jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not dead! It's just no longer at MIT (as is also mentioned on the website you linked). Tim founded a startup called inrupt (disclosure: I work there, opinions my own) that aims to stimulate commercial adoption. The links in the sibling comment by rapnie are an excellent place to start.
Great point. We stayed at a lot of campsites in California a few summers ago and wrestled with the bookings.

In the end our favourite spot was a quiet campsite in Lassen Volcanic park.
As I understand the story, it wasn't really about "taking credit". The kid did not deny the poem was from a book, they just didn't understand it wasn't supposed to be.

It was probably more a case of misunderstanding expectations. Some tradition of education have a large emphasis on knowledge and memorization, while others have more emphasis on personal creativity.
In the case of U.S. drivers licenses, there are standards for the 2D barcode that would make it very straightforward to parse: https://www.aamva.org/uploadedFiles/MainSite/Content/Solutio...
I can easily get >100Mbps here in Melbourne, Australia.

That said, my plan has a limit of 2GB a month (which is rather low; most people have around 7-10GB), so I can use a month of usage in less than three minutes.
So if these companies shut down, where will their underpaid workers go?
> compromise a widely used package and sleep on it until it was pervasive enough to be a valuable hack.

Which makes me think: A bad actor could create a really good open source library or package, wait for everyone to use it and then introduce malware into it. Or they could "accidentally" add a security vulnerability and exploit it.

"There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Well, the Clalit preprint relying on more data by an order of magnitude will be out soon, and that should be the definitive analysis.

However, current results for a Pfizer 1st-only regiment aren't very encouraging IMHO. It's possible the first dose starts to be really effective exactly at the time Pfizer suggested to have the second dose, and that this increase is rather sharp - But it would be some coincidence, and antibody tests (showing not so good efficiency against variants following 1st dose, and also much larger antibody count after 2nd dose) are contraindicative.
The first thing I can point is the design. Seriously, it's as cheap as $15. Get a nice design. You even get the PSD files with it to customize the tiny detail.
Nuclear weapons are widely seen as a stabilizing force by aerious security experts, and while their ultimate elimination is a worthy ethical ideal, it is obviously impossible in the present global environment. This link is from one of the abolishment campaign back in 2019. The world has become more not less dangerous since for France, UK, and US - and their many allies whose territorial integrity is assured by US nuclear weapons.
Wait, do we mean different things by conspiracy theorists not being real? Because, otherwise, I can’t see how you can think this is not a joke. I think they mean there literally are no people alive/real that hold conspiracy theory views. Clearly there are real people who espouse conspiracy theories, therefore OP must be joking.
I think you are probably right about needing to be "in the world" (if by that, you mean being able to interact with it and see how its state, and therefore the data you have about it, changes), but I feel you are being too hasty in ruling out any situation where humans have had any role in preparing the data.

In the evolution of natural intelligence, physics provides the domain distribution and Darwin has explained what the reward function is. It does not follow that no learning can occur in an environment where either or both of the domain and reward function are defined by humans.

As far as I can tell, this was the explicit goal of AlphaGo Zero. Even if we were to accept your position that the data it was started with "contained the solution", then the fact it does rather better than humans at finding that solution is, by itself, significant. (In this view, one might characterize the evolution of natural intelligence as finding, within the biosphere domain, a rather successful solution to the survival problem.)

It would seem to me to be begging the question to say that the success of AlphaGo Zero is not learning because the environment was human-specified (At the same time, as Go is a highly-constrained environment, there is no reason to suppose that its successes indicate we are anywhere near AGI.)
Well if there are older cases and are known of known etiology, were they caused by covid infection? If they weren't, why is this news relevant? If they were, why is it not mentioned, or made the news earlier?

It does not have to be anything or anyone particular. But if it is only a recent phenomenon it must have an explanation?

A new significantly different variant? Maybe caused by the mass vaccination of the population?

Some other other disease that coincidentally appeared recently?

Some undiagnosed existing underlying health condition?

Ignored, misdiagnosed in the past?
I recommend C. Once you get the hang of it, it's as fast as writing Rust code (and you don't have to think about borrow checks).
My information was from someone from the team working on jetpack compose. So maybe the answer I was given comes from a different context.
Markets have never been free. Policy has always dictated the winners and losers, even in cases of state deregulated markets (who gets federal subsidies, who makes out better given lack of state regulation, who paid for that regulation, etc.)

The ideal of a free market is simply not compatible with reality.
It's a neat feature for SOHO-type users, and takes advantage of the fact that the RAID layer knows about the FS. The first implementation that I know of is Drobo's filesystem.

Asymmetric RAID is probably the only config that I'd like to see in ZFS - being able to have (say) an 8TB drive and two 4TB drives, and have 8TB of mirrored space is quite nice when you're just buying commodity kit and don't want to have to retire/match drives all the time when growing mirrors.
I wanted to take the overall point but I did get bogged down in the examples. The overall tone of the essay is philosophical and allegorical. For an essay with that tone to really make its point it needs to be crystalline in its clarity and feel a real depth of reasoning, otherwise it will lose the reader. Instead it makes rather extreme points in the examples that don't have to do with what I imagine the author wants you to take from the essay. Specifically, the whole business about there being no point to the existence of the people involved. That invites nit-picking ("the security guard is still valuable because they're there! The doctor can still diagnose obvious ailments!"). Then there's the aside about the different Covid treatments, which basically feels like a dig to people who in real life probably took a serious look at the differing treatments before discarding them. These things distract from the much more interesting point that aggregating opinions from experts will not necessarily increase the certainty of the opinion. I think behind this essay is a way better revision where the author has taken a lot of the feedback from these responses and done another draft. In the meantime it doesn't achieve its desired effect as a piece of writing.

Another commenter left what I thought was a rather essential analogy which was whether or not people should run from the hint of a tiger. Running too little invites tiger attack. Running too much invites excessive anxiety. Both have health ramifications: too little fight or flight response and a creature is easy prey, too much fight or flight response and the creature is expending too much energy in the fight or flight state. If the bushes rustle in the right way next to a herd of antelope, the herd will run, and the size of the herd doesn't act as a linear multiplier on the chance that there is a tiger. To follow the analogy rather painfully, the OP article is critiquing the members of the herd who would say, "Don't run, idiot, there's no tiger", when there's an equal critique to be made against the members of the herd who run all the time and are in a constant state of anxiety.
I have encountered the problems described for MySQL with Oracle and DB2 databases. If you implement the business rules as transactions within stored procedures, then the logical constraints can be maintained programmatically by the StoredProcs.
Perhaps this comment that I left elsewhere in this thread might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266721
And, additionally, the same tactics were called "mostly peaceful" by the news media (until the other side followed suit, of course).
>wouldn't you have preferred to have your admission be based on your ability to have positively contributed to...

Uni-bound HS kids don't usually know which field(s) they will study, hence the S.A.T. is a Test for generic Scholastic Aptitude using general intelligence metrics (math+verbal) as a proxy. HS me intended to be a cyberlaw lawyer at Wilson Sonsini but wound up in cogsci, a field HS me wasn't even aware existed! There was NO WAY my admission could have been based on my eventual contributions to cogsci.

Academic achievement was my ticket out of the trailer park so I always took it seriously, starting in middle school when I devoured a book called 999 Words You Need To Know For The SAT. I didn't "purposely forget 85% of it" after the tests, I still know them all and never stopped building on that foundation, serving Master Satoshi well while fighting against the BCashers in the trenches of the Blockchain Wars.

Bitcoin's meritocracy is an extension of the hacker ethos (on the internet no one knows your a dog...etc) and yes, I love it. I idolize Back and adore trollish Todd, and while Amir's cringe black flag left-wing anarchism is tedious it's forgivable given the obvious sincerity.

If your Uni experience was "petty politicking non-sense" SFYL, but that's on you. Should have transferred and done STEM at a different/better institution.

I did 3 years then dropped out for financial reasons. The degree meant nothing to me; the Promethean knowledge base and powerful lifelong social network are what I wanted. But I'll always be an academic at heart.
The standard just specifies that (a) SIGPIPE exists, (b) when it should be raised by the OS, and (c) what the default action is.

It does not specify that programs that mask or block or handle SIGPIPE/EPIPE must be silent when they do so.
"Panic" is essentially the Rust name for exceptions. They are even implemented the same as C++ exceptions in terms of codegen. The real differences are cultural rather than technical, as I touch on in this thread:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/c-pitfalls-hard-to-avoid-that-...
I do not think my beginner advice would include "find someone who will pay you to do the thing you can't yet do"
how does it work? :-D
Some people are harshing on you for recommending Python because C is the unavoidable end-game in Unix. But I agree with the advice that Python is a great place to start.

Learn to write good Python. After that, learning to write good C will be much faster and easier and far less frustrating. Ultimately, on Unix you end up at C for at least some things (Python is implemented it C, after all). But these days, you can kick the can pretty darn far down the road before needing C.
Seems not to matter much given that they were able to get their cases under control
Under normal conditions? Yes. While shitting their pants from panic? Hell no. These people will now go out there and take up the limited testing capacity that could be better spent elsewhere.
Quote from a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article related to the mask manufacturing ramp up at 3M for COVID19:

“‘We're seeing increased demand for our respiratory protection products, and we're ramping up our production worldwide, in China, around the world to meet that demand.’ (Mike Roman, 3M CEO)” [0]

Nothing about that statement gives me any confidence that a single 3M N95 mask is produced in the U.S. In fact, it sounds downright evasive to me.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/01/29/3ms-c...
Yet these same polls keep accurately predicting primary results on a similar small scale.

What we need is more of them and wider samples to reduce the ~95% error rate of the ABC results even lower. Not critiquing ones who have a well established reputation for following good methodology, as if polling never has value (FiveThirtyEight has litigated this to death and have largely won the argument).

That said, one poll is rarely ever enough.
I've been seeing the name of Nicholas Carr's book "The Shallows" pop up several times now in recent weeks. The content seems to be interesting and one that follows the footsteps of Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. While Postman only limited the thrust of his argument to the impact of radio and television on public debate on politics, Carr seems to discuss how distractions of modern technology is taking away our ability for contemplation and concentration. I'll definitely be adding it to my reading stack.
as if Russia will attempt to take over Europe or something, which is laughable.

As if this were anything other than straw man argument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Terminal 5, as I said — nowadays all BA flights go there, so there are flights from all over the world there (the distinction between the other terminals is basically that of airline, the fact a lot of Asian airlines happen to be in T4 is coincidence rather than explicit planning, AFAIK).

I am British — which helps somewhat — but I've known them to throw us on the back of the "All Passports" queue when it's been relatively busy, and never noticed it take any longer than otherwise. That all said, I more often than not pass through the passport control used for domestic transfers, rather than that for leaving the airport (though my experience is that that tends to have shorter queues than the one for transfers).

And no, I wouldn't expect being from the US to help, except for not requiring a visa.
No, south migrations are not compatible, you'll have to collapse your south migrations down and start with these.
Somewhat related: Are there any plans to integrate Alembic into SQLAlchemy?
> - if you suspect something is wrong check with soap, not with a match

Would you mind elaborating on this point? I don't know what you're referring to.
I was the one who asked the original question. My purpose was so that Mercurial's test suite could specify the amount of parallelism from the Makefile. The "test" rule in the Makefile invokes "run-tests.py". This latter script itself accepts a -j option. It's possible to invoke it directly, but this misses the second part of the "test" rule in the Makefile, which executes some tests that run-tests.py can't do.
It's not hard to imagine a world in which someone builds or continues to improve an issue tracking system better than GitHub, because GitHub seems to be actively uninterested in improving its issue tracking system in various dimensions that matter to a lot of issue tracking system users (ability to attach testcases, dependency tracking, and release management are the big ones for me personally). It's not just that GitHub is lacking in those areas; they've repeatedly rejected suggestions for improving them.
Unlikely we'll run out of oil in the foreseeable future.
The competition gives us six weeks to build the robot, before we have one or two three day competitions. Apart from possibly attending non-official off-season competitions, that is the only time we would use the code before the next years competition, which is completely different, and for which we are required to right entirely new code[1].

Once we got a hack working, we ran with it and rarely tried to clean up. In this case, we didn't bother trying a different JVM.

[1] Unless the code is open source (as ours was), in which case we were explicitly allowed to use it.
Sorry for the shameless plug, but my games also use a ready-to-use JS game engine entirely developed by me. They don't look as polished as Biolab, but I surely enjoyed writing them.

A demo:
http://ralphgoodtimes.com/webgame_chillyzombies.html

Source code here:
http://ralphgoodtimes.com/webgames_info.html

Use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed developing them.
> anyone knows how best to refer to anime art style in Japanese?

The term mangachikku (漫画チック, マンガチック, "manga-tic") is sometimes used to refer to the art style typical of manga and anime; it can also refer to exaggerated, caricatured depictions in general. Perhaps anime fū irasuto (アニメ風イラスト, anime-style illustration), while a less colorful expression, would be closer to what you're looking for.
Yeah this isn’t some textbook or ideological economics “what’s better for everyone” scenario where we can just push a button to choose the better one. It’s far more complicated.

It’s just a product of better lawyering but also critically access to information, not some easily controllable incentives system where regulators or some sort of centralized agency can effectively tip the balance back towards some abstract group of victims, in only a subset of cases (which cases do they help with? Proactively looking for ones they deem need the victims help the most? Etc it’s a hard solution to build and probably an unrealistic one).

The other option of arbitrarily downplaying investors power in the courts in general sounds like it could be full of unexpected downsides and false positives IRL. Consumer class action suits are already seedy and full of unfair ‘captain retrospect’ sort of policing and the lawyer groups again also make most of the money anyway (and often are the biggest motivator and resource backer too). Which at the end of the day doesn’t make the ‘bad’ companies operate any better in a realistic world.

The courts may be flawed but they tend to be way better than almost anything else available.

Any new ‘system’ or balancing act would have to deal with counter balancing certain parties having better motivation/resources/positioning/information. Which historically in other systems has been even more ripe for abuse by power holders who end up being pushed and prodded by the same groups with above said advantages.

A far better solution IMO is more and better organizations advocating for victims groups in such cases. An adaptation to the reality of the courts and the markets, rather than a rejection of them.

Otherwise we’re just pointing the overlaid lawyers in a new direction and nothing in the consumer world actually gets better through the process.
I recently released this C programming book that is good for kids called A Day in Code: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LG7DW4C

It's a picture book that tells a story with C programs that represent real-life situations. It teaches C programming with the code examples that make up the story. It has full-page illustrations like a normal picture book!

I'm writing a Python version now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914595512/a-day-in-code...

I hope these are fun ways for kids to get started in programming. :)
> I suspect means it [DDG] would be a perfectly fine replacement for most people

I suspect otherwise. DDG is as good as Google in certain topics, especially programming-related topics. But otherwise, not so good. Sometimes, it feels like it simply has indexed less pages than Google.

But I still use DDG as much as possible, only !g when the results are unsatisfactory. I don't know how much it actually help DDG, though, since it doesn't seem to get much better over the past few years.
Lost Coast in northern California. The one day looks like it will be soon.
There's a missing externality (opportunity cost) in the FDA's vaccine calculus: if the vaccine does have an unexpected and negative side effect it could affect willingness to inoculate for other and even more lethal illnesses.

It's not like the FDA doesn't understand that people suffer every day a new medication isn't approved. In fact they've been experimenting, -- yes slowly -- with adaptive trial designs that are more flexible than the stereotype of rigid Phase I/II/III
This is an interesting distinction because in Silicon Valley (and startup world generally) people are dissuaded from creating a company around a feature. It's better to be a product and even better to be a platform, according to the popular wisdom.

As someone who runs a feature company, I've given this distinction bit of thought, and I think the reasons that feature-based startups are disfavored are that:

(1) features typically do not impact a sufficiently-important life activity

(2) features are often not protectable from competitors

One example is momentum-based scrolling. Does this functionality add enough value to an important life activity that you could build a company around it? It is nice, and we do scroll all the time, but it's hard to imagine starting a company around the feature of scrolling with momentum. This is especially true because it would probably be difficult to get a patent that covered such an idea.

A more borderline case is the blindspot-less side view mirror. Side view mirrors are important, and this technology could literally save lives. And apparently someone did get a patent on a minimally-distortive, blindspot-less side view mirror [1]. But I don't know if it was ever productized (patent is dated 2012), and the window of opportunity on this is closing as camera-based solutions are growing more popular.

If you could come up with a feature that does impact a major life activity, and you could get an IP moat around it, then it could be worthwhile to create a feature company. I've tried doing this, and after several years of slogging, my reading-enhancement feature is being adopted by major education platforms like Blackboard and universities like Stanford. [2]
I'd be interested to talk with folks from other feature companies to hear about their experiences/thoughts. Contact info is in my profile!

1: https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2012/June/Drivers-Side-Mirror....

2: https://www.beelinereader.com
In that link they don't use the word race. The above commenter wrote,

> On (US or state) government forms that's [Hispanic or Latino] usually a different question from race.

I've never seen this (before this census).
What, you have to pay extra on a used car? All countries require registration (which is a tax) but to my experience, it's calculated on engine size or other economy/pollution proxy.

In places like the USA, a 10 year old Merecedes is probably worth 10% of it's original purchase price, but if it has been treated well (and continues to be treated well), is probably only 50% through it's useful service life. The sweet spot is probably at about 6 years old and 60,000 miles, when most buyers would stop considering it as an option. Buying them at about that age and keeping for 5-7 years is my advice, if you know how to sort the pearls from the swine.

The big cost for keeping old prestige cars on the road is a combination of parts and labour, but labour is pretty much the same for all cars (assuming you stay away from the dealer). Finding used/cheap parts and/or doing some of the work yourself is the best way.

I don't ever want to live anywhere where 'displays of wealth' are punished. I'm not rich, but I have no beef with people who are.
In theory, EFI is supposed to have a shell available, which could make diagnosing low-level problems easier. This is of course assuming that the manufacturers can be arsed to include it alongside their 'point and click guis'.