jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wish Microsoft would just put out a second version of the Sculpt keyboard. Nothing else on the market really appeals in the same way, and their surface keyboard is ridic expensive.

10 keyless, wireless, negative tilt, with chicklet keys and the same key layout. Maybe less loud keys with less action would be fine.

My stupid mechanical keyboard is in the closet, along with my Apple Bluetooth keyboard. At a desktop, the sculpt is the only thing I'll use.
It'll help, but less than you'd think. In China many characters have been simplified and merged so they look quite different, eg 麺 noodles combined into 面 face, and meanings have diverged as well. A few famous examples include 手紙 letter vs toilet paper and 恋人 lover vs wife.
Ok no coiner. How is my ledger going to get hacked?

I can gamble on doge, sports, games of chance, etc. Why do you care that some people are into gambling?

Crypto is the future. Half of my net worth is in crypto and if it goes to zero, whatever, yolo. But for real decentralized finance is the future.
>We know from decades of research that more diverse teams are more successful. I like success.

That's a very strong claim. What research?

>The teams I’ve liked the most have been the most diverse; the teams I’ve felt the most uncomfortable on are the ones where everyone looks like me.

Not surprisingly, for the author, "diversity" is only about how people look like. He also seems to suffer from self-hatred.
> compete with other remote workers.

A lot of people seem to operate under the assumption that there's a huge pool of talented engineers outside the tech major metros, eager to work for cheap salaries.

I just don't see it all. The reality is almost all talented engineers are currently being paid tech industry salaries. Yes, there's a lot of IT workers making $85k at regional banks in suburban Ohio. But the vast majority of these workers are not anywhere near skilled enough to step into a typical SV role. (I've seen the codebases of Ohio regional banks... they certainly wouldn't pass review at Google.) There's a huge shortage of software engineers-- everywhere, not just in the Bay Area.

Imagining that FAANG giants are just gonna hire a bunch of cheap IT workers from middle America, is like imagining that Goldman Sachs is going to replace their investment bankers with loan officers Missouri.
So, in what other species can "bilateral gynandromorphism" occur? I'm not having much success googling this.

Also, is this just a specific type of genetic mosaicism? I've heard of humans with mosaic DNA (sometimes showing up as patches of alternative skin/hair coloration, etc.); but for some reason I've never heard of humans with mosaic DNA of two different chromosomal sexes.
Looks interesting, I've been wanting to build something like this - thanks for potentially saving me a bunch of time!
You can't be serious.

People use your exact, extreme language to justify every other superstition they have about raising their kids.
Lol.

Yeah... companies are just lining up to spend billions to build out redundant electric lines, only to be thwarted by the heavy hand of Texas energy regulators.
Don't worry too much about it. It will take 1-2 weeks of excruciating pain, changing your muscle memory, but that's it.

Remember, people learn dvorak after a life time of qwerty... and I'm sure they aren't (all) masochists.
Why latch on to that one possible explanation, when there are other ones too? As I quoted, there are racist possible explanations and non-racist possible explanations for the phrase.
> "Patriarchy" makes me buy the whole framework in which the analysis is done.

The whole framework that... men traditionally exercise greater power than women? That framework which... nearly all humans can at least identify as historically accurate? What a reach to expect you to engage with a nearly universal reality!

> If you're trying to persuade me, I probably don't already buy that framework. In fact, I probably reject it. But if you show me that the distribution of chores comes out unfairly to females, you now have a starting point for persuading me about the rest of the package.

So, you're all ears about worldview changing facts, but don't you dare name anything?

> If you want to convince people of a point, tie the point to as little extraneous baggage as possible. Choosing the terms you express it in is part of avoiding baggage. (If your point is to let those who agree with you rejoice in the obvious rightness of their opinion, that's different. But that's an approach that does little to actually change things that, per your position, need changed.)

There's a third option: the vast majority of persuasion in history doesn't come from sympathy or empathy, it comes from winning. The side which defends what already is sets the terms that naming things is too much for people to accept, and they invest an awful lot in convincing people of that claim. The side which has prevailed over mass misery and made more of humanity's identity and bounty available has repeatedly refused to accept those terms and has confronted them.
Naps are natural and super important. Me not being able to crash on the couch for a while isn't helping anyone.
As hideous as the Chrome and Safari examples look, that's not a decision a website should be making, or allowed to make.

> Designers are a plague on earth.
> Launch-programs-by-search becoming common is the only significant advance I can think of since the 90s.

Windows had this since at least Win 7, so it's not really a recent advance. I dislike that the the Win 10 start menu is essentially unusable enough that it requires actually doing a search, though, which is why I use a replacement start menu.
sounds like facebook should get into the game and start selling first party fake follower counts
More than that, it's a lack of public toilets crisis. https://sf.curbed.com/2016/12/5/13845276/bathrooms-san-franc... "One for every 0.4 square miles, or one for every 6,857 residents, not even counting tourists, commuters..."
> On the hardware side, their Surface line is beautiful. But the modern Windows UI/UX is...uninspired and sterile. So is Edge, Explorer, and Office suite.

Ironically, their hardware is the one of few good things about them, but even that is starting to slip now IMHO.

For example, their last month Surface update. It seemed them going absolutely crazy with "details," but half an hour into the event and you can start see how poorly thought through the design was.

Just like Apple's early product, they are very "substance over essence." They add a lot of fancy features, but they themselves have poor idea what for they are.
Yes you can. You can choose to skip a particular lecture if it's covering particularly triggering topics. If the lecture is particularly important, you can approach the professor about dealing with the lecture content in a more sensitive one-on-one context, or see if the lecture is recorded such that you can watch it later when you have more mental spoons to deal with it.

> it limits the teacher's options because suddenly material that is meant to capitalize on surprise elements becomes a liability since it's unvetted

Teachers should not be making their students uncomfortable (let alone triggering trauma) by surprise. This is a consent issue.
wrzos (heather) is a plant that blooms in early autumn, hence the name wrzesień.

Also it's not accent, it's softening of the n sound, similar to Spanish n with ~.
My intellectual curiosity has been gratified
This system isn't very exportable, I can't imagine the nationalization of land being a popular move no matter how low you promised to make income tax.
I believe they use blue LEDs, not blacklights (which are UV.)
I'm wondering why the "at least a Hilbert" is thrown in there. His name doesn't appear anywhere else in the article, and the wording suggests that Hilbert is some sort of poor-man's Grothendieck, which is an association I'm failing to make.
There ya go. Don't let the Facebook addicts win.
American, been following Brazil since I studied there in college. I am cautiously optimistic about Brazil's prospects, I believe a lot hinges on how quickly they're able to reduce their inequality and fix education. Bolsa familia is an innovative step and education, though terrible, is improving: http://www.economist.com/node/17679798. Right now most of their GDP growth is based on China's commodity demand so a lot depends on how stable that remains.

I see the corruption issue largely as a result of the massive inequality-- which, like the U.S.'s inequality, tends to fall along racial lines-- and politicians have been great at exploiting it to their advantage with help from the monopolistic mass-media. Ideally a shift towards internet and social media will increase transparency and reduce corruption and the social programmes will smooth out inequality in the long run. IMO the Brazilian culture of jeitinho, taking advantage of opportunity where it arises, is very close to the America entreprenuerial spirit but adapted for an environment with a weak rule-of-law.

So the optimism is because all the fundamentals are there -- a growing, young, tech savvy population that loves social media & open source and a government using a commodities boom to invest in education and social programmes. There are plenty of startups-- http://www.predicta.net, for instance, or follow this blog: http://startupi.com.br/
Obviously it's all very fragile but I remain hopeful, the people are amazing and there's nothing I'd like more than to be able to go back.
Does it ever trip you out that you have that kind of influence lol?
A lot of hotels i've used in the last few years in the US and Europe won't let you book a room unless you give them credit/debit card details (certainly online anyway). Generally if you don't cancel 24hrs before, you either pay the full amount or a no show amount (varies hotel to hotel).
Shouldn't my accountant be on the hook for the $ I owe the IRS as a late fee? He was supposed to have filed an extension, and clearly forgot.
There are two issues here. Learning how to design and learning the tools of design.

I took two digital art classes in college. You could tell who struggled with design and who struggled with the tools. The kids who struggled with the design piece had really crappy images. The ones who struggled with the tools had really simple images.

You can learn either/or or both. I focus on really simple design because I don't know photoshop, css, xhtml, etc well enough to pull off complicated designs. However, using simple tools like size, layout, and color you can do a lot.

I recommend getting started with blueprint css framework and going from there. You'll learn more about design than the tools, but you'll also pick up some css.

As far as self-learning vs mentor/teacher goes. You need feedback. If you can get feedback while self-learning it can work. I know there are some websites out there that can help you with that.
Trailers, browsing around for gadgets, buying stuff on iTunes etc.
I know searching the site is something I want to do constantly. I would offer some sort of pay-for-search credits system or a membership $5-7 per month that simply lets me search.
Prioritize getting quality sleep through limiting your exposure to blue light and going to bed at the same time each night. You're probably ambitious, with a lot going on through the day--meaning sleep is sometimes difficult because you have so much on your mind.
If you haven't heard it before then I'd definitely recommend listening to Sacca's critique of Blumberg pitch on TAL:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/533/i...

I've heard a lot of people pitch but I'm not sure I've heard anyone pitch better than Sacca can do while ad-libbing.
That's a good point! The website is maintained separately from the rest of the project so I don't have direct visibility over it (I'm the lead maintainer of docker). I should have checked this earlier. Thank you!
Call me cynical, but suppose 300 million westerners decided to stick to this pledge. What is stopping those newly freed up resources from being consumed by the remaining 7.4+ billion?

Cratering energy prices makes it more affordable for developing nations to rapidly industrialize which is a one way street towards massive emissions until a sustainable solution is realized.

Climate Policy is a classic example of how the prisoner's dilemma can cause a tragedy of the commons. I personally don't see how it can be solved in a world where there is intense competition.
> risk of losing your banking if you're regularly being compromised

Hmm, I hadn't considered this, and it might very well be valid if it happens really outside the norm.

> but there's still the time involved

I've only ever had to call about fraudulent charges once, and that was because a restaurant double-billed me (once with tip, once without), so it wasn't outright fraud as much as it was a mistake/computer glitch. Every other time the credit card company has called me.

> There's also a systemic cost to it, at the merchant and banking level.

Not really an individual problem, just like shoplifting raises prices for us, and taxes, and regulations, etc.
CSipSimple's pretty bad on the 5, but Hangouts works okay as long as you don't enable OK Google Everywhere.

I doubt the camera-reboot issue on the 4 will ever get fixed, either.
Beware. I assume that you are referring to Ubiquiti Networks. A few weeks ago, the company was caught sending telemetry on their UniFi wireless routers.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_p...
I don't really get it form the headline...

If 90% of the captured energy is turned into heat, what is the other 10% turned into?
The dishonest kids got it much, much worse, though. Personally, as one of the ones who didn't cheat, that's what I cared about.
The comments here are to me of much higher quality than the comments on the actual article.
Which just shows you a flaw in the US constitution.
Everyone makes this point about correctness, but I have never seen an easy to understand illustration of this. Now I am by no means a leet programmer but I have been reading about programming for more than a decade and every article about this point feels confusing. I even tried writing small stuff in haskell, still don't get this point.
I’ve never thought of it this way. I wonder what the price of gold and silver would be if they were strictly used for manufacturing and jewelry instead of speculation and store of value?
You're absolutely right, and my apologies. I failed to heed my own warning about the complexity of trying to reverse engineer these numbers.

I believe I was thinking - if not typing - that it was anywhere from 10-25% of the average person's income tax burden.

I found figures similar to the ones you did - around 14% of federal expenditure. There's local, as well as state, health costs, and those are funded via disbursements originating from federal budgets, but not tracked in detail in same. There's also aged care, which will come under this, much of which is semi-funded through ersatz religious groups that have their own tax avoidance schemes in place, and other complexities.

But the ~14% figure seems about right -- and reminds me that I also forgot to tie that back to OP's figures, which, prima facie, aren't too horrendous in light of that figure.

However, that assumes those insurance payments cover all (or the vast bulk of) costs for health care ... which they clearly do not within the USA health system <sic>. Copayments and exclusions appear, from what little I've heard, to be a significant cause for concern even for people with 'good' insurance coverage.
> I found that overall however, learning Haskell made me a better programmer

I had the same experience, but with ML. It almost feels like Haskell with the annoying parts removed.
I don't think that quote is complete enough though. If you really believe that programming languages are just tools for building programs (in particular "useful" programs that make money) then yes, Haskell has not much to offer you over PHP or Ruby and other languages in that vein.

On the other hand if you are interested in research, exploring the extent of the design space for programming languages and what you can (or can't) express in them, then Haskell is an excellent language for you. Both for the community of like-minded researchers and for the flexibility of the language/compiler itself.

On a wider scale, I've always liked https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ as an explanation for why this topic comes up again and again and again. The writer of the article is more of a "type 3" programmer. He wants to build a house but does not care much which tools he uses as long as they don't get in the way. It is the end result they are interested in, not the process. Haskell is, by design as a research language, more process oriented than result oriented. And yes, you can still get results with it as IHP and SC and Jane Street have shown. But they seem to be the exceptions that show the norm.
As I said, all hail HN's hypocrisy. When we have a slight sarcasm or a small joke we all downvote it. Then why do you think this belongs here, this is the type of thing we try to avoid in those sarcasm or jokes. You see, the joke and sarcasms should be OK if we are a community shouldn't they be? But we are a community which tries to generate high quality content related to hacking and startups. I don't think this is at all related to any of those things. If you want to put up with this, why not put up with nonsensical sarcasm?
Haha, suck it! :-)
Didn't diggz work for tropo? If so, shouldn't he disclose any equity ownership?

In full disclosure, I am an investor in twilio.
Every time I pull on a door handle when I should be pushing, I think of that book. Fantastic read.
It is for this reason I suppose Software Engineering was formed, as a separate discipline from Computer Science. Unfortunately, for most people I've come across, Software Engineering is the other name for Java.
I agree with this and what I find more interesting is that he also brought us Pixar. He is definitely not a one trick pony and definitely has something great in him!
People sign off the net?
And diaspora solves communicating in a horrible was. No chat (but expect it to be XMPP based), no real time, horrible tunneling of wired stuff over http.

Besides that: Most users already have XMPP accounts with friendlists. I'm eager to see how diaspora will solve that problem.
The article subtly points out a logical disconnect: Obama says that we expect Jobs to be rich having created several innovative products, yet the majority of his fortune did not come from these products (at least not the recent ones), but instead from the sale of Pixar.

So by celebrating Jobs's wealth, we're celebrating his investment acumen more than his innovation.
And how do you manage your library? Folders within folders buried somewhere in /home/user or C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\Music\Mp3 Files\Artists\...?
A book on your conversations with him could be a fascinating read. Just sayin...
What you describe is called local optima and it's well studied. There is no magic way around it, you just need to put resources into exploring a larger area. Methods include selecting really diverse solutions rather than just the best one, restarting the simulation with a new random population, or sometimes throwing away the best solution and letting it wander around randomly longer before converging.

>I suspect that a solution lies in work on neural nets where one net is trained, then a second, smaller, net is trained to match the first. This is a form of "abstraction". Somewhere in that space is something very important to AI.

Neural nets have a lot of desirable properties for this kind of stuff. Mainly that they can be trained with reinforcement learning. Instead of randomly testing which solutions work better, you have them try to predict how good each action is.
In this case it has been done quite a few times (and better).
I have asked this question (more or less,) and the point is to get the candidate to singer point where they don't know the answer, and then the real question comes: "so how would you design that next piece?" That's the interesting part!
This "article" is just a nasty, shrill, highly political and vitrolic commentary. Can't we find more thoughtful content for HN? Yes I think it's significant that Chertoff's new company works for the body scanner folks, but this has already been dealt with on HN with links to much saner content.
common is uncorrelated with troubling.
Oh, you mean like this: http://current.com/news/92009377_obama-appoints-monsanto-man...
A suggestion, if you're interested.

The pop-up on a wrong guess is a little heavy-handed. It's ok for the first time, but sometimes I would actually like to go to the article.

Maybe allow the person to browse to it, but mark the link with a red thumb-print on click (to mark the ones viewed), and have the wrong page show up with a different style?

You might be able to add this into an additional stat/achievement: "Wrong turns taken."
Exactly nosse! I meant "heavy metals" versus "metal". The latter makes sense. The former doesn't. I am sure you can hurt people with manganese for instance, but a gun would make more sense, no?
Thank you, I just used WYERTFK6XLXX and left a review. Looks great!
Yes that would be possible. Only my card reader still says "pin ok".
Used MATKAYT6RYJJ. Looks like a great game. Thanks!
Twitter has no privacy model, so there can't be any privacy outrage. All tweets are public, it's just a matter of whether or not they show up on your feed.

And if Twitter wants to make an extra (maybe morally gray) dime off of any "privacy outrage", they can offer certain users to pay a fee to have their tweets NOT included in these dump.
Krita has had filter layers (non-destructive, mask + filter layers right inside the layer stack) since _2005_. Krita has had color management, with icc profiles and cmyk, rgb, lab and xyz since 2005. OpenColorIO based color management since 2012. Krita 2.9 has non-destructive transform masks -- and 2.9 is in beta right now. You can have selections masks local to a layer. There have been group layers for a decade.

So, yeah, non-destructive editing is not optional. It's been around for about ten years, in Krita.
Some Ashrams are huge, and that's only one form of commune. A quick bit of googling turned up Auroville, 2000 inhabitants.
Capitalism wins mostly because prices communicate information more efficiently than community meetings. Say your society is running scarce of drills, how do people coordinate another drill being manufactured? Maybe someone just likes making drills, but what about more messy things like sewage or garbage or elderly care. Capitalism solves these problems more efficiently. It is more efficient for us all to have a drill than it is for you to waste time going to walk for a drill, finding it not there, etc.
correct me if i'm wrong, but this is what you are saying
"poor countries should spend money on feeding the poor instead of funding fancy science projects"

well allow me to retort,
having science projects trying to answer some of the biggest un-answered scientific questions would help with the following:
1. Retention of Talent: would enable physists to stay in india rather than immigrate elsewhere.
2. Boosts Economy: Expenditure as salary stays within the country and can help boost economy.
3. Innovation : innovation in advanced fields of physicts/space exploration can help develop new consumer technologies.
3. would enable governments to get international fame/credibility and quite possibly a seat at the big boy table.

Now you might wonder is this worth it, well I believe its worth spending a fraction of the GDP to fund such projects. Its not like all the funding given to such projects can solve the various poverty related problems the country faces.
Off the top of my head didn't bash4 include multiple globs? ie
* * (no space...formatting)