jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting that the shortest (and among the most readable) is the 15-line version written in old-school AWK:
http://pacman.blog.br/wiki/index.php?title=Um_Corretor_Ortog...

A surprise is that the Perl implementation weighs in at 63 lines. I would have expected much less. I expect a much shorter version is possible, relying on idiomatic constructs at the expense of readability.
Write that up!
For machines today, I would have to agree with the author. But what happens when a single core is no longer sufficient to handle your "simple" processing requirements in a timely manner?

Time requirements are constantly getting smaller, and computing requirements are getting larger. Serially generating data, even just for web pages, won't work forever (and I'm willing to hazard a guess that for the major players, it doesn't work now).

Multiprocessing, while a great advancement for Python, is not what I would consider lightweight. It's not a problem for the dual- and quad-core computing era, where you have a few number of spawned processes. However, if you go to a 32 or 64 core era, and the ability of multiprocessing to scale will be dramatically affected by the memory and processing overhead required.

We're fine now with the tools we have. However, if these tools do not evolve, we won't be fine in the future.
You're looking for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_ho...

Practicality right now is minimal. My intuition says it is going to stay that way, but who knows.
Ah, but you don't need to hire 10,000 mediocre programmers; you just need 5 good ones.
This is not as impressive as some hand written books I've seen in an italian abbey where the size of the text about the same.
Do you honestly believe this an appropriate submission?
Yup. I'm going to record it.
Thanks for coming by the office -- it was cool to hear how the business is going.
I would imagine automated design tools will work about as good as CASE (Computer-aided software engineering) tools. Ok for a limited set of areas, but nothing really inspiring.
The Long Now blog seems to suggest it's more about reminding devs in the 9990s that if they don't store dates as 5 digit integers they might have a millennium bug!

Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.
I think a better term would be “simple TV”. It has one job and does it well.
> I walk around with no form of ID and only bring it when I’m expecting to need it

May I ask why? Is it of inconvenient size, do you not like to carry baggage that you do not need most of the time or is it just that you do not want to be easily identifiable most of the time?

The German "Personalausweis" (official id card, distinct from passports) is sized and shaped like a credit card and therefore easily goes into the wallet. We used to have larger ones in the past which indeed did not fit into some wallets. It is also very convenient to have it on you to be able to identify yourself in whatever situation.
Zhifubao is better known as Alipay outside of China.
As a Prius owner I can attest to this, even if just a little. The dealerships I talked to over the past 4 years were excited to sell me a Prius when I called over the phone (and when demand was so high they had to order them and you agreed to MSRP to place said order).

However, showing up on the lot, they generally didn't have one to show you (again, the demand issue) and would push me towards an in stock Camry or similar.

Even when I made it explicitly clear I wanted a Prius there was a bunch of FUD acted out by the sales reps. "Yea, the sticker says 45mpg, but that's only in the city where you can use the battery". "Hey Jon, what'd that lady say she got on her commut? 37mpg?" I was truly shocked. I will also note that this happened more at multi-franchise dealerships.
The most famous implementation of this specific effect is a couple of years old already: https://github.com/romaonthego/RESideMenu
I don't know man. I'm old school with notes. I've tried to use many things and keep coming back to good ol' notebook and pencil.

I optimize for time-to-write from thought. Opening software and waiting it to load is slow. For me, writing a bunch of cli commands and arguments to take a note is even worse.

Notebook has no latency.
I also like to use this coin toss analogy as one of my arguments against the use of Type4 GUID keys. Consider a hypothetical: SQLite is to be used to mediate the monitoring, arming and detonation of a thermonuclear warhead. Would you want to use Type4 GUID keys or integer keys for the arming sequence table? Why not just take that extreme as the normal, and use boring & safe approaches everywhere? Assume everything can explode in horrible ways that you could never hope to anticipate. All you really need to do is make sure the explosion is impossible within your problem domain, or is at least manageable if it does occur.

An observation I have happened upon recently: The more time you spend away from the computer thinking about the problem you want to solve with the computer, the better the outcome will be. Spending a few days to consider the pros/cons of various business entity identity schemes is probably worthwhile when weighing the long term consequences.
After their new CEO came in, former president of YC, they closed off everything and took a lot of investment. Only thing that's open about them is the name.
I'm thinking more broadly than a binary choice in the spring for someone who happens to live near a research lab and have clicked the right Facebook ad.

What if, at any time, you could walk into your doctor's office and say "I'm ready for that experimental vaccine?" You could contribute your data to the pool that increases our confidence in its efficacy. As confidence gets stronger, more people volunteer. Eventually, third party labs (maybe regulators like the FDA - maybe NGOs like the UL) certify that they believe a vaccine is safe and effective, which makes even more people comfortable getting it.

If we had done that, how would life be different now? Could we have closed fewer things? Would more people have led a more normal/less stressful lives? Would we be closer to being done with this mess? How many fewer long-term ramifications (health, financial, social, developmental, psychological, mortal) would people have to deal with?

We reconsidered, reenvisioned, and reinvented so many things this year. Why can't we apply that same mindset here too?
I've long thought the exact same thing. Taxation of property based on the government’s assessed value seems unfair simply at face value. It punishes the financially responsible citizens who pay off their property in the scenarios you mentioned. It seems to me that if you buy a piece of property you should be able to live there as long as you want without paying any taxes on it. Why should you be indebted forever to the government?
You can probably do this with love hearts or similar - buy a couple and reassemble two tubes as matched, randomly chosen one time pads. Entropy would be terrible though.
Dresden Bombings, Bombing of London, Tokyo Fire Bombings, Rape of Nanjing, take your pick, WWII was Total War in the closest sense of the Clausewitzian term, it was about breaking the will of a government (sometimes) and definitely it's people. The practice of protecting civilians of a foreign nation is really a western one rooted in chivalric code of conduct and to be fair, wasn't expected practice until fairly recently.
Sounds interesting, and something I might be willing to promote to the authors at LiberWriter.com

There are already services like that, though if you Google around, so there'll be some competition.

It's also going to be hard to keep quality/times consistent across a pool of diverse workers.
Nope, it clearly states in the faq that ads are considered indirect, but they ask that you give credit to RenderMan.
The Strugatzkis are among the most famous russian science fiction writers.
yup.

Mine are individuals who succeeded in their respective fields, all related to our product.

Accross the board I can get a quick answer to two crucial questions:

a-Would you buy this?

b-How would you sell it?
> Most people agree on the meaning (read the JSL - it says Java is pass-by-value.

I assume you mean the JLS, in which case it -- very wisely -- does not use the term "pass-by-value" (or any similar term I've seen) to label its semantics. It simply describes its semantics.

> Read Wikipedia too. Or really any other real reference that isn't some confused people in a forum.)

So is it "most people" or a reference that, if anything, supports my point (JLS), an un-encyclopedia, and unspecified "real references" that aren't from people you enjoy insulting?

> That's what the article does.

That's one thing the article does, yes. Why is it you think you need to point that out?

> People in these forums who still don't get it need something more. That's what I'm giving them.

I agree you are giving people in this forum "something more". I suspect we disagree as to what that "something" is.
That was actually understood a decade ago as well and was part of the conversation that led to OpenID and OAuth. It was suggested close to a decade ago that they both merge efforts and they have both struggled to find their place. Development on this scale just lags a bit behind, specially when the community around it is so fragmented and opinionated.
You've contradicted yourself in your own comment though.

First - Nixon inherited a war that others started, and put in place a strategy to end it, which he did.

Second - Your statement "killed more people in Laos and Cambodia than the US Army lost in WW2" is technical factual, but also kind of nonsense. It's pointless to compare civilian casualties in one war, with Army casualties in another.

Eisenhower definitely killed more civilians that Nixon - does that make him worse?

See how your selective facts are actually a form of editorializing?

Journalism is actually kind of hard, but yes, there is too much partisan news. Again this is our fault - if we clicked on straight news, and that's where the eyeballs went, that's where the money would go.
Thank you. It's kind of sad to read this, though in a way that's probably unintended by the author.
Suppose a and b have the same reference. Zig allows something like { const a = 42; const b = 72; ... } which gives these names new references which they no longer share, in a scope. So the opacity is there in some built-in operators; the only question is whether macros can imitate that.
The iPhone may be a supercomputer as of 10 years ago, but I hate how restrictive it is. I can’t build an app on the iPhone, deploy and share it with others.

Our devices have made us excessive consumers instead of producers.
You gotta love implying the president has no power in this sort of thing while simultaneously implying Obama is at fault here. In the same sentence, no less.
This seems to be "books to read about caffeine"

Personally I drink a cup of regular coffee (black) in the morning, then follow up with decaf for further cups during the day.

Regular coffee has a much better chance of having interesting complex flavors.

Decaf is definitely down a notch (and some decaf is just. awful. Like drinking copier fluid)
I would suggest for the author to play "Democracy 3", "Stellaris", "Europa Universalis", "Hearts of Iron" and "Dwarf Fortress". This mode of game is not actually so uncommon. Stellaris does so much computation and simulation that some relatively modern computers cannot run them.
And more and more people keep moving to Texas.
But can you guarantee that no information is lost by exporting? I personally have my doubts (and I had bad experience with the Blender exporters in the past on this point; perhaps the bugs are fixed now).

In my opinion Blender should introduce two file formats:

- .blend: The existing format; fast to load, save etc., but not for reading from external programs

- .blend_external: A format that presents exactly the same information as a .blend file, but can be read easily by external software and is thus completely documented in all details. Perhaps more slow to load/save (which should not matter for the purposes of .blend_external).
> the C language was not news by then.

C compilers for microcomputers were still a new thing in 1983. They were common (for obvious reasons) on Unix machines and larger mini-computers. The only 8-bit C compiler I touched was Aztec C for the Apple II computers and it was unbearably slow (even though the II was quite zippy compared to its Z-80 based counterparts). Borland made an excellent Pascal IDE for CP/M computers but I can't remember a decent C for those.

Fun thing is that Aztec C came with a bunch of tools, including a csh-like shell and vi (no, not vim) text editor. Very slow (felt like a 300 bps terminal line), but one could pretend to be accessing a much larger computer somewhere else.
Heh, not a completely well defined question.

Java-centric relative to C#?

Possibly because a less FOSS friendly vibe among C#ers previously.

Possibly because the relative stagnation language-feature-wise of Java fostered a culture of frameworks and libraries.
That is adorable.
I see anti-establishment, but I see neither pompous or self-righteous - nor does being anti-establishment imply pomposity or self-righteousness.

I wonder how you'd view this piece if you realised it wasn't written by Assange, rather just him re-posting an article from a magazine.

Priming's a bitch - and 1984's Big Brother is a perfectly apt analogue for the surveillance apparatus's influence on the control of the range of human thought - or do you disagree that limiting speech and culturally enforced self-censorship limits thoughts and ideas?
Please, please stop the freaking vacuum cleaner...

why, god, why?
I'm still trying to decide if its like the Equifax one and its back to business as usual in months or if they lose credibility entirely. Depends how locked in their customers are.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/wast...

It's like cameras inside garbage trucks. It starts off at one thing and progresses.

Sewer testing started with drugs. Last I checked only China had used it for an actual bust. The rest were for monitoring.

Covid testing is following the different strains, so not just the existence but which strain.

No claim this is a great source, but it seems viable. Remember DNA is traceable from family as well -

"it was mentioned that one of the techniques available to determine if bin Laden was in the compound was “analyzing local sewage for genetic markers.” "

https://www.wwdmag.com/spies-sewer-0
Is it? The report claims this is in 2015.
> Everyone at Gumroad is paid very well and should be able to afford the same.

Have you looked at how much decent health insurance coverage costs on the individual market without income-based ACA subsidies?

It's absolutely insane, and even more insane if you want family coverage. For a similar, but nowhere near equivalent, of an employer provided healthcare plan, I'm looking at spending more than $9,000 in premiums each year, a $3,000 deductible, a $8,000 out-of-pocket maximum and co-pays for doctor visits and medication.

If I add a spouse and one kid, for a plan similar to an employer provided plan, premiums sky rocket to over $30,000 a year, with a $5,000 deductible, a $17,000 out-of-pocket maximum, co-pays etc.
Are you kidding?

Just a couple examples;

> On Monday June 1, 2020, four police officers were shot in St. Louis City.
The far left rioters threw gas on police. The 7-11 downtown was looted and torched. Across town retired Police Captain David Dorn was shot dead while protecting a pawnshop.

> June 2, 2020: 23 police officers were injured in the protests in Las Vegas, Nevada. One Metropolitan Police officer was shot in the back of the head while struggling with a rioter and is on life support. In Salt Lake City, Utah, 21 police officers were injured and a police car was flipped over and set on fire. Some of the injured officers suffered broken bones. One of the officers was hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/431-police-officers...
You’re lucky! Schwab is fantastic, and I use it for all my personal banking and brokerage, but most employer 401ks have been through fidelity and others.
Vim pays me the bills.
> The inflated value of Tesla as a company is mostly based on full self driving

I find this hard to believe. In fact I don't.
He’s a thoughtful person overall. He is an excellent interviewer. There’s also something to be said that creating a brand as large as he has takes some insight into marketing and understanding his audience.
Yes, I'm aware of this. But what this lacks (imho) is the simplicity to keep the whole system reliable and secure.
And - while I do not know exactly for the czech republic - in most European countries school education is mandatory by law. It is not a choice situation whether you kid goes to school. In germany, ultimately a parent can go to prison for not sending their kids to school (rarely but it happened ... In case of a religious sect who tried their luck how far they can stretch the tolerance of the government).
Mandatory school vaccination is pretty common in most liberal democracies, no? Is this really a new idea?
In case you did not realize it: yes, in times of crisis governments can take away your rights. If those governments are democratically chosen then that's society taking away your rights. If they are dictatorships then that's a different matter, but that does not seem to be the case here.
That's a great line for a stump speech, but try building this system yourself.
For anybody interested in a self-hosted alternative to twitch, owncast (https://github.com/owncast/owncast) is pretty easy to use and has a web interface that's rather twitch-like.
I've published a few screenshots at the Retrocomputing Forum, https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/a-bit-of-xenix-history/186...
You may wish to bring that up to the site admins, who invoke curiosity as a primary purpose of Hacker News in various places. While it’s legitimate to wonder if it’s a sound direction, doing so here is unlikely to reach their attention. Consider dropping a note to them using the footer Contact link to let them know you’re concerned.
For me personally, the answer is a combination of the two. Having the docs open side-by-side with a good technical write-up usually helps me understand a lot faster and better than either resource does on its own.
Could you provide a couple of alternative recommendations in contrast with this? That would be very useful!
:) with better place I mean for example recylcing is an important issue... real world issues that needs to be fixed.
The point he's making about scientists is that they use today's technology right now and it isn't affecting their concentration.

> These days scientists are never far from their e-mail, rarely touch paper and cannot lecture without PowerPoint. If electronic media were hazardous to intelligence, the quality of science would be plummeting.

Yes there are new technological distractions, but they're not qualitatively different from any other distraction and you deal with them the same way.

You and others speculate that people growing up in todays technological world will have their intellectual capacity somehow diminished. He points out that it was ever thus.

> But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.

And he goes on to refute some of the basic premises that the "twitter rots your brain" theory is built on.

Douglas Adams put it in more general terms.

1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal.

2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn 35 is incredibly exciting and creative and, given opportunity, you can make a career out of it.

3) Anything that gets invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
That's not a misconception.

It would be great if all mathematics had obvious utility, but that's demanding perfection. It doesn't mean mathematics would be worth doing if it had no utility. In fact, we often try to do mathematics in a way that guarantees some amount of utility; that's why we use proof-based methods in leu of wishful thinking.

Should I write a mathematics paper concluding "true = false" and argue that mathematics is not about utility? No. Such a thing is utterly useless, and it would be ridiculous to propose that I'm doing mathematics without taking the necessary care to ensure my work is useful.
I got good at the Vi movement keys by playing Nethack. Nothing like a few 50,000 turn games to put hjkl into muscle memory.
you can always remap the keys
Inhabitable is a lot like inflammable.
That happened before. The market was flooded with anyone who could pickup 'HTML for Dummies' but the market was never flooded with 'quality' programmers. They were very easy to sift out after the first round of dot-coms died. Because of the nature of the task it probably will never be, unless the USA opened their borders to other countries.
And this is how we get kinetic barriers? :P
A couple years back I wrote an explorable explanation on the Kelly Criterion. I thought I'd share it here as it's not often the Kelly Criterion comes up around here :)

https://explore.paulbutler.org/bet/
The extensive public shaming for sexual assault exists because the legal process is incredibly reluctant to investigate or prosecute it.
The elephant in the room you are missing is people’s lifestyle: “shopping” should be over. No need to produce and ship the tons of fashion and crap. Also less meat. But people like to complain without doing the slightest effort.
This is dystopian future car, how many sci fi movies have we seen with cars looking like this?
I.e. Ghost in the Shell
I hope paypal and transferwise follow this example. International travelers have been suffering for years due to this horrible ux.

SMS based 2FA is a farce, I look forward to it going extinct.
Yup. You need to apply only very little imagination here - this is just a paint job away from designs used in half of the sci-fi series of the last 20 years.
Yup.

Side note, the anecdote seems misinformed, "The car is so overengineered. It’s so techy, it makes you want to buy a Chevy pickup truck." GM makes more money on trucks than on any other line so you better believe their is more R&D and technology in those vehicles than almost anything else in their lineup -- the only exception being the Cadillacs with SuperCruise. I'm guessing that lawyer has not been in a modern pickup truck.
Someone who's very addicted. Addiction clouds judgement on ways that are very hard to emphasize with.
No. Work with political implications and articles about it are just that, not 'flamebait'. 'Old lady I disagree with lol' is "political flamebait" only through an exceptionally stoic application of the principle of charity.
I think the difference here is that paying customers have threatened to walk away.
If I could play mainstream indie titles from Steam in a touch-friendly manner on a tablet... Man, I would throw my CandyCrushClanClash-infested iPad and Nexus right into a fire barrel.
Any plan to make it tweetable as well? :)
Everyone pointing out Google's Android update policy of "buy a new device, asshole" isn't wrong. But I think an honorable mention goes to Chrome's update policy of "who gives a shit if something breaks anyway." The whole article is laughable.