jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Some articles make you stupider for having read them. This is one of them. It is full of nice sounding misinformation that you'd be better off forgetting.

You make this sweeping statement but do not explain it beyond suggesting that a couple of details may be incorrect. Please provide justification that the central argument of the article is incorrect.
As someone who is not all that familiar with education policy, is this basically analogous to for profit charter schools in the US?
> The result of this investigation is that all the "historical knowledge" which is taught in the school history books about these three camps, is based solely on the dubious testimonies of very few self-proclaimed "eyewitnesses", which are contradictive and technically and scientifically impossible.

Looks like a Holocaust denial movie to me.
Perhaps I should give a different example: a listbox filled with 1 million items, with a scrollbar.

If the public API requires you to give a new paint command on every frame (everytime the scrollbar is dragged), then regardless of whether the underlying rendering engine performs each of these paint commands, you still have to run through every item of the list (and so does the diff'ing code), making this a O(N) operation on every frame.
Oh I totally get that "it would be very nice" to get paid a lot and spend a little.

I am not debating that part, just the reality part.
Having an agenda is sometimes the only way to get powerful people to answer for controversy.

It's crazy to me that people are now claiming that asking "hard questions" is what is ruining journalism. As if we need more of Cuomo interviewing Cuomo on CNN.
Using renderdoc with normal opengl i count 660 draw calls on a hopefully representative frame.
Multiple meshes per drawcall are hard due to the architecture of renderware. I have considered sharing vertex and index buffers though. Do you think that will make a big difference?
How could you learn that from teaching a course? Did you create conflict among student and note how everything became chaos? Or do you just mean that a few complained about grades?
> But there is another downside of pay cuts for remote workers: A remote worker does not have access to the same market as someone living in a hot cluster like The Valley.

It’s not another downside, it’s the very reason the employer can reduce pay. They are betting your supply and demand curves are moving in such a way that you will be willing to accept a lower price, because you won’t have a better option.
blades are too expensive. We need a powerful new powerplant that can direct a stream of deficient energy in sufficient quantities to enable flight. Powerplant doesn't yet exist, and my energy converter doesn't, either. In the 50's it wasn't imagined that commanding computers would use so many resources, rather human ingenuity would be directed towards revolutionising existing technology. This is yet to materialise. Sad
I just laughed when I saw your comment, and the bugzilla links are styled as "visted" (i.e. gray instead of black.)

I hate that behavior. When I click in the address bar, it's because I want to edit the URL. If I want to go somewhere else, I'll open a new tab, or use a bookmark, or click a link on a page. In the rare case that I want to type a whole new URL, but keep the same tab, I can easily triple-click or [Cmd]+A before I begin typing.
Wow. Not even a call from the Recruiter to walk you through the offer letter?
the design is very similar to FIAT Multipla

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Multipla
Emacs was released in 1985. That's 36 years ago. Half of that is 18. What am I missing?
If thousands of people derive meaning and enjoyment out of a movie or a book, without the production of said movie or book killing anyone, it is quite obviously a much greater good than a single person committing murder for their own enjoyment.
> "highly available" Cloud SQL goes down every couple months for maintenance

Yep, drives me up the wall. We put a lot of work in making sure we're zero-downtime, pay for "Highly Available", and every couple of months I get the dreaded email. No explanation, nothing. Then we have to do the whole downtime dance.

If anyone from Cloud SQL is reading this, please, please stop doing this.
A lot of rural routes are by contractors with their own vehicles. RHD Jeeps and Subarus are popular for them.
There was other stuff she did in the past that had no relevance to the election that I think turned off a lot of voters in 2016, whether that specific issue was something important to people, I'm guessing at least a few.

My specific indifference to her was her connection to Monsanto, the company.
This page has them all:

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-custom-roles
Here's the list of some of his inspirations:
https://twitter.com/FMS_Cat/status/1379090489488470018
Did you try hard enough?

Inplement a small annual fee on the parcel based on market rate and watch the vacant housing appear back on the market in the blink of an eye.

You can't clear the housing market without this. Instead of supply/demand dynamic you get a Greater Fool dynamic on the market.
Can't argue with that lol
Strongly disagree with #11.

Writing code in an interview is a great way to tell if someone has social anxiety or feels pressure to get a job. It's a terrible way to tell if they're good at writing software.

Do a (paid) take-home test, ask them to review some fake code, or talk to their former coworkers instead. There are lots of shy, anxious people who are fantastic employees and never make it past a stupid whiteboard.
"The OECD, a rich country club"
The NYTimes has these endless articles where you scroll 20-30 pages before reaching the end. Fortunately they have added "takeaway" articles where they summarize the five most important points of a long story.
Free, high-quality speech-to-text running fast on one CPU thread. Not middleware, no cloud required, no GAFA APIs. 10 Voices in 5 languages. Can be run locally on your PC / device / phone.
> Trust me, the lead and manager both know when someone sucks

Through which mechanism do you think they know it? If nobody ever tells them that some piece of code is bad, this mechanism doesn't do its job.
> The most interesting cultural observation thats not often talked about is bare emacs and bare vi are equivalent-ish, but all the "cool" stuff in emacs is in the addons.

Agreed. That's pretty much the point. "GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor."

So it starts off bare but it's extensible and customizable.

That's it. That's the value proposition right there.
Well, we can always f*ck up both groups. It seems this is the current approach.
There are other attempts to build a game engine in Rust. In my opinion, what sets Bevy apart is the pace at which they’re developing. Look at the release notes for Bevy 0.4 (https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-4/), released 6 weeks after Bevy 0.3 (https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-3/). They have momentum, plenty of contributors (50+), improving the ergonomics of existing APIs, improving the performance of pieces already performing well.

If I was making a game today, I’d probably pick Unity. A year from now? I’d take a good look at where Bevy is then. Good luck to cart and the other contributors.
On teacher selection.

In Germany, public school teachers are state officials, meaning they are completely impossible to get rid of (even after some kinds of criminal convictions). We literally had a teacher who wasn't allowed to teach the younger classes anymore, because he was prone to rudely abuse them. He taught the older pupils instead, who were thought to be more resilient to his abuse. Another teacher (biology and chemistry) was deeply religious and had a funny way (to say it mildly) of teaching evolution, procreation and sex ed. Which lead to her just being assigned chemistry classes, where she then had to limit herself to teaching photosynthesis "as the lord created it"...
“Therefore that's why all the exchanges had to suspend GME training”

As far as I know, no exchange suspended trading in GME. It’s only some brokerage, due to collateral requirements and risks involved, that imposed limits on their clients.

People should educate themselves about investing and trading before starting. I blame Robinhood for this circus - it’s pure gamification - I guess 90% of guys trading on it don’t understand what they doing, let alone what’s really happening when they hit this “buy” button. This is the point that should be investigated - do we really want people to be able to loose all their money in a matter of days and sometimes hours, trading options with leverage ?
K9 used to feel like a great app, but I think it has been creaking around the edges for a while.

I've thrown in a few quid.

There isn't anything to rival it so I hope it gets some more developer time.
I mostly agree, but I'm quite liking Fairemail [1]

[1] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
> ...applying the value investing style. I thought this style is pretty much dead, because market efficiency has increased compared to the times when Benjamin Graham analysed securities by hand

Do you mean the manual part has gone out of style or fundamental analysis altogether?

My knowledge on finance/accounting is extremely limited and after watching some of his videos back in November, I took for granted that this is how this type of investors operate.
Sweden has started to view pupils like a product of a private corporation. We should copy our nordic neighbor Finland which has very high Pisa results. For now a 1:1 copy of Finland would do fine for Sweden.
yep, your submission is dead. most of your submissions are going through okay, so i'll bet your domain is on the blacklist. to be fair, it does look pretty spammy.

pg frowns on people making meta posts like this. you should email him to see if he'll take your domain off the blacklist. he responds pretty quickly. i myself have gotten a couple of emails from him over the years.

i don't feel it is my place to give out his email address, but i think you can google it up pretty quickly, if you try. he has also posted it here many times, in response to queries.
Yes. Agreed. I suspect it would be ridiculously hard to get this through (witness how much trouble we're having with IMO the far less controversial AV), 'though with the right framing and a sufficiently disgruntled populace I could see it happening. Maybe. Not going to hold my breath though.
The mind-blowingly relevant picture: http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.com/2011/02/human-radio-bubb...

Of course, light goes really, really fast compared to anything physics says we can possibly manage for things with more rest mass than photons. Although there could be aliens on another spiral arm, or Andromeda, communication would take longer than the lifetime of our civilization; and material trade would take longer than the lifetime of our species.
I think it fails the "easily understandable by the average voter" test. And that's kinda a big one if you actually want change.
I love it. We Brits would never go for it though. I can see the Daily Mail headlines now: "Fascists Given Seats in 'Election Lottery'".
I've always thought it was the equivalent of writing an accounting system in linear text. It think it's an abomination and I'm one of many working hard to end it.
Counter-counter-example: the ribbon.

(No, I don't personally care. I don't use Word.)
Except that the dispersant /necessarily/ makes it way into the water. Because they put it there.
I think he's going in the other direction: All he knows is Ruby, yet he wants to extend his editor with additional functionality. (Which is less than useful IMO, because most of the time you don't really want to extend your editor in the sense of programming new things. My .emacs invariably has 40-50 lines, but none of them should be called programming).
It probably depends on what you mean by 'resume'. A bit of paper that tells prospective employees about what hot shit you've done, with plenty links to the work seems useful. Just like a dating profile seems useful as a first pass.

A formal resume which says what qualifications you got and what skills you think you have, I agree, isn't very useful at all.
Scala is discussed frequently in Clojure circles, both positively and negatively. The former isn't fanboyism, and the latter isn't trashing -- it's talking about tradeoffs, experiences, and opinions. These things happen on the internet.

The more non-Java languages gain traction, the better the world is for Clojure programmers, so I wish the Scala community only the best. That said, I'll never hesitate to blow Clojure's horn when it has a striking advantage. I would expect nothing less in return.

Scala was mentioned positively as one of the next most favorite languages. I certainly wasn't meaning to put down Scala by including that respondent's (very, very tame IMO) comment.

Overly sensitive, perhaps? :-)
I have used Visual Studio from 6 to 2005 and I never perceived it as simple. The editors may be easy to learn because they follow CUA conventions, as are the menus.

But dig any deeper into the build system and you will quickly realize that the editor is the easy part of the job. You mistake the whole job for the easy part. Visual Studio (and Word, and Excel) are enormous tools with vast functionality.

Yes, I am an Emacs user. Today I decided to add two more mouse gesture bindings to my init.el - scroll-wheel action when the pointer is in the mode line - in addition to the bunch I already have that make my life easier. And the kind of Lisp you have to master to do that is material for a 5 minute tutorial - in the end, two lines were added to the init.el file. They are very easy to understand, BTW:

(global-set-key [mode-line mouse-4] 'next-buffer)
(global-set-key [mode-line mouse-5] 'previous-buffer)
I don't think those are completely valid counter examples. Sure you can fire any one of them up and start using them for the most basic task for which they're suited, but to really interact with them takes time and learning.

Just an anecdote: I work in a computer lab for these type of new users, and after being trained for many years to go to a file menu, the round button that serves as a menu access in Word 2010 trips a lot of people up. I get tons of "Where's the print button?" questions.
People forget about the B2B enterprise world and those who service it.

Bob Martin[1] claims that was one of the reasons Smalltalk died[2].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Bob

2. http://blip.tv/file/2089545
From my years on the NY scene which is filled with non-technical "entrepreneur"-types

5 points: Has been in executive team at a startup before

5 points: Has been involved in raising capital at a startup before, or is 1-degree from a VC or a few angels (real 1-degree not Twitter/LinkedIn 1-degree)

5 points: Has been in product marketing, biz dev, ad sales at a startup before

5 points: can and will write code

4 points: can get shit done, is well-organized and understands the software development process as opposed to say, selling and shipping widgets

2 points: Has been in product management at a startup before

2 points: Has worked in any biz role at a large tech company and rose to some form of executive post

-5 points: Has an MBA and has only worked at Hedge fund, Consulting company, or iBank

-5 points: Is an idea person and has never shipped a real product.

Your ideal person will score above 10 and close to 20 points on this test.
I think you’re right about the big picture at first but I think it all comes back around in the end.

So even if the smaller company fills more obscure gaps at first the bigger company will continue to gain steam and continue to need growth. That need for growth will eventually lead them back around to the obscure customers once they’ve gained all the mainstream customers they think they can. When that happens the company with the VC money will have grown much larger than the private company and will be able to put more resources into getting those obscure customers.

In my case Google (the ultimate example of a company that grew off VC money) actually sent a representative out to our company to sell us on Google Docs. Having the money to send someone out to an obscure little agency like mine is exactly what I mean by “more resources”
I think it looks malformed. A more graceful design wouldn't try to slap a rectangular screen onto an oval or round face, for example.

But the more important question is: what does this thing do? Why would anyone want it? If it's a telepresence robot, how is it better than the one that anybots already sells?
Thanks a lot. I'll definitely check these out. Really appreciate the info.
Hi all, I'm Matt, Verbz CTO, and I'm really humbled to see us here today! I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about what we are building with Verbz and also anything else about working with voice.
Yeah. That's because a half measure was taken. Instead of going full single payer we've gone full capitalist. The higher prices are the obvious consequence of allowing greedy _ to control who gets what quality of healthcare and who dies or goes bankrupt.
I find git a much better use case for that sort of thing, especially since it's about as many keystrokes.

If you've got a vim setup that works for you, great.
I just happened to google this question and now this post is the first result, so I'd say there was no harm in him asking.
self-reply: post title was edited.
The Indiana Governor disputes the allegation: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/2....

I find it interesting the whistle blower claims the governor attended a meeting where pressure was applied to back off the investigation. The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees?
Fun fact that's clear in the credits but not necessarily in the show itself: the Director Leslie Iwerks is the daughter of (several times interviewed) Imagineer Don Iwerks and granddaughter of classic Disney animator Ub Iwerks. Kind of neat the family connections embedded in the show (as is the story of the Art Director and her mother from one of the episodes).
The Heston model has stochastic volatility. You can add jumps to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_volatility_jump
Yeah there's some hindsight there... but are you saying that views have gone full circle? Where are these attitudes changing? JS has historically been sandboxed better than Java Applets and ActiveX, which is one reason why it's popular now.
I'm surprised there haven't been cases where criminals just mount two cameras with zoom lenses so that they capture both sides of the card as it enters the reader. You'd be able to reconstruct the number, the name and the 3 digit security code. Sure, you're not going to get 100% of the cards due to people blocking the cameras, but you also don't need to mount anything to the actual pump and can better avoid getting caught.
Wolfram has been claiming copyright to the output of Alpha for a long time.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090518204959409

It's a bit weird because Wolfram is not the one solely responsible for Alpha's output; the user has to give Alpha the right input to produce the right output, so I don't really know how this could work in court.
I have OCD. It is almost entirely under control now, but it derailed me for a good five years and put me in a depression so deep that I wanted to die.

Last week I actually wrote a very personal blog post about it if anyone is interested in understanding the disorder and what it means. It also talks about how I've personally tried to find meaning in life after dealing with it. Kind of navel-gazey.

Sometimes my feathers get ruffled when people say stuff like "I'm so OCD" and have no idea what they are talking about, but they really don't know any better and I think it is okay to let it slide. Sometimes we do need to trivialize horrible things (as long as we understand the real pain they cause) in order to cope.

http://lebo.io/2015/03/26/worth-the-fighting-for.html
Plus, inferior/high-latency is fine if it's global. I'm guessing people won't generally be trying to play Call of Duty on these universal links, but rather getting essential services like wikipedia, email, etc.
While I doubt the man in the article went through this trouble, it's actually not impossible to fake a boarding pass. Vanity Fair had a great article a while back about walking through security with Bruce Schneier.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insan...
Come on, even comedians know better than to think they are actually breaking any laws. Why take that risk when you can just legalize whatever you want to do without telling anyone?
I like the traffic lights example, because it demonstrates civil obedience; cooperation with their fellows in society, in general, regardless of their relationship, or agreement on ideology or religion.

I agree on in-group/out-group (and, eg, monomanical movie villains, abusing their blindly obedient minions, are unrealistic). I'm claiming the benefits of civil cooperation are so enormous that these in/out-group clashes will occur on an increasingly higher base of mutually beneficial cooperation. Because an in-group too separated is too weak.
> They never planned to cause Armageddon, only have the capability to respond to the other guy causing it in such a way that they'd never want to cause it.

This was one school of thought within the command and control structure, but was, from my understanding both a minority opinion and one held more by political oversight members than by the actual generals holding the keys.

Leslie Groves specifically felt that a nuclear exchange was inevitable, and that the US was in a position to win.
They already do that analysis and show similar questions while you're asking a question. You can say "well they should do it better" (and I'm sure they try), but the whole beauty of the Q&A model is combining the strengths of computers and humans. Computers are better at organizing and storing tons of information, but humans are much better at figuring out what other humans are really asking.
Yep, analytics is disabled. Thanks for the link, didn't look into the data being sent. But I can't confirm my devices trying to send out data if I SSH into them (just tried it for the 1st time).
I'd add one thing to this post: The Economist reliably lists counterpoints to its articles. It has a nuanced feel, rare for a news source. The weekly cycle also helps as sensationalized nonsense doesn't make the cut.

A trick someone told me was to read the sections in reverse (Obit, Books / Arts, Science etc); the writing quality is best towards the end!

PS this post reads a lot like the Johnson column on language, writing etc.
Energy cost per container for train versus container ship on the same route would be interesting.

Also pollution wise you can (at least in theory) electrify the whole route and run electric trains on it, which should make the whole thing quite clean (as long as the energy sources are reasonably clean).

For ships that's more involved - IIRC some can run on LNG but otherwise you would basically have to make them nuclear powered if you wanted zero emissions. At least until you have carbon capture & fuel synthesization running.
There is nothing preventing unique cultures to feel united as part of a whole. This is something that has been historically lacking and was very much "us vs them", although attitudes have been changing with events like Brexit or Trump getting elected. They made people feel like Europe as a whole was threatened.
Which is a problem for legislators. Taxi drivers should not be the arbiters of whether an animal is a true support animal or not.
Google at least has some form of worker council in Europe because of organizing + local law.
I picked up a cd version of the BBC radio play with Ian Holm as frodo, and bill nighy as Sam which was made around 30-40 years ago. Its really good and worth a listen
It's called suing deep pockets, not the persons actually liable.