jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
this isn't entirely true, PayPal does charge a transaction fee every time you sell or buy
We must have had a dud as we got the Dyson animal hair one and it was terrible. Battery life was rubbish, the suction was crappy and the pick up just wasn't that good.

Ended up getting a gtech which was fine for 2 adults in a small 2 bed house with wooden floors, but now we have kids and a bigger place we got a Shark corded and it is amazing. Literally the best vacuum we've ever owned.
I’ve been using the Ubuntu Budgie for a few months now to replace an ancient MBP and it’s been great. Some minor bugs, but nothing like what others are mentioning (switching between workspace works fine, and is fast)
via @tobi

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1359854696257757184?s=20
> to form the foundation for a sovereign internet owned by everyone.

> Please join the development channels of our Discord and start a thread with the community.

...
New versions of Rust come out every six weeks, so you basically can never find something that is covering the absolute latest head.

However, new features are additive, so you won't learn stuff that's incorrect, you just may not be aware of later, new things.
OMG did they really pick an OS that's so known for its unreliability that it coined "the blue screen of death" and that people now expect it to update without their consent?!?!

Windows is an awful choice for any system that must be reliable. I know, because the industrial control system at my workplace used to be windows, and cost us mega bucks every year in down time. Now it's Linux, and we haven't had ANY downtime in over two years.
I didn’t know I had to register. The IRS had my info on file for the first round of stimulus payments so I figured they’d just do the same thing this time around. Apparently you’re supposed to register for it? The wording is unclear to me. But the response after filling in that form, at least for me, was that they are mailing the check and not direct depositing it.
I'm working on my second million!

(...I gave up on my first.)
Having lots of them around, means still lots of radioactive accidents, because of normal accidents.

And to actually power your car, I believe they have too little power output, so they would only make for a expensive and dangerous car batterie, but one you do not have to charge.

(also, terrorists, dirty bombs, ...)
It certainly could happen down the road, but the post says the opposite for the time being, that they'll continue to support usage outside Unreal Engine.
You write an email that references something you read in a classified briefing?

Nancy Pelosi is part of the Gang of Eight - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence) which is briefed on National Security matters by the Executive Branch (this is top secret, special forces operations style stuff).
?? It's not for me on android :(
Designers trying to assert pixel-perfect control of layout is part of why the web sucks so much today.

Sending a high resolution image to a user with a low pixel density display is wasting their bandwidth and battery. Sending a low resolution image to a user with a high pixel density display isn't giving them the good experience they paid for when they bought a high end device.

Optimization is about giving all the users the best experience you can on a website. It doesn't necessarily change the design at all.
Not OP, but I kinda know what he's talking about, here's a shortened version of how it works:

- Stop drinking coffee
- Get rid of Social media notifications and stuff
- Actively aim to bore yourself when the day starts, don't look at the phone.
- Then suddenly you'll notice that your brain is dying to do something interesting, so much that you'll start reading toothpaste's label while brushing your teeth. Start building up stories about how that label came to be (and all that is ok, as long as it isn't jumping around).
- Then open your computer and the task you want to do, and find yourself be VERY INTERESTED in doing that.
As somebody who isn't much into gaming, let alone IF, the game that really drove home the point that IF can be awesome is Violet. You can play it online here: http://pr-if.org/play/violet/

(Of course, as is usual with fiction and culture in general, what we enjoy always reflects on ourselves. There is delicious irony in my having played Violet as a distraction during my own PhD...)
This looks very promising.

Could you please share the roadmap? When is the support for desktop clients planned?

When can evernote documents be migrated?
This. While common in many fields, I feel that this is most obvious with musicians. "What? I'm not paying this band $1000 for a 2 hour performance!" When, in reality, you are paying them for many hours of practice in order to prepare for that 2 hour performance as well.
I already asked here before but what is the status of the GC regarding real-time games? ( for a gameserver )
Just from the screenshots it looks like it might be a good tool for teaching students learning about pointers.
Sure, and Harry would see that. Voldemort would not. He wants a subverted Harry on his side, but he doesn't care about rebuilding the universe to be nice.
I'm not going to play dumb and act like I didn't realize what I was doing.

I did it partly for the money, and partly for the sake of helping someone who would probably not have a chance to improve their life (via education). We remain good friends to this day - she called just before I read your comment.

" They're stupid because you provided them absolutely no incentive not to be."

There are some people who, irrespective of the work they put in, who will never be able to learn somethings. I used to think that people were just lazy, but then I realized that many things are beyond most people. Don't believe for a second that one day, everyone will be smart, uber-rational and we'll all live in some Randian, Galt-led utopia.

Deep, critical thinking is not possible for most people. Through no fault of their own, they simply lack the mental hardware. I recognize that this view is very un-PC, but if mind is a function of matter as I believe, some people, regardless of what they do, will never be able to reason at a high level.

The logical question then, is this: How moral is it to help someone game the system? I wouldn't feel good helping an incompetent med student or civil engineer, but what about some mid-level paper pusher? But then again, if I'm willing to make exceptions, that puts me on the slippery slope: where, exactly, do I draw the line?

I'm sorry, but I don't have easy answers. Thanks for your comment, though.
I mean that Amazon has this sort of weird separation between sites; that, for instance, amazon.de isn't even available in English; that their European presence is spotty.

Ideally, I would sign in to 'amazon.com' and be able to browse in whatever language I want, and shop for books written in whatever language I'm interested in, and get them shipped to me from the nearest/cheapest/fastest/whatever location.

Like a lot of US companies, I get the feeling that they don't fully "get" Europe in some ways.
That's my approach too. Most of it never gets opened, but once in a while I'm fooled by an official looking envelope.
Here's what I needed to do to install and run Atomo under (latest) Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform libghc6-terminfo-dev
$ cabal update
$ cabal install atomo
$ ~/.cabal/bin/atomo
> 1 + 1
2
One hundred percent correct. When he said,

“If Retweet equals Member of Strategy Group, add to midmorning direct message queue.” “If Silverlight press conference transcript feed contains question from Mary Jo Foley, route to broker queue with Unload flag.” And so on.

...I started cracking up. Expecting general consumers to configure the logic behind their social stream is just a hilarious failure to understand how people socialize.

Email filtering is and will always be a power user feature. The same goes for any feature where you have to configure a set of rules. Most people do not like, care, or want to do such a thing. Press a button and feed me! Accept, Ignore, Like!
> It became illegal because competitor operators were a threat to AT&T.

Actually you're wrong; it was made illegal because most people in command back then thought that it made more sense. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly.

Free-market religion is relatively new, and remains largely questionable.
"AI : A Modern Approach" is considered the high-level standard text on the subject. It's coverage is fairly broad, but it prioritizes the idea of an AI "agent"; an autonomous "thing" attempting to understand its environment and make the best choices within the context of it's given priorities.

The "AI Game Programming Wisdom" books I own the first 2 volumes of. They're the same format as the "Game Programming Gems" (or "Graphics Gems" before that). That is, a series of articles written by many different authors on a smorgasbord of topics. Pros : Wide and sometimes highly-specific coverage and many code samples. Cons : Can be heavily cherry-picked in topic choices. May not be pertinent to anything you need specifically. Refer to the TOC on each respective volume to see if any of the articles pertain to what you need.

Also, this article from Game Developer Magazine offers a cursory introduction to the approach taken by the Norvig book; Agents : https://www.scribd.com/doc/251684769/Adding-Planning-Capabil...
I support home schooling, but with strong requirements like Pennsylvania used to have:

<< Until recently, Pennsylvania had one of the strictest home-school laws in the nation. Families keeping their children out of traditional classrooms were required to register each year with their local school district, outlining study plans and certifying that adults in the home did not have a criminal record. At the end of the year, they submitted portfolios of student work to private evaluators for review. The portfolio and evaluator’s report then went to a school district superintendent to approve. >>

Pretty scary that "in half the states, children who are taught at home never have to take a standardized test or be subject to any sort of formal outside assessment."
Pardon me if I'm skeptical that a multibillion dollar company the size of Hilton Hotels can't strong arm a local ISP into caving on a contract. The cost of a lawsuit alone would cause whoever said ISP is to shit their pants and give them whatever they want.
Google wrote a blog post about this a few years ago:

- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...
A good example is the Ampere generation of GPU's.

The data centre parts were fabbed on TSMC 7, the consumer on Samsung 8

The consumer parts hit their performance envelope but use about 30% more energy than the data center parts, for the same performance envelope.
You don't need to see the rest of the codebase to realise that's probably wrong. In any codebase, locks only apply to the scope they're in.
Voice programming takes a fair amount of effort to get started with, however once you have your microphone dialed and are getting good recognition you can take 'baby steps' and start augmenting your workflow to include voice.

i.e. with Talon the alphabet is custom, so once you learn that you can do a lot with just `cmd+tab` `cmd+A`, `cmd+ C`, etc... and it is customizable using python scripting so you can simplify many common tasks.

I believe there is a VSCode plugin for Talon, I personally use Atom.

Certain things are tedious with voice coding, like typing common abbreviated words like `args`; with Talon you have a few options, spell it out: `arch red gust sun` or use the `shrink` command `shrink arguments` or if you use it a lot you can come up with your own customized word for it; also words that sound the same but are spelled differently: `two`, `to`, `too` or even `2`
All I'm saying is that Hinduism, Buddhism & Jainism evolved from interactions with each other. This is a clique not a digraph.
Just make a tip. Problem solved.
I think that they have already thought hard about the second order effects of publishing full names and this is the conclusion they have come to for all articles.

If I go to any NY Times article there are always full names attached. There is an article on a sex podcaster on the front-page now. She goes by her full name - but let's see she had asked just to go by her first name and also asked the NY Times not to report what medical/therapy qualification she did or did not have. In doing so, she could claim, it would jeopardize people she went to college with finding her talk about sex online on the podcast she publishes herself and spends time promoting. Should the NY Times honor that?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/style/emily-morse-masterc...
This is a great article, I can relate. I specialise in replacing large parts of codebases with code that does the same thing from a business point of view but that makes future changes cheaper to make. One thing I thing that is worth mentioning is the political aspect of this sort of work. The people in power need to be comfortable with the fact that you will be introducing risk without immediate reward. That is a tough sell to someone who is used to putting out fires and writing root cause analysis reports to management. Sometimes this can’t be done and you have to hide your refactor in real business change work. This is not fun because it usually makes it look like you’re a slow dev.

In addition, most developers are fiercely defensive of their code and you need to be aware of that when you chose to replace it. A trick I find useful is publicly declaring, in your team meeting, how useful you found x members tests in covering your refactor. Or their comments or documentation or domain knowledge. When you are picking their brains for implementation specifics try to sympathise with them when you see a bit of hacky or confusing code. Say “I’ve had to do something like that before because of xyz”. It will save face and you will get more out of the developer. Never criticise, they will know what they have done wrong without you telling them. Just, be nice.

If you are looking for devs that can do this sort of work effectively then get them to read code in an interview and explain what it does to you. They can even offer suggestions and you get to see how they deliver criticism. Not complex algorithmic code but simple vast swaths of business junk.
The expensive bit is that most vegans want to broadly maintain the flavors and textures of a animal products diet without the animal products.
>The property ownership ladder is still available all over the US to the lower middle class and up.

It is available outside the coastal cities if you have a coastal city salary. That kind of defeats the purpose.

>Take as much money as you want from Google and Apple, it won’t change the fact that there are only enough houses in the Bay Area for about half of the people that live there.

There's enough space in the U.S. to build new housing. Like nice 2000+ sqft houses with lots, owned by the people living there. If only a huge chunk of the economy wasn't tied to a few megacorporations located in a handful of cities. So instead, we keep fighting for a right to live in a rented 500sqft box with barely enough space to sleep.
I navigate codebases by cat'ing all the files together (prefixed with filename) and piping it into vim.

I was shocked how much I learn by this seemingly-horrible technique. For example, the python files that actually get deployed are often quite different from the ones in source control. For tensorflow, at least.

I regularly read 1M+ lines of code this way. Not an exaggeration; vim scales, nothing else does.
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>>> So, yeah: not allowed
I believe it is unethical to upend people's lives, except if they have committed a serious crime or done something truly heinous; and being a journalist and doing it in the course of writing an article is not a valid exception. You do not believe this. We have a disagreement in values, so I don't believe we can come to an agreement.
> But any large scale organized crime venture is fractal, it goes from the global scale, all the way down to the entry-level neighborhood crooks, and your shipping or IP ploy doesn't work for a wide range of scams, but $billions in small-scale cards do.

But there are thousands of other methods, arbitrarily many, for doing the same thing at any scale.

> Same for BTC, where you can transfer billions, but how do you smurf out $1billion into $USD? it's got to be 101K++ transactions under $10K, and widely distributed.

I'm not really seeing the difference.

Option one, the dealers make $9000 in cash, go buy $9000 worth of some non-perishable commodity and put it in a shipping container. Repeat until the shipping container is full, then ship it to the place they want the money to end up.

Option two, do the same thing with Bitcoin. All they need is someone willing to sell Bitcoin for cash.

> The prosecutors and judges did not apply sufficient penalties.

The War on Drugs fallacy. "The problem isn't that the entire thing is an exercise in futility, it's that the penalty isn't high enough."

The criminals discount the penalty regardless of what it is because they don't expect to get caught. They're often right.

> Your small desire to evade a nonexistent and ineffective scrutiny about where you spend your VISA gift card

You've being overly flippant about the legitimate concerns and chilling effects of surveillance on vulnerable populations who have to worry about not only what the data is used for today, but what will happen to them if the winds change and the data on what they do today is still in the database five years from now.

> the need for the still-democratic countries to attempt to survive an onslaught of transnational organized crime attempting to implement autocracies to enable their crime.

Or you could just decriminalize drugs and put them all out of business.
imo the distinction between the subject of a profile, and a whistleblower, has long been established in the media.

If they had reported an article on someone who was running around the White House trying to subvert things they obviously would publish the name of who was the person doing that - even if in the same article they did not name the sources of who was giving them that information

The distinction between a source and a subject is clear and I think it is unfair to group these together
Sure, but you seem to be implying that government has no place in how we self-police and restrain ourselves. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Government is not an external entity which subjugates us, it is the tool by which we settle our grievances with each other without beating each other to death with rocks. To facilitate that, we give government the exclusive right to police us. And I would argue part of that duty extends to ensuring that the populace is informed and aware of the facts of the situation.

In our rush to condemn the reprehensible aspects of government we have lost sight of the goal, which is to promote civil society and respect for our fellow man.
And when politicians call each other Nazis, or when Joe Biden claimed that Mitt Romney wanted to re-enslave black people?

Seems like you're only going to apply your "inciting violence" claim to one side. I watched cities burn over the summer and intense levels of violence... And yet no one on the left trotted out speech bans and "incitement to violence" claims. It's obvious you're selectively targeting enforcement of intentionally vague standards. Federal buildings were being accosted in Portland and Seattle just a few months ago and the mayors supported them. Haven't seen their accounts banned.
But why Telegram over Signal?
Custom domains seems like a lot of work, I think just the path would be nifty!

I wouldn't be opposed to whole themes, but even just being able to change the background color would be a nice small touch. Maybe you could even do that over SMS? Perhaps forward slashes like in IRC?

I assume you're doing something along the lines of hashing the incoming phone number right now which is a nifty way to reduce overhead!
Writing HTML and CSS by hand?! Those are just the output. OOTB Wordpress didn't have a perfect Lighthouse score, so it's worthless?

> I didn’t need 99% of its features anyway

Oh, then it was already a terrible fit. So why are you advising people on how to replace Wordpress?
That’s a pretty false equivalence. To cite the most recently example, Fox repeatedly propagating Trump’s lies about the election has no analog on the left.
I'd just stop using it. I don't feel compelled to use something to be part of a group, but that's just me.
This so much to the point as well:
"The math needed for most specifications is quite simple: predicate logic and elementary set theory."

I would take ABNF as used in RFC:s and a few clarifying diagrams over verbose UML vomit any day :)
A serious contender to Google isn't going to be a better Google (or even a comparable one), exactly for the reasons you mention. It's going to be something else altogether.

I can't tell you what the answer is, but I am pretty sure that it's outside the box you've built yourself into.
Am I misinterpreting, 350 in one classroom, or does class here mean what I'd think of as 'subject' ?
There are some levels of pain I would actually prefer over solitary confinement.

Consider that more people kill themselves because they can't bear psychological pain than they do because they can't bear physical pain.
Is Google Translate totally useless? I've found it does a great job of providing audio in and out, as well as romanization so you can do a hack job from zero. Google Translate even seems to offer a limited IME so you can type roman or kana and it'll guess the kanji.

Shopping in Korean, I can just set it to OCR mode and sorta read labels I don't understand. (Of course, Hangul's probably a lot easier to OCR than kana+kanji.) I've also found that while the store people will respond to me in Korean if they don't see me, once they realize it's me they flip into a common third tongue.

I've even had "conversations" in other languages just by pressing the flip button and letting the other person talk. They can correct any audio recognition failures or just type.

In general, the translations for simple stuff and interactions seem pretty good. Sometimes you need the alternative translations to find one that is accurate. But I wouldn't say you "cannot speak, listen, write, or read anything".

OTOH, sometimes it has odd things. Formal-something I (吾輩) like from the "I am a cat" gets translated as "Spence" (I think the pronoun isn't used much). Or maybe one possible pronunciation of them is close enough to Spence it's used as a name in some place that uses those characters?

Not to mention, you can pick up the kana in a week, and at least the meanings of the basic kanji in a month or two, claims the guy that made the book that did teach me kana in a week. I'd assume if you're gonna go to Japan and be serious, you'd at least listen to the first 10 Pimsleur sessions for basic "hi I can't speak Japanese", and learn the scripts somewhat.