jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All your kind words are literally bringing tears to my eyes--thank you!

My current plan is to keep writing freely-available guides for as long as I can reach the keyboard. And maybe even longer with what will undoubtedly be awesome futuristic speech recognition--or mind-reading! That's not scary at all!

I'm leaning on bash/zsh scripting one I finish the utterly gigantic C guide I'm on now... hopefully later this year. But I'm always open to suggestion for topics... :)
It's just poor design to allow for good-faith. It's too easy for a bad actor to artificially create "leftover" doses to give to friends and family. Just don't allow doctor discretion and organize better for the next day, problem solved.
It's a ripple effect. Billionaires end up pricing out hundred-millionaires, who price out millionaires and so on.

All of the above also buy up rental property. And wealthy foreign criminals andtax evaders get in on the act by buying up property sight unseen as a foreign bolthole.

This is how we end up with cleaners and baristas having to share a room and commute 1 hour each wayway and property prices that are, like, 17x the average wage.

It's weird how so many people are apparently in denial about this.
I've heard before that there is a schism in the D community between two different options, but never can remember what it is. Something that fragments the ecosystem?
Yes, so there's no reason for people to think they will risk going to jail for incorrectly filling out their tax returns.
The most official site is https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f....

For some reason, the TurboTax version of FreeFile is now limited to below $33000 AGI. It wasn't last year. The FreeFile from other companies has the limit of $72000, which is what I thought the law said it has to be. I am not sure how that is possible, but I'm sure it took some extensive lawyering and lobbying by Intuit.
It’s a very intriguing post. I, too, have been trying to work out its logical ramifications. I feel, perhaps, that the poster may, at any given time, be in possession of two sets of clothing.
Docker: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/apple-m1/
Parallels: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili...
I agree, but you don't need thermal noise to simulate the effects quantum randomness. You can use actual quantum randomness! The number of photons absorbed in a photodetector is determined by quantum randomness, because some of them are absorbed and some of them pass trough. IIRC a camera with a CCD is enough to measure individual photons.

(Nevertheless, in my opinion neither of this is necessary to simulate consciousness, a good PRNG would be enough, but we should wait a few years until this is confirmed.)
Some of the Wikipedia mailing lists did this a year or two ago, adding a limit of 30 posts per person per month. Not sure it's had any significant impact on the community, but it has somewhat reduced the volume of a few really, really prolific posters, which is a slight improvement to the S:N ratio. (There exist mailing lists where the most prolific posters are also good contributors, but imo this is not true of the Wikipedia lists, so the cap has mostly excluded posts I find noisy/redundant.)
The title of this Wired article is somewhat over the top. It is about a (then) upcoming Gareth Owen's presentation on 31C3.

I just watched it [1] yesterday, and Gareth Owen himself says that this number is the count of a certain kind of hidden service request that should not be confused with "visits" or "visitors", for a number of reasons. The main ones I remember are:

- The specific kind of request measured is the first step towards connecting to the service, but may not always represent a complete connection that can be mapped to a individual

- Various anti-childporn organizations crawl the dark web constantly searching and indexing child pornography hidden services

[1] http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6112_-_en_-_...
You're right. That was actually a bad example, I admit. A better example would be the bottle of soda that you might see on a store shelf.

I've updated the reply.
Not a new rendering engine, reading view/list already exist in Safari or with plugins, annotation doesn't seem that usefull. I would have expected more tools to handle tab overload, password management, plugins.
Ceramics don't break down at temperatures encountered in cooking. Teflon does. The only question is whether the breakdown products are bioactive.

Did you even read the second paragraph?

Skepticism is a valuable thing, but it is not an unerring guide to truth. You need to be less credulous of your skepticism.
Let's be honest, no amount of proof would convince them. They would move the goalpost as far as necessary for them to get what they want. They just KNOW they WON the election and I fail to see what would budge their belief.

I think it's a mistake to think that these people argue in good faith. I tried listening to what they have to say and they're not consistent, they're not coherent, they're not honest and they want the truth only if it confirms their beliefs.
My early-2011 MacBook Pro died a few weeks ago after almost four years of quite heavy use. It actually took hardly any convincing to get the people at the Apple store to replace it at their cost - I'm not sure if that's because of Australia's stronger consumer protection law or because they knew how common a problem it is.

They must have applied the heat transfer compound better than before, because with SMCFanControl running a bit higher than normal I haven't seen it go above 65 degrees C much now (admittedly I haven't done much heavy lifting with it yet) and feels cooler to the touch up the top.
what type of contractor?
A few years ago I took a tech support call from a guy who was visually impaired and had voice over turned on. It read incredibly fast, he had no problems following instructions, and was familiar enough with what we were doing to make the call easy for both of us.

I also used to work as a personal assistant for a guy in a wheelchair who used Dragon Speakeasy, I think that was back in 2005 - '06ish, and was surprised how well he was able to use his PC. He also had a book turning machine that reliably turned one page at a time.

This also reminds me of people who ride bikes using echo location.[1]

I wonder if it's possible to generate a sound stream from video, and what sort of resolution and colour depth could be encoded in to the sound.

This TED talk by Daniel Kish is good too.[2]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_E3zxx2l9g
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRA-asTuP_Y
Completely agreed, hence wanting to donate. There are a lot of cool uses for what's essentially a kickstarter for digital goods... however by explicitly saying the illegal possibilities are a goal, all their funders are (I think / not a lawyer) committing a crime. It's illegal in most countries to knowingly help people break the law.
I was with you until you said "Look at how horrible the UX of HN is compared to reddit." Admittedly, I rarely use reddit, but ... are you serious?
Replace "cancelled" with "held accountable for their actions"
No matter what you build it is so completely different than being able to walk around a room and strike up a conversation. There just isn't a comparison to real human interaction, and I think at this point in the zoom era with a widespread feeling of a lack of connectedness with online platforms, we can all admit that.
>First, if you review the financials of the storage companies compared to earnings of all cloud companies they're abysmal.

I'm sorry but you're just flat out wrong and didn't bother to look up margins like I suggested you do.

NTAP 2020 margins: 66%
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NTAP/netapp/gross-...

AMZ 2020 margins: ~41%
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/profit...

An all time high... and not even close.

>Storage is an old, stable, and commoditized market.

Which is why... per my original post... the cloud providers struggle to provide basic features in 2021 that have been available to enterprise storage customers for 20+ years.
Wait you went to a summer camp with an electrified fence? Is that common?
2-sided is a great idea. It would cut down the noise. Put a washable pre-filter on the intake, and a disposable HEPA filter on the output.

What about fit though, with the homegrown solution? Is that a square foot of tape to fill the gaps? Changing filters looks to be a big taping job.
This sounds a lot like how gVisor runs Linux programs.
This was a great article!
I wonder why such problems don't show up on windows.. is it because they have so many developers or that windows has to reboot at least every two weeks?
I use boltdb for all my personal projects. Thank you so much for writing it.
All of this is an immense wheel reinvention, and the SQL I'm seeing is actually far worse than what ActiveRecord or Django's ORM would generate.

Also, talking about such a low level performance issues makes me think we're already talking about very different problems. Maybe you're working for Google or Amazon or a pretty performance heavy application. Then ok, I agree with you.

But my disconfort is with most startups, and most average companies chosing Go and doing all of this reinvention when what they are doing is basic CRUD for a web app that has less than 100 reqs a day.

For the use cases I've seen of Go so far, the bottleneck was caused by using it, and it's ecosystem, because the slowest part of the system is the development time and the need to rebuild from scratch a lot of things you get for free otherwise.
I was curious about the history of that nickname.

The oldest reference I could find is: Gloria Lubkin, 'Chien-Shiung Wu, The First Lady of Physics Research', Smithsonian, Vol. I (January 1971), 52-57.

I am unable to find an online copy of that issue.

There are only a few publications with that phrase before ~2000, and only as citations to the Smithsonian article.

The nickname became popular with the publication of "Wu Jianshong, The First Lady of Physics", a 1996 biography by Caijian Jiang. https://www.worldcat.org/title/wu-jianshong-the-first-lady-o... . It's in Chinese - I believe the citation you give is for an English translation.

For example, in 2000 there was a talk titled 'Wu Chien-Shiung the First Lady of Physics" at the Overseas Chinese Physics Association, see https://books.google.com/books?id=1FRhDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR7&ots=7... . The speaker borrowed the title from the book.
Looks like a marketing campaign from a competitor to be honest...
You have valid points, I disagree on personal preference and so I'll agree to disagree.

I guess what i'm saying is building from scratch makes different happen. I can see the purpose of frameworks but when it comes to a new start-up project, it just feels like it should be built from scratch otherwise you have a project which is pre-made and not really yours. Thats what puts me off from using a framework.

Myself was script-kiddie in the older-generation of the internet era, 15/16. I'm talking 2003. when extensions have .php3 and uploading scripts over 56k took hours. If you wanted a forum, same for a CMS either use a pre-existing platform and used the functionality it provided or built it yourself. PHPNuke, e107, PHPBB all come to mind. However the internet was young, compared to now where technology has evolved and time is less, so I can see where frameworks come in.
See also The Dark Forest:

> The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

* https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7378369-the-universe-is-a-d...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

Kurzgesagt video (12m):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUJYP8tnRE
You're describing the anti-martingale which is a different strategy with a statistically expected profit of $0 for random coin flip type games.

The Kelly criterion is different and has a positive expected profit.
The Sound of the Multicultural London English dialect (Numbers, Greetings, Words & Sample Text)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FHhHJCPqFU

Ali G In Da House - Best Parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foS84bEZSO4
I'm not sure how it was in the early days of Uber, but these days Uber does background checks on drivers, and IIRC they have for quite some time. Is there really any reason to believe that cab companies would do a better job of weeding out horrible people than Uber? I can't imagine they do much more than a background check.
I took an abstract algebra course in college. I don't think we talked about squaring the circle, but we did visit the problem of trisecting the angle. What we learned is that compass-straightedge construction can execute a finite number of primitive operations, notably the arithmetic operators +, -, *, and /, along with square root. And that's it. Then we showed that trisecting the angle requires a cube root button, which is what makes it impossible.

The cool thing was finding a correspondence between geometry and algebra, followed by completing the proof as an almost trivial algebra problem.
I wish I had a screenshot of the original version. It was absolutely awful. It seemed like the code wasn't touched in at least 5 years.

Nice job with the redesigned version, but in all seriousness... I wonder what took so long? Every few months a company should take a spin as a new user and find ways to refine the new-user process.

Use this as a reminder to take another look at your registration sign-up process in 2015.
We don't have enough content about this yet, but we run a very vanilla Postgres setup on big, beefy servers and scale resources vertically, similar to how we start with MongoDB: https://blog.compose.io/how-we-scale-mongodb/

Scaling Postgres horizontally is not something most of our customers need right now. When we do release scale-out, it'll be obvious to customers how we do it — we might just make something from our good buddies at Citus Data available, for instance.
One thing I hear a lot is to just double the sales tax. Around CA, when it was around 7.5%, it added up to a nice 15%. Since they recently increased sales taxes to about 8.5-9% depending on the city, it doesn't work that way. Or yes, if you account for tip inflation.
Here are some observations that may or may not help you:

Average programmers tend to:
* like new projects
* want to build "new things"
* not like fixing bugs
* not like reading code
* not like to redo their designs/code
* think their code is as good as it gets

Good programmers on the other hand
* tries to find joy in thr task at hand
* thinks their old code is bad
* aren't invested in their own designs
* don't fear trying solutions
* reads code rather than docs about the code
* don't mind fixing bugs
* happy when the code quality goes up, hates it when it goes down.

In other words - good coders CARE, average coders just want to have fun and build stuff. This means the latter group doesn't build the understanding of how to build good, bug free code. They prefer to build themselves into a corner rather than throwing out their designs. Thus they get less practice.
If the OS provided an interface for SELECT_CONTACT or SELECT_CONTACTS that allows for single or multi-select... then can only see the contact info for the contact selected, that would be cleaner, and not expose all of one's contacts.
I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)
They removed the CAPTCHA, I'm not surprised.
Our of curiosity, has this been raised with the developer?
More transparent than the opaque financial industry. You as a user completely own your assets, with your public key. Yes blockchain wallets/public keys are bad UX, but at the same time they give you actual ownership of your securities/index funds. A person can have access to the same financial products that banks have access to, because they cost a fraction of a price to run then they normally do on CEX and instead of waiting for 3 days for a transaction to complete, it completes in 5 minutes. I could go on and on... Essentially blockchain makes financial products faster, cheaper and more accessible. No middlemen involved and a transparent audit trail.
When it's claimed that it's "scientifically impossible" it has quite a lot to do with denials. Especially in the context of the authors other works.
There’s absolutely no reason they need to know your location before making an offer. “Where am I? Pacific time zone in US tax jurisdiction.”

I hope location becomes something people talk about in negotiations like salary expectations and previous compensation. “Don’t tell them where you live until you get an offer.” “Get them to name a number before you say where you are.” “Recruiters who force you to tell them up front are a huge red flag.”

There’s a big list of questions you aren’t allowed to ask a candidate because while yes they do indicate that a candidate has a weaker negotiating position and therefore paying them less is “fair” in a market sense, we have collectively decided that exploiting that market disparity is unfair. So you aren’t allowed to ask it anymore. In other words, the market doesn’t define a “fair” wage. Fairness comes from elsewhere.

Hopefully “what city are you in” becomes an off-limits question ASAP. You live in a historically disadvantaged location? Great we’ll pay you less. I wonder what kind of disparities that’s gonna cause.
ironically the biggest issue with crypto as an actual currency is stability, which could easily be solved via a stable coin or something tethered. but there’s zero excitement about that and all the excitement is around bitcoin, because all people really care about is that it goes up up in price
Tech workers exist outside of Big Tech and well funded SaaS companies. I've worked as a person working on the internal bulletin board, planograms and point of sales devices at a retail company. I've worked writing reports at a small logistics company that specialized in getting auto parts to garages. I'm currently working in the public sector.

In none of these have I made six figures.

Part of this is locale. Part of it is I'm not seeking out those Big Tech jobs. Part of it is the industries I've been working in.

Lumping the public sector in the midwest into "US tech workers" and claiming the entire pool is overpaid is the reality for a small set of industries in (what has been) a few geographic bubbles.
I don't see anything the NYT could have done to give this author the level of anonymity he wanted. He wasn't anonymous to start with, and the standard of "I don't mind being known, I just don't want to be mentioned in the NYT" isn't a reasonable standard.
I think you misunderstood their question. Obviously immune response to common cold isn't effective against rona. But if this vaccine is effective against a wide range of coronaviruses, could it also be effective against the one that causes the common cold?
And, of course, to the point, many have a state paid public broadcaster for news and other programs (BBC, France does, Germany iirc does, Italy, etc) - and it's not some niche channels delegated to upper middle class viewers (like, I think, NPR is, if that's indeed public).
I don't know about the currying, but Java has already lambda and optionals, and is getting immutable records, sealed class (product and sum types), pattern matching and type inference in Project Amber [1]. They all are features usually found in functional languages (Standard ML for example).

[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber/
Sounds like you might enjoy Astronomy Picture of the Day.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
>30-year US Treasuries are tough to beat.

Only because most of the world hasn't caught up yet to what a dollar real's worth is.
Location: relocating from Boston/ to Hong Kong (for the love of my Swedish girlfriend...hence the remote job search)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocation: not again (see above)

Technologies: Python/R/Bash/Matlab/Latex/git | UNIX/Linux | TF2/keras/CUDA for ML models

CV: https://github.com/dcolinmorgan/DCM_CV/blob/master/Resume.pd...

email: dcolinmorgan@gmail.com (also my username for github and linkedin)

I love plotting and data visualization.

I am finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at harvard medical school looking to break out of academia. My PhD dissertation was in graph and network theory, applying nonlinear models to biodata (all kinds of 'omics) and I now work on time course trajectory modeling with LSTMs mostly, as well as integration of many 'omics to predict novel therapeutics

I am a contributor to open-source projects, in particular to the netZoo package https://github.com/netZoo/ and https://bitbucket.org/sonnhammergrni/genespider/src/master/
http://www.ercot.com/

You can see the forecasted gap on the home page. It’s going to her worse.
No, it was the other way around. T_D was already dead. The mods had already locked it and moved to thedonald.win. Banning it was meaningless, they just did it to make the /r/chapotraphouse ban look more fair.

Here's a list of subs banned that day with active user counts:

https://www.redditstatic.com/banned-subreddits-june-2020.txt

Chapo was the largest by a large margin besides /r/darkhumorandmemes (edgy jokes).

And you are just straight up lying about /r/chapotraphouse2. It was banned the same day, as was /r/chapotraphouse3 through /r/chapotraphouse49.
Do you also pay $10K/mo for a quarter-time dev role world-wide?
ntpd does indeed skip time, contrary to popular belief. I didn't believe it myself until one day I studied the documentation and code.

Check out the "-x" flag in the manpage.

I recommend dumping ntpd and using chrony instead, and also configuring chrony for a time smear rather than the leap second as required by the standard.
Is there proof they had actual IEDs? Zip ties are bad, but they're not in the same universe as IEDs. If they had IEDs I'd be way more open to the idea of characterizing this as terrorism, and all that comes with it.

Edit: It sounds like the cops say they found IEDs. I'll be following that closely to update my view on the proper response to this.

Edit2: Actually the report is that the IEDs were not found at the Capitol or as part of that but near the RNC and DNC offices elsewhere, and a pipe bomb was found in a car. So there is no evidence that the people who entered the capitol were carrying bombs. The specifics in this case matter.
roaming profiles is one common way.

I've seen it done badly a number of times, and I've seen it done correctly, and work really well.
US embassies just about everywhere are like that. The one in Budapest has two inch thick metal bar gates and guards armed with machine guns. Lesson learned from the embassy hostage crisis in Iran.

Anyway, an angry mob of wacko rioters shouldn't violently force their way into the legislative's building. They should respect the outcome of the democratic vote and vote again in four years. Maybe if this was Iran I would say okay, people are fed up with the ayatollah and the revolutionary guards, but this is the US and the poor buggers are being manipulated, shot tear gas at and four of them got killed. For what? Absolutely nothing. The unfortunate officer died doing his job. This is very sad and scary, it looks like civil war brewing. A really bad thing to happen to a nation armed with nukes. Please do not let it happen, it is within your power to distance yourselves from these people and just say no to violence and vandalism.