jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding monetization, I have no intentions of making any money off this site - ever. The advertisements were there because wikidot adds them to free accounts. They should be gone though, since I paid for a "no adverts" account.

As for games and articles, I am working on it and hopefully others will contribute the odd bit of code or link too. In the meantime, I have linked whatever clojure game dev related libraries, articles and blog posts I could find on google, so at least the wiki can act as a place to collect them all in one place - until I get more content, at least.

The reason I put it on HN at all with so little content is exactly because I'm not doing this for money - I'm doing it because I would like to promote clojure, game development and, most importantly, game development in clojure and have received a few emails about the site over the past few weeks. This proved to me that there is interest in such a thing, now I'd like to see if theres enough interest for people to contribute, since it would take me a long time if I'm the only one creating content.

tl;dr: The site is for the community, so I wanted to get the community involved as early as possible. Apologies for the adverts, they should be gone now.
You lost me at "gun nut".
What externalities are you thinking of besides road usage and parking?
Where is the proof that human "rational" thinking is anything but curve fitting? I'm not convinced
I’m not saying it’s “wrong”, rather it’s naive to think that they will create a “competitor” to one of the major chip makers/designers or that it is the desire of their investors.

Notice I didn’t say whether it was their desire. What they want is inconsequential once you take investor money.
Someone once said to Yo-Yo Ma, "Oh I'd give my life to play like you do." To which he replied, "I did."
> The military problem is really quite simple, and need involve virtually no shooting or destruction. You just put the cities under siege and wait for the starving people to come out. It won’t take long.

WTF?!? And then what do you do with all these blue city Democrats? (They must "obviously" be Democrats, right?) Put them in camps? Taunt them? Re-educate them? Final solution them?

All these people talking about civil war (I hear it occasionally at truck stops) remind me of a dog chasing a car. OK, you caught it. Did you "win?" What are you going to do with it? What's your plan?
All true, though the electric trucks with a much lower center of mass and the evenly distributed weight of the battery will improve on this somewhat.
*in certain parts of kenya, according to one study.

Does anyone have a link to the actual paper? I think HN knows by now that most publications miss the nuance of most publishings.
This is my experience as well. At this point in my career, craft and quality is about the only thing that keeps me from ejecting.
The fast switching is still a failure of defence in depth.

It could be internally rate limited to some value (which I don't know), and also with some random backoff value so Powerwalls could not be synchronised.
Regarding health insurance, there's usually a university student plan he can sign up for.
If you can afford to have a throwaway phone with a second phone line of service -- remember, WA must be tied to a phone number, and you don't want to give FB your real phone number, right? -- then you are probably doing better than the average person. Remember all those articles about how the average US resident can't afford a single $400 surprise bill? That's called privilege. Nobody is saying to "feel ashamed" about it, just remember that if you're suggesting a second phone as an acceptable solution to this problem.
At last, the plight of the female elites is over. Literally dozens of women will benefit from this law. It's great to live in a society that has no problems worse than the careers of a few managers.
BBC version of the story: Coronavirus: 'Major incident' declared in London by [mayor] Sadiq Khan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55588163
The thing about Cookie-law and cookie privacy issues is: it assumes everyone has this centralized browsing session that they use for /all/ their browsing. There would be a good number of people who use incognito mode or private browsing mode. I don't know the stats, but I imagine a good chunk of people use incognito mode for NSFW surfing sessions. And whilst cookie banners are annoying, they are a small price to pay if it means you have the choice to wipe cookies after a browsing session.

For me personally I use different browsers for different things, and if I don't want to be tracked and have browsing artifacts like cookies correlating data together and tracking me, I just go incognito and call it a day. Google's attempt to re-design how browsers work at this fundamental level is welcomed, but that means other browsers have to do the same, which I don't see happening. Firefox rarely copies Chrome features (or Chrome's anti-features).
well, there's only one "synergy" that you can install from NPM, etc, but yeah - it's crazy that NPM site is working in that way because the other project has a project name that doesn't match its package name. I'll be sure to raise a ticket for that this afternoon so thanks again for pointing it out!
I can understand hardware vendors not actively working with you on designs unless you're buying in volume. That's fine, they're a business, they have to make money and not lose money.

What I don't understand about the hardware industry is the extent to which they actively restrict access to information on how their product works unless you're buying in volume. Why is it necessary to have layers of NDAs on a product datasheet? Many of the people who might write software to integrate with some hardware are not the people manufacturing high-volume products based on it! (See: Linux driver developers.)
IMHO what's still lacking is the feedback loop.

Current systems are limited to ingesting input and providing output.

A big part of medical diagnosis, however, is to do follow-up exploration based on results of a previous examination.

This is a big part of "intelligence" that's still missing entirely from all approaches that I'm aware of, i.e. the ability to ask further questions/request data based on preliminary results from previous inputs.
If you forgot your password manager master password?

Short of brain damage, I don't think that would ever happen.

It would be a hassle for my family if I died, though. I'm young, but I should still get that scenario worked out.
Downloading docs is a good Idea. Will check if I can get all the docs for all the various packages. Basically that is not that important, because I already know them pretty well. Actually thought to do some stuff with cython, but guess for that I really need stack overflow to come fast forward.
My favourite aspect of this story is how the academics, being academics, took it upon themselves to characterise the problem in detail before telling the postmaster about it. Could just as easily have said "huh, that's weird" and thrown it at them on day one.
The original author addressed him as Dr. Stallman, so perhaps RMS was just responding in kind (perhaps even ironically).
Wufoo has payment integration in their forms. http://wufoo.com/payments/
However there are a lot of resorts on Sicily.
I'm unsure what it tells us.
I learned this lesson from Go rather than chess, but I'm not sure why (having been exposed to chess for far longer).
Check what Steve Mann, which I refenced, did re augmented reality. Really cool, long ago. (His work with cameras and different exposures to handle dark/light picture parts has gotten analogies in modern cameras the last few years.)
Paprika seems to be 100% tied to the iPad, which I don't like - I'd much rather have an iPad interface to something on the web.
It's Hacker News, not Newbie News.
Link to the changelog: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_2_136/ChangeLo...
No, that's still not really a good way of looking at it--you are assuming those things are mutually exclusive when they aren't.

I would call myself an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in gods, but I have to admit there's no way to prove they don't exist.

I've met people who consider themselves agnostic theists--they think a god probably exists but they admit they cannot prove it.
Last updated May 20, 2002.
DrRacket (packaged with the Racket variant of Scheme) provides some indenting and paren matching that is helpful, at least compared to a basic text editor.
http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Ei...
During the height of the bitcoin bubble I had my gym coach leave job and become "crypto investor" ... Katy Perry changed her nails to each look like one of the popular coins. And yes I did have an uber driver talk to me about crypto. The mainstream media were shilling Ripple at its highest price ever.

Today, all the same people talk about coming recession.

I was lucky to have my first job in finance during the credit crunch crisis. Until it was over media we're adamant it's just a correction. We did not believe it either ... we all thought it's a good time to buy cheap before the next bull run. Only about 3 people actually predicted it (even though AFTER the recession media came up with a dozen people who claimed so - none of them ever made any bets on it)

It's hard to imagine recession come when everyone expects it.
I actually started reading the Book of Why and I recommend it to the HN crowd. Pearl does a really good job of going through the history of causality, including the quite interesting story behind the now known to be wrong (or at least incomplete) claim that "correlation is not causality".

He then places causality on a 3-rung scale. The bottom rung is association in data, which is where he says AI is stuck. Then there's intervention, "what if I do this thing?", and then there's counterfactuals, "what if I had done some other thing?"

He then makes a case for what intelligence actually is, and unsurprisingly it's getting up those three rungs. The method revolves around directed graphs, which have certain unintuitive properties. For instance if A and B can both cause C, knowing that A is unlikely make B more likely, given that C happened. There's a few other stock situations in various graphs that he walks through as well.

In the end the point seems to be that we could have a causal machine if we'd spend some more time on it. It would take data and try out some potential graphs, and some of the graphs would be ruled out by the data. And then some algo would tell you things like whether a randomized trial is necessary or even whether you'd need one (yes, this is another revelation).

I think there's also an argument that this is how people actually think, which makes sense because the graphs are not terribly large and they need to fit in your meat hardware. I haven't finished it but I would guess that you could take it in another direction and say this is why some animals sorta have intelligence in that they learn patterns, but they don't know the higher rungs.

Really interesting ideas, and at least clarifies what we mean by causality.
This is super cool! I’d never considered literally changing the fry formula to keep them crispy - that’s clever.

Years ago I daydreamed about this problem (it was never a serious endeavor but fun to think about). I’d thought the key would be to make a cheap container that optimized for crispness. Maybe something that absorbed moisture but had a reflective inner coating to insulate and keep the heat.

Anyway, it’s always fun to read about more-serious folks who tackle the same problems and find good solutions!
Dunno but apparently it's used for that kind of stuff a bit https://www.upmet.com/products/stainless-steel/301
I don't think the problem is on my end.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=poop+streets&ia=news
What's your point? That this is okay?
I would encourage anyone to visit Copenhagen and cities in the Netherlands to see how non-car-obsessed cities are like. And generally how well things work. People in general are happy, healthy - they live slow - there are very few homeless.

It's like living in the future. But it will never take root in Anglo countries until their obsession against "communism" goes away.

I think that their drive towards socialism is the logical way for humanity to save ourselves. Working together towards health, happiness, progress and survival.
If starting with super hard cold rolled steel, it’s most likely impossible to “stamp” using traditional progressive stamping dies. The deformation has to exceed the final shape and via springback the final shape is produced.

Springback is possible on a press brake when folding along a single straight line. If panel needs a 30 deg bend, then bend it to 40, and it pops back 10 when off the press brake. As an example.

That quickly gets impossible to do when you start bending around complicated 3D contours.
I want to read it but the site is obnoxious. Anybody got an EPUB?

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got an epub http://www.filedropper.com/affordances
I agree. In our current neoliberal era, the ones in power have already been replacing various systems in our society with algorithms and computers, and formulating everything into an optimization problem. As a result of this, the reverse has happened: the systems are now shaping humanity into something that could be optimized.

We have been trying to manage governments, public services, and education the same as corporations, creating numerical targets for institutions to optimize for. Education itself was formulated as an optimization problem about how to create more jobs. Public services like healthcare were privatized and became a target for profit optimization. Half of the stock market is controlled by High-Frequency Trading supercomputers, which will do virtually anything to gain an upper-hand in profits. Those methods were all inherited from the management styles of corporations that began in the neoliberal era. As fundamental parts of our society are replaced by those systems, the society now curve-fits the systems rather than the systems curve-fitting the society. We now hyperoptimize ourselves to fit in this neoliberal landscape; our time is told as something to be optimized between work, socializing, exercising, and self-improving, with no space for "actual free time" of our own. We go to college not to learn but to pass exams and get ourselves a good job that can sustain us. And the faults of our systems are now blamed to be individual problems: "You didn't optimize towards the current trends of the job market, it's your fault." And from the view of the corporations, we are just AI agents waiting to be optimized for cash, and we're now becoming one through fitting our bodies and minds to the social media that tries to maximize engagement and ad revenue no matter the real societal cost.

Now, the real problem of AI compared to the algorithms of the past is its data-driven nature: it can only learn from what data you give it for training. We can only accumulate data from the past and never from the future, so the AI systems will just keep repeating the past, no matter what unseen change will come. We will lose the ability to imagine new political, economic alternatives, we will just be feeding ourselves the status quo, and societal advancement will stagnate at the hands of automated systems. The cancellation of the future: this is what I'm ultimately afraid of.
Look into land value tax. The goal of property tax is not just to fund collective expenses, but also to encourage the most valuable use of the land for the collective benefit (eg. let's not waste valuable inner Bay Area land on single family homes, but instead with more dense uses like four plexes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
You say this jokingly, but the last company he worked at lost 90% of its value while he was there.
I think you have to actively ignore the last three sentences that I wrote to think this is a reasonable reply.
hey bored people. reddit is still down... what do i do with my spare time?
Congrats Dalia. I read your post and then returned here hoping that you were active in the comments. Not only are you clearly a strong engineer, but you're also a great writer which is an extremely valuable skill as you'll hopefully discover. Best of luck at Google!
Why do you think the current prioritization exists?

The cynic in me thinks it has to do with power projection and the economy.

The less cynical part of me wonders if it’s related to a cognitive bias that over-weights threats from rival “tribes” and the need to ensure stability
Lots of .Net companies dabble in Node.js and other alternatives to .Net and any competent developer is capable of creating sites on any operating system with a little bit of time and patience to learn.

I've been doing .Net development for over 5 years and my newest site is based in Node.js hosted on AWS. I am currently using Web Storm, which is great, but this plugin is definitely something I'll check out and is probably created for people like me: Someone who is a .Net developer, already has VS, but has a need for Node.js code.
Sorry, just re-read the full question. To clarify, I still have an account. I do not log in anymore. I deleted the app off my phone and do not visit the site.
I realized that the entire piece is hinged upon this incorrect assumption:

>This isn't something that we like to think about as programmers, because we'd really rather believe that we're always working from scratch and only writing the completely correct stuff that really has to be there;

This is the issue I have with this article - the author assumes everyone works in exactly the same way they do and so are vulnerable in exactly the same way to their vulnerabilities. I don't know anyone who actually approaches programming in such a way that they think they're writing things from scratch and it's correct. I mean, defensive coding is a concept that has existed for decades that specifically addresses how incorrect the code we interact with is. The fact that I started coding in an environment where I had to manage memory myself and now I don't makes me very aware of the fact that everything I'm using is an abstraction built upon other abstractions.

I dunno, the day I learned to program in Intro to C and Intro to Computer Science, defensive coding, not trusting user input, and the completely understandable at the time weirdness of the guy who came before you have been stressed as things to pay attention to.
I'm not aware of such a thing.

Really this is based on my readings and few experiments, I'm not 100% sure that datalog can not be made faster and socialite (see below) seem to claim I'm wrong.

Datalog is the native query language of datomic. I can put the finger on it, but I think there is a project for querying cassandra with datalog+clojure.

This is the most recent work I'm aware of:

- python querying of hadoop with a datalog-like language http://socialite-lang.github.io/

- overview: http://fr.slideshare.net/Hadoop_Summit/t-325p211seo

Also best way to learn datalog: http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
If a basic blog editor like Medium is interesting there's an open source clone of it on GitHub (yabwe).

I was looking into it for personal blogging I do like the basic formatting and drag-drop image.

Working with content editable is not too bad, turn images to base64 for live preview... but there is also this nice editor already.
I often feel that I lack the delusion to build a premier company. I try to build a great product, but I can usually point out to other companies that do an element of what I do better. Perhaps no more SWOT analyses.

Such a weird balance that a startup founder must create.
do you really think that the low-paid unskilled TSA workers don't currently do any racial profiling

I think they don't do much racial profiling. As a young guy of middle eastern descent with an obvious arabic surname, I've only rarely gotten extra screening. If the TSA were serious about racial profiling, I'd expect to get extra screening more than half the time I fly rather than on only 5-10% of trips.
I found it kind of weird that the guest post on this guy's blog was his friend talking about how great the blog's owner is.
Maybe pg considers HN essential. You don't outsource your main business.
Thank you for the concrete suggestion! From the screenshots, Roundcube looks like a very good webmail client. It looks like they're going after Outlook though with their feature set and layout.

[Edit] But this is exactly what I'm looking for in terms of being an installable package that can be thrown on a web server and hooked up to an in-house or third party email infrastructure.
This was just a quick one-off hack that I did for fun. I had no idea how many people would find it interesting.

If anybody does want to fix the code so that it loads properly in IE (and doesn't break any other browsers) I'm more than willing to integrate the changes!
No, they really don't. However, I think terrorists use weapons to try to command fear. People are afraid of knives, guns and especially bombs.

Two people are almost guaranteed to take down one man with a knife, because at worst one of the two will be stabbed if you rush the guy. At best the knife is handled and the two people tackle the guy.

Furthermore a box cutter isn't very dangerous. I use one daily at work, the blades are very weak (especially the x-acto style) and cannot be used fully extended or any sideways pressure would snap it (IE grab for the blade and twist your hand, or just try side swiping the blade and it would likely brake to no more than a 1/2" of protruding blade). Rigid blade box cutters (IE Stanley Knife) rarely protrude beyond 1" to 1.5". This still likely sounds very scary to 90% of people, you're still being cut by a knife. However, you're being cut by a knife that's as thin as a scalpel - IE any first aid kit can easily fix a soft-tissue injury if you got stabbed in the torso. For these blades to slash properly, you'd likely get less than a 1/4-1/2" of actual penetration. It would hurt in the aftermath but wouldn't likely cause enough harm to stop you as an initial attack.

The best way to handle a person with a box cutter would likely to be a full-on body-check. If he's in the aisle, he either confronts or runs as there's not enough room for him to dodge you. If he runs, you carry on with the plan and tackle him to the ground. If he confronts you, make sure you jump for the impact. If he stabs you, you'll both still be going to the ground.

When there's a bomb on the plane, you've got nothing to lose by not trying. If someone's got a gun, again, it's simply tackle them. However, a dead-rush won't likely help unless you have kevlar handy so would require a bit more finesse. However, as a group effort taking down a gunman is the best thing to do.
But it does ... look under "account settings" ...
>...because it discourages compliance with interventions with known effectiveness

It's been very disheartening watching so many of our essential institutions toss aside their credibility this last year. I wish I had to words to express how dangerous this is moving forward.
I used it in college before Wolfram Alpha and Stack Overflow were popular. "How is babby made" seems to be the median quality content there.
I've never gotten my head around that aspect. I understand why celebrity endorsements work and why people would buy "Iron Pack" bodybuilding supplements from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But isn't it obvious, just by looking at Alex Jones, that "Super Male Vitality" will not work as advertised? Or are there other guys who consider him to be a symbol of Testosterone, health, strength, fertility and sex appeal? Meaning do other guys look at Alex Jones and think "yes those vitality drops work well for him"?