jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Familiarity shouldn't stand in the way of progress. A good modern BIOS replacement could eliminate a lot of these low-level issues and offer better troubleshooting tools. For example you could have LOM-ish style features standard on every machine to troubleshoot basic booting problems. Wifi/ethernet booting standardized. Something like target-disk mode for quickly mounting the HD inside of a machine with a dead video card or toasted OS install. You could even have a web browser that could get you access to stuff stored in the cloud in the case of a local HD failure.
is there a preview of Gnome 41 anywhere?
Reminds me of when a person on the Ars Technica forums posted something that upset the sensibilities of EMC, (it was something about an Avamar bug iirc) who cyberstalked the poster and called the CIO or CFO of his employer.
What are some of these platforms? Would love to know
That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
“ The Soviet version includes some plot elements left out of Jackson’s $93m blockbuster, including an appearance by the character Tom Bombadil, a forest dweller cut from the English-language version because he was too long-winded and failed to move the plot forward.”

This quote speaks volumes about the respective audiences.
An unused machine sitting in the middle of a busy factory floor gets in everyone's way and quickly finds itself being thrown out so the factory can run more efficiently.

An unused plot of land sitting fenced off in the middle of your city extends everyone's commute and diminishes the services available within walking distance in its neighbourhood. A municipal government interested in a functioning city will want to put that space to better use just like the factory owner did, and structure landowner incentives appropriately.
What is the difference between a garden and a farm?

I'm going to package up a box of crayons with some foolscap, so if anyone is looking for an art studio....

I don't want to be too negative. It's a nice idea and if You are offering added value to the products through your app and community then I hope it works out.

PS: I didn't see any irrigation system(other than the app notification). Irrigation is a crucial aspect of any farming venture. Edit..I see there is a picture of a watering can so there's that. Also I believe You misspelled "Our" with "Are" in the sentence We will send You...

Good luck!
I tried combining the available commands to come up with something cool but it didn't work. It might be interesting to support pipes:

cat about.txt | cowsay
There is also evidence that moderate consumption of alcohol has health detriments. And of course, there's evidence that the benefits outweigh the detriments, and also evidence that the detriments outweigh the benefits. I haven't seen anyone do a good job of putting these together (in e.g. a funnel plot), but as far as I can tell the only justifiable conclusion at this stage is that we really don't know.
Plane took out power lines to the airport...

http://rt.com/news/244953-air-canada-crash-halifax/
>case in point Irvine CA. Worst place I have ever been too.

Ha, no way. If it's the worst place you've been to, then I can only imagine you have not been to many places. Admittedly it lacks good mass transit, but that's true of most of California (I personally would say all, because SF mass transit isn't great either, it just happens to make the rest of California look barbaric - I say this as a proud Californian). And the car culture is especially strong in SoCal. Not to mention Irvine was originally intended to be a suburban community, not a metropolis. A measure was put forth to add light rail a few years ago, but the "not in my backyard" folks voted it down.

It has 8 lane surface streets precisely because of forethought (it's a planned city, btw). Most of the north-south roads have 65 mph speed limits. You don't get that without proper planning and zoning. It operates its own shuttle service independent of the county. Then there's the high ratio of parks, green belts, wildlife reserves, and dedicated bike lanes relative to its neighbors. Demand to live there is outstripping supply, which leads to traffic, which admittedly sucks and hopefully Californians will realize you can't keep throwing more lanes at the problem. I'm in Manhattan now, and sure, Irvine can seem like a quaint provincial town in comparison, but the worst place you've ever been to? Horribly designed? Cue eye-rolling.
Nimbys are causing havoc in Austin. My old VP bought a giant house on the west side of town and now wants to prohibit building there so as to keep up land values. There are also lots of groups that dont want high rises, etc. Property prices are shooting up now.
Thats only true for the wealthiest in Chicago. Consider this map of food deserts. http://www.yogagardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/food-d... Unless you live somewhere nice, you can't walk to the grocery store.

Chicago also has, for the most part, segregated neighborhoods for work and living. If you're wealthy, you can afford to live within walking distance of white collar jobs, if not you're stuck.

Also, Chicago is a bit of an abnormality in the US for paying some attention to cycling infrastructure.
1. Moving from a relatively non-degradable substance such as gold or an easily-replaceable substance such as paper to a degrading unit of exchange completely conflicts with one of the major functions of money: a store of value. Fine, it can work for things such as cattle and if we accept your argument, humans. But one of the fundamental reasons paper currency exists is for small cash transactions. Are you going to exchange some of your equity for that weekly bag of groceries? How about that tank of gas? How much equity is that cup of coffee worth to you? I'd be interested to see how hypercapitalism could deal with these simple transactions.

As for inflation: is it as simple to control inflation as you suggest? Why is 0% the target? Inflation is a terrifically complicated subject.

While there is agreement that inflation is costly and should therefore be minimized, for a number of reasons policymakers nevertheless aim for an inflation rate above zero. First, available measures of inflation are imperfect and tend to overstate “true” inflation. Second, a little inflation may make it easier for firms to reduce real wages—without cutting nominal wages—when necessary to maintain employment in an economic downturn. Third, a negative inflation rate—deflation— could be even more costly than a similar rate of inflation, suggesting that a low rate of inflation might be desirable to insure against falling prices. Finally, at very low levels of inflation, nominal short-term interest rates may be very close to zero, limiting a central bank’s ability to ease policy in response to economic weakness. Because nominal rates cannot fall below zero, policymakers cannot cut short-term interest rates any further once they have lowered these rates to zero.

-George Kahn, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

2. I'm not sure I understand your argument. What is "overwhelming" them, where is "elsewhere," and how does that make some profits matter more or less than any others?

3. I think your argument would be much stronger if you did away with all of the sections before your last and simply expanded on the possibility of somehow specifying and selling personal equity vis a vis blockchain technology. The rest is 100% going to draw criticisms and does not fully support your interesting and novel idea. Just my opinion though.
3 drinks a day is about 15% of all Americans... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/t...
Fair enough, by "far fewer" you basically mean the same thing I meant by "some". The point was not to have an exhaustive list of the exact reasons behind people cooking.

> It's common for people to delude themselves into thinking they haven't wasted their time by convincing themselves they did it for fun

I am probably missing some context here because this does not make sense to me. Something is fun because its fun, what does it even mean for someone to forcibly convince themselves of something that is otherwise? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Just attach a dollar-value to your free time

I do that when someone asks me to do a project for them in my free time, so I can know what to charge them. But there is little value in assigning a dollar-value for time that I am going to spend doing something that _I want to do_ . Its like watching a movie, or making a sand-castle in the backyard. I won't enjoy it if I keep thinking "Damn, I just watched a movie for 3 hours, there goes $300 worth of time."
Just because you (and dozens of others on this site) continue make this argument over and over doesn't mean that it isn't a problem.

Edit: someone built that town square. Someone founded those forums. At the end of the day, someone is always in control of something.
Pattern matching + switch expressions can make for really concise and functional state machines which can be validated for coverage at compile time.
> I wonder if this will kill them off.

Absolutely NOT. Quite the opposite I think. Using Flickr now pexels, stocksnap, unsplash etc.. will be able to cherrypick the best and highest quality photos from thousands useless on flickr.

The main reason I am using unslplash.com and other sites is the quality of photos. The other day I tried to use a CC photo from flickr I've spent most of my time just searching for a good quality photo.
My understanding is that Bernie Sanders is not woke -- he's mainly progressive, even socialist, but that's different than woke which is a contingent that focuses on issues of identity excluding (or at least de-emphasizing) class. E.g. he doesn't invoke the phrase "white supremacy" much if at all -- someone who is woke would do that.

I guess my point there is that we should draw a distinction between the woke, the center left in general, the socialist left, etc.

Not sure if it's really a caricature of wokeness. My girlfriend and her friends are always talking about how "America is a dumpster fire of a country".

I found the Hidden Tribes report (https://hiddentribes.us/) eye opening in this regard. Here's a quote from a respondent belonging to the farthest left tribe they name "Progressive Activists" (makes up 8% of total respondents):

"The deck is stacked against people of color, against women, against people who don’t have the advantages that others have. It’s not an egalitarian society by any means."

Progressive Activists are three times more likely than the average respondent to say they are "ashamed to be an American". (69% V. 24%) The focus by people in the woke camp is constantly on the negative -- you basically can't mention the fact that we've made progress without risking a lecture from them about each and every exception to that fact.

re: Uighurs -- my point is not that it doesn't get a lot of coverage, but much of that coverage is not "front page" (as much as anything can be front page in the age of internet journalism). E.g. I went to the nytimes right now -- there is 1 opinion piece there talking about the Uighur situation, but depending on the time of day, I could easily miss it. I actually had to hunt for it to find it, was almost ready to say there wasn't one.
> we know so little about the universe
But free will doesn't fall in the realm of "things to research". It's an escape mechanism devised by religious people wanting a perfect mechanistic universe designed by God with an escape hatch from it in the form of "free will" that somehow enables us to sin. Nothing more, nothing less. It's just a for of saying "universe is mathematic, we are not".

If you are willing to claim "but the universe isn't even causal" then you don't even need free will anymore since the sole intent for it was to claim independence from causality. It's a broken metaphor for explaining the world. So by implying causality is an illusion free will doesn't give you anything that you wouldn't get with such "un-causal" universe. It has exploratory power of zero.

> And yet, you attribute an agency to this humanity
Agency is an attribute of source - to differentiate whether this post was written by me or you. The idea that free will is a requirement for agency is not obvious nor true. It is just your requirement, one with which I will never agree.

> they just come to predistined conclusions
No, technically they come to whatever they come. The opposite of free will is not determinism.
One thing that baffles me even more than proponents of free will is the insistence of determinism as the alternative. Let's repeat, free will is not synonym for indeterminism.
At best we can say that things happen and there are bunch of correlations in the system. For all intents of purposes, what we call causality in this universe is a bunch of beliefs in the uniformity of the universe. If the stone fell yesterday, then it sure will tomorrow.

- Free will doesn't explain anything.

- Nor can anyone claim that they "feel" free will - that is such a blatant non-truth.

- Nor you can "prove" free will by raising your hand. You can at most just point to the fact that you raised your hand. Through your existence, reasoning, internal and environmental pressures.
Yes, essentially that's right (regarding Child's paper), as far as I can tell.
Child's article seems to be about a smart way to approximate sufficiently dissipative, non-linear, n-dimensional ODEs (or spatially discretised PDEs for that matter), such that you can apply good old forward Euler. They do that in such a manner that you end up solving a linear system for time-stepping for which a log(n) quantum algo is known.
This is pretty cool, because they basically use standard numerical analysis tools and manage to plug in the quantum computing part to show that, e.g., as you increase the spatial "resolution" with which you solve a PDE, the cost only increases logarithmically.
This feels useful from a computational fluid dynamics perspective, say, if you're not interested in super turbulent flows.
So this is more about "how do we make solving hard PDEs faster" than "finally cracking non-linear PDEs".
Considering women obtain degrees at a higher rate than men, I'd say there's just as much opportunity.

If you are alluding to family constraints, having a family is a choice. I'm a man with a family and I have seen many opportunities disappear as a result of my decision to have a family.
And sometimes they are both misleading.

I used to think if I read through media with opposing biases then I'd understand the real story. But in most cases there's just a huge amount of relevant context missing even if the articles are factually correct.

In the same way that you can present statistical data in a way to support a view when the data doesn't actually support it despite being factually accurate.
I think Nano is more secure than Bitcoin considering that the majority hashrate of BTC is controlled by mining pools in China. If the Chinese government decides to coerce the owners of those mining pools to perform a block reorg tomorrow, it will happen.

Please stop spreading FUD.

The only thing a 51% attack would allow is for them to double spend their own bitcoin. They can't reverse already valid blocks, for example.

"Why Chinese Miners Won’t Stage a 51% Attack on Bitcoin"—https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-chinese-miners-wont-stage...
Sure, that follows. In an environment where the US-american public would be immune to someone who can rack up 100 lies in 5 minutes, someone like Trump would not have followers. So an individual can influence history as much as the environment permits. On the other hand, people are forming that environment and again and again there are specific situations where a single person seemed to change the course of history. Does that count as paradox? I always found that part of historical perspectives fascinating.

> The mystery is just how those people maintain the cognitive dissonance of being "pro speech" and "pro democracy" when they've tuned out everything else and are just focused on power in what they perceive as a war...

Yes, that is a fascinating mystery. But one has to keep in mind: Many of the people that just tried a coup today and effectively tried to dismantle the democratic system in the US by installing a dictator will think of themselves as defenders of democracy. There will be of course hard right wing nationalist terrorists in that crowd - the last pro-trump protests have shown that - but there can only be so many of those.
It is the case, since it was a premise that x and y are both 1. So the two things you list are both 0, so they are equal, given the premise.

So, the actual problem is dividing by zero. Your assumption that "we are dealing with algebra and not numerical values" is false because it completely ignores the "if x and y = 1" part.
following up on this, i've received advice from extremely successful and well-respected criminal defense attorneys amounting to this: never talk to police; what you say can only be used against you not to your benefit.

scary but very true for some people.
This is encouraging to those looking for ideas for startups, it basically means that someone will find your idea 'amazing' or 'genius'.

The trick is, not just finding 1 person, but many people who think it. And not only that it's amazing, but so amazing that they'll pay you for it.

On the plus side, this should mean that for any reasonable idea, given the size of the internet, you should be able to find at least a small bunch of people that will pay for your 'genius'.
This is some sort of doctored photo.

Here is an actual photo from a reputable source: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/dprk-dms...
The main processor and radio, which together comprise a significant fraction of the phone's cost.
We probably won't send ground troops in to die, we'll perform targeted airstrikes on key infrastructure targets.

We came extremely close in the early 90s (this may or may not be public knowledge, so I won't elaborate).
Brevity!
It’s a tax on people holding the currency not all savers. Hold stock, a different currency, copper, paintings etc and you avoid losing out to US inflation.
Instead of saying "the solution to problem X will actually be available TONIGHT at www.[startupname]ly.com" couldn't you say "the solution to problem X will be available SOON/LATER/NEXT YEAR at www.[startupname]ly.com. Pre-register so we can let you know when it is" ? First, you wouldn't be deceiving anyone. Second, wouldn't it be an even better indication of interest if people are willing to wait for the product?
I'll kick things off: As an Australian company, there is no easy way[1] to accept payments online in USD, which is kinda useful if you want to sell into the US market.

[1] Well, there's PayPal, but I've always though one shouldn't build ones house on quicksand.
I think this is a behavior-versus-structure question.

The behavior argument says that, given some js, these are just unique collections of pre-existing concepts.

The structure argument says that this is something new semantically.

I'm a big believer in the structure argument. Let me explain:

Let's say I have a website where I ask the reader some questions. Rate the top five books of last year. Sort your friends according to how good-looking you think they are. Talk about how the best movies of 2010 affected each of your major five emotions.

These are groups of relative rankings that belong together. The frameset argument is the best counterargument (in my opinion), but even then, it's not clear from a frameset that the items are related to each other and not just stand-alone data grouped by topic.

As a consumer of the page, the graphics and whizbangs can easily help me enter the data, no matter what the controls that are used. But as a content-scraper, the type of 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional data that is really represented here needs it's own tag. That's all I'm saying.

You can argue it the other way, sure. And we have too many tags, yes. But my point is that this is a new concept that we haven't discussed before, one which I think needs inclusion.
"Higher virality than Facebook at its fastest growth stage." You can't say that and not give us a URL.
> and have been repeatedly complimented on my ability to put people at ease

You calling them a liar eh?
So why did everyone fight like hell to prevent this transparency? Shouldn’t all of these states been eager to use federal money to do signature audits and hand recounts?
I take your point but I feel like that’s not unlike saying “a good person would never abuse alcohol because they’d know it was a risk to their family’s happiness”. Dad definitely had a lot of frustrations - he was low income and a single parent, and I think the draw of AM talk radio was that it provided an explanation as to why his hardships weren’t his fault.
I blame the internet. Back in the days before it, we had to learn to live with those around us, now you can just go out and find someone as equally stupid as yourself.

I call it the toaster fucker problem. Man wakes up in 1980, tells his friends "I want to fuck a toaster"
Friends quite rightly berate and laugh at him, guy deals with it, maybe gets some therapy and goes on a bit better adjusted.

Guy in 2021 tells his friends that he wants to fuck a toaster, gets laughed at, immediately jumps on facebook and finds "Toaster Fucker Support group" where he reads that he's actually oppressed and he needs to cut out everyone around him and should only listen to his fellow toaster fuckers.

Apply this analogy to literally any insular bubble, it applies as equally to /r/thedonald as it does to the emaciated Che Guevara larpers that cry thinking about ringing their favourite pizza place.
An interesting strategy from Facebook.

Although the privacy related changes were somewhat expected, the timing and aggresive timeline will likely play out in Facebook's favor.

While giving users a 1 month grace period to either comply (share their data) or delete their account already seems like a pretty aggressive window that limits the ability for users to fully assess options or migrate existing groups/chats to alternative platforms, the short timeline combined with the on-going pandemic, and the fact that WhatsApp has become one of the primary means of communication for many around the world will likely lead to a very limited drop in users leaving the platform as a result of this policy change.

Beyond Febuary, once users have already shared their data, there is likely minimal incentive for groups or individuals to overcome the network effects and move to another platform in the short term.
> At these companies, algorithms and the basics are fundamentally important. Because you tend to work on tiny parts of a massive whole, there is no tolerance for cowboy-coding and not following best-practices. IMO the interviews test that you can fall in line and follow the patterns that have been in place for decades.

... have they gotten a lot better since 2015?

https://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-p...