jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Big house (3700sqft or so), tall ceilings, four people working/schooling from home and an electric car as the primary family car. In 2019 I literally did not turn the heater on a single time, I don't think the investment in a heat pump would be worth it.
You might be interested in reading on many of the other democracies out there that update their constitutions frequently.
Science is a process for inspecting and then describing phenomenon. It does not say what is true, it only does its best to accurately and meticulously describe reality. It does not, and can not, know if it has missed something, or if the things it has described will be changed by nature tomorrow and invalidate everything that went before. The results of the scientific process are always provisional and subject to revision.

We need to be humble about what science can actually achieve. Yes, it's the absolute best humans can do given the limitations of our senses and no signed contract from the universe to always behave as it did yesterday. But we need to stop treating the "facts" it produces as divine revelation that we can beat the congregation into submission with.
Do such nuclear power plants exist? I was under the impression that they provided consistent, baseline levels of power in most circumstances.
It's not that the capacity can't be mustered, it's that it can't be mustered overnight.
They could have used : similar to what Pascal and Kotlin do.
...Word doesn't at the same time allow markdown input and autoformats it impredictibly! If you know how bad Word is (or was, haven't touched it in a while), imagine how bad a Word version with multimodal input would be!
Maybe elements of computing systems?
One of the issues with that is that solutions that get the job done tend to be overlooked for reworks in the future.
Yup, the comments on that link prove why DF shouldn't ever get comments, just like daringfireballwithcomments did.
I wonder if thats enough to train a good idea generator AI
All these contortions and complications, instead of just learning how to make pkgsrc packages, going to SmartOS and running in zones. Unbelievable, how needlessly complex this is. Awful.
>you can read those signals and convert them into write signals in another part of the brain responsible for the actual motor function.

The signals Neuralink is reading are from the "part of the brain responsible for the actual motor function". I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.

I think you may be confused on how the majority of paraplegic and NDG conditions work - it's not that the brain isn't producing the signals, it's that the signals aren't reaching the muscles they need to to create motor function - it's the link that's broken, for a variety of reasons.

Of course, the obvious corollary here is reading the signals and using electrodes implanted in the muscles to directly stimulate a contraction
Check out the neo layout, optimized for programming, writing german and english.
What I’m saying is they have been at max capacity for months and have had full staffs for months (maybe December/January). So even with spring breakers they don’t need more staff, it’s their wait lists that are growing not their capacity and need for staff.

I was a server and worked “in the industry” so I’m familiar with the high turnover of restaurants, but restaurants on Ocean drive are a little different in that respect.

It’s one thing for a restaurant on Ocean Drive to to be looking to fill a position or two...usually they won’t need to advertise. It’s very unusual and another thing entirely for multiple restaurants on Ocean Drive to have signs posted outside advertising they are hiring for every single position (servers, busers, hosts, bartenders, cooks).
I agree that CLI is better than GUI

But the examples given doesn't really convince me. Using Finder to move files from a folder to another takes less time than using the CLI, especially if the files you're moving doesn't have anything in common at all and you don't want to move all of it.
"perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing"

That's not really true in two senses:

1) If you're just talking about AJAX request handlers, those are trivial to implement in Perl (I put together a number of them). If you're talking about real async processing in an app, POE/threads/etc. can handle async processing readily.

2) People moved off Perl/chose to adopt different langs. for many reasons but async was very rarely one of them.
This is not an explanation. The only thing you can say is that the first mouse pointer was _also_ tilted. The motivation can be different while result is the same over time. Please don't upvote that superficial answer on SO UX.
Appreciate your response Gusfoo!It's awesome that you found an office quite easily!

We have received a lot of feedback from those who have found it difficult, especially to do this online and that's what we're trying to fix.
Way to go wired, an article with a bunch of references to things that are definitely not AI, would not have been considered AI (even in the dark gray past) and that are not considered AI today even by those that would like to believe that an 'AI revolution' is on.

According to this article AI is just another way of saying 'the leading edge in real world interaction', from inventory control to (apparently) crappy search results that still need further interpretation. (google 'what is the color of grass' for a nice example of AI in action, any three year old would tell you 'green' is the answer, not a bunch of links).

The 'AI winter' was not brought on by a lack of progress or interesting results, it was mostly brought on by it being used as buzz word hyping the notion of AI long before even baby steps had been made in the field, and this article fits right in with the over-selling of AI. An ABS system is AI? Please.

As of now we do not know if there will ever be something that we would call an AI but just like with pornography, I'll know it when I see it, and an inventory control system, no matter how clever it appears is not it, especially not if it took a bunch of programmers to write.

I think the one thing that will set a true AI off against the background of wanna-be AI systems is that a true AI can be taught by non programmers to reason about the world around it and draw meaningful conclusions without external input. We are still - in my opinion at least - very far away from anything that comes close to that.

Learning is the key to AI, not programming.
Edit (added): Thinking more on this, I wonder if the Humble Bundle folks actually get the tax benefit of the donations.

I think you nailed an important part there. Clearly customers can't write anything off (since they aren't giving money to a 501(c)(3) directly, but obviously someone is. I can't remember what the default split was exactly, but if you figure it was 5% tip, 5% eff 5% child's play,the operator would be seeing more like 8.33% by default when the tax advantage came into play. If you assume a lot of people went mostly or totally for charity (especially for the large amounts) their margins would actually be rising.
bcrescimanno, I'm not sure what you are referring to. There was recently an effort made in the USA to allow Bush-era tax cuts expire for those making over $250,000 a year (gross adjusted). Had that gone forward, the doctor making $250,000 and the carpenter making $40,000 would both continue forward without facing an increase in their income tax. Only those people with gross adjusted income in excess of $250,000 who would see an increase in the tax paid on their income in excess of $250,000, although these affluent people would continue to enjoy the Bush era tax cuts on the first $250,000 of income they earn.

As it was, pretty much all of the Bush era tax cuts were extended.

As to this:

"This is precisely my problem with the general tact of liberalism: the answer is always to bring the upper-middle class down to the level of the lower-middle class while predominantly leaving the true wealthy untouched."

According to Wikipedia, only the wealthiest 1.5% make in excess of $250,000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

The poorest 98.5% of the USA makes less than $250,000 a year. Are you trying to define a portion of that wealthiest 1.5% as part of the upper middle class? If so, which part? Would you go into the top 1% and define that, too, as part of the upper middle class? Definitions matter, and it would be good if you could be precise.

I would add, my politically active friends are pushing for much higher taxes on the rich. Their focus is not on the poorest 99% of Americans, but the wealthiest 1%. And so, they focus on those making in excess of $350,000. I am curious if you regard that as within the range of the middle class?
So much for the frequent claim that Apple is all marketing and no new technology, I guess.

Analysis like that tend to focus on single technologies like capacitive touchscreens or e-ink displays. Pretty much all the different single technologies many recent Apple products brought together existed in some way, shape or form before in consumer products. Single technologies don't make a product. Oh, and the UI matters. Having the same exact hardware with a better UI really does matter.
Sure. Nietzsche was one of the first to approach this subject. In "The Gay Science" he built out the ethical self-actualization as a rejection of nihilism. Later existentialists (Camus, Sarte) did the same thing but attempted to connect it on a more human basis with freedom. Some even approached the same question with a theological perspective (Kierkegaard). The phenomenologists wanted us to throw everything we thought we knew about existence and morality out the window, so I'm not even going to touch on Hiedegger et al (if you're interested you can slave your way through Zein und Seit yourself). The Neo-Kantians endeavor to correct the mistakes Kant made following the CI and deal more with a "personal" CI, if you will (quite complicated, can't explain in a few sentences).

Overall, I think that's a pretty good reading list to start with. You should probably read this[1] as an introduction, as well as [2]. Remember though: philosophy almost never comes up with correct answers, it only shows which answers are almost definitely wrong.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/
[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/
It would only have value to you if you were concerned with social justice. (not meant as an insult, but I'm guessing it's not terribly important to many people)
The media has been all over Assange (especially his personal life), but they've been minimally interested in the leaks themselves. In fact, many media outlets have gone so far as to condemn the Wikileaks organization or to dismiss them as "not containing anything we didn't already know".

The problem isn't when journalists agree to keep some information off the record to protect a source. It's when doing so fundamentally changes the character of a story or is actually part of the story itself.

What Greenwald outlines is a journalist who is thoroughly compromised. It's gone so far that he's actually part of the story.

Two other similar examples come to mind:

1. When Judith Miller was given false information about Iraq that she used to write pro-Iraq invasion stories, she was using anonymous Bush administration sources. When it turned out that this information was incorrect, she decided to protect the identity of her sources. A real journalist would have realized that the story was: "Bush Official X leaked false information to journalists in order to sell the war to the American people." When a source makes you that much of a fool, you burn them, unless you were a helpful collaborator.

2. When Robert Novak outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, he protected his source. At this time, Scooter Libby was peddling this information on behalf of Vice President Cheney's office. This was in retaliation for her husband, Joe Wilson's, release of information dismissing the Iraq/Niger Yellow Cake story that the US used as a reason to go to war. However, it turned out that it was Tim Russert (a longtime member of the DC press establishment) who had passed along the leaked Scooter Libby information to Novak. Tim Russert covered the Valerie Plame story for years before anyone knew he was the reason for her outing. And Russert failed for years to use his inside knowledge to report the true story to the American people. This led to Scooter Libby being able to take a minimal charge of obstruction of justice and ultimately a sentence commutation from George Bush.

So this isn't so much about keeping notes or a transcript. It's about a member of the press with the truth at their disposal, but choosing to hide it for some reason. My guess is he's writing a book and would like to keep some information proprietary, but considering the case that Greenwald levels, some sort of response is appropriate.
Yes, how the debt was created is interesting. I'm having trouble with the framing of the article in relation to "forgiving" a debt.
Yep, I'm aware of all those details. I'm just wondering if companies like GitHub simply bite the bullet and pay sales tax in each state as needed, or if they've found some sort of workaround (like incorporating a second entity that hires people but doesn't receive sales revenue directly, just to make up a random thing).
It's really weird. The FireTV voice recognition is innovative and in practice works incredibly well. Also the box is delivered already configured to your account. Both those ideas are so good they're retrospectively obvious, and you wonder why Apple and Google never did them. I'd buy it again at twice the price.

But the Fire phone? Ugly, overpriced, and nothing that's new is useful. I wouldn't buy it at half the price.

I've never seems company release two things so dramatically different in approach at around the same time before.
Your first post got downvotes because it is devoid of content. It just quotes, with no comment or context, two questions and answers.

I'm not sure how you get the idea that you're somehow provoking people with dangerous ideas.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794256 (124 points, 13 days ago, 54 comments)
Definitely Haskell, probably C++
What exists to help entrepreneurs find/pair up with manufacturers locally/domestically? Opportunity there?

I work for a US manufacturer (non-tech related), and we frequently get inquiries from folks about making their products. We are primarily focused on producing our own products, but it is nice to fill gaps in production and explore new partnerships. But we don't actively pursue this, and I have no idea how they find us. WOM and random online databases, is my guess.
I thought we were talking about talking/reading to babies, not pre-schoolers?
Depends which part of the world. I don't do it often enough, but leaving the online part of the world behind would hardly be a bad thing. More time for the real world around you.
Dave and Busters has plenty of multiplayer racing games. I wouldn't be surprised if Chuck E Cheese does as well.
What are the issues with running on Windows? These tools support io.js
https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=io.js
You might be right. I was personally hit by a Twitter XSS once. The only reason I enabled JavaScript on twitter.com was because you can't post (or at least couldn't) post new items without enabling it first.

I don't use the twitter.com website any more. Prefering to use clients that don't run JavaScript. Whenever I can use something other than a web browser to access a service, I will take that path. I use NoScript when that isn't an option.

I also found (and reported responsibly) an XSRF flaw in Linode.com a few months back that I believe has now been fixed. That was quite a dangerous one. I also found an XSS flaw in DuckDuckGo a few weeks back. Maybe this is the reason I'm so "paranoid" about JavaScript. Maybe I'm right to be.
"To each his own", i suppose. That looks delicious to me.
This seems like a very odd move for Nokia. I was hoping MeeGo would become there predominant platform. I guess anything is better than Symbian at this point.

Maemo was/is nice, but it needs some more work to really work well in all situations, looking forward to the n900 successor
" but that has allowed me to experience a migration from Windows 2000 to Windows Vista."

Well there's your first mistake. This could just as easily be an argument to stop using crappy MS products.

(yhea yhea, i know, never going to happen).
I absolutely agree, but there's no point buying the SLR until you're comfortable with concepts like composition, exposure, lighting and colour theory. If you take poor pictures with a point and shoot, all that will happen with an SLR is that you'll continue to take poor pictures in more detail.

One day I will buy an SLR, but I'm not good enough (IMHO) nor do I have a particular preference for certain types of shot that justify it.
> He left behind one or two books that are still worth reading, but his most important legacy was his simplest.

Was this irony/sarcasm? Because my detector is off.

First of all, I read his 2 volumes of "Democracy in America" a couple of years ago, right after I had read Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" and just before reading Lord Acton's essays on liberty, and I challenge any of today's economists/political thinkers to come up with something at least 50% better.

Second, Tocqueville's "L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution" is in my opinion the book that best describes/explains the French Revolution, which I also think is the event that most defines the last 200 years of Western history and political thought, starting from Kant and continuing with guys like Marx and Lenin.
When a guy's riding by on a bike in a tie, that's a Morman.
Companies should have permanent support teams that work shifts, and all they do is support work. That way people who are happy to do shift work (i.e. work nights sometimes) and get paid more for the trouble can do that, and regular engineers can not have the stress of having to be on-call. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that I have to be willing to get woken up at 3am and work on something, and then do a day at work the next day.
Did you reply to the correct comment? I can't understand what you're referencing here.
Carlin's hilarious, but it's all an act. Everyone in show business knows that and it's not something to base your life on. If you can find a better way to live, Jesus would be the first person to tell you to go for it. Jordan Peterson did a great series of Biblical lectures you can listen to them on YouTube or Podcast. They were incredible.
That would certainly be better.
This is about banning the sale of new gas-powered cars. I'm unsure why letting manufacturers sell new gas-powered cars would make it better with respect to your conversion kits idea.
> My opinion __is not__ that Assange should have refused to help Mannings ... Assange should have refused to be accessory to a crime

These two are literally the same thing.
IBM's firing of Lynn Conway (inventor of superscalar execution and, later, principles of large-scale chip design that enabled exploiting Moore's Law) entirely because she pursued sex change treatment, was of a piece with their close sympathy with the Nazi regime:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...

After the war, the machines were returned to IBM, which already had the money paid for them.
> but for me, the clearest evidence is still that on days when people have the ability to sleep later, that's what they do

No, that's what we do on the weekend when we're catching up on lost sleep from the week, and staying out Friday night.

I know a lot of people with flexible schedules, and they're predominantly morning people who wake up around 6 am. Now I'm not saying they're average or anything, but it certainly disproves your idea that people inherently sleep in late when left to their own preferences.
Worked for a company a couple of years ago that used Flynn (with one of the maintainers) and it was pretty easy to use and understand. I guess it's Dokku or Nomad for my next adventure then!
> This is not a compiler for developing Rust programs. This is a compiler to let platforms unsupported by Rust/LLVM build rust programs from source. So it takes a Rust program which already exists, assumes it can be compiled by rustc, and translates it to C so it can be handed off to your local compiler. Skipping the burrow checker probably lets this execute in environments which are more constrained than what rustc can fit into.

I would assume that borrow checking uses far less memory than the actual compilation after the compiler has proven the program to be in concordance with the borrow rules.

It more so seems that it is something they did not bother to put too much effort into, as it wasn't necessary, than a legitimate way to reduce a compiler's memory footprint
If done with a proper supporting training, it's to redirect their attention onto their safe space.

It doesn't necessarily train them from barking at strangers but it gets them into a more relaxed state, which can let you use other tricks to decondition them.
I played that in the early 90s, my gf at the time was addicted to it and was a admin/creator and worked on the world of the gnomes.
PLTCL is an example. Indeed PLPerl may be too.
I remember times when the equality rhetoric was about "if we just do blind auditions, the racial disparity in orchestra will go away." That didn't happen and the rhetoric has taken a more aggressive stance: "give all races equal opportunities by quotas and we'll get the desired outcome soon." That didn't work either, the rhetoric has dropped the pretense of justice and has resorted to a simple idea: "white is bad, black is good." It's entertaining to watch how the so called "equality justice seekers" attack white and asian kids because they dared to outperform blacks and hispanics. I can totally see how universities will implement soon the curve fitting so popular in the corporate world: when asian students will be given a "GPA budget" that they can distribute among themselves, and that budget will be "3.0 for everyone or 4.0 for some and 2.5 for others."
Yep, O(n^2) has the problem that no matter how fast you upgrade your hardware it would still lag.

Another pet peeve of mine is Civ 6's loading time for a saved game is atrocious. I'm sure there's a O(n^2) loop in there somewhere.
One of my favorite authors, Robertson Davies, put this idea nicely in "The Rebel Angels":

> To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding that crying out.

It's a quotation that I often keep in mind while helping my kids learn.
The insane loading times are literally the exact reason I haven’t played in years. Every time I played I just ended up frustrated and got distracted doing something else while waiting, so I just quit playing altogether. I don’t know how people stand the loading times.
I think the comparison is a little non-sequitur. Classic visual basic hasn't had a feature released since 1998 and supported ended in 2005 (with extended in 2008).

It's not a part of Windows itself per se, but a runtime environment. Couldn't you just as well have written an app in Java, which has also kept good backwards compatibility and could still be run on both Windows and MacOS with minimal changes?
I’d like an actual citation for this assertion.

Anecdotally, and counter to yours: I’ve generally found that people who focus on a language for the intelligence attributes it supposedly implies of users are often simply deep experts in that language and it’s application mistaking that expertise for general intelligence.
Do you have any particular poems, or collections that you would suggest?