jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's no point in blowing sunshine and rainbows up people's asses. If somebody has a bad idea, you're probably doing them a disservice by not making your criticisms of it indisputably clear.

That being said, criticism does not have to be combative and destructive - you can criticize someone's work, behaviors, or ideas without leaving them feeling lousy and resentful about it.

One of the most amazing things I've seen some of the people who've managed me do is give critical feedback without making me feel like I need to go on the defensive at all. They make criticism feel like a cooperative growth exercise, and that's really the best way to do it if you are finesseful enough to pull it off.
You can’t brute force 256 bit keys
It makes more sense to me to just print a whole plate rather than individual letters. Wasteful, but compared to the normal printing process, really not that wasteful.
Depends on your priorities. One of the friendliest countries in the EU, great food, rich history. If you like a slower pace of living it seems like a good choice.
You're confusing macro-economics with micro-economics. There is "no recoverable asset" with currencies and currencies aren't debts that demand payments.
> show up less frequently in the marketplace when you need them

I see this alleged all the time, but a part of me is convinced that it's a trick of the mind. But I don't know, and that's what's frustrating. Even if they don't pull the rug out from you, they could do so at any time and I'd never know it. Not great!
Scholarly Kitchen is the 'house' blog of the publishing industry, they've run very similar articles

>https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/18/guest-post-th...

>Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions. While illegal access to published content is the most obvious target, this is just the tip of an iceberg concealing underlying efforts to steal multiple streams of personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions.

Comment 1:
>The notion that Sci-Hub is not involved in hacking is laughable. The founder of Sci-Hub, when asked about this, disingenuously replies that Sci-Hub itself does not engage in hacking and phishing, without disputing that it relies on these to operate. More evidence that there is something big and powerful behind Sci-Hub: the Russian mafia.

Or this howler, a blog-post on Russian information warfare that then goes into Sci-Hub:

>In the scholarly information community, some individuals apparently sympathetic with the open information calls of Sci-Hub and LibGen actively shared authentication information, inadvertently providing institutional credentials to cybercriminals and cyberwarriors, who are probably still sitting on the usernames and passwords or, more likely, the information they grabbed before the passwords were changed. Experts estimate that we’ve seen 1% of the information Wikileaks and the Russians have purloined over the years.

>https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/03/publishing-in...
I’m still kicking myself for not investing in Coinbase back in the original FundersClub offering in late 2012 / early 2013.

FundersClub (YC S12) offered a chance to invest in seed rounds for itself and four other companies of the same YC batch, including CoinBase.

At that time I was itching to invest in tech startups, and was excited for FundersClub. I invested in FC itself, and another YC S12 company which has since shut down. At that time, I was working for $BIG_BANK, and BTC in my view seemed like it would be a compliance nightmare, so I avoided CoinBase.

Depending on the Series A, B, C dilution factors, a seed investment of a few $k into that seed round would have grown to about $1m post IPO! (Facepalm)
I have friends who have died and for whom I’ve lost our chat logs (some back from the AIM days). I also carelessly lost my home dir from college with my thesis and thesis code/data in it. (Tar, gzip, ftp in ascii mode, don’t check for months.)

Is my life meaningfully worse for those losses? No, not really. Have there been several times when it would have been better (even just temporary happiness/comfort) if I had access to the data? Definitely yes.
AEP Ohio ended their program last year. But before that, they even went as far as sending out freebie Wifi-connected Zigbee bridges to interface the meter before the program went tits-up.

Now that there are zero applications for it, it's about as useful as a dumb meter.

Progress.
If only it didn't cost $20,000/month for a shitty house.
Not social pressures, rather having a conscious. The existence of empathy, compassion, etc has certainly helped the cause of mercy.
It's such a shame that WD discontiued their MyNet range. I have a N750 and it is an awesome router with OpenWrt running. It was far more powerful (SoC + Memory) than any other router I looked at.

I bought it for AUD$50. The closest router in terms of price + power was a TP-Link for around AUD$70 and it still was behind on features.
30 mbps is about what you would expect over 802.11g.
You may want to investigate a driver issue on your PC. Another scenario that may give you poor speed over wireless is interference from neighboring access points. There are utilities available to view the channels used by access points within range. If you are on a channel that is crowded you may benefit from manually specifying the channel in your router.
i think you're missing something here. i may be wrong, but my understanding is that PCD only happens in younger animals. eventually PCD stops, and that's what leads to old age in the larger organism.

if your cells stayed in PCD your whole life, you could live forever.
Eno's recording of Music for Airports (not "elevators", that is something of a howler) had an interesting compositional method which was based on overlapping tape loops, with the loops having different periods.

You can hear the notes coming into and out of phase (over very long time periods) sometimes playing almost over the top of one another, and sometimes with silent spaces. Because of this, it has a sub rosa mathematical side.

Eno was influenced by Glass, but Glass is about a decade older.

I'm sure I've listened to that one record 200 times. I've found all of his music to be very rewarding over many years.

Incidentally, the article mentions John Adams in passing. I've found Adams' music to be more engaging and adventurous than Glass'. Adams is more of a West coast character, he's the composer in residence at the LA Phil and, earlier, at the SF Symphony. Highly recommended.
If gay or minority people are being discriminated against in their own hometowns, by zealots so bigoted they are trying to enact it as law, they should move here (and take their dollars with them). It's waaay better. :-]

Sincerely,

San Francisco
One would want to look at the etymological trees of the words 'slave' and 'share' to see if there are any intersections or common ancestors.

Unfortunately I don't know of any resources that have that capability. Do you?
I still don't understand why Mozilla keeps gloating about how many downloads Firefox 4 has gotten. When Chrome releases a major update, they don't pull off some huge PR stunt with a download counter. Not to mention Chrome users update to the latest version of Chrome much, much faster than Firefox users upgraded to Firefox 4.

It just feels like Mozilla is trying to be too much like Apple.
You just described an ideal use-case for GC. You allocate a bunch of arrays at the outset, then sit there pounding on them with little to no allocation. A good GC won't cost you anything in this case, since it'll allocate large pointer-free arrays in a separate pool that doesn't get traced.

Haskell isn't a good example, since it's a lazy functional language, but if something like Java isn't just as fast for your case it isn't the GC, it's the code generation. Much harder to do all those fancy loop optimizations in 100 ms in a JIT than in 10s in an offline compiler.
The reference to reaching out directly to writers was actually based less on P99T and more on a different startup we used to own, a realtor rating site. In that case, we found a writer for a major newspaper that we wanted to write a story on us --- just looked him up online and called him up --- and pitched the story over the phone. We followed up by sending him a press release we'd written... so we did actually write a press release, we just didn't -- and still haven't -- found it valuable to send it out over the newswire.

Good luck!
Risky. What if someone buys it? I mean, you could at least have a few books ready to ship out just in case.
My first question: what's the penalty for listing something that you can't deliver? As in, if someone buys 'your' copy, adn someone else buys the only other copy before you get it, what do you do and how does Amazon react when you do that?

Furthermore, though, how much more do you have to charge to cover your own time, shipping complexities, and just the general mess of dealing with two other entities for every sale you make? All of that adds up to a pain in the arse to make a couple bucks, in my estimation.
> Firefox 4 still uses GDI on Windows XP for font rendering.

It also now uses an OSS library, HarfBuzz, to position the glyphs.

The kerning problem is well documented, e.g., see here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=21588...

> Also, try right-clicking the back icon, rather than holding down the mouse button.

Sure, you can get the list either way, but why change from the widespread convention of having a down-arrow for a drop-down list as earlier versions did? The newer version is less discoverable, and making that sort of change without a good reason is just poor usability, pure and simple.

> And using the toolbar's Customize system to move Refresh and Stop and Home wherever you want them.

I hadn't even realised Firefox 4 still had such a Customize option until you mentioned it. To activate it, I have to navigate my mouse cursor to a region about 3-4px wide (on my 1920x1200 screen) between some of the areas on the bar, and right-click, even if the mouse cursor has already changed to the left-right arrow in some of those places. Once again, this is just poor usability (as is moving the buttons around in the first place when upgrading from an existing Firefox 3 installation that had them in a different place where they could still go).
I was surprised to read through this great description about SQL systems at large scale, and not see a single mention of cache. I searched for 'cache' on the page to check I didn't miss something.

SQL servers at this scale are so reliant on Memcache and other related solutions that it seems like a large omission.
It may be a sign of a healthy market, that ultimately can become unhealthy to the society. So it depends on which aspect of the US you are looking at.

As people get disproportionate amounts of money, they get disproportionate amounts of power that they can then use to distort the rules of the game. When there is a small but very wealthy class (say .1% of the population owns 80% of the net worth) then maybe the rest of the population can become oppressed.

It is difficult to get good stats on this, but this site has data that suggests since 1983, the top 20% have improved their lot at the expense of the bottom 80%.

Income isn't really a good way to measure the gap. If someone makes 500K/year and spends 100% of it on non-assets, they are just returning their money back into the system.

It is actually a complex problem to determine if the changes are good or bad, if wealth vs. income is the right measure, and what percentile groups make up the "elite"
> If you're not within 10% for these kernels, chances are that memory is being used differently

More likely imperfect strictness analysis, etc. Haskell is a pure functional lazy language, after all. Getting within 65% of C's performance on a tight numeric kernel is heroic.
> Causal reasoning is one thing that is lacking. But what about creativity? What about drive and desire? What about belief and the will to fail on the road to success? What about collective intelligence and the need to peer up in efforts? What about emotional intelligence?

Hi, I work at one of the intersections of machine learning with certain schools of thought in neuroscience. The following is based entirely on my own understanding, but is at least based on an understanding.

Your list here really only has three problems in it: causal reasoning, theory of mind, and "emotional intelligence". Emotional intelligence works in the service of "drive and desire", considered broadly. Creativity likewise works for the emotions. To be creative, you need aesthetic criteria.

Most of that, we're still really working on putting into mathematical and computational terms.
10x engineers thing is a lot lot simpler than that. In vast majority of cases, it's just one normal engineer surrounded by a crowd of people who should have been flipping burgers, but ended up working as 0.1x engineers because of "talent shortage" which is in fact just some bosses being too greedy to pay normal wages. Over time, abysmal productivity and quality of their work becomes the norm, and one normal guy who randomly happened to be there is seen as a semi-deity.
Its hard, I found I just have to pick a few I like the most and leave the rest go, I promise myself I'll get back to them but it seems less likely as the years go by. On my holidays I usually get back to something.
The reason there are no conditions for these recipients is because this is a small, controlled experiment, with outside resources.

If you expand this experiment to include the entire population, then each recipient has to meet the condition of welcoming expansion (inflation) of the money supply, each time they receive a payment (unless each recipient is also taxed 100% of what they receive each month). Inflation comes at the expense of savings, and also discourages lending (since the money repaid will be worth less - e.g., Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, et al).

Given the aforementioned circumstances, if you are a saver (with money to lend) OR a borrower (e.g., attempting to grow a business), then you have to accept that these activities will be economically discouraged by the inflationary effects of this income payment system. Only economic inactivity is rewarded (e.g., folks who retire without savings, folks without a job, etc.) without conditions.

This is all axiomatic and completely provable with syllogism alone, except for in one scenario: new wealth is discovered (free energy, manna from heaven, altruistic robots, etc.).
Here in Germany, it's common to weigh goods that are priced by weight and then have a sticker printed out to stick on them for the cashier. I don't see printing a QR code or whatever weird mechanism Amazon uses to price items being much more complex
They definitely taste different than other fast food chains. I would consider their taste better.

Back when I was in Illinois I remember Portillo’s fries had a particularly fatty and delicious taste, I wonder if they also fry in beef tallow?
Yes I do think about this occasionally at work for math heavy (LA and in house built convex optimization) problems. I cringe when I see tight loop with stream/functional java API. It’s not zero cost abstraction you know!
No, strings are immutable, despite the semantic gymnastics this article is performing.
Adding the self driving option to a Tesla model 3 or S is up to what, like $3000 now? (on top of whatever extra tech package you have to add too) This is pretty competitively priced. A lot of folks spend more than that just on upgrading the stereo in their car.
> They only have to worry about moderation if they host anything.

Legally maybe, but it's nevertheless presented under the Apple brand... which means as soon as the first pedos, QAnon cultists, antivaxxers and other undesirable elements take a look, people will reflect that negatively on Apple.

Apple's brand is basically to be "clean and safe" for users. Engaging in the shitshow that is any modern social network would be one of the fastest way to tank their stock price.
This is funny. Because I am positive if you poll the fans they would not say that GMMR's worldbuilding (and historicity is part of that) is his strong point. Maybe he feels that way. But I got the general feeling that fans, me included, where more attracted by his very elaborate and seemingly realistic (though maybe it just appeals to cynics like me) character building.
Fact A and Fact B are unclassified for the XF-42. But combining Fact A and Fact B implies Fact C, which is classified. Separating each item on a different page wouldn't make the whole thing unclassified. It'd make the entire report classified. One of the facts, if not both of them, would likely be controlled information, even if unclassified, in order to reduce the likelyhood of Fact C leaking.

Example: the XF-42 has a jammer builtin. The output of the jammer is classified. But the amount of power available from the generator is unclassified, as is the percentage of power used by the jammer. Individually, either of those facts doesn't help, but together they tell you how much power the jammer has, which can help our adversaries figure out how much power they need to burn through the jamming.

That said, if any fact is classified, that by itself will make the document it's in at least that classification.

EDIT: to use your poisoning example. If it's a poison, it makes the entire thing poisoned. But there are binary poisons. Two things together make a poison, even if neither alone is (very) poisonous.
Why? For somebody not familiar with how research publishing works it might just look like xeroxing books.
> The BBC was banned from broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected to the UK parliament.

The British government instituted that ban, not the BBC. That was also ended almost 30 years ago.

Russia is very low on press freedom (142) while the UK is at (28) is high [1] which seems to be the reason for its outlets to be unreliable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120131012309/http://en.rsf.org...
User-friendliness. IRC and even Matrix is daunting to the average mom or gamer-friend. Even if they're not, there's the network effect (I can't convince even a quarter of my friends to move over to Matrix or IRC).
> You can press 'dw' to delete the word right of the cursor.

And I can press Ctrl+Del to achieve the same. Right here in this commend edit form.

> delete everything from the cursor to the next closing bracket

This seems slightly interesting but not really. Many good text editors would highlight the matching bracket and it usually is just a tiny bit more slow to delete everything to that point.

> 'dip' to delete the whole paragraph around the cursor("delete in paragraph")

Hardly ever needed this in my entire life.

> And of course you can tell it to repeat those operations by entering a number beforehand, or just repeat the last operation by pressing '.'.

I know but can't imagine a use case for this.

I actually want to master Vim, let me be sincere, just to look more cool and professional, impress the boss and feel more of a hacker but that's not enough of motivation for me and I'm desperate to find anything in it which would actually feel handy.
As if MBA and accountants are specially prone to greed.

Greed can be found in any person regardless of his profession.
Actually I meant new as in since January. But yes, it works on most Android phones. I meant new as in people aren't used to using it yet. It's something I'm sure a lot of Android owners aren't aware they can do. Which might be an advantage for those developers who do use it in marketing.
I'm just saying from an objective, legal perspective. Some of these universities are public so you would think they would more strongly enforce the law. When you're really young, you get a lot of lenience based on your age. In college, I'm not really sure why you would get an excuse?

If it's about finding yourself, then it's just temporary and artificial. Whatever you thought you knew no longer applies once the "rules" change. /rant
Suddenly CoffeeScript makes a lot more sense to me:

"the language itself is held hostage by browser vendors, some of whom have shown a strong inclination to not give a fuck about owning up to and fixing their egregious mistakes"

So true. The JavaScript we've got now is the assembly language of the client-side. We can't easily change it, but we have to start building better tools on top of it.
The casino lobby would prefer that online gambling didn't exist. Therefore, since these online companies are not in the US and have no lobbyist money in play, they have no standing.

Voter preference, individual rights, domain name sanctity, jurisdiction, shortsightedness with regard to keeping control of TLD's, futility of the fight, all have no bearing when uncontested lobby money wants something, and doubly so when states think it will mean more tax dollars in their pockets.
Thanks. Our language on the matter is very specific, and we are very explicit about that policy both in the contract paperwork and in our verbal communications.

Even so, I'd say 3 of 5 clients try to pull the "we haven't been paid yet, we can't pay you" bit. At which point I remind them of their initials on the contract acknowledging that they understood that particular point.

Bottom line, I refuse to let their cash flow issues become my cash flow issues.
This is actually increasingly common, and in some states the burden of proof is on you to prove that anything confiscated was not purchased with money obtained illegally. In addition, many states allow 100% of the profit from what is confiscated to go directly to police departments. One department where I used to live has both a police Hummer and a Tank. You can read about a state by state study at:

http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/other_pubs/assetforfeitu... [Note: PDF]
This should get you started: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=forfei...

edited to add a feature article he wrote on it: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket
> but the point, at least in my opinion, of a web search engine is to find any and all matching content on the web

This is where the early search engines started out at. Turns out there is a LOT of content found for many searches, and the real value to most people is in finding _relevant_ content.

The devil is in the detail of how do you define relevance? This is why I think it is so important to have multiple search engine choices, each with their own algorithms and different sets of user options.
I'm certainly not an expert - I did a great DB course about 15 years ago and then used the skills every now and then since. I might not be up on the latest. And I am more of a SQL Server person. BUT... the main thing I learn is view actual execution plans, and see what is actually happening before adding indexes (unless it's an 'obvious' index).

> The best person I knew told me to index if a column wasn't unique, but also wasn't something with only two or three choices.

Yeah I think this is too broad advice, and you need to understand what you want to achieve. Mentally, choosing indexes is like choosing whether to use a hashtable vs. for loop vs. binary tree etc in an algorithm in code. There is not golden rule or "always use a hashtable if there are 100 entries" type thing. You just need to figure it out on a case by case basis. And usually there are only 2-3 tables in your DB worth a lot of effort in figuring it out!
We don't allow that kind of thing, but we also don't see everything that gets posted here.