skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because weaker jokes follow better ones.

Comedy is not cumulative, it's a function of minimums

The weakest joke is the weight that brings things down. Remove it

Narrow the theme, focus on the flow

How many times have you read something and there was a bad joke sandwiched between good ones and you remember that?

It's better without it. The comedy performs better in all metrics.

Think Rodney Dangerfield's rapid tight style. He was a master of this. The theme bounds the humor but the jokes are tight executions

He didn't always do that. Took him years to "discover it". Here's a 15 year difference

1968 - https://youtu.be/PiNDirvqSUY

1983 - https://youtu.be/cQLv7CG10B4

His style changes follows the rules I linked to in the other reply. Listen to the laugh density and duration of the two. It's really dramatically different.

Another comparison, same process, Emo Phillips

1983 - https://youtu.be/lRp_r-EHmfs

2010 - https://youtu.be/xywEDvBTzM0

Joan Rivers had a large library of her performances that she studied all the time trying to improve the technique in the same way.
Yeah, I'd rather adapt a philosophy of total equality so that tyrannical retards on Hacker News don't get to pick who lives or dies based on some half-baked measure of merit.
When I was young, I had to have the latest version of everything, this was long before the security aspect of it. The problem with that approach is the random disruptions it creates when you focus on the tool, and not the task.

You'll see stories all the time about machine shops with MS-DOS programs still in use, for example. But consider the facts, a problem was solved, that solution has worked consistently for decades, any new solution is likely to create problems, so of course it's going to stay around forever. Just don't hook it to the internet, and it will be fine. 8)

Once a business need is met, you just want to keep the friction as low as possible.
I was thinking this plus the insurance will make it such that most companies will just pay the ransoms instead of working to secure their systems and train employees. No defense is perfect but also these criminals shouldn’t get paid.
The supernote website / product pages are super confusing.

If I want the Lamy pen, and don't want the "nebula" cover, I have to buy the lamy pen separately, but I'll also still get the standard set, which I don't want? Or can I choose the Lamy set but change the cover?

Also, the Lamy pen has a function button, but also doesn't have the ceramic nib. This is weird since they go to such great lengths to convey how valuable the "never wear-out nib" is on the regular supernote pen. Also, does the Lamy pen need to be charged somehow?

Also, apparently, Canadians have had to pay ~$95 in duty, and shipping already isn't cheap. 95$ in duty is insane IMO.

Seems like an interesting product, but the website needs a huge overhaul IMO. I've been looking to replace my Kobo H20 Aura for a while, and I wouldn't mind ponying up a more for the supernote, but the website leaves me with more questions than answers.

I dunno, it's cool
PEG being polyethylene glycol, also in... mRNA vaccines. The real story here might be the application of chemistry to basic industrial processes we tend to think of exclusively as mechanical.

Glass has been extrusion moulded for centuries. What's novel here is sintering and removal of the solvent/carrier. (Which they also say has to be done slowly right now, so the process needs some work yet to scale in volume)

Sintered metal mouldings took a few years to become more mainstream eg on aerospace applications.
> school is just very bad at recognizing and enhancing the chances of people who aren't neurotypical white privileged background kids.

It is also bad recognizing and enhancing the chances of people who are neurotypical white privileged background kids.

I went to pretty good primary and secondary schools which actually tried to get the best out of pretty much everyone. Remedial teaching was taken seriously and wasn't just a bin into which difficult children were dumped. But even then the results left a lot to be desired. It's really difficult even in the absence of political interference.

The surrounding society makes a big difference. I count myself as lucky growing up where and when I did.
FYI Vancouver is still keeping advance placement classes which is the typical way for smart students to excel. The program being cut was only at two schools in the super rich part of town and kinda seemed like a “free private school program in public school”
There are beautiful flowers growing in the cracks of the asphalt, but that doesn't mean that it's the best place for them to grow.
> Who buys a house before it's finished?

I'd say this is the norm for most property development around the world. A developer creates a plan, people apply for it and get individual mortgages, the developer takes that money (in-fact having sold say 60% of them) and delivers within 3 years all the buildings, while selling the remaining 20% during development and the other 20% after.
In the old days as you approached 30 being a pure programmer was unheard of (or at least you were going to become that "weird guy" in a corner office) and you were expected to move into management / consulting

I resisted and became that guy. I would be far richer by now if I had put on a suit and gone into consulting. It's not like I didn't have offers

Keep an eye on your pension / savings when you are younger. It gets much harder to top them up the older you get. My pension options scare me now and I can't see retirement as a realistic path

Take money seriously!
Assuming it's 11 years old (late 2010 model), it can run up to High Sierra, which both the most recent Chrome and Firefox will support.

If it's the Mid-2009 model (the next older model), it can still run El Capitan and therefore the newest Chrome.
It's both.
You can easily simulate 11 qbits.
Some vendors that didn’t support Ubuntu now do after the CentOS disaster and I’m much happier now. But I feel for those that don’t want or can’t use Debian based distros.
Plenty of career people at this consultancy. Also transplants. I just passed 5 years.
What’s the advantage of NFTs over other crypto for money laundering?
Each “step” reduces an individual’s power in determining the outcome, and thus their responsibility and commitment. People also know some intuitive game theory; They won’t take an excessive burden for a shared prize, as that will ultimately burn them out in the long run.
That's not how it works.

Two 11 qbit quantum computers are not like one 22 bit quantum computer.

Quantum computers become powerful when you can entangle many qbits. That's also the challenge, because building such a thing is hard.
I remember asking Bob Solovay whether he thought Wiles' proof of FLT was within reach of formalization and he said something like: it is probably 20 years away. It may have been 20 years since I asked him that, and seeing this recent work with Lean makes me think FLT might also be doable, which would make Solovay's guess just about spot on.
Desperation plays a bigger role I think. And you just can't trust any institution to handle "parenting rights". There's no easy way out of this issue.
A full public record of posts / pumps correlated by IP, country, device fingerprint, and equities they're pushing... with a free API... now we'd be talking about some interesting reverse engineering.
thats what I said
Maybe it’s their way of validating the identity of the person making the claim.
In those cultures, would you also call your boss at 3 in the morning and yell at them?
Missed an opportunity to replicate the iconic black casing and red LED
In a private tab, this page starts with "Country version: Denmark" with a footnote explaining I should sign in to see the terms that apply to my account.

If I sign in, the "Country version" line is gone, though I'm still (correctly) shown the EU terms.
> take care of them

It sounds like you want to just pay people to stay alive without helping them to gain the skills necessary to make that life worthwhile to themselves.

Before we try to be efficient we need to agree on what we are being efficient about.
> incredible percentage of your policy that goes into marketing/admin/etc

The expense ratio is something like 30 to 40 percent of premium on commercial policies in case anyone was wondering. This figure is found on annual reports.

I'm not sure if insurers should be blamed for that though. Economically, that can be explained by the concave shape of consumers' Von Neumann Morgenstern utility curves describing their degree of risk aversion. It reflects their willingness to pay for a trading an uncertain outcome to a certain one.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_hardware_should_I_us...

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_OS_should_I_use.3F

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_app...
I remember seeing that there is an actual section dedicated to income from illicit income in the tax forms. Which is honestly amazing to see, and confusing too.
As a software developer, I wouldn't use an iPad over a MacBook.

Fun note: in the new M1 models, you can't run Virtualbox either.
In what way am I hiding behind societal views?

I've said that I tend to align with societal views, and my use of "rational" is in relation to what our society tends to value.

> I mean, it apparently is an easy choice since it's not your ass on the line

If you don't think it's an easy choice, I'd like to hear your reasoning for choosing a less intelligent/attractive/abled person given all else is equal in the desert island situation.
It's an offline stash of free knowledge, such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and OpenStreetMap.

It brought to mind El Paquete Semanal, Cuba's sneakernet culture drop: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/
At first I didn’t like the fighting scene. Then I realized that the protagonist said many times that he would never renounce fighting these aliens. That scene, though seemingly corny, is exactly the proof he would do anything. I think that’s’ brilliant!
I've been reading this book, and this book only, for the last year or so. It's mind blowing, maybe or maybe not in a good way.
The difference between tactics and strategy, specific and general, mechanism and policy.
I believe the term is "non-alcoholic fatty liver disease". My mother hasn't had alcohol in 40 years, but apparently her liver tells a different story. She does love chocolate, however.
What Nina actually posted:

https://mimiandeunice.com/2018/11/07/the-jenndra-identitty-c...

https://blog.ninapaley.com/2018/02/07/gender_colonialism/
Thanks for your response. I guess it boils down to the fact that I just don't get most of this stuff, so any financial decisions I have to make become a thing of trust / hoping things will be alright. Let someone else handle it, it'll be fine. I'm OK with that most of the time. I can sit in a taxi and relax, I'm not checking if the driver is doing the right thing. But that's for a short drive, not a 30+ year investment that will be a huge factor in how my life will be when I'm old. It's a bit harder to take the "sit back and enjoy the ride" approach there.

Investing in houses would at least be something physical. I can touch a house, I can see if it's still in a good state. I can verify it myself. I'm never going to know enough about finance to verify that for a pension scheme.

Maybe I'm taking too much of a binary approach here. I may end up doing both, but the stock market thing still feels like economic gambling voodoo to me.
While I think that blaming the consumer never works because voting with your money is a myth, I believe it's a good thing to help people get a better baseline. I don't know exactly how 78F translates to the real temperature in his house, but it seems reasonable. Same with sugar tax or water fluoridation, consumers are uninformed and are taken advantage of by their primordial need for comfort. Give them back their freedom by time restricting Facebook too.
He's a software developer, not a professional comedian.
I submitted a memory corruption bug in glibc realloc() to Red Hat's security email contact, and they replied quickly and friendly.
What a bunch of scumbags. There a are so many things wrong with the company and its workers under the light of this story...
I found it funny. Am I just wrong somehow?

Am I wrong to like Vaughan Williams' music even though there are parallel fifths all over the place?
It depends on the language. For instance, what the US and UK calls the "Middle East", Germany calls the "Near East".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittlerer_Osten

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naher_Osten
Maybe an app??
The mandatory 3rd party insurances in Germany caver a minimum of 5 million Euro per case, mine is 10 or 12. Makes sense, especially if factor in stuff like loss if life and disability.
Telling the uncomfortable truth plainly is a reward, a grace to someone. Why would give this favour to a bad employer? Don't lie but let them sort out why you (and other valuable people) left. Find a friend to vent to.
I wish they allowed more technically proficient users to disable password recovery and manage iCloud backups off cloud.
Nice idea, but as other commenters has pointed out, maybe not the best name. Back in the 90’s when I first connected to the internet, my ISP provided a package called Internet in a Box made by a company called Spry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBox
Hate is such a strong word and most likely not the best description here.

We all have beliefs about reality and these beliefs generate a lot of emotions. We also interact with our beliefs as if they are the reality and seldom question them. This is true for both more conservative or traditionalist beliefs and for ultra-progressive beliefs.

When the beliefs about reality clash, as they inevitably do, people sometimes find it hard to take a more inclusive perspective and try to find our shared humanity. Unfortunately, most of the time they activate the old ingroup-outgroup distinction, Us vs Them and the Them must be destroyed.

Just because someone don't share ALL of your beliefs does not mean that they hate you.
Configuring AWS ALB with CloudFront
Yes. IIRC AppleCare+ for my Macbook for 3 years costs about 1/3 of the original price.
And yet, ironically people like it better than CentOS stream?

People are making such a big fuss about CentOS getting slightly closer to Fedora.
I get the feeling that the world was significantly more open to kids growing up with access to computers in the 80s and 90s, because as someone whose formative years were the 00s and early 10s, the interesting bits of technology were already buried under a thousand layers of abstraction and indirection. Kids nowadays won't ever learn what a shell is unless they go out of their way to learn it for some reason.
It's our duty to our fellow human beings to construct a world we all want to live in. That can sometimes mean pushing back on bad behavior when it occurs. The only way we get a world that respects human dignity and values honesty is by holding each other accountable for our actions.

Game theory has no ethical compass. I can't think of a worse instrument to apply to human society.
That’s the theory, I would be surprised if the reality wasn’t more messy with a lot of insuring money going into marketing, management, IT, with insurance price more based on what salespeople are able to decently add to a product, and company profitability discovered afterwards.
I think https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is aiming to provide drop-in replacements.
Also my laptop was outside insurance cover when it was finally destroyed, but they didn't seem to mind. Most insurance companies are very binary in how they treat their customers. 3yrs apple care => laptop destroyed 3yrs 6mo.
Hitori Tori is a rather proficient user of Renoise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJY5u6cC7A

Frankly I barely have any idea what's going on in the video, as I've never got into trackers. Just, dude often needs three or so instances of Renoise at once, and handles them with a hardware controller.
To be fair, there is also some whining involved on the "white hat hacker" side. Triaging reports is not an easy task.

The issue I have often witnessed, is a higher up wanting to play down a vulnerability, or even make so nobody hears about it because they fear it will impact the stock price. You should not forget that there is a financial impact...
What I do is run ls with the same wildcard expression and see what's listed before running the rm command.
"The creator expressed these concerns by way of a social request instead of a legal threat because part of living in society is being able to resolve disputes without going to court."

Is simply not true. The creator made a social request because there was no way a legal challenge could succeed, not because they wanted to avoid court.
Everything about their platform is miserable. I'm so glad mobile Linux is starting to become usable and we finally have a real alternative.
How many? 30? [0]

[0] https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/why-nuclear-fusi...
My experiments with sprouting legumes
That is not precisely true? When an article runs about a merger announcement, or earnings releases or even a new supplier relationship or big sale agreement... all those things are legitimate news that should affect your expected future cashflows.
Never heard of the company but I think it's much better than what we see otherwise. Like names of food or things that sound like something which has absolutely no relation to the product.
RL theory is cool and all, but a large part of the trick seems to be the neural network architecture itself (that is, having a good parametrized model for the policy) and millions of evaluations. For some Atari games it turned out to be almost as sample-efficient to try random weights instead of RL. Not for everything, and e.g. policy gradient is certainly worth learning about. But see for example https://openai.com/blog/evolution-strategies/

Personally I expect all real-world applications of RL to be trained in simulation, with tricks to make sure they also learn to adapt to reality at startup (meta-learning). For example by simulating each episode with parameters that are slightly off.
Curious why you think the skill sets don’t overlap. I see them as perfectly compatible and no different then any other embezzlement that can happen.
The First Computer Bug Was a Dead Bug
Do you know, The First Computer Bug Was Actually a Dead Bug. We know computer bug is a known as a error or a fault due to a flaw in the computer program or system.

This bug makes various problems and we google the that bug right.

The first person to use the word “bug” to describe a technological error was Thomas Edison.

He used it in a letter that dates back to 1878. However, it wasn’t until 70 years later that the term became so popular.

At 3:45 p.m, September 9, 1947, the first actual incident of a computer bug was recorded. It was recorded by Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist, and member of the U.S. Navy. She was working on a Harvard Mark II computer and recorded the bug in the computer’s logbook.

After she noticed a hindrance in the computer’s operation, she started tracing the problem. Hopper found a dead moth that was stuck between the relay contacts of the computer. She removed the moth and taped it into Mark II’s Log. Beneath the moth, she wrote “First actual case of bug being found.”

Although there are some claims that other people found the moth in the computer, Hopper remains the one who did the logbook entry.

So this is the story of first computer bug.
Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism
Sneakernet updates seem doable? If you follow the "adding the quality content" link to https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#add-cont... , there are many sources mentioned, like Kiwix ZIM files, which can include fairly frequent updates.
What data size are you dealing with? I imagine this gets prohibitive in both performance and cost as it gets into the high GBs.
>and for years I've told newcomers to profession that one thing this job is not about is teaching.

So, what is about then?
Because Chinese specs are notorious on letting irregularities slide. This is well known at this point. Your "hmm, why would you ever think that" is pretty sus.
> While string truncation has its own issues, it is often a fairly reasonable fallback.

Seemingly swimming against the tide here; a strcpy() that _automatically_ truncates strings is a worse, and huge hidden risk.

Yes, buffer overflows from user data are very, very bad.

But a buffer overflow has a clear fingerprint as leaning on undefined behaviour; tools exist to detect these (eg. valgrind), and the fix is well understood.

Defining strcpy to include truncation is the wrong choice, as it's plain dangerous in most cases. It reclassifies the bug as valid program behaviour, where it's riskier and its fingerprint is harder to detect.

For example, a function which looks up credentials for a login name limited to 16 characters. During lookup, a buffer truncates and by default the code is now doing lookups against the wrong login name.

The better solution is a strcpy() which accepts a length and is _expressly not defined_ for cases where the output buffer would overflow; ie. asserts or aborts (which now has scope to be detected at compile time for some cases)

It's now clear where bug is, and a developer must preempt overflow for cases where it's possible and handle it.

Perhaps folks have different experiences, but mine is that copying a string and _wanting_ to truncate it is so incredibly rare and is the cases that should be explicit, not implicit.
That's not what this is about.

The scientific community cannot run a distribution with "unneeded" updates to libraries.

That goes for other organizations as well.
Because that's not compassion. The mercies we offer are chances for redemption. My team lead was young and inexperienced. I hope, with wisdom, he learns that telling the truth maximizes good outcomes.
> What’s the advantage of NFTs over other crypto for money laundering?

Just a guess, you control the value of the asset.

If 1 Bitcoin is $30,000 and I sell it to you for $300,000 that may raise many questions.

If you buy the NFT for my art for $30,000 and then it sells in an auction for $300,000 , it is easier to justify that it just has appreciated with time. The world of art is full of this appreciations, many times for money laundering and tax evasion reasons, thou.
> The "extreme left" (no, US Democrats are not socialists) has no political representation anywhere in the Western world and barely registers in public consciousness at all.

That's false. In France there's a far left party ( France Insoumise, which has or has had stuff like redistribution of wealth and nationalisation of infrastructure, increasing the minimum wage in multiples in their programme, and regularly works with the Communist party for elections ) which is pretty mainstream, and their candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was 4th with 19.6% in the last presidential elections. ( For reference, 3rd was with 20%, 2nd with 21.4%, first with 24%)

Isn't there a far left party in Spain as well? And Italy?

Western world != US, Canada, UK.
There’s nothing like creating a programming language to throw yourself in the deep end!
Two questions pop into my mind:

A. How easy will it be for the unlucky people that have installed Centos 8 to convert it to rocky Linux?

B. Will rocky Linux fulfill its promises? I mean if I install rocky Linux 8.4 will I still have a supported OS at 2029?
Hot rolling is a good example.
For the last 30 years neural networks have been used to control the process. There’s a nice NeurIPS paper from 1991 [1].

And even with the non-deep networks from back in the day, people felt compelled to include prior knowledge and even used Bayesian priors to deal with a lack of data.

[1] http://papers.neurips.cc/paper/447-neural-control-for-rollin...
where is the buy button