jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yoga is a spiritual practice, the fundamental goal is realizing your true (non-physical) self.

The physical exercises started out as conditioning to be able to sit longer in meditation, which is how you get there.
They are not. Germany is a net exporter, obviously not all the countries can be net exporter at the same time.

You can't have a stable monetary union without a fiscal capacity. The inevitable debt crisis in the Euro-zone are stopped by the ECB buying debt in the secondary markets.

The hypocrisy of the system is obvious to however takes the time to see how it works.
If this is successful, we can expect many other countries to follow suit Australia’s lead.
Your comment reminds me of this story:
http://www.astatespacetraveler.com/have-you-ever-wondered-wh...

Broad strokes: Startups directly create new value, which by definition makes the world a better place, at least for someone. In contrast, the finance industry adds value indirectly by optimizing capital allocation. At best, finance increases efficiency, but it's very hard to measure whether it's helping or just exploiting the complex rules to skim off the top. In contrast, startups without a value proposition fail.
Spatially, with post-it notes. It's gonna be a long time before software can replicate that kind of experience. ;)
tldr:

"The answer to this question lies in future technological development, which is difficult to predict. If, as seems highly unlikely, it is possible to extrapolate the exponential progress of Moore’s law into the future, then it will only take two hundred and fifty years to make up the forty orders of magnitude in performance between current computers that perform 1010 operations per second on 1010 bits and our one kilogram ultimate laptop that performs 1051 operations per second on 1031 bits."
I know you're joking, but I don't see the moral concern about investment banking. You may not be making the world a better place (although that is very debatable), but you're not making it worse, either.
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It depends very much on which bank you're working for. American/Asian banks tend to be much more hard pushing in terms of hours of facetime you have to put in, but at many of the European banks 40 hour weeks are fairly average even for Front Office devs.

Cost of living wise london isn't that expensive once you take into account cost of commuting. I'm paying £1300/month for a large two bedroom flat within walking distance of the city.
This book might be of interest to you: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Pr...
Not just automatic type coercion. But automatic DESTRUCTIVE type coercion.
Another great tool for data exploration is visidata! This is a good example of what it can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU
Yet what was always predicted. Followed by homes taking families hostage and we are almost there.
The counterparty risk is that when the sovereign becomes insolvent, people won’t want to buy your gold because they’d rather have food and water.
Moreover, don’t use C at all if you have the choice. A std::string in C++ makes mincemeat of the boilerplate that C requires for the same code.

In C++, you can make a very simple REPL that is superior to the one in the OP in almost every way.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main() {
std::string input;

while (true) {
std::cout << "> ";
std::getline(std::cin, input);

if(input == "exit") {
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
} else {
std::cout << "Unrecognized command: " << input << '\n';
}
}
}

Code quoted from “Setting Up A Better REPL” (https://mikeloomisgg.github.io/2019-04-10-set-up-repl/). It offers good insight into why C is bad in light of the alternatives like Rust and C++.
I think we've effectively ruled out lab origin of the original SARS and of MERS-CoV, because we've found proximal animal hosts. In other words, we've found animals that we believe first transmitted those viruses to humans, because (a) those animals are infected with a variant of the virus, and (b) that variant's genetic sequence implies it's an ancestor (or at least not a descendant) of known human variants. Condition (b) is why we believe that the animals first infected humans and not the reverse.

If we ever find the same for SARS-CoV-2, then I believe that pretty confidently excludes origin from lab manipulation (e.g., serial passaging). It would still be possible that the first human infected was on a WIV sampling trip, and not even all that unlikely (since an expert deliberately looking for novel viruses is far more likely to find them than e.g. a merely reckless wildlife trafficker).

If we see evidence in the phylogenetic tree of multiple animal-to-human spillover events--as we do for MERS--then that would pretty clearly exclude any scientific activity as the origin. At the very least, it would imply that even if some hapless grad student did accidentally start the pandemic, if they hadn't then someone else would have soon after. But as you say, so far we have neither.
astranews has comp.lang.c back to 30 June 2003.
No, the theory is that the US service members brought it with them and infected Wuhan.

Earlier in March, Zhao Lijian, an outspoken Chinese diplomat, raised a suspicion on his personal Twitter account that it might have been the US army representatives to the Military World Games who brought the novel coronavirus to Wuhan in October 2019, after a top US health official admitted detecting coronavirus infections on some deceased flu patients. Zhao urged the US to disclose further information, exercise transparency on coronavirus cases and provide an explanation to the public.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1183658.shtml
It's not nuance. it's just being straightforward. A lot of people (including the person that started this thread) seem to think that the "super-wealthy" can play "accounting games" to avoid paying taxes in a way that is somehow mysterious, nefarious or unavailable to everyone.

In reality, things are actually fairly straight forward when it comes to our taxes and most of the time if you're earning money you're paying taxes. If you aren't, it's generally for a pretty good reason.
I wish we could sue the judge and request the Supreme Court identify if the behavior is allowed by the Constitution. But of course the Federal Government makes it impossible to get standing when the Constitution is clearly violated. It's like the People no longer matter.
Why would I? That someone should pay. What you seem to suggest is DDoS victim blaming :P
You're honestly recommending he learn about Service Workers, which are, right now, a working draft with partial support in Chrome and Opera and nothing else?

I mean, yes, in a way learning that would give him a taste for what modern development in JavaScript is like, but not really in the nicest sense!
This video seems appropriate https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Right but the buck stops with him.
I have heard that the Muirhead Tower (at the University of Birmingham) was originally designed for paternoster lifts, but due to legislative changes was built with two regular lift shafts - which were totally inadequate for the volume of students trying to get up and down for every class. They had added a third lift by the time I was there (1997-2002) but it still wasn't enough. I hear it's been thoroughly refurbished since, though.

The Dental Hospital in Birmingham also had paternosters around that time, but only staff were allowed to use them.
If it were possible to stop some of that 10X before it even got to the pipe, would be the only kind of mitigation for that kind of attack. For something like that though, would require some pretty sophisticated firewall technology that lives outside of your infrastructure.
> some modern 4th gen performance aircraft require that fly-by-wire by design, as they're designed with inherent aerodynamic instability

The F-16 itself does exactly this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...
I use a lot of Google products. All of them I pay for, except search.

It is true there are individuals that shine, but across the board, Google sucks at support. It starts at the top with what kind of company they want to be, and goes from there.

They do not like humans.
I didn't say force. I said incentivize. Society benefits from incentivizing her to move, so that more humans can occupy the space she is currently occupying, which will improve regional productivity, reduce highway and transit overcrowding, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all sorts of good stuff.

If her property taxes aren't artificially constrained by prop 13, she'll see her taxes go up over time, and decide how much she values staying in the house and paying the increasing taxes, versus retiring sooner or investing her resources in other areas of her life. The market at work.

Also, ideally we wouldn't simply remove prop 13, but replace it with a better, progressive-not-regressive tax code, eg. allowing homeowners of limited means to defer portions of their property taxes until the sale of their property. This would make it easy for grandma to stay put, and be vastly more fair and healthy for society than the status quo.

> Why don’t you go somewhere where prices are cheaper and make a nice community there?

Would you rephrase this in a kinder way please?
Has there been any case where a redesign of an app or website is actually better than the older version?
>The incentives are for people to live there and for businesses to set up offices there

Clearly not, otherwise people would move there. As it turns out, network effects exist, causing jobs to be near each other and for some reason people like to be close to their jobs rather than commuting 90 minutes from Stockton.

>Why would you be against developing areas that are not as nice right now?

These aren't mutually exclusive and you know that.
Car manufacturers use parts (like engines) from other competitors all the time. I thought this could be similar with Mozilla, but I guess it was a silly thought.
Just to expand on this a bit: "pork" as in "pork barrel": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
"Mark Text" (https://marktext.app/) seems to be one.

(HN thread from Nov 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462832 — I asked for other editors like this and got no other answers AFAICT. So this Mark Text is still the only open-source "WYSIWYG" Markdown editor I'm aware of.)

Edit: The https://github.com/blackhole89/notekit mentioned in a sibling comment is now another.
The SD cards may hold the data that long, but I don't think it's likely that it will be accessible. To computer enthusiasts with legacy hardware/software maybe. I shoot on film and I know that even my negatives will eventually fade. Photography has taught me to enjoy life because everything eventually ends.
>you would have growth beyond what the economy experienced during that period, right?

Are you looking at US growth, or global growth?
The only major difference intent; wherein lies the danger :)
Fun fiction, unfortunately missing the boat on quantum computing capabilities, the aims of quantum simulation, and the way quantum mechanics works.

The current interpretation of quantum mechanics is completely at odds with the statement from the story: "'[the simulation] is still as accurate a simulation of the real universe as there can possibly be. Civilisation - indeed, all of history - should rise on this Earth precisely how it did in reality. There are no chances. It's all worked out to infinitely many decimal places.'"

That's just not quantum mechanics. The "infinitely many decimal places" is a classic mistake (pardon the pun) and indicates a strong deterministic bent to the authors way of thinking about the world.

Clearly, quantum indeterminacy and its implications for a non-deterministic universe are still hard to both understand and get right in fiction.
Part of the reason wireless alarms use weird RF designs is they try to get a basic 9v battery to last for 3 years or more.

Getting that sort of battery life out of ZigBee would be difficult.
I don't write Python code for my work. Last weekend I came across an interesting Jupiter notebook and figured I'd give it a try on my work laptop. "It's probably as easy as brew install pip and then use that to load the other dependencies," I assumed.

Over an hour later I had to give up. There was initially some kind of Python version conflict on my Mac. Eventually some version of JupyterLab was installed somewhere, but it couldn't find any dependencies for the notebook. As a complete newbie to the Python ecosystem, I googled for instructions and found various environment managers, which then failed possibly because something is incompatible with Big Sur. More googling revealed instructions with complex CFLAGS environment setups to fix it, which didn't — and at that point it was very far from the supposed convenience of scripting languages anyway.

I don't think it's Python's fault. Probably all the programming toolchains are this hard to a newbie! But it was a humbling experience after 34 years of programming, not being able to load a piece of sample code in a Sunday afternoon.
Govtrack tracks this and compiles report cards that (mostly) reveal what you're looking for, e.g., its reports on Bills Introduced, Bills Out of Committee, and Laws Enacted [1]. The 2020 report cards should come out sometime this month.

1 - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2019/h...
I think music is an exception to this. I have funded several indie bands that have released albums that I liked.
Sadly, tours are no longer available. There are some videos out there from "urban explorers" heading down into the tunnels. I got to tour the unfinished platform and part of the tunnel under Central Parkway back in the late 2000's. The water main running thru one of the tunnels is eerily imposing. There's a fair amount of fiber down there, too.
Considering most of my peanut butter consumption comes in the form of PB&J, I find that the jelly/jam provides more than enough sugar and I don't miss it at all in the peanut butter. Only downside for me is mixing the natural stuff, it can be quite a workout. What I discovered recently is storing your next jar upside-down for a week or so on the shelf will make it much easier when doing the initial mixing since the oil will try to float up through the whole jar, so it kind of softens the stuff on the bottom. Once mixed, put it in the fridge and it will stay mixed.
Machine learning is not a concept that is fundamentally incompatible with interpretability, and indeed research is being done in this area.

One method for example is occlusion, removing pieces of input to assemble statistical representations of which parts your model cares about.

It's all still baby steps, but with time the theory will catch up.

> If you had something bigger you'd call it "artificial intelligence research"

Usually called just Data Science, and does deal with that (we had lectures on interpratibility of models at university)
Relatedly, I wrote this on Twitter a few weeks ago:
cargo build of sccache on a Lenovo Yoga C630 (Snapdragon 850) in WSL: 4 minutes 55 seconds. On a Macbook Air M1: 55 seconds
Incidents are unplanned investments. They’re a decision by leadership and sap the company’s prospects. Certainly negotiate. Maybe it’s your only job? Maybe it’s a 50% pay boost? Ideally you can show the company a better way: keep records of incidents, make statistical measurements to set expectations and then change from the reactive to proactive stance. The idea is to make things sufficiently reliable _before_ the customer experiences the incident (not after!). However, on the margin, if you’re not being sufficiently compensated, you might need to find wiser leadership.
I know that there is data that students from China are more likely to cheat in classes. There's are no strict codes of conduct in universities and professors look the other way. I wouldn't be surprised if journals worked in much the same way.
You wouldn't believe it, but principal Cyc developer Douglas Lenat started almost exactly with that. Eurisco, a predecessor to Cyc, was a deduction machine that operated with minimal human intervention over minimal sets of number theory axioms. It rediscovered many theorems on its own.

Douglas Lenat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat
Eurisco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko
Thanks for sharing that link. It's interesting to see what people come up with. It's also a space that I think not many of us startup types are familiar with, if what people were wearing to Startup School was any indication.
> a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz... 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is named after this whistle frequency

Now I'm curious whether the Atari 2600 was also named after this. I've just done a little bit of Googling but so far haven't come up with any hints on the origin of the game console's name. Does anyone know?
An interesting question I'm starting to ask myself is whether giving the ISPs this option might finally give them the incentive to make multicasting a paid-for service for broadcasters, potentially driving down the net cost to broadcasters. Hmmm...

(Disclaimer: these views are my own, etc.)
If accuracy was the highest priority when choosing the site's name, it would be called "Web Pages Voted on by a Reasonably Polite Community with a Curious Taste for Speculation About What Might Eventually Become News, Rather Than News Itself".
What technical posts?
The Scala compiler's written in Scala.
>The MiGs would zip through flights of less nimble fighter-bombers just long enough to scare American crews into ditching their bombs or extra fuel tanks. Afterwards, the North Vietnamese pilots would often speed back to their bases—safe from their opponents—without even firing a shot.

curious. I'd wonder what are the chances [some of] these jets were being piloted by Russian "advisers".

>Seven MiG-21s fell to Earth. The Pentagon had estimated Hanoi possessed between 20 to 25 of the jet interceptors before the secret op.

Considering that it was task force of 30 Phantoms, and even if all the North Vietnamese MiG-s were there, it wasn't a good day to be piloting MiG.
i registered and after verifying and logging in I was looking at someone else's account. Ruh-roh!
Setting aside catastrophic losses˚ there seem to be roughly two strategies. You can take out insurance on your non-catastrophic items, or you could take the money that you would pay into insurance and instead save / invest it.

We should expect the insurance strategy to be a net win iff the insurance company loses money on the account. If it feels otherwise, a combination of the loss aversion and hyperbolic discount rate biases may be at work.

On the other hand, it's easy to end up in a financial situation where coming up with $2,000 on short notice is very difficult, and at that point there may be value in using insurance to shift the cost from a random large cost to smaller and more predictable chunks. It's just worth knowing that this is not cheaper.

˚ I'll define catastrophic losses as those things that must be replaced quickly and which cost enough that replacing them out of pocket would be a severe hardship if they're able to at all.
Some of this could be solved if we could create "expiry filters" to delete after __ days.

There's so much "junk" in my inbox that was actually important in the moment, but by the time it's assuredly useless, a new wave of mail would have pushed it out of sight and mind.

Service notifications (outage report, terms of service updates, watched Github repos, 2-factor email auth codes, someone "followed" you), delete after a week.

Newsletters - delete after a month.

Also merging might be useful -
Receipts - merge by month after 6 months (email templates for each retailer are pretty similar, group the items?), maybe export to google drive / dropbox and clean itself up from my mailbox.
Slaves did not lack any free will -- they were forced into submission. Is that how you suggest we treat a potentially sentient AI?
That's insane.

No-one, and I mean [b]no-one[/b] thought the Peg would be kept.

The issue was how it was broken, nothing more.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8084cc9a-9cc5-11e4-971b-00144feabdc0...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11353686/QE-or-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11321355/Mario-...
I'm almost through with reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators and he covers the patent issue - Intel and TI both recognized that their respective innovations were essentially simultaneous, and decided to cross-license each other's patents. And then remarkably, opened up licensing to other firms for a nominal fee. Without this, the industry could not have grown as fast as it did.
I have a problem with modern notions of purely functional.

My first functional programming language was Caml Light, back in 1996. Followed by Prolog and eventually Lisp.

All alongside traditional lambda calculus and logic proofs, with ocasional references to a programming language called Mirada.

So for me, Lisp is functional programming and I don't buy into this modern notion that only Haskell is the poster child of FP.
You could actually argue the opposite.

People who can use C++ need to reason about their programs because otherwise they're going to shoot their foot off. You can be irresponsible in a language like python and get away with it because you're not going to cause the issues you would in C++.

I think that, to some extent, this is true. If you don't know what you're doing I find it's easier to code yourself into a corner in C++ than something like python.

(Disclaimer: I haven't used C++ in a decade)
Do you mean firewall and not VPN? VPN means something pretty specific.

Separate servers isn't necessarily bad. In fact it is a "best practice".

To get started if you wanted everything on one server:

Web server with port 80 and 443 open (apache or nginx).
Web server proxies to app server (unless you are on PHP)
App server connects to database on specific port. Port is not exposed to outside world.
I would be more impressed if they ended with a project :-)
Can Julia compete with Fortran and C? I still thought Julia still uses BLAS.
Does there need to be a push to get more men in tech criticism?
I don’t believe that’s contrarian dynamic. I think that’s the fact that when applied in large doses, online evangelism is indistinguishable from spam.

Have no idea how to solve that. I have never moderated online communities and that’s not my area of expertise.
My employer can fire me for severe misconduct that occurs away from the office. Is that any different? Isn't this normal at most companies?
Something tells me there’s a lot more to it than that.
Honest question: What is your problem with traditional cookbooks like "Le guide culinaire"[0]? They are a curated source of recipes which stood the test of time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_guide_culinaire
flagged as conflation
Thanks for the explanation. I didn’t realize that was the implication of the Oracle suit.