jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call myself a casualty, but I was definitely considering being a professor and definitely decided not to after seeing how ridiculously hard my adviser had to work despite her being famous and well funded.

It just didn't seem like a job that one could do for decades without ruining their health. I'm amazed by the people who do manage to do it, but I'm confident that my decision was the right one.

Instead, someone else will be the person to study how to use ML to develop new catalyst types, and I'm sad that all the thought and effort I've put into figuring it out will probably just never be of use to anyone. I'm not a good enough programmer for Google, so basically what other option would I have other than academia or a national lab? The problem isn't going to be solved in five years, but the rewards... maybe not mRNA vaccine level but reducing energy and resource waste with more efficient conversion technologies across the entirety of modern civilization seems worthwhile.

I don't even mind writing grants that much and have gotten lots of them for industry research. And I absolutely love mentoring. But I just know from what I saw that I have no desire to try to handle that much entirely unnecessary extra stress, even though it means that I do mostly straightforward electrical engineering despite having invented entirely new catalyst design technologies being used in industrial facilities.

Would I love to still be working in chemicals and energy more directly? Absolutely! Am I willing to do it for a third the salary with 80 hour work weeks having to scramble desperately to network in order to gain enough mindshare to get people to even listen to my proposals? I wish I had that kind of stamina.

Which is to say, ultimately, that I have no interest in academic politics. I want to solve these problems, and no longer have the energy to pursue another startup.

Maybe in another five years when there are more companies finally doing it I can just get a job there. Sadly I can guess that they will instead just get ML researchers and assume teaching them catalyst science will be easier than teaching me ML tools because ML didn't exist when I was in grad school as much of a thing yet so by sheer misfortune of timing I didn't learn it until my 30s.

It's just sad to me that I see no realistic way to get involved even though it's my honest life passion to fix this problem and it's such a stupid struggle to get support. It would have been really nice to feel supported in doing such work inside of academia.
>Designed for the future of work with a 13.5” 3:2 screen

Yes 3:2! Really wish Apple took this direction. But instead it was the PC industry moving towards it. For Desktop or Laptops that no longer has Gaming or Media consumption as their priorities, 3:2 is just much better for productivity.
Most of the breaking changes (including making map, zip, filter, etc lazy) were done in Python 3.0.
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It's actually proven out long term in the genome. Only about 40% of all men who've ever lived had children. 80% of women have. Women have higher selectivity toward partners.

Wilder, J. A., Mobasher, Z., & Hammer, M. F. (2004). "Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human females and males". Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 2047-2057.
Yep, that's correct--as far as I know, the original source code isn't actually available anywhere.

Three independent groups, at Berkeley, MIT, and Purdue disassembled the .o and poked at its contents, slowly figuring it out.

Mark Eichin's timeline (http://web.mit.edu/user/e/i/eichin/www/virus/chronology.html) is a fun read, written from the MIT viewpoint, that chronicles how the Unix nerd community basically sprung up to dissect and deal with the worm, and contains a section on their attempts to disassemble the worm.
my comment became too long

http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/11/escaping-mr-20-and-los...
I tend to think that PG considers maintaining HN as his hobby, he enjoys keeping this knowledgable piece of work for himself.
You know, they start waking up at around 1 Petaflop.
It boils down to JSON being schemaless. In XML the data type is implicitly defined by the tag, whereas in JSON you need to arbitrarily encode the datatype as a property and somehow differentiate between properties and child elements/objects.
I want my future children to read this.
I have a double-major in Computer Science and Latin, and the history/rhetoric/linguistics that you learn from studying humanities is mind-opening. (Paul Graham compared Latin and Lisp in this way.)

And if you manage to do a literary analysis with NTLK or something, combining the two, your professors will realize that that's pretty cool.
Australia is a "western style democracy" currently rushing headlong into building its own great internet firewall.
Good science fiction is supposed to be believable.

Time travel? I'll buy that. A 3-year battery? Hahahahaha.
That would also explain why it only lets you set a month, and not a day.
A further aside: the use of "you" (as opposed to "thou") arose as the result of the generalisation of the polite form. The use of the second person singular in, say, French (tu) or German (du) is restricted to the familiar (at least in polite society), and cannot be used across class or organisational hierarchical levels despite any actual familiarity. (English retains a similar structure in the use of "woman" versus "lady" -- females of both higher and lower status have, until very recently, been referred to using "lady".) In other words, dropping "thou" in the few special cases that allowed its use was a natural process of language change. The singular "they", on the other hand, is artificial, at least among people of my generation -- we already have "one", thank you very much.
They certainly go out of their way to NOT tell you the resolution of their screens. Nowhere on that page does it tell the resolution. Click to configure one, and it still doesn't say.

At best they say "HD", but that's meaningless, as there are several HD resolutions. They give the screen size, but that's meaningless.

WTF? Why do PC vendors do that? Either they don't say it all, or they use some obscure acronym. Would it kill them to just put in the frigging numbers?
A survey from a while ago reflects this likeliness:

Umm. No it doesn't. Have you even read your own link?

Moreover keeping your wallet secure is not rocket science. Set a password, make backups.

If that's too much asked then you should stay far away from bitcoin and in particular from services that offer to store your bitcoins for you.
This is a great collection! I'm having to look up a fair few of the references, and my current favorite is one of the simple ones:

Rene Descartes goes up to the counter. “I’ll have a scone,” he says. “Would you like juice with that?” asks the barista. “I think not,” says Descartes, and he ceases to exist.
#3 is what really bothers me, and seems inexcusable.

I get it, liability is a bitch. But that's not a reason to refuse to admit guilt, that's the reason you shouldn't do the deed in the f*^king first place.

How are we going to grow and advance as a society when we can't even admit wrong-doing when there is sufficient evidence of a cockup? It's like trying to argue with Creationists.

I take responsibility for the mistakes I make, and I think a LOT less of people who do not.
IBM is the oldest, biggest company you can think of. At least for most of the industrial era, IBM has not had any trouble focusing on the long term.
They would probably stop developing it in that case and just support remaining customers.
Correct. But my doubts are over the output of the software.

On one hand, the output depends on your artistic instructions, so you are entitled to it. On the other hand, the tool greatly restricts the solution space, so the tool itself (and consequently its author) has artistic merit over the result.
How is growth like that over 9 years "short term"?
I know what you mean but rising nearly 6 fold over a decade feels like the very definition of making yourself long-term relevant.
With coroutines in Lua, you could write:

function handleRequest(req)
data = db.fetch("user")
return render("template.html", {user=data})

And if db.fetch and render (both made up functions) are written using the coroutine paradigm, your code would automatically be evented and non-blocking, no need to use libraries to handle your callbacks, and your code has the same style it does if it were blocking.

In db.fetch it uses the "yield" keyword that would tell Lua it is about to do an async operation it should wait till it finish before continue running Lua code, meanwhile run something else instead, making it non-blocking and you can run many of these Lua programs at once on a single thread, all of them concurrently.
Absolutely. If people have old hardware or OS's, they could at least switch to an older version of a better browser.
They haven't gotten out and outright said it, but you are correct since every action or particular lack of points to it.

I think the saw the bad PR UK got, and decided it's better to keep silent about it. Shady, but smart. They have to massage that Sweden image any way they can.
yeah I'm not gonna read that.
As an asthmatic this scares the bejeepers out of me.
The drugs on trial are:

1. Remdesivir (Ebola drug).

2. Chroloquine and Hydroxychroloquine (Malaria drug).

3. Ritonavir/lopinavir (AIDS drug).

4. Ritonavir/lopinavir + interferon beta (virus signaling protein).
What are the issues exactly? I've also been using it but so far haven't heard of privacy concerns that are unique to Zoom? Obviously, P2P should be preferred but it's really hard for this to work with larger groups, esp if some have connectivity issues. Zoom just shines here.
If it was so severe, why isn't it protected by a prescription requirement everywhere around the world?
Non-diet soda is almost as bad as cigarettes

Now that, my friend, is hyperbole.

You are 1.6 times more likely to become obese if you drink soda.

You are 10-20 times more likely to get lung cancer if you smoke cigarettes (CDC website)

I don't know anyone who would think an order of magnitude is "almost."
"... I don't know why this (June 8, 1637) isn't as well known as 1492, 1066 and other important dates. ..."

History has always taken a back seat in technology. Pity because science is built on history.
The very definition of a product is an artifact that doesn't require a human relationship.

If you need to be in touch with the people that made it or maintain it, that's called consulting. (You may want to be in closer contact, for instance, to shape the direction of the Linux kernel or something. But you don't need to have such a relationship to use Linux.)

Excellence in product design means anonymity for the people who made it.
I don't really like the example solution.

LatLong.to_xy is not an object oriented way of doing things, and is abusing the ruby convention of to_* methods.

Also, the LatLong method extends self, without giving the reader any explanation why or what this does. Furthermore, this isn't a usual ruby paradigm (at least it is the first time I've seen it).
An anecdote in a similar vein:

I was involved in writing (Fortran) code for Crays in the 90s. For the T3D, we speeded up the code with the usual set of tricks -- loop unrolling, array padding and so on. With the later T3E, it turned out that not only could the compiler now do all that, but that code hand-optimised in this way performed worse.
Thank you. That helps. Off-topic, but are you studying in Norway? Which university you're a part of?
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> X86 to a Xeon is just like Java byte-code, and gets interpreted into something very different in the magical internals of the processor.

Err, no, the interpretation mechanism is actually pretty similar, kind of being shared between microprocessors, with special optimizations here and there but nothing magical ;)
That does it! Thanks.
The other definitions that I've encountered are:

- Any part of the internet which isn't indexed by search engines. By this definition, the profiles on a dating site that requires a login are part of the darkweb.

- Any data on the internet not accessible via HTTP/FTP. Copying a file off a server via SCP then becomes a visit to the dark web.

What's most frustrating is when people jump between the definitions mid-discussion.
Thanks for the link, that's more steady than I had expected.

It's a shame that website doesn't have graphs from the time that Android and iOS announced they wouldn't support flash - it would be interesting to see if there was a noticeable bump.
Perhaps because Facebook is partially owned by Microsoft? Not sure if that can affect something like this.
> Nokia 215 and Nokia 215 Dual-SIM will be available in select markets

This is not the first modern and cheap phone they have. Yet they are not available to purchase. So yeah, nice news, but not really relevant unless you live in Africa.

(Yes, I know they say Europe this time, but I don't really believe them)
The feature he needed was an optional feature which did cost a lot of money and wasn't available right away so it was useless for this problem at hand as clients were threatening to leave the next day.
It's way too complex, doesn't take into account noise, etc.
That's because it's essential to providing incentives to the operators of the nodes where messages pass through. I know it's fashionable to hate on crypto because crypto but please try and see it from a utilitarian basis.

Session has a lot of cool things going for it. They managed to solve the problems of P2P (high battery life number one) with these incentivised traffic passing nodes. They improved on TOR and you can already use the fruits of its invention for general traffic.

The big problem as I see it is the team is all Australian. They'll need to find a way to pass stewardship to the community in time.
It seems more like this is the "clathrate gun" hypothesis coming to fruition.
This news article from Mars one's website proves that claim false! http://www.mars-one.com/news/press-releases/mars-ones-ceo-ba...
You mean the "hundred year storms" that happened in 1989, 2011, and 2021?
In general I'd say that's a poor reason to turn a place down but in this specific instance of Microsoft Teams I sympathize.

It won't just be Teams. There's Outlook too. And they each have their own calendar that people will use. And where there is the Microsoft stack there will be putty, WindowsN laptops and probably the drive encryption thing that occasionally bricks said laptop.

It might be limited to company broadcasts and similar though. If the dev effort is built on a Unix derivative and irc with Teams on a corporate laptop you can leave in a cupboard most days, not so bad.
Some of his original ideas are still kicking around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
Ilya went to Wisconsin.
In a growing tech firm, there's always going to be technical debt. It's probably foolish for a startup to optimize very far beyond the end of the runway. Getting into the air is the first big problem, staying in the air may require doing the flappy bird, until the jet engines arrive. Facebook was written in php. Reddit in Common Lisp. StackOverflow ran production and development on a single box even while scaling.

Sure the system may need a complete rebuild in several possible futures. That doesn't make the company unviable or growth infeasible. Sales velocity trumps a great deal of technical debt.

Unless the overall company culture is one of unhappiness, a good manager will usually be able to intuit who is looking for work elsewhere...or just assume everyone is.

My advice, for what it is worth, is to announce that you are leaving when you are ready to leave. And then leave. There's nothing to be gained by sitting on the fence about the change. Nothing to be gained by hanging around. Line things up and then move.

Good luck.
I would characterize that more as a freeloader deciding he wasn't being subsidized enough by the taxpayer, then declining to pay the tiny pittance the BLM levies for the privilege of overgrazing the deserts of the West. That he was able to hoodwink a bunch of city slickers eager to signal their "conservatism" by opposing the gub'ment no matter what, says more about them than about him.
I'd like to see the average life expectancy graph rephrased as "probably of dying today given current age".

Back of the envelope calculation: Life expectancy of 72 years times 365 gives about 26k days, so your average chance of death on a given day is on the order of 1 in 26,000.
After listening to that video, cringe rapper is disturbingly appropriate. That is atrocious.
If you squint enough, there's a chain that looks something like this: Atari 2600 => Atari 400/800 => Amiga => Atari Lynx => 3DO.

It's not that there's a specific set of people or technological concepts running through all of them, but each one has a strong connection to the next.
She's not talking about as much about the way of speaking literally as about culture change, growing up on a mental divide between two places, longing, and other things related to the differences between New York and London.
You wrote them down - where do you store them? Seems like bad opsec if you are at risk of search and seizure...
It isn't quite programming, but your assembly line comment reminded me of http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ which is a game about making state automata.
Did you search HN comments?
I guess time flies when you have the possibility to play computer games (at least it flies faster than with books or watching TV in my experience).

so was he really all by himself?

> Being honest and talking about my feelings here has a therapeutic effect of its own — both with the crew and my loved ones.

> I have an exercise routine here with another chap on my crew, which is essential for me — both the routine and the exercise.

... I understand the loved ones are at home? but is his crew there?

I'd find this a lot more fascinating if he had nothing but a fax machine that only worked for a window of 15 minutes every fortnight as we did on ships and offshore installations in the 90ies. Take people's phone away today and they're so close to a panic attack they can no longer leave the house. Imagine the horror, the puss, the vomit, the mucus and fecking tears, of being bored for only a few minutes. To me this whole article reads like stuff my generation would have done for fun just for a bet. Society today is so soft (= a soft target for predatory designers of consumerist social systems), and I sound like an angry old man for feeling this way LOL.

Ironic that reading this makes me feel as much alone and isolated as this guy must feel because he is painted as some kind of hero for what is supposed to be just your average level of grit and determination that all of us are capable. Biggest tragedy in this comedy that is also a farce is that most will never believe that they are capable even of the most mediocre of achievements.

I found this lancet article a lot more useful for studying the effects of isolation & quarantine:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Wonder what's in store for us after the pandemic? People will make headlines for taking a walk?
Wondering if there could be a Metal -> Vulkan -> Zink -> OpenGL way of doing HW acceleration.
Or Metal -> Vulkan -> DXVK -> D3D for Windows.
AFAIK VirtualBox used some of Wine's D3D code to do D3D on Virtualbox.
I think industry definitely matters here. Software companies and other companies building a product I would think would be more flexible with remote work than wall street. I work for a trading firm, and for me it was really interesting to see the entire industry go from "we can't have traders trading from home under any circumstances" to "traders are trading from home now" practically overnight last march.
Taler supports full tracking of who received how much. That is sufficient for the government's job of taxing income.

If - on the other hand - the government would also like to mass surveil all its citizens, then that is a use case that Taler explicitly and intentionally does not support.
yes, little middle finger at best.
How is this a problem? Are all marketplaces bad? Were you forced to sell there?

You chose to sell your app on their marketplace and agreed to their TOS and pricing. They provide you with access to their marketplace and you agree to pay them 20%. Were you aware that these are the terms and broke them anyway?

It's like an Uber diver who will start charging cash without going through the Uber app to avoid paying Uber. Or maybe start a McDonald's franchise and hide all the profits. Not to mention paying taxes to the government...

Apple controls the iOS platform, so it's a different case. Shopify does not prevent you from selling on your own website and taking 100% of the profits.
That sounds like a buy signal. I like this stock.
I agree mostly.

I partially just want something to link to if I happen to see it linked in the wild again, it rubs me the wrong way to see it uncontested in a conversation.

I figure that at least that way new people aren't getting sucked in when they click thinking "Well, I should check the other sides view."
I use units all the time on macos.

I don't know how it derives/compares to the gnu version

$ units -v
units version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1993 by Adrian Mariano
This program may be freely distributed

It doesn't do temperature (which would make it more useful)
The US has a uniquely strong distrust in government compared to other nations to which you are referring. I think as a result, the social media algorithms are particularly potent in the US.
Turning off is a blunt instrument. A better approach is to set the thermostat higher.
Getting angry when a stranger makes a statement that you disagree with is not a normal social reaction, or at least it wasn't until recently. The possibility of error is just one reason that it shouldn't be.
But then again, this is an universal counterargument and can be used to dismiss any kind of selection as hubris. We need to act to the best the information available allows us and learn from mistakes.
It's funny that we feel PHP doesn't make you more productive, yet most of the web was running PHP apps until a few years ago when better languages gained momentum and we saw new web sites not built in PHP.

Wordpress, phpBB, Drupal, IPB, Joomla, vBulletin, Facebook, Yahoo!, DeviantArt, etc...

Now PHP making you a better programmer... that's a different matter.
There is actually a possibility for Linux processes to do exactly that if they use the vmpressure_fd() (http://lwn.net/Articles/524742/ ).

EDIT: Now that I look closer, it's possible that vmpressure_fd() was never merged into mainline and therefore is not really available.
Agnostic is a little strong, although it is true that M1 is extremely wide especially for a laptop chip, and wide in ways beyond the decoder which could be applied to an X86 part.

Ultimately these discussions are quite hard because AMD aren't on exactly the same density, and Intel are quite a way behind at the moment.
"On the other, how much pressure is reasonable to put on parents to vaccinate their children against an illness that poses less danger to them than meteors."

Lifetime odds of dying from a meteor strike: 1-in-250-million

source: Dr. Sten Odenwald, NIA (National Institute of Aerospace)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-sten-odenwald/death-by-mete...
When I step back and take a look at modern America, I don't see much of a meritocracy. It looks much more like a mediocrity.
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