jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Vimeo: Right below the description, see: http://imgur.com/yuf4R

Obviously not an automatic fallback but I guess that's because it is still in 'beta'.

Youtube videos with ads won't work, or embedded ones (I think the same goes for embedded vimeo vids)
What about politely refuse and still feel good (or, feel as before) and let person take care of their own disappointment or not?
That doesn't follow from what I wrote. Every shape in the sequence of shapes has a circumference/length of 4, and is not a circle. The limiting shape is a circle and does not have a circumference/length of 4, but of pi.

We can have a bijection from the original square to the circle. Why is this a surprise? It's not length preserving. We can have a bijection from the interval [0,1] to the interval [0,2]. That's not length preserving either.

If I've misunderstood you then perhaps you could explain your thinking in more detail. I don't understand where you think there are two versions of a circle.
Anecdotely, I have attempted this with my girlfriend on several occasions, using the phrase, "Don't be offended, but..."

I can confirm it does not work.
I'm sorry, but I just don't agree...
reminds me of this whole AMD/Intel TDP/ACP/Max power/Sustained power. Making sure you are comparing apples to oranges...
What is even more tricky is that the set of functions differentiable in at least one point is first category, and thus nowhere differentiable continuous functions are dense in continuous functions space.
This is a common mistake to make when you don't really understand how language works. The dictionary definitions (or 'meanings') of words are mostly irrelevant. The only purpose of words is to link a signifier to a mental construct. All the phrases listed in the article are not used as phrases (related signifiers), but as whole signifiers. The dictionary meanings of the individual words in the phrases, along with what those related meanings would imply for the phrase as a whole, are irrelevant to the rest of the sentence, and only serve to provide historical context.
Hit songwriters, in interviews, often admit that their most successful hit song was one they thought was just stupid, even not worth recording.

A lot of times, hit songs don't have much depth to them, even if they're catchy on the surface. A musician is probably perceiving the lack of depth more than the catchiness, whereas the listeners who make it a hit song perceive the catchiness long before the lack of depth catches up to them.
Yes, that may be the case for people who are savvy enough/willing to uninstall it. But for most people, this is not the case, and they're the ones who have to deal with the fallout.
True, not confirmed by Intel, but backed by fairly substantial sources: http://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20210113-10651.ht...

And: Intel CEO Bob Swan said the company had identified a "defect mode" in its 7nm process that caused yield degradation issues. As a result, Intel has invested in "contingency plans," which Swan later defined as including using third-party foundries.
the comments had some good stuff: yes, shouldn't be per-manufacturer and no caps, but maybe don't OVERLY punish late entrants by giving them maybe an extra grand or two of advantage.

It also should not apply above a certain price point, or phase out above 50k.

It should phase out 1k / year, and there should be a phase-in of various ICE taxes: gasoline, car registration (so you get used cars), and new ICE cars.

I also think that there should be a very rapidly expanding tax on any ICE that isn't a PHEV, and that the qualifying all-electric range should climb 10 miles per year starting at 25 miles. PHEVs will maximize battery supply and is the low hanging fruit for reducing emissions, if it is true that 80-90% of trips can be covered by 30-50 mile range.
It's not a thing. Shitty low-effort recruiting is a thing. EG I have C++ on my resume from like 10+ years ago and I get invites for exciting senior developer opportunities that I am technically qualified for, but if you actually read my LI you'll see I've moved in a different direction.

There's no "neging" though that's ridiculous. Like, you think a recruiter you've never seen before or since will intentionally spend their time sending you a role you'd never apply for?
Nah quite the opposite. The world has had 14 years to buy Bitcoin. Happened at the same time as the iPhone. Everyone in these poor countries has iPhones or android devices and nobody wants Bitcoin for them except the first world pushers. I defer to the locals. If they thought it was any good they’d use it. They don’t.

I would tell those people that if their government is broken they have bigger problems than their currency and once they solve their leadership problems the currency won’t be an issue anymore. Tough but true. Nothing there changes with Bitcoin and it’s $20 transaction fees.
> Now... navigation on or over land by performing SLAM on ground features... that would be interesting.

I'd more be interested in guidance using x-ray emissions from pulsars and neutron stars. Constant reference points that are almost impossible to jam.
Misconceptions about elements of a secretive process? Hardly surprising given the secrecy surrounding something like this.
There is an issue up for grabs: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/25
The chemical pathway that allows the virus to enter the cell changes based on the pH of the cell. Chloroquine changes the pH of that pathway and therefore may slow/stop the entry of the virus into the cell.
Wait about thirty years and Rust might be "mature" enough to enter such conservative industries.
You realizing shipping price is a completely artificial construct?

Amazon doesn’t magically have power to ship things for free.

You’ve been paying more for items on Amazon because of “free shipping”.
I agree.

It is often psychologically more appealing to win battles rather than achieve long term goals. For instance someone wants to get to work faster, but instead they get in a fist fight with the driver in the car ahead of them because the driver was driving too slow.

Clausewitz hit the nail on the head when he said, "war is the continuation of policy by additional means". A rational strategy uses battles to achieve policy goals. Losing a battle by minimizing your own losses to win a war is rational with that context.

- In German "Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln" Politik with all its varied meaning: often translated into english as politics or policy or political.
If you want to answer anonymously, I created a question on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-regretted-taking-an-inves...
There used to be news groups that would talk about "the last good version" of software, because it was widely recognised that good software would bloat until it broke.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/137703/article.html
I say be sure to dry run your entire presentation and to time it. You will figure out any nuances and time issues with your presentation.
I just had a VRML flash.
IIRC the Coursera class autograder used actual code, and offered _some_ design improvement suggestions - about code correctness, edge cases, speed. Of course, it couldn't point out other design flaws.

I think that the Java used in that class was a good approach. By limiting the packages you could use, they prevented leveraging builtin facilities (e.g. Java collections) and forced people to write their own data structures.
Relevant article from the Plan 9 wiki: https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/

And a quote from there: "The basic summary is cursoring around required a higher level of mental planning to organize the interaction, which apparently obscures the perception of the passage of time--think of being deeply engaged in something and being surprised when you look at a clock-- whereas the use of the mouse was done at a lower, mechanical level that left the mind free for higher things, such as complaining about the mouse."
Memory allocation and scheduling are both important considerations but are separate problems.

BEAM concurrency only involves memory allocation when the processes are created. Switching between them doesn't involve allocation and is very quick (don't forget we are talking about BEAM processes here not OS ones - it's all in userspace and very efficient). As long as you pre-create your pool of worker processes concurrency doesn't incur much allocation hit.

You're right that immutability might do though. I am curious to see how this goes - the speed that Elixir normally runs at combined with some data sharing optimisations means that this issue doesn't exist normally. At the speed we care about when doing numerical work it's more of a concern. Or maybe we'll never get into the realms of full optimised C++ where things are sized for cache lines etc. (and that's ok).
I think there's still some space for something like fox pro and even access nowadays. Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and that doesn't need to be fancy, specially on the back office.
I very much want to agree with you. Only that I do not know any more what "Pythonic" is supposed to mean.

One thing that Larry Hastings refers to seems often to be underestimated - readability.

It seems nice to be able to do code golfing and use pattern matching to reduce an expression from maybe 50 lines to 10.

But what matters far more is that one can read code easily, without guessing, and without consulting definitions of edge cases. Even in smaller projects, one will read 10 times more code than one writes. In larger projects and as a senior programmer, that could be a factor 100 or 1000. Not that unusual to work one week through a bug in someone else's code, and fix it by changing a single line. As code becomes more complex, it becomes really important to understand exactly what it means, without guessing. This is key for writing robust, reliable and correct code (and this is perhaps why the ML and functional languages, which stress correctness, tend to be quite compact).

And while it might be satisfying puzzle-solving for smart and easily bored people, like you and me, to write that pattern matching code and reduce its length, it is just not feasible to read through all the PEPs describing surprising syntactic edge cases in a larger code base.
While this is all true, less voltage comes with a price and that is more current.

2 times less voltage === 4 times more heating for the same resistance (heating is calculated from R times I^2).

This means that short circuits, wiring problems are potentially much dangerous.
Cement production is not a vague link to climate change. [0]

> In 2016, world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total. More than half of that came from the calcination process.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844
The OEM key would be usually encoded into the BIOS on newer releases of Windows, and could be read from a working Windows install using a freeware utility. In practice, it was unlikely you'd have to reinstall on a freshly wiped PC that you don't have an OEM key for.
Desktop motherboard manufacturers definitely do it, and they have FAQs of how to disable it: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1043788/
Yes, and God is the developer and maintainer, who created this huge simulation program which contains bugs forcing him to kill processes constantly. That's why we do not have immortal life. He tried to fix bugs by using a debugger called Jesus but failed. He so desperately killed the debugger process and let the system keep running.

Why God create this huge simulation? He want to post ads in this universe and he is using a datacenter to simulate user behavior!
The documentation is misleading. RethinkDB instances launched from the Marketplace all run on an EBS volume.
Apparently you didn't RTFA... easy, hide the comments until you reach them.
That's great, but what is the strategy for data persistence?

As I understand it, if you aren't using EBS, unless you snapshot your instances, they are reset to their last snapshot once they are shut down. Doesn't that seem like a huge risk to put your database under?

Are there good strategies for mirroring data onto EBS or running a slave instance or something?
There's a difference between being vaguely against drug prohibition and having the facts and stories necessary to convince others. In the past 18 months I've read 6 or 7 books about drugs, gone to three conferences on the science of drugs, and listened to another 50+ hours of podcasts. From all this I've learned an enormous amount of stuff that I would have never learned just by reading Reddit or whatever.

There is a world of difference between knowing that many people smoke weed, versus having not only memorized the numbers from the most reputable surveys but also having read through their methodology, as well as all of the scientific research that methodology is based on. (If your curious about the validity of self-reported drug use, check out this: http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/Monograph167/Mo...)

I'm not trying to defend this story specifically, although I thought it was good, but there are definitely reasons for learning more about drugs even if you're already against prohibition.

(Also, for what it's worth, if you go through my submissions page there is an enormous amount of really intellectually interesting stuff related to drugs, drug use, the war on drugs, etc., and virtually all of it would be completely new to those reading it.)
With Smalltalk? Sure. With Seaside? No, that's not what it was designed for.

I haven't yet convinced Twitter to do a rewrite in Smalltalk ;). But it would be a step up from Ruby, even if only to get a better garbage collector.
Their maps app is especially great - makes it so easy to find where and when the closest meetinghouse is, anywhere in the world. http://maps.lds.org
I think you were misread by whoever downvoted you. I agree that the incentive structure for LEOs needs to change dramatically; and that the incentives for Barney Fife were more conducive to effective and non-abusive police work than today's.

Unfortunately, I doubt fixing LEO incentives will be as simple as rewinding the USA to Andy Griffith.
Fact is the federal gov't has not been harrasing people in states that have legalized pot nearly as much in the previous administartion.

But congress might actually be changing in a way that is more condusive to change becuase the tea party/libertarian types are more open to this than the socially conservative republicans a lot of them are replacing. We'll see. But even I think it is a lower level priority for the federal government and comes down to state and local government. The cops in this story are local, not the FBI.
I'm okay with this. Their last downtime was 3 years ago.

I still get robotic 'network busy' announcements from my mobile phone network, and I pay an awful lot more for that (under an infinitely more draconian contract) than I do for Skype.
Paragraph 2 of the cable starts with this:

"This cable reviews the progress Sweden has made on the Special 301 Initiative Action plan which we presented to the GOS at the conclusion of the Special 301 review 2008 (Ref B)."

Basically, the government of Sweden did almost everything the US government told it to do, to avoid being put on the scary-sounding watch-list.
One thing that isn't captured nowadays is that a lot of what "couldn't scale" before - i.e manual work, the type of which you described - is now much more scalable due to how much easier it is to automate tasks at scale.

It's suddenly feasible to build businesses that require at-scale manual operations, because you can do so in a predictable, revenue-positive way.
> usual day-to-day interactions are not nice

This describes a lot of jobs. Statistically, police work is less fatal than roofing, truck driving, garbage collecting and farming [1]. With respect to dealing with non-dangerous people who simply aren't nice, talk to a server or bartender or anyone who works in retail.

> will likely fight and resist

A small fraction (about one in eight) resist arrest [2]. Most of this is due to police having been thanklessly given, fairly recently, the job of dealing with our mentally ill [3].

> can just avoid risky situations by doing absolute minimum and not showing up or not engaging

Again, this describes a lot of jobs. If a department is staffed by people who won't work unless they feel free to break the law, it's crying out for overhaul.

We've given police tremendous pay, perks and employment protections. If it turns out a good fraction of a department's staff are too lethargic or terrified to do their jobs (for which we have zero evidence), they were improperly staffed.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-23/how-da...

[2] https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36600547/Terrill_Polic...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Terrill/publica...
Regarding sever hosting: Hetzner has a very attractive server auction on their website [0]. For about 30€ you can get several terrabytes with a fast cpu and plenty of RAM. No set-up fee either. These are unmanaged dedicated root servers.
Basically cancelled sever subscriptions are first offered here again before they take apart the server. So the offerings vary and are time-limited. However, if you pull the trigger there is no limit for how long you can keep using it.
Servers are in Germany or Finnland.

I am currently waiting for slightly better offerings (a few weeks ago when I found out there were slightly more attractive options) and then will pull the trigger.

I yet have to find anything that comes close to this bang-for-buck ratio.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/sb
There's been a lot of features on the site that never ended up being backported to old.reddit. Case in point, if a submission is autofiltered/spamholed or removed by a mod, you get a bar at the top of the submission saying so. ONLY on the new page. As a moderator, this really pissed me off as I was accustomed to using the old subdomain and reporting posts for other subs (I wasn't a mod in) I didn't know were already removed.

At this rate, despite the guildings being a cash cow for Reddit (some subs note that total guildings equals HUNDRED of years of server time paid for, r/pics, for example, is at 229 years alone.)... They still insist on shuffling people onto their own app when others are much better. What exactly are they doing with the user data if they're effectively set for life on guildings alone? (And then there's the Tencent funding on top of that.)

Then there was some content filtering that left a really, really bad taste in my mouth. In a private sub, I quoted what a cop had said to me when I tried to report an assault. I was given a suspension for 'hateful content.' An admin agreed that I shouldn't have had a timeout for that post, but by then it was too late. I had enough. They're content to let automation take place of personal judgement, in a PRIVATE SUB even. Still saw plenty of offensive terms in other, public, subs... clearly in an antagonistic context. The ongoing drama, the consistently terrible judgement of admins, the bullshit that is reddit chat and the pornbot spam problem they did nothing about for months... I just had enough.

I ended up purging my reddit accounts. I had a 14 year, 13 year and 11 year account (split up for subs, my way of doing multireddits before multireddits existed, also helpful when you're a mod and get some crazy, spiteful banned users trying to follow you around.)... I still browse select subs occasionally but my days of being an active poster, moderator and enthusiastic user of Reddit are dead and buried.

Doesn't matter what kind of sub you run or what you encounter as a user... if you're not a powermod, you're the last thing they care to hear feedback from.

Thank you for the heads up about teddit. I'll be glad to have another layer of separation between my browser and Reddit itself.

Edit: Another hilariously myopic example of how autofiltering is broken on Reddit. Friend of mine has a bot in a private sub that welcomes people into the sub. He pinged a user named chink_in_the_armor and got permabanned as a result.
Because Moxie is involved in mobilecoin and needs to pump it before he can dump it.
I have on the odd occasion switched back to a feature phone. My longest streak was about 9 months and it was an interesting experience.

For the first week I found myself looking for it in situations I never noticed, for example while waiting for my coffee to be made. Instead I had to find other things to do, like observe my surroundings, observe other people, be with my thoughts.

There are quite a few things that are _very_ handy having a smart phone around, though. Like Google Maps, or internet banking, but these can be mitigated by having an inexpensive secondary plan and keeping your 'smart phone' in your car, and most others can be managed by a web browser, _when you are at a computer_.

I have even considered what it might be like not having a phone at all for a while, and how odd would that be? I got my first phone at 16 years old and then I was able to contact friends to find out where they were if they were late, or to inform others that I was late, yet it was not very long ago that if you planned to meet someone you were both uncontactable while attempting to meet up.

It used to be a thing that you'd hang around for 30 or 60 minutes to see if your friend would 'show up' but I can't imagine that happening these days, for better or worse.
I read all of your site and checked out Observable as well. In spite of that I still can't succinctly answer the following:

Who is the target market?

What urgent, important problem does it solve?

You claim "Jig makes writing business apps faster than ever before." But I can't find any compelling evidence to backup that claim.

Sales and marketing are harder than it appears. If you haven't done it before then your
best bet is to find a co-founder who has the sales and marketing skills and experience that you lack. Of course, they would need to have the knowledge of your target market's needs and motivations. They should also be able to help you improve the website and the product examples.
I expected this to involve Pom Poko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko). Instead I learned that the US had an industry exporting raccoons to Japan!
The benefits of side projects can also be demonstrated by "in company" side projects I guess? 20% time etc. (gmail, post-it notes)

I'm trying to attempt to introduce 20% time in my department, trying to convince the management that it is worthwhile is going to be hard I think.

Some of the benefits I can see, learning for staff, fulfilment for staff both of which aid retention, and potential products or product improvements that would otherwise not see the light of day.

Anyone got any suggestions of ways of introducing 20% time, other than listing benefits and crossing fingers?
How do you set env vars with out a file?
Obviously. To anyone who's ever had an authentic encounter with film/art, money and the doctrine of utilitarianism no longer mean anything to you. It's dust.
Just confirmed that Chromium reuses the same google-analytics connection for two completely separate web sites and it keeps the socket open for 4 minutes. It almost certainly does the same thing for doubleclick.net.

If you spend less than 4 minutes per page then that entire browsing session across all google-analytics pages is uniquely identified to google. Even if you have many people behind a NAT and they have 3rd party cookies disabled, each one's browsing is still a separate clickstream to Google.

Only thing making a person's browsing opaque to google is if they browse behind a proxy with a bunch of other people mixed in, and SPDY/HTTP2 conveniently enough make proxies very difficult by needing to trust the proxy's certificate on each client. So anybody needing a proxy will use HTTP1 and anybody using HTTP2 has their browsing sessions uniquely identified.
That's about raccoon dogs (tanuki), not raccoons.