jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yup. And the reason most of the software violate patents is because of the pathetic "common sense" patents being granted in the first place.
Finally, but too little too late in my opinion.

I love python, but I would rather use Rails for web stuff at this point. So many 3rd party libraries are needed to do what Rails can do right out of the box.
I don't really care about how much of the balance sheet I could lay claim to during a liquidation. That's going to be pennies on the dollar, or nothing.

I care how much of future profits will be returned to be, which does depends on the percentage I end up owning. A round needs to enable a bigger gain than the fraction it dilutes everyone.
> is the difference between 12.6Kbps and 17.6Kbps meaningful at that point

It is when you are sending video as well. One of the stated purposes of this work is to enable video conferencing over 56Kbps dial up modems.

> A Raspberry Pi Zero can't run Lyra, as the proprietary math kernel is only offered in compiled form for x86-64 and android-arm64

How annoying! Still - the point is that hardware capability isn't likely to be the issue.
Perhaps I'm naive but I think few people pretend to have that kind of pain. They do indeed have it. It might not arise from a truly traumatic experience but when somebody is under stress they do often react badly to people seen as threats. And people under stress see threats everywhere.
Does the FBI publish stats on whether the attacker was left or right?
Those all seem reasonable-ish (maybe a bit draconian) except:

> Apply Accredited Investor rules to gambling.

Sorry, you should not need to earn $200k per year or be a millionaire to go blow a few hundred bucks at a casino. That's crazy.
> So the client is open source and guarantees end-to-end encryption regardless of what the server does. Ok, then I honestly don't care. Why should I?

What operations does your client do? How would you know?

If the client is open source and the build is reproducible and you can built it yourself to compare the binary with the official binary on the app store, then.. yes, you can trust that the client is guaranteeing your end-to-end encryption.

If there is a snapshot of open source code which doesn't match the official binary, you have no way to know what the client you run is actually doing. That's why you should care.

This has nothing to do with trusting Signal, good people. If your threat model is such that you care about secure messaging, you can't just trust a binary that's handed to you.
Good point, but I happened to (though might have not) think of it, just before I first posted my above comment. So I had changed the wording slightly to what it is (and made no edit after that). That is, I made it say:

KNF seems to be based on basically based on the same principles as Dr. Ingham talks about

rather than:

KNF seems to be based on Dr. Ingham's principles.

The former version implies that both could have come from the same source (of principles), while the latter implies that KNF came from her work, which I did not mean, from the start, though it may be so.

But from its Wikipedia page, KNF seems older than when she likely started her research, but not sure. In any case, the KNF inventor and she could have made their discoveriess independently, as sometimes happens.

And yes, I just noticed that the former version has a grammatical error, an extra "based on" after the word "basically". Missed that earlier.
Yeah, but they have been using a car. Not as driver, but as a way to get from A to B
What? Shut up and calculate is an interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in general, and is probably most common as a backup to the Copenhagen interpretation.

It doesn't have much to do with theory building at all, as most theory involving QM doesn't need to concern itself with exactly why QM works despite its strange philosophical meaning.
no one is complaining about that.

if you want cheap devices that can be fixed by the side of the road there are countless windows laptops. countless.

but when you've got a laptop that costs more to repair, then you can expect its re-sell value to stay high.
I once managed to fit an entire king size bed inside a fiat punto, but it doesn't make punto a good choice for transporting things. Once you have kids, a dog, these modern mars-rover like baby trolleys, occasional need to transport furniture, etc. it's never enough space. And in Europe minivans cost the same as urban SUVs, so why not have some off-road capabilities too. At least it was my reasoning...
https://medium.com/@dolanecon/would-a-carbon-tax-really-hurt...

I think the basic intuition is that to make luxury product X involves lots of poor people using carbon. If you only count the direct expenditures then it looks worse for poor people, if you trace each purchase back to its carbon then it affects the people who buy lots of stuff.
Who is complaining about SpaceX? The point is challenging a particular confusion which seems prevalent round here.

Suppose SpaceX had used a very similar prototype, but some process or engineer had caught the fault. Few here would be taking the lack of an explosion as evidence that SpaceX are not innovative. Instead, if anything, they would be praising the superb processes in addition to the cool prototype.

So, there is always room to improve. The reaction to this essentially anodyne point here has been really interesting.
Are there any screenshots of what this looks like when in use?
You can do this if you configure those addresses under Settings, Sending Identities (used to be called Personalities IIRC). It slightly annoying the first time, but once done, any hitting reply to a mail sent to one of those addresses will already have the appropriate From header set.
The bill didn't outlaw pharmaceutical patents, it just provided an alternate funding mechanism that would produce drugs without patents. Any area the government wasn't funding would be the same as it is now.

We should at least publicly-fund antibiotics research, given that the current system is almost completely failing on that front.
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Hahah, I figured Windows might be slightly better about this, hence the self-admitted uninformed take.

Could you clarify, though: do you mean to say Windows isn't as vulnerable because of cultural reasons (i.e. Windows systems aren't multi-user usually) or because of technical ones (they support something like SELinux out of the box)?
I don't think it's really as bad as this...

> Waiting for Cross-Platform standardized SIMD vector datatypes

We sort of have this? compiler loop vectorization is, effectively, this. Granted it's not standardized.

> nonstandard extensions ... to run computations in parallel on many cores

std::thread?

> Debugging cross-platform code using couts, cerrs and printfs

True, but i think this is not the language's fault. C/C++ debugging tools are great (the best?).

Debugging any sort of meta-programming is a mess; would definitely agree w/ that. hopefully concepts will help.

> Forced to use boost for even quite elementary operations on std::strings.

This one i agree with.
I've seen some of those vidoes, none of them look better than the 50X zoom sony cams one from the 90's...

And by all accounts considering that the amount of people with cameras increased by at least a ten fold since the 90's we should've the same an increase in UFO sightings as well, which well unless you count the text to speech youtube flicks about planet X and the anunaki didn't really happen.
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Agree, there was no data loss, but those who relied on US-Standard solely with no bit replication were dead in the water for the duration of the outage.
>post communist memes until they banned me

I really doubt that would happen.
I mean, you can just throw an exception or leave it undefined when the state isn't what you expect... isn't that a normal thing with any nontrivial class? e.g., what should unique_lock do if you call lock() when you passed adopt_lock_t to the constructor? What should unique_ptr do if you call operator->() when you passed null to the constructor? What should fstream do if you call open() when you already passed a file name to the constructor? etc.
Gotta check with her parents on this one, but I'd say a computer. Specifically, take an older computer you have at home (you know you do), install Linux (Mint or Ubuntu), preinstall as much useful software as you can (zsh, sublime text, good terminal emulator, etc). Remove anything that doesn't seem applicable.

I think this is better than a raspberry pi because it's going to be more reliable, and less intimidating
Comma has a driver facing camera doing driver monitoring
Haha I just had a horrifying throught about troubleshooting broken virtualenv installs and deadlocked dependencies, while on the side of the road with a car that refuses to start.
That's a very interesting assessment, thanks for typing this up!

What are the most important use-cases that you see UIPath solving? I'm familiar with what they do at a high level, but I'm not sure who they're really most useful to in practice.

Also curious who their typical buyer is - eg functional heads, IT, eng, or someone else...
Hrrrm... not sure what the situation is in Australia, but here in the States, we do get the first episode of the new series today (the 23rd), same day as the folks in the UK. Of course we're a few hours behind them, which means I may still bittorrent it anyway... but at least BBC America isn't lagging 3-4 weeks behind the UK, like they have in past years.
The way I like to look at it is: even if I am not particularly smart, I am not going to let that fact get in the way of anything I wish to do [n]. I say don't underestimate the power of concept reframing, perspective changes, weaknesses leveraging, tenacity and plain not caring whether or not you are smart.

[n] So long as it is not stupid and without being stupid about it.
Why not $13.37?
I wouldn't make that distinction. I met most of my "real life" friends at various events. Going to something like a Python meetup in your city is just as much "by interest" as visiting a #python irc channel. And I met one of my best friends on irc by chance (we have no interests in common).
Sometimes you cannot easily not share state. The fact that you can use multiple processes to scale is not an interesting statement when comparing python to other languages because it is true for every language out there.

I think the GIL has made people in the python community too defensive: the GIL does not prevent from building scalable architectures in many cases, but it still sucks, and it would be better without. That's a limitation (and a tradeoff because it made development and integration with C easier). And there are scalable architectures based on threads (example: http://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf) - "thread suck" has became a meme which slightly bothers me in general. Not a panacea, but a good solution when applicable.
Why that? Symbolics S-Graphics was a graphics suite exclusively for the Symbolics Lisp Machines. N-World was a very different port of that to Allegro CL on SGI machines. That Allegro Cl was chosen and that this relatively complex piece on software ran on their Lisp is something they had any right to be proud of.
Yeah you are right about that http://www.abc.net.au/tv/watchnow/?id=doctorwho. But the good thing about Doctor Who in Oz is that the ABC put most of their shows up on their iview platform which means it can be watched online for a week after the broadcast. Handy for me as I always seem to miss the show on tv.
The part about money not being able to influence politics does not ring true to me. Sure, perhaps isolated cases like Mitt Romney and Meg Whitman may not have succeeded in winning some election, but then you have Koch brothers using newspapers and television networks to push their brand of politics.

"Another study, by a coalition of nonprofits called the Independent Sector, revealed that people with incomes below twenty-five grand give away, on average, 4.2 percent of their income, while those earning more than 150 grand a year give away only 2.7 percent."

This study is also unconvincing. You could say by percent the people making less than $25k are more generous, but the use of percents as a metric here is misleading. 2.7% of $150k+ is a minimum of $4050 while 4.2% of <$25k is at most $1050. Is it fair to say the wealthy are less generous when they are donating more money by one metric but not another?
Ok so how many prank calls have you gotten? Anyone mistakenly call thinking it was a phone sex number?? Rails does have a lot of connotations...
Traitor!

Kidding. What's this written in?

Also, not sure if you noticed, but the signup for city form is broken. Not sure why.
This seems like an instance of putting the solution before the problem. I imagine you went in knowing you wanted to write an app and came up with one, not that you wanted to help people find out salaries, and then decided the app was the way to go. You are not alone.
Actually I tried to answer this: "If average salaries are 80-100k why does everyone keep getting 40-60k offers?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453174

We used many cutting-edge things like node.js, expressjs, mongodb, mongoose, pjax and a lot more in this project. We learned how to put these things together and how to move it to a production box.

Even if no one use it, we learned a lot. And if people really love it, another great PLUS!!
>He's a guy with a computer, if that's not a blogger, WHAT IS!?)

Wut?
I believe it's intentional that they want you to think their method is safer, etc, but I don't believe it's an attempt to make it look like part of the site.
> If you think a commit is a diff, you have a mismatch between the mental model and what's actually happening behind the scenes. This will make it difficult to understand concepts later on.

I don't think those concepts are distinct as you're painting them. At a user visible level commits will almost always be visualized as diffs, which puts us at a place where - at the highest level and lowest level they're defined as pretty close to diffs, while at an intermediary level they're defined closer to snapshots.

I honestly think they're neither, each expression method (diff vs. snapshot) can be translated pretty easily and both are trying to represent the same end goal. It can be helpful to know that commits are representative of the full state of the codebase that exists at a time, but that view can be at odds with merging and rebasing which use actual change sets to calculate - when a commit is being manipulated it's helpful to view it as a diff (and git does this) - while as, when a commit is being read, we're using it as a snapshot.
>there have been zero reports of people's heads exploding without a known cause.

There is a long list of common and unexplained medical problems like fibromyalgia awaiting an explanation like "that water you've been drinking is toxic." There is no shortage of illnesses that could potentially be caused by a problem like that.
Yeah, good summary.
The secret management seems overly complex, why not use https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-secrets-controll... or https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/ ?
Well shit, I always preferred the old fully chlorinated stuff because it works better. When you say "chlorinated" I assume that means it contains chlorine, which isn't great, but is more an issue for chemical burns than anything, so you wear gloves and eye pro and don't worry about it. I never looked into it. I've probably inadvertently exposed myself to a /ton/ of TCE working on cars and other mechanical things. I buy brake cleaner by the case...
I don't think this is new at all. The specifics might be new, but the problem is quite old, and has been with us for thousands of years.

I think the danger is in trying to come up with an abstract, general solution for it. I don't think one exists.

I think the only thing we can do is deal with things on a case by case basis in these situations.
Hey, could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN and in particular please omit swipes from your comments here? Those things break the rules and destroy the curious conversation that the site is supposed to exist for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Drugs are also super illegal and very strictly enforced.
> > Many marital disagreements are about money. Many lives get ruined by poverty. Not having to worry about money simply makes life easier.

> The important thing to remember is that having lots of money is not necessarily a solution for this - or rather it certainly ain't the only solution.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised to learn from a wise old man that having lots of it can be a cause of marital disagreements about money.
Despite your personal views of whether this material is suitable for general consumption, wouldn't you agree that many parents would have concerns with their kids having access to the material presented in this comic?
According to the WSJ article, BP is bringing another ship in to "capture" oil spewing from the broken well head, which will increase their "capacity" to 28,000 barrels/day. Here's the kicker though ...

"Most, if not all of the extra oil collected on the Q4000 will be flared off into the atmosphere." By flare, BP means burn.

So, the plan is to burn off 28,000 barrels of oil directly into the air above the Gulf, and increase this number to 53,000 barrels in the next two weeks.
Did you even look at the pictures in the article?

It shows two naked men having sex in various ways - one kneeling while removing the other's underwear, in another scene they are sitting on a chair stroking each others penises.

I have nothing against men having sex or pictures of men having sex. However, I cannot think of many main-stream shops that would stock such pictures - even most book shops would consider this pornographic.

I would rather my children didn't have to confront this yet, too. At least let them wait until they are sexual.

It is completely reasonable for Apple to reject this from THEIR shop.
The way I've argued about probability in the past is that 10 heads in a row is just as likely as any other specific outcome, for instance HTHTHTHTHT or HHHHHTTTTT. The coin flip events themselves are not related to each other, as the outcome of one flip doesn't affect the next. So it doesn't really make any sense to look for trends.

I was actually talking about colors in roulette, but the coin flip is a pretty close example. This seems extremely logical when you think about it, but a lot of people don't look at it this way. They always say something like, "Well, black has been coming up a lot lately, so it's definitely going to be red soon."
Men stoking each other's penises is porn, however.
Braintree is a good example of developer-oriented payment processing. They provide very good APIs and client libraries, and they respond very quickly to developer suggestions and feature requests.
We're using swagger to great effect, the ability to add markdown against the endpoints allows us to describe them with both relevant documentation and examples.

http://oi60.tinypic.com/33llco5.jpg
Wow, that was fast.

They already fixed the bug. I'm impressed.
Yes, the same thing.

Sun energy in heat form is accesible for everyone. Oil require substantial investment.

Also keep in mind that all this is historical and that even replacing all people in bureacratic machine will make the dame machine to rwappear. E.g., government of energy/resource constrained country will be prwtty much same as previous. Orherwise many people will die.

If you can evict a person to streets at SF, you cannot do so anywhere in Russia. Rhere's not enough sun light. In China it is the same, except evicted person cannot use land, it is occupied.

As a russian/chinese government official you have to behave differently. You either will punish strongly to prevent bad behavioe, or you will prevent bad behaviour by other means.

And remember, if by some magic you made into chinese govt, you will start to behave more or less same as as current one. Just because gpvt reproduce themselves in same circumstances and for same goals.
No one is dropping RT. RT is being moved INTO your desktop and taking it over. Just look at the list of services running on your win8.whatever.
Uncanny valley is so real.
Those are pretty much omnipresent, certainly not uniquely American.
Jason Scott (textfiles on HN) explained[1] the main reasons that make several people (including myself) uncomfortable with KyroFlux.

(sidenote: the author of FluxEngine[2] replied to that thread, which is where I first heard about it)

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/ti...

[2] http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/
You know, if the central banks actually did their job properly you wouldn't want to hold BTC at all because the income of workers would rise faster than the value of your BTC. They are not desperate just incompetent (well, in theory they are unable to solve the problem).

Also kinda corrupt: https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-2....
Crazies and normal people cannot predict the future.
Honest question: does it really matter for lung cancer? Is there much difference between races in this particular field?
This is the correct answer per the linked article.

In particular this is runtime inspectable via func.caller so it really is a behavioral language change to allow the elision of stack frames.
Clearly ISPs should be regulating content. eye roll
Am I the only one that finds these BD robots kind of repulsive? They are so weird and alien and... unnatural.
Quick view: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nth-dime...
Definitely seems they had a change of heart in reaction to the bad press and decided to sell it instead of using it as a write-off
I like the direction, but the obvious caveat are websites or weird legacy systems that don't allow you to have certain characters in your password or otherwise restrict it.

And then there's the whole trouble of sites that require a username that you need to remember and that is usually restricted in ridiculous ways.
+The Practice of Programming - K&P are prolific authors and deliver the salient points of a BSCS and the transition into practicing programmer. Best bang for your buck.

+Code Complete - A no nonsense approach to Software Engineering and other tasks related to development. The SE texts used in most college courses are far too advanced and abstract for undergrad students that have never worked on very large projects. This one delivers excellent advice for single programmers up through medium size groups.

+Some algorithm and data structure book - there are a lot of bad ones. Use Amazon ratings to try and find a good one. Work through the design of as many algorithms as possible, no matter how mundane or the fact that most practical languages have libraries that deliver this functionality. Know what algorithmic complexity is and memorize the complexities of often used data structures to help quickly choose while coding.

+An operating system design book (e.g. Operating System Concepts or Modern Operating Systems) - know how the OS packages RAM, storage, CPU scheduling, network, concurrency for userland programming.
I disagree with your "less common in the western world" assertion. There are still plenty of fast moving things that you might suddenly find it useful to be afraid of, from poisonous spiders to runaway vehicles.

But aside from all that, fear reactions also serve as an early-warning system to other people in your proximity who have not yet detected impending danger. Given that people physically close to you are the most likely ones to help you in a catastrophe, there are evolutionary advantages to keeping them in the loop ;)
She perhaps assessed enough potential danger to move the snake away from her children.