jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I needed to read this.

“They want plot and character, sure, but what they really want is a vehicle that will bear them off to the reading state.” This state is threatened by the ever-sprawling internet—can the book’s promise of deeper presence entice us away from the instant gratification of likes and shares?”
I think it what makes it look dated are the shadows and gradients. If they got rid of those it would look pretty modern.
By silent, I don't just mean they held back commits. They were evasive about it the entire time. They could have explained and chose not to.

They don't owe me anything but I think it's a shame that the leading open source messenger app does such a poor job of communicating with its users and the larger open source community.
This strip is beautiful. As a parent living with snow on the ground in Ohio, I just lived this experience when my children asked me to go sled riding. Work will be there after they go to bed, but these years will be gone before I know it.
I'm happy you've never experienced this.

I have. I am as white as fallen snow and had a very thick Southern accent. "What y'all gonna need to do is git yerself..." That kind of thing.

I trained myself out of it almost immediately after hearing someone, when they thought I couldn't hear, call me a "backwater hick" and dismiss an entire meeting's worth of ideas and discussion I had led...and others agree with that person. That wasn't the only time, but it finally clicked.

I'm fortunate that I could work on that and tamp down my accent; other characteristics are more innate and cannot--nor should be required to be--"hidden from view." Even now, I will trip and slip in a "yuup" or "fixin' to" in a drawl and see the double-take on people's faces.
The US "democracy" had just two parties alternating in power for a century or so (after the 80s, with the same effective neoliberal corporatist policies, aside from some different bones each threw to their voter base to differentiate itself). So much for choice.

Nowadays, it seems only a narrow, even more constrained, side of each party is allowed by big tech and major media pundits, towards even more homogeneity.

Now it seems only one of the two parties' side are allowed in mass media, coporate speak, anymore (which includes the Dems "deep party" killing off Berny's chances - not that he put much of a fight in the end).
Website can distinguish via the optional attestation key.

In terms of features, CTAP v2.1 (https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido2/) is still draft only, but yes both v1 and v2 keys support hmac-secret and credential management. We could add authnSelection and authnConfig, but not clear if any browsers actually implement/use it.

The major new feature is PIV.
I think schuetzen or schützen is kind of generic for a shooter/marksman. I don’t know about Anschutz - I always associated with the particular rifle maker/style and the associated matches but I know it’s a surname as well.

https://blog.westernpowders.com/2017/11/schuetzen-the-purest...
This study shows nothing bad happens from eating MRE's.

The change in gut microbiota composition is not considered good or bad.

They suggest the perceived problems happen from the stress of the situations they are used in.
It's at least plausible that there was some good engineering analysis up front to decide whether the flash endurance was good enough for what they were doing and it was, and then some time later after the hardware designs were in production the software was changed by some other engineer who wasn't aware of the earlier analysis or the fundamental limitations of the hardware.

Abstraction is one of those things that makes software development tolerable; we can (usually) treat anything Turing complete as "just another computer". But once in awhile that isn't true, and you have to deal with low-level details.

In retrospect we can say this ought to have been a foreseeable problem, but people are fallible and make mistakes. If not this, then something else. What I find more worrying about Telsa is their level of secrecy around car repair information in general, and their occasional reluctance to own their mistakes and fix them for free.
The problem is, while I love my story of figuring out xmlhttprequest (before it was called ajax) in IE5 so I could rebuild our refresher frame to not refresh anymore because Windows had unexpectedly introduced a clicking sound for every page navigation and our application was now clicking every second driving our customers crazy, that situation will never come up again.

Every day, the specifics of tech experience matter less, and they reduce to "merely" signals of creativity, tenacity, etc.
Kai's Power Tools texture explorer?

https://www.google.com/search?q=kai%27s+texture+explorer
That's a sign it's a good question.

It is, after all, logically impossible for every company to hire the best candidate on the same scale. If you interview people by general aptitude, one company (with the best salary etc.) will get the top folks and everyone else will settle. (It also makes independent interviewing rather useless: each company may as well outsource the job to a single service provider who's good at interviewing and returns a scalar.)

So, the effective way to interview, if you happen not to be a monopoly in your field, is to find candidates who are better for your company.

Some companies believe diversity of skin color actually matters and demonstrates a serious commitment to avoiding groupthink. Some companies believe they should not be caring about skin color at all. You're looking for a company in the latter group, and they're looking for you.

If you give a poor answer to this question, as posed by a company in the first group, it serves the purpose of interviewing - it accurately determines that both you and the company will be unhappy with you being hired at that company.
As mentioned in my previous post, with citations, this is plainly untrue.
That is so cool :) best smell in the world
As someone who has followed Crawford's trajectory for the past 15ish years I have to say his biggest problem may be the opposite. He is so tightly married to the idea that narrative simulations must produce concrete, written, book-like stories that he misses how effective modern simulation games (not just computer games, but also boardgames, RP, consims, "paxsims", etc) can effectively engage systems literacy - even though they do not process "natural-language" textual inputs, through a mathematical ur-model, into "natural-language" textual outputs.

I think the average group of analysts running a matrix game is considerably more "mathematically-minded" in that they are much more interested in what the simulation does than whether it produces a particular form of output.
Not sure I've ever had heard this, ehh, how many people died?
Perhaps to begin with just having A,B,C columns are fine and your comment justifies.

However, it still stands true in a test of time when you will end up with a lot more columns.
I was confused by this aspect of the article.

I have scoped, private packages in `@myscope`. I set up my `npmrc` with `@myscope:registry=url/to/my/private/repo`. I just checked, and if I try to install `@myscope/commmon-library`, when it's not found on our repo, it will fail, because `npm` has associated `@myscope` with one and only one (private) registry.

The only hiccup is that if I'm a new developer, and I haven't made this entry in my user-level `npmrc`, and I'm not using an existing project with a `.npmrc` in the project root, then it will try to hit `@myscope` on the public repo. But if I don't have the registry for `@myscope` configured at all, my actual dependencies won't work, so I should notice that right away.

If nothing else, I suppose the takeaway is to grab the group scope for whatever private scope you choose on the public repo before somebody else squats on it. Still, at least for NPM, this seems like a solved problem, you just have to implement the existing solution correctly.
> The “problem” we have today is that too many different commentators

No, the problem is the so-called "democratisation" of journalism and the corresponding cross-fade between "shill", "pundit" and "journalist". It's not the diversity in voices, but rather the lowering of the bar. Any random YouTube hack can proclaim themselves a "journalist" or "commentator", regardless of their credentials or affiliation.

Meanwhile, traditionally trustworthy media channels are trying to be "fair and balanced" by including both sides in a debate, regardless of whether both sides are sane. Think anti-vaxxers, Holocaust deniers or flat earthers versus their rational counterparts. Then there are more complex issues like "stolen" elections and Brexit.

This "both sides", "marketplace of ideas" approach also stimulates polarisation, making everything a partisan issue, especially in politically bipolar countries like the US or the UK. Suddenly, even well-accepted facts are "controversial", generating clicks because all that matters is engagement.

> Others will look at those they disagree with, and say they are spreading misinformation

That's a very modern (as in, post-modern) take. There is no denying there is a lot of actual misinformation on "both sides". It's not so much who you disagree with, but journalistic integrity, of which I frankly don't see a lot, regardless of whether we're talking about the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, the Independent, Fox News, Newsmax or OAN. They're all mainly pushing an agenda, during which they at least lie by omission. What's more, they no longer distinguish between OpEds and news reporting.

> free democracy, and having an arbiter of truth are mutually exclusive states

That's a false dichotomy. There doesn't need to be a single arbiter ("Ministry", if you will) of Truth. The purported added benefit of the fourth estate is its many voices would each do their part in verifying the veracity of claims and elucidating the context of events.

It's required for a functional liberal democracy because powerful voices can otherwise dominate the narrative and peddle messages like "regulation is at odds with a functional economy" or "fact checking our statements implies bias". With the number of journalists decreasing by 75% in the US since the advent of the Internet, the fourth estate has obviously become increasingly dysfunctional and shallow.
MATLAB has parfor, but that's barely a language..
> We turned the Karuma [...]

It was Kuruma, in Japanese it means just a "car".
Sounds like he's a fan of the Count of Monte Cristo.
> None of that mattered though.

After doing this professionally for 20 years I've found that clients don't care what language, framework, hosting provider, etc you use to solve their problems. They don't care about your code quality, they don't care about your CI pipeline or any of that shit. They care if you have solved their problem for them, and that's it.
a small rounded plate with a mirror, nophone selfie pro
Have a clear set of rules. And apply those equally. I don't ask much, like if you stream outright porn on platform and that is banned, maybe you should stay banned... Or if someone gets a pass everyone should get a pass...
my father loves TCE. Cleans all his hydraulic systems with it. Practically bathed in it. Loves glysophosphate and atrazine too. Mid 50s, doesn’t worry about being 70 and having the shakes because living for today. Not sure if his attitude is wrong. Maybe I should start smoking per another commenter?
This seems like it would be complicated by the many different chemistries and form factors available, and the wide variability between packs depending on how old or well-taken-care-of they are.

If one were to set out to create a single large battery out of massive array of extremely heterogenous individual battery packs, what would that look like? I guess you could pair each battery pack with its own individual charger and inverter so they can all feed into some common bus at a given voltage and frequency -- sort of like the "microinverter" setup for solar panels.

You could cut down on heterogeneity by only using one type of battery in one installation, and trade batteries between installations or even with external companies so everyone can get matching sets. Sort of like the card game Pit. You could also bin the batteries by quality, like how manufacturers of vacuum tubes have a hard time replicated electrical characteristics exactly from one tube to the next, so they sort them into bins after manufacture and ship them out as matched sets that came from the same bin.
Why is that so surprising when there are plenty of other vaccines without this serious issue ?
Almost like good content for kids requires well funded, nationalized broadcasting systems with no corporate interests calling the shots... sigh.
That is correct. You will not convince most people to ditch the car unless you deliberately make it horrible or by completely banning it. It’s like poisoning alcohol during prohibition.you’re putting “public” interest over personal interest at all costs.
my (C/C++) experience is only solo and small team projects, but again, in this specific domain, once you set up a system for memory management, nobody should ever be allocating/freeing anything outside of these systems, so as long as everyone on the team knows how to use the systems, and knows that they shouldn't be mallocing/freeing/newing/deleting things randomly as they see fit, it's not a problem?
democrat, republican and green are parties, not right and left, which represent an arbitrary dichotomization of a complex landscape otherwise irreducible without losing critical information. that kind of reductionism, i daresay, never leads to meaningful understanding, just loggerheads.

the economist takes a conventional stance of promoting policies that favor the already wealthy. that facet of it is rather banal and certainly not where the exciting ideas for the next millennia are going to emerge from.
Also, the genuine improvements of the last 40-50 years in China come from abandoning communism in the economic arena and embracing markets. Just, you know, without politically liberalizing.
>Thing is, the learning curve may be steep, but it's incredibly valuable, time very well spent.

Is it? Or is it mostly the IKEA effect ("I spent time on this, so it must be valuable") and busywork?

Was anybody's choice of editor really a major point in their developer progress and productivity?
I've been reading the Economist for more than 15 years. I couldn't disagree with you more. This publication gets posted here so often because it is excellent IMO. It has a great balance of humor and rigor, they have great insights based on data, common trends, public opinion, government stance, etc. Weekly, I read a hard copy of it usually on Sunday mornings. Perhaps, I am biased of off habit.

They admit their mistakes openly: https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8...
Is this "coding for backprop", or "coding for the same results as backprop"?
Why does it matter? I hired Uber; if they hire contractors to do their job, that doesn't matter to me. If it goes wrong, I'm still gonna sue Uber.
Shipping by boat is much cheaper per mile than train.

Generally shipping cost functions like this gradient.

Ships < Trains < Trucks < Aircraft

Obvious considerations other than cost:

Ships can only come to port. Trains likewise can only go to rail stations. This makes trains slightly more expensive land ships from a logistics perspective.

Trucks can go anywhere over land, but are quite a step up in expense. They are still necessary for something last 10 miles shipping in nearly all cases.

Airplanes are special. They are probably best thought of as very fast very expensive trains. Their main drawback being that they need an airport to land and load.

Other aircraft (helicopters/bush-pilots). Also a special case. These are quite expensive and generally only used when the landscape precludes the building of necessary infrastructure. Areas where this makes sense are remote by definition; generally landlocked with no nearby airport or roads to/from the nearest airport. Often companies that provide these services like to take passengers as humans who want to travel to remote regions are cost effective in terms of freight ($$$).

Blimps (not currently used commercially). Renewed development into using blimps to transport freight is being researched by several governments including the USG. Blimps are quite efficient at moving freight around as they utilize the same physical properties that ships use (buoyancy). They require very little infrastructure to take-off and land; comparable to that of helicopters. Added bonus! Blimps are more difficult to raid by organize crime elements and move slowly enough to make autonomous piloting a possibility. Both factors are expected to be huge cost savers for logistics in the coming decades.

For example, one of the reasons trucking is more expensive than trains is the number of humans required to operate the vehicles. Shipping lanes are expected to become more contested as NAFTA begins to contend with a multi-polar global powers dynamic (China, Russia, India (,perhaps even SEA will get their shit together!)).

Thus a low cost, low infrastructure, piracy-resistant solution is being searched for. Blimps do have an obvious downside of limited volume and several high profile catastrophes, though these are now a century old. All that being said, we could see blimps beginning to fill in the gaps as early as the end of this decade.
Looks like MS-DOS 5's Dos Shell

https://geekfolk.blogspot.com/2016/02/remembering-dos-shell....
It sounds like Uber/Lyft will eventually degrade to the level of service of the regular taxis of old, when the default expectation of interaction is to get scammed or worse. Which means that another disruption opportunity is coming soon!
Locally: The fellow who lost his business a year ago, walked into his ex-wife's shop and shot her and two customers, and then got gunned down by the cops; is not a suicide. One of the dead customers was a COVID death according to the news reports.

I haven't checked the numbers on "fatal housefires killing elderly persons" this year but I have heard a rant on the subject from an ex-volunteer fireman.

I suspect the public statistics are failing us here at the county data gathering level.
thanks romwell, glad to hear that you like it!
Regarding this paper:

"In February 2020, Zak and Philip Gibbs published an assessment applying Bayes' theorem to the question of her authenticity, claiming "a 99.99% chance of an identity switch in the case of Mme Calment". François Robin-Champigneul and Robert Young commented on Zak's and Gibbs' findings, Robin-Champigneul noting that it "appears to be in fact a subjective and nonrigorous analysis" and Young that "[i]gnoring the actual facts of the case and stringing together opinions in a 'Bayesian' analysis are to merely misuse a mathematical tool". Young found that "a very solid case that Jeanne was 122 years has already been made" but that biosampling still was needed to test "for biomarkers of extraordinary longevity". Robin-Champigneul found that "the hypothesis of an identity swap with her daughter appears not even realistic given the context and the facts, and not supported by evidence" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Geany is cross-platform and runs on RPi
I joined Navy Federal through a friend and am a member for life. Credit union employees are friendly people and put the humanity back into banking compared to Big Bank call center script readers in my experience.
Equally polite, even to a crazy person https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-and-reggie-fils-aime-h...

Kanye visited the Nintendo Booth during that E3 and was even able to spend a bit of time with Shigeru Miyamoto. He then requested a meeting with Reggie, and the two ended up meeting up at one of Kanye's offices in Calabasas, California.

I told him, ‘Kanye, you don’t want to work with us because we’re tough, we’re hard. All we do is push for the very best content. We would not be the type of partner you would want to work with.’
That was clear when Nokia fell and took down TI's OMAP processors with them and they just gave up to Quallcomm's Snapdragon without even putting up a fight.

TI is now just rentseeking on their ananlog dominance and whatever sinking boat Intel is, TI is way worse.
Yes! I've been waiting for an ebook reader that I can use to take hand-written notes with.

I really can't concentrate on a book unless I have a pencil in hand, underlining, circling, and taking notes. Stylus instead of pencil, here.
How easy or hard is it to get accepted to istockphoto?
‘Experts’ are right until they are wrong.
Finding Haskell jobs is the problem, not 'functional jobs' in general.
Has your TL used svelte yet? :angel:
> Your vote is good if you vote for good people and good policies. Yes. But if a person votes for bad people and bad policies, then I don't see what's so good about it.

Democracy is a means of securing regular, peaceful power transitions. Whether the outcome is particularly good or bad is not relevant, because all power is transient.

The alternative is a civil war/revolution every now and then.
I noticed that the strings do not actually sound close to a natural guitar. For the next set of enhancements perhaps you could incorporate Karplus-Strong[1] in your audio generation routine.

[1]: http://amid.fish/karplus-strong
I did link the original piece coining the term and quote the specific definition given. I think that's a sufficient standard to meet when introducing an unfamiliar term.
well if you follow RSS on twitter it is your problem. If you follow people who share links, than it is a way better than RSS, because human filter is applied and you are more likely to get an interesting content.
It is weird to me how the perspective on Intel flipped a while back.

For a long time, the discussion was that Intel had failed, failed and failed again to get their next generation fabs operating at acceptable yields that they were a couple of generations behind TSMC.

Which was a huge departure from their decades of first or least competitive on fabs.

Intel announced they would start having some chips produced by TSMC,
so they could try and harness benefits of the latest, or the generation
behind latest for their chips.

In short Intel was seen as incompetent and could no longer compete with their competitors. The long Intel domination was sliding away.

Then people started worrying about Taiwan.
Intel got a few billion dollars in a sweet contract with the military,
building fabs in the US became the major push in tech.

Since then, the perspective has been much more positive for Intel and
their role in building domestically.

Intels inability to build a latest generation fab has not changed.
Rubocop has about a thousand config options
I think it's more about the pseudonymity of internet culture and the interactions it tends to fosters. eg: I am responding to you without knowing you personally and the only relationship I have with you is your username and the broader HN message board; the freedom to be critical without human 1:1 feedback.
That’s the more popular view, but there is still a group of hard core “meat is murder” vegans. Personally I would say get rid of all farm subsidies, but politics makes strange bedfellows and democracy means accepting compromises up to a point.
Bringing machine learning skills to medicine (if you focus on medical research and the MD/PhD route) could give you a serious advantage if you're on the medical side and can code and understand ML. There are often advantages to having uncommon skills in adjacent areas. I agree with others here that you need to be highly motivated and in a good place to start a path like that, but it sounds like you're ambitious and planning ahead which is a great start.