jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The challenge is moving from Turing's admittedly simplified model to pinpointing the precise mechanisms serving in the activator and inhibitor roles. This is especially challenging in biology, where scientists are keen to shed more light on the question of how a complex embryo can emerge from tissue that is completely homogenous.

Maybe I'm just too deep into my Theory of Computation class right now, but this sounds a lot like a closure (or lack thereof) property in the set of "homogenous tissue", no?
If they indeed succeed in creating an open "platform" then if you don't like the keyboard, you can replace it with one that you do like.
If the author complains about a HN ddos, then why does everyone suggest evading his ddos protection? It seems like reuploading the content works out better for everyone. It's just plain lazy to post a raw link to that site on this forum.
Personally, I have no problem paying for it, but I hate the bait and switch crap. I'd rather pay someone who has always been paid, then wait for lastpass to decide to strip more features unless you pay up more.
If that's the plan, you don't need YC in to get started.
Simply sending "AB; command\n" to the IRC server will execute command on the server. Does nobody check checksums anymore? Taking six months to detect this is ridiculous.
It is becoming more open and less expensive.

The point is that the tools for prototyping, simulating, assembly, and manufacturing are becoming much cheaper. Along with the fact that people are sharing more.

I agree that there is no substitute for RTFM. That will always be required. Although, it's layers of abstraction in hardware too. Just like software libraries and frameworks: if someone has published a circuit that includes some subsystem I need, I can very likely ctl+v much of it into my own design without having a full understanding of it. Which is the entire reason why an industry around ICs can exist at all. It's just that more people are sharing now than ever before.

Pick and place machines are now becoming accessible at low cost (see Fire Pick Delta/LitePlacer). This addresses many of your assembly errors and mitigates costs.

I can't construct a reasonable argument against your points E, F, and G, which seem to all equate to "something unlucky and magical happened that broke your prototype".
This is a good review, and I'm enjoying it thus far; I have my degrees (a bachelor's and a master's) in philosophy, and this is a subject that interests me.

Regardless of my (lack of) regard for Ayn Rand, I won't indulge in any trolling here. I do, however, think it bears pointing out that her philosophy has absolutely nothing whatsoever in common with Aristotle.
how much of the work force will automation eventually render permanently unemployed? i'm not a luddite - i think this is inevitable and there's no point resisting it. but some of the consequences might be worth thinking through.
I am telling you, as a trans person, the way that trans people would like to be treated in conversation. You are certainly Free to be incredibly pedantic and Weird about it, and upset the people around you. Casual conversation is not a group exercise in mathematical proofs.
Yeah I do the same with virtual desktops, except I right now have only one screen. Because I hate the way KDE switches virtual desktops for all screens together, I would really want each screen to have its own separate virtual desktop. I have 9 of them and mapped my numpad to the virtual desktop because I don't like combo keys very much. And I don't normally use the numpad for anything anyway :P

How did you manage that? Or don't you use KDE but something like i3? (Especially because you call them workspaces).
Another thing: there are certain interface standards like e.g. oscillators accepting 1V/Octave inputs.

That means most Eurorack modules that produce tones have an calibrated input into which you can e.g. route precisely 1V to make the tone go up an octave, -4V down four octaves etc. If you route in 1/12V it goes up an semitone. If your signal is in between you do microtonal changes, vibrato, pitch bend and similar things.
I go for a walk for an hour at twilight daily (currently that's about 4:30PM where I live).
The most recent episode of the Neoliberal Podcast covered this in layperson's terms. Despite being pro-helicopter money, they point out that the bureaucracy to do so isn't in place and that there isn't precedent/procedure for FED action of this kind. So for now the FED is using all of the tools it's used to and waiting on congress to act, hopefully with helicopter money but it will be slow even if the current arguments around constraints are resolved.
> I would argue that the issue is not mistrust of authority per se, it is rather the rampant politicization of authority. To wit, I feel like a more accurate reflection of the zeitgeist is:

> People just don't trust authorities with different political leanings than them.

This. People aren't really looking at "the evidence" to make a personal decision on an issue, they search out some authority that appeals to them and follow that.

In the past, I think we probably had more "norming," where people were guided into trusting certain common authorities. I feel that's degraded, probably for a whole host of reasons (e.g. erosion of community by technology, intensification of individualist ideology, discovery by some actors that fomenting division is a short-term winning strategy for them, etc.), and the result is what you describe.

Policing misinformation is also kind of norming, but the way it's been done seems kind of ham-fisted due to the demands of technopoly [1].

The failures of too-centralized authority are pretty well known and understood (e.g. through the example of the Soviet Union). Honestly, I feel like our current era may end up being the example of the failures of too-decentralized/too-fragmented authority.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly
I saw the Italians intubation protocol has this in mind. A very public discussion of these issues could create more panic than productive conversations in the media, but it really it will need to be addressed openly sooner or later before long-term ventilators start stacking.
They do get health insurance. However, it is paid as part of the general German welfare system (hence, tax money) and not by the employer. As far as I know they get the same retirement compensation as if they were unemployed. (Not so sure, there)

Social security benefits however are a rather alien concept to Germans in general. Healthcare and retirement compensation are government regulated, so individual companies do not need to provide special bonuses to make the system worthwhile.
Ireland and Greece were not supposed to be 'weak' countries.

Ireland just a few years ago was seen as a model for economic growth (supported by very low tax rates for companies). Ireland is a victim of its own misguided policies (housing bubble, banking system, ...) and its orientation to anglo-saxon economic policies.

Greece also failed to reform its economic policies (after cheating on the economic data for quite some time). There was time enough to do that.

I also don't think these countries are 'collapsing'. But adjusting their economic policies will be tough.
Why don't you sell it off and do something that you & people/users like.
When I was young it was in to drive Jaguar here in Hamburg. Now they are mostly gone...

The UK was strong in manufacturing for a long time, and still is. But the 'masters of the universe' decided it was easier to earn money by selling oil and financial products. The result: the oil runs out and the financial products were ponzi schemes.
good point. 32 km/h is only 20 miles per hour
we haven't needed for a decade.

Objective-C 2.0 offers garbage collection but not on iOS, so I guess some effeciency hacks were needed after all.
I refuse to be a member of the ACM for this very reason---I don't think people should be expected to pay a few hundred bucks a year to access scientific papers. I think the ACM does more to obstruct progress in CS than to advance it, in general, due to policies like this.

When I had a free student membership due to participating in a programming contest I found out that I couldn't read almost any paper I wanted without also subscribing to some SIG. Some of my professors have also expressed frustration when trying to dowload papers from ACML DL even though they've been members for decades.
The best programmers I have worked with:

1) Taught interpersonal skills and leadership by example. Constantly.

2) Taught coding and software design skills by example. Constantly.

3) Acted in the best interest of our shared goals to get our whole team up to full speed, rather than pretended like programming is a solo sport, to the benefit of our projects.

Looks like arrogance didn't make the list.
> I'd hate to see a fork of it with ads

Having seen this happen with Connectbot and others, I'm under the impression that open-sourcing Android apps isn't worth it, in spite of what your principles about software may be.

Which makes me wonder, does this happen on other platforms (iOS, BB10, WP7/8) too, or is it just Android?
The EU does, they have often started anti-trust lawsuits so I don't see why they wouldn't start a GDPR / privacy violation lawsuit.
Not sure I agree. In either case, both a social convention and an expected response from the executed command are necessary because both the "double dot" and "triple dot" logic are necessary to truly understand the implications of a complex pull request.

In the case of Atlassian's solution, the "merged" social convention will have to be use to first use and personally verify the "triple dot" findings in order to review that the change to the branch is, in isolation, as expected - before proceeding through the "double dot" flow that now characterizes the pull request feature.

For Github, it's simply the inverse.

Either way, both are relatively easy to achieve with the command line or a diff tool like Meld or LiClipse.
What a waste on such a small format camera. The IMAX film format is larger than even 6x7.

At least use a GFX-100 (which itself isn't even 645).
Emacs is its own ecosystem, you either buy it all, and grow to use it more and more, or don't get to use it all. So in a way it separates itself from the rest of Unix ecosystem.
leave YouTube playing

IMO autoplay for anything but music is one of the worst decisions ever made on online streaming services.

Kind of reminds me how repeatedly clicking the first link on Wikipedia articles inevitably leads to the article about Philosophy, but diverging instead of converging.
Good point, but I'd adjust your "mostly" to "also" because the profit motivation, I suspect, came first. And at some number the 2x is probably not true (like paying $600 vs $1200 for a fridge is a pretty huge ask for a lot of folks).

That said, I would agree most people could afford it today if we'd kept some of that exported wealth stateside, or if we'd spread the wealth that did remain stateside out more evenly over the past 40 years instead of our policies benefiting those with capital so disproportionately.
Not that heavy if they're already using it though
> What do you mean by this?

Assume being infected from this variant grants some protection to future variants. If everyone was infected (or vaccinated) and protected then it would be difficult for the virus to spread and mutate.

A slower spreading virus would produce more mutations over time and its possible one of those mutations could be catastrophic (though unlikely). Not only do you have more mutations but you also have fewer people protected.
that is a sign of a crap conductor. Soloist leads.
Other people who run on donations: Public Radio, The Red Cross, all government services, all religions. It's fine to be skeptical of how they use their donations, but don't be skeptical just because that's their funding model.
This is true.

However the cost is no worse than the cost in the open source world of jumping on technology decisions that then wind up fading away and dying. And the fragmentation in the open source world makes that more likely.

Yes, in principle you can support open source software yourself. But you'd be amazed at the long term costs of doing so when you are locked in to a platform with diminishing market share.
This is a bit ranty/preachy, but I feel like many young people don't quite 'get it' as they get out of school and into the work world.

I don't know a single person who got a job through a resume or filling out an application (that usually happens AFTER the person is picked to be hired, to satisfy the HR drones).

Get out of the house/current office and meet people. Hang out at local user meetups, attend any conferences or talks you can afford to (and actually interact with people there).
GIVE talks and hold teaching sessions on something you know a bit about - there always seems to be an incredible amount of desire for 'Subject X 101' type stuff.

The key is to meet new people in a meaningful way. Networking.

In addition to not knowing anybody who got a job based on resumes, I've also never hired anyone based on a resume. Much like the VC business for startup funding - if you can't figure out how to get an introduction via your personal network, you probably aren't ready for the interview.

Like it or not, PEOPLE drive business, both in and out of tech. There's no getting around it.

There's also no excuse for a fresh young college graduate to not have a tremendous network built up - it's one of the main things you should be getting from your huge amount of student debt. Leverage your professors, TAs, post-docs and even your friends and fellow students - they all know people who are hiring, or can introduce you to other groups of people that will know people.

As a last ditch effort - even a recruiter is better than just a cold email.
Got it as well ; after being distracted while it was rebooting, I went back to check what it had been doing, and of course there is no way for me to do so short of firing up all the dev tools. Irritating...

...well, I'm looking forward to 2.3, anyhow. I really really hope they fix the browser this time.
Civilian aircraft are also not allowed to go supersonic over the continental US, which killed the Concorde for domestic routes among other reasons...
> I sometimes wonder if Vegans worry about Lions on the savannah eating antelope. Do they want prevent that as well.

I think it's safe to assume that you are against rape. Do you worry about dolphins in the ocean raping other dolphins?
So alternate firmware really doesn't help that much? The hardware is too rough to salvage?
You mean that Quora doesn't log IP addresses?
> I hope it's not lost on you that history is riddled with corrupt regimes who employ that kind of rhetoric.

All governments are corrupt, are you implying governments don't have a need for secrecy?

I don't really have an opinion on this subject, but your response appears to ignore the other side of the issue.
This sounds like a typical arbitral tribunal system that companies commonly use to settle various contractual disputes - nothing sinister or unheard of there. What is odd is that it appears to me the agreement would effectively equate changes in legislation that affect profits to a contract dispute.
Fun story:

There's a thing you can do with real estate called a "restrictive covenant". Basically this means that as part of the agreement to sell a piece of property, you attach a rider like "but the purchaser isn't allowed to do X with the property, and must pass this restriction on to future purchasers".

This is pretty basic and pretty well established to be legal. For example, people sometimes use restrictive covenants on land they want to ensure is preserved/undeveloped.

Back in the day, though, many people used this to enforce racial segregation. There would be a restrictive covenant along the lines of "Purchaser agrees never to sell the property to a black person, and to pass this restriction on to future purchasers".

This came up in court eventually during the era of the civil rights movement, and the US Supreme Court took an interesting approach (Shelley v. Kraemer, for anyone interested in the full details): restrictive covenants which restrict sale according to race are legal, but unenforceable. Private individuals are free to discriminate as much as they want, but the government, which is legally bound not to discriminate, cannot intervene to enforce it, since doing so would require the government to take part in the discrimination (which is illegal/unconstitutional).
To keep California from taking our water.
Disgusting that anyone would receive praise someone for assisting an entity which tortures and murders.
Also: Toy Story was made at the tail end of his 30s. (It came out the year he turned 40).
For a different perspective, see...

1. "Credit Suisse: America Is Not Broke" (http://pragcap.com/credit-suisse-america-is-not-broke)

2. "Understanding The Modern Monetary System" (http://pragcap.com/resources/understanding-modern-monetary-s...).
do you want "half-assed"/"Sam teach yourself aerodynamics in 21 days" engineers building your aircrafts?

I don't want "Sam teach yourself C/C++ in 21 days" programmers to code for me either.
This conversation is rather had there, at reddit. And since this morning, the response on the reddit itself is much on the lines of how I predicted it.
Academia is NOT notorius for low salaries. Your average Professor makes $108,000 per year plus generous benefits and a lifetime pension (think about that one because it means they don't have to save for their retirement which adds a lot to their bottom line)

Source: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm

As for your chart have you asked yourself who funds all those research labs? Until you know that you can't really judge either way (where I live for example most of the "private" labs are funded in part by UCLA)
I mostly use my ps3 as a Netflix machine now-a-days (new baby) and have been very frustrated with the PSN downtime since Netflix won't let you login to their service unless you are logged into PSN (for some reason). To me that means my TV has seen very little use and I get to watch shows on my 13" mac. :(

Overall I am very disappointed in having the PSN be so key to the ps3 experience while the PSN, to me, is pretty worthless and poor even when it is working.
The reason it's "liar's poker," not "outright fraud," is that if someone calls your bluff, you lose that hand. The successful traders were just good or lucky enough to be able to bluff the entire market.
Of course it's right. A wronged person has a right to have those wrongs redressed. That's fundamental. The legal system is an artificial construct designed to facilitate the process in a civil manner. But if the legal system isn't working, that doesn't mean that you no longer have that right. And it doesn't mean that whoever wronged you should get off scot-free. The redress will have to be through extralegal channels.
If you’re just a number, you’re treated like one. This kind of news worry me because we’re all just numbers in someone’s eyes.

Legally this might have made sense, but what about the people that this change affects?
Not useful for someone who wants a laptop within the next 10 years.

Top of the line laptops are probably going to be last devices that adopt RISC-V even assuming it significantly gains market share from ARM and x86.
Isn't this Baader-Meinhof phenomenon[0]? You learn about (or give a good think to) something and then you start noticing it everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Same here, I couldn't figure out the game play because it was too slow. Yet from reading through the comments in the previous submission there is no mention of performance issues! It sounds interesting, I wana play :/
It's pretty simple really:

- Sanctions don't achieve the goal of stopping funding terrorism as evident by it still happening.

- IF the point of sanctions was to _actually_ stop terrorism funding, you'd start at the origin of where these ideas start, which is known to be Wahhabism/Salafism.

- At least, you'd start at the origin of how people holding these ideas were supported and given weapons and training to achieve regime change goals and to fight against Russians in Afghanistan.
I would not lump Teslas with the rest of "American cars". Quite a few people that wouldn't touch a Ford/Chrysler/GM vehicle seem eager to give Tesla a chance.
LibreSSL, like many OpenBSD projects, puts security as the most important feature. Security is easier to do when code is simple. That's why LibreSSL actually removed many features. So I don't think there's much for OpenSSL to backport, unless they also want to trim some fat.
Chess and math are both searches over countably infinite trees.
Nice to see something about Gene Wolfe here. I'm a big fan. I just finished re-reading The 5th Head of Cerberus and have been eyeing The Book of the New Sun series on my shelf. Probably time for a re-read of that soon.

If I may put on my pedantic hat for a second: the article writes of the world of the New Sun tetrology: "The sun is so old that it is dying." I thought it was pretty well establish that the sun was dying of unnatural causes--possibly an artificially created black hole.
I'd call it a team effort. The US was certainly selling dual use equipment in the war, and not only did it not lift a finger to stop the use of chemical weapons, it blocked the UN Security Council from even passing a resolution saying that using them was a bad thing.
I'm in the US and the death toll is horrific for me to think about.

Nobody is perfect but certainly our previous leadership did a great job of proving just how critical it is that world leaders understand or at least believe in science and facts.

I've seen some Australian news outlet coverage via YouTube and can draw some pretty close parallels to a well known news outlet ironically named after a clever animal in the US. In my mind, this means the seeds of misinformation and a rise in the same kind of political environment are quite possible there too.
The point was to see if they had read the Van Halen rider. If there were no brown M&M's then they knew the venue had at least read the document.
I agree that the vast majority of complaints against him are unreasonable. But without some sort of apology or promise to do better, what are we supposed to tell those 10% with valid issues?
Panasonic in the 90s was making everything from TVs and laptops and mobiles (Panasonic) to kitchen appliances (National) to advanced sound systems (Technics). They had a unique culture that actually made it fun to work there and made people extremely loyal. Fast forward to a few decades and it has practically turned to shit in all departments, even though their products are actually good.

Source:- Dad was a Pana-manager
Outstanding! http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=business,marketin...
I recommended The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ It's a great book/course which takes you through all the abstraction layers from chip architecture to OO-programming.

After that, I recommend SICP.

When you are self-taught you easily end up with big holes in your knowledge, because you typically focus on what you need to know in your current project. These two books are great because they cover a lot of ground (different abstraction levels, different paradigms) while still remaining practical.
I'd be wary of hiring a college drop-out simply because college can be a filter for stick-to-it-ness. Only a very few college drop-outs do so because they can do better elsewhere; the majority do it because they've failed. And they don't believe that can get back on their feet.

I came close to dropping out, but I'm really glad I didn't- because managing to come back showed me that effort really matters and that I have the ability to succeed at things I thought were hard as long as I work at it.