jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is it me or was that really weird? There were 2 bylines in what seemed like a single article. I understand why the bit about Carver was there - honestly if you had asked me I would have said he invented it; that he didn't was the most surprising thing in it.
It is also difficult to get a man to understand something when you are not familiar enough with the subject. I suspect that is the more common failure mode.
> Why isn't it considered as likely that this kind of technology will simply make the best 20% of creators exponentially more creatively prolific in quantity and quality?

I think that's well within the space of reasonable conclusions. For as much as we are getting good at generating content/art, we are also therefore getting good at assisting humans at generating it, so it's possible that pathway ends up becoming much more common.
These vaccines were invented a year ago. Especially given the emergency this virus has created, I can't help but wonder how life would have been different if the trials were open to anyone who wanted one.

"This vaccine probably works. We won't know for sure until December. If you want to try it anyway, come get one. Otherwise, we'll let you know when the trials are completed."

It's heartbreaking to think about all of the irreplaceable experiences people missed this year, especially for those who didn't live to see the end of this pandemic. Of course I'm glad for all the people who didn't catch the virus, but the costs are too infrequently considered. Our regulatory bureaucracy was insanely expensive this year in terms of our most valuable resource: quality time. Nobody even questions it; we just accept that this is how it's supposed to work, because it's all we've ever experienced.
The cobbled together box fan may work better than a Dyson, but my wife isn't going to let me put a cobbled together box fan in the library.

People care about aesthetics. There are entire industries built around this, even in technical areas (industrial design, UX, etc...)

So the Dyson wins simply because it will exist in the house and clean a portion of the air, while the Sanford and Son rig won't be in the house and will clean zero air.
I don't know if you're confusing 'lobbying' with 'bribing'? Lobbying doesn't have to involve money. It just means talking to people and trying to persuade them to your point of view, which isn't inherently dishonest or problematic.
Last year I bought an air purifier for ~800, but PLN ($1 = 3,7129 PLN at the time of writing) to deal with the Polish winter - already swapped out the HEPA and carbon filter(<$40 total cost) because the air coming out started to smell bad(four days of 120ug/m3+ smog with peak at 200ug/m3 tend to do that to filters).

At a CADR of 300m3/h I think the price/value ratio is decent, as opposed to whatever Dyson is trying to con people into buying.
It's fair play when you use quotation marks to insinuate a strawman opposing argument that no one in the thread has actually made.
Perhaps you could make your own out of scrap wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a19OpQfwB2w
It would be better for 100 people to get the vaccine out of order than for 1 dose to be wasted. The leverage from removing people from the pool of potential spreaders is MASSIVE.
I would love to hear the owner try to make a justification.
> By scaling, I presume you mean to spread, similar to a franchise model.

Yes, that is what I meant.

> KSC for example has rocket launches and moonshot facilities which are quite unique.

Translating this uniqueness across different location is what is required. And this doesn't seem to be happening. And that is what I am trying to find out whether mini-space-related projects, AR, VR and MR can help.

> Museums are great, but in our day and age, building one is usually not a way to get rich.

Museums will be a small part of the project to provide historical information.

> Having a STEAM draw might be good, but probably won't scale in a franchise fashion.

That is why the project will not just be education, but entertainment coupled with education. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy as they say.

> linking up with a science institution can lend prestige

I am also thinking on these lines.

And thank you for the detailed writeup! Really very helpful.
Yeah. It's super easy to fix, if people wanted to fix it. Even with welfare, you just make it so every after tax dollar earned reduces the welfare check by 50 cents. Tada, incentive to work, and only when you're making double what welfare pays out do you stop receiving assistance.

People may still 'take advantage' of it, by choosing not to work (if we got rid of all the systems requiring proof they're trying to find a job and etc), but honestly if the promise of making more no matter what they do, or how few hours they work, doesn't motivate them, I'm really not concerned about that loss of labor in the labor pool.
> It should also be noted that the JCP apparently hired an ad agency to design the mascots, which hardly smacks of trying to pulling down the pillars of capitalism.

Common misconception is that communism is the antithesis of capitalism; Marx wrote instead about overclocking capitalism so hard that a better society could be built out of its extreme conclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Yes! I find Dan Grossman a good teacher, but his extremely slow speaking rythm drove me mad. I had to fast forward his lectures at max speed, and even then I ended up skipping them entirely.

No disrespect meant for Prof. Grossman. His course was very interesting and, as you said, the course notes were so good the videos were completely redundant.
Looks like I should consider moving to Brazil.
well, the trend was upwards rather than downwards, I think that makes all the difference.
In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals.

That's a rather unconventional definition of "conservative" and "liberal" they're using there. One might almost suspect an agenda.

I'm also unclear on why things which are "evolutionarily novel" should be correlated with higher intelligence.
Three more netbooks being shipped to my zip were added in the last 12 hours so looks like compulsive checking is a go.
I wouldn't want to eat any food out of that oven....
I usually host it on my Dropbox but imgur uploading would be nice. Does Shutter support it?
Don't worry: I understood you just fine.

I'm still not convinced of your category system: if lots of people give their education vote to EducationFirst and their finance vote to NoMoreTaxes, the classification of the "increase teachers' salaries" bill becomes very important. I'm not aware of any current system to classify it under either department; you could let people elect category-sorting representatives, but that is an entirely new set of problems (the NoMoreTaxes representative may plausibly argue that every bill spending money should be in the finance department, for instance - not coincidentally a department where his/her party has lots of power.)

I don't think there's any kind of race condition: Alice just sends the voting office a note "if I don't explicitly vote, I vote the same as Bob" and the voting office can just check whether or not she did when counting the votes (there is no need for a live tally, right?)
I learned C and Lisp at exactly the same time, during a six month internship in 1988. I wrote a program to interpret hand sketched input on a tablet and turn it into a CAD model.

Before I started I only knew Basic and a little Fortran but the project I worked on required me to learn these two new languages, C for the low-level code that interfaced to a graphics tablet and the display driver, Lisp for the code that did some analysis on the lines and geometric shape drawn by the user.

I remember that on days I was working on the Lisp code I was happy and things seemed in harmony. On C days I often ended the day worried and headachy.

However, I couldn't have written the C portion in Lisp and writing the Lisp portion in C seemed unreasonable at the time as well.

What I take from the experience is that, to some extent, Lisp seems so much more productive is that it's typically chosen for programming tasks that don't deal with the ugliness and "hardness" of things like drivers or other low-level code. Not sure about GUIs but that's another area where programming becomes tedious and unfun, at least for me.

So, I don't think that Lisp is chosen for easier tasks but definitely for tasks where a solid grounding in CS and an ability to think abstractly is more important and there's some level of self-selection going on in those areas.
If there's life out there, we'll probably find it eventually.

I don't know. I would like to think that this is so, but it seems hard to reconcile with the Fermi paradox (referring to intelligent life, at least). We do not know the probability of intelligent life developing, but I consider it plausible that the probability is such that although other life exits, it is beyond the limits of known methods of communication (e.g. extragalactic).
The myth is also bolstered by some of greatest book on the craft of programming ever written:

* The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
* Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence
* Art of the Metaobject Protocol
* The Schemer Series (Little, Seasoned, Reasoned)
* Essentials of Programming Languages
* Lisp in Small Pieces

Few programming languages have such an abundance of truly deep gems. One has to wonder if there's a reason.
Are laws purely a cultural phenomenon? Do laws have no association with morals? Your sentiments sound more like the product of an ideology and less like conclusions based on an anthropological, historical, philosophical, or any sort of open-minded inquiry into culture, societies, and human nature.

Additionally, you're conflating society, which is comprised of a group of people, with culture, which is a product of a group of people that aren't necessarily members of the same society.
The "tons of fashion and crap" that you correctly identify as the elephant in the room is also the main source of employment and income for the majority of the population. The reason we are not doing anything about climate change (and will not do anything in the foreseeable future) is that any meaningful change will require abandoning the market capitalism and growth models that run the world economy. Try selling that to the voters or even here among the more privileged technocrats. Are you willing to take a major cut in your living standard in order to help people in Africa and Bangladesh? It's far more likely that the West builds walls on its borders and as a previous comment said, we start mowing down the hungry masses with machine guns. With the full support of its population of course, under an enlightened and highly developed democratic system.
There was a wise thing along the lines of "to build a simpler system, start with more powerful (and complex, by necessity) building blocks"... I think it was Alan Kay who said this or something very similar.

Worst thing is that "simple" languages like Go force you to mix up "business logic" with "plumbing/infra logic" with "error handling logic" if you try to be idiomatic... I know that for security crucial code you might want to see all error paths next to a piece of code, for for the other majority of the code I want error handling tucked away in different system, and also the business logic factored out in some other very generic one that doesn't care about actual implementation of infrastructure.

Sure, if infrastructure IS your very product like Go's use case probably is, then it probably makes sense to not have features for such separation.
Where is "here?" I've never seen trailers available to rent at gas stations.
But I'm not capable of spending more for a better product. All I can do is spend more for a more expensive product and hope it's better. Products are contained (or bought online) and untestable; they're too expensive to experiment with. Having had both an original product and a warranty replacement a year or so later, I can attest that exactly the same product can vary in quality so a review is of no consequence.

When I try to purchase a widget, I can see two products: one in expensive looking packaging, and one where someone just put in some text on Word. One of them costs $25 and the other costs $2.50. It's entirely possible than the $25 will last twenty times as long as the $2.50 product and use a quarter of the energy, so that the resulting cost may even be in favor of the $25 widget.

But I can't make that judgement. It's impossible. To me, it looks the same as if the expensive one has just spent $2.50/product extra on marketing budget so they can pocket an extra $20.

I would spend a little extra for better quality that lasts longer and saves me on my energy bill. But the producers are not subject to me; they hide their information and spend on things (like CEO severance pay) that are not in my interest.

So when I go to the shop, I make the wrong decision every time, because I have no capacity to make the right decision. The product is kept from me; I can either purchase and discover if it perhaps sucks, or not purchase. Those are my choices. I don't have a real choice.
Wild, I've never seen that before ... but if you scroll to the bottom of the page you can see the navigation widget, and on page 2 of the results, no such problems
And the space. I doubt any normal family car I've ever driven could fit a rear-facing baby seat behind a tall person in the driver's seat, for example.
Yeah, what's a "group text" ? We use Whatsapp or other stuff like that across the pond :)
Here in Belgium you have the rear seats taken out of any car and register it as "lichte vracht" (light cargo), massively reducing the taxes you pay on it. Anyone can do this.

I've seen an Audi RS6 like this.
I have found the original. It is Vonda McIntyre: http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/sample/pitfalls-sample/
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be humor or not, but this post doesn't add any valuable insight to the paper it's citing. Of course a linear fit is not the right approach here.
many people don't know anything about the browser rendering pipeline and consequently produce badly performing interfaces

No one cares about that because the website will be redone in the hottest new framework every few months anyway. Whereas serious databases are around for decades.
It's a quite common practice to refer to companies by their ticker symbols. I see it all the time and it has never struck me as odd or noteworthy.
Totally off-topic but, is there a word for this style of marketing copy/design language with lots of deep blues, rounded edges, primary colors and geometric shapes? Atlassian and Digital ocean use something very similar.
Light pollution has been increasing significantly each year. Look at the photographs in this article: https://www.curbed.com/2017/4/26/15442432/photography-dark-s...

There are fewer places than you think with no light. I remember watching many moth's flying around street lights and my porch light. Haven't seen that for years now.
> The greatest profits are usually found where scarcity meets desperation.

Chinese history records that the premodern government was often suspicious of market trade for a pretty interesting reason -- when a region experienced famine, the market directed food away from the afflicted region. [1]

The problem, of course, was that in the premodern context, what most people produced was... food. A famine meant that everyone needed food, but it simultaneously meant that everyone had just been impoverished, such that there wasn't much profit available to be had in selling them the food they needed.

[1] It goes without saying that they were also suspicious of market trade for the standard other reasons.
Except that .NET is the only actual alternative, regarding eco-system libraries, IDE capabilities and tooling for monitoring production systems.
lego + logo
> No, it hasn't got anything to do with that. It is simply that complaining about the same thing that another country does while your own country does it too is hypocritical.

> You don't need to have a perfect record on everything else, but on that particular thing your statements are moot because your opponent (in this case China) will be able to simply ignore you because you do it yourself too. It would be about as effective as China calling the US to task for the same issue.

Neither the BBC nor I are American.

So maybe let's approach this in a more constructive manner: would you mind stating how you would discuss the topic of these chinese camps, taking into account both the scale of the problem and the severity of the events (without immediately derailing the discussion again)?
Scroll to the bottom and pay for the privilege.
I think you misunderstand. Debian doesn't have restrictions on how end users use their software. They do however make an effort to ensure the software they distribute is high-quality and doesn't do bad things to the user.
I've definitely worked with -1.0 engineers.

Literally every project they were involved in would get slower as people needed to stop everything to deal with them.

This isn't Mythical Man Month stuff either - no matter the size of the new project, adding specific engineers to the project made progress not just halt, but actually go backwards, as all the stuff that worked before was now broken.

EDIT: And yes, bad management was a major issue with the team but some engineers seem to be negative sum, even taking management into account.
Keep the time the same. Just change company work hours.
I don't hate it. Feel old now, thanks :-)
Is there an authoritative link for this? The article is written in a way that suggests that the feed is an integral part of Pulse.

One of the comments says: "Pulse actually ships with the NYT built in."

Without having cleared this up, it's difficult to judge the matter.

EDIT: If wired.com is not grossly incorrect, I do think that the feed was built in:

"The developers of Pulse, Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, are bemused, and are planning to contact Apple to fix the problem. They’ll do this by removing the NYT’s feed from the app ..."
I think perhaps you're underestimating just how much autonomy Australian political ministers are given in managing their portfolios, particularly in areas that the public don't give a shit about.

I believe that's why the Internet filter is still being proposed. Stephen Conroy is the leader of the right-wing faction within the ALP, and therefore Rudd can't tell him to shut up and do something else. He's been given the autonomy to do whatever he wants (except on "important" issues like the NBN). The same situation existed with Michael Atkinson in SA. He pretty much determined himself without any outside consultation that he wouldn't support R18+ video games, and it appears the new AG has been given the same level of freedom and autonomy to determine his own policies.
Ah yes, great point. The critical thinking, introspection, and analysis that goes into writing definitely strengthens neural pathways.

You just reminded me of another one: teaching.

One study showed that older siblings, on average, tend to be slightly smarter than their younger siblings. One plausible rationale may be because they spend time teaching their younger brothers & sisters.
http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=3401

If you've ever taught someone a subject, and found yourself walking away knowing that subject better than you did before, you're experiencing a similar phenomenon.

The act of teaching a subject requires you to understand it well enough to be able to synthesize, then explain it to someone else.
Sure, just so long as it doesn't tell us all to vacation in Frankfurt airport;)

To put it another way: The results for this kind of query are often going to be the big travel hubs. These may not always be the kind of destination that your users want.

neat idea, anyway.
I dunno, sounds like an ideal anti-competitive tool to kill off potential competitors before they get too big. It'd also encourage behavior similar to patent trolls, let them get big enough to royally screw for big monies.
A font is changed pretty fast; it's not a big issue. Nevertheless, I like the simplicity of your page; the font-size is really good, and I can focus on reading the text, without being disturbed by too many distractions
Well actually it seems to be driving more traffic to my tutoring page. Compared to the volume I've had before from HN and the number of tutoring inquiries had, it seems to be much higher. Although currently that really has no statistical significance... I'll monitor things and see if it really matters or not.
>On the other, they're attempting to legislate a way to record all of what people actually do online.

It's unfair to say they're attempting to introduce any sort of legislation. At this stage they're exploring whether or not EU regulations would be appropriate for Australia.
I just installed it. As a non-coder, is there an easy way to make the numbering on ordered lists aligned in the same way that the bullets on unordered lists are? At the moment, the numbers stick out to the left of all the other content.

Otherwise, it's gorgeous.
It will not work. Today's average internet user is technically incompetent to set up something complicated as non-standard VPN connection, leave alone third-party one, like OpenVPN.

The second problem - is monetization. Most people wouldn't pay.

And the last one - you cannot alter an iPhone/iPad and other closed systems. Seems like it is possible to port (recompile) openvpn to android. (IPsec and GRE probably would be discarded on ISPs)

btw, openssh's built in socks proxy is a great deal, for linux laptops or netbooks, but you still need a DNS server.
noscript + flashblock + adblock give me a faster browsing experience too. I do disable adblock on nytimes, reddit, google and any other site which provides good content so that it keeps on getting revenue from ads.
I think these should take into account the number man hours of people on pig farms vs. that of water when comparing such statistics.

My guess is if you spend 1 hour swimming in the ocean and 1 hour working on a pig farm you are more likely to be eaten by a pig.
Wow - that was actually way too obvious - thanks!
Yeah; it'd be great if they'd post likelihood ratios: For example, if I live in Florida, a shark attack hotspot, and like to go swimming at night--shark feeding time--what are my chances now?
Afterthought: it could work for high-end produce like ripe tomatoes and things that can't be transported very far. Although there, I'd think a penthouse farm would be even better. Except that the return on a penthouse in a major city for residential use will probably remain higher than any possible use for produce even after oil tops $10. Unless the produce is a prohibited drug, in which case you still probably don't want to use the penthouse, being better off with grow lights in the subbasement.
> if you are really good, it's quite possible that government agencies will try to recruit you, and if you say YES, it's a one way street.

This is the most terrifying item on your list. Saying no, however, is generally the best way to avoid such a one-way street ;)
Sure, but if you drive your vehicle down the highway, you're taking up cheap real estate; if you drive your vehicle into Manhattan, you're using really freaking expensive real estate, and you should pay more for it.