jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
because we can see these things with our actual eyes
One minor correction which is there is no such thing as VBA.Net.

There are basically three VB ecosystems.

Visual Basic which many refer to as VB6 and it represents the last version every released.

VBA which is Visual Basic for Application and lives on to this day as an embedded language for Microsoft products like, Word, Excel, Outlook etc.

VB.Net which is an implementation of the Visual Basic language running on the .Net Framework.
> The next logical step would be to enjoy all of the gains so far and sell out from the risk of the drop, and even after a nominal loss of value rebuy.

My next logical step would be to assume the government will do whatever is necessary to pump those equity values back up, just like they did last year in Mar/Apr.

So unless you think you can time it so that you sell when asset prices drop, and buy before the government pumps them back up, the logical step would be to stay the course, and keep your wealth in inflation resistant broad market indices.
This is not necessarily evidence.

Your tinnitus might have just become noticeable with the Airpods or perhaps something completely unrelated impacted it.

I had tinnitus flare ups during lockdown so went to both an audiologist and an ent specialist (had a mri too). I'm a heavy user of ANC devices as a means to relax/cope with my environment so I suspected the devices.

Professionals told me that there was no hearing damage and that my flare ups were likely connected to clenching my jaw and stress. I mentioned my devices/usage to my health professionals and they said there is no reason for concern.

After some physio I'm much better off.

If people are working from home in quieter environments where they're not exercising while using ear pieces / headphones more often, it shouldn't be surprising that tinnitus is becoming more noticeable. This is also during a pretty stressful time too, which doesn't help with tinnitus.
> A lot more needs to be in place for civil war.

True, really a lot. In needs a nation on the edge for it to decide to turn on itself. And a nation on the edge it is.

> Pretty sure the monied interests have no desire for civil war — the opposite was the case in the mid 19th Century.

And so thought monied interests of the Old World when a wave of civil wars sped through the continent, and the Spring of Nations happened after few decades of turmoil.

And historians err here, taking desirable, for believable. "The Two Terrible Decades," aren't called that for nothing. They were devastating for both of Europe's Old, and New Money. It were the same upper classes socialites who wrote the term in the history books after all.
What happens if you "cut" an important file, and then forget to paste it before copying something else? You could easily loose many hours of work!

That can happen with text too, of course, but because text takes up more screen real-estate, selecting lots of text "feels" dangerous, so you're less likely to accidentally screw yourself.

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When you "cut" a file in early Windows, did it disappear from the original location, or did the icon fade out as on modern platforms? IMO, the fade makes it clear what is happening, and is a great example of how minor visual tweaks can be imbued with lots of meaning.
Yes, I worked in teams where "YAGNI" would come up all the time, preventing any kind of actual code design/architecture.

Every time YAGNI is mentioned, it should be put against code quality (maintainability, readability, testability, etc) because they are often opposite/fighting concepts: code quality, in the end, is all about making (not yet known) changes easily, which means you have to anticipate different possible futures.

The sweet spot between these two principles is not easy to find. Thinking and discussing about this on projects is a good start.
Boomer's achilles => Believing truth by authority.

Millennial's achilles => Believing there's no such thing as truth.
> The variables and constants don’t mean anything in most cases

Don't they really mean anything or are mathematicians just unable to grasp what they mean ? To me this seems like a symptom of an underlying bigger problem in our understanding of math rather than those variables not having a meaning.
Getting blacklisted by a company that doesn't pay as promised is not really a bad thing.

And I don't think they collaborate on shill management.
if (person is not null)

I really like it, it is more instantaneously readable than the usual != as it is more literate.
Step 1 - Get a remote contracting job where you are the sole engineer on a specific part of the product, like a mobile app or web service.

Step 2 - Work real hard on building a large undocumented code base. Get a reputation for speed and responsiveness.

Step 3 - Gradually do less and less while billing the same hours. Truthfully tell them that the code base has gotten so complex changes take a lot longer. Rely on your previous reputation to keep them comfortable with that.

Your client will likely accept all this at face value. Even if they get frustrated, no one will want to take on your large mass of undocumented code.

You can probably milk this as long as the product remains funded. The major risks are product cancellation or worse, high product success that leads them to want to invest more into development. Barring those two unlikely events you likely have years of coasting ahead of you.
Staffing firms have employees who are less integrated into the work environment of the host company.
Its so depressing to think the ground water has been allowed to get so polluted we now need to use water filters
I'll bet 1/3 also said they would walk away if they had to keep working remotely. If we've learned anything from this year, it's that there is no consensus. Some people like to work in an office, some people like to work at home, and most people like the flexibility of doing both when they choose to.

I think offices are here to stay, but maybe in some cases they will change to be more like coworking spaces for just one company, where every desk is "rented", to allow for hybrid situations where different teams can choose if they want to be remote or in person and which days they do that.
> 2. It’s possible to employ both remote and on-site workers.

It is, but it's very difficult to sustain a hybrid work culture. People working remotely tend to get shafted on ad-hoc discussions, even promotions.
> hangover.sh

I almost created this myself some time ago, although not specifically for hangovers. I was envisioning a sort of dead man's switch, where if I didn't check in before a certain time it would send an SMS to my manager calling in sick.

The main reason I didn't, was that I figured I was more likely to forget to check in (and be forced to use a sick day when I didn't "need" one) than be incapable of waking up, making the call on if I was in a workable state, and sending the SMS by myself.
I'm not sure what you mean by dump. MobileCoin plans to reinvest coin proceeds into the ecosystem to help foster economic development. We also plan to give away coins once we figure out how to do so in a regulatory-compliant fashion.

MobileCoin also needs some amount of money to operate, some of which will come from the sale of coins, but our balance sheet of coins is quite limited. We would prefer to minimize those sales as much as possible.

Does that answer your question?
Obama could do it on his way out.

Obama should do it now, but I will be fine if he waits, just as long as he does it. Until then Manning's incarceration will serve as a focal point to the dishonesty that pervades our government.
Also the same US Gov whose identifiers are routinely required to fly, interact with banks and insurance companies, have a job, pay your federal taxes, etc.

If they were to mandate use of this system for, say, forum comments, I'd be worried. All they're proposing is a more secure and efficient way to identify yourself in situations where you already need to use a real identity.
My pick: The Face Behind Bitcoin by Leah McGrath Goodman [Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-24795...]
Statistically, if you always dismiss novel claims you will be right almost all the time.

Yet this requires no intelligence at all. It's akin to a wall following msze solver. Wall following maze solvers do work, but only for the subset of mazes that are simply and directly connected end to end.

You are correct that some way of sorting signal from noise is required, but I think it's got to be something up to the task. There is also clearly a breadth/depth tradeoff at work here that demands some amout of cost/benefit analysis. At one extreme you have rote dogma O(1), and at another you have full iterative search of the combinatorial space of all theory O(n^n^...).

The way I think about issues like this is greatly informed by my study of learning theory, which if studied deeply infuses one with a great phobia of the dreaded local maximum and a suspicion of any and all deterministic non-adaptive learning strategies... As these tend to converge at local maxima. See: no free lunch theorem, among other things. My maze solver analogy is a pretty good simple one for how the space of learning algorithms maps to the space of fitness landscapes.

The ideal strategy would probably be to run multiple heuristics concurrently or switch them up over time. For example, science might embark upon multi decade investigations of orthodoxy punctuated by jubilees where an accumulated queue of minority and fringe theories are investigated. Successes here form the next set of orthodoxies, rinse and repeat.
In many cases it's not the program authors that added those installers, but SourceForge and/or its mirrors.
PKD aside, wow, whoever wrote that review needs to /* */ out #include pompous_wordy_dickbag.h
Actually yes - perl has a tainted mode (#!/usr/bin/perl -t) that force you to sanitize every input from the outside world. It does not do the work for you because it is agnostic to semantics (escaping for shell is different than escaping for SQL for example) but at least make you think about the problem.
After Lasik my preferred font size more than doubled and my tolerance for low contrast text went way down.
I'm sorry to say, but I think those people would be the majority of viewers. "What no HD? This must be old and rubbish".

I expect the same argument could be used when remastering old stereo movies to surround sound - the people who know what's going on complain, but the general public are "wow it sounds so good".
Linux does this, as does basically every other modern OS.

Pick a random large process on a linux host - like your web browser. cat /proc/$pid/status.

VmExe is the size of the mapped executable; VmLib is the size of all the other mapped libraries and executable pages. Add those two numbers together to find the size of all the executable code mapped into this binary.

VmRSS is the amount of physical memory that the process is currently using. You'll find that this is a lot smaller than the code mapped into the binary. That's because the kernel hasn't loaded any of that into physical memory.
it's actually rather surprising, and important, that they were able to get 90 percent solar absorptivity combined with 30 percent infrared emissivity. this is difficult because absorptivity is the same thing as emissivity, but of course you can have different emissivities at different wavelengths; that's why things are different colors. but the vast majority of opaque solid materials have rather pastel colors, which is to say that their absorptivity (and thus emissivity) varies slowly with wavelength. this is undesirable for concentrating solar power, because it makes it hard to transfer the heat energy from the sunlight to the coolant rather than reradiating it as infrared. all the materials you named with albedos of under .1 are also great absorbers of infrared, which means they're also great emitters of infrared, so they wouldn't work very well for this application. (you also happened to pick three that won't withstand kilokelvin temperatures.)

there are a number of 'spectrally selective coatings' already in existence with this unusual combination of emissivities, but they are all very expensive to produce.

the longer lifetime is useful too, but not so useful they bothered to mention it in the abstract of their paper.

the small particles mentioned are made of a silicon-germanium blend, although they claim you can use different semiconductors for this. they picked that blend because its bandgap is about a volt, so it absorbs photons of more than about an electron volt.
definitely. but he's blaming it on learning rails in a way. this is coming from someone who did this at one of their jobs. i accidentally committed AWS keys, and we had dozens of servers launched on our account in minutes. was insane.
Can you elaborate some on this?
Until you get sick and you are happy to have access to modern medicine. #Sight.
Yes. That's my point. Most of us live under terrorist regimes. Black people are terrorized by the police. The middle east is terrorized by the US. We're terrorized by Russia.

To isolate a few and to give them the label of "terrorist" for being a bit more terrifying is a form of brainwashing.
It is true that typically concentrated solar is industrial scale, operating at high temperature and pressure, but it doesn't have to.

A residential scale solar parabolic trough could heat water to 160F to run through baseboard heaters in a hybrid solar/fossil fuel system.

It could also easily boil the water and turn it to steam, its all about the size of the trough and the speed water is moved through it.

This new material seems like an improvement over the current tech in this type of setup.

The advantage of concentrated solar is that it can still generate usable heat on mostly cloudy days, where flat collectors certainly do not.
That really is the key question isn't it? I can see some ways out of that and some sets of companies (not many) where that would be the case but it's going to be hard to turn them around once they reach that stage. Maximum risk = maximum potential gain, it's never been any different.
If I had a penny for every time I've read an open-source vs. proprietary software thread in the past 2 decades I might have enough to buy this framework. But then I wouldn't benefit from the contributions of other users and the freedom to modify the source code to fit my own needs.

And there are plenty of pricing options beyond the actual code.
Their blog is claiming most of the ddos traffic came over tor.
I'd be afraid that a bug in Perl-- revealed years later-- might render my arm open to compromises. Some new fuzzing method comes around and all of a sudden my arm is unencrypted for all the world to access.
You might think this, but I could not possibly comment :)
> Last I checked, unless vegans are supplementing their diets with multivitamins, they lack all the necessary nutrients needed to survive.

Source? I've been vegan for close to three years now and don't take multivitamins, yet I'm surviving. So long as you eat a variety of foods (and if you're female, plenty of leafy greens) you're all set.

There is however exactly one vitamin which is not available from plant-based sources, and that is B12. However it is produced by bacteria and thus is may be cultured as a supplement.

Please check your facts before posting next time and stop spreading misinformation.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism#Specific_nutrients
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_b12#Sources
Is this just a new layout? There was an older version of the form that has been up for a while (beginning of Nov)
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Storing unencrypted file hashes is the easiest way I can see to do it; then, for deduplication, the file is decrypted using one user's key, and a copy is made and encrypted under the second user's key.
They have gotten in the grocery business (http://fresh.amazon.com/- limited to Seattle for now). It's a bit pricier than going to a physical store, but there are some very real advantages: 1. recall emails, 2. filtering based on allergies, 3. not having to rush once you've added a frozen item to your cart, 4. past purchases, 5. reviews.
I agree that it's worth preaching an informed and intelligent political platform to those who are willing to receive it, and I agree that at least tokens of attempt are useful. I just think the expectation that things will change when our people are so hypnotized and over-exertion of energy to try to bring about sensible policy in these circumstances are futile. Call me a cynic, I guess.
i dont think you need a new phone. just disable the data on your phone plan, and grab one of the many mapping programs that use locally-stored maps. stick all the other distracting apps in their own folder so your screen is cluttered, done.
I'm sure the average internet user might not understand the difference either and rely on a site's Google ranking to reflect the credibility and reliability of a website.
Am I the only one using Linux that need to update their GPG key for the second time in like a month?

I'm using their repo and it seems their GPG key change on every release or something.
You don't need to be present when UPS/FedEx delivers if you've signed a release and authorize them to leave packages at your doorstep though this is not true for all types of shipments. If you live in a bad neighborhood or if the shipper specifically requests a signature then they won't leave it at your door.
My comment was made outside of a partisan framework. The ideas in my post are not pages I've taken from any gloom-and-doom commentator. I don't like the Tea Party but I don't like their opponents either. If I thought there was a large contingent of good guys out there I would probably be less pessimistic about our nation's future.

I take an objective stance regarding contemporary politics and there are things I respect and things I detest about both major platforms and in general many politicians, though I tend to detest things about politicians much more often than I respect things about them.

I don't subscribe to the primary tenets of either party or any third-party; the largest influences on my politics come from religious sources. Perhaps you shouldn't presume that this opinion was not well-considered.
What about click-through rate? I'm pretty sure Facebook uses this in determining what to show on your newsfeed, and it's a percentage, so it's not based on quantity.
When I vended ice cream we were directed to poor neighborhoods where people wouldn't have ice cream from the grocery store
It's fine if the underlying model is Bayensian, but if you're going to present a time series graph then those past numbers don't mean a whole lot. Why not adjust the past data to be frequentist at that point?
I went to Mullvad personally.
USB-A has been around well over 20 years and C will likely to stay more. Sure the car will last way longer, but there are tons of much more gimmicky stuff being added (most obvious one is infotainment that will be obsolete in 3 years).
The need to do good bold things has gone way down. The need to understand the machine has gone way down.

I'm way more concerned with that. Longer term, how SWE is supposed to maintain itself & train new generations when the field looks so homogenous & we are so well served is a prospect that does keep me up some nights.
Yes, clearly I am not advocating that anyone of any experience should be allowed to do any job. OP is positing that there is a decline in software quality because of developers who don't know those CS concepts. I don't agree.

If you're saying you wouldn't hire a developer who didn't know those concepts in your domain, OK.. I don't know what your domain is. Software is a huge field as I'm sure you know and there are many domains in which the requirements include understanding these CS concepts.

If you're saying you wouldn't hire a developer who didn't understand CPU pipelines in ANY software engineering context, I strongly believe you would be missing out on some highly skilled & capable people.
Moreover, even if they were legitimate, was the press a legitimate place to raise them?

Generally, if you want to whistleblow you should blow the whistle to the regulators. Probably the EPA or a similar agency for any supposed environmental concerns, and the DOT, NHTSA, or a similar agency for any safety concerns related to vehicle's battery packs.

You don't get to leak to the press in violation of your NDA just because you disagree with your employer. Maybe it becomes legitimate if you think that the government and your employer are conspiring to keep issues secret, but I don't see any suggestion of that here.
I use XQuery. You write HTML as usual, and everything between {} parens is evaluated.

For example

<a>{1 to 10}</a>

is evaluated to

<a>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10</a>

Or

<a>{(1 to 10)!<b>{.}</b>}</a>

becomes

<a><b>1</b><b>2</b><b>3</b><b>4</b><b>5</b><b>6</b><b>7</b><b>8</b><b>9</b><b>10</b></a>

XQuery is a W3C standard, so there are several implementation of it. I wrote an XQuery interpreter (http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html) myself
Given that they’re currently producing over 90,000 cars per quarter, and that their products have consistently been the benchmark EV for eight years, I think there are plenty of other favourable things you could say about them?

I’m not remotely a fanboy of that company but your comment does seem to be out of whack with the scale of their success despite gargantuan odds.
Defaulting*, forcing it can ocasionally be an issue.
Thank you for your explanation. I'd seen your supply chart, but I somehow never caught that Dogecoin is only trying to inflate in terms of absolute number of coins. I guess I assumed they had a system that was roughly equivalent to some percentage inflation. Given this difference your experiment does seem interesting to me, and I wish you the best of luck!

As a side note, I dunno what to think about inflation v.s. deflation. My best guess is that those are different assets, we want both, and long blocktimes are more tolerable in deflationary stores of value than they are in inflationary currencies.
I can't wait until we have government-mandated search algorithms that make it illegal to surface content critical of left-wing government.
Feeling the pressure now.
> A /48 or /56 is the current recommendation [1] for business end site allocations.

I can get a /56 even at my apartment just by setting my router to request it.
If I recall correctly Pipes was originally a 100%-Sunnyvale product, predating Brickhouse.
Not at all, but don't be surprised if they'd rather not give you thousands of dollars each week for you to do so.
> If technology to "3D print" silicon chips becomes available, that will be the turning point.

I do see the point you're trying to make about cost of manufacturing, but there are already a number of "printable" circuits that a 3d printer can put together to build your own chips.

And whilst the kind of circuits I've printed onto clothes don't quite match full-scale chip production, it's an active area of research [0], so I wouldn't say it would be too long before it reaches consumer hands.

[0] https://www.machinedesign.com/3d-printing/3d-printed-flexibl...
Slightly faster than walking, without all the messy dignity.
Wasn't sure if you had picked a space yet. We'd be happy to host the next one here at Coloft.
It's a bit unrelated, but I'm reminded of this:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/regrets.png

Different context, same attitude :)