jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I brought up neopronouns to show that most people have a degree of inflexibility in their conception of gender.

People's objections to neopronouns are usually practical and linguistic in nature rather than stemming from any particular inflexibility about gender. I don't really doubt that some people have gender identities that fall completely outside the usual male/female classification scheme. What I do doubt is that any significant number of these people think that the pronominal system of any given language must necessarily encode the relevant conceptual aparatus in its morphology. After all, there are plenty of languages where pronouns don't have gender at all. If someone is talking about you in Chinese, then 'tā' is all you're getting – and who could reasonably complain about that? That's not to say that I'm reflexively (tee hee) opposed to all neopronouns. Adding additional gender-neutral pronouns to some languages might make sense, conceivably.

I can see how it would be nice to have a general argument that would prove to a skeptic that any arbitrary non-binary identity was 'valid'. However, there are a couple of reasons why I don't think this is a reasonable thing to ask for. First, different identities are different. If the 'validity' of a given identity comes into question, then one has to argue on a case-by-case basis. Second, while it is almost certainly very rare for people to be delusional or dishonest about their gender identities, it is clearly possible in principle. Thus, the requested argument would either be an argument to a false conclusion, or would have to presuppose the honesty and sanity of the relevant person, at which point it would beg the very question that is usually at issue.
Cool. I'll let you guys know. Thanks for the response.
I'm not talking about the Gigafactory itself being marketing. They've been talking about it for the past two quarterly conference calls. It looks like something that is going to go ahead, somehow, at some point.

What is full-blown marketing is Tesla releasing a 6 page pdf that has no build site, no financial details, very little information of any kind, a bare-bones artist's rendering of a hypothetical location, and what look like unrealistic projections regarding build capacity.

Much like the Hyperloop paper, there's very little substance. But it makes the rounds of the internet, conveniently coinciding with a share dilution.

Musk is clever in more ways than one.
What do you use for displaying 3840x2160@60Hz?
> First, a federal law called EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment regardless of citizenship or ability to pay.

s/hospitals/hospitals that accept payments from medicaid and medicare/
Is there an API for sending text to shortcodes?
If this is the same level as '08 I don't think much will change in your sector. The demand will still be there,just a lot less of it. If your employer is not in tech either you lose a job or you don't see a pay increase for a while. If your employer is in tech then there are plenty of non-tech places all over that are starving for your talent which will do well in a recession.
You are very seriously overthinking this. Rinse , done.
Pretty curious how the "real drivers" are going to do for gaming driving. My family had a stock car growing up, and afaik the simulated races have almost nothing in common with the real experience. Yeah there might be a wheel to turn and even in fancy driving games feet pedals, but the other sensations in a real race car are simply overwhelming - the noise, g forces, heat, and the lack of being able to see much other than straight ahead.

Will be pretty fun to watch how these drivers play out in the simulated races! imo they are probably going to get pwnd.
Know why people all they want is to be understood. Everybody wants to be heard. These books tell you how and why. Quote from Never Split the Difference, "Interesting people are interested"

- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss
Wow. I wonder why it's such a persistent mantra here in the US. I've been needlessly ignoring valuable protection because of misinformation.
WHO is, I believe, encouraging outdoor exercise as well, with appropriate distancing.

Lots of discussion here on mask wearing, which I think is great and would help slow spread of this (reusable ones for those who aren't health professionals). Not a lot of discussion that I've seen on how to improve health and function of the immune system, which might not stop spread but could certainly improve the percentage of those who don't get critically ill. I'm talking mainstream advice like getting rest, exercise, eating nutritious food, not smoking. I've also seen a reputable study that states that vitamin d supplements can lower odds of getting respiratory infections. So a low cost way of improving odds. I'm glad I take vitamin d already.
I wonder what it would take to do something like this with kind[0] so you can have something resembling an actual multi-node cluster, if it's even possible.

I've used kind successfully on WSL for experimenting locally, and even found a script to open up ports on the firewall and set up a port "forwarding" of sorts using the netsh utility, which let me access a program bound to a port within WSL. Though I suspect additional hurdles considering however the networking for kind works.

[0] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/
Thanks! If you get a chance to check it out, please don’t hesitate to send any feedback my way. I need all the help I can get in order to ensure this experience is awesome :)

https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour
Are the pins sent by email via an SMS gateway? If so, why not just let people sign up with their email address?

I'd like to join in on the fun, but not with my personal phone number.
Isn't it obvious why this policy exists?

Apple doesn't want to be in the business of fielding customer complaints about missing or unreadable files. Which, in the context of a hard drive replacement or repair, is not exactly an uncommon outcome.

Apple also doesn't want to be in the business of helping people recover files from dead drives.

Apple really, really doesn't want to be in the business of ensuring that the drive it removed from a computer goes back to the same owner as the original machine. Try to imagine what the Apple repair depo looks like: Drives everywhere. Try to remember that a drive inside a computer is protected by a user password, but a drive sitting outside the computer is not protected at all. Except perhaps by Filevault, which many users do not enable. If you think getting no drive back is bad, imagine the scandal if you got someone else's drive, and someone else got your drive.

Apple's simple policy solves all of these problems. They don't send drives back. Instead they promise to erase them. Either you find this credible or you don't. If you don't, you'd better be using Filevault, because once you put an unencrypted drive in the hands of a tech its content is as good as disclosed. And if you are using Filevault, what is the problem with refurbing your drive? It's filled with unreadable encrypted data!

Finally, dare I suggest that nobody except the typical HN reader is better at disposing of old hard drives without a security incident than Apple is? I bet if you hand a broken hard drive back to the average buyer, outside of a computer, 90% of those drives will eventually get thrown away intact. Exactly how is throwing a readable hard drive in your local dumpster more secure than Apple's dedicated drive-erasure-or-disposal facility?
This version clocked in at 1:35, gave up on the "professional code" requirement though :) Need to sleep.

https://gist.github.com/752455
It probably makes the market efficient even at a resolution of sub-second intervals. But what societal benefits accrue from that is not clear to me.
Firefox 4 is a memory hog compared to Firefox 3.6. Worse, it leaks memory like a sieve. After a bit of browsing, it is using 350 MB with just a single tab open. Firefox 3.6 uses half that much memory on the same machine.
Well, there are nuances here. HFT may not be a net win for humanity, but it's a long leap from there to "no arms race benefits humanity".

The last large "arms race" was a decades-long contest between the US and the USSR. It resulted in millions of deaths (via proxy wars and famine), the near-bankrupting of several contestants, and several cases where we almost turned our civilization into glowing dust.

It also got us, as a species, to the Moon. It encouraged hundreds of thousands more people to study engineering and hard sciences, created the interstate highway system, modern communications, telemetry, trauma medicine, epidemiology, etc.

I won't get into a discussion of whether all that was worth the cost, but it's no coincidence that technology advances quickly during times of war and near-war.
But there's a price to pay in the smoothness of the user interface. Here are a few examples of things you can't really do well in a web application:

Create a fast drawing program

Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines

Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the close box of the browser

Update a small part of the display based on a change that the user makes without a full roundtrip to the server

Create a fast keyboard-driven interface that doesn't require the mouse

Let people continue working when they are not connected to the Internet

These are not all big issues. Some of them will be solved very soon by witty Javascript developers.

What's left on this list today?
It's not always safer to be up-to-date with graphics drivers.
Does this real estate acquisition mark the beginning of Google's decline, per the late C. Northcote Parkinson's laws?

http://www.02articles.com/read/parkinsons-law-chapter-6
I think your point #2 is the critical one and it seems to be at odds with the premise of the article. Microsoft is now trying to keep it's old API intact on a platform (tablet) that it is not suited for. If Microsoft had really got behind a new API (even if it was a OS X => iOS :: Windows 7 => ??? situation), it would have a better chance as opposed to the drumming it has taken.
Mass and acceleration are what causes road and tire wear. You can be 100% energy neutral and still not be truly eco-friendly.

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...: “Pollution from tyre wear can be 1,000 times worse than what comes out of a car’s exhaust”
The Bolivars being introduced into circulation over a period exceed the number of Bolivars needed to settle debts and taxes over a period, and the excess of Bolivars in the system resulted in people being able to obtain Bolivars they needed to settle these obligations by doing less work or supplying fewer goods.

Competently run central banks, unlike incompetently run central banks or crypto mining algorithms, intervene to reduce the money in circulation when its purchasing power falls faster than they're comfortable with.
Precisely. He wants this in the simplest sense. I think he may genuinely not know what else to do with his life, which while sad given his stupendous wealth and power, is in some part likely for some element of his success.

Zuckerberg, for all the weird uncanny valley human robot that he appears to be, lives and breathes Facebook.
This Large Bitcoin Collider is similar to Plundercoin and is actually quite interesting [1]. It's a distributed brute force attempt on every possible bitcoin key, I believe initially based on a mysterious bitcoin puzzle transaction [2]. The puzzle was created as a canary in the coalmine to see the current number of key bits from 1-256 that can be brute forced. Each address had the corresponding number of bits in it's key and an increasing reward. So far it's been broken for just over 60 bit keys [3]

[1]: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about

[2]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972

[3]: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6...
Do it! You will never look back.

The most common tripping points are the minor adjustments in syntax, probably the biggest one being command substitution:

Bash:

$ echo “$(ls -al)”

Fish:

$ echo (ls -al)

You get used to it though.

Another thing many bash-ers sometimes miss is the !! substitution, e.g.

$ apt update
# permission denied
$ sudo !!

This doesn’t work in fish, BUT fish does offer a handy keybinding out of the box to prepend ‘sudo’ to your current command line (submitted by yours truly). So when using fish, you’d handle the above scenario like this:

$ apt update
# permission denied
# press Up or Ctrl-P followed by Alt-s
$ sudo apt update

There are so many other great things I love about fish, but this comment is already long enough.

Be sure to read (or at least scan) through the user guide on their website. It’s an easy read and not dense. You can also view it at any time by running `help` from inside fish.

I can’t recommend fish highly enough, I’m excited for your journey :)
That’s why it is open source. Both hardware and software. You should be able to trust it more than some closed source version because you (or someone else) could verify the security more easily.
That is true, and certainly relevant, but I believe it is also true that Scala does not meet the criteria for what that were trying to do, because it is not easy (perhaps not possible) to do the kind of static analysis necessary to achieve their goals.

For a generic "what language with a good type system should we use with ML?" project, I would totally agree with you that Scala is an obvious choice. But this project was attempting a more specific thing, for which Scala is a less good fit.
> Calls for everyone to hold were equally self-serving and were never going to happen. Sufficiently large markets just don't work that way. Markets only work at all because eventually everyone acts in their own best interests.

OPEC?
Seriously, I'd almost live in a tent to work there.
The tool to save content looks like, to be blunt, an intentional ripoff of the Evernote web clipper (the visual elements seem to be intentionally similar, as well as the functionality). So that's not cool. Also, whether it was meant to be a ripoff or not, what functionality does this offer that Evernote doesn't? I already have the flexibility in an Evernote clipper to choose whether I am saving just the URL, the full page HTML, an automatically detected portion of the page (like a text article) or, like what you show here, a manually highlighted portion of the page. How does this improve on any of that?
Data-flow is a broad term that doesn't mean one specific thing, but it is usually used correctly in what it means; e.g. data-flow analysis contrasts nicely with control-flow analysis. I don't find it confusing.

I believe FBP primarily deals with data flow, not control flow, but the "flow" in FBP seems to be left intentionally ambiguous.
Why not link directly to the banner health page? This article seems to be needlessly political given the drop of Trump's name. I'd gladly dive into an article about the president's rhetoric and its effects on public health, but this story is better served by the linked article (http://bannerhealth.mediaroom.com/chloroquinephosphate) which also explains how the couple may have aquired such a dangerous chemical, which I think is useful information.
Hm... You're saying it can be possible to solve two different ways with two different numbers?

Suppose the corners and the center are black and the other squares are white. Then every two moves in a row adds one to black and one to white. So an even length sequence keeps the difference between the black sum and the white sum the same. In the end, with all values set to X, this difference equals 5X - 4X = X.

Thus, for an even-length game, we know from the start what X must be: the difference between the black and white sums.

This means there's no room for a wrong move. Any solution has a prescribed number of times to hit each tile. (FWIW, the total number of moves will be 9X - the starting sum = 9(B - W) - (B + W) = 8B - 10W)

So far, we've assumed we'll be playing an even-length game. Might we actually be playing an odd-length game? Sure. In that case, we also know from the start what X should be (since it amounts to making one move, adding 1 to the color not started on, and then playing an even-length game).

Is there an easy way to see from the start whether we play an even- or odd-length game? Is it possible that both are allowed for a given board? It's not yet clear to me. I'll reply with updates. But at any rate, there are at most two different values you can solve with, one for even-length solutions and another for odd-length solutions (and these two values will be next to each other).

[This is all for the version of the game in the early levels. I see from other comments that the game changes at level 51, which I haven't played to yet. I also see that "black" and "white" start actually being used in the game at that point, making this explanation potential confusing.]
Its not his fault that everybody else makes electric cars that suck in comparison.

There will be a time of reckoning for Elon, but this is not it.
boo paywall
To be honest I definitely think that visit to Cuba by Putin cannot be ignored, but I think the money isn't the main reason for the US's change in stance.

Between 1991 ish and now the cold war ended, but nothing much really changed since then. It was like the entire world was just letting the status quo sit for a while so see how things settled after such a large political change (e.g. would Russia turn into a western-style democracy?).

And I think the Ukraine incident gave everyone (mostly europe and the US) a wake up call that not only has Russia not changed, but it is likely not going to change. So now you have Russia buddying up to Cuba again, and you also have a Russia which is a legitimate threat to world peace (which isn't to say I think Russia will attack the US, I mean world peace in the sense of Russia picking fights with its direct neighbours).

So the US had a choice to make, they could either keep ignoring Cuba while keeping its evidently ineffective embargo going, or they could try to buddy up with Cuba. Given Russia's current financial position (read: bad) and the US's position (read: good) it makes a lot of sense for Cuba to pick the US right now over Russia.

The money forgiveness is just the "cherry on top." The fact that Cuba is now largely out of Russia's pocket financially just makes it even easier for the US to influence Cuba, which they've already started doing.

But ultimately with or without the forgiveness Cuba needs trade and tourism from the US. Russia cannot offer that logistically. I'd describe it with this analogy: "Russia and the US are both employers, but you owe Russia money, Russia says that if you work for them they'll reduce your dept but pay you nothing, the US says that if you work for them they'll just pay you normally and if you wish to pay off the Russia debt so be it (but can keep it after)."
Been let go on a Friday, and it is seriously one of the shittiest things you can do to a person. Here's to hoping those folks who aren't joining FB land on their feet. I'm sure they will.
No, not at all. At least in the teardowns I've seen here on HN, the companies make big mistakes, market it like they are perfect, and are arrogant regarding fixing things.

If companies launched with a real crypto review, this wouldn't happen. On the flip side, most companies wouldn't launch at all because their product is simply inherently insecure. Or, it addresses a mostly useless threat model. For instance, it requires you to trust their server while claiming to be super duper secret.

Even Silent Circle, which touts some famous names, talks up their secure PSTN service which is so obviously interceptable it's bizarre to make any security claim at all.

The problem with crypto your mum can use is that key management is a pain in the ass. And if users don't verify and maintain their own keys, most systems are useless against strong threats. zRTP is the closest thing to great, because there's a simple in-but-out-of-band key verification system built in.

And if you day your mum doesn't need that much security, she just doesn't wanna be in a dragnet or have her ISP read her email, then choosing, say, Gmail, and emailing other users with TLS-enabled SMTP servers gets her pretty damn far (if SMTP actually verified certs). But that's not a very sexy product, is it? (Despite being what many corporations do -- configure explicit SMTP-TLS policies.)
It's not much of a stretch from the Lucky 13 attack (http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf) to something like I described – it might be worth having a look at that paper if you're interested in seeing how much information can be extracted from delicate timing changes!

I understand your scepticism, but there have been a fair few timing attacks showing the viability of this approach.
Unlikely for a bunch of reasons.

1) Amazon has a history of competing fairly with customers (e.g. Netflix) and wouldn't want to ruin its reputation in that regard
2) Big customers like dropbox make S3 better (power users + increased economies of scale
3) Raising the price of S3 would risk Dropbox shifting to another cloud provider with no guarantee that customers would shift to Amazon storage
Your "win at money" is similar to the philosophy on Mr. Money Mustache[1]. He advocates shifting your lifestyle down a few notches in places where it doesn't affect you much, reducing your cashflow needs and making it easier to "win", or in his parlance be financially independent and retire early.

[1]: http://mrmoneymustache.com
alexborisov, whipit-03, hingsta: How nice of you to create new accounts within an hour of this post just to up-vote this submission.
If you're learning, it's really important to have the skill of narrowing down what it is you don't know and formulating a clear question about it.

I've seen all sorts of failure modes with that:

* People asking overly broad questions, e.g. if they are having trouble using, say, a dictionary class: "How do dictionaries work?" rather than "I'm trying to do x with a dictionary and I can't figure out how to make it work - I tried the put() method but it doesn't do what I thought." This makes it very difficult to dig into what's actually being asked and provide a relevant answer.

* People not admitting what they don't know. E.g. maybe they just don't have a clue what a dictionary is, yet won't admit it.

* People making a lot of assumptions and not articulating them. This tends to manifest as a really specific question that doesn't make sense. E.g. "I tried to build a spellchecker and dictionary is not returning the right thing." Then it turns out they assumed dictionary was prepopulated with the English language. This is even worse if the person can't/won't explain their thought process when prompted.

* Not reading any of the docs. I ran programming tutorials at one point and it was remarkable how many questions would have been answered by the introductory paragraphs of the tutorial if they'd read them instead of skipping it then spending 10 minutes struggling with a problem that didn't make sense to them.

* Unwillingness to talk through things systematically, e.g. explaining code line-by-line. It's surprising how often people will ask for help, then lose patience with you once you want them to spend any amount of time explaining things. This is enormously effective - half the time they realize their mistake on their own.
Maybe you could make a table with conversion factors and allow people to choose :) I like sites like this though, good work.