jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting quote!

> No one buys eBooks. You’d have to be pretty… special… in order to not be able to find a free ebook of Pro JavaScript Techniques.

Funny how things changed, today I would prefer the ebook version over physical for reading on an eink display. Actually, these days I hardly do any kind of reading on a regular light emitting display (only coding and video). It's just so much more comfortable to read e-ink despite its short comings. Does wonder with focus as well. I even started reading short form articles on my e-reader after first saving them on Pocket.
Coinbase isn't going public via SPAC. SPACs are underwritten by the usual suspects... GS, CS, DB, MS, etc.
Listening to the same "meditative" album over and over again (such as Kraftwerk's Autobahn) can induce a Pavlovian effect of entering flow states easily ;)
Yes, it's a POC for anyone who might want to use it or expand on it.
> Googling briefly shows

I do not understand how people can confirm their beliefs so quickly with such little effort. If a stat makes you feel good, you should probably look into more than usual.

According to insideevs.com and QZ.com, in the US, there are 133,178 Leafs sold _ever_ since 2010. Since 2017, there have been 190,000 Model 3s sold. Sources: https://qz.com/1703260/teslas-model-3-may-never-catch-up-to-... https://insideevs.com/news/347565/nissan-leaf-sales-outlook-...

When considering globally, 200,000 Leafs were sold in the first 5 years on the market. The Model approaches that number in a single year (2019) in a single country (US). It's _somewhat_ possible, that for a brief period of time in early 2018, it was true there were more Leafs on the road than Teslas, but that's a bit like being a Nokia fan on January 10th, 2007 saying "Oh, but there are far more Nokias than iPhones in the world". Certainly not a "significant margin".

It's totally and completely fine to dislike Telsa - and I don't disagree with the spyware comment, but please don't decide a thing, and then go google to find evidence of that thing you decided.
> If you are poor, you have few good options and generally wouldn't brag about your gambling. If you do, you are labelled irresponsible.

And rightly so. For two main reasons

- demonstrably negative expected value of the bets (like in casino floor games or the lottery)

- relatively high proportion of total net worth wagered

I'm very comfortable with labeling this as irresponsible (regardless of levels of wealth). It's not just a case of "everyone does it but only poor people are shamed for it", there's a clear distinction between the two cases.
I'm actually happy to merge your GNU-style inline assembly support and other GNU C extensions to chibicc. But for the purpose of the project, I need to rewrite your patches in the incremental manner, so it's not something I can do right now. I'm currently busy working on my linker project. Once it settles down, I'll take a closer look at your fork.
I believe the 90ms is the window over which the bitrate is constant... If you want to reduce the latency further, you might need to have variable bitrate (eg. perhaps more bits to encode the start of each syllable, and fewer to encode the end of the same syllable).

That in turn adds complexity to other subsystems - typically variable bitrate leads to loss (bad), packet queuing and therefore variable latency (bad), or requires feedback into the video stream (ie. if the audio uses more data, encode the video with fewer bytes, which in turn means encoding must be serial rather than parallel, increasing latency).
I mean, what you're suggesting is what was allowed. And look what happened (OP). Not a particularly surprising outcome.
> Just say nothing, and be there for the longest time, silent and knowing.

Please don't do this.
Question is, is it easy to program and use it in Linux? Last I checked some years ago, I think the tooling was proprietary?
>$10M is certainly not ten megadollars.

Money is not covered by S.I./metric units anyway, so not sure what's the point of this argument.

And even at that, while M here is the "mega" unit, the value 10M is still 10 million (1010^6) dollars (not 102^20 dollars).
I think you could use concepts from cognitive behaviour therapy here.

In CBT you examine your thought and emotions, and then you look at the evidence you have to support those.

[I feel anxious. I feel quite strongly anxious. My hot thought is "I don't understand what I'm doing".]

You'd then look at the situation, and the evidence you have for that.

Your first example:

a) I've been given a project way above my skill set.

evidence) The project uses frameworks and protocols I've never used before, and the documentation refers to a language I've not used before.

Your second example:

b) I've been given a new project and it's complex.

evidence) well, okay, it's new to me, but I'm familiar with some of the concepts and I think I know how to attempt it.

I guess people may say this is similar to rubber duck debugging: Explain to a rubber duck why you're anxious about something, but also what your strengths are for this new thing you're doing.
> majority of voters prefer it to other systems

The whole point of the article is that if "the majority of voters" were informed, they'd vote differently.
This is also nutty. The guy is clearly risk-averse, which means if he did invest he would go for a risk-free rate, which is.... 0.90% right now?
Come on man, you can't be serious - the public burden of proof is so massive that it's on you if you want to argue, pointlessly otherwise.

Go and read his Twitter feed from the past few weeks, where he has spewed lies about non-existent fraud in an almost hourly basis, told Mike Pence to overturn the result, and where he called on his supporters to come to DC on the 6th. He has been whipping up his supporters into a frenzy for some time.

Watch the video clips of his speeches he has posted on Twitter, with yet more lies about how the election was "stolen from him", the other side are "evil", and how his supporters must "fight" for democracy by helping him overturn the will of the American people.

Listen to the tapes of him telling state officials to "find more votes", with thinly veiled threats.

Watch the video of his speech shortly before the riot, where Rudi Guliani said the way to win was "trial by combat", and Trump told them all to march on the capital.

Listen even to his video statement where he asks them to stop the violence - where he still refuses to denounce their actions, banging on about fraud and what "great patriots" they are!

He has, to my knowledge, never explicitly said "let's go and stage a violent coup!", because even Trump is just a tad more intelligent than that - but it is abundantly clear that this is what he was asking for and what he wanted, and it's been clear for all to see for some time.
An intercom/telepresence for kid is a nice idea, and sounds fun to build.

Especially when building things with impressionable kids, I'd like to encourage people to try to figure out how to build things while minimizing unnecessary third-party dependencies, and secondarily by judicious selection of complexity.

For example, maybe using WiFi and a SoC board with stripped-down Linux, and software to make them talk to each other over the LAN. Or maybe a microcontroller board with a WiFi module in ad-hoc mode. Maybe coded in one of the education-oriented programming tools that the kid will be able to start using soon. Or maybe old-school analog circuits over a pair of copper.

(Or, if you want the kid employable this year, maybe that means gluing together 10 different SaaSes that snoop on your traffic, building a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud for um reasons, using 3 Web frameworks, pulling in 1,000 NPM dependencies, and throwing in half a dozen third-party trackers. :)
The amount of virtue signaling and back peddaling by facebook, youtube, and twitter now that the results are certified is disgusting.

They profited for years off of this bile and misinformation and now that the tide is starting to turn they want to pretend like they weren't a huge part of the problem.
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It really is a pandora's box and I'm extremely curious how the next year's will pan out for the tech giants and social media.
How on earth did you find standalone family coverage for $950/mo? What's your deductible / co-insurance?
ah, you'll probably get there someday.. Hopefully via observation and not via getting repeatedly screwed over by politicking middle managers
I don’t see 5.25” disks since C64. All the PCs I have seen since 1990 had 3.5” drives, and that was the PC boom time. I doubt that there are a lot of 5.25 disks around, as many would have been converted already to 3.5”.

On the contrary, I (40yo) own some 3.5 floppies (a couple of old big box pc games).
> I'm actually somewhat surprised at HN's response

Me too. And that goes for the whole thing. The comments are filled with people peddling conspiracy theories, and saying we still don't quite know if there was significant fraud in the election. We're getting to a point where truth doesn't exist.
We got it here in Germany too.
This is where I mention that I just put up links to Hackety Hack 0.9 for Snow Leopard and Windows... http://hacketyhack.heroku.com/
In my time in Japan, I felt an overwhelming lack of diversity which really shocked me in comparison to my home country of Australia. I now realise this is because one in four permanent residents of Australia were born overseas (2006 census). In comparison, Japan has very little migration. This makes it seem like a special kind of bubble, able to sustain many interesting and valuable cultural aspects at the cost of some social stagnation. Then again, maybe I'm just biased towards the kind of place I grew up in.
JavaScript and a web browser. The parallel is obvious to me, I'm not sure why it's not to him.
Which led to terrible things like being able to run Flash on it, if you wanted to.
I don't know if this is the place for that discussion, but briefly, I think posting to SO gives them an implicit right to show your content on the web and store it on their servers. What I don't think it gives them an implicit right to do is re-license your content under cc-wiki, provide it in a data dump, and specify how you are to be attributed for your contribution. When I've brought this up with SO, their response was that because the footer says that all content is licensed under cc-wiki, it's OK. I disagree. If I say that your response to this comment will be in the public domain, that doesn't make it so. I would need your explicit permission to re-license your comment, even though I have certain implicit permissions, like the permission to cache it in my browser.

For comparison, Wikipedia requires that all submitters "irrevocably agree to release [their] contributions under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. [They] agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." (See the comment under the edit box on any Wikipedia edit page.) Wikipedia is big enough to actually deal with legal issues, and this is how they do it. They get explicit permission, and they explicitly require agreement with a particular method of attribution.

I am not a lawyer, but everything I've read about copyright (from reliable sources, such as the actual legal code) suggests that Wikipedia is doing it right. There are certain implicit permissions with user-submitted content. Permission to re-license is not one of them. Since Wikipedia does re-license content, they ask for permission to do so. SO should do the same.

OK, that wasn't as brief as I hoped. I apologize. I don't mean to derail the commentary here.
I was so happy to see a doctor of mine go look things up: Human memory is not a good database. Repeat that 100 times.
Maybe the best comment about this issue.

The problem with the GitHub RAID approach + daily snapshot is that you end up with only the equivalent of a daily backup and you do not have data integrity insurance.

Each of their file storage pair is running in RAID + RAID over the network (DRBD). RAID is not a backup because you can get data corruption and you just replicate the corruption.

Imagine that they got part of their A server having issues, which are with current FS+RAID simply ignored. You can run months without integrity check even with Git because if you add new objects and do not need to repack, no integrity check is performed on the old objects. So your corruption spread from A to B (RAID) to backup (daily snapshot). Then you need at home to checkout because you lost your HD, you are doomed. Full data loss without a single warning. If you are a single developer on your own private project, this scenario is easy to achieve.

I really really like the way Fastmail is doing backup. They are replaying the IMAP operations with checksum. With Git you can also replay with checksum too. In fact, it is built in thanks to the DSCM nature of Git.

For the backup of my customer git repositories, this is what I am doing, in the post-update hook, I fire a git sync with git on another server, it is doing everything needed while being CPU+bandwidth efficient. Thank you git.

The easy way to do it: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/10/18/346839
Sure, my question isn't about how to do it technically though, instead I want to know if there is a Q&A website out there which will return either, clear legible answers or null.
Why mess with AES when you can just use another strong algorithm or two? e.g. AES+SERPENT+Twofish, with three separate unrelated keys of course.
"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred."

Nice landing page. Looks like you're missing a polyfill for ResizeObserver.
Tipping at a restaurant is the only place where I would tip face to face. Maybe a valet but I avoid that like the plague too since you're giving your car to someone and no accountability. Name a few face to face tipping scenarios besides food and valet that is common? I'm seriously blanking on anything.
I can't help noticing that all your examples involve an individual, even though you advance them in the context of group discrimination.

What about 'I don't want any men coming to our next brainstorming session because they're always going on about margins and analytics and it's such a buzzkill?'
Investopedia has:

>Fiat money is a government-issued currency that isn't backed by a commodity such as gold.

Tether fails the government-issued bit.
Last night was my second night using my WakeMate (with Android) and I woke up around two hours earlier than I planned (not WakeMate's fault) and did /something/ on my phone and went back to sleep. When I woke up a second time to my backup alarm I found out that all of my sleep Dara for last night is apparently lost. As near as I can tell, I is stored on the wristband, but I can't get it.

It's a frustrating experience and makes me wonder if it will do this a lot. I'll give it another week or so of trial - I want it to work well, as I have found that phone based motion sensor alarms seem to help somewhat, but are unreliable at accurately detecting my movement depending on how far I move away from them. I like the idea of the WakeMate sensor, but it has to be reliable.
I've been using LibreOffice, a fork which is maintained by The Document Foundation, for months. I took a look at their blog and there's been plenty of activity recently, including getting accepted to Google Summer of Code.

http://blog.documentfoundation.org/

We already have a community-based project to lead the effort.
I don't think anyone denies that there are areas where the constitution is not sufficiently detailed. However, the constitution still says what it says, and many actions that are considered "legal" today do not fall into the areas of constitutional vagueness, but are simply laws that violate the constitution that have never been sufficiently challenged.

The constitution is pretty black and white, and this is a good thing, because it means you can tell what is set out by it, and what is up to the legislature.

All the areas where the constitution enumerated powers it gave the legislature a free hand to determine what is right.

Thus for the areas that the constitution does address, it is pretty black and white and it is meant to be enforced by the people.

... and it really isn't hard to understand, nor does it require much interpretation. Just careful reading.
Facebook's got over 500,000,000 users. None of Google's social efforts so far have been particularly successful and some have been disastrous. So even though I agree Facebook's over-hyped and the valuations are optimistic, I still think Google's losing in social.
That's not entirely true. From the book in Galt's Utopy:

The recaptured sense of her [Dagny's] own childhood kept coming back to her whenever she met the two sons of the young woman who owned the bakery shop. . . . They did not have the look she had seen in the children of the outer world--a look of fear, half- secretive, half-sneering, the look of a child's defense against an adult, the look of a being in the process of discovering that he is hearing lies and of learning to feel hatred. The two boys had the open, joyous, friendly confidence of kittens who do not expect to get hurt, they had an innocently natural, non-boastful sense of their own value and as innocent a trust in any stranger's ability to recognize it, they had the eager curiosity that would venture anywhere with the certainty that life held nothing unworthy of or closed to discovery, and they looked as if, should they encounter malevolence, they would reject it contemptuously, not as dangerous, but as stupid, they would not accept it in bruised resignation as the law of existence.
As linked in another reply, the law deals with coins "of gold or silver or other metal".
I got through the Appsumo process and am about halfway through the (downloaded) video. It's great but there are some weird glitches, blank spots, etc. in the video. I'm not the only one seeing those, am I?
Also see that mine predates yours by an hour :)
IBM is trying to build their hosting business. They offer a really generous free monthly tier on BlueMix. You can run a web app with a small data store for free.
This is very hard to measure as you would be looking at teaching practices in the 1920-1940s to determine the effects on life expectancy. I think potentially, nationally, this would be possible as most nations have been quite consistent on their school starting times.

I do think having a breakdown by month, not just quarter could be even more insightful.
Equality of Opportunity as defined legally has nothing to do with taking care of the children.

1) n. a right supposedly guaranteed by both federal and many state laws against any discrimination in employment, education, housing or credit rights due to a person's race, color, sex (or sometimes sexual orientation), religion, national origin, age or handicap.

Most human cultures are built on the nuclear family.. especially when it comes to raising children. I'm not sure what system you propose to replace that..

Adam Smith lived in the clouds. We live in a civilization where we have to consider actual use cases, transitions, exceptions, etc.
Heh. like if there is any trust left on google.

they are even pre-fetching ads using android account sync nowadays.
Sure, with a clear mission planned and dictated by the state you were in. They didn't just send in the troops right away in reaction to an ongoing situation that also happens to be the certification of the election of the president.
A friend somehow got one of the DVDs once, except it was the sequel: Ex-con fights. He made us watch it one night and it was really uncomfortable. Every fight ends with an epileptic seizure after somebody's head got kicked too many times. Its making me really uncomfortable to just think about it, its really horrible stuff
End of work day boredom is here so I thought I take a crack at doing this in Io: https://gist.github.com/748656

The "DSL" part looks like this:

Rules do (
+ url("http://timeless.judofyr.net/*")
- url("http://timeless.judofyr.net/")
- url("http://timeless.judofyr.net/changelog/*")
)
πz²a ?
Is this still working? The certificate is expired.
I think you missed the crux of the article. The article is not about manipulating emotions with lies, it's about getting different opinions and perspectives on your product.

His method was a little crass, but I'll bet he wrote it with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek.
Looks good, although a little Drake Equation-y. Would you mind telling us where your figures are coming from? The figures all seem reasonable, but there's a lot of room for error there.
You said this: "if you look, for instance, at Scandinavia, where the rate of rapes has risen dramatically as more and more Muslims immigrate there." making correlation with increased rape rates with "muslim" immigrants and then said "Obviously Islam, or blackness, isn't the problem here"

How is this consistent? Do you have any single evidence your blanket group of "muslim immigrants" caused the increase in rape? Make your mind please.
I was hired as a jr. dev after attending a developer bootcamp. It wasn't near the $100k salary mentioned. I didn't expect that though. I was hired at a living wage starting out and have since moved beyond my first job to an even higher wage. I did some coding before the school and attended a lot of the hacker events before I made the career switch.
Nice comment. I really believe strongly that the fast iterations that python allows for is why companies are so successful. The argument that language x does not scale is a bit naive to the fact that they got to the point where they have enough users to make scaling an issue. Go is wonderful and I love programming in Go, but I would choose either python or node for web apps that require fast iteration. I believe that when offering services over the cloud, utilizing multiple languages for well built individual components is a great approach.
Agreed 100%. Why would you take all that away? You can go to school and still learn how to code.
Yes, the no-fluff straightforwardness of the piece is surprising only by the ordinary standard of linkbaity titles and so on... i.e. only by comparison to nearly everything. But not at all surprising once you get who the author is.
> Last year the journal of cosmology had an issue devoted
> to problems related to Mars.

Rarely a good source.
What do you mean by this? Chrome doesnt support SRV for http http://code.google.com./p/chromium/issues/detail?id=22423 but all browsers do dns... No mainstream ones support srv for http.
Not fast enough (I hear).
i've recently started using f.lux [1], which adjusts the color temperature of the screen based on the time. after a night of coding, i've noticed i've been able to fall asleep more quickly, probably since my eyes adjust to the ambient warm light in the room while coding.

[1] http://stereopsis.com/flux/
After reading the article, I discovered that I don't know the color of my eyes, nor that of my ex-boyfriend's eyes.

I guess I'm that kind of mathematician. Forever alone. :(
Instead of changing your desk, get rid of your electronics. A phone and a laptop are all you (probably) need.
The `cpan` command line utility automatically downloads and installs dependencies when you use it to install a module. It's the rough equivalent (and precursor to) ruby's `gem`.