jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Okay. So SourceForge is pooping in the fishbowl at it's own party. Instead of picking up and leaving, maybe we could just make a concerted effort to ask Sourceforge to stop doing this? You don't have to demand everyone boycott a useful service like this every time something you don't like happens.
Just to be clear, I completely agree with you. That's why I said:

> engineered on purpose (not a real scenario in this case! Purely a hypothetical).

Because I'm thinking of future scenarios where this kind of thing happens and we want to uncover the truth, and in which it's more likely to be on purpose. Probably more relevant to a nuclear strike or cyber attack or whatever than a biological weapon, given collateral damage.
No ringing, but with earplugs (the hearing protection kind) or airpods or anything else in my ears that seals tightly, in a quite environment I can hear a sort of rumble from clenched jaws if I listen very carefully. Probably the muscles vibrating a little or the bloodflow or something.
> That’s the kind of thing they should have put front and centre, because it completely changes the narrative.

Does it? I think that the heuristics about an occupier being bad are less useful than usual. The territory was occupied just after both countries gained independence from the USSR, because the arbitrarily drawn borders did not reflect the ethnic composition of the countries and there were worries among the Armenians about ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan.

Obviously, it's important historical context, but there's a huge amount of important historical context, such as the Armenian genocide, atrocities committed by both sides in the 1990s etc., which they also don't put front and centre, because it's simply not an article about the historical context.

If China invaded and occupied Taiwan, would you discount an article writing about the situation in Taiwan, just because it did not focus on the fact that officially Taiwan is not an independent country?
I had a similar BYOD situation since years back. I just worked out of a virtual machine on my pc. They cannot tell what's happening outside the VM, so they have no idea if you are playing a quick match to relax. :)

Linux host, window guest. When I left I just destroyed the VM and that was it.
I know its not C but this guy did it in Go among other small projects:

https://carltheperson.com/posts/10-things-linux
Netflix isn't working with brave browser? Anyone else?
“You seriously want to argue that disp(base,index,scale) is clearer than [disp+base+indexscale]?”*

Did anybody ever argue that?I always thought the AT&T code was indicative of a meta-assembler (https://www.encyclopedia.com/computing/dictionaries-thesauru...: “meta-assembler A program that accepts the syntactic and semantic description of an assembly language, and generates an assembler for that language. Compare compiler-compiler.”)

Such a meta-assembler would not know that this instruction does a few adds and a multiplication. It just would know how to pack a few values of varying bit width into a few bytes to output.

And yes, a meta-assembler could add syntactic sugar to support that, but they date from a time where kilobytes were expensive, and such ‘fluff’ deemed not worth it.

That also may be why it uses prefixes for register names. It avoids lots of relatively costly lookups in a symbol table. It also may make it easier/feasible to write a one-pass assembler.
When he gets asked about what percentage of people need to get vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity he keeps pulling out different numbers from his ass until he's pressed to give a fully accurate and honest answer. The truth is that we can't know for certain, but we can use models from existing diseases in order to try and make guesses which gives us a range which will vary in magnitude depending on the accuracy and correctness of the underlying model and its parameters. I don't think it's such a complex concept that people would be incapable of understanding a high level overview. Then as more data comes in or newer models are developed, you can tweak the range while providing a simple explanation for why the newer changes are believed to be more accurate. Fauci is a bad faith science communicator.

Edit: He has also admitted to providing different numbers over time in order to get people more comfortable with the idea. He needs to cut that paternalistic bullshit and just be straight with us.
Given that Ballmer has ~400 million shares of MSFT, I think the billion dollar increase in paper net worth probably softens the blow.
This type of crap makes me so, so mad. I don't have specific examples right now, but I find it increasingly common to be asked for personal information from the most obscure sources. Ordinarily, I can choose to either not sign up or choose a different option. But with something like the only sports league in town, what's a parents supposed to do? So frustrating.

Love the comment from throwawaygulf to submit fake data. Brilliant!
I remember this. There were several other copycats but never as expensive as that one.

It's been 12 years now and Apple still has not managed to find a solution to understanding the difference between excessively expensive scam/child-predatory apps vs justifiably high priced apps.
Well, the major difference here is that your C method requires that all this stuff be defined at compile time, while the Scheme deriv works with even functions that are dynamically defined at run time, anonymous functions, etc.

I'm not sure how you would do that in C, other than by Greenspunning up an implementation of first-class functions.
Then again, using the correct data structure is not really optimisation. I usually think of premature optimisation as unnecessary effort, but using a hash map isn't it.
Scalpers are always a short term thing. None of them ever order supply that will last years, usually 3-6 months at most. If you end up being caught holding the bag with a normal amount of demand, you then break even at best or likely lose a little re-selling them at the prices you paid for.

A year from now nvidia will have new GPUs and the 3000 series will be relatively easy to buy.
What about an aggregation company to whom artists can give a global, non-exclusive, irrevocable license that only gets licenses to songs and albums if and when the artists want?

This company would not be owned by the artists but rather by a benevolent third party that promises to do no evil (no sarcasm intended).

I am still not sure how the revenue will flow back to the artists as they do not own this new totally legitimate facilitating entity though. Ideally, we'd want to retain as little money as possible and send as much as possible back to the artists. My motivation is to let artists be in the driving seat as much as possible which means they reap as much of the profit as possible and also bear as much of the risk of their investment as well.

Ideas?
Something else that would be quite useful is to include links to the international names of each product so that you can compare their ingredients.

For example, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes [1][2] are called Frosties in the UK, France [3] and some parts of Europe, but do not have identical ingredients.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosted_Flakes

[2] http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/038000219634/frosted-...

[3] http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5053827104081/frostie...
The article skips over a point that strikes me as very interesting: they're identical twins, but one is right-handed and one is left-handed. I wonder how that happens?
Z3 Compact? If there's a market for certain devices, companies will sell them. What do you expect companies to do here? I don't understand this discussion.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7nt
Yes, I agree. I've also had the iPhone 6 since launch. One the second day I accidentally dropped it and the screen shattered. I was told by an Apple Genius to get AppleCare over the phone, which I did, and then I replaced my phone using that. That night, I bent it because I accidentally sat on it in my back pocket. I subsequently got this replaced under the free warranty, so frankly I'm satisfied with the level of care I've gotten from Apple regarding these problems.

In the past few months, I've gotten used to it, but I prefer my iPhone 5. I still have my iPhone 4 and 5 lying around, and the iPhone 5 is still nice to hold.

I always feel like the iphone6 is going to slip from my grasp. I never felt that with my iPhone 5. As well, the larger screen just doesn't do it for me. Too many buttons or links for "Next", etc are in the upper right or left hand corners, and I never can reach them with one hand. The overall usability of the iPhone 5 is much better.

I do like using ApplePay, and it is much easier to read websites with the iPhone6, especially when in landscape mode. In the end, I'll just adapt, but it's not like the iPhone 6 is a clear home run vs the iPhone 5, and that is probably meaningful in terms of how the pace of their innovation is slowing down.
That seems like a misapplication of the fallacy. If we assume 'worth their salt' is a synonym for 'good', then saying any good developer can operate a profiler is entirely reasonable.
I'm guessing that flu is much more global than malaria as well meaning that out of the number of people that could possibly be infected malaria is much more common.
Neat! I was thinking about an optimal design for a similar idea just the other day. Motivated by the lack of accountability by food producer/manufacturers - and lack of a venue for consumers to voice concerns.

This was a direct result of a jar of honey I had qualms about (and probably an aggregate of other concerns & thoughts that we all build up over time on topics like this).

I wrote the producer an email, but would much prefer voicing my opinion public - seems that would be a far more effective way to get the issue resolved.

Anyway, I gave it a go with this Open Food Facts site. Here's the product I added:

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5220400060/raw-organi...

My first impression is that the interface is a tad cluttered.

Secondly, some of the categorization fields on the Add Product page are redundant.

Last & most importantly: my most desired use-case for this application is not actually accommodated for.

In addition to the detailed product info, which the site does a nice job of allowing me to enter, I want to be able to leave feedback about the product itself.

For example, with this particular jar of honey my main gripe was the film/plastic foil residue left on the outer rim of the jar when you first open it up. It's great that this product is in a glass jar, is 100% raw and organic - but when little chunks of plastic foil end up in my honey it totally invalidates those benefits.

Anyway, the feedback feature could be as simple as a comment thread below the page. And perhaps thinking a bit father out, ideally: an Amazon style review system.

Either way - love the progress so far, props for a great app already.
We're going to need some more detail on that argument.
yeah. you definitely want palm detection off or it'll miss a good deal of swipes (if you mix typing and mousing). with palm detection off, you need the touchpad to be slightly offset to the left and small enough that it fits between your hands at rest.
Pantiently awaiting https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/routers/raxe500/ to actually be purhacasable so the 40-60 other wireless networks near me just "disappear". Already have all my non-wired clients upgraded with 6E m.2 chips, phones aside
I think the SD card example encapsulates the issue perfectly. I'm pretty sure that in 2021 that is an _extreme_ niche use case. I feel like only extremely serious photographers and perhaps a particular slice of musicians use them. It makes absolutely no sense for them to have that built into the laptop. 99% of people who own Macbooks or whatever don't own an SD card dongle because they don't need it. However, and extra USB-C port can be used for a multitude of things, including being an SD card reader if you have the dongle.

It's completely logical.

> The whole point of laptop is to save YOU space and headache or space in your BAG!

It most certainly is not. The point of a laptop is to strike a balance between portability and usability. Requiring the extra like two cubic inches of space in your bag for a dongle is assuredly not a design concern.
For my M1, I thought I was in a pinch when I forgot my charger at work. I was fine, though—I just plugged in my 18W USB-C phone charger and used it while WFH.
I kind of want a parody site, like "doitwithoutshoes.com", my first thought had been "doitwithoutjews.com" given it sounds the same, but obviously it would have to be very tastefully done to not come across as cheap or anti-Semitic.

The shoes idea works as you have to pay for them. Why pay for shoes? You know you get exactly the same benefits at Amazon while barefoot?

A classic similar example used to be the "godhatesfigs.com" parody of the Westboro Baptist church's similar slogan (sadly gone now) - with a bible passage where Jesus curses a fig tree.
Agreed, mostly. Expect for switching being an annoying chore.

Took my less than 10 mins to switch everything and download 1Password on all my devices. Super simple. Everything got imported over.
Your address should be included in the postcode database if you are registered to vote. Sometimes new addresses take a few months but they should get added eventually.

Go register to vote!
You can create humans without any effective free will, slavery existed for a long time. Do you honestly believe that an artificial lifeform will be harder to control than normal humans?
Could these PDFs be using external images? That would explain the long delays to load images (because they're being downloaded) and the variable PDF reader support.

Here's a StackOverflow post about external images in PDFs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1833222/adding-external-i...
> The things that the police in Britain are allowed to do in the name of "fighting terrorism" are extreme, for example.

Can you give an example of something the British police can do that the American counterparts can't ?
Yes I have read 6 or 7 books on learning javascript so that makes me an authority
I sincerely doubt HTTP2 qualifies as featuritis.

It's young; not expected to be base until this fall. Give it a few months and you'll see it in there.
Sometimes I hate web development. Comparing the buttons (http://primercss.io/buttons/) between Chrome and Safari on my Mac, the text is a pixel further up in Chrome and thus looks slightly wonky to me.

Here's a screenshot of the two side-by-side (Chrome left, Safari right), zoomed to 500% in Photoshop with a 1px grid: http://imgur.com/dhZrxFH
I'm glad you think we're useful!

Our number one focus is solving the student problem. We don't intent to take responsibilities away from these agencies, but rather to make it easier to fulfill them. We make it easier for them to fill their properties faster at no cost to them. Generally property management companies have received this very well.
"The physics behind the Bose-Einstein condensation is the transition from a particle-like behavior at high temperatures to a wave-like behavior at cold temperatures"

I'm no physicist, but isn't this backwards?
More clearly:

There's no significant push to move to anything except a market economy in the West (even most of the self-described “socialists” in the West want a market socialism, not a command economy), but there are simply efforts to make tweaks to mitigate what are perceived to be serious harms of un- or improperly-regulated markets without changing that the basic nature of the economy is market-based.

So, people might propose banning trade in a particular item that is seen as causing great harm external to those buying and selling it. Or might propose taxing it to fund harm mitigation, bringing the costs it involuntarily imposes on others into the trade transaction.

Or if a particular good is seen as essential but the market is widely seen as failing at delivering it, might propose socializing that industry (either health care or health insurance are common areas receiving that treatment in the developed West.)

So the cry of “free markets” in internal policy debates is never a rebuttal to an argument for a radically different economic system, but for minor tweaks to correct widely perceived serious harms from the existig market system. So, it has a tendency to seem to be “I want to profit at the expense of the public good”, because it only comes up when there is a debate because of a widespread concern that the profit motives driving the market are causing serious harm to the public good, and only as a defense against the proposed solution to that problem.
Traveling with kids is complicated.

Brussels - Bilbao at the end of Dec is 1500EUR for 3x tickets. Driving there & back is around 5-600EUR, including diesel, tolls and a cheap hotel half way.

There's cheaper tickets with budget airlines but getting to some rural Ryanair airport by 6AM with a toddler and a baby, no thanks.
Years ago Lomborg and scientific american had a major clash. There was quite a lot to it, here's a summary (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-response-to-lom...)

"Selective citations of the literature allow Lomborg to make statements that are correct but unrepresentative of the best, full state of environmental scientific knowledge"

"Yet his [lomborg's] critics are rarely attacking the facts in his citations per se; they fault what Lomborg does with them and, of course, his neglect of more relevant citations elsewhere."

Anyway, that's SA's side. Follow the link to find more. Caveats: this was years ago, and the quotes above are my selection, which you may consider one-sided.
The metric chosen here is still arbitrary, why would the number of interfaces be more important than the number of the amount of interconnected interfaces? It is still subjective and hence simplicity is still subjective too
> He also drops this doozy: "The real solution is to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty..."

> Oh, OK, so it's that's simple then. /s

Cheap fossil fuels since the 1800s are the major driver of all the exponential growth assumptions in economic models. That and improved technology; but the technology all required cheap energy. "Mine more fossil fuels and try to power through" is a strategy that could work. I don't think it will because I doubt we have enough fossil fuels (I'm a peak-oil-ist at heart) but the idea isn't so crazy that it can't be talked about.

It is a pretty fair thing to point out that focusing on cheap and abundant prosperity might be a better strategy than direct mitigation. I enjoy bringing up France, which has a pretty reasonable approximation of a carbon free electricity grid for military reasons; whereas the German Energiewende (bringing in solar and wind) has so far failed to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions and I think they have some sort of gas pipeline to Russia in the works.
Yeah, FWD with snow tires is like 1000x better than AWD with "all season" tires.

AWD has a great plus for thrust, but in terms of stopping, which is where most "oh shit" stuff happens, the snow tires are what's meaningful.

(I live in New Hampshire)
I don't know. "If our discipline had a Nobel Prize, people would consider it most legitimate" isn't really a genius level plan.
Trying to explain simple bad decision making with some kind of grand marketing strategy that involves incredible amounts of wasted work and huge amounts of coordination and the silence of hundreds of people is the most reddit thing ever.
> There is no way for me to immediately send $100 to anyone in the US without resorting to BTC or wire-transfers.

Paypal? Venmo?
Could be identified in some cases of amateur code, like PHP or Javascript or Clojure.

Good practice is to follow a very explicit coding style which makes code written by different developers indistinguishable - the more the better.

Go ahead, identify which developer wrote which part of Linux kernel or, god forbid, jdk/src/
Do the walks/talks always follow the same route and physical milestones?
This is not strictly true. Some engines work better with back-pressure, and removing or altering the exhaust without re-tuning usually loses power: http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/exhaust_road_perf.html
I think what they really mean by fear, in those advice, is actually "learned helplessness". You refrain from applying that great position you've always dreamed of, because you "fear" that being rejected would crush your dreams. This is a complex thought. What this woman lacks, as I understand, is something more elementary.
The BMJ have run a campaign to make more clinical trial data about Tamiflu public, along with questioning its effectiveness given the large sum of public money spent on it. It seems to me that their reporting is the main reason this story has seen the light of day.

There are lots of BMJ articles about it here: http://www.bmj.com/tamiflu
It's not that. There are two approaches here:

1) You're just playing: You want a limit.
2) You're serious about it: You want a warning.

Easy enough to understand I hope.
>So I don't think he really concerns himself with actually getting people to pay software developers. To him, that's an afterthought.

This is a strawman argument as Stallman does not advocate this at all. Stallman encourages for programmers to get paid for programming work and to sell software at any price that the customer will burden. Stallman is happy for everybody to do business and profit when the business does not hurt people. In the business model of selling proprietary software and selling SAAS, users are harmed of four specific freedoms of free software so Stallman will condemn any business (or any other non-business organization) that does this.
I think you're missing something about generics, yes. Firstly, often you don't know the type you're working with because you're writing a generic library, made to be used generically. Secondly, often you want to write some generic data structures or algorithms and parameterize them over multiple known types, and generics help you avoid repeating yourself but maintain strong static typing.
Extortion is perhaps not the most accurate word, going strictly by its definition. Anyway, the objection isn't to taxation of taxis, but rather to outright excluding new entrants to the taxi market. Which many cities do, via the medallion system.
I tried pledging like 10 times but bountysource authentication is sucking majorly. Sorry, man.
A lot of the nominal complexity of C++ is the result of the very precise control it offers over software behavior. In many programming languages this level of control is not even expressible. That extra level of control only seems like unnecessary complexity until you are designing software systems that require this level of control. At a minimum, precise control of memory management is absolutely essential for things like servers and database engines if performance matters at all.

That the author thinks C++ is competing with Go betrays a narrow perspective. There are many important things you can do in C++ that are not possible in Go, in part because of the features that make C++ "complex" that simpler languages do not have. As an obvious example, the renaissance of C++ for high-performance server systems is based in part on the fact that garbage collectors are a major drag on performance for these kinds of codes.

Which is not to say that C++ is not excessively complex, just that the author seems to lack an understanding of why some of that complexity is essential functionality.