jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> BTW, please don't use that word

Good point. I won't anymore.

Your experience matches with mine (especially point 1). It's a sad state of affairs, really.

Wrt point two, true, but these days there's a vanishingly small number of problems that can only be solved cost-efficiently on microcontrollers and C.

My favourite example is ASML, world market leader in chip machines, which sell at millions of dollars a piece and could be specced to have any computing power needed, effectively, and has a software stack of 30 million lines of C.

Running on microcontrollers and Sun Solaris computers.
The government gets away with this stuff because people can't coordinate their power, which looks basically the same as powerless people turning a blind eye. You guys are describing two facets of the same thing, but the people do in fact have more power than the government.
Its generally a little more than removing the chips with a hot air rework station, and soldering larger ones. I am sure the sizes of the RAM and flash chips is also set in firmware on the main SoC. You would also have to update those values in firmware.
It worked far better than I expected. Around the turn of this century I was involved in bringing up the software for a new processor made by a certain large semiconductor company (you might be able to guess!) The early hardware didn't work perfectly, the operating system wasn't ready, and the compilers were flaky. The cost of writing a simulator was cheap when compared with avoiding all of that pain and getting first-mover advantage.
How would you dismiss points being argued if not on the ability of their proponents to argue them?
Well, from what I can tell, older people are targeted at far high rate. Age seems to be a valued input to the process. I can guess a number of reasons for that.
My impression is the vast, vast majority of chips have at least part of the chip disabled to help solve yield problems. So it seems to be the status quo?
MobileCoin transactions and balances are private and untraceable. This problem doesn't exist here.
And he was only -51-, correction, 53 when he passed… One has to wonder what more he would have accomplished had he lived another 30 years or more.

As an aside, are there many pure research institutes left? It seems like academic life is now mostly spent chasing grants and managing teaching load, and very very few people get to do pure research.
Rust is a bad attempt at reinventing C++? That's a unique take.

Memory safety is a big deal for writing secure programs, which has been repeatedly shown to be impossible to do at scale in C++. Provably safe parallelism and concurrency is key for performance on multi core devices, also extremely difficult to do safely and correctly in C++.

If C++ is the wheel being reinvented, it's not much of a wheel.
For all of what? Your school didn't have math lessons ("hours")? Maybe some schools didn't have computer rooms, but I'm sure we all had math lessons.
> same as blocking the second level of a house because 'not allowing the residents to climb a stair makes the house safer for them'

Exactly what I meant. I liked the comparison.
Alcoholism runs in my family, but fortunately I am not an alcoholic. I've taken prescription pain medication on and off for over 20 years, but have never become addicted. Caffeine seems to be the only drug I have ever had a problem with.
They are going to train on YouTube/PornHub before long and it’s going to get weird.
> And that money is not somehow just going to disappear over time.

It almost did, in 2008. Something like $3 Trillion evaporated in a very few months. To prevent a disaster that hurt a huge chunk of people, the Fed injected $3 Trillion back into the economy. The Fed was starting to draw that back down, but the economy got jittery, and then Covid happened.

We have the problem (too much money) because the price of fixing it was too high (short-term catastrophe).
That's really interesting and I hope it'll be successful, it'd be great to see more solutions tackle this area. I guess starting with an entperise price point, means you can hopefully get a revenue level to help widen out the product set.
I've put it all here if it's any use for ya :) https://www.kamelasa.dev/programming/gettin-ziggy-with-it-pi...
> Moving the meager sunlight of the winter around won't make it more abundant

It'll mean I don't sleep through an hour of valuable sunlight, and I suspect more people wake up after sunrise than before it.
It’s too late to edit, but I’d like to ask downvoters to respond instead of downvoting. The submission references and contradicts the information provided in the GPs link and discusses how the politicization of the origin led to these organizations making much stronger statements than the evidence warranted. I cited some of the information the OP mentions that contradicts assertions made by the GP.

If I am wrong or misinformed, I would like to know it. The submission is an excellent article. I have no dog in this fight but it did shift the needle of uncertainty for me, particularly when I learned about prior leaks and the suppression of investigations in China. It’s a long article but worth the read.
> still awaiting sentencing

Aside from the usual explanation (white collar crime), any idea why someone can be found guilty and then still not given a sentence for more than a year. AFAICT he isn't even incarcerated at the moment.
Turing was explicitly trying to abstract from the sort of symbol manipulation mathematicians of his time did with pen and paper.

Presumably his angelic counterparts have no need of an infinite tape of finite symbols, and can use a single square with an infinite repertoire of symbols instead.
Yes, you're right, most people don't care about this.

But what is clubhouse using the mobile number for?

So people can message each other using that number? I doubt it.

Surely it has in app messaging?

And in terms of frictionless, the easiest would have been to generate an automatic ID and let the user choose a username.

Typing in an email address or phone number takes the same amount of effort I would assume.
That’s not how businesses work. They don’t burn money on useless ads, just to annoy you.
>Remember when BTC used to be fun and exciting? Stupid projects being created, tipping widespread all over the internet.

All of this moved over to Ethereum long ago but those outside of the crypto space might not know that. Thousands of hackers have created little neat experiments and projects for others to use and build on and more are released everyday.

Some of my favorites are https://dontbuymeme.com/, https://aavegotchi.com/, and https://quadraticvote.co/. There's too many to list (like the internet itself) but a lot of communities for specialized topics have formed such as art people flocking to NFTs, meme lovers creating self funding and self organized communities, and lots of cool governance tools for voting and organizations like https://daohaus.club/, https://colony.io/, and https://aragon.org/.

It really does feel like the early internet and I can barely keep up with all of the cool stuff being shipped.
Awesome piece of work! Well done
Out of curiosity: would you be still renting when you are over 70? In my mind the kind of people who never mind owning a house is the kind of people who know they will inherit their parents’ house.
>>I guess would prefer that somehow there were no refugees and suffering in the first place...

Gandhi was once asked to preside over as a chief guest on the opening day of an old age home. In his reply in the letter he argued why in an ideal world orphanages, old age homes etc shouldn't even need to exist.

But that is how the society is. Until you eliminate the evil, you need to prepare for its consequences.
You are right. It seems the story I heard was an exaggeration of the bullying tactics a team of lawyers can perform.
Vietnam isn't even in the Top 30 for traffic accidents. It isn't "among the highest rate".

Vietnam's traffic fatality rate is 26 per 100,000. About the same was America's traffic fatality rate in early 1970s before Ralph Nader convinced people to care about safety. But Americans had no problem driving on roads in 1970s. Virtually no one thought it was too dangerous to drive in America at those fatality rates.

(Today fatality rates are down ~50% from those numbers thanks to Ralph Nader.)

And the Vietnam numbers continue to decrease as the country develops. The WHO numbers are based on 2016 numbers. There were a reported 8,417 fatalities in 2016 but the WHO assumes that's a lie and adjusts upwards to 24,970 fatalities. In any case, fatalities have been dropping by about 5% a year. In 2019 there were 7,624 fatalities, for instance.
Participants eager to describe their modern-day spiritual LSD experiences were encouraged to contribute to a library of drug experiences on the Erowid website

Reminded me of a paper I've been meaning to read where machine learning was applied to erowid reports of different substances:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0312
You don't have to get your wallet if they have sophisticated Stripe support - now you can get your Stripe card info by entering in a code that is texted to you.
Your point is diversifying experiences leads to more qualified decisions. Why can't America diversify educational experiences, to lead to more qualified educational tracks?
And those "groceries" might as well be Amazon gift cards purchased in a grocery store.
Btw, I'm saying the above while myself having made a small Python project with Wx about eleven years ago. That was the closest I've come to a Wx app—but it was on Windows and amounted to little more than a single button, so not much knowledge gained.
In the same speech he compared the projected fatalities to that of the common flu and said the press was in "hysteria mode." The message was very clearly from Trump. There's nothing to worry about.

He downplayed the threat and called the alarm bells a political hoax. That is the same thing as calling the threat a hoax even if he never denied the existence of the virus. A week later it was a national emergency.
Weird how antivaxxers use this obscure bit of knowledge to get scared about similarity of covid S-protein to syncytin and immune response to covid vaccine (why not covid itself?) making pregnancy harder or impossible.
> 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

Our apartment is short and long, and the fiber comes in at one end. So of course we put the WiFi AP at the end of the apartment where the fiber comes in, and it needs to be at full power to reach the other end. Of course, now the person on the other side of the wall will be blasted with signal.

A planned network from a provider would instead have 2-3 APs spread out through the middle of the apartment at a low power. But that costs 2-3 times more, plus now you have to drill through the walls to wire them (which we can't do as we're renting).

There's a lot more difference between the usage of the ISM band and the licensed bands than "if everyone just lowered their power a bit it would be great". Since ISM band usage can't be planned to the same extent, it should have MORE spectrum than the planned bands, not less.
Do you feel this way about all kinds of online interactions? Or are Zoom calls or group chats better than, lets say, your Twitter feed or Reddit threads?
Maybe you should start a thread on this topic. I honestly have no idea.
The standard advice I've heard is: Work for defense companies to learn the technology, and then leave to transfer this technology toward peaceful (and often lucrative) applications. Swords into Ploughshares.
With your Ubuntu solution, does the computer you're logging into remotely have to be on? Do you have to know its IP address? I haven't used it before.

The advantage with this is to connect you probably simply visit chromeos.google.com (or something) and log-in. You don't have to worry about the IP address of the machine you're using or firewalls or anything like that.
A more declarative programming style has many potential benefits. The trouble is, the version in that style is supposed to look something like this:

total dice = sum (map faceValue dice)

C++ is showing its age now, as ideas from other programming styles are entering the mainstream. Modern programming languages, designed with the benefit of hindsight, support those idioms natively and much more effectively than a bolted-on library, the cleverness of the Boost implementers notwithstanding.

In this context, I think one of the commenters on the original article probably had it right: given that C++ is essentially an imperative language, using the new range-based for loops is a more natural way to write this algorithm.
You should hire me instead of him. I've been using python to do statistics and machine learning in a bioinformatics context for the last 15 years. Plus, if you don't, I'll kill this puppy. Isn't he cute? You wouldn't want to be responsible for his death, would you?
Well you might as well be arguing that the entire notion of "good" and "bad" is useless, which would make all of moral philosophy useless. That's a valid claim, but it's sort of tangential to a critique of Rand b/c most people who critique her simply prefer some other type of moral philosophy.

Any notion of good and bad must start with something... Rand tries to back-fill rationality being good based on what is essentially an evolutionary argument. Not the strongest argument, but probably stronger than the premises used by most moral philosophers.
I would also have to agree with this article. I am 22 and will be getting married in 6 months, however none of my friends from college or high school are making similar choices. While our family and friends have been supportive our decision to "marry early" as it were, others have been confused. Particularly late 20's and early 30's co-workers are put off by the idea, recommending not getting married until much later. I will note most of these individuals have never married, and seem to avoid long term relationships. So yes, this generation does seem to be avoiding/delaying marriage.
What exactly do you think "the cloud" is? Fundamentally, there isn't much of a different between AWS and Linode. Both are just virtual machines, but AWS attaches some fun buzzwords to them. If you want to run a virtual machine 24/7, you don't need virtual machines as powerful as AWS's minimum plans, and you don't have enough money to run them on AWS, why not do it on Linode (or Slicehost, Rackspace Cloud, etc. It's all the same.)
I remember years ago a Python project called Dabo, which was inspired by the FoxPro architecture or approach of building software. I could create desktop and web apps from the same code base, if I recall.
Code still available on Github. https://github.com/dabodev/dabo
> While most programming languages allow you to take an expression (1213, "moo") and infer the type (Int, String), Scala allows you to go the other direction: take the type (Int, String) and infer a value (1213, "moo")! This is tremendously useful in a whole range of different scenarios

That's an interesting way to put it (and pretty neat), but I guess I'm not totally convinced it is that useful in practice. I saw the linked example about the parser using implicit objects but I think that could be rewritten in a number of different ways without relying on that feature.
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1344361051048042497
This is definitely a nice built-in tool. I still find ShareX to be a bit more flexible and fit my workflow better, but this is great for getting screenshots from other people.
Because browser vendors decided to toggle it to on by default, which made it meaningless.
yes there's certainly an issue with the current trend of developing everything in public, and the lack of clarity about what is and is not safe to use.

There's also the land-grab issue where as a new language/ecosystem appears, the first people to write libraries for any given purpose get all the installs and thus all the attention & potentially profit, leading to perverse incentives to shit out tons of undertested code when a new platform gains traction.

Presumably the mechanism of preventing people from relying on bad code is the typical behaviour of "add the dependency from npm/rubygems/crate/etc that is most popular for the subject", where most learning-exercise code doesn't get pushed to a distribution platform, and if it does, doesn't get widely dispersed. Of course this doesn't protect against people /trying/ to distribute code that is not up-to-press, but that's a social rather than a technical hurdle to overcome.
In Czechia we got KN95s for like 35 cents. Altough proper FFP2s are for atleast 1.5 euros.
Right, he is comparing the total usage of the network including externalities. But not on a per-transaction basis, since that would be meaningless, as the transactions per second can be scaled arbitrarily with almost no change in energy consumption.

The problem here is not about including the externalities (although that is an important thing to consider). The problem here is that it is a mistake to look at the value only in terms of transactions per second when transaction rate is just one factor by which you can judge a monetary system. It's not necessary for Bitcoin to compete with other monetary systems in terms of transaction rate for it to be useful.
Spend 11 years buying back stock instead of saving anything then immediately bailed out at first sign of trouble.

Private profit, public risk. 'Tis lame.
Do you have any money to apply for? I'm in Canada and my friends who've applied have all gotten it. This is the last time anyone should have to live cheap, it's the time when all the taxes you've paid do the job of taking care of you.
> Apple just needs to have a docking station on their offerings.

But they do, it's called Thunderbolt, and they were the first manufacturer to really buy in hard.

For any laptop that can run within the 100 watt limit of USB-C charging there's little to nothing a proprietary docking solution offers compared to TB3, and even those that require more power can still use a TB dock just with one additional cable to plug in.

Yes there are a lot of crappy Thunderbolt and/or USB-C docks out there, but it's not like proprietary docks were ever bug-free either. At least now you have a choice of dozens of vendors rather than being stuck with whatever the laptop OEM wants to offer, and changing model lines doesn't mean buying a whole new set of docks.
Amtrak also does shipping, including loads on pallets[1].

1: https://www.amtrak.com/express-shipping
That is a great question, and I might be misremembering that detail.
That’s an odd result. CarPlay is just a way to mirror your phone’s screen and audio to the car’s screen. If you have one map app showing maps and giving directions then it would be the same on both screens and only one audio stream. Perhaps if you had two map apps running at the same time you might get different directions.
Once upon a time people and web hosting companies knew how to parse access logs into beautiful analytics systems with software like JAWStats (http://www.jawstats.com/).

It's really a shame that Google Analytics has become the only way to handle traffic analysis.
Not even movie hackers type code in a variable-width font!

I think you want to also reference that home.css on the hacking page..
Oh and this question was sparked by this thread about datacenter ownership:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482123
OK, and how do you make money with this?
This is the average font size of the PDFs I read:
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf

Would something like that read fine? Apologies for a pile of questions: Nook Color isn't available here in Canada, and I was thinking of taking a bus trip to Buffalo to grab one of these if the Nook is worth it.
I would make it an option.
> I'd be more likely to read a comment with a score of 95% than one with a score of 20%.

Seconding this idea, I really love it. The biggest problem with a linear point count is the large dependency on a comment's visibility and number of impressions, which in turn leaves posters competing for that as much as for inherent comment quality. The implementation would be up for discussion, maybe something like show a comment's positive percentage once it garners a sample size of 5 or 10 votes, and maybe round off to the nearest 10% so you can't triangulate back to the actual score from the change inflicted by your single vote.
Sony has said in the past that they don't plan to release another console until 2014, actually.

(From a quick search: http://www.techgadgetsweb.com/2622/xbox-playstation-coming-2... )
The Rails community is serious about outreach. Good on ya!
Won't work because cosmos is mostly vacuum already :) But there are some neat tricks with lasers that can help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom

When really scares me is how easy it would be for a malicious actor to kickstart the process. Imagine a cylinder filled with ball bearings painted black and an explosive device in the middle. Launch that to a mega-constellation altitude and at the very least that orbital altitude is no longer inhabitable.
So, we’re giving a free, fully featured Alpha SSL certificate for every ____domain name you’ve got registered with us____.
I don't know how to feel about this one.

Yes, what Trump said was highly inappropriate, was pretty obviously intended to agitate a bunch of angry protesters, and resulted in a violent and destructive riot. And when things finally boiled over, instead of condemning the rioters he only tried to walk them back to just before the breaking point. That is obviously unacceptable conduct for a president and I think Facebook has correctly assessed the situation when they say his posts' "effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence".

However... it's also important to note that assessment was made in hindsight. Facebook did not block his account or remove his posts until the riots had already run their course. I suspect that is because Trumps posts (at least the ones I've seen) never directly called for violence - even if that was his intent. What Trump said yesterday was not inconsistent with what he has been saying ever since he lost the election. In context yesterday was different, but that context was never considered until well after events had already unfolded.

So what's the precedent here? Would Trump's posts still be a block-able offense if the riots never happened? What if the context were different and he made the same posts on just another normal Wednesday? Does intent play into it? I believe Trump had bad intent here, but how do you prove that?

Ultimately, I have to ask all these questions because I don't trust Facebook. Their business model is based on establishing and re-enforcing echo chambers to maximize engagement and ad revenue. Those echo chambers have become factories for misinformation and social unrest. Facebook's response is to establish vague and inconsistent policies regarding appropriate content as they scramble to de-platform the echo chambers they consider to be problematic.

Praising Facebook here feels to me like praising BP for their efforts to clean up the 2010 oil spill. Except BP's oil spill and subsequent cleanup efforts didn't threaten to underpin democracy and plunge the nation into a prolonged period of violence.
Yes. I found it really quite distressing to watch.
I'm going to stop repeating myself. You have not materially engaged with any of the arguments I have made in support of my positions nor coherently addressed my position, rather have taken the positions I have provided and engaged in no dialog beyond repeating your own claims that I have tried to address reasonably. At this rate we will continue in circles.
Gosh, I still like perl. Don't do too much of that anymore, but man, it's terse and powerful for just getting stuff done.