jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Student cheating is a systemic part of the culture and there is nothing that can be done about it.

I mark logic papers. There might be a question where you have to provide a model that makes the logical formula come out as true or false - the sort of question which has an infinity of possible answers.

They never follow the particular method I suggest for working through these which would lead them to the simplest answer in each case (usually a model with only one object in the domain). Yet, somehow, one paper after another, they all come up with the exact same model, with the same number of objects in the domain, the same extensions... everything.

So they all just copy from one another. One student complained to me this year that a large group of them were copying answers from one another right in front of the office where they have to submit papers. Largely the university can't do much more than turn a blind eye - for without absolutely concrete evidence the students can (and often do) sue, and win.
And I actually wrote a machine code which I entered bit by bit with the switches over the front panel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_panel
In a way he is blaming the paper (social media) for what people write on it.

Social media merely enable our worst to come out. But it doesn't cause it.

The solution is not censorship. But to somehow make it so that people see through the bullshit. but how!?
I'm not exactly sure what to say. From my point of view I've made a large number of arguments and points that haven't been addressed - and many that haven't been acknowledged at all...
> Did you read the article?

Please don't do this here. The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945107 and marked it off-topic.
And another big one: the low statistical power of much psychological research, meaning that even if an effect is present, the original study or its attempted replication might not find it due to inadequate sample size.
I got a SNES for my birthday last year from my wife. It is awesome!

More seriously I have a PS2 and a printout of the top 25 games for the PS2. Whenever I think of a new game system I can just look at that list, buy any one of those games for extremely cheap and have a ton of fun. (The good SNES games on ebay are a more expensive, but still $10-$20, Chrono Trigger was a bit more...)
> The brightest line is probably that a bulk freighter floats.

Some wheelbarrows will float just because they weigh little enough compared to how much water their bucket displaces. Also, I don't think it stops being a wheelbarrow if you strap a couple of empty barrels to the side (I've done that, when hauling junk across a river).

To head off the obvious rebuttal, you could totally attach wheels (or maybe caterpillar treads) to the bottom of bulk freighter, even if nobody has (probably) bothered to build such thing yet.
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As someone who has worked with Windows or Supervised people who worked with Windows for most of the last decade I can confirm this type of behavior.

What I've noticed about Windows is that certain bugs just seem to linger. I can list about 30 bugs that have been around since Windows 2000 and which are still in Windows 7 today.

So clearly what Microsoft is doing much of the time is just layering on more and more features without doing much to the base functions of the Operating System. That's why these basic bugs persist because no one's touched that code in years (at least that's my theory).

And that's also why you get such bottlenecks.

Linux is less prone to feature-itis because the companies doing the real work on it aren't interested in meaningless features as much as they're interested in stability and performance. So you get a situation where the Windows code is constantly getting more verbose while the Linux code is constantly becoming more optimized.
In my case, I don't even remember giving them permission to use my contacts, yet I got accepted because one of my contacts sent me an invite.

I might have given them permission without realizing it, but what could've also happened is that they saw my phone number in someone else's contact list, and assumed we were contacts.
It's not so clear ternary would actually be an improvement: at least in terms of how we can implement circuits today, ternary's radix efficiency is offset by the inefficiency of implementing ternary logic. It might work if you have a new way of constructing logic circuits where this efficiency difference doesn't appear.

(see https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06841)
In iOS and Android, incoming call blocks are in a separate database and explicitly not the contacts database.
Unfortunately git is the easy one, but you're right about the accessibility. I headed a transition from svn to git once, and even though I think git is conceptually simpler overall, it quickly became apparent who paid attention to the graph theory portions of Discrete Math and who didn't.
And to think of $4000 in 1991 dollars...
Every generation gets the million dollar homepage it deserves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Managing a team is just like managing threads. Keep them as autonomous and lock-free as possible
both kubernetes operators have some ok user management built in
Such an interesting context. Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate the nostalgia poetics of this today.
Depends on the original size of the font. Tends to increase that size by roughly 133%.
Please be careful with every study you read or be talked about in the news: there's over one thousand studies on Covid19 so far, with a big discrepancy in results. Cherry-picking the one we want to hear is pretty dangerous if it gives us a false sense of security.

For the record, on the Diamond Princess (with everybody tested) the number of asymptomatic case was 60% with more than 1% death rate with Japanese healthcare (not overloaded). You can't generalize on these figures either for many reasons but thats's still a strong warning.
Your blog is easily one of my favourites! Pity about the US-only thing, but thanks for clarifying.
There is a similar project called OpenWorm, that aims to simulate a nematode completely. It's pretty cool, you should check it out

http://www.openworm.org/
Ah, yes, the instability of fake fixes to compiler bugs. I recall a friend of mine once had a bit of C code that would compile and run correctly only if debugging was enabled. His fix, to get it to run with full optimizations without segfauting was what he referred to as "the God code": int god = 1; To this day no one knows why that did anything at all, but at some point the compiler bug was fixed without anyone filing this bug that we know of.
A lot of people is talking about Laravel. I'm new on web development, and I thought that Symfony 2 was more popular. Any specific reason for prefering Laravel to Symfony ?
Really, front end JS frameworks don't make sense for an app like this (I would only use a JS framework if there was a significant amount of rich client interaction; in your case there is not, you're justing searching from a form).

Rails or Django would be easiest, IMO, and they have a ton of libraries to make the search easy. You should absolutely not have to write any algorithms or anything... whatever you choose would probably just look like ExampleSearchLibrary.new(magazine_records).search(string_from_form) and that's it. I think the hardest part is getting all the magazine data in a DB, and designing the model layer in a way that makes sense. I'm assuming it's already digital, so it would be a matter of writing scripts to scrape & save.
Go to google news and search for the headline.
This is great bucket list material, I have to make sure to get myself a ride before the last one closes. My father told me about them, and I was absolutely terrified of the idea.
Depends what your goals are. if you want to learn a lot; you could write it in PHP/MySQL; if you just wanna get it done, you could do it in Rails (or some other framework).

The thing is, there are really lots of ways something like that could be achieved.

I use Ruby/Rails for philosophical reasons; I really love the language and framwork. I could do php - i just don't like php. Been there, done that. Others prefer JS for everything, or maybe ASP. None are "wrong". but there are differences and tradeoffs to each path; its not arbitrary by any measure.

If you want some fancy search, I do favor elasticsearch quite a bit. Everything else I've used doesn't compare. (but again, largely preference (because its better))
Agreed. It also doesn't work for HTTPS, for obvious reasons. But, so many sites use HTTPS by default that the savings might not actually be that great.

I think I will use this though when I am tethering from my iPhone on my laptop as I can really slam my data usage from simple browsing.
> Whenever I ask these questions, this is always the response I get. It's really frustrating because it's really a non-answer that isn't at all helpful.

Do you think it might be possible that you keep getting this answer because you are asking why no one respects your opinion that you don’t need to respect other opinions? You’re kinda coming from a hypocritical ground on the root argument here.
You can delete data from the image if you want. We used to do it: scrub all doc strings, inlining data, etc. It's trivial.

In 2022, removing a few megabytes of data doesn't seem worth the maintenance cost of the feature. In other words, for most users, it's a non-problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...

There's nothing I can say --- nothing, really, anyone can say about anything about Wikipeda --- that the project hasn't discussed and decided in painstaking detail already.

It's difficult to argue with success at this scale; it's, like, world-historically successful.

It's important to remember that the true resource Wikipedia provides isn't hosting, or storage, or anything technical like that. Those things are cheap and easy to source anywhere. The core engine of Wikipedia is volunteer time. Anything you ask Wikipedia to do outside of the remit the project has chosen for itself comes at some cost of additional volunteer time to maintain and support it.

It's usually more sensible just to start some other site. The whole corpus of Wikipedia content is available for free to you.
> "before you heard of it"

Not quite true for MTG. It was insanely popular in the mid-to-late '90s, and you could still pick up a black lotus for $250. Dual lands, which are now $100+ each, could be had for $5 each.

For MTG, the problem was more "is this gonna keep increasing in value". In hindsight the answer is yes.
Fancy ricecooker with a keep warm function. It's really convenient to be able to prepare a ton at once and then having it available at the drop of a hat for the next 2 days. It has even led to a decent reduction in my fast food consumption.
For anyone wondering exactly what it is and contains, the linked press release seems specific:

> The nuclear density gauge is a Troxler Model 3440, serial number 31109. The gauge is yellow in color and about the size of a shoe box, with an electronic keypad and a metal rod extending from the top surface. The Troxler gauge contains approximately 8 millicuries of Cesium-137 and 40 millicuries of Americium-241. The radioactive material is in a double encapsulated source capsule within the device to protect its integrity.

I'm still a little curious how these work, it sounds like it can measure density somehow. Wouldn't it need a detector on the other side of the material or something?

> High levels of radiation exposure over a short period of time can cause nausea and vomiting.

I wonder why they cut off their list of effects there.
Why should it not be? I want everything to be on wikipedia. I don't care about mainstream news. If a thing exists, there needs to be a wikipedia article about it.
Talking technical stuff to non technical is an enormous pain.

The levels of dumbing down is near endless.

Not everyone has to be able to explain their product to the masses, let someone else have that job.
Today advertising looks something like this:

- You go to a shop and ask for information about what kind of tires they have

- A spotter sees you and phones the ad company that you were seen at such and such store asking for tires

- The ad company already knows where you do usually walk and what time

- They send agents with tires on billboards who follow you on the way to work and back and whenever you look they try to shove a banner in front of your eyes, sometimes even slowing you down as you try to walk past them

I am pretty sure if they did exactly the same as they do online, but offline, that would be illegal (stalking for starters)
Mostly I'd agree. It could also fall under #5, as a trade-off between developer time and user time. And sometimes #1, if speed is an essential requirement.
It's too slow (1 second on an nvme machine). Command argument completion doesn't work either.
>Somehow Keynesianism—and monetarism—limped into the 1970s, saying you can manage domestic demand and supply, and therefore growth and employment, by adjusting taxes and spending and the money stock in a country, even though Mundell’s field-defining articles of the previous two decades had shown that capital movements will overwhelm all efforts at domestic authorities to fine-tune their way to a desired result.

It's weird the way this article determinedly avoids considering the notion that a hypothetical country (let's our hypothetical country "China") could impose capital controls to avoid being overwhelmed by inflows and outflows of capital and manage effective domestic growth by adjusting taxes and spending.

This disproves Keynesianism, apparently.

It's like saying that it is impossible to build anything next to the sea because it will be destroyed by waves.
I've taken up jogging. Their are some trails nearby, and a highschool running track.
If the agile solution to the standup is to remove the stand-up, and this solution is repeated across many times, then the standup is a waste of time.

No need to feel that "agile" is threatened.
Oh, no, you mistake me. I make enough money now that when I see the lottery get to half a billion dollars, I can afford without worry, a ticket that’s now an investment.
> They've also had plenty of spare energy to participate in trying to cancel rms in recent weeks.

How hard is writing a letter? I won't restart this argument again, but surely you have to be being deliberately obtuse if you can't at very least appreciate why people want rms gone?
Zoom is usually acceptable with a single presenter and everyone else muted. The problem is that a true conversation requires several speakers unmuted and sometimes exchanging turns very quickly, with overlap.
Your observation about diminishing returns is an excellent one, but your comparison about space exploration and movie making doesn't make much sense.

The reason these people don't argue that we shouldn't stop making movies until we end world hunger is that (well, most of the time), the making of movies is not funded by the government, but by the private market.

It's a one thing to to argue that we shouldn't do Y at all as a species until we accomplish X ("we shouldn't make movies when people are starving"). It's very different to argue that maybe the government should completely prioritize X over Y for the purposes of allocating tax money ("let's not spend money on space until we can feed everyone").
I've been using Socket.IO on Android for 6+ months now to do real-time communication with our backend, and it works well for our needs. I was happy to see a well-written Android client come along with Socket.IO v1.0. The namespacing functionality makes it super easy to send different messages to different groups of clients.
Shot in the dark here, but perhaps it's the fact that consumer demand is (and has been) so high. Unsure how many orders they have backlogged at this point, but they took money for each of those orders. For all we know, they could have 30m$ in back orders making that valuation pretty reasonable
they bank on you not paying the full balance every month so the interest alone will more than pay for your cash back.
I wrote about the problem with sequential testing in online experiment three years ago on the Custora blog [1]. And Evan Miller wrote about it two years before me on his blog [2]. I'm glad to see Optimizely finally getting on board. Communicating statistical significance to marketers is always challenging, and I'm sure this will lead to better decisions being made.

[1] http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-te...

[2] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
How does this compare to minit or runit ?
One of the most compelling things to me is the astronauts testimonies. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, and Gordon Cooper all have reported either first hand experience or second hand knowledge.

Also presidents of the USA. Reagan and Carter both have UFO stories they have talked about openly.
Well, to be honest, orbits are more like corridors so the risk of collision increases a bit. But still, if they're at least a little bit careful about avoiding generation of space junk, there shouldn't be a problem.
The point of making a blog dynamic is so a non-technical user can easily manage the content via a dashboard. I'm a big fan of static site generators (which is what I presume you're inferring people should use for blogs instead of wordpress et al), but it is silly to think that uploading markdown files to a server is a reasonable workflow for most non-programmers.

As for loading content with javascript -- I totally agree, this bugs the shit out of me. Also, I browse with cookies disabled by default and it is always frustrating when a site that is only serving content doesn't load properly without cookies. wtf?!
I'm not sure what your point is with a hypothetical situation. Why wouldn't the be able to query their data? All I'm saying is from my actual experience with real users, it's best to build a Hadoop cluster with high quality hardware if you can.
The actual init command is only about 3000 lines, the rest is for auxiliary programs that you probably wouldn't need for Docker. And 10k lines is still tiny compared to Python :)
> Angst has creative perks.

I've experienced this myself, although not out of depression or sadness, but fear and anxiety. For instance, writing an entire paper for class the night before it's due, and somehow pulling off a good grade. I've always just told myself that I'm not creative until I have to be.
Eclipse and other IDE's have support for plugins.

And there are platforms/tools which can be used with Eclipse/IDE's which can do the building for you outside of the IDE.
Which makes sense.

But when other companies do it, they tell you that it’s not forever. I suspect other companies want you to still be a customer in 5 years.
The problem with FMRI is fishing for correlations in an ocean of variables without adjusting the calculations. Structural MRI finding physical differences where older evidence predicted is very different.

Organisms are analog. Why would you expect marginally symptomatic brains to be clearly distinct?
The rationalist should still be able to provide unbiased probabilities. How you act on the given probabilities can be informed by the relative costliness of false positives vs. false negatives.
>As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn

I don't know to whom this actually refers. I don't remember anything about enabling money laundering in Satoshi's white paper.
Fanless
> You can call them strawmen if you'd like but simplification for the sake of presenting a point

If you simplify away the parts that make the argument invalid, that's literally the definition of a strawman argument.
I was thinking of that scene in Modern Times where Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Tramp’ gets hired as a security guard.
My guess is: Bootstrappers are not the target audience, VC funded startups are.

So, yes it's unfair to bootstrappers, but that's life.

How a challenge gets crafted has a significant impact on it's outcome, and Amazon and the backers of the challenge probably have goals to identify companies that don't quite match your profile.

It would be awesome if they had a prize tailored towards companies like yours, but I don't think they are under any obligation to do so, and if it doesn't directly or indirectly meet their business goals, I wouldn't advise them to.
I actually had no idea that Adobe has been working with so much HTML5-related technology, but Flash still really has to go for 99 percent of the web.
Besides the CVV they are capturing everything you need. Most gateways will allow you to process without requiring the CVV (I know authorize.net will at least). If you start having a high rate of fraud they might force you start collecting it, but it is not a requirement out right I don't believe.
It also helps not arguing it's bad because some groups are in favour of it (though you're not the one who raised this)

I'm against paying for a license to watch TV, that's my stance, for the simple reason you can have a TV for more reasons than just watching broadcast TV.
I think fast food chains are generally not actually owned by the same parent company. A company in India is licensing the Burger King branding and presumably some of the recipes from Burger King USA, rather than being a subsidiary thereof.
> Of course, it’s recommended to let your internal combustion engine run a bit to warm up before highly stressing it to prevent damage.

I don't have a reference handy, but I read a decade or so ago that the best way to warm up and engine is actually just to drive in a reasonable fashion.
>> Interesting that you say it is all about confidence and self love but yet you felt the need to shave it off. If it is so relative why didn't you leave it as it is instead of trying to hide the problem with a complete shave?

Hmm that's a good counter argument! I would say you've misunderstood though.

Shaving a head is like getting fitted clothes - it matches the body I have and makes it look as good as possible. I'm not rejecting societal standards en masse or trying to hide something. I reject the idea that having a high view of your own value means you spend less time on grooming. I spend time getting nice clothes, nice colognes, nice hairstyles - generally looking the best I can - because I think it reflects the value I place on myself.
Obviously high supply of animators is the main reason, but I wonder if part of it is that pirating/illegal streaming sites are extremely common for anime. All of the people I know that watch anime do so without paying for it. It's trivially easy to find anime for free online, so much so that it's easier to find it for free than pay for it.