jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Good article, and I wish you continued and even greater success!

When you try Adwords, keep in mind your CPA (cost per acquisition) profitability should not be judged solely on a single month's price.

If you find out most of your users stick around for 3 months, and you are charging $20/month, the average signup is worth $60. But if you spend $30 in Adwords and get a single signup, and think it isn't profitable because you spend $10 more than the signup, it is a mistake. Over the next two months you will make a $30 profit.

Of course, this is over a three month period. But, if you have enough sign ups in the pipeline, you can see how well this works out.
Nice idea of "promise" you have. First you toot your horn without adding any value to the conversation, and then even THAT turns out to be empty words?
This reminds me slightly of Tim Ferris' "The 4 Hour Body". Has anyone had any real experience with his suggested diets? I find eating consistent and similar meals is cheaper and healthier.
That's about what I eat: home cooked beans, brown rice, random vegetables, some bread, nuts, olive oil, occasional cheese and milk, plus a vitamin.
It's really a matter of how long/how often you're willing to stick with it. If you eat lentils (or any other bean) long enough, consistently enough, the uh... disturbances in the force will subside.

Anyhow, this is an interesting setup. Rice and beans is a fairly standard South/Central American diet (for the same reason chosen here... high energy, full protein complex, and cheeaappp). This is totally a workable diet, but the moment you start wanting to eat fish/meat, your food expenses will skyrocket. Even if it's just Tilipia (yuck!). Which sucks =/
Isn’t it usually considered your distribution’s responsibility to handle that? They may have done god-knows-what to the software, so the bug might not even appear in the upstream release.
Yes, we do.

Most of the locations are by appointment - even that is still hard to get. We need to make that clearer up front so thanks for the feedback both of you.
My sense is that such a log would lead to an order-of-magnitude explosion of litigious meta discussion, which is last thing we we need or want.

If that's right, then it's worse than that, because then metaness would consume a lot more resources than it already does, starving the rest of the site of other things we need to work on. That would be a vicious feedback loop; I'd rather look for virtuous ones.
Yeah, I just meant "not what I expect" because I play primarily dobro now which uses GBDGBD. The tuning on the website is the correct open G tuning for guitar.

Awesome, i'll check out the github repo and add a PR if I think of something to add! Thanks for adding those! I'll keep an eye on the site.

For dobro open G, an octave is four strings up or down. IE, if i'm play an A on the 1st (highest tuned) string at the 7th fret, another A can be found at the 7th fret of the 4th string.

Between strings, the steps between the strings varies so it's harder to have a single rule there.
I've been writing such a web-based self-hosted grocery and household management system for the last 6 (and depending at how you look at it - 20) years. It's a tough problem but well worth it. I share my system (which is very difficult to actually release) here in the hopes of giving people ideas, or if anyone wants to work with me. Just fixed a bug in the home inventory component, and am dreading working to integrate purchase management with shopping receipts (both online and local) with inventory. Very tough problem indeed:

https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner

https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner#a-few-screenca...
I think that this just killed the one of the triumph card of PIC micro-controllers.

Seriously, Microchip uC have now any interesting thing apart of a lot of embed I/O hardware inside ?
ARM based uCs now are cheap, low powered and have far better IDEs and compilers...
Maybe a reason why so many are so fond of mafia movies.
This is wholly untrue. The guarantees HE gives for security of encrypted data is exactly the same as any traditional symmetric or asymmetric crypto system. HE is indeed malleable by design, but doing computation on homomorphically encrypted data gives no information on the contents of the ciphertexts.

>This is more like anonymization (effectively a one-way hash) than encryption. If you encrypt 2 different values with the same algorithm and key, you will get the same ciphertext which reveals information about the original value (i.e., that they are the same).

This is a misunderstanding. Homomorphic encryption schemes are randomized encryptions schemes, which means even if you encrypt the same value twice with the same encryption key you get two different ciphertexts (both look like "random data"). They just have the property that they will decrypt to the same value. This is possible because the space of ciphertexts is much larger than the space of plaintexts.
Specialize on something relatively new and easy. You can then reach the frontier quickly. You saw this happen you Ruby back when Rails came out and you still see this happening with lots of HTML5 related technology, where what people think is exciting is really just somebody reading the specs and doing a basic hack.

I suspect that if you were to just focus on mastering Javascript, the DOM, SVG, and the various HTML5 APIs by really reading the entire spec, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible you could become better than most programmers in this domain. This is because most programmers that have been working for the last 10-20 years are not doing Javascript development, or when they do, they don't take it seriously enough to actually read the specs and push any boundaries.

Of course you will still be completely illiterate in many ways, but given six months that's just the reality. Maybe spend the final two weeks doing a quick survey of other tech, just so you aren't completely clueless.
> I've personally seen a building with a fractional street number, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

There's at least one fractional street number here in Victoria, BC along Fan Tan Alley: https://www.flickr.com/photos/goddess_spiral/3377009251/
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Video is so easily faked that no mere video of ETs would be believable.
The Panopticon approach of "I am entitled to everything about you and your browsing activity because I technically CAN get it" is very troublesome and I'm glad that µblock takes a small step to revert that.

If some guy followed you around a store with a clipboard literally writing down microsecond-level details of your time spent in the store, you wouldn't be OK with that just because "I promise I didn't write down your name!" There's no reason to suffer LESS privacy online.
This looks pretty nice!

In case anyone was wondering how it's able to figure out which package should be updated for each installed binary, the magic sauce seems to be `go version -m <bin>`.
The Elves make an excellent podcast that I highly recommend to others.
Nope: https://github.com/swc-project/swc
Human bladder range can already be extended 10x by the use of Gatorade bottle technology.
> the Azov Battalion was and is in Mariupol

"the Azov Battalion" hasn't existed since 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Current_status

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-azov-battali...
Me, because I've been a user for about a decade and it works well for me, why change it?
Chrome on Android here, and I got the same error.
I had to read that twice to realize what you were saying. Well played.
One theory is that it's less about actually supporting a joint and holding it in a particular position and is actually more about the sensation it provides which can remind you (consciously or unconsciously) to move in a different way.
> You are approaching this subject as if living in an area where rents are $2500 is a right and not a privilege

And you're approaching this subject as if Amazon warehouses are uniformly distributed throughout the country, such that median rents _matter_. They aren't, and they don't. Amazon warehouses are typically just outside of (or even within) population centers, where rents exceed median, often substantially.

How far should a person commute for a $15/hr warehouse job? How far _can_ they commute?
One EEG suggesting memories, out of one EEG which possibly could have suggested memories.

Sure, it would be nice to have more than one data point, but I think when that data point corroborates what many people have reported based on their experiences, it's worth something.
Breakthroughs were rarely made by lone geniuses even before. Sure, there are some, but even Edison had a huge lab full of people doing the work.

Bell labs was extremely successful (at least on the innovation front) not due to lone geniuses, but due to a large collection of very smart people all collaborating together.
Or put differently, if we can't improve things in a rich society, how do we expect it to improve elsewhere.
GAS's (Wolfgang Voigt) latest album [1] was criticised by many (including Pitchfork [2]) for having a very high pitched (~12khz) tone throughout the album. Pitchfork was speculating in their review that the artist suffers from hearing loss, after decades spent in the Cologne techno scene. In response they removed the 12khz tone, and uploaded the new versions to all digital platforms, and even sent repressed CDs to customers.

[1] https://kompakt-gas.bandcamp.com/album/der-lange-marsch

[2] https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gas-der-lange-marsch/
When poaching eggs in water the usual way, a tablespoon of vinegar in the water keeps them together, not scattered all over the pan.
Are you advocating for ethno-nationalism?
Indeed the article mentions digging deeper into that, how are you going to use it? Who would benefit most? Other colleagues/divisions/department that are going to benefit from “feature”? How do you accomplish something like this now?
> Exactly!!!
> Encrypting user data should be a common practice like hashing passwords.

I get the feeling that you've never done this before and you don't understand the technical challenge and implications of the added complexity you propose here for an essentially free to low-price all-in-one communication online service.

Slack is not the NSA, encryption is not the answer to every security problem out there.
I own several domains if I really wanted to abuse the service I can create and destroy email accounts at will. Maybe you happen to be one of the good ones, sorry you got lumped in with 90 percent of your fellows. The only reason you are getting a legit email from me is if I value your service enough to want to be able to do a password reset.
I agree, but can't deny self-hosted means your security lapses see less fanfare, which has value to the biggest and most lumberingest risk-adverse organizations
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. - Steve Jobs
Please do not do it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16891729/best-practices-s...
Indeed, and bless their hearts.
> a magistrate judge with authority in any district where activities related to a crime may have occurred

Weasely enough that the warrant-seeker could pick a pet court wherever they have computers. There's a judge who made Marshall, East Texas the place to find software patents infringed with maximum damages. A similar venue would pop up.
GopherLua [0] is a Lua implementation written in Go, not just a wrapper around the reference implementation (written in C). The main alternative seems to be Shopify’s go-lua [1], given that Microsoft’s golua [2] is no longer being developed.

The main difference between these three implementations seems to be the supported Lua version - 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 respectively. Of course, the reference implementation is now on version 5.4 - these are all considered different major versions of the language (Lua doesn’t use SemVer).

[0] https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua

[2] https://github.com/Azure/golua
People with health conditions and healthcare workers are big part of currently vaccinated groups. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55045639
After iterating quite a bit, I settled on using open back HD650’s and attaching a ‘mod mic’. The wire management is actually easy. This feeds into a DAC / amp combo from Schitt, mines the Fulla Schitt gen 3. Never had a better audio setup, for music, conferences, and games. Swap in a comparable closed back pair of headphones if working in a shared space.

Considering a custom rolled tube amp too just for the fun of it....
Site is down http://web.archive.org/web/20210408142532/https://sympa.inri...
Hah, obviously, I misunderstood the intent of your comment, makes much more sense the other way around :)
After Hoover died it became clear the level of actual corruption and control he had over Presidential elections, and how the FBI had been suborned to serve his personal and political beliefs. So there was a secret police period, except it was years ago and it didn't result in a totalitarian system. That did include the mass interception of mail and telephone calls, without the pesky need for warrants.

What has happened is a relatively short period of time in which technically inclined Americans had access to a mass communication medium which was extremely difficult to intercept. Apart from that period of time it has always been the case that if the Government wanted to get you it could and would intercept your communications. The general public have probably just always operated on the assumption that their lives just aren't important enough to become the centre of attention.
I'm sceptical about the success of this.

Math, for example, isn't something you should theach continuously for two weeks (lets say, teaching multiplication) and then go back to two months later (to teach division). It need continuous practice and reinforcement of it's concepts so that, not only you become proeficient with it, but you also understand how and why it works.

Ând the concept of 'topics' reminds me of Richard Feynman's Magnets youtube clip.[0] How indepth is the teacher going to go? I remember "learning" photosynthesis three times. The first time, around 4th or 5th grade was just "CO2 comes in, oxygen comes out. That's why plants are important, yadda yadda". The last time, in my 11th grade I was learning about the physical and molecullar processes that happened inside the plant's cells. There is a clear progression in the complexity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
What conventional terrorism technique have I used? Here's an analogue of what happened.

Bob says: yeah it's pretty easy to see that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.[1]

I say: not so fast, you can't just claim things like that. I mean it might be intuitive or 'generally accepted' (and even stochastically probable!), but the truth-value of such a statement is difficult to prove.

[1] Goldbach's conjecture.
"Simple != easy." --Rich Hickey

The closest I get in my career is striving for the simplest approach to building something in software, which is not all the easy path. The easy path always leads to complexity -- just look at any enterprise software project that's more than a year to two old.

I find the process of striving for simplicity gratifying and reading this article about similar -- but much longer process -- put a smile on my face.
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The idea consists of a platform for users to find expert professionals to guide them on ambitious projects, aimed at expanding their skills and having something concrete to show as a portfolio. It is mainly aimed at students or early-career professionals looking to work at a good tech company.

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Pretty sure calling things retarded is a nogo in 2021.
Most GPs (or at least all GPs I’ve ever visited) don’t have ultrasound machines.

However I imagine they’d be able to perform a simplified version, just measuring the BP at the arm and the ankle and dividing.

Presumably using the ultrasound just allows you to get a more precise reading.
Apple has the same thing[0].

A journalist requested their data from Apple, Google, and Facebook a few years ago[1],

> The zip file I eventually received from Apple was tiny, only 9 megabytes, compared to 243 MB from Google and 881 MB from Facebook. And there's not much there, because Apple says the information is primarily kept on your device, not its servers. The one sentence highlight: a list of my downloads, purchases and repairs, but not my search histories through the Siri personal assistant or the Safari browser.

Also curious how, if as you say Google is so transparent with this information, they abruptly stopped updating all of their iOS apps on December 8th, the day that Apple required them to publish the data that their apps collect[2,3].

0: https://privacy.apple.com/

1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/a...

2: https://twitter.com/Thomasbcn/status/1356645088697454596

3: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/05/google-hasnt-updated-io...
This is how populist leaders get elected, keep this up and we end up with another.
>In general, it’s better not to dig into the personal lives of people you look up to, because chances are we’re attributing all sorts of virtues to them based on their work, while they’re - just like all of us - humans with flaws and dark nooks.

I'm actually an advocate of doing just that. Less idolization, less focus on the person, and more focus on learning from their work and results.
Your article mentions the cancer drugs fund.

In the US companies will happily exploit dying people to extract as much money from them, and their families, as possible.

In the UK we recognise that dying people are vulnerable to this form of harm and we put protections in place.

The cancer drugs fund was a way to allow the NHS to use newer cancer drugs by reducing the amount of testing needed, and by increasing the amount of money we were will to pay for these meds.

After several years we realised that these drugs, while being very expensive, provided no meaningful benefit and often caused harm. Sometimes they degraded quality of life and shortened length of life.

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
> I hope that the model is not doing advanced patchwork/stitching of training images

It would still be impressive that it knows were to include hands, christmas sweater or a unicycle.
This requires a post of its own. This is a must watch for anyone interested in cpu architecture. The clarity with with he talks about some of the complex problems in cpu design is brilliant. The interviewer does a decent job to make it more palatable for a larger audience.
Really nice work, by the way... I hope my comment didn't seem overly harsh. I know that doing testing with gauge blocks is part of the process and I really only took issue with the hackster.io headline.
Well, perhaps I should have put /s there. ;-)

Of course, as you note, printer companies realized people were actually doing this (due to the perverse incentives created by their ridiculous razors/blades business model) so now most printers come with pathetic "starter" ink cartridges that run out after about 10 pages.

The irritating bit though is that many cartridges don't last long (intentionally and unintentionally) once you open/install them, regardless of whether you actually print anything. So, if you don't print a lot, it might still make (financial) sense to buy a new printer... ;-[

I am tempted though to get a model with refillable ink tanks, but most of what little printing I do is on an old b/w laser printer which I've had forever. Still looking for the holy grail color laser printer that is cheap, networked, duplexing, compact, and can print photos.
Drop them from the app store.
Edit: Seems like its based off of something similar to this (https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model)

This is pretty cool and eerie at the same time. The biggest thing to keep into mind about these algorithms is that the computer “dream” of these moving videos so they can be inaccurate. Nevertheless, seeing some moving video of my ancestors would be pretty neat.
The opportunity costs would be a even bigger number.
It’s pretty weird reading that Atlantic article in a world with covid.
You mean too high a bar?
they should be sold out now. They reduce covid in the room. Granted they probably reduce your chances of getting covid by only 5% compared to not having them, but unless you are one of the lucky ones who got a vaccine a few weeks ago that is one of the few things you can do.
That's true. I was mainly thinking of a struggle I had trying to create a binary .com file containing ML. The BASIC had no function for writing an arbitrary binary file. In hindsight, I suppose you could use one of those ML techniques you mentioned to do file I/O but that would have seemed out of reach in difficulty to me as a teenager.
It takes a lot of specialized aerosol science equipment and expertise to measure the percentage filtration, so it's questionable that they could claim to replace N95 filter with towels.
Manufacturing only became the major source of employment after all the farm laborers had become unemployed due to automation. As another comment mentioned, just banning wheat harvesters alone would create thousands of jobs. If creating jobs was our only goal.
I think the poster means that c# has many functional features and F#, while being functional language at heart has lots of OO features integrated in it.

PS And the linked question only describes the limitations of Visual Studio where you can have only one language in a given project.
I pretty much like it. But the “jumping” on :hover of an topic doesn’t feel that good.

So instead of

.list-item:hover {
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-top: 4px;
}

maybe use something like

.list-item:hover {
outline: 3px solid #ccc;
z-index: 10;
}

Just my two cents. ;)
The Mongol horde displayed unparalleled ruthlessness in Eastern Iran:

The garrison at Merv was only about 12,000 men, and the city was inundated with refugees from eastern Khwarezmia. For six days, Tolui besieged the city, and on the seventh day, he assaulted the city. However, the garrison beat back the assault and launched their own counter-attack against the Mongols. The garrison force was similarly forced back into the city. The next day, the city's governor surrendered the city on Tolui's promise that the lives of the citizens would be spared. As soon as the city was handed over, however, Tolui slaughtered almost every person who surrendered, in a massacre possibly on a greater scale than that at Urgench.
What and how much did you eat a day?
Like the name of one of the episodes in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (which I just looked up), I think you are asking the wrong questions. Of course AI is not going to take over the world and there's no singularity coming -- at least not any time soon. The singularity is no less a religious salvation myth than the Second Coming.

The question you should be asking is why do those people believe in the singularity? The answer -- like so many answers in life -- comes from the realm of psychology and sociology rather than hard science.