jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that there is more to it than this, though. The overhead added by many of the algorithms for scalability have a sizeable cost that has not kept pace with Moore's Law as to what can be done on a local machine.

There is a similar section in Knuth's Stanford GraphBase where he examines several graph algorithms and finds that the more advanced ones have better asymptotic behavior, but that the simpler algorithms outperform them at real numbers.

Bearing that I am not an expert, I do want to know of more in this discussion. And I fully welcome explanations of where I'm wrong. :)
Physics is applied math and I think that is an important distinction.
Would the dart VM be the place to start? It's the newest and I saw a presentation somewhere where it looked like part of what motivated them to create it was having to deal with so many edge cases in JavaScript. I imagine the source of V8 is probably not going to be that easy to pick up.
Actually, Iran was happy to take American support during that war[1], and the Iraqi program was not supported by the US - the program was mainly supported by French and Germany, which Iran is weirdly not pissed at.

Almost like there's no tit-for-tat. Maybe the real reason for the enmity is the Iranian regime being theocratic revolutionaries and the US not allowing them to 'export their revolution' (that is, take over the ME) as much as they'd like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
I'm aware and agree that quantum computer speed is very probably greater than classical and may allow some NP. My point is more that I'd expect the performance cost of QM to equal the complexity class of QM. I don't know, is that the case in current research? Whenever people talk about how expensive it is to compute QM, that always sounds a lot higher than the actual performance they get back out. Or maybe I just have a bad imagination for how high NP really is.

Disagreeing again with the "Ansible is unrealistic" view: I agree it's unrealistic in a global sense, I just think all of its unrealism comes from the use of FTL in the backend. FTL + relativity produces timetravel, yes. I just think it's implausible to expect a physical universe to first provision the mechanics for FTL, then provision a system that gives you timetravel when exposed to FTL, and then very carefully separate those two systems so that they computationally never touch, even though in theory they could! and so in a sense, this physical theory implies that this universe has to be prepared, in principle, to allow time travel and account for it, and having gained this capability has elected to specifically not use it. It just stinks of a massive Occam violation - the potential for time travel is an "entity without necessity", and the theory is bloated by it twice over; once by its inclusion in the physical logic and once again by the additional exclusion mechanism that makes it unusable in every reachable state. And so the ansible universe pays slightly less cost just by leaving out the global censor.

Am I saying "no correct theory can look like this"? No! I am saying it enters the race with a huge handicap.
It wouldn't be unprecedented. Sony released the Playstation 3 with the ability to run Linux and removed it later using a firmware update.

https://tedium.co/2020/11/27/sony-linux-otheros-geohot-histo...
It’s funny that you call it inadequate while a bunch of developers make very useful products based around it.
This is one of those things that sound interesting but only from a technical point. Why would anyone take on this level of risk? In a few years they will be complaining on HN about being kicked off Apple silicon.
Very true - further evidenced by the five or six different approaches your sibling comments are recommending.
sounds like the system is working as intended
Probably related to the large amount of funding they raised compared to the exit, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/songkick
Point 3 sounds made up. Banks are in the business of lending, I can't really imagine a scenario where they have an incentive to lend less.
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In some states emission testing is only required in certain areas of the state. For example, in Georgia only cars registered in Atlanta-area counties have to be emission-tested. (Also, cars less than three years old are exempted.)
The preceding paragraphs before that line all attack the press concept of the Chinese ghost city though, so in the context of that line, ghost city is meaning 'normal city still under construction' rather than 'giant Potemkin village never to be filled'.
Celibacy for the poor was his preferred method.

And three very prominent opponents of Malthus are Marx, Engels and Lenin.

The one child policy is not particularly communist.

edit - Also, China has an insanely long literary history, if I was going to place bets I'd start looking for the sources of the one-child policy somewhere in there before going to people like Malthus or Marx. That said, the policy is without a doubt far more Malthusian than it is Marxist.

edit2 - here's a guess - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Lord_Shang
99 times out of 100, I'm extracting a gzip'd tarball. Thus, I've muscle-memorized "tar xzf file.tar.gz". What helped me do that was a little mnemonic that my friend told me: eXtract Zee File.
No, don't delete the comment. And don't go away!
I guess the question is does switching piecemeal allow for some of the benefits of switching wholesale? Especially, can I restrict which parts of my address book (and other data) get shared with WhatsApp?

Then I could communicate with people who are on another platform using that platform but keep using WhatsApp for people who haven't moved over. Hopefully over time there would be a complete migration.
Facebook has also recently started to require a Facebook account to use Oculus VR. It appears they are starting to crack down on the services they have acquired. I assume this more hardline approach of "give us your data or get out" will continue with any other current or future services created or purchased.
I'm aware of this issue and agree with the concern, but there are additional ways of mitigating fraud, and I wasn't thinking about IDs or any specific solutions while writing the post. (But now that it's come up, in theory if this were to be implemented, I think there could possibly be ways of proactively providing as many people as possible with IDs without requiring them to spend money or time to obtain it; maybe this could be done over a years-long process before adding any requirements. I don't know all the nuances, though.)

I was just trying to talk about this specific argument and how it's often used in isolation to create a certain way of seeing things that I think is based on shaky grounds.

I'm not trying to take any ideological stance, but just discuss epistemology in general. (Though for the record, I've only ever voted and will very likely only ever vote Democrat. I promise I don't have any ulterior motives regarding this topic and am a strong supporter of voter enfranchisement. Risk assessment in general just is a component of my job and hobbies.)
For the second word he says 'my ex girlfriend...' and then guesses the dutch equivalent of the word 'cunt', basically.
Is there a particular reason that Signal needs donations? I thought Brian Acton injected $50m two years ago…
It's why there is a second board to handle critical tasks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671318
Do you know of any resources describing this as a developer responsibility/best practice? I agree with you, but I'm looking for some independent resource that I can show to Business to convey to them the importance of this.

(Most resources I'm finding are only describing the importance of remembering to change the default password, rather than designing a system without a default password to begin with.)
Oh hell yes, I basically don't delete email ever and as a result I have an archive of every email (pointless or not) since 2005. (Though I just checked and my first email on gmail is porn spam). Meanwhile everything I had from every account prior to that, dating back to 1991 or so, is lost forever. Apart from some very embarassing forever-archived usenet posts.
This reminds of the recent Pixels movie trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHprLW48no
I completely forgot about that computer and the organization behind it. Looking at their site I guess they eventually moved on to a tablet in addition to a version of the computer; I wonder if they can even make them cheaper than these big companies anymore.
Am i the only one who's reminded of Idiocracy's hospital scene? https://s3.amazonaws.com/lardbiscuit/pix/idiothospital.jpg

Consider me old fashioned, but what is so hard about a shopping list, or a problem that's not already solved by amazon subscriptions? Especially on essential items, usage rate is pretty static, and its not like hitting "OMG IM OUT OF BOUNTYS!" button will make them instantly appear.

Perhaps this is their implementation of Adobe's "encyclopedia" commercial? (ok im done with TV references)

What WOULD be cool and useful is a way for me to say "hey, send me this subscription item a week later/earlier because my usage rate is not what i thought it would be.
Pen testing is a viable alternative in the same way that driving a car is an alternative to designing an engine.

When your specialty is in finding novel exploits, there's not much of a market for you outside the government-o-sphere. In practical terms, pen tests are typically not focused on finding novel exploits.

Nevermind the vast difference in career expectations between salaried government work and consulting.
>>>UX design is not easy but has to be treated as more important than just making it pretty. Understanding how real people use these things is incredibly important and not just a last minute bullet check.

Amen brother.

The last four large scale business enterprise applications I've worked on, design was left to either the back-end developers, project managers or done by committee. The ones done by committee were absolutely brutal. Nothing rips your soul out quicker than trying to get 20 or more people to agree on something.

I have no idea when or where design just got completely buried and left to people who clearly have no idea what they're doing, but in your case, it's incredibly troubling and scary.
The downside of this is that the comment becomes just another piece of the data model, because anything that consumes that JSON will need to decide: do I preserve comments, or remove them, when re-emitting the JSON?

If I remove them, comments are kind of only useful for things like initial config files or what have you. Which might be fine for your use case, but JSON broadly is not about making configuration files - this is more suited for something like YAML.

If you preserve them - how is that different from a key-value just named "comment": "Here's my comment"? (And if the answer is "because it might not crash poorly coded applications," that's more of a discussion about the application than it is about comments in JSON)
Youtube does support HTML5, but it's optional. From your account settings enable it and on any supported videos it'll be used.

For me I'm glad it's optional, the versatility of the Flash video player is preferable for me, HTML5 might be fancy schmancy but it sucks right now for features.
Assuming you are working at PNNL I agree they have a great program. One of the few places I've collaborated with that understood the upsides involved.

I do see more and more educational opportunities and attempts to be forward looking with this. They just always seem super undercooked like setting up an institute to encourage collaborating (but good luck working there at an early stage unless you're already a professor somewhere). Or more often only really open to current PhD students or postdocs if you're not already a professor.

I'll figure it out eventually, I just wish it didn't feel like I have to bootstrap the whole thing to get anything to happen.

I'm just sad that now that it might finally be possible for anyone to lead such an effort I don't have the stamina to do it.
> I think our current method of measuring inflation against the CPI is nonsense,

It's not nonsense for policies that are directly concerned with consumer prices, which most that the CPI (or, more precisely, any of the CPIs, of which there are several) is used for do. We have lots of other inflation measures (, industry specific PPIs, for instance) for other purposes.

> Measuring inflation (or whatever you want to call the difference between an asset's nominal value and it's intrinsic value) is still useful

That's not what inflation is supposed to measure, because that's a nonsense thing to try to measure, because there is no such thing as intrinsic value.

> but the current method of pegging everything against the bag-of-goods in the CPI seems like an overly simplistic model.

How? Consumer prices are final prices. Everything else is instrumental to producing final goods and services.

> The intrinsic dollar value of an asset is its value relative to how many dollars there are

No it's not, and even if it was, that wouldn't make M1 a sensible measure. Why not the actual number of actual dollars there are: monetary base. Or something that better captures the number of effective dollars, M2.
Biggest wins are often achieved by starting from the demand side and try to figure out how to reduce demand. Think about the what jobs your software applications do. Are there other lower-carbon ways to do those jobs?

Simple non software example: I want to reduce carbon emissions of my dining. Current habit is to dine out at restaurant with friends 50% of time, cook at home 50% of time. Dining does multiple jobs: providing basic nutrition, letting me catch up with friends over shared activity. Dining at restaurant is more energy & carbon intensive than dining at home. Job of catching up with friends can be done by lower carbon activity such as getting a coffee. New routine could be dine out at restaurant 10% of time, cook at home 90% of time. New non-dining habit of coffee to do job of catching up with friends.

Very different result compared to thinking about "how do i minimise the carbon emissions of the restaurant i dine at"
Some might say that as many people started writing c++ compilers as those of C but that the C++ crowd just haven't finished them. Perhaps another decade?

I don't envy anyone writing such a compiler. Its possible but I didn't start one. Seemed like less fun and more like red tape.

The pilgrimage thing is real. Done it myself. The journey from even boot to bash is real and the benefits of awareness it brings definitely appear in strange places. I went even further before the "boot" stage.
You're right, I meant the quote as a paraphrase of what I hear often but it's misleading since that exact phrase is not in the article. I removed the quote.
WHO confirmed it was in China months before its confirmation in December.
Wouldn't we end up with a giant wordsearch? You could even encode secret messages by skipping spaces for each letter of a word.

Then once you have this huge wordsearch, you sell printed poster versions.
Do you have any idea how many government documents are produced each year with similar sounding verbiage? If that's your criteria for being a trial balloon, then the government puts out millions of trial balloons every year. One for every man, woman and child!

A key part of the dictionary definition is intent and you have absolutely no evidence - none whatsoever - indicating that this document was intended to test public reaction. If it was, I imagine they'd have leaked it to a real newspaper and not to the humiliated house organ of a crazy cult leader who had himself proclaimed king of the universe. The Washington Times circulation numbers are pathetic so it is a terrible vehicle for leaking: the public's response can't be gauged if the public doesn't see the proposal to begin with.
when you compile vim this way, do you get the menus also, or is that only gvim? About the only thing I do by menu is change the color scheme, because I never remember the commands (nor the scheme names, for that matter). Different schemes can be useful for different lighting conditions and different monitors.
> Are you really insistent that you come op with your own "-moz-viewport" crap just because there isn't a draft standard?

No, we're not insistent. We implemented WebKit's "viewport" meta tag. We can be pragmatic too.

I just wanted to point out one of the many of Safari features that Apple is promoting without writing any specs or standards, and the effect this has on the browser market. Others include touch events, link[rel="apple-X"], -webkit-text-size-adjust...

I agree the proliferation of vendor prefixes in the wild has bad effects, and we are feeling the pain of it too.

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> Have fun being another legacy browser on a slow release cycle that can't ship a decent mobile browser.

Thanks for the kind words. :) We know we're way behind the game on mobile, and the only thing we can do to fix it is ship great software. I think when you get a chance to see what you can do with add-ons for mobile Firefox, you'll be tempted to switch.

We're on a rough six-month release schedule: Fennec 1.0 shipped in January, Fennec 1.1 will ship this month, and we are targeting this October or November for Fennec 2.0. Look for our first 2.0 alpha release for Maemo and Android in a month or two.

[P.S. I see you're in Seattle too! Want to get together for coffee sometime? Email me if you do.]
If they have to make up the difference often enough, they'll just let you go.
Funny how they compare this to AA batteries that anyone can make while they want a DRM enforced monopoly...

Open up!
Higher wages might make it easier to make a business case for installing kiosks, but it does nothing to lower the price of the kiosks. I don't see how it qualifies as a "subsidy".
Or you could use searx.
I don't know how much bandwidth gets CloudFlare to have a chat with me, but I'll cross that bridge when I get routed over it.
DDG has been getting better. I've switched my browsers search to it and only occasionally go back to Google for something specific.
Gross MARGIN Matters... Gross MARGINS might describe an issue of Hustler in a 1980s frat house...
Why should this be implemented in HTTP itself, rather than as an application using HTTP as a transport?
If you want an all-in-one there are climate cabinets that keep separate cool air and hot air loops e.g. [1].

The downside is of course the price at >$5k for a 24U.

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3, 2, 1 for celebrities accessing this treatments through Hollywood doctors, and then the spawning of a thriving cottage industry of shady tree doctors to satisfy the demand from their social media followers.
Any "top 50" list of cities by density is inherently biased: How do you demarcate where the city's borders lie? Do you count surrounding municipalities? The whole thing is going to be comparing apples and oranges, because different cities are organized differently. It just isn't something you can easily distill down into a list like that.
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Yeah, as I explained in reply to martinald, I had missed that. This is indeed a clever tactic. And very bad for Baidu's business, they must be outraged.
Same thing is happening to me. Let me know if I can help (I'm in France if that matters).
It seems that the UI shown in games and movies is meant more to quickly show the viewer what the screen is trying to say more than it is supposed to be usable to the person. That's why you always see such big fonts and simplified diagrams. It would seem to me that this is generally inefficient because it means you must constantly be switching between views if you want to see more than a giant number a progress bar.

Furthermore, there's a certain one-upsmanship in Hollywood in trying to show how advanced a society is by how many increasingly complicated gestures one has to perform to use the interface. Something tells me that a Minority Report style interface is more tiring and over the long run than a keyboard. Heck, there were people complaining that the Wii has similar issues with extended play of all these waggle games.
Very interesting data but not a great interactive graphic. Instead of color to indicate direction maybe they could have used curved lines and arching over the strait line could be in and under could be out.

They don't even try to graph per capita income -- which naturally lends itself to red/black. Are poor people moving in or out? Are high wage earners? or everyone? It is not possible to tell unless you start clicking around.

For example, you click on Atlanta you see a mass of black lines heading from the northeast to Atlanta. But if hover over Middlesex county (Boston) you see the detail of 188 people leaving Boston with an average income of $38,700 and 151 people moving from Atlanta to Boston with per capita income of $174,100.

I'll take that trade any day.

I give the graphic a C+, great data, good first try, but re-cook it.
Use either https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el or https://github.com/pashinin/workgroups2.
This doesn't bode well for Google, but rather, is damming for what is supposed to be one of the richest places on Earth. Just image trying to live on less than $15/hour.

The story is full of the standard paradoxes: a) She's being paid 'reasonably' but probably not for such a rich company/area b) She's entitled to 'talk about comp' but people slamming the company publicly on Facebook posts are not going to last, it's reasonable that the company wold be upset buy that c) Google is full of actually quite nice people wanting to make a difference, there's a lot of moralizing about 'equity and diversity' but in their relentless pursuit of profit they create a 'tiered class system' of people, of completely secondary status and they grind them with every bit of the massive power they have.

Google is not rich because they 'nickle and dime' people, they're rich because they create a globally useful product, and have enormous market power.

Some things Google could do:

1) They're stinking rich. Pay good wages and give awesome benefit packages.

2) Don't intimate people but let them know if they're leaking information to the press or posting publicly that they're going to be let go.

3) Make every single person from CEO to the servers at lunch 'part of the company' and let them come to company events, and see the 'invited speakers' etc. if they want.

The reason they should do that is because their supposed to be 'good people' i.e. communitarians first. It's hypocritical to virtue signal publicly if they can't make their own beds.
20 years ago I've said to myself screw it, quit very well paid but nerve wrecking job in a software development company and never looked back. That's when I also went full remote ( I hire subcontractors but never felt need for an office ) and started hosting my own stuff on rented dedicated servers and in my own office.
Wow what a cool site.

Can't find the password for xenix though