jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One logical fallacy I don't like is the Sunk Cost fallacy. It says that because I already read half a book, I should read the rest too, even though I don't want to, b/c that will somehow make reading the first have less of a waste. It's like throwing good money after bad.

Another example is when you write a draft comment, that is a sunk cost. When you recognize that comment is off topic and shouldn't be posted, you cannot recoup your sunk cost by posting it anyway. That just makes things worse.
Mobile apps -- huge audience and very limited scope of the apps. Take the next best idea, get a designer for a few hours for design and images, spend a week or two on development and put it into the Appstore. It's a lot of fun too! I further recommend releasing for both iPhone and Android -- once you have the idea, the algorithms and the design, it takes very little extra effort to reach the other platform.

For one of the first steps: register a domain, setup email and a wordpress with a nice theme, start blogging and have all your future apps be part of your 'business'. You can flexibly expand from there.
someone should build an app which simplifies payment. Create an account, choose the payment option you like and here is the code you have to include in your app, byebye.
It's probably not the autofocus that's the issue, but rather the blur caused by the motion induced by pressing the button.
I agree they acted nobly but mistakes like this make you look like an amateur company. Such sites need to do their research!
The parsing time is probably negligible. I would guess that parsing HTML5 would be a few if not dozens of megabytes per second on modern hardware.
At this point I just want my equipment to 'work'. In order for me to have mental capacity to spend elsewhere and debugging my equipment.
Perhaps it is blissfully ignorant of us to think of ourselves as free on this rock. Does the monkey have a better life now than before? I don't know. The monkey will not mate and likely does not have peers. I wouldn't be surprised if those things are required for happiness. Social and sexual needs are programmed in us.

I think it's a pretty tough topic in ethics but when I was younger, I didn't think much about it because we were doing science. I remember seeing my first rat die. I didn't feel bad at the time because we did it "humanely" with gas (and it's normalized and I was only 20) and they just sort of drifted off and defecated. It's an interesting and perhaps sad use of a life.
Ah yes, but if you suggest that someone do this when using Linux, you get shit on.
apropos apropos

if you forget that

apropos apropos apropos

Recursion solves every problem;-)

More seriously: You can alias it to something you can remember, for example:

alias help=apropos
> This similarity has already led to some women turning away from Coq and others getting harassed when they said they were working on Coq.

Full quote which you managed to misrepresent by "helpfully" cutting text out.

So, women were turned away, and others were harassed.

So I guess that's exactly what's wrong with people: they will frequently misunderstand things and then spread those misunderstandings.
And yet, I expect flags to be sorted in a man page; I rarely read things in a logical order, I'm just looking into what flag does what.

It's a convention-over-configuration thing I think. I mean they set a standard, so you can move on. The alternative is to sit and think and discuss about what order to put your documentation in.
I don't think testing with a non-US region settings and a non-English language is a huge burden. As a regular user of “internationalised” software, it's really obvious when the people who wrote it do not speak more than one language, or only considered a single-country perspective.

Monolinguals, especially those living in the United States, are a minority globally. If you're going to develop all software in the United States, please at least make it work for the rest of us.
Stub your toe a few times until enlightenment forces its way into your field of view.

Seriously though, if you want learn a different way of building applications where loads of these things pop up, look into Actor Model. Even if you are not going to use Actor Model, reading up about it will teach you a lot about "realtime" applications... My main epiphany was that realtime applications do not exist. Rather they cannot exist. Because our reality is not realtime (or our perception of it is always delayed because our brains/awareness is slow) - we can never truly capture the present moment. Data we see is always in the past. Reality is eventually consistent (from our perspective). All things in our reality runs concurrently, stateless and in their own little time bubble. You can also read up on the concepts behind Event Sourcing.

Anyway, it is a huge rabbit hole, but reading up on the ideas behind Actor Model might just blow your mind. I'm convinced it will make a comeback because it is the natural way our reality works and Actor Model mimics it the closest, and it will also work better for multi-core cpu's. For non-tech reading, try The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Then try to reflect on (relational databases) + (actor model) + (event sourcing) + (power of now) + (brain in a vat philosophy) + (try to to figure out at what speed the universe "renders", how fast our brains can think, how much delay there is, what limits do our body's sensors limits impose) + (try to figure out how closely Object Oriented programming can mimic reality (hint: all programming are tiny simulations that try to mimic some tiny part of our reality)) + (read up on the history of time keeping and the huge rabbit hole of calendars, and how most programming languages attempts to handle time (badly for the most part, it's a legit rabbit hole on it's own)).

After a year or two of hard reading, reflection and teachings (and wrecking your head), you may have good insight into the nature of programming and the fallacies of trying to build realtime systems, or trying to mimic our reality in a computer in general. It is insanely complex, we as programmers merely touch a grain of sand of the beach of complexity. We have no idea how simple our most convoluted systems are in the face of nature, yet we convince ourselves that we KNOW how things work and that we are in control at all times.

Good luck!
It’s an ASCII approximation of the proper typography for single quotes (except when you’d use inverted quotes for some reason, not sure how common it is in English).

Similarly, LaTeX uses `` and ‘’ for double quotes because the opening and closing symbols are not the same in properly typeset texts.
There's actually quite a market already for controller boards to allow people to use Tesla drive units (inverter/motor/differential setup) in non-Tesla vehicles. Not sure if such an approach would work if there are significant electrical differences between driving a motor and driving a utility backup power generator, but it's at least possible that it could work. Though on the other hand, for now Tesla drive units are in demand for vehicle conversions, so it would be kind of a waste to take the inverter out and to discard the motor and gearbox (which aren't useful without the inverter).

You're probably right that just engineering a specific solution or ordering them from a supplier that makes such things is probably less hassle and possibly cheaper in the long run.

I'm currently doing an EV conversion. I'm amazed that you can buy a box that's about ten or fifteen pounds or so for a couple thousand dollars that can handle about 90 kilowatts of power (in short bursts), converting around 100-200 volts to AC power to drive a motor. That's probably enough to power a whole residential block by itself, and yet it's not even a very powerful controller compared to what you find in a high-end OEM EV. I'd expect anyone building a large scale grid backup battery storage system to have access to inverter parts at least that good and at least that cheap, and if they don't they could afford to design it themselves.
Until you find yourself escorted to an ATM at gunpoint.
No! Just NO!

For the love of God and everything holy, it does not equal -1/12, it is just a value we use in place of its divergent value.
> But liberals' political views aren't relevant here.

How does one justify a sweeping generalization about some group of people while totally ignoring diversity within that group? "I don't care what they truly believe, but methinks they believe that three of my six (not five) moral foundations are unimportant." doesn't sound particularly convincing.

> I'm not saying his approach is right, just that his ultimate goal is not political diversity as such.

That's exactly what I was trying to point out in the GGGP comment. This is little more than a conservative political agenda wrapped in the language of diversity. Yes, some people emphasize some of the "foundations" more than others. But unless Haidt can convince us that we ought to take all of them seriously, his views are utterly uninteresting in the context of ethics.

When religious people demand that creationism be taught at school "for balance", most HNers can easily see through their thinly veiled political agenda. But when a conservative and/or libertarian guy makes an argument that has an identical logical structure, anyone who dares to disagree gets downvoted into oblivion. Funny, but I guess that's exactly how political biases work IRL.
Are you kidding me? I've had only a handful of bad service experiences in Europe compared to the numerous great ones.

The Europeans tend not to keep coming back to your table to ask how you're doing, or if something is wrong. If there is something wrong with the meal they'll come because they're watching/paying attention.
I think parent swapped F/C. -18°C is 0°F
Because you may get murdered if you don't. Better get out of the situation alive
It's not about the living wage, it's about the audacity of paying a bit too much to be chauffeured around the city.
Minecraft is another such game that would be a great subject to discuss.

Some like the creativity part (LEGO style), some the adventure aspect (random procedural generated worlds), some the zombie survival part, some the fantasy (dragons and other monsters), some the electronic/logic stuff (red stone), some the role playing aspects (villages, buying resources), some have lot's of Youtube/Twitch subscribers (Let's Play), etc.
You should look into Debug.Trace for quick printf-like debugging. Usage: trace ("error occurs here") (f x)
Remember this?

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1235802419734269952
It's a hard and frustrating career. I work on an academic lab but the chances of me having an independent research program are very low. However, everyone who wants something from you -- especially your PI -- will string you along in the hope you will stick to your low paying job. I am trying to find a better job in industry but the jobs I see posted tend to be for data science (I am not a strong stats person) or too junior for my experiences.Finding the right fit is very hard when my contact network is limited to clinicians and academics that tend to have anti-industry sentiments.
People keep explaining to me why Alexander wants his identity not to appear in a newspaper. I understand that. I just don't understand why his preferences bind on anyone else.

By way of example, a friend just told me on Twitter that it's super important that patients not be able to look up their therapists on the Internet and learn more about their personal lives. But that's definitely not a norm! I checked with several therapists I know personally.

I feel like people are scrambling to invent Internet rules that allow Alexander to coerce journalists, and I don't find that effort especially persuasive.
Nice. I would also add that, from a hacker's perspective, it is more fun to code in CSS, HTML, JS and UNIX utilities.

Huge companies building giant software stacks that need to be managed by a constantly rotating team of globally distributed developers should go with the big frameworks. Individuals should be doing as you suggest: learning the fundamentals and building things with them to hone their craft. The middle ground is, as always, where it gets difficult to tell the right way to go.
ATLB is such an awesome book.
I can understand caution and concern and it’s healthy to have it.

That said, I’m unable to think of or find obvious examples of them having a track record of using foundations like this for their own agenda at the expense of the community, language or only to further their own ends.
Even with the browser stuff there’s Chrome the product which makes a lot of changes that does hurt the community but then there’s Googles representation on tc39 and in the web standards groups. With that I haven’t found evidence of malpractice or foul play. Please give me some concrete evidence that they have a history of this as I’m not finding it.

Doesn’t mean that as a whole these companies get a pass for
Bad behavior, I think a key to a great argument against something is to be able to scope what it does and doesn’t do, so I hate to say they are doing this for malicious reasons only to be wrong (and again I’m not seeing evidence) and undercutting more legitimate arguments. Fundamentally that’s the arching issue we end up with by just making assumptions without evidence at a minimum
Most states have a judicial conduct board. You can file complaints against them for any misconduct and mistakes they make. If enough people do this, you might be able to cross reference complaints to show that they knowingly violated someone's rights, which fits into official oppression.

I've had a similar experience with a magistrate who was a former cop and retired police chief. He was biased the entire time, violated due process, and made false claims. The complaint is still ongoing. I doubt it will result in much, but it could be useful for future civil cases.
On the other other hand, Vinyl at least has some upsides. Listening to a Vinyl is an experience, plus it's lossless, and physically owning a record is cool/makes good art/conversation pieces. Windows3.11 would be interesting to check out, but it'd be more like something you'd check out for 20 minutes to see how it used to be done, then you'd go back to your modern OS. Vinyl is an experience, most older software is a novelty.
That's rather broad. There are moral issues with sex slavery, for instance, but prostitution as a concept is fairly amoral unless you mistakenly believe the sexuality of others is something you have a right to judge.
This is the first I've ever read about neural cellular automata. I think I was able to pick up the broad strokes from context, but is there a good introductory resource for neural cellular automata?
Per Wikipedia Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala also have constitutional protections of varying strength.
There is literally an explanation on the website:
https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar
I would rather have police playing music and have our lawmakers cleanup the cesspooll that is current copyright law.

There is no reason a poloce department could not actually purchise right to some random tune, and play it publically and ligitimately, and that would still get your videos banned.
The article explains what it is in simple terms and it isn't the first time this article is posted on HN.
... which is a terrible approach, because it validates the cudgel while not actually addressing the dynamic of unaccountable power.
These rules were created specifically because so many people were profiting off the ad revenue of music in videos. There's not a simple way to determine if the audio just happens to be in the background or if the content producer is benefiting from the inclusion of music they don't have rights to.
It's disingenuous to say we, as the public, have no interest in what the police do while discharging their duties. It is a public office, after all.

And I think the activities of the police should be scrutinized heavily because they have an incredible amount of power and are accorded a very wide latitude. The police are the only people who can legally shoot you and not be tried. They can arrest you and throw you in jail. They can charge you with crimes, invade your house, and smear your reputation with the public. A police officer with a vendetta can absolutely ruin your life if not outright take it from you.

So yes, I think it should be okay for people to video the police going about their business.
That's revenue <=> GDP, and roughly earnings <=> tax revenues. I believe those are equivalent comparisons: revenue and GDP both include all internal transactions, while earnings and tax revenue reflect what's available for management/government to spend at their discretion.

If a tech company were buying the country, market cap would be the appropriate metric, and market caps for those tech companies are in the $2T range, more than enough to pay a few times annual GDP.
Replacing a club with a market. Obviously the club insiders will complain.
Orwell famously had a nostalgic and even sentimental view of his days at Eton. This doesn't much fit with the rest of his character and his great capacity not to be sentimental, but he was complicated.

Robyn Hitchcock's view of the school he was sent to (I think Winchester) is stark and miserable and it seems clear that it was a hard experience for him. He tells a story somewhere of not being allowed to leave the school to go to his grandmother's funeral, who was the one person he had really been close to. So he went to some kind of art happening organized by Brian Eno, of all people, and released a balloon with her name on it instead.
I suspect the number of stories that get flagged is about to decline dramatically.
Sure it's about 1/3 the rate I charge, so it is reasonable for me, if they don't agree then we usually never come to a meeting of the minds. As well, I have had clients try to use it against me in negotiating my rates down, but for the few that do they either see the value of my top dollar (to somewhere in the middle) after negotiations or they find another consultant.

The reality is, I am fine with my middle rate, I expect negotiation so my mind is in the middle, if they don't negotiate, then the rest is gravy but when I go into a project, my rate reflects room to negotiate. I don't fear giving out my rock bottom rate as a tool that they can use against me based on the fact that they are receiving pressure for my time from other clientele. Having the ability to walk away from the table is the most powerful tool in ones arsenal when it comes to sitting at the negotiation table.

I believe in fairness, and I believe in making my clients comfortable with the value I provide for their dollar. I love negotiating, because it allows me to show my clients the value they are getting for their money and it allows me to make them feel like they have walked away with a deal. Both are psychologically important factors to creating happy customers.
Right now going to the Adioso homepage results in a 'Search Fail!' message and anything I try to search for results in the same.

Funny that this is on Posterous. Haven't they learned that if you're going to bash your competition like this you'd better be able to actually back it up?
I think John's right to wonder what's next for Obj-C, as much as I like using the whole Obj-C/Cocoa (Touch) environment.

There's just no easy way forward out of the swamps of C-level memory management that doesn't break the world in some way. Even turning on GC (as we have under OS X) isn't a panacea: there are plenty of Core Foundation kinds of calls that don't participate automatically in GC (you have to manually connect each such allocation to GC). And with "unmanaged" pointers at the C/Obj-C/C++ level, you'll always have to step gingerly around GC.

And he's right to think ahead 5-10 years and realize that we're probably not going to be doing manual memory management then.

So what's the way over the chasm? I don't think anyone really knows, even at Apple.

Perhaps (pure speculation) the MacRuby efforts are part of a back-up plan to see if a ("managed" by definition) dynamic language could help bridge the gap without breaking the world. The MacRuby compiler claims performance on a par with Obj-C or better (using LLVM).

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
What if I don’t need hundreds of minutes but want a real data flat rate? That’s not possible with an iPhone.

Wow, yeh. I just checked into this and it seems in the UK, on O2, we get a great deal - basically "free internet" data for a 18 months (then you can get a free upgrade).

Since the costs are the same

Not sure that's true, depending on your needs. The unsubsidized phone + lower monthly cost + phone bill would be much larger for me than the current contract I have.

Agreed, though, it would be nice to be able to pop in a foreign SIM when abroad (I actually have a SIM free bog standard phone for this exact reason)
I've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble...

This price difference is pretty tempting. Does anyone that's made the switch from Slicehost to Linode care to tell us about their experience?
' Every sport match': gross exaggeration'

I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa - and throughout my high school sporting career I've played Soccer, Hockey, Cricket and Water Polo (the occasional game of Rugby too) - and yes, at the High School level every match has it's cheerleaders with vuvuzela's.

The sports where they are not used (in South Africa) are Cricket and Tennis - both of which the crowds are not permitted/expected to use any instruments of any kind (this changes for some provincial cricket games)

'so if you grew up with them, you must be very young.'

I'm 20 - and you're correct on this point. They are a recent addition - but that does nothing to change their prevalence at South African sport events.

As for your cited article, one case of a South African disliking them and arguing againt fails to hold weight against the fans who continue to blow them at every game.

'Incidentally the (black) man who invented the tin vuvuzela...'

I'm aware of this, and yes - it is unfortunate. If anything, this is further evidence of the profound difference in ignorance & education between the 'two worlds' (living in the first world as they call it - i.e. a major city, and living in the rural/township areas)
My concern with regard to the large amount of people moving to Texas is that they'll then advocate the same policies they just fled from.
At least their web page seems to work without Javascript... I hope this technology will too.
HN brain in a nutshell:
big tech == evil
It is not my subjective opinion whether people are arguing over a word. I think you are confusing people who dislike the usage of a word with people (like me) recognizing that the word is contentious for that reason.
The Apple trackpad seems to be really polarising - I often this see on HN: fans surprised anyone would dislike it, and opponents surprised anyone would like it!

Personally, I'm in the latter camp. I have a 13" MBP, and find the buttons need way too much pressure, even with the sensitivity ramped up. There's also something I can't quantify... there's a feeling of it being laggy, and somehow "unpleasant" to drag my finger across. I prefer just about every other trackpad I've ever used, even those in dirt cheap netbooks.
This is why surveillance capitalists tried to rally the Valley against the GDPR: fines based on global income could be effective, which is unacceptable to companies used to treating breaking the law as a minor cost of doing business.
Interesting there's absolutely no mention of its unique utility in the modern era for computing based on its high conductivity. Copper is good enough for most applications but for where quality matters more than cost, it's irreplaceable, no?