jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eccentricity often leads to fame, even if it wasn't intentional. People like a freak show (No negative connotation intended, but he was certainly strange).

For example, the only thing I really know about Howie Mandell is his OCD about germs, but that's more than I know about most celebrities.
At this point Apple really owns most things. Either by having officially bought them or by controlling platforms that things have become coupled to.
> expose the more stable part of the internals with a new language and let people roll their own query plans.

You’re basically talking about ISAM style access at this point. Even IBM started discouraging that on IBM i and is pushing developers to use embedded SQL instead.
that is what I was getting at. I worked with someone in IT and their main focus was on preventing system from being exploited and helping people with their credentials or if other problems arose. I don't recall any coding work such as the actual functioning of the site. Their focus was more about keep the severs running.
> Now, if they have a bound on n, or if it's possible to derive a bound from their proof, then this could eventually become a proof of the full conjecture, by computer checking all smaller n. But if it's nonconstructive, then it can't be.

Actually, if they could somehow embed the small hypergraphs into the large ones so that the coloring on the small ones is the same, they could prove it completely. I wonder why is this not the case, but I suspect they are gonna do it, see:

“There is still the assumption in the paper that the number of nodes must be very large, but that’s probably just some additional work,” said Lovász. “Essentially, the conjecture is now proved.”
I think of it differently:

Basically anything can be a source of identity. When someone says something matters to them, I see no point in doubting it, because I have no way to disprove that. The only evidence is in their mind, so the best I can do is to trust their observation of it. Doubting them would imply I knew them better than they know themselves, which would be at best silly, at worst insulting, and certainly unproductive. So when someone tells me they identify as $X, acceptance is rational.

I don't think sciency-sounding vocabulary convinces any rational person of scientific authority. As you say, flat-earthers do it, and yet everyone agrees they're full of shit. Latin is just a language.
Zune was a marketing failure that got run over by the iPod. They were generally well regarded by their owners.
As someone who is “tech salary rich” (so, “rich” without quotes to most New Yorkers) but not “VC rich”, I don’t really relate to this comment. The MTA’s decline is largely caused by it weirdly being run by the state rather than the city, and constant bickering between Cuomo and de Blasio (which has caused lots of other problems, too). Homelessness is an issue, but high income people also very aggressively resist sheltering people in their neighborhoods [1]. And while murders rose last year (as they did in most US cities) crime in NYC has been steadily falling for decades.

[1] https://www.curbed.com/2020/11/upper-west-side-homeless-hote...
The comment you replied to is saying there's little room for debating scientific guidelines, and you're insisting there is.

Who were you thinking would be left to debate those guidelines when the guidelines are based on the debate of experts?

Guidelines change because the experts are still free to debate them, where there is little room for debate is following the results of said debate.

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And what on earth are you asking me how the guidelines from virologists went for when you're the one arguing for leaving room for debate against them?

One would imagine you'd have some very clear pictures of missteps that can't be excused by the fact we were trying to fight an unknown virus killing people at an alarming rate if you're saying there's room for debating if we should follow their guidelines.

I mean go look at the evolution of discussion on COVID fomite transmission yourself.

In March we were getting studies showing long lived presence of COVID in some form on surfaces for weeks, but there was debate on if those were actually infectious amongst experts.

By April here's a virologist pointing out that the results showing weeks didn't mean it was infectious:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2020/04/0...

And for those who will not read the article but will try to respond based on the url... the conclusion was still supporting possible transmission, just for days instead if weeks. And it was still recommending aggressive disinfection:

> This suggests that risk of infection from virus on objects or surfaces in the environment can be minimized by diligent cleaning and disinfection practices.

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The very nature of the guidelines is including the fact no all experts are going to agree, which is the point of an organization like WHO.

There is little room for debate in following what their guidelines. It's very easy to come up with armchair opinion showing how misguided that is where they were wrong, but their recommendations are based on accounting for the fact we had a global pandemic to deal with.
Any one have any pointers to learn the Django stack from the basics? Any specific video course or a book?

"Two Scoops of Django" was recommended to me by someone on HN. I think it is currently being worked on for Django 3. It is on my reading list.
Your examples are a little misleading.

// Imperative: (essence of it)
x = 0;
x = x + 1;
return x;

// Procedural
x = 0;
inc(x);
return x;

// Functional
return inc(x);

// declarative
select x + 1;

---
My argument is that all of these above are imperative. Down below sits imperative CPU which will give exactly the same result. Every time.

Wiki definition of imperative programming is wrong: "Imperative programming is focused on describing how a program operates"

This applies to every program in every language. Because you as a programmer are always focused on describing how program operates. Prolog is only another higher abstraction layer.
Do not sure if you are on a correct website because mocking is not often happens on these pages. Maybe try to improve your coding skills on a websites like hackerrank.
Even when you have evidence and links to support your own argument and it goes against the group-think, they still would rather downvote that to refute the argument.
Not really. Dallas is an example of a metro area that has extended sprawl as far as it can go. A ton of new highways have been built out but growth in car usage and population have eaten back all the gains. There will never be enough land to make the sprawl work. As a result home prices there are jumping just like everywhere else. No one wants a 2 hour commute.
There was an Israeli team that "proved" quantum particles can go back in time by linking groups of entangled particles that didn't exist in parallel.

Would have to look for the link, and don't know if that was ever rejected, but.. maybe?

By extension, spooky action may be ignoring time entirely.
Middle guard here. I've heard people claim it was happening, but it's never happened to me.

If someone's downvoting every post you make for days or weeks, though, that seems to me to be a clearly abusive behavior. You could email the moderators. I suspect that they have the data to be able to spot that and identify the perpetrator.
I thought the reason (for the one-button mouse) was so that you'd never have to think about which button to click.
the cognitive dissonance is dizzying! first of all your relative is a fool who was practicing ignorance, not religion. Moving on, your whole argument is based on the preconceived notion that secularism is correct which clouds your judgement. Teaching your child your religion is called "forcing them"; whereas depriving them of any intellectual tools to help them find meaning in their lives is ideal. On to your allegations; Their whole education system is dependent on them knowing hebrew so i don't know what you meant by that. As for being deprived of internet; so what? Internet isn't a human right. Not allowed to learn english? Are you angry at your parents for not teaching you spanish? i can't actually find anything argument you make that isn't bs and factually incorrect. Anecdotal evidence non withstanding.
What has been lost because records were not? Doctors shouldn't have to rely on my memory of what I had years ago.
I have to say that the homepage of UiPath is pretty dystopian, from the mechanical birds which took over the office in the video on top, to the automation process which rejects the candidate "Peter The Farmer" in the animation below.
Wow, this really made my evening :)

I just donated two hours worth of my consulting time for two fellow human beings in need somewhere else in the world and it will have serious impact. I'm in total bliss <3 nothing feels like helping others - you should try donating!

The only thing I would like to see watsi doing is to offer donations with bitcoin! Integration with bitpay is really easy too. If watsi is rails based (seems so) they would have support for bitpay out of the box with active merchant!

Go spread some love folks, it feels great!

http://watsi.org

Edit:

https://bitpay.com (they offer immediate conversion to local currencies too!)

https://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant/tree/13e0ab52727b...
No, you aren't missing anything. This is a passive-aggressive tool to inflate one's own self-importance by implying that the "unsocialized" individual should care that they aren't being followed anymore.
The study doesn't ask this question. It asks if contemplating religious views (via expressing them) primes brand loyalty.
In the future, it's quite likely that a standards organization could afford it.

Processor speed, disk capacity, network bandwidth, and available software are all growing much more rapidly than online populations.

In some years' time I might be able to run an operation like Google, Facebook, or Twitter from my bedroom.
what lead...? I will have to keep you in mind if I travel to Europe.

Also, climbing does get expensive so the people that do it are the people that can afford it or are dirtbags just living in a van at camp 4. I do agree that those types are drawn to climbing though. I think it has a lot to do with the problem solving aspect of climbing.
>Why would he have suspected Radcliffe of being a "face person"? He's not just "famous for being famous", he's famous for starring in an incredibly successful series of movies.

Being famous for being in a movie seems very close to being famous for being famous to me.

When he was in the first Harry Potter movie Radcliffe was just a cute looking kid that could act a bit, they could have probably chosen from dozens of others and had a similar success.

He was chosen almost certainly because his face fit the bill - he had the right look. He most definitely wouldn't have been chosen if he'd been ugly.

So his fame, as opposed to someone else’s fame is largely IMO down to his face - certainly it's not down to his being a geek or his apparent intelligence. He was also helped by nepotism it seems.

Now, he also appears to have taken well to his role and made the best of it and so his continued "stardom" and his career beyond the first Harry Potter is certainly laudable.
The debate should be about the ethics of privacy and HOW it is being violated, not WHY.

Suppose it was proven to help national security, suppose it was scientifically proven safe, would its use be palatable?

There is a question over what privacy needs to be protected. If this issue gets too into WHY these devices were purchased, we may lose the next privacy debate.
Used WPP6WJFKR63X
I'm really excited to give it a try. Looks fun. Thanks!
Darwin's entire userland was basically a direct rip from FreeBSD, the networking stack as well. Which is fine, that's perfectly acceptable given the license, but it's generally considered good form to actually donate back to the project when you do that, especially when you're worth what Apple is.

All that is to say: claiming Apple just built on "generic BSD" isn't really fair or accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
Thanks! I was told about this on a previous HN thread, but I have still to try it. Will do as soon as I have some time. It looks really promising.
Which negates their own achievements?
It is transcribed. Just scroll past all of the scanned pages. And seriously, some of the penmanship is pretty good. (e.g. This one seemed very stylized to me, and a lot better than the chicken scratch that a lot of people write with: http://betweenthebars.org/posts/27/scarred-walls-and-more)
I read this everywhere, but I am able to watch 1080p Youtube videos with html5 just fine since, yeahh... always, at least it feels like that. I tried it just a second ago. So it works definitively with Firefox 36 on Gentoo Linux.

What am I doing "wrong"? What am I missing here?
It's not about collecting or verifying information.

The goal of the exercise is to make you fearful, intimidated, and compliant, and to reinforce the government's dominance over you. The polygraph is just a prop. The examiner is the one really measuring you. Even if your saint's halo is still slightly visible at noon on a sunny day, you will always be given the impression that you barely passed.

So it hardly matters that a polygraph is pseudoscience, because the placebo effect is real. If you think you're being objectively measured by a machine, instead of subjectively judged by a man, that makes his job simpler.

Otherwise, it's Iocaine Powder.

(I can neither confirm nor deny whether I have any actual experience with polygraph testing, or whether I know anyone who does.)
Some scientist even disagree with that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
Have you looked into the alchemy api?http://www.alchemyapi.com/
I'm trying to make a haiku something like this:

Out of clean clothes today,

Also laundry detergent,

Imagine surprise face on UPS man when I open door.
April fools leaked early or is this for real?!
This looks great at a glance. Looking forward to tooling around with it this weekend.
you know they also pay people to write their essays or give them tutoring to get a high GPA right? And that GPA's are inflated at private schools?

The SAT is the one mechanism that poor asian and jewish and nigerian kids could prepare for and do well on. But obviously the objective is to get rid of them as "theres too many"

Its also the only measure thats the same for everyone. There also isnt any indication that as a whole the test prep classes actually "work" to a serious degree. Maybe theyll take your score up 20 points but wont raise it 300.
And a reason surfaced to continue to connect users to their phone numbers...

>>The UK also has receiver verification. If I try to send to an account and it doesn't match the name I'm sending to, my bank will warn me. How do you stop impersonation?

A: Signal relies on phone numbers for identities. Other apps that integrate MobileCoin may have a higher threshold for identification.
In the US system you pass/fail each class based on exams and coursework and there is a minimum set of classes required to pass to graduate. The pass/fail is at the class level, there is no separate set of final overall exams as in other systems.
> I'm not sure why you would store mp3s these days now unless you were making the music yourself?

I also keep mp3 files (albums) in my hard drives. How else do you ensure that you have access to your favorite artists in the future? I’m assuming here that popular music streaming platforms would not be around in 10 years (others will take over). Also, storing your music in the cloud requires you having internet connection to play your music... imho that’s a disadvantage compared to storing your music locally.
Yes, and high-quality free prep solutions exist: https://www.khanacademy.org/SAT

Spending 10k on a prep class isn't going to cause your dimwitted child to outperform a bright kid from a disadvantaged background, but it can probably buy a better essay
The upper management folks also have big, comfy, quiet offices with floor-to-ceiling windows, and an assistant right outside the door to bark orders to.

The people working in cubicle-hell or open-office purgatory generally aren't the ones clamoring to get back inside the building. If offices were redesigned to give more rooms with doors to the people who want them so they can do some quiet focused work, even if it's not an assigned space, I think you'd see much more eagerness to return.
AVX-512 is an abomination in my field and we avoid it like the plague. It looks like we're not the only ones. Linus has a lot to say about it as well.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-To...
> […]it is ridiculous that one of the main metrics used in admissions is a glorified IQ test.

SATs are a good measure of General Intelligence (and IQ).

“
This research established the relationship between SAT and g, as well as the appropriateness of the SAT as a measure of g, and examined the SAT as a premorbid measure of intelligence. In Study 1, we used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Measures of g were extracted from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and correlated with SAT scores of 917 participants. The resulting correlation was .82 (.86 corrected for nonlinearity). Study 2 investigated the correlation between revised and recentered SAT scores and scores on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices among 104 undergraduates. The resulting correlation was .483 (.72 corrected for restricted range). These studies indicate that the SAT is mainly a test of g.
"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.200...
I learned that lesson hard during the whole HP Compaq fiasco.

It was so very difficult to explain to my older customers how a "quality" name like HP could suddenly be on such god-awful printers and computers.
The fact that there was a storm that could cause icing (perhaps due to super cooled water, or is it super chilled water) could have been shared thus giving AF447 a greater opportunity to avoid it, which could/would have meant the pitot's would not have become blocked which would mean the auto pilot would not have turned off due to faulty airspeed input which would mean there would have been no need for pilot to fly the plane and hold the stick back for so long. Of course its a moot point for AF447 - RIP.
You can expose the same functionality in, say, C# or F# if you want to give up static type checking. (Actually with F# type providers or a language with good macros, you can keep static analysis if you're willing to bind yourself to the database at build time.) This is just a use of dynamic binding. That's fine, I just thought there was more to it, something that requires a lack of static analysis, multi threading, etc.
>That a 24 or 36 hours fast will not kill you, but is rather good for you.

I did a fast of 40hours once, I thought I was going to pass out. I grew weak, struggled to stay upright through dizziness and seriously felt very ill. I've often gone a day without food (not always by choice) but I'm not planning on fasting any longer than that again.
Interesting. I had never noticed those. Thanks for the examples.
With due respect, BS. Utter BS.

plentyoffish.com has around 6m monthly and is run by a tiny team. (1 person for a long time afaik, maybe 2 now?)

It's pie in the sky to think that you need to spend so much to run what is essentially, a very simple website.

Wikipedia isn't some massively social website. Majority of people accessing it are READ_ONLY. It's not streaming video. The majority is static text. So it doesn't make sense to care how many people are on it... 10m users will not require twice the engineers or servers as 5m.

Wikipedia: 70m users/month - hosting costs $6m or so? ($.086/user)
Reddit: 10m users/month maybe? - hosting costs $33k or so? ($0.0033/user) [July]
Mibbit: 1.5m users/month - hosting costs $500 or so ($0.0003/user)

(numbers from quantcast, yes I know they're not exact but they're usually not orders of magnitude out).

eg Wikipedia spends 250 times as much on hosting per user as I do. I'm not even saying I'm efficient with hosting costs. I'm sure I could host mibbit on $100/mo at a push.

And I thought Reddits hosting costs were obscene.

Do you really think that 8 cents per month, to host each User of a website is not ridiculously expensive?
I'm often asked by conference attendees for the slide decks. Since they just sat through the presentation, I assume that they're perfectly aware of the futility of trying to understand the presentation from the visual aids.

Perhaps they just want one funny picture, or to refresh their own memories of what I said? I give them credit for having good reasons and make them available online, usually before I step on the stage, e.g.

https://github.com/raganwald/presentation_decks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raganwald/sets/7215762325807370...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raganwald/sets/7215762264724236...

That being said, I agree with Matt and others here that a presentation can stand alone or it can be a visual aid but it can't be both. So if I want to take the same ideas and put them in writing, I write a blog post:

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2010/01/...
So funny enough, there _are_ some people looking at ways of generating cash flows with NFTs. For instance, some projects have offered a chunk of their fees from resales to users, or offer a token reward for staking the NFT. Or in Bored Ape Yacht Club's case, they just 'airdropped' a bunch of a new token over to holders, giving them free money essentially.

Yes, just about everything out there still feels pyramid-schemey due to its emphasis on increasing price, so I don't disagree with anything written in the article... _but_ it's not impossible that NFTs could generate some cash flow through a smart contract piece.

Dealing with regulation is tricky -- since an NFT that can generate cash flow is basically a security. The SEC is likely to shut that down hard, and it's safest to avoid as a builder. But anyway, unlike a beanie baby it's feasible that NFTs could generate cash flow (staking, lending as an item in an in-game economy... etc).
Modern hardware and operating systems require special care when doing this. Firstly, the D-cache must be cleaned and the I-cache invalidated for the relevant memory addresses. This is because the CPU does not in general maintain coherency between these caches for performance reasons (writing instructions is rare). Secondly, memory protection must be set to allow execution of the generated code. Some systems even forbid pages being writeable and executable at the same time in order to make code injection attacks that little bit harder.
I believe this is not the case. (Based on my somewhat sizeable experience in this area. See my other comment on this post.)
I find this quote funny, but untrue. If you use regular expressions for the right problems, you solve the problem. If you use it for the wrong problems, well, then regular expressions aren't where you should put the blame.
Previous submissions of the same story from various sources. They all have some discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919562

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922049

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922243 <- This has the most comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923931
I don't how great that will be. It's painful when I go back and read the emails I wrote in college, especially the ones to girls. It's the ultimate cure for hubris.
Why wouldnt I ? Predictably enough, it seems the downvotes have started ringing in.
The iPhone logs all my texts. I've had an iPhone longer than I've been dating my current girlfriend (dating over 3 years now), and it's a little fun to scroll all the way back to the beginning. :)

But yeah, I wouldn't call it AMAZING.
At least it is based on evidence, within the install.