jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Binary was a poor choice of words I guess.

My point was that if the current material only supports very low current densities at this high temperature, then that restricts the use-cases for it. I feel much of the popular science press makes it sound like all superconductors are equal, apart from the critical temperature.
Well, or redirect the client/CEO to another useful feature that would also help them further.

Make it useful.

They just want their issue solved. They don't care about the how and they don't care if you don't adjust it exactly like they described it in their request.

More than not, there is an underlying issue that could be solved more generally.

Eg. in a lot of reporting cases, export to excel would work fine.
>>>> Finland never participated in the colonial era except as a dirt poor third world economy to be exploited.

>>A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / special.

My intent was not to signal virtue, merely the lack of historical action resulting in a system that could be economically or politically identified as colonization

Why? Geography, demographics and economy. Everyone was dirt poor - no economic elite to speak of. And the population was and is tiny.
It would be nice to patch metadata somehow formally.

I have the version of "Furious Angels" on which a track on the second disc is incorrectly labelled "Clubbed To Death (Instrumental Version)" but er, no, it's just an instrumental unrelated to "Clubbed To Death". I know that, but it does say right on the label that it's Clubbed To Death and so I'm torn about how to record it in the metadata for the album.
I’ve always found it hard to know which bits of crypto are serious and which are just LARP.
At least the scammers reproduced perfectly the automated "please say what you are calling us about" that never works. I now suspect these pseudo-voice recognition systems have no other purpose than to charge more minutes on incoming customer calls and discourage the least motivated customers from calling again.
Yes, that’s because the hand-wavy promise of utility is used to onboard new crypto buyers. Beanie babies quickly proved to be utterly useless.
...any system appropriate for shluffing around value by definition comes with being able to trace things with enough attention to detail.
See this is why I love science. Somebody does a study, and we learn something absolutely new that we wouldn't have known.

More follow up research needs to be done, but this potentially means that the doctors can change how they treat patients and significantly improve patient mortality.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, are you referring to how I've discussed "campaign financing reform" above?
Very interesting, thx for the link!
It has already been getting news coverage for the last week or two, including Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18...
I know you're being snide, but they're calling a morning talk show bad journalism for making a joke. I didn't even think the joke was that offensive, to be honest.
YES! This was my original inspiration. I saw that and thought: What the heck - I can make that! And then I did :) I love the way they've painted it, though. And of course the below-water scenes. Just incredible.
Not a stupid question at all!

Find a radiant heat source (portable infrared heater) and stand one meter away from it. How warm do you feel? Now move closer by approximately 3cm. Feel noticeably warmer?

In fact, Southern Hemisphere summers are milder due to how much of the sun's energy is absorbed vs. reflected by the land and water. More water and less land in the Southern Hemisphere means that more of the heat energy from the sun (which is, basically, a form of light) is reflected away.
I work in a game company that has paid overtime and this is exactly what's happening. Management tries very hard to not have any overtime as it's paid 1-1 into vacation time and eats directly into their budget.

Those of us working, don't really want the overtime because we'd like to go home at night and are usually brain dead by the time 7pm hits.

Really, it works for everyone involved. The company has happier, healthier, and more productive employees, and the employees get paid for all of their work. The only downside is that when doing pre-production, estimates are usually on the higher side to avoid going over the time budget.
I think people have different definitions of "solutions that totally solve this problem". If your solution totally solves this problem technically, but is unlikely to be deployed in the real world, it is not a solution that totally solves this problem in my book. Although I wouldn't downvote such claims, I can understand people downvoting "total solution" claims if the solution clearly is not (according to the above definition).
I discovered stand ups two weeks before the first lockdown and found it stressful and inefficient.

I needed to interrupt any task I was doing (I'm usually early, and the standup often happens at a time my focus is best), or rush to arrive on time if I was ever late, listen to people in a state not necessarily fit for listening correctly, at a speed that is sometimes too high, sometimes too low, not always concerned by everything every people did or do. No note so I was stressed about remembering each thing that might be relevant to me.

During the lock-down, we started doing it using video calls. We had to wait for everybody to come, including those who where fighting the technology, the sound wasn't always great, the flatmate was still sleeping so it was not ideal for him too.

And then, we switched to text in a dedicated channel in our chat. The result?
- I can write it whenever I want before 10 am, without needing to interrupt in the middle of something. I could even write it the evening before if I wanted.
- everybody is efficient in their writing: the standup is actually short and to the point without needing a good moderator!
- I can take my time to formulate, to forget nothing (I don't need to prepare in advance neither)
- I can take my time to read, and to react to other people when relevant, and organize without stress.
- all the relevant info is here
- sometime someone forgets something and responds to there own answer to let people know, and this is good.
- we are supposed to add an "eye" emoji to each standup message so we tell people we read their stuff.

Seeing people's faces is great but the standup was an awful occasion for that. But what we did during the first lockdown was following the standup by a "coffee break" to which people were advised to go, and then we got to see people and keep building relationship by speaking about anything, often unrelated to work. I recommend trying this.

I don't see a point for the daily synchronous stand up now that I lived standup in text format. If you need to build relationship, do breaks in which people get to speak about something else than work… or about work at times! But without rush and without lengthy unwanted digressions.
If you like it hard enough, it would soon stop being hard
> The story of WeWork’s rise and fall is the story of the past decade: a strange time when greed, technology worship, and low interest rates combined to produce throngs of supposedly billion-dollar startups, known as “unicorns.”

I think the use of past tense here is unwarranted. I'm sure there are many WeWorks and Theranoses still out there right now.
> #3) I get rid of all of the Google tracking that Chrome has built-in.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
Look at the authors list. Some of them also participated in creating and designing Spark.
Anyone listening to the sample audio linked to in the article should read this note from the last time this was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309787

Summary: the Lyra audio samples are louder which muddies the comparison
To be pedantic, Farbrausch definitely popularized using a custom tool but they were being built in years prior, as well.

Source: Wrote a tool in 1998 for our not-great-looking 64k intro "Pure" by demogroup Quad.
I'll bite. Why did they take away the water?
For anyone else who was clueless, whip cream chargers are a source of nitrous oxide.
Yep, same. But then I thought to myself that it was strange … anger and depression can’t be symptoms of "brain boost".
Pretty handy - assuming OP is the author, can you say what's different when compared to GitMongo? It's what I'm using now, but I am curious if you've already determined the value-add of Working Copy.
I guess I should clarify, the 2hr wait time is guaranteed by our telehealth partner Lemonaid (aka the provider we connect them to for treatment). Because it's a Lemonaid policy and not our own, we don't call it out on our site. But, we probably should find a way to communicate it!
> You know it's just performing an auto-update check

Actually, I don't. I didn't agree to let it phone home. It does it before it tells me anything at all. It's also connecting to the telemetry service endpoint immediately on launch, despite not having selected a telemetry consent setting yet.

How about this one? It phones home when you click "don't phone home".

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/20185
Thank you very much for your answer, and great project :)
I am also not very familiar with P2P, but I know that it is a bit complicated because of NATS. ICE is a protocol to make it possible for clients to establish a P2P connection, but it is not always possible because of symmetric NATS. Thus, for example in WebRTC there exist STUN and TURN servers.
Fostering a survivor mindset. It will make one expect hardships and ultimately create them.

Don’t survive, thrive.
If the advances in technology favor capital over consumers, it actually ends up further diverging the stratification.
Last time I researched it, Chrome's design for sandboxing and multiprocessing was much more extensive and mature. Firefox is working on getting there, but it's an afterthought. I'm under the impression that Chrome is close to invulnerable against non-targeted attacks in which code escapes the browser or the tab, which is my main security concern.
I assume they minified it, but I don't have access to the unminified source. I'd like to clean it up or find a cleaner version, but for now it works well enough.
I'm growing increasingly convinced that the first iphone tracker desktop app reduced precision not so much to "protect privacy", but to cover up exactly how off the data was. I think selling it as though it were your location rather than tower location backs this up. Looking at it in Google Earth it seems to only be accurate when I was on I-95 in New Jersey.

I figured the data would be kind of rough, but for a month of my data in NYC it is just off. Apparently I spent most of my time in Bed Stuy and no time in my apartment in Park Slope. It also got Charlottesville, VA confused with Las Vegas. If that actually happened, there must be some great party stories that I haven't been told about yet.
My favorite quote on this:

"...there's no more reason to abandon IB than there is to forego compilers and write all your code with a hex editor"

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-fear-inte...

Maintaining programmatically-generated views is miserable. But with IB, it's pretty simple. Wanna nudge that button up a couple pixels? Click. Drag. Done. Want to set up label and button appearances for multiple states? A few clicks save you several lines of code per UI object. As as mentioned in the above link, every line of code you don't have to write is a line of code you don't have to maintain/debug. The converse is a huge volume of code across an app to do tedious layout stuff, which doesn't sound fun.

You also cut down on compile/debug cycles, thanks to skipping things like "Oh, fuck, I forgot to set that label's background to clearColor."

Perhaps best of all, IB will help you set up autoresizing masks for your views. This process is extremely counterintuitive to me and it's nice to be able to immediately test out my changes without having to build and run for each tweak.
The only issue I forsee with this is that such a hotline would get spammed up with idea-mongers who refuse to share anything without signing an NDA, and who equate a TechCrunch link with a guarantee long-term success.
Not just here, but industry-wide. The x10 figure comes from studies. Brooks talks about them (mythical man-month), and I think Peopleware mentions some. The question then turns to what these studies are actually measuring...

But that's just for programming. When you get into the application of software - unmet needs - you can easily get x100 or far far higher. This is because the value of software is more closely related to the need it meets (that exists in users) rather than any quality of the software (that exists in code).
Thanks! I'm definitely not complaining, but it's a complete 180 since up until February my bounce rate floated between 80 and 100%

I had made some REALLY significant changes around that time, and the drop could be attributed to any and all of them.

Some changes I made:
- Migrated from Posterous to WordPress
- New theme (on account of the migration)
- Changed URLs (but kept 301 Redirects in place so links wouldn't break)
KLOC mentality applied to TDD.
That was my question as well. It's pretty clear from searching lisp on this guy's blog and looking at his resume and list of software projects that he has actually never used lisp.
Hmm "the most distant such object yet observed" does not sound like something they would brand as "in our cosmic neighborhood".
"I will build haskell by taking the source code and running it"

I jest, but this is an issue I've thought about idly for a while. Maybe it's possible to write a two-step parser: one that turns chars into tokens (and cheat a little bit by stripping spaces in some contexts to make it context free), and then you have a nice CFG that you can do easily.
I've majored for years in cracking jokes on Hacker News; often a hazardous undertaking given the capricious and judgemental denizens of this forum. And yet comments whose kernel or allusions contain a mode of wit or wry observation have supplied roughly one third of the aggregate approbation tally, for what that's worth (which is, admittedly, very little, but remains nevertheless a useful guide to one's welcome).

What's curious is that many folks claim the subthreads of their comment as a personal fiefdom, taking umbrage at any remark they deem unworthy of the continuation, the self-appointed gatekeepers of repartee.

Specifically, though, I don't think this is a valid complaint:

> there really isn't any need to explain this to me

since it follows from:

> how does anything you wrote relate to anything I wrote?

which is, rhetorical or otherwise, and notwithstanding the pilgarlic territoriality, a clear request for an explanation, which rob74 has elegantly supplied, and to which I'd append only one additional observation, viz. that the image is a plant
> If anything positive comes from cancel-culture

This is just a strange word to describe customer's choice.
> Groovy is the only JVM language I've found that seems to deliver a real JVM interop story

Have you tried Kotlin yet? If so, what interferes with its JVM interop story in your opinion? I'm happily using Kotlin with several Java libraries, and IIRC, no Kotlin-specific libraries except for the stdlib.
I think the real lesson is that under enough pressure every large system leaks. Anything that gatekeeps millions of real dollars (search engines, stock markets, Amazon reviews, insurance claims, etc) will constantly be exploited and patched by nature of the thing. Only "solution" is to decrease pressure, by say fragmenting market into 20+ search engines, so that SEO people can't realistically optimize for all of them at once.

Some smaller scope things can be made completely watertight, for example mathematically proven cryptography, but even that often leaks to government pressure.
It's not that small.

But Android is also the most casual install base, and it comes with Chrome by default. It's probably the hardest market to gain marketshare in.
bakkerij -> bakery (instead of bakers)
Before 0% interest and euphoria, 20-40x was a good SaaS NTM/Revenue multiplier. SNOW is upwards of 200x at this point I believe
Agreed, especially about the need for these true stories. There are all kinds of startup myths that never seem to die (just get 1% of market, acquired after 6 months, build it and they will come, etc, etc) thanks to the outliers who get lucky and make for great fairy tales.
That's neat looking, though it isn't doing anything for me. What are the things you tried to do? Can someone else with stereoscopic vision tell me if it's doing anything for them?

I'm really interested in 3D techniques which work for people without the brain mechanisms to fuse the images of their eyes (unsurprisingly).
I read Daring Fireball quite often, and I must say that I am surprised to see this kind of 'retort' post on DF. It seems out of character.
With TV, aren't we basically talking about the speed of light? Unless of course they delay it by a minute or two to give them time to edit out anything 'bad', but otherwise, I think you're going to have to be there in person if you want something faster.
This is a big issue in enterprise deployments. Consider, for example, the Sony hack - this is the kind of issue that allows a savvy low-level employee to wreak havoc on their employer, because once you can get root on a machine inside a corporate network, all kinds of doors open.

This isn't a remote root code execution bug, but it shouldn't be taken lightly, either. The exact environments where this bug would be applicable (locked-down) are the environments that could suffer severe damage because of an escalation issue.

The thing is, though, local privilege escalation isn't new, and it isn't novel. This is one in a long string of many, many similar bugs across most every major platform. It's completely unremarkable except for the reluctance on MS's part to patch it in a reasonable timeframe.
The difference is that SBCL compiler targets x86, Python runtime targets C.
I honestly believe we live our lives for the moments that aren't spent learning.

Facts are facts, and that's just about it.

This behavior is "fun" because their bullshitting about Steven Tyler led to them meeting up with some girls, going to some bars, and having a good night out.

It's weird how all these advancements in technology that were supposed to free up our time have just taken up more of our time.

It's sad, really. Learning used to be an adventure, and sometimes you were wrong. It was a game, even if you knew the answer beforehand.

Now it's a chore, and I really don't see all these bullshit facts being removed from our society today, even though almost everything is a few taps of your iPhone away.
Or switching to an ergo keyboard, trying a new typing layout, or just joining your first touch typing course?
Yeah I'd like that too. I've got the M1 MBA but it's a bit bigger and heavier than I'd like.
yes of course the choice to block Github is unfortunate, but I am making a wider point about the overwhelming dominance of the US in all things online, and that, clumsy as the execution may be, one might want to try to understand the underlying issues behind these actions, even if they appear misguided.
Yeah but not competitively, just for fun.
I have had this same problem. Seriously interested in an answer from the OP.
It is awesome to see more augmented reality projects. It is also interesting see how each company's technology differs.
I think this is all about how it's showcased.

Google Glass was to be used in personal interactions and that put a social barrier in the way of what was some cool technology. It seems that it was way too awkward to be 'glassing' in public no matter how useful or cool the technology was.

HoloLens is pitched to be used in the home and in the workplace, where you can comfortably immerse yourself in that experience without the social implications. This allows the technology to be judged on its own without mixing in the social implications.

I have high hopes for this, at least its a very different experience than what most others are doing (though its obviously taking cues from VR, augmented reality/Google glass etc.)

I agree for this to get 'really big' the form factor has to be a lot more portable, but this is a great stop-gap.
There is a reason why parking restrictions & signs are maddening, and it's not to generate revenue as the cynical claim when they have no other explanation.

The #1 reason is that parking laws change.

Where there was no rule a year ago, there may be now, for all kinds of reasons. This means a sign needs to be added or changed. Some reasons for rule adds or changes:

* new growth in the area causes increased demand for parking, requiring restrictions on non-resident parking. * a new area gets appropriated as part of a city/county and new enforcement follows. * residents are tired of their spaces getting yanked by people outside the neighborhood. * street traffic changes due to development, causing increased demand along a new street, creating the need for more restriction. * street cleaning is (finally) implemented, or schedules change. * a new commercial entity requires loading zones. * a new school pops up or is [re]moved

The #2 reason for the current sign design is visibility.

You have to be able to read a parking sign from your car, on the road, while moving, in inclement weather, and considering not everyone's sight is 'ideal'. Even if there was one sign, often there are multiple overlapping restrictions which can't simply be put into a single time slot. Even if this design incorporated every single day and different times depending on different criteria, it would have to be humongous to read all that detail without getting out and going up close.

The #3 reason is ambiguity.

Si no hablas ingles, 或者你住在一个历史的民族地区，તમે નિયમો કયા છે ઈન્ટરપ્રીટ થોડી મદદ જરૂર પડી શકે છે. The various colors, bolded words, and arrows help give insight as to what each sign is intending to tell you, without necessarily needing to be a native speaker. Other countries tend to use more pictograms on their signs which certainly help in these cases.

I think the redesigned sign is very useful, but one single sign is just not going to replace the accessibility and functionality of several large simple signs. Less signs is definitely better, though.
Yes, cable is not a la carte. That doesn't automatically mean that you're subsidizing ESPN. Maybe it's the people that sign up for cable solely to get ESPN that are subsidizing all the other channels.
There’s research into self-replicating micro machines that could create useful compounds from atmospheric CO2 cheaply and efficiently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_plants
Those small businesses could also include digital businesses that FB is more or less killing.

For example, Sweden has two digital markets. One was bought by eBay but the other one continued until FB introduced its own market which unlike this one is "free" and doesn't even require you to leave your filter bubble and log into a different site.

If FB pulls out they will have a fighting chance to survive.
If we can't live comfortably on earth (even with the worst expected effects from climate change), how can we live on another planet or in outer space which has a far less hospitable environment than any climate change could cause here on earth.

I think of space colonies as being protection from some catastrophic event on earth, not as an answer to climate change.

It's not like we could move significant numbers of people off the planet... and if we can build a spaceship or habitat on another planet that people can survive (and thrive) in, it would be much much easier to build the same habitat here on earth. I would bet that even building an underwater city would be much easier than a moon colony or orbiting space station.