jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One thing I dislike about this kind of analysis is that it perpetuates faulty thinking about market cap.

Clubhouse is not worth $4bn. We would only know that it was worth $4bn to someone if they bought the whole thing for $4bn.

Investors using a $4bn valuation to price the stock does not mean that the company is worth $4bn.

What it means is that someone is making a bet that their stake will be worth more to someone else in the future than it is now. That doesn’t even mean they think the company will ever be sold for $4bn.
Thank you. Thought I was losing my mind with all these apocalyptic comments on how a sixteen year old girl dropping out of high school with a cohesive plan, and parental guidance, would suddenly be completely socially challenged and lacking any other ways to gain insights into the world.
I wonder how this'd work: Take the XYZ coordinates of a vector on an unit sphere with North Pole being at Z=1 and lat/long 0,0 at X=1. Drop the smallest of XYZ, keep the other two. Use 3 bits to store which of XYZ was dropped and whether it was positive or negative. The point can then be reconstructed since the vector must always have length 1, and the encoding scheme will always drop that coordinate which would contribute most to loss of precision when going from 3 coordinates to 2.
I use godaddy cert's at work and have ran into the same issue. A tip for anyone using nginx. Cat the intermediate cert into your ssl certificate file. It fixes the warnings.

Part 3 here:
http://nginx.groups.wuyasea.com/articles/how-to-setup-godadd...
There is a problem. I know no other language, which manages to have at the same a type system as powerful, abstractions as insightful, as good a support for concurrency and parallel programming, an ecosystem as rich and which performs as well.

Usable records are just an icing on the cake, but it's the cake that matters.
The less polite version:

"A sprained ankle heals in two weeks, but being a pussy is a life sentence." -- Adam Carolla on letting kids play sports

I think it's interesting how two very different shows made the same point in their own characteristic way.
It's not legally mandated that the animal be allowed in, but it's perfectly legal to bring the animal with permission.
I was recently on a flight from Chicago to Seattle with a chihuahua on someone's lap a few rows in front of me that yapped in long stretches for the entire flight. Far, far worse than any child screaming.
It is sad how we allow rude people to get away with selfish behavior and make life for difficult for everyone else. Doing so encourages rude people to be even more selfish and we get the kind of behavior you see discussed in the article.

Addressing the issues directly is often challenging. That is my guess on why we allow degenerate behavior to impose costs on others until it reaches epidemic proportions when we finally attempt to address it.

It also encourages people to isolate themselves in enclaves where people that share certain expectations of behavior can shut out others and deal with those that are at least somewhat considerate of whatever behaviors the group cares about.

Allowing the rudest people to abuse society degrades the public square and tears at the benefits that can strengthen the social contract. Sadly it seems to be a pretty dominate trait in our society these last few decades and it seems likely to just keep getting worse. Hopefully I am wrong.
You aren't obligated to join a union (certainly not in tech at least)
Hah, this almost feels like a matter of faith. It would be interesting to see though where Matrix would end up if it manages to becomes as popular as Whatsapp or even Signal.
> Is there interesting stuff? Sure. But it won't be recommended to you.

There is a lot of interesting stuff on YouTube that is recommended to me, at least when I am logged in.

When I am browsing in private mode or looking at the "trending" tab, it is less relevant to my interests (to put it gently) but it is not all terrible either.

The comment section is the worst though, and it seems like YouTube is working hard at making is as uninteresting as possible. It looks like they are somewhat successful at preventing it from being toxic, but it looks like it works by killing all form of discussion and instead put forward endlessly copy-pasted memes.
Even those safe language will use unsafe block, so there will be still small vector of attacks.
In the US, without an inclusive calls plan (i.e. what you call a contract in the UK), both caller and recipient pay - it appears that you pay for "air time" (time in an inbound or outbound call). Most people will be on a contract with unlimited "air time", which effectively gives unlimited inbound and outbound calls without charge.

Operator billing models are seldom rooted in reality, and often are quite counter productive - 4G originally was a "pay extra" feature, despite the fact it is in an operator's interest to get users onto 4G due to the increased spectral efficiency, and better performance with weaker signals (so less complaints). They designated VoLTE (4G HD calling) as a premium feature for contract users, but it actually reduces the load on the legacy voice network. And don't start me with WiFi Calling, which is also often a contract premium feature, but actually trunks the call over a connection the user already pays for (and avoids using the cellular network!) - common sense plays little part in how operator billing works.

In the UK look up the "termination rate" if you're interested - this was the mechanism through which the receiving side of the call made money and was able to offer receiving of calls for free.
Unions depress wages for top performers, and protect incompetent staff. I don't know about you, but I don't particularly want to pay dues to a union that will go to bat for incompetent coworkers dragging us all down.

Teachers unions go further than protecting incompetent staff and actually protect sexual predators [1] [2], just to give you an idea of the morality of the typical union.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443437504577547...

[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/sex-predators...
> those societies often imbibe us with some blind spots that we later come to recognize?

It's not just blind spots you recognize and correct. There are societies in history like the USSR, the DDR, North Korea, etc., where those with dissenting views weren't the ones with the blind spots, but that it was society itself that developed blind spots and punished those that did not go along with those blind spots.
How about smelly candles? They work pretty well just lighting them for a few minutes a day.
The "find my" program is interesting to me because, for the first time (as far as I'm aware) it uses your devices to provide utility to Apple (to resell).

They remain serious about privacy, but there's still something invasive about it I think they've never done before and always seemed implicitly positioned against.
Each machine is going to have way more than 1 DRAM chip. A 128GB DDR4 stick is going to have ~20 chips on one side (not sure if they're double sided, just looking at product listing), and you're going to have terabytes of RAM per machine.
My feeling exactly. I stopped reading after a while because of it.

He gives an example of a theory that's falsified, so it's clearly falsifiable! And yet it's not science! Well duh, if it's falsified it's obviously not correct. A robust theory is a theory that is falsifiable but isn't falsified even under heavy scrutiny.
Or https://github.com/raghavnautiyal/dip
I am in the same boat, I plan on just releasing mine out into the wild. I want as many users as soon as possible so I can get feedback and tune features.
Many successful open source projects have a corporate backing to them, driving resources and energy into them.

Open source isn't anti capitalist. It's capitalism at it's best form. People join at their own free will, the rule of contracts (open source licensing) are strictly enforced, and there are lots of ways people can profit from open source.
stumbled on this reading <https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/67-announcing-eight-new-re... and discovered this machine was 'first programming project' for 'Robert Lefkowitz' (r0ml)
Neat. Perhaps Europa has something similar.
In the sign up form you list a few crops (Almonds, Grapes, Carrots, Tomatoes, Walnuts). I'm surprised to not see the big dollar US crops on the list (corn, soybean, wheat, cotton). Do the same principals apply to those crops as well?
EBS is not intended for high-perf applications. This is well-known and well-understood. As far as CPU perf being poor compared to bare metal--you might be the one person out there who actually needs it, but I'm betting not.

I use AWS, and will continue to use AWS, because it means less screwing around with stupid things and more time making important things work.
The business can watch for this "customer.card.updated" event, but am I understanding correctly that it doesn't actually need to do so, and next month's payment will complete without any action on the part of the business?
Now put up competing adds. Change pepsi to coke. No too far bro.
> if you do it and it works, great! If you do it and it doesn't work, well, what else were you supposed to do anyway?

But, as the author explains, epistemology doesn't work this way, and is certainly not inductive (maybe high-order inductive -- whatever that means). We don't treat physics as simply "something that works", but as knowledge based on assumptions (codified in symmetry laws) which are not inductive by any means. The laws of symmetry (assumptions, really) are a justification for induction, but can't be a result of induction alone. In fact, all of mathematics is a set of justifications for inductions that humans have developed.
This is a bit harsh. Jordan is the ultimate competitor and he represents excellence and professionalism. He has single handedly revolutionized professional sports and marketing and every kid growing up in the 90s wanted to be him. He has no need to be humble.
I've learned that Greatest X of all time usually just means, greatest A-hole of all time.

Because they absorb so much energy from the universe in order to fulfill their self serving destiny that they cannot help but be viewed as selfish. They quite literally demand the respect that they receive.

Call it the theory of conservation of human energy.
> Nobody was ever doing that.

It's immaterial to me whether ISPs had gotten around to creating their a-la-carte packages yet. I want it to be impossible for them to do so. Why leave the option open?

> Basically, by fighting data caps, you're demanding that a grandma who only checks their email once a day has to pay as much as a family of four who streams Netflix in 4K every waking hour of the day.

You do realize that ISPs already tier their offerings in such a way that this is a non-issue? Grandma would buy the 10Mbit/s package, the family would buy the 1Gig/s. I have no issue with that sort of tiered pricing. That's a perfectly fine division to make. But, slapping arbitrary data xfer caps on top of that is dirty double-dipping.
> But net neutrality supporters remain stubbornly ignorant of what they actually do: They raise prices for heavy users, rather than raising prices for everyone else. It's simply a fairer method of offering pricing brackets.

Ridiculous.

Bandwidth is no different than electricity. Hell, it mostly is electricity.

Meter it by the megabyte and let the customer decide. A flat connection fee per month just like your electrical service, and then you pay for whatever you use. If you stream from the time you get up until the time you go to bed, you'll pay for it. If you stream three movies a week, you'll pay for that.
Too bad the name "Svelte" is taken.
AT&T’s mobile service currently doesn’t incur bandwidth for streaming HBO services (Max, Go, etc). When customers are choosing a streaming service, chances are they’ll gravitate to HBO instead of a competitor if they expect to be streaming heavily while on-the-go and on a shared data plan (or even an unlimited data plan - HBO streams won’t contribute to the ~22GB/mo of ‘unlimited speed’ data you get on the unlimited plan that isn’t throttled).
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Isn’t there also a git client called kraken?

I was like, why does a git client need access to the vendor server?
TSLA goes up and down a lot... scalping trades on that has been very profitable this year.
Inequality has worsened since then, thanks to the GFC and incompetent responses to it.
Just saying it over and over again doesnt make it any more real.
Can you point me to any data showing that random quality cloth masks even reduce coronavirus transmission?

The recent Kaiser San Jose case[0] where one worker infected 44+ fellow staff, all of whom were wearing masks, ... from inside a tree costume would seem to be a great counterexample.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/07/kaiser-san-jose-fined...

Essentially everyone I see in the wild has been wearing masks for months, with almost perfect compliance since the Fall surge, including myself. But it seems to be mostly theater. It's like stopping BBs with a volleyball net.

It also ignores the fact that the eyes are a bigger attack surface than the nose or a closed mouth.

If we had stressed the importance of not touching one's face combined with aggressive sanitization of hands, faces, and surfaces, Covid-19 might have waned into a quiet death even without a vaccine, like SARS and MERS before it.
Very few people in the U.S. fully oppose a positive right to health-care though. They're against a positive right to see a doctor and get regular treatment, but are in favor of a positive right to receive emergency-room care if necessary. Hence, ERs are required to treat heart-attack and stroke patients who show up on their doorstep, even if the victim is uninsured and has no ability to pay; turning them away is illegal.

So the question isn't over whether there's a positive right to health care--- almost everyone agrees there is to some extent. The disagreement is over which kinds of care are included in the right.
I remember reading an article (linked from HN I believe) that was a response to the "Waiting for Superman" movie which cited numbers showing that private schools didn't perform any better than public schools. That would suggest that either the ability to fire teachers subjectively doesn't have an impact on student performance, or that private schools don't fire enough teachers or the metrics the private schools use to fire teachers are not in line with what would improve student achievement.
That it makes good linkbait, essentially.
How does one find a job where the company uses F# or where the team is open to it?
The flip side is that by big thick wires and big components are add mass and volume, both of which are at a premium in planes, and fighter jets especially.
There is more metadata with Matrix but the privacy and security of message content is good. I find the UX a bit clunky because it's kind of trying to combine bits of a instant messenger with something like slack.
WA is not particularly good, it's just that I don't know anyone who doesn't use it (in the Netherlands), even when you want to contact helpdesks it is sometimes the preferred way. I mean, we have this in many streets: [0]

Without kids I could see myself getting away with not using WA, but with kids you are really setting yourself up for a very hard time (and prepare to be judged by other (annoyed) parents and your kid will feel the consequences at some point, the kids will miss out on critical and fun information).

WA has almost become what email used to be. Except that it's a controlled platform and we are locked into a single provider, a provider that once promised a focus on privacy and an app free of commercials, forever...

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=whatsapp+buurtpreventie&t=ffsb&iax...
The critical issue is to ensure the health system is not overwhelmed, and that was achieved. Prolonging the agony is actually a result of unwillingness to extend hard lockdowns for 4+ straight months over whole countries - we keep lowering restrictions as soon as possible.

But sure, things might have definitely been faster if only we just let more people die.
Why is Viber even listed.
Real estate and stock market.
My bank recognizes the risk that third-party keyboard apps pose, and has their own keypad in their authentication app.

The same bank has a maximum password length of 8 characters, and they'll truncate longer passwords without informing the user -- set the password to "correct horse battery staple" and you'll be able to log in with "correct ". When I pointed it out they recommended setting a shorter password.
The current generation of social media offerings are so horribly broken, I don't know that they can be fixed. All of the the incentives that underpin their business model seem to be be misaligned with actual social cohesion.

I think that people sometimes forget that this [1] is what Facebook started as and I can not express how much of a toxic starting point that was.

We need to rethink what social media COULD BE rather than what we have now. How can we make something that is both sustainable, something that works for society and something that has the ability to deal bad faith actors.

[1] https://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2014/08/25/6bc9946f-2c16...
Signal requires phone number in order not to store your contact list on their servers. Instead of id's/email addresses/nicknames they are using your phone contact list. IMHO that's better for privacy.
No recommendations, sorry, merely a couple of thoughts.

Prolog and datalog start out as rather different beasts, though prolog tabling gets them closer. It's an area of current research[1].

A datalog implementation can serve as DSL, learning tool, and/or efficient solver of large problems. For the first two, most languages have a little datalog implementation or three.

For datalog engines, perhaps Z3 and its fixpoint engine from python?? Or maybe Soufflé from python?? But I really have no idea what's plausible. I too would be interested.

> database/persistence

That's something with a big diverse active market. Datalog engines, not so much. So I'm unclear that datalog is a place to go for that? But I also pay no attention to non-open-source offerings.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08246.pdf
I think mobile is just too new to be good. It a wild west ghetto of terrible, terrible apps. I tried using Android and iOS as a desktop replacement only to be shocked by the poor quality of the best apps and being hamstrung by lack of features.

Mobile decision making is made mostly by consumers, not business. These devices are for people to play angry birds and check email. Android and iOS aren't under a lot of pressure to provide a stable and well audited environment. Sales are good, apps are selling, etc why rock the boat?

I think as these platforms mature things might change, but from what I can tell, there's still a major disincentive to move off the Windows ecosystem, especially when I can have a quasi-mobile experience with the Surface line. Its too much amateur hour in mobile. The post-PC cheerleading, it seems, was way premature.
Have enough friends that shooting the breeze with them is enough to keep you updated on what matters.
Those blender backgrounds are just the style I enjoy. Could you point me to a tutorial or similar on generating them?
My whole argument is that Louis CK has almost no competition from immigrants so it is easy for him to champion his position.
As for professors have you seen the countless stories of adjunct professors struggling for work? Or professor can't get tenure?
Neighborhood network is usually multimode fiber on the headend providing many times the per modem bandwidth, especially if they're expecting competition any time soon.
> How do you define "morality"?

As we are all adults here and know where to find definitions of words, I suppose you want to ask "on what principles do you ground your morality?" and then "on what things do you ground these principles?"

There is no good answer to that.

Kantian ethics say you ground morality on a "test": "if I cannot want all other people to do what I consider doing, it is wrong, I shouldn't do it". It works not so bad but has issues.

Utilitarianism say: "I should do it only if the overall sum of happiness will not decrease". This has even bigger issues, the lest of which is that you will be allowed to pee in the neighbour's flowers at night.

For me, morality is grounded on principles, which are not grounded on anything, and do not need to be.
> I realize this sounds suspiciously easy and it seems like there must be something I'm glossing over, but there honestly isn't, as long as you never introduce null to your own language in the first place.

Yeah, having done this before, it isn't that easy. You basically have to map NULL to something else, and if that mapping is so direct and straight forward, you actually haven't improved your engineering one bit.
My comment wasn't about fast "scripting" languages, for whatever your definition of that is. I don't think stronger typing and memory constraint enforcement have anything to do with scripting languages. In my opinion, C lack them by design, not be necessity. A language could, in theory enforce them without runtime penalty and without losing too much flexibility (such as array aliasing).

C++11/14 "auto" is an example where someone can have the equivalent of a void* with compile time type checking and "no" runtime penalty. Yes, multiple specialized version of the method will be created and increase the binary size and potential cache fault, but much of them will (ok, should...) be eliminated/combined again during LTO. A slightly incompatible fork of C could also remove array to pointer demotion, sizeof() would then be consistent and potential overflow would be possible to catch using branch analysis or -fsanitize=.
I don't get Google sometimes. They repeatedly launch a product with a ton of potential, don't market it whatsoever, then shut it down due to lack of growth or inactivity. Where's the logic there?
What is the advantage compared to throwaway accounts?
So the nuclear superpower at war with america thinks "Hey, should I launch this ICBM on LA or on this 200 people building in the middle of nowhere ?"
I was about to make something similar but then found http://www.wifimap.io/ was a thing
Several folks do a few hundred / month with a few ad-supported utility mobile apps. That's enough for gas and food. To get to ramen profitability, either a good mobile or biz SaaS app. B2C should rarely be depended on for bootstrapping.
I was pleasantly surprised to find the Intel NUC ("next unit of computing ", sigh) devices recently - I've bought one and it sits under my TV. Having a full PC instead of a Chromecast/Roku stick/whatever really is awesome. Not only can I use every streaming option out there, I can also browse the web and order food, look up maps, etc. etc.

It'll be interesting to see how these perform, but if they are similar to the NUC units, they'll be worth the extra money. The only complaint I have with mine is actually software based - I can't find a way to make the Windows 8.1 tiles larger (and more suitable for TV viewing distances)
so... kind of like Apple.
That is difficult to have the resources banked sufficient to leap off the little hill and find yourself in the desert of despair, to then randomly leap back to the base of what turns out to be the big mountain, but not have the clout to climb it. I appreciate the comparison to an optimization search algorithm, but life is really complicated for most to have the stomach for that level of risk.
What about an Orange Pi? Comes with Gigabit and a dedicated ethernet chip.