jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> it's not really relevant to the person who is given a thread: they should know what they want to do with it, and if they want to join it they ought do so.

You might be onto something with this but it's not obvious to me. I would've thought if the caller says "don't join this on destruction", that means "I know what this thread does better than you because I created it, and you cannot expect to be able to wait for it to exit in the general case" (e.g., maybe it infinite-loops or something). Under what scenario would the callee have a good reason to give you a non-auto-joining thread, and you (the caller) a good reason to override that assessment on destruction by default, and why are these scenarios the desired general behavior? (I can understand special cases, like when you pass a particular message to the thread to get it to quit, but not the general case for destructors.)
The Midwesterner shouldn't fear the Californian. That's a boogyman. The Midwesterner however, should have a real fear of their fellow wealthy Midwesterners, who will go from one house to 2.5 on average after their children come of age and outbid the middle class midwesterner for the limited housing stock available in predominantly single family home cities.
It reads like they're just vomiting statistics to try to scare the reader.
You can compare https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review... and https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
This article seems to be highly linked to a study summarized by this NYT article [1] where Hart and Risley were studying how parents of different socioeconomic backgrounds talked to their babies. Every month, the researchers visited the 42 families in the study and recorded an hour of parent-child interaction.

The study found that amount of variety in exposed words from real people mattered much more than just the amount of words a child was exposed to, when it relates to their development.

[1]http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/04/10/the-p...
> You should consider the first version a throwaway.

If you start out knowing that you are writing something that will be trashed, why would you invest yourself in it? It's hard to tell someone to build something that will be thrown away; to trade the time they can never get back for something that will most likely fail. That will almost certainly _not_ get their best work - which means your odds of success go down; perhaps drastically. And if the first version DOES happen to work, you still have to throw it away at some point and start over (or else live in pain for the life of the product). Either way; you loose.

Now think about the approach where you take the time to think through your ideas. Where you expect the best from your people right from the start because you're all building to last. When you earnestly expect the best of people, they generally give you that (or close to it, at least). You get a better result. So then the first version doesn't work. But you've learned a lot, because the thought process you went through taught you things; things you took the time to learn. Things you can leverage in your next venture; things that will speed it up, make it stronger, get it quicker. But what if it worked? Now you're not fettered with the task of rebuilding what you've just built because what you have is solid. It can be built on. So that momentum you have as the first version works can be leveraged into the second, third and fourth versions. And momentum means something; it means happier employees and - ultimately - better returns.

The former (get it quick) is (for the most part) the world of today. The latter (get it right) was the world the author remembers - and pines for.
I've been thinking about this just the other day. The context then was locally grown weed in the US and the implications of that for farmers in South America. Wouldn't we be better off distributing the "workload" evenly across the planet?
This acquisition actually makes a lot more sense to me than Facebook buying Oculus. Oculus' ostensible business model was selling hardware to users, which is totally orthogonal to Facebook's business model of selling users to advertisers. IMO there's absolutely no way Facebook bought Oculus just to get the revenue from selling Oculus hardware, but I still don't see what their plan would be for integrating that hardware into their existing business model. I can definitely see how a natural-language API would fit in.
I fear FB is trying to "thread the needle" a bit too finely here. In the process, they are becoming arbiters of content. I feel like a little kid in school being told what's good for me. There's a healthy skepticism of our public officials that should be encouraged. Many of their fact checks delve into opinion and are more complex than simply true/false/or missing context.
FWIW I just finished a beginners python course on Coursera - Programming for Everyone (PR4E, https://class.coursera.org/pythonlearn-003/). There's no natural follow on as the course uses a book for which only the first part has been translated in to a course. There were a lot of people on the course asking what to do as follow-up; might be a lead for you.

I just signed up for your samples as 'pbhj' if you want to get in touch.

Incidentally, when one adds themselves to your email list for samples it takes you to https://lerner.leadpages.net/new-practice-makes-python/thank... but there's no route back other than using the back button. IME this tends to mean people will just close the tab, providing a route back or on to a related page might help conversions or give you chance to get affiliate conversions or what-have-you.
Nothing stops them from doing that. We had that happen in the past, and just changed the requirements around a bit. However, immediately after completing the coding challenge, applicants are given a Technical Interview, and you can't really hide behind someone else's answer when you're asked to explain the code you wrote. We also have them create a new application during the technical interview, which we don't publish on the web. They pair with one of the interviewers on creating another toy application.

What we are looking for is not necessarily one given answer, instead, we look for how well someone can explain the answer they wrote. If they can take someone through their thought process for whatever decisions they made, they're likely going to be a good programmer.

Juggling various incoming skill levels is always a challenge. You can't perfectly line up every student, but you can plan for it in the curriculum. The admissions process helps us identify people who can already teach themselves programming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664822
> For anyone who is happy about this, imagine if it was done to the politician you support.

I'm not overly concerned since politician I support don't encourage their supporters to attack democratic institutions.
> reddit posts about her husband were being censored

Pure conspiracy theory.
>doesn't include the error handling that is constantly necessary in C

I mean, I'm sure there are some cases, but how many C programs are capable of gracefully recovering from a malloc failure? Probably very few. If the program is going to crash anyway...
Low overhead costs and charging users something like $3/mo would be the target for sustainability if the network ever starts to have significant operating expenses. Until then, it's really cheap to keep running.
just like the WeChat way of dealing moments.
All online games have factions that think their game has been downhill since one version or another and stay there with private servers. Minecraft has a few such factions, so your plugin probably serves one of them.
I take it you've never cycled in Virginia. I have (on "slow" roads no less) and I've had no less than a dozen people buzz me at over 20 miles above the speed limit.

(There is no such thing as a road where people "don't want" to go fast, because "fast" is disjointed in meaning: there's the legal speed that drivers regularly and unsafely exceed, and there's the "fast" speed at which drivers perceive how unsafe they're being.)
Probably breaking the TOS for all the search engines.
Because if an algorithm is capable of setting up the conceptual machinery for making sense of and explaining Cauchy's integral formula then that algorithm is revealing something about the structure of the human brain and as such it would be a good benchmark for understanding how human intelligence actually works (not just in the 1% of people). Moreover, mathematics is a fantastic proving ground for testing algorithms that purport to explain symbolic intelligence because if something can not work in a mathematical setting/context then there is no hope it will ever work in the real world since real world intelligence is much more than symbol shuffling. Cauchy's integral formula is a reasonable proxy for proving understanding of symbolic systems and not just juggling their statistical properties/associations.

If you think that Cauchy's integral formula is too complicated then there are probably simpler problems that would also serve as reasonable proxies of symbolic understanding, e.g. elementary group theory and linear algebra.
They just turned into pigeons, really.
So a proper census would do a reverse dns lookup on every IP looking for a "minecraft" SRV record and connecting to that.
This reads like a manic episode.
What does Jr mean? :) For example it's expected that our L2s (new grad) won't stay L2s for long. It's meant to be a very quick set of promotions up to L3 then L4 (Sr I) where things get real. Why would I care? Because along with a promo come promo raises and movement to new salary bands. At the higher levels the salary bands expand a lot and then your manager has wiggle room to work on your total comp.

So the first question I'd ask is, how am I meeting the requirements for my level, and how do I get to the next level? Ask to see what a promo package looks like. Making sure you check all the requirements for your level, and are performing on some at the next level if your fastest way to get a real salary bump at my company. This can happen every 6 months.

Now, this is what's true at my company and how it works here. How does your company work? What knobs does your manage have that he can turn? If you want to stay there a few years, have this conversation with your manager and understand how the system work, what's possible and does this fit with your goals.
No, it couldn't. "Compel" doesn't mean the suspect has to smile while schlepping a file to the police station, it means the police can get a warrant.
But time != energy + motivation. Also time != money. I realize it won't be as eye-catching, but showing time wasted rather than money is more direct and truthful. Then I suppose the problem is that apps like that already exist...
Recursive functions:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/recursive-functions/
I'm not a capitalist. Profitability is helpful under capitalism for survival, but it's a poor measure of anything other than whether one number is higher than another.

YC funds a lot of companies who do cool things that aren't very profitable. I don't know what most of them do, and that's great. So many of them serve niches I haven't even heard of. If they break even making someone's life better, then they're a success.

Imagine a world without Stripe or something like it. The current boom in membership services might not have happened. Even VC-juiced Patreon, which I use, handles payments through Stripe. How many successful companies by your measure glue their business together with companies that got their initial funding and guidance from YC?
Looking at the first page of the linked PDF, it's not explicit about whether the alphabet must be finite, although it's implied by the summary saying that addition can only be done modulo some finite value.

It is explicit about having an arbitrary alphabet, a single tape that's infinite in both directions and that the head has to move every time.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone restrict a Turing machine in a novel way and not follow that up with a rigorous proof.
Are you talking about 'The Story of Us' on Netflix?
It's curve-fitting with a few extra steps. You can do a lot with curve-fitting though.
The environment takes a toll on everyone, some more than others. The things I've seen ... you cannot un-see ;)
Gox claimed 95% of their coins were in cold storage.

Unproven claims aren't worth much.
Excuse me but it's GNU/BLINUX.
I will admit that I find the whole issue bewildering, but my gut reaction is that I will in the long run care more about keeping the software flowing than the hardware.
Can comedians from a dominant culture travel a do a date or two in another country sure. That is not the same as a Slovenian comic coming to the US. Say Russel Crowe (do you mean Brand?) coming to the US is an example is a joke. UK is the closest you could get to US than maybe Canada.
The super-wealthy can play accounting games to have relatively low income but huge assets.
> Russia Today etc is a little more factually flexible.

Russia Today is a state-run propaganda outlet specifically structured to engage viewers and shift perspectives outside of Russia about Russian behaviors and affairs. It's essentially the Russian government pulling a "Radio Free Europe"[1] against the US, and it's no surprise that RT has become a darling for conspiracy theorists and right-wing trolls in the US since.

Calling RT "factually flexible" is hilarious and far too charitable. The grandparent has a point that their green sources tend to be biased towards a pro-West point-of-view, but pointedly they're also all sources which exist (for better or for worse) as editorially independent from their governments, and have a strong history of criticism of their own government as well as governments around the world. The sources considered yellow aren't merely biased, they have a history of being shills, choosing not to run stories or to outright lie when it benefits their government or political agenda. Many of the red sources could only be quantitatively considered "fake news".

It's not a mistake that US/UK based sources are more reliable than sources elsewhere, and while it likely is somewhat influenced by the bias of the people making the list, it's also heavily influenced by the reality of the situation. Most of the world, especially the developing world, does not have a true freedom of the press that has been established in the West for far longer. This situation is shifting, to some degree, but we've also seen backslides. Honest journalism and press freedom isn't something we can take for granted, we must actively fight to keep it and to hold journalists and governments accountable as a people. It was just in 2018 that Hungary (an EU member state) had it's /last/ opposition non-state media outlet shut down under threat, and now has all of its Hungarian-language news completely beholden to the state. This isn't a case unique to the developing world, it's happening in parts of Europe too, and we've seen dangerous shifts in the US.

I think the grandparent's complaint is honestly more biased than this list, and reveals that they hold resentment towards the West and believe (rightly) that the world is dominated by a Western narrative as an outcome of the US global hegemony. What they fail to admit to themselves is that this also is the driving force behind press freedom increasing globally, because the natural state of affairs is for media to avoid stepping on toes, and they must admit that most of the outlets they've listed, including the Times of India, have taken blatant actions that would call their reliability into question.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...
They're called insurrectionists in my country, and I wouldn't be surprised they're called this way in other countries.
The same way the false [1] allegations against Julian Assange are related to Wikileaks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22201381
Most likely because the people keeping the platform alive have better things to do than offer free beer, and would rather spend their lives doing something else instead.
If avoiding reporting a transaction is the goal does committing the transaction to a public blockchain really bypass this? All activity is pseudonymous and in the clear.
Hey all, I put this together over the holidays after initial tests showed that delay around 10-20ms was achievable with WebRTC. The jams are only 2 person and only MIDI, but for that reason it's also fairly flexible and requires little set up compared to other options (see https://github.com/jminjie/fourhands for discussion on prior art)
How about switching to renewables + batteries?
Solar is now as cheap as coal power in China.

When you add some batteries you will be fine with no pollution.
And no waste your childerns childern (and beyond) have to take care of.
> After asking five different doctors about it, one finally agreed to prescribe it.

Were the other four too lazy/orthodox to read the papers you're referencing? Or they read the papers and still thought it wasn't a good idea? I'm going to presume that the former is the case, unfortunately.
From your link:

"Demonstrators wore shirts that said "Believe Women" and "Be A Hero" in support of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who have each accused Kavanaugh of separate incidents of sexual assault. Kavanaugh has strongly denied the allegations."

How many offices did they trash? How many people died? How many injured? How many had pipes, clubs or guns? How many had molotov cocktails?

That'd be zero on all counts.
Too late for some unrealistic short-term fights which probably are lost but the fight does not end. We will still need to decrease atmospheric pollution in 2040.
100% travel is pretty tough, but if you're up for it you'll have the opportunity to spend time with a multitude of clients who are willing to pay money to have their problems solved. You'll make many contacts, and if you're any good you'll likely get plenty of job offers from the clients. It'll be a nice way to move your career forward.

The travel will be fun, but you'll have little opportunity to build a home life or deep personal relationships.

You can take a product development job anytime, but consulting and 100% travel are only doable for a brief window in your life (typically when you don't have a wife/husband and kids). If you're ok with the travel, give the consulting gig a try. You can always go back to civilian life later.
Although I struggle with focus myself, I can't help but feel jaded about things like this. To paraphrase some stuff Merlin Mann said, the real issue is seeking out things that you care enough about that you don't need to trick yourself in to staying on track.
My pizza engineer taught me that the volume of a pizza with radius 'z' and height 'a' is, in fact, pizza.
Who made this? I want to cite it properly on TechCrunch?
Yeah. Finally they fixed this ssl bug and also important to me this annoying webcam bug on Macbook Air for Skype and Hangouts.
Has everyone made a Pokemon site as part of some rite of passage or something? One of the first things I did to teach myself Perl and HTML back in the day was write a Pokedex page.

Maybe Pokemon can be the new Hello World.
My favorite thing about the MITx MOOCs are that they have really well-designed, carefully-devised problem sets, which I think might be the most important factor of a great class.
It's a "reduced-pressure tube." A leak is still a big deal, isn't it?

Regardless, the core structural engineering is the focus of the criticism, not whether it might leak. Also, since Space X's whole point is to compete on cost savings, it was a little strange to hear cost projections that were so optimistic.
Back when I helped edit wikipedia physics articles, it was very noticeable that almost every crank with an anti-relativity agenda had an EE background. Not just engineering, but very specifically electrical engineering.
> to deprive us of our best inheritance, the laws of the land

"Laws of the land" refers to English Common Law, and if that's what the battle was to save, it's already lost. We've already wrecked our own common law system pretty thoroughly with the proliferation of bodies of civil law. Legislators can't leave our court systems well-enough alone.
I'm amazed it's taken this long for innovation to happen in rocketry. Here's an entire industry that -expects- your production model to explode and crash after one use. Literally anything that doesn't explode and crash is a step forward. And it's been this way for 50 years!
Well, the phrase "liberal arts education" is more common in the US, I think, but I also expect most people would get the meaning.
22 subscribers to their blog's RSS feed. The web has changed.
There is direct ivar access, but no sane person uses it outside of the class itself :P
I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that people who endeavor to figure out and post the identities of startups who post jobs are jerks. You make a fair point about why they shouldn't do it, and I think you're right to discourage it. Curiosity, however seems like a more probable motivation than malice.
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You can work that out.

Start from http://news.ycombinator.com/newest go to the bottom of the page and click on "More" until one of the entries says "1 day ago", and there you are. As I write this there have been 282 items in the past 24 hours.

That's on a Sunday, which as the charts show, is a slow day.

Also just checked - the gap from "3 days ago" to "4 days ago" is 604 items. That's 604 items in a 24 hour period during the week.
isn't this the kind of thing the hn-chicago list is for?
PG listed hard skills. But a general willingness to work hard, be tough, and be resourceful will go a long ways.

Startups should be defined as the ability to manage a shortage of resources for an often changing goal.
Yes, exactly, in fact I was just editing my post to add that concern! Their garbage collector constantly scans the heap fixing up pointers so you don't have to wait for every reference to hit a page fault, but it seems difficult to guarantee that you're done if the program is twiddling references while the collector is doing its work. Perhaps there is also a write barrier which makes sure to never write a pointer to a collected page.
Is this approach "more local", in the sense that you could build hardware where local units got work done with less communication? That would have potential. It's feasible to build ICs with a few million simple compute units if they don't have to talk to each other or to memory much. GPUs are a few hundred or a few thousand parallel units that talk to memory a lot.
GCP has billing alerts, and a cap. But it can take up to 24 hours after the cap is hit before you stop receiving new charges in some case so it isn't perfect.
We talked about caps with the Google reps at my day job.

The short answer was 'we can, but don't want to' (note : this may be completely unrelated to what Google thinks internally, and is just what the fairly high up the food chain rep told us)
> The sub-editors seemed to be mostly George Smiley-type Oxford and Cambridge PhD's

As an Economist reader for 15 years now and as a big Le Carre fan that’s exactly how I imagined them to be. Even though after the latest editor change there seems to have been a notable change in tone/style, most visible (for me) in the US-related section (calling a sitting US president names isn’t what I expected from The Economist).
That still does not explain why they refuse to answer the question.