jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Europe is redistributing enormous amount of money from rich to poor countries within EU

Yes, they are, but it's a political hot potato, arguably without mandate, and I doubt that it's on the scale of national regional development funds.

Don't get me wrong, I am pro Europe, but I think politicians have done an abysmal job of explaining the project to voters (esp in the UK).
Replied Csikszentmihalyi: "You have to work at it."

True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals, Csikszentmihalyi said. "Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved."
"I still have this urge to go open source" -- perhaps you try the Freemium Model ?
Thanks, didn't know that. I thought it would have been the same.
Amazing advice! Thank you!
> but I also use bromite for when I need to run something like a web app, it is easier than fiddling with extensions sometimes

This is how I use FF and Chrome on the desktop.

Chrome being the basic clean version for running certain apps. Or doing professional work.
The first comment on the article is better written and more credible than the article itself. Yes, selective enforcement sucks, but it seems the author's own neighborhood board asked for more enforcement? And, yes, over-sensitivity can be a problem, but the author doesn't make this case effectively (the camera could just have been under-sensitive before).
The scary part of journalism is when it’s about activism vs. the truth. Activists can lie if the truth isn’t important.

Lying for ratings, though, is also very bad.

Activists lying for both activist causes and ratings is extremely bad.
More informative, I think:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/13/1018374/peter-di...

I personally find it baffling that someone organizing an event would not have realized, one year into this thing, that COVID tests are not 100% reliable.

Part of me thinks that he knew full well it was a risk and just assumed he'd get lucky. The alternative is that he was badly misinformed and really didn't know what he was doing in the first place.
Looks pretty neat but they seem to be pre-launch. Call me back when they have a product with verifiable specs. I'm hoping a breakthrough in solid state thermocouple materials will eventually make heat engines obsolete (at least at small scales).
It's curious that the current tide of public opinion reckons that we're all going to be in EVs in 10-15 years, when the grid nearly collapses under the weight of everybody plugging in a heater and turning on Netflix at the same time.
Do you know of any person that made a decision based on the slogan contents? It was an obvious joke. I've seen people claiming to avoid a language that posts a joke on the front page (honestly, appeasing to those people were a sure way to add those costs the slogan is about), but never because of the message.

Anyway, removing the parenthesis makes it clear that the operations are associative. Otherwise the phrase would be wrong, and Haskell developers really dislike that kind of wrong.
My advice to her: Go on. Be a tiger.
My buddy worked IT infrastructure at a major public university and would work 3 days a week but spread out his deployments for the write-ups that were used to evaluate his performance. The pay wasn't great so he left, but it was a great gig for a while.
I'm willing to bet you could run all these services on a single VPS. Having to manage 6 different hosts is going to be a pain in the ass, even if you use something like ansible.

As far as backups, I don't understand why the author doesn't just encrypt them and send them to a cloud storage; it's what I'm doing personally with restic and it's not even expensive.
This looks like the most vaporware thing I have seen since Duke Nukem Forever.
Assuming that this vanilla js should be familiar for anyone who has only ever written js that interacts with the DOM api:

document.body.innerHTML = `
<div>
Hello world
</div>
`;

the React equivalent is no more complex:

const HelloWorld = () => (
<div>
Hello world
</div>
);

ReactDOM.render(<HelloWorld />, document.body);

Add to this a couple of high-level concepts, i.e. that a React component re-renders if its arguments (props) or its internal state change, and you are 70-80% there. Learn the useState and the useEffect hooks, and you are ready to be productive. If you aren't ready for build tools yet and just want to play with the library, take Preact, which has a syntax option that does not require a build step [0]

How many hours should this take?

[0] https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/getting-started
I can see why that's a bad experience for you, but IMO Hetzner did the right thing here.

What if I forget to pay my AWS bill for a week and, because of that, all my resources get deleted? IIRC AWS will inactivate your account after 3 months without payment, so the same thing would've happened there. 3 months is a nice trade off between "forgot to pay my bills" and "no longer use the service".

ETA: for sure it sucks they sent the bill to collection. Uncalled for, they could've attempted to settle directly with you first.
Looks like you are less than 10 years into the marriage. Get out ASAP. You are stuck with alimony for basically half the length of your marriage. Unless it exceeds 10 years. Then you are stuck for life.
Ads aren't about reliability. There's a very low cost for exposing someone to an ad that won't generate sales. So as long as exposing a GROUP of people to that ad DOES generate sales, that's going to drive those ads.
At this point you're participating in your own abuse. Your relationship is unbalanced and objectively broken. If you're unwilling to entertain any realistic solutions then you're wasting everyone's time complaining about it.

You should seek out real help, either a therapist or marriage counselor. There's no actual reason for you to stay in your current broken state. Your made up reasons are equal parts bullshit and naivety.
I was never the type of person to try to write a framework to solve a tiny little task, but I am probably 50% more effective with my time since I stopped caring about my job. I am not stressed out at all and that makes a massive difference.

That being said I probably work about 75% less (~10 - 15 hours a week if I'm being honest) so the joke is still on my employer.
How do you monetize the web these days? I don't remember the last time I visited a website that is not an established publication or a storefront for a giant corporation. Google doesn't return interesting lesser-known websites too, it would prefer to bring me an unrelated page from a well-established site instead of something that is new and coming. Not sure why websites would be any more monetizable than apps, with apps you can actually sell something.

On the Apps, you can compete on quality. On the web, the only metric is pageviews.
And instagram, since they require you to log in after like ten seconds.
I mean I’m as much a fan of free speech as the next guy, but there are some pretty key differences between the concepts of “free speech in the culture” and “a giant collection of unmoderated user generated internet content”.

I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos. Nobody is actually advocating for free speech.

I don’t think every app has to be about political issues. Where did that premise come from, just because it has Chinese origins?

It’s ok for there to be an app for kids to make dance videos, and to keep it light and positive.
> For a kid, their parents are often unaware or unsympathetic to their struggles

So you're just going to generalize on all parents like that? Believe it or not, there are actually some parents out there who are interested in their child's well-being and involved in their life.

> I’m not going to defend it

It seems to me like you're grasping at straws to do precisely that.
How about: Google should let allow users to blacklist sites in the search results.

But I definitely don't want to live in a society in which someone else who just happens to be vocal enough can even start a debate that company X should block company Y from their search results.
There shouldn't need to be a work-around.
For years now I have used "-pinterest" on every regular search term I utilize (I bake that into any Google bookmark). Would applaud the removal of Pinterest from search results.
Are you calling China an occupying force here?
I hate it equally. What good is knowledge if you cannot reach it. Google organizes something that is useless to me. And I will not enter the social media circus.
This sort of logic just fails to understand human behavior. First off, you make the terrible assumption that there will be more people earning at least double $X so that you can take half of it to give to another that isn't making X. That's nowhere even close to a 50-50 split, and this policy would make it even less even not more. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity. All you are doing is taking money from the people that are producing and giving to the people who are not in the hopes that they might suddenly decide to be entrepreneurial with their newfound financial freedom. Guess what, that desire to become financially free is a far stronger motivator.
> is part of what makes a car feel alive, playful, and eager. IOW, fun.

Car porn, literally.
You are correct, on each and every count. However, none of that is related to what I tried to highlight.

Sure, the US is (rightfully so) subjecting every company within its jurisdiction to US law, no matter on which market they operate. Sometimes they go even further and say non-US companies can be held liable, when they somehow interact with the USA or its citizens. That can sometimes become a bit dicey with jurisdictions, but even that is not the point here.

The point is that a US-based company is operating on a market outside the US and (most likely) is operating in a way that is within the law of that market.

To put bluntly: I don't give a #### about how the US treats companies on their territory, regardless where those operate. I care about US-based companies abiding to law wherever they do business. If they can not do that, they should cease to operate there. Whether it's the US government or something else that is to blame for the situation is irrelevant.
Townsend's (Living history focused on 18th century American living & cooking):
https://youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
Dismissed by the intelligentsia, like everything he says. Usually they are right to do so, but occasionally I think there is a touch of "orange man bad" syndrome.
Recently heard a resident machine learning expert describe GPT-3 as 'not revolutionary in the slightest' or something like that.
I'm pretty sure System76 would really love to design an build macbook level laptops with M1 level chips, but how the hell are they ever supposed to get there?

It took Apple, what, 13 years from the iPhone to the M1, surfing on the wave of success of the iPhone.

There isn't even a processor vendor that is capable of supplying them an M1 level chip.
There is a variation of this for every nationality of lighthouse under the sun.

It's still quite funny though.
Agreed, but that all but eliminates graded homework for the first several years of college (not that that's a bad thing, just that I don't think colleges would approve).
Pretty high? You need only be unconcious to end up dying in a burning car because no one could extract you. Cars also deform in weird and chaotic ways in a real world accident, who knows what will be the final piece between you and safety. People sometimes exit via their rear windows because the front of the cabin is crushed and the glass there broke, but the doors and windshield frames were also crushed so you can't exit. Cars are pretty good at absorbing the impact so your body can tolerate it non-fatally, but you may still end up broken, trapped or simply unconcious.
If someone drops something in my car, and I unwittingly drive off with it, it is still not mine. But I did not steal it. If the person asks for it back, and I refuse, then I am stealing it.

All the police had to do was knock on his door and ask for it back. If he refused, that's grounds for theft. If he denied knowledge of it (like if it had just fallen off somewhere) that doesn't sound like sufficient grounds for a search warrant, and if the search warrant did turn up evidence of some unrelated crime, that evidence shouldn't be admissible.

I'm no lawyer, but that's what sounds right to me.

(I don't agree that Finders Keepers is a legal basis for ownership, or that leaving your door open means it's ok to steal, or that a bank error in your favor means you get to keep it.)
i read predictable and boring as reliable and safe. and many companies are innovating in design.
I'm not diminishing anything. I'm just pointing out that people tend to imagine all minds behave like their own, hence why you believed that cis people would experience gender dysphoria in VR avatars of the opposite sex. I've accumulated enough experience to indicate that isn't true.

Another piece of the puzzle: Pretty much every trans person I've talked to who has used VR has enjoyed choosing an avatar of the opposite sex. Afterwards when they're back in the real world, they tend to miss it.

This maps to my model of reality that says that the vast majority of people cannot experience gender dysphoria. They prefer their current sex mostly out of habit. Other people such as Scott Alexander[1] and Ozy[2] have said the same thing, though they arrived at that conclusion by posing thought experiments to their friends, not using VR.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/18/typical-mind-and-gende...

2. https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/cis-by-defaul...
Since you don't know whose tracker it is maybe the best thing to do is "lose" it again. Drop it down the nearest drain so you can plausibly say you never saw it and it must have fallen off.
I got lucky in the 90's. Ended up in holding for a few hours. Officers escalated a fairly benign scenario into me getting roughed up.

They delayed court many times, while trying to make their poor case worse.

I took it to trial, won, and those officers were gone.

Things are way worse now. Be careful.

The attorney I had filled me in. The prosecution presented escalation of force to compliance at my trial.

Not doing what they say can escalate to death. The initial event can be ANYTHING.
How many rural areas have you been to? I see small houses with a half-dozen pickups sitting around all the time when I get more than 100 miles or so out of a major city. And places like ranches, farms, and orchards seem to operate small fleets of them.

Of course, they usually span the past few decades of makes/models, but there are plenty of towns where the trucks outnumber the people.

I think one big issue will be that a lot of people are like 50 miles from the nearest major highway or town, which makes the range a bigger issue for daily use.
"The Cybertruck is 230.9 inches long and sports a 149.9-inch wheelbase with a 6.5-foot-long, 57-inch-wide bed out back." By comparison, an F-150 has 50.6" between the wheelhouses.

Here's a picture of the bed, just before the ATV drives up to it. Note the wheelhouses don't impinge upon the cargo bed at all.

https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dd768642c8...
The glass fractured pretty easily. The demonstration didn't go as planned:

https://youtu.be/m7atGkba-Z8?t=75

So maybe that means it's not so hard to get into if needed.
Does anyone know what pros and cons this pattern have compared to callbacks? I note most UIs developments still use callback approach.
I do most of my listening on Spotify, that was the only reason for the jab. I've just given up on iTunes for my personal use.
Travels? You didn't say travels in the headline. I want to recommend books, movies, recipes, things to do in their own street. My friends sometimes deserve a bit of my wisdom.
In '96 or so, I went to my first Internet security conference. The attendees were a motley crew - junior programmers like myself, schoolteachers, old-school sysops, etc. Lots of us worked for companies that wanted unfettered access to this new Internet thing, but it had to be absolutely secure - and of course, it can't cost anything! There was hardly such thing as a network security professional then.

Things have changed a lot.
7 crashes between 1995 - 2011, and that's only into the same two rivers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/helicopter-crash-timelin...
Proximity sensor (bluetooth or something) + thermite on the disks.

If you get further away from the machine than 5m or so when it's powered up it will melt everything. For extra kicks also wire up another detonator with a case ground wire or something, if the case is opened - it melts.
>Maybe a good commercial opportunity would be policy compliance checking tools. Imagine a simple policy like "the corporate network should not be accessible from the outside world". Would it be possible to check all firewalls/routers/NATs/etc. for compliance with this policy?

This is already a very big part of the security industry. Countless companies and products (claim to) do this.
He missed the big picture in my opinion: in these cities, everything is cheaper. You can get a new-ish, nice 3000sqft house for 200-300k in a good to excellent school district in my area (Grand Rapids, MI) ... for those of you on the west coast, take a look at the houses on grar.com to get an idea of what housing money gets you in the midwest. Gas? $1.75/gal right now, way less than some of the larger cities, especially on the west coast (even when gas prices were high, they were less high here). Food, movies, broadway shows, symphony, land, taxes, all of life's expenses are less. I used to live in a trendy 1200sqft condo in the city center (it had all the perks - rooftop deck with pool and hot tub, indoor parking, community room with pool tables, walking distance to bars/restaurants, etc.) for $1200/month. Now I live an 18 minute drive from work (13 minutes from downtown) on 11 acres, and I paid < $200k for my place (although it's only 1500sqft).

If you have to take a pay cut for a software job from $150k in Silicon Valley to 75-100k here, you still come out with a much higher standard of living and more left over to save for retirement. What baffles me is that more tech companies haven't set up shop in these areas. Around here we have Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, Calvin College, U of M, and many other schools with solid engineering programs cranking out a steady supply of good to excellent engineers. I think that other rust belt cities have similarly good schools.

Everything you need to live is on sale from the perspective of an individual, and talent is on sale from the perspective of an employer. In Detroit there is much engineering talent available due to the presence of the automotive industry, and once again, everything in certain areas on the east side of the state is incredibly cheap. I guess the real question is what has failed for these cities - has leadership failed to attract industry, has the community failed to advertise the wonderful things happening in them (Grand Rapids, at least, is a good place to live), or are people just unwilling to put up with the winters?
Ohh, beat me to it. Nice.
It may be much worse than we thought. The well pipe is nearing collapse under the seabed and efforts to cap it from the top will eventually fail.
The protocol tells the browser which port to connect to on the server. That can't be done server-side.
So how did you figure out how far away the moon was?
What made Portal such a great game is that it actually forces you to think. Most blockbuster games seem to follow a formula much like the formulas you might find in Hollywood blockbusters...they are still entertaining, but you really don't get that sense of "accomplishment" you get from playing something like Portal or Braid (an equally great game!!).
Or pigeon

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/in-south-africa-carrier-pigeon...
I can stop eating plastic tomorrow. Wait a minute.
You should always check serverside, but this post is about the user experience of entering the url, not about what happens to it once sent to the server.

The letters http:// help I think, they suggest what's supposed to go in the field. A lot of people don't know what "url" means but they recognize the http://.
If anyone has figured out how to actually make a viral video (as opposed to making a video that happens to go viral), it's OK Go.

For the first time, the video is completely free to download, and to celebrate, they've created a Facebook contest where you can upload your own copy of the video to Facebook.
If you're using Youtube's html5 beta(and are on a supporting browser) the video uses webm. That's the first I've seen it out in the wild.
Same can be said for shrooms, which I believe open up the minds creative side. Nothing jarring though or deeply life changing.
The Economist are being rather disingenuous here. They explain how the cubicle is a bad thing, and then they go on to try to convince us that the demise of the cubicle and it's replacement by more open plan type offices is a good thing. But the open type office is even worse for many of the same reasons why the cubicle was bad.
> Was the more likely outcome that I would fail to install it?

Hilarious.

Well, I think all these things are suspicious and maybe (I don't know) even bad in nature, but they have levels of badness, "you look lovely today, btw" is considerably worse than any form of birthday congratulations -- although I'm also suspicious of the second, which, here in Brazil, is a little more common thing to say than "happy birthday" (people just say "congratulations!").
Haha yes you're absolutely spot on. The knowledge on how to do this has been around since 1988: http://staffwww.itn.liu.se/~karlu/courses/TNM086-2011/papers...

I tried out Dolby's Headphone offering a while ago and I just didn't like the way it sounds. My guess is that they are using equalizers to fake the FIR filters without accounting for the delay-dependent part of the EQ. But that's just my speculation.

I didn't know that Creative was offering this, too.

BTW, I believe that the Razer Kraken 7.1 Headset is technically also just a stereo USB headset with an app not unlike mine.. but that is also just my speculation, as I didn't try out their product yet.
And yet it has created a remarkable amount of buzz around it already
So either way, we need a global lookup database. Since changing timezones would have massive switching costs, what the benefit of doing it?
Well you don't have to be rude about it.
> Through a simple accusation of racial bias, the author seeks to undermine the technical work that went into the development of the MP3 codec

Even at the time of writing of the article, MP3 was being replaced with much better codecs. It could be said that when the codec was being developed in the 90s, they chose a limited set of music to make the problem easier to solve - which is fair given that decoding was at the limits of processing power at the time. But it's likely they stuck with music on the chromatic scale, and instruments with unusual timbres and microtonal variations, where exceptions to this were usually outside the western canon, though I think that has changed since the 90s with the advent of more sophisticated electronic music and more experimental artists.

I found the report on the listening test, but I could not find a list of the 20-second excerpts they used:

https://sound.media.mit.edu/resources/mpeg4/audio/public/w14...
I thought Phoenica looked familiar - turns out it's pretty similar to the font Canonical commissioned for Ubuntu. I think I like Ubuntu's better, actually. And of course it's free :-) http://font.ubuntu.com/