jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ok glad im not the only one. Yea making it a habit is probably a good approach, although i wonder the health benefits (dont know the intensity/duration you do)

Running is another killer for me, unless im specifically going somewhere for a reason... why am i running. Ugh
Yes, changing your accent is like learning a language with respect to the critical period (although much would depend on the extent to which the new accent differed from the old accent).

>You insist, "no! It's nothing like learning a language."

Ah, this is just a misunderstanding. When I said "No, that's false" a few posts back, I was denying the clause following the "--", not your statement that learning an accent is like learning a language (which I agree with). My point was that complete mastery of a non-native accent is impossible for the same reason that complete mastery of a non-native language is impossible (past age ~13).

>You can rely on a tautology

What is the tautologous statement supposed to be? As I said before, the claim that there is a critical period for language acquisition is an empirical claim, not a tautology.

>Anyway, as for this age of 13 business, I've met a number of people who came to the US as late teenagers to early 20's and learned to speak West-coast American English flawlessly.

Perhaps. I know many people who moved to the US before they reached their teens, and all still have detectable non-native accents (though their English is indeed "flawless" in the sense that there is no difficulty in communicating with them). Many of these people are highly educated and would have had every motivation to loose their accent. There may be a few exceptional individuals who can pass for native in ordinary conversation, but they are extremely rare. (I know, for example, a German who might pass for native if you only heard a few sentences.)

>There you go again, I said I can't tell if it's an accent or a speech impediment. You're reading judgment into my words again.

That's superbly disingenuous. I can't tell if you're being deliberately perverse or if you're just an idiot (no judgment implied).
I wear glasses and my left eye is pretty useless - my brain pretty much ignores any signal from my left eye unless I cover my right. So unfortunately I can't really tell how much importance there is in things like this. You're probably right for people who have really good/equal eyes.
"PG: any chance we could have a temporary (or permanent) ban on John Gruber posts?"

+1. Banning Apple speculation/interpretation/fanboi/defense posts in general would be great.
This is especially good advice if you work in a large company. Banging your head against the wall is often more pleasant than getting permission to do something new or different. So my solution is to just mock up a prototype before I tell anyone about it. It's easy to say "I want to do this, and can prove it's not all that difficult". Even better if you can say "I had this idea that was so great I went ahead and wrote it!" People are a lot more likely to take your work seriously after it's already been written than before.
So.. a MAGNIFYING GLASS effect‽

The constant use of this "retina" term is dubious when referring to the actual iPhone screen, never mind this.

p.s. Nice job.
> Without all the annoying football

Yes!!
for the record, i'm an ADHD tech type, an iPhone and iPad owner (and the sort to pre-order the iPad and stand in line for the original iPhone) and I knew perfectly well that my DodoCase (yes i ordered one) wasn't coming anytime soon. anyone who failed to note the expected shipping delay is a moron and deserves to spend a month and a half gnashing their teeth in frustration.
Clickable links:

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=567

http://www.nitriq.com

http://www.getatomiq.com
Yeah, this is really not a good thing on the Authy part. You should not need to activate it with a phone number.
Assuming their competition will be left.
I don't know why people assumed that I never heard or used Sway (or that I didn't read the article). I did all three, and this is why I am saying that the transition from i3wm to Sway is kind painful (ok, my fault for not citing Sway in my phrase, however I did think it was implicit that I used it).

I have tons of scripts that does specific things and are heavily coupled on how X11 works. I need to port them to Sway first.
You count the equity in the house (price of the house - mortgage), which is probably just your down payment right now.

I think net worth is important to calculate your retirement age.
Unemployed people have various forms of legal protection in place that "underemployed" people don't. You can claim unemployment because you were fired, but not because your hours were cut.
> I suppose this leaves out the potential for unswiped men to differentiate themselves with an interesting initial message, but I suspect the success rate for that is pretty low.

Tinder kind of offers something like this: super likes which cost a small amount of money (users get one free one per day) which notify the target that they've been super liked and highlight the super likers profile.

It's basically a way to pay to stand out from the crowd. There are also other things like boosts which maximise the number of people seeing your profile for a short amount of time.

I honestly can't see anything replacing Tinder for the next few years. Besides the matching thing being a really clever, its biggest asset is how socially acceptable it is. It's made online dating "cool"
Technically, it seems to be "post-IPO equity" subsidised, with a $500 million investment from PayPal in April.

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/uber-post-ipo-equit...
The increase in cost is sufficiently sub-linear that the cost of each new .org registration should be going down as the number of them goes up, if it was truly run for public benefit while breaking even.

As another comment says, most of the cost will be in building and maintaining a robust, scalable, attack-resistant distributed system. The linear scaling costs (such as bandwidth and processors) will be small in comparison.

(Of course at much higher numbers, mathematically O(N) starts to dominate again, but 1 billion lookups per day isn't enough for that.)
Daily I walk past a street that is a dead end, and there is construction being done at the far end of this dead end. Every day there are 2-3 police officers standing at the top of the street. It's a gross misuse of time and funds.
Marx didn't challenge capitalism though,he said it wasn't the endgame, just the late-midgame.

WALL-E is our future, and WALL-E is perfect Marxist communism.
Because it is NOT the same driver. AMD, just like nVidia, want to keep their own secret sauce secret, because that's where the money is.
Or to the flat earth society
Last time I tried to migrate to wayland on a hidpi device, scaling wayland 2x would scale all xwayland windows naively by doubling pixels. In particular, this made graphical emacs fonts blurry. Is there a way to fix that, i.e. letting wayland apps scale natively, but scale xwayland apps using the regular X dpi setting (Xft.dpi and the like)?

Emacs may be old and crufty, but unfortunately is my most often used graphical application.
Same in Brazilian portuguese (depending on where you live, we have at least 5 words for the same thing: Sinal, Farol, Semáforo, Sinaleira, Sinaleiro)
It's also produced cabs with very high pollution [1], up to 30x that of a regular car.

Here in New York we don't have the same kind of unusual taxicabs, but we do strictly regulate taxi and Uber drivers.

I personally find taxis here insufferable. I live in Queens and regularly had to help them "remember" where Queens is. Or remember the TLC regulations about accepting a credit card.

I've not had the same song and dance with Uber.

If this is the quality that the regulations enforce, count me out.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/black-cabs-taxis-a...
Hasn’t he always had a plan to save the web? What’s one dude supposed to do against an army of close to trillion dollars mega corporations with millions of machines and tens of thousands of engineers whose sole purpose is to build models of their users and spam ads?

Feels like ladila-feel-good article.
The Song of Songs was adapted from Egyptian love songs. The ancient Egyptians elevated the woman and her sexuality. It is a bit out of place in the Bible, which mostly warns against the power of female sexuality (Christianity written by men and all).

Female sexuality is seen as responsible for the fall of humanity. The first wive of Adam was evil and did not listen, and Eve corrupted Adam into biting the apple. After that, female sexuality and will was something to be contained and cleaned:

> But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

> Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

> When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean.
Deception is not the same as lying. The information can be accurate, but presented in a way that is intended to fool the other person. Increasing the price is a more obvious way of charging more money for a product; reducing the package size is less obvious. There's a reason why a company would choose the latter: they know full well that most people will pay less attention to the unit price than they will to the package price.
AFAIK it’s flatly wrong and the inquisition said it was heretical because it opposed what was in the Bible.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013053/http://astro.wcup...

The records are here. As far as I can see the only attack against the idea in the record is that it contradicts the Bible.
Except we are not talking about creating money, we're talking about re-allocating that which already exists (via taxes). Not the same thing.
Will you pay $20,000 extra taxes to prevent crime i.e you don't need police force?
I couldn't help but click on the message :D

pretty useful concept, i must say...
Indeed, the sample images don't have any edge cases - eg, a small bathing costume, pasties, etc.

Also what about people with unmaintained pubic hair?

Other tools Im familiarmwith do body part detection, which words pretty well, and generates few false positives (that said, when they do occur they tend to be amusing - a pastrami sandwich , for example).
I don't think it is really possible to keep a question bank secret. Some students tend to follow up with those who had taken the course last time, at least in my university. So if the question bank is voluminous enough, why not just make it open ?

Whats the worst that can happen, people might go through it and learn all the solutions. Well, let them, that's the purpose of the course anyways. But the question bank cant so small that it does not explore the full diversity of problems. And no one is claiming that all questions will be from the question-bank, throw in a few off question-bank odd-balls each year.

But how could they analyze the submissions to figure out (even approximately) who cheated who did not ? Apart from trawling their email and phone calls and wire taps that is....:-) I suspect part of the "forensics" was a bluff.

I can only guess that there are a few problems in the set that historically have a low probability of being solved correctly. So whoever solved those can be marked suspicious.
But a test will have only a few of those.

But it sure sucks to be in a course where the instructor is unaware of the problem that QB is available and you are unwilling to look up the QB. Particularly where the QB was particularly designed for the top percentile.
I would appreciate more information! Thanks.
> I would really like to bring the Whole Earth Catalog hacking tradition full circle.

Sort of a tangent, but the Whole Earth Catalog scene and the tech scene were surprisingly inter-related in the 60s-80s, which is something I didn't know until recently. Ted Nelson, who had coined the word "hypertext" about three years before the first WEC was published, was greatly influenced by it for his 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines, and Steve Jobs was an avid reader as well. There was even briefly a software version in the 80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Software_Catalog_an...

I think I was surprised to find a connection mainly because in 2010 I associate the Whole Earth Catalog more with anti-technology primitivists, which doesn't seem to have originally been the case--- seems plenty of technologists were also interested in it, since DIY doesn't have to mean primitivism.
What the professor knows:

- Some students had an advance copy of the test

- The grade distribution indicates cheating

What the professor doesn't know:

- Who cheated

Unless the university has access to a students network traffic proving they had access to the test, there's no way to be sure who cheated. The fact that the professor trudges through threats and vagaries for a full 15 minutes only seems to underscore this.
There was a very brief window where it was possible to make games like this - where the game market was large enough to spend time making an expansive game, but before the demand for highly polished games came in.

Daggerfall was the game in line before Morrowind and it had a lot more freedom, but it was a lot less polished and more glitchy. But there was so much you could do - you could set a teleport spell in the daytime towards a shop, teleport in at night, and rob the shop. That's the kind of thing that makes a lot of sense that players always want to do in a game like that, and Daggerfall let you do it.

But it was broken at times, dungeons would load broken configurations, and the game wasn't polished with finesse. Morrowind is a much, much more polished and overall satisfying experience than Daggerfall, but it's much more streamlined (though, still immense amounts of freedom compared to a normal game).

There's other games that offer a great deal of freedom - Baldur's Gate and Darklands come to mind. They came after the games market had started to get much bigger, but before the standard became extremely polished. It'll be good if there's a trend back towards more freedom, and eventually someone will get pseudorandom design and encounters right in terms of polish. I've largely moved on from games, but if someone can give a Darklands amount of depth in a game with as many different choices as Fallout 2 and as much polish as a modern game - well, I might have to block out a month at some point to waste a lot of time with it. But, this seems like it's still quite a ways off.
A couple friends of mine have done it - they're both physics grad students in Boston. I don't know the full breakdown of their finances (nor would I share it on the Internet if I did), but I know rent and transportation and can fill in the rest from my experience:

Person 1:
Rent = $600/month (1 roommate in a small condo on a bus line)
Transportation = $0 (walks to work/store/bank)
Health care = ~$0 (grad school presumably covers it, modulo co-pays)
Food = ~$200/month (guessing at this, lives on lots of rice & beans)
Electricity = ~$50/month (also guessing)
Internet = $0 (uses it from work if necessary)
Total = $850/month = $10k/year

Person 2:
Rent = $400/month (basement apartment with 3 roommates)
Transportation = ~$130/month (T-pass, off Green Line)
Food = ~$200/month (guessing)
Health care = ~$0 (presuming he's under the university policy)
Electricity = ~$50/month (guessing, may be less with 3 roommates)
Internet = ~$10/month (you could split $40 cable or FIOS among 4 roommates)
Total = $790/month = about $9500/year.

It's amazing how many necessities really aren't if you're willing to compromise on things like appearances, location, status, etc. Even in Silicon Valley, you can get rents of $600/month if you're willing to share a place in Sunnyvale or one of the poorer sections of Mountain View, and you can get really cheap food if you're willing to eat various rice/beans/pasta dishes. And many people seem to forget that they have two legs and can walk places: I'm in sprawled-out Silicon Valley, not densely-packed Boston, and yet I walk to the bank/library/supermarket and bike to work.
The irony here is that the guy is criticizing how others fail to value external conventions while he can't see how he fails to do so in his writing.
Did you read the other article it was referencing?

The basis of the argument was Mexicans have a life expectancy of 2 years less than Americans, but massively smaller health care bills. The stipulation is that the return we get (2 years more life) is actually smaller than the cost (in terms of time worked, stress, etc) to bring it about. In other words, you give up 4 years of your life to your work so you can live 2 years longer. So, by giving up the 2 years greater life expectancy (cutting out/back/down hospitals and doctors) we'd get more back.

Not necessarily saying I agree, but I did want to point out that the argument isn't QUITE as fanciful as the reference might make it sound.

edit: it's all cool if you know the argument. Just wanted to make sure nobody was going solely off the sensationalist reference.
You are wrong. It's not an arms race. It's a genuine increase in the skills and abilities required to create value in the modern economy.
Most people find that fisher price toy a more practical device than your fully functional linux device.
In mine, we learnt about the hardware, the cache hierarchy and so on, completely separately from the algorithms and complexity theory. Two different classes, two professors. Probably they both knew it themselves, but it never occurred to them to cross-pollinate their course materials.
Very nice, thanks. Here's a somewhat related article too:

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/science/article_4b79fc5d-4d5e...

On the other hand, it sounds like VS isn't exactly at 100% production yet:

http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2010/04/will-virtual-...

But getting there. Based on your HN profile, I defer to you obviously. Curious subject. E.g., based on the wikipedia article, I had no idea the range that Berkeley DB was being used for...
a) He compares a 300k education over 4 yeards with an average master degree income. I have no idea about prices in the US but i would be very surprised if the decent, but not stellar schools have a 50k/year tuition (using 100k as living expenses).

b) We have the same discussion in germany where universities are free. The general consensus about getting a degree seems to be that it is barely worth it (considering opportunity cost and taxes on higher income).

c) I think we see a shift in the value of college degrees and need to change our mindset. In the old days only a small percentage of the population had a degree, yielding a guaranteed job and good career opportunities. Today nearly everybody has a degree and therefore the value goes down.
I think people have to learn that a degree is not the road to riches and that they actually have to work and learn to get a good job.
Another myth is this: I can have the same job my father had and he didnt need a college degree. That is just plain wrong. To do the same job your father did, you need a much higher education today. Accountant with a short certificate in the old days become B.A. in economics today. Simple configuration which might be done by a clever industrial mechanic in the 60s need a complete engineer degree today.
Note that the article's "improved" data structure is 30% slower than the naive binary heap when there's no VM pressure. And his heap is small compared to the cache itself.

In other words, if he had just used mlock() to make sure his heap wasn't getting swapped out, he would have gotten better performance and avoided the need to invent a "new" data structure. He chose a really bad example to get on a soapbox about.
By this argument, any activity during your life means absolutely nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
(Vouching since this might be a good discussion to have.)

> I see about Covid-19/coronavirus is old-school standard statistics - no ML, no DNNs.

What you call "old-school" is also proven. The biomedical domain uses these models because they understand how they work, what abstractions went into them, and when they are reliable methods to lean on. Machine learning and DNNs are pretty useless without a specific task and good datasets (add large to that list for DNNs), very much like wet trials in the medical field.

If you look at the biomedical field in the last few months, lots of efforts already come together here that you might appreciate. Peer reviews of relevant papers are expedited, results are digitally disseminated around the world, cases are tracked with pretty unprecedented speed across bureaucratic borders.

> Seriously, WTF happened to creativity? Where are the ML and DNN people?

Where they belong. Some help people in the field, others focus on their own research, some will definitely try to put their specific methods to the test in order to facilitate other efforts.

I realize that many people these days want to help but please, this is not the time to get your covid paper on arxiv just because. Just like we should call out people profiteering from this pandemic economically, we should strive against adding pure noise. Note that this shouldn't hinder creativity but that is a completely separate thing. If you have a great idea to help, go ahead.

> Where's the "artificial intelligence" (b/c there apparently isn't enough of the real thing to solve this problem. Why isn't more of the work done to date useful in finding solutions? Medical "science" has let us down.

Medical science is doing what they can, the presumption that a buzzword can do it better than people that dedicate their life to this is neither help-, nor respectful.
I think the first idea alone would be highly beneficial. If someone could read one page and actually understand what they are getting into.

Maybe an additional required indicator on that page of “is purchasing this home a good financial decision for the purchaser given their income” on a scale from 0-10.

Just a month ago I saw a coworker get screwed financially on a home purchase. And now with a recession knocking on the door, oof.
I hope you right but I see don't see a recession or a depression. I see a siege.
Most legacy code is this way unfortunately. The actual techniques employed by the "called out" code are not uncommon. I don't think that people are defending the lack of clarity but rather what the code is doing itself. It could be written more clearly, though one could argue that the lengthy series of articles does just that. Maybe it's an exercise for you to write it how you want.

Have you taken a look at some major C codebases? It's not justification but an appeal to authority seems pretty unnecessary :)
A means to an end for serving relevant ads, their bread and butter.
As a grandchild of a holocaust survivor, this was told to me repeatedly.
- I'm a U.S. citizen based in the U.S., though my most recent work experience is in a foreign country. I'm applying to jobs in the major tech hubs. I have previous experience in one of those locations.
- All applications in response to ads.

I've been working with a recruiter but they haven't done much for me. Very generic resume feedback (e.g. "Here's an example of a good resume. Just compare yours.") and no feedback from recruiter when companies turn me down.