jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A related question, why is voting considered "good"?

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.

Voting in general however I believe is good because it makes people be part of the system, and feel they are part of it.

And so, if voting is good, maybe we should have more voting.
Slight aside, but DAU is such a BS metric.

It's relatively easy to boost such numbers - just keep bugging people with a notification here or a sudden important event. And a user is not the same as a person.

I've noticed previously I've suddenly been spammed via email by Facebook at the end of the month, presumably to boost their MAU.

Much more meaningful would be a distribution of the number of minutes spent by individuals on the mobile app, and details of the click-through rate of adverts.

Summary statistics - if chosen properly - of both could avoid abuse.

I think at some point Wall St will be called out as having been very naive to pay attention to such stats.
I got a pang of nostalgia seeing the Alpha AXP instructions.
In my opinion the best languages that you can start with are JavaScript or Python.

Reasons:
1 - Lots of online materials for both of them
2 - They are both beginner friendly
3 - With JavaScript you can build any type of app that you want
4 - With Python you can get into Machine Learning later on
I disagree that you should care about your own happiness. Happiness is not a meaningful goal unless you are willing wrap it in nonsensical notions like "actual happiness."

Actual happiness? How is that different from happiness?

My recommendation is to get good at _making decisions_. That way, should happiness be needed, you will be better able to produce it. But if you need something very different, you will be prepared to produce that, too. Happiness is just too myopic and selfish. Good decision-making will often result in happiness, but it's not the sole justification for it. (It will often result in unhappiness, too.)

Talking about long-term entropy isn't a reliable way to make decisions. If we think of 'meaning' as "that which separates signal from noise", you would be saying that -- eventually -- we will be unable to separate them. But we don't live in a reality in which that is the case: we can separate signal and noise right now. So arguing from that point is an argument from fiction. It's kind of like saying "we shouldn't build technology because someone might make the Terminator and everybody will die." Your responsibility is to make the Terminator first and design him so that he gives out hugs and candy. Or whatever else that is good.

I probably sound overly argumentative about this. You have a good point, I'm just trying to dig more deeply into it. I don't think there is a good answer to OP's concern. I would just say "don't worry, just consider your life an experiment," (as is my approach,) but then 'worry' is just part of the experiment. Maybe worrying about it is exactly what he should do. Maybe he shouldn't be happy. Maybe that's the only way to be a better person.
Thanks pimlottc, we're actively working on the design and trying to improve readability.

I believe you're talking about the incidents themselves? What you see in the screenshot isn't actually a good representation of what's happening. Instead, check out the live demo. http://cachet.herokuapp.com/

And in the mean time, I'll update the screenshots.
Because it's sunday and the regulars are not procrastinating at work.
The fact that US is harboring terrorists should not be news. No need to go all the way to 1950s for this.

More recent ones are:

Pedro Ramon : bombed Cuba's UN mission to US.

Guillermo Novo : car bombing in Washington DC of Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Leteller.

Luis Posada : bombed Cuban airliner in 1976.
Yes, but I hardly think that it's OK to ask people to undergo a sex-change operation to get a job (I do think it's perfectly OK to ask people to become good in a specific field to get a job in that field)

And the general point stands, because many other things you can't change about yourself (like your race) shouldn't be the basis of discriminating for job positions.
I'm not a security expert, but surely there are security implications for a non-hierarchical file system.
Ffs. Justgiving take 10% of all money raised through this.
Establish a stronger online presence, place your portfolio, resume, CV .. etc.

Publish essays/articles/writings/blogs: a permanent place for your opinions instead of having them scattered all over the various forums.
On a thread a couple of weeks back about backbone.js a couple of you mentioned a PHP version of Docco would be cool. So here is a first version, lots more to add but feel free to comment and add suggestions.
Yes, emptying bagless units is a disgusting process. Even outdoors, it's not pleasant.
> maybe it's not a great idea to keep your company's funds tied up in one of the most volatile currencies of all time.

and they will have bought put options or sold futures or created a collar

going to have to leave that argument in last decade when these options weren't available, and educate companies that are ignorant in how hedging works
Sadly, you're completely right. It's not a joke: it's happened to me. I still have nightmares about sbt.
I'm not saying windows users love installing services.

I meant, maybe your acquaintances aren't that tech savvy and don't understand the implications. My parents we're the same before I've taught them not to install stuff before consulting with either me or my brother.
What's an embargo period?
One very public example of a Clojure shop through and through is NuBank out of Brazil, who employs some 700 "Clojure developers" according to them. In fact they are so committed to Clojure they bought Cognitect last year.
the reason that the other scenario comes up so often is that the remaining 10% can be completely catastrophic.

And the reason that it can do so is that the 10% of cases where the patient really, genuinely has no choice are lumped in with the 90% of cases where there is a choice.

The article makes this point: it notes that what most people call "health insurance" is actually a prepaid health plan: they pay premiums in advance for predictable health care expenses--the 90% of cases--at prices that a third party negotiates. The whole point of "insurance" is supposed to be that it protects you against unpredictable expenses--the 10% of cases--by spreading risk. But our system of "insurance" is broken because it doesn't separate the two things.
This does seem pretty steep, at least at first blush.

A camera, two lasers, and a turntable. Add software - mostly front end work.

That said, you are definitely paying for the MakerBot name - compare the price/capabilities of their MakerBot Replicator to other options.
To wit, from the front page of HN right now:
"Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

Indeed you are correct that the truth will come out and I am the first person to support full transparency. I do know however that in this example, if the Japanese said they don't know what they are doing, please help - the people in charge would lose their jobs immediately. So it's not just a one way street with people being honest, it is also the public and everyone who has a voice understanding that there is a difference between incompetence, hostile intent and accidents.

People at the basic level demand perfection from people in power - so those in power do everything that they can to make it look like they are either infallible, or are victims. In one way or another how we as a society respond to failure that will determine how truthful we can be. If we continue to have the zero fault mindset for those in power, they will continue to lie.
Are you referring to a suit against Toyota or a Honda hybrid vehicle? Prius is manufactured by Toyota, not sure why Honda would be involved.
You want to be preventing PUSHES, not commits! Commits should be done early and often to prevent data loss. Edit the commits later.
Going to the link made my Firefox (34.0.5) allocate over 2 GB of RAM... and then everything stalled to molasses...
inequality (as measured by the after-tax Gini) hasn't risen all that much over the past two decades

Over the relevant time period of comparison (70's to today), GINI has increased from about 40% to 47%.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/The_US_Gi...

Mobility has remained flat over this time period. Over the same time period, college enrollment has gone from about 45% to 70%.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100428.htm

Based on the historical data, it looks as if inequality increases college enrollment and does not alter mobility. (Assuming of course, as most inequality mongers tend to do, that correlation == causality. Which is silly but whateve.r)

Your two predictions have not passed the real world test. Again: what data would convince you that your theory is wrong?

To convince me I'm incorrect, it's very simple. I'd want to see an exogenous change in inequality result in some measurable effect. For example, suppose for some reason a hord of rich people to move into some locale - I'd want to see something bad happen to the non-rich people who remain there above and beyond regional trends.
Thank you for clarifying. It still seems wrong, somehow. Admittedly I don't know enough detail about Thumb and the others, but if the variable-length encoding is a simple design like RISC-V's, it's hard to imagine that extra layer to be so expensive as to eliminate the benefits of an effectively increased I$. It would be nice to be able to dig deeper into the details of this.
This kind of DRM for an operating system is understandable. For a video game it is not. There are plenty of methods to implement DRM with out hardware sniffing.
I agree that is extremely awesome. I was just responding to his question. I have already started playing with your project, and have enjoyed experimenting with it.
Let me ask you this, if 2014 were merely an anomalously cold year, would the reporting and commenting be different?

Maintaining scientific rigor is difficult in the best of times. Unfortunately, people give in to vain impulses to try to short cut the process and "prove" their position is correct even though the actual scientific process is slow.

One hot year is just one year, as one cold year would be. It's proof of very little. Certainly the validity, or not, of incredibly complex climate models does not rest particularly strongly on one year out of many.

Short circuiting the climate debate when a year is warm is no better than when a year is cold, and merely legitimizes the practice.
Can't we just appreciate how both are fascinating for entirely different reasons? I think it's pretty amazing we were able to get a rocket to land (edit: well, almost land) to this precise a spot - and all by itself, without human pilots. Sure, it's no moon landing, but it has certain other challenges the moon landing didn't have. I think both are really cool.
Read the filing! It's a-m-a-z-i-n-g.
I will! I was wondering what's the use case? Same as any desktop 3d app but in browser? Was wondering, because in most studios I've been at you can't even access internet from workstations you work on.
Maybe the lesson is that to be creative, you have to create something, and it doesn't matter what mood you're in...
I'm not advocating static page generators that use markdown. Far from it. I used to use a blog platform called Movable Type. It was just as easy to use as WordPress but it generated static pages. You'd make changes in the back end, click publish, and Movable Type would generate a new static page to serve up.

You can make WordPress generate static pages too. They have plugins for that.
> Development? The technique has been well known for a long time

The difference is that these things used to be the domain of major government agencies rather than a hobbyist with a few hundred dollars and a poor sense of privacy.
Is Sony an American company now?

I thought they were still solidly Japanese with a US presence.
> run a country with that demographics most of whom were not even educated.

PISA 2018 results

“The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world, and allow educators and policy makers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries. This is one of six volumes that present the results of the PISA 2018 survey, the seventh round of the triennial assessment.”

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png

These latest results have various parts of China‡ in #1 position, the USA in #13

‡ It is true that the sub-regions looked at are Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

The 2021 results have been postponed until 2022 for obvious reasons.
But they are also really really bad at curating content I like to see. Like even worse than the advertising actually. My feed is just garbage and has been ever since they switched over from being chronological. But I sometimes get on a wild hair about some particular person, and I'll look at their page directly and see actually interesting content on their page that was never shown to me. Facebook's only real guess is then to just say: oh! You must like this person, let me show them, all the time.". The reality is, I'm interested in stuff like when a biased person I don't like shares a more neutral or inclusive opinion, or someone does something interesting. Facebook is just unuseably bad at selecting for that. Their algorithm just pushes really shallow crap and buries anything with substance or depth. I keep it around just to stay in touch with hard to contact people.
As long as you manually control the exposure and exposure time, the same can be achieved with an iPhone camera. This is not specific to Pixel.
How old are you if you don’t mind me asking?
Google would 100% have failed without its original founders, Brin and Page, running the company in its early years.

I’m very glad they weren’t acquired.
Pretty sure it's not.

I've never seen borg take 5+ seconds for anything except creating backups. The same `borg --help` command finishes in 0.4s on my machine. That's not blazing fast either but I'm okay with it.
Why has the S&P 500, Russell 2k, etc all gone up over the past 20 years on average then?
P/E has become a rubbish metric now, because there's so much money in the market thanks to QE. Most of the money in stocks now is money that would have gone into commodity trading and bonds, etc. The former's prices have stabilized or declined, leading to really poor opportunities, while zero interest rates and neg rates battered the market of the latter. Hence all that money has entered the stock market, which is why past P/E behavior, or any metric's past behavior really, cannot be correlated to future behavior.
BEWARE: There are a lot of investors that will try and take advantage of your skills to build their business with the promise of equity that isn't real or can be changed or diluted on their terms. DONT be fooled into taking more salary over equity.
What is Blender's funding model? I recall that its initial open source release was essentially crowdfunded before that was a trendy thing, but I haven't been keeping up with how they've been funding continuing development. They seem to be doing pretty well at that, so I'm curious about where the majority of revenue is coming from.
I got screwed in the opposite direction. I sold an online service with PayPal, delivered the goods (files to set up a web forum), only to have the client file a fraudulent chargeback claiming they never received the site files (they used the files to set up a successful site which they are still using; I pointed this out to the PayPal rep and they ignored it). I never got a cent and actually had a negative balance thanks to the fees.

It’s probably very hard to be PayPal, but the incident left a bad taste in my mouth. I no longer accept or send any transactions via their platform.
Tiberian Sun's technology is really unique and cool and I wish they'd open source it so I can see how they did everything. The 2d lighting really have it a distinct atmosphere.
I think it help to familiarize yourself with mental models. These are not going to explain the world, but they will give you a toolset to gauge and structure all the information you'll collect along your journey.

https://fs.blog/mental-models/ might be a good starting point.
Can we get little Bobby Tables in there?

https://xkcd.com/327/
It's more that advertisers don't want their brand to be associated with negative emotion readers get while reading about tragedy.
Thanks man, I've received a positive response so far - a few creepy proposals but I guess I'm asking for it :) I'll be on the lookout for your email.
Wow, perhaps that's what it's called by really arrogant people.
Marginal value versus total value, my friend. While those endeavors you mentioned would probably have enormous benefit once achieved, they are so lofty that the marginal usefulness of a dollar put towards them is much less than the marginal usefulness of a dollar put towards a more modest goal.

And it's worth noting that Groupon seems to have a social purpose that I'm not sure most people who aren't economists would be able to articulate: abetting price discrimination, and presumably eeking us closer to the efficiency in those markets that use it.
I really love articles like this from companies summarizing a failure or disruption of service.

It's like a lessons learn. I hope more companies do this.
While I am not an expert on the shuttle flight software, these are some challenges in flight software in general: Consider the problem of orbital insertion around a moon of saturn, or around an inner planet, or an asteroid. Not only does the guidance and control subsystem have to react (i.e., actuate the thrusters whose thrust can vary by orders of magnitude) within a razor-thin margin, but each scientific instrument has requirements as well, and introduces its own perturbations (e.g., extension of an antenna boom causing vibrations). Plenty of PhDs, and PhD topics to be found in this and associated problems. ANother example, consider space network links. You can't just use TCP (it's been tried, and it simply breaks down), you need to engineer a protocol -- in fact a whole new suite of protocols -- from the ground up that provides the same reliability but over much faultier links. Although TCP is simple in concept (just ACK/NACK till you got everything, right?), 30 years of its evolution shows that it is anything but. Both of these problems necessarily involve some bending of the mind to solve, and I image there are related ones for the folks in the manned-space sector

EDIT: and among other things that I'd consider important to mention, there are significant robotics challenges, autonomous behavior and decision making (with associated problems in formal model verification), along with the general high degree of fault tolerance required in just about every software (and hardware) subsystem. I think many of the hardest problems in CS can be found in the spaceflight domain.
This is like aged corporate manager porn. What a crock, lol
Of course not, but it doesn't change the fact that the USA unilateraly committed itself to ending the entire planet if they didn't get what they wanted.

The USSR were the adults in that conflict.

So, yeah - the rest of us consider it entirely likely that Democracy will nuke us.
A fair enough lawsuit. I usually get the cheapest models (16gb) and if you take photos + videos (including slow mo 120fps) your storage is virtually useless. They really shouldn't even make 16gb models anymore, but its a smart business strategy to hit price discriminate segments.
(2) As a very early employee in a hugely successful startup. But this is roulette, since most startups fail and some only succeed after so much dilution that your share ends up tiny.

This is a very poor way of describing the risk / upside of joining a startup.

In the aggregate, the odds of any randomly selected startup may present odds similar to roulette, but practically, you have the ability to choose who you work with and which company you work on.

Given the ability to be selective, you can dramatically increase your odds of a successful outcome, assuming that you have the skill set to a) identify / evaluate market opportunity / team capabilities and b) utilize your technical ability to add significant incremental value to the company.

The early team at PayPal did not have a 1/48 chance of success; it was probably closer to 1/10.

Edit - (Not actually 1/10, but significantly higher odds than those of a startup selected at random) Odds were chosen to correspond to the given example of roulette.
This always frustrates me when discussions of plea bargaining and the right to trial come up, and the argument is given that plea bargaining is a necessity because the courts would be horribly overloaded if every case went to trial.

If the system doesn't have the resources to give every accused criminal a fair trial, then either you're making too many criminals, the system doesn't have enough resources, or both. Bypassing trials is just a way to cover your ears and shout "la la la" to ignore the problem.
If you ever work with classifier training, these results are not surprising. You can take all false positives generate by classifier, average them and you will come up with an image that resembles the object to be recognized.
A computer vision system can have multiple ways of processing an image. So at the limit, it could interpret a scene in terms of what a human sees and also have a separate, better understanding of the scene.
"Known by whom?", is what I should have asked. The claim makes assumptions about its audience that simply have no way of being substantiated.
> The stock market isn’t the economy, people producing, consuming, and exchanging fiat in the process are.

You might get tarred-and-feathered if you keep speaking like that. Be careful ;)
> > they actively bypass the security control on the host-system where it is installed - this is literally what malware does

> it is not equal to malware. It is what malware does, which is an important distinction.

That's not an important distinction at all. It's like saying "Ooh George talked to Mary when they were alone in the elevator. That's what rapists do", and then later defending it by saying "well, I did not say that George is a rapist".

I agree with the remainder of your comment, fair point. I think your initial comment would've been stronger if you had used the "no place in an enterprise network" argument instead of the malware comparison.
So what happens if I have covid19, I pet or hug a dog, and five minutes later someone else touches it? The virus suddenly disappears across the entire dog's surface?
Anything after the hash isn't sent to the server (it's mentioned in the article).
Alright, then ban displays of advertising if it has to reach eyes that didn't ask for it, the same way we ban pornography, gore or violent stuff on display.
ah, that makes sense. Looks like the gdate I'm using only links against libsystem, and I don't have a glibc anywhere. So it's the darwin libc that doesn't have this bug.

Testing with https://hub.docker.com/_/busybox, it seems like musl also has this problem. uclibc is not affected.
Mostly to avoid a situation like this https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-ha...

(This week's hack using npm, gems etc to trick non-java build tools to not use internal repos but the hacker's compromised packages instead)