jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason."
Hawking is wrong when he says "Religion is based on authority". At the base/root of all/most religions, is an inquiry into truth. Today, religion has become authority, but that is not the true meaning.

Both science and religion inquire into the true nature of things. It seems science is only concerned with physical things, matter and energy, whereas the root of religion goes a step prior to that, to what even observes/experiences this.
I'm pretty sure that exclusivity ends soon; it's a question of renewing it or not.
Your understanding is a bit off. If it's found that BP was guilty of gross negligence or failed to comply full with regulatory agencies, which seems to be the case, their liability is unlimited.

Media keeps repeating the $75 million cap story because it makes for controversy and controversy sells newspapers (so to speak).
I wouldn't consider them gray areas; more like clever hacks to discover a market without having to spend a lot of money.
Call me old fashioned, I think it's brilliant marketing by Bing and Colbert, but I'm not keen on running over effigys of people as entertainment. This guy has a family, and while he may yet be found completely responsible for the disaster, baying for his blood is not the response of an educated society. Ask yourself, if he was your son, father or brother, would you be happy with this treatment?

Leave the retributions for the courtroom. We are all partially responsible for the oil spill with our demand for petroleum based products at the lowest price possible.
I've nothing against the technical improvements gained by transitioning to EFI, but surely these are independent of the user interface? The article is regarding MSI's custom pseudo-GUI interfaces, which are (IMO) horrid.

Do you know of any EFI-enabled motherboards which retain the old, effective text-based interface?
> 40 million lines of C++ code in their core product

That was a long time ago. As Jeff Bezos confirms in the article, Amazon is a constellation of services now.
I don't think many of reviewers know even how to compile the source codes not to mention how to program it.
The authors seem to mob their friends or families to post favourite reviews that are just superficial.
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Especially Brian Jepson and the mobile series are the most problematic.
I think he should have chosen qualified authors in the first place.

Me and my friends are not evening considering the forthcoming books even with intriguing titles in the O'Reilly mobile series( ... Augmented Reality ..., etc. with animals or birds on their cover). Those are DOA by the wrong authors.

You (or the authors) can cheat readers once, however those readers never return.
I think the TRENDS of the sales figures have already told this fact. READERS NEVER RETURN.
Because it's still a privately owned company, only small amounts of Facebook stock can be purchased by an exclusive club of Goldman Sachs' best buddies. That's the only reason for the absurdly high valuation. If this stock begins trading at $70B there's nothing to stop every hedge fund in the world from short selling it into the ground. Wall Street was skeptical of Google too but they proved everyone wrong once the ad money started rolling in.
Slightly OT, but I was really intrigued to read about the "Switchboard" Corpus (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/readme_files/switchboard.re...), especially given they were from audio recordings.

It seems, unfortunately, that the recordings aren't publicly available, although archive.org seems to have small sample of the transcripts: http://www.archive.org/details/SwitchboardCorpusSample

One particularly interesting section of the above readme was the section on technical issues (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/readme_files/switchboard.re...) including this example:

"ii.) The third problem was small changes in synchrony between A and B, due to a pseudorandom dropping of 2 ms chunks of data on either side. Over the course of a 10 minute conversation, these could accumulate to a differential of 30 or 40 msec between sides--enough to change a cross-channel echo from inaudible to audible, for example, or from barely audible to very noticeable, for a human listener.

When this bug was finally run down, it turned out to be a piece of code in the utility which extracts conversations ('messages') from the Robotoperator message master file. The code performed a check at each data block boundary to see if the first two bytes had the values 'FF FF'; if so, these were interpreted as header information, and the 16 bytes beginning with "FF FF" were discarded as not part of the speech data. This code was a relic from an earlier version of the Robotoperator which did not deal with mu-law values, and thus never encountered FF in data. In mu-law data, FF is one of two ways of representing zero signal level ('minus zero'). The offending lines of code were removed and the problem ceased."
You might want to look up Gayle Laakmann, who wrote "Cracking the Coding Interview" amongst others other books and runs a site/startup called CareerCup.

http://www.careercup.com/
I agree that adequate broadband would solve this, and so many more problems.

I don't think that will happen for years at best, and then only for urban areas. For the bulk of the population, downloads are the only long term solution.

Let's be honest though, there's no real justification in ignoring the option to download. Again I compare to Steam and their model.
I have set a calendar item for 6 months from now. Looking forward to your blog post.
I know, just commenting on the aesthetics
Sure, but they are similarly self-interested, if not more so.
The 11 stands for 'eleven letters ommitted'. Cf. k8s (Kubernetes), i18n (internationalisation), l10n (localisation).
> Nobody clever enough to earn that kind of money keeps 98% of it in an illiquid private investment.

It’s interesting how often people say stuff like this. I don’t mean to presume anything about your knowledge of the habits of the ultra-wealthy— but how do you know this?

Mark Cuban, for instance, claims he would need to liquidate assets, including potentially his basketball team [1]. I agree it might not cause a crash, but certain billionaire-dominated industries, such as sports teams, might become increasingly foreign-owned.

[1] https://youtu.be/rCd2vWsWWrI start watching at 4:50
I’m not sure how to PM you on here...
Apparently you need to be a customer for 60+ days of 'stable use' before they'll enable smtp.
If the party finishing 2nd and 3rd had more votes than the party finishing 1st and 4th, they wouldn't be the minority party. I find it more likely that the 3rd and 4th places would be taken by third parties, and you'd have something like this:

1st: Republican

2nd: Democrat

3rd: Green

4th: Libertarian

...in which case the Dems would be the minority party, but the left in general would still hold a majority of the votes (assuming 2nd + 3rd > 1st + 4th).
inflation is used to drive economic activity by keeping people from sitting on money (because it devalues over time). so do you think putting more money in the hands of minimum-wage workers will cause them to hoard money? what do you think is the point of inflation?
> The fee must be limited to actual duplication, mailing and labor costs.

All they have to do to drive up the costs is pay a secretary to duplicate by manually transcribing digital data as ones and zeroes.
So I guess you weren't fucked royally over christmas when one inch of snow brought T5 to a grinding halt? We received our luggage 5 weeks later and BA refused to reimburse all our costs (we lost a receipt for one train - presumably they think we walked and are going to pocket the cash...)
Hi, I'm the author of the link you replied to. I don't see where I'm telling folks to avoid iOS or get off the app store. Please let me know where I'm unclear and I'll be glad to fix it.
> On the other hand, you might wonder why HN is running
> on a BSD (FreeBSD). Maybe PG and RTM know something?

I suspect they know BSD quite well, which doesn't say much about BSD's aptness for anything. PG and RTM are also using table-based layouts -- you reckon they know something? You also don't want me to name 1000 gurus that prefer Linux, do you? Appeal to some arbitrarily selected authority doesn't tell us much.

Moreover, they're using FreeBSD. I kind of understand why someone would prefer BSD over Linux -- we're talking about OpenBSD, though, and specifically about OpenBSD whose adherents rarely articulate why their chosen system is superior. That's all I wanted to know.

ghshephard, thanks for the reply.
A helpful yet not quite profound comment of mine from last night is now my highest voted comment in 1.5 years on the site. Based on this single data point I'll attest to well-received comments scoring higher without visible scores.

People don't know if it's at +5 or +500 so they might be more likely to click the upvote on a comment that's already got plenty of karma.
It's not a panacea (do panaceas exist at all? every change has upsides and downsides), but I'm pretty sure it is where things are going.
Don't know about the browser, but my work proxy won't allow it.
Definitely understand your concerns. In the system you're an anonymous datapoint. The information can't be used to determine who a specific individual is.
Lol! just one our hour before us...
I don't think lectures need to do all that much work. They just need to think for a bit and warn people "Hey, this could be disturbing." That's pretty much it.

Its not like trigger warnings impose an onerous responsibility on teachers. There isn't any suggestion that they tell their students to get help. Its literally just a "heads up, I'm about to talk about X".

I'm not on a campus, and when I was in was in physics and math classrooms, but its hard to imagine this is that big of a deal.
But it can be if you require. Billing address verification can be important for higher value transactions. Some sites won't ship to an address other than the billing address.
The primary innovation in REST is HATEOAS (which isn't mentioned in the document at all.) JSON isn't a hypertext, it just isn't a good format for REST-ful services.

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...

Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOK6mE7sdvs
downstream LuneOS has ports to various devices, including a demo running on Pine64's phone devkit. https://youtu.be/G9lbXE_wWpQ
Why isn't this called "HTTP API Guidelines"? It doesn't seem to have much to do with REST at all. For example, it says that people should be able to construct URLs, whereas the REST style uses the URLs found in resources.

To be clear, I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the practices they propose here, just that they're not what they're claiming they are.
This would be great. However, these massive problems aside, the LG webOS on TVs is by an absolute mile the best software I have ever encountered on a consumer electronics product. It completely blows away anything else.
It’s a common “growth hack” to postpone email verification.
This discusses two things.

Firstly, what formula to use. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate#Maximum_heart_rate shows, there are quite a few to choose from.

Secondly, whether a formula makes (much) sense. As always, the more elaborate the model, the better it can fit reality.

It isn’t surprising that a simple 220 minus age in years model doesn’t fit reality well, of only because it doesn’t include the effect of hormonal changes in puberty and menopause.
I feel that "view source" is one the best features of the web and JavaScript, so I never obfuscate/compile/minify my code. If someone is interested and takes the time to read my code, why deny them.

What are you doing in JS that is so special that no one should be able to figure out? Obfuscation wont protect you from someone ripping off your game or whatever and put it on their own site. Someone can do that just as easily with obfuscated files.
The Javelin JS framework used for Facebook Lite.

http://www.javelinjs.com/
> I think a lot of developers are just going to use some other language that compiles to Javascript anyway

That's a disgusting thought...

What happens is usually developers who don't want to program in more than one language (or One True Language, as many of them may think) rely on such tools to generate an unreadable, sub-optimal and utterly messed up tangle of JavaScript code that kills a baby jesus every time it runs.

And who then blame JavaScript for their problems. And downvotes anyone who disagrees with them ;-)
Yes, don't forget us! :p
For now, they seem happy enough to annihilate the world one atom at a time.
Not really, he never worked for a FAANG, only got into Cs after doing a two year program at a solid college after getting a political science degree from NYU.
This.

Delegating social media and other trivial pursuits to family and friends can free up an additional 10-15 hours per week for HN! :)

More seriously, to get the most out of HN:

1) skip the aviation and database threads and just read my posts. (There are very few qualified commenters on those topics.)

2) for other topics, read a few posts and if it looks interesting, find an in-depth article or blog on that topic.
In the US spouses cannot be compelled to testify about/against the other. I assume this would include a location question. Not sure of laws elsewhere.
You apparently aren't familiar with Swift at all. I'd recommend exploring more before answering.

Swift had Linux support since it open sourced 4 years ago. IBM, AWS, Google all have very performant server-side swift packages for manner of things from servers to protocols. Our company is using Swift for a Linux-only embedded environments.

If you think the future is dynamic, you're not regressing the past, or the trajectory of the future. Dynamic languages keep a compiler from understanding the code.

Compilers are just code optimization heuristics - like AI for developers. If you make a language and compiler that has a strong ontology for the intent of code (a type system), it can break code down into functional proofs, then understand how to optimize it and in ways that aren't possible in a dynamic language that breaks the chain of intent.

Julia is still pretty niche at this point, and just recently got tools as fundamental as a debugger.
Momentum is always conserved. You just have to draw the boundaries correctly.
This is really amazing -- interested in how visualization techniques like this will help high-end chefs and bakers hone their crafts in the future.
Isn't countering the G-force when cornering to keep your head straight the equivalent of lifting 25kgs with your neck?

C sounds like one hell of a ride.
If you're lucky, you may get a good answer. Which you can read without an account. But you can't see other stuff using links.
Negotiator, Terminator, ... Thought it was a better fit
I had the same experience.

When I was in high school, there was a group of "Quorans" (including a few "prominent" ones) that used to hangout on G+/hangouts, and I used to stop by from time to time. Back then I was very STEM focused, so it was pretty cool to have conversations with peers that had a variety of academic interests.

Unfortunately, Quora has changed significantly since then, and for the worse. The only interesting thing is how it has turned into an Indian social network of sorts, and the associated subculture in that community.
Lowdefy is an open-source (Apache-2.0) low-code framework that lets you build web apps with YAML configuration files.

We have developed a simple application schema that is easy to understand, write, remember and of course version control. Yet, flexible enough to create UIs that require advanced logic. This makes it easy to learn how to write applications and easier to maintain consistency from one application to the next.

Lowdefy only provides the application layer and connects to your external data sources or APIs, allowing you to access data where it is stored.

Lowdefy uses webpack module federation as a micro-frontend strategy to load blocks on demand. This enables developers to further extend the functionality by building custom Lowdefy blocks.

Our story:

We have been building Lowdefy since May 2019, and have been using it internally for client software projects since January 2020. We planned to sell it as a SaaS product but decided that an open-source approach is more in line with our ultimate vision for Lowdefy.

Why open-source?

It is important for us that our clients are not locked into a single provider when building a tool.

Building a community and trust is one of our primary objectives, since Lowdefy apps can be shared and open-sourced with ease, we hope to see many open-source Lowdefy apps in the future.

On our roadmap:

We plan to monetize Lowdefy by providing optional, nice-to-have services, that integrate well and empower the community.
That seems exactly equivalent to following those people and not posting, but more work. How is this better?
You can use static comments https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/
Considering how US space program funding is subject to the whims of presidential administrations and congressional funding, New Origin may actually come out on top of this comparison.
Here's another one. How do you deploy a new version of your service?

Imagine a few customers open up your site and leave for lunch. Or maybe just a random crawler or bot sitting watching for some piece of information they are scraping.

These sorts of issues can be challenging with stateless connections. I can only imagine how daunting they are with persistent connections.
Public schools are by definition taxpayer funded, so I wouldn't describe allocating tax money to them as "funneling". And of course, absent school choice policies, parents are still free to send their children to private school — they just wouldn't receive public funds to do so (which is why the name is sneaky). But yes, you're correct.
I used to never get spam in my GMail. Now, every once in a while, I get spam in the form of Google Drive spam (pharmacy stuff) and then I get "You've won Amazon Rewards!!" type of email. It's very strange.
How slow is it compared to nginx?
I really hope that SpaceX gets some serious competition by another partially reusable rocket. We need multiple viable launch providers in the market.

I don't think this will happen, but that announcement reads a lot like delay announcements that shadow a future cancellation. ('we continue to remain committed ...', 'persuing other opportunities', 'growing market ...' (it isn't) ...)

There are two aspects here:

A) With the way Blue Origin operates, I highly doubt New Glenn can be competitive with Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy financially, at least without heavy discounts funded by Bezos. More so once Falcon Heavy gets the upgraded fairing they are developing for government launches.

Blue might still get some business from the US government and from Starlink competitors that don't want to help fund Spacex, but the market seems very limited. We are already at a point where Falcon 9 can handle most payloads, and there are no commercial use cases for larger payloads on the horizon.

Which brings me to the second point:

If Musks claims for Starship regarding cost and reusability come true, no one will be remotely competitive with that rocket. It's in a whole different league with a huge payload capacity and full (1st + 2nd stage) reusability.

Starship has a chance of reaching orbit maybe late this year, but more likely in 2021. The question is if Bezos will be willing to pump billions into Blue Origin for the 4+ years until they can catch up with their own second generation rocket, currently nicknamed New Armstrong.

A first New Glenn launch would probably mean start of scheduled service in late 2023, at which point Starship might already be launching regularly.
C Primer Plus by Stephen Prata is the most complete i have seen, it does cover everything up to C11 and goes in details about stuff like array vs pointer.

I don't like 21st Century C, it may have changed since then but it has a chapter titled "Object-Oriented Programming in C" which is confusing object with Abstract data type.
I have the opposite anecdata, this needs a citation, especially when compared against Tesla
Hi pdamoc!

First of all I want to thank you for sharing modern authors. I was aware of Carol Dweck's older theories and Toyota management model. I do plan to learn from your suggestions. Have they been helpful in your career?

One of the fist thing I've noticed after I started Zen meditation training 5 years ago was that I had recurrent daydreams about killing my bosses. I switched position 3 times until I found myself in a toxic startup where I've burned out. I met a psycologist specialized in work related issues (very good with modern models) and it was helpful. I've learned how to manage my anxiety and to trust my self better.

I'm not certain that I would qualify Jung's ideas as 'attractive'. I understand what you mean by 'a good story', but my take on his work is that its a pre-scientific tool to look deeply into yourself. If it's not scary, your are not using it right. (A bit like zen meditation).

Right now I work as an IT consultant in a byzantine public organisation where failure is normalized or hidden. Knowing that I will not spend my life there makes it easy to cope with the day to day absurdity, and cashing that paycheck is nice during COVID. But the thing is, I dont care about money. According to FIRE metrics, I save over 50% of my income after tax. I have no kids and no responsabilities beyond myself.

Instead of bitching about corporate-employee life, I think I should move out of it. Why not go back to school and do a Phd (already Msc), start or join a meaningful startup? Also recently I made a list of professional achievements which make me proud and turned it into a presentation letter, and found potential employers based on that letter. I have an interview in another industry next week.

I have no problem with the scientific method. The thing is, your own life cannot be a randomized controlled trial. And unfortunalty, if you are suffering from strong emotional biases (like anxiety), trying to use a new model might not work because your will be biased in its usage. Learning from science is not sufficient to lead a meaningful life. Good relationships will also help you alot in your self reflexion challenges. Lastly, I think that learning to use your intuition is probably the best tool you have to work against a disfunctional self model, since by nature intuition is non-verbal and anti-model in the first place.
> would you like to live in a world where the New York times lets powerful people who are doing awful, unethical things remain anonymous as they would like to?

I think there's a structural difference between anonymity in actions and anonymity in writing, where in actions it is easy to leverage resources from one persona to benefit in the other, hence anonymity providing you with a structural advantage. But writing generally rests only on your skill as a writer, not your financial or political resources.

The one case where writing benefits structurally from political resources in your de-anonymized persona is whistleblowing - a situation where journalists do their level best to keep people anonymous!

Likewise, I think there's a difference between a newspaper trying to drag corruption into the light, and a newspaper, made up by writers, depriving another writer of a layer of protection, against community norms and their own standard, in order to (or at least accepting the risk to) destroy their livelihood. The NYT and Scott Alexander are not in direct competition, but it's still hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to bring harm on a fellow writer for their own gain.

In other words, the goal of a newspaper should be to increase the views and voices available to the public, not to shut them up.