jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how everyone builds their model's first.

I used to but found it less rework if you build the GUI first. That way you build your model knowing exactly what is required.

But I too use pen and paper. Nothing quite compares to it, just yet anyway :)
Blackberry user by chance? I was checking out the Blackberry Q5 and it has a roomy keyboard, along with a touchscreen OS.

I've never had an issue with virtual keyboards, and in fact preferred them, but the Q5 has changed my thinking.

Q5: http://global.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q5.html
From article:

But the larger consequence is that if you’re smart the world doesn’t seem very complicated

This is only for the part of reality designed by humans. Other parts of it are complicated. Not realizing this is a sign of ignorance.
Cool concept.. just a suggestion for the logo.. the mascot does look quite right.. looks like a mean person (no, this is not supposed to be funny or something, I mean it)
I think he's conflating "smart"[1] and "good at communicating".

[1] In fact "smart" should probably be restricted based on domain. You can be a brilliant violin player but that doesn't mean you'll be a brilliant molecular biologist.
This icon size fragmentation will doom the iPhone platform!

More seriously, could someone just resize the big one a few times so we can compare and see what actual benefit is being provided here?

This pixel obsession seems like a useless hangover of the 72ppi desktop days, just like the "programmer" fonts and pixel-art games that mean so much to people of a certain vintage but baffle younger folks.

Yes it made a difference then, but every increase in pixel density and resolution has made it a less and less useful way to spend your time.

Making pixel perfect icons for a platform advertised as having pixels too small to see seems particularly odd.
What probability would you assign to that statement being true?
In fact, for a high-latency connection like mine, it'd be nice to have one color to mean "trying to save" and another meaning "failed to save". Or maybe copy Gmail's "server request pending, are you sure you want to navigate away?" pop-up.
if you genuinely understand something — really, truly understand it — then it doesn’t seem complicated and you can explain it rather simply

Uh, no? Some things are inherently complex. Try explaining how the Y combinator works (not what it does - why it works) to a layman in simple terms. I don't think it can be done.
I still have a couple of years to go to reach that number of years, and doing roughly 3000km/year commuting. So I guess we just look at it differently then; I also ride bmx/dirt jumping, less in the last years because it can be quite harsh on the body, might be that it teaches you more control over a bike in general.
Ragarding the brakes: there are types which can bring you to a sudden halt if needed, but with a lever that still has lots of travel to allow for fine modulation. Usually the more expensive disc/rim brakes with oil instead of a steel cable are fine. Though I agree that if it's your instinctive reflex to completely squeeze the lever in a perilous situation it's either all or nothing.
Regarding ice: completely agree, even with proper equipment it's a struggle. And probably does lead to more falls then walking.
This is the vibe I was getting, which is unfortunate. Of course I'm only speculating.

Similarly, I find it to be insanely frustrating when people ask for advice, but are not willing to listen when they get it. It feels dishonest.
The author evidently wants us to take away the idea that Maxwell's and Faraday's religious positions were causes of their scientific success. But nothing in the article (so it seems to me) actually suggests any such thing; the great majority of it is simply observing that Maxwell and Faraday were both (1) very good scientists and (2) devout Christians. Which, indeed, they were, but that's a far cry from saying -- as the author does at the end of the article, on the basis of pretty much no evidence at all -- "These men’s insights into physics were made possible by their religious commitments".

The author claims that belief in God "encouraged analogy as an explanatory strategy" and "encouraged the idea of conservation as a fundamental unifying principle". You might think, from this, that Faraday or Maxwell had actually written something to support this. "What the Creator does in one domain, we may expect to find him doing in another", or "As all things are sustained in existence by Eternal Perfection, so we should find that certain of their qualities remain unchanging through time". But in fact he cites nothing from either scientist along such lines. The few connections he finds them actually making between their scientific and religious beliefs and attitudes are of quite a different sort (e.g., Maxwell suggesting that if all molecules have identical properties, this suggests they're manufactured by someone).

One quite frequently encounters works like this one, arguing that religion somehow provides a particularly congenial basis for science to flourish. I would find them more plausible if I ever encountered a single one whose research and writing weren't funded by the Templeton Foundation.

(Not because there's anything very terrible about the Templeton Foundation. But because if everyone they fund argues for this position and no one else does, it does slightly call into question what's going on. Not necessarily anything dishonest, but it's at least possible that the only reason we hear such ideas so often is that when the Templeton Foundation finds someone expressing them it reaches into its deep pockets and buys them a megaphone.)
UI/UX Designer for Web and Mobile Application

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

DESCRIPTION

Hello Show is a design-driven real estate application that is transforming the way real estate agents communicate and schedule. The application has created an easy to use scheduling and showing process for all parties through a secure mobile messaging platform, route planner, and an agent-to-agent scheduling system. The result is an exceptional tool kit designed for the way real estate agents work.

You will be joining an amazing team: one of the top Realtors in South Florida, 2 of the top 100 Ruby on Rails contributors, a market research expert, a seasoned startup operations veteran, and 3 additional senior engineers. Our design foundation comes from the world-class designer behind Desk.com, Bitl.ly, Heroku, Grooveshark and more, so you will be building upon an incredibly well organized and high quality product. Our development team is entirely remote, but you should be local.

REQUIREMENTS

As our UI/UX Designer, you will be at the forefront of our product team, moving ahead of the rest to determine what we need to work on. You must be excited to challenge your assumptions and prove ideas with data; everything we do is an experiment, but decisions are made pragmatically.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design clean and unique User Interfaces to mirror UX requirements - Develop deep empathy and understanding of our users and their experiences - Translate user testing and research results into wireframes and user-flow diagrams - Design for the responsive web - Explore and incorporate new and emerging design trends - Communicate and collaborate with developers on design - Develop project optimized assets and deliverables - Make our users incredibly productive and make a product they love

QUALIFICATIONS

Expert understanding of Adobe Photoshop or Sketch - Expert understanding of Adobe Illustrator - Experience designing for both web and mobile - Ability to discern between good and bad user experience - Insane attention to the smallest details - Experience designing for the responsive web - Able to analyze, optimize, and simplify workflows - Able to effectively communicate with other team members - Great time management skills - Portfolio of past work showcasing job requirements - (BONUS) Experience with HTML - (BONUS) Experience with CSS - (BONUS) Experience working within a Rails Application

Apply here: https://helloshow.workable.com/jobs/24279
I think it might be so that you can type in your password on any keyboard. Some special characters may be missing on some keyboards, or they may need to be typed in differently, depending on your locale.
> He published A New Kind Of Science in 2002

I read it, back in 2002, and was quite excited before starting, but I honestly can't recall a single thing from that book. I can't even remember if I was disappointed after reading it.
Why would you do this and not offer 'no background' as an option?
If there is a rationale I'll bet 99.9% of people don't know what it is. So, the answer is easy: because that's how everyone else does it.
Probably because of this. A bunch of coders get into a meeting with a bunch of managers, passwords and security come up, it's a bike shed issue, so everyone throws their two cents in.

Some guy saw something break once because a password with a space was passed on exec().
Some guy knows that crypt() only uses the first 13 characters.
Some guy knows that passwords with less than 5 characters are extremely weak.
Some guy knows that \ also breaks when passed to exec() or sh, etc.
This goes on ad nauseum for about an hour, a bunch of people are bored and just want to get out of the meeting so they propose the following which everyone can agree on.

Spec: Alphanumeric passwords with a minimum of 5 characters and a maximum of 13.

Result: m/^[A-Z,0-9,a-z]{5,13}$/
Google can shove images up their arse. I don't give a damn. I was keeping them as my browser's home page as long as it was clean. Now I have switched to DDG.
The photos they provide are very nice, but as everybody has pointed out, they are pointless.

However, what if the image was dynamically generated, say from news articles/photos or some other dynamic graphic that's related to the user. That's the only use I see.
Yeah, this article is so wrong I don't even know where to begin.

I clicked on it because I thought it would be funny. But it seems the author is trying to be serious.

One thing that did annoy me is the "impossible" part. At least personally, when I say something is impossible then it means its impossible. When I say something is not easy, then I mean that given the current restrictions(money, time, people...) it can't be done.
Do you know of any EFI-enabled motherboards which retain the old, effective text-based interface?

Servers generally don't have bling. (Maybe excepting SGI.) Most Nehalem servers seem to be using UEFI.
Somewhere in the range of $99-199 per month per server/host, with unlimited monitors on each server. This kind of tool is in a similar place market/value-wise as NewRelic, IMO, which has that kind of pricing.
Yes, 27% for one year of funding for one person.
Some of it is aptitude, some of it is learning the right things from experience and some of it is attitude.
How can you possibly say "no offense" and then proceed to make fun of somebody? Simply using that phrase doesn't make it any more ok.
What exactly is a zero trust network supposed to do here?
I don’t think that’s the case. When working on AWS, you’ll be assigned to a team doing some AWS product and so you’ll probably get to know it really well, but you’ll be more or less oblivious about the other 50+ products. Whereas, as a mere user of AWS, you’ll get more rounded knowledge.
I hope Stjepan is doing well. It was a shame for the Rust community to lose his talents.
I wonder if there's a connection here to "dream time", how you can have a dream experience that connects to something waking you up in the real world (a noise, or sensation like cold or wet). But the dream experience of whatever it was feels like it must have taken way longer than the amount of time it actually took you to react to the real world thing.
Personally I would send a message to each of the largest players (or most notable for protecting online content) in each of the jurisdictions requesting to use their content in the same manner as company X - that you too would like to post their stories and images immediately after release - and requesting what it would cost for you to be licensed to do the same.

If you're serious then you should send the request by post using registered mail. Probably marked something like "FAO copyright licensing department (legal)".

Either they give you terms that are agreeable or they say something along the lines of "when hell freezes over" and you've appraised them of the actions of your competitor.

You might want to check the sources for the stories, perhaps your competitor is just getting AP or Reuters alerts and licensing off the wire?
The idea has merit, but it's not quite there yet. For one thing, you will have to physically visit a police department in Estonia in order to get your E-residency card - TWICE.

Once to file an application and then it will take up to 14 days for them to perform a background check. After which you will again have to physically appear at a police station in Estonia.

In the future this can supposedly be done through Estonian embassies but those are not exactly everywhere either.
Yes, there are many interfaces to popen, but that doesn't refute the grandparent, who claims that the Python stdlib is maintained and updated. See the top of http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html -- the bad solution was deprecated, and a good solution was created. This is movement towards goodness, which the OP laments the lack of in Ruby.
Your words anger me.
It's kind of amazing how many people on this site don't understand the very simple economics of how salary is determined.
Interesting, but in not sure you're completely right about XLNET. I heard it takes an absurd amount of resources to train. Even more than the BERT variations. And this is likely why there's not a ton of interest in it
I would normally argue this case, but "factories" is sort of hand-wavy here. The factories dumping out the feedstock are all producing enough to meet a higher level of production. The mixing step is the bottle neck, and is a really hard, expensive process to scale up. Demand for the vaccine is likely to dry up in a year or two, and companies don't want to drastically over shoot building out expensive single purpose tooling.
You are drawing conclusions about Swedish education based on a biased sample (people admitted to KTH).

It's true that looking at people admitted to elite medical schools would introduce even bigger bias, but it does not mean that the sample you chose is representative.
That's because in the games industry there is no expectation of a v 2.0 (most games never sell well enough to warrant it) and therefore little concern about mantainability or the future. It's hard enough to get the 1.0 release out the door without the studio running out of budget.
You're welcome. Linux and Mac can cooperate very nicely. I use Linux desktops and MacBooks in tandem for years now and I'm a happy camper.

Welcome to Linux.
They can’t do this particular thing to Amazon. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do something else. What if Amazon’s supply chain is found to be dependence to heavily on some other publicly traded company that can be manipulated more easily? What if they find some pattern in how hedge funds trade Amazon that is exploitable? It’s like saying that we found and fixed a bug so the attacker who exploited that particular bug can never find another one.
2018, someone has a bad flu, still wants to get groceries or go to the doctor.

In Japan: they'd be worried about infecting others so they would wear a mask.

In USA: Even if they cared about other and could buy a mask, they'd be worried about the weird looks, so they don't wear a mask.

Hopefully in 2026, assuming Covid is solved by then, people wearing masks in the US won't be looked weirdly, or even if people like you do, the sick people would think "Why should I give a shit what you think.".
> Hiring more people who are dedicated to testing costs a lot of money though. I don't see things changing anytime soon.

Doesnt Google have a Software Developer in Test role? I work in a bank and every project has these people - their only job is to write automated tests (usually in Python robot framework).
That number doesn't seem realistic. Even for future generations of ram and PCIe the bandwidth is on the order of 50GB/s not 2TB/s .
> Corruption requires hierarchy, and may well be that hierarchy requires corruption.

I don't think this is true at all. For example, if a policeman A catches county clerk B speeding, B could bribe A to forget about that ticket. That would be corruption, but A and B are not in any hierarchy relation to each other. True, they're in a temporary power relation, but a day later this power relation could well be reversed when B decides whether or not to approve A's building permit for his new house.
This is basically the same thing as the "deep state" narrative that's popular in right-aligned, just with different window dressing.
> My experience of Gradle is Gradle projects require a PhD in Gradle AND intimate familiarity with the tastes of whoever implemented that particular project .gradle files likes to use it. Is Bazel like that too?

This, I was quite happy to try out gradle when it appeared and when I read few tutorials it came to be: This is just Ant all over again, but this time instead of xml I get groovy.

Maven does one thing great: It forces you to use their build steps and every project has exactly the same steps.

Gradle is like Ant or CMake.
Fair point ... I read the article, but answered based on the headline and somehow skipped the "Age"...

Still, a rock slab map is a considerable investment in creating time, and remains relatively stable over time - so the basic argument still stands.
So you're saying you don't have a Mac laying around ?

All thinkpads that I own are still in use to this day. The newer one is over 5 years old and the rest are 10+ years old.
You mean there's jazz outside of Kenny G?
There is any similar site for France or other European countries?
Just because someone is a great mathematician does not mean they would be a great cryptographer. Mathematics and cryptography are about as related as computer science and cryptography (not that much).
Yeah, I have sleep apnea and GERD, likely related to obesity (I drank beer and coffee constantly for my entire adult life too though; coffee so I could work, beer after to relax)... but I'm wondering how much is related to obesity.

I can feel the fat pushing and creating pressure points, which contributes to both conditions. The crazy thing, is I'm not like super fat or anything. 6'2" 245lbs was my max, and I'm at 235lbs now... I felt perfectly fine at 225 when I worked out. Seems like such a small difference, but I've gotten virtually no exercise with covid, so it's not a fair comparison.

That's enough for obesity, but the crazy thing is it's not considered fat at all in the USA, if you're a guy. You just "aren't in your early 20s anymore", or have a "dad bod", or you're a loveable jolly rascal that loves life (eg. Chris Pratt in P&R). We act like it's practically inevitable and not a horrific medical condition that's causing me to be eaten from the inside out by my own acid.

I know some of this is just luck, but I wonder what truly fat people have to deal with. I couldn't imagine my reflux being better if I was say 275-300+.
I had been working on this project https://github.com/Fluffy9/Zenbase. I've been trying to figure out what it's good for and making an Agar.io like game is one thing I've started on. Combined with the nts library here to synchronize the clocks of devices https://github.com/gundb/gaming, I think it would be possible
No it wasn't, that was Microsoft defaulting to it's own browser. Using it's market dominance to give another of it's products an unfair advantage. If Apple made a search engine and defaulted to that engine it would be the same. Exactly how Google does on Android. That should fall under the exact same area as IE did.
This is the real answer. I almost did the same thing but decided to spin up my own image instead of buying a prepacked one from the Marketplace.
People get too hung up on languages. I want to solve problems, and I'll use the best tool for the job. I know Java, I know how to use Java to solve innumerable problems very effectively and efficiently, so I'll use Java.

I actually lost some respect for Paul after reading this collection of thoughts.

"The wrong people like Java"

"No one loves it"

"The language was made for people dumber then the creators"

etc.

Ruby was made to be as elegant as possible. There is nothing wrong with that.

And I don't "love" any language, I "love" solving problems. My passion is not coding, it's delivering, and Java has never let me down yet.
I could have probably said that better.

What I meant was that I own the process for making my own key, including salting, hashing, random-number generation, or any damn other thing I choose. Instead of me just having to c come up with semi-plaintext passwords or passphrases that I can remember, I can just carry around something that can provide me all the keys I could ever want. Perhaps I could keep a backup of this device somewhere in the cloud. Perhaps not.

But with a true distributed, non-predictable password generating system, there is no one crack that can effectively get to all the plaintext passwords. Big benefit there, and keeping something like a dongle in my wallet matches very well with the usual way things of value are already being kept. I'm perfectly happy with taking responsibility for salting, obscuring, and otherwise encrypting my passwords for various sites. In fact, I'd rather do it than have the site owner do it (or not).

The site owner can continue using the password as a check for access, it works the same as before, he's just not responsible for taking something easy for me to do (like remembering some kind of passphrase) and storing that somewhere. Or, in other words, instead of traditional mostly-English passwords each of us will just have our own system of generating rather large impenetrable blobs, which will then be used for authentication. If you crack Gawker the only thing you get of mine is some huge random pile of bytes which I only use for Gawker, not potentially the keys to every other site I use on the internet. I will personally assume responsibility for distributing passwords to tens of thousands of internet sites. This is simple crypto. I do not need to put all of my eggs into one basket, no matter how large, secure, warm, and fuzzy that basket is.
What type of development do you do? We're looking for strong systems developers.
For about 5 years my main activity has been building small/medium dedicated software for a handful of clients. I've done other startupish things, but this is what I've always come back to, mostly because it's a very very safe business. I don't think I've really lost a client yet.

So I've come to believe the solution to the enterprise problem will be bottom-up as much as top-down. One programmer (or a small team) who knows the client and the software can do things which would be science-fiction in a top-down approach, in terms of costs and delivery time.

The model has two problems though. First I have no idea how to find new clients - so far all have been through what can be best described as chance. Second, I'm not very sure what the right pricing is. My personal guess would be that a good software is worth for a company about as much as a small paycheck, and grow in about the same manner. But selling this, especially the growing part, has been difficult so far.

It's worth noting these are marketing problems - as far as the operational part goes, both me and the clients are happy with the arrangement.
Bonus point, it's licensed under AGPL.
air resistance has nothing to do with weight of an object, it depends object's aerodynamic drag.
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I don't know that Google can control that well enough. I'd think it more likely they'd control the appearance of being #1 than they'd actually be able to stop it happening.