jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Excellent observation. I'd go a step further and say you'll wind up avoiding your own self in the process -- which in turn will make you miserable.

The Boy Scouts certainly helped me face my self directly, almost always against my preferences. Now if they (and I) had done a better job at prioritizing my time and dealing with my "atheism" I'd have made Eagle. Of course I would have felt guilty supporting an organization that essentially required a certain form of religious belief and also discriminated against gays.

Their message and practice is flawed but still contains quite a bit of wisdom.
It's generally pretty easy to do if you write your code in a functional/tail recursive style. Instead of modifying your variables and returning, create new variables and pass them back into your function, in that way whatever you create will have to go back through all the sanity checks. Yes you can get infinite loops this way, but it alerts you to having coded your function incorrectly instead of returning the wrong data.

func(condition,resp){
val = true
if(!condition){
return func(!condition,'new');
})
return resp
}
func(false,'whatever');
One of the biggest regrets I have from my childhood was leaving the Boy Scouts when I had to make a hard choice between attending the annual week of summer camp (was made mandatory for advancement when I became a freshman in high school) and hell week for football, both of which occurred at the same time every year (late August two weeks before school started.)

I owe a lot of my character today, particularly my mental toughness, to what I experienced playing football, but I still regret making the choice to abandon Scouting and never reaching Eagle. I suspect I'd regret not playing football had I stuck with Scouting instead. Oh well, life's about choices and their consequences.
no, they just pass it along to the service listening on that port. How would you verify HTTPS without decrypting it?
With so much noise in the space, how do you attract awareness to your contracts? And how do you manage the community?
There is a border crossing in the park. It is basically a dirt road. If you drive your $100k car down there it could disappear over the border very quickly. You may encounter Mexicans selling geodes most likely. They might be watching for potential marks as well. There may also be Mexicans on foot that want a ride up the road. They may be pushy and mob your car, sometimes in large groups.

If you stick to camping, motel, or car camping in Chisos basin then you're probably good. There are wild havalinas which are mini-pigs that will root around at night, not dangerous.
Other articles have made reference to the cells using wireless communication, reducing space needed for signal wiring while this article talks about a reduction in cobalt. I see nothing about how energy dense they’ve managed to make it, 200 kWh is not a challenge for the weight expectations that come with a Hummer.
I'm afraid this tweet is taken out of context. I had written this in response to complaints about the release date being delayed because I wanted to make sure that the released model (that is currently on the site) was the best it could be.

I do plan to compile and publish my findings in the future, but nothing is set in stone yet. I know that the model can be improved even further, and I'd prefer to be as comprehensive as possible.
You give up the walk in bigger cities unless you pay top dollar for a downtown condo so you end up on transit (bus/subway), bike or even uber commuting
> Here's an example: in a typical apartment block, each resident runs their WiFi access point at full power. In any one apartment, there's a ton of interference from neighboring units. If everyone coordinated and reduced their WiFi power to just what was necessary to cover their unit, it would result in less interference and higher net data rates for everyone. But no one is incentivized to do take action unilaterally.

There's a lot of assumptions here. First of all None of my wireless access points except a single range extender has transmission power settings. In that case, the setting is ganged for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios. So, I can't take this action unilaterally even if I want to do.

Second, wall thicknesses and home geometries are very different across the world. Both my and my family's houses have very thick walls and tall storage units which effectively double the wall thickness so, with a relatively small house, I can't have reliable wireless everywhere at home even with two access points.

I could increase coverage with more, less powerful access points but it needs recabling in a small, packed house which is not feasible. If I want to use range extenders with wireless repeating, trying to reduce wireless power becomes moot. This house runs on ADSL and the phone lines are at very strange places so both houses are effectively legacy systems with very small wiggle room.

So, what's the solution?
Yes, but I might wonder why am I being held at gunpoint? How might I avoid being held at gunpoint in the future? Can I somehow talk him down or coerce or placate him?

Instead of simply muttering bitter things about how the world has gone to sh*t.
I understand your perspective. I apologize if I come across as abrasive. I think (admittedly I could be wrong) many people with your perspective are subconsciously taking a holier-than-thou approach though, which can come across as a bit condescending.

But you're right. Chances are a lot of people are going to lose money investing in something they don't understand, including people who can't afford to lose that money. But I genuinely believe most of the people are actually aware of the risks, even if they aren't intimately familiar with the market.

I know it sounds crazy, but a significant chunk of people doing this genuinely don't care about the money. As to what the breakdown is between people trying to profit, people that have no idea what they're doing, and people that just want to fuck the system? I don't know, but I bet each category has at least 10% in it.
Sounds a bit provincial. That might have been true before mainstream internet access, but the average user these days is likely more familiar with unix style paths via URLs than local filesystem paths.

Also, most non-unix operating systems that don't happen to be made by Microsoft also use the forward slashes for paths.
To be fair, Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries (LiFePO4) are really good technology. Incredibly safe - they don't catch fire in the same way that standard Lithium Ion batteries do - they're better for the environment, have crazy discharge rates, etc. The only thing they're worse at is energy density.

They don't perform badly in winters, I characterized the cold-weather relative performance of LiFePO4 vs LiIon batteries for an aerospace engineering project I did in college.

Frankly I thought those characteristics would outweigh density in automotive applications, but I was mistaken.
I think he means what is also sad is that the powerful in SV dont care. Words matter but I doubt he meant that is sadder then the tragedy that happened in the embassy.
I tell my mom she needs to use FF containers for FB. I set it up so she can't do anything else. She's happy & gets to see her extended family pics/updates.
Unfortunately, I don't think we're quite past the point where any comment related to US politics is presumed to be partisan activism for or against the previous administration. Hopefully in a few months it'll have simmered down.
You are on point there - No one's got to it yet is the best explanation: YC?!? It's happening at the Utility scale with commercial miners, esp. with merchant (uncontracted) energy. Small producers (residential , commercial solar) just need an easy button solution without having to learn the crypto details. I don't know what that threshold kWh price is, but demistify that and one can define target markets across the US in one broad stroke with EIA utility pricing data. The formula in a prepackaged product with an app seems to be the only trick. Then get it in the hands of residential installers and boom. It'd probably sell like (can I say it on HN) liquid crack.
>Why the fuck is my init system doing DNS resolution?

SystemD is more than just an init system, it also runs some system service, like DNS. If you still think of systemd as an init system, then your knowledge of it is outdated by at least a couple of years.

But, if you want to use it as merely an init system, feel free to disable resolved and install dnsmasq instead like in the Good Old Days.

I'd much rather have my system not working than have it randomly start sending the domain part of my browser history to Google without as much as a notification. When you install Fedora, the last thing I'd expect is that it starts acting like a tracker for Google when my DNS server goes down.

I think they should've implemented this differently, sending out a notification that the DNS configuration is broken, with the option of switching to either Google, Cloudflare or letting me fix the network configuration instead of silently failing.

The less tech savvy users are still running Windows where the exact same thing would've happened, with errors just as obscure. No matter what OS you're running, the problem is with your network config, so it should be fixed by whoever manages that instead of relying on some hard-coded defaults somewhere deep inside the DNS resolver. In most cases, that means calling your ISP or calling your IT service desk for support.

I personally hate it when software goes and does some random shit like pick its own DNS server because it somehow has determined that something was broken. Windows is full of this "smart" behaviour and it's one of the reasons I always feel like I need to anticipate its responses to my actions instead of just using it.
The token must be pin protected to be eligible to resident credentials. I think it is one of the significant differences between FIDO1 and FIDO2. I also think that you can use ed25519-sk with a non pin-protected, but then you won't be able to authenticate if you can't access to the generated key file (if it was deleted or on another machine)
This looks like the same tech that was used by the Smithsonian to scan Obama. http://dpo.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-creates-first-ever-3d-pre...
-and ignorant people who will take Israel's side on the matter without thought.

i don't think Israels' side of the matter means persecuting people just because they happen to be Palestinian. That just isn't true.
Except this is literally FOR consumables. Like, detergent and toilet paper and things that get used up quickly.

If the physical button was free, I wouldn't mind having a few of these to just press when I need some more of something like that. Remembering to write it on a list and bring it with you to the store and pick it up is a bit of a hassle.

This could be pretty handy to have.
There is no contract so he isn't entitled to anything. To be on the safe side, you need to make sure that none of his work is used by the company. Eg redesign the logo. If you must use it, find a way to pay him for it. Form the company with just you and the existing IP asap.
Companies will just make cancellation online possible but very hard.

Eg. You have to click the "learn more" link and then log in separately to a support forum where you will be DM'ed the one time use link for cancellation, which will only be valid for 5 minutes and require verifying your email and SMS number
Unity is primarily the renderer and physics engine, everything else is really easy to just write yourself as c#, and unity in no way hinders your ability to write everything else in c#. If you want to change the renderer or physics engine then you have a problem, yes, but unity isn't for people who wants to customize the renderer or physics engine.
I had the same problem with my Samsung fridge and while trying to fix it I stumbled upon the world of third party "samsung defroster clip" that you can find on online stores. Which suggests that the problem is so widespread to spin up a whole new industry for a 5 bucks piece of metal.
got a 404 error for the linux link: http://nethack.org/v360/ports/download-linux.html

sudo apt install nethack
Mostly spot on, as someone else said: "Sweeney hasn't written any of that rendering code in a decade now." And probably more than that. He's got other stuff to attend to, than writing modern 3D pipeline code.
I have n, a node version manager.
It is already built into specter. Use the urls

/feed/rss and /feed/atom

So all you got to do is add an anchor tag that points to these urls.

Settings can be set in the preferences file.

Regarding syntax highlighting...

Can you not use javascript libraries to do this? I have got no idea how to go about implementing this..
At some point, open-offices will be the only thing that the majority of software developers know. If you've never experienced the productivity that comes from being able to think without interruption, you won't know what you are missing. At that point, the trend will probably be irreversible.

For me personally, this trend isn't all bad:

When I work someplace with this setup it's kind of nice to "hang out with my friends" even if it isn't nearly as productive.

When I'm working for myself, being able to think deeply gives me a competitive advantage over places with open-offices. :-)
Chernobyl and Fukushima killed fewer people than many individual coal mining disasters, let alone the deaths caused by coal's air pollution (which includes vastly more radiation than nuclear accidents have generated).
Gate checked bags aren't checked to your destination, you retrieve the bag plane-side upon landing.

Besides, checking bags is rarely necessary. I spent five weeks in India on business with only a carry-on suitcase and a laptop bag.
However

Communication between teams/etc IS IMPORTANT

And we need people to be able to be productive using other tools if they won't meet face to face (like HipChat, or others)
Not in 2009..
have you ever wondered what makes services like Uber affordable?
1) underpaid drivers
2) VC money dropped into an otherwise unsustainable business

I'm pretty sure Uber will raise prices the moment it kills the competition
The web preexisted. The app economy is only $16billion and probably past its peak already. There is a rising saas economy, but also of dubious sustainability beyond a downturn
What's an example of how the video contradicted the paper headlines? Serious question - I found the testimony to largely agree with what they summarized.
Right. Aside from, or in spite of, being a black market (by necessity), Silk Road was pretty benign compared to the alternatives. Surely Silk Road was taking some profits away from drug cartels. Probably not much, but a legal market would put them out of business. Now with Silk Road gone, all that trade is back under the umbrella of the cartels again, and the profits are theirs.
Isn't this effectively a non-issue? It's literally just a tiny entry in a table that is held no? Or does it just cause Docker to behave oddly?
This. Judging from personal noon experience and the Ubuntu forums, wireless driver shortcomings
Can you explain a bit more what you are hoping to do with node canvas? Sounds cool.
There was also this rumour going around that f117 can in fact be detected by passive systems Tamara and Vera. see http://72.52.208.92/~gbpprorg/mil/radar/tamara02.htm
I hope it was sex, drugs and rock-n-roll that had you so detached from your classes. I'm finding it difficult to reconcile your claim of being rather sharp and then having such a foggy notion of what your classes were about.

Couple of questions:
How do you learn best? Reading, tinkering and learning, being shown how to?
What are you passionate about? - I mean outside of programming, perhaps connected to the opening comment.
Have you become self-motivated? or still need a mentor to guide you?

I think if answer the above questions you might discover a path forwards. If you share the answers with us on HN, then people might be able to chip in with suggestions.
Yeah, I echo this worry. I wish I could pay for this.

Not sure if investors are going to be interested in this given the fairly narrow focus of the feature set and potential market. That being said, I think these are the things that make the service so great. Adding much in the way of features in order to increase potential market could ruin its awesomeness.
Since the subprime crisis, I am very wary of derivative trading by investors who do not understand the fundamentals. This whole valuation bonanza may not leave a good taste in the end.
OK, that is a valid point, but such timestamps are not global and are a separate function in the protocol than what the other timestamps are used for.
Lovely, have enjoyed following the adventures of this rescue but mainly for the sheer joy and enthusiasm of the geeks making it all happen. Top folks.
The chess pieces don't have to be recognized via a neural network. You just need to track the delta of fields with chess pieces between moves and then you know which piece moved to which field.

So, just an optical recognition of empty field vs used field is required. This works since the starting position of chess pieces is always the same.

This way old inductive chess computer from Mephisto worked (the high-end models had inductive fields).
Lots of government operations around the world make a profit. Usually the money is reinvested to improve operations, but it can also be sent back for general spending depending on the structure of the organisation. Now, it's been a very long time since I lived in Canada, but the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) used to make a tidy profit. It also used to be the largest single purchaser of wine in the world and as such was able to get incredibly rare wine. Back in the day, if you wanted to tour a winery someday, you could often set it up with the LCBO and the winery would absolutely roll out the red carpet for you. Not sure if that hack still exists, but it was pretty sweet 10-20 years ago. Although unpopular with a lot of people due to all the politics that a government monopoly on alcohol gave, the LCBO was profitable and provided surprisingly good value (as long as you happened to live near a store where influential people lived :-P ). Like I said, it's been ages since I lived there, so I'm not sure what the current status is, but it lasted a long time due to its ability to deliver service and provide revenue for the government.
I feel like I also know the type.
Confident and charismatic. Rarely apologetic. Rarely empathetic. Can easily build out many relationships. Only concerned about other people insofar that they can help accomplish the predators end goals. Not fun to work with this kind of person.
Why does the article focus so heavily on Stanford? I understand that the students who have done this so far are there, but if this is based on a federal law that applies to all universities, shouldn't it work at all universities?
> My point is that people that write these articles quickly change their mind

Do you know it's the same people?
It's one thing to have an API and hardware support for such things, it's a different thing entirely to have support from the major ML stacks (pytorch/tensorflow etc).
Just reading of this is brutal..can’t imagine someone going through this and have a will to live
Can astronomy reproduce the Big Bang? Can biologists reproduce the Cambrian explosion? Can geologists reproduce end of the Mesozoic Era?

It's harder to know things we can't do experiments, but we can still know them. In economics, there is a rich tradition of relying on "natural experiments", which is where something like a natural disaster or a law change allows researchers to examine the effects. This is how it was shown that the effect of minimum wage increases on employment is very small. The financial crisis falsified an entire school of macroeconomics.
HN does not have very unified views. I personally don’t care about GPL violations, but I am also not clicking on these stories you’re talking about so I don’t even see these HN discussions.
It might well be claimed, but the procedure will likely take long enough that the General Election will have passed.
Yes, basically. But modern meaning from the early 90s:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/mk
Form follows function, to be sure, but form also follows function. That is, if you don't have function, one way to tell is a lack of form.

It's not always true, but it's an indication of a lack of function, improper form.
Trump could stop this in minutes, but he won't, yet. He wants you to know how much power he has. He wants you to remember that, even though you voted him out, he can still spoil the party. This is about his ego and his power. He has an army, and that army can shutdown the government.

It's sad to see people enabling him. He won't win. The nation is stronger. He probably thinks he's winning right now though.
How can you trust the evidence coming from people who can't even file a lawsuit correctly? It's one thing if a few were dismissed for this reason, but nearly all of them means you are wasting time. The courts are right to throw out this nonsense. Courts that have been packed by the Republican party, mind you.
> That's not reliable enough.

It's reliable enough for a spammer. Remember spam is a numbers game -- things only have to work as hoped a small percentage of the time for the system to work.
Genuine question: the bedroom is traditionally (where I come from, Western Europe) also a common place for couples to have sex. In addition, many people presumably would prefer not to walk in on their parents, or have sex in front of their children. So how does this work in cultures where it's common for children not to have their own rooms until puberty starts (so 10 to 13 years?)? Do people get more adventurous about when and where they do it, or is there less of a taboo on getting it on in front of the kids, or, since you mention India, are those delicious spices used to mask the taste of the sleeping pills everybody is feeding their children?
Well, on Mac and other proprietary hardware & software combos.

Enterprise Linux distros such as RHEL regularly provide 10-12 years of support you can pay for per major version and presumably you will be able to upgrade the major version to reset the time.

Same thing for community Linux distros - Fedora, Debian of OpenSUSE already work on current 16+ years old hardware and one can expect that to continue in the future.
Where I work, store brand gives us a huge margin, even at a low sale price. There’s not a single middleman trying to extract a profit.
Can you explain how you came to that conclusion? It seems tenuous at best to assume reducing illegal firearms among a population, has the same effect as reducing firearms among law enforcement.
Agree. I recently refactored WeBase [1] to be 100% Jamstack compliant so it can serve as the UI site builder for platforms like Netlify.

But it is targeted at "no-coders" instead of coders given how out of balance the supply and demand is for software developers. We need more powerful tooling for professionals without coding skill to be able to build and maintain.

And while Webflow is a really nice tool it still feels too hard to use for non-developers.

[1] https://www.webase.com
Seeing posts about Wings3d makes me miss Nendo and what it could have been. I had so much fun playing with that over a decade ago. I just hated that many times it'd end up crashing or a subdiv gone wrong would ruin the model and it had limited undo.

I tried Wing3d, but somehow it never felt the same.
nimsuggest and nim-mode work quite well in Emacs with auto-complete, go to definition, and find references. There's also an LSP server in the works IIRC.

If you want good auto-complete for less popular languages, you need to use an editor which is both popular enough and makes writing completers easy enough. From my experience, Emacs with company or auto-complete packages is just like that, and I have auto-completion set up for 10+ languages, but I'm sure there are other editors out there you could use.