skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many PhDs do mind-numbingly boring work, even if it's original research

There's a second trade-off here too.

PhD/Postdocs do stuff that's mind-numbingly boring at a "micro" level (e.g., actually performing most experiments), but really exciting at a macro level (e.g., figuring out how the brain--or the Sun--works). In industry, there's often the opposite opportunity: exciting day-to-day work for uninteresting goals, like using state-of-the-art machine learning (fun!) to figure out whether a webpage should show a Papa John's or Pizza Hut ad (meh).
A couple of zingers, for sure, but not exactly sanctions for a serious breach of professional conduct.
No, I think its exactly right. The war would have ended eventually, somehow, and its doubtful that the change to how it would have wrought by the German use of the A-bomb would have a good one.
I like how you fairly characterized (and seem to be on board with) the endgame of progressive politics while completely and utterly mischaracterizing the majority of the people involved, and strongly implied there exists, but never proving the existence of, a high level conspiracy to create an inclusive culture.
Try other ad networks. Or contact sellers of tax software and make a direct deal with them (e.g. they pay you per click).

I'm surprised your sites got rejected, I have a few that run on publicly available data.
If you're taking the time to create a .ignore file and set up personally-relevant regexps, I doubt you'll forget. (You'll probably also have it versioned.)

What I like about '.ignore' is that it's not tied to grep (which will never use it) but expresses that the concept is agnostic. You can imagine lots of programs supporting it.
That's the difference between utter destruction of the enemy vs an unconditional surrender with conditions.

The US was put in a shitty position by the opportunistic Soviet intervention. So we ended up with a curbed emperor, an American who fancied himself an emperor, and whitewash.

Remember that the Republic of China was still a thing, and the political implications of taking a relative soft approach to Japanese atrocities in China would have pretty severe blowback.
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Actually, Hiroshima had a bomb assembly plant. So you call them civilians, I call them military production.
You raise good points, thank you. I hope to support some of those features, since they seem like nice conveniences.

In principle I'd be fine standardizing on a common ignore file. We'd need to come up with a format (I think I'd vote for "do what gitignore does", since I think that's what we're both doing now anyway).

Adding files to this list is kind of a bummer though. I could probably get away with replacing `.rgignore` proper, but I suspect you'd need to add it without replacing `.agignore`, or else those angry users you were talking about might show themselves. :-)

I do kind of like `.grepignore` since `grep` has kind of elevated itself to "search tool" as a term, but I can see how that would be confusing. `.searchignore` feels too long. `.ignore` and `.ignorerc` feel a bit too generic, but either seems like the frontrunner at the moment.
I agree with that observation. I used to think that the different thickness in atmosphere had some some sort of lens or refracting effect, but that is clearly not the case.

I was thinking more along the lines of the smoke/dust/haze looking across our atmosphere may actually bias our visual cues and sense of perception, much like the absence of atmosphere did to the astronauts.
Otto Hahn is well known for his opposition to Nazism and to nuclear weapons.
At this point the only potential I see for a viable alternative to Windows and Mac on the desktop is ChromeOS/Android, and that's still not quite where it needs to be yet.
Very impressive! It reminds me of this image generation and editing work via Generative Adversarial Networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4z6YsBGQ0 (https://github.com/junyanz/iGAN) posted before. Seems lots of efforts in this direction.
CA DMV Reports of Traffic Accidents Involving Autonomous Vehicles
> I'm having trouble finding the source code, am I the only one?

https://github.com/osmihelp
V8 Commit: Ship async functions
I think the i3 is one of the coolest looking small cars around. It is distinctive, and the designers clearly made a choice to go for a design that would get noticed. I do think it looks better in all-black, rather than the two-tone colors.

It's easily one of the most popular EVs here in the UK (along with the Tesla, Renault Zoe, and Nissan Leaf). Very nice to drive with a stylish, comfortable, minimalist, premium-quality interior. BMW's software does let it down, though - at least when compared to a Tesla.

But still, i'd argue if you want an EV and can't afford a Tesla, it's the best option available right now (at least until the Bolt is released).
I'm in my 50's, and it was a common expression when I was a growing up.
I recall Hunter blew my mind on the Amiga back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%28video_game%29
I like this from a class equality standpoint. Downside is it removes market incentives to living closer to your work which is a key facet of sustainable living. Maybe less of an issue in Europe where efficiency per transit mile is generally higher than the U.S.?
If you're selecting projects based on the gender/race of the owner instead of the merits of the project and the team's skills / compatibility, you're going to lose in long term.
The civilian death toll just in ETO Belgium is higher than that of Nagasaki. War is fucked up.
Agreed. It is in victory where honor matters most. In naval circles there is a principal that a ship be sunk, not punished. (Shots not below the waterline meant to kill the crew rather than sink the ship and allow the crew to abandon.) Some say Bismark was punished. Walling off Japan and bombing it conventionally would have been punishment. Once the enemy is down, the victor has a duty to construct an endgame.

But imho the bombs are still overplayed as war-enders. I think the prospect of invasion and occupation by Russian forces had at least as much of an impact on the decision.
They would have done the same thing to us. We just beat them to it. Despite all the other moralizing, I'm 100% sure of that fact.

Hard to get angry that someone isn't playing fair when you would have done the same.
How many people were prematurely dying every month in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere after we took back the Philippines? The latest, best estimate I've seen, in the excellent book Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 (https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Operation-Downfall-1945-1947...) was 400,000, up from the 250,000 I'd picked up somewhere I can't remember.

It had many interesting revelations, including the single thing which had a higher priority than the Manhattan Project: the building of a super-Mullberry for Operation Coronet, the invasion of the Kanto Plain on main island of Honshu, where Tokyo and much else was located.

And if you study the endgame on the Japanese side, it's really not likely nukes in Tokyo harbor to scare the shit out of the population would have worked, for one thing, they had no say in the running of the country. There also wasn't generally clean separations between military installations and civilian areas, especially since Japan is so crowded.

No, one of the clear factors was their leadership realizing we'd advanced to the point where a single plane could destroy a city, instead of requiring near Maximum Efforts with hundreds of them.

And of course, the bottom line is that these bombings worked. All else is speculation.
Yep, i get the same thing more and more often these days...
Source for the facts, confirmation of a suspect with a gun who isn't not cooperating?
> and that blanket prohibition made me miss out on being employee #2 at DropBox (along with 10 or so other startups that went nowhere).

That seems to have worked out ok, though, if you only had a 1/11ish chance of jumping on a startup being the right decision at that time, anyway. It doesn't dissuade me from the "options are most likely worthless, and akin to a lottery" viewpoint.

However...

> I think that your goal, when you're a 20-something with few connections and little savings, should be to gain experience as quickly as possible.

This is good advice, and I'm no longer in the 20-something bucket myself, but the trap I see friends among that group falling into these days is jumping from the "akin to a lottery" thing into a "I'm going to gather as many tickets as possible" job-hop-every-year strategy.

The downside is they aren't gaining much useful experience, and their "connections" are mainly just to an insular group of VC-funded founders and other inexperienced engineers. Being the most experienced engineer (with 2 years of experience before joining) at a company of 20 people with all the other engineers being straight out of school isn't particularly useful experience. You can make it work, but it's much harder - nobody to learn from, no mentor, etc. And if the projects you're working on are just basic social or game apps over and over, your experience isn't very deep.

So if that tight-knit pool dries up... what are you bringing to the table when you're looking for a job at somewhere a bit larger and more stable?
I've read other theories on the astronauts dilemma. One train of thought focuses on the curvature of the horizon. It was theorised that the moon (being smaller than earth) had a more pronounced horizon curve, which lead to the miscalculation of distant objects for the astronauts.

I am wondering if similarly, the very imperceptible curvature of the Earth's horizon can also affect the perception of size depending on how close an object is to said horizon. If so, it means that peripheral vision may provide the brain with more cues than we realise.
Thank you for the well wishes!
Not sure I'll have enough traffic to appeal to advertisers. I'll check out some alternatives to Adsense. Thanks.
Maximizing the log of X is the same as maximizing X.
> Such tirades are a necessary correction to the insanity that "social justice" has become. Once the influence of these so -called warriors declines then hopefully the discourse will settle down.

Well put. I think the only thing that will curb their ambitions to become the thought/speech/culture dictators of the world will to use all of their own tactics against them, in spades. They might not be so eager to destroy the lives and careers of others if it incurs the risk of having their own lives and careers destroyed.
The Soviet invasion was not "opportunistic" at all, if you mean by that eating a meal someone else has prepared. The USSR had a far bigger role in defeating Nazism than the Allies sans Soviets.
Wait, are you getting the idea that the Pepe meme's current usage is astroturf? Because the Pepe meme's current usage is not astroturf. Palmer Luckey is jumping on a bandwagon here, not creating one.
How can a public corporation keep those two numbers secret? Those are basic cost and revenue numbers that should be disclosed in their annual financial statements. The fact that it's legal to keep those numbers secret means there's something very wrong with how we do financial disclosure in America.
The warranty on your EVO is just 150 TBW.

Yes, but endurance tests almost invariably show that the warranty ratings are extremely conservative. The 1TB 850 PRO (which uses exactly the same NAND chips as the 850 EVO, just a different controller) has been endurance tested to more than 7 Petabytes. See: http://packet.company/blog/

The older generations typically had better endurance, the newer generations are more dense (cheaper to produce) but less durable.

That was true when comparing MLC flash to TLC. But the 850 EVO and PRO use 3D V-NAND, which has significantly more endurance than previous-generation TLC. This seems to be confirmed by endurance tests.

your SSD should be OK for your for at least next 11 years

The warranty runs out after 5 years, anyway. But that does not mean it will suddenly stop working on that date!
Yahoo could pay for breach negligence in lower-priced Verizon deal
I'd rather know how to turn them off.
Yes. Ill take less Army please. (Lets also include less military gear for police)

Khan Academy for elementary/high school better than 90% of teachers/schools we overpay for.
> I'm sure five years from now, when I've moved on to other problems, someone will come along and beat ripgrep, and I can only hope that they write about it. :-)

I contend that the world would be a much better place if instead of someone building a new tool which beats yours, they worked to improve your tool (which, at the point where you moved on, would hopefully have been granted to a body of separate maintainers, whether people you find or a group such as Apache which specializes in maintaining valuable open source projects). Sure: a world where people write about what they do is better than a world where they don't, but that's a really depressing thing to be "hoping for".

I am apparently becoming extremely unpopular in these circles for expressing this opinion, but a really important aspect of open source was about people collaborating towards a common effort to build high quality software: to avoid working together, to even expect that people will or should continually build new projects from scratch that "compete" with each other, defeats many (if not even most) of the benefits of open source software, as it relegates us to the same process by which closed source software improves.

> But I didn't want to do that. I don't understand why that's a problem. Doing this requires being POSIX interface compatible, and that's not a hole I care to dig. I don't mean any disrespect, it's just not what I want to spend my time doing.

Providing some of the parts, or an offer to help, goes a long way: you don't have to do all of the work (and others wouldn't expect that); also, it is worth noting that GNU grep has on occasion added alternative backends (whether "extended" expressions or later using PCRE), and often have made improvements or added features. The assumption that grep is a tool which works the way it does and which will always do what it does, and that improvements should come in the form of competition, is demotivating to contribution.
Piling on the nitpick train :) If an error occurs along the way popd won't run, so a subshell might be a better way to accomplish the same thing:

(
for ...; do
cd ...
done
)
# script exits, you're back where you started

If you'd prefer to see it in isolation: pwd; ( cd /tmp; pwd ); pwd
You'll notice that humor is not generally well received on HN. That's because most of these accounts are bots I wrote 10 years ago before I had an algorithm that could interpret jokes.
That's the best you've got?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPyZNxnRK-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZBDTHy1o4 "Hey, we forgot to make them promise to give us half the oil"

Do I need to even bring up the videos of Trump essentially saying we should plunder Iraq and Syria for oil? It's not even thinly veiled imperialism, Trump literally says "We should go in and TAKE the oil".

Do you understand that part of "Make America Great Again" is a return to former empire glory? It's stone cold patriotic nationalism, the same forces at work in Russia supporting Putin, with ideas of returns to former glory.

Trump wants more than Waterboarding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FXMJ46pVA

Trump wants to assassinate people's families: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRoLRJCW3js

Trump's AIPAC speech far exceeded the pandering by Hillary and other politicians.

I could go on and on. We know the kind of politician Hillary is, we see it every 4 years. Pandering to AIPAC, defending the existing foreign entanglements, acting tough so as not to be seen "weak on national security".

Do you understand that there's a difference between that, and a man literally saying he wants to make torture legal, and to assassinate families, to plunder foreign resources via military conquest? Why don't you take this man at his word?

Are you Russian and just pro-Trump because you think he'll be nice to Russian interests?
The most broken part of your user experience is email
Willing to expend effort to improve one's condition, essentially.

It's true - I can't rule out that the poor aren't sitting at home praying for a job while taking no action to find one.

But what I've presented is strong evidence that the poor are not hard working.

Suppose your prior is P(!hardworking) = A, P(working) = B, P(looking for work) = C, P(hard work in non-labor force activities) = D. Of course, A + B + C + D must add up to 1.

I've just shown B and C to be false. So P(!hardworking|evidence I've presented) = A / (A + D) > A. Feel free to tweak this and try a more complicated model, I don't think you'll get a different result.

What evidence - if any - would cause you to acknowledge that the poor actually aren't hardworking?

(because, e.g., they have children to take care of, childcare isn't free, and the jobs they could reasonably secure wouldn't provide a net gain before considering child care that's enough to pay for childcare.)

Strangely, poor Indians have solved this problem. One poor person looks after multiple children while the others work. But poor Indians, unlike poor Americans, are actually hard working.
They got to keep their emperor. For all I know, higher powers in Japan at that time would have preferred that to an alternate universe with no nukes and the emperor getting executed.

Of course, those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki might feel differently, but when do we ever ask for people's feelings?
How to meditate
I agree completely. I will be selecting based on merit, it's just that this will only be open to that group of people.
One key role of the "forward deployed engineers" is a political one. Once you've let them tie up all your data into their platform, you're already pouring some insane amounts of money into this. Now, whatever the results, you certainly don't want to "start again with another promising solution". That's one of the reasons Palantir makes so much money out of their business.
This is quite related to the discussion on the Farm Hall accounts. Politics vs. science.

In his speech Snow suggested that western societies typically had ruling classes composed principally of humanities graduates who were effectively ill-equipped to appreciate what science had to offer. Snow identified three key menaces arising from the existence of nuclear weapons, over-population, and the gap between rich and poor nations as pressing instances of where "literary intellectuals" who in Snow's view were "natural luddites" failed to see that solutions might come from "natural scientists" who, again in Snow's view, held "the future in their bones"
Indonesian sesame seed futures? :-P
Since Palantir's revenue is secret, and we may not actually end up seeing all obligated dollars, it's very hard to make a general comparison.
So not on merit. That's like saying "I will create The Olympics for black people only to fight racism".
There already is a 10 years old bug about the issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650
Did you check prior to the multiple years of work on the exit scanner? Just lurking on tor-relays and tor-talk shows a lot of responsiveness on the part of the dirauths.
I just hit the aforementioned "Request desktop site", which works fine as well.
Apparently what was shocking with nuking "TWO cities" was that it was _just_ two bombs and not more.

They were bombed 3 days apart.

Nagasaki was unfortunate. It was suppose to be Kokura. But the weather was shit, so they picked 2nd best from the list - Nagasaki.
It was, and in many ways still is, remarkable that Japan and the US have managed to get along so well when you consider those desperate starting points. In the end, I think it's fair to say that the choices made in regards to holding some individuals accountable for their crimes at the expense of the broader reconstruction effort was the right one. Not easy to make at the time though, I would imagine.
I have to ask the question... Why is China so goddamn rich and how did Hong Kong became so insignificant compared to mainland?

What happened in the mainland exactly in the last 10, 15 years?

Sorry if it's a naive comment
Interesting question. With code I don't unless it's 'complex' and I'm trying to work something out and I just realised I don't with music either, but I definitely wouldn't consider myself a speed reader either.
I'm noob, what's level 2??
Why claim GNU grep would get "extreme, undue" amounts of respect? Should not all collaborative projects be afforded some basic level of respect? What is the underlying meaning of entering a collaborative software development community (the world of open source) and feeling, as you do, that it would be an "extreme, undue" level of respect to not purposefully attack (as to explicitly reference your "even if they did") the work of other people who are just trying to do good and would likely love to work together with you on a shared goal?
This analogy fails when you consider the complexities in securing a sprawling IT architecture for a massive corporation compared to putting a lock on a door.

Companies like Yahoo did try to secure themselves. They were just really bad at it.
The firebombing of Tokyo itself did much worse. The projected losses were so insanely higher for ALL sides it's just stupid to act as though the bombings were not the best options available. I consume every bit of WWII history I can get my hands on, but your suggestion is nothing but revisionist. Please stop spreading this insane notion.
He just stated that he will be selecting based on merit. Other requirements will not necessarily negate that.
> Strangely, poor Indians have solved this problem. One poor person looks after multiple children while the others work

If done outside of the formal economy, that would produce, ceteris paribus, lower labor-force participation among the poor, which is, surprise-surprise, exactly the result you said indicated that American poor are not hard working.

So, thank you for illustrating one of the reasons your "evidence" doesn't justify the conclusion you've drawn from it.
So you're relying on the implicit write barrier many filesystems supply that ensures that the contents of a file hit the disk before a renaming of that file does. That's adequate, but I'd personally checksum the file instead of relying on corruption causing JSON to become structurally invalid.
I really enjoyed Be back in the day and made an attempt to use it as my primary operating system. Two months later, my internet provider stopped giving me leases for it. I put it behind a router that would give the BeOS computer a lease. When I cloned the MAC of the computer it refused to give me an address. I got so curious I put another NIC in and tried without the router. Soon thereafter it was also banned. The ISP was banning my NIC if I was running Be. To this day I have no idea what happened. It was also interesting to note that the router's MAC was not banned when a computer running Be was behind it.
I disagree. Its a huge pool of people, it would be like if Y combinator said we're only taking women. There is a shit ton of women who would apply and get in on merit within that group. I think it would still be a normal distribution of awful ideas, amazing ideas, and that scary part in the middle.
I didn't say this was fighting bigotry, I said it's acceptable to refuse to do business with bigots and to call them out.

> Democracy works when anyone can express their political voice without suffering for it.

I wouldn't advocate for violence or oppression of political beliefs. It's entirely valid to refuse to remain idle in the face of bigotry. If someone opens a shop up and puts up a sign that says "No gays" then I consider it entirely reasonable for a bunch of gay men to stand outside protesting, organize a boycott, etc...