jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most people who compare Italy (and soon the UK) to say, South Korea or Taiwan would probably disagree with you. Also, whilst you might not mind a few hundred thousand or million dead pensioners, I assume at least some of them would rather spend time with their grandchildren than slowly suffocate amidst the remains of a collapsed health care system. Shouldn't the whole overwhelming uncertainty thing predispose you to not trying to infect a few billion people and see what happens? Did it ever occur to you that herd immunity via mass infection might either not work or could cause a lot of long term health problems in people who are not pensioners? If not, what makes you so sure?
Hi there,

I am a PhD student in Operations Research and developed an Introduction to Python & Programming course for the Bachelor program at a business school.

Due to Corona, I got a chance to video tape it thoroughly (should have done that earlier).

Maybe someone here finds my lectures (playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10lQ2xokyQow...) useful or knows someone who does. The recordings are 25 hours in total. If you do the readings and exercises, you should allocate 90 - 120 hours roughly.

The GitHub repo is really an interactive book in Jupyter notebooks: https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python

As I didn't study CS myself, I think I provide another angle for newbies.

Pull requests with improvements are highly welcome. The materials contain lots of references to the Python community as well. I love this community: I started without any knowledge of Python in 2014 and the many conference talks and repos really help when learning.

Stay safe everybody, Alex
What would you give as an example of political propaganda that a lot of people willingly watch regularly? Not something where some people think it's political propaganda, but something where it's objectively indisputably political propaganda.

I wouldn't count presidential debates, unless they were pre-rehearsed. And I wouldn't count political rallies since those are mostly attended in-person, not so often watched on TV. I guess the closest thing I can think of in the U.S. might be the State of the Union, but again, it's subjective whether or not that is propaganda (in THEORY it's not supposed to be).
Rust type system only helps with race conditions in threaded code, it does nothing for IPC or other kind of external resources.
Once a day? Is that supposed to be better? It's similar to what prisoners get ... If anything it actually just highlights the fact that the population is sort of mass incarcerated right now? Even the bans in Italy didn't specify a daily limit, only valid reasons. This is alarming imo.
I would start looking now. If they happen to hire you back before you find something else awesome.
Huh, I've just been pointing people to https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/24/Rust-Once-Run-Everywhe... for the last five years. Maybe someone was recommending Docker a lot and I just missed it.
Ava (www.ava.me) | San Francisco and Paris | FullStack, Software & Backend Engineers, Product Designer | ONSITE (in 9 months, can be REMOTE until then) | Positions: http://www.ava.me/jobs

We're a unique breed: a deep tech (4 PhDs), mission-driven (100,000 deaf/hard-of-hearing users relying on our work) and VC-funded startup (SV Angel, Initialized, Khosla), and we're doubling our team to 15.

Our goal is to improve how we humans connect & communicate with each other using human & artificial intelligence. First through using a patented multi-peer speech recognition technology app that empowers 450M deaf and hard-of-hearing people to have exceptionally accurate captions for any conversation they're a part of. That unique focus is because I (CEO/Founder) grew up in a Deaf family & witnessed how the world was not accessible for them, then cofounded Ava with my CTO Skinner, deaf since age 2.

Specifically, we're hiring makers (engs + designer) who want to be at the very beginning of a rocketship.
All jobs are here: http://www.ava.me/jobs but these following 3 positions will be filled quickly (it's my #1 focus):
1) a Full-Stack Developer (~2-5+ years exp), with React and Node background, to take the lead on building out the Ava experience on the web. Really powerful B2C & B2B applications through it, with real-time & scalability challenges. Should care about all the details that makes a first experiences become magical for a new user, and committed to make a huge impact on society.

2) a Backend Developer (~2-5+ years exp) with DevOps, Node, Python skills as their strong suit. Will own designing and scaling Ava's AI infrastructure, supporting mission-critical algorithms for our users.

3) a Product Designer, exp. in B2C & B2B platforms, mobile & web. Open to animations, UI/UX. Will be working with deaf users & probably learning sign language as a result :) Huge role in leading redesign, branding & empowering our community - very active because it's often life-critical for them to use Ava.

Feel free to email me directly: thibault@ava.me if any question, or to apply here: http://www.ava.me/jobs
I'll review HN applications personally!

Thibault Duchemin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibaultduchemin
I'm going to have to go against the prevailing view and say that you guys are being way too harsh. She messed up. She apologized.

Maybe it wan't sincere enough for you, fine. But in any case, what she did is less horrible than what has since been done to her. I have no doubt that "harass" is the right word, no doubt that her advertisers are being contacted, her voice mail stuffed, and her mailbox filled.

Based on what? How's this different than suing companies for silly shit? Its only different because you're the judge. An armchair judge. This should have been handled privately. Like adults. This is drama..a soap opera...stuff of tabloid.

Someone has wronged me and I'll unleash the internet on them.

Put your pitchforks away.
As someone who remembers BBSes and Usenet flamewars, I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to have your real identity linked to everything you do.

It also makes it very difficult if you ever need to go on the lam, because they'll know every place you might go. Every friend and relative. Whether you're trying to avoid a gambling debt, a stalker, or the government.
We could start a betting pool on the number of years until the government makes it compulsory.
Please make usernames case-insensitive on login. My iPhone auto cases my username as AlanH upon which event I get a
"Bad Login" message. I believe most users expect usernames to be case insensitive.
She's effectively written a long-winded excuse in the guide of an apology while making thinly-veiled attempts to blame the original author for her ensuing misfortune. At the same time she deftly manages to not mention the numerous other counts of plagiarism that were discovered.

I'm sure she feels extremely sorry for herself right now but for all intents and purposes she is simply a thief.
Your assumptions are valid.
Gentoo recommends -jN+1 where N is the number of physical and virtual cores.
On the other hand, if Apple really didn't want to allow the app, and only did so to satisfy regulators, they can do their best to slow and stall on every change that Google submits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
Why Apple uses little-endian, while everything else uses big-endian, is another mystery.

The Apple-I and Apple-II family were 6502 based machines and the 6502 was little-endian, would be my guess. Any takers?
>I don’t see why you wouldn’t simply use Imgix directly via a web browser.

I don't see why I'd want to do it in a web browser when I can simply do it directly in Emacs :)
But still way faster than any non-Google device so not sure I agree that it's a myth.
To be fair, he did say that enabling epoll in Erlang had no significant effect on performance.
You are right. Both 'sides',however, were incited to act on emotion.
Which is surely a strong sign it's time to start arresting Police as accessories to terrorism.

How can things get better unless that happens?
The DMCA provides the platform with legal immunity as long as they honor takedown requests.

So, individuals are guilty until proven innocent, and platforms siphon money off the piracy. The government gets a single choke point for censorship.
I'm not sure how much money Kensington really makes from it. They make locks that fit in the slot, but so do a lot of other people now. And I don't think that they charge licensing fees -- it's just a slot in the plastic, occasionally (in better implementations) backed up with sheet metal.

What surprises me is that nobody thought to standardize on something like it sooner; I remember the pre-Kensington PC locks and they always sucked. Most of them sold you big plates and tubes of epoxy that you were supposed to attach to your computer's chassis, and then loop a cable through.
Interesting timing. The NYTimes iPad app released an update yesterday that had a crash-on-start bug and required them to pull their own app from the store for most of the day.
Ironically Safari also "makes commercial use" out of NY Times' RSS feed (it's in the default bookmarks along with RSS).
If the hover functionality is important then perform it on click if it occurs before hover, for example in a drop down menu. If just visual then don't worry about it.

Or just hold out a couple more years when hovering your finger half a centimeter above the screen is detected and then all will be back to normal event-wise.
I don't think we should change to a triple entry system at all. That was just a lead-in to the idea that momentum is important to track. I don't think it can be tracked well only with revenue or other basic accounting measures.
>>Why is it that the US government doesn't take any action against that

Because the US goverment is in league with China[1], and American voters have a non-pragmatic view of unilateral free-trade?
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fin...
Long ago, I wanted to adopt the HR Open Standard in XML [0] and render my resume off that using HR-XSL [1]. Well, that format didn't get adopted as much as I liked, unfortunately. Now, there's JSON Resume, but it's very limited [2]. There's also h-resume [3] (microformat). I really want a format that will allow a complex resume to fit it without compromises. It's 2014 and there's still no such one!

[0] http://www.hropenstandards.org/

[1] http://hr-xsl.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://jsonresume.org/schema/

[3] http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats
I'm a big fan of the style used here, specifically the extra CSS on top of default IPython notebooks. If you're curious, like me, as to where the special styling is coming from – take a look at the last cell of the notebook. It imports some custom CSS into the notebook by reading it from a file, and this gets carried over to nbviewer since the output is stored in the notebook.
There's a lot of things going on in a restaurant other than food. Music, ambiance, friends, service. You can put up with ordinary food if these things are right.

But all that doesn't make up for unpalatable food. Our local vegan restaurant makes food I can't eat. Its just too strange. A Reuben that has neither sauerkraut nor beef, nor even proper bread. Pasta that is like glue and tomato paste. Drinks I can't pronounce.
The 5% thing in the original article doesn't add up for me at all. The top 5% of the programmers that I have come across are able to do things that the typical YC company doesn't need at all. He talks about someone who would hire 30 of them if they could. Really? What kind of team would that be? Could you keep them motivated doing all the bits and pieces a startup needs to do? Maybe they are building a new OS. (I doubt it)

It sounds a bit like people shooting the shit about great footballers or something where you up the ante to large it up ;)
Depending how fast you want the return and on your risk profile: market investment, Bitcoin speculation? I myself invested ~100USD in early days and now have >2000% return. Also, I think the best investment you can make overall (i.e. biggest and fastest payoff) is in self-education.
I am much more complex than my search history- I find that "relevance" to me can depend on things as diverse as my current mood. I too am torn because I know that increased relevance means I am giving away more and more of myself- I'm pretty sure that G has no limits in this pursuit of "relevance."
Note this is liquid helium in one operational MRI machine:

"Let’s say you have an MRI scanner with the OR76 magnet with the full capacity of 1800 litres of helium. Your system consumes approximately 4% of its helium capacity per month, that sums up to 48% per year (4%12 = 48%). That means that 864 litres are consumed per year (1800 litres 48% = 864 litres)."

https://lbnmedical.com/liquid-helium-in-mri-machine/

That is liquid, so for the gas we can multiply 864 by about 1000. So this MRI machine is using 86,000 liters of helium gas per year. That is what, 40,000 party balloons? Say each machine does 1000 scans per year, that is a good-sized cluster of party balloons for every scan. So yes, a single party balloon pales in comparison to the amount of helium being used for MRI scans.

(There are near-zero helium MRI machines, but there are also plenty of older machines in use out there.)
> What if the majority make a law saying "anyone gay or black is to be executed"?

What you're saying has already happened. The majority realized that was a terrible idea and undid that law.

> Or "anyone with more than $1 million in assets should pay a 90% tax rate"?

What's wrong with that? If it ends up being a bad idea the majority will undo the decision.

> Or "wildfire prevention, nuclear power plant inspection, SEC regulation, should all be defunded in favor of a federal football team with free bread at the stadium"? Maybe it takes 10-20 years for huge-impact consequences to be felt, and in the meantime you get free bread.

Yes, and once the realize the consequences the majority will undo their decision.

There are no problems with any of your examples. What's the alternative? The minority of the population makes all of the decisions?
Yes, exactly.

The grants start out small (I think the first one was $3k) -- but then once you spend 75% of them you can apply for the next round, which for me they gave me $17k out of a possible $30k based on previous usage. After I spent around $15k for that over the next year I applied again and got $100k.

Just one note though that I already had an MVP that I was running on GCP at the time I applied (but I was within the $300 free credits that I started with so I didn't pay out of pocket).
Which is a sad, but typical example that not everything is getting better.

No risk? No fun!
Thats the big question. If a new entrant that was a true open general purpose platform were to emerge, it would need to create a problem for existing players. It isn’t enough to have better philosophy/ideals. Consumers of Android/iOS need to feel differently about their current setup. I struggle to see what kinds of uses emerge that are not illicit which can’t be copied by current players. Since you mention low end disruption it would rest on simplicity I suppose. But the whole smartphone itself is built on the idea of being a simple computer. How much simpler can we get?
> The extremely backwards property tax policies that favor existing landowners over anyone new, young, poor (though this admittedly is California's problem, not just one city or county) and make everything else attempted bandaids -- and misguided bandaids, at that -- to fix the system.

It's bizarre how much Prop 13 appeals to folks, even those who don't benefit from it. When you explain it to people, their initial reaction is to express worry about the millionaires who own the houses that have quintupled in value, as though they are in need of protection.

I hope someone eventually finds the right sales pitch to get rid of it: the policy distorts not only price but liquidity.
There is the constitution and I’m not sure everything you said is constitutionally legal. The government could pass a law saying I need to slap myself in the face every morning, doesn’t mean it’s constitutionally allowed.
I wonder if these sorts of ethical concerns would/will follow an "uncanny peak", where we start to get more and more concerned as these brains get modified in more and more ways, but then eventually they become so unrecognizable that we get less concerned again. If we could distill our ethical concerns down to some simple principles (a big if), maybe the peak would disappear, and we'd see that it was just an artifact of how we "experience our ethics"? But then again, maybe not?
Why doesn't uber implement the insurance themselves?

They have the statistics, so all they need is a mathematicIan to work it out.
The desire to put in that sort of work to the exclusion of building things and companies, it would appear in his case. He was a full professor at Berkeley. He's also getting old, past the normal age for a MIT professor to become Emeritus.
i wouldn't call them "peripheral" if they have in parts led to a fork of the project already (See discussion of of vim contribution process and it's pains otherwise in this thread)
The shiny website was new to me. I wonder if we've officially announced it yet?

In any case, we started the Lattice effort last year to make it easier for people to play with Diego without having to stand up a whole Cloud Foundry installation.

My only Lattice-related claim to fame is not knowing what is was: https://github.com/pivotal-cf-experimental/lattice-app/issue...
Yeah let's not forget how many people take out massive debt (which they often struggle to ever pay back) just to be part of this gated community for 4 years.

It's not a good example for someone to think of at first.
Am I the only one reading this as "some less tech-savvy advertisers can't adapt and are now lawyering their way around?"

Cause it sure looks like so. If I remember correctly, other browsers have also removed support for 3rd party cookies too
That may be true but I disabled that a long time ago and it’s _stayed_ turned off across multiple ios upgrades.

Unlike others os/phones where such things are turned on at every opportunity
I thought C#/.Net was much more permissive than Java/JVM regarding 'lying' about the call stack, in optimised release environments. [0] From a quick search it looks like tail-call optimisation is supported in the CLR but only when the IR is tagged appropriately, which the F# compiler takes advantage of, but the C# compiler does not. [1]

[0] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/release-is-not-debug-64bit-op... , ctrl-f for this stack trace is showing the runtime reality.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/2191
We do one thing right! So we don't need competition because you can safely assume all other things are right and the way they should be!
Indeed I could, but I much rather hire two co-workers and cut my salary is three pieces and give them one piece each, if it would come to that. Life's more than money and people jump on the chance to do something they find is meaningful.
It's also not available in Europe which should tell you something about how your data is handled.
It has its own section in the Privacy tab, which is exactly where I'd expect to find it. Hidden in plain sight maybe
I'm very skeptical about this, as it seems like Google's just trying to pull another AMP and take control of how advertisers are able to advertise, and since they're a major player in the ad business that should be a big no no.

No user-agent strings is interesting to me, to me they seem like a minor concern privacy-wise, and doesn't a large portion of the web use them to maintain compatibility between browsers, detect your OS for downloads, and etc?
I’m not saying GNU should brand itself differently. But if it’s going to change the logo to look less homely (in either sense) , I think it could go a lot further than that version.
"The three young men had no idea whether their antics were against the law, he said."

That's not even remotely plausible.
I think it's a bit less deep than that. It's more, "is the language we use to describe mathematics invented or discovered", which I would put myself (and most people) firmly in the invented camp.
There will never be a year of the Linux desktop if ideological purity (of a highly questionable ideology in the first place) continues to stay in the way of practicality. Grandma doesn't care if her network driver doesn't give her the whatever number of software freedoms as defined by RMS and honestly neither do I.
From the article:

> They covered the crate with labels that read "Fragile," "Handle with care" and "This side up." It was scheduled to fly from Melbourne to London within 36 hours. Robson ended up being inside that crate for five days. "It was terrifying," he said. "I was passing in and out of consciousness. I had a lack of oxygen. Oh, it was bad." There seemed to be an endless number of stopovers, and the airport crews didn't pay much attention to the crate's labels. At one point, Robson says he was left upside down on a tarmac, literally sitting on his head for 24 hours because there wasn't enough room in the crate to turn around.

The rest of the article is great (in particular the way it ends), but reading the above excerpt made me shudder.

The will power of this man is unbelievable.

I hope he finds his friends.
Careful, for nilpotence the power doesn't have to be 2.

Also you may be confusing it with x^n = 1 (which I'm not sure how to name, 'root of unity' perhaps). This would be the case for the Fourier transform (with n=4).

If x^2 = 0 then applying the Fourier transform twice would null your function, which isn't the case.
> so why don't try to explain it to us?

Maybe they do and nobody is listening?

The crux with complicate topics is that oversimplification can lead to wrong conclusions. So experts are always eager to avoid the point that leads to the wrong direction and are careful with their explanations.

The question is whether cowspiracy and seaspiracy turned in the wrong direction or whether the critics are just to cautious.
This isn’t helpful unless you can tie the word back to an experience but they have a lot of umami. It’s primarily what differentiates them from standard portabellos/button/cremini mushrooms.
A) iPad costs 350$, it's not luxury by any means

B) iPad can be used for work, studying and much more, not only consumption
It's certainly not unique to game consumers. People in general just blame every fault on "it's physically impossible to solve". One big reason why corporations get away with creating non stop worse and worse products.
It is a good question, however I suspect the answer is that they just don't know the author's actual name and would publish it if they did.
Cryptocurrency is unforgiving in the face of human errors and issues (like disputes over ownership). It was designed without this by choice, so it should be no surprise that a domain system based on it would have the same unfortunate properties.
I would think features like screen sharing are better off using a message passing protocol like XMPP instead of a state synchronization protocol like Matrix.
Does the "powerpc" listed really mean "ppc64le" and the "s390" really mean "s390x"? Certainly feels like it, but I'm not sure...

If you're already making such a nice overview, could you maybe not mar it with such ambiguity? Kinda defeats the purpose :(

[Ed.: even "x86" is confusing. x86_64 does work, right?]
Facebook, like any other entity, is not above the law. Now, you can criticize the law, but not Facebook for simply following it.

Disclaimer: Turkish living abroad since few years. Throwaway account. Upset with some having respect for their _superior_ rule of law only.