jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1. It is true. My talk has little of this. I was pissed at Ayn Rand when I wrote this. But I think I answered your question in another thread. If you run out of gas and walk five miles, the gas station owner has you at a disadvantage. He can charge you $50 for the gas can or $5. What is 'fair'? I'm not sure I know, but most of it is economic rent that you are 'forced' to pay. Mostly because you are stupid, but still...

2. One thing not covered in the paper is the compassionate bankruptcy that is in there. https://github.com/skilesare/art_and_democratic_hypercapital...
This is not about conciseness, it is more about lack of language evolution. Older, purely functional haskell ocaml or scheme is quite readable and quite concise.

The main place where older code in readable languages (e.g. not J, common lisp, Perl) becomes hard to read is when new language conventions have replaced the old.
I seem to recall just installing the trials and then setting my computer’s clock back every couple weeks.

Many school computers also had Macromedia installed, which is how I got into animation and my first forays into web development.
> The big issue here is that it’s not clear that you need a blockchain for any of it.

This could be said about 99.9% of all blockchain products and companies.
We kept chickens at our last house (Austin, TX area) for about 5 years. That's the first time I had the "ah-ha!" experience of "omigosh - I've been eating plastic all these years!" I almost pulled the trigger several times to get a chicken tractor, but we just kept them in a coop I made.

You'll definitely experience attrition - whether through dogs, varmints or old age. Case in point - our dog at the time (a wonderful, sweet Lab) thought he was supposed to kill them. Our youngest son caught him in the act one day and "gave him a lecture" and he never killed again. Still, we had one taken by a hawk, another one mauled (and ultimately killed) by a 'possum. They also attracted other critters like racoons, although to my knowledge, they never killed any of our chickens.

TL;DR - IMO, it's actually great for the kids, and you'll never want to go back to eating industrial chicken farm eggs again.
here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044510

btw, I, too, couldn't find traces of the lisp side of this project after a 15 minute search. I was curious about the fix times and lisp codebase size
also other cultures eat many savory egg dishes as well that makes egg use outside of breakfast quite common. my family of 4 goes through about that many eggs because of many lunch and dinner egg dishes we eat. I've been personally shocked by how many eggs we go through a week, but buying flats at local farmers markets has helped quite a bit.
"It makes it harder to feel sympathy for those struggling: Indeed, repeatedly making wrong decisions has poor outcomes. At 18 it was pretty obvious that in the most basic sense, code = money."

It's not the poverty that makes it hard to relate, it's that they seem to almost live by instinct and emotion. I wish them well but don't know what's wrong in their heads or have the slightest idea of how to durably improve their lot, apart from setting an example of worldly rationality (aye, there's the rub). "

You have a LOT of work to do on emotional intelligence and having empathy for others bud. I am sure you worked really hard to get where you are and that you are also an intelligent person, but you obviously have some massive blindspots about how cruel society is and about how your own struggle through life has stunted your capacity to feel empathy for others.

Even if you were right and other people were struggling because they kept making wrong decisions when they simply could have made the right decisions, do you want to live in a society that treats these people with an intense degree of cruelty? What is the point of you being rewarded for making all the right choices when all around you people who aren't as smart or hard working as you are being utterly ground to pieces by the society you live in? Sure if you develop a sense of distance from the suffering of those people I suppose you can sleep good at night but that is doing a damage to your soul (in a vague meaning here, not implying religion necessarily) by numbing your capacity to connect with the rest of humanity.
If you believe in the free market, the entire game ecosystem is free games with pay to unlock features. Or you believe in a curated market and let the curator of each market set rules.
No system could prevent it, but there are databases(Oracle and MongoDB off the top of my head, and I'm sure there are others) that implement slave delays specifically to help mitigate human error like this.
Can you write a few sentences about why the principle of taxing income is wrong and what you propose instead? The salary of my first job is largely a function of the fact that I was born in the United States and educated by some of the best public institutions in the world. It's a fact that I would be paid less had I been born a citizen of a different country. On a simple level it seems very logical to me that my income be taxed because it reflects the benefits I have received from living in the US.
Could you synchronize two Kinect devices on one clock and then toggle the display/capture of that grid every odd or even 10ms span? So, only one grid is displayed and processed during its 'slice' of time, with the grids strobing rather than continuously projected.

Software-only, or would that result in too jerky of a motion capture?
You're right that I was a little misleading. But Winnipeg is amazingly multicultural for a city in the middle of the great white north.
Agreed, and I've always done my own taxes, despite having investment real estate and businesses in different states. However, I finally hired a CPA just to look at my stuff and ensure I'm doing things right.
The big win for schemas is being able to use them to make assumptions about input, which simplifies your code.

For example, if you have an RelaxNG schema (which has a great compact syntax) that says that an element has to have at least one child node and that child node contains an integer between a certain set of values. Once you have that schema, you could write code that could read in the XML file and validate it against the schema in 2 lines, then grab all the child node integers with one XPath expression.

The data might be junk (heck, I'm not aware of any format that is impervious to worthless data), but at least it's junk in the right format, and you never had to mess around with parsing the input.

Need to switch programming environments or languages because you're working on Unix/Windows/embedded system/mainframe/database/web browser ? The schema can move with you (or be converted to another schema format that does), and programming niceties SAX and XPath will often carry over too.
See http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:harmony and the pages it links in the first paragraph. ES5 strict (on which Harmony is based) removes or fixes some of the cruftiness.

It's not the case that the Web dooms us forever to use JS as it was in 1995.

That is simply false on a number of JS-specific points, but more generally: the Web's deployed-browsers-with-enough-market-share-to-matter intersection semantics moves over the years. It does not stay still or grow only compatibly. Bad old forms (plugins, especially, but also things like spacer GIFs used in pre-modern table layouts, not to mention old JS versions) die off.

So, cheer up! JS can't be Lua, but it doesn't need to be. Its job is to be the best it can be according to its species and genus, its body plan. Which may be related to Lua's, but which was not and will never be the same as Lua's, because JS and Lua live in quite different ecosystems.

A concrete example: Lua has coroutines now, but JS is unlikely to get them in the same way, interoperably. Some VMs would have a hard time implementing, especially where the continuation spans a native method activation.

This is a case where Lua's single-source implementation shines, but that's just not going to happen on the web, in variously-implemented, open- and closed-source (the latter including clean-room, for fear of patents) browsers. So, we're aiming for Pythonic generators at most.

If we go further than generators, I'll be surprised. Pleased too, don't get me wrong. However I doubt it will happen, because some on the committee do not want deeper continuations than generators, since greater than one frame of depth breaks local security-hat-wearing reasoning about what is invariant in JS's run-to-completion, apparently single-threaded execution model.
It really depends on what you're storing and how you plan on interacting with it. If you don't need ad hoc queries CouchDB w/ defined views may work well. Otherwise consider another solution like mongo.

If the available solutions are immature / undocumented feel free to contribute to them. That's what FOSS is all about ;)
Or China's plan.
The article is talking about the Qualcomm chip/Android combination.

But something isn't clear to me - the Qualcomm chip for what? Is it the phone main processor? The RF transceiver? The GPS chip?
Having spent some time in the industry, I can say there is a fair amount of scrutiny on the software that's used directly for weight and balance purposes.

This situation, though, where input data to those systems is bad before it even gets there, is a loophole of sorts.

Somewhat related, this makes me worry a bit about all the data privacy regulation that keeps you from testing (easily, at least) with real production data. Good testing from the W&B software might have unearthed the lower overall weights per aircraft.
I do not know why they do this. I really wish they would stop.

I have considered faking the SMS message, with the payment link saying "imagine this wasn't a warning message but an actual payment request, please tell the university this is unsafe". But sending that kind of mass SMS is not easy, nor is finding the correct phone numbers.
And I had no idea that the scene where they force a rat to breathe perfluorocarbons was actually real and not just some really good special effects.
Yeah, I misread that section: he talked about how the program spent longer time in the prefix/suffix section, and how picking a better hashing algorithm would improve things, and I was going "no! don't hash at all for that part! just compare the lines!". I missed the paragraph you quoted there.

Still, though, this is wrong: "Another common inefficiency is computing the lines and hashes of content in the common prefix and suffix." You have to compute the lines for the prefix at least, diffs use line numbers to indicate where the change is.
> their (verifiably documented) lineage

Where are these documents, and what do they verify?

Saying that an institution today goes back to an institution from the past doesn’t mean that it shares the same traits. Institutions change over time.

What you need to show is that the same purpose can be documented today as was there when the police were established.
> miss noun (2)

> Definition of miss (Entry 3 of 4)
1 capitalized a —used as a title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miss
Interesting post. I would advice people against running a kubernetes / docker setup if you don't know it well. It's quite complicated and most small companies don't really need it.

As the author say, he already got a lot of experience of it so it worked out great for him but it is probably easier just to install the tech needed for a small company.

Unless you have something very special going on, the dependencies (like databases) are probably not going to be that many.
> Money by definition is not far more accessible to a far broader cross section of the population

Many lawyers will work on contingency, so it kind of is much more accessible.
Why would the source of the remote make a difference for fetching from an upstream?
So, that's the thing, right, despite all the downvotes above.

We get to strongly push for new language features, or we get to strongly push for backwards compatibility.

If we elect to do both blindly and without forethought, as the JS community seems to be doing (having learned from the C++, evidently), we are going to run into these things over and over again.

And frankly, a lot of the legacy code and terrible hacks on the Web deserve to be broken, noticed, and remove/updated. Hacking prototypes (as Sencha did here) is something they shouldn't have done in the first place.
So what prevents me from saving $150 and getting some homeless guy at the shelter to do this same shit for the price of a bottle?
Yes, you are right. The server stores indexes (which are actually trees), but the query logic is on clients.
Slightly off topic, but I am actually surprised "vim" was not a taken user name. Does GitHub grant special projects like vim its name if the name is taken but inactive?
Ah, the fabled Outernet. I've heard a lot about it.
The new Espresso is a great improvement compared to v1. The thing that I like the most in Espresso is the general speed of it: no other framework is as fast as this one.
You don't actually need the hardware -very similar results can be achieved using a spare piece of rope and a prussic knot*.

((I really hope I got the knot name right.))
NX doesn't get the love it deserves
Yes, that's fine. My argument was quite clear, that you should not abuse the existing situation. I was even geographically specific.
They mention that they couldn't get 3.8Kb/s for displaying video, I wonder if they could employ a similar technique used for 8088 Domination http://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-... to cheat a whole bunch and get enough bandwidth for "full motion" video.
You should feel crappy if you don't tip. It's an "honor system" but the wages assume that people tip servers. I know, it's absurd, but that's the system. If you don't want to tip, please don't eat at places where waitstaff are paid a wage that presumes tips.
Don't know if your current demography actually take into account your point of view, many things kill a app but nothing kill it faster than assuming that you and your audience are on the same page. A example, would be me.
I'd rather the burden of staff being paid be shifted to the employer and made up in the difference in cost of food. I'm from Canada where our minimum wage is quite decent, $10.50.
Is this completely open sourced? I'm a bit confused by the join waitlist CTA, though sometimes OS offers hide a bit their github link to promote their paid hosted service, in the case of syntropy stack I can see the waitlist directly beside the github link though.
Jesus, can yong folk afford to buy anything at this point?
Agreed, they do not hold a candle to Wolfe's prose. Though, many genre readers seem completely oblivious to prose quality and read purely for story. In the case of Hyperion everything is b-movie quality.
Yeah I have run into this, notably with the Xbox Live app for Windows, which totally saturates the line and generates something like 15% packet loss reports. However that's a different event to the occasional lower but prolonged packet loss which occurs infrequently and usually on a more idle line; which I believe to almost certainly be caused by something beyond my equipment. Knowing how OpenReach operate (who manage our largest internet infrastructure) it's a fairly safe assumption that it's a fault they've introduced somewhere.
Have you tried asking your local psychotherapist?

M-x doctor RET

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Why does Emacs need Symbolic Integration?

What do you think?

I don't know, just answer the question!

Why do you say you do not know just answer the question?

[...]

Maybe you'll have better luck than I did with mine.
I don't know if you live in the UK but I can share my 2 cents: UK NHS systems isn't exactly what many Americans picture it.
I use Arch Linux.
all the 3rd party dropshippers on amazon gonna get wiped out

on the other hand,that means amazon will be competing directly with Aliexpress ,and might trigger some kind of CCP response
> thinking that technological stasis or regression is the way to prepare for or protect against disasters.

Well put. Regression is a very real danger in all civilizations and it's inevitable. It is the full time job to actively resist decline.

Reminds me of that plan to intercept an earthbound meteor/asteroid. It sounds absurd - until we hit an existential crisis when one such object is in our trajectory and all the bullshit stops. The sad thing is not IF but When. Could be a year or a million years.
You are thinking of the story as it would have been written by Neal Stephenson ;-)
Okay. I’d prefer you discuss whether my comments are representative of HN’s decline elsewhere. I’m not qualified to judge that.
Unless there's some Minority Report like precognition in place (monitoring people's web searches in real time perhaps?), I don't see how cops can prevent murders (except for repeat offenders perhaps).

I'd rather think that the threshold for criminal activity is lowered whenever the outlook is bleak and stress is high.
I had already went and done the search when I saw this comment. I think GMD is Geomagnetic Disturbance, and GIC Geomagnetically Induced Current.
The magic numbers file ends with a comment linking to a youtube video of numbers station playing very disconcerting and dissonant music, so we can add art/comedy to the list of features (which was already obvious!)
Blender is simply as good or better than the alternatives.

While the open source image, audio and video editors are not better than the alternatives.

Sure there are other factors to. There are always other factors. But given enough time the best product will win.
The whole idea is to tear down algorithm, simulate unnatural image that triggers the required responses and pass it to classifier. There is no direct link to security risks here.
Oh no doubt. But as an employee, proceed with caution. Being the keeper of the keys for the magical complicated system can work out for years... until it doesn't.

Then you'll find yourself as the guy with 10 years of managing a OpenVMS legacy system in 2015!
After some time working in "start-ups" this is one thing I agree with more than anything.

"Hours
While people occasionally choose to push themselves to
work some extra hours at times when something big is
going out the door, for the most part working overtime for
extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in planning
or communication. If this happens at Valve, it’s a sign
that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected. If
you’re looking around wondering why people aren’t in
“crunch mode,” the answer’s pretty simple. The thing we
work hardest at is hiring good people, so we want them to
stick around and have a good balance between work and
family and the rest of the important stuff in life."
Job was for C++ implementing signal processing code with SIMD optimizations. He couldn't unpack RGBA from a long.

I've also seen Matlab shitheads who couldn't do it in C either, so it goes both ways.

The point of mentioning that wasn't to "neener neener" a recent grad it was to open the greater discussion you see here regarding CS trends.

Caltech is brutal and spending five years there without touching C seems... odd. How can you spend half a decade driving past the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the way to Trader Joe's and not pick up the skills to get an interview with SpaceX?
Would you like to see my Tiger Deterrence Rock?

I have used countless installs of Windows, through MSDN, retail, Technet, and through vendors like Dell. I happen to avoid being a suggestible simpleton so I don't simply adopt the sophistry that is so common. Sorry if this offends you into hilarious insults.
I've been looking at switching to a password manager like that, but I've been having trouble knowing how to pick one that a) I can trust and b) is good. I was thinking of giving up and just using a plain text file inside a truecrypt file.
I think that means if you break the rules you can't raise again? Reports required by the rules wouldn't be required in the absence of an actual A+ round. The 'qualified person' clause apparently is purely circular logic, so why not this one too!
When radiation causes a significant amount of cell death, yes. I.e., if you are going to have 2-3% of your cells killed (by heat, radiation, alchohol, whatever), it's better if it happens slowly over time than all at once.

Backscattered X-rays are not remotely near that point.

edit: Just want to respond to this: I had the impression it still mattered, with multiple impacts in the same area of DNA causing things to be more likely to permanently break.

This is called the multiphoton effect. It's real, but it's more important for radiation by low frequency radiation (e.g., cell phone microwaves). You can observe this in gases with high powered lasers or microwave resonating cavities. Weird things happen in this regime, such as stabilization (more radiation -> less ionization).

I suppose you could have molecular effects from multiple photons (e.g., one photon damages the DNA, a second damages the repair mechanism), but this is vanishingly unlikely at the doses we are discussing.
You can use this if you prefer to use html for some stuff:

== <p>This is just some<em>emphatic</em> text. Maybe I'll talk about <code> $BASH_VERSION </code></p>

Also exist 'plain' tag:
:plain
html stuff here
another line
easy :)
I am currently working on the HBase project at Facebook. It's extremely fun! We try to sync up with the OS branch on a weekly basis. Additionally, FB actually has an Open Source team whose primary job is to find out how we can use current open source solutions or remove company-confidential material and open source more of our infrastructure. It gives you real pride to know that your company completely supports your desire to help the software developer community.
I wonder how different Apple's success would have been had they called it the Software Store rather than the App Store.
Eh, we'd have always written software that small if we could have managed to get paid for it.

The reason apps are special is that you can get payment for them without credit card and support fees blowing you out of the water. That wasn't a possibility before.
The encoding issues bit me in a few places (especially with paperclip), and I have some hacky initializers running that monkeypatch a few libraries to behave well enough.
Utah Congreessman Jason Chaffetz has made quite a big deal about getting rid of the backscatter x-ray machines in the past, when they were first being implemented
> OK, so they don't want to share their source code; that's fine.

No, it is not. It is the exact reason why rheir results are not trust worthy.

Publish the code, let it be checked by the peers.

Closed source code has no place in science and most journals now rightly demand open code for the publications.
This new is great, but I find one part kind of backwards: why does the declaration in pages 3-4 https://cwa-union.org/sites/default/files/20210331_nlrbsettl... only shown in the case of a violation like here? Why can’t the declaration be posted in conspicuous places in every workplace much like how job postings, minimum wage, rules around harassment, and occupational safety are?
I have almost the same setup and it's working like a charm. Was still looking into a backup solution so I'll take a look into borgmatic
The irony of the distracting red bell with an overly sensitive popout message is not lost on me
Hehe, as usual they don’t even talk about how much it costs. Will it be against the TOS to benchmark it?
I'm not seeing an article here, just an offer to sign up to an email newsletter.