jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting to think about the incentives in scientific publication by comparison with the incentives in HN (or Reddit) comment posting.

Someone could spend days of time writing a well researched HN comment that was exceptionally informative and accurate. There are occasionally comments that represent an hour or two of work on them... But multiday-effort comments are non-existent: the incentives of the venue don't reward that effort. And if you do take the time the discussion will have moved on before you get it published. If you published them they would likely be lost in a see of other low effort comments, or if they were acknowledged-- not likely much more than comments that merely took an hour.

You don't just see fewer multiday comments, you see essentially none at all. Nothing technical about HN or Reddit prevents people from writing some epic work of commentary or research in a comment, and there would often be value from such works existing...

The same pattern exists in academic publishing but with the effort levels shifted up one or two orders of magnitude: the maximum moves from an hour to (say) weeks (exact threshold varies by field). Works taking more effort than some field specific cutoff are extremely seldom done. Why make one 10x effort paper when you will serve your interests much better and with lower risks making 10 1x effort papers?

This would be fine if all of science in that field could be done in the window of efforts allowed by those incentives, but that isn't the case... especially since a lot of the low hanging fruit-- results that can be obtained below the cutoff-- is already picked.

So this is part of why you see things like immunologists pointing out that there has been relatively little academic investigation of virus seasonality-- though its an apparent, interesting, and seemingly important phenomena. Studying it in any depth would require experiments spanning years and likely dealing with human subjects on top of the possibility that your ideas don't turn up anything new... a lot of risk for someone who actually needs to get things published.
Ah thanks, I suspected something like that but wasn't sure how to read this.
Or how to elegantly waste a perfectly fine piece of hardware in a neatly over-engineered way ;)
What never resonated to me is: as a regular employeee without any stock or profit share why would I care about being more efficient? If you already can match your job goals I see no point in doing that.
Amazon has also stopped shipping non-essential items in Italy and France.

Their criteria for choosing essential items are kind of hard to grasp for me, and in classic Amazon style they don't tell you that there is something that is not available / you cannot buy, stuff has just disappeared from the shop. This makes it unnecessarily annoying to find out if you can buy something from them or not.

Most of what you can get is still delivered quickly though - they have added one or two days to the expected delivery times in the last weeks, but from then they usually deliver one day sooner than forecasted.
Urgh, yet another auto-immune disease ? I really hope that a massive breakthrough in medical knowledge will happen regarding that general subject. Unfortunately the matter seems to be more complex than anything I, as a developer, can imagine…
I forgot to say, these scripts provide keeping bookmarks in a local file being synchronized with delicious
Great insights for all Tech Founders.
At first sight it may sound reassuring that the credit card security codes weren't stolen, but the devil's in the numbers.

If you have one million credit card numbers, then you'll on average get a thousand succesful transactions if you try a random security code with each card - they're only three digtis. I don't know how many tries you get before the card is closed, but from personal experience I know it's more than one, which affects the probabilities a lot.
Good point. We do have one vet who is using the product but it's the same initial customer we developed it for/with, so they naturally already know how to apply it. We should come up with a little story, perhaps a comic, which introduces the idea in a friendly way and puts it in context of existing practices.
well, i wasnt looking for advertising, i am trying to prove a theory and validate my idea =/
Good example to show every area of Internet needs innovation.

Bookmarking is as old as the first web browser. It's great that a great team is trying to save communities and innovate in this area.
into the belly of the beast
Apologies -- I was being glib. I had originally considered adding a parenthetical "well of course you don't actually have to wear clothes, but you know, we live in a society, etc." to my comment, just to head off such a "well, actually" response. But I figured that surely no one would bother picking that particular nit.

So imagine my delight when, of course, someone did.
I don't think that just because someone doesn't like Javascript it makes their opinion less valid, or that they are a poor developer .. by many professional, highly-productive developers standards, Javascript is a mess and ought to be avoided. For some, the use of Javascript to solve the cross-platform web development problems is a poor decision .. whereas your argument seems to be "everyone else is doing it therefore it must be good and anyone who disagrees with the collective mind is clearly stupid".

Sure, I'd like to know why he thought Javascript is a negative. I'd also like to know why some think its a positive. But I fail to see how invalidating his entire argument is going to prompt that discussion. Seems to me like those who disagree with him about Javascript just want to shut down the whole discourse - whereas there could, indeed, be very good reasons why Javascript is a negative.
Actually, I was responding to the GP stating a hypothesis.

But my question would be this: Are your political sponsors (a number of rungs up) invested in your work? Are they willing to take flak for your team (ie. take personal career risk) when (yes, when) things go wrong and provide the cover to help you turn things around, or are they more likely to throw the cocky Google-kids under the bus and declare "experiment failed" the second things turn a bit sour, and return to business as usual?

Now, answer the same question again, but 18 months from now, on the hypothetical that the next president isn't going to have this much on the agenda. What happens when heading the USDS doesn't mean briefing the president in the oval, but rather briefing a junior staffer to an undersecretary of the treasury?

Getting positive answers to all those is what real change looks like.
Others have answered most of your questions, but there's something I think deserves emphasizing:

In general, you cannot (by design) back up these devices; if you could, that would defeat a lot of the security they provide. That means that if you lose it, you will have to find a way to get 2FA disabled for each and every account you enabled it for. Some orgs will have pretty onerous (but necessary!) processes for doing so, like having to provide government ID or physically visiting a brick-and-mortar location to prove your identity and ownership of the account.

Some sites will allow you to simultaneously enroll two devices, so you can keep one as a backup, safe somewhere (though not too safe; if you were to, say, put it in a bank safe deposit box, it'd be a pain to fetch it any time you want to add a new account). But many sites only allow a single device to be enrolled.

Some (like Yubico) let you purchase a "cloned" set of devices, where you can get two (or more) devices with the same keys on them, so you could actually put one of them in a safe deposit box as soon as it comes in the mail to act as a backup. That also solves the issue of some sites only supporting one device, as all of the devices in the set are effectively the same device. However, it doesn't appear that this is an option with the Solo keys (not certain of this; happy to be wrong about it; it's possible that you might be able to wipe the key material off new Solo keys and put identical copies of new self-generated material onto more than one key). On the flip side, if someone steals your backup key, it becomes harder to deal with the situation; with distinct keys, you can just revoke access to the stolen key. But with cloned keys, revoking access to the stolen key will also revoke the key you use daily.

I just wanted to bring this aspect up, because people unfamiliar with these devices need to understand the consequences if they lose their key; it can be a huge pain in the ass to rectify that situation. This might be an understandably big turn-off to non-techies who are just looking to add a little extra security, but not a big maintenance burden and difficult failure modes.
I work with bog-standard deep learning and this does come up, albeit not in the research stage that most people are familiar with. The closer you get to deployment, the less adequate Python becomes and the more you struggle with artificial limitations like the GIL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20301619 had a good discussion on whether we've collectively "overfit" on this slow glue + fast matrix accelerator model.
These are all things I’ve been thinking about, as I am currently writing an svg-like language specifically for UI designers. What he said about languages for humans vs machines is so true; it’s a difficult question to answer.
I’m seeing just the opposite as you: if it’s good enough to do protein folding for Google and video classification for Tesla, it’s good enough for me.

I’m sure that Julia is better for some specific tasks, for example phyisical simulations, that are important for some types of scientific tasks, but I don’t see any valid argument on why a simple tensor engine in Python is not smart enough to simulate the human brain, which is just a bunch of connected neurons.
Interstate commerce is a federal matter for a reason. Lets not create a new logistical nightmare of a tax and regieme with jurisdictions.
Vertical scaling is where you add more resources to a machine. E.g; more RAM or processing power.

Horizontal scaling is where you add more machines to your pool of resources (servers).

Examples;

Horizontal scaling would be adding more web servers behind the load balancer to facilitate more traffic.

Vertical scaling would be adding more RAM to your database server to keep all the data (or just the indexes if your database is that big) in memory.
Text generation, when fed the data it needs, is a fully general task API. You would submit something like the following request to GPT-3.

Wikipedia sentence: In 1735 a volcano on the island of Foobar erupted.

Original article content: In the history of volcanic eruptions there have been many different notable eruptions. One occurred in the year 1601 on the island of Foobar. Another occurred 134 years later on the same island.

Does the citation match: Yes.

Wikipedia sentence: Bar Foobar was a prolific American poet.

Original article content: In recent years, the number of athletes who have been added to the American Sports Hall of Fame has increased dramatically. In fact, the Sports Hall of Fame just added its 1000th new member, Bar Foobar, on June 15, 2014.

Does the citation match: No.

Wikipedia sentence: The leader of the Foolandian revolution was Bob Jones Sr.

Original article content: The Foolandian revolution remains one of the hallmark events of the 20th century. It was spearheaded by Bob Jones Sr. who today has a Foolandian holiday named after him.

Does the citation match:

GPT-3 then fills in the last part (adding a Yes or No after "Does the citation match:") and you'd vary the final "Wikipedia sentence" and "Original article content." You'd probably flesh out the examples a little and add a few more of them, but that's the general idea. GPT-3 is very very good at delivering results in the right format (given this input, I would be very surprised if GPT-3 ever delivered something other than "Yes" or "No"). Whether it would be clever enough to do the matching well is a separate story, but I think it'd actually do a pretty good job since this is pretty up its alley.
I actually found gitcore-tutorial(7) to be a really great resource when I was learning git.
I agree with the comments below. It is not about resisting change. It is about making that change based on your own thoughts and observations, and to not let the notions of others solely guide your path.
Love it. This is great for some very specific use cases (thinking about wall displays / large dashboards). It is definitely NOT for accessibility or for the bulk of text on most web pages.

Not every library / tool has to be universally applicable to be useful.
It's strange though, because nobody got executed for dropping atomic bombs, which was also intentional mass murder.
I was unaware of the distinction. Thank you for pointing it out.

As for why I brought up his transgenderism, it was one of those unexamined beliefs based on hearsay that seemed natural to believe, and wasn't obvious how absurd it was until it was pointed out. Specifically, the idea that transgender people are less likely to engage in crime like murder or theft, and hence would be less dangerous to society after spending time in prison. But that logic doesn't really follow, and the assumption was probably false anyway. Apologies. I meant no disrespect.
That's absolutely wrong !
We (Online.net) have our own transit from Tata and Level3
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After the above comments about phone sex and prostitution I found this comment made me smile =)

So how much would you pay for just 1 hour of 'consultation' with a YC partner?
I'm not saying your conclusion isn't wrong, but your argument probably is

I'm not saying that wasn't a bad play of words.

You may be willing to give up your liberty, but I, and many with me, are not. Terrorists are trolls; dear people of US and the world, please stop feeding them. The same goes for war mongers of all stripes.
Somehow I was more excited about the list idea. I thought they'd build a really solid version of http://listiki.com/

Oh well, maybe we haven't seen everything yet.
I didn't even notice, maybe because it was Sunday and none of my data seems to have been lost. Well, except for the wiped events but I can live with that.
I cannot recall a similar issue sparking as much across-the-board outrage since the "war on terrorism" began. However taboo it may be to discuss relaxing security requirements, that may turn out to be the lesser of two political evils.
I find it quite sad that those link bait / sensationalist articles get up voted on HN.
While a book of screw-ups might be amusing, I think it might be more instructive to look at the "old school" ways that screw-ups like this were avoided.

I worked, back in the dark ages, for a health insurer that had two parallel environments-- one for testing/development, and one for production. None of the developers were allowed anywhere near the production environment. There was one full time employee, a former developer, whose primary job was to move code into production-- which he would only do when he received a signed document authorizing the change. Said document included the telephone numbers where the developer responsible for the code would be for the next 24 hours, so that one of the operators could call you in the middle of the night if your code caused any problems to the system.

At the time, I used to think that this was ridiculous. After managing a staff of programmers myself, I'm not so sure.
Do'h. Also they need a new name - I keep reading it as gropewith.us.
To me, that sounds like encouraging a race to the bottom.

When you're in the business of storing other people's data, things like transactions, binary backups, QUICK RESTORES, and separating dev from production shouldn't be afterthoughts. They are core attributes.

I would understand this for a demo, but not after a couple of years and half a million users. They have paying customers.

"Reliable code hosting

We spend all day and night making sure your repositories are secure, backed up and always available."
I'm not saying they shouldn't be expected to follow SOP, I am saying that I'm not surprised that it doesn't always happen. By no means should this be excused. People make mistakes. It just happens to be the case that this mistake is worse than others and may result in sexual assault charges.
What is politically untenable are stories like these. This is an absolute nightmare.
One time for Easter, my friends and I went to the Liquor store and bought 1 of every kind of beer they had. We spray painted them all and hid them in the yard for a hunt that evening. Much fun.

I also like to post this video different places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aERpL5IqqTo
You can use SHIFT-RETURN in Slack/Discord to insert a newline. Maybe not great for RSI, but it's muscle memory now.
Fair enough.

Regarding your second point, I think everywhere in the universe has some direction of the gravity field, however weak it is, and that would be the downward direction. But yea in some ideal place with exactly zero gravity, there's that special case.
> Back TWITCOIN with $1B in buy orders

> 100k people would install this

> Tons of creators would migrate for the FREE MONEY!

I’m surprised that the author thinks these are all /easy/.
I guess you have not seen season 2 of Picard; they just used the go-fast-around-a-star method from TOS again. Why this method is not usually used makes up a part of the plot.
I'm sure that there is a lot of smart things that can reduce the amount of storage needed. I'm not a researcher in this field, I wanted to do simple but valid calculations that represent a realistic scenario, accepting being more pessimistic to keep it simple.

I also found that increasing the production by 20% does more than increasing the stroage by 10x. I think at 200% renewable production and 2 TWh I ended up with 0 empty battery days in my simple model.

So I believe you when you say that the storage can be smaller. I hope I can also run these numbers myself if I find some time.

I am however also a bit sceptical about all these smart optimizations. It's hard for me to judge hoe much behavioural changes that would need. I'd rather overbuild production and storage than have people reject renewables, because they feel reminded of the DDR when they get their charge-time allotment to be consumed during a certain time only.

Thanks for the names for the approaches, will check that out! I didn't do any research on existing material, I wanted to figure it out on my own first, to get a better feeling for the problem. Often when is start with the papers, I don't actually end up really studying the problem, because I hunt trough (often hard to understand) papers and end up giving up being overwhelmed.
Why? Because I know many minimum wage workers who rent rooms instead of entire apartments?
Great site. Bookmarking
Some Tax Evasion laws do allow for criminal charges. tends to only be charged in extreme cases, but can happen.
See publicfig's comment - the author states that he was kidding, but didn't finish it since it would've added a lot of time to the project.
I'm not a Vagrant expert. I think it's possible to just ship a Vagrant file to the production server and turn it on, but I think the real value comes when it is used with a configuration management solution like Chef or Puppet. Use that to standardize between production and Vagrant, and then you can just deploy the application from one environment to the other without worrying about environment problems.
The tanks are also on teams. If you shoot at a tank of your own color, I don't think it's possible to score a hit (no friendly fire).

I played it for about two minutes and I'm hooked. All the upvotes.
Thanks. We've used PlayCanvas free tools (editor) and node.js for server-side code. Check out here: https://playcanvas.com/ and source code of client https://playcanvas.com/project/45093/overview/tanx as well as server code: https://github.com/Maksims/tanx
tl;dr Subliminal advertising may be based on a kernel of scientific truth, but in practice it's a devilishly tricky thing to pull off.
Nobody disagrees with that. But 100 years of management research, and we're nowhere near an objective measure for what makes a good hire.

The objective measure for an Uber ride is orders of magnitude simpler: "is reasonably civilised, unlikely to soil the car or abuse the driver" and even then, their approach to deciding who fits, is to just try, then kick you off the system if you don't live up to the criteria.
Valuations are not fixed in time. SpaceX is only starting up. Give it time.
There's been a lot of progress doing home ECM rifling of metal barrels. The objective is accessible firearms personal sovereignty, not specifically plastic barrels necessarily.
Even latency/at low queue depths? I’d expect it to have stunning low latency compared to standard nvme honestly.
The EU would need to rewrite it's tax code.

Right now, everything is going through Luxembourg and Ireland... perfectly legally!

> then invest that money into the EU-based startup ecosystem.

So bureaucrats deciding where money is going... How did that work out for the EU again?
As stated above, MS isn't selling this information. They are providing it for customer support purposes.

In the business world, having data marked "customer support only" is pretty common. There are quite a few laws acknowledging the difference. Importantly, the data is supposed to be kept separate and it sounds like Canonical screwed up here.
Someone complained about JSON above, but I think it does a nicer job here:

{
"path": [
[10, 10],
[90, 10],
[90, 90],
[10, 90],
[10, 10]
]
}

No need for the x and y, really. And it's still quite legible on one line.

{"path": [[10, 10], [90, 10], [90, 90], [10, 90], [10, 10]]}
I've sampled many screenshot tools over the years and it seems like everyone has their opinions. This looks like an improved version of Lightshot which is one of my favorites, but had a few limitations.

My current (windows only) favorite is Screenshot Captor [1] which definitely has a power user bent, but I really like the ability to always both copy the screenshot to clipboard as well as save the screenshot for later use. There's a lot of power built into the annotation/editing tools and a million and one ways to configure/custom process stuff afterwards.

[1]https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/s...
Because then you’d have to define its syntax and extension points. XML and namespaces solve that problem for you, so the only thing left for you to design is the actual structure of your data.
Working with the big 3 on a regular basis, DataGrip is the best tool I've found. (It lacks some management features, but it's been years since I needed those)
I had the same first impression. I see many cool products, some cool ideas/concepts, but....very few real businesses. That's how it goes though, 5 years from now, one, maybe two of these 'companies' will be around still. It's a fun game.
They could, except it seems that Motorola beat them to it. :) Hardware can't be much of a differentiator - I am thoroughly unimpressed with the recent avalanche of Android phones. They all look the same, with geeky differences such as dual-core, 1MP larger camera, trackball.

All these things are exciting to Engadget and r/Android but are almost irrelevant to consumers and confusing to boot. If I had to pick an Android phone today, I would have no idea how to do it. So I stick to my current phone and wait for real game-changers to appear.
2. Even if that was a requirement, they can be faked just like the certificate.

Huh?
I know, right.
I love haging out at HN. It's amazing what people around here keep doing - they keep raising the bar and make me better. :)
Hackers are after all the sanest and most helpful people around!
Same here. It's a local maximum.

However, I am forcing myself to learn Clojure. There must be other maxima in this space.
his left eye makes me happy. i wonder why.