jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This really doesn't make much sense to me. There were a lot of good reasons for the SNB to drop their peg to their EUR, probably first and foremost the potential of quantitative easing being introduced for the EUR. This would have made it more and more expensive to keep up the fixed exchange rate.

I also don't see any reason why this would have affected Russians more than people from any other country. So if your goal is to hurt Russia, I don't think this was a good way to do it.
I suspect we already have several near-AIs in our midst, some beyond the ability of a single human brain, but we don't recognize them because we impose needless constraints on the definition of "AI" and claim that only things that meet those artificial constraints qualify as AI.

A typical unvoiced (possibly false) assumption about AI amongst even AI experts might be something like: "Well it has to be a system that was designed by human experts, in order to qualify... something that just emerges from human activity is not an AI."

A few things that could qualify, if we relaxed this and other false constraints:

- The global financial system, when viewed as a single entity.

- The consciousness formed by the combination of the Internet along with all the minds of the people who use it (what Kevin Kelly has called "the one").

- Google's systems, at least some of them.

These things are creeping up on us. Just taking the first one, the global financial system is barely under control (or maybe not at all), although many different human controlled entities do hold the reins of various facets of it.

It has self awareness, senses, learning, built in agendas, competing sub-entities with agency and their own various agendas, defense mechanisms, and ways of exerting influence.

One could argue it also has a global agenda (balance might be a word for it... a decent agenda, for the moment, fortunately).

We've seen how it can sometimes go off the rails in ways that have challenging if not disastrous consequences for the well being of humanity.

We don't call it AI, but it's certainly something that bears watching almost as much as an AI would. Just like the other examples I mentioned.
Making something that does a good job on the turing test is hard regardless which direction you look philosophically.
Loved the article - VCs and investing is indeed an approach where you want the future to be 'X', so for that, in the present you want to do 'Y' at 'Z' costs.

In essence, we are doing exactly what this describes, and every time investors or founders take cash off the table on a round, they are indeed taking future 'gain' money into the present, without knowing exactly if the future will turn out as described and anticipated.
And on that note, be sure to take a look at Pyret, another programming language designed by this group, to address some of these student-oriented programming issues.

https://github.com/brownplt/pyret-lang/

It is written all in JS (using Node) and can be completely run in a web browser apparently. I am not the first one here to mention it but it is very cool.
I read the article. The guy claims that SQL is hard -- yes it is hard for real life cases and there are limitations imposed by underlying theory (relational algebra). Joining the table with itself may be little mind-blowing when you do it first time. It still does not mean that we need to write queries in different language and translate them back to SQL.

A simple question is "how the hell you use prepared statements with such libraries"? And the answer will be is that the FRAMEWORK need to be extended further in order to support them. In other words once you abandon SQL you will never have the same flexibility that it gives, because of artificial constraints imposed by every framework. And your code will become more and more complex because of all these frameworks that are invented not of the real need but as an programming exercise.
not prevent, but make me need a REALLY good reason to go through all of that on top of the long flight.
So my chances of dying have been doubled?
Not close to true for two small, independent events.

We can safely assume that the chance of their occurrence together is going to be very small and so the chance of one or the other is approximately the sum of their individual probability.

P(X ∪ Y) = P(X) + P(Y) - P(X ∩ Y) ~ P(X) + P(Y)
With your contribution to my campaign fund...
Start developing a customer service mindset.

have you tried getting support from Google? /mashes keyboard
> Terrorism can in both small and very large ways effect entire nations. backscatter radiation? Not so much.

Currently terrorism is effecting an entire nation with backscatter radiation.
It's definitely caused displacement of some academic conferences. The visa issue is one of the deal-breakers, because more than one keynote speaker has missed his/her talk due to the visa not coming through in time, even though there were months of lead time. It's quite strange that a famous scientist who's visited the U.S. a dozen times before would need more than a rubber stamp to give a keynote talk at a scientific conference.
Q: How do you Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business?

A: Don't spend 12 hours listening to podcasts.
I think overall Gates is a decent guy with his heart in the right place but these articles of him opining how the world should work always rub me the wrong way.

He has all the money in the world, and he should just go do what he is able. If you want to push some policy as credible, than have it stated by an expert, and stop attaching his name to every opinion as if it lends credibility.
They mustn’t even be smarter, simply more ethical and responsible.
Not a good idea if you know that you're targeted by the government. ;) In fact this makes it much easier for them to get access to your data.

If they know your name they can get to your credit card transactions. From you're credit card transactions they get to your hoster. And from your hoster they get the data that's stored on your VPS.

You can somehow mitigate this issue by storing your important data on an encrypted filesystem, but this does not really solve this problem as the key has still to be kept in memory.
I'd second Erlang. It's a lot of fun first learning. I know when I went through Armstrong's book on it, the first 5-6 chapters were mostly just "okay, so an intro to the syntax and functional programming", then when the meat of the language hit, it was a big fat "whoa...this is crazy."

I'm glad HN had that crazy "Erlang Day" a few years ago, as that was Erlang's first blip on my radar. Thanks HN :)
You can run Ruby and Javascript stuff on top of the Java support. The pipeline has to be pretty light though and I wouldn't run Rails on it.
So easy to make these kinds of comments. We know it's a largely white and masculine list but it's also who inspired us.

Who are the top 50 people who inspire you?
cool. But is access limited by money to pay, or by a system that can favor kids from fancy schools/backgrounds?
Yeah, for what it's worth I'm sure you are right. At the moment the company I work for is talking about reducing its office space by almost 2/3. If that is representative then the cost of office space is about to take a nose dive.
Before covid we didn't really care, but covid makes us yearn for bigger, detached housing

Wouldn't full time WFH make that easier to do? Presumably you live in a small one bedroom apartment because it's within commute distance of work. If your employer stuck with WFH, then you could move to a house in a small town, probably for less money than you're paying for the apartment.
When I said I'd even take lua over python, that's only if I was forced to pick a high level language for a shell. Lua is really easy to conjure up higher level algos, like javascript can.

But I'm not convinced any high level language is a viable replacement for bash. It would have to be more functional than bash whilst still having good support for standard unix tools.

One very interesting idea I found was a macro library for racket that turns s-expressions from deeply nested structures into a much flatter representation. Lisp might be a good option with toy with because of flexibility like that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/comments/mands9/fluent_unix_...
It wasnt a good product. It was constantly losing money. Maybe you mean communal workplaces were popular and people liked them, but the way adam implemented it drove them into the ground
> of whom 3222 (5%) were nonpregnant young adults (age 18-34 years) admitted to 419 US hospitals.

So, 3222 / 780969 = 0.4% of the examined population had admission to a hospital with "Covid" on their forms. Of these, 343 died (0.04% of examined population; Table 1).

Obesity, hypertension and diabetes were strongly correlated with death in this population.

That's not "no risk", but it's consistent with the OP's comment: the risk for young people is quite low, and is concentrated amongst the obese (and diseases related to obesity).
>As neat as Mesos was, it was doomed from the start.

I don't think it was doomed from the start; Mesos was deployed at Twitter 4 years before k8s was even released. The "problem" with Mesos was that it was focused on a future that never panned out. The "killer app" for Mesos was Spark, and the problem they were focused on solving was resource allocation for batch jobs. Mesos was supposed to be a replacement for YARN. Even Marathon, which was the de facto application launcher, was pitched as a "meta-framework". Marathon wasn't for launching services, it was for launching custom frameworks. They never really pivoted from this, and the writing was on the wall when Mesosphere decided to make Marathon as proprietary as possible and fully integrate it within their commercial solution. Once Marathon was gone, Mesos didn't really compete with k8s anymore unless you wanted to write your own framework.
Nod, and we have a lot of practical ethical issues getting in the way (rightfully so) of figuring it out too. It is really hard to figure out realistic risks around exposures without doing field trials for instance. We could of had a much earlier vaccine rollout if we’d done double blind, intentional exposure studies (give someone the vaccine or saline, unknown to anyone, then stick them in the same room as a bunch of Covid patients with no protection) with early versions - which we could have done in March. We had 250+ candidates at the time, and about 3% were proven out, when I looked in Jan/Feb.

To get somewhat useful data, you’d probably need to do that for at least a couple thousand folks (10k each arm would be my guess), so you’re looking at what, 5 million total in the study, 2.5 million exposed? Based on the best data we had at the time (assumed 3.5% fatality rate I believe?), that would have been 87k fatalities out of that group. [https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/99/1/20-265892/en/ ], Currently seems like estimates are around 1-2% which would drop it to only 25-50k [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-021-00527-1].

For many very, very good reasons that isn’t how we roll right now though, and we do have good technology for solving this either. Star Trek style ‘simulate’ mode is a looong way away in this space.

Looking forward to it hopefully getting better soon though - a lot of money going into getting this figured out.
I tend to frame this in terms of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. It's a trade-off between exploration vs exploitation. It's often impossible to predict beforehand which strategy is optimal for a given environment. Which, I suspect, is why progressive temperments and conservative temperments coexist.
I'm pretty sure people archived her jpegs. I think they were just polite enough not share them publicly, in case that would embarass her. That was kind of the thinking back then, as I recall it. This was like 7-8 years before Facebook, remember?
I really like and vouch for the last paragraph
"NOT for human consumption" is a CYA clause so the seller can maintain some level of plausible deniability if the feds ever do try to come down on them. Rest assured, this is lab-grade, high quality stuff. I think they release lab results.
DEA: "This fancy new drug looks like another scheduled drug."
Seller: "It's not a drug; it's just a compound that we sell as a curiosity so get fucked."

This may hold at least some water in court.

It's akin to the age-old headshop rule of calling bongs "tobacco pipes" and kicking anyone out that calls them bongs.
If you're not familiar with how to lift at all, it may be worth a few sessions with an actual personal trainer at the local gym to get the basic movements down. In the beginning, the most important thing is just to get into a routine, lift properly (practice excellent form), eat properly (enough protein to build muscle), and avoid injury. You can follow a program like 5x5 stronglifts to do all that. Once you master the basics and hit your first plateau, then dynamic routines become more important. If you have an iPhone, there's a free app called Shred which is like an automated personal trainer and has an excellent library of dynamic routines.
Poor one! One of my colleagues would have a heart attack if he spotted that. Super hard to find.
Have you tried meditation? It sounds like something neutral is happening to you and you interpret it as being bad. If you meditate regularly it will change how you relate to it and many other things in positive transformative ways.
In my opinion the best way to do it, albeit quite time consuming to setup, is to setup orgmode with extensions such as org-ref, pdf-tools and org-brain. It is a big hassle, however I see it as do-once-in-a-lifetime (and iterate till infinity) kind of setup.

The possibilities are virtually limitless, the only minor (depending on what you want) setback is that the notes are "plaintextish" and separated from pdf (I see that as benefit but YMMV). There are interlinks between the text and org files, but the comments are not "in" the pdfs if that's what you looking for.

I can't provide any links at the moment but you will find many examples looking at the blogs. Be aware org is borg and consumes all information in your life ;). Fortunately it's as local or cloud and as encrypted as you make it.
There is a spectrum of retrospectives. Re trip description. Most people tend to just say it's cool, you see stuff/colors brighter and emotionally impactful etc.

My key story for last is laying in a bed in close proximity to a freeway. I could not choose to unhear/see with my eyes closed as a car drove down the freeway cylinders/rods and combustion. .
I on extremely rare occasion hear this type of story from other peeps.

Long lasting effect ... In the immediately following week I had the most significant behavior shift I can think of... Had been smoking since 11 years old... The LSD was approx 9th grade ..solidly solidly stopped for about a year. Pot. Everything. I'm back. I'm an idiot at heart give or take.. but what a beautiful year.
Charles Wheatstone entered into a joint partnership with William Cooke and this led to the foundation of the English Telegraph Company which eventually became the GPO.

The money he got was used to fund Ada Lovelace (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...) to translate the notes on Babbage's lectures into English and to create the notes that included the first computer program.

Subsequently the GPO funded the development of the Colossus computer by Tommy Flowers according to the work of Max Newman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers#World_War_II)
FWIW, 10x growth in 30 years is 8% annually compounding.
Interesting, in the Messages and Proxies[1] page, Apple has ad-blocking as an example which actually blocks the ads from being loaded using the `beforeload` event (as oppose to hide them after they're loaded):

> Safari 5.0 and later (and other Webkit-based browsers) generates a “beforeload” event before loading each sub-resource belonging to a webpage. The “beforeload” event is generated before loading every script, iframe, image, or stylesheet specified in the webpage, for example.

Isn't this exactly what the NoScript's author says Chrome extension was lacking[2]?

[1]: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tool...

[2]: http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/
Fully agree that both sides of the coin are important. However, of the following potential developments:

1) New Android phones become much faster and/or have longer battery lives
2) New iPhones become much more open and less locked-down

I think #1 is much more likely.
There's a massive market of people out there whose iPhones will never talk to AT&T ; the rest of the world. I think drilling down on the US carrier is a bit shortsighted in a proper review.
Likewise - focus was very high, but context-switching was shockingly bad.
write factorial in scheme, then in clojure. And you might see an very interesting difference. Hint: the jvm does not have tail call optimization.
They're both software. Its easily conceivable that a non-moron could search for one and mistake it for the other. This case seems like an actual violation whose enforcement would be much more reasonable than most other disputes that have made the news the last few years.
This is a classic "pick your battles" or "know when to fold'em" moments I think. This is technically "press" for your app, so hopefully some real good will come out of it when you come back to tell us the new name.
I'd send him to http://codecombat.com . It's not real productive coding, but it's a decent enough entry point for someone who may not have found their passion yet.

For me, coding is a passion. A labor of love. I haven't worked a day since starting. As an iOS developer, I'd say learn Swift. Apple pushed the great reset button and we're all starting from the same place.
>I'm incredibly curious about how they're planning on monetizing

they have just got 485M - sounds like a successful monetization to me :)
That's a shell game. It's not how you run an economy - not that Snapchat or its investors are trying to make a fundamental industry.

The reason I even say that is because of the dollar figures thrown around. The numbers for this shit are staggering.
Looks good, but basic - wonder how it handles more custom 'modules'.
Am I the only one finding no personal need for a universal inbox?

I like the fact that having to login to facebook to read a message makes it harder to waste your time there. I like that there is no single point of failure for my e-communication. With each month going by, I worry more about keeping my personal data from aggregating on a single company's servers.
As soon as I get Facebook email, I can unify it all in Thunderbird!
Sure, I agree with you, but if a coffee shop stops just 1 mentally ill person from jacking off in it, then that's a win in my books.

While image detection algorithms aren't deployed widely, I'm sure many public spaces and internet cafes use some type of blacklist filter for 'known' porn sites.
this is a potential killer application. if they manage to make the tracking fluent and accurate, everybody can finally duell other players in epic lightsaber fights. anyone who liked star wars has probably been waiting for this - let's see who gets it right first - PS3 Move, Kinect or even Wii?
We have a similar (but much better) website in the UK - http://www.writetothem.com/

Enter your postcode and it will give you a list of your local councilors, your MP, your MEPs, along with their party information, and a link to a list of lords. You then click who you want to contact and it gives you a form to fill in.

The contact is free, and via email rather than post, but in the UK that's just as good a way to contact them. They usually respond by post.
Works on Chrome 8 on OSX here, but not Safari. (Both work in canvas mode just fine though)

Even in canvas mode, my eyes started blurring after just 1 wave though -.-
Author here:

Yeah I'm not entirely sold on my approach to globbing either. From an academic perspective I stand by my decision to make globbing functional. But from a usability perspective it kind of sucks.

The introduction of the `@g` prefix to allow inlined globbing does make things a little less painful but I'm honestly not sold on that solution either.

I'm open to suggestions / changing things up wrt globbing and will take another look at Zsh to see how they've addressed the problem.

Thanks for the feedback.
Hmm, if you only have one system, then yes, those are the same.

But if you have multiple systems (say collision detection, physics, damage/health, control(ai or player)) you can then build things up lego brick style.

For example, a basic wall will just participate in the collision detection system and nothing else, but now it's easy to add in breakable walls by giving them a hp value and defence value for the damage system.

Does that help?
Instead of 'sinister', you could try 'gauche' or 'awkward' as terms for left-handed.
> Its rules are pretty much set in stone.

Not quite. The miners collectively decide what rules to follow. A majority of them forming a cartel to collectively skip certifying certain transactions is completely in the realm of what’s allowed by the network.
It’s inspiring to see that Buffett and Munger remain so wonderfully optimistic about the future of the US even when both are 90+ in the current sociopolitical environment. Reading this letter certainly lifted my spirit and put me in a different mood.
Rare was funded by Nintendo but I don't think it was ever owned by them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_(company)
I bet the credit cards, payment processors, and domain registrars all move against Parler within 365 days of Biden's inauguration.

Unfortunately the conventional financial system and regular internet are under the US Liberal control. Their approved narrative dictates who is allowed to use said infrastructure.
Here in India everyone uses WhatsApp, from grandmas and children to teachers, office workers and even Police officers. It serves versatile purposes, of hosting both a chat platform and a social network for groups and has been so much ingrained in India's societies that "texting" literally means sending a WhatsApp message here. In state elections, WhatsApp is the main platform the ruling party (BJP) focused most of its campaigns on. With such a setup it is extremely difficult to move to another platform.

The next popular platform is Telegram, but it is used mainly to share and access pirated movies and apps from shady channels than for everyday communication.
> Either Capitol Police were terribly incompetent at protecting one of the most secure buildings in the US, or they let this happen.

So that must be what all the pictures of wall-climbing and drawn glocks are all about.
Thanks for chiming in to this internet digression from your actual statement. :)
This action is YouTube pushing back against government misinformation! Why would you think it's a sign that they're more likely to push government misinformation in the future?
Or a YouTube video of a presentation from earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDzr0_fbnVk#.

Flash video is sadly unfriendly to my iPad (where I am now)
System Administrator / Infra consultant, because I was one before I made the choice.
Somebody has to be responsible.

Nope. You don't have to have any single person trusted - that's the whole point of having two pilots. This is just extending that basic systems architecture notion (having no SPOF) where it's lacking.
Most americans would happily choose cancer over vegetarianism. That part isn't Monsanto's fault. Source: I am a vegetarian who talks to omnivores and near-carnivores.