jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In most of the analysis I've seen, those who die immediately will be the fortunate ones. Starvation is a horrible way to go, and even if nuclear winter doesn't happen, we probably won't have the necessary technology in place to produce food for the remaining population.
Can egrep do lookaheads or behinds? I find it necessary to use positive lookaheads to verify the test words include all the letters marked present but in the wrong location.
That's still not acceptable, now it's harder to read both.
Man, if you assume knowledge and expect people to type what they want why not just use a decent CLI?
This is a thought-provoking speech.

Do yourself a favor and watch it in its entirety -- before commenting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

Among the many thorny issues and questions raised by Cohen:

* The business model of social media companies is powered by engagement, which is greatest for content that arouses the basest instincts and feelings of human beings, including fear and hatred. Social media companies earn more with the basest content.

* Social media companies are ideal propaganda machines, enabling anyone willing to appeal to the worst in human nature to reach billions of people with a click.

* Do social media companies bear responsibility for the negative impact their products have on society, in the same way that, say, car companies bear responsibility for faulty engines or airplane manufacturers bear responsibility for faulty plane designs?

* Are social media companies publishers, like broadcast TV networks, magazines, and newspapers? Should social media companies be held to decency standards, like all publishers?

I'm barely scratching the surface.

Do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing!
I would be less worried about people confusing it with some other Europa and more that people simply don't know what it is. Adding "Jupiter's moon Europa" would still mean the same for you and me who know that Jupiter has a moon named Europe. But for someone who doesn't know, the difference means they understand the context better.
The problem is higher level; Amazon simply profits from fraudulent behavior.

There are several things that Amazon could correct, and it doesn't. I've tried to report other types of clear-cut frauds (e.g. "placeholder" ads with good reviews), and either I couldn't find a way, or they didn't care.

The late borderline-scammy behavior of Amazon is obvious in different ways, for example how they intentionally make opaque the shipment origin and price.

The most ridiculous allowed misbehavior I've experienced is an item sold in a number of trivial variations that took hundreds of (search) pages. It was obliterating any chance of looking similar items from other brands.
and our (UK) tax system still hasn't caught up, starting on the 5th April.
You mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L91_K-s4pMM
>You pass aisles with endcaps of stuff you don't need, you pass the beer and liquor section, and perhaps all the things you want are placed at the back of the store - on purpose, so you pass other items.

Isn't this why Amazon's search function is so terrible?
> This could get annoying for tall people in the back seats. For a family car, where the back seat will usually be kids, less headroom there is fine. A pickup is work vehicle and so should assume adults in back and so should have adult headroom back there.

4-door full-size pickups are the modern giant family sedan. Just look at one with a cap on the bed, and it just looks like a giant 1950s sedan, (edit) only taller
another reason why youtube viewcounts aren't everything.
You felt the need to correct yourself earlier, so I think your "besides the point" should be directed to yourself. I was pointing out that your correction wasn't persuasive.
Doesn't the "hoarding money" thing only even apply if you keep your money as literal physical cash in your mattress?

If it's in a bank account, it's being lent out and is working, no?
Why order more F-16s and miss out on all the rich contracting and design deal flow?

Plus because the length of development is longer than pharma's, nobody involved in kicking off the project will be around to deal with the deployment problems.

Make hay while the sun shines.
The Japanese had a variety of issues with radios. Some Type 0 pilots did remove their radio system, to save weight, but only on land-based fighters. For carrier-based ships radios were still essential, because they used radio direction finding for navigation. Japanese carrier-based operations also suffered issues because they tended to use a single radio frequency for all air operations (meaning the channel could get disorganized). Japanese carriers also had their antennas on the sides of the ships rather than at the top of the island, which meant they often couldn't receive longer ranged transmissions, so it would be up to escorting cruisers to receive messages and then transmit them to the carrier. The book "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway" has some good information about some of these nitty-gritty details.
There are systems that do allow for this, but the most common case I've seen has been residential solar. I personally doubt that this would be possible for a normal gas generator to work this way -- particularly as you said because the waves would never be in sync. At least with a solar system, you're already phase-matching the incoming AC, so could push power out at the correct phase.
I'd make it a message passing micro kernel.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4781366/

Almost every study on breastfeeding will have a disclaimer like the one in this meta-analysis (or ought to if it doesn't).

"Because almost all the data in this review were gathered from observational studies, one should not infer causality based on these findings. Also, there is a wide range of quality of the body of evidence across different health outcomes."

I don't understand why the issue of breastfeeding in particular seems to cause people to entirely forget that correlation usually doesn't indicate causation.

https://www.gwern.net/Causality
Automattic "employees" outside of the US and Canada are contractors.

(I used to work at Automattic)
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Really? I’d be surprised. I know they imposed some sanctions on individuals from traveling to the US but that was it and none were imposed on MBS.
>Users have to sign up in advance via smartphone with a selfie and a credit card. Then, after they order, they can say they want to use PopPay; a camera will take a photo so their identity can be confirmed and money deducted from their account.

This seems pointless. In the time it takes you to pull up to the camera, stop the car, line up your face, wait for your face to be recognized, you could have paid with a NFC card/phone. NFC also doesn't require you to register for an account and deposit money ahead of time. The only advantage I can think of is for mcdonalds, which pays less credit card fees because they can bundle transactions together.

AI order taking also seems questionable to me. Voice ordering is bad enough (shitty audio quality, having to repeat/clarify yourself), I don't want to contend with a shitty chatbot on top. App based ordering seems better in every way. It also allows you to park your car and do your ordering/waiting in peace, as opposed to wasting gas while inching through the drive-through lane with half a dozen cars behind you.
> what exactly is the better alternative?

When people ask this question, they almost always mean, what's the alternative to one kind of testing that's still a test?

Nobody seems willing to accept the answer that interviews shouldn't be tests. The demand for testing assumes the idea, the self-fulfilling prophesy, that 99% of programmers can't program. If you start with that assumption, then you'll always end up wanting some kind of test. But it's such a bizarre idea that programmers are uniquely incompetent among all professions in the world.

We know that interviews, not just programmer interviews but interviews in general, are poor predictors of performance. The best predictor of future performance is past performance. In other words, experience.

Our industry is also insanely afraid of the proverbial "bad hire". It's a pervasive mental illness. There's a failure to recognize that perfection is unattainable, and mistakes are a fact of life. Look of professional sports: they spend vastly more time and money on talent evaluation than tech, and yet pro sports teams get talent evaluation totally wrong all the time! Bad draft picks, bad trades, bad contracts, etc. They just accept it, deal with it, and move on. Nobody has the perfect programmer hiring method, and nobody ever will. It's a crapshoot. And just because a programmer "can program" doesn't mean they're not a bad hire. They could still write buggy, overengineered code, they could be a bad teammate, they could be a sexual harasser, or have any number of other issues. Or they could leave for another jobs a few months after getting hired. There's no way to guarantee a good hire.

It's a mistake to turn hiring into an "algorithm". It's not a programming problem, it's a human problem. Programmers are humans, not robots, and they're not going to perform robotically in interviews. The only way to truly know is to give someone a chance. They may unpleasantly surprise you, but they may also pleasantly surprise you.
This reminds me of an interesting story. A couple years ago I was trying to sell my broken x1 carbon laptop in ebay. I was looking for $400 and after posting and getting a few questions I realized I would not be able to close the sale because I had promised myself to never use PayPal again. So I removed my listing and contacted one of the users that got in touch. I tried to reason with him and explain that I would not deal with such a shady company but he denied my request (obviously) and said I could mail him the laptop and he would mail me back a $400 check. After thinking for a few minutes I decided to do just that and trust him. In my mind I'd rather give this laptop away (risking being conned) to somebody that will make some money out of its parts than give another cent to PayPal. About a week later I got my $400 and a message from him thanking me for trusting a stranger on the internet. Felt really good to stick to my gut and do something nice for a change.
The chargeback process is with the bank. Your takeaway from this should be that Bank of America has crappier customer service than AmEx, which matches every report I've heard as well as my personal experience.

Some premium cards have additional concierge features and your AmEx may have had that kind of thing re: the Denver experience.
You can't legislate morals.
In some cases, Amtrak (along with the states) runs their own passenger trains, like Amtrak California. The Capitol Corridor in California, and the Cascades in the Northwest are decent, if agonizingly slow. Though you'd literally have to pay me (a railfan) money to take the longer, overnight trains like the Coast Starlight (like the cost of a private room and bath).
Okay, you start a company that has quite of bit of real estate. You have some break-ins, unruly customers, thieves, harassers of women and other creepers, etc and everytime you call the local police. They take forever to come and don't do anything helpful other than file a report and remind you that, yes, they are unionized and don't have to do anything for you. Got a problem with this? Call the police union and the mayor's office. Now what? Do you let your investment and customers take on a lot of risk by a handful of criminals or you deploy your own security services? If I ran any company with this amount of real estate, I'd want my own armed guards. It would be crazy to expect the local municipal knuckleheads to do anything but absorb donuts and file reports.

It blows my mind how much pro-police stuff I see on HN and reddit when it comes to discussions of private security and gun law enforcement. The reality is that the police look out for their own, have their own agendas, have their own politics, etc and that rarely fits in with our ideas of law and order.

As far as the "most countries" argument goes, there's no shortage of private security in those countries, they just don't use the term "police" like we do. Not to mention, in the US, gun ownership is trivial, so the ability to shoot up a school or a train is within the means of any weirdo who wants to. Thus the need for armed security.
Once the payment is confirmed, our integration passes the control back to your code. You can use any sms API such as twilio to send the sms then.
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This PDF gives a good high level overview of the NES: http://nesdev.com/NESDoc.pdf
For anyone wondering, registering your $Cashtag does not force you to enable the cash.me page. The page can be disabled from within the app, so you can grab the name without having to make it available.
(I'm very late to this discussion, so I may try this question another time).

But I've been thinking about the marginal value of each additional technical question. In other words, how much additional relevant information do you get about a candidate increase with each increasing level of difficulty?

For instance, suppose you ask fizzbuzz and the candidate has an easy time of it. Then you ask about building/searching a binary tree, which the developer manages, but only after fumbling round a bit. Then you get into finding cycles in linked lists or graphs, and the developer takes a crack at it, but would need to look it up. Or maybe the developer gets it, and the interviewer ask about finding all permutations of a string...

How much more do you learn by going from fizzbuzz to binary trees. How much more do you get by asking about cycles in linked lists? And so on…

Just for the record, I can't stand technical interviews, and I dislike them so much that I'm considerably less inclined to apply for and interview for new jobs because I feel that I've studied for my data structures and algorithms midterm one time too many. I just don't want to re-load merge sort into short term memory again.

However, in spite of all this, I'm still somewhat sympathetic to interviewers[1]. The truth is, if you really don't have a lot of direct evidence about a developer, you truly are at risk of hiring someone who can't code.

[1] My problem with silicon valley hiring practices isn't that they have a process that leads to a high false negative rate. They should do what they feel is best for their company. My problem is that they do this while complaining about a critical shortage of developers so severe that it endangers the entire tech economy.
20 years ago, UChicago Scav Hunt had an item on the list: "Item 240. A breeder reactor built in a shed, and the boy scout badge to prove credit was given where boy scout credit was due. [500 points]"

The story of how the Students made it is pretty great!
https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/homemade-breeder-r...
Video used as textures, either in world on 3D meshes, or as part of UI (HUD) elements. It could be prohibitively expensive to play a single video in some scenes, and we didn't support multiple videos. Not because it wasn't possible or anything, mostly because performance, although there would have been an engineering cost to doing also (ie I would have had to add support to the engine)
Yep, just not widely implemented. Hence a new thing with new hopes. It looks really nice though, and it seems it has vendor support too.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-neg...
So glad Canada plans to litter our country with these soon. They want SMR's in every logging camp, remote community, mine, and so on. Sure they are more dangerous per GW and more costly per GW but they are MUCH cheaper initially so small unqualified companies can get involved. Let the good times roll.
Back in the day Signal (i think it was named differently too back then) could encrypt SMS.

After they removed it due to lack of active users i gave them a bad rating on the play store only to return because i dropped my mistrust of them as a middleman.
How does any of that apply to the situation in Georgia? Sure, the things you mention would be nice incremental improvements to Georgia's system and states that do not have an auditable paper ballot trail are very problematic, we don't disagree there.

You imply that liberals have changed their position on this post-Trump, but I don't think you'll find these suggested improvements controversial to most liberals. But what do you mean by we can't point the people of Georgia to hard proof? I fail to see how addressing even all of the points you raise would suddenly convince the president and his supporters. The existing measures don't appear to have swayed them at all. So I don't think it's productive to pretend like this wouldn't be a problem if only we had some mythical "fraud-proof" system.

https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/historic_first_statew...

> Today, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the results of the Risk Limiting Audit of Georgia’s presidential contest, which upheld and reaffirmed the original outcome produced by the machine tally of votes cast. Due to the tight margin of the race and the principles of risk-limiting audits, this audit was a full manual tally of all votes cast. The audit confirmed that the original machine count accurately portrayed the winner of the election.

> By law, Georgia was required to conduct a Risk Limiting Audit of a statewide race following the November elections.

> The differential of the audit results from the original machine counted results is well within the expected margin of human error that occurs when hand-counting ballots. A 2012 study by Rice University and Clemson University found that “hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent.” In Georgia’s recount, the highest error rate in any county recount was .73%. Most counties found no change in their finally tally. The majority of the remaining counties had changes of fewer than ten ballots.
You have no proof that any fraud exists beyond the small amounts that have been brought up or dismissed, yet you are repeatedly asserting that everything is thrown into doubt by the utterly insignificant instances you've brought up.

If a cashier is caught stealing you don't then assume the whole shop was stealing.

At this point you appear to be out to run an inquisition. You've decided there is a widespread heretic problem and now any deviance found are an excuse to overstate the problem further, even if they can be rationally explained.

I urge you to do some self reflection as to why you think the election was stolen because the arguments you're currently tangled up in are exactly what lead to the mess in the Capitol, an event which only made it more untenable for more moderate republicans to continue supporting you.
> Sorry, we can only complete resumes for experienced technology professionals in the US and Canada who've accepted our Terms of Use.

Welp! Is there any reason why you are restricted to US and Canada? I can understand 2+ years requirement.
>A TLS server supporting ECH now advertises its public key via an HTTPSSVC DNS record

Why a new record type, when TLSA records were invented for literally this exact purpose?
I think I remember hearing about photonics coupling to isotopes for some sort of nuclear battery? Do you work on that?
Why is this surprising?

First of all, Moore's Law isn't a law at all, it's a prediction. It's not some universal constraint.

Second, it's a self fulfilling prophecy, which explains why the prediction has been pretty darn good so far:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#As_a_target_for_i...
It curiously thinks I was in New Orleans last December, but I haven't been there in ages.
The OpenBSD IPsec stack was audited, a few notable bugs were fixed, but no evidence of a backdoor was found.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/openbsd-code...
"the distinction you're making seems to be meaningless to most people"

No, the distinction is critical to most people. Apple's iPhone software records all the calls I make, the phone numbers I call and the duration. That's fine.

I'd be pretty peeved if that information was harvested by Apple Inc.
Under a dumping accusation, their competitors are the victims here. Operating at a substantial loss as a strategy to expand your market footprint is pretty textbook anticompetitive.
Something occupying /r/politics adds no merit to its political status.
I really wonder what “high-quality Web pages” are. `What is Hacker News?` doesn’t give any results either.
Firefox though went from a fairly large amount of people to a fair amount larger amount of people. I'll bet this guy went from 4-digit people knowing (of) him to 7 or more digits.

I'd think generating interest from something minute would be harder than from something a lot of people have at least heard of.
I think that polling twitter and automatically generating the static site every time theres a new tweet makes a lot more sense.
This is correct. O'Reilly kept harping on this issue whenever he talked to RMS but I don't think RMS could intuit the future as well as Tim could.
Since the assertions were extracted from Web pages it's reasonable to assume that the answer doesn't exist because no one talked about textrunner prior to it being made public. That, or the sample of Web pages didn't contain any pages that referred to textrunner. Another possibility is the structure of the sentence(s) containing a reference to textrunner were not sufficiently simplifiable.
The app mentioned: Air Horn by Sympaddico

App page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-horn-free/id348184873?mt=... (tries to open iTunes, sorry! don't know a link that doesn't do that)

Content link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... (from eperfa, give them points! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1418841)
I wonder if they have fallen or if this is just a matter of perception. Obviously something positive is going on there.
I don't know why I didn't think of 37s Highrise sooner, but that's looking like a good option.
If they thought of access control or rate-limiting, they wouldn't have made this mistake in the first place... this is strictly an amateur move.
I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted.

More productively, I wonder how people would respond to this after having grown up with the boundary of their 30s knowledge horizon roughly equivalent to that of humanity's experts 10yr prior. Anyone born since ~2000 perhaps is in this situation. Will they have eliminated this kind of "fun" "bullshit" from their behavior completely?
In a manner speaking it is annoying to see (his not so profound) essay upvoted. Like people said he is the founder of he founded YC, so he has a fan following of the commoner naive programmer crowd. He certainly is an intelligent chap ( and very ordinary by some some measures) but by no means profound. In fact this subject of heresy is quite banal to me or anyone who has spent sufficient time observing society ( including the scientific community).

I have always wondered what his objective was when writing these essays.

(I always have an objective, when I write, which is not narcissism, or seeking approval/support/vindication).
Used to be terrible. They were reformed[1] in all nations except Northern Ireland, so now NI is the main libel tourism destination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013
That could be said for any artwork.
The hentai forums tend to stay on topic.