jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wish E-Ink would get more attention because of this. Forget power consumption as the killer feature...it would look more natural and you wouldn't be shining a bright light in your face all the time.
jw? In english?
Not true. Assuming both players move completely random (both choose either 1 or 0 with 50% probability each) and independently (past actions don't influence the current event) player 1 has a 2:1 advantage, i.e. he will win with probability 2/3. This is because player 1 can win after an even number of rounds (including 0) with 50% probability. So his total chance of winning is 1/2 * (1 + 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + ...) = 1/2 * 4/3 = 2/3.
> ... the NFT community is not interested in remaining a subculture. NFT community leaders believe that they are just early to understand that the future lies in virtual worlds, and that normies will embrace the metaverse in good time.

An alternative explanation is that they _are_ the normies who have bought into the techno-grift in exchange for social status in a small community of believers.

> Like, right now, if I have a sword in a video game, I only have it in one game. But if we had a metaverse, then I could take it anywhere, and it would still be mine. And maybe it’s like, the only sword in the whole world that could kill a certain monster. That would be really cool.

The idea that game companies will allow players to share resources between games with NFTs is both technically questionable and financially absurd.

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If you can spare the time, I highly recommend watching Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g . It's a bit long-winded, and I suspect I'm preaching to the choir regardless, but it's worth it.
“Better”
I had a job writing Haskell. Then when COVID rolled in we were all put on furlough as the startup had iffy funding. Now I work at a larger company slinging JavaScript.

Am I happier? Well, I'd say the technology I work on is a lot less interesting. But I wouldn't trade in stability and benefits for another early age startup, just to write monads again.
Bollywood is a loan word. It's the Indian moving pictures industry. Wait.. is industry a loan word?
..and don't forget, that as an American, if you lived in Albania (or anywhere else in the world!), you would still have to pay US taxes.
To the best of my knowledge, no other country does this.
You might see this photo information in Google Home - of course if you have the app installed on your phone and you registered the device in it.
The only thing I have that can play cds are video game consoles.

I did the whole binders of cds and the giant cd towers to hold my music, that was a giant pain. I jumped on mp3s as soon as I could, and then once Spotify launched in the US I joined and never looked back.
Thank you! Two things I really got from this:

Capital marks. I use ma or ms and `a `s a lot, but did not know you could do global marks with mA and `A. Very useful!

I've been using `` for a long time to mean "go back to the last place I was editing" but sometimes it gets overridden when navigating (I'm not super familiar with the jumplist, so maybe I need to get a better understanding) but `[ and `] are exactly what I've been looking for all these years.
> Except when it, of course, isn't. $10M is certainly not ten megadollars.

The unit of currency is the dollar. There is no units of currency that corresponds to 1M dollars.

The SI system of units devised a systematic way to define derived units that reflect a certain amount expressed in the base unit.

Currency don't have the benefit.
The basis of this argument is that there were generators who were waiting for prices to go higher before going online. I don’t believe that was the case here. Plants weren’t able to come online because natural gas lines, piles of coal, wind turbines, nuclear coolant water were freezing over and could not be used.

I don’t know the right answer but forcing electricity rates to the highest allowed limit for a week allowed these generators to make insane amount of money and i’m convinced it improved the outcome of this whole disaster.
Um and a world war?
I’d argue it means different to different people.

I’m moderately “off-grid” because I have a septic tank even though I have a city sewer connection at my curbside. The sewer was run after my home was built, and it doesn’t make sense for me to dig up my front yard (to run the new line), my back yard (to remove the septic tank and drain field), and my crawlspace (to reverse the direction of the plumbing) just so I can pay money every month to the city for a service that I’m currently providing for myself without a recurring fee. I’m in a neighborhood though so I’m connected to city water, electric, gas, and trash.

My previous home in this area has electrical service only. We had a septic tank for sewer and took care of everything else ourselves.

There were three homes in a “bunch” in the middle of nowhere, with a small plot of land that was technically owned by one of my neighbors but served as a community resource. That plot had a small pump house for the shared well, with electrical service from the neighbor’s place. On that same lot I kept a semi-enclosed utility trailer where we would all put our trash. Twice a month or so I would hook on to the trailer and haul it to the dump (a half hour drive) on my way to work and put the trailer back when I got home.

Every month or so we’d all sit down for coffee and bring our receipts. We’d figure up how much water, trash, and internet had cost us that month, split it proportionately, account for any expenses, and make everyone whole. Because I took care of the trash and was both young handy enough to be the one who did repairs on the well when necessary, it wasn’t uncommon for me to walk away with a few dollars in my pocket. It was like our own informal HOA out in the sticks :)
Waitaminute...The password was “solarwinds123,” and the CEO is blaming an intern?
"easy for casino table games"

I don't believe EV is easier to estimate in poker than trading. You need to estimate hand range and the consequences of actions later in the hand. It's extremely complicated.
One of the challenges you will face will be being good enough to be able to work independently and without much oversight, while staying out of the leadership/management tracks.

You will have to learn to walk the line of being very reliable, but not over-delivering.

This is important because I think you have two primary options:

1. Aim for a full time low compensation with a job that you can easily do in 10 hours a week. You tend to still have to be "available" for meetings and stuff throughout the week, so this is less ideal.

2. Aim for a part time high compensation job and negotiate your availability/workload. For example, aim for the top end of your salary, but ask to work only 2-3 days a week for 40-60% of the salary. This is hard to get. Not a lot of places will go for this; they want team players working more than 40 hours a week. Some places do, you just have to ask, and be able to actually sell them on the idea.

The real answer is 'passive income', but that's a different ballgame. If you're just trying to work less, I would do one of the above (and I have done both personally).
Yea, when looking into these myself I did float in conversation that we'd need build a giant pool over our data centers. It was more of a joke though and never went anywhere.

Although our error rate was more like 1-2 per week on the equipment I was looking at.
Records were introduced in Java 14 [1]. An immutable DTO, with minimal boilerplate, that still behaves a class. Example:

record Point(int x, int y) {}

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java
1. I care enough to pay cash when possible, even if it means rounding up my share for something like a split restaurant bill.

I would hope Signal's implementation makes it so you don't have to worry about volatility or exchanges.

2. This assumes you and your friend are both communicating with each other via Signal.
Speaking of hidden things, I just discovered you can rotate the blue ribbon art work as well :)
"Isn't there something vaguely equivalent in US law?"

Nope. The closest would probably be plans to make nuclear bombs. Oh, and the stupid thing about crypto. If I was bored enough right now I'd paste some long crypto key, but it would just make this thread look shitty.
Wonderful metaphor.

I'm given pause by the possibility that, in the case of the federal court, the work done in the 'predicted' branch might prejudice the outcome of the branch selection in a way that's either not possible or easily preventable in the CPU case.
Not so much now perhaps but a digital Yuan exists.
Where that is headed is not clear but it has the possibility of disrupting the current order.
But then you need a browser extension just for that? It’s a bit overkill.
I wonder if this works well with /etc/hosts or local DNS.
Anyone who wants to avoid their services. I don't care if they provide a better experience on the web. I don't wish to do business with them because I don't trust them. No matter how good their experience, I want to use someone else.
Are you professional trained in crowd control, or just an armchair speculator like me? I imagine that at some point, they are trained to fall back if at risk of being surrounded.

Either way, my point is that it is that there isn’t evidence to support conspiracy theories that the capitol police were somehow in on it, which are circulating.
We screwed content makers with mp3s, which allowed publishers to follow suit. We changed the paradigm. This is a bit harder because schools pay for content not the researchers directly. It’ll be harder to force change.
Hardware hasn't historically been seen as a security boundary. A buggy driver has always been able to take over your computer and crash it by fiddling with the hardware.
On one side, a grifter taking cynical advantage of baseless, war-media-stoked fears of Venezuela in addition to numerous other baseless and racist conspiracy theories. On the other side, a secretive foreign firm that makes millions foisting unaudited closed-source voting machines on clueless municipalities.

Frankly, I hope they both lose.
It's fast because they optimized everything across the board, and also paid for exclusive access to TSMC 5nm process.
"Almost every state" is enough these days?
I think 5% is a non-trivial difference but alright, its a much bigger difference on the M1.

I guess I still don't understand whats going on here.

Scenario 1 has two spatially close reads followed by two dependent random access reads.

Scenario 3 (2+) has two spatially close reads, and two pairs of dependent random access reads of two spatially close locations.

Why does it follow that this is caused by a change in memory access concurrency? The two required round trips should dominate both on the M1 and an Intel but for some reason the M1 performs worse than that. Why?

I can't help but feel the first snippet triggers some SIMD path while the 3rd snippet fails to.
Well they were probably already in right? You don't want to fight angry mob full of tards.
What's going on wtf?
I was surprised by this. I'd expect a beaten up truck (as most are) would be poorly maintained and expendable in a wreck whereas a highly personalized vehicle would be much less likely to be damaged in crash by the driver given the time and money involved. I'm a huge fan or personalizing vehicles.
Did you take any comfort from the Georgia hand-count?
"My degree in French and Spanish – despite being a decent grade from a good university – is not worth the paper it's written on."
we're probably talking about a few dozen thousand dollars piece of paper anyways, nothing cheap.
Since streaming is often the main source in my family, the sub-accounts don't appear to solve the recommendations issue.
The Education and Housing markets are complex systems. The bubble analogy works as a vary simplified analogy to describe how some markets can see sustained prices increases for a while followed by a sudden drop.

This works with Housing, at a fundamental level if people decided to more houses one year the price increases, and if people buy fewer houses one year the value of your house decreases which can quickly cycle though to dramatic shifts. However, if fewer people decided to get a degree the value of your degree increases.
Netflix does have sub-accounts to allow for different family members. It works reasonably well, but you can only stream video using the primary account.
I like this. It's similar to selling shovels during the goldrush (not that this is a goldrush, but you get the metaphor).
Point of note: "a Startup in Japan" does not necessarily mean "a Japanese Startup." I don't think I see any Japanese people in that picture, and I seem to remember from my sources that there are only one or two Japanese people working at the company.

Interestingly enough, I have worked for a Japanese Startup, and it really wasn't much different from a regular Japanese company, other than a lot more freedom when it came to procedures. Also the fact that I got to help build our entire development platform.

(Also, I think I see a familiar face third from the right...)
My app on heroku is running, it's just that I can't log in to their management console to de-allocate resources that I am paying for by the hour.
This code should be well tested by now. Amazon is doing you a failure by being rubbish.
Please do not make content-free posts such as this. It adds no value to the conversation and is only noise.

If you actually wish to make a useful point about the practicality or otherwise of massively virtualised systems for webapp deployment, please do. It's going to take more than two words though.
If every song you make can be classified as "the worst pop song in history", I guess that must be some kind of rare talent for which you can get paid.

In other news, tomorrow is a holiday, so technically today is Friday Friday - time to get down on Friday. Just had my cereal, gonna take the elevator to get down to the first floor, walk to work, get some codin done on Friday Friday.
Can you cryptocurrency scammers please go elsewhere?

If you really need to use HN for your verification, do it like all Keybase users do: in their profile.
It's a virtue signal that he's in the know about the stock market.
Based on our experience (n=1) I would say, yes, it works best for small sites. We have a medium site with on the order of 1000s of pages. Jekyll has become a bit unwieldy to rebuild a full static version of the site (takes about 5 mins for a full rebuild). I would certainly say an order of magnitude higher we’d definitely want server side Wordpress or similar.
What's the name of the anime?
So I work in crypto hcaptcha.com. And it feels as though beyond money laundering and flim flam, people have left all the innovation to me. Blockchain, especially ethereum is incredibly cool tech if you can deal with the learning curve. It's got built in PKI, a decent consensus mechanism and with IPFS/IPNS tagging data and hashing it back to the blockchain is easy.

There's a common trope, the problem isn't [insert programming language like python or java] . It's the [programming lang] programmers. The same is true with blockchain. Very few people with reputations and skills wanna go into this field because of these scammers.
As to point d. It's also not just the carrier but the carrier group as a whole. The US CSGs rival most countries entire air capability. It's impressive to see and not something you are going to try and attack.
And Anthony Blunt.
Not sure about intent, but I assumed it was at least partly named in analogy to XDuce: http://xduce.sourceforge.net/
It worked for Microsoft.

They started as liked hackers.

Then they went full throttle with monopolistic practices, corruption, patent trolling, litterally and publically insulting the competition...

And now, they just use a tiny fraction of the huge amount of money they made during that time to wash their image: better PR, involved in open source, etc.

I'm not worried for Google. People will forgive and forget everything like they do with most politicians.

They just have to keep accumulating benefits, and then hire poeple to "make the brand great again". Works everytime.
>but javascript/typescript will probably be a good bet for the next 10 years

Honestly how is javascript (and thus typescript) ever going away at this point? I honestly mean _ever_. Like until the day I die. Almost the entire web is using it. Frameworks like React, Angular, Vue have made it so I basically don't care that much about javascript. Most of my code is server-side and the client is largely handled by Angular as a framework so the amount of JS I have to write in my angular components is so minimal.

All that being said, I personally am not a fan of javascript.. at all. The learning curve to know what's going on is horrific in my opinion, and code is not meant to be written clearly but have a small footprint which is terrible. It's too flexible.. though typescript has solved 90% of that.

Even if something like Blazor completely transforms the web, it seems like there will ALWAYS be the case for streamlined simple sites that only need very simple javascript transformations..

Anyway- unfortunately I think javascript is here for the next billion years!
Agreed. But they've been doing that pretty poorly recently as well, they keep trying to "innovate" instead of bringing their "copied from xxxx but integrated into MS stuff" solution.
> IDK why this isn't being taught

Yes, it's quite the mystery, isn't it?
As far as i know HTML and JS are also text formats which must be interpreted. So i do not see any advantage between parsing a text format or HTML or JS.
> Documentation as code, man

In my list of mean things I'm going to insist on should I ever go crazy and start my own company, documentation will be just as if not more incentivized than the actual code.

I want design diagrams, users lists, documented decisions on how backups are expected to happen, how this is expected to scale, why we went with X pattern instead of Y, who asked for a given feature, then as a last measure start doing the brittle document bits like API reference n such.

The code has its own inertia and desirability, but if you don't push docs, they are looked down on even though they have proven value.

What are we, scientists building and designing a new system or children slapping mud into a play dough concrete mixer and moving on to our next mud pie? Write it down Mr supposed professional!
I'm not saying there COULD not be a benefit to this kind of behavior, but it also wouldn't require much more than two already accepted brain behaviors. We dream, sometimes vividly, sometimes incorporating things we've done or regretted, or things that seem to define us. And some experiences, particularly smells, can suddenly bring back memories you didn't even know you had. So we have the ability to recall things unexpectedly, or maybe just suppress them in normal routines. (I'm not suggesting "suppressed memories" as is usually understood.) It's not a bad hypothesis that the brain, in extreme moments, would enter a dreamlike state with long-buried memories.
> There's no funny business about changing how a browser should work, like putting the address bar at the bottom.

Damn those pesky innovations! Browser bars should be at the top, where they've been since before phones, where it's much easier to reach the bottom than the top!
The EU has completely failed to (quickly) make a deal with Pfizer and vaccination was mismanaged as you can see from the numbers below.

Vaccination rates by country:

Israel: 73%
UK: 23%
United States: 16%
EU: ~4%

Meanwhile, Spain and Italy lost 11% and 10% of their GDP due to coronavirus (much more than Brexit will ever do to the UK due to Brexit).
Does the EC function provide any guarantees around how often a given endpoint can be hit? e.g. over the course of infinite hops starting at point a, how frequently will point b be landed upon?
And, in addition to blurring the line between Science and Technology, there's the "STEAM" movement which just makes everything a blurry mess.
GME squeeze is significantly larger in percentage points, that’s exactly my point. Nothing of this size went 100x previously. The short volume was large back when GME was $4. GME moved in 2 days as much as entire VW squeeze. It is entirely reasonable that a bubble of this sizes crashes just as spectacularly and dtcc didn’t want to hold the bag after all the bankrupt retail late comers. In fact that in reality it has been defaulting as slowly and non-destructively is kind of a miracle, in many ways thanks to dtcc quick action.
To be fair, lots of local nightly news shows in America have local restaurant reviews. My parents live outside of Asheville, NC, and their local nightly news on all the broadcast channels carries restaurant reviews and lots of "around town" happenings.
I already get location based pay. My collegues in the US (I'm in the Netherlands) make about 1.5 times my salary. Ok, they need to buy an expensive house in an expensive neighborhood so their kids can go to a good enough school. He also need expensive healthcare, and even then, when he gets cancer he needs significant savings. Our schools are just all fine, and when you get sick, you just get help.

My colleagues here in the Netherlands do make the same, whether they are living in Amsterdam or a small village. So I guess location based pay is also about where you draw some lines.

Anyway, if my boss would tell me I'd be getting less when I move to somewhere cheaper, I'd say: Ok, bye! Next job. In another country, hmm, not so sure.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that if they did get a NSL, they would be legally obligated to continue to signal that they didn't, just as the author of the piece had to lie.
Apple's consolidated.db is not a "mistake". A mistake would not have gotten rewritten for iOS 4 when the database got converted from XML to SQLite and moved to user data.

http://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues-...

Also iOS no longer uses Skyhook as of iOS 3.2. Plus Skyhook is for Wifi access point location data, not cell-tower location data. Apple uses its own database for that now which you consent to update with your location data. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002145.html
It may not be the future, but I certainly hope it's at least a big part of the future for several reasons:

* I don't want the news industry to die. They're currently very inefficient and hope that they will at some point convert to a novel syndicated model. This could be a small step towards that. This is also good in that, among other things, it could also lead to fewer conflicts of interests between the journalism (is that still alive?) that is expected of them and those that sustain them which they often find themselves reporting about.

* A personalized reading experience is much better than hunting down interesting stuff, especially if you're busy--and are willing to pay (hint, hint). This is a tough problem, but in a decade's time, it will be tackled significantly.

* Ads suck. Getting fewer, personalized ads (if any) is much better. The above makes it possible. Have you checked out the NY Times recently? I had a huge banner add roll down and take up half my screen. Ridiculous! Not to mention what the likes of the Huffington Post are willing to do with ads.
This is just nothing. It doesn't say what the service -is-, or why it would be the future. It just asks an open-ended question and provides no value whatsoever.