jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They even shimmed in closed caption data and widescreen signalling to that same signal they've been using since the 40s. It's honestly beautiful.
Thats a loophole. I’ll bet that’ll get closed if this is successful. I think you’d need to work with tv providers not against them.
I'm curious about something: Is fever is a symptom that would appear without someone noticing it? Wouldn't other symptoms like chills/coughing manifest first?
Though there was a time when presenters knew not to wear anything with narrow vertical or fine chequerboard patterns, because the resulting high-frequency luminance signal would bleed through into the colour signal causing phantom colour effects. Interestingly the effect occasionaly occurs today, here in the UK where people use old Sky boxes to provide an RF output to a TV in another room.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I really don't understand a lot of what's going on, I hope you don't mind a few beginner questions

> these bailouts are going to happen. No one who understands what is at stack would choose to "let the house fall".

Are the measures being taken now just adding another layer onto the "house of cards" as some people describe it?

Will these measures just make it all fall harder at some point in the future?
Ever notice how many animals poop wherever and whenever they need? Humans are one of the few species with a socially mediated pooping reflex--that is, the urge to defecate is attenuated when around other people. This attenuation is stronger for some people than others. At the extreme end of the spectrum, some are very nearly physically incapable of defecating in the presence of other people.
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According to your math, homes in the US waste the energy equivalent of over 1,300 gulf oil spills every year. Ouch...
What's missing is the fact that this is just an L3 cache. There's another L2 shitbowl which picks up all the shit that's even more frequently used.
Nonsense. MMT is a theory of how government finance works and interacts with the foreign and private sectors (including money, banking and debt). It’s not something you try.

Overt Money Financing (OMF) is a policy option that MMT opens up, and there are probably shades of that in what’s going on, but I don’t see a whole lot of fiscal or monetary policy that actual MMT economists would say is a good idea.
There is huge power in knowing the name of a thing, isn’t there. Reminds me of a Wittgenstein quote: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
A key stakeholder of our product is constantly pushing us to make our ui more excel like.

As a product we are happy to oblige, but the cynic in me just wonders why they don't just use excel and close the loop on their csv import / export workflow
Peter Daszak isn't impartial, and quite frankly his presence on the team alone makes its conclusions suspect. From this [1] excellent investigation into the subject from New York Magazine:

> Peter Daszak, is a zoologist and bat-virus sample collector and the head of a New York nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance — a group that [...] has channeled money from the National Institutes of Health to Shi Zhengli’s laboratory in Wuhan, allowing the lab to carry on recombinant research into diseases of bats and humans.

> [...]

> Daszak, for his part, seems to have viewed his bat quests as part of an epic, quasi-religious death match. In a paper from 2008, Daszak and a co-author described Bruegel’s painting The Fall of the Rebel Angels and compared it to the contemporary human biological condition. The fallen angels could be seen as pathogenic organisms that had descended “through an evolutionary (not spiritual) pathway that takes them to a netherworld where they can feed only on our genes, our cells, our flesh,” Daszak wrote. “Will we succumb to the multitudinous horde? Are we to be cast downward into chthonic chaos represented here by the heaped up gibbering phantasmagory against which we rail and struggle?”

There's much more in there; it's clear that he's good friends and business partners with the WIV and it would be deeply his interest to suppress any consideration of the lab-escape hypothesis.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
The problem is that news stops being, well, new after it has been reported and if nothing changes, attention goes elsewhere.

The people were informed, they reacted as much as they are going to, and until new information comes out, the issue is where it is.
Regardless of your view point, there is still has freedom of speech, mostly free information and elections that matters so if the people dislike the policy they can change it.

Not saying it’s all golden, but these are very meaningful differences.
I pretty much agree with your characterisation of LessWrong (and i think Yudkowsky is a complete waste of time), but i found SSC to be much better. Part of the same scene, but much closer to reality. I wouldn't write off SSC for LW's failings.

Unrelatedly, i think your description also applies to modern Continental philosophy / critical theory - it's far more a game to prove who has the biggest brain than it is a real attempt to do anything useful.
It wasn’t the VB part of VBA that wasn’t well documented, but rather the “for A” part that was spotty. The application automation model wasn’t as thoroughly documented as most of Microsoft’s stuff. This was well after the Internet was seriously prevalent.

Things like destroying [iff present] and recreating Excel charts from scratch, including generating all the series labels, shapes, etc., updating elements in a word doc from an excel sheet, generating on-slide progress indicators in PowerPoint.
>we are not a covered entity under HIPAA

So why lie and say you are when directly asked? You could have just replied with this exact post when asked, instead you chose to blatantly lie. Why?

Did you just think nobody would notice and you'd just get away with it?

When people ask "Is customer data protected by HIPAA?" They don't mean "do you choose to follow HIPPA protocols [at the moment] with customer data?," They mean "Is customer data protected by HIPAA?" They want to know what you can legally do with their medical data, no what you currently choose to do with it. But you know that, you are playing stupid and are caught with your pants down.

We all know your competition also isn't a covered entity under HIPPA - so just admit you aren't either, don't be slimy and mealy-mouthed about it.
I smell a Pulitzer here
That's a shame and the first I've heard of the delay. For me and the software that I write, this is a must have feature and I was very much looking forward to its release.
You need to have multiple copies open at the same time if you want to refer to different parts at the same time.

Ctrl+f is great, but you end up losing the part of the book you were at before you started searching. So basically I needed to have 4 copies open at a time. 3 for different parts of the book I needed to refer to and one for searching. This made the actual size of the text way too small on a laptop screen.

Some of the problems could probably be solved with bookmarking software, but then you have to remember where each bookmark is instead of glancing at it.
It would be great if there were better ways to get the active ingredients in marijuana into people without hoping the plant has them in the right ratios, doesn't have the chemicals that cause bad side-effects, and doesn't need to be smoked (which hurts the lungs) or eaten in a fatty solution (which causes weight gain, which hurts everything else).
That looks Pretty Cool(tm) for dorks, but what's the real advantage over an actual piece of paper? Other than infinite content-to-weight ratio I don't really see the justification for the price tag. It's inconvenient, much heavier than single piece of paper or small magazines, journals, and printed out papers, needs a special pencil, requires charging.

I used to think that something like a Kindle DX would be amazing for reading datasheets while I design circuits, but in reality I need to draw the circuit and read multiple datasheets at the same time. One of these gizmos can't do that. Printing can do that, and at a tiny fraction of the price.
Nothing here, just a signup page.
Because it's not fixed. We don't usually hire for a particular, specific level of talent/experience except in rare cases when we need to fill out a specific growth area. We just bring in people who seem interesting and then see if we can fit them somewhere.

Also, we're honestly pretty new at this. Our company's a little over two years old, and only in the past year have we gone from poaching people we already know and trust to interviewing people we've never met.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8459264
There is a furniture store near where I live that was going out of business for 10 years. My wife and I always joked that they should have a "Proudly going out of business for 10 years" sign.

They finally went out of business last year. The business that replaced them was another furniture store which happened to be owned by the same people the owned the first. What gives with that anyways, is that some sort of tax gaming?
> That's not how it works. The F35 will detect those pilots far sooner than they will detect it and shoot them down before they even see them. Combine a battle space with dozens of MALD decoys flying around drawing shots, those poor pilots would have never had a chance because the F-35 pilots would never give their enemy the chance to shoot at them in the first place.

It matters when we're talking about full scale war between major powers. For some context, the US alone built 85,000 planes at the height of WW2 in one year alone. Granted planes back then were much simpler, but industrial processes have significantly improved. It's reasonable to say that the Chinese could produce 10,000+ 3rd or 4th gen fighters per year. Even at ridiculous kill ratios of 100:1 for each F22 and F35 it's easy to see that the balance of power would be pretty tenuous there. If the US wants to decisively win, it needs to ensure surge production capacity of up to several thousand stealth fighters per year.

Since the US let the INF lapse it will certainly build longer range cruise missiles. The entirety of mainland China will certainly be within range of those missiles from a variety of platforms within a few years if not sooner.

Not overnight, but it can be done.

Generals in every war for the last 150 years have been sure that technology would let them break the back of their opponents in record time. The reality is that in almost every case wars turn into long drawn out affairs that rarely go as well as one side had hoped before the conflict started.
Paying taxes is a form of civic participation. Sounds crazy, but reading about the system Russia uses makes me leery of forcing the government to make itself financially independent of its citizenry.

Theirs is a system called "tributary taxation." How it works is, anybody who is anybody in Russia has a boss. Not a boss like you have a boss, a political boss, think Boss Tweed back in the day. That boss has a boss, who has a boss, and so on until you have the one person in Russia all this money flows to, President Putin.

How much do you pay to your boss? As much as you wish/can. This isn't the mob. The price for falling behind isn't Ivan turning your knees into baseballs. You simply find yourself slowly forced out of political relevance. Pay to play at it's highest and finest. At a certain level you become untouchable by low-level cops and the like.

The government getting its operating budget from us makes the government accountable to citizens in the end. What we call 'corruption' becomes the norm otherwise.

More here: https://www.quora.com/Will-Russia-abandon-the-tributary-taxa...
Was it just me who decided not to open a random PDF from GitHub?
Tokens themselves are worthless, they reperesent valuable stuff. To represent valueable stuff, the token and the valuable thing must be strongly connected. Which means the thing must contain the token. Which means if I transact with the thing, I also hand over the token. Basically, the entire hoo-ha is about us being able to print UUIDs on things?
Adds another bar to independent startups.
Have to have revenue of minimum $150K before they can be considered as a news outlet.
Just more consolidation, disgrace.
They're trying to change that, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192201
> Do you people not realize that they've created a peer-pressure device in the form of the iPhone by packaging SMS and iMessage into 1 app called "Messages"? How is that even legal?!

https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-tips/best-messaging-apps-ios...
More than stabilization and tracking issues, is light pollution unless you have 300mm+ lenses. At that point with the tracking gear, lens and body you're well above a meh telescope, unless maybe you build the tracking gear yourself and are ok with some lens experimentation.

A cheap body+wide lens can do astro-photography, if you can easily get away from light pollution. If you want to look at things from a suburban backyard, a decent telescope is the way to go, maybe one with some sort of a camera attachment.
They have over 100 employees listed on LinkedIn. I am not sure employment there is all that secret.
FTA:

> U.S. tried to get Spain to curb its probes of Gitmo torture and rendition.

> U.S. knew all about massive corruption in Tunisia back in 2006 but went on supporting the government anyway, making it the pillar of its North Africa policy.

> U.S. pressured the European Union to accept GM — genetic modification, that is.

...
You say that like it's a bad thing.

There's been a lot of talk about 'gamification' of web sites/apps. Trophies/achievements are one of the biggest things on that list.

I like them. Besides bragging rights (which I have never yet used) they also give me some clear goals that are outside the box, like collecting all the widgets, or destroying all the cameras. Things that don't actually mean anything in the context of the game, but provide addition enjoyment and playtime.
Except that no one company could ever get approved by regulators in the US or EU to purchase ALL the major music companies. It would be extremely unlikely that Google would even get approved to purchase the two that are up for sale already.
Furthermore, they use the RIAA as a sort of trial balloon to feel out the larger questions of digital rights and intellectual property. That is to say: they will fight with disproportionate resources to protect the comparatively tiny industry, because the implications if they win are far larger than music.

And should they lose, the labels are a minor piece of the pie, and they can send another pawn into the fray with an adjusted argument. (say, their movie or TV units)
Some research has indicated that there are only a few slots for short term working memory, like people can only hold 6 to 7 items in their working memory. Being in the flow is like using all the slots in the working memory. Interruptions flush your short term working memory to use them to handle the interruption. It takes time to re-construct the working memory again. It is very annoying.
It makes as much sense as the 'Post-PC world', just marketing fluff.
Lisp is not to blame here - the community is.

A properly organized community can create standards for the use of macros to prevent their abuse and standardize on libraries to prevent fragmentation. Unfortunately, the Lisp community isn't well organized.

In other words, it's not a technical issue, it's a social issue.
they have digitally native coding monkeys now
Substring location won't tell you if your string is an email, for example.
What happens when you lose your laptop or netbook or whatever handy device you use to browse the web? Are you then leaving it to the OS login screen to protect everything? I d rather have passwords I remember in my head. If I forget often, I click the reset button/forgot your password. Whats more, I generally visit important places more often than unimportant ones, so I wont forget my important passwords. Also, start using sites like mint.com. Instead of logging into your bank account, log into mint to check balance and expenditures.

Lets face it, none of this is every gonna keep you totally out of trouble. If you re so paranoid (aka my security professor at school), shut all your online accounts down.
Interesting, though somewhat disturbing. Using this research to select from nature's random yield is one thing, but leads one into something of an ethical minefield. Inducing or enhancing similar characteristics by neural modification would be bad, but people who already exhibit such pathologies wouldn't find that troubling at all.

The author seems a olittle overly-assured of his conclusions but that may just be the result of the short article form - the bibliography seems worth a look. 3-4% of the adult male population is a higher incidence than I'd have expected.
Best false alarm ever.
The wise thing is to allow for and encourage the use of passphrases. Sentences are both easier to remember and harder to guess!
Here I was hoping for a way to get small code projects online quickly in a pretty way.
Here's the slightly modified answer I just posted there (even though it's an old question):

Back when he was still doing podcasts Joel Spolsky answered the similar question, which was partly "Does a good programmer without a CS degree really have a chance to get a job at Fogcreek?[1]" (It's near the end of the page.)

He says that for a good self-taught programmer who began with a high-level language, say PHP or Java, who comes at programming from a practical perspective, there are a few important parts of the CS curriculum the person may have missed out on, and goes on to list some books that would help fill in those gaps.

Off the top of his head he named these books in about this order:

- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs[2] (also free online[3])

- C Programming Language[4]

- The Unix Programming Environment[5]

- Introduction to Algorithms[6]

He said that those books covered the aspects of the CS curriculum his company needs in a good programmer, e.g. being able to create algorithms for an uncommon data structure.

Those books all have the added advantage of having exercises, and all being a very pleasant read. SICP is an introduction to many of the big ideas in CS: data structures, streams, recursion, interpretation, compilation, register machines, etc., and their implementation in Scheme (a kind of Lisp). It's a great place to start. The next two focus on implementation details like pointers and memory allocation. They are compact, powerful books. The last, Introduction to Algorithms, seems misleadingly titled, as it is fairly comprehensive and used in both undergraduate and graduate courses. If you work your way through the entire book, chapeau!

[1]: https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29060

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Prog...

[3]: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernigh...

[5]: http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Programming-Environment-Prentice-...

[6]: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-C...
I knew something was up when he said it costs >1mil/year to host the git-scm site.
He’s right that Hillary tried to ban violent video games but it was long before her election and there’s no evidence to suggest it had any bearing whatsoever on the election.
Some medical professionals also spread incorrect information regarding medical information. For example, an RN gave us incorrect info regarding something she claimed was necessary and was CDC-recommended. We asked for more information, and lo and behold, the CDC specifically said it was not necessary (and there were no other sources recommending it).

Doctors and their staff have an incentive to perform more procedures/tests because they get paid to do so. Because the patient often does not bear the full cost of procedures/testing, patients often do not do much diligence to see whether these are actually appropriate. While I don't think that the RN we were talking with was being malicious (surely her individual comp would not have been affected), I do think this is a symptom of a system with a principal-agent problem.

Of course, doctors can be an incredible source of information. But with all things, consider any potential conflicts of interest when taking advice.
This “age of moral indignation and outrage” has been going on for eighty years at least—at what point do we stop calling it an “age”?
I'll glom on this only to add that while building your own reflecting telescope is valuable as a fun project or an educational exercise, you are unlikely to save much (if any) money doing it. A lot of John Dobson's "Sidewalk Astronomer" guidance comes from a time in Southern California where it was easy to find discarded porthole glass for free to grind into a mirror blank and when hardware shops would hand out teflon samples for free. Even finding the correct cardboard "sonotubes" can be a little tricky these days, and you're likely to blow out the price of an Orion or Apertura procuring a mirror (or sourcing the glass and getting it silvered.)

I hope that doesn't deter the "makers" among you from building a Dobsonian for the experience of it all, but if you want to get from zero to observing as cheaply as possible these days, you're probably better off just buying a Dobsonian similar to the one the parent comment linked.
Thats called an ad. Mozilla is receiving money to show me something, thats what ad agencies do.
"Central" is the opposite of good practice in the IT world. So, in context, I guess this doesn't really surprise me.
Miss meaning child in another country, that is a difficult bug to mitigate.
How are those examples intended for just SaaS? Application monitoring and email marketing are used in all industries.
Regulation is the reason the EU can't become a hub for startups.
How do you guys sort articles? By date? Popularity?
Agreed, however the point I'm trying to make here is that it's essential for startup founders to be able to dedicate more time on the company than they would being on payroll at some random company from 9 to 5 - Monday to Friday.
Can we be real here?

If they were to downgrade the U.S. credit rating they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. Because the dollar would plummet and the dollar is still the world's reserve currency.

And as the article itself says...

"One of the reasons why the U.S. dollar is still the reserve currency is the lack of other options, and in two years there may still be no other options," said Tom Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies & Co. in New York.

The only real competitors are the euro (Europe has bigger problems than the U.S. does) and the Yuan (I'm sorry but most countries aren't going to trust China as the keeper of the default currency).

So what is S&P really up to?

They're trying to influence policy. S&P released the same warning in regards to the UK and the result was a flurry of austerity programs. Clearly they're hoping for the same result here.

I don't disagree with that goal by the way. I'm just saying call a spade a spade. This is a naked attempt to influence policy
Chris has been very open with his earnings since he first quit his job last year (http://www.kreci.net/blogging/i-gave-up-a-day-job-to-make-a-...). It's been inspirational to see how far he's progressed each month.
With that technology, no wonder Color got so much funding. The list of stuff that they can find out about you is amazing. That would produce some very targeted ads.
"All the President's Men: The Quickening"
IBM is big on R&D in India...and squeezing money out of customers for projects they can't build anymore. I work for Microsoft, I don't want to work for IBM.