jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think that Google would very much like to acquire Twitter. They see their lack of success in the social area as a problem, and anyone - MS, Yahoo, facebook, etc. would love to own Twitter. The problem is as you note, Twitter doesn't seem at all interested in being acquired.
Demand Media is going to be a big IPO and is scheduled for Jan/Feb.
> A company pays you not only what it takes for you to do the job,

This is the same thing as:

>but also their perceptions of your options.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13826998 and marked it off-topic.
> I especially get mad at absurdly small (<200 chars) maximum lengths

You realize even the well-regarded bcrypt algorithm only hashes 72 characters, right?
Are VPN's and SSH tunnels blocked in India?
The real "Beetle of EVs" will be something that is priced down around the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, etc. AUD$30k (~USD$20k) or so. The first major brand to come out with an EV comparable to that class of car, with local warranty/servicing/etc, just like the Beetle was then or the Civic/3/Golf are now, will be the one that gets true adoption. Until then it's just a "rich person's toy".
I struggle with procrastination in general, but yeah, working from home started out great for me for lack of noisy colleagues and diversions, but ended up making me feel lonely and unmotivated and messing up my daily rhythm. So I decided to go back to the office with the other people that feel likewise or have some obligations there and I really like it. Thankfully the office is still pretty quiet, so it's kind of the best of both worlds for me.
Reads like someone who’s read one too many New Age/meditation books.
The complete history of most articles is right there on the wiki. You've made several comments like this, you should be able to provide multiple examples to substantiate your claims.
This has quite the, "oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western" vibe.

I don't think I'd call Linux, Mac and Windows "All Major Operating Systems".

Also, while istoica says there's ARM support, I see no links for downloads for anything but 64 bit x86, and there's nowhere to go for more information, unless we're expected to ask all questions on Twitter.

Perhaps "Parity on popular 64 bit x86 operating systems" would be more accurate?
> If you mean the church on the corner ... the clergy are often owning nicer homes and driving nicer cars than their patrons

I expect this is common in US megachurches. It certainly isn't the case everywhere. For instance, in the Church of England here in the UK the person who runs the church on the corner is probably poorer than most of the congregation. (Their salaries are very, very low. There's one big thing that makes up for that, which is that the church provides them with a house, usually quite a nice one.)

(Note: I am not any sort of apologist for the clergy; I am an outspoken atheist. But I have friends and family who work for churches, and I have a decent idea of how little they are paid.)
That wasn't my argument ...

I don't see customers blaming Lamborghini (a tractor manufacturer) for getting in Ferrari's turf. Neither of them invented the car, so why should anyone have any opinion?

I also couldn't see Ferrari entering the tractor manufacturing business, but if it did happen it would have happened only because tractor manufacturing was a very lucrative market, picking a fight with Lamborghini being only about marketing.

Also what really matters is ... why the fuck do people waist time on such arguments and why am I not working instead of arguing with you?
A part of me thinks that Honda has solved the problem of walking. Something evolution solved a long time ago. The evolved solution also allows us to go up steps!

While it's cool it seems like there is a long way to go before it's useful/cost effective.

None of the above undermines the technology btw, just the application.
It's pretty obvious why they don't have a "doesn't take forever to load" checkbox.
Horror stories where people don't read the ToS and then complain loudly on the internet because they aren't abiding by them?
> I think you might be missing the point.

I got his point, I just think he's wrong.

He says Google shifting from trying to compete from Blackberry/Microsoft to competing with Apple was basically an act of war, so Apple is justified in fighting back in the ad market.

I think that's wrong for three reasons - first, Google didn't go after Apple, they're building things people want. Their devices resemble Apple's more than Blackberry's because Apple is also doing what people want, whereas Blackberry isn't.

Second, it wasn't an act of war/betrayal/attack/breach of the Apple/Google business relationship (which Gruber implies).

Third, Apple are kind of being pricks pulling the rug out from a company after Google acquires them. They can do that because it's their business, but it's not justified as some sort of retaliatory measure. It is justified as business if they want, it's kind of prick-ish, but it's their right to do.

So, I understood, I just thought some of his points were wrong. I agree with him about not having comments on his site though - except in rare instances with a carefully built commenting community, comments become just noise and take away from a site. I like Gruber and have learned some really good stuff from him. I'm just not with him on this one.
18. Success often leads to arrogance, and arrogance to failure.
The current generation has a 5-7 year lifespan and after that they are to either naturally decay or manually deorbit. The next gen that is supposed to be deployed with starship provided things get off the ground is intended to stay in orbit for a decent bit longer since they are larger, more expensive satellites.

In the grand scheme of things, this initial set is more a prototype than anything else so I doubt the loss will have any serious permanence. Now getting starship to production on the other hand will really be what makes or breaks the starlink program (as it won't even be possible to deploy v2 if they were to dedicate every possible falcon 9 launch towards just deploying sats).
Sometimes, a difference in magnitude can become a difference in kind.

The speed, algorithms, engagement, etc of modern social media is entirely unprecedented, and makes it an entirely new problem we have to deal with.
Even if storage is cheap, they can charge for their service. Or possibly abusers are too aggressive, see r/DataHoarder. Also Chia faming on cloud storage is possible.
If I recall correctly, protestors were allowed to take over multiple city blocks for weeks.
lyric messenger https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lyric-mesenger/id1377855473
> All the mainstream exercise gear

Most stuff I use for cycling speak ANT+, so it can be combined as one wants. My indoor trainer, my cadance sensor, power meter, speed sensor, HR monitor, watch, head unit, phone, computer all can send or receive through ANT+. That's why you will find most cyclists oppose the Peloton bikes, they are impossible to combine with existing gear.
I communicate with a number of non-US folks routinely, and have still never needed WhatsApp. They're all in Europe though, so perhaps that's why.
wow. top of the hacker news with comments being deleted and no votes. pushing a message much?
I read it "beer responsibility". It seems my subconscious mind wants beer.
Yep just bet a dollar every time. Over enough presses you’ll see the law of large numbers guarantee you getting something that looks like exponential growth.
Scott actually did a great writeup on Webmd specifically: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
I’ve worked with plenty of senior engineers who prefer it too. As I said in my own reply, I personally don’t. But I don’t think it’s right to frame it as determined by experience level. I do think, like OP, it’s good to prioritize finding team fit where there needn’t be conflict over things like this.

Edit: also, universally rejecting tools/processes is just as much a rejection of Agile principles as adopting them blindly. The whole idea is to choose what works for people doing the work.
This is actually one of the few things XML is very good at: embedding a document within another document.

I mean, it's not something you'd want to use all over the place, but there are situations where it might come in handy.
Only thing I'm high on these days is life. To each his own, though.

"The goal is being high, not getting high."
-Be Here Now, Ram Dass
For me Delicious was all about finding my bookmarks back. Both FB/Twitter as well as the browsers make this very very hard. Ever tried finding a link back that you tweeted a year ago?
seeing the PHP monstrosity Ruby has as an equivalent straightens my feelings of what an ugly language Ruby in it intrinsic nature is
What group is that? From what I hear most groups at MS aren't huge either -- unless you aggregate them (for example Visual Studio, counting all of the languages, shells, debuggers, etc...).

Unless you're going to say there are only 15 people on iOS. In which case I will be seriously impressed!
this is a cool idea.
You'd be best suited to post exactly what happened and ask for advice.

They do have a process for getting faulty reports dealt with (not removed): http://www.ripoffreport.com/ConsumersSayThankYou/WantToSueRi...
Just FYI, I updated the site with a redirect at the start for those specifically expecting language tutorials. Thanks for your feedback, it was very helpful.
IMO, so is "1-Click".
I did some research about how people get weather info:
http://ianap.wufoo.com/reports/weather-report/

And out of that, I've been working on a simple weather app:
http://Dopplecast.com

It sends you a direct message via twitter every weekday morning at a time you specify.

My main goal is to learn how to build and deploy an app on rails. However I wanted to solve a real need I had too. I found that most people need information about the weather when they are getting dressed to go to work, so I wanted to give them a short sentence to glance at on their phone like this one I got at 8:15 this morning:

New York: Partly Cloudy 55 now | 61 low, 78 high. Isolated Thunderstorms today.

My initial goal was to get a text message so I can just look at my phone when I need to know, but that was too expensive to run as a service. Then I moved to @messages on twitter, but that was too noisy. Im now doing Direct messages. With an iPhone you get a push alert, and you can get twitter to text you direct messages. Double win.

If anyone uses it and wants to give feedback, I'm @alphacolin or @dopplecast on twitter.

The site is rough right now, but I solved the weather problem for me, and it's not an app. If it works for you too, let me know!
I see I touched a nerve here. Apologies to anyone who took offense. I meant it in a Seven Deadly Sins sense, although the heat I put into the comment made it seem like I even hated Santa Claus!
It's probably a fluke on your setup. What package manager did you use that didn't work? Are you a Unix/Linux type of guy? Most people that aren't have hard time installing any *nix based development environment. I mean, you got an error telling you there was not sqlite3 and you tried the gem and no dice, it's pretty obvious what to do if you're familiar with any Linux. To be fair though, I believe there's no mention of you needing sqlite3 on the download instructions on the main download site, which ultimately leads to confusion.

I'm not trying to sound aggressive or anything, but I think that this type of issue is more related to to using some outdated or excessively complicated guides on the internet that always leave something out, in comparison being hard to get ror up and running.
Why don't you just host it on github pages or similar? With a CNAME entry it would be seamless.

Surely there are simpler and cheaper (free?) solutions than this.
I/O is relatively so expensive now that deserializing packed fields is more efficient than transmitting enough padding to make them usable in-place. Some people claim they can do compression and come out ahead on the reduction in sends and recvs and copies.
>THEIR OWN POSITION PAPER on backscatter scanners recommends per-screening and per-year (time limit!) maximums FAR below the threshold that they claimed wasn't a problem in the first place -- see 8).

>...How they can go from saying in the first paper, "However, below 5–10 rem (which includes occupational and environmental exposures), risks of health effects are either too small to be observed or are nonexistent" to supporting a maximum of 0.025 rem per year is entirely unclear.

Where they support that 0.025 rem/year recommendation, they explain that the point is to keep "individual doses as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) while achieving the desired objective." (Same source, PS017-1).

And you mischarcterize their claims. HPS does not claim <5 rem doses are "not a problem" -- they said the effects are such are "either too small to be observed or nonexistent". (It does not follow that a health effect too small to be epidemologically noticable is "not a problem"). "Too small to be observed" is NOT a quantifier of significance; it is an explanation for the lack of empirical observations. That position statement (PS010-2) is a recommendation against quantiative estimation of the effects of <5 rem radiation doses, not an assertion of their absolute safety.

>It appears to be "Radiation Risk in Perspective", PS010-2 (which I assume is the updated version of PS010-1). It has nothing to say about doses over short time periods.

It does not appear to have been referenced for that purpose.
Google is definitely vulnerable in terms of search result quality.

They have tremendous market share, but search result quality has been stagnant or even declining for a while now.

Page previews are a negative for me, they're distracting and annoying, and every time one comes up I inevitably think "I wish they'd spent this time improving the results".
I've been programming ever since I was a kind in the 80's with the Commodore64. In high school I was all about BASIC and C++. Then in college I got into Java & PHP.

While I enjoyed it, I never really thought of programming as a career until after I completed college when the web finally started getting fun (2004'ish).

In the fall of '04, having been fired from my job in computer sales (I was horrible), I went for any programming job I could find. I got in with a Voice over IP startup. I made so many mistakes, but learned from every single one of them.

Over lunch one day, one of the secretaries randomly told me how much $ she made, which was a few thousand more than me / year. Here I was, with a university degree, and she was still in school at a community college. While I knew I wasn't making much, that really showed how much this company was taking advantage of me. But I knew I was desperate when I came in, so I thanked them, and moved on.

Next up was an ad agency, then lead developer at another startup, and now currently working at as an engineer & developer evangelist. It's been a fun ride, and I owe it all to that first programming job.
I remember being pretty surprised by this when I was a kid, and we had to stop at a checkpoint on I-10 in West Texas, where it turns away from the Mexican border (eastbound) to head into central Texas. I recall thinking that it must be some sort of emergency, like they were looking for an escaped criminal or something, because surely those kinds of checkpoints aren't allowed in a free country in routine circumstances?
Slipping a link into the headline to (presumably) your startup, even if it is inside a "// not related" comment, is pretty tacky. You might even call it spam.

Update: Thanks for removing the link.
The point of the search engine, at least to me as a user of it, is to get results that are relevant to my needs.

Every tweak you require me to apply in order to get the results I want is an area in which someone else can beat you.
This is kind of a myth. There is such thing as tamperproof hardware components and they can protect against plenty of threats.

Security isn’t all or nothing, it’s about understanding what the different threats are and adequately protecting against them. Not everyone is trying to protect against attackers with millions of dollars at their disposal. There is plenty of value to deterring 99% of attackers with physical access.

The idea of security as all or nothing, and that physical access thus defeats all security measures, are security tropes that need to die. You can see how obviously wrong they are when you consider that just about every security system depends on proper behavior by trusted human beings, who are never 100% reliable.
I'm fairly certain I enabled all possible privacy options when I installed telegram. I went to specific lengths to do so. I still get "xyz has joined telegram!" when a new friend joins up from my contact list.

Yep: just checked. Nothing more I can do to increase privacy settings. Zero confidence in it after that
Source?

My friends and family have mostly been using Signal for over a year and we never had such worry. I also know laywers, lawmakers, doctors and CEOs who are also using Signal for important communications.
Yes, a serious error of judgement was made letting these people storm up the stairs. Hopefully cause of stupidity and not malice.
In the same boat here. I really want to get rid of WhatsApp, but almost all my contacts exclusively use it for chat and updates.
Pence, for all his faults, will be remembered as a patriot for his actions on 6 January.
The term "censorship" has always meant governmental restriction on speech, dating back to Roman times.

"Censorship" by a private party is a modern extension of the meaning of the term and it is not universally accepted.
It’s a good idea and should be done, although there is too much transmission in the community at the moment for it to make any significant difference unfortunately.

It would have probably made a difference if it was done earlier.
Well, the funny thing is they're mostly protected from legal exposure by Section 230, that thing Trump keeps trying to get rid of.
So then I guess McCarthyism was completely ok. Why would Hollywood be compelled to hire leftist sympathisers, and let then disseminate their ideas through their productions.
Telegram, because you can delete your own messages from someone else’s phone. No other app allows this to my knowledge.
LINE seems to be the predominate messenger in all of Asia.
I find it highly interesting to see even the Japanese rely on this Korean Plattform. Do they not fear a service blockage based on their countries political relationship?
Any app that makes it easy to migrate chat and contacts, easy UI for non tech people to use, open source will get my vote
Cutting images and using them creatively with CSS based designs is an art on itself that will be lost very soon because of CSS3.
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/p...

It's a very good gentle intro to syntax and the basics of functions, variables, etc.

However, a word of warning. JS is a double edge sword as a way to learn concepts of programming. It's awesome because you can do fun stuff on a webpage fast so the positive feedback loop is rewarding. But JS also has some peculiar behavior that can be hard to grock and debug if you don't have your computer science fundamentals down or at least someone to help you over the hump when things get weird.
https://github.com/primer/primer/blob/master/scss/_tooltips....
I actually find the software more problematic live than in the studio. I hate fighting some computer interface when I just want to turn a knob.

In one of my bands, we were using an iPad for keyboard sounds, mostly organs. The sounds were terrific, but the physical experience was terrible. The iPad got replaced with a vintage Yamaha analog organ from around 1980 (with string synth and poly synth), and a couple of guitar pedals. It's not as flexible, but it's a lot more fun to play and practical onstage.
I agree, this book will not teach a beginner anything about javascript. The author decided to show everyone his math skills instead of teach javascript.
Looks like an expansion of this work: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/save-soldie...

Also, there's this trial going on to cool the body to increase the time surgeons have: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140402-suspe...

I think the first time I recall some interesting work in suspended animation was in ~2006. It's impressive to see how far the techniques have come since then.
The two classes that you describe: 1. Adversary has the weights and architecture and 2. Adversary can only do forward pass and observe output, are equivalent when all you're trying to do is compute the gradient on the data. In case 1 I use backprop, in case 2 I can compute the gradient numerically, it just takes a bit longer. Your stochastic search speeds this up.

Likewise, I was not very surprised that you can produce fooling images, but it is surprising and concerning that they generalize across models. It seems that there are entire, huge fooling subspaces of the input space, not just fooling images as points. And that these subspaces overlap a lot from one net to another, likely since they share similar training data (?) unclear. Anyway, really cool work :)
Opinions on development tools without explanations are pretty meaningless without context. Great for polls, not so much for discussion. It's like telling someone what kind of car to buy based on whatever you happen to own rather than what they might use it for.
I'm not a logician by a long shot, so I probably can't explain that correctly. I think Gödel found a way to make a logical proposition refer to itself, and then found a way to assert provability. He could then construct the sentence "this sentence is not provable". He showed that such a sentence must exists within any system of sufficient power. Thus the system must be self-contradictory (inconsistent), or the sentence must be true (and the system must be incomplete). I'm not sure if such a sentence still refers to itself when negated, so I can't answer the last one.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635159 and marked it off-topic.
IIRC it's just using the standard GDM "Choose an X Session" functionality. The same thing tha allows you to havea KDE and GNOME installed at once and switch between them. Last time I was using it, it prompted when you were choosing a different setting than your last login with a "Do you want this choice to be one-time or remembered?"
A thread of examples from the provided notebook: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1364666124919447558

Note that these just demonstrate that arbitrary encoded input images match the decoded images, which is what would be expected from a VAE.
They are

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
Actually, NASA is planning a Saturn V-sized launch vehicle, under the name "SLS" ("Space Launch System"). SLS Block II is supposed to match the Saturn V's capacity, but it won't launch until the 2020s.

(There are also rumors of very large rockets in advanced planning at SpaceX, but the only possible component of that program that has yet been announced is a methane-fueled staged combustion rocket engine, "Raptor" --- and they only announced that when they started reserving time for component tests at NASA facilities. So, even if those rumors are true, it's likely to be a while before they're confirmed in any detail.)