jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's liberal doublespeak. They support wars until they're started, then are shocked when they aren't over in two weeks, and people die. Clinton voted to enter Iraq.
Charismatic is the wrong word. Australians, thankfully, have a distaste of charismatic leaders. Any Australian politician who tried to make grand Obama-style orations would find himself unable to finish due to the giggles coming from the audience.
And don't forget that our current "solution" ... AmTrak ... is probably the worst public train system in the developed world. I've had the pleasure of riding the ICE and as an American who never knew such a train service, it was awesome.

If we could break a few misconceptions, setup a high speed corridor along the east coast, along the west coast, and a few cross-country lines through the north and south, we could have a fantastic rail system. But that's gonna take a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and money, and the chances of it completely happening are slim to none, but there's more and more push at least for an eastern corridor line.
Wow, didn't expect such a "high quality listicle" when I clicked to see if it was worth the upvote and/or the front page.

Bye, I'm going down the rabbit hole for the next... minutes?

Starting here btw https://www.hfctrust.org/who-we-support/
I don't think the sarcasm is warranted. It has been established that by putting your own work on the Internet, you are opening yourself up to be scrutinised by potential employers, therefore it is essential to present yourself in the best light possible.

Good technical writing structure, alongside grammar and spelling is also is a hallmark of professionalism, a good skill to hone for career progression.
There are outliers in any group. Nobody is debating that. All we’re saying is roads tend to have a speed where the vast majority of drivers are comfortable and they’ll tend to go that fast.

Most times you’re on a road and traffic is flowing significantly faster than the posted limit, either the limit is wrong or the road is poorly designed and not fit for purpose. And that happens a lot in the US.
Fascinatingly this folk etymology is incorrect. According to Wikipedia[0], the “duck” refers to cotton duck[1], a strong fabric that can be made waterproof, from which the original duck tape was made.

“Duct tape” (with a T) is in fact the retronym and was coined when duck tape started to be used for ducting.

All of this doesn’t explain how Duck-brand tape managed to get a trademark on an existing generic term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#History

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck
Corollary: operate a rogue AP in a bag with the same SSID and password as a public one and get the clients to connect to you instead of the "real" AP. Getting a stronger signal than it should be easy due to closer proximity. OK, it's no longer a passive attack and can easily be detected if you're looking for it, but if you're even aware of the possibility, you'll be using a VPN anyway. If you're after facebook passwords and the like, this will work well enough.
For those of us who have some vps / other server out there, there's always a vpn connection possibility. It will slow everything down, but at least you get the security in a public place as long as you tunnel everything through it.
i think we will see more experimentation before a few successful models emerge. one of the promising recent initiatives i found is:
Peer 2 Peer University http://www.p2pu.org/

some of their courses are being offered in conjunction with established academic institutions. for example:
http://www.p2pu.org/general/open-journalism-open-web .
even a for-credit course: http://p2pu.org/journalism

i've also posted a separate thread re: P2PU:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021565
If Node.js were to get a little bit of language agnosticism (write code and source debug in Coffeescript and anything else that treats Javascript as a compiler target) then you'd have programmable-editor nirvana for web developers.
And that's what VPNs are for.

When using an open, unencrypted wifi router, you should understand you are connecting your computer to a potentially hostile network with could be populated by lots of very bad computers.
That was a very good presentation, reminds me to continue to work more towards allowing user interaction without requiring registration.
Yep fair point.

I mention asking someone only because many times we feel and see things one way but others see it differently. He may feel his contribution didn't suffer but maybe it did and he equated the failure to his employer learning of his project rather then his performance. It may not have even been with side work, could be anything.

Also happening once is one thing. Multiple times means you really have to look at the common denominator in the situations and see if there is more to it.
In some quick googling the Cato Institute are the only ones saying it's a myth. But I'd expect that from them. I'm sure the Austrians deny it, too.

It's fairly basic game theory and strategy. If it's not empirical enough for you then Economic theory in general might not make the cut either :)
Angular vehicle

Stainless steel body

Smaller auto manufacturer with potentially dubious finances

Charasmatic founder with a host of drug use

I feel like I've heard this story...before...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company
It doesn't take much Googling to prove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg

> In January 2003, the DCSD released a ruling that sent a mixed message, finding the book to be scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts, but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question.
No, he's saying that we should stop scaring people with likely future outcomes that are not likely.
In that sense everything is dangerous and the word 'dangerous' is nearly meaningless. Just because the idea is stupid and it would be dangerous if people take it seriously doesn't mean saying it should be treated as dangerous.

We can cope with people saying stupid things. It happens regularly.
Same for the UK. You can often rent a small van in the UK for less than GBP50/day and a large van for less than GBP75/day if you shop around. Sometimes Saturday and Sunday count as one day too.

Large trailers (if they’re big enough to be worth hiring instead of a van) will for most people likely need additional qualifications on their licence to be allowed to drive with so they’re less popular.
Someone on Reddit made a good point. They might be copying Sonic the movie's approach to marketing. Release a ugly version now, and then later on, release an improved version.
It's massively, massively overcommitted. They managed to actually run out of hardware in a whole US region recently, even though of course most customers had lots of unused quota. A typical Azure VM must be extraordinarily busy given some of the latencies and speeds I've seen on them.
Game Theory can bring some understanding here: the situation is similar to the Prisoner's dilemma [1]. If no one reduces emissions, everyone will suffer high costs. If everyone reduces emissions, no additional costs appear. But if everyone but you reduces emissions, your single decision doesn't change the outcome that much - so the optimal strategy is not to reduce emissions and hope others still do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Hilarious - my family and I joke and call the inevitable massive chevy suburbans "Mom Tanks"
Whenever someone raises these issues, there sure is someone like you putting them down by using the argument "but most of the cops are good guys, see? no problem, move along."

You use an (uncited) 99% there. Fine, let's leave it at that. So in one in hundred cases you will have an unpleasant experience, ranging from being treated disrespectfully, to jail, to being tazed, to being shot. I don't know how you negotiate SLAs, but me, I wouldn't agree to these terms.
Selling those GPU-enhanced servers is akin to the toolmakers selling shovels and other tools to gold-diggers.
Sometime back, I started sorta list curating companies that encourages and relies heavily on remote workers.

http://oinam.github.io/remote-teams/
I am excited by this because I do use crouton, to launch my normal E17 (E19) desktop, and while it works great, it does not work as fast as E17 using the native framebuffer.

And on my old Samsung Series 3 (XE303C12) the Mali GPU can only service one client at a time, so crouton will never be as fast as E17 would while not sharing cycles with Chrome.

The GPU drivers are distributed as blobs, as far as I can tell, and while they "only support" EGL/GLES and not OpenGL, they also only do so on the kernel version distributed by Google, which means that even if you perform the onerous machinations that I needed to boot with the kernel DRM and put the drivers from Mali in place where your software will find them, and manage to make all of this work with your distribution's version of X11 (or Wayland, I guess maybe?) you are still stuck running a 3.8.11 kernel, which is really ancient from about 10 minor versions ago.

It's a nice puzzle, but I am ready for someone to give me the answer. I have high hopes that with the "Crouton in a Chrome Window" there will be some kind of a pass-through mode that allows Enlightenment to grab what it needs from the existing screen and do its various compositing works in an accelerated mode. (The eternal optimist in me...)
>and they clearly don't have the ability to raise prices (can you imagine how instantly Google Search would be consigned to irrelevance if they tried to charge users for searches?

The prices they raise would be on advertising. They do have significant competition with Facebook and the like in the internet advertising industry.

>the cost to the end-user has been driven down to literally nothing

The end user is the product not the customer. The customer is advertisers.

So I think you are missing what market power means. Since Google earns most of the profits with search, it allows them to use those funds do things like:

1. Acquire YouTube
2. Run YouTube for two years without any supporting ad revenue
3. Making it impossible for anyone else to compete with YouTube in the first two years because they don't have that kinda bank.
4. Allow users 1G of storage on Gmail and offering it for free, blowing away (killing) any competitor.
5. Buy and releasing Android OS for free to hardware vendors and including Google services on those OSs, instantly taking the majority market share on the brand new mobile industry.
6. Build AWS.

There are many more, but all those investments were built on the revenue from Google search.
He's not a minor anymore, he was 16 when he ran away 3 years ago... please tell me that matters?
Almost every instance of this I've come across can be described by repeated localized, short-term optimization.

No one ever sat down and said "How can I design a terrible system that's a pain in the ass to work with and unable to be extended?"

Everyone sat down and said "How can I make that one thing that's actually my job faster?"
This comment rings very true. The internet broke the business model that much of traditional media relied upon. Newspapers used to work hard to build trust and reputation in order to sell subscriptions, now they are bought up by billionaires to use a tools in driving political narratives (for example Bezos and Washington Post). I suspect Musk has a similar plan for Twitter. Which in this case Musk believes letting the unwashed masses speak freely benefits him.
And related to that I find that free-software focus often misses one of the biggest issues of our day; privacy. I care much more about software privacy then I do about software freedom (though I still want both). But when the FSF was founded the internet didn’t exist (so privacy was not as much a concern) and they have never brought that under their umbrella. Even though they are very related concepts.
https://privacy.com - I don't use them as often as I should, but they do a great job.
It sounds like I need to add this to my list. Thanks
> You can also get comparable performance out of https://buildkite.com/ which lets you self-host runners on AWS

you can self-host github runners as well, with a few caveats, the most serious one being that then you are responsible for cleaning up the state of your self-hosted runner between runs

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...

structural isolation guarantees of the form "build execution during run N cannot possibly impact build execution of run N+1" are tremendously helpful -- they reduce the number of weird CI failures and the cost to triage and fix each weird CI failure (by reducing the space of possible interactions). If you cannot offer similar guarantees when self hosting your own CI infrastructure then it may not be wise to self host.
Photopea is amazing. It's my default image editor now.
What do you think their interests are? Mostly their job is to buy all the stocks.

If Twitter goes down, you think someone is going to say "oh no, you shouldn't have bought all the stocks"?

Well, probably, because people will say anything.
The situation is surreal. One of the (many) moving points he made was that grown adults firmly believe that Americans have demon horns and pitch fork spiked tails.

These people have been on complete lockdown for fifty years and shut out from the world, both mentally and physically.

This leadership needs to be destroyed, they are committing too many atrocities.
My best job options have always come from investors and ceos of startups. The best thing you can do is do your own startup and even if it doesn't work out, impress vcs and mentors along the way. You'll have your pick of options waiting for you on the other end.
Your arguments are perfectly sound. However it has been tried, and has allowed unthinkable suffering. Why is a civilian casualty the worst possible scenario? The choice is between dying and a lifetime of living hell (north korea present day).

I think its time to recognize that war is sometimes the answer, whether or not you think it appeals to our human aggression.
Read up on the transition of the Mongols and American Indians. Population density vs. food output per acre will generally favor agriculture.
It was. This isn't the only time we've been making jokes in our blog posts. Sorry if it came over as otherwise. :)
I have found the physical demands of Tai Chi to be less extreme than Yoga. I have been in too many car accidents.
PA Semi doesn't make chips used by all of the top smartphone vendors.

Apple isn't a monopoly, but there are still antitrust concerns when you buy a company that all of your competitors must license from.
database connection error.... mirror?
FWIW the death of the people on the train is in no way justified. It is a tragedy. However, everyone on that train was in some part responsible for the disaster due not only their political views but their actual actions.
IE's team already said they'd support it if the user installs a codec, but I still haven't seen any word from Safari/Apple. Have they seriously not said anything, or have I just missed it?
Outliers is a good read that correctly represents a lot of new research about its subject.

After edit: I say this because I had read many of the primary and secondary sources cited in Gladwell's notes before his book came out. I still learned new facts from his book.
Sorry about that, by pseudo-FMT I was referring to these two qualities:

- Extremely broad spectrum from a metabolic function point of view

- The formulation was designed to nudge your microbiome toward known healthy microbiome compositions.

The product does this because those two traits are IMO essential components of a good probiotic. Which is strange because to my knowledge no other probiotic has these traits.

The product is also different from an FMT in several important ways:

- It does not contain poop

- The current version contains 115 strains, whereas an FMT has around 1200 strains in the US (and around 1400 strains in Europe).

- The current version contains 1 billion CFU, whereas an FMT (depending on type) is around 1 trillion CFU.

These differences are because we were cautious with strain selection, because we didn't think it was cost effective to provide strains already very likely to be present, and because we wanted something suitable for daily use.

(As a side note, ancestral microbial intake was ~1.8 billion daily CFU and modern intake is ~1 million CFU, so some sort of supplementation or change in diet for most people seems needed to me)

Okay, I think that summarizes the big differences. I'm still on xmas vacation and should have thought more before describing it as a pseudo-FMT. The site doesn't mention FMT because, well, most people find FMTs disgusting...
I don't want to appear too critical, but you've just outlined the reasons not to persevere with the write-up. The point is that you are right in every respect : except for the part that doing the last 10% is only a modest amount of work.

With luck, you've got enough momentum to push through to the end smoothly. Otherwise, you might find yourself within 'just a short distance to the summit' and being someone that climbed 90% of the way up Everest.
Because they stole bitcoin. Good luck finding a non institutional buyer for tainted bitcoins when you're dealing in billions usd. Everyone shuffling bits at that level is going to play by the rules and cover their ass. Even large criminal exchanges will avoid stolen bitcoin in any sort of volume because it means instant scrutiny.
Yes, you are correct that the computational of running the smart contracts is very small in relation to the proof of work.

But actually, the main cost is not computation, but storage. Storage (any variable that is holding data inside the contracts) is extremely expensive because there is very little of it, and has to be persisted on the blockchain forever.

In fact, view functions that don't change the state of the blockchain can be executed for free at any time.
I think that's part of what security people mean by "zero-trust security".

Instead of building a giant moat and assuming that everyone who got past the moat is trusted, assume that everyone is untrusted by default, and build a capability system that's expressive enough that you can give everyone just enough capabilities that they can do their job without going through a bunch of pointless checks.

In practice that model is impopular because corporations tend to screw up the later part.
Na. Lots of places have socialized medicine like Israel. Not many of them, if any of them, are having the successful rollout Israel is enjoying. The entire Israeli society is prepared for this sort of event more so than any other in the world. Civil society, healthcare (as you pointed out), military and, dare I say, even religious all work together to pull this off.
No. That'd be considered an unconstitutional "taking" of the economic rights from people relying on those contractual terms. See Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel, 524 U.S. 498 (1998).
If you can use GitHub but not Git, I'm not sure you can really say that you know version control. Fine for designers who are just helping out in projects and don't really know to but developers who manages merges, backports and alike should really know the insides of Git, not just the GitHub GUI.
We're about to see what works best, it appears Denmark is doing a multipronged approach that includes paying reduced salaries for the entire working population of Denmark for three months.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-fr...
It can be a random number between 64 and 10000, inclusive, the arbitrariness of it is the point: there is a bound; the (loop/size/whatever) is not unbounded.
I thought I was alone in being above-average annoyed at their (IMO deceitful) use of the term. Thank you for posting this.
PCs sure didn't seem particularly cheap "back then"; at least, not for my "back then". $2300 in 1993 money for a 486/dx33 is over $4100 in today's money. I just bought a brand new, loaded MacBook Air for $1600.
I haven't had time to write a blog post about this. The paper linked to in the first comment - which is [1] - present the first cut of our ideas. We have made two additional extensions beyond that, we will be submitting them to journals soon.

I am yet to release code publicly but that would take a couple of months, given the papers are my priority now - downsides of working on a PhD while having a day job :-|

To be clear I am not claiming that compact models are related to the LT hypothesis, just that I think they are and this, of course, needs to be rigorously established. For a while I would be spending time on the compact model arc (my primary interest), till I can get to investigating its connections with the LT hypothesis. In fact [1] doesn't talk about the LT hypothesis at all, instead focusing solely on compacting models in a model-agnostic manner.

[1] (PDF) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00003...
Another problem is the bonds are traded on the open market and many asset managers are forced to sell as soon as they drop below investment grade as a function of their investor agreements. So we’d really have to just pause the entire market.
Should have been EUR in place of $
After the crisis is over, they’ll just do the same thing again, inflate a new bubble, faster this time, which will once again explode, and bail it out again on the backs of working Americans. There’s no learning curve at all. They think the problem is that they didn’t inflate the bubble fast enough and with enough leverage. But, this is probably what we should expect. It’s a repeated pattern throughout history that when things go wrong, leaders usually don’t try new approaches- instead they just keep doubling down on what they were doing before, thinking that the problem was that they just need to do whatever they were doing before, but more. It takes a total collapse, historically, for true behavioral change to occur. The whole society, like a drug addict, has to hit rock bottom.
I'm probably missing something here, but apple aren't exactly relevant in the social networking scene, are they?
This is leftist propaganda. Increasing minimum wage pushes more people into poverty. The majority of people in poverty vote left.

Why does increasing minimum wage push more people in poverty?

Because an increase in expenses does not guarantee an increase in revenue. If your expenses increase while your revenues remain stagnant, you have to decrease your expenses in order to stay cash flow positive. To compensate, you decrease the number of hours employees receive. Less hours translate into less employees required. When the people who are earning minimum wage can't find a job because of the lack of hours available or can't receive enough hours from their employer, they are falling into poverty.
Hi,

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