jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Many people on HN have nicknames that are confusing in normal English prose. Extreme and artificial example: someone owns HN:the. The @user convention strongly implies that the person mentioned actually owns twitter.com/user, which is often not true. Some kind of "this is a username not a word" convention is useful; I chose the Lisp quote character, to prevent the username from being evaluated in the context of English prose.

Since I am the only person on HN who does this (my meme has not taken root), I'm not going to take your concern about my idiosyncrasies contributing to the insularity of HN too seriously.
I’m shocked that none of the experts mentioned any of widely-held Eastern “scientific beliefs” in dietary supplements, herbal remedies, or reflexology.

These are still commonly practiced yet are scientifically proven no more effective than a placebo.
Yes, its right in the frontpage at this moment. Whats the point of this freaking submission?

Does every story need a "TechCrunch version" to be submitted separately?

It happens _all_ the time.
189 comments (and counting) on a self-reflective post? The old chestnut about the media liking nothing more than talking about itself comes to mind.
You don't need a database, just a mapping function and a seed. I haven't seen anyone else do this, but I worked out a solution a while back.
Obama announces India breakthrough on landmark nuclear trip

Obama announces nuclear India on landmark breakthrough trip

India breakthrough nuclear trip on landmark Obama announce
A lot of these links appear to be dead, and the "perplexing poultry" link isn't even found.

I do wish there had been a demo of http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/archive/recipe39.html, or at least the code for it. Anyone up for a Sunday afternoon project?
I'm right now working on the type of code you've mentioned. I have 5000 lines long classes in Ruby and arcane names for methods and variables. The person who hired me warned me that it'll be a very frustrating experience but as you've rightly pointed out, it has been very interesting to refactor that code into neat little libraries and other classes.
Hey Joel,

This has multiple columns that are taller than the browser window... so you have to scroll up and down.

This would benefit from being broken up, with more white space. I'd strongly suggest a single column.
VIM/neoVIM & Emacs
I believe 50 moves rules is the same. But in that case, one player is more interested in the draw than the other. In the case of repetition, both players are avoiding a move that gives the other the advantage. It's not so much a mandatory or not question, but if one of them is more willing to try a different move than to draw.
Ecstacy is known to cause the body temperature to rise. People write it off as just being the club, alcohol, etc. For some people, the temperature becomes high enough to cause death.

This doesn't have anything to do with drug purity and has everything to do with the effects of the drug itself.
Asking my partner, I asked her to go back to the message list without swiping the conversation view, forcing her to touch the "< Messages" menu item. Do you know what she did? She released the grip on the phone so it slid down a bit, caught it and then pressed it, having to then awkwardly move the phone up again.

Not pretty.

Regarding myself, I've found I hold the phone differently, resting the back on the tops of my fingertips, giving me much more flexibility.
Time lock puzzles and timed release Crypto (1996): https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf
This comment strikes me as a little idealistic and cut off from reality. At large companies (where 90% of the jobs are), 90% or more of the work is KTLO (keep the lights on) work. It's menial and intellectually un-stimulating by design, because a bunch of really smart people early on in the company's history put work into building a machine that prints money with little non-maintenance work. That's because they knew that such a company would be able to fetch high multiples for investors.

If you want a job like that, not only are they easy to find, but they're absolutely everywhere. It's in contrast the intellectually stimulating and challenging jobs which are hard to find, because they attract growth-oriented individuals who by nature are very competitive. Getting a menial, coast-worthy FAANG job isn't that hard because you're only competing with a pool of others who want the same thing -- by definition, you just need to be a little bit more differentiated than them and you're golden; there's a gigantic supply and it's ever increasing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
I found office it, tech support, SRE, cloud engineer pretty relaxing.
The process of sending messages and setting up the initial contact is pretty mechanical, should be easy to outsource if you're smart about it.

Of course, the CEO should close the leads himself.
Parrot's been claiming that it's slow and incomplete now, but a solution to that is just around the corner for a few years.

Maybe that's true, but I think that'd be the main concern of any compiler writer thinking of targeting it. It's not a mature platform with known pros and cons, unlike the JVM or LLVM.

I hope it all turns out for the best and Parrot delivers on its promises. But I can see why e.g. the PHP team isn't rushing to target it given the state of its native languages.
I am not sure that its a problem.

See it all depends on why you're reading a specific book, is it to a story which shouldn't be interrupted or is it a technical book that you just need one thing from. You see the difference?

Better and faster access to information means we can optimize the time spent on retrieving information that we need.

I no longer feel guilty about not finishing books(although I try to do that), because i found out that I do finish them if they're interesting enough but technical books i just read enough to get what i want and then abandon.
There's a legal way around that. You could set race quotas that would keep you out of court, have the test, and hire the top people from each race.
How is going to a lecture with no interaction different from taking a transcript of the lecture and binding it in a book?
This would be suicide for a site relying on SEO to drive traffic. It's a cool approach if you're building something for which that doesn't apply though (web-based enterprise software, privately-accessed tools, or if you're a multi-billion dollar company that's so large you can create your own world wide web and the search engines can go screw).
Fantasies aren't really very grown-up. Maybe more people need to grow up enough not to need so much fantasy.
For the more static languages, LLVM seems hot and well-supported right now. There is a rich tradition of compiling via C, with good and bad results.

Gambit Scheme compiles via C and is one of the fastest Scheme systems around, with good interoperability via C. The Glassgow Haskell Compiler can also compile via C, but that's, AFAIK, an unmaintainable mess (search for "evil mangler").
Enlive is awesome, I used it while working in clojure quite a bit. I definitely prefer it, personally, to something like Clojure's hiccup (which vana-templating is very similar to). The tradeoff is that new-comers who are already familiar with front-end design are going to find it tough to transition - it's a fundamental problem: do you optimize for the newcomer, or for the experienced developer?

Enlive has a lot in common with Vekz' suggestion elsewhere in the comments, and I feel like there's some unifying theme underlying all of this, that should make it easy for newcomers, but allow experienced developers to transform the DOM programmatically.

I'm searching for it now, and I'm sure there'll be a lot of false-starts and dead-ends, but the only sure way not to get there is to not try.
Politeness should not be required, but impoliteness on his part is counterproductive. People are too likely to dismiss him as someone who just should not have gone looking for a fight (even if he should have).
"It's not a bug, it's a feature".
SD slot is to be "hidden" underneath the battery cover and it's not actually intended to be used by end-users, most of them nor will know about the existence of it, nor will care. It was announced a while ago (in a specs for WM7 phones I think). For more tech-savvy people it is indeed strange that there is an SD card there that you can't use as you are used to, but that's a minority, and when one actually think about it a little it comes out as not being that big issue: "MS decided to use SD cards for internal data storage, OK, fine".

More info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2450831
System76 will start shipping to the UK soon

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/system76-to-begin-shippin...
"It's the day that Apple jumped the shark"

More like a certain generation.
Thanks!

Dropbox is another tool I use, mainly for quick file transfers. I used it a lot in school, where I would print out finished assignments (have to hand something in I guess), but then put it on Dropbox as well in case something happened to the hard copy (like I stupidly forgot it at home...).

The iPad is good for reading too, though I imagine my eyes would like the Kindle better. It's really easy to stare at for hours. I want to get an iPad for reading Instapaper stuff and RSS feeds.

What's your blog?
Well, despite Apple and Microsoft's offerings, Dropbox has done well so far. Google hasn't come up with a dedicated syncing system like Apple, MS, or Dropbox offer, but competing well against 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Apps are not software ---for certain constrained definitions of "apps" and "software"
I'm lead to believe that if you're the type of person who would leave for that reason then Zappos doesn't want you as an employee.
No, it's all about bit errors and error correction. Highly concentrated radiation is more likely to cause multiple errors to a particular DNA strand, which can defeat the error correction and cause a mutation.

The same radiation distributed through the body will cause fewer errors per strand and be corrected.
The paskistani trucks remind me more of Philippine Jeepneys[1] than the japanese art trucks. The art 18-wheelers in Japan can get pretty crazy though[2]. Some look like casinos on wheels.

[1] http://neocha.com/magazine/art-of-the-jeepney/

[2] https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/29/the-japanese-subcu...
Temperature, times, dates, cgs vs mks, dimensionless quantities, angles, the list goes on and on.

And that’s before you get into the technical details of how you store units and conversion factors in memory, how you handle precision when mixing large and small units, how you interact with unlimited‐precision and rational numbers, how you use or avoid the type system in your programming language, how users of your unit library define their own units…

Here’s a good write‐up of what they’re thinking about for future versions of C++: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p193.... It’s worth a read even if you don’t write in C++.

And if you bake it into your language, you’d better get it all right the first time, because you probably won’t be able to fix it later.
Yet we are as of right now where even our OS will go behind our back and act like malware to collect data even when we explicitly say no.

The native apps are also all trending to online first and cache offline.

I don't understand how a native app going behind your back and asking only for internet connection permission (and not hardware) is viewed as more secure. Why do we trust these native apps more?

Arbitrary psychopathic outsiders have already been here for quite a while. Even if you're running super paranoid homebrew linux distro.
>Today, I'm ordering a citywide curfew for the District of Columbia from 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 7.

https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1346902298044325893
IMO it's about understanding the solution curve in the problem space. Every problem type has a range of possible solutions. Most of these solutions are wrong and a few are correct with different tradeoffs. When you can't do better without making tradeoffs, you're on the curve.

Novice engineers will struggle to get something done. Intermediate engineers can get things done but fail to see the tradeoffs. Expert engineers can identify possible solutions with different approaches.
It may be cheaper for Apple. For society, it's a huge waste of resources.
> It does in fact enable privacy by default.

Ok, my statement was maybe too black/white and you jumped on top of that. The point is that Monero has Privacy level / mixin settings, the default is not completely open, but certainly doesn't qualify as super private either.

> Now your comment reads like an attempt to shill

I shared a link to a product that I feel is very successful in reaching privacy. I have no ties to this product (though I have used it).
It’s a trial balloon
This is just your cognitive bias away from an extreme position. Actually election integrity in the US is pretty close to perfect. 10s of cases out of 100s of millions/low billions of votes cast. This has be exhaustively studied, MIT has produced papers.

The closest thing to a widespread problem is voter suppression, where states administer elections in regionally uneven ways to suppress one party's turnout. This is predominately against black citizens in the south after Shelby v Holder.
There will of been at minimum checking for address and phone listings for the company (yell or scoot for UK EV's) in addition to the human telephone validation for signer and approver.
I played around with Nim and it has huge potential. It is early days and I would like to thank the creators of the language. A decent IDE is the only issue for me. I tried all the IDE options and it was stark. The idetools didn't work for me and the unit tests failed on Ubuntu 14.04.

At the moment small projects and libraries should be fine but the lack of IDE would be an issue for bigger projects.
There is also free software alternative known as Vigilante[0].

I havn't looked closely at this "Anti Stalker", but I assume it also requires usage and overlay permissions which I would give to no non-free application.

[0]https://f-droid.org/packages/com.crazylegend.vigilante/
This is absolutely true and hence we combine not only our tests with TSan, but also fuzzing, to explore even more corner cases.

On the static vs. dynamic side, I would always opt for the dynamic when it can guarantee me no false positives, even if the results are incomplete. It is pretty much impossible to deploy a tool that produces lots of false positives because developers usually will reject it at some point and question every result.
Yes. I watched the documentary. I don’t expect to agree 100%, but that doesn’t mean have I to keel over laughing at its chasms.

In regards to Iraq, his opinion that Gertrude Bell’s influence led NATO to give tribal sheiks disproportionate power in the new Iraq was a hilarious simplification. It’s just an absurd narrative chasm, that ignored so much about what happened then.

An in regards to the civil war in Iraq, that didn’t boil over because NATO stopped paying the militias off. There was so much at play.

The China stuff was interesting, but uncontroversial. That stuff is quite an accessible history. The archive footage was fun though.

It just felt like I was watching a number of different documentaries. One about race relations and trans rights; and one about China.

It all just would have been better as standalone works. He could have even edited things differently, each episode covering a certain subject. He maybe could have had a concluding thesis that was better than “China: it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be”.
> This is more than just persuading others. Stories help you just as much. Part of what made Albert Einstein so talented was his imagination and ability to distill complexity into a simple scene in his head.

It sounds like every mathematician and physicist does this:

"Jacques Hadamard, the famous French mathematician, in the late stages of his life, decided to poll his 99 buddies, who made up together the 100 great mathematicians and physicists on the earth, and he asked them, "How do you do your thing?" ... Only a few, out of the hundred, claimed to use mathematical symbology at all. Quite a surprise. All of them said they did it mostly in imagery or figurative terms. An amazing 30% or so, including Einstein, were down here in the mudpies [doing]. Einstein's deposition said, "I have sensations of a kinesthetic or muscular type." Einstein could feel the abstract spaces he was dealing with, in the muscles of his arms and his fingers...

The sad part of [the doing -> images -> symbols] diagram is that every child in the United States is taught math and physics through this [symbolic] channel. The channel that almost no adult creative mathematician or physicist uses to do it... They use this channel to communicate, but not to do their thing." – Alan Kay, Doing With Images Makes Symbols

http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987
"If a user has connected their Facebook account, the Lyft app can show if drivers and passengers have mutual friends in common."

I see so many possibilities around adding a social dimension to ride-sharing services. What if the app would in fact try to preferably connect you with a rider who has mutual Facebook friends with you? What if the drivers and passengers could check a box indicating they were single and would like to use rides as a way to have an informal, inexpensive, casual date? What about matching people based on common business interests (looking for an employee or employer)? People-to-people contact during a ride finally makes social "real", unlike Facebooking while sitting in front of your laptop alone in your apartment.

The potential is really immense. One day, Uber and other ride-sharing companies being valued so high won't look so ridiculous.
>Surely room temp at atmosphere is the ultimate prize?

First, the science and engineering is interesting regardless. Better understanding of superconductivity and how we can achieve it will be helpful in applying it anywhere. Second, while RT is clearly a huge deal hotter is always better if possible. It means it can be used with less cooling in more extreme environments which would further expand the possibilities in industry. Just as there has been effort to make (and you can buy) electronics that are functional in extreme environmental and high radiation conditions that would kill consumer kit.

Also, "achieved" is doing quite a bit of work in your second sentence. Other material properties, including as you say operating pressure but also more basic stuff like pure flexibility or strength are important in how it can be used in practice right? Research pushing other limits may pay off down the road in new ideas elsewhere. Obviously speculative, it may not, but it's well worth pursuing many avenues in such a potentially valuable area even if most are dead ends.
Fun fact. Some common genetic disorders like the various blood clotting ones can be activated by chemical exposure in buildings or other sources.

Good luck finding a lawyer for that. No one will touch it.
Ahh I see, yeah I think that answers my questions. Thanks a lot!
Taste can be highly subjective and suggestible. There is a german saying: Das Auge isst mit. (literally: the eye eats with you) which kind of makes you aware that a lot of things end up determining taste [0] beside the direct experience of consistency and composition. Applying to colors: one can use different colors in placebo pills to suggest very different effects [1].

In case of direct intervention, different diets given to hens can significantly modify the fat composition and content [2]. Fat being a major constituent of direct taste experience by "enhancing" (solution medium for phytochemicals etc.) and determining consistentcy. There are basically no carbs in eggs so in this case this can be left out.

Taste:

PUFAs (Omega-3s, Omega-6s, Omega-9s ...) are chemically speaking highly unstable (multiple double bonds) under normal conditions, all by themselves they oxidize completely very quickly* to avoid this you can shield them for a while with antioxidants (e.g. phytochemicals) and encase them with more stable fat (SFA (no double bonds), MUFA (one double bond)). PUFAs with their significantly lower melting point contribute to the perceived creaminess at even very cool temperatures: e.g. irish butter (high Omega-3 content) vs "normal"/cheap/highly industrialized butter (low).

[*consequently becoming "rancid" in taste. A lot of people are actually so used to that taste in highly processed/fast food (oxidized fats through excessive heat) that they consider it "very tasty". Analogous to the "burned" coffee taste/smell a lot of older folks (habit, childhood memories) still enjoy.]

Health:

In the typical modern western diet (because of massive inclusion of industrial cheap plant sources) the ratio of Omega 3's/6's is way off like 20:1 and more in favor of 6's. Analogous to Vitamin A (Carotenoids/Retinol) the plant form of Omega 3 (ALA) is inefficiently converted[3] by humans (young women probably because of different needs (pregnancy) can utilize it a bit better than men) to a bioactive form, adding to the disbalance. We evolved to get a significant amount of Omega 3's from animal and marine (rivers/sea) sources (ultimately the primary bioreactors for easily convertible EPA/DHA being (marine) algea and phytoplankton).

Maybe what hens get to eat could be seen as something very minor to consider. I actually would like it on the label (as an ingredients list for the sophisticated "bioreactor" maybe incl. the conditions like hours outside to produce Vitamin D, antibiotics given ...) that's why I'm more inclined if I am able to buy regionally to see for myself. In talks with farmers a lot of them - if they bother to engage in a conversation - are actually very knowledgeable and aware about this, as a city dweller just informing myself from books/studies I'm constantly impressed about their virtuosity.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski#Anecdotes

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2359128/

[2]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00343-1

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#Conversio...
That's strange. All examples are compiled via CI on all systems.
Full title: "Stabilization of gamma sulfur at room temperature to enable the use of carbonate electrolyte in Li-S batteries". The paper is from February, but it doesn't seem to have been posted before. TLDR is that with just a new anode made from carbon nanofibers and sulfur, batteries otherwise almost identical to existing Li-Ion batteries would have 2-5 times the energy density, last 3 times as long, and cost 1/3 or less, and be more environmentally benign (not needing cobalt). The breakthrough here is the discovery that carbon nanofibers stabilize gamma-phase sulfur which previously was thought to only exist briefly at high temperatures, and which doesn't form the polysulfides that have been the main problem with Li-S batteries.

Yeah, there have been lots of "breakthrough battery tech" announcements that didn't lead to commercial products, but this one really looks like it may be just the leap forward that will make renewable energy storage a non-problem.
Package managers don't force people to manually check the signature of downloaded packages, that all happens automatically. No balls kicked here :)