jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For one of my repositories which I created in 2013 and then pretty much forgot about without having written any code, the license file is called COPYRIGHT instead of LICENSE because back then I thought back then that COPYRIGHT was a good name for the license file. Anyway, getting to the point:

1. While I personally have switched to naming my license files LICENSE rather than COPYRIGHT, I think others still do name their license file COPYRIGHT, so you might want to check for such a file as well (or is it github who should detect that?)

2. The link "Click here!" you provide leads me to https://github.com/erikano/pgviz/new/master where I am given a 404 by github. The reason being that I do not have a master branch in that repository but instead I have one called "devel".

3. I think you should change the link text from "Click here!" to "Put a license on it".

With that being said, I think the tool you wrote is nice and I also got a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing that all the repositories it checked on my github returned "ISC" (aside from the one mentioned above and aside from the github pages repository which I have intentionally left without a license due to its special nature).

Off topic sidenote to anyone reading this: Most of my repositories are old I ideas I had but never executed on so they are mostly empty and almost none of them have any code. During late 2014 and most of this year, I have been working actively on two projects. None of those two are ready for use yet but there is code. One is saas-by-erik/timelog (written in C) and the other is erikano/django-timelog (Python/Django), both licensed under ISC. So if, for whatever reason, you are going to look at anything on my githubs, please look at those two. And if you feel like it, read the code and tell me where you think I'm doing something you think there is a better way to do, though note that the one I'm writing in C, I want to emphasize speed whereas for the one written in Python using Django, I currently do not worry about performance and will leave optimization of the latter (including queries eventually executed by PostgreSQL through Django) until a later point of the development. That being said, since I will optimize django-timelog at some point, if you do notice something in my code which is obviously killing performance, I will be happy for any issues reported where you tell me what you see. Sorry for this long off topic note but I felt I should add it, hope nobody is too bothered about it.
Predictive analytics has been gaining traction beyond its traditional base of late. Interesting post detailing how predictive models are used to predict the outcomes of a wide array of events, from financial markets to World Cup results.
I like the premise, but I don't think 6,300 representatives makes a lot of sense.

I like the proposed "Wyoming" rule. That each representative will represent no more than the population of the smallest state.

Today that would mean about 562 reps, which is manageable, in line with most of the other major world democracies, and would make the electoral college much more fair and balanced as originally intended.
He was great in those Harry Potter films...
Yes, and these are welcome improvements.

Unfortunately, they only apply to Android with K9.

K9 would be much more popular if businesses could simply tell employees, "Use K9 for mail" or even "Use K9 for mobile email".
No?

I guess my anecdotal experience with owning laptops from the early 2000s to today. An early 2000s laptop I expected to last between 18-24 months before it was shot. I don't think anyone made it through my college on the same laptop from Freshman year to graduation regardless of manufacturer.

Laptops in the last 10 years? All of those went at lest 4 years, and my 2014 MBP is still running fine. So it seems to me like things are improving.
Is this the first time that the gradient clip threshold has been chosen relative to the size of the weight matrix?
How can your opinion have any value without experience or education behind it?
I suppose. There probably is a thin niche that would appreciate the performance gains, but I feel that in most cases you'd rather have a pro or really a mac mini if you mostly use it as a desktop and have a need for sustained performance over time.
I think societal commentaries on long-running trends are much more relevant than the flash-fried news cycle of the day. I'd contest that is far better than the, well, "news" (i.e. the meaning that it's all of the things that are "new") cycle because it's 1 step grounded in our history, and 2 steps grounded in our primary relevancy in the issue going forward.

This is an interesting magazine that encompasses the whole topic well, I think: https://www.slow-journalism.com/
Cauliflower and broccoli, at least, have leaves that are absolutely harvestable and produce quite a bit depending on their cultivar. Yes, they also produce a delicious flower, but the leaves and stems are also a foodstuff.

Edit: In fact, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, and kale are all the same species.
Gotta second this. The first few times I used the self service counter, I spent quite a while double checking to make sure it got it right, simply because I couldn't believe it could be that easy.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Nope. GPUs are SIMD. KiloCore is however 1000 totally independent cores.
Note that even if a vaccine/drug/etc. gets approval, people are still looking for side effects. The approval process is designed to catch and document such side effects, but only once you give it to millions of people you find out about the side effects that are more rare. Also, due to the extremely sped up approval process, you know only little about any long term side effects.

Ideally you spread the doses over a few weeks or months so that you can stop the vaccinations should any issues arise. I'm not saying the current distribution is fine, it's far too slow. But not even Israel has vaccinated everyone in a single day, nor would that be a god idea.

This is btw also the way Google play distributes updates. Instead of every user getting the update right away, they first give it to a small group, then that group increases gradually in numbers.
I realize what you're saying, but it's still rhetorically foolish at best to say things like "Asians can't drive."

I live in CA, and I've met a lot of folks from India (not a statistically significant number though, of course!) and they seem to drive here just fine.

I know what you mean about driving in India. I watch video of Indian traffic. It's fascinating. How can folks drive like that and not have ( more ) carnage on the road?

But it's still "racist" to say "Indians can't drive.", even if the person is themselves Indian. (And of course, there are many races and ethnicities in India, eh? Bharata is hardly a mono-culture. So the word "racist" isn't quite correct anyhow.)

Someone once said to me "Women can't drive. My mom even said so." I said, "All that proves is that your mom is sexist."

OP may not have intended to be racist, sure, but being racist out of ignorance (or just not having thought it through) is still ugly.
Not really into art so i googled it.

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history - wikipedia

Anyhow, art is subjective. You can interpret it as you like, because its how it makes you feel. And you can argue for or against a point, but it doesn't really matter. As its almost like arguing what flavor of ice-cream is the best.
That's not completely true, part of the German social security is paid directly by the employer and not deducted from the Bruttogehalt. It's about 15-20% in total.
It seems to be some kind of new sport for economists and economy journalists: Finding some errors in Pikettys book and writing about it as they had found the stone of wisdom.
Thats because the testfile and testbed machine are chosen randomly each time the page reloads. That's mentioned in the blue note that at the top of each section."The default dataset is selected randomly."
Trust isn't really the point. The Safe Harbour scheme is what makes it lawful for European businesses to use US services to process personal data about their customers. Without Safe Harbour, any European business that did this without explicit consent from users would be at risk of legal action under the usual data protection legislation. A few activist lawsuits and/or formal action by national data protection regulators would make things like using US-based SaaS or processing payments with services like Stripe a complete no-no. It would also put multinationals with any US element, such as Google and Microsoft, in a difficult position, because even if their formal in-house policy is to keep all such data exclusively within the EEA, EU data protection laws can then conflict with US disclosure requirements.

The article makes it seem like this is a new concern, but in reality this has been on the radar of European businesses concerned about privacy and personal data since at least the initial Snowden revelations that rendered the polite assumption that US companies could actually meet their obligations under Safe Harbour no longer credible. Everyone is just hoping that the obvious economic damage from preventing this kind of trade will be so dangerous that either the US government will back down (highly unlikely) or the European authorities will cave and pragmatically overlook obviously illegal (and rightly so, if you're on the privacy side of the debate) data sharing.

Note that there is no general exception to the European data protection rules permitting disclosure of personal data outside the EEA upon request by foreign authorities under their own laws[1]. Specific international agreements have been created to cover specific cases like PNRs for people travelling abroad. So arguing that the US Safe Harbour scheme is still OK because it's only the US government breaking the rules for its own official purposes has no weight in EU law.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Wow. Nothing can match a 200k salary for a dev in India. SFO is intellectually more satisfying but maybe you can do a to and fro for a few weeks in a couple of years.
Seriously - how is this downvoted by anyone other than a zealot? I am merely explaining how it could be considered a legal issue in some places. Not passing judgement on whether it should be.
Borrowing is timeless, as old as human civilization. Borrowing books, music, movies, etc. Translate borrowing to computers and the internet and you naturally get "piracy". Thus, borrowing, a fundamentally important foundational aspect of media consumption throughout history, has become indistinguishable from stealing in general terms.

Some people are so invested in outmoded business models that they are in denial of this phenomenon and wish more than anything that through some legal or technological trickery it can be made to go away. Others have been more pragmatic and chosen to accept it and to figure out how to live with it.
I bet you could do something similar with a high-intensity digital projector behind the screen.

Which could be interesting for, say, horror movies. Put together a frame with a high-contrast image, white on a black background. Maybe a mouthful of fangs, or Freddie Kruger's knives. Time it right, just before a moment where the skittish audience members will close or cover their eyes, and they'll instead see something nasty inside their eyelids.
I can see real value in re-submitting this if there are a series of submissions or comments that shows this is a current topic of interest but it would be a shame if HN became more like TV with endless repeats.

Having said that I think classic Paul Graham essays such as The Submarine should be re-read at least once per year and perhaps more often than that.
I've dropped 20kg (44lb) since august, and I have found that eating well has a much much greater effect than exercise does. I've kept track daily of both weight and key tasks:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArDlY2B14P1IdFA2NElD...

It's pretty easy to see the exercise has died down to just enough to keep metabalism up, but the weight loss has been very steady. There's been no difference for me between pre-breakfast and post-dinner exercise, but huge difference based on what I eat and when.

I would expect different results if I was trying to burn calories directly through exercise, but I spent a month planning how to lose weight without spending lots of time in the gym because I knew I wouldn't stick to that :-)
I doubt it would take you long to learn PHP/HTML/JavaScript since you already have programming experience. I say allocate a certain amount of time to learn/code. Try to get a decent version 0.x in that amount of time. If you then find that you still need to outsource at least you'll be in a better position to manage things.

Markus Frind learned ASP.NET while using it to build the successful dating site PlentyOfFish.com (he too was already an accomplished programmer).
I suspect that this would be classed as subliminal advertising here In Australia, which is banned by the television code of practice:

"1.8.4 use or involve any technique which attempts to convey information to the viewer by transmitting messages below or near the threshold of normal awareness."

An interesting subliminal advertising case cropped up a few years back: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2082405.htm
"burning" is a bit of an exaggeration, I think. It's just overstimulating your retina cells, so they sort of take a rest. It doesn't take much energy - glance at a 40-watt unfrosted bulb, then close your eyes, and you'll see an afterimage.
I blieve the idea behind this is not to push a subliminal message into the view's mind but to create a "stunt" that'll get people talking about their brand (and in a positive way).

Result I see so far from this commercial
1.) Wire has an article talking about BMW (and we're reading it)
2.) This is on HN already and will probably be on reddit/FB and other social site by tomorrow
3.) People will be talking about how innovative BMW's marketing is and associate that with their product
4.) Got me to sit here and watch the commercial with my full attention (last time I did that was checking out superbowl commercial the day after on youtube, and those cost them millions for the airtime) and want to experience the "real thing" afterward

Achieving any single one of these will make it a good marketing campaign, getting all 4 make this a GREAT marketing campaign.
I think you are basing your worldview on hearsay evidence, elevenoh.
I disagree about the ability for PinePhone to be a daily driver, but I suppose it depends on what you use your smartphone for. For me, it's phone/sms/web browsing. But if I concede your point, that still just makes the smartphone alternatives similarly lacking in the existence of Facebook alternatives. That still doesn't support the GP claim the smartphones should be of much greater concern, especially because we haven't even broached the social harm that Facebook has assisted. Privacy concerns may apply to both facebook & smartphones, but as far as harm done, smartphones in & of themselves on the same level as Facebook & other social media. Of course, opinions vary & I don't claim mine to be the actual factual way things are.
That's only the produced sound, right? If the produced sound is at a frequency that coincides with the original sound (as opposed to being half a wavelength off), wouldn't it amplify the sound and make it up to 2x? Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.
> All that build infrastructure or coding standards or documentation or monitoring systems that you took for granted at Google or Facebook? None of it exists. Not only that - you won't be rewarded for building it, instead you'll be asked why the next person to come behind you got their work done faster than you did.

Not necessarily like that, but yes, almost. For instance, if someone sat down and spent a month writing documentation for shit we might pivot from in two, I must fire myself for having let it happen. Just wasting money and (perhaps more importantly) time.

I've definitely seen what you're saying happen, though. Lots of FAANG engineers not experienced in how things come to be.

- "Why don't we have blue/green deploys?"

- "Great idea. What will it help us with and how can we make it happen?"

That's likely to happen. Someone else speccing out a deploy system for you with canaries or b/g or whatever so you can go write some code isn't going to. You're hopefully independent enough to make the case, build the thing fast enough that it's worth it to the business, and have it running.
One thing that's changed is that many developers are getting used to paying for services (thanks Github et al.).
Possible but I haven't seen a library that does this. Seems like a very unusual way to do things.

Something to worry about if it ever became prevalent I guess, but doesn't seem to be rn.
Yeah on mobile screen and radio dominates the compute part by quite a bit. Not that it's not still worth optimizing.
There's another class of debugging tools: tracers such as dtrace and bpftrace. There are a lot of bugs that you just can't reproduce in a debugger, or even in a development environment at all. You need to be able to debug in production safely and without huge performance penalties.
More humorously I remember reading about a German guy that forgot where he parked his car and it sat in an office garage for 20 years or something.
And it's also sad to hear that NPR is a big opponent against micropower radio.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_broadcasting#Legisla...

NPR argues that the proposed changes would unreasonably burden its member stations by requiring them to resolve LPFM interference problems. Adoption of the new FCC rules also would jeopardize the extensive network of translators that pubradio stations have built with federal assistance and would upend the commission’s longstanding spectrum policies favoring full-power broadcasters, according to NPR.

> “It may be one thing to ‘squeeze in’ secondary low-power facilities into a mature broadcast service,” NPR said, referring to the commission’s original plan for LPFM, “[but] it is quite another to reverse decades of commission policy and rules favoring higher-powered broadcast facilities by elevating LPFM stations to co-equal status with full power stations.”

> “The laws of physics have not changed, and a system of full-power broadcast stations serves many more listeners with less interference compared to low-power broadcasting,” NPR wrote.

> “We know there are not a lot of low-power stations out there in relation to how many could be if third-adjacency protections were lifted,” Riksen said. “We are really concerned about how many would come into creation when third-power adjacencies are eliminated entirely.”
I always love comments like this.

At no point did I say they have a responsibility to archive them for all eternity.

Further giving people 2 weeks of notice over a heavy holiday period were most people are consumed with other activities is not "giving notice"

Further still it is just bad optics, PR is not about legal responsibility, not about technically being right, it is about how it looks to normal everyday people. Moves this like look bad to normal everyday people.

It is moronic to pull a move like this over the year end holidays. They have chosen this because they think it will fly under the radar, that they can do it while everyone is busy with other things. I have a feeling this is going to back fire on them spectacularly

Which is great because personally I think twitter is a net negative for society and its collapse will be good for humanity
It has been updated, of course. The "W3 servers" page notes that the content hasn't changed since 1992.
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Yes. It's also an issue of the traffic traversing the roundabout at great speed, making it very difficult to join.

I don't understand why they don't add traffic signals to the problem roundabouts, operated when required. It would seem less disruptive.
It feels like wasted effort in this context then. The article talks a lot about the university setting specifically, you can't just not engage with your course material and expect to have the same educational outcomes as someone who did. It seems like it'd be more effective for majors to list their trigger warnings before the course even starts with the understanding that if you can't handle the content then you should probably choose a difference major. Likewise, it limits the teacher's options because suddenly material that is meant to capitalize on surprise elements becomes a liability since it's unvetted.
Im just curious if there are any examples of this kind of attitude actually working instead of just attracting more homeless people. So far it seems like San Francisco's policy of not enforcing basic quality of life laws has not made homeless people say "oh gee they sure are nice not to arrest me for dealing drugs and smashing car windows. To thank them I will not poop in the street."
I've seen restrooms in businesses that are installing blacklights instead of standard fluorescent/LEDs to deter people from using drugs in them - because you can't see your veins under a black light.
> Windows 10 is simply the best Windows to date ever in all aspects.

Wow.

My opinion is very, very different. The best Windows to date, in my opinion, in Win 7. I even consider Win 95 to be better than Win 10.
The only place I’ve ever seen human feces on a public street is in SF and I’ve been to every major US city.
As someone who represented themselves in a similar sort of case, and successfully repulsed the effort to collect, I have sympathy - the civil courts system gives a slight bias to people who have lawyers - like in my case a default judgment was granted before I could even get my filing in (before the deadline), and then was withdrawn when I submitted my filing.

Writing a brief is hard if you've never done it before, and there is no easy guide to figure out what you need to do to make the system work for you. I represented myself at first because I couldnt afford a lawyer - then the case just sat in an existing but no filings state - then later because the plaintiff scheduled a court date without notifying me, and I only had a one day notice to drag myself into court.
I had the same thought. What a strange conclusion to draw from this.