jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's quite a bit of academic literature on the long term overvaluation and underperformance of "growth" and especially "small cap growth" stocks, sometimes explained by their popularity as pseudo lottery tickets. Over almost all rolling 25 year periods across the past century, "value" stocks (the X% of the market highest in current earnings, cash flow, etc.) outperform the broader market including these growth stocks. Search "the black hole of investing."
So, are they going to ban youtube as well?
I had an Uber driver in SF last night tell me that he pulls $3,000 a week (before payment to Uber, etc). Pretty impressive.
As Nikon has a Canon, Apple needs a foil.

Since I last looked, someone has taken bpple.com, so you never know...
> Thus, writing an entire iOS app in an interpreted language (such as Lua) does not seem likely to be allowed.

Indeed, this is pretty much specifically tailored towards games (which are scripted using e.g. Lua but not entirely written in it) or things like emulators.

Apparently, Apple has decided to go over Jobs's dislike for games and let them grow further on the platform.
Just be careful you don't turn into this guy:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

Really though, I think it's a good idea. There's some good content on there, but it's a tempting easy distraction. I'd also add "limit your time messing around on the internet".
Are they abandoning all forms of endurance racing? Batteries have made incredible advances in the last decade...likely to the tipping point for consumer cars and even some forms of racing. But they don't have the ability to compete on range, and due to physics limitations, likely never will.

Fuel cells are likely going to fill that gap in commercial and industrial markets, but I can't see them taking over in racing. You can either get high power density PEMs running on complex systems to support pure hydrogen fuel requirements, or low power density SOFCs running on simple hydrocarbon fuels. Neither is going to work well for racing.
And so might anyone in WiFi range apparently.
> This is the mythical power-grid attack that people have been talking about since the concept of cyber-warfare was first dreamt up.

> It’s lucky we caught this now, before there are enough PowerWalls to seriously destabilise the grid if this attack were to occur.

I could be misunderstanding you, but do you seriously think that there are not more destabilizing attacks already available? From my reading the US power grid is already extremely vulnerable to attack.
No.

Your responsibility as a seasoned programmer is not to code !

I'm a 20+ yr experience programmer and still hold the title Sr. Software Programmer and no. I say no.

Yes the stack is deep but it is unnecessarily so. Yes, there's layers and layers ...but it is your job to educate the less experienced why less is more and why there's is always a tradeoff to be made.

Computer science hasn't moved a whole lot[1] in terms of problem solving since the 80s. Computers have just become faster. The best ideas we have today are still rooted in the principles of the 80s. They are just a abstraction level higher.

So no. I refuse to accept the premise that Nothing is easy anymore.

[1] when considering fundamental theories.
And not just fired for this, but because they are incompetent enough to do something like this in the first place. And that needs to be at however high of a level it was that approved the security plan for this product.
I agree, if the person has a public repo with a bit of momentum you can even see how he manage his open source project with the community...

This is much more valuable than any list of company you work for.
> [fresh pasta] isn't shelf stable.

You can freeze it.

I use something like this [1] to make pasta very often. Ok, making ravioli is something that takes at least 30 minutes (and up to 4 hours if you're making an elaborate recipe for a large party). But you can make tagliatelle for four in the time the water boils.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/CucinaPro-150-Imperia-Pasta-Machine/dp...
Dear Olifante and anyone else who may see this,

Would you have a few mins. today to talk by phone or email about your experience with Swift and/or this course? I'm writing a news release for Stanford News and would like a couple of user quotes.

Thanks for Swift reply to redwoodfroggie at gmail dot com, or (760) 709-6599.
When you go to an auto repair shop, the mechanic uses four different screwdrivers or just one super ultra incredible 8-in-1 screwdriver for everything?

Why not? is the mechanic stupid? the 8-in-1 screwdriver is marvelous, has the DOUBLE of features!

At the end of the day, he has only the tools he need for his job, and thats it.
I don't agree. I think Python and a few others do a good job by making random range based functions like `randrange` at curbing misuse.
> No mention of arc4random(3)? Seems like a solved problem in BSD land.

Do you mean the "real" arc4random algorithm, or ChaCha20 (which is what arc4random actually is on OpenBSD)?

See also:

> OpenBSD was sufficiently dissatisfied with it that they replaced it with a generator based on the ChaCha20 stream cipher.

https://www.pcg-random.org/other-rngs.html
The FED are the rich people, it's a private entity.
All the above forgot toes
Maybe those private jet users would rather get their oil without ruining a bunch of pristine wilderness and despoiling sacred Native American lands.
Fox News sure has some twisted logic going.
Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo?
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
I only use Cygwin because its the only way to use certain tools. I run a tidy Windows install otherwise. I wouldn't use it at all if I didn't need to.
Yea classes are super expensive. If you get into martial arts, then youre easily looking at a couple hundred/month minimum
Thank you.

There are 322 SO copycats alone.
You can do better than that. Run the hash in HMAC mode, hash successive counter values to get a pseudorandom stream of bits. Xor your plaintext with the stream to get the ciphertext.

But how does biology contribute to any of this? At best, they've taken a known cryptographic algorithm and figured out how to implement it with the computation done in wetware. At worst, and I suspect the worst, they've simply observed that some parameters of their encoding scheme are tunable, and claiming that you have a secure cryptosystem if you keep those parameters secret.
Yeah, I'm looking into inotify to see how I can implement that with Ruby. Would definitely be nicer than simply polling the directory.
I'm considering doing a Git/rsync hybrid, or something similar to avoid this problem.
Now that is something I honestly didn't expect - but that I like hearing.
For those of us who haven't been tracking Dropbox closely, how long did it actually take?
I tend to agree with you, but I think it's a little more nuanced. Widespread copyright infringement causes those who would otherwise purchase to not purchase, which DOES deprive the copyright owner of money. There's no reason to believe all pirated IP could have been a potential purchase, but even if 1% or 2% of it was, and I'd wager to say that this figure is much higher, that's a significant amount of money.

Of course, there's also the argument that piracy increases music discovery and perhaps is a form of fair use (as a backup, alternative to a streaming service you purchase, etc), which might drive revenue in other ways. I have yet to find or hear of any substantial empirical evidence for this, though.

EDIT: by the way, I think the best way to argue this is that you are never actually given ownership of any IP, only a LICENSE to use it, therefore you are simply violating the license agreement.
In the same vein, I'd say that this is Germany and France doing the same thing. "Oh, you think this could get bad? lol don't care."
> Also, by whose standard isn't a ~1-2 year old laptop new?

If someone is delivering >$10mm of value (conservative estimate) in a position where tool quality affects productivity, I'd probably get the newest/best laptop for her. It's entirely possible this position doesn't deliver that much value, but it should.

I've never really been a fan of re-using >1y old laptops as primary machines for new employees; it is a great way to make them feel unwanted from the start, for a $300-500 savings.
>If targeting was killed, you'd most likely see ads from massive corporations only - those who have a lot of cash to spend on ads.

Why? If I run a niche site with ads I'd want to pick ads that fit my site and audience, similar to picking affiliate programs. Picking relevant ads should be my job a as a site owner.
The melting pot was just a hypothesis and we are living through the experiment.

The theory might not be correct
That's welfare and benefits as they exist in Europe (at least in some countries).

So when American speak of convoluted UBI systems do they in fact just mean having an European level of welfare state?
I don't see anything that backs that up on the Wikipedia page. Their headquarters is in Moscow and it was founded by two Russians. They have a sales office in Lucerne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
> Our head of HR (or people ops) was very against any mentioning of these practices, and repeatedly said that saying our hiring process is favorable to some people is offensive and could fall afoul of our code of conduct.

Wait... they tried to hide their own hiring practices?

I'll say it: If HR is doing technical recruiting and has anything to say regarding who to hire at an engineering company they are doing it wrong.
path:
d:
M: 10, 10
H: 90
V: 90
H: 10
L: 10, 10

Just beautiful.
> While I agree about the prevalence of “bullshit jobs” in general, who are you to decide what jobs are “productive?”

I don't think OP stated which jobs are important or unimportant. There is some interesting research regarding this issue. I'm paid 6 figures, and the case for my job wouldn't stand up to a lot of scrutiny. There is an entire team of me.
Sure, but we're talking about enterprises. Back when I could walk down the hall to the datacenter, paying $30k for the hardware and $60k for licenses was normal. Every time I bought a new server I tried to make a case for pg or mysql, but the cost to replace SSIS, SSAS, or SSRS either with another product or to build a replacement was always more.
more likely "this place has turned into a dump, despite implementing all the policies I supported and voted for! I need to move somewhere else that still has a chance and lobby even harder!"
Cool. Whats is the use-case?

Edit - I hate to bitch about downvotes (as per http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but can the downvoters to my comments in the thread, please respond, why the downvotes? Are my comments Off-Topic, rude or not adding to the discussion? Since, I am genuinely curious about all my queries.
Oh wow, that's pretty cool. I like the 360° player.
We certainly know that multidrug-resistent bacteria cause harm. Plenty of case studies there.

I'm no biologist, so I don't know whether or not we can show, for any given strain of multidrug-resistent bacteria found in a sick patient, whether its ancestors most likely acquired its resistance genes while living in a farm animal, while living in an adult human who was taking antibiotics for some other condition, or someplace else. My guess is that such a demonstration might be possible -- cheap gene sequencing, plus extensive statistics, yields a lot of deductive power -- but I don't know if it has been done already or not, and maybe I'm wrong and it's going to be impossible to do conclusively. Bacterial genomes aren't always that big, and bacteria are quite promiscuous with genetic material, so their line of family descent gets fuzzy much faster than it does with multicellular creatures like ourselves.

One thing is certain: There will be a lot more work attempting to answer these questions.
This is just an idea, but if the b.d. in your name means bouldering climber, and you go to a climbing gym often, I'd be very careful to wash when you get home. The hand holds are NEVER washed and just think about how many people are touching them continuously.
I've found a couple of those tips really useful in this past year. Since I'm a student in China and working on art projects as well as programming, I'm not quite so focused on the computer. But having a checklist on paper is probably the biggest improvement I've made.

When a list is on my desk, I don't even have to think about what I want to work on. It's just right there and it's easy to get to it. Checking things off is also a great feeling. Thus far, I haven't felt the need to subdivide tasks (tip#1) since the biggest obstacle for me isn't confusion. It's just a matter of the inertia of getting started. Once I'm actually sketching something or doing HW, it's very easy to lose track of time and find that I've worked for an hour or two and it's done.
it certainly sends a clear message to employees and other stockholders that Larry doesn't see it as important to keep the stock price up.
no, they didn't build it so it has gyroscopic effects in the other direction, they built it so the reverse rotating part would cancel out the forward rotating wheel effect and you wind up with a gyroscopic-ally neutral design.
The main thing I expected from this when I first saw it, and the thing that excited me about it was the possibility of interesting fabrics--possibly arbitrary fabrics that I could choose out of a huge library. I was disappointed to find that there are only a few, relatively tame choices, and that's why I was never interested in buying. I understand that sourcing a billion different fabrics is probably difficult or impossible, but if you can figure it out, you'll make a customer out of me.
You can privatise protection and arbitration, removing a central arbitrator

Eg. http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
Wasn’t there a story arc where the Ninja Turtles went back in time...?
I think there are two dynamics at play: the weak economy for much of the middle class and the jobless rate being higher than normal, along with work from home and pandemic aspects of life increasing demand for home electronics.

People want computers perhaps more than normal, but do they have the money to spend?

I think this is why Apple was advertising Education pricing on the M1 Macs the day they came out. They don’t care that you qualify, it’s basically a “buy from Apple directly instead of a third party retailer” discount.

This is all just my amateur theory - I think Apple wants to keep volumes up and sell something to meet demand.
Check out Levin's lab's work: "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" - NeurIPS 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

In short, the biomolecular machinery that neurons use to think is present in all cells.
You can cite your body. Before you get offended, really, just examine it as a system, and try to explain how can you have a conscious experience without any sensory input.

Even with a lame comparison to computers, the machines also need a lot of stuff to put a CPU to work.
Remarks about IBMs OS/2 are very true, but there was one more aspect: Win 3.1 was coming on 2 floppy discs, OS/2 was coming on 10 or more, can't remember exactly, but this was something huge, bigger than anything else at that time. But, indeed, technically that was a great achievement.
prince bypass megahit
Yeah for sure. My next one after this was a Dual CPU Pentium Pro.
That would be an interesting undergraduate paper. Perf, Size, by primary language, by toolchain, linker, post processor (dead code elimination, etc).

For a pathological explosion, you mean something like a Zip Bomb? Wasm and C are pretty close together in their semantics, Wasm hides the stack and prevents jumping into the middle of a function (CFI, Control Flow Integrity). I think the code bloat should be on the order of some multiple of the smallest interpreter.

I just did a quick scan of Wasm interpreters (3 in Rust, 1 in C)

yblein/rust-wasm ~4kloc
rhysd/wain ~16kloc
paritytech/wasmi ~25kloc
wasm3/wasm3 ~22kloc (C)

My hunch is that the expanded code would be approximately (2x-5x interpreter + bin.wasm). I just did a spot check with doom.wasm, I am wrong. The resulting expanded C code when compiled to Arm is 2x the wasm binary size.

4.1M wasidoom.o
1.8M wasidoom.wasm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
I dunno, I worked from home way before pandemic and the isolation was pretty bad as well. Nothing can really compare to meeting a lot of great people daily, face-to-face.
In practical terms, very impressive. Anyone know what latency is like? Feels a domain where people who have not experienced low latency full duplex cannot fully appreciate why voice has faded in everyday life...
Would love to see an option to sign up with email only.
> but paying over 50% just seem wrong.

It doesn't seem wrong, it is outright wrong. It's stealing.
I loved BeOS/BeFS. I remember exporting ID3 tags from mp3 files into file system attributes and querying them to create playlists.

Aside from Haiku, does anyone know if any of the open-source Unix-like operating systems support arbitrary extended file attributes?
Nahhh, I reject the hypothesis. Escapism has always popped up as an intellectual distraction during stressful or stagnant times. It's nothing about Factorio or Eve specifically, other than they are well designed to scratch certain itches. Present someone with a real world challenge to scratch that itch and they'll take it.
Mesosphere is now D2iQ, they have their own Kubernetes and stopped supporting Mesos / Marathon in October 2020.
Only somewhat related. What is the general thought on https://www.pandata.org ?
To clear some inevitable confusion, Zeus in this context is intended as a compliment. Bob Mundell is not a libertine with jealousy and anger issues.
I can't help but feel that iOS would have crushed Android in the United States precisely because of its superior software catalog and attention to design, if only it had been available outside of AT&T's walls.
At which point he has user access to your machine anyway... so the point is kind of moot.
I can't speak for absconditus but...

It's my belief that no one has the right not to be offended and I would rather live in a society of people that are brought up to be exposed to realities of our history and culture that offend them.

I say let kids think for themselves and sometimes be offended. Expose them to religious writings; it's part of who we are (no, I'm not religious). Let them read the writings of dictators to get inside the heads of men that did terrible things to better understand history. etc.

What would we have to lose other than to have a society of people that better understand the world and the history that brought us here?
Gruber seems to make the assertion that a platform only has worth based on its exclusive "killer apps". He goes wrong there and never really recovers. Android's strength is not its suite apps, it's its flexibility. It runs on an enormous range of hardware, and doesn't require that you buy into a single vendor's toolchain to use it. The core philosophical difference between the two platforms is "Steve Jobs decides what's best for me" versus "I decide what's best for me".

So what are the killer apps? How about things like Launcher Pro, Swype, SwiftKey, and AppBrain? Why don't we talk about Chrome To Phone or the FM Radio listener (via Cyanogen)? Those are all things that just don't - and can't - exist on the iPhone, but the glory of them is that I get to choose them. I can pick my own homescreen app and tweak the heck out of it. I can pick an input method that I want (SwiftKey has made my iPhone-using friends turn green with envy on more than occassion). I can install new apps without ever having to tether to my computer with iTunes. I can send a map or recipe from my computer to my phone and take my work with me seamlessly. These are all "killer features", but they aren't "apps" in the Apple sense of the word - they're features, extensions of the platform, which let me use my device as best I see fit.

If everything Apple does is exactly what you want, Android probably doesn't have any "killer features" worth talking about, but as soon as you want to do something that diverges from the Cupertino Grand Unified Vision, Android starts to become a lot more attractive. Given Gruber's leanings, it's little wonder that he's not enamored with Android. Doesn't mean that's the case for everyone - and the market bears that out quite well.
As mentioned above, attempts to contact them have failed. Now what do you do?
They don't need to open their analysis, they just need to open the interface for the device itself -- the work the community has already partially done. It'll happen eventually anyway (soon, most likely), so it has a minimal downside for them.
At the cost of 'tens of millions of dollars.' That's several months worth of income for Jagex, which means significant amounts of money are not going into development, which in the end hurts the product. I doubt they could afford to do this too often before they become far behind and have to cut too many promised features.
Lisp will emerge as a threat to Javascript.
Yet, is my point. If they do then they can say "Gme is not a special case"
Meanwhile most major banks are convicted felons in the US. JPMorgan, Citibank, Wells Fargo...
Let's examine the proposition.

Firefox pros: the browser works, has good support for add-ons and some features not found in Chrome such as containers. Can generally be assumed to be privacy-friendly to some degree

Cons: some cringe-worthy decisions such as that Mr. Robot thing, the sort of waste of donations in the OP link, and occasional minor performance issues compared to Chrome. The biggest problem seems to be the continued survival of the project over time

Chrome pros: I don't use Chrome but as far as I can tell it benefits from being the default browser that devs optimize for and reportedly has good developer tools.

cons: essentially a monopolistic data-gathering tool for one of the shadiest ad companies on Earth. Slowly introducing user-unfriendly features, even in Chromium

As far as I can tell the rational choice would be Firefox (or some derivative browser) barring some specific technical need for Chrome. The downsides of Chrome just seem so much more egregious than the occasional Mozilla silliness.
The main goal isn't to undue harm done, it's to prevent further harm. Halting trading both draws attention to the fact that there's an anomaly, and gives everyone time to research what is really going on. Getting compensation for the harm done is done through the courts.
Yeah because pulling out of a parking lot 200 feet away is the same thing as driving a 50 square mile city. This has got to be the weakest argument I’ve ever heard on this topic.
Yes, I’d watch this movie.
Check out the movie too! It's a documentary of a bunch of the Apollo missions.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/