jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
EDIT: Before you read my comment below, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26702815 and https://openreview.net/forum?id=PdauS7wZBfC for a different view.

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If the results hold, they seem significant enough to me that I'd go as far as saying the authors of the paper would end up getting an important award at some point, not just for unifying the fields of biological and artificial intelligence, but also for making it trivial to train models in a fully distributed manner, with all learning done locally -- if the results hold.

Here's the paper: "Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop along Arbitrary Computation Graphs"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04182

I'm making my way through it right now.
> The justice didn’t elaborate much on that argument, but he hinted that the platforms’ First Amendment rights could be limited much as business owners can be forced to accept customers regardless of race or religion.

I don't like this framing. Does net neutrality limit the first amendment rights of ISPs? Did Marsh v. Alabama limit the first amendment rights of company towns?
Uber is at least aware of its responsibilities.

When I drove for Uber, we received email messages every couple of months reminding us of the rules concerning service animals and people who need physical assistance getting in and out of the car.

I seem to recall that if you had the right kind of car you could mark yourself available for wheelchairs and other things. I was forever picking up people with walkers and helping them in and out, though I know some drivers never ever wanted to touch a passenger unless they were dead drunk and had to be dragged out of the car and deposited on the front lawn of the destination address. (Been there, done that.)

Maybe it's regional. Everything about Uber seems to be.
As an ex-physicist, these were the golden years of physics. Studying and then doing your PhD at that time must have been fascinating.

Today's physics really bland. Either we look into some fantasy worlds we will never test (quantum foam & co), or extremely niche ones.

My sons are fascinated by science and I am lightly driving them towards biology (biophysics, bioinformatics, ...) because I feel this is where the revolutionary changes happen and will happen.
I kept trying `./cowsaydo-not-run-me` because `ls` outputs with no separators (`ls -l` fixed me up)
Agreed; human resources are the same as natural resources: fodder for exploitation.
Hey, it’s you! I watched all 2.5 hours of your vid last night and it was fantastic for too many reasons. Let’s just say I’m going through some things, and I am underinformed about some other things. So thank you and thanks stuntkite.
My issue with lastpass is that it's basically unusable when you don't use it as an extension.

I'm not willing to load a proprietary blob that actively manipulates the dom and passwords every time I visit a page.
It's a valiant effort but as someone who has dealt with unraveling a strict API built with SOAP I am going to pass. If I want something standardized I will use a schema based solution such as protobuf. It's already a quasi standard, has clients in many languages and is a binary protocol.

We also should not confuse an API with a transport protocol. I will tilt my hat to this not being as verbose as past attempts, but why reinvent the wheel yet again? It's not like prior attempts didn't function as expected - they did - but we in the industry chastised them for being too strict.

Let's work on improving the semantics and documentation around what constitutes an API. Swagger is an excellent example of this.
This is a pretty shitty article.

> Take doctors and surgeons. Women earn 71 percent of men’s wages — after controlling for age, race, hours and education.

> A pharmacist who works 40 hours a week generally earns double the salary of a pharmacist who works 20 hours a week, and as a result, the pay gap for pharmacists is one of the smallest.

These two quotes reveal that "controlling for hours" means "calculating per-hour wage", i.e. the underlying assumption is that the wage should depend linearly on the number of hours worked.

Which is obviously not true. Take finance, for example. If you're not willing to work 50, 60 hour weeks, you won't just get paid proportionally less; what will happen is that your career will stagnate, you won't get promoted, or might even get fired!

Also, personally I definitely want to be paid "disproportionately" for all the hours I do outside my "normal" working hours - after all, I want some time to enjoy life as well!

The final suggestion in this article is that workers should strive to make themselves as replaceable as possible. But this is, IMO, the worst advice possible; it won't have the effect of "averaging" the wages to make them more equal; instead, the best performer's wages will be pushed down to match the worst performer's wages, as it will no longer be possible to differentiate workers by performance. Brave New World!
And you can learn using only git commits without branching, merging or rebasing ever. You don't need to understand git for that.
I managed to get the code from the post you mentioned to work[0] by using macroexpand-dammit[1].

Coincidentally, you have contributed to that, so I thought I would ask you what is the problem with using macroexpand-dammit?

[0] https://gist.github.com/malisper/055848f4e593af5ca1b1

[1] https://github.com/guicho271828/macroexpand-dammit
Now do crime stats
And SeaTac, and O Hare, if I remember correctly.
Not sure why you'd want to draw PG into a political shit fight...

Besides - wouldn't a more hacker thing to do be to fund the folks (or be the folks) that build the next take down?

All empires fall - the cool thing about modern times is that they seem to fall faster and faster...
Good point. I am clearly ignorant about the Chinese housing market, and probably Chinese economic weakness in general.

However I think my larger concern still holds, which is that fundamentally Americans seem unwilling to face the reality of competing in a global economy. Desperately clinging to bubble home valuations is but a minor symptom. China has some bad problems to be sure (environment, demographic decline, etc), but being competitive in the global marketplace isn't one of them.
No, I would not have a different view.

It's not a goal to try to prevent someone from doing this again. That's simply not possible. The goal is to make its success as unlikely as possible without causing too great a burden. Groping and virtual strip searches go too far in my opinion. The so called underwear bomber was stopped because when people see a man trying to ignite his underwear they stop him. We're not that helpless.

Life is risky. Zero people have died in the U.S. from terrorism on airplanes since 9/11. It's extremely unlikely that a terrorist will blow up a plane with the security measures that were in place 1 year ago. No need to go further.

The next place to hide explosives are vaginas and anal regions. Do you think those should be probed as well? If a terrorist blows himself up at a TSA checkpoint should we have a checkpoint in order to get to the checkpoint?

At what point does the security become theater to you?
I'm theorizing here - maybe someone can answer - would the flight & airport in question be laid out such that, once passing through immigration, you were still in the secure area of the airport and able to board another aircraft, or was there a choice between "connecting flights" and "exit".

The only rational explanation I can come up with would be if the airport layout demanded this - but it seems unlikely.

This also seems like something that the author or someone with authority would have mentioned, as it's a deal-breaker that would likely have diffused the situation immediately.
The new Twitter.com is using its own API.

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt...
If you mix with tech and/or libertarian-minded people, this may surprise you.

Discussing this with my educated, liberal (Democrat) and wealthy (travel a lot) family, they think this security theater is wonderful. They have been so well conditioned that they are really fearful of terrorists. They think I am naive.

Personally I am far more concerned about my safety when driving my car than I am in the air.
In China, young people get around censorship filters with euphemisms, and especially rhyming-euphemisms. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_crab_%28internet_slang%29

So looking on the bright side, kids will find ways to talk. On the not-so-bright-side, Facebook is behaving like the Communist Party of China.
>I very much got the impression that the author was refusing to be scanned or searched just to make trouble.

That's like saying, you are just making trouble when you resist a pick-pocket or robber. You are never "just making trouble" when you assert your rights. On the contrary, government is the one just making trouble.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect rights. However, government seems to be full of people who are eager to take away rights. Somehow, the institution of government appeals to people who like to force their will on others. If you value liberty, you must resist these people.
And I consider myself a very good employee, at least I carry out all the tasks assigned. But the other day my employer said that he wanted to install a remote access program on my laptop, like Kickidler. What do you think, is it legal?
Techradar also posted about this leak
https://www.techradar.com/news/major-data-breach-exposes-dat...
Yes, something like that cheat sheet but with code instead of formulas. And more helper functions would be great.
This is only a guess, but, material in the corners is closer to more surface area so loses heat more quickly
Thanks; I updated the comment.
My thought is that this virus will have passed through the world, one way or another, in 4-8 months.

After that, the world reverts back to what it was doing.

My point is that this is no underlying weakness in the global economy. It's more like a slow moving natural disaster.

I'll admit I don't feel super confident that this is how things work. Happy to be corrected!
Sure but the long term trend will be down for the next several months until the virus uncertainty clears up.
More surface area?
> Then those people can use different logos for their projects?

They are. FreeBSD and git for instance changed their logos. Everybody is free to use a logo of their choosing, but they have to accept that others will make comments about them.
I have skipped emacs thanks to the monstrosities of emms and electric around it. Thanks. Yes, that's all right too.
I disagree. I think a volunteer from the US or Europe can have a big impact for exactly the reasons you list as negatives.

For a start, they come bundled with the optimism, determination and an innovative mindset that is normal in the Western World. Even if they're way off the mark and not skilled enough to build a school, sometimes just seeing someone from outside their community who isn't shackled with local politics or local racism and is just doing something, anything, can be a source of inspiration to the local population.

One Peace Corp volunteer I met was posted to a former Soviet block country. The locals were still stuck in the Soviet mindset that the government would provide for them. He introduced them to computing, he mapped out their entire town onto Google Earth and set up a WiFi service. Yeh it's not much, and they weren't dealing with starvation or illness like parts of Africa, but just by having an 'outsider' living in the community can be a help just by itself.
It's actually encouraging to think that those logos are horrible by the standards of most people here. It means that there's progress.

In fact, it's not rare these days to see open-source projects with thoughtful logos and well-designed homepages, especially for web stuff (http://yeoman.io/, http://gruntjs.com/, http://gulpjs.com/, etc.).
Of course then Google would have you download Webkit as a renderer and NaCl as an execution environment. Which would be only available on the latest version of your OS.

And Apple would shove some Obj-C renderer down your device, only this would support only iOS, MacOS and Windows, not Android and certainly not Linux.

FOSS-Shops would transmit only a repackaged build system which then would start downloading source packages and start compiling them in your browser. 3min later and you could actually start using the application.

I really fail to see the advantage here.
When was the last time you stepped on a scale? If a man who is 6 foot is 140 pounds, I would call him "skinny." I think a 6 foot man who is under 125 pounds is underweight. Also, your legs aren't "big" if you weight less than 125 pounds.

You're taking my advice too literally. You're grasping onto the numbers and thinking "Aha! These are the magic numbers I need to hit." It doesn't work that way. You asked what kind of strength training you can do without weights. There's lots of strength-conditioning you can do without weights, but it won't add muscle mass. I was trying to explain the difference between increasing your muscular endurance and increasing your absolute strength.

You're looking for a formula. There is none. If you want to get stronger and put on weight, there's a lot you have to learn about how your body reacts to the various kinds of stresses. Some resources for learning more:

http://www.stumptuous.com/
http://www.crossfit.com/
http://www.martygallagher.com/index
Thank you to the people who are sharing their Netflix stories as well.

I'm curious about the time frame though. The author of the post noted that he started several months back, to anyone who is sharing their story here can you please also note the approximate time frame for when your story takes place?

I'm curious to see if the company has corrected the problems that some people have hit while maneuvering through the recruiting process.
There is a hypothesis that asymmetric clipping in single-ended tube stages produces even harmonics that sound good. However, asymmetric non-tube circuits (e.g. diodes or whatever) do not have the tube sound (merely on account of doing asymmetric clipping and nothing else). Furthermore, tube power amp sections are often push-pull: symmetric clipping when overloaded. The saturation of output transformer cores is also symmetric.

"THD" is just a summary of all nonlinear distortion of a signal.
Related note: Look into 2FA methods, especially for the higher-profile things. Avoiding getting your bank account or domain hijacked or your code stolen because you made it to easy for an attacker is worth the slight inconveniences.
Considering that two US states with a combined population exceeding many European countries have a more comprehensive legalization program than anything happening in Europe and more states have similar measures in the pipeline, 'such a place' is actually the United States.
Using nitrous to make the whipped cream is instantaneous and doesn't wear your arms out.

Most coffee shops use these as well to make whipped cream for drinks.
Are you saying that the DoS attack coming from Tor exit nodes didn't happen; that it was a politically-motivated, fabricated pretext for blocking?
These are my three, too! Add in fermentation to 2. for extra gut health.
When the truck is being towed, how is that “pedestrian vs truck”? I thought the tow activity would happen in the street?
I'm curious what you mean by 'geopolitical vulnerability'. How are they vulnerable?
Thanks for the response! Interesting comment :)
I do however suspect that the "entitlement" you see among medical students has more to due with societal prestige than selection process, but this is pure speculation of course.
Even after all this time, the social media giants don't seem to get it.

It's not 1997. You can't pretend you've never heard of griefers, trolls, and other platform abusers. You have to think about spam and other misuse of your platform from the beginning, rather than trying to play catch-up continuously. It's like security: if you don't build it in, you can't layer it on later.

I wonder if there were any women on the team who designed this. They're the ones who will say, from personal experience, "What about cat calling? What about strangers following you? What about dick pics?" If you fill the room with men, you'll re-learn the hard way all the things people do to women that men don't see and women don't like to talk about. Not because it's rare but because it's ubiquitous.
No, it's ridiculously overpriced for the equipment and content. Buy a real bike and go outside. It's way more interesting and better for you.

If you HAVE to stay inside for bad weather or something get a trainer for that bike. There are several youtube channels/patreon channels that film their mountain-biking/road biking and you can put those on and feel like you're riding along if you need that aspect.

I feel like the type of people that fall for these electronic gadgets typically don't like exercising and are hoping they'll somehow get more motivated with digital content. Invariably, after a few months they quit using it just like every other exercise program they've started.
New leadership and a more urgent geopolitical landscape has forced many to change their actions if not their outlook. We just need fabs. We have money. Intel has been saying for a long long time that we need fabs, so lets give them the money.

personally, I think the gloom and doom around Intel is hate-hype. It's so fun to look at the giants and laugh, but they're still the giants. If you look at the landscape right now, and ignore the past, you see Intel and AMD in a slugfest for domination, and no (?) real other contenders. If AMD were the incumbent, we'd all be cheering Intel, but they're still neck-and-neck regardless. And Intel has other focii, like compilers, HPC software, kiosk form factors, etc, that help round out the offerings (and those are just things I'm familiar with).

20 years ago Microsoft was evil and google was the little-man's angel. Now I'm much more a fan of MS than Google, and feel MS is moving in the right direction while Google is not. It seems generational.
Also overloaded scooters with no helmets.
Something's lost in translation here: what do they mean by "joy grades"?
Prohibited? They shouldn't be, any more than they should be prohibited from replacing their logo to a swastika. We have freedom of speech, and that's important. If the government tried to go after NYT for a swastika logo, I'd be 100% on the side of the NYT; free speech should be legal even if I disagree with it.

On the other hand, I'd never visit NYT again, and I think most of the population would do likewise.

This isn't as extreme, but events like this should cause the general public to adjust their views of NYT. This shouldn't be a cancel-culture style slander, but simply starting to treat NYT as a random tabloid which makes stuff up for clicks.

NYT ran a hit piece on Larry Lessig too.
Stalin was an effective politician and cancelling was his instrument. People just copy what works.
PS2 build is a lot of work unfortunately and I'm afraid it is me who'll have to do it. Guess we'll see how far we'll get...

I've done some graphical improvements but we want to keep it mostly true to the original spirit. But yes, there are some things i would still like to improve upon a bit.
Who is 'mola'? She seems to want to air her opinions publicly, yet I can't figure out her real name?! Get NYT on the case!
i recently started getting into selfhosting email and k9 mail was the goto app for android. i first got the f-droid version but switched to github beta version and the experience has been awesome
> Let's be realistic though, even experts fail sometime

Is that truly so?

I think many concert pianists will live their entire life without a single noticeable mistake at a live performance.

The unlikeliness of this event is what qualifies them for this vocation.

> Many pianists make mistakes look like improv, and the audience won't notice the difference.

I think this is very much wrong, — hitting either the wrong note, or accidentally striking in between two keys, will not sound as though it be improvation, but as a clear, false note and it certainly does not take an expert to notice this.

> Same goes for anything really. Figure skating is very hard and the ones competing in the Olympics are the best of the best. But still, push yourself hard enough and eventually you'll fuck up somewhere, even if it's just a tiny bit. Even the pros does that, and some would argue you're not pushing yourself hard enough if you're not on the brink of failure.

Figure skaters fail because they would not win if they only did what they knew they would never fail.

It is a matter of a risk–reward strategy needed to take first place, — this is not needed for concert pianists who do not compete against one another.
To me, there is also the question of change frequency. Of course, it's a guesstimate all the time, but things that look to be rarely-changing (and usually ends up being high-impact) deserve over-documentation. Something like our AWS VPC, DNS and DHCP setups and their expected change modes and their effects are very well documented. It rarely changes and if it breaks, everything breaks. The fundamentals of our disk setups and disk encryption in ansible is carefully documented because if that breaks, things will go hairy.

In those cases, having a lot of documentation, speeds up changes because you can store months and years of deliberation and decisions in these comments.
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> is it generally possible to take an arbitrary CFG and say whether or not the language it generates contains one or more strings with ambiguous interpretations?

No, unfortunately it is undecideable, as are many interesting questions you wish you could ask about grammars.

However it is often possible. Even when it is not possible to definitively say that the grammar is ambiguous, it should be possible to say:

"When I see the string <foobar> I can't decide between <x> and <y>."

That's (sort of) what yacc is doing with its shift/reduce conflict errors. I think this it's generally easier to understand why this is with top-down (LL) parsers than bottom-up ones like yacc though. Top-down parsers are closer to the way people actually think. That's why I favor an ANTLR-like approach.
Dry testing has always been controversial, it seems.
why wouldnt it be legal?
I recently switched to historious after seeing it here on HackerNews, and I've been very happy with it so far. It's a great bookmarking service; I'm surprised it hasn't received more attention with the debacle going on at Delicious.
You are not making an argument against his main point. Why is this different then a street protest in front of a store?

The reasons, he's saying, that it shouldn't be illegal is because it requires the consent of many individuals to work. If many individuals decide that they have a reason to disrupt a service, then they probably do. If you argue against this logic, then do you also argue against right to assemble? If not, then what is the difference in your view?
I was interested when I heard about it on HN, and went to sign up immediately...and then immediately didn't bother with it when I learned it required Facebook and Chrome. Facebook as a log in is a complete dealbreaker for me, and I've heard others express this sentiment too.
Can't stop thanking Chris Coyier for his work!
Yes, except for the fact that 1st amendment protections would still exist. How much protection that actually provides is unknown and it would need to be litigated to find out.