jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The tulip reference is worn out and simply not fitting with the modern scenarios it is compared to.

In the 1600s, if you bought anything that didn't come from your village or region, that was a big deal. Tulips were an exotic distant foreign luxury (as frankly any flower would be if you could not grow it in your garden already).

People who bought them were not average, they were privileged and wealthy. Surely no peasant was duped into investing their half-month's worth life savings into tulip futures.

Also, Amsterdam was the first stock and commodities exchange in the world as far a we know (or at least in the west, as written by westerners). So peculiar investments should have been more likely.

Ironically, we now live in a world where non-physical creations with non-physical provenance fetch huge sums because... ? (because there is a lot of excess wealth accumulated by a few people who can piss it away without consequence, or because they can buy it with un-tax-reported currency).
My life is so much better since I got out of that domain :)
cough money laundering
... that's the exact opposite of what I took from this.

The obviously stupid, wasteful work is at heart an algorithmic problem. And it cropped up even in the simplest of data structures. A constant amount of wasteful work often isn't a problem even in tight loops. A linear amount of wasted work, per loop, absolutely is.
Your method works, but even if successful, you'll end up at $1M pre-tax, out of which $750 are gambling income. Gambling income is taxable in the US. If you win that much you might have to pay estimated taxes on that, so you'd only actually have $1M for a few months.
One positive step, but a long long way to go. Just yesterday a cop snatched my phone because I had recorded his colleagues driving without seatbelts on (which is a traffic offence in India). He told me (lied) what I was doing is illegal. This is just an example of how messed up the whole system here is. What can you expect from a country where one in three elected representatives have criminal cases pending against them. [0]

0 http://m.timesofindia.com/home/news/Every-third-newly-electe...
My earliest memory defeating copy protection went like this: typical for games of my system in those days, programs were loaded from tape, and often consisted of a small stub program in BASIC to do loading/protection, followed by raw assembly loaded directly into memory .. if you tried to break out of the game and return to the BASIC interpreter, the stub loader would trap the break and issue a "NEW" command, 'wiping' the program from memory.

Well, someone figured out that all the NEW command did was set a single byte to #400, which was the top of usable memory or something, and then the interpreter would see .. nothing. So we wrote an "OLD" command that simply replaced that value with maximum memory avialable - and voila, program loaded again! I'll never forget the joy of typing in that 10-line OLD command, loading up a protected game, breaking into BASIC, seeing that the game had been 'wiped', then typing 'OLD' to get it all back again .. so I could save it to tape again. That moment sent me off on a wonderful journey that is still not over, 30 years later .. I think copy protection is responsible for motivating more software development by hackers over the decades than, perhaps, any other aspect ..
I don’t think it was the DC police. That area is the responsibility of the Capitol police which is a different organization.
There are a couple of websites out there that give you future and past locations of "Starlink trains", which is what you probably saw.

This site https://findstarlink.com/ does arbitrary locations but not times in the past. As does this one https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink ... presumably if you looked around a bit more than I just did you could find one that does historical viewings.
Thanks, and yes! Super infuriating. IIRC it’s possible to disable the red badge per-app in Notification Preferences but then becomes difficult to understand which apps have new info so I waste a bunch of time checking all of them.
It was an arbitrary point of time - hence I said "6 months or so", but my feeling is that is when things will settle down and with that, be less fear and more common sense tractioning in society and either things sorted or daily life would of adjusted.
"The reason the iPhone stores so much data is a bug we uncovered and plan to fix shortly"

A bug _you_ uncovered?
Although the conventional wisdom of the day seems to be it's better/easier to outsource your mail servers, setting up one yourself is not hard, if you're not handling huge amounts of mail and already have a system you can put your MX on.
This is not the same meaning of the word "taste".

The quote from _why uses "taste[s]" as a substitute for "likes / dislikes" whereas Ira Glass talks about "taste" (singular) as "the ability to appreciate greatness".
The government got involved and there were going to be congressional hearings with Apple and Google representatives over this.
I don't think either the rule of law or the corruption situation are significantly better in Africa or the Middle East than in Russia.
I do know that they were in talks with shoplocal.com about using their api pass on deals to users. That company does alot of work in that space already. I know they developed the facebook pages for walmart, jcpenny, and gnc. It's a logical step for facebook to use their api.
What makes crypto currencies solve a problem in this area that can’t be solved using traditional currencies and payment processors?

Blockchain is a system for introducing trust, who is it you don’t feel we should trust?
And they sent a whole load of liquid metal reactors into orbit too. One crashed on Canada and the others are in disposal orbits and will come down in a very long time... All for a few months worth of radar.
There's a reason that every desktop and server CPU (ignoring APUs) AMD is shipping have a 12nm die manufactured by Global Foundries in addition to the 7nm CPU chiplets. It's a brilliant workaround within the scope of their wafer supply agreement with GF.
The important number is the ratio of tests:true case count. You need ~1000 - 10,000X tests/case to do true contact tracing because you want to a) blanket the country with tests and test every single suspected case even if 99% of them end up not being COVID 19 and b) proactively quarantine every person that a positive person has come into contact with and then test each of those people every single day for 14 days until they come up negative. If a single of those people come up positive, then you want to proactively quarantine all the people THAT person came into contact with, rinse and repeat.

It's great that tests are finally ramping up but the growth in testing can never exceed the growth in cases if cases are doubling every finite number of days. The choices are a severe lockdown where R < 0.5 until the true case count drops to near 0, a non-severe lockdown where R ~1.2 - 1.8 (Hubei's lockdown had an R of 1.3 in the early days until they figured out centralized quarantine could bring it down to 0.4) and you just continue the lockdown indefinitely, or "herd immunity" where R stays at 2.4 until pretty much everyone in the country gets sick.

Once you get your true case load down below your test load, then you can think about using non-pharmaceutical interventions (universal masking, universal temperature screening, mandatory hand washing when entering into a gathering space etc.) along with rigorous contact tracing to ensure that any future outbreaks remain small and contained.
The earliest known case, just as the mid-November suspected cases you cited, is a suspected case. If you read the original paper claiming the Dec 1 case, you are going to see they made the conclusion based on symptoms and epidemiology. This is something which can only happen retrospectively. It does not mean someone can magically realize there is a novel virus when the first few patients just showed up.
Cars have artificial controls that are relatively easy to simulate. Any sport where the primary impact is full human body mechanics is not likely to have a sim with transferable skills.
I qualified my statement by stating “after the blood supply was screened”, which rules out the period where it was not understood.

I’m not here to argue semantics, you win. HIV/AIDS is a pandemic and epidemic.

My point is that COVID-19 can infect anyone that has lungs, and breathes in the virus contained in the air.

HIV/AIDS is contracted via IV drug use, unprotected sex, or mother-to-child transmission.

Notice how one of these is incredibly easy to catch, and the other you have to try and catch? That is my point.
I can use proper version control for code, but when it comes to office products, I use an ISO date to prefix my "versions" of files.

This is really an integration of proper version control within the workflow. I don't find it appropriate to blame the user when they are so misguided.

Don't get me wrong, an ISO date prefix is nothing close to perfect for version control, but it:

- works anywhere you are asked to name a sequence of things

- tacitly communicates well the naming scheme so your colleagues can get it and possibly even start to imitate it

- give a clear time referral

- isn't sensible to system time-stamp, so this keep the chronology even when file are touched or copied elsewhere with a different time-stamp

- spontaneously generate a chronologically ordered result of versions when their are displayed in list

Once again, this is not my favorite way to organize things. But from a practical point of view, it often comes as the less worst solution you can run seamlessly.
If there were a large, vibrant community of public squares, I'd very much agree with you; the problem is that the network effect means that there will only ever be 2-3 big ones. It's a form of natural monopoly if not monopoly-in-fact and that has to be accounted for if "the people" are to remain in control of their ability to exercise their rights.

So, one solution would be to foster an environment where Twitter et.al lose their power because they really CAN'T lock people in anymore and I would absolutely love to see such a future.

But unfortunately that isn't where we are right now and the incentives around us are all set up to ensure it never changes.
I am all for this. In our office, we have horrible Plastic Ikea chairs. When we ask to upgrade our Co Founders seem to think it is no big deal, but the amount of adjusting, back pain, neck pain and unenjoyable work really adds up.

I would take nice chairs over any other perk.
The right is obsessed with ensuring that other people don't get the money they inherited, even it is for things like subsidized lunches for poor children.

And the reason I call out "inherited" is I notice a fundamentally different position between people I know who have earned their wealth versus those that have inherited it (even for relatively poor/middle-class people who have inherited their position through things as basic as being white in the US -- which tends to mean you've had generations to accumulate capital that can be transferred).
I had quite a scare. I was searching for this fairly popular repo and when I saw it was gone, I was afraid the author took to the hills like _why. I then thought maybe I've done something wrong when I saw that all my history and repos were completely gone. Finally, twitter revealed they are having problems.
I want to call your attention to a recent survey about wealth distribution [0] in which the average Bush voter stated that the ideal would be for the poorest quintile to have 7% of the wealth and the richest to have 35% of the wealth (Kerry voters said 12/30). Now, a thought experiment: imagine every family had the exact same income and the exact same rate of wealth accumulation. This is definitely more favorable to the poor and less favorable to the rich than you'd expect from the average Bush voter, or even the average Kerry voter. The only way to be wealthier than someone else is to have been working for more years. But if you do the math, you find that under this system, the richest quintile hold 36% of the wealth and the poorest hold 4% of the wealth. In other words, this system that both Bush and Kerry voters would consider extreme in promoting equality actually provides more wealth inequality than either Bush or Kerry voters emotionally believed was appropriate.

Point being, the people surveyed clearly didn't have a principled reason for thinking 30-35% was an "appropriate" amount of wealth for the top quintile; they hadn't done the math. In light of this, I want to ask you: do you have a principled argument as to how much wealth the top 1% or 5% or 20% should have?

[0] http://www.slate.com/id/2268872/
I decided to download the new F# release on Linux. It comes with a script to install it on mono, but the DLL needs to be resigned with a key that has to be downloaded from github. So I care. But of course, my situation is the exception, not the rule.

I can probably find it elsewhere, but it's still annoying.
Also, do we know what the value of the silent auction was when it was converted to a live auction? Several people had commented that they couldn't be there in person, but wanted to bid anyway.
Git is a dvcs and while magical, GitHub isn't the only way to view a repository or its history.

If you have a clone of your project (and you do have a clone, right? One copy of anything and its never safe), the entire history is still there. You can view it with `git log` or any other web interface out there.
The speed of light in optic fiber is about 66% of c. Is it feasible to just build a hollow reflective tube/waveguide?
Maybe we could use quantum entanglement devices to allow for faster trades? Since the speed of light in the medium is 0.66c you could probably get as close to c as possible.
Nothing is "completely gone". You have the entire repository with history in your local clone.
Spring boot.
One of the complaints I've recently seen pop up consistently regarding Khan Academy is something to the effect of "Why should I trust this one guy? What does he know?" Prominent displays of Bill Gates helps to convince a random visitor of the site that, yes, this is a big deal and is someone you can trust, which is something a visitor otherwise couldn't possibly know until watching and carefully critiquing several videos. The wall of links is definitely important, especially the "wow' factor of the overwhelming number of videos, but without the proper context, that list of videos could look like a content farm, and a visitor might never be convinced to click through several links in order to see how legitimate they are.
If a computer can convince judges that it is human, then it can also convince judges that it is sentient. If it is convincingly sentient, is it moral to program it?
From the link:

> This feature is not as popular as it should be mainly because no one’s heard of it

Count me as one. As someone who does a lot of development in Python, I'm surprised I never heard of that feature either.

Perhaps another reason this feature goes unnoticed is because it still requires the end user to have Python installed. Therefore, when distributing a Python application, most people just bundle it into an EXE/ELF/etc and don't bother looking for other solutions.
I think Microsoft re-branding Augmented reality as "holographic" is hugely impactful and, with the new wave of AR and CV products that are coming onto the market [1] might be the thing that makes people take it seriously.

It's just so much easier to explain to people what it is if you say Holographic vs Augmented Reality - even though it is technically wrong. Kudos to MSFT for making that leap.

[1] Shameless plug for (http://www.visidraft.com), my AR CAD company.
Two points. First, the comparison of spam to child pornography is a bit... lopsided. Second, every email we send is made available to the FBI/NSA already.
Good point. I'm thinking of "dead labs", where a tenured professor runs out of grant money and can't secure any more, so students and lab staff gradually disappear on their own, since the only official long-term job is the PI's. One unproductive professor's salary isn't much compared to an entire office or building in the D.C. suburbs.

(Empirically, a professor doing X will continue doing X until retirement, regardless of the grant situation. But students can still opt out.)
This JS physics engine isn't multi-threaded but it does run the physics on a separate thread

http://chandlerprall.github.io/Physijs/
>Why mention Africa when most of the world's malnourished people are in Asia?

Because in the US, at least in my experience, 'starving people in africa' is kind of a colloquial trope - it is more readily referenced than starving people in asia, since we don't see charity organizations constantly using asian faces to advertise their foundations.

>forced into producing cash crops for export to Western Europe

Who exactly went around the the countries in africa and asia and disallowed them from growing their own food instead of cash crops?
My bet is that these places found economic incentive in growing these crops rather than what they would consume locally - whether the global economy is a net benefit or net loss for a poor country is an entirely different discussion
I wonder if it's possible to remove the need for post-processing of the LSTM's output by integrating transcription into the neural network model directly.
This was a fascinating read. Somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s I picked up a floppy with a guide to cracking at a local computer store. I was then able to crack a few games with help of turbo debugger and Norton disk editor (file editor?) -- I mostly remember looking for int 16 (ah 02?) and then replacing the next few lines with nop's or changing jni to jmp -- I knew little of what I was doing but it was a blast. I was aware of certain protection that read bad sectors on a disk but if you did an exact floppy copy you could usually copy bad sectors-- different than this article. I do remember spending a few days on my cousins copy of altered beast and being very confused by it. I think it decrypted the game from disk or u compressed from disk into me,Roy so I could see the code I wanted to change in the debugger but not on the disk. This may have led to a failed attempt at a TSR to alter the code during runtime. I thi I i e eventually gave up. I also remember finding bible verses in the caveman ugh-lympics dump I think. Fond memories.
Is babel compatible with JSX ?
I was referring to following distance. And yes, three seconds is the "too liberal" version that I was referring to. Once we have automated systems in place, then anybody cutting into a three second gap gets an automatic $xx fine or some type of penalty to discourage them from doing that.

I assure you, that if every driver on the road was a minimum of 4 seconds behind the car in front of them, with mechanisms to enforce that, certain classes of accidents (predominantly rear-ending events, and rapid-swerve events) would be significantly reduced.

The good news is that over the next 3-5 years, a large number of safety automation systems will start to make their way into high-end $50K+ vehicles. The three that I'm super impressed by (having driven in a bunch of vehicles with them) - are Crash Avoidance (your car hits the breaks to prevent it from running into the vehicle in front of you), Lane Control (Your car keeps you in the current lane), and Blind Spot Protection (Your car prevents you from ramming into a car in your blind spot). If, as I strongly suspect, there is a huge drop in car accidents as a result of these three technologies, then we'll start to see them being introduced into the $30K-$50K range over the following 4-6 years, and then, soon thereafter as the technology has been commoditized, the NHTSA will start requiring it. By 2030, all new cars sold in the United States will require those three technologies.

I can only begin to imagine what new technologies will be developed as the march towards self driving cars takes place.
I have been looking for a machine to stick under the TV to run Dolphin to replace my Wii, and do stuff I use the PS3 for too. Something with enough CPU and GPU heft to do run the Dolphin emulator at high frame rates. This might do it.
To me, Magic seems like a ChaCha that takes your credit card number and makes a few calls. That's fine, but it seems that places like Task Rabbit and Amazon Home are attempting to guarantee some level of satisfaction and results.

I've seen a couple other startups like Magic too. It's basically paying people to google for you. That might disrupt the personal assistant space but probably not the market for home services.
So the government can somehow hack into the NYTimes editing process and put a retraction of some earlier claim into the newspaper, all without the NYTimes staff cooperating?

Similarly, if A is constantly harassing B, B should just shut up and take the money the government pays him in compensation, along with the harassment that isn't being stopped?

Are you sure that is the outcome you are advocating for?
I dislike the glowing Apple logo.
I always thought TaskRabbit was for unskilled jobs. More assembling IKEA desks than plumbing and electrics.
I'm more surprised that we don't just create a written version of the lecture as well and synchronize it with the video.

It's especially surprising since having your MOOC captioned is already mandatory if you want to comply with accessibility laws.
I hope this is eventually how web single-sign on works. The sooner OpenID goes away, and the browsers just take over, the better, IMO.
No, just British houses. I moved to Britain last year from eastern Germany. It gets much colder on the continent.

The British just don't understand the concept of insulating their houses, and like to complain about their actually rather mild weather.

`Extreme weather conditions' is British English for `snow'.
"Covid-19 is not ENTIRELY Trump's fault" - in what way is it his fault at all? Also, the timeline of events you are sighting is intentionally misleading.
I wouldn't call that evidence. "He's shot a gun before" isn't evidence, and coronaviruses are a pretty broad group as I understand it (not an expert).

This is a densely-populated, agriculture-heavy third-world part of the world that had bird flu and sars in the previous 15 years... random-ass diseases materialize there. Occam's razor says it's another one of those.
Fun fact: Duesenberg is what is referenced with the phrase "it's a doozy"
Now do housing
"A food and symptom journal can be helpful for trying to connect the dots."

This is a good idea, I will try this once I start cutting out foods again.

"High IgE levels can be due to parasitic infections and these have something of a tendency to go underdiagnosed in the US because they get seen as "third world problems."

How does one go about testing this? I visited my gp multiple times and a bunch of tests were taken. Aside from the general itching and rashes, I don't really have other symptoms. Maybe a little fatigue occasionally.
Are there any visual "code flow" interpreters? Something that would separate the 1000s of interactions between functions and show flow lines between them?
Ah, that massively changes things. If they provide you a work laptop and you install private stuff on it, you've got a problem (they may know, it may be a point that gets brought up when someone has an issue with your performance, etc.).

If they expect you to work from your machine, it's completely their problem to protect their IT side. But it's also your potential problem that the company may get access to your private data.

Ideally, if you can, just request a work laptop. "Your VPN client doesn't work correctly on my laptop" should help. It helps both them and you if any issues arise.