jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gotta disagree.

Good stack traces are about the maturity of the compiler and tool support- they have absolutely nothing to do with clarity of the language. Clojure is simple and Clojure opts for explicit context over implicit context almost everywhere (dynamic binding being a big exception)- this is exactly what Linus argues for. All you have in Clojure are functions and values - how much straightforward can you get? No objects, no hidden behaviors, no private variables, everything in namespaces, etc.

After two years of hacking on Clojure, I haven't really found macros to obfuscate anything. But that's because I learned not to use them unless I need them.

But, yeah, I'm looking forward to the community growing and providing better error messages and tools for deciphering raw Clojure stacktraces.
You're right, it is terrible for Google's image. The way you give a competitor credibility is through this kind of obvious imitation. Google is sending a clear message that it believes Bing is worth imitating in numerous ways. What's worse, Google is highlighting Bing's strengths- which is unfortunate, as Google is the superior search engine. Bad move.
This might sound like big news but nothing has changed really. Apple has always accepted for example games that use Python or Lua invisbly as part of their engine.
Conversation in the Google UI team...

Google guy 1 = Why do you people love google?
Google guy 2 = Its fast and uncluttered.
Google guy 1 = Good, what we famous for?
Google guy 2 = A white screen and just a search box
Google guy 1 = So what what should be do to the design?
Google guy 2 = Leave it?
Google guy 1 = No fuc* that I'm bored lets copy Bing and piss everyone off!
Some obscure technical reason, apparently: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.tech/msg/9e7d...
Perl does this, Perl 6 especially.
Even if the Linux kernel were rewritten in Erlang and it won't change the fact the vast majority of *NIX systems level code is entrenched in C. The most popular LAMP stack ingredients are also written in C. Face it; it's a good language.
I've been playing with it for a few minutes now, and it's definitely the case that it's easier to tweak. Not because of the underlying language, but because they expose so much of what's available through a GUI.

I'm blown away by how cool this is. I'm just really hoping for good Vim keybindings and I will pay good money for this once it's out of beta.
I think that is accurate. I only meant to use beef as an example of how our food supply has changed, not to suggest that beef is any sort of good source for omega 3s.
Except that startup cost is a one-time hit (of course), and 99% of the time performance sensitive code will be running in a longer lived context.
> it was submitted 28 times in the last couple of hours

28 times? I only see it was submitted once, 3 hours ago (and the original article was apparently published only 4 hours ago)
There is a small study on another drug called Bupropion that says that Bupropion leads to a 5% in weight loss in the first 8 weeks when compared to placebo.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11557835/

Bupropion is also used as an antidepressant and antismoking drug.

I am taking Bupropion to treat my depression and it helps me - at least I think it does. I also think it helped me to loose a little bit of weight.

I have observed myself and with Bupropion I simply want to do stuff, go out for a walk, meet friends etc. Instead of being in bed all day. I think this is how it helps me do both: improve my depression and lose weight at the same time.

I might be totally wrong though since I have no idea regarding the actual mechanics of Bupropion and I may simply experience the "placebo-effect".
It makes asset creation simple since everything is a block and is constructed like Lego. People like constructing things like Lego because they're a very straight-forward way to construct things. It's part of what made Minecraft so popular in the first place.
They do, you just don't hear about it.
> people are eventually being released from them

According to what I've read, people in these camps disappear and are never heard of again.

They sound a lot like concentration camps. Just because they aren't full blown extermination camps yet, doesn't make them any less despicable. The Nazi camps didn't start as extermination camps either, that was a gradual development.
> As would snatching the children of that group and placing them in families of your own group

While these acts are unquestionably immoral, I don't think the ICE detention or transplanting children equates to genocide. It's not the same intent or effect. Eliminating "culture" is not the same as eliminating "people".
I recently tried out Windows Terminal. Honestly, its about as fast as urxvt was when I used to run Linux as a desktop fulltime, and then switched to mintty (via msys2) as a replacement when I came back to Windows after being away for 20 years.

Also, the ability to run shaders is surprisingly interesting, something it shares with Alacritty and Secret Geometry's Cathode (RIP).
Yes precisely. You can have the first two, or the second, but not all three together.
If gold was dirt and had no fallback value, would it . Interestingly the marketing that gold is so valuable, more so diamonds, to artificially inflate its price mimics Bitcoin well. Bitcoin's also called a Ponzi-like scheme because in the end, if everyone in society adopts Bitcoin, it actually has no additional value to the last one stuck holding the bag - you've just transferred all wealth through a system that unnecessarily, unreasonably, transfers wealth weighted towards earlier adopters from later adopters.
I think possibly we have different definitions of tyranny
The GWP is computed for a period of 100 years to account for the various half-lives. The 25x figure is normalized over a 100 year period.

Over a 20 year period, it is about 85x more harmful
I largely agree with most of what you said, and it sounds like you have a bigger historian armchair than I do, and thank you for your interesting insights about the ancient world.

>> ... Roman's weren't racist, they were.

>Were they?

My understanding is that they were, or at least would be considered so by modern definitions. Romans certainly held opinions that were biased, stereotyped, and judged others by their "phenotype" and cultural ancestry. That said, my impression was that Roman culture at large did not institutionalize racial opinion in the same way one might see in the antebellum south, or Indian caste system. A roman might despise and refuse to dine with a Gaul, but another might wed one.

>In point of fact, the Enlightenment draws its origins to early humanists dredging up the wreckage of the ancient world.

This is true, but they were also reinterpreted it through the lens of contemporary Christian philosophy and values. This certainly introduced a greater emphasis on fundamental human rights.

>I love the ancient world because they saw some things so much more clearly than we....That we care not today for the ancient world serves us poorly, and only delivers us as prey to today's howlers.

I think a lot of people long for the perceived simplicity of worlds closer to an animalistic natural order, with rules that from our perspective seem clear and internally consistent. The world we live in has complex challenges with ambiguous and continually changing rules and expectations. I think there is a big crossover the post-apocalyptical fantasy, where the burdens of society are lifted.

One of the challenges and intrigues of history, is trying to understand how much of that sentiment is accurate (if any). While the unintuitive complexity of modern life can be tiresome, it also enables social stability, freedoms, and collaboration impossible in the ancient world.
>What's the difference between "friction" and just challenges in a game (or good old plain "difficulty")

The first example that comes to my mind would be Witcher 2 and the use of potions. You are a bit squishy and the beneficial effects from potions are impactful. However, it is a bit of a slog to prepare and consume the potions before an encounter.

In contrast, Witcher 3 simplified the mechanic to such a degree that it might as well be Diablo where you are chugging potions mid-battle.
Yes, so it's not the only cause, but the reductions in SA were like 65% compared to the UK at about 25%
Very cool.

I was surprised that the article didn't mention the need for this in binary search, and the famous problems [1] that occured due to naive attempts.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm
"I use Signal every day." - Edward Snowden

Okay, im in
Clathrate Gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Read "The overcoat", by Nikolai Gogol. Synopsis at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat .
> I don't believe in innate talent.

I totally believe in innate talent. There are standard breakpoints in math teaching where people simply don't get it. No matter how much time you spend explaining it to them, their brains aren't wired up to handle certain levels of abstraction. At best they remember it briefly, but it never sticks.

(The breakpoints are roughly at basic 'manipulate equations to find x' algebra, basic calculus, and calculus in many dimensions.)

Being good at software and math requires an innate ability for symbolic abstraction and reasoning. It also needs a good memory, so you can keep a lot of details in your brain at the same time.

If you don't have those, you're not going to be able to do the job - certainly not well, and possibly at all.

Hard work will make the most of natural aptitude, but there has to be some natural aptitude to start with.

If this isn't obvious, I'd suggest learning some completely new skill, like painting or music. If you don't have natural ability you'll spend a lot of time flailing around wondering how the hell anyone can do it at all.

That's how most of the population feels about coding. The HN population is a self-selecting group that feels otherwise - but that doesn't make it typical.
s/equal/almost equal/. There still can be a top 0.1% even if they only make 101% of what the bottom 0.1% makes.
I've contributed to this project on the state sources.

For me Marty is the best Flux implementation available right now. When reviewing other frameworks I found them to be either too restrictive by imposing non-flux limitations or the complete opposite by not implementing the flux principles well enough.
The thing that scares me about the Singularity is that it's such potent kool-aid for tech geeks. I talk to Singularitarians and there's this fire in their eyes like they've been reborn. They become so certain. They remind me of fundamentalists. If there's one thing more dangerous than a true believer it's a crowd of really smart true believers. I'm afraid, perhaps unnecessarily, of what might be done in the name of "ushering in the singularity".

I don't think we can know whether a singularity is possible until it's upon us, which could be never. I'm singularity agnostic. That doesn't mean we don't think hard about it. That doesn't mean we don't guard ourselves against its perceived dangers. It does mean that we keep our heads and stay skeptical and put out the fires that are already burning.
Not to mention, it's increasingly difficult to talk about the community as one entity. MM and his style is actually mocked in many circles of the community. They have the most mainstream branding due to the show but in no way do they represent the most popular style anymore.
there were plenty of companies that offered users great value that they massively under-charged for.

Out of curiosity, which were the ones that offered great value?
One of my old college professors used to have a saying, if you want to survive in the long term, you've got to survive in the short term first. This basic concept was how he analyzed why people and organizations made decisions that were in retrospect obviously not in their long term best interest.

In the West not many people get married without dating first...
Ah, but it's more subtle than that. You see you have already been hacked. Why do boys automatically buy drinks for girls? It's almost as if we've been programmed to do so, and therefore do it regardless of it "working". But any bloke whose spent any time in pubs knows, if he thinks about it for a second, that you buy rounds of drinks with your mates. Buying drinks is a friendship signal, not a mating signal. And if you do it, that's where you'll end up.
Possibly, but I don't think it's necessary. Sometimes money-losing companies are offering their users real value, which in effect the VCs are subsidizing. That's pretty good for the users so long as the VCs are willing to keep subsidizing the services! There was a good deal of that in the first dot-com bubble, where basically everything was free due to huge piles of neverending investor dollars paying for it all.
The disturbing thing about this, is that "skills used in...lulz-getting" are also useful for political manipulation and black ops propaganda.
I just read that and had an interesting moment of self-realization. Wow.

Of course, I'm not quite there yet. But yeah. You've summed it up.
PAX is the Penny Arcade Expo. Think of it as E3 for the public.
Not long ago HyVee in the Midwest was looking specifically for entire teams on LinkedIn. You can reach out to one of their recruiters and see if they still are.

Look for Amanda Wittmaack.
Coming from Swift, you will not be lost in Kotlin.
Courts look at the intent of contracts in the minds of the signers, not hyper literal readings of fixed-in-stone words. When both MS and Canonical agree that this breached acceptable usage, it’s time to give up that fight.
A flat head screwdriver was designed to insert and remove screws. But it can also be used to open a paint can! OMG! Is the flat head screwdriver invented or discovered?

Our mathematical system is an invented human language. We know that all symbolic systems with sufficient complexity are equivalent (see Turing machines.) Finding an arbitrary one to be useful and flexible is not evidence of magic.
Yes, Steam has grown a lot. Last I checked, there were ~50k apps.

Edit: 50,630 apps according to https://www.gamedatacrunch.com/

As I focused on vertical banners, the list was smaller (~30k apps). This is equivalent to the *lite* version of Unsplash's dataset.
Anyone try out https://github.com/realm/realm-kotlin for local state yet?
This hasn't been my experience. When the non-experts decide to break patterns and remove guardrails because they don't understand their purpose, and then they break the project, the experts are once again pulled back in to try and scavenge the remains and get something workable.

It's fine if people want to do something different: just first become an expert.
I’m curious: why hasn’t google done this already?

Seems like a key part of ‘organizing all the world’s information’, right? Making YouTube searchable would open up their massive content library to discovery, and enable people to find content without having to rely on The Algorithm guessing what they might want to see...

In general the switch from users going to the internet and asking it to find them certain things, to going to the internet and having things selected for them and offered up as ‘recommendations’ seems like a key shift in how the internet functions to disseminate ideas...
I'm pretty sure the level of type annotation you'd get roped into doing would be about on par with what you get in Java 10: function parameter and return types, but not local variable types.
Hot off the oven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QObt0SGriI&feature=youtu.be
At this point practically everything about me's available either for free or a few dollars. The only interesting thing left is whether a given password has been compromised. The answer to everything else is "yes, it's been leaked". Been that way for most of a decade at this point, guessing it's the same for most other folks with any modern digital or banking presence whatsoever.
Here in the UK I've noticed that accessing YouTube directly is slow, laggy and choppy. But when I accidentally visited while using a SOCKS proxy running over a VPS in the US it was snappy. After some more testing it seems that my local ISP is indeed throttling YouTube, but their inability to look inside an SSH tunnel means I can still access it at decent speed.
Why not throw out dirty prototypes of your top ideas every weekend to see if they gain traction?
isn't this worse than that? party B also doesn't get to know what's going on and also doesn't get a chance to win the case.
Amazon wants to inflict thought control just as it does on employees engaging in lawful activities outside of work. They’re not the only ones either. We need to boycott companies that adopt such policies for either their customers or employees. Otherwise institutions, which are run by a few people and can be subverted by activist ideologues as well (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_i...), will become tyrants that control and restrict others’ thoughts and actions. We are already most of the way there. For my part, I’m stopping my use of Twitch right away and cancelling Prime.
probably includes a hidden z/os emulator
One thing that has become clear to me, from playing around a bit with go, rust, and nim, is that it is astonishingly better when the language has exactly one set of tools, that everyone uses.

Even if that set of tools is kinda crappy (Glances at go), it's just so nice to not have all the bikeshedding and just get on with it.
> Wait, were you fired then hired back?

In this person's case the firing might have been a mistake, but rehiring is not so uncommon. The large (Fortune 500) tech company I worked at at the time laid off a bunch of people - mostly in sales and management - during the 2008 recession. Many of them were re-hired within 12-18 months once things got better.

Edit: reworded
> In America there is no right to food or shelter

Yes, there definitely is. Food and shelter are vital to life. I seem to recall something about life liberty and happiness in some obscure little read part of the constitution. Let me know if you see it on a re-read.

(Please don’t go off and try and claim that rights are things anyone else has to provide)

Aside from the obvious issues with banning someone from buying food for having the wrong thoughts - which I should just be able to end right there because how insane is that!? - there are points to be made about:

- protected classes and not needing them all enumerated before you are forced to treat people well even if they are mean

- ethically not being a fascist that would block people from buying food for disagreeing with them, and congrats, this is actual fascism

- generally just minding your own fucking business about how wrong someone is and being able to separate even awful beliefs from participation in other aspects of society

- and most importantly not short-sightedly canceling people because tomorrow it might be you that has the unpopular idea, as unbelievable as I’m sure you could find that
> Another way to help retrain motorists' expectations is to do better to keep up with traffic.

Whether a cyclist can maintain 20 mph or just 10 mph isn't going to make a difference to the motorists. But taking the lane by default will train them to change lanes to pass like they would when encountering any other slow vehicle.
A vocal subset of the people that are uncomfortable are jumping to censorship as a means to solve problems. Both the political left and right do it. They don't want to hear opposing ideas, and they're increasingly trying to tune it out, ban, and delete it.

This is not healthy for a functioning democracy or individual liberty and freedom.

Freedom of speech needs to remain absolute. Encroachments upon our rights endanger us all.

(Honestly, we need freedom of privacy too. I wish we could roll back the clock and install amendments to enshrine these too.)
I miss my old EarthLink.net email address. . Where can we go to get these old emails? Do any still exist?
I think pipenv is better for managing non-published Python environments, so there.
> Spreading crime around is not that way.

There is also the idea that by separating out problem elements, that in the long term you decrease overall crime.

A child in a ghetto who knows not of the potential for escape will likely stay in that ghetto. A child who is surrounded by choices, options, and multiple role models has a choice to make.
Different levels of shiny perfectly captures how I feel after taking a 66% paycut. Now I mostly buy food at Costco instead of Whole Foods and wear uniqlo. But I’m much happier having more time and less stress. I couldn’t buy a decent 2br house/apt in my big city before, still can’t. Unless you are trying to pay for kids college or something making an extra 100K in a major metro area mostly just raises your taxes.
I'm sure they'll get around to it once their PM figures out the way to copy a link to the bug they filed on Jira about it.
The Alpha user and Wolfram certainly could share a copyright for nontrivial inputs which represent a _de minimis_ creative contribution, but Wolfram can simply put a copyright assignment in the Terms of Service license agreement the Alpha user agrees to, and I bet if you read carefully through enough legalese, you'll find that somewhere (just in case).
And this right here is why “responsible disclosure” is a dumb term that people need to stop using.

Look how much time is wasted arguing over the highly subjective definition of “responsible” that breaks out. Communicating these issues would be far more optimal if we use objective language.

That was the point when Scott Culp coined that awful term in the first place. People are still taking the bait.
My elementary school had a similar thing in (I believe) a math class I was in. I recall that we were given newspapers with a list of stock prices and were in groups. I can't recall if we were given any lesson on how the stock market worked. We had fairly little time to pick stocks. I'm not sure that I learned anything other than to actually know what you're doing if you're going to invest in random stocks.
So, if I setup an HD CCTV camera in a fixed position and livestream sunsets from the beach, I cannot claim copyright of the stream.

I don’t see why this would be different from an AI.
> No, but if I spent a few hours looking through the training dataset I'd probably find another image that looked almost exactly like the one I'm looking at.

If you look at nearest-neighbor lookups in papers like BigGAN, you'll see that for all the apparent 'simple derivatives', you will see that it is actually quite difficult to find "another image that looked almost exactly like the one I'm looking at". Similar, certainly, recognizably the same character, absolutely (particularly well-represented ones like Touhou characters), but exactly? And if they were purely copying specific points, the interpolations would not work. (It would also be a lot easier to reverse a given image into the latent vector to edit it.)
Not too mention, at least in America, the vast majority of American lives are far worst off than they were in the 70s, 80s, or 90s. Making smart phones and personal computers just made rich people richer.
Unless you recorded the oral stuff or wrote it down, I don’t see how you can claim a right to it.
Look at the personal record that was in the article. It looks like aggregated public information. And look at what the companies referenced in the DB do.

It's possible there's someone selling them so not-quite-public info, too, but it's probably more like phone numbers and less like private messaged on Facebook or Linkedin.

The title reads like data from 1.2B profiles was leaked by Facebook and Linkedin, but this looks like scraping public profiles from them.
I'm normally pretty well versed in dry humour, being a near native speaker of such. But I'm failing to comprehend whether you're being satirical or serious... perhaps I need more tea. Can you clarify?
How did you get the first few people to add their newsletters?