jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>The reason I've kept it is because I use Facebook Messenger to talk to some people, and because a lot of events use Facebook.

The events thing I can see because Facebook has become the de facto way to organize events and has become the de facto websites for a lot of small businesses and organizations. But the thing about not being able to give up Messenger always confuses me when it comes up. (Please note that I'm not specifically picking on you, I just see this same sentiment a lot and this was a convenient comment to reply to).

Presumably anyone that has a Facebook account has an email address or a phone number, since it's not possible to create an account without one, so anyone on Facebook should be available via email or text message (since 'phone number' nowadays almost always means 'cell phone number').

But maybe the people that you're talking to don't want to give you their email address or phone number for whatever reason. That seems weird that someone who is ostensibly my friend would withhold that information, but I'm sure that there are valid reasons for that to happen.

Then you can give them your preferred alternate contact method: Jitsi, IRC, email semaphore, smoke signals, USPS mail, whatever. Then the rebuttal is usually something along the lines of, "Well, I can't force them to use the communication method I want to use", which is also weird because that's exactly what they're doing to you by refusing to use anything but Messenger.

And, yes, I understand that a problem can arise where one friend is only available via ICQ, one via IRC, one via Skype, one via Signal, etc., and you don't want dozens of apps clogging up your phone/computer/whatever, which is why I recommend my friends email or text or even call me whenever they want to chat.

There is also the case that is brought up that the person that has to use Messenger to talk to people because they're literally not reachable any other way, which I understand is possible in certain countries where Internet access is severely restricted or nonexistent and the only reliable access to the outside world is via Facebook/Messenger on a cell phone. I get that, too, and that actually does make some sense. But for everyone else, I don't get it.
Here:

1) Exposure to influenza virus aerosols during routine patient care. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/207/7/1037/2192312

>HCPs within 1.829 m of patients with influenza could be exposed to infectious doses of influenza virus, primarily in small-particle aerosols.

2) Short-range airborne transmission of expiratory droplets between two people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27287598

>The threshold distance of about 1.5 m distinguishes the two basic transmission processes of droplets and droplet nuclei, that is, short-range modes and the long-range airborne route.

It seems that depending on conditions < 2m is a good practical threshold for droplet transmission. Probably more if person is really sick.

The goal is to get as small dose viruses at once as possible. Immune system can usually fight off small exposure.

Sometimes even healthy people who inhale huge amount of viruses into their lungs at at once can get very seriously sick because their immune system struggles with the large sudden attack and goes into overdrive.
My thoughts exactly.

Also, it hardly establishes any causation between meditation and reduced brain aging.

They compared a monk to average people. Meditation is hardly the only substantial difference between the lives of these people. Monks have very different diets as well, just to name one thing.
How about fooling the APS into firing at duds until its munitions are depleted and then shooting a rocket? Like a series of high caliber, slower moving projectiles made out of something super radar reflective at reflective angles?
Rust newbie here.

If you're working on a project like that, how bad (or even possible) would it be to just stick unsafe around almost everything, if the alternative is to use C++? I mean, unsafe Rust is still no worse than C/C++, right?
I think best way to look at this is m = F/a. Then mass is basically objects resistance to force.
Step 1: define "complete autonomy"

Step 2: create tools to enable user control and configuration

Step 3: update your will to require that this work-in-progress be left to someone who will continue your attempt after you die.
I wonder if Brainfuck wins by his 100th of a second since he already called a program with words.txt, and therefore it was already loaded into memory, thus saving just a slice of time, as it would already be in the cache.
Wikipedia is pretty good for its specific purpose but it’s far from the promise of the open web. Wikipedia has a number of authoritarian moderators who will revert people’s changes for opaque and arbitrary reasons.

Maybe if you took all wikis as a collective then you could get something a bit closer. There’s still the matter of finding them so it’s not ideal. Then there’s the matter of ads. Wikipedia doesn’t have them but other wikis are rife with them.
I believe those are using whiptail, so maybe a modified version of it that allows scripting would do the trick.
The request is for a way to have that automatically added. It gets rather tiring adding -site:pinterest.com to every image search I do.
Contrarian, albeit minority, view: I really like ECMAScript. It’s not a weaker Java, it’s better.

I’ve been programming since the 80s. We had OOP shoved down our throats in college (CSU), with FP downplayed due to the runtime cost. Things have changed, and I want to move on.

I wish there was demand for ClosureScript. TypeScript has no support for partial function application and currying, unless it was added very recently.
>You can simulate using SPICE in KiCad now (ngspice).

Yes, but LTSPice is so much better than ngspice. I really wish the Linear would OpenSource it, it's a really cool piece of software.

KiCad does not really have a very well integrated auto-router. As someone pointed out, the only "integrated" one was deprecated, and all the others I've tried are very clunky (from the pov of being integrated).
Is it safe at night for humans?
I think this is something worth revisiting over time, because the process of untethering yourself from the big G can be fraught with complication.

I want to do it, I just don't want to go through the transition. Any article that gets me closer to that point is welcome to me.
By which name do you wish to be mourned?
Fair enough, but if I elaborated much it'd quickly turn into a blogpost.

In attempt to sum things up, I'd say that many of the woes of the modern Linux desktop stem from being stuck between different worlds — one example would be with the X11 vs. Wayland situation. Wayland has slowly been improving over time, but there are still concessions that are being made by using either. I understand that transitions are difficult and that particular case is being made more difficult by parties like Nvidia, but the end result is a degraded end-user experience that won't be fixed until the transition is over.
Yes and no. Immigrants are constantly coming in, and cities like Boston will probably continue to be a first waypoint for immigrants getting their legs under them. So in that sense, school districts in cities will continue to face these disparities. Apart from that, even as the Black middle class grows, there is persistent multi-generational poverty among Black people in urban areas that has proven nearly impossible to improve. Schools will continue to deal with that as well.
According to https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasas-mars-helicopter-will... (July 2020), it'll launch 60-70 sols after landing, so roughly mid-April.
Your linked article keeps calling "The Chinese Wall" an "offensive and racist term." I don't understand that. I always assumed that the term refered to the Great Wall of China, i.e. a large, famous and fortified wall designed to keep groups on opposite sides separated, hence its metaphorical use in business. Is there some other connotation with regards to that term that I'm unaware of?
More importantly how do you release a game that takes 6 minutes to load? This is why mobile gaming has the advantage. In those 6 minutes I could have played a round of a game that’s quite satisfying and put it down already. This just seems sloppy.
I'm not sure if they're still around, but I remember back in the 1990s there was a family of mutual funds that aimed to do exactly what you're describing. They actually advertised the fact that they won't have the best returns in bull markets because they were protecting people in down markets.

The idea was that people benefitted more from staying in the market over a long period of time rather than maximizing their returns in any particular year.

So the fund was aimed to smooth out the peaks and valleys along the ride so investors would be more inclined to leave their money parked in the fund rather than getting a statement that said that they're down 30% and going to cash and missing the next run up.
No, you are correct! I completely misread that.
Easier to eat 1.5k calories instead of 2.5k calories than do a 10k run daily.
I've noticed that Twitter will translate Hindi written in Roman characters, which is certainly common on the internet, but I'd think given (AFAIK) there's no formal standard for it it'd be hard to get good data to feed into an AI. Or is it enough of a 1-1 transliteration that all you need to do is encode the Roman->Devanagari rules and that'll work nearly 100% of the time?
Suggesting stuxnet's goal wasn't stealth is silly.

It was so sophisticated at not being detected that it went under everyone's radar for 5+ years.

Stuxnet behaved in exactly the same way.. neither did anything that would be detectable unless certain criteria was met and a secondary payload sent.
> Switzerland is a country that has done very well for its people, but the lessons which have kept it stable and safe over the past two centuries (have a lot of mountains, and don't be worth invading) are not ones which extrapolate out.

Would you say that Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political thought has been valuable and influential in the world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
Yikes, that escalated like the Ackermann function. Please don't post like this to HN—it's clearly not in the spirit of the site, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. You can make your substantive points thoughtfully, so please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, you missed off my next bit. "if you want to".

I personally couldn't give a toss; in the UK we're eleven months in to the sunk cost fallacy. But that's outside of the scope of this article.
> a former politician who lead a mob to riot at the Capital.

Not a word you wrote is true.

Trump was a sitting President, and the riot started before the end of his speech. His tweets for peace were deleted by twitter. (Pelosi refused to pay for Capitol Hill security before the large rally.)

The only insurrection was the 8-months of city burning endorsed by the DNC. Why isn't Pelosi on trial yet?
A perfect case for the nuclear energy.
> Playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!

Indeed! It's not just that you get bad pieces, but you have to adapt a totally different mindset. Gambling strategies like "I'm sure to get a red T that clears this up in a few moves" don't work, because you will never get that red T as long as it is useful.
Fluent NHibernate solved all my problems. I asked a similar (strangely, downvoted) question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5522590/rapid-orm-for-pai..., which prompted me to check out Fluent NHibernate.

Before that I was using LINQ-to-SQL with a repository layer and StructureMap, but I spent way too much time writing repository methods and mapping columns manually. Do yourself a favour and try NHibernate without the XML mappings.
Does that mean that the current protocol allows users to steal arbitrary files given a hash?

For example if some web site charges per download of a file, but still has the hash posted publicly, you can try to "steal" it from someone who has it stored privately in Dropbox?

IOW, the file hash is equivalent to your account login/password combo [restricted to any given file]?
If you never look at the names, what does it bother you if the names are or are not shown?
Your being worried about ORM reminds me that I felt similarly in your position, years ago. Looking back, I think this may be partly a lack of experience with languages with memory management - you simply have to learn to let go. But there is also a valid worry about flexibility and the degree to which you are losing the power of SQL. To address that you need to think carefully about what you are doing and have some faith in the experience of others. If you go with Django, and want to make a normal-ish web site, Django's ORM is fine. In fact, it's surprisingly powerful for what it is. But if you really want to be able to access SQL within your ORM then, at least for Python, you need to use SQLAlchemy. The downside is that SQLAlchemy will complicate Django. So I would suggest starting with Django alone, and really giving that a fair chance, and then, if necessary, looking at SQLAlchemy.
So it's like NSZone in Objective-C. In Obj-C you can associate any allocated object instance with a zone (unless you want to use the default, runtime-provided zone); deallocating a zone will also deallocate all the instances. Useful for things like trees where you can deallocate every node just by deallocating the root.
I respect RMS a lot, too, but I have to agree with this piece. He clearly tries to be a PR/sells person first of all. An advocate for free software in all industries and all other parts of society. Why then, doesn't he play to the rules of society where it makes obvious sense? As much as I find his stubbornness personally sympathetic, I doubt he is doing the FSF a favor at this point.

As an example I know from the people at MIT Open Course Ware, that even though they share a very similar view on free information, and RMS can show great achievements, it was really hard to use RMS as an effective advocate for OCW. The key audience was simply turned off by his appearance. As smug as that might sound.

In reality, you can hardly put people into sales, when they refuse to wear a tie every so often.
Some of the most painful games I've had to crack were those that used obfuscated assembly (usually by xor'ing entire sections of code). This had the annoying effect of making it impossible to put breakpoints too far ahead of the code because assembly debuggers put breakpoints by modifying the opcodes (usually calling an interrupt) so by the time the unrolling routine comes along, it will decode the wrong bytes and you'll get garbage (and usually, a nice lock up or reboot).

The only way around that was to painfully go stage by stage, which was very time consuming.
Within a few years I think we'll see an open source phone similar to Bunnies novena laptop project. Imagine a crowd-sourced phone becoming the #3 contender in the smart phone wars, Android, Apple, and FOSS.
What do they signify?
You are applying future concepts on the past. This is nonsense.
Couldn't the old object only ever get deallocated after the new one is allocated?
This was (is?) used as a case study in MIT's system's engineering course (6.033)
How much do you usually charge to undelete a comment?
The probability waves may be regular real waves, it's just convenient to describe amplitude and phase at every point with a complex number. We could describe water surface the same way, but it wouldn't mean water is complex.
The new SE is bigger than the 12 mini, I just switched from a 2016 SE to a 12 mini and have been happy.
Why does a brain being a physical system necessitate it being deterministic?

It seems like the more we learn about quantum mechanics, the more things seem to be probabilistic than deterministic.

The physical brain being probabilistic fits perfectly with the idea of free will.
I recalled that when in 2015, working for another sourcing shop working for likes of BestBuy/Futureshop/Target/London Drugs I was asked to tear down few chargers for them.

I found that diodes in parallel are surprisingly common around the industry.

This is such a thing which you are pretty much told on day 1 of any electronics course that it is impossible to not to know.

My only thinkable conclusion was that people keep doing it on purpose.

Other extreme cost cutting measures I saw were things like LEDs being used in double role as a diode. Wire wound around PCB used as inductor. Plug pegs being directly soldered to the PCB. Near paper thin plastic with holes from molding defects. Through hole components being soldered to each other. Flybacks without feedback. A 555 coaxed into use in a charger circuit.

You cannot come with any of that unknowingly, nor will you find any of that crap on the open market easily even in China.

It's pretty much an engineering equivalent of a "controlled flight into terrain," a direct result of suppliers being consciously directed into "stripping to the last cent" of the products by such unwitting buyers.
That's interesting, and I completely agree. However, my comment was about whether the default OpenBSD install sends any data to any private US companies. NTP queries are a form of data :).

Also, if it ever became profitable for some reason to give incorrect NTP results, then I doubt Google et al would continue to do so.
>You realize most science isn’t double blind, right?

That's nice, but most science isn't reproducible at scale. We need to do a drug trial for SARS-CoV-2 because we need to 1)establish efficacy and 2) establish safety for this drug in this disease. There are a significant amount of adverse drug effects in individual infectious diseases. Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction when treating syphilis, epstein-Barr mononucleosis and penicillin; Reye syndrome with Aspirin and influenza. The list is long here. We want the most vetted research possible because even if the chance of death is less than half a percent, half a percent of what seems like is going to be over a million is going to be in the tens of thousands here.
German-language transcript of the interview where Prof. Drosten elaborates on his assessment regarding the effectiveness of chloroquine:

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript134.pdf
Some parts of real life are non-negotiable. There will certainly be changes we can and should tolerate. But rules which forbid me from hosting a small dinner party, shopping for non-essentials, or driving down to give my mom a hug are below the minimum requirements of a healthy life and can’t be fully mitigated.
"x" in ".docx" is for XML by the way.
Yes, in the Z80 BC was a sort of counter register (e.g. for LDIR or DJNZ instructions), which is perhaps why BC became CX. In the 8080 there wasn't much difference between BC and DE.

The interesting part is that BX maps to HL, which explains the weird order AX/CX/DX/BX in the encoding of 8086 instructions.
See the last item in https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/...

Tldr: I've open-sourced several components of PhotoStructure already, and will open-source everything else if the company ceases doing business.
I predict that the market will see a handful of the largest single day point increases within the next six to ten months.

Just a prognostication on my part, it's worth exactly what you paid for it.
It is really something to have people confuse libertarianism with Donald Trump
Actually, this can happen also by accident during hip joint replacement surgery many older people take these days. The chance is not very high, but it sucks, as you then have one leg slightly longer, causing all manner of problems. Reportedly people then have to use special shooes but it still sucks.
You want to have examples for assertions?

Consistency between arguments: memcpy "The memory areas must not overlap."

Dependency of return value on arguments: max returns one of its arguments. r = max(x,y); assert (r == x || r == y);

Effect on global state: printf might change the global errno variable.
I'm not sure I (fully) agree with your example of education.

In education the scratchable "itch" is felt by educators and parents in their offering of a service (education ). The extent to which we as a society expend resources providing tools/resources for educators and allowing them to build/purchase solutions demonstrates the extent of (or lack of) our societal valuation of education. The itch in this is scratched by the service providers, not the consumers.
You're onto something there. These imbalances (rather, deviation from the average in terms of various regulatory pathways) are absolutely key to differences not only in personality but perspective, cognitive abilities, and as you mention propensity to use psychoactive substances. I've been thinking something similar for a while now, that most people with addictions to psychoactive are likely attempting to correct for something.

Not to mention, most of the illegal compounds have pharmacological activity that would be nearly impossible to get from a prescription for most people.
Blame the 16th Amendment.
OneNote on my Surface Pro is about the best thing I've found, and yet it still has major flaws (this is without even getting into how bad its pdf import is). Capacitive touch + active-digitizer stylus can solve a lot of the problems with ebooks (and indeed does, particularly as far as annotation is concerned), but the software is still severely lacking.

The main UX challenge that I haven't found anything has really solved yet is the ability to show 2 or more pages at once (and do so in a way that's simple & intuitive). Also related is some way to mimic the ability to, with a textbook, stick a pen or finger in between two pages as a "temporary bookmark", to make it easy to flip back & forth.

Now that the hardware has caught up to where it needs to be, I think e-textbooks have the potential to get a lot better as software improves. I don't think the physical book will ever die, but I do suspect that ebooks will be much more prevalent in 10 years than they are now, when the software has finally solved UX challenges like these.
For what it's worth, I found the "bad" example in addict's documentation[1] to be better than the "good" one. It's explicit about the structure of the data.

Also, I found the name and the tagline to be distasteful.

[1] https://github.com/mewwts/addict#addict---the-python-dict-th...
Write some client code for how you want to use the API and then elaborate those examples by making references to the spec. This might seem backwards to you but you'll discover all sorts of edge cases and awkwardness in the process that you wouldn't have discovered by just writing the spec.

You don't need any special tools to do that although apiary comes to mind as something worthwhile.
Tim Hunkin's work is unmistakable. After all of these years, The Secret Life of Machines is still some of my favorite television ever. Glad to see he is still at it.
If the EU taxed metal mining, would EU car manufacturers be able to import from abroad and to save money? Or would there be an import tariff on foreign metal too?

Would the money be rebated if the cars were exported, so they were competitive with cars from other countries, or would cars manufactured in the EU be more expensive than cars manufactured in other countries?
Huh down voted!
I told my view "Real Hackers i know, I admire in India, just code". they don't or won't spend in such community not even high profiled foss.in. That's the truth."

Any way its just a number on site, keep 'em coming ;-)
If you're a runner - Running Brave, Saint Ralph, Spirit of the Marathon.