jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Meh. My kid will leave the house able to program at the pro level. If they resentment me and open a bar more power to them. If the bar fails and they need to program to make ends meet - great. If I was a plumber, my kids would leave my house a certified plumber. If they want to be a lawyer instead - more power to them. Either way my kids leave with a skill.
Cycling and good metro/subway systems aren't mutually exclusive, of course. Cities with good public transit are often good cycling cities, too, due to being able to maintain a good level of density without excessive levels of car traffic, modest traffic speeds, etc.

(As for motorbikes in cities, I'm not a fan due all the noise and pollution. But electric bikes are great!)
There is already a very successful company here in Sweden, that is doing exactly that.

They do even much more than what you describe like providing electricity realtime from the best supplier depending on various factors like price and climate friendliness in a given time.

https://tibber.com/se/smart-elavtal
I tend to think of these steps as analogous to lifelines in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"; some people can make it to the million with no help, some need lifelines and just others cash out (not to mention those unfortunate souls who guess wrongly).
Yeah, with $5M in the bank you can live off the interest "forever" - ideally you'd spread the risk and stuff but with anything less than that amount it's hard to call yourself financially independent...
This is also brought up in the comments of the article itself. Yes, the game could be over in fewer turns/dice rolls this way. But then, would someone really pay that much for the property at auction? Maybe not.
In retrospect the beef lard was probably no worse than the trans-fat oil they replaced it with (they have since eliminated the trans fats).

But the prior poster is correct... McDonalds fries have never been as good since they stopped using the beef tallow.
Single quoting lets you pass a list without evaluating it.

(car (eval '(a b c))) vs. (car (a b c))

Do the same thing.

Have you read SICP? Somewhere in the 1st-3rd chapter there's an explanation of first-order evaluation that scheme uses. Once you know how scheme evals sexps, it makes sense that quote skips some of the steps of evaluation.
I strongly recommend the SICP/Little Schemer/Seasoned Schemer if you haven't heard of them.
As it is known, Samsung company criticized the iPhone company for the absence of a charger and a headset in the iPhone 12 box. However, it seems that Samsung did this out of jealousy.
"4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us."

I would much prefer that this simply read: We do not share your information with anyone.
I know it's more work, but they could also use Github Actions to push recent commits (past 90 days) to themselves, and use them. That way they wouldn't store or have access to all source code.
An extremely distracting aspect of Tarkovsky's cinema is something he shares with most Soviet cinema, which is that all sound is recorded and mixed in during post-production. All environmental sound is accomplished through foley work. All lines are dubbed in, sometimes by completely different actors. There are no mics on set whatsoever. It makes his movies (as great as they are) feel like Looney Tunes cartoons.

Amazingly, this approach to cinema did not end with the fall of the USSR, and most Russian movies continue being recorded the same way.

Tangentially, neither did the tradition of dubbing foreign films by just having a single guy read every character's lines without even removing the original audio track, but just trying to talk louder than the actors' original audio.
It's not even the only one, there is a bunch of them that gives different levels of information. Partly because the equivalent of social security numbers are public information in Sweden.

There are apps for Eniro and Hitta that could tell you if an incoming call is from a known callcenter for example. Not sure they still work after google tightened up security.

I'm always amazed I can't find someones phone number outside Sweden when I need one. Here it's just a few clicks away. Sure you can ask to be removed from their register but most wants to be there.
Often they are but not always, e.g. a value of type other than cell/list can be evaluated at the top-level. How the top-level itself works is an implementation detail.

More fundamentally, being known to something else is not the direction "is a" works in.
Are all the libraries together, combined, under 1.5MB? Or is each one under 1.5MB?
This might be something for you:

https://www.railstutorial.org/book
Just pick something that sounds interesting to you and start reading. There's no bad way to do it.

I wander at random through art history stuff, and I never regret it.
> That's good in that it requires a slightly more sophisticated attack, but I don't really view that as a very effective defense.

A slightly more sophisticated attack, indeed — but one that doesn't scale well. It ups the cost of mass surveillance tremendously.
One of 'What our clients are saying' has lorem ipsum :/

http://theteacherpreneur.com/mentoring/ (scroll to down)
A shame that you didn't decided to make this very insightful comment on one of the "Library ___ in [Rust|Go]" threads. I'm not trying to bag on anyone, just want us to maybe consider that there is some sort of "underlying" malaise that is causing us to invent, and reinvent constantly. Is it due to us simply wanting to reinvent things, or perhaps due to libraries/frameworks eventually becoming too big that we need to reinvent it in smaller forms and new languages? I don't know, but it needs to be discussed...
> However, based on your other answers about what you do, it's unlikely that this current $200K salary is sustainable. Your company can easily replace what you do with a local developer for less than $200K. They are actually doing the right thing by giving you the option to stay and move to the US.

This is the most important thing to consider here, in my opinion. So OP, answer this: You're fired from the company tomorrow, and you're out looking for a job again. Where would you rather be? Which market would you prefer to sell your services to? You're already making a killing, and you will continue to make a killing after moving to the US. What happens after this gig is what's important here. This is potentially a rest-of-your-life decision. You can always move back to India.
> I thought lawyers were people who believed strongly in fighting for their clients' civil rights even if they despise their clients because they think the rights matter.

Afaik, this particular thing does not require you to not have political opinions. And in particular if some party or politician seem to trample all over civil rights or legal defenses, you might argue against him or align yourself with his opponents.

Also, if your motivation if pure civil rights, you wont attempt to trample civil rights of opponents of your client in the process. As in, you will defend your client as vigorously as possible, while keeping defense squicky clean. And you wont try to smear their victims etc. And you will defend all kinds of clients, not just nazi, but also their victims once in a while.
it looks that way because it's a relative chart - exaggerates the uptick in hospitalizations of unvaccinated non-elderly people

If you toggle the 'relative' button you'll see the actual numbers - basically, hospitalization count for vaccinated elders is is decreasing, and the hospitalization of unvaccinated non-elders is slightly increasing.
However, with each new thing resources needed to implement and operate go up to the point when it is not feasible - money, people, time ...
Would love some insight on what ended McCarthyism in the US. Right now in India we are in the thick of a modernized an potent version of it
> Unless you're talking about what they do instead of what they say they're going to do.

Yes. That’s my point about culture.

There’s a reason racism and sexism still dominate despite a constitution that has said “all men are created equal” for nearly 250 years and then clarifying amendments 150 and 100 years ago. It’s the culture. Both problems could have been vanquished long ago if they were truly priorities in people’s hearts. But there are not. American culture, both liberal and conservative subcultures, always put self-interest ahead of common good when the chips are down.

Your link speaks of liberal vs conservative. Talk to any true leftist: Liberal != Left. See “neoliberalism”. See the nomination of Biden by the Dems. See Diane Feinstein continuing to be California’s senior senator. Etc. See the amount of wealth inequality just within the liberal subset of the population. New York has the most segregated school system of any big city despite being liberal, and then look at the backlash by liberals over attempts to desegregate both in NYC and SF. I could go and on.
(That is not the whole point of art)
I use Brave[1] on my Android device. It is also a fork from Chromium, and it also comes with ad-blocking/privacy features.

[1] https://brave.com/
Because Chinese people are still poor and you white saviors are good Samaritans doing God's work lifting us?
> so they're not the only ones who want to maintain it

Being completely unaffiliated with Facebook, I think this still counts as 'greater good' for many.
I'm searching around seeing if I can somehow replace the awful t440s touchpad. It's just so awful. I'm glad I rarely use it (emacs + tiling wm) but I'd love to use touchpoint more easily.

I would have killed if this was the Haswell x1, then I wouldn't have had to buy this t440s last year.
`ruby -pae` in Python. It could be nice if we doesn't have awk, sed and bc already.
that's the software not the machine. Can pc run photoshop?
No, the licensed it to AMD. Motherboard makers that make boards that accept AMD CPUs due so with a chipset that AMD provides (Nvidia used to provide them too, but no longer does). It might in theory be possible for mother board makers to hack things so that you can run NVidia graphics cards in SLI when using an AMD chipset but I've never heard of that happening. All of the relevant liscensing was between AMD and NVidia. There might be some certification process that motherboard manufacturers need to go through before they can claim that their boards support SLI, but the technology license was definitely to AMD.
lttng currently runs on: x86-32, x86-64, SPARC, SPARC64, ppc, ppc64, sh, sh64, ia64, s390, MIPS 32/64, ARM
Amazon Marketplace sellers would be upset, and EBS/S3 users who didn't back up data outside the cloud would have some work ahead of them. Aside from that, it wouldn't be doomsday for very many people. Amazon's not really an exclusive provider of anything they do. Consumers will buy from another store, AWS users will spin up VPS instances somewhere else, CDN users can go back to Akamai, Payments users will swap the button for PayPal or Google Checkout instead, etc.
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/ctoBases.asp?oi=E9CED&B...

You can configure HP's Z800 workstations with two 6-core Xeons, including some higher-spec CPU models than the ones Apple has available, and up to 192GB of RAM, 6 HD bays, way more graphics options, etc., for a system costing up to several tens of thousands of dollars.

I did one HP Z800 configuration similar to the Mac Pro 12-core, with the same CPU and RAM and slightly better graphics, and it came out over $1000 more expensive than the Mac Pro.
>Every 4 years, we get an extra day at the end of February, unless the year is divisible by 400 (there was no leap day in the year 2000).

The article has it backwards. Years divisible by 400 get leap days, others divisible by 100 do not.
I still doubt that there's a backdoor in the NIST curves because they're still widely used and recommended for top secret information, among other reasons.

If there were a backdoor and it leaked (or the math behind it was independently rediscovered!) the result could be catastrophic. Snowden showed that the NSA is absolutely vulnerable to leaks.
Younger opinions are easier to influence. Older opinions are pretty ingrained which makes them annoying to deal with when they come up.
If you're interested, here's a good article behind rationale and personality of Nassim Taleb's strategy. http://gladwell.com/blowing-up/

Everything in options trading is probability-based. So you can either buy a $1 lottery ticket that wins $1000 for 0.01% time, or sell a $1 lottery ticket to one counterparty that may only be redeemed for $1000 for 0.01% of time.

So for the lottery buyer, you know you're going to lose most of the time; so you size your bets accordingly to your expected value (formally known as Kelly's Criterion) to ensure that you still have enough stake while you're losing most of the time to keep betting and win in the long run when your loss rate regresses to the mean probability.

Likewise, the lottery seller's P&L profile is like an insurance disaster company. On most days, you steadily collect the insurance premium from your policyholders. But you have to size your "risk pool" and watch it carefully to ensure that you are well-capitalized to be able to pay out insurance claims when disasters hit. And if your expected value, again with Kelly's is no longer viable, you'll have to either sell your insurance policies to another trader or buy a hedge to re-insure yourself (formally known as keeping delta, gamma or vega neutral depending on the risk type in the options market).

Nassim Taleb's strategy involves mostly buying option straddles on indices and also large-cap blue chips. With options, based on expiration date and the current market's implied volatility, he can pick and choose accordingly the daily "loss rate" he is willing to take and also more importantly, what he thinks the market's "real volatility" level should be over the current "implied volatility" expressed in the options pricing.

So by sizing his bets properly, choosing an option series that limits his daily decay and expresses his opinion about volatility, he is able to make money over the long run (e.g., 2008 when the market mispriced volatility and VIX shot up to 200 and SPY went down a lot; his straddle gained in both implied and realized volatility).
If we permit police to develop a taste for abusing meth nazis, they might turn it into a hobby and start abusing people like you and me too.

There can't be any exceptions when it comes to holding law enforcement accountable.
Pretty sure the employees had something to do with it
My experience is different. Upvotes/downvotes are not public on HN and yet I obsess about them. I've hidden them because of that. It's not about comparing since I can't see anyone else's. I don't want to see the numbers, as it makes me think about the numbers. I rather want to see replies.
> Your wife drives an Audi that can't do better than 0-60 in 6.5 seconds?

Not too surprising. According to [1], the A3 and A4 mostly have 0-60 times worse than 6.5s. You've got to get up to the recent A6's to beat that.

[1]: https://www.zeroto60times.com/vehicle-make/audi-0-60-mph-tim...
That's the thing people miss. A lot of people that buy Teslas don't really care about CO2 emissions that much. Really it's just a bonus. That's kind of the point of Teslas, make a car so fun and cool that you buy it "despite" being electric. I bought mine because of the performance and technology. Only after having it do you realize how nice it is to recharge at home, etc.
> Why does an entirely new syntax have to be invented from the ground up to solve this problem?

I don’t know. I’m not on the core Rust team.

Whether it’s theoretically possible to write static analyzers that implement Rust-like guarantees in C-like languages seems a bit irrelevant to me, since in the real world, none actually exist. Rust does.

I will happily continue using Rust, and happily reevaluate that choice if these next-generation static analyzers ever materialize.

(Also: Personally, to me, understanding rust syntax is actually much easier than trying to remember what && means in various contexts, the difference between std::move and std::forward, the difference between decltype(foo) and decltype((foo)), and various other C++ gotchas. But YMMV.)
Let's hope these trucks are more reliable than the Teslas that are in use as electric taxis at Amsterdam Airport:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
hah, that is awesome
The brain is our most expensive organ, requiring massive calories and qualities protein/fat sources. In addition, it takes decade(s) to fully mature. In nature, that is a ridiculous reproduction disadvantage.

The only way that can evolve is through tools and social cohesion. For a small mammal to evolve to tackle on bigger game and thus more efficient protein sources, it either needs these things or adapt its body. Unfortunately, adapting your body is expensive as well. The only positive feedback loop is through tools and social behavior.

Wolves are intelligent animals as well. Probably as smart as toddlers. They are very social creatures that take on much bigger game. But they don't have hands.

From using tools, primates were able to streamline their body mass and reduce apparatus needed to digest vegetation. Thus, from the point of view of efficiency, I think the human body is very optimized for an intelligent brain.

It's not the only way it can happen, but it's very probable (at least to evolve from existing animals).
I'm actually a little worried about cross-pollination after I listened to BSD Now episode 52[1]. The interview with Shawn Webb scarred me quite a bit with the answer to the question at 24:08 in the video[2]. The not knowing the OpenBSD model and the whole taint code comment is not an acceptable answer when looking at another BSD licensed project. It is also a really poor idea.

1) http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_08_27-reverse_takeover

2) This is the one time I really, really wish there was an interviewer not from the FreeBSD / PC-BSD project. I really wanted a follow-up question to this one.
The 2am flight reminds me in Riverside that it's time to head to bed!
> I would expect things to stabilize at a technology level of maybe the late 19th/early 20th century and start back up

This is the part you should be concerned about even if a nuclear winter doesn't or can't occur. Ask yourself how many people were alive at the end of the 19th century / early 20th and then compare that to today. Remember that it wasn't for lack of trying and that this was pre-birthcontrol. Then imagine what would happen if you saddled that technology level with 2x, 3x, or 4x the number of mouths to feed.

After a nuclear war the biggest killer would likely be famine. We never think about it since we have escaped it's clutches for so long but it is one of the biggest killers in human history. A nuclear war would destroy our current global supply chain and likely much of the national supply chain as well. Billions of people around the world would starve.
The science says, 2-3x is pretty much a done deal. There are a lot of challenges to productize and that will take time but there are so many independent companies and research groups coming up with different ways to dot this that I feel confident saying at least one of them is probably onto something. I think the real deal is another doubling in energy density to somewhere between 5x and 10x. E.g. solid state batteries might enable that eventually. It's probably a bit further out. 10-20 years at least. But more than probable.

The impact of this for EVs would not necessarily be cars with bigger ranges but much lighter/cheaper cars with similar ranges as current high end models with faster charging times that only need a third of the battery weight. Anything beyond a few hundred miles of range is basically irrational and overkill. Normal people have a bladder range of about 200-300 miles at best (I get uncomfortable way before that) and ought to stop for longer than five minutes when they relief themselves eventually. Perfect opportunity to top up a battery. But most people don't actually drive that far more than a few times a year; if at all.
Well, I translated what you said into Chinese in my mind and get what those Chinese really said. In Chinese, we often use 70% and 30% as a way to indicate both sides exist but the 70% part comes with more weight. It's not to say that is exactly 70%. Their original words are probably like this: 毛主席七分功，三分过。 Just to make this expression more clearer.
I see TailwindUI is only about $170, so I went ahead and purchased it. It's of course CSS only, with templates for dashboards and things.
Yeah but like, what if you find out that you can't distribute the remaining coins in a compliant way? Wouldn't that be something that should have been determined before all the work to integrate with Signal was done? It just feels like if that were a true priority, it wouldn't be in the "implement first, figure the rest out later" category. Even if it's a complicated question.
>What on earth could deprive you of all options?

Time, Money?

You're idea here about what options are available to people is strange to me. You know people's options to do things in life are limited by a variety of factors right?
I'm not a heavy user of social networks so I don't know if this exists somewhere but why can't I have a customized view where posters I like are weighted more than others. Then I can do this:

- The poster's weighting would show up as a color (good,better,best)

- The product of the poster's weight and the popularity of the comment determines the order on the page

Now I can look at the top of the page where very popular comments show up and then scroll toward the bottom and quickly identify any posters I really like

I realize this wouldn't be too hard to do by scraping the comment page and maintaining my own database of favorite commenters.
They do. Run the betas, you can change the folder's location and run "selective sync" - just set it to C: and turn everything off that you don't want to save.
It's pretty hard to quantify quality of comments, and I've seen at least one other comment in this thread saying the quality of comments has gone up (personally, I'm undecided).

I wonder how much one's perception of the change in comment quality is colored by their initial opinion about hidden comment scores.
Post it on https://flippa.com/ with specific site details, analytics stats, and actual revenue figures (monthly). The more detail the better. Flippa is a marketplace for people to buy and sell websites, including ones that produce revenues, etc...