jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Help people. You're capable in ways that many are not, and it sounds like you have nothing better to do. You're self-satisfied with your achievements in a world where many people are barely surviving, much less achieving anything. So help people like that.
Apparently a lot of the older webpages do stuff like this. You could have a table being outputted by nesting for loops for the `<table>`, `<tr>`, and `<td>` opening/closing tags. It's a small step from here to constructing tags bit by bit.

I don't see people doing it in modern websites (doesn't mean there aren't), but we sort of have to support all of the Internet, so...
Why don’t they build their own platform?

They can raise the money. I assume there are enough software engineers that will sympathize with them and build one.

Was this Parler that they created?

Looks like the app got shut down today. But I’m sure they can still make a website for it, running JavaScript.

You can’t shut the website down, unless you hijack the DNS.
It’s enterprise not entreprise. Looks interesting though.
Fantasy/Thriller/Drama serie on Netflix with a story line related to Göbekli tepe:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10075318/

Don't have to high expectations. Isn't factual and also the scenario isn't that great. But still fun to watch.
It is when you break windows or otherwise damage property to enable the theft.
> fighting polarization starts with treating people you disagree with as fellow citizens and human beings

So what if those people think you're subhuman and want you dead? This is the kind of talk that happens on these platforms every single day. You've just had a violent insurgence on your capitol and you still think the solution is to ask these people to be nice? It's CLEARLY not working, and it's time for social media to rid themselves of open calls for violence and the conspiracy theories that fuel them.

People on the left have also been suspended for similar issues, and rightly so. If your movement cannot remain on a platform without adhering to a policy as simple as "do not threaten violence", then your ideology has a fundamental problem and deserves to be banned to the fringes of the net.
And trademarked.

Edit: and :)
There is definitely a difference between APR and the nominal interest rate of a loan. APY is the same as APR if the compounding happens once a year.
great idea, something like this (depending on the pricing) might be just what I need to quit my music streaming subscriptions (youtube, etc) and start streaming my files.
You cannot seriously not add attacks on Palestinians. It would be a country too if it weren't occupied and crushed completely. More and more acknowledge this every year.

Then there's all the hits on people by Mossad.
Is there a link to the git repo or is OpenAI not really open?
Do normal city busses not run regularly as well? Or just ride your bike?
My boss looks at this page, he sees that open source programs can use Qt for free and that commercial programs need to pay. That's not the case, but the page is carefully worded to prevent him from confidently coming to the correct conclusion.

If this were the extent of the shenanigans, I wouldn't be mad. I like having a "help me sell this to my boss" page. But it isn't the extent of the shenanigans. They went around me to shake someone down on my behalf (as I perceive it). Last time it was my boss. Next time I choose a GUI framework for an open source side project, I'll primarily worry about it being my users.
Not sure, but it's this package: https://github.com/prettier/vim-prettier
I think offline access is really useful. Using time stamps and letting the user know they're offline will let them be able fo determine how stale the information their getting is
What ad blocker?
All charcteristics derived from genetic structure are random chance, all of them.

when a virus has infected a host, replicated, passed to a secondary host, then symptoms appear, then X occurs,

You have a situation where X has no influence on reproduction, replication or transmission, it just is not even on the same blackboard as that equation.

here is some suggested reading for you, not everyone understands evolution or natural selection very well so it is a bit of a TLDR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_evolution
^^^ what the op said. You'll regularly seen diffs in minor versions, and even patch versions.
I bet i can do it faster.
With force feedback wheels and pressure sensitive brake pedals you can get a feel for traction pretty well.
I'm aware of blitzscaling, but for it to work, you've got to be looking at a market with strong network effects - that is, a "natural monopoly". Selling office space is (to my eyes) clearly not a natural monopoly.

So my theory is that "we sign long-term leases on office buildings, then rent desks on short-term contracts" didn't sound like "we're fighting to become the single dominant player in our space", and so would not have qualified them for blitzscale funds. But WeWork never played up that aspect; instead they talked a lot about wanting to elevate the world's consciousness, being the world's first physical social network, and having maximum global impact.

Now to me, that sounds even less like "we're going to crush our opponents in a brutal winner-takes-all game to dominate the market for flexible office space, and we just new a few billion dollars to do it", and more like "we're trying to run a hippy commune but accidentally started a real estate company". But apparently to SoftBank it...did? And so they invested hugely, and we got a prospectus that said:

> We are a community company committed to maximum global impact. Our mission is to elevate the world's consciousness.

And everyone who was not SoftBank laughed very hard, and refused to invest. And I have to point the blame at SoftBank here. The logic if blitzscaling is that you pick a firm that, with enough resources, can dominate their market, and then you give them the resources. I don't think WeWork was even in that sort of market. This is like trying to blitzscale the market for dog walking or something.

Oh....right. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/business/softbank-wag.htm... :)
They had damage on low, but having watched it, considering the damage to the car is important to the finish.
I see nothing wrong with any of these speculations. If you or Apple don't like speculation the answer is for them to communicate their intention.
Try Plendi.com - snapshot receipts with your iPhone, it goes up and is entered by an actual person. Then you throw out the reciept - it's fabulous. You or your accountant just downloads them to do expenses at the end of the year. It integrates with other accounting packages too.
This actually about how to scale the physical and logical infrastructure needed to compute a network of similars in reasonable amounts of time, not how to build the data structure or algorithms needed to compute a network of similarity.
Unless you're developing an app that targets OS X, I don't understand why not just develop in a Linux VM. As a bonus, you get all the benefits of a VM - easy snapshots, can run multiple at once, crashing the server doesn't bring down your IDE, etc.
Great perspective and nicely laid out by an exec who knows what he is talking about.
I am always puzzled when I read articles like this and people say *nix when its clear they means "linux". I remember working on Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX or AIX and it was always full of little annoying variations.

The dominance of Linux and package management made everything so much easier, articles like this just make me appreciate it more.
Good luck!

This is probably obvious but I overlooked it.

When I quit my job to start working on my online programming tutor full time, I went a overboard in choosing what ever programing tools seemed really cool.

I regret that decision. By all means, expand your own personal knowledge portfolio, but if you are working on a project with a serious deadline, choose the tools you are already productive with.
All this talk about how compression is just as good as lossless appears to be based on the idea that "we know how the brain perceives sound, so we can remove the bits you can't perceive".

And yet when I google "do all humans perceive sound the same way" the overwhelming response is that, no, humans do not perceive sound the same way. So how can compression work equally well for everyone?

As an audiophile, why risk it?

For myself, I've got Meridian processor and speakers and I can for sure tell the difference. Can I tell the difference when it's playing on a bluetooth speaker? Not so much.

Does it make a difference for AirPods. On the one hand, the AirPods will recompress to AAC, so you get compressed audio anyway. But if the source material is compressed in some other format, then it will have lost information, while recompressing it for AAC will lose different information. So if you have AirPods then you really want lossless to start with: that way you'll only have the AAC losses.
I hope they also finally allow black on yellow highlighting again (like pretty much every other browser), which hasn’t been possible since Firefox 3.5 in 2009.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505089
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=7018785
Even with both parents working full time jobs the child spends more time with their parents than any other adult. They definitely get vastly more, and more focused one on one time as well. This is not “barely see” by any measure.
This is the sort of thing where darker is always better, but John Dobson started a movement around "Sidewalk Astronomy" in the 60s and 70s in San Francisco with this very telescope design. I'm sure the light pollution has gotten worse since then, but the moon, the planets, and perhaps a few brighter Messier objects will still be within reach. It's a big sky and there's a lot to see.
Stupidly I lost it in my home and the next copy is about 100km away. But thanks, you are right, tomorrow.
Again, you're making the point for me. You agree that bitcoin has no value on its own, it offers nothing but what I can sell it for to another sucker.

1M is life changing, agreed. But there's no reason to have known it would be worth that. There's no reason to believe it will be worth that tomorrow. Yet someone else, possibly far less astute than I am, is on the other end of that trade. For every dollar in wealth it created for me, it destroys for someone else. Nothing else has happened but I got lucky, timing was good, and I robbed wealth from others. That 1M would be better spent on people's salary, or a dozen Teslas, or a bathroom in the bay area. But, it was given to a jerk who downloaded some program and ran it for a couple of days in 2009 (or whenever I did, it's not important).

BTC is objectively bad. It is objectively speculation. It is objectively a random number. That is all. It is a shame we place any price on it, when the money spent speculating on it could create actual wealth.
You are making a category error here. Culture doesn't produce a theorem (or a work of art, or a [fill in the blank]), but the people that did produce it necessarily operate in a culture. Among other things this affects what work gets done supported, what people do it (and get supported), how the results are communicated (and if) etc. As a student it effects what you are taught, what you are told is important, and what areas you are pointed towards.

You can't tease this stuff apart. Part of the process of becoming a scientist is to become acculturated to that science.
are we off by one ?
You don't know about non-profit shenanigans? Ok, so, let me tell you...

There are two entities: the Mozilla Foundation--which is what everyone thinks of when they hear "Mozilla" and think Mozilla is a non-profit--and the Mozilla Corporation--which is what actually comprises the bulk of Mozilla's operations.

The Foundation does practically nothing. Your donations to the Foundation don't go towards development of Firefox, they mostly go to pay the salaries of the Foundation employees, who mostly work to... raise money for the Foundation to pay their salaries. This is a problem with a large number of non-profits in general--that most of the money raised is just spent on maintaining the fundraising apparatus. But in particular at Mozilla, it's a drop in the bucket of what Mozilla Corporation needs to keep operating.

The vast majority of the actual software development work is done under the corporation. And the vast majority of funding that the corporation has comes through a search advertising deal that Mozilla struck with Google.
We did co-sleeping with our kids. The motivation was our own sleep. Mom could feed baby with near-zero fuss. We moved away from it as they started sleeping through the night.
Wow, still using rc.conf, X11, ifconfig, and it’s absolutely wonderful!
That law/regulation would seem difficult for a court to uphold – e.g. a company being diligent and detailed in explaining its complicated policies, but getting dinged when someone is misled by their arbitrarily word-count-limited summary. But in any case, the example provided by the article does have a top summary [0] (it's the very prompt that the author investigates). And the individual line item settings are each summarized in a single sentence [1].

That said, the actual example summaries given seem to IMHO make a case for mandating specific and explicit language, akin the "Surgeon General's" warning text on cigarette packs, to accompany whatever euphemistic language companies continue to use. We're far enough into the Internet age to be pretty confident that the vast majority of people just do not and cannot comprehend that "We use cookies to improve the site, measure performance, understand our audience, enhance our experience and provide you with advertising based on your browsing activities" means actual tracking.

[0] http://www.conradakunga.com/blog/images/2020/12/Banner1.png

[1] http://www.conradakunga.com/blog/images/2020/12/Reuters5.png
Agreed I always thort it wierd that M$ don't have a tool to webify Access and scale it on sqlserver with no dev effort.
You could charge what you like for that: if the data got big, the company got big.
Great for lock-in.
I'm glad, but always surprised, they didn't do it.
If they had, appifying Access data would have been an earner a few years later too IMHO.
Too late now: cool kids are app natives.
I think it has only gotten worse in the sense that now most software vendors want to sell you a subscription that spreads your payments over time and literally never ends as long as you still want to use the software.
Did you even read the article?

It’s about him trying to bully another person out of his livelihood.

Just because it was done to him has no bearing on him doing it to others.
It's mostly a personal taste thing, but I find the macOS (and even Linux) font rendering superior to Windows, even on low-dpi panels below Full HD. On Windows, the letters are thin, have sharp edges etc. I've tried using the ClearType tuning utility but the results honestly aren't much better. The macOS system font also seems nicer.
That is covered[1], though it is outdated if you want it to be able to handle as many connections as possible in a fast way.

There are also thousands of higher-level libraries that would let you avoid having to deal with these lower-level APIs directly.

[1] https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/#poll
To say Larry Flynt was politically correct by today's standards is completely false.

Just look at Wikipedia. He called Sandra Day O'Connor "a token cunt". He wore the American flag as a diaper. Hustler regularly published Chester the Molester, a comic strip, even after the author was convicted of molestation (which later got overturned).
This is the root of a lot of problems. We spend far too much energy making sure "bad people" get what they "deserve" and don't get what they "don't deserve", and put in too little of that same energy in the case of "all people".
You're right, I missed that.
>Teachers are criminally underpaid, unsupported, and overworked

My impression is that public school teachers have been un-empowered to fail out kids, or punish them for bad behavior in class.
They claim patients heart was stopped and blood replaced with saline.
That's technically correct but, when working with console and text processing stuff emojis and other multi-byte characters complicate the things sometimes.

My native language also requires unicode characters to type correctly, and they create the same problems hence, I also prefer avoiding these characters.

These are my preferences, I cannot (and should not) stop the progress. However for me, simplicity and practicality is much better than fanciness.

I'd not fight over this stuff if I was contributing to a project which embraces these concepts and play along without any fuss or objection but, I won't use these in my own projects.
From the video I was expecting even higher compression than HEIF, but > 60% over JPEG-1 seems to be about the same as HEIF.

And what are the downside? Whenever something sounds too good to be true it often means we are overlooking something.
Pair programming works if used as a mentorship. You’ll need to have a senior dev and a less experienced one.

But I guess this is but the original intent of pair programming
It seems to me that running an NIC for a major TLD almost has zero marginal cost: for each domain, you automatically interface with ICANN once in a while to update registration info, then serve some NS and associated A/AAAA records. So it’s kind of surprising to me that $10/yr is already a non-profit price. Am I missing something?
Glad it's not just me.

While in general the advice on duplication is reasonable I think it tends to get taken too far and the example is a poor one.

Presumably for now Mexico applies a different sales tax % but there are so many unknowns on how Mexican tax rates differ that I'd keep the method separate until I'm certain the abstractions are similar, otherwise you might end up with:

calculateBill(locale, appliesExemption, exemptionRate, regionalTaxRate, nationalTaxRate, clothing Untaxed)

Premature abstractions seem worse to me than some duplication.

Besides something like bill calculation should have loads of tests.
I use this bash function to get the same effect [1]

[1]: http://git.io/hFmk
Philip Greenspun has addressed this to some extent, although focusing on graduate study and advanced degrees in science and engineering:
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
Your "slider list" concept isn't in HTML5 for the same reason there isn't a "checkbox list" that sets another checkbox to either checked, unchecked, or indeterminate depending on the state of all the checkboxes in the list.

The way you worded your blog post, it sounds like you think that implementing a "slider list" would be unreasonably nontrivial with HTML5 <input type="range">. Why do you think this would be so hard? You're just updating range inputs' values when one of the other range input's values changes. I don't see the problem.
Guestlist (guestlistapp.com) partially because I'm privy to some of their internal numbers and partially because they are some of the nicest guys in the whole Toronto tech scene.
They are a startup. It's two guys: Otavio Good and John DeWeese. They built their own technology and aren't an offshoot of someone else's.
Writing a 57-page math paper in something other than LaTex (appears to be Word for God's sake) is nothing short of Herculean.
In my opinion, 100k is too little for real estate/rent.

I would put 60k in risky, short-term investments such as early-stage startups and some Wall Street funds. The rest 40k would go into long-term safe bets.
And you would also pay 50$/mo for Android, the each of the hundreds of Android Markets, Blackberry, Ovi, Facebook, Twitter and so on? It could get expensive...
As a phd in Switzerland, one can only dream about a 55 square meter apartment. O well, doing research is good for the soul, isn't it?....
That's fair. I'll see if I can whip one up.
I guess the ones in the early nineties were only international in theory, as the internet was not as widely in use yet. Or they simply didn't call themselves international, even if they effectively were.

Other than that, no idea :-)
But hey, neither would be okay with imbibing to the state of inebriation, so the point that leading religions advise against mind-altering substances is still valid in... a technical sort of way.
I struggle with how to describe it. Is it the most successful project in the history of the Internet? Probably! "Modern intellectual history"? Ew. But: maybe? We're blasé about it because we've lived with it for so long. But it's truly an amazing thing.
They can't open any windows. It's only running DOS.
>People should stop freaking out about this. The "more inefficient code" you might get by adding a few .clone() or Rc<RefCell<…>> when the borrow checker complains about something is still way more efficient than anything written in alternative "safe" languages.

But you don't have to use a "safe language". C++ can avoid a lot of copies and be just as safe from an absolute point of view. The borrow checker isn't god and Rust isn't perfect. In an absolute sense the C++ code you can write could be more correct and efficient(it just doesn't tend to be).
Parafilm is basically an on-demand wax seal.

No moisture gets in or out and it’s not sticky or clingy in the way tape and plastic wrap can be. It’s also reasonably stretchy so you can fit it over irregularly shaped openings if needed.

Kimwipes, on the other hand, are a common lab product I’ve never really understood. Seems like glorified lint-free tissue paper to me.
Anything that includes bloatware is untrustable. No question.

Why even bother? You can't seriously run a project like this, add a load of bloatware, and expect to be trusted.

Even that misjudgment is enough to understand that the people running this have no genuine interest in user privacy. Talk about undercutting your own reason for existing.
Maybe I overestimate how many people would use even simple sorting and filtering options if given the option.

Makes me wonder, how many people do you think have filters/rules/folders on their Gmail or other email inboxes? I assume a majority have some but maybe not.
That marketing video on the homepage is... not particularly convincing, and watching it gives me secondhand embarrassment.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy
But for any meaningful kind of data freedom you have to own the server, not just the client.
It's actually pretty hard to recruit people for a mayonnaise-influenced database project.
You're right about the desire for short term goals. However, only focusing on long term solutions is not a luxury the US has. It has made many enemies who are trying to actively harm US citizens. It does need better long term strategies to prevent future enemies, but it also needs to deal with the people that already believe their path to a wonderful afterlife is achieved via blowing themselves up in populated places.

Keep in mind the US is always going to be on someone's bad side as long as they assume the role of world watch dog. It's convenient for Norway to wash their hands of any messy killings, but they don't seem to care for the spread of ISIS either.
Those two don't go to meetings where they need to leave an impression on someone.

When the CEO of my company (who wears jeans day to day) goes to a meeting with a new client, we wears a suit and tie so that the first five second impression the client gets is 'he isn't taking this seriously'.

That's why this way of thinking is very much not outdated - its a quick and effective way to show commitment to something, even if in meetings going forward people are much more casual..
> Besides, there is no true Turing complete languages as we are dealing with finite computers.

This is not true. Turing complete languages are so because their halting problem is undecidable, it is irrelevant that the computer you run a python program has finite memory. Check out languages like Agda where you can do general purpose computing but are not Turing complete, since all programs can be proved to halt.