jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I totally agree. Within fundamental physics, I think you're totally right that people were, in a sense, "spoiled" by the great revolutions of quantum mechanics and relativity, and seem to think the next revolution is right around the corner if they can just gedankenexperiment hard enough in their heads. But it probably isn't. It's probably going to be a long slog of hard work and incremental advances that will be necessary to set us up for the next breakthrough.
On an iphone, I can't recommend https://mapout.app/ enough. It's simple & good-looking, it's easy to download tiles of the area you need (not countries) while on wifi, but designed to work mostly offline. It's a few dollars up front & then zero nagging.

Friend on Android like OsmAnd, which sounds like a much bigger app, contours are an add-on IIRC. I think can even do things like editing the map & submitting your corrections.

I have never got around to printing maps, but have occasionally carried paper maps too. OSM is not as detailed as the best EU country maps, but is far better than anything on paper in most faraway mountain ranges.
I have been following wallstreetonparade.com for months. Although the major media and the federal government does not talk about it, I believe wallstreetonparade.com.

There are great theoretical considerations of disaster capitalism, such as "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, which hopefully everybody has read by now.

I recently read another good one, which I found at City Lights Bookstore in SF: "The Making of the Indebted Man", by Maurizio Lazzarato. This book is insightful, and a treasure.

Coronavirus is certainly a problem, no question. However, there was already a problem occuring.

Edit: See for yourself. Go to the NY Fed website and look at the numbers. They takeoff in September.
https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/tomo-results-d...
Cloudfront in front of S3 with a free ACM cert. done
Based on my reading it's a very low risk. If you want to reduce it further, give it a quick zap in the microwave or toaster oven.
One of the big building code changes was actually very simple.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(engineering)#Hurricane_...

But ties changed the entire survivability of a building in high winds.
I wouldn't today, but the wright brothers did, because if they hadn't, someone else would've done it instead. If you wanted to be trail blazers like the wright brothers were, you might have to put up with a hacked together MVP. I m just saying that anyone who lost their money did so knowing the risks (or should have known the risks).
I don't have a large friend group, but got most of them to switch after I left Facebook. I just don't tell people I have WA and only use it if I'm forced to. You might have better luck since Signal has improved a lot in the last 6 months and there is a good desktop app. But you might need better friends. Friends that might warn you about how your username suggests you're a Nazi (I assume this is unintentional and just your birthday year)[0]

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=88
and it will be okay because COVID doesn't matter if your protesting for equality and justice, by burning down a Wendy's or looting everything in a Target or destroying a clothing store.

After the big riots in Chicago I drove out on Sunday to get some Taco Bell. There were bricks through it, everything was closed up, and a fat security guard sat on a chair doing nothing as people looted a clothing store.

Next day on the news the owner, a Korean American, said he lost $300,000 on a news broadcast. Insurance would cover none of it (insurance rarely covers riots) and he said he was considering declaring it a loss and closing the store forever.

During the 2nd riot they looted a 7/11 a man had restocked with his savings. He lost everything and it's closed now.

People are now scared out of their minds because people walked around the Capitol Build and broke a few desks. Was it wrong? absolutely? But it's a message:

The people peacefully strolled through your rich fucking establishment, sat in your chairs, found your candy drawer (that was funny) and then left ... oh and one unarmed woman got shot and died by a security officer, but she wasn't black, so we'll forget about her tomorrow.
right, I think the title should change to indicate that the link is dated from November, just after the M1 Macs announcement and nothing new
How about legal exposure, or loss of political goodwill (especially by those who are in positions to provide oversight)? Profitability is impacted by more factors than just raw "number of eyeballs"
Nobody above equivocated antifa to today’s rioters in any way except to the shared human tendency to delete self-incriminating evidence. Please don’t do this here.
I think it's more like a Wayback Machine for R programs, since the author of a science paper isn't required to use groundhog. You can just provide it the date the article was published, which you already know, and it reconstructs how the program worked on that day.

Also, because groundhog isn't made for the author to use, whether or not the interface changes is irrelevant. You'll never encounter library(groundhog) in a paper.
This mindset is terrifying and yet most people here would probably agree with you.

We are headed for dark times unless people like you are removed from positions of power.
The article discusses MRAN in footnote 5, when arguing against the MRAN-based 'checkpoint' approach.

Nixpkg/Nixos is obviously a useful technology for reproducibility, but note that the output of Nix scripts can depend on the time the system was built, the contents of URLs and the system architecture unless care is taken.
Most of the search results on that page are pretty sketchy, the top result is a tripod site and one is literally a school paper.
To let them spy on himself? How does that make sense?
People get all worked up about pre-existing conditions but how many people expect to be able to buy collision insurance after they've run their car into a tree? Home insurance after their house has burned to the ground? That's not insurance... that's a bail-out.
I looked at his comment history on reddit.

I don't see him doing anything shady. He's defending his arguments while referring to himself in the third person.

He's not using it to promote his books or other products.
Deal breaker here.

Giving a company, start-up or not, access to _all_ my data just so I can search easily? Not a chance.
This works because only a terrorist would not like going through security. If you are not a terrorist, you have nothing to hide, and airport security is an enjoyable experience for everyone. U-S-A!! U-S-A!!!
Or that airport security partially designed to harass people.
> Can you explain why someone would leave that much money in there?

For someone in the US, it can be difficult depositing and withdrawing money. It's often easiest to keep your entire bankroll 'online' (in poker sites such as pokerstars or full tilt) rather than in banks or online wallets (such as moneybookers).

250k could be a standard poker bankroll for a high stakes professional poker player. My bankroll that I keep onlien is 50k USD and i don't consider myself a high-stakes player.

>>> Are there tables that you can bring 250k to?

It's 2.5 buyins for 500/1000 NL. There have been +1 million dollar pots heads up - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/37/televised-poker/1-1-mil....

Although one doesn't normally sit with their bankroll. However due to the friction (time hassle, exchange rates, withdrawal fees) it is sensible to keep multiple buyins online at one time. I play from 5-10 to 25-50 limit and need 50k online spread across 8+ sites so I have enough to keep in action.

>>> Do these sites pay interest?

No.
I think that you're the only person in this thread who openly questions the cheer-leading of Lisp. I respect that. For that, I gave you an upvote. Heretic.

Sure, the pile of Lisp macros that recapitulates most of Haskell would be gnarly and nasty. But would that be due to the intrinsic bogosity of doing it through macros, or would it be due to it coming from a lone hacker who's following the scratch-an-itch school of design?

Code is a human readable format (even if you force it to be S-expressions and pretend it isn't). Here's something for which there's no accounting, as the Romans used to say. Plenty of smart people love S-expressions. Plenty of smart people can't stand them. John McCarthy thought that S-expressions would go away, but no one got around to that in more than half a century. Someone must find them readable.

Code shouldn't be generating other code, it should be generating more structured values. You must know more than me. Something more structured than code?
Aw, stickers! Mine came earlier this week, but no stickers. Where'd you get the book from? I ordered from Amazon because I had a giftcard, but I guess I missed out on some sweet swag.
Knowing what we know I'm constantly surprised an always encrypted IP layer isn't more of an issue for people.
Outright lying during the interview process is almost certainly grounds for a no-hire or dismissal if you get the job and they find out later. It's fine to refuse to give that information. It's fine to say "This is the salary I want". It's not okay to falsely represent your salary any more than it would be okay to falsely represent your job title, your education, your certifications, etc.
Thanks for this, I was persuaded by parent's argument, but am a Chrome user.
I agree. It's good that you can change the default, but the default needs to be better. Design matters.
Careful, they default to whatever search you ran last :)
I'm not disagreeing that Google TV doesn't need some work, but if you look at the other articles by the author, you can see a distinct pro-Apple theme: http://ptech.allthingsd.com/

- Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet

- Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Is iPad’s First Real Rival

- MacBook Air Has the Feel of an iPad in a Laptop

- Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking

- Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival

- Finding the Best Way to Read Books on an iPad

And in "A Fall Guide: How to Pick Your Next Computer":

"If you’re looking for a light-duty, highly portable computer, it’s worth considering the iPad, which starts at $499, instead of a small laptop."

Walt tries to be unbiased, but he just isn't.
On capitalization:

You're not E.E. Cummings. He deliberately eschewed punctuation as part of his poetry, exploring possibilities. HN comments are not usually poetry in that sense. The point is to communicate ideas efficiently to others.

We capitalize the first letters of sentences because it makes it easier to see where one sentence ends and another begins. The period at the end of the previous sentence contributes to the same purpose. A period is pretty small, though, so a capitalized letter helps it out a lot.

Breaking this rule "just because" is lazy and requires more effort by the reader to read your text. Similar to using "u" and "ur" (on a non-phone device), it says "I can't be bothered to pay attention to detail."

When it comes to writing, I absolutely judge based on appearance. If you can't bother to write correct sentences, how can I know you'll bother to account for spending in detail? Or cover all the cases in error checking code? Of course, the way one writes is just one facet of many, but it contributes to the overall impression.
US political discourse is so corrupted and disconnected from reality that it resembles the interior life of a schizophrenic, crack-addicted gun nut with severe weight and credit-card problems. Nothing substantial will change until a forum for sane discourse emerges, and that's going to take a revolution of some kind. Not necessarily a violent one, but definitely involving radical political change, on the order of the rise of the Republican party under Lincoln. I don't see any such revolution on the horizon, but it's possible.

I am an outsider living in the US, and the hope for change you're expressing makes me think of how the mother of the crack-addicted gun nut schizophrenic must relate to him. To an outsider, he's hopeless, but for anyone with some stake in his happiness, every small move in the right direction is cause for hope, no matter how irrational that might be to others.
My bad the other one was supposed to be http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322920

Bit of a copy and paste fail...
I recommend using your text editor of choice (mine is Vim) and the command line tools, because I find an IDE unnecessary for these projects, but if you really want an IDE you can use RubyMine(http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/), PyCharm(http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) and the one I would recommend is Komodo (http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide).
It's a little misleading to link MapReduce to language support for anonymous functions. The original implementation of MapReduce was in C++!
That's been my experience too. Part of this difficulty, though, is that it requires going against our training and culture. This raises the question of how much easier it might get with different training and culture.

That's one thing that's so intriguing about Moore. He's a living specimen of an alternate computing history. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if he had been in, say, Backus's position at the dawn of high-level languages.
but it appears orkut has not been removed yet. http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/21/facebook-list-of-third-part...
Grrr... my one remaining down Linode has been down for a bit over 3 hours now (extrapolating from the Dashboard graphs). Sort of ... quite bad.
The emphasis on culture reminded me of Zappos, but the ratio of Zappos funding to the acquisition price doesn't match the one from the story.
> most aren't against providing healthcare through non-coercive means such as private charity

I've never been able to give that a more benign reading than "as long as it doesn't cost anyone enough to seriously affect the problem". I'd rather be required to pay to keep society at least minimally humane, than voluntarily pay for gates and guards to protect me from the poor, desperate, and angry.
Knowing the Linode team's development pathway and philosophy, it is likely this outage will force them to offer redundancy as their standard offering.

Backup was unavailable for a long time and now it is standard.
I agree. I don't know why, cause I truly don't know enough about the company...but for some reason... I'm thinking Zappos.
And here as well. Am I justified in being pissed about this outage, or am I failing in my responsibilities by relying on a company like linode to keep my site up?
True, except for that how I access IRC, server side.
Why not just use include?
Just got a message saying that the server is booting up .... 3 hours :(
Part of the problem are the iOS design guidelines, which place the “back” button in the top-left corner (or did so in the past). A larger screen avoids the feeling of crowdedness, at the expense of reachability. If you rarely need to access the top part of your screen, the trade-off is usually at least acceptable if not worthwhile – less so with many iOS applications.

I mostly use my smart phone to browse the web, and I think one of the things Windows Phone got right was to place the navigation bar on the bottom (although I don't use Windows Phone, my phone does the same). Thus, unless there are controls at the absolute top of the page, I don't have a problem reaching anything (most native apps on my phone support gestures, which rely less on absolute finger placement).
Thank you! I agree with you with regard to the fact that every DSL is a language "per se" that needs to be learned and so it amplifies a language syntax weight but, in general, IMHO a static language "readability" is better than a dynamic one's.

Since Python is a dynamically typed language its function signatures do not say much. Take, for example, the following Python definition:

def append(xs, x):
...

By reading this function signature you can't say anything about it. What are the parameter types? What does it return? Or, does it actually return anything at all? Same reasoning about Ruby being itself dynamic as well.

Now consider the same example in Scala:

def append[T](xs: List[T], x: T): List[T] = ...

Just by reading the signature you can say many things, such as this method takes a list of some type T and a value of type T and returns a list of type T.

I'm not dissing dynamically typed languages here. I understand there are situations where a dynamic language may be the best choice. What I'm saying is that when it comes to "readability" a static language wins over a dynamic one in terms of pieces of information given just by reading function signatures.

I've already read Martin's book and found it brilliant. Thank you for the hint anyway.

Cheers
The graphs look great (and actually useful). Does anyone know what they're using to make them?
That's because those options aren't there yet. I'd be genuinely suprised if there became such an option and it wasn't successful. Don't you get asked for recommendations on tech purchases by your lesser-techy friends/family? Where is the difference? People also like to buy what the majority is buying as it is viewed as stable. Facebook can really make an effect here (disclaimer, I'm not on Facebook and don't intend to start).
The really crazy thing about this is the technology itself. Back in the day in the back pages of Popular Science, you could buy "X-Ray Glasses" that would supposedly let you see through cloths (I assume they didn't really work but never tried them).

Now, the technology actually exists to see under peoples cloths! It is crazy, and what is crazier is that it actually uses x-rays to do so. Who would have thought.
I didn't mean to suggest the article shouldn't have been published but that the TSA is politically driven instead of reality driven.
The fourth amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

What unreasonable means is up for debate but the line is somewhere. And my understanding is that you can't even "consent" away the bill of rights as much as that is argued by the TSA.

My opinion is that groping someone's genitals is clearly unreasonable and that the gradualism of the TSA rules has made this pass by unchecked. You might disagree with that though.
Microsoft have a block based language called Makecode, that is very similar to Scratch, and which you can use to mod Minecraft. You can also use it with Lego I think, and some other hardware like the micro:bit, if you'd like to do some robotics.

https://minecraft.makecode.com/
If they face resistance, They might do like Google -> Alphabet , or might become a holding company like BRK.
"Facebook has 24 million active users (meaning they’ve used the site in the last 30 days–I like how they aren’t overstating numbers like SecondLife) and 50% of them login each day. Mark says the next most active social network is not more than 15%."

However, the internet has several billion users, and 90% of them log on every day (I made those numbers up, but you get the idea). So where is the difference to Facebook? Just because somebody is using Facebook doesn't guarantee that they are using your Facebook plugin. And once there are as many plugins as there are services on the internet as a whole, I don't see an additional advantage for Facebook...

Just playing devils advocate, it just seems to me some people are being blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes. Sure, it would be nice to write a plugin that every facebook users uses, but in general it won't be so easy.

There is probably a bonus for being an early starter now, though.
As someone who is neurotic about parking (I will walk up and down the street 3 times making sure I didn't miss anything), I think this is wonderful. I don't care if it's hard to read or if I have to re-park at times. Simply being 100% confident that my parking is ok is a big relief.

Revenue shortfall? Raise our taxes or fix your budget, just stop profiting from misleading confusion.
What's the likelihood of your spending a lifetime engaging with wrong people online having enough payoff to be worth it, even if it does have real consequences?
I have iCloud turned on but it’s set to only sync Notes or something trivial like that that I don’t even use- I can’t recall ever having been badgered for more.

Maybe I got to that state because I was being badgered? It’s been long enough though I can’t recall.

Might be worth a shot if the risk is acceptable enough to you vs the badger.
To me it sounds neither easy or obvious. Is there any FAQ to learn more about the concept? Some questions I have: How would introduced algae affect various oceanic biomes? What happens to captured carbon in short term and in long term? Would pH change? How can the speed and spreading of process be controlled?
The gateway pundit is not a real source, it exists to launder false claims so larger right wing media can say "it is being reported that [misinformation]".
I was told that they sent one to Bitsavers for the TI Explorer Lisp Machine documentation.
That does not mean the solution does not exist or that it is hard. Germany government chose to reject nuclear, I am not expecting that it would then work towards making nuclear more popular.
Just a PSA for anyone else who's left WhatsApp in the past few days. Before uninstalling, I went through the settings and actually "deleted" my account, but after letting one of my few WhatsApp contacts know I had done so, he mentioned I still show up in chats. So let people know if you're leaving, because it seems WhatsApp won't prevent them from messaging someone who doesn't exist.
The content is currently stored in plaintext on the disk by Garage, so you have to encrypt the data yourself. For example, you can configure your server to encrypt at rest the partition that contains your `data_dir` and your `meta_dir` or build/use applications that supports client-side encryption such as rclone with its crypt module[0] or Nextcloud with its end-to-end encryption module[1].

[0]: https://rclone.org/crypt/

[1]: https://nextcloud.com/endtoend/
The only way to prevent the issue you're describing is to use a custom domain.
If he knew he had epilepsy, and he voluntarily pulled six all-nighters in two weeks, then surely he bears some responsibility for his own death?
What? No - what you quoted is about measuring the delay between when I let go of something and when it starts to fall. That is what we've used lazers and rockets and microscopes to measure.
No one "chose" to kill civilians at Hiroshima or Nagasaki though. The U.S. dropped leaflets all over both cities warning them of the bomb.

Either way by your logic firebombing attacks such as at Dresden or Tokyo would have been just fine (oh no, my bomb had to have hit a barracks, not a hospital!) even though they can't possibly all have been right. So it's not even true to say that conventional bombing wouldn't have killed civilians; every pilot who went on a bombing mission, conventional or nuclear, knew that they were killing civilians too.

And both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had actual military value, it's not as if either of them were resort villages. If the Japanese decide to put tons of civilian structure in between the military establishments then that's on them. Conventional bombing was so inaccurate that practically the only thing you'd be sure to hit while trying to bomb a military target is everything around it.... including the civilian establishments.
Its possible to have things on your LAN other than mobile devices.
It is piratism, plain and simple. Calling it "abadonware" is just disingenuous whitewashing.