jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would presume that as well. However, that doesn't negate the fact that 10% vs 55% is a considerable gap.

In 1929 if the shoeshine guy was giving you stock tips, it signaled a very different level of market euphoria than today when your gym trainer is talking about stocks.

Also, today we live in a world where there's just so much more accessibility to information. Only about 1.3% of the planet has ever owned Bitcoin. About 13% of Americans have ever owned Bitcoin but 90% of Americans surveyed have heard of Bitcoin.

I don't mean this to be about Bitcoin, only trying to point out the massive gap between something that is relatively niche, and the number of news articles/stories, discussion, etc about it.
If you trust science then you are not doing science, by definition. The scientific process is an ever self-critical experiment of additions and improvements. Trusting the scientists for questions of policy is just plain folly that has led to disastrous consequences.
I think it's fine.

Charlie Rose, Joe Rogan, Larry King - they didn't really push very hard either.

Sometimes just giving a people a forum to speak works just fine.

Lex has a very odd personality for media - but it works fine for this format, in this industry, and he's smart and curious enough to ask reasonable questions.

He 'talks up' to his interviewees like he's one of their team members of interns and that's fine.
> That is literally what deprivation means - the thing you need is absent.

“Deprivation” is the act or process of removing. You’re claiming someone removed the income, but they haven’t done anything to create an income. There’s no income from which to deprive them because they haven’t done anything to generate an income.

> The deprivation happens through a large government program called "property law".

That doesn’t make sense, the way I understand it, property law codifies the rules around the things that people own. That’s preventing owners from being deprived. You’re asserting that laws which forbid depriving people of property are the mechanism by which they are deprived? How does that work?
had to upvote

I agree, except I state it differently.

Chefs are supposed to cook at different temperatures when using different oils.

The real problem with olive oil for frying is the cost of the oil compared to lesser products.

There are also natural compounds in the virgin olive oil that can be destroyed by heat so it is considered beneficial to consume it without previous heating in things like salads or bread dipping to gain any benefits from components which are not in other oils.
>To build on that, most scientists* are also terrible at statistics.

BTW, I think your use of the asterisk goes beyond what was intended. Its typically been used to omit things or add caveats that only matter in very specific situations. 'in my personal experience' could mean you know 5 scientists or 5 thousand so mentioning a rough range would certainly give more credibility to your comment over the asterisk. That said, I broadly agree with the rest of your comment, but this did bug me enough to comment I suppose.

>I don't know about others, but I see real-world datasets all the time that wildly invalidate the assumptions of common regression analysis, to take just one example.

I'm interested in knowing about them. Any major ones that come to mind?
Here is a bit more informative article with the background for non-Texans: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/14/texas-rolling-blacko...
This topic has been discussed to death elsewhere.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-...
Probably a good idea, but I like freeform submittal of data. It is human nature to explore and consider all topics.
Pulling Kik without explanation makes it seem like it was removed because it competes with BlackBerry Messenger. That perception is bad for RIM.
You obviously have never tried "search" in outlook.
Where, and in what context did you hear that? What I saw of the announcement (the blog post and a small part of the presentation) didn't seem very technical. Was this in response to a question someone asked or did someone take time at the event to talk infrastructure?
It was and served well. But now it's not in use anymore.
Please email me directly (ie add me to your mailing list) and I'll send a donation to support the video

I'm jiaaro at gmail

edit: PS - I'm really enjoying land of lisp :)
You have to wonder about someone working on "memory of the future" who makes analogies like this:

" "It’s like reading an entire VHS cassette in less than a second."

I don't know about the rest of you but I think we're close to done using magnets to store data...
Looks like another iteration of Dorsey's "move" from Twitter to Square. Being with the same pool of folks who run Twitter, you'd probably assimilate the same notion too and innovate something similar.
Wonderful Idea.
This is really amazing considering that Atlas took 13 launches before it reached orbit successfully.

Edit: It's also good for Obama's space plan - putting a new rocket into orbit on it's first launch is a pretty powerful way to demonstrate competence.
I wonder when Elon Musk will be the richest man alive. Maybe sometime around 2020 if he plays his cards right?
Basically it sounds like he's trying to create a non-US style bank, in the US.

Transferring money in the UK is a simple process - login, click transfer, put in the amount and destination, and click [go]. It'll appear in the destination account in an hour or 2 usually. There's nothing insecure about that (Login is done using chip+pin card, pin, or one-time keychain generator thingy etc etc)
Some work is still being done outside of Apple: http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ Maybe it's an undead project.
Multiplayer notepad!
Previously, a submission from the creator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742268
This is fantastic news! Hopefully this means that the price of taking things to orbit will fall rapidly (relative to what governments could achieve, at least), allowing all kinds of new developments that couldn't otherwise have happened.
Well last week we had a post about posterous adding markdown and syntax-highlighting and it got 99 points on the front-page. Now we have this post, about them adding the ability to create pages, on the front-page with 17 points after 1 hour.

I might be interested in hearing about major or innovative new features at posterous but these seem to me to be fairly standard features for a blogging platform and thus not very newsworthy. We don't get front-page stories every time wordpress or tumblr add a new minor feature.

So why are people upvoting this? Is it people who are posterous users and who are upvoting it as a sign of approval? Or people who want to show their support for posterous because they're a YC company. Or are there people who genuinely think that the fact that a blogging app now lets you create a page is really interesting tech news.
There are a lot of cool private companies, especially tech-focused ones, working to disrupt the public sector bureaucracy you’re describing. Might be worth exploring those options?

I work at https://payitgov.com. Would be happy to chat more about it
If he instead started to draw NFTs, and sell it from his KYC account to his dirty wallet, could he still be convicted? What if only one out of every 100 NFTs his dirty wallet purchased was from his KYC account?

Or what if he decided to create his own crypto-currency and it just so happened that his dirty wallet was an early investor of ETH to his fund.

Seems like he could have done more to distance himself.
Disease often stunts growth and mental development, being orphaned at a young age (like myself and my sister were) was an irredeemable loss that made everything about my life harder and worse.

I've seen countless individuals raise friends and family rounds for ideas I was working on and as a result of my lack of connections or proximity to wealth the growth of my bootstrapped company was slower and worse without capital investment.

Better is better, worse is worse, romanticizing suffering is a form of stockholm syndrome often times, where people just can't come to terms with the fact that their lives are demonstrably worse for the malnourishment they've experienced.

These people arguing that suffering creates growth must have very benign views of suffering or have experienced suffering very limited in scope.

I think many have only experienced personal challenges and conflate it with loss and suffering.

Human psychology seems to think everything is a trade off, it's not true, some things are pure win and pure loss.

Suffering creates a personal internal response, often times a stoic or any psychologically positive response is beneficial to the individual because of its motivating effect (similar to how optimists tend to outperform pessimists), but let's not fool ourselves, the man with severe brain/body damage may do better with an optimistic perspective than pessimistic but they'll never code or procreate again and their local maxima is objectively worse.
Employee classification is dependent on the amount of control that a company has over the worker. Uber has consistently argued that they have minimal influence over driver behavior, in attempts to keep their status quo on their workers' current classification, and avoid the costs associated with having employees.

In this case, they again made these claims.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/file/805/6/8056-Award%20in%20Irv...

The more 'hands-off' that Uber can assert that they are with their drivers, the better for their argument. They want to be 100% a middleman and 0% anything else. Ultimately, I think they'll fail, but for now, that's their strategy.
A Decentralized Manager???
> No...targeted advertising only enriches ad platforms not the buyers of the ads.

No... ~targeted~ advertising only enriches ad platforms not the buyers of the ads.

> In our previous episode, we learned that TV advertising is much less effective than the industry says.

Sounds like almost all advertising is just a zero-sum game.
> Another example of this DSL model done mostly-right is Make.

I think you just internalized the pain of make. I used to be good at it, didn't program c for 20 years and came back to it for a few projects and wanted to tear my hair out.

The pls I'm currently working with have declarative build dsls in the same language (mix.exs for elixir and build.zig for zig) and this is fantastic.

So it should be for configs. Use a truly turing complete language if you need control flow. I think hashicorp got this right but by then everyone hated to have to learn ruby.

I think this is the real reason why yaml configs got popular. If you had a dsl in x language, programmers would get defensive that it was in blub and not their pl of choice. Yaml was a way of being a language agnostic neutral ground.

And now we have n+1 blubs.
There is no way for apple to prevent apps from tracking, since many apps require persistent storage. At best Apple can throw apps out of the appstore after they become aware of an infraction.

I believe this dialog does control access to apple's advertiser-id (IDFA), so apple did implement some technical measures. Unfortunately that's not the only way for an app to track a user, so giving the impression that Apple enforces this denial would be misleading. People already blame Apple for apps lying on their privacy labels.
Honestly it’s a losing gamble too. You rarely win those options.
It's because there are so many young people who think that they absolutely want to be video game developers, so it simply doesn't matter how much the companies abuse them, there's a fresh horde of possibly-misguided fresh faces right behind them. Pretty much every other programming job is in a shortage, but here there's a glut.

I say "possibly-misguided" because there are some people for whom that is their one and only dream, and if that is their choice, hey, great. Go for it. I just want people to go into it with open eyes. However, I think the bulk of such people are simply misinformed about A: the nature of game programming and B: the nature of non-game programming. For the most part, they're a lot more similar than a lot of young people realize. You don't go into games programming and get to "design games"; you're going to consume tickets and do a lot of repetitive scut work. Frankly your odds of finding a good job where you're self-directed and not entirely doing scut work is better outside of the game industry.

So... do your part... spread the word that the games industry is mostly bad jobs and the non-games industry actually has a lot of good stuff in it, so that by giving young people a better understanding of the real situation they can make better choice, and help starve the games industry of its continuous supply of fresh-faced naive grads to exploit.
Deep breaths. Deep, slow breaths. You're going to be just fine.
price elasticity[1] might be an issue. Fruit picking is seasonal work, so even if the wage were attractive you'll have a tough time finding people willing to quit their current job just so they earn slightly more picking fruits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_supply
> they are grooming Africa and other countries

What's up with this language, being an economic partner is now "grooming"?

My country was literally coup'd by the US in order to maintain its access to my nation's natural resources through US/British companies, how is that for "grooming"?
This is a big topic, and there's a lot to unpack. I agree with some of what you say, and that's partly why I am not dismissing dangers associated with AI. I just don't think it ranks as something to lose sleep over compared with the much more tangible, imminent, and guaranteed-to-be-bad threats we already face.

One thing I disagree with is that intelligence is just a very strong optimizer. It is that, but I don't think it's just that. I think it is very much a multi-modal / multi-paradigm thing, and I think there's a ton of stuff we don't understand about the operation of our own minds. It's yet another reason I don't think human-level or beyond AI is imminent. We barely understand how we think.
It's criminal that you can't text message businesses. That seems to me the most obvious route. Any IP-based phone system should support this. Not sure how it would work with AT&T.
I think it will surely be useful for many people and in the end that's what really matters here. But will I use it? unlikely. I'd much rather have something on my phone, a bunch of icons for things i order frequently, and single tap there.

How long until these light up and start talking to you, begging you to press the button whenever it senses motion near it?

But whatever - they're pushing the ball. If this takes off, eventually you'll be able to build your own - something I have been waiting for at a reasonable price point. It also means other market engagement - things like food or medical monitoring - some good possibilities there.

But I don't think this is an april fools joke. If it is, they're the fools. It's only march 30th.
Yeah... confirmation bias written all over that premise.
Is this going to make it easier to deploy NodeJs apps to Azure then?

Love Azure, but had a hard time getting my NodeJS stuff up to Azure without some major issues.
Yet this fear is largely self-imposed. My parents have Facebooks, and I encourage their use of it for socializing. I, however, am not friends with them. They're not upset by this. Yet many of my (IRL) friends are friends with their parents, and have similar complaints.

Perhaps the future of Facebook is not the expansion of your social graph, but the isolation of your social graphs. Perhaps that will be what kills the behemoth Facebook, the same ease of use, but with better controls over what persona you represent to what people.
I ran it on a domU and it seemed to have no affect at all on the host machine (Xen 3.3)
> Now, I'm not saying this guy at Microsoft sees gamers as a bunch of rats in a Skinner box. I'm just saying that he illustrates his theory of game design using pictures of rats in a Skinner box.

Wow, that's both funny and disturbing.
> Don't you think you underestimate the amount of work that went into
> Webkit development? Or are you claiming that it is really minor
> compared to everything else in Chrome? Because only then claim "we
> made everything from scratch" makes sense.
>
> I really fail to see how pointing that one of the main components
> was not developed by Google from scratch counts as "making up crap".

You fail to understand my comment. I was commenting on people claiming
that the non-WebKit parts of Chrome are (effectively) boilerplate. The
difference between claiming that Chrome is 95% WebKit, 5% Google code
and a reality of (probably something like) 70% WebKit, 30% Google code
is meaningful. Maybe not meaningful when talking about 'everything from
scratch,' but let's not lower ourselves by resorting to overstatements
just because it makes us feel better when we are ranting against
something, no?
hah. it's often said that if your sysadmin is doing his job, you don't notice he exists.

So, really, getting ignored is something of a complement. It means you are doing your job.
Out of curiosity, what does PH stand for?
Please realize the story takes place almost 20 years ago! Things have improved a lot since then (in game dev specifically as well as in software dev in general).

There are still a lot of fucked up companies but you generally just don't hear about the development of >99% of projects.
Now add a "backend" and sell it for 10 billion
I work at GoPro so the work is usually pretty relaxed..

Why? What's the thing with GoPro that the work is pretty relaxed there?
Yeah. It doesn't even come with cake!
I read somewhere that VBA is replaced by javascript in office 2016, which comes out this summer.
I keep my notes in an emacs .org mode document. I suspect a lot of people do this kind self improvement.
I think `trhway above has it right. A 2.1 dimensional fractal would be very much like a bumpy sheet in 3-space. A 2.9 dimensional fractal would be a fairly convoluted crumpled sheet. [0]

You'd be amazed how much of the fractal stuff is practical. You don't need to deal with infinities before it becomes useful. For example, fractal antennas can filter for multiple frequencies well (instead of tuning for just one perfectly)[1]. On this topic, check out space-filling curve - it's pretty cool stuff, and the wiki page has a nice diagram of the Peano curve[2].

It's sort of like imaginary numbers. At first glance they seem like a very theoretical construct, but it soon becomes apparent they're everywhere. You can't hardly do any sort of electrical engineering with out them. Likewise with fractals (and the oft associated field of chaos).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension#Introduction
See paragraph 3. It makes intuitive sense as you see a 1-dimensional line fill the space of a 2-dimensional plane.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve

EDIT: whoops, missed a reference. (And sorry they're all Wikipedia - there's a ton of great material on this stuff. Many books on chaos will talk about fractals extensively, but the best don't shy from the math!)
As a founder of https://www.opendesk.cc I think all startups should consider local manufacturing -- when they're fitting out their work space.

</tenuous plug>
The article isn't saying that netflix is really killing torrents but rather that it has the potential to do so.
I have been wanting the same thing but have too many projects going on right now to try to do it myself.
Haha. $3.00 is how much one flat white costs at the local cafés. Guess I should have mentioned that I'm not downing 10 or 20 cups of instant coffee per day.
That's just how it works out there, their ability to fix anything astounded me. We had a new exhaust bracket made by our chef, using an old tire, his kitchen knife, and the poker out of the fire!
Are tablets huge, or are touchscreens huge?

To know, we need some decent laptops with touchscreens.

It seems like the best of both worlds will clearly be a tablet that docks to the bottom half of a laptop - so we get a laptop with a tablet that can be carried around.

I also think it's a fairly good long term bet. At the moment we're in this strange 'appstore' download applications era which is like being back in the 1990s. This current era will end once wifi etc is everywhere and the novelty value of downloading an application has worn off.

Obviously for a hardware heavy device such as a mobile phone, you need some specific OS to be able to interface with all the hardware, take calls, etc. But for a laptop, where the user is mainly just surfing the web, things don't need to be so involved. That's why I think both are necessary.
Seems that link is completely dead.

Maybe it's getting DDoSed by a disorganised horde of anonymous pro J2EE teenagers.
Did you accomplish what you set out to do with your comment?
Check Sitepoint reference (CSS, HTML, Javascript) - no bad one http://reference.sitepoint.com/
If this is for real then it's flabbergasting.
A lot of small businesses do not create financial oversight practices. I see it where I work. We're so focused on our product that nobody takes care to watch the books.

No company, no matter how small, should only have one person manage the books.
Alternatives are only useful when adding to the conversation. Otherwise it comes off as tasteless promotion.

One example of a way alternatives add is comparing how the new release stacks up with alternatives.
I assumed it was Yoshua Bengio, and I assumed Google had hired him without me knowing about it. There's a long gray area in the middle between "knows that X is a famous researcher in field Y" and "knows every time X changes jobs", and I am in that gray area with respect to not only Yoshua Bengio but actually at least two dozen AI researchers: Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun, Richard Greenblatt, Yann LeCun, Doug Lenat, Stuart Russell, and at least another score whose names aren't occurring to me off the top of my head but who I'd easily recognize.

So I am one of these people you are saying do not exist.

I suspect that actually the vast majority of people who know who Yoshua Bengio is at all are in this gray area with respect to X = yoshuabengio. That is, the people you are saying do not exist vastly outnumber the people who are confident that they are up to date on where Yoshua Bengio works.
How could they pump the coin overnight if they were forthcoming about their roadmap?
To repeat a quote that probably appears in every Von Neumann post,

"Teller also said "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."