jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to run the demo, and it keeps starting up emacs in order to compile html templates. It doesn't use -nw or -q, so for each file, it creates a window, loads my init files, runs a tiny bit of elisp to expand a template (or something), writes it out, and closes down emacs (running everything in kill-emacs-hook).

I could just move my emacs directory temporarily or add some reasonable commands to the process (even use emacsclient!), but I'd rather complain about it here.
It looks like Safari fully loads each page to make the Reader version so I'd guess they at least get the ad impressions counted.
Nice. Wonder what's needed for packaging and distribution. Does the end user have to have Ruby 1.9 installed already?
I have a feeling that the variability is at least partially modulated by factors such as (lack of) encouragement and gender bias. Imagine a spinning flywheel (this is a terrible analogy but I think it will illustrate my point) with particles on it that jump off the edge at random velocities. The added velocity of the flywheel eventually makes them end up at a certain radial distance on the ground. Regardless of the speed at which the flywheel spins, the average position of the particles on the ground will be at the center of the flywheel. But if the flywheel is spinning fast, the variability will be greater than if it is spinning slowly.

I think in a similar way, encouragement and bias -- like the speed of the flywheel -- can account for this variability, rather than intrinsic differences in the capacity for mathematical reasoning.

That said, it is interesting why the gap seemed to bottom out at 4 to 1 despite supposed programs to encourage young women to go into mathematics and science.
two dollars is a little arbitrary but I would like to see something along these lines - or at 24 hour period in which you can 'return' the app perhaps?
...start-ups need to be aware of what they are offering or could offer...

That's exactly why I was thinking about it, thanks for your thoughts.
I'm going to design a language called Original. The Original programming language.
I assume part of it is eliminating competition. Suddenly, their marketshare is your marketshare!
Not s solution, the things I use in vim is not in Vintage. hjkl navigation and yy is not enough for me.
Four paragraphs in:

>Not only did the software fail to recognize black faces more than half the time, it wasn’t particularly good at recognizing faces of any ethnicity — the highest hit rate was under 75 percent

Surely 30-50% of students aren't failing their exams because of this. Teachers aren't idiots. Something doesn't add up here.

>While racial bias in code is nothing new, it’s especially distressing to see it affecting students who are just trying to do their school work

How is it affecting students? If the teacher has to review the video recording whenever a student is flagged as absent, then assuming teachers can detect black faces just as well as others than literally no student is being affected by this at all, let alone black students specifically. Why is America obsessed with construing everything like its an attack on African Americans?
Slightly more helpful, but still communicated like someone who doesn't have the time to put in the effort. If you don't have time why bother? You could be a helpful mentor, or share knowledge you've learned over the years here.

A common problem with messaging like this is that some folks work in isolated industries, verticals, or company sizes, so what one sees as a CTO or CEO mean something different to another, so maybe the first step is bridging the gap and asking this person more about their intended audience, the company size/focus for the CEO/CTO, and maybe even who they are and why they used that messaging before critiquing it.
The original paper includes convolutional layer support in their future work & next steps. But it's not a foregone conclusion that the same speedup will occur.
Given that Torvalds apparently went from design to implementation in 3 days, and 2 months later had it officially managing the kernel, I wouldn’t say it was particularly high-hanging.
I am distinctly aware of the many differences between life in America and other countries, especially less developed ones. As an American myself, I'm greatful for the prosperity that many of my compatriots tend to take for granted, but I absolutely believe it's a mischaracterization to call Americans universally wealthy. There are definitely places in America where conditions mirror those in developing countries. (Native American reservations especially)
If you don't mind my asking, can you say why you moved from GAE to Heroku and/or why you prefer Heroku over GAE?
The critique is that the messaging is laughable, and it shows things that a developer would have pride over - like the interface - which none of the users would have time for.
Sleep doesn't always work on Macs. For instance, when the kernel panics because you shut the lid and stuffed it in your bag before you detached your USB-C mouse and keyboard, so it's overheated or dead by the end of your commute.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/03/repro/

We've also had pretty awful state issues with Filevaulted Intel Macs from 2014 to present. While more consistent in their quirks than the myriad models and configurations of PCs, Macs haven't really done much to impress anyone but shareholders this past half decade or so.
direct link to registration: http://openhackindia.eventbrite.com/
Thanks. Gist is really awesome for some things, but it definitely servers a certain form of "composing and storing text online."
What if we just sank something really big and made of concrete on top of the oil leak, like a cruise ship or an aircraft carrier? Just something really really heavy, and wide enough to cover the hole by a large margin.
Related: A few months ago, Bush's advisor on cybersecurity was on Fresh Air, an NPR interview show, talking about cyberattacks: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1260970...
Tyson is exceptional, certainly. Rick Astley, David Beckham... I don't know. I'd read the paper if it surfaces.
>Everyone who had MS Office installed back in the 1990s (which was basically everyone) could easily run some quick VB code to try things.

Can't be everyone, how do you know the numbers? How many Office users actually used VB? MS famously stifled competition in internet browsers. 1990s numbers still won't give a fair picture.

>The Web fixed all that, albeit at the cost of cratering developer productivity, a massive increase in complexity and higher barriers to entry for new devs.

Why blame the web for higher barrier to entry. JS is doing fine. See a few surveys for popular languages:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...

https://madnight.github.io/githut/
My advice: Practice explaining what you do to your grandma. Not all the time, mind you (she probably has other things to attend to), but it is incredibly effective at showing you how "zoomed in" you are in your work and where there is still a "translation mismatch".

I still regularly catch myself using words that I think are common or high-level enough, just to realize that they don't invoke nearly the same picture in a non-technical person as they do for me.
Not trying to excuse it, but at least they were free.
I'd guess this has to do with the brain being electrified. Who the hell knows what the patient has experienced. This is all speculation on the researchers part. It makes for a nice story, however. (see the cultures angle).
Life flashes before the eyes upon death. In real time.
I have a few ex-battery hens and what I now view as a good egg is one you can crack into a pan of boiling water and it holds together, giving you a perfect poached egg in a couple of minutes. Store bought eggs tend to fall apart in water.
> Are people seriously training their muscle memory to the default vim keybinding that is so cryptic I don't know what to say.

Nobody does that on purpose. It's just a side-effect of learning Vim.
Slavery was never about race.
Often people would convert to Islam or Christianity so as not to be enslaved.
Hence the Arab word for black Africans, Kefir or unbeliever.
Did anyone else see Limitless?

Did anyone else look at the symptoms of the drug he took (the fictional "NZT-48") and think, "hmmm, sounds like a more extreme form of MDMA"?

Haven't tried it myself. Heard lots about it.
> In general, the US is a consumer paradise compared to Europe. In the US, it's better to be a consumer than an employee. In Europe it's the opposite.

Yeah, that's why every time there is a TnC/EULA dispute european courts are the ones to throw out garbage conditions stated in EULAs and US courts are the ones who uphold them.

Sweden has a very consumer-centric mindset, to the point where I haven't in 26 years of living there ever felt like I was 'being fucked'. Even in this thread I see stuff in the US about being charged for using a card to pay. That's illegal in Sweden.

As an even better example, you have a 3 year right to return a product if it breaks, which overrides any signed contract or anything you might agree with in terms of guarantee with a store. It makes things like Applecare (that you apparently badly need in the US) useless, because everyone already has "Applecare for everything" as a consumer right.
Congrats Bemmu - I love the 'overnight success story' that was 2014.

In my experience, businesses tend to grow in jumps with a plateau in between and it looks like 2014 was that sort of year (as a deserved reward for the years of platform investment you had made). Best of luck getting over that 1,000 item milestone and then the next big jump beyond!
Here's the problem:
`a<b>c` is already valid python. `3<5>2` evaluates to true, because python allows operator overloading. Because the < and > operators can be overloaded, there is no guarantee that an object of type "class" will not have them (this would, I believe, require some metaclass hackery, but still).

So, given that `object<int>()` throws a type error in python and not a syntax error, you can't unambiguously parse that.
I would not. I primarily share news with friends using Facebook. Facebook has the one-stop solution for almost every social thing I need.
Or have a look at http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyTutorial

CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. It provides the foundation over which complex web-based applications can be written, with little or no knowledge of the underlying protocols. CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This usually results in smaller source code developed in less time.

CherryPy does its best to stay out of the way between the programmer and the problem. CherryPy applications are usually very simple. It works out of the box; default behavior is sensible enough to allow use without extensive setup or customization. The embedded web server allows one to deploy web applications anywhere Python is installed. In short, CherryPy is as pythonic as it gets.

...
Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet.

As always, big leaps are hard to predict (classic innovators dilemma). I don't find it hard to believe at all that RIM was doubtful about Apple's ability to meet what they were announcing. They were working on their own products, facing their own limitations - there's no way they could predict what a company with a blank slate would come up with.
Having fun in everything that you do should be the goal. Even if the motivation is purely profit, you should still try and have fun. Otherwise what, ultimately, is the point? Eventual riches will be meagre compensation for decades of unhappy toil. This is an extension of the John Lennon quote, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

Unless you're forced to do something to avoid catastrophic personal circumstances for you or your dependents I guess.
It's exactly what 37signals did. They scratched their own itch by building an app that they wanted to use. It then happened to make a ton of money and eclipsed their consulting revenues. They didn't start off to make all this money, but it was a byproduct of the passion they put into building the app. Many great software success stories are similar to theirs.
Having witnessed it in person I didn't think it was particularly "interesting".
Barber shop, movers, cab driver, bellhop, coat check person, doormen/building staff around the holidays
If your project is as simple as this then yes, a framework would be overkill for you.

The people that benefit from Laravel use a lot of its features and aren’t willing to waste time rewriting them for themselves.

In the businesses I have worked at, if we had spent the whole time building the stuff that Laravel already does for us then we’d have gone broke really quickly.
This: If you don't have some noteworthy transaction cost, the network gets flooded with spam past its other scalability limits.

You can shrink it somewhat in absolute terms, but you need to throttle them somehow.
This is a net positive for advertising agencies which will gradually be unable to "prove" their ROI. Going back to the old days of spots and Nielsen ratings.
Thing is; nixos has been architected for being declarative from the start. Whilst Kubernetes is a stateful REST API.

Sure you can emulate a declarative view on top of a mutable thing (Think React and virtualdom), but having a declarative core makes declarative deployments easier to manage and more elegant.

E.g. in Kubernetes automatically deleting a resource is still hard; It's hard to figure out when something is not "used" anymore.

In nix, you simply run `nix garbage-collect` and all the things that are not referenced by your declaration are automatically deleted.
How can you force your customers to have a retention period for data you provide them? They could just keep a copy, and you'd never know.
You should read the book “The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet” - Section 230 does not at all work the way most people think it does.
Just because might has made right for tens of thousands of years does not mean it should continue to do so tomorrow morning.

Reality is that political power extends from the barrel of a gun. But we also dream bigger and imagine better.
That sounds awesome. For anyone who hasn't visited Turkey or the Cappadocia region, I highly recommend it. Sure it's a tourist destination but it's not as popular as Istanbul and Antalya, and its vast open landscape leaves enough room for everyone to feel like you're on a different planet.
"an expensive sequencer is needed to retrieve data"

Given how long it still takes to sequence an individual's genome ("only" 3 gigabases), this may not be practical any time soon.

Anyway, generating astronomical amounts of data really small using DNA isn't that hard - say you synthesize short pieces of DNA, each 34 bases long, randomly selecting A, C, T or G for each base (easy to do with a commercial DNA synthesizer). If you make about a millimole (10^20 molecules) of this DNA, odds are that each piece of DNA has a unique sequence. You could have your own little jar containing 10^20 unique molecules. If the presence of a particular piece of DNA represents a TRUE for a given bit, you have about 10 exabytes of data storage in a jar.

Now, operating on that data is another story...
They stored a few kb of data replicated millions of times. That's much different.
Yeah ok please show me a YC startup (still in startup mode) playing $150K for any position.

There's a lot of risk in working at a startup, I think that plays a factor too although I have no data to back this up, just a vague recollection of college courses and reading.
I thought that they gave the Big 2 papers the entire dump, and they decided not to publish them all?
Color and layout were the biggest things. Pick some colors that work well together (Darks, lights, cool, warm, etc)
They're sometimes a good technique only because some problems are really simple. There are almost no problems where the extreme independence assumptions of naive Bayes create a reasonable likelihood function. The consequence ends up that when it's wrong, it tends to be very very certain that it's right. I think the aphorism that gets passed around is "Naive Bayes classifiers are often in error but never uncertain".
When people say Scala is too complex, are they talking about functional programming?
P.S. The other interesting aspect of interbreeding is that it tells us 1) that the humans leaving Africa had significant, repeated encounters with another kind of hominid species, and 2) not only did they interbreed with them, but the offspring were well-enough integrated into early human society that they were able to survive and reproduce further.

The second point means that either immediately or eventually, the descendants of the Denisovans were considered fully human. How did that happen? Were the Denisovans already considered fully "human" by the humans leaving Africa? Or were they considered lower, like dogs or cattle? What about vice-versa? The details of the interaction would be fascinating if we could learn them. The interbreeding was doubtlessly often a byproduct of violence, when women were stolen in raids, or when one band wiped out the men of another band in a war and appropriated their land, women, and property. But did it also happen through peaceful means? Were crossbreed children treated as fully "human" right away or were they treated as sub-human until a few more generations of cross-breeding allowed them to "pass?" Were the two kinds of humans similar enough to form families together and feel love and familiar affection, or was it just sheer horndoggery? Could they even learn each other's languages? Interbreeding shows that it makes sense to ask these kinds of questions.
Other countries still have armies and soldiers without having armed civilian populations. And America could do this too if they wanted to.
> that's just how it works.

And maybe that's just how it shouldn't. Technology moves fast, very fast. Markets do so. Users, you get it. Competing technologies, undeniably.

To delay a discussion for months just because the source is not published is in my opinion only reflecting on part of the opportunity/problem. I'm calling for an strategic discussion, which is higher level than a code-only, limited, partial analysis.

> Have you considered the possibility that it might actually be neither of those two things?

Sure thing, like anything in life, it may be neither. But what I know for sure is that a) we as the PostgreSQL Community need to mitigate risks and plan for them; b) leverage (or transform into!) opportunities as soon as we identify them.
Guess what : the rest of the world has had to learn English for decades to be able to access interesting knowledge.

I'm French and these days I came to the point that I don't even bother to Google anything related to programming in French. I just Google it in English and now I find useful answers (thank you Stackoverflow).

I guess the wheel is turning and soon we will have to learn a bit of Chinese to access fresh knowledge. The barrier of entry is higher though (it doesn't even involve the same parts of the brain than other languages).
It is something but it isn't "safe."
can we expect better/official integration with android platform?
A rare story where employee stock options end up worth something!
Finally. I love VLC for the options but mpv is much better for most use cases. Not to mention that they feel the absolute need to change the icon for Christmas by default.
As presented, it is not really about going beyond 1 bit. It is beyond 1 color channel, with a twist that the color channels are not independent. And adaptation of dithering algorithms to a black-red-green palette (with a missing yellow) and exploration of their behavior is the scientific content that the article showcases.

And the "missing yellow" constraint is important, without it, the problem would be separable and therefore uninteresting.
Similarly, how about a NosferatuCoin?

This coin’s value is related to how much energy you drew from the power grid in order to mine it. More power? More money!
Very cool, and great demo. This really takes me back as I was really into graphics algorithms, including texture synthesis, in my younger years.

The hexagonal grid seems to have some cell-boundary issues though, especially noticeable with the two radial cell alignments.
TLDR: no.

From [1] "If people find it useful, I might add other things. Hope OAuth becomes available so I can add up-voting and comment adding."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809479
Agreed, it has a number of very interesting features in how it gets around limitations in its own engine!

And 10 minutes? Heavens above. Tell me that's tool-assisted.
Yes I had to think about it and test it (not done much Python recently). The decorating function is called as soon as the decorated function is declared.

These are the results of a simple test in the Python console.

>>> def dec(f):
... print "Decorator ran"
... return f
...
>>> @dec
... def decorated(i):
... print "Decorated function ran"
...
Decorator ran
>>> decorated(5)
Decorated function ran
>>> decorated(5)
Decorated function ran
This is key: "The speed of the floor panels of the express walkway vary between each end allowing for a slower embark and disembark speed but a higher speed in between to decrease journey time"

Other moving walkways are limited in speed because of the differential between the non-moving and moving parts would make entry and exit dangerous.

This one "slows down" the moving parts on entry/exit, which is pretty cool.

Being from the Toronto area, I always assumed that these were at more airports (those with a similar design, that is – as you've mentioned, normal moving walkways are at most major airports).
That is cheap compared to the cost if the scrapped rapidscan systems
They already do -- Windows 8.1 looks great on a high-DPI display and most apps support it. (Although it's annoyingly obvious when you run an old app that doesn't, because its window gets upscaled and the text is visibly blurry.)
For us, the cross-account replication ability here is very welcome as well as the preserving of metadata. Prior the PUT COPY would not allow you to retain proper version history(times). Now we can backup everything that hits an S3 bucket into a separate backup-account+region automatically :)

Now. If they would just allow us to push RDS snapshots into different accounts+regions.
This is true, investor and for that matter 'executive' lock-in is significantly more substantial than an individual contributor, and so (rightly so) is the investment to return. It's an interesting paradox. Reputation matters.
Hard means expensive and it wouldn't be much better than inefficient campuses
You can define induction, but you can't prove it, you need to introduce it as an assumption. That's inconvenient.
Even as a daily emacs user I got value out of learning vi a while ago. It's better for some kinds of editing and generally works better than the emacs bindings for job interview browser apps.
I use L-Theanine fairly regularly. There are some other supplements I take (like Ashwaghanda) that aren't necessarily considered nootropics.
I didn't state the assumption in my initial comment, and if I had, I wouldn't have been able to put it in terms of the "ring theory" model since I didn't know about that when I wrote the comment. Hence "In that model, [...]" just prior to your excerpt, although I suppose I might've been clearer there too that that was intended as a clarifying statement explicitly framed in the terms of that novel-to-me model.
The 8087 chip I added on to my 8086 system sits on my monitor pedestal, forever. Right now, it's next to my ()&(^&^%%$%^ Pixel 2 XL USB C audio connector. I was a grad student in numerical analysis and holy smokes! Hardware IEEE 754 floating point!

Sometime aroundish 1988 I paid $600 for an 80MB hard drive, out of a $12K/yr stipend. Good times.