jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you have some friends that you think of as straight but who think of themselves as bi.

Since there are so many more straight people, most bi people will end up with somebody opposite gendered, simply because there are more available. You'd have to know them for a while, or pretty well, to find out that they're bi just from observation.

There's also a certain amount of biphobia: both straight and gay people often reject bi people -- homophobia by straight people, and distrust by gay people. Some of your bi friends may be hiding it.

These are just guesses, but it does roughly match my observations of my Gen Z friends, which may be a matter of geography or my social group or whatnot. I can say that the 16% figure doesn't surprise me, either -- and I suspect it will climb as more and more people think of it as safe to publicly identify.
That's... literally what Apple is doing. Facebook is crying because they know that a lot of people will opt out of the tracking when given the choice.
If you frequently go on long road-trips, 200 miles is not sufficient in summer or winter.

If you don't, 200 miles is more than sufficient, regardless of the season. If you absolutely have to make a 190 mile trip in winter, consider stopping for a charge, or renting/borrowing an ICE car.
Did you read the rest of my comment? Quite an uncharitable response. I address exactly that...

I still think EVs are okay for a family that does a lot of road trips. You are describing... me. I routinely make a ~12 hour drive. We take a bit of a break every few hours to walk around and play with the dog. The rest of the time, car drives itself.

Hacker News is really getting worse. Taking me out of context by quoting the first line of my comment and ignoring the rest (where I specifically address your comment) is inappropriate. We are better than this.
The product in this case is the platform more than individuals.
The basic principle of real security models is once an attacker has full access all data on the system is potentially tampered with.

You can try to play games with ensuring logs leave the system, but everyone takes shortcuts to make sure they can recover the system when networking is down etc.

Everyone and their grandma has access to complex scripts, etc that were once very expensive. Whether they invest the energy in learning methods to hide their presence or just go straight to some other goal is going to depend on how they intend to abuse your systems.

I think most "security professionals" pretend they are going to catch an oddity that occurs that doesn't match what their automated tools would catch and occurs in the middle of some other crisis or holiday break. I would say good luck with that.
Not the person you replied to but here's my take for the two that I can comment on:

1) Godot: No. Godot is doing pretty well with the resources they have. Making a 2D/3D game engine is an incredibly complex task and they have only a handful of people writing code. To compete with unreal and unity they'd have to have a ton of funding, a layer of FOSS-competent management (a somewhat rare thing), and many more developers.

2) Gimp: Yes but that will never happen. Gimp has a handful of issues. They're chained to a difficult framework and a large amount of the value they provide as a tool comes from their plugin library so they can't just start ripping things out. They also have rather questionable branding (both in the name and the splashscreens, especially the ones in development versions) and a hearty resistance towards throwing on even a veneer of professionalism. Whether or not they should change to fit what the rest of the world considers appropriate is a philosophical question I'm not touching, but the effect of their not doing so is pretty evident.

Krita (a very well managed project in comparison) has basically eaten Gimp's lunch for a lot of workflows and will continue to do so while gimp withers away (which has basically already happened, gimp's GTK3 builds are only just now about to release, 10 years after the first GTK3 release and right after GTK4 dropped -- bear in mind that GTK was originally developed as a custom widget toolkit specifically for gimp).
TI calculators often have suitable hardware.

If you get a TI-84 Plus CE with older firmware (not locked down) you have a particularly good device. It has an EZ80 processor. You can put the EZ80 in a Z80-compatible mode. You could even pop in and out of that mode, letting you keep parts of CP/M outside of the Z80 address space. That would let you run larger Z80 programs. You get a 320x240 color display. There is a USB port that could be used to reach serial, floppies, printers, and keyboards.
It was for 200 people, that's an average of $3250 per person.
I'm not in the industry - just dabbling, but SiFive have a mini-ITX with all the expected interfaces[1] available for pre-order. The Mouser link lists March for the initial deliveries.

The Getting Started Guide indicates it comes with a micro-SD with a bootable Linux image, but mostly goes on to describe console access. That said, it does recommend a GPU, but it's unclear whether it can boot to a graphical desktop out of the box.

[1] https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
12 was the best machine they made, maybe a little underpowered. With the M1/M2 it would be a dream.
not sure how it is mil grade if an infra allows such a password to begin with.
I don't know how to define "intrinsic" here. There's a difference, if you think that pump and dump schemes are not "intrinsic".
This is the core argument:

> But it is to say that there’s a dimension—the narrative dimension of time—that exists beyond the ALU’s mathematical present. And our brains, because of the directional arrow of neuronal transmission, can think in that dimension.

This is so utterly laughable on every level. It reeks of semi-doctism, mixing up levels of abstraction and ignoring All of the relevant literature.

It fails to realize that, if the thing it is claiming were true, it would simply revolutionize the entire field of computer science: it would not only show that you can build a computer more powerful than a Turing machine, but that we already know how : just add directionally to the tape!

Of course, the fact that transistors themselves are directional (in 3 directions, no less! So they're actually 1 more powerful than neurons!) is completely beyond the professor here.

Probably shows what happens when you read Gabriel Garcia-Marquez[0] instead of Alan Turing when trying to understand how computers work.

> Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative and the author of Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature. His peer-reviewed proof that computers cannot read literature was published in January 2021 in the literary journal, Narrative.

I can only laugh. 'Narrative science' indeed.

[0] just want to note here, I do not mean in any way to attack the value of literature. It is a wonderfully enriching experience and it helps shape the human mind, it helps us understand the world of humans outside our experience, and it is an invaluable tool to that end. But it is absolutely obviously not a tool for logical thought, and I would bet most great authors would laugh at this idea as thoroughly as I do.
> I believe estimate of infection date is by MOH data, which tries to estimate infection date in patients by clinical data.

I'm reading the methodology PDF and there appears to be no effort to correct for infection date.

edit: Examining the MOH data-- the date of first positive test result is used for infections, and the date of hospitalization is used for hospitalization.
Those ad spending values are mind blowing... No wonder Facebook doesn't want to change anything.
>How about just focusing on delivering a p2p crypto payment that is actually cheap, fast and preferably eco-friendly like what Satoshi envisioned in the first place?

https://www.chia.net seems to be a promising candidate to deliver that vision. I read their “green paper” and watched some interviews, and they seem to have jumped through the regulatory hoops already, in the hope to become a legitimate use case for institutions and governments. Also, it's founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent network.
Your feet have a large blood supply and a large surface area. Getting your feet wet is a very effective way to lower your body temperature.
Yeah, I've seen Malazan Book of the Fallen mentioned several times in similar discussions but I generally don't commit to reading 5+ books fantasy series unless they quality is attested by multiple people with tastes similar to mine (and after GoT and The Kingkiller Chronicle fiascos I would only start reading them _after_ series is concluded and author managed to come up with coherent ending). So, can anyone who enjoys reading "boring" stuff like The Book of the New Sun (or, as another example, The Silmarillion) express their opinion on Erikson's books?
Your comment reminds me of Gödel's proof of his incompleteness theorem. Basically, he said that if you treat a mathematical statement as a sequence of tokens, and then assign a number to each token, then you can transform the statement into a big number. Then, going one step further, if a mathematical proof is a sequence of statements then it can be too transformed into a really long number. Then you can come up with rules to manipulate these numbers to create new valid statements and proofs.

I don't know if there was much work done on this idea beyond Gödel's proof, but I think it's a really neat idea that gives a way to manipulate mathematical proofs as objects and create new ones from a very high level view.
Does Apple still maintain open Darwin? Can you run it on an m1?
I'm appalled that we have come to the point where we need food banks for people here in the UK - they were practically unheard of before 2008 and the subsequent "austerity".
People working at facebook would love to publish this data, and let other researchers take a look...

But the simple fact is that any high profile analysis of this data will simply further fuel debate about facebook overreach and harm facebook's business.
I too think that this has potential as a cloud TTS service. However that does open up all the moral and legal cans of worms around this. I could imagine some of the voice actresses not being very happy about somebody else commercializing their voice without their consent.

The obvious way to get around this is to keep this as the showcase and to pay some people to add their voices to the paid version. I imagine this would sell just based on being decent TTS with a wide range of voices, even when people don't know the voices offered.
"inequality.is is best viewed with browsers that support
the newest elements of HTML5 and related technologies.
Would you mind upgrading your browser?"

You want me to enable Javashit in my browser in order to view your site.

That's fine, if you really think you need it, but you need to be honest with me, and you are not being honest.

Quite frankly, I don't enable java on most websites and I don't think I want to see what you have to say enough to enable it.
Backing out isn't as bad as just breaking/ violating it, but yes, international reputation rests on a country keeping promises made in treaties.

And in the US, the supremacy clause of the Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) states that ratified treaties are the "supreme law of the land," second only to the Constitution itself.

The Supreme Court, in it's famous Holland ruling, clarified that this includes laws and policy that otherwise would be a State matter, like land rights.
Aha. So you agree.
https://www.shortcutfoo.com/

Created a website to help developers build muscle memory with their favorite editors and tools.

Launched on HN a couple years ago. Still pays for its hosting and then some :)
That's funny because other than Google Street View, I can't think of any "sexy" things Google has done. It's mostly really mundane (if sometimes well executed) products and me-too style copycats of chat products. Oh and of course tons of horrible ad tech stuff.

I can't say Google's launched anything exciting in the past decade. If they're shooting for sexy, they're failing miserably.
I think that people think that they are doing the former when they do the latter: "I don't have time to understand this technique, so I'll let the computer understand it for me."
Code-gen with help of the 'template' library might be a way out of the code repetition.
I was running email marketing for a brand, and I noticed two things: 1) we spent several days to create each email blast, but the traffic / revenue impact was over in < 24 hours, and 2) I subscribed to dozens of competitor emails for research and I was tired of them.

My hypothesis was that a site that could collect them would be useful, and that it could help extend the lifetime of an email's content effort.
> Hate speech definitely exists.

In the USA, it does not exist, in the sense that freedom of speech is absolute, even when you're demeaning or "harming" others with your words. The only way in which it is limited is when it is directly inciting action as a call to violence.

In Canada, hate speech laws exist, but again are designed around the case where a reasonable person would view the speaker as making credible threats and inciting violence.

Neither country prohibits you from saying mean things about groups you don't like. Certainly neither country prohibits you from saying true-but-uncomfortable, even scientifically backed things that are banned outright on most platforms for being hateful.
Given that children (and some adults) verbalize thoughts in their minds, being able to speak something faster is an advantage. It also makes memorization easier. Take the multiplication table as an example.

By the way, digits are almost monosyllabic in English too (with the exception of seven) but not even remotely as nice.
Yes. Existing truck owners will not buy this truck. They will be afraid they will be laughed at by other truck owners like themselves.

Trucks are very much a product that identifies you as "one of us" vs "one of them". The Cybertruck will fail that test utterly. Owning one screams "I'm one of THEM". Not what you want if you want to make inroads in the mainstream pickup market. (Not to mention that recharging a truck with a 220V line in rural America, where folks often park nowhere near their house, will be a major problem.)

Yes, this truck will be popular initially among well-heeled yuppies who want to stand out -- probably taken entirely from the existing Tesla S market (or S wannabes). But unless you leave SF/NYC/Boston every once in a while, you don't realize how small that world really is. No more than 5% of this country can afford an S. And while this truck is more affordable than an S, its appeal is much narrower. It will attract only the vanishingly small Venn intersection space that's Tesla S + pickup-drivers-who-don't-actually-haul-anything.

This thing will flash on the radar for a year or two, in small sales numbers, then die utterly, with poor sales used thereafter, once the fashionista bloom fades.
Windows 95 behaved like Windows does today: "cutting" a file faded out the icon until it was pasted someplace else.

Prior versions of Windows did not have an equivalent to the "cut" operation; for example, Windows 3.1's File Manager moved files via a "File > Move..." menu option, which opened a dialog with two text fields to specify the source and destination. (Copying behaved similarly; the document-editing-inspired Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-X bindings used today were all introduced for file management in the Windows world in Windows 95.)
Wouldn't it be more easy to maintain because you could just sand and blend away defects as opposed to dealing with paint where flaws are more noticeable.
yes!! well worth the $250. it is super snappy, stable when rooted, has excellent battery life, and unlike the 10" iPad/Xoom fits comfortably in the back pocket. I bought mine weeks ago and havent regretted it for a second.

And for the record I'm very much NOT an Android or iOS fanboi; as both a software dev and consumer i like various aspects of each ecosystem.
I disagree, the 'no file' approach is the forward looking one, beyond DropBox type thing. Why sync files to local machines when they are already accessible through the cloud? that's the 'leap'.
This effect didn't work so well for me. 3D Audio (from stereo source) has been experimented with for years. I have heard most of them. The most believable reproduction I have heard is here, http://www.nucleusdevelopment.com/downloads/4-654%20matches.... . It should be heard with high quality headphones. You can hear from the short demo, the replay has complete 360 degree reproductive control. You can almost feel the blowdryer in your ear, http://www.nucleusdevelopment.com/downloads/4-654%20blowdry.... .
I don't see any evidence that this is causation and not just correlation. I'd believe that people who sit more are at higher risk for heart attack. But I'd also argue that those people are more likely to get less exercise.
Just to add a counterpoint, I had a lot of trouble making the connection. I wasn't sure how github would map to "guitar and bass players".

Is it sharing instruments used on recordings?
Is it sharing what equipment you have?
Is it sharing settings (yes!)?
Is it sharing sound clips (yes!)?
Is it some other really smart way to do something similar to GitHub using musical instruments that I haven't thought of?

Honestly, mentioning GitHub here seems like more a publicity move than a useful comparison.
Not a snarky question, I am just confused.

Where do these numbers come from? How is Wufoo helping it's customers collect revenue?
They recently got $100 million in financing, and 'revenues rumored to be above $50 million a year'.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/surveymonkey-100-million-de...
How did you convince them you were him and that you hadn't stolen your own identity?
This is such a weird comment to make: these are companies that can quite literally (and quite often) let you go for any reason at all (if you live in an at-will-employment state). I've done this exact thing before, and I've also resigned without 2 weeks notice to chase greener pastures. Business decisions should always be purely transactional and borne out of your own interest. Anything else is self-sabotage.

Companies sure as shit don't care about you, and you caring about them gives them a leg up, not you.
There are promising new cryptocurrencies such as Avalanche that don't need a L2 solution because they can scale on L1 (and are EVM compatible!). Is betting on ETH really the smart move?
Does RDS not do this to their customers? This alone would make me seriously consider taking my business away from GCP.
> Clearly not, otherwise people would move there.

Comments elsewhere claim people are moving there since housing is cheaper there.

> As it turns out, network effects exist, causing jobs to be near each other and for some reason people like to be close to their jobs rather than commuting 90 minutes from Stockton.

That can be solved by building offices in Stockton.

Businesses expanding out of areas that are too expensive is a good thing.

Forcing people out of their homes so that businesses have access to a bigger pool of workers without needing to open more offices just seems like corporate welfare, forcing yet another externality onto both employees and the nearby community.

>Why would you be against developing areas that are not as nice right now?

> These aren't mutually exclusive and you know that.

The choice to live on one place versus another is mutually exclusive.

The argument seems to be that older people should be taxed out of homes near successful businesses so that current workers can live nearer to workplaces. (And they in turn should be taxed more so that they too move out as soon as they can).

That seems to be very much about businesses not needing to expand to areas in need of development.
True, but in this case you should have chosen another field :)
This blog post explains how you can use Cloudinary's add-on of ReKognition scene categorization that analyzes scenes within photos and allows you to automatically classify your website’s images into a list of potential categories. Sample code available for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Node.js and Java.
Again, I apologize. It was a knee jerk reaction to being told I don't understand something without proof. I believe that also violates numerous guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

And I disagree with:

> You've crossed noticeably into that here [emphasis mine]

I've only done that in 2 comments towards the same user who also behaved similarly towards me. All my other comments have been polite, constructive and filled with references.
From what I learned from other replies, there is indeed no way to open a file with one key so I guess the point stands, regardless.
To anyone writing tutorials or guides, this is the gold standard - at least for me. After many years I still remember writing my first tcp client following this tut. I wish more content would be as focused and concise as this.
From the same author as OP: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html
Everything can search file content, but you have to ask for it, and of course one looses the great performance that is Everything's main selling point.

I forgot the syntax, because I never used it for that reason, but the option is there.
Isn't that a slightly different argument?

Title: "Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch"

Reality: that seems to have been true.

Your take: yes, but we wouldn't have done so because we're not in the business of breaking backwards compatibility on a whim.

Although it's good to hear reconfirmation of that fact, it's not technically a rebuttal nor showing that the story is hyperbole.
I don't like the full screen start menu, but I always expand it to allow three columns (and with the 'show more per group' setting). And I have all app shortcuts there, as small icons and grouped into categories, because that's what makes more sense to me, always available at the click of a button, and not in the desktop.

In fact, and all those who see me working always asks, I have my desktop configured as follow:

* No shortcuts, only the recycle bin and the files I'm currently using.

* The desktop is the default folder for firefox downloads.

* The icons are HUGE, and I mean that, press control and use the mouse wheel until the icons's height is a third of the desktop height more or less.

My desktop is my workplace, all the temporary items I need are there, until I move them to their proper folder into Documents, Images, or where necessary. I rarely have more than 5 files, and those who are there have my total attention. And, since the icons are huge, it's extremely easy to see the previsualization for images, pdf, videos, etc.
Being better than maven is not a high bar, you should try cargo/rust, to have a meaningful comparison of a good build system.

The only problem is, once you've tried out Rust, it will be difficult for you to come back to Scala.
The difficulty will be adjusted. I doubt any single large mining farm going out of business will be enough to have much of an effect on transaction speed, and it's unlikely that enough mining farms will go out of business within two weeks[0] to cause problems with the network.

[0] Two weeks is about the time for difficulty to be adjusted.
according to this article they sold off the accounts and then continued the attacks.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/lizard-squad-hackers/
Anyone know about a place like Hacker News, but without the gatekeeping?
one of the cool things in F# is demonstrated in the examples which is often quickly overlooked on first glance, and that is the data driven type providers. Which actually work better server side than WASM from the looks of it, but still, pretty useful.