jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been doing research with GPT-3 and part of my experimentation was to generate Haiku. Took it a step further and generated a book title, subtitle, dedication, forward and even the amazon book review. Used runwayML to generate unique art for the cover.

Happy to send a free PDF copy to anyone who'd like one (e-mail A+AI@175g.com).

Really enjoyed this project and did it in a day and learned more about GPT-3 and StyleGAN.
I actually cut my teeth with it in 1981 as a child. I liked it enough that I graduated to an TRS-80 programming class at age 9. I owe my fondness to coding from that BASIC Cartridge. Funny enough, I was about to donate it with controllers soon.
Does turning them off improve performance?
I do wish people would keep the quasi-religious aspects out of things.

Amphetamine is a perfect example of how the Mac isn't a walled garden. They always had the option top sell outside the App Store. That is fundamentally the difference between what makes a platform a walled garden. They might have lost some sales because they couldn't participate in the Mac App Store, but they could still sell their product. Some companies choose to avoid the Mac App Store because they don't like Apple's policies.
I thought the same thing (Go binaries are so easy to distribute), but they do explain that their devs already have credentials for an internal NPM server, and they wanted to do this "without the need of distributing a new set of tokens or making the binary public". I don't think the trade-off is worth it, but at least it explains their motivation.
> (I can telecommute as a programmer, but would still want to live within a few hours of a major city)

and

> I'd be curious if I could set myself up with a basic home for $40,000 or less

As others have mentioned, it's not too hard to build an off-the-grid small house. If you want to go with new, that's certainly an option.

Since you don't mind being a couple hours from a major city, may I suggest spending a bit more and buying used? You can buy yourself a decent one family home within that distance span. Add some solar panels and you're good to go.

You can also buy a two-family, rent out one of the units, and actually make money. Lots of options in real estate if you don't want to spend a ton.
You'd do well to consider the life of a digital nomad. Here's some links to get you started.

http://nomadlist.io/
http://nomadjobs.io/
https://weworkremotely.com/
I've noticed many product pages these days do some "scroll enhancements" through javascript. This page seems to do that as well. It's very annoying!

The page doesn't really explain what the bookmarklet does, only how I install it. I'd like to know what it does first :)
The status of History and the contents of History school books are not to be conflated.

History, as a science, is a mixed bag of debates and consensus.

History school books are bound to national political ideologies.

Edit: s/confounded/conflated/
I absolutely adore taiga.io though. I’ve only recently stopped using it to give Linear a try; but damn did I feel like they made your sprint planning run on rails with the features and flows they built.
That falls within the purview of philosophy.

You'll die regardless of what you do. You might as well enjoy the ride.
More work for lawyers and not a problem: cost of doing business that will be passed on to you.
It was a difference in flavor. At the time, I attributed it to the decaffeination process that was used, thus causing the drink to taste different. It was a mild difference, but detectable. And I didn't like the different taste.

Thinking back on it, it could just have been that the caffeinated drinks came from a newer batch and the decaffeinated drinks came from an older batch. Or maybe they were canned in different facilities, which might be using different water.

I don't think my mom controlled for all the potentially confounding variables.
There is also `network.http.referer.spoofSource`, which I have used instead of that.
That’s a good point. I imagine many populations have large numbers of people with these ‘underlying conditions’, minor or not. Many folks are at high risk of severe reactions.

I still think it’s important for people to understand that the other conditions do appear the be strongly correlated to severe cases. I don’t think it’s just a false comfort. There is so much misunderstanding out there. Many friends and family I talk to seem to have a distorted view of the realty of what the disease actually is.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
Wow. Wouldn't want to invest with that money manager. If that signal wasn't already well known, giving away secret sauce in a public interview is not a recipe for outsize returns. But it is a well known signal so it's even less useful for investing.

If I've learned anything about the climate crisis from COVID-19, it's that we aren't going to solve the climate crisis unless it's more convenient to do so than not. COVID is a much more pressing problem than climate change and we didn't do anything about it until after it was already a catastrophe.
Numeric code doesn't just mean matrix multiplication. If I have a random nested for loop, it will probably run at least as fast as those languages(apart from maybe Nim, never used it) if annotated with @simd and @inbounds. If I'm operating on a small array/matrix, then Julia will blow Go/Rust out of the water via stack-allocated static arrays (https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl). These can't be implemented in Go because it doesn't support type parameters, let alone integer type parameters, and is only recently supported in Rust via const generics, which as far as I'm aware haven't stabilised yet.
The 0.7 to 1.0 was a planned move that was communicated for over a year. If anything, the 1.0 transition went very smoothly and the Julia community grew significantly soon after its release. All the download and community stats broadly demonstrate this.

IMO, 1.0 was rough not for new users but people who had invested a bunch of time in Julia codes pre 1.0. We anticipated this and therefore had a very carefully planned release strategy to ease the transition with depreciation warnings and preparing 0.7 as a migration aiding release for 0.6 users to 1.0. In fact our release announcement discussed all of this at great length.

https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/one-point-zero/
maybe it will also serve as a reminder that there are things outside the economy that we should really be taking care of
Saying life would be "so much easier" seems like a strong statement, but I expect programming would be. :-)

When I read that example the semantics were obvious to me: adding a map (applying a monoid operation on a map) should add the elements (apply the monoid operation for the elements).
Basically, what happens when a historian imagines a world 400 years in the future as different, socially, as we are from 400 years in the past.
> The money itself is programmable. Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start.

Yikes, that is a lot of power. Been an ideological Bitcoin holder/gold bug/physical cash fan for quite some time now. The sophisticated mechanisms that Central Banks have to control the economy/money seems dangerous in shortsighted democracies, and nightmarish in more authoritarian states.

No anonymity in financial transactions makes it easier to catch drug dealers and tax evaders. The ability to control the money supply will keep the economy healthy (theoretically). Only problem is the ability of communities/individuals to economically resist national governments is so thoroughly squashed that citizens are turned into subjects when the nations elites decide subjugation is a good idea.

Dirty secret of politics is that rights become inalienable in the same way boxers become champions. By winning a lot of fights.
It doesn't work that way. I pruned both Twitter and Facebook intentionally in the way you suggest and it became pretty clear (or maybe it's my biases) that both run on outrage. Facebook would insist on bringing arguments to the top of my feed as best it could. As an example, I am friends with a regional sportswriter on FB and he had a post asking something sports/ politics related. It generated about 50 responses, so FB condenses that into 2-3 replies and then offers to let you click to see more. Amazingly, the part it decided to call out was the one argument in the 50 comment thread. Controversy and upset are what drives engagement in social media.
Germanys population is the second oldest after Japan, just saying
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238289
Lacking knowledge in this area, it's hard to say; might have to do with the painting techniques he was using?

As contemporaries, although El Greco was only in his early twenties when Michelangelo died, I guess one would have less reverence for a fellow artist as one might have now many hundred years later.
> You write as if Rust vs. C++ was some sort of competition.

Competition exists all around us, all the time, whether we like it or not.

And the competition between C++ and Rust is very clear. I, for example, would likely be spending more time / effort on learning the latest C++ standards if Rust didn't exist. And likely hate my life a little bit, unless I could exclusively stick to C++ "the good parts" if such a subset exists and I didn't need to interface as much with existing C++ code.
Why do you think they hurt our capacity to categorize political views? Simplification is the only way to explain anything. You don’t want to try to explain political trends using particle physics.
> It was hit or miss outside

Have any studies shown the effectivenes of masks outdoors? I know a lot have found the virus spreads poorly outdoors, so this difference probably isn't a big factor in the spread.
Which is exactly what modern supply chain management tries to do. On a more complex level so, but the basic idea is the same.
Rehabilitation does not necessarily require punishment, and there are reasons for punishment that are not based on rehabilitation.

It is possible for someone to be rehabilitated on their own as they change, or through someone taking action that is not punishment (explaining the impact of the actions which the person may not have been thinking of, etc).

It's possible to punish someone with no thought as to rehabilitation. Capital punishment is this. The purpose is not to benefit the person in any way, but to benefit society by providing a negative example to others so they don't attempt the same actions (it doesn't matter if you believe it works, this is the purpose it's done).
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I'd focus on the immediate needs like food and rent and let stocks take care of themselves once things are better. Food and rent are a much more real and present anxiety than stock prices, even if the latter certainly does affect the 'mood'.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/best-healthcare-... per capita.

Behind is only Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Poland. Ok, last time I've looked they were 2nd worst, now 6th.

Italy and Spain do have much better systems, by far. World Top 5. Even Greece is much better.
> Continued stock market slides will cause politicians to panic and demand lifting of restrictions, even if they're the only thing helping right now.

Or .. and hear me out .. we can ignore the fucking stock market and move to address the public health emergency as our sole concern. The stock market right now is tens of thousands of market participants running around wearing flaming underpants on their heads.

The bond/credit market - yeah, that has consequences. The Fed is already intervening there.
At the very least I hope the heat/sunlight would kill the viruses quicker when someone infected coughs on a park bench or something like that..
Thanks! We are fortunate to have good name recognition. One thing we've noticed is that a lot of folks don't know that we're a non-profit, so we try to make that point as much as we can.

Edit to add: speaking for myself and my perception of my coworkers... We just feel amazingly fortunate to have the opportunity to work toward our mission.
At it's core, Stuxnet is basic. Stuxnet didn't do what that Blugarians did. Stuxnet was not polymorphic.
Right now only federal taxes are implemented but state taxes are in the works! The site is implemented client side & no external API calls are made so the code in the repository is the only thing that would be touching personal information.
While this is true, it’s probably MUCH easier to just exploit existing packages in some fashion.
of misspelled as "if" in title
They blackout neighborhoods here I believe. My guess is that neighborhoods that largely heat with natural gas are spared, as they don't use a ton of electricity.
Probably not a surcharge, but maybe a minimum contract length? I don’t know if that’s possible (legally). But, I imagine that a utility would want to make sure that a customer who switched providers to avoid these wholesale prices would want to ensure that the customer would stick around long enough to make sense financially.
This bubble started well before Covid. I do agree that if the vaccination campaign is successful the mood will be such that it might sustain it a little longer. That should factor into the calculation. Though on the other hand, governments may hold back a little on stimulus once that happens as they've been throwing money all over the place during Covid.
The words “NurseryCam” is warning enough for me :-). Will leave IoCrap stuff like that well alone.
> It isn't even being manufactured yet (that is a pre-release unit). So, no. It is safe to say nobody has that experience.

The lenovo website says this exact model ships in 5-7 days [1].

[1] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...
To me, Firefox (4) with Panorama is the best UI a browser's ever had.
It is way to tech centric in terms of updating info and creating. Boxy admin interface. Sorry.
As mentioned in the article, there are very big differences between treatment for kidney failure between the US and other first world countries. For example, blood filters are commonly reused in the US, to save a few bucks. Doctors are not always present during treatment and available for emergencies, etc.

You're right of course that this is just part of the bigger problems with the US health care system as it currently exists.

I have some knowledge in this area because I'm currently working on the software for a dialysis machine, and in this context have talked quite a bit with people working in the industry who know and can compare the situations in different countries.
it saddens me that I had to scroll through comments for awhile before I see someone bring up that money isn't a magic static store of value.

taxes don't mean anything in terms of ability to spend to the guy with the printing press. taxes under the current Bretton Woods II policy maintain aggregate demand for dollars. The oil trade being conducted exclusively in US dollars is for the same effect. Nothing escapes supply and demand.
Does Google know about your passwords?
The original point of the SAT was to measure "aptitude" in order to identify students might perform well in college, but did not have good opportunities to demonstrate that in high school. This was before things like "aptitude" and "intelligence" became dirty words.
Because time is a continuum.
Wow, looks like they were typed manually, rather than printed out on a dot-matrix. Wonder what kind system that information was transcribed from? Operators keeping a handwritten ledger?
I have a question, now I've never decompiled anything but I was under the impression it would come out in machine code, so you wouldn't get programmers notes, tabs etc. Can someone explain how their doing this? I knowI should know this Haha, be gentle :-p
It wouldn't sound so appealing to the driver without the Doppler effect applied.
I've befriended many Japanese open source hackers in the past year or so (through my own OSS contributions to a project started by a guy originally from Japan - details in links in profile), and I've asked them about the best places to work in the web space.

My conclusion is that the following are the only companies that you should consider if you are in a position to choose (i.e. via your skill): Cookpad, LINE (formerly NHN Japan, formerly Livedoor), DeNA, GREE. That's basically it.

I've seen quite a few non-Japanese Cookpad engineers on Twitter, and heard from @miyagawa that they actually have an "international team" as well (and at least some of these non Japanese engineers seem to live in Tokyo). IIRC they are hiring, so maybe shoot him a msg on Twitter? (his english is one of the best I've seen from someone originally from Japan)
Unfortunately I'm not the OP. I only designed the unrelated demo in my comment (which does use alpha transparency btw to blend in with whatever background color/image one might use).
Contact,
Fountainhead,
Glen Garry Glen Ross,
Waking Life,
Zorba the Greek,
Von Ryan's Express
> There was no way to not give out money without incurring intolerable short-term pain.

Sure there was:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23k...

The Swedes actually solved this by nationalizing all the failing banks, wiping out the equity holders, restructuring and privatizing again. It ended up not costing much. In the US a bunch of bankers got huge bailout funded bonuses and the banks are far from solvent even now.
1) How are you different/better than VigLink, which also provides this service?

2) Do you have permission from affiliates to act as a master account like this? (I'd be concerned they'll cut you off and me with you)

3) What percentage are you taking?
Huh?? Quantrix is still around, and there's an OSX version available - I know, because I have it!
Karate Kid :)

Now serios:

The Godfather: makes you feel everything is possible

A Good Year: feel-good movie, but I think it really shows why we really struggle. I mean what's the point in having millions if you don't know what to do with them.
Could you have a company in your country, work at it for a year+, register another company in the US and then go via L-1A (managerial intracompany transfer) visas? Wikipedia does say after all: "or which intend to open a new office in the United States while maintaining their home country interests"
This scanner is not an x-ray scanner like the ones deployed to scan air travelers. X-rays are ionizing radiation, the kind which can cause cancer. The machine in the picture uses millimeter waves which are not ionizing, and produces a much fuzzier image.

Although the TSA claims the x-ray dose given to air travelers is safe, there are reasons for concern. For one, they refuse to disclose the x-ray flux. Also, the comparisons the TSA makes with other radiation sources are flawed because they compare to the absorbed x-ray dose and average it over the entire volume of a person. Anyone in radiation safety understands the important number is the dose absorbed in specific portions of the body. In this case, the x-ray radiation is absorbed in the skin (minus the very small scattered fraction), not your entire body volume, resulting in a much higher local dose than you would expect if you modeled the exposure as uniform through the volume.

Since the x-ray source strength is quite low (assuming the machine isn't multifunctioning), the health risks to occasional travelers are likely to be low. Maybe frequent travelers or airline employees should have greater concern, or those at risk of cataracts.

See:

http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
Office Space - gave me an idea what work in an average software company might be like and why I'd rather go my own way.
I agree it's not a large-scale bubble, but I think it will still qualify as a small-scale one -- a "bubble in a teapot", if I may mix metaphors -- if a lot of angels invest in low-quality deals and run themselves out of money.

There's a key difference, though, between this situation and one conducive to bubble formation: the successes of the deals aren't correlated. The success of one startup doesn't make the next more likely to succeed. It may cause the next to attract more investor interest, but once it gets going it still has to succeed or fail as a business. Thus the valuations are still ultimately grounded in reality. Also, it's not the case that a startup is passed from owner to owner the way that, say, real estate is.

So I prefer the alternative explanation that we as a society are simply getting better at nurturing startups. (I.e., I'm agreeing with you.) That certainly is sustainable.
atop is fun too
Please keep us on informed on HN of how your meeting went.
What the heck? Are you seriously doing this for promotional purposes? It's stuff like this that causes others to develop ill feelings against you.
Jason, $400 may seem like not a lot of money, but the majority of us start ups aren't just well off college kids. Some of us have families and part time jobs and run our startups with every last cent we have as you can probably remember. This may not mean much to you but maybe your missing out on the startups that have fantastic ideas and great execution but can barely afford the servers they are running their work on let alone the $400 ticket price not to mention the cost of flying out to San Francisco. Instead of repeating tech crunch, create an American Idol for startups where you go city to city, looking at the work of a variety of startups like the ones here in San Diego and then the top 20 you then pay to fly out to SF for the big event. This way you can drop the entry price say to $50 or $100 for small sit down and the money you make from touring across the country you can put together and use it to pay for the top 20 guys. Just an idea because some of us have lives that we simply can't walk away from and pay a fortune from our perspectives to visit SF on our own dimes but would still love to present our work.
It's not going to replace email.

Seems like it's a system for your friends. Their focus isn't for things like your bank account or anything else. It's very similar to email, but due to their knowledge of your friends they can simplify the white/black lists and prioritize communications.