jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing about these Slack groups/channels but have no idea where to look. Any suggestions? I mostly deal in front-end stuff.
as for claim #2 -- it is worth nothing (see here for reference: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/01/iran_and_alqa...) that iran (whom some allege to have supported the shi'a insurgency) has been known to also support sunni insurgents (often 'al qaeda' or some variant thereof)...
You are very on-point - what does a successful artist do as soon as they have enough clout in the industry? Start their own label. Sign artists. Take a cut. Negotiate deals with advertising, take a cut of that. Tell the artists on the roster that they're better off with you than without you.

The parallels are stunning in this case. Thank you for mentioning your perspective, as I think it bears repeating that the "music industry" has always been like this - the names and methods may look different, but the model is the same. Ain't nobody signed to iTunes or YouTube, near as I can tell...
Most HN comments are written from work.
I don't know if you've seen it before, but you may be enjoy this famous paper in Bioengineering called "Refactoring Bacteriophage T7": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1681472/
To me AWS still suffers from the same problem that most others do - their pricing is based around fixed allocations of everything (i.e. CPU, RAM, local disk space) - what if you want lots of RAM but don't need lots of disk space? Or Vice versa.
But John Oliver's show is even shorter (or the segments are anyway). So that's no comparison. I'm not trying to knock Jon Stewart, I think he's done a lot of great stuff, but so far John Oliver's show is more consistently amazing.
I forgot to add Obsessively track HackerNews, GitHub, and StackOverflow
College. Lecturer said that in US they teach LISP and in europe Prolog. Edit: AI lecture.
Rudy. This movie will inspire you to work harder every time.
I don't have IE9 installed and therefore can't verify the benchmark results. If they are genuine, I'm having a hard time coming up with a different conclusion.

By the way, hilarious idea to make this into a bug report.

EDIT: of course I find it much easier to believe that someone at Microsoft optimized for the benchmark than that someone at Mozilla would fudge the timing results, especially when it's so easy to verify the claims.
I thought the same thing.

It seems like it would have been a better idea to bring the cables/ropes in through the hole at the bottom of the wall, rather than over the top. The lateral compressive load would then have been taken up by the bridge itself, rather than the walls.
Each new case gives the virus a few dozen or hundred or thousand generations to mutate, depending on how large and long the infection goes. We're in a period where the severity and number of infections has lowered, so mutation is less likely. A dangerous mutation is extremely rare, fortunately.
They also strongly de-emphasized any connection, saying he was only an advisor. Now it's paid CTO and that funding signal with it was the plan all along...

Super dishonest and untrustworthy.
Working in IT as a Systems Engineer, My thought process is always first -> Existing solution or Tool, if not exist, Patching existing tools together, if not exist, code our own solution.
Yes, color is a human concept for certain stimuli, no recording or reproduction is 100% accurate and even the model is not perfect (different people have shifted color sensitivities, some are even tetrachromats and we are ignoring rods vs. cones altogether).

However, the stimuli is predominantly light, which can be quantified and certain operations with light are well studied. Not all, but most noticeable ones are and that is what is used when doing photorealistic rendering etc.

If you do a 2x downscale, you need to average 4 pixels together. Linear RGB should (by theory and definition) give you a (theoretically) physically accurate result, as if you did a physical 2x downscale by putting it further away in a uniformly lit room or whatever. You can't reproduce that precisely, but neither can you reproduce 1l + 1l of milk = 2l of milk.

This is in stark contrast to downsizing, blur or whatever "performed" in sRGB, where images get curiously darker and slightly off-color (or is it lighter?).

I'm not sure what is perceptual average of colors, but if you mix pixels in 1:1 ratio and apply blur / look from far away, there is only one correct result, and linear RGB average (is one way that) gives you the single correct result. (ignoring screen color reproduction deviations from what they are supposed to be)
Oh, let's have our entire experience mandated by two companies then.
Loans have a cost. If the banks can borrow at negative interest rates they are strictly better borrowing the money and not lending it out compared to a 0% loan. Any profitable plan with a 0% loan in it would in theory be more profitable without the loan.

In econ-101 it doesn't matter what the spread is, it isn't in itself rational to lend at 0%. That is taking on risk with no gain.

There must be some strange contortions in place to make this work. Whatever a "loan" is these days is going to be a totally regulatory construct with little connection to what they used to be way back when.
Capitalism has gone full circle and come back the other side.
Only it's not a 'better way to go' because the thing doesn't work on the hardware this post is directly aimed at.
I really dig the basic idea of the IA and I'm an avid user of the site. But, it kind of scares me that they in one sentence say that they will "make our cultural treasures accessible to everyone. Forever." and in the next one asks for money to make it happen. "Forever" is a bold statement and I can't be the only one that sees a contradiction in this. I guess what they're saying is: if the money runs out the data will disappear.

I've worked closely with archivists and preservationists in the cultural heritage sector and I know that to keep the sacred promise of saving something for an eternity you have to have strategies for what you save in the first place. However, I don't see a clear strategy with the IA. The Internet Archive (not the Wayback Machine part of it) is basically a site where I can upload whatever digital litter I like as long as it's not protected by copyright and they (without questions asked) store it "forever". It's fantastic in a sense. But is it sustainable in the long run?

For the the Wayback Machine I can force a snapshot of a site whenever I like and as often as I please. I stumbled across the snapshot for this page today [ https://web.archive.org/web/20140415000000*/http://www.econo... ] and I think it illustrates what I'm trying to say. During march 2014 there was up to 4 snapshots a day, while august did not have a single snapshot. I guess people where trigger happy with the "Save Page Now" [ https://archive.org/web/ ] feature when the article got publicity. Could it perhaps be a better idea to snapshot at certain times and find smart algos that can detect important changes in the page?

I'd love to hear some replies to my criticism. I say what I say because I love the IA and I hope it's being taken care of in a way that will truly make it be there forever.
Who is this supporter?
Totally agree. On the other hand it's interesting that inmates watched a bit less television than the average non-inmate too though.
They charge a lot of money for real-time telemetry from a plane. This charge can frequently represent the entire profit for a flight for smaller carriers, so they don't elect to purchase it.
While that has been true for the US the past ~250 years, the US are to some extent an anomaly.

Most of the world has seen bond owners get eaten almost completely really. Almost all of Africa, large swathes of Asia, much of Europe including Germany and Russia, most of South America...
I would argue people making your claim are being selective with their standards and not being skeptical of their own information sources. Similar to people re-electing their Congress people, but complaining about the ineptitude of the incumbents in Congress. It’s a common effect that we as individuals suffer from.
This is nicely done: https://json-schema.org/specification.html

But note "draft."

Compare to: https://www.w3.org/standards/xml/schema
Fair enough -- and thank you for seeing that it is, indeed, quite technically meaty (I submitted it, but I didn't write it). Please note that I titled the submission with the title of the blog entry itself -- which feels like it should always be safe. While I see the line in the guidelines you're referring to ("please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"), it's hard to know where that line is. In this case, it feels like the title is certainly acidic, bitter, wrathful, etc. -- but I don't think it was intended to be linkbait.
Each of my children started coding through Minecraft and Scratch, so I think that is a good path. I tend to let them pursue (or not) their own interests so I just make resources available to them.

It's worth emphasizing to your child the distinction between 'technology exposure' tutorials, and creative work as children tend to care more about making stuff and can find some tutorials a bit tedious. Luckily there are some high quality tutorials out there now, the mid-range and lower quality tutorials will just frustrate them.

Related to that, I would advise you to not let them enroll in any 'technology' classes in school as that will kill their interest since the educators will likely be underwhelming.

Also, at a certain age, if you give them too much attention for their interests they will stop pursuing it, so enjoy the next few years :)
> I did state Sci Hub is getting benefits they didn't pay for, like keeping out crap, the value from being reviewed, uniform quality from known journals, etc.

A few journal pay editors and reviewers, but the vast majority do not, so Sci-Hub is paying the same as anyone else.

> will they remove it?

Last time I checked, Sci-Hub doesn't host, it proxies, so your license to the journal to distribute the paper is still what applies. The journal has standing, but you don't.

And the idea of uniform quality from known journals is laughable.
The Classic Editor.
Is that legal? I know that MS went after a volume license reseller in Germany not too long ago.
Sorry I am from the UK what do you mean? Is there alot of crime in Seattle around the MC restaurants?
Its mostly aesthetics. It could be useful if you come back to a game after a break and you forget some of the keys. I can see its use as a training mode too.
The pandemic hasn't stopped Google from releasing app updates. They have historically had a freeze period during holidays, but you can go through the version history on the iOS app store and see that they manage to update their apps several times per month during other periods of the pandemic during 2020.
But you don't have to go on using it...
The important welders.
Have you heard of Texas? Almost the worst state in the union for workers. This is a right-to-work or at-will employment state. This means employers can, and often do, treat workers like slaves with little oversight. Texas law says an employer can fire a worker without "cause or condition". They could fire anyone for almost anything and they do. This state is absolutely hostile to unions, worker rights, and higher pay. The only reason I can avoid much of this is because I work for a not-for-profit and we treat each other with respect. I'm blessed in this regard. I'm negotiating with my wife to move to the PNW at some point. I hate the politics, weather, and redneck outlook here with a raging passion.
The UK goes nilly willy doing vaccines of all sorts.

First it was postponing Pfizer for 12 weeks, now it’s we’ll mix and match however we see fit, with no prior study on how that affects people.
Exactly! Let them have their dysfunctional indoctrination center that'll collapse under its own weight.
Indeed. A lot of banks overhauled their core banking platforms to run on IBM i in the early to mid 90ies. It scales well and considered secure.
I'm speculating here but it would be more likely that software bugs cause more errors than cosmic rays.
Note that facebook has all this data freely available. They probably run very similar analyses.
But they don't act on them, or publish their results.
Lack of access to this data is a big problem for social media researchers that needs to be solved.
EDIT: I stand corrected: It looks like John Carmack has indeed been using C++ since Doom 3. I sheepishly admit to having based my believe that he still used C on having looked at the Quake 3 source code many many years ago. What next, Carmack decides that he prefers Direct3D?

Point taken about the orthogonality of language choice and programming ability. There are great programmers who use Lisp, there are great programmers (like Mr Carmack) who use C and then there are great programmers like Richard Stallman who can write Emacs in Lisp and then write GCC in C (albeit with a Lispy flavour).
Fantastic pictures and a very interesting journey into the history of mail in London.
The problem is that part of what we like about not displaying the comment scores is the effect it has on other people's behavior. Letting others opt in to seeing the scores would defeat a large part of the purpose.
Strong static typing and Lisp are not mutually exclusive.

* Strong Static Type Checking for Functional Common Lisp
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.6958
* Qi/Shen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(programming_language)
* Typed Racket

I think what is at issue is that Lispers aren't willing to have static-typing completely baked in. Haskell's various type system extensions show that people are still working hard to figure out how to get the expressive benefits of generic programming in a strongly typed language.

Personally, I'm particularly interested in supporting a la carte type systems for Clojure and have started work towards that end.
> Folks that are privacy concious are equally deluded. It's marketing and you're falling for it.

At the very least, if you use providers other than Google, you can decentralize it. You can give one company your search history and a different company your emails. Even if both companies are equal to Google in terms of privacy, you still end up with better overall privacy because tehy can't join the two datasets.

> ProtonMail doesn't have stellar record for privacy (or any Swiss company in general).

Can you back that up with some references? I live in Switzerland and Swiss data protection law is certainly better than American.
Well then, join the Patreon. Or am I misreading your comment somehow?

https://www.patreon.com/marcan

I'm not going to use it myself, but I still joined, just to get the updates.
I just watched this the other day: http://video.pbs.org/video/1754649512/
I don't like the border search doctrine, but I don't see it as an injustice at the scale of the assassination of civil rights workers. Your comment sucks all the oxygen out of this discussion. It's ironic that it's me saying this to you, but there it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine
This is a major reason that I became a customer and have been for 8+ years.
What is the market price of a copy of the Linux kernel, I ask?
Many if not most discussions of Trolley problems are about eliciting "intuitive" moral judgments and possibly identifying conflicting principles people might use when coming up with those judgments, not to muse about how people would actually react.

I'm sure the authors of this very interesting study are aware of the differences (normative vs descriptive), just wanted to mention this for completeness.
Suddenly there will be a decrease in reported bugs and an increase in reported feature requests. New policy works, we have fewer bugs in production, bonuses for management!
That doesn't impact the value of Bitcoin. When you exchange USDT for Bitcoin, the loser isn't holders of Bitcoin, the loser is (potentially) holders of USDT. Exchanging USDT for Bitcoin doesn't create new Bitcoin.

Coinbase, as a marketplace, engages in the exchange of (potentially) bad tokens like USDT, as well as tokens like BTC that are provably finite. All of this is orthogonal to the fact that there is nothing hypocritical or internally inconsistent about holding and using Bitcoin or Ethereum and using Coinbase.
Cases are rising for lots of communities, we just lost another half-week of school to a close encounter quarantine, I’m still masking to avoid all the possible serious side effects of even a mild case. Plus we have an unvaccinated person in our home and have to live accordingly.

I’d say no, not quite over.
There is no proof of any supernatural thing ever.
What I've Learned did a video on eggs in Japan (where eggs are differentiated depending on feed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrxXC3kGf4

"The #1 Egg consumer is Japan. Here's why. ($70 vs $1 Egg)"
Could be useful, but not _that_ useful for me to consider polluting my global shell namespace with this name.
I played a random 1080p YT video and the player-reported data rate is at least 2.5 MB/s, peaking to 20 MB/s (cca 10 MB/s average). 4K is of course much more than that.
Internet? Then why is Google driving down prices wherever it rolls out fiber?
Countdown to sellers offering Amazon giftcards in exchange for submitting fake reports about their competition offering Amazon giftcards in exchange for fake reviews.
Blog post about how to go about implementing this: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
You don’t get to organize and sabotage billions of dollars of revenues and get to keep your job.

Google set up this attitude they fostered that worked in attracting talent and productivity. It worked for a time to improve internal issues. But as it creeps and threatens the corporation itself, it cannot continue for management.

But as history has borne out, you have to know when to regain control. It’s the struggle of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, PLA and red guards.
We made this because of how much we drool over the python opencv package (cv2), but we didn't want to write as much c++ (here's the relevant file in opencv: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/modules/python/...). The existing Tesseract wrappers in python are (to our knowledge), all CLI-based which puts a limit on what you can do with them and also potentially makes debugging and maintaining your code harder. Into that gap comes pybind11 and our wrapper, pysseract.

We think pysseract covers just about all the bases in terms of core functionality and are really proud to make it open to the world, so we hope you like it! If you have any comments, suggestions or pull requests, we're more than happy to chat.
Okay, so is there a Vegan Authority? Because for Kosher it's up to some rabbis. And there are rules for labels such as "Made in X" (usually something like value add must be at least 50% in X).

And so it might be that "vegan" means "no animals harmed during the making of this nor does the sale of this contribute to that", so you can eat animal meat after the animal naturally died and it's not in a factory, ugly farm setting.

Or it might mean that no meat or animal products added/used, except reasonable contamination. After all in lactose-free milk there's still some 0.09% lactose, etc.

Or whatever.

For example frying oil has a big impact on taste, so that might be important, because if it's contamination easily detected by humans then it means it should be contamination easily prevented.

Grills/stovetops? I have no idea, probably not much.
If you’re surrounded by a culture that eats dog with every meal you might not have a choice?
>It was much easier to write parsers for though. Most of the BBCode tags could be rendered with simple regex substitutions.

Nevermind. Let's not bring BBCode back.
Everyone hates to do it, but a lot of this comes from reading code. The more code you read, the more you'll learn to understand idioms, styles, what makes things good and bad for understandability. Then you'll be able to do it yourself.

Another point to make: while every language has it's own idiom and style, there are also lots of "clean code" lessons that apply across languages, so guides about, e.g. python, translate somewhat into objective c.
> Copyright? I'm not aware of any general problem with that.

If you do a Google search for "problems with copyright" you'll find many articles on the topic, including http://gizmodo.com/5989166/everything-wrong-with-digital-cop... and http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/7/11 and https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday .

To start, copyright terms are getting longer and longer, while "economists who have modeled the ideal copyright term have uniformly suggested that it should be far shorter than it is right now. Some have suggested that it should be as short as 15 years."
Anything that damages Adobe’s bottom line is completely justified.

The amount of tech they’ve squandered or mismanaged or just plain destroyed is disgusting.

And over the last 10 years of being a monopoly they’ve just let their software rot and now it’s so janky to use, photoshop even freezes for 4 seconds when switching between selection tools these days.
> English contingent on HN here going peak middle-class

Put the Daily Mail down right this instant !
This is old and tired. Go has a ton of features java 1.0 didn't. Hell, go has features java 1.7 doesn't (possibly 1.8, but I'm not as familiar with it).
You may not consider it, but

> Uber also records where you get the cab and where you go with it. The US government can get those records, and any lawsuit (such as a divorce lawsuit) can subpoena them.

Is a serious thing.
Most of these suggestions are about how to make Nim more immediately useful to people, e.g. by being more focussed, making sure important libraries are well-optimised, etc.

I think it's really good that they're asking, "why aren't more people using our language?". That seems like a great step towards improving it.
If you get excited by this topic, I suggest you give War Thunder a try.

The game has horrible UX, but:

1. The game does the best (?) job I've seen of any game at simulating a wide variety of historical vehicles, shells, and armor.

2. The game has a low barrier to entry: no fast twitch reactions, and slow gameplay.

3. It has a fairly fun meta to improve within.

4. The community loosely associated around it can be both fun and informative: PhlyDaily, The Chieftain's Hatch, RedEffect, Potential History, and Lindybeige
Dominoes is doing this now
That is due I in part, perhaps largely, on the nature of software developers. We are problem solvers, analyzers, focused on finding more efficient/elegant/faster/etc solutions. We pick things apart, to understand them, so we can build systems that do those things and or do them better.

Its inevitable that we apply these qualities to ourselves and our industry.

I see similar in other technical creative industries. Some engineering and sciences.
Has quality gone down? No. What you're talking about with people not knowing these various things and going to bootcamps, those are all developers. Developers are not engineers, no matter how many times HR mixes up the terms.

It's like asking if the quality of mechanical engineers has gone down because mechanics don't know x, y, and z.
This is fair. I would say though that I am not suggesting that "species are not worth saving". Rather I would define my view as "all species are worth saving, but as human actors, and not gods, we need to pick and choose".

Again, I would love to see nothing go extinct. Only reason I left my first comment is that I think it is unfair to classify the extinction of species during our lifetimes as "meekly accept[ing]" as opposed to "sad but rational given our limitations".
"Don't antropomorphise computers. They really hate that" (NN)