jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In a utopian world you would be right...But in the real world, even the good guys might screw you if it ever turns into a situation of You Vs. Them.

Ultimately, if having to choose between feeding my family or feeding yours, the choose is obvious even to nice guys.

Especially when you consider that sometimes being nice to one person is being cruel to another.

The key is to protect yourself...when dealing with bad people you know where you stand, so you have strong motivation to demand contracts, etc...

When dealing with genuinely nice people, whom you would never dream could possibly screw you, thats were you are most vulnerable, because you are less likely to demand the contract and protections you need, and when it comes to them vs. you, they will often choose themselves...

Semi Related - I read a quote from Warren Buffet that really resonated with me, "Honesty is an expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people."
Imagine you need to cross a tightrope to do something amazing and everyone is afraid of heights.

Some forms of criticism are useful but yelling out "Hey, it's 2300 meters to the bottom, be careful!" is not very useful.

People often know the negatives, it's just easier to do the task when you don't look down. Often this requires self delusion. Otherwise "Don't look down, or think of white polar bears" would work for everyone.
This number can be deceiving. We are a 100% mercurial shop, yet all our repos are mirrored on github with hg-git. All this without ever having to deal with git.
"this question isn't quite appropriate for HN or even a site like StackOverFlow."

--I meant the way blocks are made/distributed so that they could be extended. For example above one had blocks like
{% block title %}
{% block headcss %}
{% block headjs %} etc. So I wanted to know any extensive list which people might have come across. Its like asking for best practices which comes by experience for example Daniel Greenfeld book two scoops of django gives many such suggestion. So I feels is relevant for HN atleast
or this guy's lawyer was benign or the system is really screwed up.

I would really like to read the analysis of the judge to justify that one.
We've recently gotten our first paying customer after many free trials. Our goal is to get 100 customers within the next year.
because the quality is most fragile at high frequencies - the place where the most data is needed

Funnily enough, for CELT, it's largely the opposite: high frequencies cost practically nothing to compress because of CELT's algorithm, whereas low frequencies are the main bandwidth-eater.
A nice thing about Google is that its interests have been aligned with the public good: more internet access, more websites, more blogs, more webapps. (Their interests are now diverging a bit, as they try to extract more personal information. Facebook did a nice trick where people actively give them their personal information...)

Not sure if the alignment is as deep for Facebook - more people with internet benefits them, but does more internet content?
Living is a lethal activity.. always ends in death
You gotta be kidding me. Social media will leave nothing behind? How about a communications infrastructure spanning the whole world and connecting people to both friends and other people of interest in real-time, no matter where they are (in the bus, in the street, at home, at their computer), enabling the most rapid spread of information ever seen, and potentially enabling the world to start functioning as a sort of "human computer", with intelligent sensors and intelligent nodes (people) and lightning fast communications between them?

How can you point at that and say that Twitter and Facebook are wasting their time?
the unlock and level up stuff relate to quests/achievements for news, they're not quite ready for usage yet. We're interested in trying to tempt people to discover new articles or sources via incentization, essentially.
yeah that would be pretty cool if they worked w/ fathomdb for mysql as part of the cost.
I was also pretty impressed with the upgrades. Froyo was 44mb, installed in about 5 mins and kept all settings/data.

Contrast that with the iPhone update I did from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 - first a huge 300+ MB download, then erasing the device, then overwriting everything and finally syncing back countless gigs of data. ugh.
That's not how copyright/licensing works. You can distribute content with legal requirements about what people are allowed to do with that content.
This was invented and tested by the British over 150 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach

They stopped using them 50 years ago.
Snow Leopard broke a lot of the extensions built using Input Managers, so 1Password 3.0 used the Scripting Additions method.

http://kevin.sb.org/2009/09/02/1password-extension-loading-i...
I'm not sure how useful comparing this to other existing regex implementations is. As the article states, this algorithm supports only a small subset of the functionality of the other implementations.

What's most interesting to me is the massive speedup offered by the JIT, as well as the beauty and simplicity of the regex implementation. Giving readable pure Python code a 1200x speedup is amazing. It's remarkable that it's so much faster than the similarly naive Java implementation.
I had AT&T in Phoenix AZ, and then in Manasass VA, and when I moved back to Phoenix I gave T-mobile a shot. They had 21-day trial thing so I got a phone and drove all over the place, especially checking places I knew I would likely be, checking reception and such, and overall the quality beat AT&T.

It may be , though, that what works best depends on the particular region. Still happy with their customer support; they helped me in assorted ways and it was quite pleasant.
Hopefully this replaces GDB, and good riddance.
That's not really true. Most satellites will only carry out those maneuvers because anything else is expensive and unnecessary. Plane changes are generally pointless for a civilian satellite because they're launched into the appropriate plane to begin with.

Spy satellites are different because the nature of the mission means you can't really guarantee you'll pick the appropriate plane in advance. If something interesting starts happening somewhere in the world, you may want satellites over it sooner than would occur in their current orbits. Spy satellites can and do maneuver to accomplish this. The amount of maneuvering is pretty limited by basic physics and the size of the satellites, but it is done. Here's a page that discusses one:

http://fas.org/spp/military/program/imint/kh-12.htm

"The primary difference between the 28,000 pound KH-11 and the heavier KH-12 is that the additional amount of maneuvering propellant carried on the IMPROVED CRYSTAL. This additional propellant can be used to prolong the operating life of the IMPROVED CRYSTAL, to maneuver to improve coverage of areas on the Earth of particular interest, and to maneuver to evade Soviet anti-satellite interceptors."

A quick calculation: taking the numbers in the article to mean there's 7 tons of fuel on board and 11 tons of non-fuel stuff, assuming the fuel is hydrazine giving a specific impulse of about 220, that gives the satellite a delta-v of about 1km/s, which is fairly substantial.
they wouldn’t know who to hold accountable either. The point is that nobody would.

In my model the only liability would occur from the normal day to day business operation that you earn the successfully laundered proceeds from. like one of your actual clients sue you because you breached the SLA because you forgot you’re actually running a legitimate business.
That's not super irrational. :) Laravel does seem to be keeping up with their written documentation, although it's also occasionally an example of their "See how great Laravel is? See? See?" style.
Implementation details at the top. Python is a scripting language so modules are actually evaluated from top to bottom. Putting high level logic up top is nice when you just have functions, which defer lookup until they are called, but you quickly run into places (decorators, base classes) where it doesn't work and then you have to switch. Better to use the same convention everywhere. You quickly get used to reading a module from bottom to top.
Thanks!

The thing here is that you don't have to keep updating the app with every new host you create that needs to be monitored. CT allows me to detect newly issued certs in your domain, and start monitoring them without manual work on your behalf. And if you issue a cert with a hostname that doesn't yet have a DNS record, the app won't complain - no host means no live cert that can expire :)

Caveat - I have yet figured out how to apply this automated discovery for orgs that use wildcard certs... Suggestions are welcome :)
They wasted billions buying their stock to keep the share price high. That $$ was better spent on R&D.
This accounting mind set has ruined many companies this way.
Trees are medium-term carbon storage. Forests are long-term carbon storage (the trees that die get replaced by new trees).
Is there any official outlet where this is published ? I didn't find anything. I learned this because of people who knew him.
350k is probably doable but if you wanna make like high six figures/7 figures you need to know about finance. You need to learn ML, fundamental analysis of companies, distributed systems, NLP, data analysis on data sets with extreme bias, holes, messy, etc. Could go the c++ low latency route, idk how well those are paying these days
Why not?

If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.
> Nowhere was the user data decrypted and in particular the cloud provider does not have access to either the orignal image nor is it able to decrypt the prediction it computed.

That's from the post. Is that what you meant by creating a model whose results only the owner of the data can understand?
> but if the claim is indeed true that racists/sexists think the blog is great... that needs to be addressed as to why they are attracted there

I'll try to put this as objectively as I can. There is now a cultural overlap between those that support varying degrees of "censorship" and progressives, and between those that support "free speech" and, let's say, anti-progressives. This makes sense because now racism/sexism is more likely to be censored than extreme progressivism. Probably if it were the other way around (if extreme progressivism were more likely to be censored) then those same progressives would become staunch free-speech advocates and anti-progressives would be fighting for more "content moderation".

So if you are generally for the toleration of ideas, perhaps holding some unpopular opinions yourself, and against censorious tactics, you tend to attract extreme anti-progressives as well. For the most part, racists and sexist do not see themselves as racists and sexists, they see themselves as holding true but unpopular beliefs. Another interesting example of this is Sam Harris somehow having a fair amount of Trump-supporting listeners even though he spends a lot of time ranting about how incompetent and morally-bankrupt he thinks Trump is.
IMO from that example it seems hypocritical but I don't think that means they would have been wrong to use the real name of Virgil Texas.

It would have been a totally acceptable and informative thing for a newspaper of record to print his real name - just as I think it is totally acceptable and informative to publish the real name of SSC.

This is a newspaper. Providing information to the public. Their obligation is to their readers to provide valuable reported information.
You make it sound like the DTCC is some neutral 3rd party organization that isn't there to represent Wall Street.
Nikkei = FT. The FT has... interesting politics, and seems far more progressive than anyone would expect, although considering the cost of a subscription it's also a fairly exclusive crowd.

WSJ and Economist are hardly unbiased. (IMO The Economist is essentially a straightforward neoliberal pro-Gilded Age propaganda outlet, and always has been.)

The NYT has always been 'dodgy' as we say in the UK. I remember finding their op-eds clownishly stupid when I first started encountered them back in the 00s, and they don't seem to have improved since then.

But there's been a shift to woke since then. And the problem with woke is that so often it operates on the level of personal witch hunts and straightforward public bullying - which makes it depressingly close to its equivalent on the far right, but without the insane weapon fetish.

You can argue that sometimes this is justified. And sometimes - as with Weinstein, etc - it is. But it's harder to support it when it becomes an exercise in tokenism and tribal identity.

It's interesting how often woke goes after individuals deemed guilty of alleged bad-think and how rarely it goes after egregious corporate behaviour. Or even how rarely it mobilises to destroy the careers of politicians who act in unconscionable ways.
If you read/scan 10 lines a second, you still need over 24 hours non-stop to read a 1M+ code base.
I doubt a random file ordering is helpful! Especially if you lose code navigation features like "go to definition".
This episode of Planet Money should shed some light on it. What I understand from this episode is that there's a 2 day delay in settling trades, that's why clearing house exists.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963466346/robinhoods-very-bad...
It is market manipulation, of course, but it's not the kind that's illegal.
Sure, which is why Stanford has programs like this one. But for parents that do have the money it makes sense to expect them to spend some of it.
Yes but the code was clearly derived directly from a decompiled binary; not ‘clean room’ reverse engineering. Hence, illegal, regardless of whether a dmca takedown notice is filed.
Oh nice, heck you could just say "Step 1: Open your browser's dev console. Step 2: Write this code..." Console.log() and prompt() for all your text I/O needs.
> Normally Luke would group the same functions together but since I don’t have debugging symbols I had to eyeball nearby addresses to guess if it’s the same place.

I really enjoyed this article, but I do have a question about this part. Why would a single function be listed at mutliple addresses?
The whole car is replaceable. Is that an efficient use of money? And, if EVs are to be green, is that ecologically friendly?
> The first flight was in 1903

The first powered flight was in 1903, with the criteria that it was not gravity assisted, that it was sustained and that it was controlled. No one is claiming that it was the first flight ever.
Can I see anything you have printed/CNC'd?
Well that makes sense. The article indicated otherwise, which made me wonder.
> There is another downside to this system: people have to track their hours. Some people solve this by billing 20 hours a week, even though they may work a bit more or a bit less. Others track it diligently, in 15-minute increments, and send a detailed invoice every week.

I cannot stand tracking hours. No thanks.
This employee posted the sales numbers BEFORE Sprint even released their exaggerated sales figures. Though this employee's 'leak' may have been what caused Sprint the recant their original information, you could hardly call the person a whistle-blower.

[ Also,	"Sprint fires employee who publicly exposed exaggerated Android EVO sales numbers" is a highly 'exaggerated' version of "Sprint cans employee for leaking EVO 4G sales numbers." The MobileCrunch title doesn't infer that the employee had some intent to expose Sprint. ]
Huh? Seems to me not testosterone, but hysterical parents are the problem here. Quote from the doctor: "He can get a girl pregnant. He will not hesitate if given the opportunity." WTF??? What a bunch of nonsense.
Take a look at the beginners offerings from http://parallax.com/. Stuff like the boe-bot and others. They will allow you to get your feet wet with electronics and circuit design.

After you have the basics down, you can start looking at the tutorials that SparkFun has for example to get some basic circuits out, and building them, learn how to solder (screwing up when you have 20 boards made is not that big of a deal, buy SparkFun's broken boards and play with them, I learned how to solder from my professor and have always had extremely neat boards).

Just take your time, and don't rush it. It is an absolutely blast to create your first circuit with an LED and blink it with a microcontroller.

The one thing I will mention is, get ready to decipher all kinds of data sheets to get the information you need so you don't accidentally burn up your electronic parts.
It's the World Cup.
You are right that, given the comparison to our own top 15, MIT's direct matchup numbers seem disproportionate to its Elo points. It is possible that this is bug driven. It is also possible that over the past year we have accumulated enough data that MIT is now clearly more favored by our users than previously (since the head to head matchups are realtime and the Elo points are precomputed, these two approaches are currently using quite different data). If true, this would be reflected by an increased Elo score for MIT when 2010 gets computed. There is also the admittedly odd possibility that MIT does better vs better colleges, though I find this possibility fairly unlikely.

I'll look for bugs, as you suggest, since I'm going to be re-running the algorithm again in the coming weeks.

Edit: After thinking more about my beliefs about MIT not really being comparable with your average college, I'll add another possibility: perhaps MIT is simply engaged in fewer matches against weaker opponents, collecting fewer "free" points than HYP?
Players leaving is a problem only if they lose points and then leave without winning them back.
It would be nice to have a high-quality link on this with a primary reference. There's hardly enough information to determine what his concern is. For example:

"According to Dr Sigman, unrestricted use of computers can cause a conflict between a child's ability to multi-task and to their ability to maintain attention."

Which of the two does PC use supposedly undermine? And what kind of PC use are we talking about - there's a huge range from mindless internet surfing to programming.
I like the sound of that.

I have done PHP / MySQL, and learned Django before jumping ship to Ruby on Rails. I'm now exclusively Rails, but also have toyed with C# in the past.

As for projects, I have many ideas in my arsenal but as of now only one is being actively developed; however it isn't giving me the kind of passion I had when I came up with the idea about a year ago.
Grossly speculating, but it probably has the long-term benefit of getting the parent in the habit of talking to the kid about various things later on.
I doubt Larry Page cared whether she was a "bossy boss", since she wasn't his boss. He might have cared that she was his ex-girlfriend.
Which SBCL code?
Language is not the basis of thought. If someone thinks only with a mental narrative (in words, some language), then they're not really thinking in the broadest sense.
I tried GWT years ago. It worked amazingly well, and let me write web apps in a real language. But it was significantly slower to develop a new site in GWT vs. plain vanilla HTML + CSS + JavaScript, and the speed to get up and running eventually seduced me away.

Now I'm considering going back and giving it another try. It takes more time to get up and running with GWT, sure, but the stuff you do write with it is written in... well... a real language with types and good tooling and real design patterns. The result is an application you can maintain and build upon for a long period of time rather than a heap of web cruft that collapses quickly under its own weight.

I know it's not sexy, but I've had the same experience you've had with "sexy." I'm becoming generally disillusioned with weakly typed and even dynamically typed languages -- they're fast to write but hard to maintain over long periods of time.

http://www.gwtproject.org
It sounds a lot like the 'brown M&Ms' heuristic translated to a management style. A strategy grown organically out of a chaotic environment, born out of the need to operate effectively with incomplete information and the inability to properly delegate.

It's not something you can abstract and make into a general management principle because it's effectively a hack. The culture of Microsoft allowed Bill to do this, whereas anyone else in any other organization would have not been able to employ it effectively.
Wait, wait, wait.

You mean the version control system would be... distributed!?
There is no magic to avoid this problem. If you are trying to get changes into a repository that is constantly changing with no good isolation of concerns, then expect pain.

Otherwise, merges really are better from most perspectives. I can trust people doing pull requests to have tested their code. Looking at the log, I can get an idea of whether or not their code was tested with someone elses. Something I can not do with a pure "rebase and push" mentality.
This is so true.

On the one hand I wish that the docs for these projects could speak to those concerns, but on the other hand I'm not even sure how they would do that successfully. When something is this young it just takes time to figure out how it's going to survive and be maintained.

I remember the days of using prototype.js over jquery. If only someone could have saved me the time.
Intel has a momentum and some cult following, but they're no match for AMD in certain aspects like PCI lanes, memory channels, and some types of computation which favors AMD's architecture.

Day by day, more data centers get AMD systems by choice or by requirement (Oh, you want 8xA100 nVidia made modules with maximum performance. You need an AMD CPU since it has more PCI lanes, for example).

You don't see much AMD server CPUs around because first generation and most of the second generation has completely bought by FAANG, Dropbox, et al.

As the productions ramps up with newer generation, we can buy the overflowing parts after most of the production is gobbled up by these buyers.
Guess thats it for Fuchsia and Flutter
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe
Call them and ask. There is usually a fund manager who can direct the money into different causes at the benefactors wishes. Now, if you only donate a minimal amount that will go in to the general fund. They wouldn't expend the same energy for a $35 donation that they would for a $3500 donation.
Don't forget the 3-byte encoding they invented and call it 'utf8'.