jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most definitely. The vendors for the platforms I target only support C and C++ so and the software I write has fairly strict cycle budgets, often measured in microseconds and sometimes in nanoseconds, so regardless of what language I would like to use and am able to use, I end up finding myself neck deep in pointers.
Duncan Watts (http://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Science-Connected-Age/dp/0...) wrote about this kind of thing in a clear and interesting way.
I agree too. It looks stunning and polished service. I'm not sure what marketing strategies/tactics you used so far, and what were the results of it.

But I think you need to focus entirely on marketing and reaching out to many students. Think about some creative marketing ideas that are directly related to university students or so.

See if you can get someone on advisory board who is marketing pro, and help you grow from here. If I was in your shoes, probably I wouldn't quit at this stage. There got to be something that you'll figure out that will work.

Worst case, pivot this crowd-sourcing model to other domain - you already have product ready, see if you can apply this model to other high-paying industry.

Just my $0.02s
I won't use Chrome OS. Why should I let some unaccountable megacorporation own my data? The Google we know today is benign, but corporations change, and can be forced to change. Trusting Google with my data today would mean trusting all of the possible future Googles with my data, too, and that's not a bet I'm willing to take.
I think you would be surprised at how much closer a $200 Canon P&S is to your DSLR than your iPhone both in terms of image quality and precision of operation. If you know how to use one. Example: this was taken with a Canon Powershot A610 that cost me $250 around seven years ago: http://folk.ntnu.no/asmunder/files/images/nudibranch.jpg
> I do not think the fed is solely to blame though.

This doesn't get repeated often enough.

People like to blame the fed for everything, but much of the inflation in categories like tuition has been driven by misguided efforts to increase college loans to young people and encourage everyone to attend the most prestigious college they can get into. Colleges have been more than happy to soak up the increased demand with ever-rising tuition costs.

The fastest way to reduce college tuition would be to put an upper limit on federal subsidies and bankruptcy protection for college loans. College tuition would magically drop to match that amount, almost overnight.

Likewise, we need to stop going to such lengths to incentivize everyone to own a home. It started with good intentions, but it turned into an unsustainable arms race. Slow down the federal backing of home loans and let the market sort it out. Renting isn't nearly as bad of a financial choice as many young people think.
> There is nothing to add to it.

I'm not sure that's true. Maybe LuaJIT was never going to add the features it's missing from Lua 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. However, when Mike Pall stepped back in 2015 [0], he had still been planning to further improve the implementation - for example with a new garbage collector [1] and "hyperblock scheduling" [2] (which remain unimplemented), plus 64-bit pointer support (which was eventually completed by other people).

[0] https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT...

[1] http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector

[2] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/37
And in case there's something you don't understand, refer to https://avedictionary.com/browse/ for enlightenment.
Oof, you're right. Still, it's merely a transition from one convention to another.
My netbook still has working drivers for Windows 10 with DX11 and GL 4.1 support, whereas the super cool open source AMD driver doesn't offer anything better than GL 3.3 with hardware video decoding that kind of works on full moons.
Don't leave out the scale. Toyota sells almost 10 million vehicles per year across some dozens of models. Tacoma makes about 2% of that. Any manufacturer might have a few problematic models in their lineup even if mostly specific model years. But when it's across the board you have a problem. It's not just one factory, one model, one year, one batch. It's not an exception, it's the rule. You can twist and turn it until the situation looks the same between the 2 brands but if we're being honest, it's not.
Open Tumblr.

Choose not to accept / options.

You'll be faced with 330+ individual agree/disagree toggles. THERE IS NO REJECT ALL BUTTON. If you're not technically inclined, you have to manually click them all.

You also have to choose block/remove consent (or whatever it is called) for similar crap hidden under the "Legitimate uses" category moniker. Same shit.

For this, and similar idiotic dark patters, there's a Firefox addon called "Unchecker".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unchecker/

That, is, of course, until they start using buttons (some already do), double negatives in the wording or some such crap.
1. When the money supply is increasing at a rate faster than stuff, the best use of capital is to hoard it. Can you show me examples of major companies issuing stock right now? Looks to me like they are all buying back their stock, which has the opposite effect.

2. Buying houses is an investment and is specifically carved out in the CPI. Consumption is Owner's Equivalent Rent, buying is not.
Yes, mostly. I'd say that high inflation, declining union membership, and growth of the financial system are all consequences of the U.S. dollar's status as a fiat reserve currency.

The causality for the decline in union membership runs [collapse of Bretton Woods system] -> [U.S. dollar becomes global reserve currency] -> [U.S. manufacturing becomes uncompetitive abroad] -> [American manufacturing firms go bankrupt, allowing them to renegotiate or renege on union contracts] -> [decline in union membership]. Step 3 had a lot of help, between poor corporate governance and quality control at American corporations, the rest of the world rebuilding from the ashes of WW2, the collapse of communist systems in China and the eastern bloc, and globalist policies from Washington. But probably the most significant factor is that the dollar is overvalued, which makes American exports overpriced, which makes all but our highest-productivity industries uncompetitive.

The causality for inflation-lowered wages is [U.S. dollar is global reserve currency] -> [U.S. must "print" an excess amount of dollars to satisfy foreign demand - here really referring to interest rates, since physical currency is a minority of foreign trade] -> [excess dollars flood financial markets, causing asset inflation] -> [ordinary workers lack the bargaining power to divert some of these excess dollars to themselves, falling behind in purchasing power]. Note that when ordinary workers do have this bargaining power - like when they work for Goldman Sachs, or when they're paid in Google/Apple/Facebook stock - they actually have shared in this inflated prosperity.

The causality for growth of the financial industry is [U.S. dollar is global reserve currency] -> [a significant number of foreign transactions require trade in dollar-denominated assets] -> [more jobs are needed to manage these money flows] + [manufacturing careers in the U.S. suck, per second paragraph] -> [smart, ambitious people go into finance because it's where the money is, literally].
Why wouldn't they design it as a stable coin?
> But Signal needs to keep core feature parity to remain competitive with WhatsApp, Telegram etc. And that includes a payment mechanism.

What it needs is not reaching feature-parity (although that will appeal to the mass, can't blame the), but to keep privacy as the central feature of the platform, and always move toward improving that feature.

And yes, the fact that Signal uses a phone number as the main identifier is a problem regarding privacy. And they did update their Signal-Server repo, but it took a while before it was and that's likely because they were trying to finalize that cryptocurrency feature before announcing it, but an apparent lack of transparency can lower the user-base's trust toward the platform.
https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin

The protocol isn't based on mining, and they have a finite supply of 250m coins which they won't disclose the distribution of other than to try to assure everyone to not be concerned:

https://community.mobilecoin.foundation/t/mobilecoin-distrib...

They fact they can't even disclose coin distribution but Signal is already integrating it is both shocking and extremely concerning for the future of Signal. I seriously question what Moxie was thinking unless this is just a money grab for him.
It doesn't involve electric machinery, not even basic magnetics.
Here are the problems I've had in my 7+ years as a DigitalOcean customer: .

Those are the ones just off the top of my head.

Love this company and it's made my life so much easier for the past near decade.

Excited to see they are financially very healthy.
I try to listen to my thoughts, any outside interference is not good.
Hello HN friends!

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Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided to share my personal journey and lessons learned.

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I'm pretty confident they'll do it right.

For those who don't know, the founder of IOHK (which created ADA) is one of the co-founders of ETH.

I'm confident in his ethics and his ability. I'm not so confident in the ethics of the ETH project anymore.

-edited above since I get rate limited every time I post more than two posts in a day, read the following as a response to the post calling me a liar below:

Ok, I edited to take out the reference to when he left since apparently I made a mistake on the dates -- I thought he was still in the ETH foundation when that happened.

However, he was one of the few voices calling for the ETH foundation not to hard fork to just roll back the DAO hack. The ETH foundation did what was expedient for them financially, and ignored the core tenet of cryptocurrency.

Fact remains, ETH was an immature cryptocurrency, run by immature people, who made immature mistakes. He was one of the few who called them out over it.

You can see what he has done over the years since with IOHK to bring maturity to the space. I think the results with ADA speak for themselves.
> Hodl: A term used in the crypto community for holding a crypto asset through ups and downs, rather than selling it.

I appreciate the glossary
If Signal really cared, they would've chosen a better cryptocurrency.

MobileCoin is not a "real", decentralized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
All of the initial supply is owned by the MobileCoin foundation and all TX fees go to them. Without this partnership nobody would've cared besides a few speculators.
I think it's more intentional than a blunder. I've seen products willfully resist security features if they don't "fit cleanly" into the "original design". Same for OSS tools where there's thousand of people asking for some useful feature, but is rejected because it goes against some "design principles". (Or because there's no ROI for the company developing the feature)
> It's not just opposition to cryptocurrencies per se, the choice of Mobilecoin is also problematic[0]. On top of that you have to trust Intel.

> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715348

No you don't - no-one's forcing you to use it.

At the end of the day, you have to trust someone, whether it's a tech vendor, a software project lead, or even the person you're conversing with. What's important is that you get to continue to consciously exercise that choice.

I choose to use signal, and have no interest in this random crypto nonsense thingie, so I'll choose to not use that bit.
Says the man who's never posted a Show. You wouldn't know, bud, you wouldn't know. :D
While nobody ever seems to want to hear it, the vast majority of companies utilizing service meshes and k8s are wasting huge amounts of time and money on things they don’t need.

Unfortunately these technologies are at peak hype so everyone seems to be implementing them for their small to medium crud apps. But get very sensitive if you try and point it out.
the article reviews all the recent deep learning based approaches to digitization and OCR along with an explanation of how graph neural networks work and how they can be applied to the problem of ID card digitization.
Loved it! Thanks for sharing!
And it is ready! It is made as an extension to Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/how-much-does-my-f...

I have tried to take into account your comments to make it positive and customizable.
Yes, and I think Xaw is much better, but that is just one reason for such thing.
Looking into it, it may seem wonky (it does to me). A friend of mine, very pragmatic and Cartesian enough gave it a shot and told me the same thing about how his life was transformed. Maybe I should look into it more closely.
No, it takes toddlers and other infants away from their parents causing huge trauma for the reason of wanting a better life. And yes, I really believe that. Don't put words in my mouth.
That’s pretty old news, it already hit >$40k.
Right. And instead of just cherry-picking a sentence here or there from the rulings, compare the "requested remedy" and harms alleged in the claims with the potential impact.

Or you can just have other folks spoon-feed you what you want to hear.

If not, and you do the work, I expect that you'll find that these folks are requesting that the courts throw out hundreds of thousands or even millions of votes based on speculation, issues which could and should (and in some cases, were) have been addressed before the election[0], issues which affect orders of magnitude fewer votes than would be affected or change the result of the election, claims of malfeasance that aren't actually malfeasance and a variety of other mostly spurious claims.

The truth is that while there are always irregularities and even fraud[1] in every election, it wasn't enough to change the outcome in any of the relevant states.

[0] Laches isn't just "too late, you lose!", it's that voters relied on the rules in place and if you change the rules after the fact, you disadvantage/disenfranchise voters who did exactly what the rules required. A good example of this was Kelly v. Pennsylvania. The claim was that PA Act 77 was unconstitutional. Except it was passed in October, 2019. Was this case brought immediately? No. Was it brought before the 2020 primary in Pennsylvania? No. Was it brought before the general election? Nope. The lawsuit was filed after two elections. Millions of voters relied upon Act 77 as the law of Pennsylvania. Should all those folks be disenfranchised after the fact?

[1] https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

Note that the above database has found ~1300 cases of fraud all across the US since 1982. Even if the real numbers were ten times what was found, and all of those were in one state and one election, it might make a difference, but it's all 50 states over almost 40 years.
Police in the US have already used a robot to execute a suspect after a sniper killed 5 police officers.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/8/12129348/dallas-shooting-b...
People are meant to be sharing heating in an office building during the day.
I have a wood fire, and I usually have enough wood stacked in summer to make it through winter. Last year I was out in the cold chopping because we had the fire on all the time.
That was GP's point, IMHO.

Do you think more people read privacy policies from start to finish and understand them, vs will look at Apple's label and understand it?

The perfect is the enemy of both the good and progress.
Geez people are really religious about this stuff. I don't get why I got downvoted just trying to answer someone's questions about features in a software product and explaining how I use them.

If this is what works for you then great. You've convinced me that home/car repairs in particular should rollover, I'm going to start doing that in my budget. All I was saying is that by default I don't want things like food or shopping budgets to roll over, since I don't want to spend money I don't need to just because it was in the budget. It's just what works for me.
If you put copyrighted works into the NN training data then only copyrighted works will come out. The NN itself would be a derivative work and a copyright violation as well without the appropriate licenses.

If you don't put copyrighted works into the NN but then feed a copyrighted work to it as an input the result is still copyrighted.

I really don't find this that complicated. NN's having a license that is a composite of the software license and the licenses of the training data feels super natural.

See: What color are your bits? https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
You basically got a sense of it.

The article assumes attachment to these premises:

1. The United States, as a nation, is or was fundamentally good.

2. Economic liberalism(capitalist society - free markets, private property, etc.) is fundamentally good.

3. Traditional society and its communities(religion, family structure, etc.) was fundamentally good.

4. The political unity that defined the post-war US was fundamentally good.

Then the arguments made are based around the deviation from these unquestioned norms. If these things are good, then the politicians are bad - on both sides - because they instigated and escalated division, and must also take all the blame for economic problems because they allowed the outsourcing of labor, and for social problems because they allowed more women and immigrants in the workforce and disrupted the traditional society. Note that I list four assumptions, not five. That's because the politics are listed as a crisis separate from national identity.

The rest of the article is summaries of these deviations, which you have surely read in other articles.

The author concludes with "we must agree these things are the issue before we can rebuild a society".
The keys burned into devices at manufacture are used to prevent spam. You can't just poke the API with any random key. They aren't required for the encryption.
Realistically speaking people will most likely install cli tools with brew on mac. People shouldn’t be pip installing things without virtualenv anyway.
After non-stop studying AND working at the same time for two years, I`ve dealt with a similar situation. When I realized the problem I had I tried to deal with it with different methods (reading and trying to follow the advice in such posts - https://ivypanda.com/essays/how-to-beat-stress/, browsing forums, and so on).

But the only method that worked for me - talking to my best friend about it. She insisted that I needed professional help and I started sessions with the psychologist. After 3 months I felt improvements and it was really great :)
Anything the camera can record is something the cop could already see - in the open part of a bathroom you're already being watched by strangers. If you don't like other people watching you urinate surely you use a cubicle. If the cop busts down the door you've probably got bigger problems.
The extra step of roasting isn't really that bothersome either. If it takes more than about 10 minutes you have baked them, any less than about 5 and they are scorched. Always fresh, very cheap (for me its about $10 New Zealand per kg versus $14 NZ per 200g) and you rarely run out. I get 5kgs per purchase and it lasts about 3 months. I use a heat gun ($15NZ) a wooden spoon and an old colander. Heat them and stir them outside.
You can add most Android devices to that list. Sadly, this is a compromise we'll have to make if we want encryption to be even vaguely widespread.
A quick back of the envolope calculation tells me a plane change of D degrees requires a delta-v of D/60*v for small D, where v is orbital velocity. Not that much.
Yes, all of the electric cars in volume production today use J1772. I'm pretty astonished that you commented so much without knowing that!

Oh, and I'm still hoping you'll post a citation for the $30,000 price for Tesla's snake.
Let's not forget the very public threats NK sent to anyone who would listen about the movie. Not that this is the first time NK did such a thing.

NK is just getting what it really wanted, attention.
My biases may be guessed at in my summarization, but let me make them more explicit.

I think it odd that some of the techniques he rails against are inspired by mathematics: TDD tries to preserve invariants; RESTful design tries to impose the invariance of idempotency. If the question is whether those techniques make those who use computers more productive, then a scientific answer would involve a stunningly expensive human subjects experiment involving large numbers of people and complex problems. The likely result would be this: https://xkcd.com/1445/

I'm a sysadmin doing my best to automate (e.g., puppet); I rarely have the luxury of collecting data sufficient to the immediate problem, so I rely on math and (unreliable) heuristics. I write perl/shell/puppet/ruby/anything in small fizz-buzz complexity chunks; an "artisan" if you will. I support CAE environments with low-latency and poor parallelism opportunities, and until that changes (e.g., becomes cloud compatible) I don't see my tactics changing significantly.
>Wouldn't it be more sensible to learn how to design security systems that are hack-proof than to learn how to identify security systems that are dumb?

Part of the way you design hack-proof security systems is by identifying the dumb ways of doing things and then not doing them.
I love Darren Brown, but that particular con doesn't really exemplify confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a selective willingness believe new information only when it conforms to your previous beliefs. The system is a good example of how a limited perspective can introduce those false beliefs in the first place - namely, when every horse you bet on wins, you start to think there's a system. But a the key part of confirmation bias isn't acceptance of information which fits your beliefs, it's the rejection of information that doesn't.

For a good example of confirmation bias by Darren Brown, in his videos on psychic readings [1], he throws a multitude of information out, and people latch on to information which confirms his psychic abilities, and ignore the rest, making his abilities completely unfalsifiable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3L9lB1Qtg&t=2m18s
I feel like you haven't read the article. Your first point the author admits himself. As to the second point, I don't think he's "whining" that they exist, but that there is little else:
"In 2014, franchises are not a big part of the movie business. They are not the biggest part of the movie business. They are the movie business. Period."
Considering performance is a basic tenant of software architecture and engineering. Obsessing about it needlessly is the "premature" part. Considering the business case is the most important thing to remember.
> ... instead of properly weatherizing infrastructure is absurd.

But effective. If you're a politician.

No politician cares about sounding absurd if that's what his primary voters want to hear him say.
They say that UTF-16 is a fixed width encoding. But I don’t think this is the case.
The University of Virginia is a public institution so I’d imagine you would not see that argument.
In the US, if you are self-employed, you have to pay an extra 7.65% tax that would normally be paid by your employer.
I'd like the Met to investigate and see if any of the images constitute paedophilia. If so, I see no reason why prosecutions should not follow.
It'll be nice when we get to a point where we can stop supplementing stuff like this with "by a teenager". Who gives a crap as to how old they are?