jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It would be helpful if you just had a demo video (short video), showing what the site does. It took me a few seconds to even understand the concept fully. In those seconds, you could lose many potential users.
Their site is completely unusable for me too. I'm amazed that they haven't fixed this, and amazed that it made it through testing without being spotted.
Explain how the traditional label structure is killed by online labels showing up in Pandora.
This idea was scrapped after some public polling, see:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

Some blame the result of the polls on fears that the idea would give extra votes to the roma minority, who, on average, have more kids and larger families than the non-roma.

Some more background info:
The population of Hungary is shrinking, which will cause big problems after some decades with regard to funding pensions and such (as you will have a shrinking working population having to finance the pensions of a growing populations of pensioners). Also, the retired pensioners form a large and easily mobilized voting force which means that politicians are forced to pander to their interest by raising pensions and such. The plan to allow children to vote (either directly or by giving extra votes to their parents) would help somewhat with both issues.
You are right. It might increase very slowly if you actually store a source repository composed of many small files and then only some of them change periodically. But if you store large binary blobs and all of them change often then git won't work that well.

You'd at least want to have the option to blow away some history as you run out of space or become confident that you'll never need it -- can't do that in git without re-writting the whole commit history from scratch and filtering out some commits.

In think in this case there is some confusion between backup and synchronization, both can be thought of as separate and git might not do well for either one in the general case. It might not be as good for backup, because you might want to blow away old snapshots and in case of synchronization. As for general bidirectional synchronization, you'd need some way to plugin in custom merge conflict resolution (can git do that?). For example you might have a policy that whenever you modify a file on the your laptop it should take precendence over the same file modified on your iphone, or some text files can handle merging while others should be replaced based on timestamp, or something like that.
This is awesome. Truly a modern-day way of securing boxes.

Of course, it makes it more of a hassle to maintain a machine, and you might get temporarily locked out if their VOIP line or whatever goes down, but the same could be said about fingerprint readers. I personally try to avoid those mechanisms if at all possible, but it's great that someone is offering this as a simple service. Really cool!
What I like about the thread is that it's a window into another world of geek humor whose countours I'm familiar with (they look a lot like the countours for cs humor) but whose specifics are largely unintelligible to me.

Great read.
A podcast idea everyone tells me is good but I’m not sure I have time for:

The Good Shit Stays — book reviews done 1 month after reading.
You could argue that this is what the ACLU is. They need better funding.
What innovative things did he do?
I ended up deleting my Goodreads account. I don't want to share the for-fun books I read and it was kind of a hassle to deal with settings and 'friends' and whatnot.
What tool/framework do they use for annotation and are there standards like SMTlib2, but for annotating those kind of things?
Can this tools verify that the annotations are correct wrt the code below or above?
Thanks for all the work!
But they both result in similar convictions, so it's just another day in the salt mines regardless.
All things being equal a chiplet design will underperform a monolithic die. But we've already seen the benchmarks on the performance of Milan so looking at chiplets versus monolithic is mostly about considering AMD's strategy and constraints rather than how the chips perform.
That's an awesome achievement. Sanctions should be imposed on governments, particular corporations and specific individuals. Not on all the people who are only guilty in being unfortunate enough to be born in a particular country or have a reason to visit it.
Interesting! Sounds like the company is doing pretty well, that's nice to hear. I'm a fan of it, just wish there were fewer bots. Thanks for your work, whatever you're doing there :)
Could it be this? http://www.urth.net/
Saigon and the great experience of crossing the street... among the highest rate in the world of car accidents. Come on, let's be serious, this is better than the Paris subway? Under what metric?
Otherwise you have a shiny brick
Google's reputation for poor support and discontinuing things seems quite apt...
Regarding decisions made by private companies: you might be familiar with the various noises the US government made when Apple recently announced a possible future "no backdoor" policy. If they cancel those plans, is it really a private decision?
yes. containerization allows you to segregate your browsing sessions even when necessary page functionality includes code/assets from entities that would use that inclusion to track. think of it as minimizing your surface area. temporary containers in particular are like a fresh session in every tab.

i combine containers with noscript, ublock, and decentraleyes.
Well how much VRAM do you feel you need for your projects? Because there's a lot of 16 GB cards out there that are still perfectly serviceable for that.

Vega Frontier Editions (16 GB HBM2) are going for around $600-700 on eBay and Craigslist, also Facebook Marketplace in some areas.

Radeon VIIs (16 GB HBM2) are going for around $650-1000 on the same platforms.

You can easily put two of those into a machine and have a pretty impressive deep learning rig.
What is the next best alternative for a Facebook advertiser in a world of no third-party tracking?
Appreciate your comment.

Any thoughts about making the Magnet school program 'the standard' for every kid? As an alternate policy to ending it, as the article describes.
We're already in an Ice Age, namely the Quaternary. The glaciers have receded somewhat, but the Earth still has a high level of glaciation compared to other geological periods.

One of the most important factors is the arrangement of the continents[1]. First, having a large polar continent allows ice to accumulate and increase the Earth's albedo significantly. Second, having two major oceans instead of one decreases the efficiency of heat transfer around the globe, allowing other pockets of glaciation to occur. In a scenario with no polar continents and only one major ocean a glaciation is virtually impossible regardless of where we are in the Milankovitch cycles[2], because the Earth is effectively swimming in a thermodynamic bath. Atmospheric composition is actually a relatively minor factor, it's just that human activity can't shift continents around or affect solar cycles and those both change on much longer timescales than human activity.

[1] https://www.wisegeek.com/how-does-the-placement-of-the-conti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I couldn’t agree more. I benefited greatly from a gifted track in my otherwise fairly mediocre public school system. Now seeing my kids and their peers, the differences in starting point of kindergarten and 1st graders was shocking. Many kids came in knowing how to read Dr Suess, do basic math, and take turns in games/crafts/conversation. Others couldn’t even manage any of those basics. We’re in a controlled choice district (where there is cross-city busing but some bias towards the two schools closest to you and to where an older sibling attends). I think I could watch a kindergartner for 90 minutes and predict the family economic status with high accuracy. (Cambridge, MA has plenty of affluent people of all races; this breaks down on economic lines much more than on any other dimension.)

I can’t even really “blame” the families for whom they need to have all adults working outside the home and often more than one job. How can you do that and expect to give the kids a level of attention that a family with a full-time adult in the house (whether a parent or nanny)? Kids are exhausting; so is working multiple jobs and worrying about money all the time.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I think it’s terrible to kneecap the successful and promising students just because not everyone is one or because you find a socio-economic discrepancy in the makeup. If you do that, you accelerate the flight of better students out to better public districts, to private schools, or supplemental experiences, which does nothing to lift the majority of the student body. (I suppose private schooling means you get some money from the parents who didn’t leave your town without having to bother to serve them. But you also lose all that role modeling.)
> And here’s the real crux of the problem: software engineers aren’t builders. Software engineers are creators. Building is what you do when you buy a piece of furniture from Ikea and get it home. The instructions are laid out and if you go step by step, you’ll get that comically small table you wanted. Creating is a different process, it’s birthing something without direction or instruction. It’s starting with a blank canvas and painting a masterpiece. Software engineers don’t get into coding because they want someone to tell them what to do, they get into it because they discovered they could create something useful. Every single software engineer fell in love with coding because she made a small, useful program early on and was hooked.

That’s something I have always told to someone out of the industry asking about my job. Coding is like painting. That’s what make it so interesting.
>The rtx 3060, released a few days ago, was not selling for MSRP.

Anecdote: I actually got a 3060 for MSRP (well, MSRP + 6 euros with no separate charge for shipping). But the store was selling it as an "introductory offer while supplies last" and it sure isn't at MSRP anymore.
This is possible: Right click on Symbol, Goto definition. This can be easily mapped to a keybinding as well.
Sounds like you are channeling something I've been going through. I Had a rough time after College and took the easy way out through the military, and now employers see a 4 year gap and don't even pick up the phone. Luckily one did, but the work environment isn't very fulfilling, and after the daily commute I am not left with much time to relax and do some out of work projects. Luckily after some time of jumping at the chance to implement stuff here and there and improving my process, I notice people are at least calling me after they read my resume. My interviewing skills have gone up dramatically, and I think my passion and enthusiasm comes through to the people willing to give me a chance to show them.

Hopefully sometime soon someone will give me another chance. Keep interviewing if only to honing your skills, to see what people are asking for outside of job descriptions, and to get comfortable talking about yourself.

Now someone tell me how to get involved with the local tech scene, when the nearest meetings are hours away and you don't know anyone locally.
> Learn to survey, skim, and dive in. All your endeavors will be the better for it.

Then why sort comments at all? just order them in date order (or the reverse) and be done with it. Let the reader decide what is useful and what isn't.

Seems like having comments sorted in an implicit order of 'goodness' (even if there is no score) would handicap people in the development of their ability to 'survey, skim and dive in'.
Get the hipsters on your side and you're all set.

I'm serious.
> iTunes is showing its age and over the years has become a bloated collection of functionalities ...

iTunes 'bloat' is a huge competitive advantage. Apple can make changes to their digital stores and instantly release to tens of millions of customers, including Windows users who aren't going to install a half-dozen discrete applications if Apple chose to split up iTunes.
I'd be concerned that the approach you laid out is something of a proxy for lines of code delivered.

Absolutely incorrect. Did you actually read my proposal? If the tests are of high quality, then the code passing them will be substantive. Also, in new development, what matters is functional specs delivered, and in a properly run TDD project, these two are strongly related.
It's a cheap shot for sure, but it would be nice if zipcar offered some extended liability coverage.

EDIT: If any hn'ers have experience with non-owner's auto insurance and didn't totally hate the company, please let me know.
Pirates were complicated in the 15-17th century. They were usually backed by a kingdom. As a captain one way to get rich was to be given a "pirate pass" - in which you could terrorize shipping from from other hostile kingdoms. Example below. As a pirate you wanted a place where you could restock - so they would answer to and work for kingdoms that were expanding in the new world. The most treasured ships (in the entire world ) were leaving from south america so full of stolen gold they would often sink. That is why you see movies of pirates in the gulf of mexico. But honestly every nation had them - they operated throughout the known world.

One of the coolest 16th century castles - was created to stop pirates raiding spanish shipping in Florida. It is amazing with an amazing history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos

John Paul Jones was the first "American Pirate". He worked for the US / France and would raid british shipping.

https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/huguenot-pirates-in-th...

The treaty of Tordesillas on the 7th of June 1494 declared that lands lying beyond the Atlantic Ocean, whether discovered in the past or the future, were to be shared uniquely between Spain and Portugal. In addition, Pope Alexander VI gave his approval in a papal bull. This treaty did not receive the agreement of France or England and they were all the more offended by it because soon after this, the Spanish refused to allow any other nation to tradewith their American colonies.

It was in such circumstances as this that both France and England allowed their corsairs to attack Spanish vessels in Europe and the West Indies, with the justification that they had letters giving official permission from their government, although these papers were sometimes false. Indeed, sometimes the politicians actively encouraged such ventures.
Any idea where to get a good quality 30dBi antenna these days (for 2.4GHz or different frequencies)?
Those don't seem like examples anti-competitive practices in the search engine market. In fact they don't seem like anti-competitive practices at all. This first supposes that there's a meaningful "market" of "ads on Google", which is an unreasonably narrow scope of products to try to define as a market, and the second seems like a straightforward function of a search engine.

If Google Search did something like refuse to return results if you searched for "Bing" or "Yandex", that would be an example of an anti-competitive practice in the search engine market, but when I test those searches the first results are the Bing and Yandex homepages.
Read up on the calculus of variations if you want to be obscure with respect to neural networks. Genetic algorithms for hyper-parameter search is also interesting.

The "deep" part of DNNs has basically thrown mathematicians and statisticians into an infinite loop that they can't quite compute yet. It's a brand new world and we need them to participate.
Yup. I use this for all my home server services like Plex, Adguard, etc.

I reboot my machine after kernel updates and everything comes up flawlessly.
"...I think this idea that addicts are fundamentally different from everyone else is a complete myth"

That's absolutely not what I said, nor what I intended. Of course, addicts aren't any different to anyone else in the general sense (that of being human beings).

Nevertheless, their worldview is different to mine and to that of others - no two worldviews are the same, everyone has a fundamentally different worldview or we'd all be clones.

Yes, like everyone else, I have my addictions - cravings for certain foods, rich cheeses, certain types of cakes and so on but I simply never buy them or my belt would be about four notches larger. I'm constantly aware that I can't afford to give in to temptation and it's stressful.

However, that doesn't stop me looking at these foods and drooling over them whenever I go shopping.

Same with coffee: I drink coffee so strong that no normal person would ever touch it. Unlike those other foods mentioned, I do imbibe in this superstrong coffee and I have no intention of giving it up even though I know that it is not good for me.

The difference between my food addictions and alcohol addiction is the sheer scale of the damage alcohol does to the individuals involved not to mention the havoc it does to their families and to society at large.

Comparing my food addictions to alcohol or full-blown opiate addiction is a non sequitur, essentially there is no comparison even though they all initially started out as the cravings of one's mind. By comparison, my food addiction compared to alcohol or opiate addiction is like comparing a pop gun to an AK47.

We must be very careful when we equate all addictions down to a commom cause - one's craving mind and then proceed to imply that in the end there's little to differentiate between them. To say there's little between them is postmodernist nonsense in its extreme and it's very dangerous thinking. In the end, black is black and white is white and not some shade of nondescript amorphous gray.

That said, I'll restate the fact that I've just watched a longtime friend die of alcoholic poisoning and I've great sympathy for anyone who's in the grip of alcoholism.

If you think I'm being a righteous bastard for saying what I've just said then I can only say that it's definitely not true. I am only too well aware that there's the thinnest of thin lines between me (and most of us) and the alcoholic or opiate addict - or the haplessly addicted and desperate gambler.

As the old truism states, it is only but for the grace of one's deity go thee.
In Pathfinder 2e, for a different example, melee reach works on those non-Euclidean rules, while every other range/area measurement does the "every second diagonal square counts double" rule. So for that, you actually need both versions of radius measurement.
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Agreed, I'm surprised people aren't talking more about Mathematica. I feel like it is a way nicer experience, the user community is great and the built-in computable data is awesome. It's expensive, so it may not make sense for messing around, but for real prototyping and deployable APIs, it's worth it.
There was a bit of controversy a few years ago when Mozilla added CNNIC to Firefox's list of trusted CAs. I removed CNNIC from my browser shortly afterwards. No problem so far.

I don't think you'll have much problem even if you only trusted a few U.S. megacorporations, such as Verisign, Comodo, GeoTrust, GoDaddy, etc. They're no more trustworthy than the rest, but at least they're much more widely used than some government agency of a country you have nothing to do with.
Design patterns are usually integrated into software projects, not themselves a software project.
Fair comment for typical accelerators but not really true in the case of YC. There are far more alive or exited than dead companies in YC's alumnus.. http://yclist.com (out of date but it's the old data that's relevant here).
Quite commonly I read the comments but not the linked page.

It is particularly upsetting to me that I can't comment on "ACME Road Runner Traps (YC16) is Hiring". It's not that I want to flame the company, I often want to ask questions - for example it is quite common that I can't figure out where they are located geographically.
The problems are:

1- the IPCC is a governmental (political) entity, not a scientific entity.

2- there have been proofs of scientific "misconduct" from scientists employed by the IPCC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_co...

3- alternative _scientific_ voices (researchers, articles) are silenced, instead of being evaluated on scientific value (this is similar to medical research financed by pharmaceutic corporations: you only finance research allowing capitalistic exploitation, and obtain only those results).

4- the "solutions" enacted are essentially political and economic, geostrategic and economic advantages to some countries to the depends of other countries, in a very suspicious pattern. (carbon taxes, "polution credits", disindustrialization, unemployment, etc). If it was really a scientific problem there would be a scientific or technological solution, and it would affect equally everybody.

5- scientifically, the use of artificial models, that are both incomplete, and ad-hoc (similar to the old orbital model using innumerous epicycles to refine an artificial model), is also highly suspiscious.

6- even if there is in realitity a global warming, and even if it is produced mainly from human activity, is this really a bad thing? In the historic times, everytime the climate has been warmer, things have been better agriculturally, economically and culturally. And the climate HAS been much warmer several times in the past 2500 years.
No, and nor did I mention "fencing". I said "minimum viable". No other open source RDBMS manages those things, so calling postgres out for lacking them is a little disingenuous.

Replication isn't "inherently" anything. Making it a runtime thing is one way of doing it. Just because it's your preferred way (or — as often seems to be the case among people who share your opinion about how postgres does it — just how they were first exposed to it) doesn't make any of the myriad other, perfectly viable ways of doing it wrong.

As for my "conglomerate of homegrown scripts", I keep my db configs versioned in git, and use symlinks from $PGDATA into a role- and environment-specific (e.g., testing-master or production-slave or whatever) subdirectory in a clone of that repo. Puppet clones the repo on spinning up a new machine, and I repoint the symlinks as necessary. You know:

$ ln -sf /path/to/repo/environment/role/*.conf $PGDATA/

Complex, huh?
I just got a "Netflix can't play this title at this time" error message - are you guys experimenting?