jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Did other people go to schools with radically different curricula?

(Not US, but I think still applicable)

In general: yes.

I myself also recognized a lot on this list; my school spent a lot of effort on extracurricular activities, personal development and responsibility, mentoring etc. However, I just looked up the national statistics, and my school was ranked among the top 10 public schools in the country, awarded a "predicate of excellence" by the education inspection.

I can totally see how not every school has access to this level of education, as technically it is all outside of the base mandatory national curriculum and likely the first thing to get cut when funding is difficult.

Making the skills mentioned in the post a part of the base curriculum, like traditional subjects as English and biology are, might give them a more even footing.
So, he just copied this idea from 2017? https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/14/14601254/shinder-dating-a...
I was thinking if it would be feasible to implement an OpenCV-style facial recognition script that could require sustained attention from the user to preserve an open session on the computer. If that user stops watching the screen or is physically separated from the view of the camera, then the locking operation would take place automatically.

I'd be curious from a legal perspective if that would constitute obstruction if you always used it, by analogy to having a data destruction policy in place before the discovery phase of a lawsuit.
Yeah, resorted to Clearly
How could anything Apple could possibly do be something that would give all the million(s?) apps their "fair share" of App store front page time be useful, when there are just too many apps in there? It's a bit like expecting Google to divide traffic to all existing sites because it isn't fair that Facebook gets so much traffic.

I just don't see how it isn't the developers' job to raise interest in their work.
That is quite arrogant of a claim that it is "just a ball of rock." The planet has methods of reversal built in. My reference to the word "healing" is its ability to reverse and go back to conditions that are normal.

If you want reference, look up global dimming, and look up the problems global dimming is causing. Also, take into account the different reactions that global warming is causing. You can see "healing" elements when you notice that the ocean takes in more CO2 as the planet gets warmer. Ice caps also take in CO2. if you look at weather exteremities like freezing and hot days, snow and rain and drought, and hurricanes, you notice that greenhouse gases do react to this. On hot days, infrared energy is sent back to space. On snow, rain, and freezing days, CO2 settles. The more you look, the more you see that the planet reacts to bring things back to normal. more plants, more bacteria, more life. These processes are also part of physics. But just because the planet heals does not mean we ignore climate change. The "healing" is just as detrimental.
What's Biden's position on this issue?
"the activity of designing and building the plane became more important than the outcome / functionality of the plane itself."

Yes. After a while was it about building the plane or keeping the aerospace industry employed and engaged? The design tried to do everything for everyone and fulfill every Colonel's dream feature and mission. Its the ultimate story of feature creep.
And now you have a slower Java.
But the books are also well-meaning busybodies.

Worse: The books that most resonate with you may well be the ones you need to ignore.

Take strict vs permissive parenting, for example. Say you're by nature a more permissive parenting. The books that say you should be permissive will resonate more with you than the books that say that you should be strict. But it's the ones that say to be strict that you need to hear, because they're the ones that are against your natural bent. (Nobody needed to tell you to be permissive, you were going to do that anyway.)

(My position here is that either strict or permissive, taken too far, will be problematic. So you can swap strict and permissive in the previous paragraph, and everything is still true.)

So don't just read parenting books and listen to the ones that strike a chord with you. It's the other ones that you need to carefully consider what they say.
It's supported by the NDP, Greens, and Bloc as well. In fact, it was all Yay and Abstains.
The question shouldn't be "why does web development require the use of garbage collection" but "why would you not use a language with a GC when you have the opportunity". Before Rust (and after the 90s or whenever hardware became sufficiently cheap) it would've been very odd to consider a non-GCed language for something like webdev. Even for things like high-frequency trading where reliable low latency is very important, some companies think using GCed languages like Java and inventing hacks to avoid GC pauses when necessary is a worthwhile tradeoff because of the productivity gain from having a GC.

Certainly Rust has done lots of cool stuff to make living without a GC easier. And maybe it has sufficient compensating advantages to make it worth using for things like webdev (although I wish more of its proponents would try different statically typed functional languages that share some of those advantages but don't make you manage memory manually). But lacking a GC is still pretty clearly a disadvantage outside of a few areas (namely, those where people often use C++).
"It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." - Rutherford
I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but here are some responses.

There have been many pandemics throughout human history, including recent human history, so it's odd to ask "why hasn't this happened sooner?" There are also, at any given time, many pathogens which can and do infect and harm humans. They vary a lot in their symptoms and infection rates, but most are endemic rather than epidemic or pandemic. "Pandemic" just means the pathogen is extremely widespread and is infecting large numbers of people in a relatively short period of time. Various health organizations and writers use different precise definitions, but some still consider HIV/AIDS to also be pandemic.
Exactly. People who are good are always going to be referrals

Only inside a community, not coming from outside.
You can check

https://creativemarket.com/
Sure, I'll make sure you get your salary on time in case you get selected. You're worth getting selected, yes? Why don't you sit for the interview and we'll find out.

Or may be since your time is so precious, we can just skip this written-test-hogwash altogether. Let's just do the traditional telephonic round, shall we? Ohh and by the bye, so long as we are on this topic, you'd pay me for the time I had to waste on you in case you turn out to be a garbage of a candidate, fair?
A huge amount of time and money has been spent making JS as fast as it can be.

Additionally a lot of these benchmarks focus on things that the JS engines are very good at. It isnt like they are running CPU intensive tasks in JS.
People are writing production level databases, distributed systems in Go... ofcourse it's a systems language unless your definition of a systems language is something super narrow.
How do you reconcile that with small businesses for example needing to reach prospective customers?
Ok, thanks for the references.
Back when I was in grad school I set up an HTML/CSS to PDF workflow for making posters. It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent way to render nice-looking web pages with reasonably modern CSS to PDF without having things get cut off or reflowed. I had to use a specific prerelease build of a webkit-based tool to get my template to render correctly. I wonder if there are any better tools in this space these days.

Apart from that, the main issue was the lack of publishing-quality text justification, so I just manually added line breaks where needed to make it look decent. It still beat fiddling around in PowerPoint.
I use a text based browser from my editor and that loads as close to
instantly as you'd ever hope for! A VIC-20 version sounds even more
awesome.
Hey,
Martin here, the co-founder of minutiae - saw a spike in traffic from Hackernews and got curious where it came from.

Thanks for sharing the project.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions info@minutiae-app.org
Remember that a lot of these accounts are told with rose tinted glasses. The world would not have been that different whoever won.

The same type of abstractions would have been build on top of whatever was left standing and we would have more or less the same things we have now. These accounts are not epic battles, they are just businesses competing with each other. An OS is just software that manages hardware, a lot of the innovations are academic, if it runs the hardware properly, it works.

That said, as long as it's not taking up time you should be utilising for other things, I don't see a reason to stop. As you've been doing it for a couple of years you're going to run out of material and you will have it all memorised soon anyway
OR basically any science/engineering discipline that is rooted in math + lawyers.

That should be the 2 populations.
I wish we had more users this motivated.
agreed! I enjoyed the comment on a couple levels :)
People are susceptible to populism regardless of age and naivety too, are you suggesting we remove the vote from them?
From this and prior reading I'd expect: they (TSLA) own the factory and things in it, but the land it sits on is leased from the state, perhaps in some proportion to the funds invested. I don't live there, just been a couple times.

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/real-property-law/china.php
Didn't you pay attention to Donald Trump's presidency?
The ants, queen or regular worker, are all complete organisms, so the explanation falls short.

Just that the queen is more used to live in isolation (some ant species/colonies just have a single queen ant), whereas the workers are more used to cooperation and collective existance.
Physical layout is mostly irrelevant, different keycap label arrangements use the same keycodes - the input system in your OS or application uses a keyboard layout to translate those into what you want to type.

Windows, macOS and the various input libraries on Linux provide ways to query the key map - and a number of games do use this to provide localized bindings (Ubisoft and Blizzard are notorious for doing this right, something I appreciate as a dvorak user who hates dealing with rebinding or constantly having to toggle layouts). As far as the browser there is coming support for reading the keyboard layout as well: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard/ge...
"Hooray! Another HEMA practicioner!"

I am surprised that nobody in this thread has mentioned the Dog Brothers from California. They do not fight with swords, but they practice live, full contact stick and staff fighting. In a cage. Without any armor.

Yes, I also thought that that can't possibly be a thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmLQ_Jjqmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAkbQb6axU
Never mind that the nation was a bad starting point from the outset...
You have absolutely no sense of humor.
If you knew it as "SIP Communicator" before, they have undergone a name change to reflect the increase in scope of functionality from "just SIP" into "communications powerhouse." They really describe a lot of audio, video and screen-sharing functionality built-in.

The interview is quite interesting as it covers a wide range of applications for a full-featured, Open Source client such as Jitsi.

Also, FWIW, I was genuinely surprised by how well it ran and looked on OSX, given that it is a Java app.
If you know of any way to make the code shorter and more concise, please let me know. I'm always looking for ways to improve.

https://gist.github.com/937200 (two sample files, totaling slightly less than half the project)

Posting 10-year-old code to HN is always a little embarrassing, but please feel free to be brutal. I'll live. :-) I was definitely way too in love with the preprocessor back then.

Here's the corresponding Python code, from shortly after it hit 1,000 lines in late 2001:

http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/file/7b2d701ec404/L...

I like the Python code rather better, if only because there's so much less explicit memory management. The actual ideas stand out clearly, and there's just so much less code to read. In most cases, I'd happily sacrifice the performance.
Heh, now that you mention it this does make a good interview question. I might use it with our next candidate at foursquare.
Looking at the Doom source, it seems that the actual 3D game view was rendered into a linear buffer, and subsequently blitted onto the mode X surface. Some UI elements went straight to the screen.

(The DOS Doom source was never publicly released, just the Linux port, but there are remnants of some DOS code in the archive. I'm specifically looking at R_DrawSpan in README.asm and V_DrawPatchDirect in v_video.c)
From what I read, I think there were not that much IT departments in the 80's outside technical companies, I think Microsoft got its position because of a series of factors, one of them was the presence of Visicalc-like programs (specially Lotus 1+2+3), in the 80s Apple was already offering an absurdly good user experience compared with Microsoft, yet it failed in the first time.

I remember that people got pretty excited with Windows 95, I don't think that this excitement was a enterprise mandate at all.
Great point! That's something I didn't make clear enough in the diagram, and a 2nd misconception I had until a month ago too :).

Yes, exactly as you say, the total energy is the same but the orientation and amplitude of the field differs. I think the trouble is showing another dimension without resorting to the y-axis which is too easily confused with a path to travel (especially a sine wave, which is usually shown in the context of "height on a circle" or somesuch).

Red and blue colors may be better -- bright red to bright blue, showing which way the field is pointing at that time. Black and white are too easily confused with dim and bright (and a light wave never goes "off").

The original diagrams were made years ago and I should update the colors. Definitely appreciate the feedback!
Well there is a fundamental difference between the two. The light bulb was invented, was lightning was discovered. It already existed, and was merely discovered. It was discovered that there are are infinite primes. It was discovered that f'(x) = 2x when f(x) = x^2. It was discovered that when p is prime, (a * x) === b mod p, x is unique mod p (unless a=0, or something else). Eventually you get to things like cryptography where you can apply some simple things that were discovered into a process, and come up with encryption.

If you go back to mathematics and consider (Newton's method)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_method], that seems like it might have been invented, but it's derived from a series of discoveries, and hence is considered a discovery rather than an invention. If you used the Newton-Rhapson method to calculate the zero of a function in code somewhere, you should feel safe that it's not protected by a patent (not to mention it was discovered ages ago).

Since computer science is applied mathematics, and mathematics are discovered rather than invented, it makes sense that it should be protected as well. I'm not the best at explaining things, but hopefully you can understand the difference.
I think the difference is that most Americans simply aren't exposed to various ways of writing dates, times, currencies, numbers, etc. on a regular basis.

Even within Germany, there's no consensus about where to put the Euro sign (before or after). Americans don't write times like 20:00 and say "eight" aloud. After several years in Europe, I'm fairly adept at accepting all inputs.
Other than service workers I don't see how this article handles points one and two. My answer there is: use a cdn.
Any suggestions on how to keep away distractions on your laptop, which don’t involve outright restriction or blocking?

Putting certain apps into different workspaces,
Etc?
A large emotional/spiritual investment... And financially as well, especially considering the cost of child care nowadays. Tax breaks help (in US), but not that much.
Not the one Steve Jobs got.
That is great! I'd love to see all parking lots covered by solar panels and all roof tops covered with green space and solar panels.

(But I could never live in France. Two weeks was 13 days too long.)
We have got enough people. Just because the west has a population crunch (and the current economic paradigm doesn't support that) does not mean that the population problem goes away. The pollution doesn't dry up, and the seas don't replenish their fish because of this.
"We can keep a Republic, or we will eventually end up with an Oligarchy - a tyranny of the elite." — Benjamin Franklin

Your best quote, because it shows, where we are today.

I am fully aware, that when we talk democracy in such forums as here, we all have our own artificial picture of democracy in mind, that is not the same as democracy in its genuine sense.
Classic RAII in C++ is a limited form of ref-counting (only one ref).

I have to disagree with your second statement, ref-counting is extremely fast. If you consider it a GC then it's the fastest GC. It's also deterministic and does not pause.
It's vastly less of a problem if you hear and cool the packs. Until this year only Tesla had that tech, but more ev cars are starting to have that.
My mom still misses her E71x to this day, it was such an awesome device.
I used to think this too, but funny enough people seem to want to have their own batteries rather than using loaner ones that have possibly been abused by others.

Also in some cars the battery pack is used to add strength and rigidity to the body, thus saving weight and adding efficiency. Harder to pull this off if it’s removable.
The really interesting thing here is that it had to be shown that there was texting occurring. It seems that slamming into the back of another vehicle and killing someone would be A OK otherwise. Driving is a responsibility free zone in our culture...
We had an issue with PIA's Android VPN breaking our app, they never responded to our PGP'ed ticket and the email address embedded in their PGP keyblock bounces.

I wonder what will happen to Freenode now: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
There are unknowns. Batteries can be recharged hundreds of times and some are already reused for home solar power packs. A bigger unknown is mass battery recycling. Right now prices of batteries are going down so fast there isn't much financial demand for recycling.
this 1000%.
I don't understand why everything must "grow and adapt ...".
Can't something just stop evolving? Its not like its failing or something, we don't need everything to do everything just be good - very good - at what you do.
well, for really long stuff, pickup people with 6ft beds get ladder racks. with 8-10ft boards I just leave the tailgate up and put the boards in there at an angle. If I need to get on the highway, a single ratchet strap ensures they don't move around. personally, I had an 8 ft pickup, and I don't really think the day to day is that much different.

With longer stuff - 14-16ft trim, or 20ft sticks of steel, you're basically stuck with ladder racks anyway, so no big deal.

A ladder rack on a small truck vs having a real, functional rack on an SUV might be good either way.
Idiomatic Rust code follows the RAII pattern and does not use garbage collection; we've been finding that it works very effectively.
> making money less able to purchase power

you could achieve this by: giving everyone a basic amount of money, so they are on a more equal footing to benefit from opportunities.
The theory behind it has always been that taxes serve as a transfer of wealth. You tax the wealthy more and reduce taxes on the less wealthy, and/or spend that money on programs and projects that benefit the poor disproportionately.

Don’t confuse how politicians sell something with the mechanism. The rhetoric changed with the rise of celebrity through wealth. ‘Soak the rich’ is a sales slogan since it’s easy to punch up, and no one has any sympathy for a guy like Bezos. The same sort of rhetoric is going on right now with lines like ‘billionaires made $2t during the pandemic’, or the headline for this article. the implication is that they actively made moves that increased the amount of dollars in their bank account by literally taking money from the poor. The reality is that they continued running their businesses according to the rules of the game and the value of their business holdings is up.

In that context ‘soak the rich’ should really just be seen as a proposed rule change to the game.
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They literally just didn't want to work.

They had ample opportunity to work, were technically skilled in a desirable field, and had a job in that field for some time.

There wasn't a mitigating circumstance outside of not wanting to work very much. If you have your housing set up for you, the state pays your healthcare and gives you food assistance, and you like cooking simple meals for yourself... well you don't actually need money for all that much.

It wasn't a matter of earning a poverty wage or not, it was a matter of earning a middle class wage or not. They chose not because they figured out how to do so and live the life they wanted.

There were social media posts boasting about this.
By the same token, Elon Musk is someone who succeeded, while thousands upon thousands of entrepreneurs fail, end up with debt, and don't have much to show for their work.

So using survivorship bias to compare yourself to Elon Musk which is an atypical result when it comes to business formation doesn't make sense.

You should probably compare yourself to the average business creator and see how you fare compared to them.

It's like saying I'm not that great at Basketball, but let me compare myself to Michael Jordan.
This is even worse with shoes or pants online, where you have a large matrix of size by color.
Yeah the build quality really impressed me about the Shark.

It's light, but has been really powerful, durable.
This wasn't really a screw up, though. The mission was accomplished - successful resupply flight to the ISS. The landing was a R&D test - the first of this nature - with the leftover pieces.
Steve Rich posted all the documents on DocumentCloud and all the data on Github too.

The post about the documents (which you can search) and the data: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/01/1...
Should there not exist an amount of money which can help you to live in decent conditions, yet not be spoiled?
>Curiously, the CEO hired an exceptionally attractive young woman to be his executive assistant, despite questionable qualifications....

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Where have I heard this story before?
This all sounds very familiar. Especially the bit about the conservative co-founder. When the hype is loudest, the voice of reason gets pushed to the side... and he who makes the biggest promises gets the biggest reward.