jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> French leaders and politicians are now concerned that USA "wokeness" threatens the stability of their country

Hypocrites. Look at how Asians are targeted in hate crime in France, by both whites and non whites. Covid being called the "China virus" threw oil on this fire.

Here, the issue the school board is that it has only 1 Asian America (10%) for a 33% SFUSD student body.

The way I see it, Asians always get the short end of the stick, for some reason unknown.

In the US, there are anti Asian admission policies in most universities, and somehow we can't make that stop.

Maybe because they are called "equal opportunity" and made to favor other races who can use it to get admitted with a fraction of the SAT (and predictably fail, while other races with higher scores are not even given the chance to compete).

Now we hear France hypocrisy and think it will make this right. People, look at what happens there and tell me to my face you think they got it right and we should emulate them:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3043079/racis...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37720780

I say no. French thinkers would be best to focus on their own problems, and leave us alone.

We have a problem with Asian representation, but so far I have not seen anything I can support.
Usually when electronic devices have a metal housing, they're tied to ground. Getting shocked could be a sign of a wiring issue in the building. Ground should be at zero electrical potential.
> I generally agree, but here in Kansas we have long sight lines. On our farm we use fixed wireless to the grain elevator three miles away. The alternative would be running 1.5 miles of wire for three potential customers.

Yeah, I totally agree. There are definitely cases where the economics of running a wire doesn't make sense, though what you describe seems a lot more desirable than Starlink. Generally, I'd think you'd you want to get a wire as close as possible, and minimize the wireless distance. So wires are better than 5G/Wifi, and 5G/Wifi is better than Starlink.
There is a "port" of the same articles to Forth/x86:

http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/crenshaw/tiny.html
MegaUpload/MegaVideo also has it's own self serve advertising network.
My uninvited opinion posted on Hank's blog, and adding here (based on Gruber's recent post pointing here): Gruber is a smart, measured and often witty commentator, but if you want him at his irrational best, look not for Apple apologia, but his vacant WordPress sneers and attacks (themselves stand-ins for animus towards the GPL, I think).

(here's my comment on one such instance: http://ahren.org/code/bit/john-grubers-15-minutes-of-schaden...)
Of course, a $5 million exit is not $5 million in the bank. Depending on where you live, and a lot of other factors about the sale, it could mean as little as <$3 million after taxes (avg. case probably being around $4 million).
But this isn't govt mandatated right? Its just a printer manufactures internal policy as I understand it.
This guys picked something he likes - McDonald's fries - and did some impressive food-hacking to revere-engineer and improve them. Regardless of your thoughts on the thing he's imitating, surely you can respect the rigor and discipline the author applied to the problem.

He's not saying "this is how you make the world's best fries" - he's saying "if you really like McDonald's fries (like I do), here's how to replicate them". If you don't like that type of fry, then don't make them.
Those are 35" wheels. This thing has got to be absolutely oppressive in person.
I find it amusing that Congress has suddenly become so interested in the dangers of deep fakes. When they started going on and on about the dangers I thought “why is this dude so worried?”.

Then of course the Epstein stuff becomes news[1] months later and the cynical part of me can’t help but think they’re looking for a defense if they ever partied at his island or ranch.

1. https://nypost.com/2019/11/18/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-claims...
I think they're going to be dealing with the slow ramp up that Tesla had for years before hitting mass production. Maybe they will release first, but at a decent volume? I'm skeptical.

Then again Tesla is well known for missing deadlines too!
Honestly even knowing it was fake I had a hard time convincing myself it was fake. My only clue was the way his chin intersected with the collar looked a little off

But I’ve seen things look off like that in real life under certain lighting conditions so I would’ve waved it away.
Babies are born with the capacity to learn language, motor skills, etc. The brain is very structured at birth for these capacities. So no, it isn't random, but probabilistic. Meaning the structure of the brain and connections are probabilistically formed via evolution. Or is this what you meant by semi in semi-random?

In ML, think of evolution as hyper-parameter tuning. Most ML models have a defined structure but are tuned via learning. Pruning is probably such a tuning strategy in the brain.
> you cannot automate every decision

Disturbingly too many people don’t seem to recognize the difference between letting the computer do something they don’t have time to do and trusting the computer to do something they don’t understand.
> The incentive structures seem to favor the sexy over the boring, making it much more likely that someone will get promoted for launching products versus growing one.

This is the entire industry. I work for a non-sexy "tech" travel company, and it's the same thing. Pay down tech debt? Good luck getting any kind of recognition. Make a react graphQL api? You're making senior.
Regarding the Multipla, the Cybertruck or both?
IIRC, they use that.
http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0q8r8r8888070...

an otherwise impossible to construct (i suspect) beat.
"Now one of the things I was doing with new hires at the time was getting them to work on bugs – it helped me knock down the backlog and gave them exposure to a variety of areas across the system. I also gave them plenty of time early on to learn the ropes and get up to speed and it would typically take a few days to get through the first few bugs and start having some ah-ha! moments with the codebase."

This is a little bit of an aside, but how many people out there take this approach with a new hire? If you're a manager/team lead, do you start new developers out fixing bugs? If you're a developer, how do you feel when bug fixes are your first assignments?

Personally, I think that fixing someone else's bugs is one of the hardest tasks in programming. Depending on how the interview went, it can also be a very depressing and alarming task (autonomy? creativity, opportunity to influence the project? we've found that our recruitment success increased by 10% every time we used one of those words. now here's your task list, go fix some bugs).

I want to be sure that I emphasize that people have the right to pick their own management style, and I'm not questioning it. It also sounds like Richard was very reasonable about this - giving programmers adequate time to navigate the system (though "adequate" is a relative term... if "a few days" is enough for new devs to have their a-ha moments and fix several bugs, you probably have very high quality code and documentation).

But let's add this as reason #458 why young programmers prefer to start their own companies: their first "assignment" is creating a product, not fixing someone else's crap code.
I think the main problem here is that OO "is-a" isn't the same thing as mathematical "is-a". A square is a rectangle, but a square cannot perform every action a rectangle can.

In the ass-backwards mutable-OO world, a rectangle "is-a" square, because it can be a square. Under the same requirements (x==y), a rectangle is a square. Any action which acts on a square will do precisely the same thing with a square rectangle which inherits from a square.

Similarly, a get-bounding-box for a rectangle inheriting from a square must always return a square box - a get-bounding-rectangle method must be created to handle the new, non-square output.

Rectangles supercede squares in every way, therefore a rectangle is-a square, and it is more. The mathematical "is-a" is essentially the reverse of this - a square is a rectangle with restrictions.
But student loan debt is almost entirely held by the federal government now. Does this mean it's still civil debt? I'm inclined to think that it isn't.
I don't quite see how you can say article I, section 8, clause 8 represents Jefferson losing the argument. In the quote you provide from Jefferson, he says:

Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them,
as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility,
but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience
of the society, without claim or complaint from any body.

Isn't article I, section 8, clause 8 embodying just what Jefferson said a society may do? Or are you distinguishing it from what Jefferson wrote because he specifically mentions profits, whereas article I, section 8, clause 8 allows Congress to give the inventors "exclusive Rights", which perhaps goes farther than profits?

Under a Lockean type of philosophy, which is what the majority of the Framers followed, a man was entitled to own the fruits of his labors, including mental labors. If the Lockeans had won, inventions would be property of the inventor forever. Article I, section 8, clause 8 implicitly rejects the Lockean view by only authorizing a limited monopoly.
There were plenty of free (subsidized to zero) phones available when the iPhone came out. They weren't feature-competitive but they were available, free, and mediocre. From a set top box perspective, this isn't necessarily a differentiator.

However, having a set top box in your home theater stack at home is not as usefully trendy as carrying an iPhone. It's also more setup hassle and has to work with other devices made by other manufacturers, something at which Apple has never been good (wanting to control the whole ecosystem).
HN tends to gives this perception of rapid change because you're always hearing about hot new tech and how great it is from the various tech evangelists. It's a side effect of their faith/vision in their own tech that you feel like you're missing the train.

However, I've been following HN for 7.5+ years now, and change is hardly as fast as you think. There really is nothing new under the sun, and you see the same core principles (and human needs) being expressed as the underlying technology changes. The core principles of functional programming have been around since the 30s as lambda calculus, and since the 50s with their initial expression as LISP. It's better to learn FP to add a new way of thinking about problems to your toolbox, rather than treating it as a panacea of programming.

If you're feeling lost in the sea, define your lighthouse. HN will most certainly have you paralyzed by the many waves of every new choice if you haven't defined a clear vision for how you want to harness your finite energy.
I wonder how robust those findings actually are, especially for high-functioning persons in the ADHD spectrum where the symptoms are not clinically debilitating.

I'm thinking now of how f-MRI is notoriously difficult to get right in methodological terms [1] while at the same time providing an all-to-convenient path for psychologists wanting to add credibility to their claims by tying them into physiological manifestation. I know next to nothing about the field though, so who knows. ...just expressing baseline scepticism I guess.

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/fmri-gets-slap-in-the-...
does this mean they finally see google docs as a real threat?
When you put it that way, everything in the universe is the same age.
Yeah, Microsoft and Amazon also use that language.
"One thing Rust has done, is to teach everyone they must lead with
propoganda"

Sounds like somebody is bitter.
I personally can vouch for old Panasonics, anything else is probably not worth the hassle. Just make sure it's FHD screen, has HDMI ports and it's a Panasonic - you can't go wrong. 11gen probably refers to G11, which you want to target at the oldest, the TV I've wrote about is a G11 panel.

www.avforums.com/threads/g11-panasonic-plasma-release.754974/
K&R -> do some random programming problems -> small project -> learn ASM -> learn how to do a buffer overflow (read "Smashing the stack for fun and profit") -> from here find your own path.

The first three are just useful for getting the basics. The next two are for starting to learn low level stuff. You don't really understand C until you understand how it relates to lower level code.
I've tried to find information about this, and all I can find is that Turkey claimed they committed war crimes, but when the US and UN investigated they couldn't find any supporting evidence.
The “China Export” logo is a blatant but subtle imitation of the actual CE logo. Quite frankly insidious...

https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H...
JUCE is also a great option for building cross platform VSTs and audio applications

https://juce.com/
It sounds like whatever supersedes waylan should have a much easier time. Hows that for planning.
Not the person you were asking, but I always loved giving this quiz in interviews: http://rubyquiz.com/quiz9.html

I always say I don't care what language they do it in.. I just like to see how they approach the problem.
There was a powerpoint where they implied they could sometimes get around ssh protections. Most people assume it's not actually the protocol that's broken, but it seems like a good excuse to clean up ssh anyway.
Unfortunately the ssh-key (probably not the verbatim file, but of course the parts comprising the mathematical key) will have to stay in the sshd process' memory.

If one wants to make it impossible for a "offline thief" (e.g. one that does not have permanent root-access to a compromised server) to make a man-in-the-middle using the server's key, one would have to store the ssh-server's key in a secure USB token. Ideally this token will count the number of ssh-signing and key-exchange operations so that an attacker remotely accessing the USB token might also be detectable.
Inconsistency, would be my topmost argument, in general.
Among many other things these include what PHP dodges under
the term "language construct" which when searched produces
a wikipedia stub article with the only examples in PHP.

Failed closures that lack proper scoping, while they have been improved the underlying problem remains.

Continuation on inconsistency is that functions are not first class even though the syntax is the same for closures:

function foo () {
} <--- This is a function

$foo = function () {
} <--- This is a closure

Inconsistency; Cannot access functions (closures) directly from arrays.

$list["something"] = function () {
};

$list["something"]() <- fatal error

What is "truthy" and what is "falsy", not unique to PHP but that doesn't mean PHP should do it.

Assumptions such as how it interprets numbers in octal

Functions do not follow any specific naming standard, i.e. some array functions are prefixed by array_*, some are not.

Include and require scoping is messed up as anything that is not a variable is mashed into the global scope.

Lastly in my post but far from all issues with PHP;
A crap-load of legacy because "we can never break anything"
But after a very sharp action which the IJArmy lost very badly, commanded in part on the other side by an obscure Soviet general named Zhukov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov who unlike his two counterparts managed to avoid the 1941 purge), they signed a neutrality pact, reaffirmed after Operation Barbarossa, that they scrupulously observed. Being faced with another even more bloodily minded opponent certainly didn't hurt the surrender decision.
Sorry, I stand corrected. It's only 20% higher for young women than men in NYC.

http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274...

To my original point -- lots of status symbol trends are conflating the cause and effect analysis of why teams with women are more successful.

Decent analysis won't be simple, and the analysis is a total failure if they simply ignore this strong factors.
Don't count out C# and SQL via SQL Server because C# runs everywhere and has got the proper tools to support it running everywhere (mobile, web, desktop) and SQL Server because it's the easiest to start using with C# if and when you get to that part...

Other languages like Python, PHP, Javascript etc. need to be shoe-horned into their mobile, web or desktop environment and don't have really good tools for one environment or the other. Furthermore, those languages come from the open-source world, the "Bazaar" if you will and they're simply not engineered as well as an industrial language like C# or Java.
Lol… never thought I'd see a WickedFire link on HN. My life is now complete. -__-
You could `watch` the repository on Github to get notified when there is update
Why not buy a cheap android phone, a cheap case ,and a wifi, and maybe an extra battery to put in the car ? it will solve all your problems at a price far cheaper than the iphone , and you'll still get to retain the functionality ?
A friend of mine's reaction, quoting bits of the linked post:

<Mc> 18 months ago, we started Wit.ai with the vision that no solution is to
be found in a closed, centralized, managed approach.
<Mc> That is where today’s big news comes in: Wit.ai is joining Facebook!
When I was in grad school, I worked out a procedure for solving my homework problems in my sleep.

I thought this was my imagination, that it was purely coincidence that the solutions to my problem sets would come to me in the mornings, but my psychotherapist assured me it was real. Elsewhere I have read that one function of sleep, for humans anyway, is that it enables us to solve problems.
Free parking is the default. Why would they need to complicate the message by adding that?

But that is cultural. This problem isn't limited to parking signs. For example, see http://port-orange.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/No_U_Turn.j... or https://janiceheck.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/ped-xing.jpg

I cannot imagine there can be people with a driver's license who do not understand those signs, yet can understand the text below it, and have time to read them while driving by at 40 mph.

I would leave out the 'helpful' text or if that's legally problematic, think before ordering the sign, and get a single sign that includes the label. That's cheaper, and makes the world look a bit nicer (does anybody have statistics on # of traffics signs per capita or per mile of road? I expect the USA to score high in both)
I think Steven Bathiche has been doing this kind of stuff for a long time, indeed.
I agree, the two are very different. However, a number of people consider their own negative emotions to be a good reason to restrict the speech of others.

There's a reason that flag-burning hit the SCOTUS.
Jump the shark? Seriously? This is probably the best thing I have seen them do in a decade.
90k is "low" ? Don't ever leave the Valley, you'll be even more disappointed
I'm leading a mid-sized project that is using RefluxJS. We're very happy with it.
That's meaningless without info about what those jobs are. Clueful SEC investigators, skilled engineers, top scientists aren't going to come cheap.

Also, "since Obama took office" doesn't mean much, since Obama's first year in office was under Bush's last budget.

Finally, if you outsource or contract out lower-wage Federal jobs, it should be expected that the remaining employees will have a higher concentration of high-wage specialists.
Yeah, I forgot to mention forcing a push downstream.

But honestly, I don't thing that's important. Sync-on-Read is what you do now on the web. I click on a video on YouTube, and in seconds, I'm watching an HD video full screen.

I think the only hurdle is upload speeds offered by most ISP's is slower than download speeds. But even still, outside of HD videos, all the files I'd be interested in are quick downloads (pictures, documents, music).
Spiders declare Nov 20th national day of flies.
That makes a lot of sense, and neatly explains why I so strongly prefer Markdown. Thanks for posting this.
Is this book worth getting for someone who doesnt remember anything about math from high school and beyond?
I missed that point about the semantics of the question mark. We just got rid of it by changing the title to the subtitle, which is somewhat less provocative and probably should have been used in the first place.
You can quit facebook without quitting your friends.
Somewhat off topic, but does the term MacGyver mean the same thing to everyone here? In my mind, they're always temporary/in a pinch solutions, and the parent's post could go unspoken (though I'm glad he spoke it). Macgyver solutions work to get you to the point where real solutions are now possible. In other words, a subset of hacks (you can have long-term, or superior to 'standard' hacks).

I mean, even MacGyver didn't invent his own Swiss Army knife everytime he needed it... though he probably did once.
How could I forget Dali, him of the famous chequebook!

Living quite a while seems to be as big a factor in gaining fame as an artist than anything else - this is also important to win a Nobel prize!
I would pay happily. Sometimes the discussion gets derailed and there is no way I can effortlessly skip it.
They moved all your personal info under the name display, the row of pictures is exactly the same as imdb in; placement, spacing and size. It visually looks the same and it was a fairly large departure from the previous design. Something served as the template.
It's my understanding that JSqueak was (is?) just a toy. OTOH, redline aims to be a full blown implementation of smalltalk that integrates with the jvm like jruby, scala, clojure, etc do. As you can see from the github repo, it's still pretty much a work in progress (plus a learning tutorial for interpreters/compilers).
Me too. Link to that project (Open Source MIT License):

https://github.com/TheRealKerni/Hockey
I will say one thing for creationism, I learned more about evolutionary theory from The Index to Creationist Claims[0] than I did from most of my biology courses.

Glad to hear the professor has a lecture on the answers to common attacks.

I knew one professor who would provocatively argue to his colleagues that they should "teach the controversy." He'd wait for a few faces to turn red before slyly adding, "especially the part about why evolution wins."

[0] http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html
With RN, you really only need XCode to build the initial app and the final build for submission - everything in between can be done on any platform that can run the packager with a phone for actual testing. So if you have a friend with a mac, you're good!
You can do this by sizing via `em` which is based on the text size.
> Memory management is a distraction: Actually, no. I don’t use that many lexical lifetimes and use instead smart pointers. So yes, I have to understand the differences between a Box, an Rc and an Arc, but my productivity is not impacted compared to Node.JS or Go.

By throwing everything on the heap, I doubt you see much improvement performance-wise over Node or Go. You probably even come out behind idiomatic Go which makes good use of the stack. What's the point?