jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I read somewhere once that the average estate sale yields just $900. That made an impact on me as for all the personal value that we put on our stuff - be it jewelry, electronics, motorcycles, boats - whatever your toys might be, in the end aren't worth much to anyone else. The stuff that really bothers me is consumer packaging. I'm shocked each week when I take out the trash and recycling how much of it is redundant - a cardboard wrapper with a plastic wrapper or two beneath, only parts of which are recyclable locally. I really wish manufacturers, especially of high-volume consumables, would come up with less energy-intensive packaging. Stick it in a brown cardboard box with black ink and I'll still buy it, but will feel a whole lot better to not see so much waste.
FYI 大きい (ookii) is an い adjective, not a な, so 大きな赤いボール is incorrect. I suspect you know this though since you got it right for the second example, but what you wanted is 大きくて赤いボール (ookikute akai booru) I believe. And additionally, for な "adjectives" (so to speak, since it's not a direct analog and have characteristics of nouns), you wouldn't just string な with the next adjective, but replace it with で. like , 静かで可愛い人。

But as you mentioned, as far as I understand, the ordering is much more about emphasis than some set rule - to put it with some contrived conversations:

A: I saw a big blue ball
B: Eh? It was a big RED ball!

vs

A: I saw a big red ball
B: Eh? It was a SMALL red ball!

then either ordering could sound natural in context. But I'm not Japanese so I can ask my wife later if that's really the case.
We are trying to build a taxonomy of ingredients so that we can automatically analyze the ingredients list and find out if it's suitable for vegans, vegetarians, people who cannot eat gluten, lactose etc. There's still a lot of work to do, would you like to help?
I wonder if their donor base has shifted? One big donor can obviate many thousands of grass-roots members with a few 10's of millions.

I've donated several times, thought they stood for something.

Similar thing happened wit h the Sierra Club when they started taking money from big oil. Now they're mostly just anti-nuclear lobbyists.

Point is, once an entity gets a reputation for doing "good", they become so valuable as a business sheepskin than any number of individual donors could ever hop to match.
We've already passed legislation up here saying that if North America switches, we're going to follow suit.
Yes, a document can just be a (ptr, length). I guess I don't see the benefit a b-tree adds here. I'd probably just use a red-black, AVL, even binary tree with nodes either pointing to blocks on the file (ptr, length) or nodes containing new data in memory (ptr, length, data) with the invariant that no two nodes can ever have overlapping (ptr, length).

My understand is that btrees are a multi-level index that reduces the number of blocks that need to be read from disk to manage an index. I don't see that being a use-case here and thought maybe I was missing something.

With that said, I wonder if the calculus changes if the file is so large that it won't fit in memory and thus, b-trees maybe somehow helpful in flushing data to disk. However, this then starts to look like a block allocator problem. Suppose as you run out of memory you start flushing blocks to disk. But the user is still editing the file and so some of these blocks that were flushed to disk are no longer valid. Youu'd hve to keep track of those "unallocated" blocks on disk to enable re-use thus improve space efficiency. As far as I understand, block allocators are not solved with btrees.
The longer I use React, the more I appreciate the power of being able to pass children to components.
How is creating a new user complicated? The normal CREATE USER is all I've ever needed to create a new user in postgres (assuming I don't have set up the pg_hba so that I need to allow every user separately)
I don't think that is the case.

Tech companies engaged in illegal collusion to keep salaries down, as usual the penalty for doing so was far less than their benefit.
I was just saying it didn't take over the spacebar globally.

The zoom app has lots of room for better features, for sure.
I agree. One of my favorite aspects of visiting DC is the remarkable extent to which ordinary citizens have access to the workings of government. Sure, there's some security, but mostly to keep things orderly, not secret.
It's also common for important people to have secretaries managing their affairs.
Very wise, and it's important to remember that no matter how 'in the right frame of mind' you are normally, you are basically a different person when coming out from general anesthesia.
Fascinating to see the highest state of the art of pre-digital cryptography, right before it was rendered obsolete. Very evocative that volumes 4-6 were planned but never completed, presumably because the first crop of modern encryption schemes were already outdating theses volumes as they were being written.

I wish the NSA would declassify more records of what it managed to break in the pre-digital era, now that the methods are out of date and the people involved are mostly dead. It would be great for historians to see both what the agency was capable of in that period, and how its methods, together with its successes and failures, shaped history in the early Cold War.
I have a UI issue with signal, but other than that I think the app is rock solid. I openly write and send passwords and credit card numbers to my wife from time to time.

The interface can look better, and it would be great if it can automatically backup all messages and media to the cloud and encrypt it. There is also this annoying "verify pin" popup that shows up once in a while.
Which is exactly what's happening.
Well, they've developed their EGLStream approach and that probably cost some resources on their end so the question is why they decided to go that way at all. It seems like a waste to me to develop something nobody is going to use and I don't see the business reason for this particular development.
As someone with lots of anti-anti-botting knowledge - both are ineffective.

Even if it's a "global rate limit" I'll find out the value (never ran into someone randomizing it) and jump on the web request faster than anyone else RIGHT as it comes up.

With CAPTCHAs I'll bypass with a solving service and/or computer vision if it's easy, or even just get past the noCAPTCHA solutions with primed browser instances from credible networks.

But don't kid yourself - that would not solve botting at all.
I’d encourage you to leverage your frond end expertise and approach the ML research from product angle. Computer vision can be an ideal fit where I’ve seen my previous colleague becomes very successful by launching on device CV application with a research team and he dive deep into the topic along the way.

Traditional ML is much tricker but I think visualization might be a good starting point
Philip Greenspun

https://philip.greenspun.com/personal/resume
Disclaimer: Not trying to recommend a product or anything here, just never knew that RF probes existed for fields from DC to 9GHz... Of course, this is probably old information for some specialized electrical engineering professions (I mostly do software... EE is just a side hobby for me, so forgive the ignorance...). But anyway, I think the ability to detect fields of any frequency (well, up to 9Ghz!) is unbelievably cool! It gives me ideas for Star-Trek like devices...
It's been said "rocket science is not rocket science".

Elon Musk put reportedly 90 millions his own dollars into Falcon-1. So it was enough a decade ago to spend $90 millions for Kwajalein launch pad, 5 units of Falcon-1, design, transportation, operations.

Should we assume that today that ought to be cheaper - especially if we find a cheaper launch pad and be more lucky with at least first launch? Rocket Lab isn't that successful with it, but shouldn't it be possible at all? A recent new Japanese launcher was lighter than 3 tons.

Now there are more modest companies, which don't put payloads to orbit, yet still qualify as "space business". I'd recall Altius Space Machines and Masten Space. You can add parts manufacturers for cubesats - parts like star trackers reaction wheels, RCSes, communications... They usually start with way less than tens of million dollars.

Why a particular approach should cost a lot? Kistler Aerospace found that buying components for orbital launchers on the market is too expensive to survive, but may be there are other ways?
Their vlc UI on Android is an issue for me because it overlaps the ANDROID ui buttons (home back etc )
https://github.com/0install/0repo-queue/blob/master/unikerne... is this safe? Coming from my haskell background, I'd expect a check for failure here; how does ocaml handle it? Exceptions?
As someone maintaining a bunch of django services in need of TLC, this could be a lifesaver for me. Thank you!
The last paragraph of this comment reminds me of the New Yorker cover, "View of the World from 9th Avenue." Just add a judicious "insurrectionists" label on the far side of "New Jersey".
When I taught programming at a coding bootcamp, my first piece of advice to students was always “Programming can be hard, so it’s important to have fun”. We would start by creating ascii art in the console, and move into slightly more complicated graphics to become familiar with loops and control flow.

Being able to marvel at the magic of code can get people through those grueling moments where nothing works and the answer isn’t on StackOverflow.
I've come to hate being in my house, having worked from home for 3 years. My brain just associates it with work. I haven't got a very big house. I resent it so much I don't even have the will to do maintenance and repairs. I can't wait for on-site interviews to resume and find a job in an office.

EDIT: I've never worked at a job/office as hellish as the post describes. Better office jobs than that exist.
It still took you a year at prescription level doses, though. The risk of anyone doing it on a typical over the counter dose is close to nil.
> There are few realistic depictions of the skill, knowledge, and practice required to be a professional in any field.

YouTube is pretty good for this, both educational channels and edutainment (like Computerphile) and candid videos of people sharing their professional experience. Or code-alongs etc.
Everyone is triggered by different things. Your bureaucratic style "words have consequences" sends shivers down the spines of many people who grew up in the Eastern block.

We know the language that precedes cancellations by now.
One could claim pretty much anything about art. It's the category that defines itself by having no definition.
Just use a special landing page like http://yoursite.com/duckduckgo and you just redirect and get your own stats by seing who came to your site from this landing page...
This is the beauty of the web, change the server code, then serve the new client code and done.

Automagically updated. The client will never know what hit them.
Exactly. Like some Android market.

Edited per below
This language just keeps getting better and better. I am so glad I bought the Realm of Racket book. Cannot wait to get my Scheme on!

And with ARM this will soon become the only language I need!
On a purely superficial level, I am amused to see a call for more inline compression and a call for lower latency in the same article.
Your biggest concern is you want a $20 refund?

They can keep their $20 in my view, as long as they ensure it never happens again.
I hear what cageface is saying but you are right, and it's definitely a better mindset. I much rather have lots of good code to learn from and get inspired by, than only reading disposable code from uninspired corporate coders.
Other parts of the app use Backbone.
FBNotificationWatcher is a simple implementation based on JS.Class - http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/classes.html
What a great store.
This experience (for lack of a good word) is described aptly in the Pali Canon (the main texts of Theravada Buddhism). If you're interested, these are great sources of information:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/
http://www.buddhanet.net/

Approach these texts levelheaded and don't go to them looking for specific answers: maybe you'll find some interesting questions.
Space shuttles had a mast that would extend out the mid-deck door to carry astronauts to a safe position out of the way of the wings in case they had to leave the vehicle in atmospheric flight. I don't think any astronaut ever wanted to actually use it, but it almost certainly beats dying.

Bailing out through a relatively small door at 700 km/h is not something I'd like to try. I think I'd take my chances storming the cockpit.
No I believe the motivating factor is not money, but a short-lived burst of fame, and even notoriety, for the authors of the studies.

Think about it...you dedicate your life to your science, and grind day after day, year after year with no verifiable results, because, you know, in case you haven't noticed, curing cancer is motherfucking hard.

I can see where maybe at some point, you just want to feel some sense of accomplishment or to be noticed in your social group, so you find some questionably-causal, but statistically-relevant piece of research you did and just publish the damned thing.

Don't get me wrong, I find this sort of thing appalling, but in the end, most of us are fairly imperfect people.
More freedom, means more freedom to test correctly. As opposed to be constantly being pushed to release as fast as possible.
I've wondered why with storage being so cheap there isn't a compression method with a 1TB dictionary that everyone stores locally and just send the "map" or "tree" instead.
Really, TIL. I live in the Gothenburg area and in all my driving I only encountered 110 km/h so I assumed that was the maximum. Should have looked it up, thanks for correcting me.
It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/20/no-predict/
Their skew is more obvious when the author starts discussing the demographics and social issues sections. I also can't stomach an equivocation of the protests we had over the summer to the protests we just experienced at the Capitol. Nuance and context has never been a skill of these types, though.
This is blowing up quite big now and I have managed to shift a lot of my friends to Signal now, I wonder if WhatsApp will go back on its decision.

As we stand now even Signal is not safe because of the business model.

I wonder what's the model on messaging apps that will work. I don't want the OS creators to own the messaging platforms as well by virtue of subsidising it through OS/hardware.
It’s literally pulled from the training presentation. Would you have the same reaction if the presentation had said “Try to be less black”?
The government could tax money and then "disappear" it.
> no one else thinks about your hair besides you

To expand on that, my favorite quote (from Eleanor Roosevelt, who seems to have been quite quotable...):

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

I totally agree. People are almost 100% caught up in themselves, and barely have time to think about their own family, much less friends, acquaintances, and last of all strangers.
If that instruction was contextually intended to support non-white employees who felt like they had to "play white" in order to succeed, I think the advice is generally good ("be yourself").

If that was contextually directed primarily towards white employees, it's offensive and inherently racist.

I didn't (and now can't) see the context, but context matters. "White before black" is offensive/racist in many contexts, but not in the rules of chess.
UL is launching the programme in partnership with over a dozen companies from Ireland and around the world, including Analog Devices, Stripe, Zalando, Intercom, Shopify, Manna Aero, and Facebook.
We can also choose to impose tariffs on countries that unfairly subsidize their industries. Restricting external producers and restricting internal producers are actually separate issues that don't have to be entangled, as much as the Canadian dairy lobby loves sowing confusion on this by pretending that they are.

If having autarkic dairy production is important for some reason, limiting opportunities for local producers to enter the market is a weird way of achieving it.
I think that tech has this extreme, albeit well-earn, revulsion to hype that makes them reject things based on terminology and community over actually understanding the thing.

I see it all the time. It's simply wrong to say that microservices is just "services". Many people being wrong changes nothing.
There's an option 4:
you are running out of RAM and macOS is doing a lot of swapping.

These SSDs can probably write on the order of 3000MB/s = 0.003TB/s, so you could end up with 155 TB total writes after just 155/0.003/3600 = 14 hours of RAM heavy workload.
How does this not equate directly to inflation? That is, if the law of supply and demand is real, how does this not immediately decrease the value of each dollar that I hold? Looking at this chart makes me feel 3x poorer.

Even if there is hysteresis in the system under what economic theory does the discrepancy between supply and price not correct itself?
I imagine that there are a lot of operations that could benefit from a shell-like interface, even if there are certain operations that don't lend themselves to the paradigm. Even just being able to say something like "Create a circular selection 'box' with a radius of 50px" that you can then manually manipulate with the mouse could be useful. More useful than trying to create the same thing via just mouse input.
This is something I've noticed before, and I'm not the only one - it's number 22 on pg's list of "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" from a couple of years back: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
In a nutshell, I received this letter:

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2004...

And I responded with:

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2004... (note the typos in that are not my own)

And ignored subsequent threats sent by courier which never materialized into the lawsuit they threatened. I found on groklaw that my letter to SCO made it into discovery, which was a nice nod by whatever lawyer asked for it.
He clearly would have preferred it if his account were deleted instantly, which would've prevented him from signing into whatever service he had used Connect for. His account was kept because he might end up needing it. He ended up needing it.

> paradoxically, they are the most talented product team in the internet space and yet they don’t add export features or data portability or open standards

This seems pretty portable to me: http://graph.facebook.com
Similarly, there's the paleo diet which claims (based on science) that hunter-gatherer food (meat and plants) is more healthy than agricultural food (grains, sugar, grain-fed meat, and processed food). Fortunately, we can choose to take back our healthy food, even living in a city.
Didn't run it at all - the first prompt was to share my friends with the app - which I don't do.
Actually it seems to me that electric cars are a more energy-efficient solution than high-speed trains. We're not that far away from the point where this becomes practical.

A train might use less electricity per passenger-mile than a car when it's full, but when it's not full its efficiency goes down pretty quick because you're hauling a lot of metal around.

Also there's the fundamental inefficiency of trains: they always go from somewhere that isn't exactly where you are to somewhere that isn't exactly where you want to be, on some schedule that probably doesn't exactly match what you want to do.
Why is this story here? It should be posted to Digg and Reddit, home to all the people awaiting the Ron Paul Revolution and are posting stories about peak oil and the need to return to the gold standard.

Unless, of course, the content of this article is somehow going to influence your business plans or YC application or your Ruby or JavaScript code. (No, I didn't think so.)

Butterfly flaps wings

Adjust your business model

The U.S. is doomed
I have no idea what the methodology of the NEA study is, but at first glance it seems to be not true for literature: http://www.nea.gov/news/news09/ReadingonRise.html

However, if you are counting only non-fiction then the Amazon data seems to confirm.

True fact: There are 4.25 million babies born each year in the U.S., and the most popular parenting books on Amazon only sell around 75 copies per day. (I haven't looked at the data in a couple years, but you can get it via ranktracer or similar.)
Right. Practically speaking, these people aren't actually selling books, they are just making money by doing the "handling" part of S&H.
PG must be very pleased. I think he invested in Wufoo (in addition to the original YC investment).
Yeah, I've been playing around with the idea of Chaos Monkey at the code level, rather than at the systems level, but you can only truly do it with independent actors. I'm hoping to have something to show soon, probably on Akka/Scala.

There is a similarity with mutation testing, but mutation testing is trying to throw things too far up the chain; it wants your program to crash and die so the test fails. Really, we want it the other way: proof that the test would have failed, but the program is still running effectively.

I've worked with runtime repair in the past, which is also sort of similar, but, IMHO, less effective than Erlang-style Let It Crash. [1]

[1] http://www.zenetproject.com/pages/lakitu
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8b63tjL...
Typically when quoting a typo a journalist writes [sic] to highlight that it isn't their error.

Honestly it just brought back memories of WoW and "Rouge LF guild" spam
The font looks like Terminus. The background transparency effect and hidden scrollbars can be set-up with most terminals, this one is probably urxvt. As for the borderless/undecorated window, that's probably done via the Window Manager. DWM[0] for example doesn't paint window decorations but there's usually a way to set this up in Gnome/Unity/KDE/etc as well.

[0] http://dwm.suckless.org
Please read the Hacker News site Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase
or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how
great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you
think it's important."

>"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on
something they found on another site, submit the latter."

>"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or
linkbait."

The original source url that "ClipMine" (clip.mn) attempts to hide is
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6a3tKOwN7A

The original title is: "Brian Krzanich, Intel - Keynote 2015"
damn, that's gangster
The Linux version has only 1GB RAM and only 8GB onboard flash.
Who says he didn't give his card to somebody else to create an alibi?
If you want Commodore, there's On the Edge by Brian Bagnall http://www.amazon.com/On-Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Commodore/dp/... and its half-a-second-edition Commodore: A Company on the Edge .
Some of the storm, norm, perform can be figured out by looking on the stats on different repositories (e.g. https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=language%3AJavaScript+and...).

I think a good attempt at providing a "3000 ft survey of the JS landscape" is http://alpha.ideavis.co/529cc5f

I'd love to see an automated tool that could aggregate stats from a range of JavaScript repositories (e.g. GitHub, NPM, Bower) into something like Dustin's graphic.
Don't know about the second, but displaying two copies of the same file side by side is pretty common in my experience, e.g.:

PyCharm: Yes

VS Code: Yes

Eclipse: Yes