jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OK, so... how does that explain Taiwan or Korea, who had the same "living memory" we do and managed to get this under control without breaking their health care systems?

I mean, your point is true, but the lack of action wasn't the fault of the average citizen or their living memory. The decision-makers should have had access to better info, and of course they did. Doctors from China and Italy told us long ago that PPE equipment was a bottleneck. Epidemiologists could see what was going to happen with the rate of spread. Local health officials in states knew at the outset that they needed more tests. Hell, the federal government has a whole departmental center dedicated specifically to the control of disease; they've spent decades modeling out how to respond to crises like this.

Yet... no decisions got made. That wasn't for a lack of "living memory of a pandemic".
In addition to AIDS, there were major American flu pandemics in 2009 and 1968. 1957 too, depending on how old you consider to be "living memory" - many federal leaders were teenagers at the time.
At least they ask.
Who chooses which IQ test is used?

How are the known racial and social biases in IQ tests mitigated?

Can the people in power change things to use IQ tests which, for example, result in higher scores for people from a white, rich, European background?

Why should we trust this process would result in any improvement?

Who decides what is "soft"? Because I degree with you about sociology.

As the old phrase goes, "A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything that calls itself a science probably isn’t". Can we assume that "computer science" is a soft science?
It's an overview of the process of writing a program, covering program and file system structure, build tools, libraries, testing, and revision control. It's not "simply a reference for useful haskell tools" because it has a normative aspect: it says, "This is the way things should be done." It's the document to read when you understand the language well enough to write something larger than a single file solving a Project Euler problem, and want to know what the best practices are in writing a library or executable that could be—for example—published on Hackage or used in production. And while it's not perfect in its presentation, it actually does a pretty good job of what it sets out to do; it was certainly helpful to me when I was in that situation.
Read "Start Small, Stay Small" (http://www.startupbook.net/)
And good luck!
It's not that education doesn't want acceptance criteria; rather, any criteria that could be defined could easily be gamed.

To nearly every professor I've met, the criteria should be something similar to this: A student is introduced to a wide variety of subjects and challenged by a variety of views outside of the cultural bubble in which the student was born; such so that an undergraduate student leaves better prepared to participate in educated society and make wise decisions in civic and public discourse. Secondly, a student has been immersed in a discipline to the extent that they can read and understand literature in the field, and that student can apply the training in learning one field to conquer further fields in their future life outside of academia.

In other words, the goal of college is to create a "well-rounded" individual who has "learned how to learn" and has "seen the world past the one in which they were raised."

Now, how do we operationalize this? Note that Doctoral students have comprehensive exams and dissertations. Colleges are obviously not averse to testing. A multiple choice exam isn't going to cut it here, though.
> ... very rapidly going to develop mutations that allow them to fix calcium even in an acidic environment

You don't seem to understand the nature of mutations. Mutations aren't "developed", they occur randomly and spontaneously as a consequence of errors in DNA replication. It happens all the time, to be sure, but it's not like entire populations are convulsing in a bombardment of mutations that produce lots of weird new features. Also, each mutation is random, and whether the mutated gene has a positive effect or indeed passed on to offspring is also completely random. In short, mutations aren't some kind of magic that happens at opportune times.

So let's consider the corals. Perhaps a single coral will be hit by a mutation at some point that lets it survive in higher acid levels. Perhaps a few more. So the coral is able to survive and reproduce, and its offspring will also survive. Meanwhile, the surrounding coral reef is dying quickly. How will those monster corals survive? It will have to reproduce very quickly and expand in size dramatically in order to compensate for the diminishing reef, otherwise it will go down with the ship, so to speak; coral reefs are ecosystems where corals live in symbiosis with the organisms around them, and one part of the symbiosis dying would impact everyone else. Unfortunately, the amount that most corals grow in a year is measured in millimeters. The idea that a single coral would save an entire reef from dying is probably optimistic. And meanwhile, every coral in the world without this mutation would eventually die. Corals reproduce locally and don't move around much.

For your idea to work, the mutation would have to hit a lot of coral reefs during the same time frame, and it would have to hit a lot of corals at the same time.
The Wave2 looks very unlike an iPhone. I would never mistake the two.

However, the Samsung i9000S (Galaxy S) looks very much like the iPhone (3GS) and on casual observation may be mistaken for one another.

It takes a lot to get trade-dress lawsuits won, so I expect this will only put pressure on Samsung to do what Apple wants, and is not intended to actually win.

(which, btw, shows how broken the legal system is, since cases are more used to bully smaller players than to win on merits)
Most people I know who get a degree actually study a fair bit and learn a fair bit. For most people I know college is the first time they've ever really been pushed. Not to say this is the case for everyone, but I just want to point out that opinions can vary.
My last gallon of fuel here in the UK was about $8.05 (£5.09), of which only 35% is for the actual fuel. $5 sounds cheap to me!
Request: the back of HN
Not sure I understand this - if a school so desperately wants ad-free search, just deploy an adblock plugin to the school's browsers? It's a very strange thing to 'give away' as an incentive.
I genuinely believe that most successful people do.

People who struggle in corporate environments generally are not able to do this in my personal experience.

The inability to separate work/personal you either ends up in burning out or becoming a delusional bore who doesn't shut up about work to your friends.
Yeah your quoted passage seems more like a general argument against non income producing assets like gold or something. With a collectible (but honestly you could mostly say the same about gold), you are betting that it will become more scarce (because people use up or throw out or lose current stock) and / or demand will grow but they won't be made anymore. Both of these things are reasons why a collectible would grow in value faster than the economy. Like any investment, there is a bet being made. But as you say, you could argue that nothing can increase faster than the economy for the rest of time without overwhelming the economy, but that's irrelevant.
There's also a non-zero possibility this person would take a huge bath if they tried to sell in the near future: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/7/22614450/unopened-copy-sup...

Just a few years ago that would've gone for a massively lower price. How certain are you that that rate will continue in the next five years? Would you seriously recommend that as a wise place to park two million bucks?

"Mario is going to remain popular" is a weak reason to expect massive returns on a $2M copy of a video game in a market that saw an extreme recent rise.

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/jack-dorseys-2-... - twitter is still popular, what's the problem, right?
Yes. I mean, getting your article published somewhere is even more effective, and WP is, with good reason, jaded about citing blogs (everyone who has ever wanted to spam WP has realized that they can claim a blog they wrote is a reliable source). But yeah, that's the system working.

We have a variant of that here! People want to control the titles of their submissions, but HN doesn't generally allow editorialized titles. But it will happily allow you to submit your own blog post about any subject, with any title you choose.
I worked with VRML in '96. It was fun and interesting. Our company even had a couple reps from SGI demonstrate it on an SGI O2 machine. The two companies at the time who were the main proponents were SGI and Sony, though SGI was clearly the primary commercial force behind VRML. SGI even produced a 3D animated "cartoon" twice a week called "Floops". Then one day in 1997 SGI announced they were no longer supporting VRML, and it was over. I personally walked away from it right then.

Was VRML cool? Yes! Was it clunky? Yes. VRML had all the finesse of XML, but it worked. If you could think in 3D, you could create items fairly easily in VRML. On a Windows 95 machine (good heavens!) using Netscape with a plug-in, moving through a VRML world was not fast or smooth, but it was doable. I created a 3D version of my office to show my managers what was possible, and discussed how we might actually do some things with it.

Yes there are posts here indicating VRML is being used today. For all practical purposes however, it's dead and has been for a quarter century.
That was heartbreaking. I really wanted to believe in Scots Wikipedia.
How do you know they kept the money instead of returning it to those who bought/donated?
Just release what ever your working on, if you have good intentions, then people will be more forgiving.

Restrict thy ego, and take all feedback with a grain of salt as everyone has bias even you!
Was new guy at a startup.
Soon noticed that chuck Norris was in our compiled JavaScript.
Turned out Someone had included the entire test suite in production deploy.

Had been like that for nearly a year.
A few minutes of work brought out client js file from 12MB to less then 1mb.
No, it's a high quality article. I agreed with the title, but after reading it decided to upvote. When I returned to read comments, it's flagged.
I'm running Word, Outlook, and several chrome tabs on Win 7 and I'm at 2.7gb. This is a tablet, not a desktop replacement.
Interesting that nothing protects from everything. Is that just not possible or is that on purpose?
It's about intent. If they can prove you manufactured data you fed to the dongle, then you're probably in for some trouble.

However, you can have a similar scenario where maybe I work at an office 5 minutes from home over the time I was carrying the dongle, I quit and go to a job 60 mins from home that crosses a few nasty neighborhoods, etc.

Is it my burden to report this to the insurance company so they can jack my rates because my risk rating surely went up?

Right now.. it likely isn't. I fear for the day when it is.
Sure, I could pick any language and learn it as a first time programmer (essentially). I could learn Haskell as a first time developer too. But should I? Comparing Arc to Python is not only a comparison of syntax and coding style, which by any means is a minute detail in this case seeing as they are both easy to grasp and relatively succinct, but a comparison of resources and community as well. Python for example is the language of choice at many schools and universities for first time programmers. The community is much larger and more developed. There are many more resources for python that I can find and know of than for Arc.

Arc might be a powerful language, but I find little reason to choose it over Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.
It is, as they say, As Real As It Gets.
Can the proper route achieve exponential growth in the number of ventilators?

If not, then at a certain point, it will make sense to use ventilators which have a 3% chance of killing the patient. Its not as if these are being sold to people under the guise of being well-certified medical devices.
I'm confused why en.mapy.cz is not more popular. It's literally 10x better for hiking use cases, at least in Czechia (which uses a different data source than OSM).

This is the same location on Google Maps and Mapy.cz, the difference is just ridiculous (I use 80% zoom on mapy.cz): https://imgur.com/a/Q3mlN5j

https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=13.8942909&y=50.0343394&z=14...
I am unfamiliar with the details of a robots.txt file. Is it possible to specify "I only want bots x, y and z to crawl my site"?
A more interesting tidbit is:

"You must." is "Du musst.".
"You may." is "Du darfst.".

But: "You must not." is "Du darfst nicht."
and "You may not." is "Du musst nicht."
he's just complaining about XSS.
Ausziehen is perfectly fine German for moving out of your house or your clothes. It just has (at least) two meanings.
I voted you up because you made an interesting point here about early adopters, but it would have been nice if you made it in the blog post rather than in the comments here. It would make you more credible. Along a similar vein, you might consider labeling the y-axis on your graphs with something like "% of RescueTime users" instead of "% of computer users." My message is that if you were slightly more qualified in the post, you wouldn't have 75% of the comments telling you that your post is misguided, and instead the overall discussion in the comments here would be much more intelligent.
Has anyone taken a look at this book? I was wondering what the data binding examples in the book were written in (ruby, PHP, perl, python, etc).
Definitely! A bit hard to get all these companies and a low price.
San Jose, CA (Santana Row)

Bunchball (http://www.bunchball.com/careers)

We provide gamification (points, levels, leaderboards, virtual goods, achievements, etc.) as a web service to companies including NBC, Hearst, Comcast, WB, Hasbro, USA Network and more. The market is growing rapidly and we're growing with it.

We're looking for software engineers and a senior operations engineer. Good group of people, interesting product, great location, hot market.

Rajat Paharia (founder, Chief Product Officer)
almost thought "Dutch as a Second Language"... then I had to read the parenthesis.
I've had another look, GitHub is showing a nice little message: "Hey, did you know this file could be beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected? Missing or stray quote in line 1"
The search term you're looking for is "alchemy"
Great legal analysis on Volokh Conspiracy: http://www.volokh.com/2013/08/18/district-court-holds-that-i...
> stating that you are in fact a patriot is often merely an attempt to derail the oft-used ...

I actually quite welcome that poor tactic because it enables me to me to say: "No. Really, I have absolutely no loyalty to America or any other country for that matter. I'm loyal to humanity, and you should be too."
No problem

I feel like it used to be 30 seconds, although I may be incorrect
That sounds bad! It sounds almost as bad as unemployment slavery, or homelessness slavery!
I'm a bit surprised a city builder is highly playable on mobile. I've played Cities Skylines on desktop (and versions of SimCity in the past). I can't imagine trying to build anything of scale on mobile in a city builder though. Is it primarily the mechanics, feedback systems, that are enjoyable, rather than the visual construction aspect?
Is that a lot? People who want to whine about these types of errors need to show that making it more accurate is worth the trouble. It's been long-known that compliance with federal income taxes is only about 88%, dollar-wise, but there isn't a flood of intentionally misleading blogging about that, even though the amount at stake is greater.
The difference between relying on credit backed by a physical item (gold bricks) versus credit backed by "the Full Faith and Credit" clause of the Constitution is what happens in the event of default by the issuer of the credit. If the wheels stop turning at some point, there is no recoverable asset.
> I think Tiktok gets it right here. No matter who the creator is, if the content is good enough it will get hundreds of thousands of views. That system feels fairer to than Twitter.

How hard would it be to create a TikTok version of Twitter? (that is, a Twitter feed that generated without following anyone)?

Is this simply a matter of nobody having tried this? Or are the signals for text posts insufficient (vs. short form videos)?
But you can do that sort of communication already with existing websockets, without trying to add the complexity of pushing all your regular traffic over that link.
I've been using bootloader specifications in a number of embedded system projects and I really like it.
The only configuration that's required for you in the bootloader is to select a boot medium and bootspec
does everything else. barebox takes it one step further and supports a linux-appendroot option, which
automatically appends a file-system specific root= option to the kernel command line. That way you can
have multiple slots with the same bootspec (e.g. for A/B booting scenarios) and you can transparently
boot the same rootfs whether it's locally on SD, NAND or even on NFS. Good stuff.

(Disclosure: I do get paid to work on barebox. This post is on my own dime though :^)
As the article immediately states, that $100 million is a tiny amount of unemployment fraud, and money going to inmates is not a vital part of the article. Why is it the headline? $100 millim going to inmates is more shocking than California had $11 billion in unemployment fraud last year?
This argument is not unique to SSS, is the point I think we clearly agree on. Good software is hard. Find a good implementation of SSS or take the time to do it properly. I agree, it’s not magic.
It would be quite surprising if Italian restaurants in SF would be better than Italian restaurants in Italy.

I'm not a restaurant / food expert, but found that food is most of the time average, sometimes great, sometimes crap, around the world (in Rome, Tuscany, Paris, Germany, Nordics, Asia, US). Depends where you go, what you order and what are your reference points (culturally or taste wise).

What I think the point of the article is that, denser and well earning cities can offer more average _and_ premium choices.

(And Americans, specially in California, always say that the everything is awesome, delicious etc :)
Apple's 'pre-announcement' certainly seemed hyperbolic, but the Beatles? Really? Perhaps 40 years ago this would've been a big thing, but given that the Beatles haven't recorded anything new since 1970 I have to say this takes hyperbole to a whole new designed in Cupertino level. The isn't an announcement. It's a non-nouncement.

It's the day that Apple jumped the shark.
OK, I misread you.
I don't know much about python and webapps but what would you serve this with? I'm just curious as I don't see the equivalent serving in this as the node.js and ruby snippets.
I'm not arguing for them. I'm arguing for arguing well.
The S in SD stands for secure. The technology was to placate media and copyright owners.

As an Android user and developer, I appreciate why Microsoft did this. With Android the SD is treated entirely as a free-for-all, untrusted grab-bag. There are no ACLs enforced on the SD storage.

Android 2.2 finally added the ability to move installed apps to the SD, but only those apps that essentially give up any pretenses of security (meaning extremely few).

In an ideal world if I added a 32GB SD to an 8GB Android device, I would have 40GB of first class storage. In the real world it is nothing of the sort, and instead you have 8GB of first-class storage, and 32GB of steerage.
"They’re expendable workers. I own this place. I’m the boss. They work for me. The only reason I don’t fire them is that they’re cheaper than robots. Etc."

I hate people like that. Why must he build himself up by putting down others? Regardless of what you think of the TSA's procedures, the people in the airport don't make the law. They're just decent people trying to make a living. If you have to insult them, albeit only to yourself, just to opt out of a scan you're probably the one who needs replaced by a robot.
tl;dr:
Pre-fabricate the majority of the components offsite, and don't factor that into the time estimate. Also, pour the foundation ahead of time, and don't count that either. Then, work crews around the clock to assemble the pre-fab'd pieces that were staged at the site.
There's nothing on that list on locomotion or physical coordination. We have enough compute power now that game characters can have robot-type control algorithms, so the motion really looks right. Toribash (http://www.toribash.com/) does this, but that's all it does; it's more like a development environment for martial arts moves.

(Of course, if you have physically-based martial arts in a game, all the things go wrong that go wrong in a real dojo. Some people will like that; they're the ones who buy Formula I racing games where you get to tune the car.)
I disagree, and think they've done a great job. The CMake devs have always been really responsive to bigish projects that find CMake to be almost-but-not-quite good enough for their project, adding in missing autotools features or other semi-commonly used bits and bobs.

They manage to keep up with all the churn in the world of compiled software, whereas it would be so easy to let a tool like CMake bitrot. Old mistakes have sensible deprecation policies too, so they have managed to avoid the accumulation of cruft that could have brought it to a standstill.
There is one at Essex University library, with the splendidly enigmatic sign:

Overtravel In Lift Is Not Dangerous, But Not Recommended
Those were fun, my parents had some "talking postcards" which were pictures of famous places you could then play on the turntable where a narrator would talk about that place.
I agree with your second point. Python doesn't pretend to be strongly-typed, but it does use its, uh, 'loose' typing to great advantage.

I particularly like Python's arbitrary-precision integers, where ints are implicitly converted to longs, allowing you to have the performance of ints without the problem of integer overflows.
It has all the typical amenities and luxuries such as trace a lost phone (indicates the last location of the mobile before they run out the battery). It also has a great feature that will notify you by e-mail a photo and location of someone trying to unlock your phone in more than five times, something that Android Device Manager can not do.
how times change. tomorrow i will have to put down my windows and Linux laptops to get a sanctioned apple at work. despite my claims that i won't be able to test touch screen interactions with it...

apple hardware is the new Microsoft outlook in the corporate world.

all i wanted was a sexy surface pro 3 :( how times have changed