jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just wondering -- wouldn't a couple (or a couple dozen) of well-placed explosive charges disintegrate the ships into small enough pieces and clear the way? Can you expand on the difficulties? It doesn't seem to a layman like it'd be that challenging or take that long. (Then again, I realize little does.)
China is destined by US and European politicians to take power, because those in power are totally corrupt. This has nothing to do with the instrinsic abilities of respective populations. Same goes for Israel. And you have a strange definition of ethics given the amount of IP piracy going on with the blessing of occidental politicians.
I am 23, have same feelings. It's not the age.
Oh, weird. Let me DM you and get that fixed for you.
It's taking us a day or so to remove all the restrictions. Email me if this isn't fixed today: nat@github.com.
Doctors don't need to pass the medical boards for every job they apply to. I don't see how there's even a comparison there.
I thought I was in stage 3, but this whole experience has me doubting myself somewhat. Though, I know I'm not stuck in stage 1. The way I view myself is, I know I'm not a genius, so I do what I can to mitigate opportunity for mistakes, which means keeping things as simple as possible. Sometimes complexity is required but my team makes excuses for complexity.
That is the rub of it. Making software and selling it are different skill sets. Not everyone has both. Selling things about getting others to think your incentive is good enough. Not everyone has that skill set.
Preach!!
Strange, but most people I know really can't stand windows 8(.1). Some have been beaten into submission by being forced to use it, but if anything, they'd prefer to go back to windows 7 or xp.

I may be a linux user, but that's only because windows sucks so bad. Lots of people will tell me that it's really my fault that windows is behaving badly on my machine. But when I explain to them that I don't have the same problems using linux on the very same machine as windows, they can understand my point.
Have downloaded and played it for a while its same as Candy Crush .... i am also a developer and know how much effort is required to whatever you build my suggestion would be "you work is GOOD but do offer something different from others as well add some feature in this app which you think are missing in candy crush"
Best of luck
It looks like gitblime bought subhub, just kidding. :P
I think it's a bit different when they're using it to discourage, rather than for enforcement.

As a side note, Minority Report film was changed in some... interesting ways from the short story. Like, most ways. I recommend reading it. Not that either should serve any sort of evidential purpose...
Ha, amazing. FTW for sure! Hope you're well.
Estimating here but I'd put my breakdown by calorie as:

-45% high quality meat (grassfed, pastured, cage-free depending on species)

-10% low quality meat (traditional supermarket stuff)

-30% green leafy vegetables (read: very low non-dietary-fiber carbs)

-10% fruit or carby veggies (e.g. tubers)

-5% grains (never gluten containing)

So I definitely have other confounding factors that might influence my CRP number: low carbs, very low grains. That said, I arrived at my current diet via 3.5 years of A/B testing what works for me, optimizing for specifically what causes my digestion the least inflammation. I'm very happy with the results.
Certainly walking into my current provider's storefront and mentioning T-Mobile finally broke loose a long-standing warranty issue I had with AT&T.

"Fix this, or I'm gonna walk."

"Suuurrre you are."

"No, really."

[go to other end of the mall to the T-Mobile store, talk to sales guy -- who frankly almost got me to switch right then. Walk back to AT&T anyway.]

"Hey, do you want me to still be your customer?" [Wave quote]. "You decide. Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

"Okay, okay!"

I hate dealing with phone sales worse than I hate buying a car.
And no-one said they did.

I mentioned WebKit and LLVM to make the distinction between technologies Apple has no problem making available to 'the community' and those they do not.
Any proof or reference? I'd prefer not to wait about 23 days for my server to explode.
Yes, because overloading HTTP(S) as a data layer for native apps leaves a ton of performance and security on the table. It's for web browsers, not every possible use case for sending a buffer of bytes from A to B.

People use HTTP because it's what they know, not because it's technically a good (efficient, reliable, scalable) approach for their particular use case.

It does make sense for apps that also have a web component, but that's becoming less and less necessary. When you can drop it, the possibilities are pretty amazing having a fully-capable computer with CPU equivalent to a 2010 Macbook Air at your disposal at the edge of the network.

Hell, my latest project doesn't even use DNS.
Even if you particularly feel better, that's not evidence that gluten is "bad" in every way that's being claimed here.
I agree with most of your points actually. It's the problem that I was addressing with "who are themselves subject to scrutiny"; note that somehow we find that corrupt judges are the exception rather than the rule, in no small part because we are able to publicly examine their work. So the idea of a secret court poses its own especially difficult problems.

On the other hand, it's impossible to have a society anything like ours if you build around zero-trust systems. If you say that fundamentally nobody in power can be trusted, for any length of time and under any system of checks and balances, then you may as well advocate true anarchy or survival-of-the-fittest.
I definitely foresee a subscription-type model or a la carte via the signature track model. Either way, I think anyone would be happy to pay for this awesome education.
> Do not try to talk your way out of anything. And you do NOT have to and should not answer any questions from law enforcement or the TSA. Ask repeatedly: Am I being detained? Am I free to go?

Unfortunately, this is a pipe dream. At that point, they can do whatever they want to you. Legally? Probably not. But they can still do it, because there is simply nothing you can do except try to fight or escape physically (which won't work). There's no cops to call, no lawyers to call, absolutely nothing you can do. Unless you value your principles more than your time, or even your safety/life, you will compromise those principles to placate your captors.
Yes, that's a very helpful link. Will keep an eye out for a TSA-related version of this and speak with some lawyer friends.

Thanks for the excellent writeup of your experience, though I'm sorry you had to go through it in the first place. As someone who is also brown-skinned and from a Hindu family and who has been singled out for many "random" screenings, I've dreaded the chance of this sort of interrogation happening, every time I've flown since 9/11.
You have it precisely backwards.

The old-timers are looking at the youngsters getting excited about only having to walk 1.5 miles uphill in the snow.

And scratching their heads, because they remember the days when they had hovercraft to get around.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I meant, "additional" as in "above and beyond the standard reaction to setting off the detector". Sorry for the confusion.
Perfect! Thanks for the link. I want to run this over the classic SimCity tile set (and the additional ones in the add-on graphics sets like the moon base, etc), to generate high resolution pixel and vector tiles for the JavaScript browser based version of Micropolis (GPL SimCity).
Strange, question might be why your ssh connection breaks down like that. I get disconnected when i put my machine to sleep but after waking up i can just vagrant ssh back into it.
Lots of legacy systems, industrial machines etc. still use 3.5" floppies, so many people will still have a need to write them with modern computers to transfer stuff to these machines. My mom actually has a fancy sewing machine that uses 3.5" floppies for patterns and she uses a usb floppy drive to write to it.
> I can't believe WhatsApp and Messenger, despite being supported by a FAANG such as FB, fall short on features - including the one you mentioned - whereas Telegram

Messenger has that feature too. Actually for both Messenger and Telegram it's much easier to provide it, because they don't encrypt the message, they just store them unencrypted. So they don't have anything special to do to give access to them from any device.
their official deal is well known - it's a quarter time role so formally about 10 hours a week. of course, the time they end up actually putting in is up to them.
Yes and no.

Techniques like Zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption and multiparty computation exists, but none of them are sufficient for elections. The security requirements are simply too complex, and we can't require that every voter manages a private keypair to issue their votes from an electronic device they can't audit.

Paper voting is safer.
Montreal is significantly cheaper than Toronto (even though prices have picked up in the past 5 years or so) and would provide something similar to Toronto 90's prices with arguably similar services.
YouTube user 'Nitin Priyadarshi' writes (in reference to the video):

"What is my purpose?"

"You flip switches."

"Oh My God!"

<g>

Related: Rick And Morty, "You Pass Butter":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs

<g>
This is the original post referenced by Engadget on their piece about MSFT trying to acquire Nintendo. There are lots of really interesting narratives in the full article.
It is a banking app with features for budgeting and had a 'slick app'. Their killer features were 'goals' and 'safe-to-spend' where you could auto move money to buckets, and your balance in the app would not show the allocated funds.

Acquired by BBVA a few years back, and clearly not 'worth it' to them.
> Solved much more elegantly by the likes of daemontools and derivatives (s6, runit, etc.), many years before systemd.

Then why is no one using them?

> Hardly "new". Dependency systems in init daemons and service managers have been rolled many times, from the primitive need(8) facility to the LSB initscript headers (which almost all SysV-based distros had adopted) to OpenRC, Solaris SMF and so forth.

Exactly. Isn't the point of systemd to bring the ideas from launchd (and SMF) to Linux?
GP talked about using Docker to do complex single host deployments until they needed horizontal scaling, which given max VM power, is after they can afford someone to manage it for them.

That makes me think they have multiple services of variable workload packed onto a single host, eg web server, async, and DB all on a single host via Docker.

That’s the antithesis of EB, which can only do horizontal scaling. Docker provides a way to replicate those multiple services in a deployment configuration when you want to set up a host image.

Not using Docker as an easy way to pack it all onto a single box as long as they can is just wasted expense.
I spend about 6 months of the year in China. Yes, I am forced, as you say, to use the Chinese versions of everything, but, to be honest, it doesn't worry me. I use Baidu to put my teaching notes online for my students - it is as good as DropBox. Bing is allowed and works fine as a search engine, even if it blocks any results for "naughty" words. It becomes a bit of a game to see which double entendres it doesn't recognise. Conversing on English corner one night, a student asked me what I thought about their government blocking Google. I think my answer surprised him: I said, "Do you want Google to rule the world?" My implication is that I think services like Baidu are good competition for Google. I honestly think that the governments blocking of Western services is a business decision. It's highly likely sites like Bauidu pay the government a cut to continue the blockade. Imagine a world where you don't get continually served with Google ads. That's pretty close to Nirvana in my opinion.
Ahh, my bad. I was under the impression it was.
The difference between analogue and digital in signalling is that with digital, if the signal integrity through a cable reaches a certain threshold, then you achieve perfect transmission of whatever protocol you are sending. Where this threshold is depends on how much bandwidth the protocol uses.

This does not mean that all digital cables are fine then - with very long, low quality and/or improperly terminated network cables, you tend to see higher packet loss, sometimes you see dropouts, and sometimes the equipment negotiates to a lower speed. This kind of thing has a lot to do with what's happening in the analogue domain, because interference and signal integrity problems interferes with decoding the analogue signal back into the digital data, so you have packets that fail the checksum validation because they have been corrupted mid-flight.
do you think that this is a phenomenon particular to Russia or would it also exists in other countries?
And then every website starts doing the CNAME nonsense.
OpenBSD 5.6 (~6 years ago) removed the Bluetooth stack altogether, due to security/maintainability concerns, so yeah, pretty much.
"There is a need for a simple well curated recipe site though, there is always lots of interest"

Does BBC Food count? It's ad-free if you are in the UK (possibly not if you're outside the UK). It has a wealth of recipes and food-related content:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food
Maybe there aren't anything like "fundamental laws" and all are emergent patterns, like we are, and in other places in the Universe the "fundamental laws" are completely different. In that case, the hermetics had a point when they talked about infinite divisibility.
Sounds like an overreaction. The only thing affected by the browser changes is some third party authentication mechanisms, and those can be easily fixed (as mentioned in the article itself).
There is an Audible version as well
Yup, the sibling comments mention a few alternatives (FreedomBox and Yunohost) but Sandstorm is really the only one I've ever used that makes me confident in the state of the system long-term. Let me elaborate on that.

FreedomBox and Yunohost use more traditional software installation mechanisms; they'll install packages, run scripts, etc. They just add (sometimes very nice) UI around it. While that's great for some things, after a while things can get a bit messy. For example: what about when a package installation fails for some reason? Or one of the configuration scripts fails? Well, you're stuck logging in and troubleshooting, which isn't super fun (and might be intractable for less technical users).

Sandstorm, though? Everything is sandboxed and isolated from the rest of the system. Everything. Backing up or restoring an instance of an app is a few clicks in a web interface. Sandstorm handles auth so the app doesn't have to... etc etc.

This has its downsides, namely that apps that aren't written with this sort of usage in mind might not fit in as well. But for those that are, it's by far the best experience I've had. I have Yunohost and FreedomBox servers in varying states of disrepair, but my Sandstorm server keeps chugging along. Big fan.
There's a tangible benefit to programming, e.g. I just automated this process and now it runs daily and I don't have to worry about it anymore for the 99% case.

I can't get that with a rubik's cube.
Though it's a totally unreasonable workaround, I usually draft my TikZ diagrams in an online editor like WriteLaTeX, and copy-paste the finished diagrams into my documents. I'd like to have auto-refreshing documents offline, but I haven't found a tool that works with my environment (vim with a simple build script).
In the book edition, moreover, Frodo can't go home again because (in an allegory of the English experience after WWII) the global conflict has brought a good dose of the ugly stuff back there, too. Much unlike the film, which has been "updated".
I don't know the algorithm well enough to say for certain. but I get the impression it involves a clever work around to the interdependencies. it converts equalities and inequalities into a system of linear equations. It then converts this system into a matrix form it calls a "tableau". The solver appears to work by repeated applications of matrix operations which may be paralelizable. but I'm not sure. This is different from how physics engines resolve constraints, one after another. In a matrix form they just kind of all get optimised "at once"

the paper describing the algorithm is here:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cs.washington....
We at Purdue are trying to survey software engineering methods on IOT Devices. Please help get us more data. 36 Question, 10 minutes.

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9nkQNegN4fMPk6W
I like the analogy, but the fair comparison would be comparing adding some specific piece versus subtracting some specific piece, or comparing adding some arbitrary piece versus subtracting some arbitrary piece.

For the former, you have to check your potential addition against all pieces (N checks) or your potential subtraction against all other pieces (N-1 checks). For the latter, you check all potential additions against all pieces (K x N checks) or all potential subtractions against all other pieces (N x N checks).

In your comment, you're comparing checking the viability of a known addition to the entire search for a viable subtraction, ignoring the search for a viable addition.
Your lungs can get squished (as was hypothesized to be the case with the aforementioned caver), bursting blood vessels in the brain, and (news to me) according to the article below, your heart eventually has trouble pumping when you're inverted.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questio...
I can kind of see it as an ASCII art flowchart line.

IE a line to indicate use of this option and a line with a strikethrough to indicate it has been "struck out" as an option.

But using the conventional minus and plus symbols is indeed confusing.
We're not talking about a program that could run on any given platform (cross platform). We're talking about one program that is distributed across several machines in one workflow. That's a form of distributed (usually) heterogeneous computation. And typically with a somewhat dynamic execution plan. Mix in dynamic discovery of (or configuration of) executing machines and you have a lot of complexity to manage.

This is why I wanted to see some specific examples. I haven't seen much success in this space that is general purpose. The closest I have seen is "each step in the workflow is a black box implemented by a container", which is often pretty good, though it isn't a procedural script written in a well known language. And it does make assumptions about environment (i.e. usually Linux).
I agree Grossman's class was much better designed. I think he is a great teacher. But in my opinion it was mostly because the course's notes were very comprehensive in the case of Programming Languages and somewhat poor in Odersky's courses (again: no disrespect meant for Odersky; just my opinion on the design of these online courses). With Grossman's course you can skip the videos entirely and miss nothing, whereas you cannot do that with Odersky's.

In both cases, I found the exercises very engaging and for me they were the main "thrill" of taking the course, but I understand that other people found them very frustrating -- they were very vocal on the forums -- often for the reasons you mentioned: the tools were hard to configure or confusing.
OK tough guy. Maybe you just have a lot less empathy than the average criminal.
So your anecdote has become irrefutable evidence?

Some people enjoy prison. I imagine they're not common.
this has the potential for some awesome april fools jokes. how does it get personalized though?
gwern, you're the man.
Oil is a good recent example. the US is buying more gas than ever, but with fewer workers. I absolutely stop buying coffee when i don't have a job, regardless of price.

Deflation is like that oil microcosm but with everything.
THAT is no country for old men. The young

In one another's arms, birds in the trees

- Those dying generations - at their song,

The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,

Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long

Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.

Caught in that sensual music all neglect

Monuments of unageing intellect.

⁯⁯⁯⁯⁯⁯…⁯⁯⁯

An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless

Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress,

Nor is there singing school but studying

Monuments of its own magnificence;

And therefore I have sailed the seas and come

To the holy city of Byzantium.

⁯⁯⁯…

O sages standing in God's holy fire

As in the gold mosaic of a wall,

Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,

And be the singing-masters of my soul.

Consume my heart away; sick with desire

And fastened to a dying animal

It knows not what it is; and gather me

Into the artifice of eternity.

⁯⁯⁯…

Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

- W B Yeats
What do you mean by buried? I think it's fairly obvious why the prosecutor would choose not to present this evidence if the case could be made without it. The prosecution isn't required to present everything at trial.

I guess there's the question of whether the prosecution provided it to the defense or not, though I'm not sure how that would help. Ulbricht was sticking with the claim he wasn't running the site at the time, no? Seems irrelevant that some bad agents stole from the site he wasn't running.
Really? My first thought was Switzerland.
There are lots of people Christian in name only, not just in the US.
So basically pruning the neural network makes it faster. Isn’t this effectively what we are doing since birth? As babies we just have a bunch of semi-random connections, and then we prune away as we learn.

And in AI it’s basically the same. The fewer number of hidden nodes in your neural network the better, as long as there are enough nodes to accomplish the task.
You made the claim that "Usually those reviews just get deleted", referring to bad reviews. You made further comments suggesting that Apple sanitized the reviews.

But that does not appear to have been be true. As you say yourself, there were tons of bad reviews all over the place.
They were not inserted, they were renamed. The year began in March, so the names of September-December make sense within that context. The start of the year changed later, making the names incorrect.
I need to drive one of these around Dallas, Texas with truck nutz on it.
This brings up a point that has always eerily intrigued me: Can you even count at all -without- a language?

Visually, you might be able to do it; e.g. seeing a clump of 5 trees and knowing it’s 5 without having to “say” “five” in your head.

But try tapping on the desk or clapping your hands and counting how many times you did it without saying/thinking “1, 2, 3, 4...”

I wonder if associating a transient stream of inputs with a count may be impossible without mapping it to some other sequence in your head, like linguistic numbers/letters.
To expect a platform with billions of content posted every day to have algorithms capable of distinguishing the intricacies of what humans subjectively determine is vulgar, untrue, etc. is insane.

Moreover, who determined what is "banworthy"? This is dangerous territory. I agree with the sentiment of SBC's speech, but in reality, that's such a slippery slope into suppressing speech simply because somebody is going to dictate what penetrates the filters.