skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our
ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that
there is one very real reason, namely, the natural poverty of our feeble
and mortal condition, so miserable that nothing can comfort us when we
think of it closely.

Whatever condition we picture to ourselves, if we muster all the good
things which it is possible to possess, royalty is the finest position
in the world. Yet, when we imagine a king attended with every pleasure
he can feel, if he be without diversion, and be left to consider and
reflect on what he is, this feeble happiness will not sustain him; he
will necessarily fall into forebodings of dangers, of revolutions which
may happen, and, finally, of death and inevitable disease; so that if he
be without what is called diversion, he is unhappy, and more unhappy
than the least of his subjects who plays and diverts himself.

Hence it comes that play and the society of women, war, and high posts,
are so sought after. Not that there is in fact any happiness in them, or
that men imagine true bliss to consist in money won at play, or in the
hare which they hunt; we would not take these as a gift. We do not seek
that easy and peaceful lot which permits us to think of our unhappy
condition, nor the dangers of war, nor the labour of office, but the
bustle which averts these thoughts of ours, and amuses us.

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that
the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure
of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest
source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly
to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures.

The king is surrounded by persons whose only thought is to divert the
king, and to prevent his thinking of self. For he is unhappy, king
though he be, if he think of himself.

This is all that men have been able to discover to make themselves
happy. And those who philosophise on the matter, and who think men
unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would
not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not
screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which
turns away our attention from these, does screen us."

Blaise Pascal, 1670
What’s wrong with computer modern?
What the fuck does it do?
It's definitely a convenient excuse if you just want to be lazy. I certainly can't imagine how any Nest developer could abuse my private data any worse than Google already does.

God forbid any third party should find out -- with my permission! -- what my thermostat was set to last Monday.
i am so happy to see leaf's work here on hn. he started itch.io! check out his other amazing projects at https://leafo.net.

he is one of my favorite programmers of all time and a great inspiration. his ability to start and actually deliver projects is what amazes me much. i saw the beginnings of itch.io, this very project, that lua spin-off, that custom nginx thingy. it's so amazing when you look at what these projects now. i mean when does one have time lol
So the cycling crowd knew they were better than carbohydrate gels (since they are cheaper) before?

Then why do carbohydrate gels exist if they knew the old method of potatoes was better?

I'd be careful quoting Tabeb I'm not sure he ever actually says anything.
>Rolling your own error library is trivial.

And right there is where you’re going to lose most people.

If it’s is trivial, why isn’t in the standard library? If everyone needs to do it, why not standardize? I love Go, but i have to agree with grandparent poster.
You can’t really bonk if you’re adapted to and in ketosis. Using only carbs for athletic performance is like having a hybrid car but disconnecting your gas tank.
Is that true? I saw a comment fairly recently mentioning that one just had to contact an admin to delete an account.
Sawfish, a window manager scriptable in Lisp
Are you trying to address anything I've said, or just ranting for another reason?
>That itself is dangerous. You're basically discouraging someone from offering advice to the general public because you think the knowledge is generally known, but that's just not the case.

And if you don't discourage it all discourse gets drowned out into a bunch of "hurr durr don't forget your jack stands" type virtue signaling (in the technical sense, not the politically loaded sense) about safety and you get Reddit. You can't please everyone.
Usually I watch a YouTube video or two about what a plumber probably needs to do so I don’t get totally ripped off.

If a business does not have any understanding of the competencies mentioned in parent, they are at a huge risk of being ripped off by outsiders.
Email hn@ycombinator.com for such requests.
Sadly yes.

There's a reason that e.g. Shelby Cobras are so rare. Very easy to spin out a short wheelbase car with a V8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra
What do you think of this solution? (1) Sign up for a month, (2) binge, (3) cancel.
Check out the lidar in New england, we have walls all over it, more walls than Ireland. Our walls are not protected and not attributed to ancient cultures.

Modern day people claim the settlers built them all. This is simply impossible. The walls of New England are ruins.
As the song says:

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here
In ML
Loops are very
Unnecessary
map will work just as well

But the function you pass to map or filter is called once for every sequence element, and reduce is nothing more than a foreach loop with explicit dataflow. So, although I agree that these are often better than a for loop, they are not the same thing as making the looping implicit.
>This is a 100HP motor, most cars with a 100HP motor are far from a 50/50 weight distribution.

Honda Prelude and similiar have ~100hp and pretty decent weight distribution.
A currency which you cannot easily exchange to other currencies has a quite limited utility.

And its not complying to AML rules will make it impossible for any legitimate organization to do such an exchange.

This is how 911 terrorists won: they produced enough terror and panic to temporarily overcome reason and make decisions that crippled Western world, and with it most other countries, for decades to come.
Plato: Pre-Trained Dialogue Generation Model with Discrete Latent Variable
It's easier for the upper class kids to pad their applications (and self-esteems) out with arts, sports, volunteering, and fundraising that a normal family couldn't afford.
> You need to have a problem with asymmetric upside to benefit from ML.

This is very insightful. I have a friend working on making audio searchable by transcription using ML. I immediately thought that was a good idea unlike many other ML ideas, and "asymmetric upside" is a good summary why.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but on iOS I have to double tap the links sometimes to get them to fire.
Wow, such a visionary in 2019.
Before clicking the link I already knew you were referring to Tom Brier :)
In my work life: Shove that shit down deep and keep going. I used to let my emotions ruin my consistency but I learned to ignore my emotions at work.

In my personal life: A combination of medication(light dose Adderall and depakote), exercise, and appropriate sleep. See a therapist weekly.

I'm diagnosed bipolar and spend almost all my time in depression.
exercise went from kind of works to OMG when i hit 30+ miles per week - suddenly running was easy, effortless and amazing natural high

obviously 9 miles per week is better than zero
TMT exists because of the delusion people have from thinking free will is a real thing. Once the illusion of having free will breaks, understanding of how death will come and just how every event happens in your life happens by fate. Although, I think my fear of death went away when thinking about infinity and how the universe can repeat the conditions that made this very life occur for eternity.
I'd love to hear what you think of KS-Sen race if you have been keeping up?
I found these articles incredibly helpful in learning to help myself. I have no idea if they are factually correct, but the writer's way of reframing depression as a process or system was a great way to get some distance from my personal feelings in the moment, and allowed me to bring to bear familiar mental tools to help get a feel for the complexity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050527074357/http://www.kuro5h...

https://web.archive.org/web/20050601015240/http://www.kuro5h...

The ASCII graphs on the 'stress system' are fantastic, the rest IDK. Caveat emptor.
> Verizon is making a bad play not gobbling up whats left.

they're the phone company, they don't have to care. The content companies will gobble their knobs now to be allowed access to the pipes they must have. They'll take what they're given and say "thank you."

I hope thats just cynicism and it isn't that way really. Look at how they behave.
That's not the point. The point is to have a second option for "engines you can drop into classic cars with nothing more than a credit card" (the first option being an LS).
Interestingly you bring checked exceptions, i used to dislike them at the past but in recent years i came to appreciate having a visible flow of execution (and as such i prefer the C approach of explicit returns - note that i haven't used Go at all, i'm just curious about it) which made me think that Java forcing you to acknowledge any exception that may pass through and actively make a decision about it (handle it or explicitly pass it through) is a good thing. Though it also made me dislike its decision for runtime exceptions since they essentially bypass the checking (on the other hand they'd somehow had to handle things like NullPointerException, otherwise everything would need to declare that it would throw it - though perhaps that is a side effect of Java having nullable pointers and a different language without nullable pointers wouldn't need that... but that'd only fix the NullPointerException case).
Hexo 4.0 Released
Oh, it's not just a semantic hangup. Most people who start reading about "music theory" are, I insist, hoping to understand what music is and how it works. What they get is instead a treatise on common-practice patterns from classical European through American-based jazz and pop music with only a smidgen of insights into the nature of music.

Even if you just stick within one of those traditions, the "theory" is more of a post-hoc attempt to explain (and in some cases dictate) the patterns found in music practice. Rarely are those post-hoc explanations subjected to any rigorous sort of critical thinking aside from the history of debates between different theorists postulating their own variations of post-hoc explanations.

Okay, even that is a bit unfair. But I think it does a disservice to students when these things are presented as "music theory" without qualification and context.
That's not the common view: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-wall...

Whether or not it's true, it's not at all impossible that the settlers built them all. Almost all of New England was deforested during the 1600s - 1800s. It has since reforested since the land was marginal to start with and was outcompeted by midwestern farms.

There were several hundred years for farmers to build stone walls out of annoying rocks; it doesn't have to be a mystery.
Bless your heart. The former.
Medicare for all is not a solution. The solution is make health insurance act like insurance. Health service provider needs to post their price like all services and products. They need to compete for our business.
Haha, I came here to same the same thing, only I was riding STP... uh... oh god I'm old.. 26 years ago.

Last time I rode, about 10 years ago, they were still going like hotcakes. They keep rotating out the sports drink of the year, but I swear: all a body needs for endurance cycling is water, boiled taters, and bananas.
Is this really true though? I have kaiser I think silver marketplace plan. While they did cover a good chunk of a semi-recent hospital cost (out of state emergency with no Kaiser in the state). I'm still getting new bills that Kaiser won't cover. But maybe I don't know enough to file complaint/forms to push back
Thanks, did a quick glance, looks great. Might be perfect for my needs.
WeWork Value Plunges to $8B
Isn't this just composition? Function A calls B, C, and D. You make a new function E that calls B, C and F. Or higher order functions like map?
Prius plastered in the kind of bumper stickers that would make a sociology professor blush?

Volvo wagon because your hobby farm is economically successful?

I can go on.
I looked at conversion long ago. It's an interesting thing to do, and if you underpower it and use a small battery, it can work.

But for less price, you can buy a used electric car that will be far better. More efficient, more range, more safety, etc, etc. So I just bought a used Volt (and now a used Leaf for our second car). I'm way happier than I would have been.

I'm hoping to upgrade to a used Tesla so I can take road trips pure electrically.
Ask HN: Looking for blogs/resources/people on making a living by filing patents?
Through their company or independently?
When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town
tentacle wars
While training for that, bonk was my second name. Nothing morbid, nothing human can't cope with.
I was not saying anyone can stand up from the bed and go long.

Yet all that carb horrors are lies.
How about SAM-e?
This article talks about 'can I get a...', but I also hear 'I'll have a...', which sounds extremely presumptuous and demanding to my British ears. Then there is 'I'll grab a...' which sounds almost violent! Why can't you pick things up gently - why do you need to grab at them?
I recently cut off from social media to try focusing on fixing my life. Thanks for the response. Will try drawing
Have always made my bed properly. Thanks for your contribution.
> We're never going to have an affordable, legal, pay-once-for-everything model.

Why does it work for music, though?
"These are introductory metaphors that help people get up to speed with a complex concept. You refine your understanding of these as you become more expert on the subject."

From my experience a lot of people get stuck with these introductory metaphors and never progress further. That's why I think they are harmful.
To each their own of course but I rather love that typeface
Look at the failure crate.

For lots of errors, just treating them as a generic failure makes code a lot better.
Truly is a buzzword bingo. This paragraph:

Imagine Development as a First-Class Citizen

The cloud and devices of the future are running Linux. Accelerate your productivity by developing on the same platform that you deploy to. Your tools and programming languages are supported natively and only a command away.

???

I scrolled all the way down and I'm still not sure what the heck is this supposed to be. The selling points are window snapping, workspaces, and... a script to install tensorflow? It's all so bizarre.
Mint feels more like Windows (but better) with task bar and start menu. Pop is more like Mac with dock and app launcher, but a little less polish. I had to use some Gnome extensions on Pop make it how I like it (for example, to have the dock locked on screen).

On a newer hardware, I'd go with Pop because it's more up-to-date with drivers (esp. nvidia) and linux kernel. In my case, linux kernel version did matter for me because I had a weird start-up issue that was fixed in latest kernels.
Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound
I usually use the "eating therapy", but I can't really afford eating what I want and stuff. Thanks for your response.
Good idea except I don’t like phoning up companies to cancel.
What really happens in my observation of what you describe: musicians learn about what other people claim as theory and then pass it on without much question. However, the "theory" itself doesn't just come from practicing musicians explaining their own work (though there's some of that). It comes from a history of theorizing.

A good analogy is language. Poets may indeed chatter about grammar a bunch. But the grammar they describe is usually stuff they inherited from their own schooling and from grammar books that have a whole long multi-generation history. And regardless of all this and the fact that it's largely right overall, scientific study of linguistics has found all sorts of issues with traditional grammar ideas.

Anyone interested in understanding language, whether theoretically as an end in itself or to explore the art of poetry, will do better by studying scientific understandings of linguistics than in memorizing old grammar textbook claims.
Disney used to own Miramax so it could release R films without tarnishing the main brand.
I learned them as "ukemi"- I'm sure judo has them, though I was introduced via karate and later aikido.
I think if a language has decent lambdas - JavaScript qualifies - it'll work for SICP. That said, using Scheme for it will give you a much better appreciation of an underrated language.
I have tons of good bookmarks I have let grow stale.

If I really wanted to do something, I would probably put together my own mind mapping type explorer that would tie together top level tags down to detailed tags so I could find something different ways.

If the information is really important, I write it down in a journal.
I will really appreciate an advice that won't come with spending money. Thanks for your response.
Imagine Development as a First-Class Citizen

The cloud and devices of the future are running Linux. Accelerate your productivity by developing on the same platform that you deploy to. Your tools and programming languages are supported natively and only a command away.

??? I scrolled all the way down and I'm still not sure what the heck is this supposed to be. The selling points are window snapping, workspaces, and... a script to install tensorflow? It's all so bizarre.

We’re focusing on you in a different way than anyone else. Our approach centers on user testing and careful analysis with the singular goal of delivering the most productive and gorgeous platform for developing your next creation. It’s not just about making the easiest tool, it’s about making the best tool. And we’re just getting started.

Nope, still not making sense.

Discover what’s possible at the cross-roads of IOT and AI.

Oh, please just stop.
trying to use yahoo-group-archiver,

hard coded some data into the yahoo.py file :

cookie_Y = '...'

cookie_T = '...'

and later assigning them :

args.cookie_y = cookie_Y
args.cookie_t = cookie_T

before calling the function YahooGroupsAPI

and using my username / password

getting these error messages :

logging in...

Exception raised on uri: https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/groups/alesis-ion/messages
{"ygError":{"hostname":"gapi1.grp.bf1.yahoo.com","httpStatus":500,"errorMessage":"Internal error: UDB Failed","errorCode":1001}}
ERROR: Couldn't download message; 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/groups/alesis-ion/messages
Exception raised on uri: https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v2/groups/alesis-ion/files
{"ygError":{"hostname":"gapi15.grp.bf1.yahoo.com","httpStatus":500,"errorMessage":"Internal error: UDB Failed","errorCode":1001}}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yahoo.py", line 485, in <module>
archive_files(yga)
File "yahoo.py", line 154, in archive_files
file_json = yga.files()
File "c:\Users\ITD\Documents\Python Scripts\yahoo groups 3\yahoogroupsapi.py", line 96, in get_json
raise e
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v2/groups/alesis-ion/files

tried it on another group, same result.

Has someone encountered these messages ?
Molecular dynamics simulations are usually O(N log(N)), because that's the time complexity of the Fast Fourier Transform, which allows computation of the N^2 charge interactions in less than N^2 time (e.g. Ewald Summation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald_summation).

For short-range interactions like Van der Waals forces, MD is O(N) like you said, because you only have to evaluate a finite radius around each atom. But charge interactions, decaying as 1/r, don't converge in any finite radius.
Yes I am a huge fan of the Windows mobile UI and it is consistently one of the things people always bring up when comparing to the competition. As for Android, I avoid it myself for privacy reasons. I'm now waiting to be able to get a Librem 5 phone which runs on PureOS.
I've cloned and built from the repo.

On Debian GNU/Linux, I had to install a few packages in addition to base tetex:
latexmk fonts-inconsolata linuxlibertine fonts-linuxlibertine texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra

I also downloaded locally installed the two suggested fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/

Build took a few minutes on an older box, but looks spiffy.
How to Design Programs is probably the more appropriate choice: https://htdp.org/2019-02-24/
which companies are these? most patents seem to have the name of the inventor on them. Edison didn't put the inventor's name. He put his own. So his actual number of inventions is much lower than claimed.
Stop with this free market nonsense. This is healthcare, this is real lives. It’s not the same as choosing which burger joint to patronize, it’s life and death.
I tried jogging in the evening to clear my head and get blood pumping,but I slid back to the same valley after like two hours
I qualified for Kona on potatoes and cream. But, I also barfed for five minutes straight at the end of the bike course. YMMV.
From what I've read, your last paragraph is true, but only because the naming often isn't necessary. The importance of abstraction in a codebase that is 60 pages of code is high, but it fades away if the equivalent J program can be 5 pages of expressions. Instead of defining some numerical operation that is only 5 characters long, just use the 5 characters in the 2 to 3 places where it is needed in your 5 pages of code. This way everything is explicit and you don't have to reference back to the definition. This would be an awful idea in Java, but it works great in J and APL. Aaron Hsu talks about this with his parallel APL compiler and refers to this as working at the macro level. Note that he has plenty of named items that are passed around in a data flow fashion, but he doesn't need to name every little function.
What decision making process if not a statistical one would be better when it faces the same data limitations? Or what if we know the best decision making process for a given context, but it’s too expensive to apply?

For example, we may know that evaluating loan applicants is best done with in-person interviews, but it’s simply too costly and delays getting loans to people too long, so we agree to use an automated decision process knowing the cost of it making some mistakes will be part of what is paid for the benefit of being able to process many applications quickly.
Being fit is enough for such an event (no prep or food needed). But if you're not fit then you need to intake carbohydrates as you go.
I think the fundamental message here is that there isn't a solution that can be systematically applied.
Thanks, I will do well to read and digest those articles.
Not quite. You can run `java Foo.java` and it will compile and execute the class file (and remove it when done).
My first reaction reading the page was that this was a parody of some kind.
s/loopless/explicit loop/
Maybe you want to read the OP again, because he says exactly that, with all letters, while you and the GP come with your tone-death comments.