jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know why. Mozilla has made a change that has no other effect than excluding 0.1% of their userbase. No end users were benefited by the removal of ALSA support, but "only" 0.1% were excluded. I've put 0.1% into perspective.
I'm not sure what you mean, where am I unwilling to call out a group?

The comment said BLM riots, which did not happen. In your own words, you are close to realizing why I say it's dehumanizing and meant to impart a meaning that isn't true.

You said: "Mainly because the cause was highjacked by groups that love to break out into violence..."

In other words, you actually do realize they aren't BLM riots. They were BLM protests, that were highjacked by groups outside BLM to result in riots.

So stop conflating riots at a BLM protest with BLM riots. They are not the same thing, and by doing that you attempt to de-legitimize the BLM movement.

I'm honesty not sure why you think I'm not willing to call a riot a riot. I'm just not willing to attribute the riot to BLM, since it doesn't align with their values or leadership whatsoever.
Continuous fartlek style running will get you to 155+ bpm. Back off the pace to actively recover to 120 bpm, then go after it again.

Problem is, you need to be fit to do this right, reducing the risk of injury. Always preferred fartlek to repeat intervals on the track. Both have their place however.
Inspired from your model, I decided to make up my own model in Google Sketch Up. For the problem about accessing the cables if the desk is butted up against a wall, what would work is have a portion of the bottom of the cubby be on a hinge that can fall down. That way you can access it from underneath. Here is a pic of what I quickly did in sketchup (just not a stand up desk) http://img233.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110429at102.png/

I'm curious to try out a stand up desk. Do you find it is much better?
The whole point of the article is that there is no such thing as the specific components of the person's name... that is the assumption that is wrong. A person's name is whatever they or their parents chose. You cannot reliably derive meaning from any part of it.
I'm impressed, I never realized it all worked out so well! It actually is functional, and looks natural. Nice.
I did an experiment. I put the same question in a sensible subreddit. I would say that the answers are pretty good.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/cg6zq/what_...
How forward-moving do you need a system that allows you to manage content within site templates to be?
This is actually my own test of whether or not I've really grokked something:

If I can't explain it to someone such that she understands it as well, I haven't really understood that something.
You can play the same melody, but technique might suffer, and the result won't be as pretty. That can be frustrating.
I happen to live down the street from the Internet Society.

What could I do in person to emphasize the point?
It is a sign of an unmet need. Why do we even have code formatting? If minimalism is the goal then remove that overwrought feature too.
Likely a distinct lack of crossover between HN readers and the Land Rover Defender crowd that Bollinger looks like they are targeting. The main use case is for a ranch or large farm property. Probably great for the Caribbean as well. Would buy a Bollinger over a defender in a minute because it's a 30 year+ farm vehicle. Was really excited to read about them.

Could see people balking at the $125k price tag, but at that price point there is already a mass market for dated german sedans and artifacts of imagined british nostalgia supported by a hackneyed movie franchise. Something useful and durable would be a relief.
But on the plus side you can joust with telephone poles with this thing.
AFAIK they’re all still not using solid state electrolytes. Those look like a breakthrough comparatively. There’s probably lots of room to breakthrough.
Godwin is only remembered because of his original maxim. His opinion about it is no more relevant than anyone else's.
"issues" == "controls".

The worldwide non-commercial Internet being controlled by an unaccountable private corporation is evil on its face. Burden is on someone to prove otherwise.
>someone, somehow decides to install it themselves

Funny!

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/misbehaving-powerwal...
Well he also claims that the rock has higher Brier scores than all the futurists, which would imply that in this example the futurists aren't actually adding any value with their attempts at honest evaluations and predictions.
The 'problem' with modern science is that a large finite amount of stuff has been discovered, and new discoveries are most often built on that stuff. I splash around in the backwaters of machine learning, however I have to pick my targets carefully and maintain a very tight focus - the defined knowledge base has already grown to more than anyone can ingest in detail. Given the amount of knowledge that has to be absorbed to achieve mastery in a scientific discipline, and the fact that knowledge base keeps growing, it takes longer and longer to lay a foundation for just understanding what the hell people are talking about. Now, there are opportunities, for example the use of genetic algorithms as part of ML solutions, because for any 'real' researcher, GA's aren't the cool kid in the opinions of reviewers or funding agents. It's easier when you are the PI and the funding authority, even if the budget is quite a bit smaller
Signed up, but there servers are overloaded!
Let’s be honest. They aren’t building a company to take on Intel and AMD. They are at most “building a company” to either be an acquisition for one of the major chip producers (maybe even Apple) or to be acquihired.
Don't forget the self-described "thought-leaders".

Oh you've been ~programming for ~3 years and you're now a thought leader - fantastic delusion.
Thanks. In hindsight that should have been an obvious place for me to look.
From https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/RO it seems there was a drop in hydropower ~1GW around that time in Romania.
There is no such monopoly - just look at your inbox, and check the headers of the emails you see. (I just did checked a random non-spam mailing, and it was send by cmail9.com - which is pretty suspicious domain if you ask me.. and yet here is it in my inbox)

Sending emails is hard because there is no central authority. Instead, each provider checks if the sender does some “best practices”. And the exact details vary - so if you got it working once with gmail, then there is no guarantee it will work next time with live.com. So you got to do them all.

For example, I have heard an unconfirmed rumor that one of the major provider started penalizing email sender machines without IPv6 address. If I had to maintain a mail sender, this’d mean have to upgrade my architecture to use IPv6 ASAP, which is non trivial at all. This is why most people outsource email sending.
I completely agree that leap seconds were a stupid idea to put into general purpose machines. From where we are though, consistent smearing seems the least disruptive, and long term doesn't suffer from drift. Having a mix of machines that respect/ignore leap seconds could accumulate to more than 1 sec differences.
Everyone is hired for a specific job. The details of that job are explicit to both parties. Where there is ambiguity we call that out and set that expectation (ex: that this duty may change).

This alone avoids a lot of the “not my job problem” or people trying to encroach on someone else’s job. In turn, this reduces chances of conflict and politics.

Additionally, we keep communication extremely focused on work. There are no slack channels for watercooling, there are no “get to meet each other” zoom calls.

We (including founders) log on, we do our work, we communicate (via text) about issues, wins, concerns, questions, and we log off. There’s no expectation of working hours (save for that weekly dev sync I mentioned).

We also don’t preset deadlines. I’m not going to sit here and say we don’t have target dates, because we do. But it’s an explicit function of engineering to determine the scope of a feature and to assign it an effort. Based on that effort I can then forecast when it might get done. But there’s no deadline. This is just good engineering practice and also helps us improve our code quality over time. We do not share forecast completion dates with users and customers. The most we will say is that we’re working on something. No etas.

We’ve also built in a culture of shipping constantly. Shipping a feature or a release isn’t some big event. I might log on in the morning and see that a feature was finished over night (including final QA, etc.) and I’ll just release it. This takes a lot of pressure off development. Because we’re so comfortable releasing, even if there was an issue, we could just roll back. I’ve had to do this twice now and it was a non issue. The release notes hadn’t even been emailed to users yet, so no harm.
Punchline: Whatsapp can't go back on their decision for a variety of reasons that are so much bigger than Whatsapp.

The revenue pressure from Apple cutting FB ad revenue due to nerfing tracking has forced FB's hand. They have to monetize Whatsapp.
Note that we don't sync to the Earth's position in the solar system (sidereal year), but to the seasons (tropical year).
The source is Tesla's balance sheet. If you remove the credits, they're losing money. But of course, they're spending a lot for things like building factories and scaling up.
> Googlers are earning most of their paycheck from spying on people. This is a fact.

This a popular misconception about Google. They don't need to spy on people. You're the product, but you don't pay with data (except for basic demographics) - you pay with attention.
One has more guns(planes, tanks, etc) than the other.
The article was paywalled for me, but if you made your cars in lisp, you'd run out of braces way before you ran out of semiconductors.
Um... I think they meant torrents in general, not BitTorrent specifically. Interesting rant though, I guess.
My girlfriend reviews two movies a day over Watch Instantly for her blog and over the past six months I don't think we've had a single issue with the streaming. For what it's worth, we stream via the PS3, and it works flawlessly.
I'm pretty sure that joke I was giving is the end of the talk, it was meant to be a five minute "lightning" speech.
The iPad seems like the single best way to conduct in-person, live surveys. I think there should be some focus on that aspect of the device. You mention a great UX – I agree. I nice touchscreen interface for surveys could make them more enjoyable to fill out.
> What do you consider fringe politics?

Politics considered unendorsable by the median voter on in a "central" position in the hyperspace of all issues in play at an election.

> And why would forcing people to vote keep them from becoming overly influential?

Median voters are generally poorly motivated to turn out. Fringe voters are generally highly motivated. Consequently they become influential out of proportion to the actual preferences of the population taken as a whole.

When voting is mandatory, the better strategy is to aim your policies at the median voter (Hotelling's Law), which helps to create sustainable reforms because parties will converge on consensus policies.

When voting is voluntary, the better strategy is the motivate/demotivate approach. Motivate your followers with a shiny geegaw, demotivate the other guy's with dirt.

I'm generalising, of course. But the long-term principle holds fairly well.
>Second, Sony did tell credit card companies and they do know about this. I called mine and the operator was well aware of of the data leak. They have been monitoring all accounts from the beginning.

Did Sony know about this, or did they see a pattern of cards getting flagged that had PSN charges on them?
I wonder how many shares of Facebook are available to be bought in any market. If the shares are indirectly rationed by Facebook through their approval of any shares being sold, wouldn't this create an artificial limited supply of Facebook shares?
Why do people get excited about profits of a company that never pays dividends? Is it about preservation of capital? Or a hope to see a trickle down effect of dividend payments at some point?
I actually don't own an iPad. I do love my friends' iPads and just feel the experience of creating surveys would be superior. Anyways, I'm quite surprised you suggest following a WuFoo model. The product will continue to strengthen I'm sure, and it seems with SurveyMonkey behind them, it would be difficult to compete. I'm sure I missed something with your thought process though.
While I disagree with what Lamo did, Manning is an idiot for bragging about what he did to anyone, and the "Russian roulette" argument is perhaps sound.
It's not clear from summary if you get used to it after prolonged exposure.

The idea that people get used to excessive noise levels is an all-too common fallacy. While you may think you get used to it at a conscious level, there are several negative effects that an occur, ranging from hearing impairment at high levels to elevated stress levels and diminished cognitive abilities at lower levels.

http://www.who.int/docstore/peh/noise/Comnoise3.htm
Curious that the map doesn't match its legend. Powerplants are drawn as substations. Ah, a PDF matches the legend.
What's "CoL"?
That’s the point though. Just as with programming, most people don’t understand the basics!

Sure, it’s faster to follow a recipe if you’ve spent ten years learning everything about cooking and food science.

Just as it’s easier to just code something if you’ve spent years learning how to code!

The point is to lower the barrier of entry, and deliver people a higher density of information faster and easier.
Right. But still, don't worry yet, worry when it hasn't shown improvement in a few weeks.

Edit: Also, when you look at the JHU data (e.g. via google), it shows a peak at Jan 15th in the number of cases followed by a steady decline. The number of deaths peaks on Jan 28th, followed by a similar, steady decline. Which is as expected, so I would say we are already seeing the effects on the number of deaths.

Sorry that I didn't look at the data earlier before replying.
I built this as a christmas fun project, so feel free to ask if you'd like me to explain something.
It is facial expression recognition, not emotion recognition. If the tech/companies state what the tech actually does, then a non-AI-specialists will not make gross assumptions and design a completely nonsense fictional system on top they believe has some form of "authority" which they then proceed to enforce.
I replaced my 2015 jeep with a 2020 and luckily, it still has volume and air knobs! Sadly, they replaced the AC mode knob with a mode button. It kinda works, but the UI could be better for it. Pushing it displays a popup on the screen saying what mode it is now in. It should show the order of modes, then at least I could more easily memorize it lol.
most people are in fact clueless.
It’s funny. I work from home as a distributed employee of a firm. Most of my other colleagues worked in an office until last week. Now it’s been a boon for me socially! We’ve setup afternoon and morning coffee chats, and people are just more communicative in general with me. Sorry to say it, that it took a disaster like this to get some love for remote folks.
I had these symptoms back in early December. This was before we even really knew about it in the US.

I was really sick for about 2 weeks, which included a mild fever for a couple of days.

I remember thinking that I can't remember being this sick in a long time and I wonder now if I had the Covid-19 infection.
Just for the note:

Sciter implements what I call "an ultimate data persistence solution" - NoSQL DB integrated right into script VM.

You can open storage as:

var storage = Storage.open("path/to/data/file.db");

Storage provides root object - normal script object (or array) that can be updated by normal script means:

storage.root = { foo:[1,2,3], bar: {...} };
storage.root.foo.push(4);
storage.root.bar.newProp = 42;

All script objects that are accessible from the storage.root are persist-able - pushed to HD on storage.close() or storage.commit();

More details about architecture and implementation:
https://sciter.com/data-persistence-in-sciter-database-integ...

Overall feature set is close to MongoDB (modulo sharding).

DB layer uses Konstantin Knizhnik's DyBASE pretty much as it is: http://www.garret.ru/dybase.html
Excellent work. Thank you for sharing it!
I was just thinking, imagine trying to use a modern-day smartphone for this. So much complexity how could you be sure the missile would even get off the ground. There is a big advantage to systems that engineers can mostly "keep in their heads". Very few systems are that way these days.
We don't use linked lists, but it's a test to see if they understand pointers. Pointers are used quite often for a number of things. A binary search might be a better test, but it's even harder and not as guided as a linked list modification test.

Oh, to note, it's a code modification test, not a whiteboard algorithm thing.
Program-generated HTML?

WYSIWYG-editor-generated HTML?
The other night I was searching for Python science books and stumbled across this one titled "Python for Biologists: A complete programming course for beginners"...the homepage for the book is here: http://pythonforbiologists.com/index.php/introduction-to-pyt...

Admittedly, it only has two reviews on Amazon, but they're both five stars, and they both seem to come from biologists who are apparently thrilled at being able to leverage code for their work...the funny thing is, the book itself is not "advanced" as far as what most professional programmers would consider "advanced"...the Beginners' book ends with "Files, programs, and user input" and the Advanced book ends with Comprehensions and Exceptions...

I think we as programmers vastly understimate how useful even basic programming would be to virtually anyone today. I work at Stanford and it continually astounds me when I run into non-programmers who are otherwise doing data-intensive research, who fail to see how their incredibly repetitive task could be digitized and implemented as a for-loop. It's not that they are dumb, it's that they've never been exposed to the opportunity. And conversely, it's not because I'm smart, but I literally can't remember what it was like not to break things down into computable patterns. And I've been the better for it (especially because I'm generally able to recognize when things aren't easy patterns)

Sometime ago, I believe it was Stephen Hawking who speculated that the realm of human knowledge was becoming so vast that genetic engineering of intelligence might be required to continue our progression...that may be so, but I wonder if we could achieve the same growth in capacity of intellect by teaching more computational thinking (and implementation), as we do with general literacy and math. As Garry Kasparov said, "We might not be able to change our hardware, but we can definitely upgrade our software."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...
It sounds like you've already made up your mind and are just looking for people to agree with you.
This is the most interesting answer. On one hand business is business and if a competitor is truly doing something that is risking the livelihood of it's customers, that's not good and they should have a right to know and subscribe to a better service. On the other hand, he is human and might have had a developer that was clueless, etc.

His reply would be key to determining which is true. If he purposefully did it to save costs, not caring, etc. then you have good reason to publicly call him out on it. If he truly was clueless and this is a big oh shit moment to him then you have a couple options you didn't otherwise have. If he doesn't have a big dev team (and if he does they seem incompetent) he might be willing to sell instead of spend the money to fix everything. There might also be some other creative solutions that would be beneficial for you rather than attacking it head on publicly.
Sure, that's the situation in a monopoly. It's not that we're not in a customer role, just that we're poorly served customers of a monopoly where management doesn't seem to understand for whom they're working. If the whole system wasn't sondysfunctional, poor service would be addressed by our elected representatives, who are supposed to be properly planning government services for us.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cannonball and http://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/go-for-launch/2009-05-28/how-t.... To fly to the L2 point, you have to get your rocket into (an elliptical) orbit around the Sun that intersects with the L2 point. Once you get to L2, you have to match its velocity, which you do by firing your engines to speed up (or slow down) such that your rocket and the L2 point have zero velocity relative to one another.

While Kerbal Space Program's physics simulation doesn't have Lagrange points, you can get a pretty good feel for how they work by performing any kind of in-orbit rendezvous.
These groups became violent while still enfranchised.

And they're still enfranchised: they can still vote, and still post to the internet, and still talk to people outside.

They simply no longer get a free internet loud speaker to envangelize to others.
Don't underestimate the bad mouthing effect of having a Dyson. Relatives, neighbours and friends will be making judgements. Because everyone has an opinion on Dyson they will gossip. Might as well join a religious cult.
Some options/ides from the team that does the SuperDuper backup and disk dupe tool: https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/thats_...
>> kummerspeck (German for grief bacon)

> Raises more questions than it answers

True. As a native speaker I know the word, but the sentence makes little sense to me.

One could gain Kummerspeck (over weeks, months or years), but one could not be looking like Kummerspeck or sitting there like Kummerspeck. Unless in English the word has been loaned and the meaning shifted over time as it sometimes happens with loan words.
If Reuters lost a click because somebody wasn’t interested enough to follow the link, sucks to be them.

If they lost the click because the article was summarised and you didn’t need to click through to read it then that’s on HN.

This is less obvious for Google news, but substantially more obvious for other search snippets (like say looking up synonyms).