jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I hear what you're saying, but I'm not seeing a proposed alternative. Say the government allocated $500k to early-stage research for a particular drug. Would we then want the taxpayers to fund a startup company to see if that drug can be scaled and work its way to early stage trials? Should the government then, seeing that progress, step in again and fund the full set of trials and a manufacturing facility and a marketing campaign to get this drug to the taxpayers who need it?

Maybe you're suggesting that the first step would be to repay the government some or all of the grant money. Well, maybe it's a bit surprising, but there's not a way to do that in the US. I suppose that the pharma companies should be sending a lot of corporate tax revenue back to the government, but I'd imagine there could be loopholes there. Not every country is like this. Some countries like Singapore actually demand a cut of action in return for the grant money [1].

Maybe we'd just do away with the concept of patents. Then, the government could fund the early stage research and the fruit of that would be open to all. Now, who would step up the plate and do all the heavy lifting to get the drug to market? Once it's been approved by the FDA, any pharma company domestic or foreign could simply make a generic version without having to incur all of the enormous costs associated with getting it approved in the first place. So, my guess is that we wouldn't see many new drug developments coming out and new form of IP protection would have to be put in place to encourage new developments.

Since so much of the world simply tags along with our FDA protections, maybe we convince them to chip in on the costs. We'd basically tell to the other industrialized nations that unless they help carry the cost of drug research and development, no new medicines for them. I doubt that would fly.

I don't know. I'm out of ideas here. Any other suggestions?

1. http://www.a-star.edu.sg/
Actually, I thought of an analogy that helps me reason about this.

If we think of the VCS like a text editor, then a branch is like a file that you can write changes to. However, if you're working on an unnamed file, then the editor (or its designers) has to make a choice about what to do with that unnamed document when you're done.

Git treats an unnamed branch like the scratch buffer in Emacs. You can make all the changes you want, but once you close it, it's gone (in this case, eligible for GC). This seems reasonable, because if you cared about it, you would have given it a name.

Mercurial's designers work off a different assumption: all the work that you do is important (and it provides other mechanisms to allow rough work). So if you start working in an unnamed branch, that's no problem. You can have as many unnamed branches as you like, but it's up to you to remember your way around. Going back to the filesystem analogy, it becomes like navigating between your unnamed text files by their address on the disk, rather than a nice human readable name.

Does this analogy make sense to anybody else?
> (interestingly since they signed this agreement ~10 days ago, they stopped issuing tether.)

I noticed this too and am very curious if they will ever do so again. If the Tether theory is true, the transparency terms of the settlement would seemingly make it legally risky for Tether to issue new tokens unless they were truly backed by US dollars.

We'll find out soon enough.
> Fiscal stimulus would be just as possible with a Bitcoin monetary system as a fiat one;

This article in the MIT Technology Review seems to disagree: https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/04/10/3060/bitcoin-wou...
The author was an adult when he was impressed by this. Note that he was taking one of the most critically-acclaimed courses at MIT.
Part of the point of Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 is being able to easily switch back to the default when necessary (like when at the office).
I also read the article and I don't understand why you're asking. As you yourself elaborate the article doesn't clarify the breakdown between Asian and white students. It's possible that Asian students are under or over represented based only on the text. Of course, I think it's reasonable to assume that Asian students are over represented because Asian students are usually over represented in academic achievement.

The comment I'm replying to suggests that the system favors white students. I'm pointing out that a system that favored white students probably wouldn't over represent Asian students in advanced programs, as, I assume, Boston Public Schools probably do.

In general, I get annoyed at the pretense that there is something strange, mysterious, or maybe racist going on when the explanation is obvious and well understood. Asian people typically outperform white people on standardized tests. White people typically outperform black and Hispanic people on standardized tests. What a shock that on systems based on or like standardized tests (schools) Asians do better than whites who in turn do better than blacks and Hispanics! I wonder what incredibly complicated "systemic disadvantage" explains this? Or, maybe, it's just the simple, observable, and widely documented fact I alluded to before.

"It's defintely something where you should look closely at the criteria for picking students, because it sure looks like some students are at a systemic disadvantage" - The article explains the process. There is a test given to third graders. Students who score highly on the test are placed in a lottery to randomly select students who will be allowed to apply and join the program. Most of the students (116/143) who applied after the lottery were accepted.

I agree that it is worth checking on racial demographics on each of the steps of the process. For example, if 70% of high scores on the test were earned by black and Hispanic students but only 20% of black and Hispanic students were admitted to the program, with the remainder being rejected due to "losing" the lottery or having their applications denied for some reason - that would be an enormous red flag, and, without some explanation I cannot imagine, likely evidence of a terrible racist act by the people organizing the system. Would you agree though, that if the proportion of black and Hispanic students ultimately admitted to the program roughly corresponded to the proportion who achieved high scores on the admissions test, that racism was likely not the explanation for what is observed here?
Ok, it takes $15,000 to enjoy electricity that's relatively free of regulation.
Catapult of course! But then, only one takeoff. Which for some missions, would be enough.
>>If you're using Android then you're logged into your Google account all the time.
>False. Google's homepage on my Android device has a "Sign In" link at the bottom.

The phone's account services, however, are indeed logged in to your Google Account at all times, assuming you associated one with your phone when you set it up. The fact that the browser app isn't logged in using the same credentials isn't relevant.

I agree with your other points, though. But if Google wanted to, they could surely track your location and associate it with your Google Account. Not sure how easily they could hide that from people if that were the case, though. (I've been a happy Nexus One owner for over a year now, and I kinda just don't care either way, to be honest.)
Hey look, another blog bad mouthing dropbox. And with incorrect information. Dropbox obviously has keys to decrypt user files because 1) dedupe. And 2) the web interface.

This blog and any other that says dropbox was misleading/lied is doing it for pageviews or out if ignorance.

Dropbox having policies against snooping along with no implemented access is satisfying enough for me to meet their old security policy.
There are a lot of interesting ideas in this video about customer support, management and pricing. Definitely worth a watch, really inspiring!
In my country (Hungary, but I saw similar attitude in Germany as well) its not unusual to learn entirely from the lecture material (own notes or provided script and assignments) without any textbook. Some people do get a book from the library, but it's not really expected from you.
Even in those states it's not that common for people to actually carry guns, at least in cities. I lived for years in Houston, and it was very uncommon, even among people who had the license, in part because it greatly restricts where you can legally go. You can't enter any establishments that sell alcohol, post offices, educational institutions, most hospitals, sporting events, etc. Private property owners can also exclude weapons by posting a notice at the entrance. So you have to be very careful about how to plan your day if you're carrying.
You could try to use Wordpress for generating a static blog [0]. ;)

More seriously, I work in vim+git all the time, so managing my blog with it feels natural to me. Editing in my favorite editor is more important than drag&drop image upload for me.

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-static/
I assume that my ancient iPhone 3G will be exempt from this privacy update.
>> You might as well say, "I intend to deliver 40 hours of my time for 40 hours of pay. If you need extra help, ask someone else. Big turnoff.

What's wrong with that? If I'm being hired on with a salary, that's my expectation. They can ask me to work extra, but they can also pay me to do that.
To get pretty good 'out of the box' search you should probably use solr (and see something http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SpellCheckComponent).

If you're using Lucene, it's not too difficult to write your own query parser that does exactly what you want, including fuzzy searches, spelling correction, term weighting, etc. My current employer has a rather involved one that can take advantage of lots of application specific data.

Writing a custom query parser allows you to do as much hidden magic on the query as you want, and expose your own special operators if you really want to. Check out some of our user accessible operators at http://help.greplin.com/customer/portal/articles/15527-how-c...

Incidentally, I'd love to exchange notes and hear about your your search engine sometime. If you're interested, shoot me an email (address in profile).
Most importantly, there is less competition and markets are more open for conquest. 'Russia has many markets that are not dominated by anyone while in other countries similar markets have companies that are already worth billions',

If that's the "most important reason," I think I'd rather go to Brazil, Africa, the Middle East, or virtually anywhere else that isn't going to lock me away for trivial things. (Not that the aforementioned countries don't have problems)
Can you tell us more about your search engine? I'm building an online store and search is going to be crucial for us. Currently, I'm evaluating Lucene (solr).
ahh, but it's not that MS IS a monopoly in the market, it's that MS is using a current monopoly to leverage into another market.
Why would that matter to how happy someone feels about it? Just because nobody throws clogs in looms anymore doesn't mean the tech transition was handled well at the time.
I really feel the headline should be "Non-issue used for article to drive advert for my FireFox addon".
There was really nothing of interest there; the whole point of the kind of toolkit (jQuery) is to have good coverage across as many common tasks as possible, but if you need very specific functionality you end up with something of a scatter-gun. Not being able to compile you own intensely specific version is a trade off between ease of setup over results, personally I would say it is the correct choice (for standard web use, I wholeheartedly disagree with they way that jquery mobile is heading).
This is hardly wild in concept.
What's so unreasonable about any of those statements?

The city you call home dictates a lot about your life -- friends, proximity to family, potential employers, culture -- and you're in the best position to find a second home after graduating. It only gets tougher as you get older.

As for the CV, well, he's right. Don't go somewhere or do something for the sake of improving your resume, unless you want to spend the rest of your life focusing on your job application.

Finally, as for jobs that pay you plenty of money...look at his audience. They're all MBAs. High-paying jobs aren't exactly scarce for MBAs. :)
why would someone tell there startup idea to the world?
Your argument is orthogonal to free healthcare and education being offered by the state. You don't need to be an immigrant to be poor in your country of birth, such as the US.
Within a specific, ideal job they always wanted and got without having to make hard tradeoffs somewhere, or do a ton of searching?

This is what folks are talking about. Expecting things to just fall into place 'just because' without having to do the legwork to actually make/find something workable.
While I have indeed not seen season 2, that they used it was clear from the very trailer that told me I didn’t want to watch it.

Good to know they give a reason why it’s hardly ever used.
I’ve seen people hook up like the toilet tank float system with a hose on, so that when the level gets low it just fills up automatically again.

Then combine that with little nipped feeders, and at least for water they can be good for a long time.
fast.com is pretty much the only one I use these days, since that uses Netflix’s servers.
Edit: removed due to downvoting. Original comment pointed out that transfer speed is normally measured in Mbps not MB/s.
> There are several companies that produce CFexpress NVME adapters.

Neat. Is there a comparable NVME 2230 enclosure with USB-C external connector for use in laptop USB4/Thunderbolt ports?

That could combine SSD speed/reliability with the portability of a flash drive.
Same with gays especially, you have to live in a city or live in hiding in most places.
You do have a good point there. It could work for home/apartment building attacks.

I'm not sure how many people know about the WPS button most routers have now, but I've got several people using it. It's rather slick when it works (I've only had it fail on HP printers). Windows 8 actually tells them to press the button. I think Android could make this more blatant to spread adoption.

You select the network on your device and press the WPS button and a few seconds later it's synced. Never need the password again.
This was a case where the court split on partisan lines.
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking people to stick to the site guidelines. The rules don't stop applying when a topic is political—on the contrary, they apply more.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We ban accounts that consistently disrespect those rules and ignore our requests to correct this. What else would we do? The alternative is to allow a minority of flamewarring users to destroy the entire commons for everybody.

As for 'sweeping dissent under the rug', that's not what we're doing at all. People with dissenting views and people with non-dissenting views both need to follow the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, it's really easy to do, you just tell everyone living on the west coast of the US that the sun rises around 11pm, work hours are now 1am to 9am, midday is at 4am, dinner is at 10am, bedtime is at 2pm and midnight is at 4pm.

If you think people are going to accept that voluntarily, you are insane.
Article lost my attention when the author stated that "Android is essentially a modified version of JavaME." This isn't just vague or cute, it's just plain wrong, and the tone of the language seems to position the author as an authority on this subject.
Thanks for that bit of info. At the moment things like Passenger are obscured from my view/concern, as I'm not managing the servers myself, but should that change I'll definitely keep that tidbit in mind.
Regarding backup, I definitely understand the feeling.
Wait.. let me get this straight... a website named appleinsider is reporting two negative stories about Google's new OS project?

And they don't mention any of the positive opinions out there? Not a TechCrunch fan, but http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/chrome-os-future/ nailed it for me.
1. When I first realized I could loop and conditionally branch inside it (my first programming lesson) to do interesting stuff.

2. When I got OOP, and later when I realized the folly of vicious mutability.

3. When I discovered FP, composability and the Turing machine.

4. When I lately realized that software development is a giant hack to solve various business problems. ;)
I think what you're not getting is that within his field of work, the sums of money on the line are not high enough to justify most litigation, so it's all bluffing. The plaintiff tries intimidation first, which is cheap and probably works on a large number of people. Those that don't fold immediately probably aren't worth it. The author is simply suggesting that you put yourself in the latter category.
Agreed. Haskell is amazing at Project Euler... but it doesn't prove anything about it's real world applicability.
Science is a social endeavor like all other human activity, and looking at an author's background is an amazingly efficient heuristic for detecting cranks. Relativity and cosmology seems to produce lots of them, and they--unlike Einstein--typically don't even fully understand the theories they're trying to replace.

Amateur Einsteins are the "SEO experts" of physics.
otherwise known as spam.
Can the state actually prosecute copyright infringement? I thought the suit needs to be brought forward by a private plaintiff .
I use xnipapp.com right now and this looks even better in terms of editing tools, except for one thing: scrolling capture. It allows me to capture scrolling portions of the screen and it's just so damn useful!
The sad part is, most e2e aren't true e2e. Even if they are, they often backup everything in a central location like Whatsapp/ which put everything in your Google account without any additional crypto layers, making it all accessible with a subpeona or prism to any law enforcement agency.

Edit: Removed Signal as an example.
What I'm curious is understanding how people can arrive at radically different conclusions and thought processes when operating in the same world and same society.

There seems to be a parallel thought process and definition of words that the "woke" operate by that are completely different than what is commonly accepted as the definition of a word.

Words like "racist" mean something completely different.
Things like "it's impossible to be racist if you are black" and making people feel ashamed of themselves for the skin color they were born with (if they are white).

In the original story, seems like their decision is clearly racist and also sexist but it seems like these definitions are only selectively applied. It seems like "diversity" to them means no white people not having an equal distribution of races. They are doing the very things the are arguing against but it doesn't seem to register. How is this possible?
...and yet, where are these publicly funded studies on gun violence since? It's a ban in fact, if not a ban in law.
If that's the case, the cop can arrest them for harassment and use the video as evidence.
HA! I just remembered that that proof was posted to /r/math a while back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/cl20l6/knuth_has_writ...
Yeah, but not that impressive in capabilities, hence other projects.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightwei...
The design fault is having a failure mode that leads to full power to the left, not the fact that there was a failure.

I've noticed that automakers are about 60 years behind aircraft makers in design methodologies that prevent things like hardovers due to single component failures.

I'm not exaggerating about the 60 years thing. I worked in Boeing engineering 40 years ago and the "no single component failure causing a crash" was the rule and literally the law.

(A lesson Boeing had to relearn with the 737MAX MCAS system.)

Nuclear reactors (Fukishima) and drilling rigs (Deepwater Horizon) are far behind, too.
> Despite being a government employee himself, my father hated government employees with a furious passion.

We had a saying about civilian "managers" (what we'd now refer to as PHBs), attributed to Rickover: There but for the grace of God goes God.
A little late for that. Tesla`s Model 3 is coming in 2017, and as great as diesels are, it won`t hold a candle to the efficiency of a pure electric drivetrain. Tesla`s supercharger network will be vast by then, so range won`t be a problem either.

A place like Canada could use diesel, due to our brutal winters, but most of the USA is basically tropical in comparison. Electrics just make sense there, because of the weather and the automobile culture in general.

The age of the fossil fuel personal car is entering its last decade.
That's why I don't understand the concept of living in such a precarious place.
I've been learning Haskell for the last year and a half, though I've been working with functionally inspired languages for 8 years. Haskell is wonderful, easily the most fun I've had learning a language in 20 years.

I'd advise not getting distracted by monads and other glamorous parts of the language. Monads are pretty abstract, and they won't likely make much sense until you've written enough Haskell to feel the pain-points they address.

I've learned a lot by reading blog posts from these people:

* Aditya Bhargava: http://adit.io

* Gabriel Gonzalez: http://www.haskellforall.com/

* Joseph Abrahamson: http://jspha.com/

* kqr (I don't know this person's full name. Avatar not withstanding, I'm pretty sure kqr isn't David Bowie): https://github.com/kqr/gists

* Edward Kmett: https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/edwardk

Most of all, I advise not getting discouraged. Haskell has a lot of concepts that seem intimidating. Many times I've spent days trying to figure out what the hell a contravariant functor is, only to get really discouraged. At times I've doubted my own abilities and whether learning the language was worth it. I stuck to it, and a year and a half later I'm pretty damn capable with Haskell (and I know what a contravariant functor is!) and I'm having the time of my life learning more about it.
Hm. Got me thinking about how to fit unikernels into the CF architecture, which is largely taking containers (Garden or Docker, take your pick) as the unit of currency at the low level.

It looks like the place to make the change would be in Diego in the Executor[0][1] component, which currently implements behaviour in terms of containers (using Linux-Garden as the container system).

So long as you can conceptually fit into the Receptor Actions API[2] it looks as though unikernels would be a plausible addition to Executor. Once you have that, you can either wire into Lattice[3] or a full Cloud Foundry installation as a first-class citizen.

Disclaimer: I'm not as familiar with Diego as other CFers are, so it's possible I'm just making stuff up.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/executor

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/diego-design-notes

[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/receptor/blob/mast...

[3] http://lattice.cf/