jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> pork spending was mostly outlawed in 2011

Is there a longer discussion of this that you can link somewhere? I remember the phrase as a derogatory commonplace in adults' political discussion when I was a child, but the concept seems to have drifted out of the discourse since, and having now had my attention drawn to its absence I'd be interested to find out more about why.
I'm starting to regret switching back to Firefox with this move. Wisdom of the crowd: what's the next decent browser?

My initial reaction was to search the Amazon tag and found reports of rogue plugins. I thought I'd been done security wise at first..
It's White Collar Welfare. As long as your semi-intelligent, college educated, and socially connected, you can easily get a DoD-related job.

Also, we don't have flying cars because that would be ridiculously impractical. They would be essentially helicopters, which would drink gas and be exponentially more deadly to operate.

There are lots of scientist and inventors around inventing cool new stuff. And there's plenty of research dollars available to anyone with a Ph.D and some grant writing abilities. It's absolutely possible to make a good career out of being an inventor and getting a government to flip the bill on it.

The issue is that we've reach the point in society where technological progress in incremental. Instead of three guys inventing a revolutionary device like the transistor, we have thousands of people working on making marginal improvements to battery chemistry.

Every industry is like that now. Something like four guys entirely designed the original small block Chevy motor, but today, GM has like 400 people designing just fuel system components for the ancestor of that engine. Innovation, it seems, is O(n^2).
Still waiting for one sense in which the redesign is better for the user.
> You wouldn't say that PyPy exists as an alternative to Python, would you?

I think you would if Python (proper) was controlled by an anti-competitive information stealing superpower which is becoming increasingly disliked.

Alternative backends to Python would be very important. Ensuring that the language is still usable in the event that the primary contributor goes full-tilt evil.

With that said, i don't think it matters (personally) if Mozilla has their own engine _or_ browser, in the most strict sense. What matters is that both of those things have invested parties capable of forking and/or maintaining free and open source versions of those things in the event that Chrome (ala Google) goes full evil.

It does seem that maintaining your own browser and rendering engine seem effective ways to ensuring you're capable of carrying the torch should Chrome disappear tomorrow. Hypothetically they could just maintain/develop directly into Blink and Chromium.
The US uses 9x as much oil as Brazil.

And the US produces 4x as much oil as Brazil uses.

The reason Brazil is able to be energy independent is because of poverty. They use less energy because fully 1/3 of the country is poor on a level that is incomprehensible in the developed world (living in shanty towns and slums without access to clean water or sewers).
I understand why you write this, but in fact I think the opposite is true: If the author had written "torture", many who believe in the value of "EITs" would simply have dismissed the article as more anti-EIT screeching, etc.

In fact, the author is, IMHO, attempting to make reasoned points about what EITs are intended to do and what they actually do. In other words, can we demonstrate scientifically that they work?

If the answer is yes, then we revert quickly to the moral and ethical question, illuminated in some ways by the related question of the degree of harm caused by EITs.

But if the answer is no, if we can demonstrate scientifically that EITs are garbage, then perhaps we can abandon them.

(The suggestion in the article is that the answer seems likely to be no because of the known impacts of sleep deprivation and stress on memory recall.)
Sometimes it's like that. He could try and get the customer to pay him for this but he might lose on the long term if they've been a recurring customer for a long time.
I can explain what happened to Array case. 100000 used to be the threshold at which new Array(N) or arr.length = N started to return a dictionary backed array. Not anymore: this was changed by https://codereview.chromium.org/397593008 - now new Array(100001) returns fast elements array.

I will check out what happened to Buffer/TypedArray. Should not degrade that much unless something really goes south here.
With regards to Go, it is currently not possible as the Go compiler only supports building static binary executables. For it to work with extconf, Go would need the ability to build dynamic libraries.

There has been talk of incorporating this ability and slim executables go (I think it might even be in the roadmap now).
I used this once to submit a form without agreeing to let my personal data be "processed".
Have a look at http://schema.org/JobPosting to see if there are any other fields you could add
Pretty sure they are. They’re leptons, and elemental (within the confines of the Standard Model, at least).
Moissanite has a slightly yellow color. Many diamonds do, but they are cheaper for it. It's essentially a K on the color scale of diamonds. It "shines" better but suspiciously so. I probably couldn't tell between a moissanite and a cheap diamond, but I could tell it's not a good diamond.

Lab diamonds aren't really cheaper than natural unless you are talking about pure shit quality or really tiny ones.
The harms are much worse because of criminalisation.

Refusal to provide clean needles, injection clinics, and safe needle disposal bins causes harm to low wage cleaners who risk needle stick injuries when addicts use toilet stalls to inject drugs.

About one third to one half of acquisitive crime is to fund drug use. That could be drastically reduced by treating drug addiction as the public health problem that it is, rather than as a criminal justice problem.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-cost-of...

Illegal drugs are sold by criminal gangs. These gangs rely on the illegality of drugs to make a profit. Legalising drugs would drastically reduce the influence of these gangs.

Keeping drugs illegal doesn't seem to be working.
bad satire.
Indeed you can: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/deferred-accounts
>Though they dreamed of communistic future, keep that in mind. Their worlds probably will look foreign to the western reader.

except for may be the earliest works, their communist future isn't that different from for example the "self-betterment" world of StarTrek, and serves basically as just a setting.
I'm genuinely curious, what relevance or bearing does this have to the linked article? Is it supposed to imply something about the PM? Not hating, just honestly unsure.
I know many here know this already but I'll say it anyway since I ran into people with a misconception related to this: the particular misidentifications are specific to the algorithm and training set used, it's not like all computers recognize those blocks as cheetah or what not.

We use ML-based computer vision at my work, so I have a bit of experience here. I think the biggest practice take away from observation the ML can give some wonky results is that ML system can be a real PITA to debug.
That's right. There is no difference between:

(defmacro my-quote (x)
`(quote ,x))

and

(defmacro my-quote (x)
(list 'quote x))

That `(quote ,x) is just way of writing (list 'quote x), not a notation for writing macros.

That's it.
podman v3 has a docker-compose compatible socket. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26107022 :

> "Using Podman and Docker Compose" https://podman.io/blogs/2021/01/11/podman-compose.html
Everybody knows the captain lied.
How are you liking libp2p? I'm about to start a project in it, and it's my first foray into p2p. Anything I should know?

Sick project, btw.
If I remember rightly, the news articles about those US scientists embedded in Chinese laboratories eventually admitted about half-way in that they wouldn't have access to any more useful information on Covid-19 than the US already had. Which, of course, made the articles kind of pointless except as a way of stoking outrage amongst people who didn't care about little details like that.
I too considered the academic route and had some very interesting, concrete, and I think useful ideas of what to study. I was discouraged from it by existing Ph.D's who warned me about how absolutely brutal the system is and how hard it is to do anything.

I'd say we've bureaucratized science to death.
Yes, choosing to measure athleticism solely on powerlifting ability is foolish. Did you miss the part where I listed lifting ability and 10k times together? Any good measurement of athleticism would include cardio endurance, too. Likewise, an IQ test that exclusively tests mathematics would be far too narrow. That's why any good IQ test - like the ones used in the studies Murray draws from - test a mix of verbal, visuospatial, and numerical thinking ability.

Anyway, this has gone far enough and is going deeper into the reply chain than I think is productive. All I really care about is highlighting several key incorrect claims you've made about Murray's work:

> As far as in know, murray claims that the hereditary nature is [primarily] due to genetics, which is certainly more controversial than observing that it is hereditary.

No. Murray repeatedly emphasizes the role of environmental factors like schooling and parenting. He does so explicitly, "In any case, you are not going to learn tomorrow that all the cognitive differences between races are 100 percent genetic in origin, because the scientific state of knowledge, unfinished as it is, already gives ample evidence that environment is part of the story."

> claiming that it [IQ/cognitive ability] can't be changed and that someone is "inferior", as Murray does, probably isn't going to set them up for success.

The book has an entire chapter called "Raising Cognitive Ability". Furthermore, much of the book explores how parenting, education, and other factors affect cognitive ability. This is not at all something Murray is claiming.

> Right, the unstated assumption here being that they are genetically predisposed to having lower cognitive ability (and further that this ability is highly correlated along racial lines).

Again, this runs entirely contrary to what is written in the book. Even before adjusting for different socio-economic contexts, mostly overlap. And after adjusting for socio-economic factors the differences are much smaller. "Highly correlated along racial lines" is far from the truth.

There's definitely valid criticisms to be made. Especially on the influence of IQ on divorce rates, and other observations that go outside of Murray's area of expertise. But please make those criticisms on what was actually written. The reality is that Murray's claims about IQ are not nearly as controversial or inflammatory than people make them out to be. Relating back to my original comment, people criticize Murray more out of perceived implication than about concrete claims.
If you’re looking to get back into the materials research industry doing applied ML, now is a great time — no need to wait five years. In my experience there’s a lot of demand for people conversant in both fields, a lot of interest in adopting this kind of work, and a growing set of interesting opportunities.

I work in this field at a national lab, but in my experience there are a lot of industry players trying to figure out how to grow in this area

Edit: take a look at what the technical societies are doing. MRS and TMS have been rolling out educational programming targeted towards industry members. I’m not in the catalyst field really, but I’m sure ACS and AICHE have similar programming, and following that thread is probably a good way to figure out who’s interested
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The problem with 'Havana Syndrome' is that it's happened also in other countries, both 'adversary' countries like China, and 'allied' countries like Australia.

The common denominator is that all staff affected were US Government employees. My suspicion is that some equipment or other, common to the affected sites, is causing the work-place injuries.

Naturally the State Department, etc. would downplay this issue, blaming it on external factors, rather than leaving themselves wide-open to very, very expensive class-actions by their own employees.
Even if it does literally mean 'death to America,' as an American I always interpreted that as being directed at the American government. I never took it personally. Hell, I could probably wear them out complaining about the federal government.
Check out Mercury

https://mercurylang.org/index.html
> I don’t understand the recent trend

You are mistaken about that "recent" part. Parents have always wanted their kids to go to best schools and learn for well paying, prestige jobs. It's just that what is well paying has changed.

Why wouldn't I want my kids to be interested in something that will get them good start in life, that could be groundwork for their future careers ASSUMING it is fun for them and they are doing this out of their own volition?

That would teach them you can have fun doing science or technology rather than treating is as a necessary evil?
This was somewhat forgivable when Windows 10 came out, you can't do everything at once. But they seem to have completely stopped working on it 5 years ago.
Haven't seen/heard him speak before so I was sort of surprised he's an old man with an old man voice

He's 61; I'd consider that "old".
1% inspiration, 99% persipration.
Just wait until Obama buys them. Or just decides to takes them over.
This is possible. +1 Blake

Would be nice for FB to exclude that page from getting indexed though.
I think he is more concerned with being remembered as the one who eradicated disease and hunger instead as the ruthless monopoly abuser heading Microsoft into a DoJ investigation, mercilessly driving his competition out of business by whatever means necessary.

But that's just my impression.

And may I remind you that, in order to be remembered for eradicating disease and hunger, he has, actually, to do so.
I don't think the design of linux really affects this very much. The primary issue with hibernation is the interaction with hardware can be quite complex, and the development effort behind linux drivers is generally less than what goes into the drivers on other platforms (and often has less documentation to go on). The core of linux can handle hibernation just fine in my experience, if you're on hardware which linux supports well enough.
Hibernation never fails for me with Debian, but sleep sometimes gets in a weird argument with some peripheral where it immediately wakes again. My solution for the sleep problem is actually to hibernate, and after bringing the system up from hibernation, sleep works again.
Dr. Doogie Howser would slip right through the cracks of your system.
No need for scare quotes; obesity and cirrhosis of the liver are real health conditions and can make you more likely to be severely ill from a COVID-19 infection.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...
There's definitely an argument to be made for sticking with stuff you know and love rather than investing in the latest fad. There also comes a point, though, where the solution you know of has clear disadvantages and there are various alternatives with good support and third party libraries available to use.

Also consider that it also impacts other people if you put unsafe code out there or if others want to contribute or build upon it (even if your C is better than even the chromium team, that doesn't mean your contributors' or developer-users are).

In my opinion C has reached a point where using a project like this as a learning opportunity to try out another language, if you don't know one already, would be worth considering.
A) Yes, lots.
B) 10%.

https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n132.long

Get the population vaccinated so things can go back to normal and people can go back to work and play without fear of long term illness or death.

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." - Bene Gesserit saying
It's shocking to me, because the situation is worse in other countries. And people are alright with it!

It seems as though there's this widespread belief these days that things you don't like are harmful to society.
What exactly is the point you're trying to make? Living in a community is about collectively accepting trade-offs on what you can, cannot, and must do. We then codify them into laws and constitutions.
Very true, however better has chosen #444 whereas #333 seems to work a bit more consistently.

One thing you should always consider during the requirements phase of a web application is whether your app is likely to be used projected on a conference room wall. Things like contrast and fonts make huge differences in such hostile settings, and available screen real estate is also considerably limited.
> Yes I know the art theory stuff about never using black because it doesn't appear naturally.

I think the underlying reasons for that are underappreciated.

When you pick #000000 for your text color, people won't see it as pure black anyway. Imperfections in your screen's backlighting aside, your screen reflects the ambient lighting, or, if you're outdoors and pointed the wrong direction on a sunny day, your screen reflects sunlight that is orders of magnitude brighter than the screen itself (measured in cd/m^2). #000000 never shows up as actual black either.

So if you're going to put black text on white background, just use #000000 on #ffffff. Nature doesn't need any more help to make text on screens hard to read.
First of all, malloc implementations that rely on brk are simply broken. The whole idea of a process-wide data segment is broken and leads not only to awkwardness around thread safety safety, also the inability to decommit memory when it's no longer needed. Decent malloc implementations use mmap.

Second, the whole idea that a page isn't really "allocated" until you touch it is just stupid, lazy, and terrible; it doesn't exist on sane operating systems like NT. On decent systems, mmap (or its equivalent) sets aside committed memory and malloc carves out pieces from that block.

It's frustrating to see people who grew up with Linux not only understand how terrible and broken Linux's memory management is, but not realizing that it could be any other way.
The middle lane is not shared, it will only be used by one direction at a time and a middle barrier is usually separating these two. Wikipedia has an article explaining it further: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2B1_road
And ACID DB solves a tiny fraction of consistency issues.

Most of the really difficult problems show up when you have multiple users and still need consistency.

Granted, ACID databases make solving most of these far simpler.
Facebook has a 54 GB monolithic repo (as of almost a year ago, April 2014).

Primary source: https://twitter.com/feross/status/459259593630433280

HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648237
The USDS is recruiting federal employees, not contractors. Base salaries can be competitive with typical engineering positions in Silicon Valley. The big difference is the inability of the government to pay anything equivalent to stock/options, bonuses, or perks like free food.
Anyone have an unbiased, objective definition of extremist group?

I mean, if I join PETA, does that count? Or Black Israelites Facebook page?
Doesn't mean we still don't need to reduce numbers for long term sustainability.
So basically it's like Stack Overflow except people will actually do your exact project? I like it.
I was assuming it was good wordplay. The downvotes say otherwise.
I wish commentors would read the article.

Why didn't they use the os package manager? Which OS? Their build clearly builds for osx, windows, and Linux.
Is the New Testament cannon the best example? Why not the Old Testament?

Ancient Jews saw the scriptures as possessing different levels of “cannonicity” - the Books of Moses were “very cannon” while books like Maccabees were “new fangled.”

Christians adopted that view as well. The fights over the Old Testament are still ongoing with different religions organically accepting or rejecting other books every now and then.

The logic behind these still ongoing arguments has much to do with traditions, and little with the actual content.

If we were to reevaluate the Old Testament with fresh eyes, I don’t think anyone would include Ecclesiastes or Job. Too depressing and bizarre.

Not even clear what’s going on or when it’s taking place.

But ultimately there’s a certain logic to these debates - and “we’re designing a religion” isn’t part of it.

Edit: Here’s an excellent example of how “non-designed” the Old Testament is: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Old_Testament_Canon
I’ve been pondering this a lot lately, as an engineering leader.

Masters in my organization have an extremely high ratio of value shipped to hours worked.

This means two things. They are able to discern and avoid work that does not provide value (this is often their greatest skill), and the best ones can direct a whole team away from large swaths of work that is not valuable. And they are able to build systems such that the cost of adding more value to the system remains constant as the system grows in complexity.
Hayes Code is not relevant here AFAIK but..

> would you have defended the neo-nazis right to march down Skokie's Main Street where tons of Holocaust survivors settled down after escaping Germany?

I would do it in a heartbeat. Of course I detest racism. Of course I think those marches were an act of evil. But the test of a freedom-loving people is how we protect the despised, not how we protect the majority. If we don't protect the freedoms of those we dislike, we will lose our own freedoms soon enough.
I stumpled upon Blokdijk last week when looking for resources on setting up Cyrus IMAP. I don't think this is a simple money laundering scam after looking further into it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyrus-IMAP-Server-Complete-Guide-eb...

I found the full text elsewhere and it's basically 215+ pages of boilerplate/generated questions with blank answers to fill in. Complete nonsense. It's not only sold on Amazon, but on several other otherwise-not-that-dodgy sites as well.

The author even has an Australia-based business selling "licenses", "certifications", "professional development" etc. Blokdijk/Blokdyk (he spells his name inconsistently) looks like a typical conman with a small number of Schroedinger accomplices and blindsided useful idiots.

https://theartofservice.com/

I get the vibe that if you sign up with them, you end up as a "consultant"/"affiliate"/"coach" spending your time acquiring new nodes in the network... Maybe there's a scammy MLM-component, maybe not, it's not spelled out, but I've seen that before even when it's not obvious from anything public.

I'd be surprised if their business would hold up to legal scrutiny.

And given that, who are these purchasers of his books on Amazon, then? I can't imagine anyone genuinely buying this and not asking for a refund. Is it just him buying from himself to boost his image, or are they that good at selling snake-oil?

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Then take a look at this, one of the top results I got when searching (warning, scam and probably contains malware): https://iv.0li.ru/books_db/?q=OFdIalBBN1dvcU1DbThiNTJIOVp0YS...

This is the most clever piracy-scam site I've seen. Note how the title is generated from the query and post dates are dynamically set so the earliest is old while the most recent is yesterday.

It's quite poetic how these assisted auto-content generating scams are chaining on to each other (: