jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Copyright abandonment has to be explicit, you can't just say a copyright on something was abandoned by the creator because they did not do something. They have to explicitly do something (such as, but not limited to placing the creation in the public domain).

> Sorry, you seem to be going off the rails here and with "baked-beans on a wall", and I have no interest in following; my interest in the topic has waned.

Would it be possible for you to - whether you're wrong or right doesn't enter into it - at least be civil?
How exactly do you 'network' at these events. Do you just introduce yourself and sort of talk, have a business card that you give, or how's it go?

Just wondering from someone who's never been to any type of event, so I've never had to really do any networking
Outhouse? The last home outhouse around here went out in the 60's. Rural Iowa is where I live. We have had plumbing, the REC, mail deliver etc for half a century.

As for where I work? Well, in San Jose right now - I work remotely for a Silicon Valley startup. Have for 20 years, one after another.

Is it cheap? Pretty much so. 80 acres and built a house for a couple hundred thousand. Worth a lot more now since I live near a college town, but just move south 20 miles and still land is around $1000/acre.
And what to do now with my joren.ga ?
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False choice. Some of those destroyed businesses would have never existed without that very same investor capital
there's logic to this answer - we consider this in the episode too! given the statistics in this current situation... would you say it isn't appropriate to mandate?
"You will go to jail forever" and "You will be completely unemployable forever" are still two surprisingly effective deterrents against the vast majority of the population when they have a job.

There's lots of stuff you "could" do everyday, but the probability of getting caught is high, the ultimate impact to anyone else is low, and the severity of punishment immense.

All that changes quite significantly when even basic access control is lost and the building is overrun by unidentified belligerents for a few hours. I'm betting a number of foreign intelligence agencies were scrambling to see if they could take advantage usefully.
Oops, as it turns out I just got the termination message right now. Agree until mid February or not. Of course not.
Believe it or not, my win95 copy came with both 3.5 floppy disks and a cd. my computer that time had a cdrom but I tried to install it with floppy disks, and failed miserably around the thirties or something. At that time there was a joke why MS named it win95 not something else.
Of depicting the RTGs I think the best is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Ended_This_Summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6rk1BK5eOU
I'm not sure the flow of information is even necessarily the problem. People just aren't trained to think critically - and doing so for everything is exhausting however increasing the focus of education on how to think, not what to think would help immensely.

In the interim i would like to see some level of moderation, maybe citizens or states able to exact some kind of consequences against people who via any sort of media spread information which either they know to be or should know to be false (or alternative facts as some people call them). i.e. some kind of process where i as a person or an independent body have standing to sue breitbart for knowingly/negligently distributing false information.

I know we have to be careful with this but at the moment there is simply no way of holding organisations to account if i am not being directly libeled despite the fact that the misinformation harms me directly.
also, an extension... since we'll have a willing uptake of over 50% of people (probably), there might be no need to mandate vaccines! However, if too few people were willing, that might also tip the scales...
Skating/rollerblading is coming back into style, at least here in coastal California. Everything old is new again, and everything new becomes old at some point.
He makes a weak case by focusing on the terminology. Quibble if you ask me.
The concentrated solar power facilities have more efficiency (but you can't put one of them on your rooftop). From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

> As of 2008, the world record for solar to electric efficiency was set at 31.25% by SES dishes at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).

The 90% * 60% number is probably very optimistic.

The Wikipedia article is also interesting, because it discuss that when the temperature is too high the heat receiver is an important heat emitter. I didn't thought about that.
Thank you for that, great read
Black box test - Testing a unit without any information about its internals. You provide inputs, you record outputs, and you have a spec.

By definition, the author of a unit cannot write a black box test for it. Any test they write is going to be a white box (clear box?) test, because they know how the unit works.

If you interpreted the spec incorrectly when writing the unit, you're going to interpret it incorrectly in exactly the same way when writing the test. White box testing has its place, but you need a second person if you want to do black box testing.
And deadlocks
For a little while UNIX seemed a couple of interesting ideas when compared against MS-DOS/Windows 3.x and Amiga OS, then I discovered Xerox PARC research, and the world of Lisp Machines, Mesa XDE, Mesa/Cedar, Smalltalk.

Or if you want a closer example, RAD development tools for the desktop versus what SPA still aren't able to offer on the Web.
> Mega corporations can adapt far faster than anyone or anything else

i really don't think this is true, many big companies are hopelessly bureaucratic
I liked the QNX solution - the kernel never prints anything.
It never handles a string.
It's just a microkernel; all it does is pass messages, allocate memory, and dispatch the CPU. Drivers are in user space, of course.
There's a system management process, "proc", running in user space but with extra privileges, to manage things usually done in kernels. The kernel itself was very rarely modified.

More than that, there's no "console". QNX often ran on industrial hardware that didn't have a display or even a file system. Problems are reported by sending a message to a logging process. That might ship it over a network to somewhere else.
I think you’re letting your own pre-conceived notions color your interpretation of this comment. The person said nothing about not working as hard, not accomplishing as much, and only chilling on the beach. People in the Caribbean (and other beach/vacation destinations) work hard and accomplish plenty. Just because some people go to their country to relax doesn’t mean the entire country does nothing but relax.
For future reference: block JS or open in incognito to bypass medium popups.
> As if all these people were discussing things in good faith and would listen to reality about their conspiracy theories.

Was the "Russian collusion" narrative peddled 24/7 by the mainstream media for over two years a conspiracy theory?

Is what we saw in Portland and at BLM riots not extreme and violent?

This is not just about Republicans.
I'm also in the UK and I deleted WhatsApp 2 years ago when it became clear that Facebook intended to move in the direction of fuller integration (I deleted my Facebook account after 1 month of usage 10 years ago). However, I had to reinstall WhatsApp because all of my kid's sports activities and school updates are organised through WhatsApp groups and it is impossible to participate without WhatsApp. Much as I believe in the cause, I'm not going to go preach it to the volunteers who coach my kids' rugby team. The scary thing here is that the actual real-life "social network" has been privatised and monopolised, and now we can't participate in society in very important ways without going through Facebook.
You should probably spell out that acronym here.
Furthermore, why is it that until recently you could not get a non-apple laptop that looked like they actually tried to design the case to be even remotely aesthetically pleasing. The smooth contours of my macbook pro totally outclass winbooks in this aspect. The Dell Adamo series is really the first non apple product Ive seen that comes close, but its still not there.
Think about ways you can spend a few dollars to save yourself time. By driving to my subway stop and paying to park instead of walking, I save myself over 5 mins each way every day. That comes to over 3 hrs a month I get back--about 40 hrs a year. I get exercise elsewhere and it is a pretty ugly walk anyway, so I don't miss it at all.
Same here with only eight buckets and a couple hundred total objects. Maybe they're just overwhelmed right now...
I'm sure the policy and regulatory systems will be able to fend off the lobbyists of the richest person in the world working to get the word "liability" redefined in the law. \s
In what way would you consider merchants to be scale-bifurcated along the card-present/e-commerce line?
Yep. If you can survive catastrophic loss (for some appropriate definition of survive), then insurance is always a losing proposition.
sorry if it wasn't clear, I completely agree with you. I just feel like people make that argument in response to what you are saying and it's not a very good one
Australian here. Never ever ever park, and especially never ever ever ever camp, under gumtrees.

They can and do drop large limbs at any time without warning.

There are gum trees in PNG.
An alternative derivation using dynamic programming for multi-round bets: https://adityam.github.io/stochastic-control/mdp/optimal-gam...
I did just say that "you don't get to touch the machines physically either".

What does being able to buy them have to do with.. anything?

The concept of renting a VM is not new. The introduction of processors that a VM hosting company designs exclusively for use on that service is, and the comments in the thread above seem to imply a fear of this causing some kind of lock-in or whatever. What I'm saying is, this is completely unfounded fear. Graviton instances are very much standard machines and you can run the exact same OS images on there as you can on an Altra or a HoneyComb LX2K or a MACCHIATObin. (Yeah, the OS needs a driver for Amazon's network card, but mainline Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD have that.)
If your points are with static typing functional and tooling i would give another look to PHP 8/ symfony|Laravel
Indeed - given much of Google drive marketing seems to be trying to encourage it's use for routine frequently accessed data, this is an interesting question.

Much of the marketing for drive seems to still be (in sentiment at least) about dumping it all into Google drive and never having to worry about storage again. I assume they mean storing huge files in Google drive, but actually that's probably a significant use case for many users of cloud storage.
I definitely agree with this. I'm just exploring the concept because I have problems that occasionally limit how much I can work - and just playing around with cheaper living arrangements that also work with that. Though, if I can find ways to make a lot of money without working a lot, that would also solve the problem.
Or, for another random example, check out Wall Street Oasis:

> How to quit the rat race

> Depressed from recruiting

> Finance sucks compared to tech if youre (sic) smart

And so forth
Harmonic sounds (or approximately harmonic) are strong evidence that something evolved or was designed specifically for making sound. If you have an oscillator where the oscillation is constrained to one axis, e.g. an ideal string, reed, or column of air, it has only one degree of freedom. The state of the oscillator is fully described by its current position. It has no memory, so when driven in a steady state its behavior is identical every cycle. Even if its motion is non-linear, this will only cause anharmonic motion, not inharmonic, which is harmonic in the musical sense. The overtones must be integer multiples of the fundamental, because otherwise there would be different behavior on different cycles, which contradicts the single degree of freedom assumption.

But most natural objects have multiple degrees of freedom. If you hit a rock, stick, bone, etc. its oscillation is not constrained to a single axis. You can have multiple different unrelated frequencies. It's unlikely that all the prominent frequencies will be integer multiples of the fundamental by chance. To get harmonic sounds from a oscillator with multiple degrees of freedom takes skilled shaping of that object, e.g. tuning a bell by carefully shaving off metal at the right places.

Harmonic sounds are evidence of living creatures, and living creatures are potentially dangerous. Therefore it's not surprising that we're good at detecting them.
Consiciousness. I know its in vouge to pretend animals are all reasoning creatures, but alas the world is, thankfully, not disney. Our ability to relate 'Now', with our perception of stimulus moments ago, is how we percieve music. This is mostly absent in animals, or has a vastly different temporal range. Even pure tones are just cycles per second.

That said, if you ignore the meter, most animals seem to react to various harmonic and aharmonic sounds. Dogs howling, birds whistling, etc. The timings seem quite specific to the creature, and their adapted envirnment.
I personally setup nextdns for 30+ people. It is that simple and useful. Thanks.

I've a couple of questions, though:

1. Do you run one unbound instance per configuration, or share among multiple configurations per user or...? The reason I ask is, sometimes the latencies are too high, 2000ms+. Should I be creating less configurations per account?

2. How could nextdns combat ad-networks resorting to DoH: https://1.1.1.1.com/dns-query?name=example.com&type=AAAA
Because conservatives think such an idea is morally wrong, while liberals don't actually trust or respect the people they want to help.
Goruck GR1 here. I got it 2.5 years ago before the prices went up, love it. It’s not too far on the tacticool side of things, but close.
It even has a name! Betteridge's law of headlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
We have to be really careful! If not the distant future will be dystopian nightmare where government controls everything you do and tells you how to do it.

To stop it, we need to make sure the government is telling everyone what to do and how to do it! It’s the only way!
When user agent clicks the ad, that's how the ad companies know it's real.
I don't think there was any trick.

One approach is to use the rational quadratic parametrization of the ellipse and substitute that into the s quared distance function to get a quartic.

>I try to avoid using quadratic solutions in code because of numeric instability issues.

Sensible!

Back then the quartic solver had been written already and extensively tested by someone else - probably for line X torus intersection.

Even so there were numerical problems introduced because the quartic was in power basis and so the coefficients didn't have geometric meaning. I guess phenomena like Wilkinson's polynomial could occur. [0]

If I was doing it today, I would probably proceed as follows:

1. special case for the point exactly on an axis.

2. otherwise, choose the quadrant containing the point and represent that as a rational quadratic Bezier curve. This parametrizes the quadrant from 0 to 1 and is guaranteed to contain the global minimum.

3. substitute the quadratic Bezier curve into the square distance function to get a Bernstein basis quartic polynomial.

4. differentiate to get a Bernstein basic cubic.

5. solve the roots of the cubic numerically in the range 0 to 1: either Newton's or clipping or some other hybrid numerical method. A good reference is [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson%27s_polynomial

[1] Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacture by Nichola M. Patrikalakis and Takashi Maekawa
Picture a person's brain not as a single being, but as a
forest, where the current tree in charge changes, and where
trees are of different ages.

Some of these trees are a lot "older" than others. They have
more rings to them. Perhaps a 50 year old might have some
trees in their brain that you would expect to find only
in a person 500 years old. For that person, when that tree
is in charge, it must feel a lot like they are very ahead of
their time. The solution is patience and to go chase a ball
or drink a beer and put another tree in charge for a bit.

https://giphy.com/gifs/wHB67Zkr63UP7RWJsj
Only the best rural locales will see an urbanization. There is likely to always be a hierarchy to human growth since people like to be around other people, in general.
On the one hand, sure this makes some sense, on the other, it maybe means read more code... (i know this sounds sort of snarky). For example, if I wanted to write a novel, and had only read say, _A Tale of Two Cities_ I might thing I needed to include a bunch of broad social statements, and make my point through strongly contrasting scenes and juxtaposition.

If I had only read Dickens, I might think writing a novel entailed finding only strange characters, pointing out social flaws. Keeping a thematic style that was about confusing light and dark with the normal associations. And so on.

If I had only read Twilight, I wouldn't care much about dialog or character development. I wouldn't understand that there are things you can do thematically without exposition.

If however read Dickens, and Hemingway, and Tolkein and Dan Brown, and Stephanie Meyer and ... I would have a different understanding of what could go into a novel. I would be able to see where story arc intersects with bigger themes and character development. I would see different ways of structuring sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and even whole books.

None of this reading of course will make me a great author, writing does that, but a wide exposure will certainly help me understand where my writing is working vs where it isn't, it will help me understand how to structure things, help me shape my own work.

I consider the same to be true of code. The folks that only read WordPress code have a very limited understanding of possibilities. The folks who have read that, and rails and django, and jekyll and flask and ... will see a wide range of styles, ideas about structure, and so on.

An aside: Wordpress has some pretty ugly parts, but there are some ideas in there about structure that I have always liked. Particularly considering it was designed and written during the "explore and figure out what works" phase of web apps, when the industry didn't really have a "best practices for the web" that included lots of experience with what does and doesn't work.
I'll preface this by saying that IANAL, but I've been tangentially involved in the licensing and sale of patent portfolios and have read hundreds of patents. I'm also an inventor on many.

Most patents (including mine!) don't get used simply because there's no one practically using those inventions. The comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838681 hits the nail on the head. It's not usually because they are too expensive or risky to license or that the inventions themselves are not technically interesting. It's just that the market or industry ends up using technology (which itself is often patented) that does not infringe the vast majority of patents.

As an example, I once saw a patent on sale that was a precursor to DHTs and could potentially read on systems like Amazon Dynamo. But the way they did DHTs was completely different from Dynamo, and in fact, different from Chord, CAN, Pastry, Kademlia or any of the other DHTs in academia and practice (all of which the patent pre-dated). Hence, as interesting as it was, it had no commercial value.

I've seen this pattern repeat in many other fields of technology. The fact that only < 1% of patents are ever asserted simply reinforces this notion. This is not surprising, since in most engineering there are many ways to implement the same idea, and each of these ways can be patented. But typically an industry converges on a few ways of doing things and the other approaches lay unused.

Does this mean the system is broken? Consider academia. Think of all the hundreds of papers that get published in computer-related fields alone. Then think of how many of those actually make it into production. Does that mean academia is broken?

The patent system may be flawed, but this is not why. This article essentially is an ad for the author's new venture, simply using the "broken patent system" meme to get some free publicity.

As an aside, the "create efficient market for patents" language TFA uses at the end is oddly similar to the rhetoric Intellectual Ventures started off with. Initially IV was adamant that they would only license and not litigate, but more experienced people in the licensing business knew that was laughable. After all, a patent is nothing but a right to sue.
Well, it really depends on business objectives here.

If you're writing the code which will live at least a month — definitely. But if you're writing a quick hack of a project or test that you're know won't be around next week, it's often a real waste of time and effort.

And I'm not writing about that theoretically now: for me personally, it's a real problem. Whenever I sit to write a simple dirty hackey thing, I always find myself a few hours later googling for the best way to implement unit tests for this particular case or something like that. Which is sometimes educational, but is very distracting.
>In Java I need "factory objects", "visitors", and other such pieces of "design patterns". In lisp, I have never needed to write a "factory". The whole "visitor" pattern becomes a 1-line (map...) call.

You don't need any of those things, although they (regrettably) certainly are in the culture.
Yes those do: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/high-performanc... I was just clarifying on the remark of JS / jQuery as the cause of poor performance rather than what specifically was animated.
I tend to agree with this sentiment, nearly all of the people in this age range that I know work in low paying jobs and cannot afford the traditional lifestyle. The article tries to claim they are "highly educated" but most have degrees that were not challenging and do not lead to value creation.