jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's been a dream of mine to play Elite Dangerous with a VR head set, a HOTAS, and voice commands set up
But when you see, for example, huge arguments over the fact that SpaceX doesn't do vertical integration and hence shouldn't be considered for certification, it does make you wonder.
Online since '94. My first thought: "Those lucky bastards"
Anyone have experience of wearing these over normal glasses ?

Pictures I've seen of Oculus don't make it look like it would be all that comfortable ?
And locked to one manufacturer really.

You would have thought they'd learn from how they won the desktop space...
Signal's UX still needs work and a lot of features just don't work very well (e.g. the desktop sync). That's fine in and of itself - the team is small and they're funded by donations - but if they're spending time on payments, that raises concerns for me about the priorities of the project and how the funding is being spent.
It doesn’t use the standard Ruby interpreter (MRI), but a custom implementation that includes a compiler. I don’t know if it’s AOT compilation or JIT.
Still a semi-positive outcome no? Computers becoming cheaper?
I thought for at least a while (2004ish) they were actually denying entry unless they could search devices. Maybe they were just confiscating them. It was a long time ago.
What do the FBI stats say compared to other groups. I imagine we have stats that will tell us what’s happening. Who’s commuting what and where.

NYC has stats on these crimes. NYC is also progressive and yet has a lot of this kind of crime.
I just counted and I only had 16 so I must be safe. The amount of spam calls I get is staggering.
I don’t think that counts. It’s like calling someone a driver when they’ve only been a passenger.
> It is the only VPN that I am aware of that works out of the box with softether. I have not tried it yet. I currently use Astrill. Astrill is not cheap but works pretty well to circumvent censorship. A disadvantage of Astrill is that it often leaks DNS like a motherf....

Should also keep in mind a few years ago Astril was using weak keys like ExpressVPN. That really makes me wonder what they know about running VPN servers. I think you only get one chance with your reputation on things like this.

http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
A truck in an urban area doesn't seem any stupider than a sports car. It's just a fun vehicle that people like to drive.
Brutalism is ugly. There are no beautiful brutalist buildings though there are plenty of interesting ones. It’s like the joke about how everyone in central Paris wants to work in the Tour Montparnasse because then you can’t see the Tour Montparnasse.
> The guys over at Rivian must be having a party right now

Except the base Tesla is $20,000 cheaper than the base Rivian.

The High end Telsa (with 500+ miles of range and 2.9 0-60) is the same price as the base Rivian.

Rivian are shitting themselves right now about pricing.
Request to the authors: This project looks really cool, I can see myself using it soon. Please though be careful with your auth stuff, that is where things get tricky in terms of integrating other plugins and whatnot. I'm not sure how you'll go about it, but it will probably be awesome if you keep flexibility and plugability with the flask ecosystem in mind.
Yes. Let's consider how well Google do with Android. Even Android on Nexus devices, where they (in principle) should have much more control. Their update speed, and how long versions get updates for, is still far behind Microsft.
And they can run any server they like too, of which there are many up and coming options - synapse (official / reference python implementation), dendrite (go), conduit (rust), construct (C++).
It's a shame they are not real
>People that don't understand tech should not be on the internet. They don't understand the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard.

You're under the mistaken impression that people who "understand tech" are never taken in by these conspiracy theories but I've seen plenty of comments on HN supporting QAnon, "stop the steal", pizzagate, COVID conspiracies and anti-vax, scientific racism, anti-semitism, UFO woo and the paranormal, you name it someone on Hacker News believes it.

The evidence that being able to use a computer and being able to think critically or even maintain a rational grasp on the nature of reality are orthogonal skillsets is all around you.
You can make money with a coin like that and you can also lose it all. Treat it like betting on college football and don't do it with money you don't mind losing.
Not sure that's the right question to ask. It takes two hours to get from San Francisco to Auburn, and it's highly unusual to have snow there.

Setting aside that I80 is generally cleared of snow very quickly, two hours of lane assist seems nice before tackling the remainder. And in most cases, it's more like "use this all the way to truckee and then drive the last 30 mins to squaw valley"
I just learned backprop for the first time a week ago and doing exactly what you described, working it out by hand, was absolutely invaluable. There's something about being able to visualize what my code is doing on a sheet of paper that just helped everything click.
It's really hard to grok why 15-vs-10 doses in a bottle should be a problem. Sure you've got the out-of-fridge time, but that hardly seems like an issue when the population is itching to get vaccinated.
Does this mean that if I build an AI controlled gun turret to shoot people who walk across my lawn it shouldn't be news when it kills someone because people get shot by other people quite regularly?

In my opinion the application of technology, and (more importantly) the delegation of human responsibility to a computer, should be something that's part of the national conversation.
You have a lot to say!
Your field may look vast to you but from where I'm sitting I couldn't even tell you what is different about the principles needed for tv mounts versus helicopter flexbeams. Both sound like statics class to me, presumably decades after you took it, still being used in your work. Fine the bridge guy may be able to build other structures. Though I suspect it will get increasingly difficult for them to get past the job interviews as they stray from their narrow domain. Meanwhile a software person who knows databases can create a database for practically any kind of organization in existence.

I didn't say build things from scratch, I said use fundamental principles. Your solenoid operates directly on your fluids or whatever and you presumably need to be able to understand how. Is it not possible to choose incorrectly without having the right expertise?
He's cornered the [Amazon] market in old textbooks :-)
Uncharted uses a DSL for gameplay scripting. The compiler is implemented in Racket. You can see what it looks like in Jason Gregory's 2009 presentation:
http://www.gameenginebook.com/gdc09-statescripting-uncharted...

The compiler is written on top of the low-level system in Dan Liebgold's 2008 presentation:
http://www.naughtydog.com/docs/Naughty-Dog-GDC08-Adventures-...

More or less, the sexps that define a state-script get run through a maze of Scheme macros - there's even a pretty decent expression language in there which is compiled to bytecode - and the result is big honking C++ structure which is fed to the Uncharted runtime and interpreted.

In particular, note all those wait-blah-blah calls; those are using call/cc to implement coroutines. Which is something you really really want in a game but which C++ of course doesn't have. (GOAL had native coroutines.)

It's also nice to be able to iterate on the language syntax without having to fool with BNF grammars and so on.
I would guess that the 'worlds' in Super Mario 64 were also done with the software. There are somehow similar 3d worlds in a movie (Jetsons) done with the Symbolics S-Graphics software.
It is the channel (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel) in between Nightly and Beta. Changes get pushed from Nightly->Aurora->Beta->Firefox.

I think I've seen it described as something of a "blessed nightly".
I just love how someone sent them a bacon pizza during the outage: http://imgur.com/dunO2
The NYT piece on Porsche & Volkswagen (and many other market corners) is actually a really useful piece of financial literature. It nicely outlines some of the outlandish and clever ways that people can use common market forces to create situations for profit.

I always try to think in a similar way when it comes to startups. Where can you harness some market force to create a favorable position for yourself?
Timescag sounds like an STD you got from speed dating too many hustla's without proper protection
For lawyers, by the Bar Association... What does that have to do with tech?
If they use cell data, they will eventually be able to track real-time migration of non-residents living in the area. In the future, the census could be updated in real time.
>And the state having a monopoly on violence changes the dynamic of property, where the government can take whatever it wants from me (even my children) if they want to dream up a reason.

On the other hand, without the state having a monopoly on violence, anyone has the right to take whatever they want from you, given sufficient force.
As a programmer I care about diffs only when I am comparing two versions.
A commit creates a new version.
"Snapshot" is a distraction.
> help poor software development practices

Says someone who's "never looked at our git graph".
There's even a console reader, if the reason for unzipping is reading in the text terminal: https://github.com/wustho/epy
I'll get blown up for this but you're not all over the place, the node ecosystem is.
Yes, good clarification. I probably write 10x (maybe 100x? more?) more throwaway regexes than regexes I commit.
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a few to get you started:
- https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments
- https://bedrock.mxstbr.com/
Why ? More code doesn't mean more bugs at all
This is so true. All the "uncles and aunts" of India use stories to share stuff that is predominantly god photos and related.
I live in Portland OR a few blocks from where there was a months long siege against federal and police buildings. Yes there was millions of dollars worth of damage done here by looting but thats barely scratching the surface of what happened. The siege of the federal courthouse and central police station involved crazy violent actions on a daily basis, but there was no national outcry to dox and arrest the people responsible for that. People (not "nazis", some not republican/conservative) within blocks of my home have been murdered, beaten, businesses shot up (like the black owned sandwich shop across the street from my apartment because the owner "supported the police") yet there was no deplatforming for the leftist extremists responsible for this. I speak from what I saw right in front of me, what I heard from my living room and bedroom day after day for months, I'm sure there are similar stories from all over the country. Maybe I'm biased by personal experience but it just seems like if angry white kids smash stuff up and say shout some leftist slogans while they're doing it they get a pass but if the angry white kids shout "Trump 2020, something something" while they're doing the same stuff suddenly its sedition and terrorism.
So if an investigation into George Floyd or Breonna Taylor's deaths found that there was no evidence of wrongdoing, the BLM protestors should just go home?
How sick Capitalism can be in twisting what we think we need away from what's actually good for us. The Rat Race is so very very real.
That's the one! $60/week for three meals for two. More expensive than groceries but cheaper than dining out! The meals take about 20-30 minutes to prepare and cook. It's been working for us.
> admitting that the other side might be pissed about something too.

I spend most of my mental effort trying to get people on each side to do this, its not easy bro.
This. Most people, unsurprisingly, are quite nice. I think a lot of people would be willing to do this if they get high-speed service for free.
They are not removing the books from devices -- they are removing them from the Kindle archives. This means it's safe if you've purchased the book, downloaded it, and left it on your device.

At least according to this: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related...
Circa 1500, the debate in educated circles was whether the printing press had a hidden agenda to harm Catholicism. It did and it was glorious.
The technology is nothing new, I'd grant you.

However, in historical context, Wikileaks is (very likely) revolutionary.

Wikileaks challenges the whole concept of closed government. Governments have assumed that they can keep secrets, whether out of national or selfish interest. Suddenly that's not true any more. Any secret will eventually become public. And there's little you can do - national newspapers and TV stations can be dealt with, but how can you shut down a server on the other side of the world ? And if you do, so what ? The secrets are on a million sites and torrents.

For good or ill, this changes the way governments, especially democratic governments, do business. If you know that your innermost secrets will be revealed, not in 40 years time but in tomorrow's evening news, how do you conduct affairs of state ?

Maybe this is something we've all realized for a long time, but only now, it appears, do governments realize the full implications of what "World Wide Web" really means.
Can't wait to use it. Sweet that your method doesn't use images.
He did, and supposedly they're not actually doing that this time: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-removes-incest-related...
I got the idea when reading this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453174
Dish requires an upfront payment of $199/$299 for the DVR. And you still pay for a monthly DVR service, per DVR. The monthly bill is comparable to Comcast except you have a big upfront payment that isn't refundable if you decide that you don't like Dish.

Also Dish regularly battles the major networks, presumably on affilicate pricing, so its not uncommon that you'll lose ABC or CBS for a few days to weeks. I've never seen this happen with Comcast.

And their On Demand content is puny, last I checked, compared to Comcast -- and it requires an internet connection.
You must have 1000 karma
That's a fairly pessimistic view of "most writers." I would hope that most authors would pick topics based on their own intellectual curiosity, and enjoy readership/influence/money as a secondary benefit of their work. But perhaps I am being unrealistic?
I worked for the state of Florida and salaries were public. Did not really have an issue with that. Your salary falls within a bracket anyway so you won't be making more than another with similar experience and position.
Thanks for your questions. RE "no-JS", I have prioritised support for prerendering so that synergy can be used for progressive enhancement. Its early days so the docs are very minimal at the moment, but I will certainly be adding much more detail around this and I'm really happy to hear somebody raising this question as it's a valid concern that often get overlooked.
I don't think we really know what kind of social spaces would have evolved in a world where something like facebook didn't or couldn't grow. I think there were some hints of it evolving in the early 2000s, but when facebook blew up it just sucked ALL the air out of the room and forums and blogs all got stuck in 2009.

Maybe I'm wrong, but again I have to ask the question: Are those conveniences actually worth the harm we see from aggressive narrow ad targeting/tracking, as well as the issues mentioned here around parasitic viral memes, that make things like facebook even viable as businesses?

This is an evaluation we are allowed to make, and it's not a foregone conclusion that just because people can build these things they have a place in our society.
May I suggest, in response to your sentiment that applications of AI to medicine are lacking, is that you are seeing applications replace current medical practices. An AI diagnosis of a medical image seems redundant indeed, however in this situation a patient has seen a doctor out of complaints and has been sent to the radiologist for further investigation. This medical practice is reactionary, and suspicions are already present, so of course the AI isn't doing much useful here.

Alternatively, imagine a proactive medical world, in which preventative screenings are commonplace. Currently, the implementation of routine screenings without any complaints is prohibitively expensive on a large scale. This is because it requires manpower, and manpower is prohibitively expensive and the expense of manhours needs to be justified by a medical practitioner. However, AI can help in this proactive medical world by reducing the number of hours real people are looking through data to detect problems of patients, reducing the cost of routine screenings at large. Again, this wouldn't replace doctors, as you'd still need a specialist to analyze any positive hits, but it differs from your scenario in which the AI diagnosis seems redundant.

So, when preventative medical practices are more prevalent, the mass routine screening procedures will need help from machines to keep it cost effective, and that I believe is where this technology will find its application.
Electronic cash = money as a bearer instrument

payments = replacing bank wires and ACH payments, not buying coffee

He/she/they meant bitcoin is a bearer instrument like gold and not something that has to be redeemed. It doesn't represent debt the way a federal reserve note (a.k.a. a dollar) does.

Most of the white paper could have been boiled down to this:

Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally.—@Travis_Kling
Because of threads exactly like this one!
This is very cool. I'd love to share a few things I've helped build that might help people who are interested in getting similar stuff for other languages (Java/Go/Python/Ruby/JavaScript):

Sourcegraph - fully browsable, linked, and cross-referenced code with usage examples

For example, here's a class in the AWS Java SDK:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java@master/....

And the Go stdlib:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@master/.GoPacka...

And it's all based on srclib, an open-source, multi-language source code analysis framework: https://srclib.org/.
A difficult but good lesson I think.

I went through a few years at a startup where sometimes salaries were not paid for months and then payment would be caught up and then it would not be paid again. When I was finally let go I was still technically owed money but the company was more or less folding and I'm not particularly savvy or aggressive from a legal standpoint so I just let it go. It sucked.

Everything in life is a gamble but if your startup is in shaky territory and you do not own a slice of the common stock - and even then it might not be worth it - then always be on the lookout to leave for a different job. This is hard advice to follow because a small team does feel like a little group of friends. Don't be surprised, however, when the founders suddenly go to extremes. It is likely that the company is central to how they perceive themselves and people sometimes do desperate things to protect their sense of self.
Airflow is a pretty generic DAG execution platform. In fact, some people have built a CI (and CD) system with Airflow.

https://engineering.ripple.com/building-ci-cd-with-airflow-g...

https://airflowsummit.org/sessions/airflow-cicd/

etc
I still find it sobering how few wheel chair users I see out and about locally, let alone in Central London before The Covids.

I have seen some wheel chair users commute, but they have to be quite bloody minded and have a strong character to put up with so many hurdles on a daily basis.
This is not a stablecoin. MobileCoin has plans around stablecoins in short order that will allow users to transparently get back to stability on their transactions, but those aren't available on day 1.
Violating pension agreements would be my guess
This seems sarcastic or wildly inaccurate.

To clarify, two things.

The brain does not directly drive the muscles. It does not have copper running to them, providing a charge. Instead, cell after cell transmits the signal, from brain to muscle, each cell providing its own charge. The brain expends more energy thinking about abstract ideas, than telling a muscle to move.

Second thing, healthy, fit people run for hours, bike for hours, without issue. As a teenager, I'd work on a farm for 10 hours, picking fruit, throwing bales of hay, digging, on and on without tire.

Yet just continually walking, uses more "brain telling muscles what to do", than any single heavy lift plus even perhaps 10 seconds of break.

Realistically, writing cursive with a pen, typing fast, should use as much brain energy, for fine, detailed control requires many different muscles all being used at once, hence more signaling.
> There is no award for Longest Suffering Person, just a life of wasted opportunities.

Welp, I know what I'm going to be lying here thinking about for the next several hours.
Oh look, another "but it's a private company" defence of this behaviour.

Imagine a town with a single supermarket. The closest next town is a 10 hour drive away. A certain individual commits a crime, and is punished for it by the local authorities. The supermarket then decides that they are going to ban this individual from their store because of "severe misconduct" in the community. Is this fair?

Obviously, Twitch is not the "only" platform online for streaming, but in the past few years we've seen rapid siloing of content and serviced around a few platforms. Defending the actions of these platforms simply further entrenches their roles as the de facto platform for their particular service, making competition even harder.
Replacing a hard drive is an "edge case"? Something that has literally taken just a couple of minutes on virtually any consumer desktop (and laptop) for _decades_?

What sort of twisted Stockholm Syndrome has afflicted you?
I'm sorry but putting a floor on corporate taxes is a good idea as long as all parties abide by the same rules. You don't seem to understand that the USA has some of the highest in the world so it would actually help SMBs here. There should be an out for when countries don't keep up their part of the bargain. They should pay a heavy price such as punitive tariffs for X number of years.
I was using NT4 desktop until a year or so ago. All I needed was putty and outlook, helped with productivity that it didn't run a modern browser.
Because it's the law?
I doubt it, but anyway if you pirated your Windows 7, you can pirate your Windows 10 too...
The price is what was keeping me from upgrading my personal PC running Windows 7.
Nice! If you don't know about the history of such random phrase generators using dials (and if you haven't read about them in Eco's The Island of the Day Before), spend 10 minutes reading Ramon Llull'ls life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull) and his Ars generalis ultima.

"At the age of 82, in 1314, Raymond traveled again to North Africa and an angry crowd of Muslims stoned him in the city of Bougie or Béjaïa in present-day northern Algeria. Genoese merchants took him back to Mallorca where he died at home in Palma the next year. It is said that before evangelizing he would openly denounce Islam in areas dominated by Islam."

Interesting guy ideed!