jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You changed the threshold from "overwhelming the healthcare system" to "using the healthcare system". and think you're being clever. That won't work here.

>See, what you're saying is: I don't believe you should have freedom.

Save the drama, special snowflake. What we're saying, very clearly is "do your part to save lives".

If you're too selfish to do that, the rest of us don't want to be around you. Not because we think you're jerks (we do ), but because you might kill us. Is that unreasonable? Honestly?

Your rights end when they threaten the safety of others. It's been that way since the concept of "rights" came into existence. This isn't a new concept. It's a basic tenet of a working democratic society. It always has been.
Why not? A C++ pointer is a logical construct that exists in the language (as per the language standard) independent of any given implementation.

Same with "Java object reference" and "Java pointer" (synonyms).

If we can't discuss this topic using those well-defined things, what can we use?
GPT-3 isn't free either.

But neither is the GPT-3 to verify if the GPT-3 is GPT-3.
The original pitch is ‘a Wagon Train to the Stars’:

http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Star_Trek/1_Original_Series/St...
He’s a rather famous big-name (literally) author who started doing novels to get out of a tech startup. IIRC his first book was called “Singularity Sky”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky
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You may not be aware that the author, Charles Stross, is widely published. And has written a whole bunch of things that are definitely on the nerdy/geeky side of things.

Also, posts as cstross[3] here on HN and a pretty active contributor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
I don't think pay would necessarily solve the problem though either (edit: I do support paying teachers quite a bit more just don't think that is a magical solution). I'm not a teacher, don't pretend to understand the nuances but there seems to be a nasty conflagration of political barriers to holding some combination of children/teachers accountable for outcomes. Probably something related to withholding finding or other perverse incentives. I'm sure I'm not the only person on HN who has left a very high paying job for a different one because of bad culture factors.
If you want to work in a "big data"-type role as a developer, I wouldn't worry about finding huge data sets. There's a dearth of candidates, especially ones who actually have hands-on experience, and having deep knowledge of (and a little experience with) a broad range of tools will make you a pretty good candidate:

Fire up a VM with a single-node install on it [1] and just grab any old CSVs. Load them into HDFS, query them with Hive, query them with Impala (Drill, SparkQL, etc.). Rinse and repeat for any size of syslog data, then JSON data. Write a MapReduce job to transform the files in some way. Move on to some Spark exercises [2]. Read up on Kafka, understand how it works and think about ways to get exactly-once message delivery. Hook Kafka up to HDFS, or HBase, or a complex event processing pipeline. You'll probably need to know about serialization formats too, so study up on Avro, protobuf and Parquet (or ORCfile, as long as you understand columnar storage).

If you can talk intelligently about the whole grab bag of stuff these teams use, that'll get you in the door. Understanding RDBMSes, data warehousing concepts, and ETL is a big plus for people doing infrastructure work. If you're focused on analytics you can get away with less of the above, but knowing some of it, plus stats and BI tools (or D3 if you want to roll your own visualization) is a plus.

[1] http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/downloads/quicks...
[2] http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/5/
No offense, it just creeps me out. Then again I do know people whose only friends are in MMOs and that provides visual stimulation as well.
Encrypting ALL data at rest in my house

Improving my overall data integration skills

Training AI models with scikit learn
The mic could monitor for coughing frequency.
If everyone on the plane already has covid-19 then social distancing doesn't matter.
Heaven rest her soul, and calm the remainder.
I am working on my password manager's android app. Implementing Android's autofill capability. Alot of fighting with flutter, android, kotlin, ...
The password manager is Psono (https://psono.com) if someone wants to know. I built it myself because a couple of years ago when I started good alternatives did not exist.
Thanks, and for sure.

It's all Canvas 2D at the moment. There's no WebGL because when I started this project, three or four years back, it simply wasn't ubiquitous enough. Now I might be able to get away with WebGL (using something like Pixi.js) but the last couple of weeks I really just wanted to finish what I started rather than do a relatively substantial rewrite.

Another quirk is that I'm not using (think Phaser.js, or whatever), because the two main motivations for starting this project were that:

1. I wanted to get better at JavaScript, which I'd always been weak at.

2. I guess 2015/16 was a time when the front-end world felt like it was really going nuts with new frameworks coming out all the time, so I wanted to become familiar with and see what I could do using only APIs built directly into the browser.

Getting back to the point, in terms of effects I've implemented services to keep track of and render lists of particles and "clouds" of vapour. The latter are the translucent circles you see used to render rocket exhaust, and some of the explosion effects.

In fact I just use one service for both and swap in a different renderer for particles or vapours in each service instance, since both behave substantially the same.

Since we're throwing around hundreds or thousands of particles/vapours at a time, and, well, a lot of particles throughout the duration of a single game, and we want to avoid much garbage collection to keep the frame rate steady[1], I implemented an object pool so we're not constantly creating loads of garbage.

Particle types are defined declaratively: colour stops (including transparency), duration, expansion rate for vapours. Instances of particles also have properties like position and velocity.

Explosions are also defined declaratively with an arbitrary number of stops/events at timed intervals which define number and type of particles spawned, angular range through which they should be spawned, initial spread, velocity spread, any sound effect(s) to be played at each stop.

There's a service that manages explosions that you tell call with something like:

explosion.create(explosion.playerExplosion, player.position, player.velocity);

This will create an explosion of type "playerExplosion" at the player's position and apply the player's velocity as a drift to all particles and vapours created.

So once I've defined my explosion types it's easy to use them in a variety of different scenarios throughout the game without cluttering the logic too much. The services take care of rendering and particle management so these days I don't have to worry about it too much.

Hopefully that goes some way to answering your question but if you'd like to know anything else, please shout.

[1] GC screwing the frame rate is a genuine issue I ran into with this, particularly on mobile devices.
Are you thinking of this?

https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
I often remind journalists "real people don't use Twitter". It's not entirely true, of course, but it's largely bots, people pretending to be bots, celebrities, people pretending to be celebrities, and journalists. It's performative.
I got hooked on this in December after getting an iPad. Trying to moderate my usage. It helps to realize that 1) it's supposed to be fun and 2) I'll never be the best. I'd imagine I'll get off it a bit more once the weather warms up.

It's really well-made. My biggest knock on it is that it's a typical "milk as much money as possible out of the user" game, so you never know which mechanics are truly random or which ones are set up to hack your psychology. Some of the nags/alerts wear on you. I also wish it was a bit more optimized for aesthetics (no diagonal roads!).

But the UX is extremely good. The visuals are nice. The contests and general gameplay goals are engaging and fun. It's 4X-like, with that "one more turn" vibe and the need to balance multiple goals.
And IIRC they have LCD screens... Always-on display is a 'killer app' for me, so that immediately rules out the FP2.

(Tangentially related: I don't really understand why Apple doesn't include this feature, even though they use OLED screens.)
The Central Limit Theorem is one big reason to expect that traits have a normal distribution. Wikipedia has a good explanation. [1] and [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre–Laplace_theorem
Also, given today's standards, how would humans evolve in, next, 100 thousand years?
s/database/data, and you have actual application design spot-on.

Applications are designed around the data constraints. Full stop. Or you are just pretending.
Here is one that I was hoping it would work for: http://clerkdogs.com/movies/51923-intacto-2002/matches

Obscure, but that's kind of the point with this sort of app

On a sidenote: You can definitely resolve the speed issues people are talking / complaining about by pre-computing and storing everything, instead of doing it on the fly
You're right, that was too broad a statement. However, it is undeniable that in-browser compilation of CSS will always be slower than precompilation, as long as the compilation outputs CSS. For some people, this speed hit will never be negligible. But for those who don't need to squeeze every bit of performance out of their sites, it's sufficient that it only be an order of magnitude or two faster than the HTTP request.

However, that's not the case right now. Maybe in the future Javascript's string parsing will become dramatically faster, but in my benchmarks elsewhere on this thread, it's clear that for large files less.js is pretty slow relative to HTTP.

As for serving it up as JSON: no one wants to write stylesheets in JSON. The reason Less became popular as an alternative to Sass was that it had a CSS-like syntax.
You should tell people that the global chat room isn't anonymous, and that their facebook profile will be linked in the chat room. It's always bad when users have to find out from other users that they aren't anonymous.
Yeah, the site works on Safari 5, so it must be latency. In particular, sometimes the external Facebook JS takes a long time to load. I'll add a loading message. Thanks!
It doesn't do that on mine. :|

What OS + version of Chrome are you using? What happens if you resize the browser window?

Thanks for taking the time to get a screenshot, I appreciate that.
On chrome, it looks a little strange. The chat window is all compressed into one line.

http://imgur.com/ldNpV
i bought my TV in los angeles and live here.
Unfortunately the main problem is that Android devices allow arbitrary packages to be installed. There will always be someone willing and able to crack and distribute any given app that relies solely on client-side security. Your best bet is to roll your own obscure anti-piracy and hope you get most of your sales in the first few days, or look at a solution based on IAP receipts.

The same problem exists on iOS, but jailbreaking is an extra inconvenience that only 10% or so of users will accept.

Also I doubt many users think twice about downloading a pirated app nowadays (and they should, due to the very real threat of trojans). It's been over a decade since "don't copy that floppy" was replaced by the music/film industry's crusade.
Haskell should be listed as Confucianism.

It is an orderly society built on a tight system of rules which delineate the role of each thing and its respective place in the cosmos. People think that the rules are confusing and legalistic, but great societies can be built atop it and it's foundations.
Great example of what I am talking about.
It’s not what people do. It's what your software does to people.
This quote struck me as funny and sad:

"I’d rather buy the cheapest grains and vegetables than buy the cheapest meat. Bargain basement meat is likely produced in atrocious factory farming conditions and pumped up with hormones."

What gave him the idea that bargain basement vegetables are produced in any better conditions… or that they produce any better product (nutritionally speaking)?
I'm in the office (with external monitor) half the time and working from home (without external monitor) the other half. It always takes me about a day to get used to the switch. But generally those 2 straight weeks of working on a bigger monitor are worth the acclimation time.
Where engineers feel most repressed is when they are the ones directly making money for the company, but are being taken advantage of by "business people" who aren't making the company money.

(Disclaimer: I am a software engineer)

I think a lot of this attitude comes from lack of awareness of how the "business guys" do - indeed - make money for the company (even when the product is software.) It's easy for us techies to get so enraptured with the pure, raw technology that we miss the "other stuff" that matters; things like the fact that software doesn't jump off the shelf and sell itself to customers, the idea of assembling a "whole product," and how important that is to selling something, the importance of demand creation activities, the extent to which "business" functions like marketing and product management serve as a bridge between the customer and engineering, etc. If more of us engineers would look up and around and pay attention to what the biz guy and gals actually DO, and not just lean on tired old stereotypes, it would help a lot.

And, of course, the converse is true as well. Business folks don't necessarily understand what engineers do, and they also fall into thinking based on stereotypes.

In the end, we probably just need more dialogue between both groups and more shared understanding of the world around us.
Well, I tried a couple of articles from lemonde.fr, translating from french to english. The first worked ok, but the second... The title was "Apple dément pister les utilisateurs d'iPhone" which should translate to "Apple denies tracking iPhone users". It got translated to "Insane Apple tracks iPhone users"

For the record, Google comes up with "Apple denies iPhone users track"
I think its debatable whether american apparel did well because they were vertically integrated / located in the US, or in spite of it.

Nucor is another example frequently cited as a company innovating in a shrinking industry. But they have had their share of troubles as well.
This is a great article; thanks for posting it.
After reading the blurb about gymnastics I realized that this was the Jason used to compete with me back in high school over on the East Coast. Times like this reminds me how small the world is!
Do people really close their eyes because they were told so in an advertisement?
Did you even read the article? It explicitly states the cloak bandwidth includes red, green, and blue optical frequencies. Calcite's dispersion relation gives slightly different shifts for each frequency, but this is nevertheless a huge step forward.

http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1012.2238
http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1012.2783v1
Makes the article seem "edgy"
Gotta hand it to Microsoft.

Behind the times on web dev for so long, now busting out open source left and right, teaming up on Angular with Google, jumping on with nodejs, modernizing their tools, "gently" pushing locked in MS web devs out of the darkness of that Web Forms madness into the light of real web development.

I've always been a LAMP stack dev but they have at least caught my attention as of late.
And Microsoft's Kerberos implementation (AD) hashes passwords on the domain controller using... NTLM!

How am I misleading?
At the same time your initial reaction must at the very least say something about how k8 is different from other technologies where you won't have this reaction.
In the long term it's ineveitable, juist like self ddiving cars are. Computers are actually very suitable for this.

Today, ya, maybe not yet, but we are definitely close. Flying is a hard job on humans, the hours suck, the job can be very monontomous. The problem isn't that the pilots are evil/bad, just that humans are unsuited to these kinds of tasks. Like driving.
I get free wire transfers at my bank
That would take so much more time than sorting each batch of 1000 notes, and sorted notes let you do your daily check in less than a minute.
Replace Tesla with Facebook, or a fraction of one large tech company, or less than the $900B stimulus bill that was just passed.

My point was only that it’s a currently a small fraction of the overall US equity market, and if it becomes increasingly widely accepted as a reserve currency comparable to the dollar or an inflation protected asset like gold then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be worth trillions.
From your license agreements (this language appears in all 3):

You are NOT allowed to:

Redistribute in any way any of the userTrack files or any parts of the userTrack's source code (with the exception of the public tracker JavaScript files that have to be included on your site).

Install userTrack on someone else's server.

Continue using userTrack or offering userTrack access to others after this license agreement has been voided (either via a refund, license period expiration or legal action).

This is not open source (or even "fair code" as redis etc advocate for). Providing the source but under a license like this is usually referred to as visible source or shared source
Dosbox also runs on Xbox One via Retroarch. So in essence the Xbox can be a retro Windows gaming machine as well. PCem also has a very primitive core. If only Dosbox-X had a core we could run Windows on Xbox which is still possible, I think, using Dosbox or PCem.
Why not?

I work for ERP/eCommerce, so this issue happens. But for real, I need to store historical facts anyway ie: In a invoice/order I must store the ship info at the time of the transaction.

A artificial ID is useless in a lot of cases where "and if the key change, what?" because if that is an issue, is mostly because the data must retain history, and then, you need to store that anyway.

For that, I log the data in a history/log table.
Guardian story about this ruling:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/06/julian-assange...

And the BBC's:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55562207
Blogspam wrapped around what was linked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322 .
I don't recall where I read it but I recall that the nucleus of a cell started out as a captive bacterium.
I don't have to worry about sickle cell disease.
I do these kind of calculations all of the time and never realize units had this level of functionality. Wow, thanks Faaak!
My other experiences at that company definitely put things in a bad light. I should take another look at it, you're right...
All languages have, at least, nouny things and verby things, and a finite(expandable) number of them composable in infinite ways, and I'd say our brains are hardwired for it. So any notation good for humans would have to have this property, which would mean being "equivalent" (in a way) to the language that already exists.

I don't see how any improvement can be anything more than cosmetic.
You don't get your descriptions or tags that way though.
> That is, if you "identify" as a particular sex, then you "really are" that sex, in some essential sense.

I think you critically misunderstand, the view is not primarily that gender identity is an essential fact (that's not uncommon, but not central), but that ascribed gender (including “sex” categories, but not the multidimensional variety of combinations of sex traits) is not essential, just a socially constructed designation tied to gender stereotypes, thar, when it is not based on gender identity of the subject (no matter where gender identity comes from), is an intolerable hostile imposition.
I don't think it is a reflection of peoples opinions on things. If it is tech news then someone will post it.
> it's still possible to extract audio from the video you are streaming, if you are perfectly still, streaming high resolution, lossless, 60FPS video of a single object very sensitive to vibrations in the air.

You would have to be trying extremely hard to get a periscope video which could have audio extracted, if it's possible at all with all the compression involved.
You have a point, but it's pretty telling that they could hear the guy breathing and not responding to ATC, and that he took the plane into a nosedive the second the captain left the cabin. I really want to see what the data recorder says, though.
I love that idea. In some situations there's actually a USPS process for changing the number address of a plot of land. I remember the first house my parents bought had two valid addresses until they got everyone using the same one.
I keep tax and similar docs on dropbox inside a truecrypt encrypted disk. Suitable level of security for my needs, and I like that its synced across a few systems (including one that is separately backed up).
Is this the article that cause Scott to delete Slate Star Codex? Shame on NYT.
Digital Halftoning by Robert Ulichney
I appreciate that. Best of luck to you as well.
Languages are inseperable from the culture they evolve in. Humour, historical references, values, even entire philosophical concepts can be impossible to adequately translate, because they are often so closely tied to the way a culture’s language developed and is used. Because of that, you‘ll never truly know a culture until you know its language.

(See also: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1359574074326982664)
Making the statistical model for E(claims) worse on purpose by excluding relevant features (e.g. inherent traits) is political. The insurers have no choice since the ethical views of the majority are hoisted upon them through politics. The causal path has its roots in an ethical conversation that has played out in public, but this has mediated itself through politics/legislation.

The crime analogy is inappropriate. Insurance is a private voluntary arrangement between two consenting entities. Convictions on the other hand are an involuntary imposition on an unwilling party.

One could make the argument that allowing inherent traits in the pricing of insurance is the less authoritarian and more utilitarian option, since it is less forceful state interference in private business and leads to more accurate claims pricing and less subsidisation of insurance for person A by person B. Your prison sentencing analogy on the other hand implies more force, which is why I don't view it as a valid analogy.

The ethical argument can go either way depending on the axioms we pick a priori. If we pick Libertarian deontological axioms, then the ethical choice is to allow inherent traits into the model. If we pick racial equity deontological axioms, then we get another conclusion.
Thanks a lot. Good advice. I appreciate.
I don’t do what I need to do to help myself most of the time. Turns out my reason might be an executive function disorder. Perhaps many of these people who don’t do their part to help them selves are actually suffering from poor mental health?
thanks for the advice, we'll start making this list and networking.
Define "regularly". I get drunk fairly regularly (1-3 times a week), and I'm pretty happy with that for of fun, as well as the sober kind.