skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept is valuable because it identifies a predator species that kills the intellectual curiosity HN exists for. This is independent of the content of the rant. If an army tramples your garden, it doesn't matter whether they led with their left feet or right, or what color the uniforms were.

You're thinking about this in terms of specific comments and political views, while for us it is a systemic problem of how to run a large, anonymous internet forum that doesn't self-destruct. These are two different perspectives. That gap is why people make the mistake of feeling certain that we're secretly biased in favor of $X, where $X has nothing to do with us but is rather the inversion of their own ideological side. All sides think this, leading to many contradictory-yet-somehow-all-the-same charges of manipulation. I presume it is the same cognitive bias that makes sports fans 'know' that the refs are secretly against their team.

Often people throw in seemingly factual statements like you did here: "because they agree with the increasingly rather odd Silicon Valley...". A statement like that is simply invented. You don't know it; you can't know it; nor can you point to any statement showing it. It just feels like it's true. Meanwhile opposite people say opposite things, feeling just the same way that you do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098840 is typical.

There's an incongruence between saying that HN is filled with quality discussion ("hardly any genuine spam or trolling") and that the mods are biased censors (Soviet-style! adds your sibling commenter) stamping out good discussion. That would hardly be quality-enhancing behavior. The assumption that if only we would stop doing what we do, HN would get better, is magical thinking. If HN is any good, how did it get good to begin with? How could it stay any good, if the moderators are so repellent?

Re dead comments, there are lots of reasons why that happens. Sometimes it's software that we've written based on past patterns of abuse; sometimes it's user flags, etc. These methods are indispensable but imperfect, which is why we created the 'vouch' feature for community members to rescue dead comments that shouldn't be dead. Anyone with karma > 30 can click a comment's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch'. This way, instead of interpreting it as censorship and complaining about the refs, you and your fellow community members can simply reverse it. How Soviet is that!
> 2017 was a pustule of a year, politically and personally; the general anxiety around the degradation of American democracy made it hard to get much done.

If you're the type of person to make excuses for your lack of personal achievement due to the Twitter ramblings of politicians, then I have news for you: you're never going to be successful.
There is no such thing as self help. It's what you do, outside information can only be a guide. And the only way to truly change is to put yourself in a new situation with responsibilities, and allowing yourself to fail till you get it right.

Also the only difference between an extrovert and introvert is when they empathize with themselves. And the problem with the "introverted approach," is you are thinking about who you think you are versus through the eyes of those around you. None of you will ever have all the infromation as to who you are. Instead shift your focus on how to help move the conversation between people subjects and shared experiences, instead of question response, etc... Hard to do that when your concerned about your internals mind, when that is only a vapid simulation of who you think you are.
> which seem driven by devs eager to create portfolios on Github.

Is this supported by any facts? It seems like a hand-wavey hasty generalization.
> But I hate MS and they've stolen thousands from me over the years.

I thought it was a cool story and a neat hack. I passed no ethical judgement. Until you went off the deep end with that fantasy-land justification.

MS didn't steal from you. You exchanged money for a product that, even if it was "complete crap", was the product that you desired more than others available in the market at the time of purchase.

It's not difficult to come up with a justification that passes a sniff test of conforming with reality: "I felt no ethical hesitation about this. MS shipped poor code for years. Most of the time the failures of that code most impacted their customers, I just found a case where it impacted them."
Chinese is hard to transliterate to English, because there's no nice way to express the tone, and even with tones, there's a number of homophones. To express a precise meaning, you either use hanji, or proper English words.

Other languages, like Russian or Japanese, can be transliterated pretty unequivocally, so transliterated identifiers are often found in source code, especially in business-related identifiers where a precise translation may not even exist.
IMHO, the problem with the device model is that it imposes a bunch of unnecessary overhead on the programmer for cases where memory is shared and you're running on the same processor.

If I just want to call a function, pass some parameters, have it do some work, and get a result, things like OpenCL require all sorts of annoying boilerplate just to pass parameter values, map buffers, copy results out, etc. Sure it's all straightforward to write, but it's friction, and it's annoying.

Regarding clGetProgramInfo: does that return actual native executable code or IR? (I assume it's free to do either but in practice returns the latter, and that there's the usual "final driver compiler" between that code and what runs on the hardware, but I don't know.) An issue with that is that you can't be sure of what will run on users' systems; you're at the mercy of the version of the driver they've got installed.
Sure, some cryptocurrencies (which may or may not include Bitcoin) will probably have some long-term stable valuation (which may or may not be above their current market value). That doesn't imply that what we're seeing now isn't a bubble, and it's not going to provide much comfort to someone who loses their savings investing in a "sure thing".
Always relevant to this kind of thing are the "falsehoods programmers believe about X" lists: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
It seems like this is less of an impact than many crops. Traditionally, grow operations have flourished in places like British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and the "Emerald Triangle" of coastal/wooded Northern California. I have no particular knowledge about how the plants grow, but I assume this means they grow well in those climates (not that they're merely more tolerated in those locales).

Therefore, an outdoor grow operation could probably done with minimal irrigation and no real impact on drinking water supplies.
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Thanks for making me feel special! Now seriously: Did I say something like this? I just have another situation which is kind of close to the one in the post.
I was in your shoes until a couple of years ago. About four years ago, I got out of an eight year relationship where I was promised a marriage and family that never materialized. Being middle-aged, it now seemed like a daunting task, and I quickly sunk into my first ever depression without even realizing it (in fact, I wasn't even a true believer until I was).

Once I did realize it, I took myself straight to a counselor for talk therapy. He diagnosed me with depression and depression related anxiety, and referred me to a psych for meds. I've been on wellbutrin for a couple of years now, and while I still struggle with depression every day, it's less and less, instead of the more and more you feel right now. I'm getting out of the house a bit more, and I'm just now starting to date again, but I don't believe I could have done any of that on my own.

Point is, start by talking to someone. That's all it took to set me on the right path, and hopefully you'll be so lucky. Just be patient, as it can be a long process (most of which is up to you). Sometimes it's a chemical imbalance that you just cannot overcome by yourself no matter how hard you try.

Best of luck!
Almonds have to be grown in warm areas. Cannabis doesn't.
Musk and others dispute that notorious Silicon Valley gathering was a sex party
What's really fantastic, though, is that cryptocurrencies are currently in a large bubble themselves. Privacy of the exchanges is no better as you literally have to send them a picture of your ID. And several exchanges have been hacked with the money stolen. So far, I'd say cryptocurrencies (for the average joe/jane) are WORSE than regular banks. And, on the last point about micropayments, well Bitcoin now has such massive transaction fees and massive overhead that micropayments are even more impossible (without adding more layers).

The ideological/theoretical purity of cryptocurrencies is completely negated by using exchanges and by the perverse incentives of proof of work leading to enormous returns to scale for those who have developed custom ASICs.

Decentralization requires more effort than centralization, but something that requires effort doesn't generally grow very fast... And so we've centralized cryptocurrencies in a haphazard way, making them a lot easier for people to use--thus enabling cryptocurrencies to grow very fast--but also negating all the theoretical benefits.

Something useful will eventually come out of the current mess (and there are various initiatives that help address many of these flaws), but probably not before the Zeitgeist becomes disillusioned with cryptocurrencies.
Or design devices with P2P in mind. The devices with a network connection forward on data received from peers.
Just like those spots showing a car that drives through some interesting scenery, without any info, it's probably for those people who already bought one.
See also: http://rust-class.org/

(Note though that this uses Rust as it was in 2014.)
I was about 18. My dad was annoyed and got her to “apologize” which I think was unfair: she lives her kids and wants the best for them, hence gave important advice.

I had no choice in the matter of being born so I don’t feel bad about getting this advice.
Fair enough, I definitely agree with everything you're saying. I took a little issue with the statement that "good programmers" know how to properly write safe C good though, as it not only is unnecessarily condescending but also glosses over the fact that even good programmers write code with bugs, and "knowing how" to do something properly doesn't mean you'll do it properly 100% of the time.
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I will venture ahead and point out that 162MHz is within (or close to?) the Marine VHF band.

Guessing that historically the need for weather broadcasts was from marine navigation it would make sense that the weather forecast have stayed on these frequencies.
I suspect, like many human things, it's an underlying biological drive interpreted by our lawyer-as-narrator, the consciousness. I'm thinking of the "elephant and the rider" metaphor -- the elephant has drives for sex and care of young, the rider on the top rationalizes it.

The elephant turns left and goes into a river. After they're headed for the river, the rider thinks, "I'm hot, I should go to the river."
And that's how we end up with 20 billion people who aren't intelligent and contentiousness enough to responsibly reproduce.
It's been a long time since short rates were set by market forces. And the financial system wasn't particularly stable then either.
It is an actual branch - just because it has a special instruction is an implementation detail. In computer science there is no difference between throwing an error and skipping the rest of the instructions in the stack.

If you wrote a vm with a cpu simulation you would implement it as a branch.
> Deflation is a serious threat, as it pushed people to hold onto their currency (as the real value automatically rises) instead of spending or investing it.

Why would people not invest (or spend for that matter)?

It's not like people wouldn't take deflation into account the same way they do with inflation today. If you loan out a dollar today and at the end of the loan its worth $1.03 then you simply adjust the interest rate to reflect this difference. Not like its some complicated formula that starts off with "thar be dragons."

Same can also be said about spending. As a contemporary example why would anyone buy a computer today when they know that in the near future they can get a better model for less? The whole computer industry thrives in a price deflationary sector of the economy.

Whenever someone is trying to push one economic theory over another the key question you need to ask is cui bono.
Wow! Right-to-left languages don't just have to alter the glyphs, they also face the questions of different indentation, different argument order (does `a->b` still express the same meaning?), etc.
ZIP Codes are not geographical entities and don't correspond to geographical extent; rather, they are a hybrid between a discrete number of finite delivery-points and an abstract way of capturing a postal delivery route. They are often abused as geographical entities, which the Census Bureau has tried to rectify with ZCTAs [1], but it's unclear whether most informal use of Zip Codes is haphazard, or actually conforms to ZCTAs.

However, Zip Codes directly map to one preferred place name designated by the USPS, and zero or more acceptable alternative place names. These are usually inspired by, but don't necessarily correspond to municipalities and political units that the lots in question belong under.

You're more than likely talking about Zip Code 94608, of whose preferred name is 'Emeryville', but 'Oakland' is an acceptable name [2]. There is a lot of software that takes the shortcut and autofills or autocorrects the preferred name, especially because informal lists of Zip Codes seem to be easier and/or cheaper to get a hold of than through official sources at the USPS [3].

Perhaps a nationally-known example is the Las Vegas Strip, most of whose famous casino-hotels are located in the unincorporated town and CDP of Paradise, but covered by two Zip Codes that only accept Las Vegas as the name.

In rural areas with weak local government, people develop an affinity for the preferred place name of their address' Zip Code, because it's a standardized way of referring to the locale where more specific names are not widely known.

[1] https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/zctas.html [2] https://california.hometownlocator.com/zip-codes/data,zipcod... [3] https://www.usps.com/nationalpremieraccounts/manageprocessan...
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Why was this article taken down by HuffPo?
No. There are also vaccines for bacterial infections.

The most famous is the anti Tuberculosis vaccine / BCG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis_vaccines but I think it's usually not applied in USA.

Another one is DPT that is a combination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine
Yeah, with the caveat that Rust in 2014 was a very different language; we had a runtime back then!

http://rust-class.org/0/pages/final-survey.html was very instructive to read at the time.
It's multi-faceted. Part of the desire to have kids is simply the desire to have children around. It's the idea that a community without children is incomplete. Children have many bad characteristics but they also have qualities that most adults have lost.

Children are enthusiastic, sincere, unjaded and open to new experiences. They find joy and fascination in the ordinary things which adults have long lost interest in. Where adults obsess over profit and loss, a child will play with a pile of dirt and a shovel all afternoon. The world needs profits but it also needs the continuous renewal and reminder of wonder that children provide.

Another aspect is more abstract, maybe? When I was a child I was loved and I always had adults around who looked after me and caught me when I made mistakes and made everything right. My parents weren't perfect and made many mistakes themselves but as a child I really believed that the world was as it should be and if there was a problem someone would make it right. Of course as an adult I know that isn't the case but the consequence of that environment is a potency that has always been a part of me.

I think that relationship between child and parent is something that needs to exist in the world and the best way to ensure that is to take on the role of the parent.

Another way to see it is that I owe my parents a debt so great I cannot possible repay it, no matter what I do for them. My only chance of relief is to take that debt and "burden" another generation.
And let's not forget their grand incompetence as well. At&t and comcast spend huge amounts on wasted advertisement. I get ads for At&T all the time. I hate them so much, I repeat click on their ads just to waste more of their marketing dollars. Obliviously, they keep sending me the same ads.
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Less of that three digit cable bill goes to the company than you might expect. Content providers don't give it away for free. ESPN is notorious for eating a huge % of the bill.
But also those large bodies provide a certain amount of safety when transferring money, so you can see where it went or if a transfer got lost. That's not true with crypto always, people are on their own. There are endless stories of big banks screwing customers over, often because of uncaring bureaucracy, but I do believe a giant bank will set things right, even if I had to complain - I've never had a problem really, but I have heard of people who do, and don't forget Wells Fargo.
Well, some people won't take it seriously unless there's a big brand name attached to the report.
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Meanwhile, duolingo still doesn't support Taglog, much to my annoyance–since my wife is half-Filipino but doesn't know it–and we thought it'd be a fun challenge to learn it together.
I find it surprising that Spotify isn't pursuing its own label. Netflix proves that if your biggest risk factor is other's companies content, you have to move to host your own content before the competition wisens up.
Even unlimited is bound by memory/storage with probably an LRU eviction scheme. So unless your stored data is hot, or their storage is very large, it might not stay around long.
Well, that's a bit not nice.

I took the "Rust is like C" line to mean is that you can use Rust anywhere you can use C, running at C speeds (the whole zero cost abstraction/no runtime/unsafe blocks), someone that can't be said about OCaml/F#/Haskell (TTBOMK).

EDIT

Moreover, if you look at context, you'll see that his point is that when it comes to OS design, a rust based OS will look mostly like a C based OS.
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Absolutely not what the article portrays. From my reading, it sounds like John's indiscretions, including stints in rehab for drug abuse, are tolerated (if not outright ignored) until he visits his parents to say he's getting a divorce. His parents then cut him off from the bulk of the family assets, but it sounds like his family is still in communication with him and tries to remain on good terms. Angry that his decision to indulge himself in a mid-life crisis and leave his wife and children cost him a lot of money, he is now filing a lawsuit claiming to be a victim.

I doubt John actually expects this lawsuit to go anywhere, as the article doesn't seem to discuss any actual legal claim. It's probably more just about airing dirty laundry if they won't let him back in the bank account. And to their credit, it appears the Marriotts are holding their ground.

As far as I'm concerned this article portrays 100% commendable behavior from the Marriott family (and religion is mentioned only in passing). If any of my children come and tell me that they're abandoning their spouse and children because they "fell in love with someone else", I hope that I can have similar resolve to cut off their access to anything substantial, because that is not OK, and a good parent will not pretend like it is.

Abandoning your family is not an acceptable course of conduct, no matter how many times you cry because your dad picked someone else to become CEO, which is literally the story here.
we taught our girl to nod "Yes". after that it became much easier. She was able to nod "Yes" when she was hungry. After you rule out hunger, there are only a couple more things to check before you typically fix the problem.
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> There's no shortage of humans on this planet, and by the time we're retired, automation will have advanced considerably.

To be honest, that's a very freeloader-like mindset: "I don't have to contribute to X because someone else will take care of it for me."
Sex and caring for young directly results in "being fruitful and multiplying".
Absolutely, and that's what is happening right now. I honestly don't have a solution for this problem... other than trying to make it as least appealing to these institutions are possible.
The NLP nerd in me loves this! I'm curious, though. Do you have an agenda? Where do you see this going?
Indeed. The submission's title should then be changed perhaps to "Bato - the Ruby programming language in Filipino/Tagalog," or perhaps "Bato - Ruby made Filipino/Tagalog."
It wasn't that nasty. Might just be because I have no sympathy for people saying things like they are fact, yet don't know what they are talking about.
I remember saying that to myself ...
You're technically right, but this seems an unnecessary criticism of a really minor infraction.

I would say that reading a comment that could almost be construed as dissuading learning might hurt someone's goals to a more significant degree than typing "it never hurts" very very slightly erroneously.
If you're ready for Christmas dinner at lunchtime there was something wrong with Christmas breakfast.
I have heard some people argue that "tea" refers only to things made using the plant Camellia sinensis (e.g. black tea, green tea, white tea) and everything else (e.g. rooibos) is a "tisane".
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You can’t escape that.
Nothing that is 30min long can be filled with substance if the talk is flashy enough to make you take note and look into the subject on your own it’s a good talk.
The only bad TED talks are those in which the subject matter behind them has no substance and there are quite a few pseudoscientific and other new age bullshit talks out there especially on TEDx but if you are looking for real substance 30min or even 60min talks for the general audience could never fill that.
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