jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> How does a healthy person wearing a mask prevent contamination?

How do you know they're healthy? That's the key, because asymptomatic cases are estimated to be the main driver of this pandemic by far. And it's only worsened by the fact that only few tests are available.
I think GG and 8chan are the least of 4chan's problems if they were trying to sell. Constant loli, gore, and racist threads would be a far bigger turn off to a potential buyer. GG and 8chan threads were just banned because of his personal beliefs.
There is nothing in this article to contradict what PG said

He wasn't trying to contradict him on that point, from what I can see. What he's saying is that he can't trust the process of relocating workers into the US to get the best talent and to not drive down wages.

In fact, he proposes:
Pay more to hire programmers and tech types away from your competitors.

This is one way to improve working conditions for people already in the US.
That's a weird reply, since the parent commenter wasn't talking about tax policy. Also: I'm not sure how a gigantic tax increase on the bottom 95% of all earners is a "libertarian" concept.
Not much different to others parts of the world, methinks.
As a recent switcher to Android, I acknowledge iOS has flaws but I am so grateful my parents aren't on it. (everything having multiple menus with multiple nesting levels, no conventional behavior between apps, crazy carrier customizations, multiple levels of caches to clear)
False. Society has a certain amount of patience for people taking their dogs everywhere, it's not unlimited. Not everybody likes dogs, some people have had traumatic experiences, some people are allergic, there are health codes to worry about, etc. The more people take their ESA's around, which inevitably causes problems, the lower that level of patience becomes.

I'm all for ESA advocates getting together and coming up with a system to regulate them and ensure it's low impact, but printing off certificates from the internet isn't going to cut it.
Metadata management is becoming a big deal in data engineering these days. It's hard to find good metadata management that doesn't tie you directly into some product or ETL tool. We need more agnostic metadata management tools.
It's worse in the most important aspect for messaging: it is not end-to-end encrypted by default. It wouldn't be crazy to assume some could get access to your messages.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-rus...
thanks for the reference! love the final acknowledgement in there:

> Final thanks go to Richard Stallman, without whose fine implementations of the Emacs editor, language, and environment, Calc would have been finished in two weeks.

:D
Have you heard of the "Burning platform" memo?
Hmm. For some reason I had thought Skyrim was Elder Scrolls 6. TIL.
"Psychology is eating the world"
do you need a credit history for a savings account or checking account with no overdraft?
And the point is that logging intermediates only does not directly prevent the attacks but it is still useful.
The big question I debate with a friend is, if it's a bubble what would it look like if it burst?

If the latest startups couldn't raise new funds (because of investor panic), then suddenly the market is flooded with developers, do salaries, real estate, etc, go down?

Is the startup economy entirely reliant on outside money? (Especially outside of SV money - money like pension funds and other institutional investors)

Or would the Googles and Facebooks of the world - huge profitable companies that they are - absorb the ones that failed, the downturn would be modest, and soon some of those developers would be right back out there starting new things?

I'm inclined to believe the latter.

People decry a bubble for other reasons than valuations, like San Francisco real estate and how high dev salaries are getting. Companies that don't have any revenue but can still raise lots of money.

I do wonder how high dev salaries can go - I think it is tied to how much value a developer can fundamentally produce. It may well be far higher than the current average salary (perhaps multiples of it), so I don't see anything wrong with that.

But you could also say developers are themselves in a bubble, and that the proliferation of app academies and their like will soon catch up with the demand.
I messaged you, let me know.
Windows 8 features MS's version of Apple-style walled garden app infrastructure, which is in turn protected by hardware TPM. Windows 7 can be installed without this hardware support, but will utilize it when available (by securing signed drivers). Windows 8 doesn't require TPM (yet), Windows 9 has been in development since before the release of 7. TPM support was introduced as a core component in Vista, iirc.
It seems like you're focusing on the specifics of what I said without getting the general idea of what I said. The key phrase in my original comment was "or having similar problems". I'm not saying that you must freeze up to be hired by me. All I'm saying is that I consider it to be a good thing if a candidate shows some signs of inconfidence (one of which may be freezing up). That means they're taking the interview seriously and that they're not (too) cocky.
Good question - no, we don't. Developers can request for certain whitelisted commands to be executed within an environment that we know to be safe. For example, you can specify a list of system packages, and dotcloud will install them from the official LTS Ubuntu repository.

There's an ongoing discussion in the Docker community on the best way to make this possible in a shared environment. One possibility is to add support for OpenVZ, which has a better track record on that front (although it's not clear how much of the perceived difference is just fud). Another is to combine namespaces with SELinux, so that even if you break out of the namespace, you're stuck in a "limbo" context with no ability to do harm. Lastly, there's the possibility of extra instrumentation around the container, to limit the risk - for example you could allow root privileges only for a whitelist of commands on a whitelist of base images. Or you could only authorize network connectivity with a whitelist of remote hosts (keeping in mind most use cases which require root access involve short-lived image building). Or you could map containers with root privileges to dedicated virtual machines, separately from the unprivileged containers. Etc.
Spy agencies already have a laser they can put on a window to recover audio from the vibration and other similar devices. This isn't really that different. It seems behind current spook hardware, honestly.
> No one seems to have the idea that the government should protect our emotional attachment to gold

Denmark had a law in place during the mass refugee crisis in Europe, where if a refugee owned valuables then they had to sell that first before they were allowed to receive government help. The idea was that people should first help themselves if they could, and by doing so helped the greater good since then the government could afford to help more people.

Ask people to sell their wedding rings and people get a bit upset, and so people compared it to Nazi Germany when they striped people of valuables. A lot of people wanted that the government should respect and thus protect peoples emotional attachments. Desperate people can't eat gold, and you don't want to force people to sell the last remaining object of emotional attachment that they own. I think even some refugees spoke on the news that they would rather die than sell off their heirlooms.
Especially if there was an implementation that could build from C source code in a simple way without requiring an existing SML compiler…
At my current job we use Scala extensively. I didn't have much experience with it, but found it pretty easy to pick up, mostly due to its similarity to StandardML (much moreso than e.g. Java, Haskell or Python; which are also clearly influences)

In fact, my only previous experience with Scala was from hacking on Isabelle/HOL, which is mostly StandardML, but happens to use Scala in the periphery (scripting, UI, etc.)!
Fun fact - the original picture at the top of the article was the Allen-Bradley PLC-5/80, but the toolkit focused on Omron and Schneider and Codesys systems.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220413195449/https://www.wired...

I’ll bet someone at Wired got a phone call from AB’s lawyers

This is going to be our reality for the next few decades as threat actors focus on new ways to wreak havoc or extract ransom from mid- and small-scale critical infrastructures (I.e., regional water plants, that one factory that keeps the whole town running, power grids, refineries, etc)

This digital transformation/ IT-OT Convergence needs to happen, but it’ll be a bumpy ride

Edit - I say mid and small scale users because the big ones will have the funding to properly secure themselves for the most part. Sure, we’ll see them get hit too but the smaller players I worry about most
The Turks loved Iceland for their white "pearls".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hXkmBB-YL.jpg

https://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12...
The Mediterranean between the 1500s and the 1900s is a very interesting place with a lot of interesting shades of gray. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Reis

> Sinan sailed under the famed Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa at the 1538 Battle of Preveza against Charles' Imperial fleet and its commander, Andrea Doria. Sinan suggested landing troops at Actium on the Gulf of Arta near Preveza, an idea which Barbarossa initially opposed, but which later proved to be important for securing the Ottoman victory.

> Around 1540, Sinan's son was traveling by sea to meet him after one of Sinan's victories. The boy was taken captive by Emperor Charles' forces and was ultimately handed over to the Lord of Elba, who baptized him and raised him at court. Barbarossa made several unsuccessful attempts to ransom Sinan's son. While sailing nearby in 1544, Barbarossa sent an envoy to Elba to again attempt to free the boy. The island's Lord replied that his "religious scruples forbade him to surrender a baptized Christian to an infidel". Infuriated, Barbarossa landed men at Piombino, sacked the town, and blew up the fort, after which the ruler agreed to release his "boy-favorite".
For people who says they are all for inclusion and equality, they seem to be quite selective in the type of personalities that they allowed to be in their group.
We need this, but for the US military.

Imagine pork boondoggles like the JSF being carved up by efficient startups like Palantir, Anduril, and SpaceX. It'd be a much more efficient use of tax dollars.
Love this idea. I’ve used a shell-like Hugo theme for my personal website, which at least preserves readability when JS is disabled. At this point, I wonder if you shouldn’t just plug a real shell to the website instead of faking one.
Agree. It’s like they have a two-man team for every product, and any bug fixes are going to take years.
That's an interesting perspective, however those Low/Minimum security zones account for more than half of the entire federal population:

Minimum 23,439 (15.4%)
Low 55,133 (36.3%)

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_sec_l...

Also consider that there are inmates that didn't actually commit violent crimes that are labeled as such because they received gun enhancements to their sentence for the ownership of a firearm even if not on their person during the "furtherance of the crime". Yes, there are people who are sitting in prison longer than they should be because they had legally owned firearms at their house while they were growing a plant.

That article you linked tries to paint an invalid picture of how prison populations are kept artificially high to protect the jobs and industries that surround correction institutions. There are union groups across different sectors that rally hard to ensure that humans are warehoused to pay the bills.

To illustrate how full the low/minimum prisons are with drug offenders your first day there everyone will greet you and if you're there for drug related crimes the second anyone hears "drug" they just wave their hand because they have heard the story so many times and there is almost never any variation. I'm not a drug offender, I was there for a computer-hacking related charge, but I basically got to the point where I could guess all the different elements of their story like how much they were getting paid per drug run (it seems to be about $2,000 per run for the low level mules, if anyone is curious)
Lotus bet the farm on OS/2. Not being on Windows made it an easy decision for customers to buy Excel.

Lotus was bigger than Microsoft for most (all?) of the 1980s.

Wordstar was another company that failed to understand the shift to GUIs.

Of course, Wordstar had another major marketing problem. Despite its dominance, nobody knew the name of the company (MicroPro) that made it. Far too late they realized the mistake and changed the company name to Wordstar. Microsoft never made that mistake.
To be fair, I don't think Google Hire's target customers were considering Oracle or SAP for hiring. They seemed to be more in the Greenhouse / Lever market.
”Enterprise” sounds too broad, though.
If not alienated, the need for Dropbox is not as high as it used to. If you have a Mac, you can sync the documents and desktop natively directly to your phone and can right click any file within them to get a link or share it with other Mac users. This won’t cover every user but it was enough for me and several friends to drop Dropbox.
Perhaps even more interesting is the gap between mathematicians and medical doctors. Disclaimer: I was a math major who went to medical school.

There is age-old question of, "What should I major in if I want to go to medical school?" Turns out that mathematics majors have the following statistics:

1. Highest average MCAT Physical Sciences Scores
2. Highest average MCAT Biological Sciences scores (higher than biosci majors)
3. Second-highest MCAT Verbal Reasoning scores (second only to Humanities majors)
4. Highest overall average MCAT scores.
5. Second-Highest average Science GPAs (biosci majors are 0.02 higher)
6. Highest average Overall GPAs

Source: https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstable18.pdf

'Course, math majors make up < 1% of medical school applicants (0.81% to be exact), so this very well may be selection bias. Still, it seems as though what medical schools are looking for are individuals with analytical (mathematical) reasoning skills.

EDIT: It's also worth noting that in many countries an undergraduate education is not a prerequisite for medical school, so there's likely to be even less math-major physicians outside of the US.
While users are still allowed to run software of their choosing on the Mac I would think it would be perfectly acceptable to provide software that could be built and run outside of the mac app store.

If I'm mistaken please clarify.
Science calls for repeatable results... I would be happy to volunteer for your future studies.
So does that mean there are conceiveable advantages to using the full 64bit addressing scheme? What about 128 bits?
I remember at school there was a bunch of kidsd who were good at maths seemingly due go natural aptitude, and some who were keen on the academic credibility it gave them... but genuinely I can only think if one person who actually displayed a 'passion' or at least a deep interest in the subject.

I was very enthusiastic about physics and lots of people were about English and we'd have creative writing groups and stuff, but maths was just... Some folk quietly excelled at it and that was that.
As an EECS senior at MIT, I haven't measured how many hours a week I work, but it certainly feels like "all the time" is a pretty close guess. I think if you make the startup your priority, and take only the CS requirements (which can easily be done without taking 60-hour-week courses), and you're great at time management, it can work. I've seen at least a couple of cases of this just on my dorm floor in the past couple of years.
JSON is static content. Open an HTML page you trust and have that load the JSON data you want and use it to populate the DOM, making sure to escape HTML characters so it can't inject script tags and such.
1. Copy one of the above as a.rb.

2. Run

while true; do clear; ruby a.rb | tee b.rb; sleep 1; mv -f b.rb a.rb; done
Probably get downvoted for this, but as a longtime resident of Chicago who literally lives on the same block as Giordano's, why anyone would look for Chicago-style pizza anywhere, including Chicago, is beyond me.

As good as San Francisco's baking culture is, surely there's NY-style (real! :)) pizza to be had?
4. It's not that unique, is it? I used KDE's FileLight[1][2] some years ago and it had that same visualization.

[1]: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/

[2]: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9887
you did!

> Imagine a Chinese company that brags about how they avoid using parts and labor from the US whenever possible.

chinese military grade stuff?

yes, i am the entire website you have interacted with for years to attain ~5k of karma.
Irony does not work well on the interweb, my friend.

To clear things up:

a) the Node team did not invent async programming

b) you kill the event loop, if you spawn it per request using CGI
The law is ridiculous or complying with it?

I think some people live in a fairy tale world. North Korea, for example, recently sunk a South Korean ship killing 41 people. There really are bad people in the world.

Personally, I think the Cuba issue is legacy and it's probably time to resolve it. The fear of communism is long gone. Now I think it's just a matter of a bunch of rich voters in Florida who want their nationalized land back, which probably isn't going to happen.
is there any chance MongoDB will introduce some form of transaction support?
Curiously it hadn't occurred to me to actually stick with a standalone REPL until I read Alex Miller's comment at the article suggesting just that.

I am new to REPLs and to Java-based development and to emacs. When I read about the magic of the REPL's positive feedback loop it's easy for me to think that all of the pieces are equally valuable.

It's been a few months now and I can see how just copying and pasting from vim into a standalone REPL wouldn't be a horrible way to go about building something.

P.S. - Loved your enlive demo! Thank you for one of the best Clojure examples I've read.
"Will switching to emacs help me write better software? Solve harder problems?"

It will HELP you write better software, yes. Solve harder problems? It will help you solve harder problems FASTER maybe.
The US has killed far more than 41 people with lethal injections alone.

But that is irrelevant. Why shouldn't North Korea's residents be allowed to work on Free Software?
> For the most part I never found solutions other than getting used to the Emacs way of doing things, and changing my habits.

A (true) anecdote.

I use a piece of custom software at work. Parts of it are horrible to use, truly awful, unintuitive, time-wasting.

For those of us who've used it for a year or more we ignore the rough edges. We know that when you perform a certain action a pointless warning box appears so you immediately hit 'Enter' to dismiss it before it even appears. Obviously we know what the menu entries do, even the ones with no text label.

We were forced to use this software at a point where we couldn't fix it. Now we have the ability to fix it but we've changed our habits to fit it so we don't bother even filing bug reports. New users, however, are going completely crazy trying to learn it.
Virus can linger in host for months. Also animals can spread some viruses. There are terrorists who could preserve it... Even (re)creating virus is feasible.
Here's hoping Apple doesn't slap you down for this. The frustration I've faced while packaging iOS apps has permanently soured it for me, I hope you don't put you through the ringer.
Not enough I'm afraid. I can't help thinking of Stephen Hawking.
A great opportunity for publicity in general.

If I owned the hot dog place, I'd say something along the lines of "Subway claims that we are unfairly benefiting from their trademark. But we pride ourselves on providing high-quality and delicious food to our customers; with that in mind, any association with Subway could only be detrimental to our reputation."
That exercise may be fun, but aren't gender differences in cognition pretty well established? OK, maybe the experiences of Erik Von Markovik (et. al.) are not exactly rigorous, but then there's Helen Fischer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ewvCNguug
No, the general way to disagree is to post a reply much like this one that says I disagree.
Well, the modern society is less like the savanna, which was the environment that shaped men throughout the evolutionary history of our species, and more like the cave, which was the environment that shaped women. Less physical confrontation, more squabbling. Less concrete, immediate dangers, more abstract worries. Less ass-kicking, more cooperation.

Heck, even spatial abilities are so last-century, now that everyone has a GPS.

So then you get things like men's constantly decreasing fertility, for decades now. Decreasing testosterone levels, again trending downwards for many years now.

I'm not saying this is either good or bad, I'm just saying this is an environment which creates different evolutionary pressures, and our species is responding to it.

I'm not sure I can imagine the destination, though.
here's one in Python:

import random

stocks = (ibm, apple, ...)

stock_to_buy = random.choice(stocks)
This seems counterintuitive from a math perspective.
Isn't it more interesting that the top trending search term is the name of the photographer? Doesn't that mean more people like it enough to be curious about who took the pictures than are looking to shut it off?
My first thought was "This is much slower and uglier than Bing". Since Bing's results have been comparable to Google's for the searches I make (so there's really no difference between the two for me) that's where I've been today.

For one day, at least, Google managed to change my ingrained habits and switch to their search competitor. I might even stay there.

Probably not the effect they were looking to have.
Unfortunately the datasets in that benchmark less than 3MB each in size - it fits entirely in cache. It doesn't give a good indication of how well the function/implementation scales on bigger data sizes that really matter (in terms of computation time, memory, how cache efficient it is etc..). How much does one really care about 0.018 vs 0.023 seconds?
> I'd expect to be more hireable as my career progresses. But this doesn't seem to be happening.

As people progress in their careers, some have valuable experience and acquired skills to show for it, others only have a few additional gray hairs to show for it. That's why there's always skepticism about people no matter what stage their career is in.

The questions all of us need to ask ourselves is: "What in my resume shows that I'm in the former category rather than the latter?" and "How can I prove it?"
More accurate would be the objectively true statement: Most Americans were unaware of this and were not involved in the decision to do so in any way whatsoever.
I would recommend this extension: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox (there's a chrome version as well)
Seems to me like it wasn't perfect by a long shot!
YouTube Premium is worth it IMO. No adds, the ability to minimize, and downloading videos locally, all within the same app are killer features.
4 ads every 12 minutes was quite common on TV. I’ve always thought Youtube would ramp it up to this level one day. It’s only a matter of time until VoD does it too (Netflix? for 7$?).