jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is crazy to see from the outside how the color-of-skin obsession permeates every single conversation right now. I hope that the USA will be able to find some other topics and arguments one day.

It is also false in this context. One of the most massive bombing campaigns in recent history was in European Serbia, and the hotspots of today (Syria, Iran) have a population that looks like Greeks.

As for black: the only predominantly white country that systematically sticks its fingers into Subsaharan Africa is France. The only external power that grows its presence in the Third World overall is China and given how they treat their own population, I would not be surprised if the next wave of pseudocolonial wars was Beijing's.
I personally would have loved to see a human dancer dancing alongside the robots, that would have given an interesting comparison.
Most of the problems challenge your skills in algorithm design rather than your knowledge of mathematics.

I completely disagree. Once you get past the beginning few problems you'll find that a large spread of esoteric and high-level mathematical knowledge is required.
The most printed book in history is the bible... mind you, it's also the best weapon against religion, if you can just get people to read it.
> Static but commonly downloaded data is already cached.

I was trying to refer to things that are downloaded by a lot of people (such as our 3D scenes here: https://clara.io/library), rather than something that is repeatedly downloaded by a single person.

Downloading the data to these 3D scenes is by far the slowest thing and we know that LZMA variants lead to nearly 2x reduction in data transfer.
From the Associated Press:
"Study: Smaller cars may be why crashes injure women more" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-charlotte-injuries-ae5395... . This should be considered in setting fuel economy standards.
You do know you can buy cheap phones and cheap PCs, right? I'm personally happy for the choice. Not everyone has the budget for "the best phone ever."

Also, its interesting that you say "lasting 12-24 months at best" when recent Apple laptops have had plenty of issues necessitating recalls and redesigns.
But that's basically what the conclusion is, isn't it? The author set out with 'obviously the monoid must be commutative', fuzzed it and came to the second point you mention. This all may be very obvious to some, but I found it an interesting read that reminds that one should never fail to question one's assumptions and understanding.
That's true – it's kind of like how Google keep pretending to be a big tech company when all they really need to do it provide a great service with as many search results as possible.
I've read articles by smart people cheering the legislation, but this issue isn't what Australia should be tackling when it comes to Google, and if this stupid legislation turns out to be a failure, then it sets a precedent that legislating against Google may fail, and therefore future Governments may avoid the acting on the actual issues that Google should be held to account for (consumer privacy, tax setups).

The fact the Australian Government is going after this issue makes it depressingly obvious how deeply the Liberal Government is in Rupert Murdoch's pocket. And it's not like Rupert or News Corp are even Australian (Rupert revoked Australian citizenship to become an American citizen).

Fight the correct fight for god's sake.
Locally running apps constantly polling for push notifications kills battery life, so in this case I can see where they are coming from
This guy seems to try to bluntly tell it like it is. He's completely wrong, but hopefully he can appreciate the same sort of blunt feedback from others.
While publicly funded news works well in some places, there is an inherent conflict of interest when the publicly funded journalists start investigating the source of their funding.

This is especially the case when a proto-strongman is attempting to consolidate power.

Publicly funded journalism cannot be the only way it works.

(I say this as a left-learning person generally supportive of public funding).

(Also, "entertainment" vs "an essential service" is a false dichotomy)
> Well what if the science is still developing and is extremely complex and the predictive models require petabytes of data and supercomputers and expert interpretation?

Then the public and policymakers should be aware that there isn't a consensus. If there are question marks about a lot of points of detail, then we can't just average everyone and then be confident in the result of that.
> People's use of energy is relatively insensitive to price, or they don't know the price, or few people care about the price when it comes time to need it

Basically this. Few individuals pay the actual price of electricity. At best, they'll pay time-of-day rates that might change schedules 2x/year. Otherwise, everyone pays the average cost, and couldn't care less if noon-time electricity costs 10x on Monday vs. last Thursday.
Leonardo DaVinci is certainly more well known for his engineering and inventions than his art.
I'm sorry if my wording was unclear and prone to misinterpretation. I'm not saying that Hamilton Nolan doxxed anyone.

I'm talking about mainstream journalists in general, since that's what the article talks about: mainstream journalism, and I'm pointing out a specific example of wrongdoing in mainstream journalism (but I could name many more), and how they're really not "defenders of the public good".
We have limited time available each day, so it’s prudent to focus on solving the most stressful factors first.
Hi,

I'd recommend going more spesific with your keywords. And try to look for double keyword combinations you can rank high for. For example, even though you might rank low for both 'snake' and 'game', you will rank higher for 'snake game'. So remember to fill in any important double keyword combinations.
If you love math but are not so keen on software engineering, maybe data science could be an interesting alternative.
So maybe you shouldn't sell high-risk financial products to poor people under the guise of an electricity contract.
Apparently it's not uncommon, although anecdote is not data, so I stress apparently. I forwarded this story around, and my brother knows a woman in Florida who has done this. Twice. She calls the trick "quiet title". I guess you could think of it as a form of welfare, and another example of the war on the middle class.
> But, perhaps you find it difficult to accept that sincere views other than your's are possible?

Or people are real tired of the implicit homosexual -> pedophile implication you went right to, because it's fundamentally shitty of you. Elsewhere in this thread you decided to trot out the idea that persecuting homosexuals isn't something past peoples should be morally evaluated for--and really, that's about as asshole a comment as you can make, so thanks for that--and it's obvious what you're really driving at.

You could try just not being a hateful jerk. It works, I promise.
Somehow I feel like this would actually be useful! For things like toothpaste or my favorite snacks, this is exactly what I want!
> 1992, the worst year of all, there was an almost unimaginable 2,641 heists, one every 45 minutes of each banking day.

Point Break came out in 1991. I wonder if that inspired some people.

For those that don't know, the plot is that a bunch of LA surfers knock off banks so they can spend the rest of their time surfing, and get away with it for a long time.
For a very good writeup by the organization Bellona, which is also in the video see https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-an...
FWIW, https://www.madkingthomas.com/content/who-monica is 404
I'd probably word grecy a bit differently. As much as possible, separate the purchase from the financing from the trade-in. Easier said than done for some to be sure, but get an idea of alternative payment options if you don't have the cash or existing line of credit. And know what you'd be willing to take for a trade given what think you think you could get for the vehicle on Craigslist or donating it. And, of course, have your max price for the vehicle in question given invoice price and other factors.
Is this an individual? Or a team working for an institution?
Looking for remote data science contract work.

Location: Victoria, Canada

Remote: Yes, remote only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Usual data scientist stacks, Linux (since 1995!), AWS.

Machine learning: Tensorflow, Sklearn, pytorch, Mathematica.

languages: Python, shell, postgres/SQL, scala, Mathematica, Numerous langs throught

frameworks: Django, Scala/Spark, Python/Numpy/Pandas, +others throught the years.

Email: in profile.
They United Stats Government should do it. They have literally unlimited funds, and this approach would actually be the most consistent with our "capitalistic" economic model.

Not that we live in anything approaching a capitalist economy of course, but it would be funny if they were logically consistent for once.
QuestDB | Technical Content writer + head of Dev Rel |Remote, London/SF

QuestDB is a an open source SQL database to process time-series, faster. The founding team comes from low-latency trading; fast software are part of our DNA. Through QuestDB, companies can harness the power of real-time and big data processing in a wide array of use cases and industries, from financial data to IoT and connected cars.

We have to just raised $2.1m from leading European VCs and are building the team.

Helping developers solve their problems is at the center of what we do. We are looking for a head of developer relation and technical content writer and to spur developer adoption and usage, grow the brand and empower developers with faster software.

https://angel.co/company/questdb/jobs/760919-technical-conte...
https://angel.co/company/questdb/jobs/745625-head-of-develop...
One of the things that made me stop playing MtG is that WotC bought TSR and they killed Spellfire. I do understand that it wasn't raking £€¥$ like MtG was, but still I loved Spellfire, I still keep all my cards in dossiers in plastic sleeves and taking good care of them.
If you don't set failure as an explicit goal, people will naturally try to avoid it.
Do you actually believe this is happening? No offense, but what you’re describing sounds like a paranoid fantasy. Moreover, I’m sure your kids value candy more than privacy.

Also your kids have probably been caught on video hundreds of times at convenience stores, streets, wherever. If you actually wanted to avoid them being on camera at all, you would have to lock them in your house and things would turn out like the movie Dogtooth.

It’s not possible to completely protect your privacy unless you make some very hard and costly choices like moving into a cabin in the woods or living a completely isolationist life without internet or contact with the outside world. Unless you want to make these sacrifices for a very dubious benefit, it would probably be better to just worry about something else.
Companies invest in build systems if it will increase their developer productivity enough, which is usually a big company problem, thus why google built blaze, twitter & FB reproduced it with pants and buck and now google has open sourced it as bazel.
It is not free if it's unconditional. It comes from a wealth transfer. It's just that the transfer always happens
> If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level.

> Mourou and Tajima hope to be able to shrink the distance a light beam has to travel to transmute atoms by a further 10,000 times.

The article is not very clear, and it makes no sense to use a short (in time) pulse and even less a short (in distance) pulse.

Perhaps they want to increase the frequency of the light 10,000 times that will shrink the wavelength and period 10,000 times. It also increases 10,000 times the energy of each photon so it may induce nuclear reactions. This would create a gama-ray laser. It looks very difficult.
Unusual to hear engineers in the UK has having a splendid life :-)
What kind of overhead do you mean? Performance? Or cognitive?
Much lower than the percentage that read articles about the tweets.

But nevertheless, the content finds its way.
I've known many people who've been helped in a non-trivial way by antidepressants. Furthermore I had a colleague commit suicide recently due to depression.

His comment is not dangerous, it's encouraging. Pharmaceuticals all have side effects and must be taken with care, I've known literally no one that went into antidepressants ignorant of those things.
The analogy I like to apply when answering the question “everything already exists” is restaurants. Every conceivable type of food already exists and there have never been more restaurants and yet new ones are opening all the time. Why? Because there is always scope for minor variation/improvement. In software as in food, start by making something for yourself. Show it to your friends (HN) and get their feedback. Iterate from there. Yes, often ideas can be solved with a spreadsheet or note-taking app, but the UX of inputting and visualising the data is what matters.
You could have a workable system up in a matter of days.

Supply chains take a long time to spin up.

Why not both?
Goes without saying that there is massive "pattern of life" info emitted by what you attend and with whom.

No wonder it's such a great little product.
Again, I wish that every project would have a single "explain like I'm 5" sentence description to say what it does. For this project, I might say, "An improved networking protocol for bus based devices, similar to i2c or spi, but with wide support for several physical mediums." Would I be correct?
This blog post covers the math of why this is necessary

https://medium.com/@donnellymjd/covid-19-nyc-should-brace-fo...
As I said in a previous comment, this is your fallacy:

1. "New thing X puts us at risk of losing Y lives every day."

2. "We lose Y lives to car accidents every day".

3. "Ergo, X is harmless!"

Except you now have 2Y lives lost every day.
Please end your sentences with periods. It's basic grammar. Alternatively, relax a little.
Is that a SOCKS proxy, or just a HTTP proxy? The github readme does not make that clear.
Let's turn this around: if almost everybody stays at home (like in Italy, Spain, France for days/weeks) how does the virus still spread? That knowledge would help a lot in the current situation.
Can a snorkeling mask also be used as a PAPR?

Here's a DIY project by Shen Ye:

https://twitter.com/shen/status/1240478370619629568
Weird, no mention of domain name search was made as part of the process.

I would think that one of the top points to research would be if the word.com was still available. I searched over 20 names listed in the article and all the .com have been registered.
Use the Stasi as a plausible real life example instead
I believe one problem is, that computers right now are terrible at considering things up to some equivalence relation. Probably mainly because most equivalence relations are hard to express as computations:

For example it is "easy" for a human to "see" that a coffee cup and a donut are topologically the same, whereas the same task for a computer, i.e. provide it with enough data to recognize something to have exactly one "hole" seems extremely hard. Another example would be to recognize that up to rotation two things are roughly the same. Clearly humans do not solve such problems case by case, they have some build in classifier system that solves those problems by a general principle.
I like how Apple is approaching this. Basically they are looking for their next TSMC for car, instead of building out their own gigafactory.
Actually it's not a pure partisan powergrab to give statehood to Puerto Rico, a territory that is more populated with American Citizens than several states (18 I believe). These people are our people and they deserve to have a voice in congress exactly as much as you or I do. This shouldn't be controversial.

As for the cult comment, the visible cult is quite literally the group who is incapable of accepting reality and I'm not going bother trying to engage with someone who is incapable of engaging in reality.
This is exactly where a lot of “cost” comes from.

Coddling legacy builders sense of value.

Paraphrasing James Madison, he wrote the future owed a debt to the past for their achievements.

I disagree, and align more with Thomas Jefferson; the dead do not rule the living.

Having to shoulder the burden of war and industrial debt on a “generational distributed ledger”, which is so clearly biased to favor entrenched power is unsustainable.

Indeed, that’s is, IMO, why most empires fail, and revolutions take place.
> ATTiny85 - I doubt it. With 8k program memory and 512B data RAM you will have trouble fitting in a single cipher and hash function

It paged to disk. Including dropping functions in and out of flash to disk. I did mention it was unstable, right? But it's still doable.
> I would anticipate that the set of people who have purchased Ethernet to the Internet and can't do TLS is empty.

...what am I missing? Cable and DSL modems have ethernet ports don't they? Ethernet ports still support 10Mb/s and hall-duplex right? You might need a transceiver to physically adapt the connection, but its still ethernet... well, unless we're talking about pre-802.3 ethernet of which I'm not sure how compatible the frames are.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-trump-the-capitol-and-the-d...
> It's worth noting that China does 28% of the world's manufacturing, much of which is exported to developed countries.

You don't have to go to bat for china, you know. Does the fact that they have so much manufacturing make their emissions ok? If those manufacturing emissions we're instead from the US, would you make the same note?
New coal plants are not economical compared to solar in any sunny location, Nigeria definitely included. It's cheaper in many places to build new solar compared to operating existing coal plants - that's how bad it's got for coal.

Coal is on the way out and nothing can stop that now.
I think we should end all charitable tax deductions for people above a certain net worth. They use that tax advantage either for their vanity or else to convert their money into influence.

Think of Bill Gates in the 90’s vs now. He has far more influence than he ever had, and a large part of it is because of the money he was able to put at a huge tax advantage into his foundation. He probably has a direct line to dozens of heads of state. He probably influences policy across many countries. True, he has used that influence for good, but he got a lot of it at a massive tax advantage.
Wouldn't it be the other way around? MapQuest was around well before 2001.
What kind of drawing class do you recommend? Pencil drawing? Sketch? Watercolor? Thanks.
you are basing this on your public school education in a democratic state. I am sick of democracy taking credit for the gains in the human condition due to free trade.

the best form of peaceful organization of humans in order to create wealth is the joint stock corporation. no other innovation in economic interaction can even touch it when it comes to boosting the human race out of subsistence living. the venetian republic which ran on roughly this model flourished through trade for 1000 years. how many other civilizations have lasted that long? and without enslaving their neighbors?

populism has ever been the ally of dictators, because dictators know exactly how easy it is to sway the opinions of the masses with propaganda. this is one of the few points I am in agreement with Chompsky about (manufacturing consent). you can trace this through hitler and napolean all the way back through the ages to caesar.

you see a non-democratic form of government and think "autocracy" because you have been programmed to. there is a huge space of possible governments, and technology is enabling more of them to be possible. democracy is shit, it is only efficient in value-homogeneous small populations.

you can downvote away but google books means there is no more excuse for being ignorant about the shitty democratic (not political label) historical narrative of good triumphing over evil.

I don't expect to clean out a lifetime of bad memes here and I doubt anyone is still reading but if you are I suggest On Power by Bertrand De Jouvenal: http://www.amazon.com/POWER-BERTRAND-JOUVENEL/dp/0865971137
Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked.

Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.
Three things are true:

* We cannot let despair prevent us from acting. The big changes needed are possible, and we need to accelerate them.

* We actually don't know with certainty how bad it is going to get.

* People, in general, are not scared enough right now.
> One has to use both hands to dial

I don't understand why would you need to use both hands to dial. Were those old dial phones different than what we imagine today when we picture a dial phone?
In essence, yes. GP quoted figures for a high-deductible health plan. The premiums are low because the deductible is high - you would have to pay thousands of dollars of any medical bill out-of-pocket before the insurance plan would start to cover expenses. Low-deductible plans (insurance covers practically all of any bill) are available, but the premiums are substantially higher, especially for higher-income people ineligible for government subsidies.
What is this? No offense but this site looks like a concept mock-up. There's no actual information besides general ideas and stock photos, and there's no further links or reading, just an email address.
It seems that contrary to the readme it has hard-coded 1s sleep ( https://github.com/antonmedv/watch/blob/master/watch.go#L22 ). It would be nice to support option to pick the interval, ideally to support even fractional numbers (`-n 0.1`).
Time to find out the exact borders of what is considered "his" beach and crowd the ever living shit out of it, just outside of what could be considered "his". "I'm not touching you!"
There is no reason to reuse the same key though...
There's a certain class of programmers tool that requires constant tweaking, like a road bike used in the city - and typically the users suffer from OCD or stockholm syndrome, because they won't stop evangelizing.

I thought emacs was one of THOSE types of tools and the initial experience does nothing to disabuse that. On my 4th or 5th attempt to start using emacs I finally decided to get over the hump even if it took weeks of being slow.

I'm sure it's the same story for every emacs user - I literally never turned back. And I don't think I've touched my dotfiles in 2 years. But I get why it looks so esoteric from the outside.
As somebody with some ML background but no expertise in crypto, is the following ELI~20 summary correct?

We take an ML model trained on unencrypted data, use a 'homomorphic evaluation' technique (let's just leave that as magic here) to convert the model operation-by-operation to a model that runs on encrypted data, do a little more crypto magic, and we've solved the business problem described at the beginning of the article.

(In particular, if you train a model on encrypted data you get a really bad model, right?)
> I haven't read 100% of the article

The article states that airborne particles and gasses can travel quite a distance to affect people that aren't in the localized application area of the CIPP sites.