jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Jan Janszoon a Dutch born man who was captured by the Barbary pirates and then became one has a fairly well documented life, and at least 2 of his children moved to New Amsterdam. Cornelius Vanderbilt is a descendent. This is one of his son's wikis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Janszoon_van_Salee
They went full circle and now Gillette is selling a premium razor for sensitive skin… with two blades. No kidding: https://gillette.com/en-us/products/razors-trimmers-and-blad...
This, pretending is exhausting..
I'll do that, and have read that.
Bradford, I'm continually impressed on the level of insight you provide on topics outside of what I think are your core competencies. As an analytical person myself, I can see how you took supporting information and made well reasoned insights and inferences, but I'm curious as to how you laid the groundwork. You've obviously mastered researching as a general skill and not just as a means to deepen your area of expertise. I hope you will consider writing a future blog post about effective research as a topic a la your "7 Tips for Successful Self Learning".
Chinese capitalism = American capitalism - Human rights
Indian capitalism = American capitalism + Wage slavery
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The new version Camera+ is a great update but I cannot seem to find HDR. Does the new version lack HDR?
On the topic of changing how foods affect us via preparation, this (somewhat click-baity) article talks about how refrigeration of cooked pasta could reduce glucose spikes from its consumption:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761

Both articles sound borderline one-weird-trick to me, but the explanations are plausible.
As of my last page reload, it looks like Hacker News is celebrating as well!

(for posterity: http://localhostr.com/file/gvXIHto/christmas-hn.png )
Scala.js, Elm, PureScript, ...
Disclaimer: I work for a company providing customer service over social media solutions.

Allowing businesses to do messaging with customers is a big deal. It's been there on FB messenger for a while, but, it hasn't had the attention. We're seeing an increasing trend of customers wanting to contact businesses where they are rather than being forced to follow the business' requirements. Facebook is one of those places.
Agreed that plants are great (I've been vegan for 12 years), but Soylent provides a dependable solution for those who need a quick, nutritious meal (such as breakfast) and has opened up interesting possibilities such as sipping down lunch while taking a walk in a park.

Plus, you can use Soylent as an excellent base for making smoothies that include other fruits, veggies, etc.
Can we experience limerence with new projects? The project at hand becomes your whole new world.

I wonder if the reticular activating system has anything to do with it.

As I remember from the director's commentary track on some Almodovar film: Love isn't love unless there is reciprocity. (This was when some male character is stalkily going through the things in a woman's abode)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular_activating_system
People also forget that in short order there will be other people holding varying % ownership stakes, that makes 'control' much more about persuasion/consensus building.

Plus, you can always start at 50/50 and allocate more to the person bringing more financial support (or work-for-free-ness) to the venture, as that's pretty darn valuable in the earlier days.
That's an interesting data point. I recently got a Macbook Air and before doing so I was thinking about the optical drive. I realized that for the way I use a laptop, it's been 8+ years since I've used an optical drive on my laptops for anything other than installing software. And now with more and more software being distributed via download even that is becoming less of an issue.
I find that in order to run Eclipse properly with lots of plug-ins, a fairly big project and Tomcat running at the same time you NEED 4gb. Yes, Java uses a lot of memory but I have 9 gb in my desktop so I'm just fine thanks. 4gb dimms are available for about $54, according to Pricewatch, so quit complaining.
Computing power-wise there are few machines that can't do the job for most people. I recently had a friend get the ASUS 1015B[1] for $289. For everything he does (he's not a developer, rather a policy wonk) it works just fine. He loves the form factor for travel, weight, everything.

But the problem with MBA, netbooks, and laptops in general is that they're less productive for some classes of work. Generally due to the display size/resolution. I find that even a 24" dislay is not adequate to really work at full steam. I need at least 2x24" when doing serious dev work. I can work on my laptop in a pinch, but its like writing a long email with T9. Sure, you can do it, but its not the way you like to operate.

[1] http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_1015B/
It's certainly an interesting list, but I have to question whether this is anything but preaching to the choir. "Don't ignore technology, innovate, bla bla blah", this is just boilerplate silicon valley talk.

Just because an industry is on the decline doesn't mean there's no opportunity there. Hell would you rather compete in a billion dollar market that used to be 2 billion, or enter a nascent market where you run out of cash before it's even big enough to sustain you? If you want to be the next Google then you'd probably go with the latter, but remember, Google didn't get where they are today by wanting to be the next Google. It wasn't all planned out, they did it by taking advantage of opportunities along the way.
Please do explain how taking 400mg of caffeine per day constitutes an addiction.

I also take a daily multivitamin that contains ginseng, and a 'super' vitamin B pill. The latter makes the biggest difference in energy levels. I guess I'm 'addicted' to vitamin B, as well.
You're forgetting to factor in how much money they lose if the people paying $200 a month for PPV and premium channels just switch to paying $15 a month for Netflix.
Cool! My thoughts:

On the homepage there should be a much higher-priority link to see a sample gallery.

When I clicked on a photo, I didn't know how to get back to the timeline/365 view. I went for the back button, but it wasn't active. It was hard to figure out that it was actually a light box. An animation when the lightbox activates would help, as would making the lightbox "less fullscreen."
ssh is available via control-alt-T

You can also flip the developer switch in the battery bay for more control.
Good to hear, because frankly I find it terrifying even though I'm still several years from having kids. That said some of the expenses from their infographic don't look entirely unreasonable. A decade worth of footwear might not cost $1000, but I bet it costs at least $800 when you take into account soccer cleats, penny loafers, etc.
Kudos on launching the new feature!

The pricing is a tad expensive, but doesn't look bad at all when you consider the need for an on demand encoder for the entire time that the user is uploading.
Building off of that idea: incorporate ads.

The refunds keep the users coming back, and the ads support your business.
- Before users sign up, the typical set of landing page(s), price(s) page etc.

- Once you are signed in, it's much harder. I'd like a set of template pages that looks like Google's products, another that looks like Apple's products, etc.

- Really clean css/html so that it's easy to extend/evolve.

- Nice if it's based on YUI css.
The answers are not recycled. So after given they throw it away.
The referenced Albert Bartlet quote is from his lecture Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. It's a fascinating look into the exponential function, and available on DVD from the University of Colorado. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
"Expensive"

With public funding, lots of hardware and expert math/algorithm experts, it's less expensive

That is, even if the generated key-pair is really 1024-bit strong (and doesn't have any biases known by them)
They are handy! Especially if one person is on a call and can't talk, or you're trying to be quiet.

"I love you", "Food?", "Tea?" (we're tea drinkers) are commonly used in my home.
So the plan is to keep on creating new protocols so that there's frequent, although not constant, stream of services that are already user-friendly, but not optimized for milking data yet?

This doesn't strike me as a 'solution'.
Live this. I enjoy my Planet Gemini which is a modern rebirth of the Series 5.
While Element.io still has some UX points to improve upon, I wish people would be a bit more honest about the state of Matrix clients and less fatalist.

There are other alternative Matrix clients that implement an experience closer to Whatsapp than Element, like Fluffychat.
Personally I think there is beauty to one text file that defines a reproducible build environment. Carefully controlled dependencies are quite nice.

That said, I haven't really used docker as a runtime container.
There will always be a tiny sliver of the population who prove themselves unsuitable/unable/unsafe to live freely with society and that society has to deal with them somehow.

Whether it’s better to lock them away to suffer an isolated existence for life or sentence them to die is a matter that can be debated I think, as both paths have elements that are more terrible than the other.
>I struggle to understand how people cannot simply accept the answer: to know more!

When you say that, people are thinking "so would you let people die unnecessarily, JUST so you can know more?". What's important about knowing more? It's useful for its entertainment and curiosity-satisfying properties, but that ranks far lower than stuff like people starving.
Texas' population is 29 million. Denmark's is 5.8 million. So the scale is remarkably equivalent.
I once tried to model tax forms as code and one thing I learned is that using observable / computable model (as in mobX / knockout.js) works pretty well for computing tax.

For example:

this.totalDeductions = this.computed(() => {
return this.isItemizing() ? this.itemizedDeductionsAdjusted() : this.standardDeduction();
}).form("f1040-131"); // 131 is reference to a field on the tax form

this.afterDeductions = this.computed(() => {
return this.adjustedGrossIncome() - this.totalDeductions();
}).form("f1040-133")

The other thing I learned is that taxes are ridiculously complex.
Sad that we don't have a media that would have tech experts on staff that could questions such claims.
That is personal property, not private property.
I watched PBS News Hour the other day and it was refreshing. It had only a reasonable portion of the episode dedicated to what CNN had already been flogging to death for the entire day. Then they had an interesting piece on declining interest in trade jobs. It was interesting, informative, and I never felt shouted at or goaded.
I like the AirPod Pro’s for this when I’m on the streets. I can listen to music with one ear on relatively low volume with noise cancellation. When I use the same volume and disable noise cancellation, I have to turn up the volume around 20%.
Most of the article claims that causal reasoning is impossible for computers. I would claim that is obviously false because there exist programs that do similar things.

However, I generally agree that computers will have a hard time writing good novels. If computers end up being able to simulate an entire world of humans, it should be possible to do anything humans can (intellectually) so nothing is truly impossible.

The best reason I see that computers will have a hard time writing novels (or any type of art) is because the purpose of a novel in most cases is to convey a human mental state. So in order to do so you have to convey it properly you have to understand human minds well. For humans this is pretty easy, you can use your on experience as a baseline. However, for a computer, it must watch people long enough to understand what is going on inside.
Lockdowns didn't do squat to prevent those deaths. Maybe slowed down the timeline by two months, if that.

There's no way you're going to put this genie back into the bottle, Covid is already endemic.

What should have been done instead is to figure out what factors cause Covid complications, because for the vast majority of people Covid is harmless. One year in and we still haven't even started...

(We spent so much time and effort on vaccines instead, even though there are several strains of Covid in the wild and people routinely get it twice...)
Working from home doesn't work.
People need to be together physically to create trust in each other. Trust is the base ingredient for successful collaboration.
Many teams in current covid situation suffer from team issues. Demotivation, unaligned, conflicts. The fun is gone.
Specially visible in software dev teams in which generally people are not the most proactive talkers.
Most positive feedback you hear today are from existing lone wolfs who used to work remote before covid and never really worked in teams.
We all know how successful (not!) outsourcing can be. Working from home is even worse.
Sorry (and I'm sorry that you've been downvoted, that seems a bit unfair). I didn't realise it was such a unusual word. Schools in the UK often ask children to précis some longer piece of work.

I think you might have done it again though; I am very unfamiliar with the use of the word "resume" to be synonymous with summary, especially when not dealing with a human history.
It isn't that sleep works reliable on OSX, it's that sleep works reliably on a Mac.

You see, when you buy a Mac you know every feature (including sleep) has been tested thoroughly. When you decide to install an OS on a computer you already own, you put the onus to test on yourself. I don't understand why people continue to make this unfair comparison. If you want a linux computer where sleep just works, by a preinstalled linux computer. System76 makes fantastic ones. They thoroughly test every feature. They test when new versions of Ubuntu get released. You'll have the same experience you have when buying a Mac or when buying an HP.
I know MBA stand for MacBook Air, but reading some of these comments is a bit difficult/funny.
+1 for the backlit keyboard. I'm surprised how much I miss it -- I've had backlighting since my PowerBook G4 and always thought it was fluff.
Not really a fan of Flattr or donate now buttons, but I've had a lot of subscribers ask about it. I just started using some affiliated type links and would like to run ads at some point if I can keep them relevant (which I think will be easy to do). After today I'll probably have to start paying for MailChimp (which is a good problem to have), so I need to figure that out sooner than later.
Likewise my company is 100% PSGI for the last year+, we're a mix of a good number of Catalyst and Dancer apps. We've had absolutely 0 problems here.

PSGI stable, sane and the way you want to be doing things.
Apart from underfeeding children or hitting people on the head, I'm not aware of any ways to significantly change IQ. Could you elaborate?
The main reason iq tests aren't so big anymore is because of the pc movement. They are the best way of testing for intelligence that we have so far.
This is reality-shaping in action. Every manufacturer has crashes, failures, problems. They always have, and always will. Yet all of the sudden a certain portion of society has decided to weaponize the internet / mass media against Boeing and showcase every Boeing failure, while ignoring all the problems that everyone else also has. Ask yourself when was the last time you read a negative story / post about Airbus? Do you really think there weren't any negative events?

Of course this is a US-centric forum so it makes sense to focus more on Boeing than others, and of course I want any problems that exist to be fixed, aircraft to be safe, transparency, etc., but I'm just trying to point out that the picture of reality that's being given to you is not a comprehensive picture of reality. You're being sold a narrative about Boeing aircraft compared to other aircraft that is not necessarily true.

It's a fallacy if you're deciding that Boeing aircraft are unsafe compared to others, because mass media has decided to shove every Boeing failure in your face. This is a political tactic that goes far beyond the Boeing discussion, but if you wanted an informed opinion about Boeing aircraft compared to other aircraft, you would need an unbiased source that equally reported all problems with all manufacturers/aircraft, or you would need to compile that data yourself, and look at the overall statistics.

Always try to think about what you're NOT being told. For all you know, Airbus could have an order of magnitude more problems and crashes (I'm not saying that's true). But if the news you consume only ever shows you Boeing problems, and you make that your worldview, your worldview has become disconnected from reality.
I would hope for a Constitutional Convention rather than continuing the trend with no end in sight.
Headline is misleading - the article is about getting messages off a (booted and previously unlocked) device, not in transit (as "intercept" would imply). Still bad, obviously -- I'm guessing this is an iOS zero day -- but not as bad as the headline would imply.

Also, the article claims that Signal has "deep state ties" (and that this is therefore possibly an intentional backdoor in Signal) and users should use Telegram (which doesn't do E2E by default!) instead.
Some people I work with have made very complex Excel "machines" that have been in use by many people for decades. One of the new engineers spent about six months porting one over to MATLAB and there were all kinds of magic numbers in the formulas that turns out were there to account for some bugs in some test equipment we bought 20 years ago. We had purchased a new system that would output data that wasn't compatible with his old model so the new engineer ported it over and now we get clean, consistent results. This is for antenna measurements so there's really been little advances in decades in the fields. The advances only really exist for antenna simulations.
Donald Knuth, “The Art of Computer Programming” would grow more volumes by guest writers, perhaps.
I was in a tenth-floor restaurant in central Tokyo during that March 9, 2011, earthquake, two days before the big one. The shaking last night, which I felt at my home in Yokohama, was reminiscent: not terribly strong, but lasting a long time.

Last night, it was long enough for me to sit up in bed, wait for a while, get up, stand in the living room for a while, and then go upstairs to where my daughter and one-year-old grandson were sleeping, with the shaking and rattling continuing the whole time. After it stopped, we all went back to bed.

In 2011, I happened to leave Yokohama for Osaka by train on the morning of March 11 and missed the big one by just a few hours. I'm hoping to be away when the next big one hits, too.
The BBC article gives a lot of reasons why sugar might be bad for you and then hedges to say we don't know if this just happened to correlate with increased calories. Dr. Robert Lustig used an analysis of countries' sugar consumption and diabetes rates over time to make these claims:
If you consumed a 150 calories extra per day, in total calories, diabetes prevalence only went up by 0.1%, nothing. But if those 150 calories happen to be a can of soda, diabetes prevalence went up 11 fold, 1.1%, and we are not consuming one can of soda per day, we are consuming two and a half; so that’s 2.4%. Given that American diabetes rates are 8.3%, that means that 26% of all diabetes in America today is due to sugar and sugar alone, not due to obesity, not due to total calories, sugar and sugar alone.
https://robertlustig.com/fructose2/

The article later makes claims about positive benefits of 'sugar' for elderly and athletes, but these cases are actually about glucose, not fructose which the article itself states is the culprit.

Now that I read it reference 2 is directly addressing Lustig's claims, so I thank you for providing it. I'll have to read through several of that papers references to see it the claims it makes are true. Even that paper does point out that multiple studies have shown that sugary beverages may be linked to obesity.

Edit:
I read the relevant section of reference Hauner et al., 2012 (section 3.2.1 and 3.2.2) regarding effects of fructose and sucrose consumption on diabetes and there are several studies there which do indeed seem to have mixed results over large cohorts (tens of thousands of people). Thanks again for the reference, I'll probably dig into the individual studies, but it's not clear to me how meaningful results are where you just ask people what they were eating and then check two years later who got diabetes.
Why would you adjust for usd money supply? The only reason my (uninformed) self sees is that it’s arbitrary but fits a fiscal Hawk narrative. Fwiw I’m worried about inflation, but this seems uninteresting.
Because lobbying and abrupt, agenda-driven changes of policy and numbers (e.g., what counts as a "case" or "infection", and what number over what time period is reported) are easy to detect and collate when everything is in the open today.

The practice of science, which is not an end unto itself, is possible to indulge in because we each have a chance at examining data and methods. When those are restricted or changed without reason, that is another data point. We no longer need to, nor do we, rely on lobbyists who write legislation and policy.
There is no way they spent $35 per CD, even including design printing, boxing, mailing and the "free hours".

Wouldn't a better question be how much they saved per employee by outsourcing nearly all their callcenter jobs? I would guess from $70 per person per day to $70 per month. And yet they are still hemorrhaging.
I played Battle Chess 4000 back then.

That was on a 386 computer without sound card, but BC4000 could play digitized sound through the PC speaker! Amazing stuff.
"And to the open source thing -- it sat there for 18 months." !!! Just .. wow. If it was the first time we heard such stories. But it happends many time with the linux kernel source code and all. I definitively conclude that source code begin open to everyone is not a mark of higher quality.
You think a billion dollar, cash-rich company known for software excellence would understand testing and hardening? A company known for draconic quality assurance, would skimp? Silly me. HN must be right.
TV and Web are different channels. I agree that the right analogy is blocking with a cardboard when ads are in show.

Is it piracy when crackers remove part of the software that secures it as that annoys people and they only want to use the functionality?
I wish there were more JavaScript posts. Did you know you can do functional programming with it?! /s
> But if you're Indian, you can apply to many _German_ government programs to do come here any study for free. While _your_ government wastes your money on hunting neutrinos.

This has nothing to do with actions of the Indian Government. If you don't want the German Government to run programs for international students, feel free to appeal to them.
Sure but I’m not talking about just the CEO. I’m talking engineering managers all the way down. And I guess I’m not really talking about specific college degrees either, but a culture and mindset of engineering.

Here’s an interesting article about how engineers lost influence in Boeing: https://perell.com/essay/boeing-737-max/