100 people in Berkeley agree with something, if the majority of Californians disagree it would and should override what the Berkeleyians want.

If voting is mandatory there's no situation in which a majority decision is actually suboptimal, unless you believe that a minority should somehow be able to override a majority.

The way democracy is implemented in this country is effectively rule of the minority over the majority - the catch is the minority just has to draw arbitrary boundaries surrounding their decisions. You can already see this if you just look at the Bay Area - how can it be so difficult to build if polls show the majority of people support it? Turns out the minority (homeowners) have more power than the majority (renters) in the Bay Area.
It sounded more as if waffling about possible future results than a description concrete present results. The F-35 has cost $4e11 so far, says a random site on the web. What are the results of its innovation, the results that definitely and already have occurred and arguably are worth $4e11?
The other part of the equation is practicing safe bedsharing practices like the safe sleep seven guidelines:

"If you are:
1. A nonsmoker
2. Sober and unimpaired
3. A breastfeeding mother

and your baby is:
4. Healthy and full-term
5. On his back
6. Lightly dressed

and you both are:
7. On a safe surface

Then your baby in bed with you is at no greater risk for SIDS than if he’s nearby in a crib."[0]

A safe sleep surface means the mattress is not too soft (we tested our adult mattress to make sure it met the standards for crib mattresses), no gaps by the wall that the baby can get wedged in, bed only (no couch or recliner), light bedding, sleepwear without long ribbons or drawstrings that can strangle, etc.

It's important to do the research and not be cavalier about the risks, but I think it's worth learning how to work around them so everyone can get great sleep.

[0] https://www.llli.org/the-safe-sleep-seven/