jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong no matter what. You're wrong because all you're saying is that the study is wrong. Why? What about the study do you object to? You've provided nothing to back up your disagreement, except that you think they're lying. It's just a pretty decent example of social-media-style outrage. honestly.
Base specs mean middling graphics/performance, don't they? I think it's worth it to experience something like HL:A to the fullest if you can.
I agree, that would be useful, if not the most useful thing I could do, so that my findings aren't in vain.

Sadly, I don't do any blogging, but I'll see if I can do something about that.
You can't just assume a free market discounting future events. The SNB was pegging the currency at an artificial fixed rate v. the euro. Which is of course the opposite of a free market and preventing the price from reflecting the expectation of the market.

So, traders start to anticipate a revaluation and buy francs. The SNB has to print and sell francs to maintain the peg. The SNB becomes aware that it is in an untenable position and will have to print a multiple of Swiss GDP worth of francs and effectively prop up the euro.

They have nothing but bad choices: buy an unlimited quantity of euros right in the face of QE; re-peg at a higher rate or against a different currency, but have an arrow painted on their back that the new rate may not hold; or float.

So, they float. Now the traders at retail brokers like FXCM who got hurt weren't necessarily net short on balance. The problem is FXCM allowed 50-1 leverage. Say you have accounts with $40m of equity taking $2b of short exposure to swiss franc, and foolishly going long a high yielding currency to pick up carry. And you could have 10x or any number of accounts correctly anticipating and going long francs.

Now, the franc jumps 20% without any opportunity to cover shorts. On 50-1 leverage the $40m equity accounts with $2b exposure $400m, or 10x their equity. A client has a $10k brokerage account and loses $100k, the broker can't recover that from them in most cases. The people who anticipated and were on the right side of the trade make out like bandits. But the broker still has to cover for all the losers so they are SOL.

TL; DR - Going from an artificial peg to a free market rate, you can't say that the artificial peg discounted all future events. Obviously the rate needed to adjust to do so. And even if a lot of traders correctly anticipated, FXCM foolishly put themselves in the position of having to cover those who didn't.
Echoing some thoughts here:

- The animations definitely detract for me. It feels like it's about to start showing pop up ads or videos that I have to watch for 30 seconds before continuing

- I just ignored the timer. Making it optional is a great idea

- I don't have any problem with multiple possible solutions. That's just part of the game.

- Would I play again? TBH, probably not. The "fill in the blanks" dynamic just doesn't feel very challenging. Maybe hard mode would be better, but as I understand it I have to wait for later in the week for that, and then presumably on Monday it will cycle back to easy?
ok so no emoji in comments I guess
If I could talk to my 14 year old self, I wouldn't recommend any particular books.

I would say, "Don't stress and worry so much about school or your grades, because absolutely none of that is going to matter in 10 years. Learn how to make things. Start now, and never stop. Learn how to use technology to the fullest, both software and hardware. Learn how to write, speak and communicate ideas as effectively as possible. Learn how to hack people and understand how social structures work. Take that seriously. Most importantly, don't let anyone change who you are. Choose a path and follow it doggedly."

Ironically, some of the best advice I've seen came from a book: "Who you will be in five years is determined by who you meet today and what you read today" [0]. But a 14 year old doesn't need to read a whole book to gain that particular pearl of wisdom, or many of the others. I read a lot now, several of the books mentioned on this thread and many others. But that's because I'm old, and it's too late for me. If I could talk to my 14 year old self, or any 14 year old, I would tell them that there is significantly more to life than what can be learned in a book.

[0] The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp
It's odd that they imply foundation db has a strength in scalable performance that other no sql databases do not which would be handy for financial applications but then fail to mention apple pay as a potential use case.
1 hour of audiobook in 2.6MB ?

I quite love this.
What are we doing here? Seeing how many tangents we can go down in the least number of comments?
Funny thing is there has already been some success towards using neutrinos to communicate here on earth (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/mar/19/neutrin...). While it's nowhere near efficient currently; I won't dare imagine what could be achieved given a few more years of research.
Unsolvability of the general quintic pared down to just 6 pages. Manages to dodge needing the normality of field extensions and the Galois correspondence between subfields and subgroups.
hexdump -C /dev/random | grep --color '\W\(\w\)\(\w\)\W*\(\w\)\(\w\)\W*\4\3\W*\2\1'
Looks like it was thrown together with WINWORD.
The color is just one of the indicators. There is text which indicates whether it is iMessage or a Text message as well.
But those two states account for roughly half of the total world population. According to your link, the US has 400,000 enslaved peoples, which is still less per capita, but the US is a lot more developed than India and China.

From the linked source:

North Korea has the world's highest rate of slavery, with about one in 10 people enslaved, followed by Eritrea (9.3%) Burundi (4%), Central African Republic (2.2%), Afghanistan (2.2%), Mauritania (2.1%), South Sudan (2%), Pakistan (1.7%), Cambodia (1.7%) and Iran (1.6%).

In retrospect, I should've said "violent conflict OR extreme poverty"
Access to classified intelligence means that they are allowed to enter a secure room/facility and view the material. They still should not be taking said material out into an unclassified environment.
Oh you think the generals readily involve old Pelosi with the battle plans? I sort of doubt they would trust her with anything digital that’s supposed to be a secret.
> I mean, they like guns. They talk about killing people all of the time. They look and sound crazy.

Nonsense, you've built a straw man. Maybe you've been hanging around 4chan too much and assuming that a subset of swamp creatures from the low parts of the internet represent the millions of Americans who support the President, but I assure you the overwhelming majority of conservatives are nice, hard-working people.

30+ people died as a direct result of the media-condoned protests over the past summer, led by blm/antifa and associated groups. Did your bubble predict that? Do you think those killings, burnings, lootings, violent behaviors were justified? If so, why is it ok for one group to protest in such a manner, but not the other?

Shouldn't we as a society, especially including the mainstream media, have a strict and principled standard that we apply?
The EE department at Cornell has two vaporizers for liquid nitrogen (15% warmer than LOX) that are often iced up. When the icing on one of them gets to be a problem, they switch to the other one.
As of now, I think this is a reasonable analysis when it comes to Apple. Although the point of the parent is still valid: regardless of what ideals/promises a company upholds today, they could always change tomorrow (for a variety of reasons beyond the acquisition scenario).

A company that I've been wondering about is Netflix. And a reason why I haven't protested their various price increases over the years is because I'm hoping that they continue to be successful on the subscriptions alone.
Your comment was that "trump and biden will be gone, things will return to normal".

The parent is rightly pointing out that it doesn't matter if those specific individuals in power are gone, that doesn't mean the broader movements around them will change.

The problems of the world are rarely due to a single person, and rarely are solved by a single person losing power. Behind that single person is a system, and a new person will take their place if the system isn't also changed.
"I genuinely thought someone had been murdered," says one of them. Do these people not understand that folks die from the plague? There's a serious deficit of empathy happening here.
Freedom of association also implies the right to choose not to associate with people due to characteristics like religion, race, wealth, etc.

Some people have made laws outlawing discrimination based on some of those characteristics. This is a kludge, with all kinds of annoying implications.

The classic argument in favor of unconditional freedom of association is, "If some companies are refusing to deal with some group of people for stupid reasons, then they will get outcompeted by other companies who don't have such prejudices and can therefore hire cheaper workers or charge higher prices."

This argument works less well when certain extremely valuable services (some would call them "essential") are provided by a small group of huge companies, and entry by new competitors is very difficult.

The solution I would favor is reducing those barriers to entry. Ideally by repealing laws that I think are unjustified in the first place.

In particular, for these social networks with their network effects, but also have something that sucks (be it "they use dark patterns", "they ban people for bad reasons", "their 'feed' algorithm is bad"), why can't someone create a "better network" that acts as a new interface to the old network, but also has better features or has additional members that aren't part of the old network?

My impression is that it would be "against the site's terms of service", and there may also be allegations of copyright violation, and that anyone who made such a thing would eventually get sued. Well, could we change the law so that the site would have no standing to get sued?

I think that, fundamentally, the principle would be, "If users can use a site through the site's interface, then they can also use it through someone else's interface. The site is free to try to detect the difference and block people who do this, but cannot get the law to punish anyone." So the site can either play cat-and-mouse with those developing better interfaces, or they can improve their own interface enough to keep their customers; in terms of banning people, they could either fix their banning practices, or just gamble that those who care enough to use the alternate interface are a sufficiently small group.
Wasn’t that the point of Google sharing a copy of jquery for everyone?
We will need to support not breaking the internet; the web is just a part of that. Still, they should fix it by making W3C specifications so that it doesn't have the stupid stuff (because there is a lot of stupid stuff in it now); but, also is needed to protect free and open internet too, which is separate but related (and will help to save the web too, although it won't do it by itself because there are other issues than internet involved). Such as, ensure that internet packets can be freely distributed (to their intended destination) without tampering, if they follow the transport-layer protocols (application-layer protocols, such as HTTP(S), is not the job of the ISP to enforce; you can use any application-layer protocols on any port numbers in either direction (it is the job only of the two end points (client and server) to block the packets they don't want, and not anyone else)). The issues specific to web is to improve the web browser software (a lot of the stuff is stupid designs, I think). For internet, ensure you can be part of internet.
Every part of a service mesh could be baked into operating systems so that all this extra technology was just there by default. This would put a fair amount of start-ups out of business, but it would also mean a lot less people having to be hired to set up and maintain all this stuff. Devs could just... develop software, with a clear view into how their apps run at scale. And Ops wouldn't have to custom-integrate 100 different services.

This is really the future of distributed parallel computing, but we're still just bolting it on rather than baking it in.
yandex also seems pretty good.
Thanks for this, it's new to me and that entire ama is fascinating.

edit: Out of curiosity, why would one consider him infamous?
Given that you are so offended by being called a pleb, I'm sure you won't mind putting solar panels on your new affordable home in less crime ridden areas like Somalia or Sing Sing. Solidarity with the poor for all!
Just add www https://www.becu.org/
A fix for the certificate error, https://www.becu.org
Maybe your comment on vitamins[1] was considered to be inaccurate because it referred to vitamins in general rather than certain vitamin supplement products. The vitamins present in food seem to be absorbed well by the body in most cases. (I wasn't the one who downvoted you, so I'm just guessing.)

Also, citing a reference to back up your statements when you make them can never hurt.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949665

Edit: On second reading, it also seems that your statement about vitamins was unrelated to the parent comment, which talked about dependence on increasing doses of amphetamines. As far as I know, vitamins don't have this effect.
It helps to have a good advisor beat the bad writing out of you via brutally honest critiques.

I find it best to write from the heart about something I'm really excited about, and if I can't do that, then not to waste my time writing anyways. Of course, as a non academic, I have that luxury.
must is used the same way should is frequently used. Moral philosophy allows that concept.
Keep an eye out for the next phases, where the internet comes full circle and facebook pages replace aol keywords and facebook becomes your bank.
I agree. Even Stuart Halloway said they use Rails and JRuby for a lot of the projects they do at relevance. He said the reason was because of the community and the lack of equivalently good Clojure web frameworks. Its hard to think of someone who would be more sold on Clojure than him. And yet, he still thinks it makes sense to use Ruby instead of Clojure.

Its very hard to argue against it. If it takes you less time to write a Rails app than to write a Compojure app, which one would you choose? It seems like Rails is the correct answer, unfortunately.
> sooner or later, some commenter points out that they would rather roll their own functionality into whatever project they're currently doing. It happens too often to be a coincidence.

I suspect a lot of this has to do with the fact that it took the CL community over two decades to create QuickLisp. It boggles my mind why this wasn't created sooner--perhaps sharing libraries wasn't a high priority because the libraries tended to be spotty to begin with? So you may have had a chicken/egg problem.
This, this, and again this.
I agree completely with your caffeine recommendation. I used to be mostly a coffee drinker, but then I would crash sometime late afternoon (and crash hard on a three day weekend where I wouldn't drink any coffee). I've since switched to a green tea, and that seems to have mostly alleviated the crash. I was simply getting too much caffeine too fast.

As for music: I've lately found that Digitally Imported radio is awesome when my personal electronic/techno library gets stale or repetitive. There's always something different there.
The top level domain registrar for .com is in the US, so the US has jurisdiction over it regardless of which retail registrars you use.
I'm not sure it would be legal to fix up automatically. What is expected if you have a background timer which could change "window.Library.util" at some point? If you resolve every time, you'll get a new "add()", if you cache, you'll get the same.
Indeed. When you consider the alternatives at the time, Java and VBScript, JavaScript doesn't look so bad...
What does it matter who lives there? That's absolutely irrelevant to the ecological impact of the project.

Desert doesn't mean the same as 'no ecology'. Its in fact more fragile that other ecologies, dependent upon scare resources and balanced with a very predictable annual cycle of sun and moisture.

Square kilometers of solar panels blotting out the light is a vast disruption of the desert ecosystem. There is no need to evaluate its impact on the ecosystem. Complete disruption is the result.
Indeed! That would be a core requirement of such education, among others.
Hey Guys, Head of Engineering at SendHub here. We recently switched over to using webflow for our marketing pages (everything under www) and have not looked back! It's really nice to be able to knock out custom responsive pages quickly all while enabling non-technical people to make minor edits. One thing we like in particular is the ability to easily push changes to different subdomains. Finally, if we ever do decide that we need something different (doubtful in the foreseeable future) the code that webflow generates is beautiful and maintainable. Webflow has huge fans at SendHub.
None of these are commercial speech. For crying out loud. Commercial speech is speech done by a private corporation for the purposes of furthering their own economic interests. Even commercial speech is protected as long as it isn't fraudulent.

I don't know what you mean by "potential restriction". We've had restrictions on commercial speech since the early days of our country.
> ecologically disastrous

Assuming that it is - which has yet to be evaulated in each case - what would we lose if we plant these solar cells in a desert where noone really lives now?
I can't speak for every one produced, but a few weeks ago I purchased the TKL version with Cherry Clears off of Amazon, and returned it because of the "pinging" effect going on, primarily when hitting the space bar. Some people won't care about this, but I work in a home office and it became very obnoxious after twenty minutes. I didn't feel like trying to do some workaround to get it to stop. If any of the other models (like the Browns) don't do this, I'd be interested in giving it another shot. I should say that noise aside, the keyboard felt fairly nice to type on.

I personally just want a minimalist TKL without a ridiculous key font, which doesn't seem to be too common. The 4C Das Keyboards seem nice but apparently they aren't Cherry keys, so based on what I've heard, I'm wary.
> The last paragraph makes it sound like old people struggling with the UX of new technology.

With the insight of some extra 90 years we know that the dial is a horrible UX. Actually, we're getting back to voice, by telling to the phone who we want to talk to. But they had very little choice back then.
> Hy is cleanly packaged, installed with pip3, has complete(ish) docs

But is not, and does not claim to be, an implementation of Common Lisp, so judging it harshly for being inconsistent with—and a poor tool for learning—Common Lisp makes as much sense as complaining C++ is a poor tool for learning Algol 68.
Financial Independence/Retire Early

The core idea is to define your annual expenditures (let’s say $50k), a long term investment strategy you personally feel comfortable with (say 5% ROI), and from there you can deduce the amount you need to save to be financially independent (in this case, $1M).
Presumably sitting typing an e-mail on your PC with screen on is where most of the energy consumption comes from.
I may be reading this wrong, but it looks like that chart (combined with the OP charts) says that median hourly income is just a hair over where it was in 1999. The trend is positive, but it looks like the median income is basically going up because people are working more hours (i.e. and not because of significant wage inflation).
This is not too healthy for the microwave
Almost everything anyone does in business, as far as I can tell, is dramatically optimized for speed at the expense of almost everything else.

This is a natural result of a very competitive market place and, as far as I can tell, its rational if you take that circumstance to be an immutable state of affairs. Its no good stopping to dot the i's and cross the t's if, in doing so, you get completely edged out of the market by a competitor who isn't doing so. And you haven't even made the world a better, safer, nicer place by doing so. You've just left the door open for someone less scrupulous to beat you with a shittier product.

The solutions aren't palatable in the current philosophical mode: much more aggressive penalties (corporate death penalties, for instance, in which shareholders literally lose all their money) or much tighter and well enforced regulations. Move fast and break stuff truly is the philosophy of the day.

If you don't want to break stuff, you have to make moving fast less competitive. As far as I can tell, that's the only way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
Did you miss my quotations? I said "fire" in quotations, obviously not meant to be taken literally.

And it's not quite like that. It's if someone comes up to you and says "Hey I can get a bunch of people to come and drink from your water hose. If I get enough can you pay me?" And then they get arrested for murder and you think maybe they should stop.
> The fine should be proportional to the damage. A tiny medical startup that leaks psychotherapy records “hurts” more than a company that leaks your shoe size.

I agree. I meant that market cap should be taken into account along with factors such as damage. The goal is that for the same wrong, a small and a large company face the same penalty, but adjusted in proportion to their financials.
Because it is true. The fastest way to kill your career is to make complaint to HR. The second fastest way is to have a complaint made against you. Once you are a target of the system, there is a level of scrutiny you will be subject to that blocks you moving up and make sure your name is always on the potential layoff list. Not right away, and not in retaliation, but your days are numbered.
I'm surprised to hear the AMA has no influence over the size of residency funding, but if that's what you're saying, I'll take your word for it.

The supply of lawyers is restricted through onerous education and licensing requirements. You could argue that the fall in wages means they are no longer as effective in controlling supply. But if you think the supply "isn't restricted at all" I encourage you to start offering legal advice for money and let me know how that goes for you.
Also discussed here:

A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718823 - April 2021 (117 comments)
Yes 100% - my founding hypothesis was that because language progress so far has all been improvements on opcodes, that the idioms of programming are still based on the human catering to the computer rather than the other way around. It gets subtler over time, but we still have to, for example, emulate execution in our heads while coding, which is really really hard to learn.
Democracy isn't perfect. But that we already know. It has nothing to do with the subject though, so as far as I'm concerned you're off topic, I tried very hard to show why a democracy may sometimes opt to limit the rights of its denizens, and one of the times when this is legitimate is during times of crisis or when the lives and or well-being of its citizens are at stake.

This may not be absolute enough for you but then you'd have to cast the laws in stone without the ability to ever change them and then it ceases to be a democracy.
Excellent website btw, thank you.
Please don't mix nanoseconds and microseconds. This is just confusing to read. Stick to nanoseconds for everything.
I ended up with “Rome emoR” but it was already in use ):