jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Putting it in somewhat fuzzier terms, and at the risk of repeating myself: F = ma derives its power from the (implicit) assertion that there is a simple unversal force law that lets us figure out F for a particular configuration of matter. And so the configuration of matter completely determines the acceleration of a test particle. There is no a priori reason this ought to be true. It’s an absolutely incredible fact of nature.

Yup, this is totally correct. To say it yet another way, we evaluate scientific theories not by looking at the pieces in isolation, but how much explanatory power you get from all the pieces working together (penalized by the total complexity of those pieces). There's nothing mathematically inconsistent about defining "F = mv", it just makes F a less useful quantity.

Feynman actually had a remarkably similar discussion in his classic lectures:

> For example, if we were to choose to say that an object left to itself keeps its position and does not move, then when we see something drifting, we could say that must be due to a “gorce” — a gorce is the rate of change of position. Now we have a wonderful new law, everything stands still except when a gorce is acting. You see, that would be analogous to the above definition of force, and it would contain no information.

> The real content of Newton’s laws is this: that the force is supposed to have some independent properties, in addition to the law F = ma. [...] It implies that if we study the mass times the acceleration and call the product the force, i.e., if we study the characteristics of force as a program of interest, then we shall find that forces have some simplicity; the law is a good program for analyzing nature, it is a suggestion that the forces will be simple.
There are more electrons in your RAM if you set bits to 1.
I totally agree. And we're totally uninterested in what you do off our site.

I'm purely talking about tracking your behaviour on our site. We want to know if you spent 20 mins reading our "about" page and then looked at our pricing page, and then vanished.

In terms of the rest... country is probably interesting, language preference is interesting (when do we need to translate from English because we have enough customers not speaking English), platform is probably interesting (purely so we can prioritise development to match our customer base). Where you got referred from is probably interesting, I guess.

But all of that we'll be getting from the http request and ip address rather than any malign tracking cookie nonsense.
It's not just about choosing the right tool from the beginning. The open-source options are often not adequate at all.

I'm more comfortable talking about mechanical CAD, and in that space FreeCAD (while amazing for a free tool) doesn't come close to professional tools like Solidworks or Catia. Even for personal 3d printing projects it's really lacking, let alone for professional work.
F = ma because if you walk outside and push things around that's what you will notice is happening. Any other explanation including a derivation from QFT would just be a different version of that, because whatever deeper underlying theory you were using would have come from the same place as F = ma came from to begin with.
The idea that America is doing things “in the very same way” is just so utterly unbelievable that I don’t know what to say. There are serious problems with the US handling of the border. There are also serious problems with Denmark’s seizure of assets from refugees and Australia’s detention of migrants on an island processing center. None of that should be mentioned in the same breath as what’s happening in China.
file-cache and system load jitter. That's it.
Dunno, but this tells me the option isn't gaining users as fast as they need for sustainability. And most people they're targeting already get free US calling through mobile networks. I'd bet this is the loss leader to building a base of people who pay for international calling.
Haha, no, never had scurvy. Was trying to think of a metaphor that would capture the profundity of the experience.
Yea let's screw Vine which could've been TikTok and worth $100bn and buy new fad thing which is only used by celebs.

If this actually happens it will be one of the greatest Andreessen Horowitz's artificially pumped valuation.
Where are you getting "outrageously good battery life" from. The number I've seen from Apple is 40% improvement. 40% better than barely usable is hardly "outrageously good".
I'm one of them. Figured that Apple was the only company who could pull off a smartwatch I'd actually use, but then saw the Pebble Time and its $169 Kickstarter price-point. The battery and the waterproofing were enough to get me to preorder the Time and get a used original Pebble in the mean time to try out.

After a week with the Pebble, what's noticeably missing is the ability to reply to SMS. Because of iOS restrictions on third-party apps and SMS, the Pebble can't do it without jailbreaking.

It was pretty upsetting when I came to this realization, also realizing that the Pebble Time and it's nifty new microphone would also lack this functionality. With the Pebble lacking Siri integration, I can see myself picking up an Apple Watch once the battery can last at least two full days.
I'm on your side, really. It's only my cynicism that puts me on the 'fuck it, if we're going to have DNSSEC let us at least leverage it well' side of the fence. That's exactly the same attitude as HPKP and HSTS in HTTP: 'Well HTTP sucks, let's see what we can do'.
Dan carlin recently made an outstanding [deep dive into this topic](https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-...) one might say a bit too deep, but I personally really enjoy them.

Even as its centered around US perspective, it does a very good job at setting the stage of what slavery meant in europe and throughout the world.

It’s fascinating that one of the main reasons that transatlantic slavery turnout out as something that persisted for sooo much longer in US rather than slowly decline naturally like in the rest of world, was a technological invention made to make the life of slaves better. Talk about unintended consequences.

The only big perspective that was missing I think was the Asian slavery in India, where someone who was a slave could become a legitimate ruler and there have been some examples of those.

Where “slave” could actually turn out to be “forced high education to turn children into high value clerks and scribes”.
Eh there are some of us everywhere and this stuff is really easy to harm someone, even yourself, with. HN is about learning right?
Nah, private messages have been reposted on social media as clickbait to incite the lynch mobs called cancel culture.
For those thinking this is too cliché to be true, this has many elements common to near death experience recounts. The bliss, the light, the tunnel or other structure (river in this case) leading to loved ones, an entity explaining the need to go back, the feeling of purpose after.

Not saying that those experiences are real, though. Just that people all over the world have similar near death experiences.
If i have to edit it to make it accurate, why should i rely on wikipedia in the first place?

When i wrote an MBR/VBR for some real mode x86 stuff, i initially relied but on the wikipedia and osdev pages for FAT and the bios/bootlader stuff. This is how i learned the hard way how unreliable it is. Details are left out, the scope of validity for information is rarely specified, vague "many implementations" phrases that do not give any hints whether a certain behavior needs to be emulated or not.

I ended up discarding both wikipedia and the osdev wiki and using the IBM PS/2 reference manual, as well as some details from the MS PnP specification.

I had similar issues with the wikipedia explanation of the german Hl- and Ks-Signal systems for train safety, as well as articles related to intel peripheral controllers and serial ports. Often they are just not deep and detailed enough to answer my questions.

[tl;dr] It feels like reading a pop-sci article when you actually need the original paper.
No, it makes me more productive. I only go in for whiteboard design sessions and that forces decisions. I also get to avoid busy work and time wasters.
I always like to think that analogies are supposed to make the point easier to understand by relating it to something familiar to the reader, sort of how people explain programming language features by comparing them to other programming languages. You want to give the reader the gist of the idea that they know nothing about by comparing it to something they know something about.

I'm not sure what purpose this analogy served in terms of clarity. It was a bit of a speed-bump in the reading. However, it was amusing and made me briefly wonder if being a contractor was similar to being promiscuous.
Oh it was just an interesting correlation I saw; there is no implication of causation.
The reason is that carbs aren't the problem. Fructose is (largely) the problem. Refined grains (and refined sugars made from grains) shock the insulin system by causing a blood sugar spike (which can be especially bad for diabetics), but they don't cause long term effects. Fructose, on the other hand, which is found in ENORMOUS amounts in both HFCS, table sugar, and "fruit sweetened" things (and in small amounts in fresh fruit) causes kidney issues, must largely be metabolized into fat before being burned, puts a load on the liver, increases appetite and more. I've lost and kept off weight with no effort simply by learning some very basic biochem and switching in glucose, dextrose and maltose for fructose and sucrose.

For more informations (and scientific peer reviewed papers that back me up), I'd recommend googling for "fructose metabolism". There is also a great lecture about fructose on youtube called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
"I meant 'enough for me to randomly meet several in everyday life'"

Well, I'm not sure how representative one person's experience with "feminists" is. Personally, I've never met any "feminists" of the kind you describe.

But, instead of taking two such datapoints as representative, why don't we look at what the NOW, the National Organization for Women, "the largest feminist organization in the United States" (with 500,000 contributing members and 5,987 chapters in 47 U.S. states) has as its stated purpose:

To take action to bring women into full participation
in the mainstream of American society now, exercising
all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly
equal partnership with men.

Does this sound so "crazy" or "extreme"? This is what feminism is about. What you've encountered is a minority deviation and what you've heard about feminism is a distortion. Feminists are not after dominance. They're after fairness and equal treatment.

"My main point is that there are sufficiently many for the outside world to perceive the entire movement as mostly crazy."

I don't think this is a consequence of people meeting lots of "crazy feminists". I don't think most people meet any feminists of any sort whatsoever. Their views are largely shaped by the media. Which, in the US, is largely controlled by the right wing, who are rabidly anti-feminist.

Also, the media tends to jump on any sensationalist story. So it's not really surprising that it's the extremists who'd get much of the spotlight. But they are not representative, by any means.
"What If It’s All Been A Big Fat Lie?" by Gary Taubes

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...

Tom Naughton's "Fat Head" is now available on Hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/fat-head
I totally agree. WakeMate is way more cost-effective a solution than any of its competitors... And the 'personal sleep analytics' (or whatever) could really help busy people make better sense of the practical ways to improve their sleep habits.

As with all cool things -- esp. cool startups -- a little patience can help. Greg and the WakeMate crew will surely continue to innovate and improve.

One so-so review is exactly that: one review. Plenty of other reviews to come.
Multi-platform, not pan-platform.
As Erlang is Turing-complete, obviously you can code FSM in it. The question is, giving Erlang/OTP Soft-Realtime Telecom roots, why FSM primitives are so weak?

From a good FSM library I would expect following:

1. Specify human readable STT (State Transition Table)
2. For each event/state combination specify if it's valid or should be ignored, etc.
3. On entry / on exit for each state.
4. Masking/unmasking of events.

gen_fsm as it today do not provide much value over gen_server.
I often wonder how many open projects would would have problems if the private e-mails of some of the key developers were passed around.
A radix tree spreads an entry content over several nodes, reusing nodes with similar contents.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20573231/whats-the-space-...
openbsd has a software raid mechanism to encrypt partitions. it is not yet bootable, so there must still be a small boot partition, but everything else can live on an encrypted raid set. bootable support is coming very soon so the entire disk can be encrypted (or be on any other raid configuration).

i've been using encrypted softraid for a long time on my laptops and on a central backup server (which has a raid 1 mirrored set across 2 disks, then an encrypted volume on top of that).
Use the html version, not the pdf that is available - the pdf has (or at least did recently) errors which will throw the unwary (of course, if you enjoy learning and working out the errors, go for it...).

Otherwise this is an extremely useful and informative book, and you will learn a lot about Haskell (possibly even Scheme too)
Totally right! Goal of this was not to say "don't hire them" but instead "authenticate the acumen."

Also, the non-abridged chapter for the book talks about exactly this:

"But there is a caveat when it comes to more junior staff. Many of these industry bellwethers have the infrastructure to support solid sales training programs and to instrument good sales behaviors, like high calling and emailing activity. So looking there for junior sales staff, like market development reps, who are ready to move on to a closing role could make sense. Just be cautious that the potential hire hits your other requirements, as many of these larger organizations have a lower bar for other important criteria."

Great point!
I downvoted you because changing technology doesn’t inherently solve the concern of security. The other things your mentioned as strengths seem relatively equivalent to other web servers.
This is most probably the effects MBA's / late stage growth cycle.
Google had all this potential profit lying around, and then someone came around and wanted to get a bonus out of it.

Google should watch out, if people no longer get any perceived utility from their services, they will find themselves destitute. A true ad company with a search engine and no innovation as Peter Thiel describes them.

I would rather pay Apple than Google.
People may be confusing the requirements for an H1B and those for a green card, specifically the PERM.

The H1B program may have its flaws, but I guarantee you that the people who get jobs at Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Amazon/Apple aren't the oppressed cheap immigrant labour that articles like this purport them to be.
More consistent perhaps - though tremendously inconsistent between distributions, and versions of a given distribution, in an absolute sense...

I read somewhere that Bill Gates said in the 80s that Unix has a versions/forks problem which will remain with it forever. If that is true then it's one bloody successful prediction.
We did something like this for a while. We quickly learned that we are more than capable of building machines that reliably kill their drivers:

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

Maybe self driving or drive by wire cars would lead to a revival, it really was racing unleashed.
Ah yes. SPY appreciation, that famous measure of inflation.
Geron's book is good but the first half of it should be stuff that you already know from Coursera. Maybe try the PyTorch book - https://pytorch.org/assets/deep-learning/Deep-Learning-with-...
Camera's are definitely everywhere. Recently a meteorite struck Belgium. Lot's of videos and around 200 people testified of seeing it.

The difference can be lots of things of course: densely populated, maybe seen from further away etc. But it's indeed peculiar that now in the smartphone age, we hardly see any UFO's on video, relative to how many camera's there are.

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20210124_98361639
Depends who you ask, or the context. Anecdotally, software developers, being more math-minded than average, tend to think of middle-class literally - the middle third or middle quintile of income distribution.
The important bit: "According to this ruling, if a bank suspends enforcement of the six-transfer limit on a savings deposit, the bank may report that account as a “transaction account” on its FR 2900 reports."

This is just a reclassification artifact. Savings accounts were M2 before, M1 now. No news here.
The standard mechanism for controlling inflation is to increase interest rates. Interest rates are currently at essentially zero, so it seems to me that this is a complete non-issue. If inflation starts to become problematic the fed will increase interest rates and we'll return to a more "normal" economic state.
That all depends on what you mean by "money". And this is the root of the problem for people not neck deep in the financial system in evaluating metrics about the financial system. This is why there are different numbers for different definitions of "money". M0, MB, M1 M2, etc. Each measures how much "money" there is in the system, but for different definitions of "money".

BTW, when the fed lends to banks or purchases bonds, they do, in fact, create money. Just not M0. Depending on where the sellers put the money, you will see an increase in MB, M1 or M2.
hello .git-blame-ignore-revs
I don't know that it's really ideal to try to force all normal browsing activity to HTTPS. If a person is concerned about pedestrian, non-identifying data, like reading HN, then he should take it upon himself to set up a VPN or some other mechanism to encrypt his data. Why do we want to establish a standard of default HTTPS?
I bet the talk would be popular, even though you personally might not be :D
If you're not within 10% for these kernels, chances are that memory is being used differently. This gets to a further matter which I think is perhaps the greatest failure of current multi/many-core programming paradigms: assuming a flat memory model. Efficient parallel computation has much less to do with computation than with data movement. Recent and future architectures have deeply hierarchical memory systems so any paradigm that does not expose the location of physical pages (within some appropriate abstraction) will have a hard time delivering consistent, understandable performance. Performance should not vary an order of magnitude based on whether memory was faulted (allocation is irrelevant) using a batch of threads with different affinity than those that access it later. But this is the current state of affairs.

I would very much like to see a paradigm where a memory distribution (roughly a high-level representation of the mapping to physical memory) was a first-class concept. Suppose that new memory could be allocated or remapped to have certain compatibility relative to the mapping of another block. Then you could associate tasks with certain coupling between two distributions.
Great Circle commercialized the Boehm collector back in the 1990s, and I seem to recall that most of their customers were using it to tell them when they had a memory leak or reused freed memory, not to remove the need for reference counting altogether. But it didn't tell you about cyclic references, unless they resulted in a memory leak.
You are playing with words here: of course you can run multiple python instances to scale your application on multiple-cores, that's a trivial statement. But I was talking about python the interpreter (more exactly cpython). There are legitimate cases where multi-threading is the natural, elegant solution, and cpython, mostly because of reference counting, prevents that.
This is all a story. How do you know when you should and should not leave? Everything happens on time. You always leave at the perfect time. You can create a false narrative in your mind and say “I should’ve left two weeks or two years ago;” Or, you can be thankful for the way things are and have the attitude that everything always happens the way it is supposed to.
So not only do you admit it would never happen, you cannot even provide any actual figures to support your claim. New Zealand and Taiwan have had success because they effectively eliminated the disease at the start of the pandemic, they didn't shut down with 30% of their population infected and millions of current infections, which is why that particular comparison is poor.

It isn't unreasonable to ask for justification of your claim that it'd be so much cheaper to shut down the global economy or take 'severe' action at this time. So, thanks for providing absolutely nothing beyond some vague claims about ideal actions that won't happen?
Of course they will, that's their job, just like a defense lawyer will defend anyone regardless of what they did.
You wrote "(Some suggesting it’s the same as a cold.)" and I asked you to cite even one tweet saying "it's the same as a cold". None of the links you gave says any such thing. Were you lying?

You seem upset about tweets that I RTed or replied to, which I can and will defend, but you can't attack them on substance. In particular, your [0], from https://twitter.com/kerpen, is correct per CDC Flu and RSV monitoring. Those viruses are way down in 2020, no one knows exactly why, but given antibody studies, it seems SARS2 spread widely and preempted them, possibly in the human nose (not lungs). This needs more study but it is nothing like saying "it's just the cold".

Kerpen is right (again, CDC has IFR by age figures) that Flu and RSV are much deadlier than Covid for children.

So you don't like my opinions but you can't refute them, yet you can gather a bunch of tweet-links. What's the point? If we are not going to argue substance, all you've done is identify me as on Team Reality. But we knew that. What's up?
> soon support connections to/from WireGuard endpoints

+1
Aren't the 'conversations' in question public? The title makes it sound like 'journalists' want to tap your phone.
HTTP is an unhappy medium, just like an Open WiFi: we could have perfect forward secrecy encryption alone, but instead we have to choose between "no encryption, no authentication" and "encryption and authentication".

Now we would still like both of course but as the GP correctly states, Google et al have no interest in any of that. They are much better off when both the device and the app just connect to the vendor cloud where they can happily vacuum data. Local network is a not use case at all.
If you like this article you might be interested in this article about the mode7 on the GBA: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/mode7.htm

Personally I love this kind of old-school programming article. It reminds me when I was developing homebrew games for the GBA!
I would pay $50 to have this on my Android device.

In a heartbeat.
I heard that there is this thing called "the cloud" where you can rent services based on the work time. That makes cheapo servers both realistic and quite simple ;)

Actually I just noticed you get 750h of free micro instance time from aws... I wonder if it would be worth doing. I imagine the link+tags are <100GB in total.
Wouldn't charging for it give users an expectation that the service would stay around for longer than a quarter. What if it's still not profitable? Now you have to close down with paying customers.