jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's never been enough by itself to get into MIT. This just gives them more cover to be even more biased.
The complaint is absolutely disgusting to read. One (I suspect uncontested) fact alleged in the complaint really stood out to me:

> As a result, he was stranded in Lebanon for over a month, during which time the U.S. government confirmed that he had been placed on the No Fly List. Mr. Chebli was then able to obtain a one-time waiver to fly home.

If someone is dangerous enough to be on the No Fly List why would the US government allow them to fly? To the US? Even once? And if they're safe enough to fly on that occasion why are they, upon landing (presumably safely), once again considered unsafe to fly? The No Fly List logic just doesn't quite add up for me...
> I would challenge if ACT/SAT is much about pure intellectual merit, considering how much one can boost their score with dedicated tutors and so on, but I digress. How to show intellectual merit other than standardized tests without relying on rich parents:

I don't think the difference between dedicated tutors and individual studying with Khan Academy is a large difference. The majority of low scorers score low because they're either lower on the intelligence scale or didn't spend time individually studying.
You can still make mistakes while not being to blame. Pointing out those mistakes doesn't change the fact that they're the victim, but it might help them or someone else later.

If I leave my car unlocked with an iphone on the dashboard and it gets stolen, I made a mistake, but I'm not to blame.
> Physicist Frank Wilczek has argued that there’s too much wasted complexity in our universe for it to be simulated. Building complexity requires energy and time. Why would a conscious, intelligent designer of realities waste so many resources into making our world more complex than it needs to be?

His original article states it this way:

> Leaving that detail aside, there are many aspects of physics in our world that do not look like the product of an efficient world-simulator. For example, our most accurate formulation of the laws of physics depends on the idea that space and time are smooth and continuous. When you work with continuous numbers, instead of 0s and 1s, it becomes much more difficult, in a simulation, to maintain precision.

> More generally, our world contains a lot of hidden complexity. We can calculate a proton’s properties based on fundamental laws, but those calculations are extremely complicated. It would be a poor strategy to build a simulated world out of such hard-to-compute ingredients.

This argument seems like an interesting kind of fallacy: assuming the only likely kind of simulation is the kind he'd design (e.g. with particular simplifications for certain kinds of economy), then basically taking his own personal preference as evidence. It seems to me like that's assuming too much.

Maybe the simulation is a baroque artwork instead of a utilitarian international-style building?
There are other foods. But yes rickets was quite common in this area. We learned about it in school.
Do you really not get how what you're saying is 180° from principles of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech?
I'm not sure I understand your point. GP was looking for how an applicant who is smart but not privileged can show how they are smart, so that's what I was listing. Literally, what I did in high school. I joined the math team and went to competitions. When my school didn't have the funding or interest to go to regional competitions, I managed to get myself signed up as a team of 1 representing my school and hitch a ride with a neighboring school.
An ethnically Muslim friend of mine always is 'randomly' searched when they are traveling through an airport.

A white american-born Muslim friend of mine, traveling to and from the middle-east semi-randomly for their job, has never had a single problem. They travel with a lot of expensive camera equipment, and makes sure its taken care of; that is, they generally make a huge pain in the arse of themselves, because otherwise, their shit gets broke. They learned this by experience. This person has never had anyone look at them askew in an airport.

I donate regularly to the ACLU, and you should too.
My experience is that states generally have FOI requests that can be made where all the records of such activities are subject to inspection.

Have you even tried to get the records? Or are you just complaining that they weren't provided in the announcement for your convenience?
I don’t get why cherry picking is a bad thing? If demand is high why not increase drivers? Should we screw over people who need rides instead?
I'd love to get one of the Subaru Diesels that are sold overseas.
Loved our Volkswagen Sportwagen TDI.

One of the problems is that VW that they add premium options to the TDI marque. So you can't get a bare bones Jetta TDI without the highest trim level, fancy wheels, and other things that add to the cost. On top of that the gasoline ones are efficient enough where the price difference becomes a non-factor, even when taking the MPG into account.

They are damn fun to drive though, torquey without the compromises of a 4 cylinder gasoline engine. The used market on the sportwagens is great too, which is why we ultimately traded it in for a Tiguan since the demand for the wagens was high enough to make that a relatively easy financial decision.

Unfortunately VW doesn't do diesel Tiguans in the US, which is weird, you'd think the SUV market would be a no-brainer for TDI.
Given the power imbalance between men and women in the US up to the 1970s — remember that women were still being sterilized by court order in the 1970s for having children without having a husband — I feel like the question of consent at the time was pretty dodgy in very many cases that involved people of opposite sexes. Which of course is what feminists of the time were (metaphorically!) lambasted for saying, that all heterosexual sex was a sort of rape, because even if a woman was intentionally saying yes, her ability to say no was always limited. Obviously this goes in spades when we’re talking about JFK and not just your grabby teenage boyfriend.

I think things have gotten considerably better since then.
Thanks for this amazing list!
Is it possible to guess past plagues asymptomatic carriers? The death rate might be actually lower if there were asymptomatic spreaders too.
As an academic I will again make the dull but necessary point: figuring out the fundamental laws of nature is hard, stagnation is the norm, and the advances of the mid-20th century were the aftershocks of the great revolutions of quantum mechanics and relativity. You can't just make that happen again on demand. Fundamental laws are in short supply.

Whenever people tell me we're stagnating I ask them to name an alternative. So far, from best to worst case, every answer has fallen into one of the following buckets:

- a subfield that already exists and already has plenty of people working on it

- an idea that was extensively investigated and carefully ruled out over 50 years ago

- something that requires more money than the field will receive in total over the next 50 years

- a mathematical formalism which simply refactors existing laws in a way that makes them unreadable to almost everyone, without a chance of leading to any new predictions

- a complicated, ad hoc model that isn't any more predictive than simpler models, but gives the modeller hundreds of shiny knobs to tune

- a metaphysical suggestion about how to view what nature "truly" is, which amounts at best to rewriting existing laws with bigger, more "profound" words

I can't see how this is going to be fixed by changing how citations work. If anything, in my experience the particularly bad stuff has been correctly punished by low citations.
Wow, AIDS and MMR has not affected the western world. That's a new one.
> There have been converastions for years about the slow down in scientific discovery.

In what field?
Why exactly do you need two extra rooms to put a laptop on a table?
Here is a video that better describes the situation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM&feature=youtu.be
> unless they have a specific, approved reason to go out

Which includes things like walking, running, & hiking with people at 6ft distance. Not sure how serious that is.

> These are legal orders--not suggestions--that are ultimately upheld by the threat of force.

They're also not getting enforced AFAIK, so not everyone's taking it seriously. I don't really have reason to think anybody's getting "forced" in the sense of threat-of-force.
I’ve worked with Puppet, Ansible, and Salt professionally in the past few years. Of the three, I’m unsure which I’d choose for greenfield, but I think I would rather inherit a legacy Salt codebase than one in Puppet or Ansible.
Care to give an example or two?

Rust panics, like C++ exceptions, can unwind the stack and invoke Drop/destructors.

Rust panics, like C++ exceptions, can be caught, inspected, and recovered from - using std::panic::catch_unwind instead of try/catch statements.

Rust panics can be rethrown with std::panic::resume_unwind, just as you can rethrow C++ exceptions with "throw;".

Rust panic payloads can be a wide variety of types - anything that conforms to "dyn Any + Send + 'static" - just as you can throw a wide variety of exception types in C++. While Rust panic payloads are typically a &str or String, they're not limited to that, and C++ lets you throw C-strings or std::string too.

Unhandled Rust panics terminate the application, unhandled C++ exceptions std::terminate (which by default invokes abort) the application.

It's discouraged to use Rust panics for general control flow, but that's cultural rather than semantic - you can totally use them for control flow. Nothing is stopping you, except hopefully your code reviewer.

Rust panics can be configured to abort instead of unwinding, but that's just a cleaner alternative to C++ compilers typically giving you the option to disable exceptions entirely - and it's not unheard of for a C++ library to wrap exception throwing with macros, such that these can abort instead when built without exception handling support.
In my experience, google has _never_ had good customer support/relations, unless you're currently paying google for the product.
Yeah, and if we use fonts.useso.com is slow outside of China.
Theres an opportunity here for someone to build a "platform" that makes this all plug-n-play; like what the apple/google app stores have done but where the end user has control.

Something along the lines of someone buys some hardware with this platform on it and gets a gui that lets me install "apps" on top of it.

Personally, I've got a home setup that is on its way to what the op has; but I think there's demand from non-techy folks to get off the big co's apps and onto privacy focused ones that they control.
They seem to think that people can’t really “opt out” of “tracking” (scare quotes theirs). Talk about entitled.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26723010
I'd point out that Common Lisp, kind of like Smalltalk, is a highly dynamic environment that has historically been used as an operating system in itself. That's one reason why the system is so mutable—you don't want to have to relaunch it even to modify core functionality.
What can the Supreme Court do to force a private company to publish whatever the president wants to say?
i believe at least one the tweets they deleted were calls for people to calm down and leave, that seems like the opposite of incitement.

>Where would you draw the line?

no line. representatives have chosen not to represent their constituents, at a certain point it needs to be clear that if you can't keep your promises, ignore the needs and concerns of the public while holding them in contempt, this is the only possible outcome. censorship cannot solve this problem, only effective governance can.
Facebook is the slow motion, global scale, online equivalent of the Fyre Festival.
> respecting the 2020 status referendum in Puerto Rico

And the 2017 referendum. And the 2012 referendum.

Three referendums in a decade all advocating for statehood ought to be a pretty clear sign that there is desire for statehood...
this is censorship, which twitter is allowed to do on their site. i think communication platforms should allow all (legal) posts
It's incredible how easy it is for you to wear reality-bending goggles and throw generalities like "No one complained when there were fires and property damage during BLM protests", and that what happened today was "peaceful".

You can grasp the next "fact": that the Trumpites were peaceful, this was an Antifa false flag operation (you can find doctored evidence of this on Twitter). If you can lie to yourself about that, then you can go to sleep at night feeling that you're the moral one, that you're the one still on the correct side of humanity...
Hospital capacity has had to be organised in new ways as a result of the pandemic to treat COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients separately and safely in meeting the enhanced Infection Prevention Control measures. This results in beds and staff being deployed differently from in previous years in both emergency and elective settings within the hospital.

Literally from the link.
If BLM had done this blood would be flowing in the streets.
How can someone downvote this?
99.9% is low odds...
I don't care what it's called, I dream of termination with extreme prejudice of the Carbon based, kruft-filled, all-in-one, un-Apple, sync-nightmare currently called iTunes.
They're deprecating their DRM and switching to PlaysForSure, with no route for conversion of old purchased files.

That certainly would never be forgotten.
It sets the category based on the name of the company that it recognises. For example if I buy a tv it would recogise the name of the electronics store and put it under the Computers and Electronics category.

It's simple to manually categorise purchases from companies that is doesn't recognise and it remembers the category the next time.
I've actually been trying to reduce my web browser usage on my laptop and move what I can to local apps. I feel a lot safer using a Twitter app, than using Twitter in a web browser, and a lot safer using an IMAP client than a webmail client.
It requires my time in order to read the site though, so that counts as paying.
Many in IT then and now think security was the domain of people who managed routers and proxies (also responsible from preventing non-approved use, like too much downloading or reading bad things) and IT minions who install an anti-virus. From the network perspective, they block 'malicious' javascript (impossible!) and bad websites (outsourced of course) and they block all ports and websites they can in a constant struggle against actual business needs.

These people are doing what they can, but it mostly involves buying snake oil because they don't understand software.

The idea of running someone else's code (javascript, flash, macros) on the same box as the confidential data, i.e. the end user box, is completely mad when sandboxing technology is still in its infancy. Letting unverified parsers touch untrusted data is mad too, but confining everything (SELinux style) is too hard for most. But why do we let these parsers talk to the network? Why can't I prevent my android/iOS apps from talking to any site on the internet?

We need a sea change in expectation from users (corporate and individual) that their data won't leave their box without them knowing about it, that it will be authenticated and encrypted in transit, who will demand operating systems support for enforcing this, and demand that their applications are written to expect only limited and mediated access to the network, file system and kernel.
The only true improvement I've seen are the reinforced cockpit doors. Everything else is just a smokescreen.
Genuine question: when should one refrain from posting a comment on HN? Mine aren’t exceptional bits of wisdom, or unheard-of in the technology world. I haven’t invented any programming language nor did I create an app which gathered 10M+ users in a matter of weeks. Should I just shut up or do we want to encourage discussion, let people make mistake so they can be taught — when there is one — the right answer?
If you're a tea person like me and you've read Lu Yu's Tea Classics (茶經) before, you'll appreciate good tea.

The one that I usually purchase is from Japan--and it is now orderable online, including to overseas addresses. The tea purveyor is IPPODO (一保堂) and their gyokuro (玉露) is some of the best. IPPODO has been around since 1717, so they are likely to have a good idea, especially since they have supplied tea to the Japanese king.

Gyokuro is a pleasant tea because its flavors are so subtle that it's not like any green tea you've had. Theirs is very light yet sweet and full-bodied. IPPODO's gyokuro, in particularly their Below Heaven tea (天下一) or Tenka-ichi, has a savory flavor that almost tastes a bit like nori.

https://shop.ippodo-tea.co.jp/shop/en/
http://www.ippodo-tea.co.jp/
You can learn that the decision was very complex with a lot of benefits and detriments for both stores. In the end, we thought that HBase gave us more initial benefits, reduced time to market, and a community with similar long-term goals.
For the record, 18yo me would be interested in it. :)
Check out the mapper API. They've wrapped up all the difficult details behind a hadoop-like interface:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-mapp...
I believe that The Strand in London still has some gas lamps.

Oxford also has some, but they may be faux.
Founders are all over the world. If in your city, you may meet in person, else use skype/hangouts etc...

jim
You make tests for your own stuff, but 15 other engineers don't make tests. You have partial test coverage and it just becomes overwhelming because 15 people can write more code lines than you can.
IMO every community has changed for the worse.

Nothing is as good as it was last year, and as sites grow they fill with people who act different than the past members.
Insurance prices are usually based on the maximum possible loss as well as the probability of loss. Insuring only the online bitcoins means your maximum loss is 50 times less than if you had insured all. Insurance will be much cheaper.

You argue that the probability of loss of the offline bitcoins should be much smaller, but I don't think insurance companies will go along with this argument. Insurance companies are skeptical and conservative by nature. And they have absolutely no trust in human beings. And from the point of view of human intervention offline bitcoins are about as vulnerable as online ones.
There are some things you can do to make `rm` safer which would prevent this from working: https://github.com/sindresorhus/guides/blob/master/how-not-t...

Though the real fix is doing development in a sandboxed container.
I never mentioned OOP and never would.
Interesting. I have been living in Chennai for some time and had no idea salaries in Bangalore could get that high for people choosing to stay on development and not move into management. So I guess what you're saying is since it's a less popular career track, companies that want that kind of experience pay well to get it
I was pretty confused and intrigued by "instant deployments" as well.

If you go to their help docs, you can see that they can integrate directly with a few services (digital ocean and another that I can't remember) to "instantly deploy" your app.
Others mention that it will be visible to other users, but I can be more clear in what that means:

At first glance, it seems you could use a negative-balance user to hide fractional reserve.

Say the sum of all deposits is 2000. You only have 1000 BTC that you can sign on the exchange. If you were to generate a proof tree for that 2000 and add a branch with -1000 BTC balance at the top of the tree, everyone on the other branch would have to be provided that balance in their chain in order to get to the 1000-valued root. Any of them could clearly see that the balance was being manipulated.

So that won't work. If you move the negative-balance hash down the tree, it is still visible to any user who intersects the branch on the way up.
> Often times, when I seek feedback on a project, it’s not actually constructive feedback that I want; it’s simply approval. I want a pat on the back and a “job well done.”

I think creative people want and need both. I spent a lot of my free time working on a non-fiction book[1]. I'm really aggressive about soliciting feedback: every page of the book links directly to its issue tracker on github[2].

I love critical, detailed feedback. I want my book to be great, and I can't improve the clarity of my writing without people telling me, "this was confusing" or "this was boring". Bug reports fill me with joy.

At the same time, though, the reason they fill me with joy is because they make the book better. And a big part of the reason I care about making the book better is because it means I get more approval, more email patting me on my back.

I'm fortunate enough to also get positive feedback, comments from people that say nothing more than "You're doing a great job!" That isn't actionable feedback, but if I didn't hear those kinds of comments too, I wouldn't have the motivation for the feedback that is actionable.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
[2]: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/issues
This is actually a fascinating paper. Keep reading until you see the connection between inflammation, exercise and depression... Wow!
You have to notify people that your thing exists, and multibillion dollar ad budgets crowd independent media out, no matter what the quality.

The media industry is no longer designed for more than a handful of massive vertically integrated companies to operate, because there's only a handful of massive vertically integrated companies that operate the media under a thousand different names.

It may sound quaint, but production costs used to be the big hurdle to creating and distributing an independent work. As production costs approach zero, collusion and M&A have risen in a complementary manner to compensate.
I've actually never heard a true failure story in silicon valley. Something like... "I started this company with my entire life's worth of savings, but it blew up. So now I have no income and my wife left me along with the kids. My life isn't worth living anymore and I am seeing a therapist thrice a week to stop blowing my brains out."

THAT would be failure. That's real, with real consequences. That is hard to get out of, and when someone does that person usually has a valuable lesson to share. I have no doubt there are some failures like that out there, but they almost never share their story.

What we have instead is a plethora of fake failures who experienced a few hiccups on their path to success. The current way the word failure is used is like "awesome" or "incredible" or any of these other top-shelf words used for rather mundane occurances. It cheapens our language for no reason.
Was a change in collateral requirement something that was known / codified in some agreement, or was it an ad-hoc decision?
Of course it did, Google is making that decision a reality.

On the JVM, Kotlin doesn't matter, it is just another language that pretends to be Java when compiled to Java Virtual Machine bytecode.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, DTCC played the major role in pulling the rug, they should be investigated.
What was weird when I was growing up was how Phillips video 2000 was the dominant standard in school

Probably some dept of education bought a million video 2000 VCRs for education
It would be interesting, which just makes using Eclipse and Netbeans to this day, an even better decision.