jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Patents are one way for the state to select who will become rich and who won't. There is little justification for "intellectual property" in a free market.
My point is that that standard was set in a Supreme Court ruling. And that is easily overturned by any other Supreme Court.
I think this could be useful to ramp up production if nothing else. But your estimate is extremely optimistic with current prices way past 58 cents.

You also need 3 masks per shift for all heathcare workers including receptionists and janitors at risk. In the worst case that may include volunteers to help cover temporary wards setup like those for the 1918 flu pandemic.

Really though this is a situation where money is not the problem.
I don't know, I've used my phone as an internet hub, and the sheer heat from pulling that amount of data through the antennas while charging seems like a great way to drastically shorten the lifespan of a phone.

Granted, I did this with an old Galaxy S (it ran upwards of 80°c), which has its antenna and power supply right beside each other.
For inactive regions, I'd rather see LocalWiki put up a signpost in the form of "This region got a start with five articles and two contributors but hasn't been edited in six months - would you like to help renew this project? Here's some guidance about how to contact those existing editors, find new collaborators, and set up local editing meetups; here's where to share advice with fellow people also starting and reviving LocalWikis for their regions." (I think this is quite possible, and I should probably file a suggestion for doing this...)

Instead of sweeping the inactive wikis away, LocalWiki can use whatever is there to help motivate newcomers to contribute - to say "you don't have to start from scratch here." I find that LocalWiki's inclusive and neighborly attitude is one of its strengths, and I think it can build on that strength instead of needing to develop Wikipedia-style rules.
> Definitely not true.

Actually it definitely is true. In most countries in the world except the US eggs are not refrigerated at all.

You probably had some broken eggs, or an egg had broken in the past and was never fully cleaned. The unbroken eggs were fine, but the smell from the broken ones was getting into them.
It's usually a combination of (1) being afraid of sounding unrigorous or unintelligent and (2) not knowing any better and having been trained on lots of bad examples

This book is excellent:
http://www.amazon.com/Stylish-Academic-Writing-Helen-Sword/d...
Not the parent, but I'd recommend listening to whatever recent episode, in a less intentional, more ambient way. It uses a talk show format, and while it's full of fascinating information, it's very casual and unstructured.
It's a name example.
Koz's Minibowl in milwaukee still has pinsetters. fun place!
Seriously! Below some people are worried that Excel, "while effective", will make people write unmaintainable VBA scripts. Who cares?

We aren't training people to one day invent NP-complete algorithms. We want their life to be better with a computational understanding.
At "Platz der Opfer des Nationalsozialismus" in Munich (DE) we have an eternal flame, powered by gas, to remind of the people who have died during the 3rd Reich.
Here's a picture of an ice cutter from 2010, building the Icehotel in Sweden - http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/supergal/JJ/JJ03/jj0324-19.htm .

Here's one for the "Hotel of Ice near the glacial Balea Lac in the Romanian Carpathians" - http://www.depotpicture.com/2014/08/italy-romanian-balea-lac...
Banks and healthcare share a number of elements one of which is large budgets and those peddling MUMPS and associated (expensive consultancy) services saw an opportunity and ran with it. The fact that it eats up your hardware probably didn't go unnoticed and I'm pretty sure that in that world 'kickback' isn't a dirty word.
Its an assistant - not a fully automated bot.

It helps you find posts, like a newspaper does, but it is up to you to actually select and post it.

I have the same fear as you and we make SURE that the app is not about spamming social media.
Airbus use a static analyzer written in OCaml, to verify their C. Which begs the question of why own a dog, if you're going to bark yourself?

The irony is, people happily invest their time on becoming gurus in web frameworks with a 2 year shelf life max.
How does Matasano feel about candidates having or not having university degrees?
No question you're right about the tilt-shift. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I wonder if you (or anyone) could compare what's available in DSLR lenses compared to these M4/3 lenses:

Wide angle prime: Samyang/Rokinon/Bower 7.5mm f/3.5 rectangular fisheye, 8mm f/3.5 Panasonic, 12mm f/2.0 Olympus

Long working distance macro: Olympus 60mm f/2.8, working distance 7.5" for 1:1 image

Fast super-telephoto: 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Panasonic (yeah, that doesn't sound very fast to me)

Not questioning that there are better DSLR lenses, just interested in comparing them to help me understand the differences between the systems.

Thanks!
I wouldn't be surprised to learn Azure was paid (either money or developer time) and this is happening for other products. I would think twice before using Azure if I was concerned about my usage being shared.
How many other "trade security for performance" options does Linux have? For example can you disable paging entirely and have all user code mix with kernel code as long as you trust all code not to segfault?
I don’t like that it has no special mention.

In a factorial function, fac(n-1) would be a tail call, but 0+fac(n-1) would not. It would be nice if one could annotate (and thus make the compiler verify) tail calls.
> Catullus 16, which might be the oldest thing that we could properly call a diss track

This view is a bit disingenuous. There's been diss tracks as long as mankind has been singing and writing poems. While Catullus 16 is very famous, there's much earlier examples. The greek counterpart to Catullus may be, for example, Hipponax of Ephesus [0], who wrote celebrated "diss tracks" six centuries before him. But still, a lot of ancient greek comedy can be understood as unrestricted verbal abuse to concrete people of the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipponax
Shameless plug: a couple of years ago I implemented a node editor for distance functions and renderer as a final project for a UI course at uni. https://github.com/frabert/MarchOfTheRays Raymarching is a very interesting concept, no polygons at all!
Can you report on your screen resolution?
To take that further, Amazon will automatically re-order products for you if you tell them to on their site, via their subscription service.

There's an obvious reason Amazon is doing this: they're trying to continue to grow their share of the consumer's brain. When someone thinks about shopping, Amazon wants to be on the very short list of that thinking. So this button is a relatively inexpensive way to keep doing that. Get into someone's house, get into someone's mind, and try to show yourself as innovative.
The title to this post is intentionally misleading and sensational. Using the word "cheats" is cheating and trolling.
> If journalists are competing for favors from Apple, like press passes and advanced review opportunities, then we won't get the full story.

The full story, in this case, is CLEARLY a new iphone being announced.
That kind of story can only work to Apple's (or, for that matter, any other company's) detriment, because it decrease sales of the current generation of products as people decide to wait for the next-gen one that'll be released in a month or two.

as for the "I'm ... glad that some outlets don't play the ... game" comment, it's like you're told since childhood, "if you're not willing to play by the rules, then you won't get to play at all."

and as for the "may" part, gizmodo has admitted, and they are proud of it, that they paid $10,000 for it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/19/gizmod...
Inquiry is a difficult thing, and it's often gone about in extremely ineffective ways.

Asking what can or could be, is useless unless it leads to something that connected to something that is.

Saying something needs no proof(and by that I simply mean a substantial amount of supporting evidence coinciding with a decided lack of evidence to the contrary) is the ultimate intellectual cop-out, although it is one that I understand.

An idea, concept, person or thing which "needs no proof" is in every way identical to an infinite amount of things that could be, but that which we do not know to exist/be true.

I can look around at the world and come to the rather well supported conclusion that gravity exists, even though gravity is invisible because gravity interacts with the world around us in a predictable and consistent manner. But what if I want to make a conclusion of what kind art a hypothetical alien living in a distance galaxy would make, I would be very unlikely to be correct.

Put another way, let's say there is a finite of things-that-exists, and an infinite amount of things-that-do-not-exist. Let's say you put a white marble in a great big infinite pot for each thing-that-exists, and a black marble in it for each thing-that-does-not-exist, then pick a single marble. What are the chances of getting a white marble? Infinitesimally small. Coincidentally, this is the same chance some thing which "needs no proof" being true.

Getting back to the original point, and sorry for the detour, but I must ask again, why do you think this cosmic ray burst says anything about the possibility of intelligent beings? Gamma Ray Bursts hit earth every day, and a great deal of them are well explained by science, it's just that if science finds something not well explained by current theories, it can't just make something up, it has to say, "I do not know why this thing is, but I will do my best to find an explanation." Of course, scientists are people too and do bad things like make up stuff, but they are very often exposed because made of stuff is very difficult to reproduce(read: impossible).
There were previous iterations as well. I think this was all funded by some patent they licenced to Intel.

The most astonishing part was that he rolled his own VLSI CAD system: https://mschuldt.github.io/www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html
Truth be told, me writing Iterators with a capital I comes from when I finally had this "click in my mind" moment where I got to see clearly how map & friends work, by using Rust [1] to solve a bunch of Advent of Code 2019 problems

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html
I don't read grandparent as saying the media is selfless or perfect, just as saying that it did play an important role in uncovering scandals, and that nothing seems able to replace that role. I don't see that (indisputable) past examples of propaganda and fake news harm that argument.

Your last paragraph seems to imply a kind of quietism, as if it just isn't important whether a country's rulers face constraints and challenges. That isn't true: eventually, bad politics screws the economy, which is why Russia is a poor country.
> Most UK citizens never fill in a tax form.

Note that if you earn over £100K, and/or sell more than £45K in shares/options in a year (so probably a lot of people on here from the UK/London-area who work for a BigCo?) then you must fill in a tax return even if all of your income is otherwise PAYE. In this case it takes just mere minutes but I guess they like to check everything really is simple.
WebAssembly backend would be cool http://nongnu.13855.n7.nabble.com/WebAssembly-backend-td2390...
I think you are very mistaken if you think that.
Lockodwn appeared to work, but given that it takes at least 20 days from catching covid to dying, you can see in many countries that the curves for deaths were flattening off well before lockdown could have been the cause. Uruguay, Japan, Sweden, Belarus didn't lockdown, and don't stand out in any way for their numbers.
There's even a security-versus-security tradeoff. If you manually review every dependency, are you also going to manually review every update to each of those dependencies? If you add friction to your update process, you're also slowing down your ability to incorporate security fixes. Dependencies find vulnerabilities all the time. If you capture a snapshot of "trusted" dependencies, when are you going to update that snapshot, and how long will your project be vulnerable in the meantime?
Thanks a lot for the suggestions and comments in this and other sibling comments, I now have for sure a bit of reading and learning to do!
Zero-sum thinking perceives situations as zero-sum games, where one person's gain would be another's loss. The term is derived from game theory. However, unlike the game theory concept, zero-sum thinking refers to a psychological construct—a person's subjective interpretation of a situation. Zero-sum thinking is captured by the saying "your gain is my loss" (or conversely, "your loss is my gain"). Rozycka-Tran et al. (2015) defined zero-sum thinking as:

> A general belief system about the antagonistic nature of social relations, shared by people in a society or culture and based on the implicit assumption that a finite amount of goods exists in the world, in which one person's winning makes others the losers, and vice versa ... a relatively permanent and general conviction that social relations are like a zero-sum game. People who share this conviction believe that success, especially economic success, is possible only at the expense of other people's failures.

Zero-sum bias is a cognitive bias towards zero-sum thinking; it is people's tendency to intuitively judge that a situation is zero-sum, even when this is not the case. This bias promotes zero-sum fallacies, false beliefs that situations are zero-sum. Such fallacies can cause other false judgements and poor decisions. In economics, "zero-sum fallacy" generally refers to the fixed-pie fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking
> though obviously only works when you can « afford » a multithreaded scheduler.

Yeah, for example in comparison actix-web only uses single threaded workers - one per core. Future in actix-web doesn’t have to be Send or Sync, and I think it’s incompatible with what async-std is doing here. That design is almost certainly one of the reasons actix-web tops phoronix
The last reason you listed is probably the most important, as well.
This comment makes me really sad. It's not that you are stupid. It's just that this article is littered with terminology unfamiliair to you(I assume).
That would probably single handedly bring down the tor network
So no higher minimum wage? No universal public healthcare? No longer life expectancy? No higher human development index? No effective Covid-19 management?
Yes, it would be really bad for Google if they withdrew Gmail. They would show that you cannot rely on Google Suite so companies all over the world would need to reconsidrt their choice of platform.
@pgt, yes, throughout the pandemic, I work from home alone. Before that, I worked at the office for more than 8 years
The Milwaukee protocol is an experimental course of treatment of an infection of rabies in a human being. The treatment involves putting the patient into a chemically induced coma and administering antiviral drugs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_protocolWikipedia
Correction: all of the Rust compiler is dual-licensed under both MIT and Apache 2. If you distribute the Rust compiler yourself, this means that you can pick one license or the other or both. You can also retroactively defer the choice of license until a legal challenge appears, at which point you can collapse the license superposition to your liking. This is the whole point of dual-licensing!
CareerDean is a targeted community just for this purpose.
Build a social network to compete with Facebook.

I kid (I tried to do the same thing), but in reality, the higher level programming paradigms come into play when your software complexity increases to unmanageable levels.

Building small projects won't help you understand why they're necessary.
Fun stuff about Twain that I learned recently:
He befriended Hellen Keller and helped get her funded.
He was good pals with Tesla.
The back story on Hellen Keller is pretty impressive too.
That brings back memories. I used the parallel printer ports of two MS-DOS computers to run my graduate thesis experiment.

I remember a little program called "aacircuits" for drawing those ASCII-art schematics, still useful for sticking a schematic fragment into a comment block in a program.

But I also remember almost burning the lab down. What is almost always lacking from descriptions of projects to control things with PCs is any consideration of safety, including what happens when electronic components or software fail. For instance a failure mode of relays -- mechanical and solid state -- is to get stuck in the ON position, leading to a run-away system.

I think that some sort of introduction to fail-safe design should be part of basic education.
Didn't contain any sensitive information, so not a huge deal in my opinion. Obviously someone needs to pay attention though.
It has a maximum of 250 per day, and one per second, so I don't think this will help much.
Interesting... I prefer NetBeans for Java web and J2ME stuff.
FYI, in modern browsers, when a website crashed when you submitting a form, just use "Back" and what you wrote are still there.
Wait...

A few months ago people laughed at the suggestion. It was "dangerous" to "deceive" people about Vit D and Covid.

Wasn't Twitter suppressing this too? How do they punish themselves for misinformation?

Now it comes out. I wonder how many other things will come to light.
My friend in Vancouver had lung xray show up something weird and the doctor scheduled her for an MRI. The appointment was in 7 months. Instead she got the MRI in a private clinic for a pretty reasonable cost and came back with the results for her doctor.

If that's not indicative of something broken, then I don't know what to tell you.
Seems kind of low-level to be the direct ancestor to USB (except maybe as far as strictly serial busses go). I'd think that SCSI is closer to USB. It's a parallel bus, but it has more in the way of configuration ROM stored on the device, a large command set, etc.
> cat = ''.join()

Love it. There's so many bits of Python I've written where I should have had something like this.
> Android phone and my relatives' Fire tablets?

Almost certainly not

> will it continue to work well in 20 years when it stops getting updates?

Mostly likely, yes. Apple products very often have much longer lives than their competitors (if taken care of, obviously)
It's a good idea for Hyundai, but it's hard to see it working out as well for Apple. When people who use Macbooks but drive Range Rovers and Teslas see this, they won't bite.
The police selfie from breached property is ... interesting

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520?ref...
Nuclear power plants aren't the same thing as portable nuclear batteries, which is what these are.
> Do you think he can put money to better use for all of society than a good government?

Yes, I do.
Question about this: they talk about how datasets are not representative, my question is, compared to what?

I’m guessing by the politic of this article the person is from the US, do they want people to look at data representative of US population? That seems pretty narrow-minded.

My country has almost no black people (probably <1% though I don’t know that official stats on race are even collected) and it would be extremely expensive for us to include black people at US levels (13%) in all research.

Perhaps they are advocating we use world demographics but that would be logistically impossible for basically all researchers around the world.

Am I misunderstanding the author or does the article seem pretty ethnocentric? (is that the right word?) US-centric?

Wouldn’t it be better to just qualify/label the demographics of the research data (we used all black people, all white people etc). They talk as if there is some golden ratio we should all be following but that just isn’t the case.

In any case, I don’t think it is useful to shame researchers that are just doing the best they can with the data available cause the data they have is useful to someone.
How does securing DNS lookups solve the MITM problem if the underlying traffic remains unencrypted? If you encrypt the traffic, you don't need secure DNS anymore.
As only one example, see this:

"Dodging and burning are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure. In a darkroom print from a film negative, dodging decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while burning increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodging_and_burning

Here see the part on Ansel Adams:

http://improvephotography.com/1946/famous-photographers/
This is great advice that helps/improves all kinds of things: fear of rejection, meeting new people/forming new relationships, dating, gaining perspective, learning languages, etc.

It's simple and more people than you'd think will engage with you.
I didn't think Japan was an anti-crime mecca but it is surprising to read about high robbery rates there.

Well I guess a dozen robberies among a million people is a fraction of anywhere in the USA.

I am more curious WHY people are robbing convenience stores in Japan than the ways it is being combated because it means there are turning elsewhere to solve whatever money problem they seem to have.
Compare on what basis?

Speed? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ is an up-to-date, super detailed answer to that question. A rule of thumb simplification I go by is: current Python and Ruby implementations are at least 10x slower than C doing algorithmic work.

A really good bytecode VM can, of course, get much closer to C performance (as shown by Java, C# or even modern JavaScript implementations) especially if JIT is given enough time to profile the app at runtime and generate highly optimized code based on that profile data.

There are of course other aspect you can compare. Bytecode is, inherently, cross-platform and machine code isn't.

Bytecode is usually more compact than equivalent machine code (but then you need the constant overhead of the runtime to interpret that bytecode).
The core problem with having humans identify the best sites is that it doesn't scale. It's probably ok for big topics like travel or healthcare, but it shafts those users who are searching for long tail topics.
You sir win at being useful, I can't wait to get this list scraped in.
On a 5-10 year horizon, those aren't obvious... leaders are overtaken all the time.
Went full-time last August to work on an FPGA test/design tool http://www.plunify.com

Probably sounds very focused ;) but there are so many things that can be done in this space.

Feel free to message me at harnhua (at) gmail (dot) com
This is why you use (git|mercurial|bazaar|darcs)...
What's the legality of firing someone over unsubstantiated rumors?
Finding a method definition is quite easy in CL: just use the function 'find-method':

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/hyperspec/HyperSpec/Bod...

Though grep would probably do just fine too, since method definitions are defined with 'defmethod' instead of 'defun', so you can see at a glance whether something is generic or not.
Based on his past such promises here, we will have to wait until it is actually done.
beautiful, perfect, sad...
Berlin for instance tested over 20.000 people last week alone. Less than 3% results were positive.