jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"the 40% of Americans who hold the "creationist" view that God created humans as is 10,000 years ago is the lowest in Gallup's history of asking this question, and down from a high point of 47% in 1993 and 1999."

Here's the trend for the last decade:

2000: 47% God created, 40% evolved with God's help, 9% evolution without God's involvement

2010: 40%, 38%, 16%
Some co-workers of mine have been doing 365 projects for 2010. On their server, each photo has a comments section where they give each other feedback and suggestions. That community aspect has really encouraged them to keep going. They talk about how hard it is to find something that makes for an interesting photo every day, but it's made them pay attention to their surroundings, and the feedback is making them better photographers.

One guy was pretty intimidated by the project at first. He started by trying it for a week, and now he's done 320 days or so.

They had their own server, but it recently died. The photo are copied elsewhere, but the comments are possibly gone forever. I'm certain that any of them would pay $20 for someone else to take care of the servers.
While there may be nothing technically wrong with Isaac's style, and it may in fact be slightly "better" in some way, it's clearly not how the language was intended to be written or how the vast majority of people write it.

I would be ok with leaving the semicolons off, if you didn't have to do ridiculous things like prepend some lines with semicolons instead. It's easier for everyone just to put the damn semicolons in.

I couldn't care less what your pants policy is in your own home, as long as I never come over. But when you invite me over (i.e. open source a project) and you have a ridiculous pants policy don't expect me to come back.
The developing world will eat this up. Sure there are connectivity issues, but those can be overcome. Many countries that never had phones now have cellphones.

I've always seen the main roadblock to computer adoption as the babysitting nightmare that is the Windows PC. 100 computers in a village or remote school are 100 headaches for somebody. Now a good percentage of those issues are irrelevant. Sure there will be other problems, but this is a huge improvement.
Graham's Number. Fin.
In Oregon, the local department of fish and wildlife has declared "feral pigs" a nuisance, meaning they can be hunted as much as wanted. They rip of farms, destroy fences etc. Every once in a while, they eviscerate someone, which keeps it interesting :)
Really great stuff. Especially like the idea about intelligent AI finally evolving from the arms race between developing a good spam bot vs making an intelligent spam filter. Software that pretends to be meat. Nicely done.
Very fair points, but all I was trying to state is that there is a boundary where most people agree the material should be watched. Where that boundary is happens to be at different locations for different people, but I think it's important to establish one. Hence, I just disagree with the parent that "any censorship at all" is a problem.
> Mesos (and many other Berkeley AMPLab efforts) had briliant ideas behind it

Brilliant on paper.

The idea was influenced by MR workloads on Borg. Because MR is so large a workload pattern on Borg, that it benefits from having its own scheduler, and Borg also benefit from unnecessary meddling.

The idea was only brilliant for a very small number of human users, both inside Google and in the broader industry. In terms of CPU & memory usage, mesos' approach should always take great share, because workloads that in the category of needing their own scheduler always is the big ones.

But as an open source product, its adopters are far off from that group. So you can see that all early adopters of Mesos are large corps. I seldom hear any startup applaud Mesos.

Precisely, I have repeated many times when Mesos was still relevant, that its model makes it costly to get started. It will never succeed unless it start to package a product that can provide the scheduler part.

We all know what happened after K8s. K8s works because Borg already worked for 12+ years.

> an elegant implemention that allowed for much more than what Kubernetes was desgined to.

By design K8s is more capable then Mesos. Because K8s includes scheduler. And numerous other capability. Heck, excluding performance and scalability, K8s is a level a bove Borg in terms of feature and capability. Mesos is far behind Borg even, not mentioning K8s.

Mesos does offer better scalability, on paper. I had no experience though.

> Kubernetes was supposed to be scheduler for Mesos and Google invested in it.

I never heard of such plan.
I guess I have ADHD. I thought these were all normal things.
While I agree with you that there's definitely a male gaze aspect to it, I don't have an opinion on whether that's necessarily a bad thing when done by women.

On the one hand I can see the harm it can make by normalizing the stigma that women need to do things for the pleasure of men, but on the other hand I'm not sure preventing them from doing that would help the issue at all. It's a complex subject for sure.
>> Overall, WeWork is a success, not a failure.

They turned 20+ billion into < 8 billion. That's a success similar to the joke about how the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a a large one.
Okay. I see your point. I just tend to think of "phase change" as something different. But if the idea is that margin calls beget more margin calls, I can't disagree.
I’ll give you three direct quotes and a link to all three.

Bill Kristol: "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."

Rich Bond, chair of the Republican Party in 1992, during the 1992 presidential election: "There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."

Pat Buchanan during his 1996 presidential campaign: "I've gotten balanced coverage, and broad coverage-all we could have asked. For heaven sakes, we kid about the 'liberal media,' but every Republican on earth does that."

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/books/chapters/what-liber...
I get your comment on diversity but imagine saying the same thing if they were black. Just because they're white that doesn't make it less offensive
Sturgeon's Law and all.

Search, intent, and aggressive pruning of the crap-surfacing mechanisms (most especially recommended videos, comments on all but the very best channels) are your friends.

The console-mode mps-youtube utility was for a brief, shining moment the best possible interface into the abyss, as it allowed:

- Direct search

- Viewing all of a specific channel's videos, or searching within them.

- Compiling offline, savable, file-based playlists.

It doesn't, AFAIK, permit blocklisting/whitelisting of specific channels, though that would be glorious.

I'd made extensive use of this for a time, ultimately however the API was limited out and the tool is now effectively unusable.

mpv and VLC however continue to rock hard.

Cal Newport has a few browser extension recommendations which purge recommendations. You can achieve much the same result with uMatrix's "block element" feature, or CSS editors/managers such as Stylus. (Do NOT use "Stylish", which is now adware/malware.)
Signal is entirely centralized and Moxie runs the organization.

For all intents and purposes Moxie is 100% in control of the Signal network and could shut it down or release a malicious update that plaintexts messages at any time.
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I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but in the US, the current standard for free speech (Brandenburg v Ohio) holds that literally advocating for violent overthrow of the government is constitutionally-protected free speech. The bar that you have to hit is incitement to "imminent lawless action." This standard of free speech is much higher than most of the rest of the world.
That depends on the target. The military is quite ready and willing to spend tax dollars on things even if at the end of it there is something cheaper that does the job better.
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Will not offer VISAs I'm afraid.
I'm a centrist by instinct and by UK standards.

Unfortunately that would probably put me in the "radical leftist" bracket according to current US discourse.
If you think it can't have exceptions, do you think libel and slander laws are a travesty?
It's almost as if becoming a superpower corrupts nations
Came here to say I hope it was encrypted.
Being a laptop I hope the IT person saw it fit to have it encrypted just because it is more easily prone to theft.
Yeah... I was just trying to explain what the challenges are in hopes that you have a better understanding of what it will take to fix it. For example, the requirement that you have a physician explain things I think should be relaxed as much as is feasible. I'm not blaming people who are poor for not having access to healthcare. Also... I'm not white.
Does that apply to an existing community? Why not "coup it" like Reddit did with the Covid-subs and enforce nicer rules.
Well, I was precisely interested if it could be modeled with a chain. Otherwise thank you for you pointers.
1. I don't know anything about the actual gameplay, but I think you are not interpreting this right. I don't mean some highly involved complex AI, I mean just something that picks its moves slightly better than random. These things are perfect for a genetic algorithm, or an ant-colony-like simulation (Look up John Koza's books on how to do this right). Also, if you are a two-member team, and this is your biggest problem (which it sounds like it is - you have a product and no users!) then you should devote time to it.

2. I don't know anyone personally, but sounds like what you need to do it go on Elance and find a "virtual backoffice" team, and pay them to recruit local players.
Of course he's being more creative. Did you visit the linked site? "GitHub for X" is a great one-liner explanation in a headline among dozens of other headlines being scanned by busy HN newsreaders.
(I'm not the original poster.) That works fine for me, but when I try to highlight Python, nothing happens.

http://codr.cc/s/baf9f6f6/py
I would agree with you, but I've had 1 new friend join facebook in the last year or two. I've had about 5 leave. I also have a significant number of people who either never will join Facebook (due to attitude, principle or plain un-interestedness) and probably the majority who never log on, even if you send them a direct mail.

So I would be a pretty lousy friend if I just notified people within facebook and ignored my other friends.
Well you could try the advice posted yesterday and tell them to eat shit and fuck off. Maybe they are bluffing.
I think you'd need to wait for the people involved to leave their jobs. I'm not sure Adelson has shown too much willingness in talking either. There's not a lot to gain from it.
I'm finding it harder and harder these days to be proud of being an American.
Perfectly valid position to take on things.

What I don't like is when, using startups as an example, someone put in regular days and be beaten by their competition who did say an extra 20 hours a week. As long as people know they can't always have it both ways.
4chan anyone?
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Even in the modern political climate, it's going to be hard for the prosecution to demonstrate that Wikileaks constitutes an enemy of the United States.
It's probably doing something cheap and tacky like checking a DNS blacklist, which you usually get on for "running a proxy" (having ports open, pretty much) or sending spam emails.
Here's an attempt at interpretting it graciously: if China's economy grows, more Chinese people may be lifted out of poverty. This is obviously beneficial to their lives directly, but could also result in political shifts as the rising middle class becomes more of a stakeholder in society. More developed countries can also afford to have more environmentally friendly laws. There are a bunch of potential benefits to China and the rest of the world that could result from continued growth. Sacrificing these benefits to bring attention to human rights might actually be harmful in the long run by a wide range of metrics, and whether it's desirable to do so might depend on which metrics you value more and how you typically respond to trolley problems.
Reading the comments here it seems like I'm not the only one who thinks some Rust code is pretty syntax-heavy even compared to older systems languages like C and C++.

I wonder if this is in part to further separate application development from system development (slowly paving the way for more verbose but formally verifiable code in core components), and to push more people to write higher level code instead. I can imagine many reasons for why things would be steered this way.

Edit: Bad code example, sorry; thanks for the informative reply! I didn't mean to be unnecessarily negative, just a thought that ran through my head.
All Magsafe chargers I've seen fell apart in a few years time. Even chargers that were used only on a desk and saw no stress had their cable expand a little near the connector (enough for the small clip got stuck), then turned yellow, then yellow-green and sticky, finally becoming brittle and just eroding away.

I have never experienced anything like this with other brands nor with no-name brick chargers. Even Chinese knock-off replacement cables for Magsafe chargers didn't fail like that.
At this point, I'm not so much against Rust because it's a difficult or hard thing to use, but because there's such a learning curve I can't, in good conscious, move team projects to it. "To continue to work on this with me, you must first learn Rust" is a hard sell.
I mean, I guess? But I’m guessing way over 99% of lines of code is ASCII. Of course then it’s also UTF-8, but it’s still a little disingenuous to say that “most” code is Unicode.
HN is for curiosity, and curiosity withers under repetition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"This is not a solved problem, and VR will never be anything but a niche technology"

Wow, that is a very pessimistic approach to a problem. What are you even trying to suggest here, that we have a problem right now in this new tech, and no one will ever, ever ever, solve it because... you think so? People are solving way harder problems out there than this. Like going to Mars for example. I'm pretty sure we will solve motion sickness in VR.
Wine is actually more compatible with older apps than Win32 implementation in Win10. Better alternative would be to extend Wine.
Plus these questions can assure that you get hired to a team where everyone knows how to write a for() loop. :)
I think for me I've always just returned false unless their was some specific reason not to, which hasn't come up overly often. But yeah it could be something that is confusing when it comes back to reviewing code down the track.
Work on finding like-minded people and start working on projects together. These people may end up being your co-founders in some future company you'll start, and the more time you know each other ahead of time the better.

Get a decent amount of knowledge about a broad-range of topics, unless you are inherently interested in something very specific. This will instill in you a lack of fear from new subjects that will be one of your greatest assets. Most people in the world don't do stuff because they are afraid, used to something comfortable, etc. If you turn 'not knowing' something into a challenge then you'll be a huge asset to other people, not to mention to yourself.

Don't try to over-think things at this point, you'll earn a lot by simply creating and improving your ability to create.

Be happy that you found something you love, most people struggle with this for all of their life.

Israel's a decent place to improve these skills (I came from there, went through a similar path) so look in your school/neighborhood/university for peers and go get it.
Is this list geared towards Venture Capital backed businesses?
I am reminded of the childhood favorite card game, "War," also a game of pure chance.
I'm in the Navy. The vast majority of people I know are in the Navy. When I visit navy.mil, whoworks.at tells me that 1,566 people on linkedin work at Navy Federal Credit Union, and confirms that I don't know any of them.
How is HN at handling duplicate submissions?
These are tricky waters, but here's what I see as the difference:

Two separate threads that can run completely independently without any synchronisation are concurrent because it doesn't matter what order you run them in. Therefore there are many, many 'sequentially equivalent' computations that are correct per the language semantics. From the perspective of the user it can seem like you ran Thread A to completion followed by Thread B, or Thread B then Thread A, or any interleaving of the two.

Threads are one way of expressing concurrency. Actors, to pick at random, are another. So I don't believe that threads <=> concurrency, but that threads usually express concurrency unless they have pathological synchronisation behaviour.

Which they would have, in your final example - there is no concurrency because there's only a single ordering of events that is correct.
You can lose your job if you post too wrong views too much.

EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. It is both relevant (it refutes that you can "Post whatever you like to Reddit, or any other discussion platform." without punishment), and correct.
The article is sarcastic, though it may not seem to. Take a while and look at the 'about me' page of author - you can read there that his favourite languages (Lieblingsprogrammiersprache) are Clojure, Common Lisp and Haskell. He also has some projects in lisp on his page.

However, haven't I read his page, I wouldn't understand it either. It seems like I'm not the only one who don't get it - it would be nice to hear from the author what was his point.
I've never owned a mac so I don't know what Mission Control is fully capable of but is Win10's "Task View" similar to Mission Control? WinKey+Tab
Can you say why you think this is the case? Matz has very much made performance a focus: they've continued to improve the Ruby VM and added JIT, for example. Likewise, many of the non-performance related improvements in recent Ruby version have immediately been useful to me as a Rubyist. I'm not sure what meaningless features you refer to, but I'd be interested in seeing them enumerated.
While we're on bindings, it's ridiculous to me that no OS has a key for system level bindings that is separate from the key for application level bindings. For the sake of example, I'll call them the Sys and App keys.

<Sys-{x,c,v}> to manipulate the clipboard.

<Sys-{up,left,right}> to maximize and split window on left or right.

<App-s> to save; <App-t> for new tab (in browsers), <App-f> to search.

I really dislike when apps interfere with what I consider to be system level shortcuts, like copy/paste. But I also recognize that for some places (e.g. text with formatting) it's nice to allow it. So here's the nice thing: by default <App-{x,c,v}> can be the same as Sys, but this is a shortcut apps can override. Tada! Best of both worlds.

It seems like between Ctrl, Alt, and Cmd/Win, we ought to be able to separate these cleanly, even with some legacy compatibility restrictions. It frustrates me that Apple went partway there with the command key, but then decided to blur the lines, and there's no longer a clear distinction (actually, as a non Apple user: what do you even use the control key for?).
Win-Tab shows an overview over opened windows, different desktops (yes, Windows has these) and has a timelime of recently used documents.

The desktop can be shown using Win+D or by moving the mouse into the lower right corner (this can be enabled/disabled). Windows can be arranged and tiled by using Win+<arrow key>

The mentioned Power Toys allow to customize shortcuts and provide an overview of Windows shortcuts when holding down the Win-key.
The only misinformation about inflation is the one that government agencies are peddling.

Bitcoin is valuable because it holds the collective attention of a huge number of people - This makes it an ideal asset to soak up the surplus fiat which is constantly being injected into the economy which would otherwise have been soaked up by some mega-corporation.

People can collectively keep taking out more loans from banks and dump it on Bitcoin. It will always go up that way so long as the next generation starts doing the same thing.

This is not a new thing. That's basically what was happening with corporate stocks over the past few decades; it's a continuation of the same fiat pyramid scheme except that now the focus point of the scheme is crypto instead of stocks.

The fact that crypto is honest about the reality of the scheme which it benefits from is why it will succeed. They just capitalize on distrust and contempt for the monetary system and it cannot really crash because the really smart investors know exactly what they're buying.
wow - didn't know that - it is much better - are there really people that like those little pop-up windows?
I actually like the new look. The old one was way too messy for my taste. I just don't like dealing with all the bugs of the new one.
Yeah but Mac OS needs more windows to function. Windows Explorer is definitely superior to Finder, it has a lot more features.
Google should disable "I'm feeling lucky" for facebook.com, 80% of their users won't be able to find the site anymore. /s
Not every app can load instantly. Better to have a reasonable loading screen than an ugly, flickery, reflowy startup experience.