jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If people want to argue that the doctor was right to go out and distribute the vaccine ad-hoc, I think they should consider not just the actual result, but also counterfactuals, and whether in those counterfactual cases the actions would still be "justified". By returning to the real events, you're avoiding that consideration.

I agree that we must consider counterfactuals, but we can still only judge him by his actions, not hypothetical scenarios. Considering counterfactuals should help guide policy, not punishment.

> I did not mean "equity" in terms of "equitable racial distribution". I meant "equity" in the nebulous way of "fairness".

So how do we determine a particular list of recipients was "equitable" or not? While I agree with the idea that equity should mean fairness, I would offer that unfortunately in America that notion begins and ends with "equitable racial distribution".
People only hear about lobbying in a bad light but the truth is they are vitally essential - not all lobbying is back room dealing - the vast majority of it is basically advising. When you call your senator you would be lobbying on behalf of a cause.

If the government wanted to put a back door in encryption, who is it that tells them why that’s a bad idea? Quite often, lobbyists (in this case on Behalf of companies whose security would be compromised). Industries organize lobbyists to advocate for themselves because politicians can’t possibly understand all the ramifications of the laws they pass.

There are definitely issues with organized lobbying but the alternatives are lacking.
OP was arguing that transactions in Bitcoin take a lot of energy. I'm pointing out that this simply isn't true -- all the energy use in Bitcoin is in solving the PoW puzzle, which is unrelated to transactions. It's not like this is a secret -- read Bitcoin's source code if you don't believe me.
The truth is that even at great companies there is plenty of "crud work" to do. It is important work and you are solving real problems but there is little personal/professional growth or learning.

One way to keep that kind of work interesting and to provide growth and learning is to use new/different tools and technology to do it.
Will read the article, thank you.

In the past I've tried to use POIC system[0][1] but it wasn't really that efficient and the biggest 2 problems were search (mostly full text, I could find entry from a particular date quite easly) and portability - over time it becomes a big physical thing you need to store (I move quite often).

I agree with you about dividing (almost) everything into single pieces of information and adding to the system, but I'm still trying to figure out how to do this well.

[0] http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

[1] http://lifehacker.com/the-pile-of-index-cards-system-efficie...
Well, it's working for me right now. I've been in the van for a little over six months now and have a planned rough end date around mid next-year, so it's somewhere between living and long-term traveling.

I'm not much of a city dweller. It's not that I hate cities, they have their charms, it's mostly just that the things I most enjoy don't exist in them. My job is reasonably flexible and living in a van allows me to be closer to the things I love to do: skiing, climbing, running/hiking (off road), especially. Typically I'll do one of those for 2-4 hours per work day, and much of the weekend. Because I guess you may wonder: I find this makes me happier and gives me more motivation in general, which, anecdotally, has a positive impact on my work.

A little more background: I work an average of 40hrs/wk; I have no children; minimal financial responsibilities; I live in the van with my partner, who works ~20hrs/wk, also remotely.
Complex tax codes are due to politics. For example tax breaks for specific groups are a way of rewarding voter support blocs.

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
Try Rpi once again with external ssd[1], preferably with external power source like psu[2]. Rpi has huge community which will help you if you ever need solution for bespoke config

[1]https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/im-booting-my-raspber...
[2]https://superuser.com/questions/1239449/using-a-separate-pow...
That's interesting about the Keristans.

Vicarious joy is well documented throughout history though. And compersion is just vicarious joy in a specific context.
While technically true, that doesn't mean users will understand that and send their bug reports to the right place. For some historical examples of maintainer burnout and community clashes, see QuodLibet vs Gentoo in 2005/2005: https://bugs.gentoo.org/101619 / https://bugs.gentoo.org/124595

And GAIM (Pidgin) vs Gentoo in 2003 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890), where we can see that nothing ever really changes, RE: "You don't happen to be using an architecture other than x86, do you?"
I've heard even worse. Of course, it's all hearsay, but I was told a story of targeted harassment due to someone trying to FOIA a department.
They were a big factor in making such models sustainable and widespread, yes.
It would be amazing if this could become the future, but as someone working in the adversarial robustness space I find it difficult to believe a system like this wouldn't be susceptible to adversarial patching...especially with whitebox access. It's been shown by Nicolas Carlini that nearly all adversarial defenses can be broken or are inherently flawed.

Very curious to see what makes this anti-spoofing algo different, will read the paper with interest.
History is really not that simple and you should always be wary of anyone trying to ascribe blame to a single person or event.

There were many events that led to the “end of the Islamic Golden Age,” but a closer analysis reveals that nothing really ended, but simply was moved around.

Consider that the Ottomans were technologically superior to Europeans until about the 17th century, or that Al-Andalus was around until the 15th century.

But, overall, the single biggest event to impact the era was probably the Mongol sacking of Baghdad. That ended a lot of intellectual culture in rather violent fashion.
Correct. But isn't there also 30x more EVs?
A single timezone for the whole world made much more sense in Asimov's Robot novels. But that was because everyone lived underground or in domed cities (I forget which), so they didn't care about the position of the sun and woke up / went to bed at the same time globally.
Cause: The Curse of Expertise - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
While this is an interesting way of comparing, I'd be slightly worried if I were applying to law school. Given that you have a limited amount of time to write your LSAT essay, and an essentially unlimited amount of time to write and polish your personal statement (plus have professors, friends and family look over it), I could see there being a large but legitimate gap between the two.

Perhaps it's not as great as I think though.
I can recommend the book. I've read it the day it came out. Of course, it's some kind of compilation of the stuff you could already read on Leo's homepage. But anyway: it can't be wrong if you read about the same thing twice.

I love Leos work. Along with Tim Ferris, Randy Gage and George Leonard (wrote the great book "Mastery") he has been one of my most important teachers as an adult.
I'm an engineer and I agree with Swizec and mathgaldiator. As an engineer I see great value in abstracting layers until any specification or detail is needed. If NoSQL as a term helps me convey a meaning of "newish edgy non relational datastore" then the term serves it's purpose, the same way people used Web 2.0 to describe pretty gradients, huge plasticky buttons, and shinny bubble navbars.

It may seem like a fad to most people but it still is the easiest, shortest way to describe a group of aesthetics, use cases, or features in only one word. Think of it this way: We do it all the time with races, skin colors, and religions. White, Black, Muslims, Christians, Latinos, Asians... RDMS, and NoSQL...
Lots of sites have a bar with five+ ways of sharing every article but that's hardly a sign that delicious, digg, redit and so-forth are winning (a lot of those bars are broken too, btw). Web real estate for link-images seems easy to get once you reach a certain level of mind-share but I can't see getting image everywhere as being the same as becoming a necessary part of the web.

If taking credit cost little, every remaining store in the US would do it tomorrow. Does that mean many stores would be willing to stop accepting cash? No way. (well not 'till "the beast" slouches a little closer to ba-by-lon but I'm not hold my breath).
> Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast.

I usually find that making it fast makes it inelegant.
I envy the knowledge that this guy has amassed.
Both of those uses of = above are actually pretty consistent, given how Atomo's scoping and dispatch system works.

When you said "for 0, fib is 1," you could just as easily say "for the current scope object, x is Object clone." This is exactly how it works. Method dispatch is 100% pattern-matching, and Atomo's scopes are 100% message dispatch, combined with delegation.

When you say "0 fib = 1", the method is inserted on Integer. When you send a message to an Integer, you're sending (pseudocode) `Single "fib" (Integer 0)`. The methods on Integer pattern-match on that, in this case with `PSingle "fib" (PMatch (Integer 0))`. If that pattern fails, it moves on to "1 fib = ...", and finally to the least-precise "(n: Integer) fib := ...".

Not sure if that answers your question, but I thought I'd expand on it a bit.
The suggestion for a regular opt-out Wednesday is a splendid one.
Part of the problem is the lack of overall risk assessment. The OMB has pointed out that the TSA does not have way to judge how best to spend resources. As a result, we have ever increasing levels of passenger screening (focusing on the same threat model is like "keep security the same", right) while we still after 9 years don't have things like 100% cargo inspection (remember, the printer cartridges were flying as cargo) and no screening of ground crew.

The irrational part isn't that we assume our current measures are adequate. The irrational part is the changes we're making have no rational basis, little public input, and any public objections are responded to with "we can't go into the details in public because it's too sensitive," which is a very non-democratic answer to something which affects so many people.
Here's the rationale for writing this book: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-tea...

And here's the pdf: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/book.pdf

Looking at the table of contents, I like the ordering of the topics.
>cool friends, lovely girlfriend.

I don't have any of those.
I'm working on a CLI to download and index from any API like Spotify, Gmail, etc. It puts all of your data in a single database that you can query. There currently aren't many integrations but it's really easy to make plugins to share new data sources, queries, etc. Feel free to make a PR!

Code: https://github.com/aspen-cloud/aspen-cli
I don't know the name of it, but there's a tick psychological tests do where they reverse questions, hoping to see if people are answering honestly. There was a window where most people approved of the ACA and disapproved of Obamacare.
"As for the "he has not taken any pay" crap, he has equity, you do not your only reward is your pay check in that situation."

Very correct. On several occasions I have been promised equity. At first as a compensation for my pay, and then as vested. However none of this ever came into existence. Every time I brought it up again he would keep putting it off. But then in any discussions for a raise or anything to that degree he would use it against me saying something to the degree of: "Well, you know you are going to get equity in this!" I called him on it once. Saying that I wouldn't want equity if my pay was increased. The conversation ended right there.
If you still want to offer "unlimited space", make it a soft cap -- "You're using a lot of space, if you need more please email us".
That line of thinking is well-suited to justify one's own failings while minimizing the successes of others. While I cannot argue against determinism--philosophy isn't my line of expertise--I don't think it is a useful model to go through life with. Call me old fashioned, but even as an atheist I've found having a "moral" view of the universe is far more productive. Personally it is more motivating and liberating to believe in free-will than to believe one is merely an automaton... true or not. Of course you might say I'm compelled to believe in such a way... so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. :)
Thank you for your advice. Along with doing this business I do run a fairly good freelance business to make up for the lack of pay. The freelance work is what really makes me happy. The clients are always great and seem to love the attention I give them and the work I generate for them. However it does make it a bit hard mentally and physically for me and my family. Getting home at six, seeing my family for three or four hours and then working until 3AM each night gets daunting.
Mick Tagger – a macOS app making it easier to organize your Spotify and iTunes Music playlists – https://bit.ly/micktagger

I'm currently working on an "evergreen playlist" feature, where the app would automatically remove tracks you skip often in those playlists. Thus keeping your playlists fresh / evergreen.

I'm going to start with something simple (e.g. removing based on some rules I decide initially - percentage played over multiple listens), but I'm planning on adding an ML algorithm that can figure out when to remove a song based on multiple criteria (e.g. stuff like how often you skipped songs that day, what genre they were etc.)

If anybody is looking for a nicer way to manage their playlists, give it a try and reach out – https://twitter.com/micktaggerapp
You're telling the papers to: (1) Get rid of their largest revenue stream (advertising), and (2) Increase spending (more reporters).

How does that work?
Certainly, one cannot expect us to treat the root cause of that which we don't even have more than a rudimentary understanding.

Agreed; gaining that understanding is the first step, and I believe it should be a top priority.

The above notwithstanding, I honestly fail to see how making people live longer would save any money.

If you have the physical health of a 25 year old indefinitely, your medical expenses per year would be far less. Yes, you'd still occasionally get sick and eventually die of something, but a greater percentage of your life would be healthy and productive.
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What's the HN etiquette on link sources? I read it first on lifehacker, then on WSJ. I thought it was appropriate to give credit to the source I read.
In this case (checking that process(input) == output), itertools.izip_longest is probably that right solution, unless there's an out-of-band way to know that inputs.txt is the same length as outputs.txt.
Genuinely curious - while Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas, isn’t its half life in the atmosphere only 9 years? Wouldn’t this make it far less concerning than CO2 with its half life of 120 years?

Looking for serious answers.
Yes, you need one.

Which would mean using String::with_capacity based on both &str.

Not making a string from one side, then very likely resizing it to add the other. The generic code+call will often make two allocations.
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It's hard to try to come up with another explanation, to be honest. When I try imagine how incompetence can explain everything that's happened with Firefox in the past several years, it feels like I'm going for the gold in the mental gymnastics world championship.
It could be... my experience has been pretty good so far. I used Reliance USB even in smaller cities and it worked great... even in a moving train in the middle of nowhere when I was traveling.
Yessir

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1873413
A developer who'd not spend less than a hundred bucks of his own money for his tool of choice, and still take the job, confuses me.
Oh god this is a beautiful hack. I had to download and run it just to believe it, but jesus it works.
I've used it, but I still don't get the hype. It does seem to be a handy, lightweight editor with decent features. But you can get that for free in other editors.

That said, you can't underestimate the power of the attachment that people get to their editors/IDEs of choice. I personally know a few TextMate devotees.
Interesting idea, similar sites exist. None of them focus on dating only, hopefully it works out.
So only 2.5% are forced to use IE (drops around 50% during the weekend). The other 2.5% are users who will upgrade when they can't play farmville anymore.
Sorry for that and thanks for the useful feedback, still working on it, gonna take 2 weeks off to finish it...

I'm testing the FW first by creating some layouts.

Here are few examples:
http://start.codable.org/
http://blog.codable.org/
This is sort of true in theory, but not in practice. Scala is actually a pretty pragmatic and - for what you actually need in practice - conceptually simple language. In many ways it's simpler than Java.

It does have a powerful type system, and people do bizarre and unnatural things with it, but unless you're trying to do those things the complexity doesn't come into play.

(That's an interesting contrast with C++, where in theory all its features were designed to be orthogonal so that you don't need to know about exceptions or templates unless you're using them, but in practice in any nontrivial codebase you'll spend days staring at screenfuls of incomprehensible STL errors.)
As much as your criticisms may be valid, I think he has given sufficient justification:

"I did this because I hate uppercase characters in the middle of identifiers and I'm too lazy to type shift to get the '_'. In addition, I find it more readable."

This kind of "Because I said so" reasoning is valid in pretty much any hobbyist-type situation as far as I'm concerned. If you don't like it, fork it.
Not really.

Tishman Speyer Properties and Black Rock Realty jointly bought Stuyvesent Town and Peter Cooper Village (two very large, sprawling apartment complexes in Manhattan) for over $5bn, back in '06. Of course, they had to give it up in January because things didn't work out quite like they expected (rent controlled apartments don't give up the ghost easily; they'd wanted to turn them into high-class ibanker condos).

Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/America...
virtualbox gem and Vagrant dev here.

I took a quick look at the updated header files this morning and there is a _ton_ of API changes in VirtualBox 4.0. That coupled with the release just before the holidays start for me and a weeklong trip to Maui means that I can't give a reliable timeframe for pushing in support for 4.0 and testing it thoroughly.

The work is starting now, but I fear this is something which won't be available to Vagrant users until early 2011.
I reposted it. Hopefully it'll work this time. I think I confused HN by deleting a few too many things too fast.
Yes,

The argument against OOXML is that it cannot be a standard since it says things akin to "must work like Word XXX here" - ie, it's just a bundling of a proprietary format inside XML.

Moreover, this is just not the way to "clear the air". I know relatively little about all the events but this kind of ad hominem rant sure sounds like something someone in a conspiracy would write ...
There's typo in the URL, should be: https://github.com/agmcleod/desert
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

> To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions.

To this day, the best result regarding adoption of such tooling places it around 11%.

I wonder how much education we need to keep fighting for adoption.
You just described my job to a T. I'm a systems analyst at a university.

This was a big, demanding job when I first started. But after being here for 2 years, I've automated a lot of the complicated stuff. So now most routine tasks that took the other guy a week takes me about 15 minutes. To be fair though, the other guy was *really bad*. Like, couldn't even open IIS manager and restart a single website, bad.

The pay is not fantastic / FAANG, but it does offer a decent salary in a mid/low cost of living area. Combined with my wife's salary we make more than enough.

Also I get a free master's degree out of it. So that's awesome.
> I have changed, but the algorithms didn't catch up yet. I wonder how long will it take until the algorithms catch up.

That's a good point, and an interesting question. If you change, but the algorithms don't acknowledge that change and treat you the same, how much is you identity in your own hands, how fungible is it?

We could add lots of "I no longer think that" forms, but I suppose a lot of it isn't because you're sorted into the artist-folder, but recommendations because of your past actions that aren't easily changed.

> Is there a plot dividing the individuals into manageable groups?

I don't think so, but I'm not sure it matters. The end result is similar, only that there's not one large conspiracy that's trying to herd you into thinking a certain way. Instead, it's a multitude of interests that are pulling you into their direction and you kind of get pulled to where most of them are in your niche of the world. But in either way, you do get pulled. Can you opt out? I'm not sure, but you can probably limit your exposure by e.g. not watching television, not reading news sites, not spending time on Twitter.
Polish govt site dedicated to vaccinations has Q&A section with one entry that was removed very fast - it was a question regarding microchips presence within formulas.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

> To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions.
Which might imply a reversal when we all get back to normal next year.
I wish there was something similar on Macs available for free. I have seen a few that do this but they all had subscription fees attached. I just need something to muffle my keyboard when I'm taking notes on calls, and muting/unmuting gets very tedious.