jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love reading (and finding flaws in) proofs. Solving math problems is ok I guess but feels like work. The moment of insight is nice, but staring at the wall with a blank mind, mumbling "come forth, ideas" not so much.

Oh, and trading I love trading. All kinds of trading. I've spent many many nights trading items in various games. Oh, and programming a bitcoin arbitrage trading bot was super fun.

Hmm, it was good thinking these things over I guess.
Learning another language with basically the exact same mental model behind them is not as worthy to spend time on. But learning a language with an entirely different paradigm is really eye opener and will make you a better programmer even if you’ll never write a line of code in it. For example, learning Haskell is a really good way to learn about FP and then you can easily apply it in a not strictly FP language.

Prolog is interesting because it is really niche, and “learning it” as in solving a few easy problems will definitely not take much time but will add another way to think about a problem to your toolkit.
Hope you have a fun time!
I always had the feeling that with electricity consumption, smaller is better. What if we all add a few blocks in our corridor which would be lift up during the night and bring back energy during the day? This would get the curve plane and we can follow its usage closely, wanted to reduce our own bill...
Do you have a source for the claim that hospitals are running out of beds?
> For a given amount of data to be transmitted, adjusting bitrate up and freeing the channel quicker is equivalent to using a lower power for more time.

It's not an exact equivalence. It is often possible to reduce transmit power without having to also significantly reduce bitrate. See eg. https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/ocw/proposals/2439
Most of a car's price is decided by its company before it's even assembled. If I'm buying a car with cash it's irrelevant how other people pay.

House prices are defined by demand. If your uncle wants to buy a house with a 40 year mortgage of half his salary, then I'll have to pay more to match it.
This is a lie. The chant is literally "Death to X," there is no idiom whatsoever. The only human targets I have ever heard for this chant is the US and some of its allies (KSA, UK), the IR's leader, and some generic terms for the outgroup ("monafegh").
It’s all about identifying the ultra whales willing to spend thousands a day. There’s an infamous story of a machine zone employee being stopped on the tarmac by the FBI trying to flee with a thumb drive full of IDFA’s. GOW had people dropping millions, and you could eat their lunch quickly with a fast follow and best customer list. Not sure it was ever publicized, but I’ve heard that story a few times
Do we have good evidence to support the 1M figure?
http://archive.is/cqn0P
If you just want make-work, why not build schools, parks, and public hospitals instead?

Or useful infrastructure, at least.
Great question! The biggest difference is luminosity. The proposed collider, eRHIC (electron Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), will generate 100-1000x more collisions per second than HERA.

Second, eRHIC will generate ion beams as well a proton beams. This is a key distinction as protons and neutrons are modified by being inside a nucleus so their internal quark distributions are modified as well. These differences will shed light on some of the key properties of the strong nuclear force.

Third, the detectors and collider will be designed to probe further down into the low-energy tail of the sea quark distribution than HERA and other previous e-p colliders did. This will include designing the beam and detector to allow for very forward instruments which would measure small deflections due to extremely low-energy particles.
The longer convention came first. And it's more distinct when spoken.
This was nice from beginning to end, thank you. I feel like I grew up in a similar way, sad and confused about how everyone else knew what to do how they had their parents to guide them along the way. I also don't remember a lot of my past, I think from disscoiating while growing up; from either nothing happening or trauma. I don't feel any way towards it now, but I'm happy Im more aware and could relate to your experience.
How much do you think a headline is actually worth? The vast majority of viewers didn't chose or even want to see it. It was automatically pushed on them and they would normally have paid $0 without facebook
The largest cost for a fighter is its engine, followed by radar and weaponry. The cost for including a human is a nit. And there isn't any armor in modern fighters. The A-10 has titanium , but fighter jets don't pack anything like that.
Support has been very good for us. Their support pricing model changed from percentage of your bill to a fixed cost per support user

https://cloud.google.com/support

For most organizations role based production plan is good enough
This is the same as inches per nanosecond, which is a little more intuitive for us non-antenna-designers.
Both loss of interest and loss of deposit insurance. You can lose the money to theft or fire.
Just based on how things have gone before, I would guess that this particular rally has a little further to go, and then we’re going to see a very sharp correction. However, the correction will probably bottom out around 10k then rebound over time to somewhere between 15k and 20k. It tends to be that the new floor after a big spike is somewhere around the peak of the previous spike. It will still be volatile, but I would expect the new relatively stable band to be in that range.
You can't impeach or have any justice done in two weeks. It's just not worth it.

If there's some kind of crime that's been committed and it can be prosecuted successfully, then by all means after he's out of office. I don't think that's the case though.
What interesting isn’t the price, what’s interesting is the relative stability. Bitcoin is up almost 2x the peak from 3 years ago which isn’t that exciting from a ROI perspective. Tesla for example hit 10x over the last 3 years peak to peak.

The current peak might go much higher, but without that
the peak to peak growth slowdown may discourage a lot of people long on Bitcoin. In other words if the price falls to 20k without hitting 100k, you might see a truly giant sell off.

PS: Peak to peak growth is what’s important from an long term investment standpoint. You could have made great returns investing in say gold at the right time, but gold is a terrible option across 40+ year timescales.
The obvious issue here is that we're intrinsically bound to the services that the people you talk with are themselves locked into. The pressure of your local crowd is surely a stronger determinant of which IM app(s) you use over the ones you like the best.

So yeah, I don't like Facebook's malevolent dictatorship over WhatsApp, but there's zero chance I could - or even would bother to - convince all my friends and family to make the switch.
Or get a visit from the NSA.
will https://communick.com run / configure the various bridges? setting up my own home server for matrix with bridges to existing services (inc WhatsApp) has been on my list for a while. Seems like a nice way to try and migrate slowly away from other services, and if it works well I can show my friends in a sort of like "look this is how ive done it"
Can I help you to at least try it?

Take a look at https://communick.com. You can sign up for a 14-day trial and get to invite 10 people to your plan.
6 months will probably be required for all the redactions.
The referenced graphs measure performance and perceived ability on 4 different tasks. You're right that ideally you'd pool this data to get to an overall correlation, but for the point the author makes, eyeballing it and taking a mental average does the trick, no?

Also, what corner of the universe are you from? Loess regression, hierarchical modeling, conditional analyses... methods for finding "non-global" correlations aplenty.
I got the higher end mac mini recently and it's larger than this but I'm very happy with it. Once you add all the necessities into the NUCs, you end up approaching Mac mini prices. I do like that you have more control over the drives inside.
"Improvements are not consciously forbidden, and making things better is not discouraged. But like an enormous traffic jam, no single person has room to do much of anything. Coordinating a number of people to try and move in a better direction can improve things a little, until they are stopped by another group who has no room to move."

That is a great metaphor. Anybody who's considering joining USDS, I think ckozlowski's comment gets the situation exactly right. You are unblocking a traffic jam.
> Node's popularity is a pretty dramatic counterexample to that assertion.

Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Node is popular because so many people knew JavaScript anyway. JavaScript is popular because it was the only widely-supported programming language for the browser (other than ActionScript, which is itself an ECMAScript flavor).
The apps I use on a daily basis:

* Ghostnote (created by a HN user)
* Sequel Pro (Managing MySQL databases. Which Postgres has an app that was this good)
* Sublime Text
* SourceTree
* Chrome & Chrome Canary
* Filezilla (hate this app for FTP, but I find it strange to pay for something like a FTP client.
* Airmail
* iTerm
* Photoshop
* Keka (Zip & other archive formats)
* Sunrise Calendar
It's a great service to offer. I just figured that being HN, the open-source alternatives should have their place at the table, for the interested, at least in a comment. Good luck with DocuHarvest.
This reminds me of trying to cook pancakes in a microwave back in the day. I poured a shallow plate full of batter and popped it in. This particular microwave had a rotating deck inside, but since the interior dimensions were so small I ended up putting the plate nearly on the center of said deck.
Turns out the pancake "cooked" in concentric rings of alternating fluffy goodness and raw batter. Could probably have determined the speed of light using those too..
There are clearly a bunch of examples of monads that are even pretty understandable in contexts that aren't Haskel (Maybe and Either, as this blog post points out, are succinct examples). It's multiple concepts under the same banner in the same way that 'the visitor pattern' can represent a whole bunch of actual tasks, but the way you perform them is similar enough to justify a name for it.

Really the problem, alluded to in the blog post, is that the worst thing you can possibly do to 'explain' monads is to try to remove them from their context. They aren't fruit, they aren't tupperwear, and a bunch of the incarnations of them aren't useful in imperative programming, so trying to explain them in those contexts is futile.
Recently I learned about UTF-16 when doing some stuff with PowerShell on Windows.

Parallel with my annoyance with Microsoft, I realized how long it’s been since I encountered any kind of text encoding drama. As a regular typer of åäö, many hours of my youth was spent on configuring shells, terminal emulators, and IRC clients to use compatible encodings.

The wide adoption of UTF-8 has been truly awesome. Let’s just hope it’s another 15-20 years until I have to deal with UTF-16 again…
This would’ve been a lot more convincing if you’d stated the transaction fees for the $5 tips. :)
It'd be more appropriate to fall back to a toaster.
> An example close to me is that Uber essentially already lost the Swedish taxi market.

One thing that happened in Sweden though is that every single large taxi company made their own app with a big nice button for "I want a car, here, now", connected payment methods, and real-time tracking of the car you ordered.

So for me as a consumer, I can either press the button in a taxi app, and typically get a nice Mercedes or similar, with taxi plates, with a licensed taxi driver, properly insured, connected to a real taxi company with customer service representatives that I can call if anything goes wrong.

Or, I can press the button in Uber, pay the same money, but get a dude in his Toyota. Oh, and if the dude doesn't like me as a customer, he can downvote me, which results in me getting worse service in the future.

Say what you want, but at least the Swedish taxi companies out-competed Uber fair and square, instead of either giving up, or resorting to shitty political games to get Uber banned.
This is the right way to handle this problem. Everything after 5-10 minutes waste both your time and the interviewer’s time. There’s nothing you can discover that’s important after walking through their plan other than to figure out if they are familiar with code bases like the one you’re using.
> push back against the whole "happy work family" mantra

I agree wholeheartedly. The company is not my family. It must pay me to be there.

I also think "team-building" is ridiculous. If people need to interact more, to socialize, that should be built into the work. Engineering is a group activity. Treating social aspects of it as side-effects is just broken.
I think people drastically overestimate the depreciation from mileage. When you go to sell your car in 15 years the difference between 150k and 300k miles is maybe a couple grand. You're taking about a few cents per hour.
In my high school photography class ~12 years ago, everyone was using Photoshop. But I used GIMP instead. I remember everyone being so impressed - wow, there's this free tool that does pretty much everything Photoshop does?

But I feel like the software has barely changed since then. Photoshop has HEAPS of new features, and it's faster. And of course I don't expect GIMP to keep up with that. But even the basics, it feels just super slow and clunky. I wonder if they fully take advantage of the GPU?

Also yeah, as people have already mentioned, sometimes the UX is a bit confusing. Every time I use the alignment tool, I have to Google how to use it again. A lot of the tools are like that.

Has development slowed down over the past few years? I'm curious. Is there a lack of contributors? Or is the port to Gtk3 so overwhelmingly that it has taken up all their time/effort?
Shanghai should not be the benchmark is the point. Use the lockdown severity of other Chinese cities to make that point.
Where in the interview process was this question used? Were there other programming and/or system design questions before and after? Was this a senior-level candidate question?
Why was this misspelled? Shouldn't it be Vlang (https://vlang.io/), not V-Lang?
AI isn't "mastering language". It's getting good at fooling us. If we then apply Betteridge's Law here, there isn't much of an article left to read.
Probably not, they would likely prioritize your packets to Netflix addresses but everything else would be subjected to any kind of traffic management.
Nor have I. But it may be the future: cf rethinkdb.
stuff like this is exactly why captchas are outdated...they don't stop the real spammers, and just annoy your users.

With most captchas I have to try 3-4 times before I can actually spell out what the image is showing. The only exception is ReCaptcha, those tend to be easy to decipher.

I wonder if 3-4 years down the line, everyone will continue using captchas...even when they stop working as a method to fight spam
We probably shouldn't talk about viruses or security flaws, either -- might give someone the idea that it's ok to break into a machine. We ought to respect it by not discussing such things.
Some simple feedback from another designer:

- Might want to have hover states on the other navigation buttons.

- Too much text above the fold, in my opinion. If possible, I would highlight some short, bullet-points near the top (in larger font)

- What is "appwork" in the top left logo and in the title?
Everywhere else seems to call it "App Sketcher". I would try to be consistent or make the difference clear.
Damn straight. And cache appropriately (and dumbly).
If they referenced it and the patent was still granted, that's bad. It means that the USPTO still considered the patent to be "novel" in spite of all the information found in TAOCP.

I put "novel" in quotes because the courts seem to use a hair-splitting definition of it. I honestly think that, when faced with a pile of Lego blocks, there are patent lawyers who could argue that it's non-obvious that one could combine them.
What really impresses me about this app is how fast it is. Everything you do in it is snappy--I love it!
The bug you linked is about the properties window of an existing bookmark, which is resizable.
When I did first aid, CPR, and disaster training, this was drilled in to me:

Never say "somebody call 911". Either call yourself, or pick a specific person and say "you, call 911" and make sure they acknowledge you. Because if you just say "somebody", everyone will assume you meant somebody other than them.
This is one heuristic which can work for filtering feature requests, but three places where it would fall down immediately come to mind:

1) You have a big customer who has requirements A through Q. Do you want to trust yourself to keep it all in your head?

2) You get 8 requests via email for features in area A of the product while you're really busy, then at a conference a week later you get 2 requests for something in area B from actual people who are standing in front of you. One of them is cute, and you are not Data. Without writing these down, do you think your brain will prioritize effectively?

3) How do you divvy up who works on what features if you don't write them down?
I've never seen patterns like linesrsearchmodefactory in real code and do lots of OO programming. Where does this stuff come from, enterprise java beans?
Don't use list.get() in a loop; that's quadratic for a linked list implementation.
My distaste for the Go community is pretty well-established in these parts; I think worse-is-better is screwing us all, and etcd seems to me to be the worse-is-better Zookeeper. And for things that don't matter, sure, worse-is-better your life away; a Rails app can be whatever you want, but the infrastructure I manage had better be bulletproof. I won't say etcd will never be competitive, but without some significant changes, I don't see it getting my vote--and those changes are largely around the parts of the feature set that etcd doesn't support, at which point...why use it, anyway?
To update that number, the new turbocharged engines required in Formula 1 since 2014 are much quieter (to some fans' dismay), maxing out around 100 dB.

http://www.marca.com/2014/01/30/motor/formula1/1391085772.ht... (Spanish)
> "white is bad, black is good."

This is a strawman. Please point me to the place in this article where the superintendent states this. As far as I can tell, the officials quoted are concerned about the lack of diversity in their advanced classes, which are disproportionately white. This is not the same as "white is bad".

> I can totally see how universities will implement soon the curve fitting so popular in the corporate world: when asian students will be given a "GPA budget" that they can distribute among themselves, and that budget will be "3.0 for everyone or 4.0 for some and 2.5 for others."

This is pure fanciful speculation and has no relevance to this article. The school district has not proposed any such scheme. What evidence supports the claim that such a program will be implemented "soon"?
So, I am going to give a controversial take here.

Non-competes in general are not enforced. Often times they are straight up illegal, and even when they are legal, it is really pretty easy to hide where your new work is.

If you are stupid, you could get caught. But, in reality, if you actually take the correct actions, and are smart about it, the chances of you being targeted or sued is very slim.

IE, you can get away with breaking the contract. Probably because the contract is illegal, unenforceable, or unlikely to be enforced.

The important thing to do, is you just need to lie, and don't tell your former employer where your new job is. So don't put it on linkedin, ect.
Be transparent with your friend horror story and why you don’t want to sign the non-compete. You can also ask for a precise list.

Overall I would sign it without thinking too much of it. They probably have some horror stories from the other side!
^this. Though I do enjoy having the app as a backup for when I can't find the damn remote and am too lazy to look for it.
I think someone in QA likely might have the scenario you describe, but I think management might only be playing the game 2-3 times a day at most. They're likely trying to keep the studio organized enough to have the game ship decently.
I had to look up a picture because I didn't realize they'd updated the remote at some point. I apparently have a previous generation remote which has all the controls at one end and is pretty usable in the dark. It's sad (but not shocking) to see design usability regress like that.
If they find out the truth later, you'd still be in violation.
Yes! Mario 64 is a game I will continue to replay for the rest of my life.
I agree with that. But I also think there is other reason for anti-pollution laws, which is in addition to saving people, also saving the Earth, too, which is also important (independently of if the people are saved; some people want to do so for the people but I think that is only a part of it).

And if someone does have a hermetically sealed room no smoke will escape from, I suppose that is OK, so shouldn't be illegal except forcing someone to do against their will.
Whichever college you'll go, you'll need to commit yourself and learn a lot by yourself. The earlier you take the habit, the better you'll be. Don't wait knowledge comes to you, grab it by all means.

In some countries, college degrees are mandatory to obtain jobs, and you'll need one.
But college is not only for learning (remember: learn by yourself whatever you want, all is accessible) college is also to meet people, to create a network in your field of interest.
So use this time to achieve this, meet the futures CTOs, coworkers or maybe your future cofounders !
This is far more important than you think, and in fact, I would have liked I had this advice more younger...
Those sound like baked potato strips.
They might want to consider revising that decision because X is going away. If they don't, wmii will go away with it.
On the "Map of the Myriad Countries of the World" (1602 AD) bears a description near Europe:

"The continent of Europe has over thirty countries. All implement the laws of the past sovereigns. No heterodox doctrines are followed. They only believe in the Lord of the Heaven, the Emperor on High, and the doctrines of the ancient sage kings." [1]

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=c9G6Eeh-CMgC&pg=PA253&lpg=...
That's nice but I prefer people to use the "real" git just so they know how it works and can manage when inevitably something goes wrong.
Look I want to put the boot into silicon valley snake oil salesmen and billionaire assholes as much if not more than most here but this troubles me a little.

None of this kind of story before his fall from grace and now here it all is. So I guess we don't get it reported if his snakeoil IPO'd for a squillion dollars? Or maybe is it exaggerated now it publically failed to IPO so putting the boot in is allowed.

It seems like there is a fair amount of reporting where those working on it are desperate to knife the subject but only occasionally allowed to be let off the leash to do the hatchet job.

Maybe it has some baring on how such an asshole as Neumann has failed upwards to become a billionaire.

Failed upwards to become a billionaire. Does he care what we think of him in any way?
How many git interfaces do I need to be capable of using?